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Jeff Allin* Donald Carrier* Sir Richard Ratcliffe Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers SHAKESPEARE THEATRE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: Sebastian in The COMPANY: ReDiscovery Series: Tempest. NEW : Broadway: Saville in The Belle’s Stratagem; Shakespeare Festival: Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi Plenty. REGIONAL: Lincoln Center (Helen Hayes award nomination). Theater/: Everett Beekin; Mark REGIONAL: TheatreWorks: Oberon in Shakespeare in Taper Forum: Aunt Dan and Lemon; Pasadena Hollywood; Shakespeare Theatre: Joseph Playhouse: Henry in The Real Thing; ACT: Romeo Surface in The School for Scandal; Huntington and Juliet; of St. Louis: Chris in All Theatre and Initman Theatre: Oscar Wilde in Gross My Sons; Repertory: Orlando in As You Like Indecency; Wilma Theatre: Valentine in Arcadia. It; Bald Mountain Stage Company: Stones in His INTERNATIONAL: Eight seasons at the Stratford Pockets; Center Stage: Vic in The Price; Theatre J: Bal Festival, roles include Bassanio in The Merchant of Masque. FILM: Alien Nation: Udara Legacy, Venice, Orlando in , John Worthing in Dreamwest. TELEVISION: Mister Sterling, NYPD Blue, The Importance of Being Earnest, Aguecheek in Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation. , Lucio in ; Two seasons at the Shaw Festival, Aubrey in Too True to Ian Bedford* Be Good, Lexy in Candida; Manitoba Theatre Center; Sir James Tyrrel Neptune Theatre; Centaur Theatre; Tarragon Theatre; SHAKESPEARE THEATRE National Arts Center. FILM: The Passion of Ayn Rand, COMPANY: Sullen in The Beaux’ 54. TELEVISION: Falcone, Hollywood Off-Ramp, Road Stratagem. NEW YORK: Theatre for to Avonlea, Earth: Final Conflict. OTHER: Wrote the the New City: Handsome in Rue, musical Evangeline with Anaya Farrell. INSTRUCTOR: Below the Belt; McGinn-Cazale Taught at Colorado College and MSU. TRAINING: The Theater: Frankenstein’s Creature in So Frightful an Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Event. REGIONAL: : Howie in (dir. Michael Greif); John Drew Theater: Kenny Cooper Starbuck in Moby Dick Rehearsed; Florida Studio Ensemble Theater: Metamorphoses; Pennsylvania Shakespeare REGIONAL: Hard Bargain Players: Festival: King Henry in , Macduff in , Hodman Bryan in Miss Evers’ Boys. , As You Like It, Henry IV, Part 1; Shakespeare FILM: Painted Smiles, Shelf Life. Santa Cruz: Richmond in Richard III, Charles in As TELEVISION: Teen Focus (former You Like It; San Jose Stage Co.: Leo Tolstoy (dir. host). OTHER: Voice-over: The David Ogden Stiers); Utah Shakespearean Festival: Learning Channel’s Jump . TRAINING: three seasons including Mercutio in Romeo and Salisbury University: BA in Mass Media Juliet, , , The Communications. Winter’s Tale, The Three Musketeers, , Henry VIII. TELEVISION: Law and Order: Ralph Cosham* SVU (recurring); One Life to Live, Guiding Light, Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby Nash Bridges. AWARDS: DramaLogue Award for the SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: title role in Henry V at Marin Shakespeare Co. Egeon in , TRAINING: University of California, : MFA; Duke of Venice in Othello, Count Yale University: BA. Cibo/Ruccelli in Lorenzaccio, Antigonus in The Winter’s Tale, Matthew Cardenes Duke of Milan in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Alba Ensemble in Don Carlos, Henry Percy in Richard II, First Senator REGIONAL: Syracuse University: of Athens in , Titus Lartius in Valentine/Second Officer in Twelfth , Tom Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Night. INTERNATIONAL: 2004 Dream, Cornwall in King , Duke of Austria in King Fringe Festival: Laramie Project. John, Alonso in , Albany in , FILM: Pentagon Police Force member of the Folger Theatre company from 1978-81. Protection training video. TELEVISION: CarMax REGIONAL: (resident company 1984-95): commercial. OTHER: Improvisation: DC Improv Henry Bell in Revengers’ Comedies, Krogstad in A Comedy School Cast shows (2002 through present). Doll’s House, Guy Jones in A Chorus of Disapproval, TRAINING: Syracuse University: BS in Drama. Zeppo Marx in The Cocoanuts, Hives in Animal Crackers; Folger Theatre: She Stoops to Conquer; 22 TFA/George Mason University: John Gabriel Borkman, Candida, Shriner/Cop in Light up the Sky; Nathan the Wise; Catalyst Theater: 1984. FILM: The Shakespeare Festival: Oliver in As You Like It, Pelican Brief, Something the Lord Made, Death without Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Pedant in The Taming Consent. OTHER: Recorded Books. AWARDS: Finalist, of the Shrew, Captain in Macbeth, Solinus in The 2005 and 2006 Audiobook Publishers Association Comedy of Errors; Theatre : Bert in It’s a Awards; Audiofile Magazine: Golden Earphone Awards Wonderful Life; Rep Stage: Ghost/Player King in for Wind in the Willows and The Master. ; Signature Theatre: Kurt in The Diaries; Source Theatre; Andrew in Corpus Christi; Dan Crane Rorschach Theatre: Bordure in Ubu Roi; Barksdale Lord Grey Theatre: John Blaine in Coming of the Hurricane, SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: Vincentio in The Taming of the Shrew. TRAINING: Hounslow in The Beaux’ Alabama Shakespeare Festival: MFA from the Stratagem; Academy for Classical Professional Actor Training Program. Acting: Orlando in As You Like It, Alphonso/Antonelli in The Cardinal. Margot Dionne* REGIONAL: Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet in Queen Elizabeth Hamlet (tour), Romeo in (tour), INTERNATIONAL: : Oliver in As You Like It (tour), Proteus in The Two Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Gentlemen of Verona, Conrade in Much Ado about title role in Mary Stuart, Kate in Nothing, Venticello in Amadeus; Portland Center The Taming of the Shrew, Julia in Stage: Player Queen in Hamlet, Alfred in Rosencrantz The Rivals; Proserpine in premiere and Guildenstern Are Dead. UPCOMING: Imagination production of The Swanne; Canadian Stage: Anna Stage: The New Kid. TRAINING: Ithaca College: BFA in in Nothing Sacred, Elizabeth in The Queens; Acting; Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Tarragon Theatre: Molly in What Is to Be Done? Classical Acting at The George Washington University: (Dora nomination); Piggery Theatre: Doris in Same MFA in Classical Acting. Time Next Year, Amanda in Private Lives. REGIONAL: Trinity Repertory: Georgie in The Aubrey Deeker* Country Girl, Annie in The Real Thing, Maggie in Sir William Catesby The Man Who Came to Dinner, Lina in Misalliance, SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Darlene in Hurlyburly (dir. David Rabe); title role in COMPANY: Dumaine in Love’s Los Angeles production of Tamara (Dramalogue Labor’s Lost (also performed at the Award); Drama Guild: Black Comedy RSC in Stratford, England), (dir. Jerry Zaks); Center Theatre: Roxane in Tebaldeo in Lorenzaccio. NEW Cyrano; Riverside Shakespeare: Lady Capulet; YORK: 2001 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab: The Syracuse Stage: Manon in Damnee Manon, Sacree Pullman Car Hiawatha, Bernice. REGIONAL: Studio Sandra. NARRATOR: Audie-nominated for The Blind Theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan; Round House Assassin. TEACHER/DIRECTOR: National Theatre Theatre: Camille (American premiere, Neil Bartlett School of (The Rehearsal at Versailles), adaptation), Tabletop; Woolly Mammoth/Theater J: Bishop‘s University (Lysistrata), Memorial University. Homebody/Kabul; Ford’s Theatre: The Grapes of Wrath; Kennedy Center Artists-in-Residence: One Flea Andy English Spare; Folger Theatre: The Clandestine Marriage; Rep Ensemble Stage: Hamlet; Potomac Theatre Project: Lovesong of SHAKESPEARE THEATRE the Electric Bear (world premiere); Everyman Theatre: COMPANY: Academy for Classical Someone Who’ll Watch over Me; Theater Alliance: Acting: Duke Senior/Frederick/ Mary’s Wedding, Slaughter City, Tales from Ovid; William in As You Like It, Antonio Olney Theatre/Playwright’s Forum: The Other End of in The Cardinal. NEW YORK: Off- the Leash; Manteo Theatre Festival: A Midsummer Broadway: Acting Shakespeare Company at The Night’s Dream; numerous workshops and staged Culture Project: Measure for Measure. REGIONAL: readings, including world premiere works by Naomi Colonial Theatre: Guildenstern in Hamlet; Iizuka, Joyce Carol Oates, Ken Ludwig and David Tennessee Williams Festival: Candy Delaney in And Grimm. TRAINING: North Carolina School of the Arts. Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens…; Charlie in A House Not Meant to Stand; EgoPo: Solange in James Denvil* The Maids; Swine Palace: A Confederacy of Sir Robert Brakenbury/ Dunces, The Rocky Horror Show, The Merchant of SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Venice (dir. Barry Kyle). TRAINING: Shakespeare COMPANY: Guard/Citizen/ Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting: Scrivener in Richard III (dir. Gale MFA; RADA: Acting Shakespeare Certificate. Edwards). REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: Don Pedro in Much Ado about Nothing; Everyman Theatre: Morell in 23 Edward Gero* Guild: Charles, Abbot of Priseaux in Incorruptible, Duke of Buckingham Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House, James Joyce SHAKESPEARE THEATRE in Lucia Mad; Everyman Theatre: Tobias in A COMPANY: 23rd season with Delicate Balance; Rep Stage: Sorin in , Shakespeare Theatre Company: Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten. Lord Chief Justice in Henry IV, Part AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award nomination, Mary 2; Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, Goldwater Award, City Paper Best Stage in Henry IV, Part 1; Egeus/Peter Quince in A Actor Award. TRAINING: St. Mary’s College of Midsummer Night’s Dream; Capulet in Romeo and California: BA in English and Speech; Catholic Juliet; Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi; The Bastard University: graduate studies. in King John; Duke of York in Henry VI; Banquo in Macbeth; Hotspur in Henry IV (Helen Hayes Award); Tana Hicken* Bolingbroke in Richard II (Helen Hayes Award); Queen Margaret Macduff in Macbeth (Helen Hayes Award); Master SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Don John in COMPANY: in The Comedy Much Ado about Nothing; Macheath in The of Errors, Marie de Medici in Beggar’s Opera, many others. NEW YORK: Classic Lorenzaccio, Paulina in The Stage Company, South Street Theatre. REGIONAL: Winter’s Tale, in King : Gloucester in King Lear; Folger Lear, Duchess of York in Richard II and Richard III, Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Signature Theatre: The Queen Eleanor in King John. REGIONAL: Arena Diaries; Round House Theatre: Richard Nixon in Stage (Company Member) roles include: Mary Nixon’s Nixon; Studio Theatre: Afterplay, Skylight Tyrone in A Long Day’s Journey into Night, Nora in (Helen Hayes Award); Olney Theatre; Arena Stage; The Wild Duck, Mrs. Alving in Ghosts, Kate in Old Theater J; Barter Theatre. FILM: Die Hard II, Striking Times; Berkshire Theatre Festival, Center Stage, Distance. TELEVISION: Discovery Channel: 2006 Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, Emmy Award for Before The Dinosaurs (Narrator); Everyman Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie PBS. TEACHING: Associate Professor of Theater, Theater, Hartford Stage (Company Member), George Mason University; Academy for Classical Indiana Repertory, Kenyon Festival Theatre, Acting; University of . Milwaukee Repertory, Rep Stage, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Stratford Festival, Stage West. David Gross* AWARDS: Two Helen Hayes Awards and 18 Helen Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond Hayes Award nominations. REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater: Topper in A Christmas Keith Irby Carol; American Conservatory Sir Walter Herbert Theater, MFA program: Oedipus REGIONAL: Winters Lane Tyrannos, The Mandrake, The Productions: Curtis Taylor, Jr. in Caucasian Chalk Circle, Far from the Madding Dreamgirls; UDC Theatre Crowd, Forensic and the Navigators, Shakespeare Company: Reverend Parris in The on Love, Richard III; Theatre Cooperative: The Crucible, Reuben Tate in Zooman Adding Machine; Ablaze Theatre: Under Milk Wood. and the Sign, Husband in Don’t You Want to Be TRAINING: R.A.D.A.: Acting Shakespeare; Emerson Free. OTHER: On-camera and voice-over credits College: BFA; : Guthrie Experience including Fairfax, VA, Channel 16 and Washington, 2005; American Conservatory Theater: MFA. D.C., Cable 19. Bill Hamlin* Kent Jenkins Bishop of Ely Richard, Duke of York SHAKESPEARE THEATRE REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre: Tiny Tim COMPANY: Balthazar in The in A Christmas Carol (2004 and Comedy of Errors, Sir Eglamour in 2005); Little Theatre of Alexandria: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Ralphie in The Desperate Hours; Woodstock/Marshall/Abbot of Tantallon Community Players: Dill Westminster in Richard II, Second Roman Senator in in To Kill a Mockingbird; Edgar in Ragtime; A USO Coriolanus, Doctor/Knight in King Lear. REGIONAL: Christmas. TELEVISION: National Geographic Theater J: Old Richard in Spring Forward/Fall Back, Channel documentary: The Hunt for Lincoln's Max Jacob/Colonel Goetz/Balzac in Picasso’s Closet, Assassin (in production). VOICE-OVER: Discovery Jaspers in Hannah and Martin, The Old Gentleman Channel: Born in the USSR. TRAINING: Kent is 10 in The Mad Dancers, Reb Saunders in The Chosen, years old and attends Burgundy Farm Country Day Marvin in The Last Seder; Folger Theatre: Duke of School in Alexandria, VA. Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors; Washington Stage

24 Kelly TRAINING: Columbia College Chicago: BA; Elizabeth Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Classical Acting at the George Washington COMPANY: 2006-2007 Acting University: MFA. Fellow: The Beaux’ Stratagem. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Claire Lautier* of New Jersey: Queen Isabel in Lady Anne Richard II (dir. Paul Mullins) on the mainstage; SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Hippolyta/Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream COMPANY: Princess of France in and Maria in Twelfth Night for Shakespeare LIVE!, Love’s Labor’s Lost (also ’s educational touring company; The performed at the RSC in Stratford, Theater at Monmouth, Maine: Mistress Quickly in England), Roxane in Cyrano. NEW The Merry Wives of Windsor, Penelope/Circe in The YORK: Broadway and Off-Broadway: Red Bull Odyssey. TRAINING: University of Cincinnati Theatre: The Duchess in The Revenger’s Tragedy, College–Conservatory of Music: BFA. Hedda Gabler; Lincoln Center Theater: ’s Chaucer in Rome. REGIONAL: Derby Playhouse, Floyd King* U.K., and Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia: Estella King Edward IV/A Scrivener in Great Expectations; Baltimore Center Stage: SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Mabel in An Ideal Husband; Westport Country COMPANY: Boyet in Love’s Labor’s Playhouse: Alice in Morphic Resonance; George St. Lost (also performed at the RSC in Playhouse: Catherine in Proof; Pittsburgh Public Stratford, England), Parolles in Theater: Jessica in Hysteria; Repertory Theatre of St. All’s Well That Ends Well (Helen Louis: Young Alma in Ambition Facing West; New Hayes Award), Pandarus in , Jersey Shakespeare Festival: Lady Anne in Richard in Twelfth Night, Ford in The Merry Wives III. FILM: House of D, Elf, Homecoming, By Courier. of Windsor, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s TELEVISION: 3lbs, Grey’s Anatomy, Numb3rs, Law Dream, in King Lear, Mr. Sparkish in The and Order, Law and Order: SVU, All My Children, Country Wife, Domingo in Don Carlos, Amorous La Guiding Light. AWARDS: John Houseman Award for Foole in The Silent Woman, Lucius O’Trigger in The classical theatre; the Michel and Suria St. Denis Rivals, Owen Glendower and Shallow in Henry IV, Award; Maxwell and Muriel Gluck Fellowship; Fox Part 1, Stephano in The Tempest. REGIONAL: Ford’s Foundation Grant. TRAINING: The Juilliard School; Theatre: State of the Union; Wilma Theater: I Am My Duke University. Own Wife; Signature Theatre: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Folger Theatre: Andrew Long* The Dresser; Woolly Mammoth: Quills (Helen Hayes George, Duke of Clarence Award); Studio Theatre: The Russian National SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Postal Service, The Lisbon Traviata (Helen Hayes COMPANY: Lord Windermere in Award), A Tale of Two Cities (Helen Hayes Award); Lady Windermere’s Fan, Macduff . HONORS: Fulbright Fellowship, 1995- in Macbeth, de Guiche in Cyrano, 96; Fox Fellowship, 2001. TEACHING: The Juilliard Pistol in Henry IV, Part 2, Hotspur School; British American Drama Academy; ACA. in Henry IV, Part 1, Claudius in Hamlet at Carter Barron, Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi, Posa in Don Melora Kordos Carlos, Bolingbroke in Richard II, Coriolanus in Jane Shore Coriolanus, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Dream, in King Lear and others. COMPANY: ReDiscovery Series: REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: Higgins in My Fair The Voysey Inheritance; Academy Lady; Studio Theatre: Ralph in Frozen; Olney for Classical Acting: Audrey in As Theatre; Fagin in Oliver; Guthrie Theater: Carson in You Like It, Placentia in The Gross Indecency; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Cardinal. REGIONAL: Oak Park Festival Theatre: Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Enrico IV in Enrico IV; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (tour); Woodland Arena Stage: Agamemnon and His Daughters; Theatre: Maria in Twelfth Night; Body Politic Chautauqua Theatre Company: Ty Cobb in Cobb; Theatre: I’m Not Sick, I’m Odd; Court Theatre: An Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Merry Wives of Italian Straw Hat; Star Theatre: Scrooge; New Windsor, The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado about Studio Theatre: The Recruiting Officer; Journeymen Nothing; Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Measure Theater Company: Einstein’s Dreams, Talking With; for Measure, A Christmas Carol, Light Up the Sky, Firehouse Theatre: Tracers; Merattic Theatre Henry V, Saint Joan, Much Ado about Nothing, Company: The Men Who Would Be King. FILM: Henry VI, Hamlet; Illinois Shakespeare Festival: Expectations, Betaville, When the Lights Go Out. Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Taming of the TELEVISION: Unsolved Mysteries, Missing Persons. Shrew; Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet.

25 Sean McCoy Night. Off-Broadway: The Effect of Gamma Rays Young Clarence on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (, SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Clarence Derwent Award), Jessie and the Bandit COMPANY: Eilif in An Enemy of Queen (OBIE Award), The Seagull, Hamlet, Mrs. the People. REGIONAL: Warren’s Profession, Richard III, ‘Til the Rapture Journeymen Theater Ensemble: Comes, Fifth of July (Lucille Lortel nomination), Tom in The Christmas Foundling; The Day Emily Married, Indian Blood. REGIONAL: Olney Theatre: Eilif in An Enemy of the People; played leading roles at nearly all of this country’s Firebelly Productions: Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird; great regional theatres, in the works of nearly Ford’s Theatre: Grapes of Wrath; Kennedy Center: every major playwright, recently including O’Neill’s The Nutcracker (Kirov Ballet). FILM: Air and Space Touch of the Poet (Joseph Jefferson Award) and A Museum’s Space Day, The Jersey Devil, Daimler Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Chicago’s Chrysler’s Impact on America. TELEVISION: The Goodman and at ACT). TELEVISION: The Adams Wire. PRINT: Music and Arts Center. OTHER: Chronicles (Emmy nomination), guest appearances numerous national/regional film/radio voice-overs. on Law and Order and Homicide, and the recurring role of Addie Cramer on One Life to Live. David Murgittroyd AWARDS: Fox Fellowship. TRAINING: Royal George Stanley Academy of Dramatic Art. SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: 2006-2007 Acting Robert Rector Fellow: The Beaux’ Stratagem. Ensemble REGIONAL: Montclair State REGIONAL: Studio Theatre University: Constantine in Big Secondstage: Matt in Dog Sees Love, Batboy in Batboy the Musical, Britt Craig in God; Rorschach Theatre: Parade, Matt in The Fantasticks. AWARDS: KC/ACTF Frankenstein’s Creature in Irene Ryan National Finalist, Region II Winner.; Monster; American Century KC/ACTF 2006 National Festival Classical Acting Theater: John Ken O’Dunc in Macbird!; Washington Shakespeare Theatre Fellowship Shakespeare Company: Sir Henry Green in Richard II; Scena Theatre: Valet in No Exit; Studio Theatre: Carl Palmer* Tom (understudy with performance) in Fat Pig. First Murderer/Lovell TRAINING: Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory; NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Mint George Mason University: BA in Theater. Theater Company: The Skin Game, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Lawrence Redmond* Transport Group: Our Town. Lord Mayor of London/ REGIONAL: Alabama Shakespeare Sir James Blunt Festival: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trojan Women; SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, COMPANY: Bellerose/Capuchin Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Monk in Cyrano, Archbishop of The Merry Wives of Windsor; Milwaukee Repertory: York in Henry IV, Part 2, Sheriff/ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sounding the River; New Archbishop of York in Henry IV, Part 1, Loan Shark/ American: Art; Schoolhouse Theatre: Chapter Two, Nursie in Camino Real, Drunken Soldier in Mother The Baby Dance; various other plays with Courage and Her Children, Amiens in As You Like Barrington Stage, Swine Palace, PCPA Theatrefest It, Ben Budge in The Beggar’s Opera. REGIONAL: and Arkansas Repertory. FILM: The Pelican Brief. Arena Stage: Joe Boyd in Damn Yankees, Carpenter TELEVISION: The Sopranos, Law and Order: 2 in Passion Play: A Cycle, Luther Billis in South Criminal Intent, Special Victims Unit, Ed, Third Pacific, Clitandre in The Misanthrope, Gooper in Cat Watch, All My Children, As The World Turns. on a Hot Tin Roof; Round House Theatre: Mr. TRAINING: Cal Arts: MFA. Meany in A Prayer for Own Meany; Studio Theatre: Sagredo in The Life of Galileo, Victor Manuel in Two Pamela Payton-Wright* Sisters and a Piano; Signature Theatre: Judge Turpin Duchess of York in Sweeney Todd; Folger Theatre: in NEW YORK: Broadway: The Show Othello; Washington Stage Guild: Birling in An Off, Exit the King, The Cherry Inspector Calls, Mansky in The Play’s the Thing; Rep Orchard, Jimmy Shine, All over Stage: Polonius in Hamlet. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Town, Mourning Becomes Electra Awards for Kit in No Way to Treat a Lady and for (Drama Desk Award), The Glass Lenny in The Rink; Theatre Lobby Award for Levin in Menagerie, Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar Named Anna Karenina. Desire, The Night of the Iguana, Something Unspoken, M. Butterfly, A Long Day’s Journey into

26 James Ricks* Matthew Stucky Second Murderer Marquess of Dorset SHAKESPEARE THEATRE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: Thaliard in Pericles at COMPANY: 2006-2007 Acting Carter Barron; Academy of Fellow: The Beaux’ Stratagem. Classical Acting: Amintor in The REGIONAL: Syracuse Stage: Maid’s Tragedy, Dr. Caius in The Guildenstern in Hamlet; Merry Wives of Windsor. REGIONAL: Shenandoah Shakespeare and Company: Lucentio in The Shakespeare: Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Taming of the Shrew; New York State Theatre Hamlet in Hamlet, Aumerle in Richard II, Robin in Institute: The Boy in Incident at Vichy; Hangar Dr. Faustus, Kastril in The Alchemist, Benedick in Theatre: Kilroy in Ten Blocks on the Camino Real. Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet in Rosencrantz OTHER: Mile Square Theater: Cassio in Othello. and Guildenstern Are Dead; Barksdale Theatre: TRAINING: Syracuse University: BFA. Leandro in Scapino!; Theatre Works USA: Templeton in Charlotte’s Web; National Theatre of Raphael Nash Thompson* the Performing Arts: Ragueneau in Cyrano de Hastings, Lord Chamberlain Bergerac. TELEVISION: Has appeared in several SHAKESPEARE THEATRE regional and national commercials and industrials. COMPANY: Earl of Westmorland in OTHER: Directing Henry V this spring for Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, Chesapeake Shakespeare as part of the Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Shakespeare In Washington Festival. TRAINING: Othello (understudy), The Comedy Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of of Errors, King Lear at Carter Barron. NEW YORK: Classical Acting at The George Washington Off-Broadway: Red Bull Theater: Gower in Pericles; University: MFA. Lincoln Center Theater: Trane in Black Codes from the Underground; Vineyard Theatre: Mayor in Ben Rosenblatt Appelemando’s Dream. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Ensemble Theatre of New Jersey: Othello in Othello; Hartford SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Stage: Aegisthus in Electra; Goodman Theatre: Dr. COMPANY: 2006-2007 Acting Dawn in Drowning Crow; Alabama Shakespeare Fellow. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Festival: Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale; Milwaukee The Delphi Theatre: Orestes in Repertory: Atufal in Benito Cereno; Charlotte The Oresteia; Project Theatre: Repertory: Prospero in The Tempest; Huntington Gunny in The Great American Desert, Billy in Theatre: Caius Lucius in ; Barter Theatre: Language of Angels. REGIONAL: Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Wilma Theater: Repertory: Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macheath in The Threepenny Opera; Shakespeare Flaggelant in Red Noses, Lion in Candide; Berkshire Festival of St. Louis: Caesar in . FILM: Theatre Festival: Abdullah in Arabian Nights, Hack Searching for Bobby Fischer, Clockers, Kiss of in Tommy Flowers, Noodler in Peter Pan; Death, Dead Canaries, Speed for Thespians Shakespeare and Company: Clown Squad in The (Academy Award nominated). TELEVISION: Ed, Taming of the Shrew; Ivoryton Playhouse: Bollinger Third Watch, Soul Food. in Inherit the Wind, James Simon in Boxcar Tales. TRAINING: University of Connecticut: BFA. Nick Vienna Ensemble Theodore M. Snead SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Ensemble COMPANY: 2006-2007 Acting REGIONAL: American Century Fellow: An Enemy of the People, Theater: Witch #2 in MacBird!; The Beaux’ Stratagem. CHICAGO: Journeymen Theater Ensemble: Navy Pier: The Dwarfs; Chicago Ned in Bartleby; Washington Sable Ensemble: The Complete Works of W. Shakespeare Company: Wates in Shakespeare (Abridged), and others. REGIONAL: Hapgood; MetroStage: SSgt. Adams in The Sand Shawnee Theatre: The Odd Couple, The Foreigner; Storm: Stories from the Front (East Coast Summer Musical Theatre: Hello Dolly!, Damn premiere); Theatre Gym/Theatre IV: Lucius Jenkins Yankees, South Pacific, and others; Living Theatre: in Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train. TELEVISION: PBS: A Day in the Life of the City. REGIONAL TOURS: Abolitionist David Walker in Prince among Slaves Branson Broadway Musicals, Inc.: Annie Get Your (scheduled to air in 2007). TRAINING: The Gun. AWARDS: 2006 KC/ACTF Irene Ryan National University of Alabama/Alabama Shakkespeare Finalist-Region III. TRAINING: Western Illinois Festival: MFA; Douglas Farwell Acting Studio; private University: MFA. coaching with Vera J. Katz.

27 Matthew Williams Geraint Wyn Davies* Edward, Prince of Wales Richard, Duke of Gloucester REGIONAL: Olney Theatre: u/s SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Eilif and Morten in An Enemy of COMPANY: Don Adriano de the People (dir. Jim Petosa); Armado in Love’s Labor’s Lost Greenbelt Arts Center: Paris’ page (also performed at the RSC in in Romeo and Juliet. TELEVISION: Stratford, England), title role in America’s Most Wanted, Religion and Ethics. Cyrano (Helen Hayes Award). NEW YORK: Lincoln OTHER: Curriculum and organizational videos for Center Theater: Edmund in King Lear; Off-Broadway: Success for All, HRC and Smithsonian Institution. Do Not Go Gentle. REGIONAL: Mark Taper Forum: TRAINING: Saralyn Trainor, Teacher; Tom Logan; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; Young Professionals – Linda Townsend; Creative Chicago Shakespeare Theatre: Do Not Go Gentle. Kids Camp with Chris Cherry. INTERNATIONAL: Canada: Atlantic Theatre Festival: Dylan Thomas Trilogy; 10 seasons with both the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival; England: British Actors Theatre Company; Chichester Festival: Hamlet, Henry VIII; Lyric Hammersmith: An Enemy of the People; Wales: Theatre Clwyd (actor and associate director, two seasons). FILM: Nancy Drew, Wild Dogs, Hypercube, One of the Hollywood Ten, Conspiracy of Fear. TELEVISION: ReGenesis, 24, Slings and Arrows, Forever Knight, Black Harbour, Tracker, Airwolf, Dracula: The Series, The Judge, To Serve and Protect. OTHER: Directing: many episodes of TV and short films; Appletree Theatre, Chicago, Illinois: Oliver Mayer’s Joy of the Desolate (world premiere).

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