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An Iliad Program Bios

Program Credits Updated 10/7/19

Homer's Coat

In association with Octopus Theatricals

Presents

AN ILIAD Written By Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare Based on Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles

Directed by Lisa Peterson

Starring Denis O'Hare Bassist: TBD – PLEASE CONFIRM WITH OCTOPUS THEATRICALS

Scenic Design: Rachel Hauck Costume Design: Marina Draghici Lighting Design: Scott Zeilinski Composer/Sound Design: Mark Bennett

Production Manager: Davison Scandrett Production Stage Manager: Lucy Kennedy Audio Supervisor: TBD – PLEASE CONFIRM WITH OCTOPUS THEATRICALS

For Octopus Theatricals: Executive/Creative Producer - Mara Isaacs Producer - Ronee Penoi Production Coordinator - Bryan Hunt Business Manager - Michael Francis Producing Assistant - Victoria Detres Associate Producer – Rob Laqui Associate Producer – Adam Hyndman Producing Associate – Sophie Blumberg

An Iliad was originally developed as part of the Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects Program, Off-Broadway premiere produced by New York Theatre Workshop (Jim Nicola, Artistic Director; William Russo, Managing Director) in 2012.

An Iliad was originally produced by Seattle Repertory Theatre (Jerry Manning Producing Artistic Director; Benjamin Moore, Managing Director). It was subsequently produced by McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, NJ (Emily Mann, Artistic Director; Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director; Mara Isaacs, Producing Director).

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An Iliad was developed in part with the assistance of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program.

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BIOS: HOMER’S COAT Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson are founding members of Homer's Coat - a creative collective that explores foundational literature. An actor and a director respectively, they both develop, write and edit the pieces they make together. The creative process differs according to subject matter but the lens through which they view the theatrical medium makes for unique, energetic, imaginative performative experiences. Together they created the stage piece, AN ILIAD, over a period of 5 years, utilizing video, video transcriptions, improvisation, original music, and diligent research. Their latest work, The GOOD BOOK, examines faith and the creation of the Christian bible over centuries, and is currently running at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. They are also working on a commission from the McCarter Theatre in Princeton called THE SONG OF ROME, which is a solo for a female performer, and picks up where AN ILIAD leaves off, with the destruction of Troy, and follows Aeneas through the founding of Rome, examining the idea of government and empire, both the rise and the fall.

DENIS O’HARE (Actor/Co-Creator) Denis O’Hare is the co-author, along with Lisa Peterson, of the award winning Solo Performance Play, "An Iliad" (Obie, awards) and “The Good Book” which premiered at the Court Theatre and recently had its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep. Denis wrote and starred in his first feature length film, The Parting Glass, directed by Stephen Moyer. Denis most recently starred in Tartuffe at the National in . His Broadway credits include Elling, Inherit the Wind, Sweet Charity () Assassins (Tony nom), (Tony Award, Drama Desk, Obie and ), Major Barbara, Cabaret and Racing Demon. His off-Broadway credits include Helen, Silence, Cunning, Exile and Into the Woods (The Public Theater), Vienna Lusthaus and An Iliad (New York Theatre Workshop – ) and Pig Farm (Roundabout). His film credits include The Goldfish, Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, The Day Shall Come, Private Life, Lizzie, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, Novitiate, From Nowhere, The Normal Heart, Dallas Buyers Club, C.O.G., The Eagle, 5,000 Feet is the Best, Edge of Darkness, The Proposal, An Englishman in New York, Duplicity, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Milk, Changeling, Baby Mama, Charlie Wilson’s War, Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart, Rocket Science, Half Nelson, Garden State, 21 Grams, The Anniversary Party, Sweet and Lowdown. Denis has also appeared in a number of television series including 5 seasons on , 2 seasons on True Blood and 2 seasons on This is Us. Some of his other television work includes When We Rise, The Good Wife, The Comedians, Banshee, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, Brothers and Sisters, Bored to Death, and 100 Centre Street.

LISA PETERSON (Director, Co-Creator) Lisa Peterson is a two-time OBIE award winning director and writer. She created and co-wrote An Iliad, with Denis O’Hare, based on Homer’s epic poem. She also recently directed their second collaboration, The Good Book, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Last summer she reimagined and remounted her musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, with music

Updated 11.27.16 3 of 3 An Iliad Program Bios by David Bucknam and Adam Gwon, at New York Stage & Film. In addition to many classic plays, Lisa has directed the premieres of new works by , , , Naomi Wallace, Caryl Churchill, Janusz Glowacki, Marlane Meyer, Culture Clash, Jose Rivera and many others at theaters including NYTW The Public, Vineyard, MTC, , Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Guthrie, Actors Theater of Louisville, Berkeley Rep, McCarter, Arena Stage, OSF, and many more.

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RACHEL HAUCK (Set Design) Rachel Hauck: Broadway: (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critic nominations), What The Constitution Means To Me, Latin History For Morons. Recent work: The Wrong Man (MCC), Hadestown (National Theater; Citadel; NYTW); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, (Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow); Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder (Public); Amy And The Orphans, On The Exhale (Roundabout); Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons), All The Ways To Say I Love You (MCC). Recipient of Princess Grace and Lilly Awards; Drama Desk, Lortel nominations; OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence.

MARINA DRAGICHI (Costume Design) NYTW: Mad Forest. Broadway: Fela! (Tony Award). Off-Broadway: Cymbeline, Mother Courage (Delacorte Theater); The Skriker, Hamlet, Woyzeck (Public Theater). International: Les Indes Galantes, L’Italiana in Algeri (Paris Opera), La Traviata (Bordeaux Opera), 24 Images Secondes (Lyon Opera). Film & TV: Precious, Rage, Heights, Twelve and Holding, The Grey Zone, Dexter,Blue Bloods, Homeland.

SCOTT ZIELINSKI (Light Design) Scott is based in New York and has created lighting designs for theatre, dance, and opera throughout the world. His work in New York includes productions for Broadway, Lincoln Center, and The Public Theatre, among many others and his designs have also been seen extensively at theatres throughout many other cities in the . Work outside the U.S. includes productions in Adelaide, Amsterdam, Avignon, Berlin, Bregenz, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Gennevilliers, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Linz, Ljubljana, London, Lyon, Melbourne, Orleans, , Ottawa, Paris, Reykjavik, Rotterdam, Rouen, St. Gallen, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Shizuoka, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Vilnius, and Zurich. His work for dance has been seen at American Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival, Houston Ballet, The Joyce, Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, and others. For opera he has designed at Opera Australia, Bregenzer Festspiele, Academy of Music, Canadian Opera, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Nederlandse Opera, Opera, Opera de Rouen, Royal Opera House London, San Francisco Opera, Spoleto Festival and others. Scott received his Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design at the School of Drama. SCOTTZIELINSKI.COM

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MARK BENNETT (Composer/Sound Design) Mark Bennet’s Broadway credits include: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady Rain, The Coast of Utopia (2007 Drama Desk Award: Outstanding Music for a Play), Henry IV, Golda’s Balcony, The Goat, Lily Tomlin’s "The Search...". Mark was composer for the five BAM/OLD VIC Bridge Project productions 2009-2012 (Sam Mendes, director), His Off- Broadway credits include: An Iliad, (Obie Award), Mad Forest, My Children! My Africa! (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional productions include An Iliad, Major Barbara, Candida, The Philanderer, The House of Bernarda Alba (all directed by Lisa Peterson), Junk, King Charles III, His Gal Friday, Most Wanted (musical), & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Craig Noel Award Outstanding Music for a Play) Arms and the Man, and Pygmalion. For Theatrico Orhnintorrinco in San Paulo, Brazil Mark composed the score for Caca Rosset’s adaptations of Shakespeare’s La Commedia Dos Erros, and Moliere’s O Avarento. Mark has received a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design, a 1998 Bessie Award, Ovation Award, an Award, and 14 Drama Desk nominations.

DAVISON SCANDRETT (Production Manager) Davison Scandrett is a Bessie award-winning lighting designer and production manager based in Brooklyn, NY. He has created lighting for works by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Charles Atlas, Merce Cunningham, Pam Tanowitz, Sarah Michelson, Dylan Crossman, Sonya Tayeh, Andrew Ondrejcak, Rebecca Lazier, and the Off-Broadway productions of ’s Thank God for Jokes and Neal Brennan’s 3 Mics. Production management credits include projects with Homer’s Coat, Wendy Whelan, Marina Abramovic, Benjamin Millepied, Kyle Abraham, BalletBoyz, Jennifer Monson, Brian Brooks, Silk Road Ensemble, Steve Reich, Stephin Meritt, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Lyon Opera Ballet, Lincoln Center Festival, and the Paris Opera Ballet. He served as Director of Production for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 2008-2012 and is currently the Design and Production Consultant for the Merce Cunningham Trust.

LUCY KENNEDY (Production Stage Manager) Lucy trained at the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne and toured extensively in Australia and North America before settling in New York. Recent credits include Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, The Lion King and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. She is thrilled to be part of the team bringing An Iliad to new, international audiences.

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Octopus Theatricals Founded by creative producer Mara Isaacs, Octopus Theatricals collaborates with artists and organizations to foster an expansive range of compelling theatrical works for local, national and international audiences. We eschew boundaries—aesthetic, geopolitical, institutional—and thrive on a nimble and rigorous practice. Current projects: Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell (Broadway, 8

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Tony Awards including Best Musical); Iphigenia, a new opera by Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding; Dreaming Zenzile by Somi Kakoma, An Iliad by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson; Theatre for One; and Project Springboard: Developing Dance Musicals. We are also proud to work with Phantom Limb Company, Ripe Time, Lola Arias, Song of the Goat Theatre and more. www.octopustheatricals.com

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