The Bridge Project Produced by BAM, the Old Vic, & Neal Street

2010 Spring Season Bank of America presents The Bridge Project Produced by BAM, The Old Vic, & Neal Street

Approximate As You Like It running time: three hours, by William Shakespeare including one intermission Directed by Sam Mendes

Jan 12—17, 19—23, 26—30, Feb 2—6, Mar 2—5, 2009 at 7:30pm Jan 24, 31, Feb 7 at 3pm; Mar 6, 7, 13 at 2pm

BAM Harvey Theater

Set design by Tom Piper Costume design by Catherine Zuber Lighting design by Paul Pyant Sound design by Simon Baker for Autograph Composed by Mark Bennett Hair & Wig design by Tom Watson Fight direction by Rick Sordelet Casting by Nancy Piccione and Maggie Lunn Music coordinator Curtis Moore Music direction by Stephen Bentley-Klein Choreography by Josh Prince

International tour producer Claire Béjanin Co-commissioned by and produced in association with Holland Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Singapore Repertory Theatre, and Théâtre Marigny-Paris

Bank of America is the Proud Presenting Sponsor of The Bridge Project.

BAM 2010 Spring Season is sponsored by Bloomberg.

Bridge Project Production Partners: Celia Atkin, Donald R. Mullen Jr., Tony Randall Theatrical Fund, Jon & NoraLee Sedmak, Carol Sellars, Scott & Kathleen Simpson, and Barbara & David Zalaznick with additional support from Sharon E. Karmazin and Peregrine Whittlesey.

Additional support for The Bridge Project provided by the David L. Klein Foundation and The Laura Pels Foundation.

Major support for BAM Theater is provided by The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Inc., The SHS Foundation, and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, with additional support from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust. As You Like It CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Orlando, youngest son of Sir Roland de Boys Christian Camargo Adam, servant in the de Boys household Alvin Epstein

Oliver, eldest brother to Orlando Edward Bennett* Dennis, Oliver’s servant Ross Waiton* Charles, Duke Frederick’s wrestler Ron Cephas Jones

Rosalind, daughter of Duke Senior Juliet Rylance* Celia, daughter of Duke Frederick Michelle Beck Touchstone, a clown Thomas Sadoski Le Beau, a courtier Jonathan Lincoln Fried Duke Frederick, the usurping Duke Michael Thomas*

Duke Senior, the exiled Duke banished by his brother Michael Thomas* Amiens, a lord and follower of Duke Senior Richard Hansell* First Lord, companion of Duke Senior Ron Cephas Jones*

Corin, a shepherd Anthony O’Donnell* Silvius, a shepherd Aaron Krohn

Jaques, a melancholy gentleman Stephen Dillane*

Audrey, a country girl Jenni Barber Sir Oliver Martext, a country vicar Alvin Epstein Phoebe, a country girl Ashlie Atkinson William, a country youth Ross Waiton* Jacques de Boys, second son of Sir Roland de Boys Richard Hansell* Lords and Foresters Members of the Company

MUSICIANS Music director Stephen Bentley-Klein Musician Shane Shanahan

Production stage manager Richard Clayton* Assistant stage manager Jenefer Tait* Assistant stage manager Sarah Elizabeth Ford

The British Actors (denoted with *) are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. The American Actors (names without *) are appearing with the permission of UK Equity, in corporating Variety Artistes’ Federation, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity. The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance of this production.

The Musicians employed in this production are members of and represented by the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians.

Musicians are performing pursuant to a special arrangement between Local 802, American Federation of Musicians and British Musicians Union (BMU). The Bridge Project UNDERSTUDY COMPANY Celia Ashlie Atkinson Phoebe Jenni Barber Rosalind Michelle Beck Orlando; Amiens Edward Bennett* Jaques; Jacques de Boys Jonathan Lincoln Fried Duke Frederick and Duke Senior Ron Cephas Jones Oliver; William; Sir Oliver Martext Richard Hansell* Touchstone; Le Beau Aaron Krohn Charles the Wrestler; Silvius; Corin; Audrey Ross Waiton*

ADDITIONAL CREDITS Scenic artist Denise Penizzotto Associate director Gaye Taylor Upchurch Wigs and hair supervisor Shari Besanceney Production assistants Matt Casteel, US press agent Boneau Bryan Brown Howard Tilkin Set builders Scott Fleary Ltd (UK), Global Scenic Dialect coach Deborah Hecht Services (US) Singing instructor Andrew Byrne Scenic shop Coolflight Ltd—Richard Alto saxophone instructor Paul Garment Nutbourne (UK) Associate scenic designer Christine Peters Costume shop Angels the Costumiers (UK), Euro Associate lighting designer Dan Large Co, Jeff Fender, Brian Hemesath, Associate sound designer Jeremy Lee Arnold Levine (US) Assistant costume designer Nicole V. Moody Wigs built by Watson Associates (US) Costume assistants Patrick Bevilacqua, Lighting shop PRG Lighting (US) David Newell Sound shop Masque Sound (US) Costume shopper Ryan Park Musical instruments Carroll Music, Larry Miller, Props master Faye Armon Pantheon Steel, Deane Prouty, Yamaha Pianos Assistant props master Alexandra Morton Props interns Kate Costin, Annie Ford, International press agent Jo Allan Marina Guzman THE OLD VIC Chief Executive Sally Greene Artistic Director Kevin Spacey Producers Kate Pakenham John Richardson General Manager Ros Brooke-Taylor Production Manager Dominic Fraser Finance Director Vanessa Harrison Deputy Development Director Natasha Harris Marketing Director Catrin John New Voices Club & Network Manager (US & UK) Rachael Stevens Development Director Vivien Wallace Head of Old Vic New Voices Steven Winter THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE OLD VIC, INC. BOARD Alan Banes, Dina DeLuca Chartouni, Vanessa Harrison, Frank Selvaggi, Rhonda Sherman THE OLD VIC THEATRE TRUST BOARD OF TRUSTEES Nicholas Cooper (Chair), Alan Banes, Robert Bourne, Stephen Daldry CBE, Sally Greene OBE, Joyce Hytner OBE, Sir Elton John CBE, Kenneth Leet, Lady Ann Samuel

NEAL STREET Producer Caro Newling Director’s Note

When I was researching the two plays that make up year two of The Bridge Project, I came across this passage in a book by Ted Hughes.

It seemed to me to sum up perfectly the connections between As You Like It and The Tempest:

[In The Tempest,] Prospero escapes with his baby daughter, Miranda, just as in As You Like It the banished Duke lives (finally) in the forest with his daughter, Rosalind.

Antonio who, with the help of Alonso, King of Naples, usurped his brother Prospero and cast him away to sea, is a Macbeth-type Rival Brother who fails to kill. More obvi- ously, he is a duplication of Duke Frederick who, in the tragic overture, As You Like It, usurped and banished Duke Senior, as if the Devil’s Island where Prospero now finds himself were what remained of the Forest of Arden after the holocaust of the tragedies.

Perhaps one should not make light of the fact that the Mother Forest of those lyrical days, when Shakespeare answered the call, in mezzo del cammin, has become the rocky, storm-beaten island of a terrible dead witch and her devil-god. Or that Prospero numbers off rather precisely the twelve years between the composition of As You Like It (when Jaques sets out on the inward journey following the convertite Duke) and the composition of The Tempest, when Prospero, so much older, seeing the chance to settle the account, lifts his head from his books.

—From Ted Hughes’ Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being

The plays this year—although each stands on its own—are designed and conceived as a single gesture, a single journey.

We hope it’s a rewarding one.

—Sam Mendes

BRIDGE PROJECT INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES IN 2010 Hong Kong Arts Festival (Mar 25—28) Holland Festival (Jun 2—6) Singapore Repertory Theatre (Apr 2—10) The Old Vic, London (Jun 12—Aug 21) Théâtre Marigny-Paris (Apr 13—24) Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Greece Teatro Español de Madrid (Apr 29—May 9) (Aug 27—28) Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (May 26—30) As You Like It

SYNOPSIS

When Rosalind’s father Duke Senior is banished by his usurping brother, Rosalind is left at the court to keep her cousin Celia company.

One night, at a wrestling match, Rosalind and Celia meet the disinherited Orlando, and he and Rosalind fall instantly in love.

Later that night, Rosalind is banished from the court by her uncle, and Celia pledges her loyalty to her cousin. Together they disguise themselves: Rosalind as a man called Ganymede and Celia as “his” sister Aliena, a country maid. They decide to seek Rosalind’s father in the Forest of Arden, and, for their journey, bring Touchstone the court fool to entertain them.

Meanwhile, Orlando has returned home from the wrestling to find that his brother Oliver wants him dead. Adam, a faithful servant, warns Orlando of the plot against his life and escapes with him to the Forest of Arden. Orlando and Adam soon find Duke Senior, Rosalind’s father, who is living in exile with a community of outcasts, including the melancholy Jaques.

Disguised as Ganymede, Rosalind meets Corin and Silvius, a shepherd whose passion for Phoebe reflects the love Rosalind has for Orlando whom she fears she will never see again. Soon Phoebe meets the disguised Rosalind and falls immediately in love with Ganymede. Meanwhile, Touchstone begins his chase after the country girl Audrey.

One day, Celia reports that she has spotted Orlando in the forest, and that he is responsible for the love poems about Rosalind hanging on the trees. Rosalind decides to remain in her disguise and talk to Orlando about love. Ganymede claims that he can cure Orlando of his love for Rosalind if Orlando will meet with him every day and pretend that Ganymede is his love.

A new visitor appears to Celia and Rosalind in the forest: it is Oliver, the once murderous brother of Orlando who claims he has undergone a transformation.

What will Orlando reveal to Ganymede about the nature of his love for Rosalind?

Will Rosalind’s disguise give her the freedom she desires?

Is it possible that Rosalind and Orlando are truly in love?

Will Celia discover love in the forest?

Can Silvius be content without Phoebe’s love?

Can Phoebe get over her love for Ganymede?

Could Touchstone and Audrey be happy together?

Will brothers reconcile?

Will father and daughter be reunited?

Who’s Who

ASHLIE ATKINSON (Phoebe) for Measure (Peter Hall Company), Hay Fever Atkinson is an Arkansas native and graduate (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Invention of Hendrix College (Conway, AR) and the of Love, The School for Scandal (Salisbury Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC. Broadway: The Playhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest Ritz (Roundabout, 2007). Off-Broadway: Butcher (York Theatre Royal), Alice in Wonderful (Bristol of Baraboo (Second Stage, 2007), Fat Pig (MCC, Old Vic), Charley’s Aunt (Northcott Theatre), Dr. 2004—Theater World Award for Outstanding Faustus (Etcetera Theatre), Hay Fever (Theatre Debut, 2005). Off-off: Making Marilyn (Bridge Clwyd). TV includes Doctors, Silent Witness, Theatre Co., 2005). Film: Inside Man, Invention After You’re Gone, The Scum Also Rises (all of Lying, All Good Things, Eat Pray Love, Puccini BBC), Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia (ITV). for Beginners, Quid Pro Quo, An Invisible Sign of Film includes Hamlet (BBC), Twelve in a Box My Own, Another Gay Movie, Hungry Years. TV: (independent). Rescue Me, The Unusuals, 3 Lbs., Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Filthy Gorgeous. STEPHEN BENTLEY-KLEIN (musician) Atkinson also skates for Gotham Girls Roller Bentley-Klein has been the lead violinist for many Derby under the name Margaret Thrasher, Prime artists, including Shirley Bassey, Neil Sedaka, Minister of Your Demise. Rod Stewart, Barry White, Burt Bacharach, The Moody Blues, and Elvis Presley—The Concert. JENNI BARBER (Audrey) He has collaborated on albums with Morcheeba Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County (Who Can U Trust?, Big Calm, Fragments of Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: From Up Here Freedom), David Byrne (Feelings), playing tours (Manhattan Theater Club), The High Life with both, and also Paolo Nutini’s number (Musicals Tonight). Regional credits include one album, Sunny Side Up. Theatre includes The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Rosencrantz, The Forest, Coast of Utopia, Stuff (1st National), The Unauthorized Biography of Happens, Power, Henry IV Parts I & II, Major Samantha Brown (Orange County Performing Barbara, Summerfolk, The Waves, Revenger’s Arts), A Chorus Line (Music Theatre of Wichita). Tragedy, The Relapse, Peer Gynt (NT), The TV: Law & Order: SVU, The Electric Company Seagull (RSC), The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, (series regular). Film: PLAY. Education: The Romeo & Juliet (Globe), and The Winter’s Tale University of Michigan School of Music, Ann and The Cherry Orchard (Bridge Project year one, Arbor (BFA). Old Vic). He played with the Balarescu Quartet (2001—02) and with the Inklein Quartet he MICHELLE BECK (Celia) has composed albums (Brave New World, Stuff Regional credits: Viola in Twelfth Night (Chicago Happens) and film scores Butterfly( Man, The Shakespeare Theater); Ophelia in Hamlet Ghost of Mae Nak). He often performs on human (Shakespeare Theater, DC); Mariane in Tartuffe rights platforms with Vanessa Redgrave and Terry (McCarter Theater & Yale Repertory Theater); Waite. Caitlin in Spoon Lake Blues (O’Neill Theater Center); The Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac CHRISTIAN CAMARGO (Orlando) (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Isabella in The Broadway: All My Sons, Skylight (Theater Changeling (Poor Player’s Theater); Roxanne World Award). Off-Broadway includes title roles in Cyrano (Mile Square Theater). International in Coriolanus and Hamlet (Obie and Drama credits: Liz in Start Up (German Theater Abroad). League nom) for Theater for A New Audience, Film credits: Spinning Into Butter. Kit Marlowe (Public), Henry V (NY Shakespeare Festival), Steve Martin’s Underpants (Classic EDWARD BENNETT (Oliver) Stage Company). Regional includes The Illusion Theater includes Hamlet (WOS Nomination, Ian (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Camino Real Charleson Award, plus five other nominations), (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Poison Tree Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s (Taper), Private Lives (Goodman). Camargo is an Dream (RSC), Othello (Donmar), Nan, Skin inaugural company member of Shakespeare’s Game, Diana at Dobson’s (Orange Tree Theatre), Globe (London), where he performed in Pygmalion, Habeas Corpus, Little Nell, Measure Henry V and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Who’s Who

Film/TV includes The Hurt Locker, K19: The Catastrophe, Nacht und Träume, Eh Joe, Ghost Widowmaker, National Treasure 2, Henry May Sonata, Words and Music, Cascando. Also Long, Harlem Aria, Find Love, CSI, Without a Morrie, Tuesdays with Morrie (NY, Hartford, Trace, The Cleaner, Numbers, and Showtime’s Seattle); Lear, King Lear and Prospero, The Dexter. Upcoming film: Michael Lichtenstein’s Tempest (both Boston and NYC’s La MaMa). For Happy Tears. Writing and producing credits 40 years he performed the songs of Kurt Weill include MTV’s Fast Inc. and Palm Pictures/New in cabarets/on stage (US, South America) with Line documentary Sunday Driver. A member of Martha Schlamme, then Beth Anne Cole, and Juilliard Group 25. co-starred with Sting in Threepenny Opera on Broadway. Lots of TV, some film. Named Most STEPHEN DILLANE (Jaques) Promising Actor (NY Drama Critics, 1956), Obie Performances include TS Eliot’s Four Quartets for Dynamite Tonite! (1967), Brandeis Creative (Donmar Warehouse, Lincoln Center); One Arts Award (1966), Torch of Hope Award (1994), Evening by Schubert and Beckett (Royal Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence Festival Hall, Aldeburgh Festival and Lincoln (1996), Independent Reviewers of New Center); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You by England Award (1999), Jason Robards Award Caryl Churchill (Royal Court); Macbeth (Los (2001), Spencer Cherashore Award for Lifetime Angeles Redcat, Almeida in London and Adelaide Dedication to Not-For-Profit Theatre, Obie Lifetime Festival); Tom Stoppard’s Coast of Utopia Achievement Award (2007). (National Theatre) and The Real Thing (Donmar Warehouse and Broadway); Uncle Vanya (Young JONATHAN LINCOLN FRIED (Le Beau) Vic/RSC); Endgame (Donmar Warehouse); New York 2009: The Ghost in Hamlet at TFANA; Hamlet (West End); Tony Kushner’s Angels In Women Beware Women at Red Bull. New York America, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Brian highlights: Landscape of the Body (Durwood Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa and Farquhar’s The Peach) and Sleep Deprivation Chamber at Beaux’ Stratagem (all NT). Film and TV includes Signature Theater; Two Noble Kinsmen, Hamlet, 44” Chest, John Adams, Storm, The Shooting Richard III at NY Shakespeare Festival; 1951 at of Thomas Hurndall, God on Trial, Last Word, NY Theater Workshop; Richard III and Coriolanus Savage Grace, Fugitive Pieces, Goal, Klimt, The at TFANA. Regional highlights: Richard II at Yale Greatest Game, Nine Lives, The Hours, Spy Rep, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Game, The Cazalets, Anna Karenina, The Parole Landscape of the Body at Williamstown Theater Officer, The Darkest Light, Welcome to Sarajevo, Festival, Slavs at Mark Taper Forum, King Lear Firelight, Hamlet. (Edmund), Heartbreak House and many others at American Repertory Theater, Orson’s Shadow ALVIN EPSTEIN (Adam & Sir Oliver Martext) (Orson Welles) at the Globe, The Constant Wife at NY stage debut in 1955 with Marcel Marceau; San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, The Fool in Orson Welles’ King Lear; Lucky in Connie Congdon’s Tales of the Lost Formicans at American premiere of Waiting for Godot with the Humana Festival. Many roles as a company Bert Lahr, E.G. Marshall, reprised role on TV with member at Trinity Rep, including Tom Wingfield Zero Mostel, Burgess Meredith; Clov, American in The Glass Menagerie and Treplev in The premiere of Endgame; Luc, Richard Rodgers’ Seagull, both directed by Richard Jenkins. Film: No Strings with Diahann Carroll, Richard Kiley; BAPS, Kate and Leopold, Brink of Summer’s and more than 150 other productions on and End. TV: Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Intent. off Broadway and in regional theaters. He was associate director, Yale Repertory Theatre; artistic RICHARD HANSELL (Amiens) director, Guthrie Theater; founding member, Trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Berkshire Theatre Festival and American Shakespeare credits include, most recently, Repertory Theatre where for 25 years he Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe; The acted in/directed many productions. Additional Tempest (US Tour), and As You Like It (Derby roles—Estragon, Godot; Hamm/Nagg, Endgame Playhouse); the title role in Richard II (Pleasance (including BAM, 2008); and Beckett’s shorter London), Hamlet (English Touring Theatre and pieces including Ohio Impromptu, What/Where, West End), Two Gentleman of Verona (RSC), Who’s Who

Othello (Glasgow Citizens Theatre). Other The Invention of Love. NY/regional includes The theater includes the role of George VI in Crown Glass Cage, Echoes of the War (Mint Theater), Matrimonial (ACT), Tonight @ 8:30 (Chichester Philoktetes by John Jesurun (La MaMa), The Fest. Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hostage, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet (Old Dead and School for Scandal (both ETT), Lady Globe Theatre), In the Jungle of Cities, Macbeth, Windermere’s Fan (Theatre Royal Haymarket Cyrano de Bergerac (Alley Theatre), Beauty and and tour), The Legend of King Arthur (Red Shift), the Beast (TUTS), Sheppey, Much Ado About Habitats (Gate Theatre), Play Dead, The Boat Nothing (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Ireland Show, and The Art of Escape (all for the People tour of The Complete Works of Shakespeare Show), Byron The Poet (Kings Head), Gateway Abridged, and the upcoming rock musical to Heaven (Oval House), Truth Talks (Southwark adaptation of El Cid with Epic Theatre Ensemble. Playhouse), A Square of Sky (The Kosh), The Television: Welcome to New York. MFA from The Tango Room (for Josette Bushell-Mingo and Old Globe Theatre, San Diego. Aspect Theatre Co.), and A Patriot for Me (RSC). Television includes: Spooks, Holby City, Murder ANTHONY O’DONNELL (Corin) Most Horrid, and Berkeley Sq. (BBC). The Royal, Theater includes, for NT: The Shaughraun, Doctors (ITV), The Bachelor Years of Prince Bartholemew Fair, Ghetto, The Miser, Arturo Charles, Queer As 18th Century Folk, E=MC2 Ui, Under Milk Wood, The Way of the World, (Channel 4), Crossroads (Carlton), Family Affairs The London Cuckolds, President of an Empty (Ch. 5). Film: Shine, Hamlet, and The Wolfman. Room. For the RSC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Witch of Edmonton, The Winter’s Tale, RON CEPHAS JONES (Charles the Wrestler) Our Friends in the North, Measure for Measure, 2007 Obie Award (Sustained Excellence of A New Way to Pay Old Debts (London Critics Performance). New York: Wild Flower (Second Award—most promising newcomer), As You Stage), The Overwhelming (Roundabout Theater, Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Beggar’s Romeo & Juliet (Williamstown Theater Festival), Opera, Henry VIII, Kiss Me Kate (also West End). Two Trains Running (Signature Theater), The Other theater: Glengarry Glen Ross (Donmar), Wooden Breeks (MCC), Satellites, Richard Twelfth Night/Uncle Vanya (Donmar/BAM), III, Everybody’s Ruby, Massacre: Sing to Your King Lear, Galileo, Dance of Death, Ivanov, Children (all Public), Holiday Heart (MTC), Our The Homecoming (Almeida), The Weir (West Lady of 121st Street (Labyrinth/Union Sq.), Jesus End). TV includes Nuts in May, Knock for Knock Hopped the A Train (Labyrinth/CSC), Black Codes (Mike Leigh), Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Moll (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab), Don’t Explain Flanders, Much Ado About Nothing, Charles II, (Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe). Notable regional theater: Sweeney Todd, Gavin and Stacey, The Sarah Yale Rep, Area Stage, Long Wharf, Center Stage, Jane Adventures, Robin Hood. Film includes: Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Cleveland Playhouse. Vera Drake, Secrets and Lies, Match Point, Santa London: Othello (Royal/Derngate/Greenwich Claus, Robin Hood, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Death Theatre), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Donmar/The Defying Acts, The Baker, Caught in the Act. Arts Theatre), The Last Days of Judas Escariot (Almeida Theatre). Film: He Got Game, Across JULIET RYLANCE (Rosalind) the Universe, Sweet and Low Down, A Raisin in Trained at RADA. Recent theater includes Perdita the Sun, Half Nelson, Paid in Full, Carlito’s Way: in The Winter’s Tale and Cressida in Troilus and Rise, Preaching to the Choir. TV: NY Undercover, Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London); Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Damages, Double Desdemona in Othello (TFANA, Off-Broadway, Platinum. NY, Lucille Lortel Award Nomination—Best Featured Actress); Juliet in Romeo and Juliet AARON KROHN (Silvius) and Caliban in The Jamestown Masque (Middle Performed in year one of The Bridge Project Temple Hall, London); Medea in Neil LaBute’s and on Broadway in The Farnsworth Invention, Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Trafalgar Studios, West The Coast of Utopia, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, End, London); Mary Sidney in I Am Shakespeare Who’s Who

(Chichester Festival Theatre and UK Tour). Special Olympics in Shanghai. He has presented Film includes: Julie in The Burl (New Moon workshops and clinics at many top universities, Productions) and Maria in Animal (Légende including Harvard, Northwestern, NYU, and Films, Studio Canal, nominated for Discovery of has been a Guest Artist-in-Residence as well the Year, LA Film Festival). as director of the Percussion Department at the Hartt School, University of Hartford. THOMAS SADOSKI (Touchstone) Broadway: reasons to be pretty (TONY, Drama MICHAEL THOMAS (Dukes Frederick & Senior) Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League award Thomas most recently played Lafew in All’s nominations for Best Leading Actor), Reckless Well That Ends Well at NT, also transmitted live (MTC/Second Stage). Off-Broadway: reasons around the world as part of the NT Live season. to be pretty (MCC), Becky Shaw (Lucille Lortel Other parts at NT include Stogumber in Saint nomination—Best Featured Actor), This Is Our Joan and Rorlund in Pillars of the Community, Youth, Gemini, All This Intimacy (Second Stage), Athena in The Oresteia, Sir Rowland Lacey in Stay, Where We’re Born (Rattlestick), The The Shoemaker’s Holiday, and Andrea in The Joke (Studio Dante), The Mistakes Madeline Life of Galileo. Royal Shakespeare Company: Made (Naked Angels), Jump/Cut (The Women’s Women Beware Women, Edward III, The Project), The General from America (TFANA), Roman Actor, The Malcontent, The Comedy of Thunderbird (Cherry Lane). Regional: Santaland Errors, Henry V, Henry IV, Romeo and Juliet, A Diaries, The Waverly Gallery (Long Wharf Midsummer Night’s Dream. Chichester Festival Theatre), Moonlight & Magnolias (Alliance Theatre: King Lear, In Praise of Love. In London’s Theater), Left (NY Stage & Film), Street Scene, West End: Festen, The Real Thing. Almeida The Skin of Our Teeth, Hot L Baltimore, Rodney’s Theatre: Waste and Festen. Old Vic: Romeo and Wife, Dissonance (Williamstown Theater Juliet, The Government Inspector, Twelfth Night, Festival). FILM/TV: 30 Beats, The New Twenty, The Lady’s Not for Burning, Saint Joan, Antony Circledrawers, Loser, Happy Hour, Company and Cleopatra, All for Love, Hamlet. Television K, Winter Solstice, As the World Turns, Law & includes: Inspector Morse, Trial and Retribution, Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Doctors, New Tricks, Ultimate Force, Rosemary Intent, Ugly Betty. For my beautiful wife Kim. and Thyme, EastEnders, Twelfth Night. Film: Paper Mask, Pirate Radio/The Boat That Rocked. SHANE SHANAHAN (musician) Since 2000, Shanahan has been touring around ROSS WAITON (William) the globe performing side-by-side with cellist Theater includes, for NT: The Revenger’s Yo-Yo Ma as an original member of the Silk Road Tragedy, Much Ado About Nothing, Saint Joan. Ensemble. Shanahan’s playing and arranging For the RSC: The Duchess of Malfi, Antony & skills can be heard on all three of the ensemble’s Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing. Other recordings for the Sony/BMG label. He can also theater: Rutherford & Son (Northern Stage), be seen and heard on Ma’s holiday CD/DVD Corpse! (Salisbury Playhouse), Hamlet (West release Songs of Joy. He has performed and/or End), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead recorded with Philip Glass, Alison Krauss, Sonny (English Touring Theatre), Cymbeline, Twelfth Fortune, Fantasia, Chaka Khan, GE Smith, and Night, The Merchant of Venice (Wales Theatre Glen Velez, among others. Shanahan is currently Company), The Stars Look Down (NTC Touring co-curating a 40 week-concert series at the Company). TV includes: Eastenders, Holby City, American Museum of Natural History in NYC for G-Force (BBC), Identity (ITV), The Welsh in its Travelling the Silk Road exhibition. He has Shakespeare (Dogo Cymru). been seen/heard on TV and radio throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, including RICHARD CLAYTON (production stage manager) appearances on The Late Show with David Theater credits include The Winter’s Tale and Letterman, Good Morning America, The Colbert The Cherry Orchard (Bridge Project); Othello, Report, and the opening ceremony of the 2007 King Lear, The Seagull, Anthony and Cleopatra, Who’s Who Little Eagles, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, As SAM MENDES (director) You Like It, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew, Sam Mendes is the artistic director of The Bridge Macbeth, Hamlet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Project. He directed last year’s productions of Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Henry VI The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale, Parts 1-3, Richard III, Tales From Ovid, Timon which toured the world, playing in seven cities. of Athens, School for Scandal, Uncle Vanya, He began his theater career at the Chichester In the Company of Men (RSC, Stratford, West Festival Theatre where he was the first artistic End, and around the world); As You Like It, director of the Minerva Theatre in 1989. In The Merchant of Venice, The Honest Whore, A 1992 Mendes founded the Donmar Warehouse Mad World My Master (Shakespeare’s Globe, in London where he was the artistic director London); Twelfth Night, As I Lay Dying (Young until 2002. While at the Donmar Warehouse, he Vic, London); They’re Playing Our Song, Lucky directed Assassins (Olivier and Evening Standard Sods, Fool To Yourself, Absent Friends, Near awards), Translations, Cabaret, Glengarry Glen Cricket St. Thomas; Woman In Black (Stephen Ross, The Glass Menagerie (Olivier Award), Joseph Theatre, UK); How The Other Half Loves, Company (Olivier Award), Habeas Corpus, The Murder By Misadventure, Boston Story (Theatre Front Page, The Blue Room, To the Green Fields by the Lake, UK). Beyond, and Uncle Vanya (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards) and Twelfth Night (Olivier JENEFER TAIT (asst stage manager) and Evening Standard Awards), both at BAM Theater credits as deputy stage manager include in 2003. In the West End: The Cherry Orchard A Streetcar Named Desire, The Chalk Garden, (Critic’s Circle Award), The Plough and the Stars, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Parade Kean, London Assurance, and Oliver!, which (Donmar Warehouse), Parthenogenesis (ROH2, ran for four years at the London Palladium, and Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House), After is currently running at The Theatre Royal, Drury Dido (English National Opera at the Young Vic), Lane. RSC: Troilus and Cressida, The Alchemist, Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest, Richard III. NT: The Sea, The (Propeller, Watermill Theatre, Old Vic, BAM, and Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Evening Standard International Tour), The Winter’s Tale (Propeller, Award), The Birthday Party, and Othello (BAM, Watermill Theatre, BAM, and International 1998). Broadway productions include as director Tour), Sweeney Todd (Trafalgar Studios, New The Blue Room, Gypsy, The Vertical Hour, and Ambassadors and National Tour), Movin’ Out Cabaret (Tony Award), which ran five years at (Apollo Victoria), The Venetian Twins, The Studio 54, and as producer, The Real Thing, Take Gentleman From Olmedo (Watermill Theatre). Me Out (Tony Awards), and Shrek the Musical. Film as stage manager: Nine. Film credits include American Beauty (Academy Award—Best Director and Best Picture, Golden SARAH ELIZABETH FORD (asst stage manager) Globe, DGA Award), Road to Perdition, Jarhead. Also with BAM: Ridge Theater’s Lightning at Our Revolutionary Road, and Away We Go. He has Feet and Shelter (festival Musica à Strasbourg); been the recipient of the Shakespeare Prize, the Paul Simon’s American Tunes and Songs from Director’s Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and The Capeman; Happy Days; Red Hot + Rio 2. the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Credits include Puppetmaster of Lodz, Bartleby the theater. He was made a Commander of the the Scrivener, Uncle (Blue Heron Theatre); British Empire in 2000. Red Fly/Blue Bottle (HERE Arts Center); Mediterranean Voices (La MaMa); As You Like TOM PIPER (set designer) It, All in the Timing (Boothbay Harbor Opera Tom Piper is the associate designer of the RSC. He House), For Lovers Only (New World Stages). designed the Histories Cycle (Courtyard Theatre and Resident member, Fine Feathered Friends Theater: at the Roundhouse), creating costumes and sets for The Rise and Fall of Miles and Milo, A Nasty Richard II, Henry IV—Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry Story, The Death of Evie Avery. Studied with VI—Parts 1, 2 & 3, and Richard III for which he Compagnie Théâtrale F’Âme in Dakar, Senegal. won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for the 2009 Olivier Who’s Who Award for Best Set Design. Other recent work for Northern Ballet Theatre. Opera work worldwide the RSC includes As You Like It, The Grain Store, includes productions in the US (Met Opera, LA, and The Drunks. Other recent designs include Houston, Seattle, San Francisco), Australia, New Zorro (West End, UK tour, Paris), Dealer’s Choice Zealand, Monte Carlo, Israel, Austria, Germany, (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End), Falstaff Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and Japan. Over (Scottish Opera), Fall (RSC at the Traverse), Spyski the last year projects have included Rigoletto (Lyric Hammersmith and tour), The Scarecrow and (Nicholas Lenhoff at Semper Oper Dresden), His Servant (Southwark Playhouse), The Crucible, Aristo (Nancy Meckler at Chichester Festival), and Six Characters in Search of An Author (Abbey, Speed the Plow (Matthew Warchus at Old Dublin). Elsewhere Piper has worked at the Vic), Enjoy (Christopher Luscombe at Gielgud National Theatre, the Donmar, the Royal Opera Theatre), The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s House, Soho Theatre, Dundee Rep, the Bush, Gate Tale (Sam Mendes, Bridge Project 2009), the Dublin, Nottingham Playhouse, the Royal Court, world premiere of André Previn’s opera Brief Hampstead, Sheffield and in the West End. His Encounter (John Caird at Houston Grand Opera), future plans include Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Waiting for Godot (Sean Matthias at Theatre (RSC), and Zorro (Korea, Japan, and Germany). Royal Haymarket), the premiere production of Harrison Birtwistles’ chamber opera The Corridor, CATHERINE ZUBER (costume design) Semper Dowland Semper Dolands (Peter Gill Zuber has designed for Broadway: The Royal at Aldebrugh Festival), Shall We Dance (Adam Family, Oleanna, Joe Turner Has Come and Cooper at Sadlers Wells), and Another Door Gone, South Pacific(Tony Award), A Man Closed (Peter Hall Season at Bath Theatre Royal, for All Seasons, The Coast of Utopia (Tony, and for Peter Gill). www.theatricaldesigners.co.uk. OCC Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award), Edward Albee’s Seascape (Tony nom.), The SIMON BAKER (sound design) Light in the Piazza (Tony Award, OCC nom.) Simon Baker graduated from the Guildhall School Dinner at Eight, Twelfth Night (Tony nom.), in 1992. He has served time in the sound Ivanov, Mauritius, Cry-Baby, Little Women, A departments of both the RSC and National and Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Doubt, Frozen, designed shows across a broad spectrum of Dracula, The Sound of Music, Triumph of Love, theater from large-scale musicals on Broadway The Red Shoes. Off-Broadway: The Heart is a to street theater in the rain. In 1999 he joined Lonely Hunter, A Prayer for My Enemy, Farragut renowned British sound design and rental North, Howard Katz, The House in Town, company Autograph. Most recent credits include The Paris Letter, Intimate Apparel. Recipient: Lord of the Rings (Toronto and London—2007 2003, 2004, and 2007 Henry Hewes Award Olivier Nomination for Best Sound), Boeing for Design; 2004, 2005 Lucille Lortel Award; Boeing (London and Broadway—2007 Tony 2004 Ovation Award; 1997 and 2005 Obie Nomination for Best Sound), God of Carnage, Award for Sustained Achievement. Opera: The Our House (UK tour), The Norman Conquests Tales of Hoffman (Met), 125 Gala (Met), Romeo (Old Vic), Brief Encounter (Haymarket/UK tour/ et Juliette (Salzburg Festival 2008), Dr. Atomic US tour/St. Ann’s Warehouse—2008 Olivier and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Met), The Ring Cycle Nomination for Best Sound), and Don John (RSC/ (San Francisco and Washington Opera), Carmen UK tour/BAC/Spoleto Festival) both for Kneehigh (English National Opera), Fête des Vignerons Theatre, Complicite (Old Vic), Arcadia (Duke of (1999 Vevey, Switzerland). Upcoming: Le Comte York’s), and The Birds (Gate Theatre Dublin). Ory (Met), Women on the Verge (Lincoln Center). GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH (associate director) PAUL PYANT (lighting design) Gaye Taylor Upchurch is happy to be working Pyant is a graduate and associate of the Royal again with Sam Mendes on The Bridge Project Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He has after taking last year’s double-bill (The Winter’s long associations with Glyndebourne Opera, Tale and The Cherry Orchard) on its international English National Opera, The Royal Opera, tour. Selected NY directing credits: Paper Dolls Covent Garden, Royal National Theatre, English (FringeNYC, Outstanding Ensemble Award National Ballet, Donmar Warehouse, and 2008), Jordan Harrison’s Fit for Feet (Drama Who’s Who League), minor gods (SPF), Naomi Iizuka’s NANCY PICCIONE (casting director) Language of Angels (Lincoln Center Institute), Nancy Piccione has been the director of casting and Dano Madden’s The Save (MileSquare). at Manhattan Theatre Club for the past seventeen Other directing credits include developing new years, where she casts for the institution’s work at The Kennedy Center, Dixon Place, and two Off-Broadway theaters at City Center and The Barrow Group. As an assistant director, she its Broadway venue, the Samuel J. Friedman has worked on Broadway at MTC with Garry Theatre. Her Broadway credits include Topgirls, Hynes (Translations) and James Macdonald Shining City, and Reckless, as well as Proof (Top Girls) and has assisted at The Shakespeare (Tony Award for Best Play) and The Tale of the Theatre, Primary Stages, and The Signature. She Allergist’s Wife (Tony nomination for Best Play), is a member of the Women’s Project Directors and their National Tours. Most recently at MTC, Lab, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and an she received the CSA Artios Award for her casting alumna of the Drama League, Wake Forest of Ruined, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer winning play. University, and North Carolina School of the Arts. Prior to working at Manhattan Theatre Club, she was a member of the casting staff at the New TOM WATSON (hair and wig design) York Shakespeare Festival for ten years, where Tom Watson is head of the wig department at she worked on the Shakespeare Marathon, the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs including Shakespeare in the Park, numerous for more than 35 Broadway productions. Current productions at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, and recent Broadway designs include Brighton and transfers to Broadway. She is also the Beach Memoirs, The Addams Family, A View American casting director for The Bridge Project, from the Bridge, Present Laughter, Wicked, The produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. She Royal Family, Waiting for Godot, The American teaches at New York University’s Classical Acting Plan, Accent on Youth, Rock of Ages, South Studio, is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George, and and a member of the Casting Society of America. Cyrano de Bergerac. MAGGIE LUNN’s (casting director) film RICK SORDELET (fight director) experience: Notes on a Scandal. Recent Sordelet has 49 Broadway shows to his credit, television includes: Cranford, (Emmy nomination, including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, 2008), All the Small Things, Robin Hood, Tarzan, Superior Donuts, The Royal Family, Oliver Twist, all BBC. Lost in Austen, Trinity, ITV. Oleanna, The Addams Family, and 48 first- Theater includes: Vernon God Little, Young Vic; class productions all over the world, such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, Old Vic; Cabaret, Richard ll and Henry V at Shakespeare Theater Dirty Dancing, West End; Richard II and Hamlet, Washington, DC, and the new national tour of Old Vic. Lord of the Rings, Toronto. At the Beauty and the Beast. He was fight director for Almeida as Casting Director & Artistic Associate, Cyrano, the opera starring Placido Domingo at productions include Festen, Blood Wedding, the Met, Royal Opera House, and La Scala in The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, The Mercy Seat, Milan; and Ben Hur Live, the spectacular Arena Hedda Gabler, The Lady from the Sea, Period Show currently on tour in Europe. Film and of Adjustment, Romance. Lunn has been Head television: The Game Plan (Duane Johnson), of Casting at the RSC, Acting Head of Casting at Dan in Real Life (Steve Carell and Juliette the RNT, and has cast for the Chichester Festival Binoche), and Hamlet (Campbell Scott). Sordelet Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic, and was chief stunt coordinator for Guiding Light Crucible Sheffield, and for Bridge Project 2009. for over a decade, and received the Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence by the Lucille MARK BENNETT (composer) Lortel Foundation. He is a board member for BAM: Bridge Project ‘09—The Cherry Orchard, the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, and The Winter’s Tale. Recent Broadway scores an instructor at Yale School of Drama, The and sound designs include A Steady Rain, The New School University, and The Neighborhood Coast of Utopia (2007 Drama Desk Award; Playhouse. Outstanding Music for a Play, Henry Hewes Award; Sound Design), Henry IV, Golda’s Who’s Who

Balcony,The Goat, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia (The New Group); The Kennedy Center Spring Woolf? Off-Broadway: Durang’s Why Torture is Gala; Shrek (US National Tour). As an actor, Wrong... and numerous productions at Lincoln he has appeared on Broadway in Little Me and Center Theater, New York Theater Workshop, The Saturday Night Fever, toured the country in Cats, Public Theater, and Manhattan Theater Club. and starred as “Carmen Ghia” in The Producers Many regional productions including at The in LA. In addition to numerous New York and Globe, Mark Taper Forum, The Guthrie, Arena regional roles and concerts, Prince is also a Stage, Centerstage Baltimore, and The Alley proud alumnus of Forbidden Broadway. Film/TV: Theater. Bennett is the composer and co-lyricist A Cinderella Story and Law & Order: SVU. of a new musical, Most Wanted, which was commissioned by the La Jolla Playhouse and BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM) is recently workshopped in La Jolla and NYC. He recognized internationally for its innovative is the recipient of a Bessie Award for his work programming of dance, music, theater, and with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma. Bennett opera. In addition to presenting leading national also received a 1998 OBIE Award for Sustained and international artists, BAM identifies Excellence in Sound Design, Ovation, Robbie, and and supports the work of ground-breaking Garland Awards, and ten Drama Desk nominations, contemporary creators in the performing arts with including two for his Bridge Project ‘09 scores. its Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983, one of the world’s most important cultural festivals. CURTIS MOORE (music coordinator) BAM’s Spring Seasons often feature fresh Curtis Moore is honored to continue his takes on theater and opera classics, as well as collaboration with Mark Bennett on this second renowned dance and popular concerts. America’s year of the Bridge Project. In 2009, Moore was oldest performing arts center in continuous awarded a Jonathan Larson Grant with longtime operation, BAM has presented performances collaborator Thomas Mizer. Together they wrote since 1861. BAM also serves New York City’s the musicals Triangle (Williamstown Theatre diverse population through educational and Festival, O’Neill Music Theatre Conference), community programs. BAM’s role in Brooklyn Stagecoach Mary (National Alliance conference), has expanded by the creation of BAMcafé, which and The Bus to Buenos Aires (EST, New York). presents eclectic live music, and BAM Rose With Mizer, Matthew Brookshire, and Amanda Cinemas, including BAMcinématek. In recent Green he wrote the critically acclaimed musical, years, BAM’s role as a producer has included For the Love of Tiffany. His new musical Venice such endeavors as the three-part series Love (with Matt Sax and Eric Rosen) will premiere as in Hard Times: The Music of Paul Simon; a a joint production between The Center Theater new production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Group and The Kansas City Rep in 2010. At dir. Andrei Belgrader; and the launch of The Lincoln Center, he was the associate composer Bridge Project, a three year partnership with on The Coast of Utopia and Cymbeline. He wrote the Old Vic and Neal Street to bring original and performed songs in Todd Solondz’s film, productions of classic plays to New York (and on Palindromes, and provided orchestrations for an international tour) under the direction of Sam Striking 12, The Bubbly Black Girl..., and Saved Mendes. Since 1999, Karen Brooks Hopkins and at Playwrights Horizons. Joseph V. Melillo have served as, respectively, president and executive producer. JOSH PRINCE (choreography) Josh Prince’s experience on Broadway includes THE OLD VIC Shrek, The Musical. Other: Bridge Project 2009 The Old Vic is one of the best-known and best- (BAM), The Jerry Springer Opera (Carnegie loved theaters in the world, synonymous with Hall), Camelot (New York Philharmonic, PBS), the greatest acting talent that Britain has ever All Singin’, All Dancin’ (Town Hall ‘09), Emerald produced from Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, Man (NYMF), Barnum (LA), Tales from the Bad John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson to Judi Years (Theaterworks Palo Alto), Calvin Berger Dench, Maggie Smith, Albert Finney, and Peter (MTC 7@7 series), The Big Funk (LA), La O’Toole. Its iconic building in London has a rich Bohème, Singin’ in the Rain. Upcoming: The Kid history of great performances, and The Old Vic Who’s Who Theatre Company under the artistic leadership and Roses (dir. Peter Gill), Anna in the Tropics of Kevin Spacey, alongside producers Kate (dir. Indhu Rubasingham), Fuddy Meers (dir. Pakenham and John Richardson, continues Angus Jackson). West End/Broadway transfers to attract the best creative talent. Since 2004 2006—09: Hamlet (dir. Michael Grandage) Andrea Corr, Niamh Cusack, Richard Dreyfuss, and Mary Stuart (dir. Phyllida Lloyd) from the Jeff Goldblum, Jessica Hynes, Robert Lindsay, Donmar Warehouse, Sunday in the Park with Stephen Mangan, Lesley Manville, Mary Stuart George (dir. Sam Buntrock) from the Menier Masterson, Ian McKellen, Ben Miles, Matthew Chocolate Factory. Mendes and Newling Modine, Rosamund Pike, David Suchet, Diana established and ran the Donmar Warehouse Rigg, and Stephen Weber have all been members Theatre from 1992 to 2002 originating some 70 of The Old Vic Company. The Old Vic’s 2006 productions including The Blue Room, Electra, production of A Moon for The Misbegotten, True West, and Tony Award winners Cabaret, directed by Howard Davies and starring Eve Best The Real Thing, Take Me Out. Films: Stuart: A and Kevin Spacey, had a sell-out success on Life Backwards, Starter for Ten, Things We Lost Broadway; and In 2009 The Old Vic’s glorious in the Fire, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away in-the-round revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy We Go. For more information, go to The Norman Conquests directed by Matthew www.nealstreetproductions.com. Warchus transferred to the Circle In the Square Theatre to great critical acclaim. Recently, The CLAIRE BÉJANIN (international tour producer) Old Vic’s production of Lawrence and Lee’s Claire Béjanin became involved in performing classic Inherit the Wind, directed by Trevor arts production and administration (opera, dance, Nunn and starring Kevin Spacey and David theater, music) at the MC93 Bobigny Theatre in Troughton, played to packed houses at The Old France, beginning in 1990, working with leading Vic. In tandem with its season, The Old Vic runs international artists, such as Robert Wilson, an award-winning Education and Community Deborah Warner, Peter Greenaway, Peter Sellars, program, Old Vic New Voices, which develops and Lucinda Childs. In 1998 and 1999 she the very best young and emerging talent both in was executive director of the inaugural seasons London and New York, and opens the building of Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix en up to diverse audiences. The Old Vic Theatre Provence. Simultaneously, she was executive Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of The director at Peter Brook’s Théâtre des Bouffes Old Vic Theatre Trust (Chief Executive Sally du Nord. She created PolimniA in 2000, her Greene), a charity supported in the US by The production firm, specializing in international American Associates of The Old Vic, a registered projects. First collaborating with BAM on the US non-profit organization. presentation of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychose, staged by Claude Régy and starring Isabelle NEAL STREET Huppert, as well as on James Thiérée’s La veillée Producer—Caro Newling des abysses, followed by Au Revoir Parapluie Formed 2003 by Sam Mendes, Caro Newling, in 2007. Since 2008, she has been the and Pippa Harris to produce film and theater. international tour producer for The Bridge Project. Currently: The Bridge Project Year Two, Enron Since 2009, she is the international producer of (London/Broadway), Shrek the Musical co- Zimmermann & de Perrot, currently touring Chouf produced with Dreamworks Animation. In Ouchouf with the Tangiers Acrobats, Öper Öpis, development: Charlie and the Chocolate and Gaff Aff. Factory with Warner Bros Theatre Ventures Inc. Previously: Three Days of Rain (dir. Jamie HOLLAND FESTIVAL Lloyd) starring James McAvoy, The Vertical (Jun 2—6) The Holland Festival, founded Hour (dir. Sam Mendes) starring Julianne Moore in 1947, is the Netherlands’ trendsetting and Bill Nighy. Commissioned projects and international performance arts festival. Each year premieres also include: The House of Special the Festival presents exceptional work at the Purpose (dir. Howard Davies), All About My international level in Amsterdam theaters and Mother (dir. Tom Cairns), The Hound of the concert halls. Artistic director Pierre Audi offers Baskervilles (dir. Orla O’Loughlin), Days of Wine the public a “kaleidoscopic window on the world” Who’s Who

with a mix of big names and daring experiments. THÉÂTRE MARIGNY-PARIS The Festival covers all disciplines within the (Apr 13—24) In 1835, the Théâtre Marigny, situ- performing arts, including music, music theater, ated in Paris, began as a theater with the set-up dance, opera, and theater and every hybrid form of a small hall called Folies-Marigny. After its in- in between. In the Holland Festival, Western auguration in 1855 by Offenbach, Folies-Marigny and non-Western art forms go hand-in-hand. In flourished and enjoyed a growing reputation as addition to the performing arts, there is also room a famous theatrical hall. It was Charles Garnier for the visual arts, literature, and architecture, who gave the theater a panoramic building; the making the Holland Festival unique in the Opéra de Paris became the cornerstone for all Netherlands and Western Europe. theater shows in the 1880s. In 1946, Léon Volterra relinquished the direction of Marigny HONG KONG ARTS FESTIVAL to Simone Volterra. With this new director’s en- (Mar 25—28) The Hong Kong Arts Festival, deavor, the Théâtre Marigny basked in a glorious first established in 1972, presents close to 150 period which has had a lasting significance in performances and events by top international, theatrical history for years after the war. Madame regional, national, and local talent during Volterra engaged the principals from the Comédie February and March each year. The eclectic Française and led to the founding of the Renaud- mix of classical and contemporary works cater Barrault company. In 1980, the theater—by then to an audience of about 120,000 including comprising two halls—continued with its notabil- participants of the Festival’s Young Friends ity with Daniel Auteuil, Roman Polanski, François Scheme. The Festival also commissions, produces, Périer, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and and publishes new works independently or in others. The halls caught the attention of a notable collaboration with international partners. Festival television program called Au Théâtre ce soir. In information is available at www.hk.artsfestival.org. 2000, François Pinault became the owner of the Théâtre Marigny and appointed Robert Hossein to SINGAPORE REPERTORY THEATRE undertake the artistic direction. In January 2008, (Apr 2—10) Founded in 1993, Singapore Robert Hossein retired and François Pinault as- Repertory Theatre (SRT) is one of the leading signed Pierre Lescure as the head of the Marigny English language theater producers and Theatre. presenters in Asia. In addition to its repertoire of original musicals like Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress, the company has produced a number of critically acclaimed plays that include Into the Woods, Rent, M. Butterfly, They’re Playing Our Song, ART, and The Pillowman. SRT is also one of the biggest producers of children’s theater in Southeast Asia, as well as a biennial Shakespeare in the Park series. SRT was the first Singaporean theater company on Broadway The Musicians employed in this production are members of and represented by the Associated Musicians of in 1998 as Associate Producer of Golden Child, Greater New York, Local 802 of the American Federation which went from Singapore to New York and of Musicians. garnered three Tony Award nominations. SRT was the first (and only Asian) stop for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s world tour of King Lear The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of the BAM Harvey Theater are represented by United and The Seagull starring Sir Ian McKellen in Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

2007, well as for the inaugural Bridge Project The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this with The Winter’s Tale last year. Please visit production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in www.srt.com.sg. the United States. THE BRIDGE PROJECT IS...