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	Adele Bruni (Kitty Bennet) is thrilled to make her ATC debut. She graduated in the spring of 2005 from the Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) at the University of Washington with her MFA in acting. Credits at the UW include Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Gerte), The Imaginary Invalid (Angelique), Bus Stop (Cherie), All the Rage (Annabel Lee), and Present Laughter (Monica Reed). Ms. Bruni received her BA from Yale University in 2002.
	Julia Dion (Elizabeth Bennet) is delighted to be back at ATC where she was last seen in The Underpants. Her New York City credits include Filthy Stinking Rich at Ground Floor Theater, Bad Juju at Greenwich Street Theater, A Majority of One at the Jewish Repertory Theatre, and Gum at the Mac Wellman Festival. Her regional theatre credits include The Underpants at San Jose Repertory Theatre, The Game of Love and Chance at Alliance Theatre, The Two Gentlemen of Verona at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, Heartbreak House at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Cider House Rules (workshop) at Mark Taper Forum and Quills at Berkshire Theatre Festival.  She appeared in the film The Eden Myth which was shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival and South by Southwest (Austin, Texas). Ms. Dion trained at The Juilliard School.
	Jennifer Erdmann (Lydia Bennet/Georgiana) is delighted to be making her first appearance at ATC. Regional credits include Major Barbara at San Jose Repertory Theatre (Sarah), the West Coast premiere of Vincent in Brixton at TheatreWorks (Anna), A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Marin Shakespeare Company (Helena), The Tempest at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (Miranda), Annie at the Willows Theatre Company (Grace Farrell), and The Sound of Music at American Musical Theatre of San Jose (Sister Berthe). Favorite roles include Corey in Show and Tell, Ruth in Table Manners, and Sylvia in The Psychic Life of Savages. Ms. Erdmann is a graduate of Cornell University.
	Douglas B. Giorgis (Dancer/Officer) is thrilled to be making his ATC debut in Pride and Prejudice. He has been acting professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past five years. Recent roles include Herbie Marx in Minnie’s Boys and Mr. Brooke in Little Women. He recently finished lending his voice, as the character Bobby Zilch, to the videogame Psychonauts, which will be released shortly on PS2 and X-Box. He has a BA in theatre from St. Mary’s College in California and a Certificate in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
	Krista Hoeppner (Jane Bennet) is delighted to be making her ATC debut. Favorite stage roles include Hedda in Hedda Gabler (Triad Stage), Margaret Hughes in Compleat Female Stage Beauty (The Old Globe), Leonide in Triumph of Love (Geva Theatre Center), Olivia in Twelfth Night (Dallas Theater Center), Gwendolen in Importance of Being Earnest and Cordelia in King Lear (Pioneer Theatre Company), Claire in Proof (Capital Repertory), Lucy in Dracula (Delaware Theatre Company), Sylvia in The Game of Love and Chance (Madison Repertory Theatre), and Grace in Shopping for Joe (Showroom Theater, NYC). Her voice can be heard on Vermont Public Radio reading children’s literature as part of Camel’s Hump Radio. Born in Colorado, she currently resides in New York City. Ms. Hoeppner received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of Washington.
	Joe Knezevich (Lt. Wickham) is happy to be making his debut at ATC. Now an associate artist at Georgia Shakespeare Festival, he has appeared there in The Cherry Orchard, Cyrano, What the Butler Saw, The Tempest, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Amadeus among others. Other regional credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Spinning Into Butter, A Christmas Carol (Alliance Theatre), Boy Gets Girl (Horizon Theatre Company), Dream of a Common Language (Synchronicity Performance Group), Tartuffe, Far East, Sanders Family Christmas (Theatre in the Square). Originally from Miami, Mr. Knezevich has a BFA in acting from Florida State University and trained with members of Theatre de Complicité in London, England.
	Anthony Marble (Mr. Darcy) is thrilled to be making his ATC debut. Regional credits include Orsino in Twelfth Night at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Jude in the world premier of Leap at Cincinnati Playhouse, Mortimer and Hastings in Henry IV Parts I and II at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C., Hamlet and Benedick with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival where he won an Ovation Award for his portrayal of Benedick. Other credits with CSF include Claude in Shakespeare in Briefs! and Lennox in Macbeth. He also played Eric Larsen in Enigma Variations at Northern Stage. In his hometown of Baton Rouge he is proud to have worked on many productions with Swine Palace Theatre Company where he played the Vagabond in The Tavern, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jewel in As I Lay Dying and Louis in Angels in America: Perestroika. Film and television credits include Monster’s Ball, Lush, Warning:Parental Advisory and the upcoming On The Rocks.
	Pat Nesbit (Lady Catherine de Bourgh/Housekeeper) is thrilled to be making her ATC debut. Her Broadway and off-Broadway credits include So Long on Lonely Street, The Young Man from Atlanta, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Spinning into Butter, the national tours of Biloxi Blues and Copenhagen, several productions with Manhattan Class Company and Manhattan Theatre Club, and most recently at the Mint Theatre with Frances Sternhagen in The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. She has enjoyed performing at Geva Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, Spoleto Festival, The Goodman Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Florida Stage, Asolo Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Syracuse Stage in such plays as Little Foxes, Eleemosynary, Three Sisters, and Tobacco Road. Ms. Nesbit received Carbonell Awards for her roles in Cat on Hot Tin Roof, The Price, Collected Stories, and The Middle Ages, all at the Caldwell Playhouse.
	David Pichette (Mr. Bennet) has been seen at ATC as Ferris in Over the Moon, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Serge in Art, Adrian in Private Lives, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Renfield in Dracula. Since his last appearance here, he has played in the world premiere of 1984 (O’Brien), Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot), Enchanted April (Mellersh), Jumpers (George Moore), and Bach at Leipzig (Schott). Other roles include Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at Fifth Avenue Theatre, Ivan in Art at San Jose Repertory Theatre, Harlequin in Game of Love and Chance at Alliance Theatre, the Inspector in Grand Magic at ACT Theatre, Foss in Dying Gaul at Intiman Theatre, and John Adams in 1776 at Fifth Avenue Theatre. He received a DramaLogue Award for his portrayal of Richard Nixon in Nixon’s Nixon at San Jose Repertory Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre, as well as Backstage West “Garlands” for Nixon’s Nixon, and for his portrayals of Abbe de Coulmier in Quills and George in Of Mice and Men.
	Peggity Price (Mrs. Bennet) is delighted to return to ATC where she was last seen as Gertrude Deuter in The Underpants. Regionally she has performed in over 50 plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Barter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and others. Favorite roles have included Jesse Mae in The Trip to Bountiful, Mrs. Clackett in Noises Off, Elyena in Uncle Vanya, and Shirl, a pig–slaughterer, in the premier of Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage at the 25th Humana Festival of New Plays in Louisville. On Broadway she appeared as Boo Levy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo and off-Broadway in numerous productions including Romulus Linney’s Laughing Stock with Frances Sternhagen, Steel Magnolias with Sandy Duncan and Endpapers by Tom MacKormack. She has appeared at international theatre festivals in Australia and Poland. Ms. Price has performed in film and television, most recently in Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
	Amy Resnick (Ms. Bingley/Ms. Gardiner) is delighted to return to ATC where she was last seen in For Better or Worse. Her off-Broadway credits include Death of Frank, Goldberg Variations, and I Think I Like Girls (Cherry Lane). Her many regional credits include The Laramie Project at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Bay Area Critic’s Award for Acting), The Real Thing at Mark Taper Forum and South Coast Repertory, Around the World in 80 Days, Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Boston Marriage (B Street Theatre), Two For the Seesaw (Marin Theatre Company), The Old Neighborhood (Aurora Stage), Map of the World (Theatre First), for which she received a Goodman Award, Why We Have a Body at the Magic Theatre (DramaLogue Award), Darwin’s Finches, and Bunnicula (Children’s Theatre of California). Her film and TV credits include Car Babes, Haiku Tunnel, The Californians with Noah Wiley, Law & Order and Picket Fences.
	Sarah Roberts (Mary Bennet/Charlotte Lucas) is thrilled to be making her ATC debut, having recently relocated to Arizona. She has performed mostly in New York, Los Angeles and in her native state of North Carolina. Favorite theatre roles include Wendla in Spring Awakening, Flora in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, and Sophie in Baal. Recent film roles include Victoria in HBO’s Iron Jawed Angels, Taylor in Roadside Convenience, which was selected for the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, and Jenna in Third Floor Productions’ The Blunder Boys which was awarded by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In Arizona, Ms. Roberts has worked with young artists at Mesa Arts Center and Edna Vihel Center for the Arts. She is also a singer/songwriter, and released her first CD with Mojo Bisquits. She is currently completing her solo debut CD. Ms. Roberts received her BFA in drama from Carnegie Mellon University.
	Remi Sandri (Mr. Lucas/Gardiner/Collins) is delighted to return to ATC where he was last seen in Much Ado About Nothing, He has worked with theatres throughout the country, including Huntington Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Geva Theatre Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Theatre on the Square, the California, Santa Fe, Santa Cruz and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, as well as six seasons with the Oregon Shake-speare Festival. Some favorite shows include Gross Indecencies, Pericles, A Flea In Her Ear, Art, The Mystery Of Irma Vep, Hamlet, The Grapes of Wrath, My Fair Lady, Three Days of Rain, Lonely Planet and Journey to the West. His most recent work includes A Chorus Line, The Underpants, the American premiere of That Was Then, and an NEA/DOD sponsored tour to thirteen U.S. military bases playing the title role in Macbeth.
	Liam Vincent (Mr. Bingley) is delighted to make his ATC debut. He appeared off-Broadway in The Communist Dracula Pageant at SoHo Repertory Theatre. Regionally, he has performed at Huntington Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Joe Goode Performance Works, Marin Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and the Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. His film and television credits include Nash Bridges, An Enemy of the People and The Snow. He is a graduate of Boston University.
	The Creative Team
	Jane Austen (1775-1817) is the English novelist generally credited with first giving the novel its modern character through her treatment of the details of everyday life in provincial English middle-class society. She was born on December 16, 1775 at the parsonage of Steventon, in Hampshire, a village of which her father was rector. Jane Austen’s best-known work, Pride and Prejudice, was written in 1797-98, although not published until 1813, two years after the successful publication of Sense and Sensibility. Three other books - Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion were written between 1811 and 1816. Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818, at which time Austen’s brother revealed her identity as the author of the novels. Although recognition came slowly to Austen, her fan club has grown hugely and steadily, counting many intellectuals and celebrated writers among its members. Virginia Woolf called her “the most perfect artist among women.” Sir Walter Scott described her as having “the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment.” Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was reported to have read Pride and Prejudice seventeen times. Austen lived a remarkably quiet life. She did not marry, nor did she allow her literary work to interfere with her domestic duties. She seldom left home, except on short visits to Bath or London, and although she restricted her dramatic and humorous capabilities to her pointed observation of the manners of provincial English society, she is considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. She died on July 18, 1817, at the age of 41, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. At the time of her death, she was working on an unfinished novel, Sanditon, a version of which was published in 1925.
	Jon Jory (Director and Adaptor) returns to ATC having directed The Underpants in the 2003-2004 season. He has been the artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre and the producing director of Actors Theatre of Louisville. He was founder and artistic director of The Humana Festival of New American Plays for 25 years. Mr. Jory has directed in many countries including Hungary, Greece, Canada, Germany and Ireland, and his work has been seen in international festivals in Yugoslavia, Australia, Hong Kong and Bulgaria. He has directed on and off Broadway and with many American regional theatres. He was inducted into New York Theatre’s Hall of Fame.
	Robert A. Dahlstrom (Scenic Designer) designed the set for ATC’s production of The Underpants. He has designed scenery, lighting, and costumes for many companies in Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States. In the 2004-2006 seasons he designed for the opera companies of Cincinnati, Dallas, Montreal, Pittsburgh and Seattle. A resident of Seattle, he taught for many years at University of Washington’s School of Drama.
	Michael Krass (Costume Designer) is happy to make his ATC debut. His many Broadway credits include The Constant Wife, Twelve Angry Men, Reckless, ‘Night, Mother, Match, Hedda Gabler, The Rehearsal (Drama Desk Nomination), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and A View From the Bridge. Off-Broadway he has designed world premieres of plays by Kenneth Lonergan, Edward Albee, David Rabe, Christopher Durang, John Guare, and many more. His work has been seen regionally at The Old Globe, Ahmanson Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater (two Jefferson Award nominations), Arena Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville among others. He spent ten summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. His film credits include Campbell Scott’s Hamlet. Mr. Krass is head of the Design Program for the Playwrights Horizons studio of New York University.
	Michael Philippi (Lighting Designer) Broadway designs include the fiftieth anniversary revival of Death of a Salesman at the O’Neill (also West End) and Steve Tesich’s The Speed of Darkness at the Belasco. Additional New York credits include Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge for The Public Theater and Boy Gets Girl (scenic designs) at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and sets and lights for The Water Children and Breath, Boom at Playwrights Horizons. Mr. Philippi was lighting designer and associate set designer for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre production of The Iceman Cometh. Regional credits include designs for Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Goodman Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He designed the premieres of On the Open Road, Boy Gets Girl, Moonlight and Magnolias, A Holiday Memory, Ten November, and the American premieres of Born in the RSA and Black Milk. Mr. Philippi recently designed the world premiere of Arthur Miller’s Finishing the Picture. He has received Joseph Jefferson Awards for Terra Nova, and In the Belly of the Beast…, both at Chicago’s Wisdom Bridge, and Hollywood DramaLogue Awards for Kabuki Medea at Berkeley Rep and Changes of Heart for the Mark Taper Forum.
	Peter Ekstrom (Composer) wrote the music for ATC’s production of The Underpants. For Actors Theatre of Louisville, he wrote the music and lyrics for Louisville Zoo, Matrimonium, and Doctors and Diseases, all in the Humana Festival. His Gift of the Magi, (published by Samuel French), also written for Actors Theatre of Louisville, was presented there for 17 consecutive years, as well as at scores of other theatres nationwide. He worked with Jon Jory at ATL on musical scores for The Misanthrope, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Tempest, As You Like It, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Comedy of Errors. The Village Theatre in Seattle will produce his musical romance, Girl of My Dreams, in March of 2006. His one-person autobiographical play, I was a Teenage Drag Queen, is being developed at Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Ekstrom is a member of ASCAP and a recipient of their Popular Music Award.
	Stephen LeGrand (Sound Designer) has designed music and sound for theatres throughout the country including Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and La Jolla Playhouse. He served as resident sound designer at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for 11 years before relocating to Seattle to explore the sonic nuances of espresso steamers and whale spouts. Recent credits include Three Sisters, Noises Off, The Mystery of Irma Vep and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Some favorite shows include Lulu, Golden Child, Hecuba, Twilight Los Angeles, The Ballad of Yachiyo, Anna in the Tropics and A Skull in Connemara.
	Daniel Pelzig (Choreographer) returns to ATC having choreographed As You Like It in 2000. His many theatre credits include A Year With Frog and Toad on Broadway, Mary Zimmerman’s production of Pericles, Cabaret and Main (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Paul Rudnick’s Valhalla, The New Moon, Lady in the Dark (Encores), Sweeney Todd (Sondheim Celebration/Kennedy Center), New Yorkers (Manhattan Theatre Club), My Fair Lady, and Guys and Dolls directed by David Ira Goldstein at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. He choreographed concert versions of Showboat and Carousel at the Hollywood Bowl. Opera credits include Regina and The Cunning Little Vixen at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cherumuski for Francesca Zambello at Bard Summerscape, Death in Venice at Chicago Opera Theatre, and Aida (with Deborah Voigt) at the LA Opera. As resident choreographer for the Santa Fe Opera he choreographed Ariadne Auf Naxos, Capriccio, and Kurt Weill’s The Protagonist as well as directing and choreographing Countess Maritza. He recently directed Mary Zimmerman’s production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten for the Opera-National-du-Rhin in Strasbourg. While resident choreographer at Boston Ballet, he created nearly a dozen ballets. Mr. Pelzig earned his degree in cellular biology from Columbia University.
	Tamara Fisch (Assistant Director) New York credits include Spring’s Awakening, If Wishes Were Horses, Homeland Security, 11th Hour, The Red Variations, The UnHollywood Beat, Match; Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye; Abstinence, Wandering. International credits include Telling Wilde Tales (world premiere, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and Fool for Love. She has assistant directed for Jeremy Dobrish, Gene Saks, Victoria Pero, James Morgan, and Marion McClinton (Broadway Revival, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and world premiere of Gem of the Ocean). She holds a BA from Yale, and is an MFA directing student at the University of Washington School of Drama.
	Dianne J. Winslow (Dialect Coach) returns to ATC after serving as dialect coach for many productions including Oh Coward!, A Streetcar Named Desire, Talley’s Folly, Over the Moon, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Fully Committed, Proof, My Fair Lady, H.M.S. Pinafore, Side Man, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Valley Song, Candida, Fires in the Mirror, Dancing at Lughnasa, Noises Off, Dracula and Sea Marks. A professor of theatre arts at the University of Arizona, Ms. Winslow is the creator/director of Touring Shakespeare, an educational program that has performed at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles and Monterrey, Mexico. She also works as a professional vocal coach for private clients in the film and television industries.
	Glenn Bruner* (Production Stage Manager) begins his eighth season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, The Pirates of Penzance, Copenhagen, The Fantasticks, Much Ado About Nothing, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands and the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh, and Over the Moon. A stage manager since 1985, Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, The Pasadena Playhouse, Center Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Maine’s Portland Stage Company and Casa Mañana Musicals in Fort Worth. He was the ASM for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House, and production stage manager for the off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. Mr. Bruner has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and was an announcer for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio.
	Bruno Ingram* (Stage Manager) returns to ATC where he stage managed Macbeth, Anna in the Tropics, Talley’s Folly and The Underpants. He has worked as a stage manager for The Cleveland Play House and Theatre for a New Audience on a variety of productions including Company, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Touch the Names, Jerusalem, Art, Cymbeline, and Julius Caesar. Mr. Ingram has also worked at Great Lakes Theatre Festival on six productions including A Christmas Carol and Tom Hanks: Now Playing Center.
	John Kingsbury* (Assistant Stage Manager) last stage managed The Drawer Boy and since 1998 has held the position of Director of Production at ATC. Stage management credits include Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, Alley Theatre and PCPA Theaterfest. He has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Alan Hancock College and the Cornish School for the Arts. Mr. Kingsbury is a Fulbright recipient for which he produced Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill for the Nieuwe de la Mar Theater, and stage managed for De Nederlandse Oper in The Netherlands.
	Alliance Theatre (Co-producer) Now in its 37th season, Atlanta’s nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre has established itself as the leading professional resident theatre of the Southeast. It creates the powerful experience of shared theatre for diverse people through its 11-production season. Its two stages at Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center allow for a full range of professionally staged theatre for both adults and youth audiences. The Alliance employs more than 200 professional artists, technicians and staff while serving more than 255,000 patrons each year, has launched such works as Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, Sandra Deer’s So Long on Lonely Street, and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo. The leadership team of Artistic Director Susan V. Booth and Managing Director Thomas Pechar continues to set the highest artistic standards and prove once again that the Alliance is where great theatre lives.
	San Jose Repertory Theatre (Co-producer) celebrates its 25th anniversary season. Under the guidance of Artistic Director Timothy Near and Managing Director David Jobin, the Rep’s mission is to stimulate, celebrate and enhance understanding of ourselves and others through the shared experience of live theatre. The Rep produces a variety of new plays and classics marked by innovative interpretations, a creative use of music and dance, and a reflection and inclusion of the community and the world in which we live. Operating out of its flagship facility in the heart of downtown San Jose, successes include Holly Hunter in By the Bog of Cats, Lynn Redgrave in The Mandrake Root, renowned director Anne Bogart’s interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the world premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda’s The Wind Cries Mary, and most recently the world premiere of a new musical The Haunting of Winchester.