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Philip Taaffe, Chorus, 2011 (detail)

BAM 2012 Winter/Spring Season sponsor: Published by: BAM 2012 Winter/Spring

Brooklyn Academy of Music Bank of America Alan H. Fishman, presents Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, The Bridge Project Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Richard III Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Produced by BAM, & Neal Street By Directed by

BAM Harvey Theater Jan 10—Mar 4, 2012

Approximate running time: three hours and 15 minutes, including one intermission

Scenery by Tom Piper Costumes by Lighting by BAM 2012 Winter/Spring sponsor: Projection by Sound by Gareth Fry Bank of America is the proud presenting sponsor of Music by Mark Bennett The Bridge Project Musical coordination and direction by Curtis Moore Leadership support for The Bridge Project provided Fight direction by Terry King by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artistic associate Gaye Taylor Upchurch

Bridge Project Production Partners: Celia Atkin; Casting by Daniel Swee and Maggie Lunn John & Samantha Hunt; Donald R. Mullen Jr.; International Tour Producer Claire Béjanin Tony Randall Theatrical Fund; Jon & NoraLee Sedmak; Carol & Ian Sellars; Scott & Kathleen Simpson; and Barbara & David Zalaznick with additional support from Mr. Remmel T. Dickinson; Sophie Hughes; First performance of this production was at The Old Vic, Sharon E. Karmazin; and Peregrine Whittlesey. , on June 18, 2011

Major support for theater at BAM provided by Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Frederick Loewe Foundation; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.; The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund; The SHS Foundation; The Shubert Foundation, Inc.; Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; The Corinthian Foundation; Gary Lynch & Kate Hall; and Harvey Schwartz & Annie Hubbard. Richard III

CAST, IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III George, Duke of Clarence, brother to Richard and Edward IV Chandler Williams Brackenbury Howard W. Overshown William, Lord Hastings, Lord Chamberlain Jack Ellis * Lady Anne Annabel Scholey * Queen Elizabeth, wife of King Edward IV Haydn Gwynne * Lord Rivers, brother of Queen Elizabeth Isaiah Johnson Lord Grey, son of Queen Elizabeth Nathan Darrow Marquess of Dorset, son of Queen Elizabeth Gavin Stenhouse * Duke of Buckingham Chuk Iwuji * Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby Michael Rudko Queen Margaret, widow of King Henry VI Gemma Jones * First Murderer Gary Powell * Second Murderer Jeremy Bobb King Edward IV Andrew Long Duchess of York, mother of King Edward IV, Richard and Clarence Maureen Anderman Bishop of Ely Andrew Long Young Richard Duke of York, Son of King Edward IV Katherine Manners * Young Edward Prince of Wales, song and her of King Edward IV Hannah Stokely * Lord Mayor of London Howard W. Overshown Sir Jeremy Bobb Sir Richard Ratcliffe Stephen Lee Anderson Sir Francis Lovel Gary Powell Scrivner Isaiah Johnson Sir James Tyrrel Simon Lee Phillips * Henry, Earl of Richmond Nathan Darrow Duke of Norfolk Simon Lee Phillips * Citizens, Nurse, and other roles played by members of the .

MUSICIANS Keyboards, vocals, percussion Curtis Moore Percussion Hugh Wilkinson *

* UK members, denoted with an asterisk, are appearing with the permission of ’ Equity Association.

The other members, from the US, are appearing with the permission of UK Equity, incorporating 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.

Musicians employed in this production are appearing with the permission of Society of London Theatre/Musician Union and represented by the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians.

Co-commissioned by and produced in association with Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Centro Niemeyer Spain, Doha Film Institute, Hong Kong Arts Festival, The Istanbul Theatre Festival (IKSV) & The Istanbul Municipal Theatre, Kay and McLean Productions, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, SHN-Carole Shorenstein-Hays & Robert Nederlander, and Singapore Repertory Theatre. Richard III

UNDERSTUDIES Richard, Duke of Gloucester Andrew Long George, Duke of Clarence / Bishop of Ely Gavin Stenhouse * Brackenbury / Sir William Catesby / Henry, Earl of Richmond Isaiah Johnson Lord Hastings Gary Powell * Lady Anne / Queen Elizabeth / Scrivener Katherine Manners * Lord Rivers / Sir James Tyrrel / Duke of Norfolk Howard W. Overshown * Lord Grey / Marquess of Dorset / Second Murderer / Lord Mayor / Sir Richard Ratcliffe Simon Lee Phillips * Duke of Buckingham Jeremy Bobb Lord Stanley / First Murderer / King Edward IV Stephen Lee Anderson Queen Margaret / Duchess of York Hannah Stokely * Young Richard Duke of York / Young Edward Prince of Wales Annabel Scholey *

* UK members, denoted with an asterisk, are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity.

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Associate Lighting Designer Dan Large Associate Director Bruce Guthrie Associate Sound Designer Ross Chatfield Production Manager Dominic Fraser Associate Composer Matthew Henning Production Co-coordinator Audrey Hoo Production Carpenter Tom Humphrey Production Stage Manager Richard Clayton Deputy Head of Wardrobe Louise Askins Assistant Stage Manager Jenefer Tait Wardrobe Dresser Dean Nichols Assistant Stage Manager Samantha Watson Wigs Mistress Anna Morena Production Electrician Andrew Furby Tour Press Representative Jo Allan for Projection Engineer Pradeep Dash Jo Allan PR Associate Costume Designer Jonathan Lipman

PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Projection Equipment supplied by Costume Supervisor—London Sharon Marlow Stage Sound Services Costumes and wigs supplied by Flying effects by High Performance Angels Costumes London Set Constructed by Scott Fleary Scenery Wigs for Haydn Gwynne by Campbell Young Set Painted by Richard Nutbourne Sound Equipment by Autograph Sound Special thanks to Yamaha Pianos

PRODUCERS’ NOTE The Producers would like to acknowledge the extraordinary support of Bank of America, which has allowed The Bridge Project to have a profound impact on audiences worldwide. Richard III

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

When you choose to mount a production of Richard III, you take a risk. The play itself forms the final chapter of Shakespeare’s massive cycle, and many of the characters and historical events would already have been known to a contemporary audience. When produced on its own, outside of its context, you lose these references. But you gain something too. What could be a play simply about an English King becomes, perhaps, more universal. No longer solely about a single monarch, but now about the timeless themes of desire for and abuse of power. A parable. Shakespeare himself might have been surprised at the way in which history has validated his vision in the 400 years since the play’s first performance. While we rehearsed and performed this production, for example, the world saw the Arab Spring and the downfall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. As has been said before, Shakespeare is indeed our contemporary.

This production of Richard III marks the final installment of The Bridge Project, the three-year experiment mixing actors from the US and the UK in order to explore some of the great classical plays, and tour them to all corners of the globe.

It seems fitting that this final production should directly feature all of the three key figures in setting up that initiative: BAM’s Joseph Melillo as producer, myself as director, and of course Kevin Spacey as leading . His Richard III has played The Old Vic in London, in front of 14,000 in the open air at Epidaurus in Greece, and in Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Istanbul, , Naples, Aviles (Spain), Sydney, and Doha.

The Bridge Project has been an exhilarating time of experiment, travel, and discovery. Many memories have been made, and new friends also. It seems fitting that its journey should end where it began exactly three years ago: in the wonderful BAM Harvey Theater.

We hope you enjoy the company’s final production.

—Sam Mendes

INTRODUCTION TO RICHARD III

The Wars of the Roses is over. Or so it seems...

England has just endured its bloodiest civil war with the House of York claiming victory and the crown from the house of Lancaster. It seems that peace will now reign with King Edward. However, the seeds of hate have been sown deep in ’s war-scorched earth, and this peace has been built on postwar resentment and grudges which are neither forgiven nor forgotten.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, brother to King Edward, had found his calling in those times of war. Although deformed since birth, he has been instrumental in the victory of the house of York over Lancaster. Feeling he has been cast aside now that he has served his purpose, he yearns for conflict and revenge. Now, he turns his attention to creating a war within in order to fulfill his “secret close intent:” to become the King of England. Richard will lie, cheat, and kill to make this ambition a reality. In this time of peace, no one is safe. Richard III

Kevin Spacey, Annabel Scholey Photo: Alastair Muir

ABOUT RICHARD III—RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, HOUSE OF YORK

Richard is the youngest surviving brother of King Edward IV. He is physically deformed, but is fiercely intelligent and a very able soldier, having already murdered King Henry VI and his son Prince Edward before the action of the play begins. He is hungry for power and plots his way to becoming King of England. He is manipulative and devious, but also charming and charismatic, and frequently addresses as his closest allies. He marries Prince Edward’s widow, Lady Anne, orchestrates the murder of his brother George, Duke of Clarence; and after the death of his eldest brother, Edward IV, arranges the murders of his young nephews Edward V and Richard, Duke of York. By the time he is crowned King Richard III, he has also been responsible for the deaths of everyone else who has posed as a threat: Queen Elizabeth’s brother Lord Rivers, her son Lord Grey, Lord Hastings, his closest friend and ally the Duke of Buckingham, and his wife Lady Anne. The more successful he is, the more insecure he becomes, and he starts to behave increasingly irrationally. He shows some signs of guilt the night before the Battle of Bosworth, after the ghosts of those who he has killed visit him and predict that he will be defeated. The following day, he is killed in battle by his rival Henry, Earl of Richmond, who is crowned Henry VII and becomes the first Tudor king.

ABOUT SHAKESPEARE’S RICHARD III

William Shakespeare (1564—1616) wrote Richard III as early as 1591; it was published in 1597 as an inexpensively printed quarto, the first of many quarto runs. It is considered a later work in the First Tetralogy (composed of the three parts of Henry VI, documenting the War of the Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York), as this history cycle is known. And while it still ranks among his earlier works in addition to some comedies, Richard III already displays rich shades of the psychological complexity and conflicting natures of his greatest tragic characters, such as Macbeth and Lear. Richard III is documented to have been performed in court in 1633, but most likely was performed earlier at the Globe and elsewhere. Shakespeare would complete 38 plays, in addition to poems, sonnets, and collaborative works, before his death at 52. Michael Rudko and Nathan Darrow

Gemma Jones Chuk Iwuji

Chandler Williams Haydn Gwynne

Photos: Manuel Harlan Who’s Who

Maureen Anderman (Duchess of York) Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Translations, Taking Sides Broadway: Driving Miss Daisy, The Year of Magical (Kansas City Actors Theatre); The Pillowman, The Thinking, , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Little Dog Laughed, The Retreat from Moscow, The Lady from Dubuque, Benefactors, Social Iron Kisses (Unicorn Theatre, Missouri); To Kill a Security, You Can’t Take It With You, The Last of Mockingbird (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Much Mrs. Lincoln, , Macbeth, The Man Who Ado About Nothing (Berkeley Rep); Leading Ladies Came to Dinner, A History of the American Film, (New Theatre Restaurant); The Game of Love and Moonchildren, . Off-Broadway: The Waverly Chance (Madison Rep). NYU: The Philistines (dir. Gallery, Ancestral Voices, Later Life, Passion Play; Liviu Ciulei). Television: Ambrose Bierce, Civil War A Delicate Balance, Noël Coward in Two Keys Stories. Film: The Fantastic Magnifico. MFA, NYU. (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Becky Shaw, Third, , The Sister Rosensweig (Huntington Jack Ellis (Lord Hastings) Theater includes Don Theatre); A Moon for the Misbegotten, Tartuffe (Hartford Quixote, The Provoked Wife, , Measure Stage); Booth is Back, (Long Wharf Theatre). for Measure (ATC); Hamlet, , Twelfth TV: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Law & Order, Night, A Clockwork Orange (RSC); Much Ado About Homicide, The Equalizer. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Nothing, A Few Good Men (West End); If I Were Outer Critics, IRNE nominations, , You, The Grass is Greener, The Unexpected Guest Connecticut Critics Award, Westport CT Lifetime (national tours); Assassins (); Achievement in the Arts. Peter Pan (Theatre Royal Windsor); , All’s Well That Ends Well, Tartuffe, Stephen Lee Anderson (Sir Richard Ratcliffe) Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep); Dead Men, Broadway includes , Wicked, Fiddler on McQuin’s Metamorphosis, Klimkov (Traverse Theatre, the Roof, The Crucible, Life (x) 3, The Adventures of Edinburgh). Television includes Bad Girls, Prime Tom Sawyer, Footloose, The Capeman, The Kentucky Suspect, The Knock, House of Saddam, Rome, Cycle, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: The Slug Lewis, Blue Murder, Sweet Medicine, Waking the Bearers of Kayrol Island, Violet, Floyd Collins; Luck, Dead, The One That Got Away, Where the Heart Is, Pluck, and Virtue, Groundhog (Regional); Bus Inspector Morse. Film includes Outlaw, It’s Alive. Stop (Huntington Theatre); The Studio (Signature Theatre); The Front Page, A Midsummer Night’s Haydn Gwynne (Queen Elizabeth) Theater includes Dream (Long Wharf Theatre); Becky Shaw (Almeida); (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival); Saint Joan, The (Broadway/West End) for which she won Drama Cherry Orchard, Mine Alone, Henry IV, King Lear, A Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World Awards, Christmas Carol (Denver Centre Theatre Company). and Olivier and Tony Award nominations; Company Anderson is the recipient of an IRNE Award for Best concerts (Donmar Warehouse); The Memory of Supporting Actor for his role in Bus Stop. Television Water (Hampstead); Peer Gynt, , A includes , Law & Order, Autopsy. Film Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of includes The Treatment. Windsor (RSC); (Olivier nomination), Ziegfeld (West End); The Recruiting Officer, The Jeremy Bobb (Second Murder/Sir Cabinet Minister, The Bluebird of Unhappiness William Catesby) Broadway: Is He Dead?, (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Macbeth Translations. Off-Broadway: Shipwrecked!, Cactus (Ludlow Festival); (Octagon, Bolton); Flower, Finian’s Rainbow. Beast, The Calamity of Kat The Way of the World (Royal Theatre, Northampton); Kat and Willie, Love: A Tragic Etude, The Laramie and His Monkey Wife (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Plays (tour/Tectonic Theatre Project); Becky Shaw Scarborough). Television includes Sherlock, Rome, (Wilma Theatre; Barrymore Award, Best Actor); The Secret, Consenting Adults, Drop the Dead Sleuth, Thief River (Barrington Stage); Rosencrantz Donkey (BAFTA and British Comedy Award nomina- and Guildenstern are Dead (Weston Playhouse); tion), Peak Practice, Mersey Beat, Nice Work, Lewis, Dolly West’s Kitchen (TheatreWorks CA); The Sound Poirot, Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, Dalziel and of Music (Hangar Theatre); Guardians, Without You Pascoe, Absolute Power, Hospital!, Lovejoy, What (The Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference). Mad Pursuit?, Time Riders, After the War, and The TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, All My Children. Merchant of Venice. Gwynne has received three Film: You Don’t Know Jack, Boy Wonder, August, Royal Television Society Best Actress Awards. Film White Lies Black Sheep. includes Hunky Dory, These Foolish Things, The Pleasure Principle, and Remember Me. Nathan Darrow (Lord Grey/Henry, Earl of Richmond) Broadway: In the Next Room, Major Chuk Iwuji (Duke of Buckingham) Theater includes Barbara. Off-Broadway: Paternity, Trade. Regional: Welcome to Thebes, The Observer, The Bacchae King Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About (National Theatre); The Misanthrope (West End); Nothing (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); title role in The Playboy of the Western World (Abbey Magnetic North (Public Theatre, Maine); Who’s Theatre, Dublin); Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II, Who’s Who

Henry IV, Henry V, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Hamlet (Repertory Theatre of St Louis); Agamemnon and His (RSC); The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC at The Old Daughters (Arena Stage); Much Ado About Nothing, Vic/tour); Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic/Barbican/Young The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Winter’s Tale (Oregon Vic); Chimps (Liverpool Playhouse); Top Dog/Under Shakespeare Festival); Measure for Measure, The Dog (Tall Tales Theatre Company); Romeo in Romeo Seagull, Light the Sky (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); and Juliet (US tour); Phèdre, Much Ado About Oliver, Democracy (Olney Theatre); Romeo and Juliet Nothing, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale (American (Folger Theatre). Long is the recipient of a Helen Hayes Players Theatre); Indiscretions (Theatre X) Moll Award for Best Actor for his role in Frozen. Flanders (Renaissance Theaterworks); Passage in Purgatory (Shanghai Theatre Academy). Iwuji played Katherine Manners (Young Richard Duke Henry VI in the RSC ensemble that was awarded two of York) Theater includes The Revenger’s Tragedy, Olivier Awards for Best Company Performance and Coram Boy, The House of Bernarda Alba, Cyrano de Best Revival, for The Histories at the Roundhouse in Bergerac, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National 2009. Television includes Doctor Who, The Garden, Theatre); King Lear (RSC); The Master Builder (West The Three Kings, Casualty, Slave Trader, . Film End/Tour); Snowbound (Trafalgar Studios); Cinderella includes Exam. (Lyric Hammersmith/Warwick Arts Centre); My Mother Said I Never Should (Watford Palace Theatre); Isaiah Johnson (Lord Rivers/Scrivener) Theater The Rivals (Mercury Theatre Colchester); Amadeus, includes The Merchant of Venice as the Prince of Dracula (Derby Playhouse); I Am a Superhero (Old Morocco (Broadway); Burn This, Mud, River, Stone, Vic New Voices); War (Strindbergs Intima Teater, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Once in a Lifetime (New Stockholm); Don’t Shoot the Clowns (Fuel). Television York); In the Red and Brown Water, Once on This includes A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain, Island, Big River, (regional). He trained at Doctors, Casualty. Film includes Come on Eileen, Howard University (BFA) and NYU (MFA in acting). Zero Hour.

Gemma Jones (Queen Margaret) Theater includes Howard W. Overshown (Brackenbury/Lord Mayor The Marriage of Figaro, King Lear, After Aida of London) Theater: A Free Man of Color, Julius (The Old Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Caesar (Broadway); Beauty on the Vine, Never the Winter’s Tale, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Henry Sinner, Yellowman, Blue (Off-Broadway); Orlando IV Part 1 & Part 2 (RSC); The Cavern, Alfie, Getting (Classic Stage Company); The Trip to Bountiful On, Howard’s End, The Homecoming, The Ride (tour); Radio Golf (Milwaukee Rep); Much Ado Down Mount Morgan, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The About Nothing, The Tempest, Hamlet (Folger Master Builder (West End); The Mystery of the Rose Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Yale Rep); ART Bouquet, The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse). (Two River Theatre); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Television includes Whistle and I’ll Come to You, are Dead (Centerstage); Hamlet (Shakespeare and Spooks, Longitude, Inspector Morse, After the Company); Passion Play, Blue, The Great White Dance, , The Merchant of Venice, Hope (Arena Stage); Macbeth (Alabama Shakespeare The Seagull, The Lie, The Duchess of Duke Street. Festival); Yellowman (ACT); Exit Wounds (Arden Film includes The Devils, Sense and Sensibility, Wilde, Theatre); The Dying Gaul (Source Theatre); The Shanghai Knights, The Winslow Boy, Bridget Jones’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, The School Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Harry Potter for Scandal (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Six and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Degrees of Separation, Picasso at the Lapin Agile Half-Blood Prince, Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall (Weston Playhouse); Goodnight Irene (Theatre J); Dark Stranger, Hysteria. The Sisterhood (Round House Theatre). Television includes Kings, New Amsterdam, Law & Order, All Andrew Long (King Edward IV/Bishop of Ely) My Children, As the World Turns, Guiding Light. Film Theater includes Cymbeline, , Richard includes 13, Body of Lies, Pride and Glory, Dead II, Henry V, Henry IV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Canaries, Grand Street. title role in Coriolanus, The Duchess of Malfi, Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Don Carlos, Lady Simon Lee Phillips (Sir James Tyrrel/Duke Windermere’s Fan, Major Barbara, Trojan Women, of Norfolk) Theater includes Inherit the Wind (The Cyrano, Macbeth, The Country Wife, Timon of Old Vic); Generous, Oorah! (Finborough Theatre); Athens, Edward II, Tamburlaine, The Way of the Dogfight(Arcola Theatre); Salsa Saved the Girls, World (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Swansong The Infant (Old Red Lion Theatre); Twelfth Night, (Summer Play Festival NYC); Educating Rita Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s (Huntington Theatre); , I Am My Own Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company). Television Wife, Saving Aimee, A Fox on the Fairway (Signature includes Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Theatre); Gross Indecency, M. Butterfly(Guthrie Ever, Blood in the Water, Banged Up Abroad. Theatre); title role in Richard III (Denver Center); Film includes Me and Orson Welles, Red Lights, Frozen (Studio Theatre); Amadeus, Copenhagen, Burlesque Fairytales. title role in Pirandello’s Henry IV, Metamorphoses Who’s Who

Gary Powell (First Murderer/Sir Francis Lovel) Holby City, Poirot. Radio Includes A Harlot’s Progress, Theater includes The Cherry Orchard and The All Passion Spent, Dusty Answer (BBC). Winter’s Tale (The Old Vic/BAM/international tour); Romeo and Juliet (Arundel Festival); Much Ado About Kevin Spacey (Richard, Duke of Gloucester) Nothing, Wait Until Dark (Salisbury Playhouse); Theater includes National Anthems, The Philadelphia Twelfth Night, To the Green Fields Beyond (Donmar Story, Richard II, A Moon for the Misbegotten (also Warehouse); Black Comedy (West End); Divine Right Broadway), Speed-the-Plow, Inherit the Wind (all (Birmingham Rep); Twelfth Night, A Question of at The Old Vic); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida/ Geography, Cyrano de Bergerac, Henry VI Part I & The Old Vic/Broadway), for which he received the Part II, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Artists and Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Actor. Admirers, Strange Snow, Danny and the Deep Blue In addition he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Sea, The Churchill Play, The Jew of Malta, Measure Featured Role, for his performance in Neil Simon’s for Measure, Three Sisters (RSC); The Tempest, The Lost in Yonkers on Broadway. He starred opposite Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, American Buffalo, Once Jack Lemmon in the Broadway revival of Long Day’s in a Lifetime (Swan Theatre, Worcester); Equus, King Journey into Night, directed by Jonathan Miller, and Lear (Lancaster); Bent (Exeter Nothcott). Television played Paul in the Off-Broadway production of Barrie includes New Tricks, Law & Order: UK, , Five Keefe’s Barbarians at Soho Rep. He has been the Days, Holby City, The Golden Hour, Tom Brown’s artistic director of The Old Vic Theatre Company since Schooldays, Judge John Deed, Doctor Who, The 2003. Film includes The Usual Suspects (Oscar, Best Guardian, A Touch of Frost, Beech is Back, Shadow Supporting Actor), Seven, Swimming with Sharks, Play, Minder, Total Concept, The Windowmaker, American Beauty (Oscar, Best Actor) LA Confidential, EastEnders, Rules of Engagement, Blind Justice, Glengarry Glen Ross, Casino Jack, Recount, and Thief Takers, Inspector Morse, She’s Out, Kavanagh most recently opposite and Paul Bettany QC. Film includes Another Year, Crush, From Hell, in Margin Call. Next year he will star in a US version The Many Lives of Albert Walker, The Leak Unit. of British television series House of Cards to be directed by David Fincher. Michael Rudko (Lord Stanley) Theater includes True West (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar, Gavin Stenhouse (Marquess of Dorset) Theater Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe); Great includes Can’t Smile Without You (Bill Kenwright/ Expectations (Derby Playhouse); We Are Not These tour). Television includes Iconicles, Keabadian Cinta, Hands (Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus); Mary Stuart, Aki Nabalu, Fresh! Sofia’s Diary, Nearly Famous. The Best Man, Timon of Athens, Serious Money Film includes The Intellects, Clash of Empires: Battle (Broadway); King Lear, Titus Andronicus, As You for Asia, Prick, Malachi. Stenhouse trained at the Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry V, Measure Guildhall School of Music & Drama. for Measure, Richard II (Off-Broadway); Macbeth, Night and Day (Wilma Theatre); Paradise Lost, The Hannah Stokely (Young Edward Prince of Wales) Seagull, Hedda Gabler (American Repertory Theatre); Theater includes The Bridge Project: The Cherry Tartuffe (McCarter Theatre/Yale Rep); The Tempest Orchard and The Winter’s Tale (The Old Vic/BAM/ (Folger Theatre); iWitness (Mark Taper Forum); Proof international tour); After the Dance, Much Ado About (Arena Stage); The Faith Healer (Old Globe Theatre); Nothing (National Theatre); Well (Trafalgar Studios); King Lear, As You Like It (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Summer and Smoke (West End); Queen C (Gate); King Lear, The Investigation, The Woman in Black Woman II (Edinburgh Festival); Macbeth, Romeo (Centerstage); The Tempest, Hedda Gabler, Twelfth and Juliet (tours); The Glass Slipper (Southwark Night (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Measure Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oxford for Measure (California Shakespeare Theatre); A Open Air Theatre). Television includes Any Human Christmas Carol (Dallas Theatre Centre); The Winter’s Heart, Vexed, Cranford, The Family Man, The Tale (Nebraska Shakespeare Festival), Henry V, Golden Hour, Holby City. Film includes The Duchess, Richard III (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival). Chromophobia, Bright Young Things.

Annabel Scholey (Lady Anne) Theater includes The Chandler Williams (George, Duke of Clarence) Rivals (West End); Charley’s Aunt (Royal Exchange Broadway: In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play Theatre, Manchester); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lincoln Center Theater), Mortimer in Mary Stuart (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The House of Special (Donmar Warehouse), and Lieutenant Yolland in the Purpose, Wallenstein (Minerva, Chichester); Hamlet, acclaimed revival of Translations (Manhattan Theater The Taming of the Shrew (Tobacco Factory, Bristol); Club). Off-Broadway: Crimes of the Heart (directed Hobson’s Choice (Chichester Festival Theatre); The by Kathleen Turner, Roundabout), Rope (Drama Cherry Orchard (Sheffield Crucible);Troilus and Department), The Mysteries (Classic Stage Company), Cressida (RSC/King’s Theatre Edinburgh); The Real Theatre for a New Audience, Public Theater. Thing (Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour). Television includes Regional: Richard III (title role, Playmaker’s Rep), Personal Affairs, Being Human, Jane Eyre, EastEnders, McCarter Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, and New Who’s Who

York Stage and Film. Several seasons at Williamstown (Courtyard Theatre/Roundhouse). Elsewhere he has Theatre Festival including: Lady Windemere’s Fan, worked at the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, On the Razzle (directed by David Jones), and Street , Soho Theatre, Dundee Rep, Scene. Film/TV: Kinsey, Heights, Bedlam, The Caller, Bush Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Royal Court, Public Enemies, The Good Wife, and Law & Order: Hampstead Theatre and Sheffield Theatres. SVU opposite Jeremy Irons. Catherine Zuber (costumes) Theater includes The Hugh Wilkinson (percussion) Bridge Project: As You Like It and The Tempest, The includes The Lion King, Hair, Jerry Springer the Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale (The Old Vic/ Opera, Never Forget. Film includes Beyond the Sea, BAM/international tour); On a Clear Day, Blood & Shifty, Hard Candy, Poppy Shakespeare, Dorian Gifts, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Gray, Play Without Words. As a percussionist, Trying, Born Yesterday, Women on the Verge of a Wilkinson has performed with the BBC Big Band and Nervous Breakdown, , The Coast of BBC Concert Orchestra, Beth Orton, Tim Minchin, Utopia, The Light in the Piazza, Seascape, Awake London Sinfonietta, and Siouxsie Sioux. He has and Sing!, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Royal contributed to albums with artists such as Marti Family, Oleanna, A Man for All Seasons, Cry-Baby, Pellow, These New Puritans, and DJ Vadim. He Mauritius, Doubt, Little Women, Dracula, Frozen, has worked as a percussionist, pianist, songwriter, Dinner at Eight, Twelfth Night (Broadway). Zuber is producer, and educator since graduating from the the recipient of five for Best Costume Royal College of Music.t Design in a Play or Musical for her work in South Pacific, The Coast of Utopia, The Light in the Piazza, Sam Mendes (director) is the artistic director of The Awake and Sing!, and The Royal Family. Opera Bridge Project, for which he has directed The Cherry includes Le Comte Ory, The Barber of Seville, Doctor Orchard, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, and Atomic, The 125th Anniversary Gala, The Tales of The Tempest. In 1989 he became the first artistic Hoffmann (Metropolitan Opera); Two Boys (ENO); director of the Minerva Theatre in Chichester. He The Ring (San Francisco Opera); Romeo and Juliet directed many productions, including the award- (Salzburg Festival/La Scala, Milan). winning Assassins. In 1992 he founded the Donmar Warehouse in London, which he ran as artistic Paul Pyant (lighting) Theater includes The Bridge director for a decade. During his time there he Project: As You Like It and The Tempest, The Cherry directed award winning productions of Assassins, Orchard, and The Winter’s Tale (The Old Vic/BAM/ The Glass Menagerie, and Company, as well as international tour); Measure for Measure (Jerwood a double bill of Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, Vanbrugh Theatre); True West (Sheffield Crucible); which transferred to BAM. He has directed many Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory); House plays for the RSC, National Theatre, West End, and of Games, The Master Builder (); on Broadway. He is the recipient of several Tony Hay Fever (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Antony and and Olivier Awards, including an Olivier Award for Cleopatra (Liverpool Playhouse); The Secret Garden Outstanding Achievement in Theater. His film credits (Birmingham Rep); The Heretic (Royal Court); include Away We Go, Revolutionary Road, Jarhead, The Breath of Life (Sheffield Lyceum);Flare Path Road to Perdition, and American Beauty, for which (West End); Ecstasy (Hampstead Theatre). Opera he won Oscar Awards for Best Director and Best includes Xerxes (Houston Grand Opera), Betrothal Picture. In 2003 he formed Neal Street to produce in a Monastery (Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse/ film, theater, and television, which has since become Opéra Comique). Pyant works with opera, theater, one of the UK’s most prolific independent production and dance companies worldwide and has lit many companies. Mendes has been the recipient of the productions in the West End and on Broadway. He Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and in has long associations with Glyndebourne, English 2000 was awarded a CBE. National Opera, Royal Opera House, National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Almeida Theatre, Tom Piper (set design) Theater includes The Bridge English National Ballet, and Northern Ballet. His Project: As You Like It and The Tempest (The Old Vic/ opera work has been seen in America, Australia, BAM/international tour); The Histories, Macbeth, The Europe, Japan, and Israel. City Madam, As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra (RSC); Zorro Jon Driscoll (projection) Theater includes Complicit, (West End/Paris/Moscow/Tokyo/Amsterdam); Dealer’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue (The Old Vic); Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory/West End); Travelling Light, Earthquakes in London, Nation, Falstaff (Scottish Opera); Fall (RSC/Traverse Theatre); The Power of Yes, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Spyski (Lyric Hammersmith/tour); The Plough and Observer, Gethsemane, Her Naked Skin, Fram, A the Stars, The Crucible, Six Characters in Search Matter of Life and Death, The Reporter (National of an Author (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). Piper is the Theatre); Ghost (Manchester Opera House/West End); Associate Designer of RSC. He is the recipient of an The Wizard of Oz, Birdsong, Love Never Dies, Dirty Oliver Award, Best Costume Design, for The Histories Dancing, Heroes, Up for Grabs, , Glorious, Who’s Who

Life after George, When Harry Met Sally, Dance of Curtis Moore (music co-ordinator & director) Death (West End); Enron (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Theater as an associate composer includes The Royal Court/West End/Broadway); Separate Tables, Bridge Project: As You Like It and The Tempest, The The Last Cigarette (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cherry Orchard, and The Winter’s Tale (The Old Brief Encounter (West End/Broadway); Midnight’s Vic/BAM/international tour); The Coast of Utopia, Children (RSC); The Lightning Play, Whistling Cymbeline (Broadway). Theater as a composer Psyche (Almeida Theatre); Frost Nixon (Donmar includes Timon of Athens (The Public Theatre, New Warehouse/Broadway); Whistle in the Dark (Royal York); Triangle, The Legend of Stagecoach Mary, The Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Alice’s Adventures Bus to Buenos Aires, For the Love of Tiffany (New in Wonderland (Royal Ballet) and Phantom of the York); Venice (Centre Theatre Group, Los Angeles/ Opera (). Driscoll is the recipient of Kansas City Rep). He has also provided orchestrations an Obie Award for Brief Encounter on Broadway. He for productions in New York such as Striking 12, The is technical associate of the National Theatre. Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Saved. Moore is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Grant. Gareth Fry (sound) Theater includes Dancing at Film includes Palindromes, Clear Blue Tuesday. Lughnasa (The Old Vic); The Prisoner of Second Avenue (The Old Vic/West End); Black Watch Terry King (fight director) Theater includesA (National Theater of Scotland); The Master & Moon for the Misbegotten (The Old Vic); His Dark Margarita, Shun-kin, Endgame (Complicite); The Materials, Henry IV Part I & Part II, Scenes From the Noise of Time (Complicite/Emerson String Quartet); Big Picture, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi, Edmond, The Overwhelming, (Laura Pels, Roundabout Landscape with Weapons, Elmina’s Kitchen, The Theatre); One Evening (Lincoln Center), Wastewater, White Guard (National Theatre); Henry VI Part I, Chicken Soup with Barley, The City, Harvest, Under Part II & Part III, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and the Whaleback, Mountain Language (Royal Court); Juliet, Coriolanus, As You Like It, Cymbeline, Singer, Five Stages of Truth (V&A); Joe Turner’s Come and Henry V (RSC); Our Country is Good (Royal Court) Gone, Sweet Nothings (Young Vic); Babel (Stan Peter Pan (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Les Liaisons Won’t Dance); No Idea (Improbable); Theatre of Dangereuses (Bristol Old Vic); Of Mice and Men Blood (Improbable/National Theatre); Beauty and (Birmingham Rep/West End); Festen (Almeida the Beast, The Cat in the Hat, Pains of Youth, Some Theatre/West End); Caligula, Don Carlos, Othello Trace of Her, Attempts on Her Life, Waves, The (Donmar Warehouse); Fool for Love, Porgy and Overwhelming (National Theatre); A Matter of Life Bess, Martin Guerre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oliver!, and Death (Kneehigh/National Theatre); Living Costs Saturday Night Fever, Spend Spend Spend, Chitty (DV8 at Tate Modern); Macbeth (Out of Joint); Othello Chitty Bang Bang, Guys and Dolls, Billy Elliot the (Frantic Assembly); The Fahrenheit Twins (Told by Musical, , , Jerry Springer: an Idiot); Fräulein Julie (Schaubühne Berlin); Die The Opera, Dirty Dancing, Zorro the Musical (West Wellen (Schauspiel Cologne). Fry is the recipient of End); Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); The two Olivier Awards for Best Sound Design for Black Three Musketeers (Sheffield Crucible);The Late Watch and Waves. Henry Moss (Almeida Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi, East I East, As You Like It (New Vic Theatre, Stoke). Mark Bennett (music) Theater includes The Bridge Television includes The Bill, Casualty, EastEnders, Project: As You Like It and The Tempest, The Cherry Broken Glass, A Kind of Innocence. Orchard, and The Winter’s Tale (The Old/Vic/BAM/ international tour); Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady Rain, Gaye Taylor Upchurch (artistic associate) The Coast of Utopia, Henry IV, Golda’s Balcony, Theater includes (as associate director) The Bridge The Goat, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Lincoln Project: As You Like It and The Tempest, The Cherry Center’s Henry IV (Broadway); Why Torture is Orchard and The Winter’s Tale (The Old Vic/BAM/ Wrong…, Beckett/Albee, Mad Forest (Off-Broadway). international tour). Theater as a director includes Bennett has contributed scores and sound design Simon Stephen’s Bluebird with Simon Russell Beale to productions at Lincoln Center, New York Theatre (Atlantic Theatre); Paper Dolls (New York Fringe); Workshop, the Public Theatre, and the Ridiculous Language of Angels (Lincoln Center Institute); Theatrical Company, all in New York. He has also Minor Gods (Summer Play Festival). Upchurch scored and/or worked on sound design on more has developed new work for The Kennedy Center, than 50 regional theater productions including a New Dramatists, The Culture Project, Dixon Place, live chamber orchestra version of A Midsummer Ensemble Studio Theater, and Lincoln Center Theater Night’s Dream, which premiered in 2010 at La Jolla Directors Lab. She is an alumna of The Drama Playhouse. He is the recipient of a Drama Desk League, Women’s Project Directors Lab, and North Award for his score for The Coast of Utopia, as well Carolina School of the Arts. as 12 additional Drama Desk nominations for music or sound design. Other awards include an Ovation, Maggie Lunn (casting) Theater includes The Bridge Robbie, Bessie, and Garland, as well as an Obie for Project: As You Like It and The Tempest, The Cherry Sustained Excellence in Sound Design. Orchard and The Winter’s Tale (The Old Vic/BAM/ Who’s Who international tour); A Moon for the Misbegotten, to Candleford, The Haunting, Jekyll & Hyde: The Richard II, Hamlet (The Old Vic); Flare Path, Butley, Musical and Keeler (national tours). Lipman as a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (also director of Angels Costume London has supplied Chichester Festival Theatre), Birdsong, Cabaret, costumes to theater, opera, television, and film Dirty Dancing (West End); A Month in the Country productions, collaborating with the industry’s leading (Chichester Festival Theatre); House of Games costumes designers, producers, directors and actors. (Almeida); Vernon God Little (Young Vic); Lord of His forthcoming design work includes La Fancuilla the Rings (Toronto). As casting director and artistic del West AKA West End Girl (Opera Up Close at the associate at the Almeida, productions include Festen; Kings Head London) and Doctor Dee (Manchester Blood Wedding; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Mercy International Festival/ENO). Seat; Hedda Gabler; The Lady from the Sea; Period of Adjustment; Romance. She has been head of Richard Clayton (production stage manager) Theater casting at the RSC and acting head of casting at the includes The Bridge Project: As You Like It and The NT, and has cast for the Chichester Festival Theatre, Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, and The Cherry Orchard Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic, and Sheffield (The Old Vic/BAM/international touring); over 25 Crucible. Television includes Great Expectations, productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company Hustle, The Nativity, Cranford Series 1 and 2, All (Stratford-upon-Avon/West End/international touring); the Small Things, Robin Hood, Oliver Twist, Lost in As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Honest Austen, Trinity. Film includes Notes on a Scandal. Whore, A Mad World My Master (Shakespeare’s Lunn is member of the CDG. Globe, London); Twelfth Night, As I Lay Dying (Young Vic, London); They’re Playing Our Song, Lucky Daniel Swee (casting) Theater includes more than Sods, Fool to Yourself, Absent Friends, Near Cricket 70 productions as casting director for Lincoln Center St. Thomas; Woman in Black (Stephen Joseph Theater, including War Horse, Other Desert Cities, Theatre, UK); How the Other Half Loves, Murder by Blood and Gifts, A Free Man of Color, In the Next Misadventure, Boston Story (Theatre by the Lake, UK). Room, The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, Henry IV, The Invention Jenefer Tait (deputy stage manager) Theater includes of Love, Contact, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Bridge Project: As You Like It and The Tempest , , The Sisters Rosensweig. Other (The Old Vic/BAM/international touring); A Flea In Broadway theater includes God of Carnage, Mary Her Ear (Old Vic); , The Stuart, Exit the King, Frost/Nixon, The Vertical Chalk Garden, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Hour, Julius Caesar, The Retreat from Moscow, Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Parthenogenesis The Crucible, Art, Amy’s View, Skylight, The Heidi (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House), After Dido Chronicles. London theater includes Fuddy Meers (ENO at the Young Vic), Twelfth Night and The Taming of (West End); The Distance from Here, The Shape of the Shrew (Propeller, Watermill Theatre, Old Vic, BAM, Things (Almeida Theatre). Film includes The Hours, International Tour), The Winter’s Tale (Propeller, Watermill The Crucible, The Object of My Affection, Center Theatre, BAM, International Tour), (West Stage, The Great New Wonderful (co-producer), Cold End and National Tour), Movin’ Out (Apollo Victoria), The Souls. Member CSA. Venetian Twins, The Gentleman From Olmedo (Watermill Theatre). Film as stage manager: Nine. Bruce Guthrie (associate director) Theater as a director includes Hitchcock Blonde (Chapter Arts Samantha Watson (assistant stage manager) Centre, Cardiff); Karen’s Wishes (May Fair Theatre); Theater credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gloucestershire (Arcola Theater); Liquorice & Smoke Notes from Underground, Restoration (La Jolla Rings (Pulse Festival); Stories By Heart, ICAF Charity Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing, The Mock- Concert (National Theatre); The Elephant Man Tempest (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), The Continuum; (Trafalgar Studios); The Long and the Short and Beyond the Killing Fields (TheatreWorks Singapore the Tall (Pleasance); Someone Who’ll Watch Over at The Arts Centre, Melbourne), Hedda Gabler, The Me (The Venue, Leicester Square/Gateway Studio, Misanthrope, Seven Against Thebes, Sexual Selection, Edinburgh). Theater as an associate director includes The Laramie Project (La Jolla Playhouse/UCSD), All My Sons (West End); You Can’t Take It With You SummerFest 2009 (La Jolla Music Society), Tower (Southwark Playhouse). Theater as an assistant or Sounds (Ann Hamilton Tower). Watson received her resident director includes Girl with a Pearl Earring, MFA from UC San Diego. The Lord of the Rings, Shadowlands (West End). Guthrie has been a staff director at the National PRODUCERS Theatre where he worked on Mother Courage and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is recognized Her Children, The Observer, and Burnt by the Sun. internationally for its innovative programming of dance, music, theater, and opera. In addition Jonathan Lipman (associate costume designer) to presenting leading national and international Theater includes Purity and Desire (Drill Hall); The artists, BAM identifies and supports the work of Country Girl (West End/national tour); Lark Rise groundbreaking creators in the performing arts with Who’s Who

its Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983, one of its season, The Old Vic runs an award-winning the world’s most important cultural festivals. BAM’s Education and Community program, Old Vic New Spring Seasons feature fresh takes on theater and Voices. The program develops the very best young opera classics, and renowned dance and music. and emerging talent both in London and New York, America’s oldest performing arts center, BAM has and opens the building up to diverse audiences. been in operation since 1861. It serves New York The Old Vic Theatre Company is a wholly owned City’s population through educational and community subsidiary of the charity The Old Vic Theatre Trust programs. BAM’s role in Brooklyn expanded with (Chief Executive Sally Greene). the creation of BAMcafé, which presents eclectic live music, and BAM Rose Cinemas, including the daily Chief Executive Sally Greene OBE repertory film program BAMcinématek. In addition Artistic Director Kevin Spacey CBE to the Howard Gilman Opera House and the Harvey Producers Kate Pakenham, John Richardson Theater, BAM will add a third performance venue General Manager Ros Brooke-Taylor in 2012, the Richard B. Fisher building. BAM’s role Production Manager Dominic Fraser as a producer includes the three-part series Love in Deputy Director of Development and Head of Hard Times: The Music of Paul Simon; a production Philanthropy Natasha Harris of ’s Endgame, directed by Andrei Marketing Director Catrin John Belgrader; DanceMotion USASM, a cultural diplomacy Finance Director Conor Marren program with the US Department of State, the 2011 Head of Corporate Partnerships Rebecca Smith revival of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Atys—featuring Les Business Director Kate Varah Arts Florissants/William Christie; and The Bridge Development Director Vivien Wallace Project, a three year partnership with The Old Vic and Director of Old Vic New Voices Steven Winter Neal Street to bring original productions of classic plays to New York (and on international tour) under Neal Street, formed in 2003 by Sam Mendes, Caro the direction of Sam Mendes. Since 1999 Karen Newling, and Pippa Harris to produce film, television, Brooks Hopkins and Joseph V Melillo have served as, and theater. Current work includes The Bridge Project respectively, President and Executive Producer. and Shrek the Musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane co-produced with DreamWorks Animation and, in The Old Vic is one of the best-known and best loved development with Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, a theaters in the world, synonymous with the greatest new musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. acting talent that Britain has ever produced from Previously Three Days of Rain directed by Jamie Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud and Lloyd, with James McAvoy, and Ralph Richardson to , Maggie Smith, directed by Sam Mendes, with Julianne Moore and Albert Finney and Peter O’Toole. Its iconic building Bill Nighy. Commissioned projects and premieres in London has a rich history of great performances, include The House of Special Purpose directed by and The Old Vic Theatre Company under the artistic Howard Davies, All About My Mother directed by leadership of Kevin Spacey, alongside producers Tom Cairns, The Hound of the Baskervilles directed Kate Pakenham and John Richardson, continues to by Orla O’Loughlin, Days of Wine and Roses directed attract the best creative talent. Since its inception in by Peter Gill, Anna in the Tropics directed by Indhu 2004 over 1.6 million people have come through the Rubasingham and Fuddy Meers directed by Angus doors to experience The Old Vic Theatre Company’s Jackson. Collaborations with leading UK theater- productions, which have included a new version makers include West End and Broadway transfers of Aladdin, with Ian McKellen as Widow Twankey; of Enron directed by Rupert Goold, Red and Hamlet Trevor Nunn’s Richard II, with Kevin Spacey; A directed by Michael Grandage, Mary Stuart directed Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill, with by Phyllida Lloyd, and Sunday in the Park with George and Kevin Spacey, also on Broadway; the directed by Sam Buntrock. Sam Mendes and Caro 50th Anniversary production of John Osborne’s The Newling established and ran the Donmar Warehouse Entertainer, with Pam Ferris and Robert Lindsay; between 1992 and 2002. Film and television projects ’s Speed-the-Plow with , include Stuart: A Life Backwards, Starter for Ten, Laura Michelle Kelly and Kevin Spacey; Alan Things We Lost in the Fire, Jarhead, Revolutionary Ayckbourn’s trilogy The Norman Conquests, also Road, and Away We Go. Neal Street currently has a on Broadway, directed by Matthew Warchus. Other series of four Shakespeare films in production for BBC productions include The Bridge Project Year One: Two: Richard II, Henry IV Part 1 & Part 2 and Henry V The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale directed directed by and Rupert Goold, and a new by Sam Mendes (cast included Simon Russell Beale, series for BBC One, . Sinéad Cusack, Rebecca Hall, and Ethan Hawke); Producer Caro Newling The Bridge Project Year Two: As You Like It and The Tempest directed by Sam Mendes, and most recently Claire Béjanin (International Tour Producer) Terence Rattigan’s Cause Célèbre, with Anne-Marie became involved in performing arts production and Duff, directed by Thea Sharrock. In tandem with administration at the MC93 Theatre in Bobigny, Who’s Who

France, in 1990. Since then she has worked with Thani, board members H.E. Dr. Hassan Al-Nimah, renowned international artists including Robert Mr. Mansour Ibrahim Al-Mahmoud, and Executive Wilson, Deborah Warner, Peter Greenaway, Peter Director Amanda Palmer. DFI aims to build a robust Sellars, and Lucinda Childs. Between 1998 and and sustainable film industry in Qatar through 1999 she was executive director of the Festival d’Aix initiatives including film and television funding for en Provence while simultaneously holding the same MENA and international films, education programs, position at ’s Théâtre des Bouffes du film screenings, production, and the annual Doha Nord. In 2000 she created Polimnia, a production Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF). DFI has established company specializing in international projects. Her a number of strategic cultural partnerships with first collaboration with BAM was the presentation of leading international organizations, including Robert Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, staged by Claude Régy De Niro’s Tribeca Enterprises, Mira Nair’s Maisha and starring Isabelle Huppert, followed by James Film Labs, and Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Thiérrée’s La Veillée des Abysses and Au Revoir Foundation. DFI’s website is a dynamic resource for Parapluie in 2007. Since 2008 she has been the the Institute’s diverse activities, breaking news, the international tour producer for The Bridge Project and latest developments in Arab cinema, and industry since 2009 she has been working with Zimmermann news from around the world. & de Perrot, touring Chouf Ouchouf, Öper Öpis, Gaff Aff and producing their next creation, Hans was Heiri. In Hong Kong Arts Festival, launched in 1973, is the next two years she is producing a creative theater a major annual festival and the territory’s premier project involving a contemporary adaptation of Phaedra, cultural event. It features local and international translated into eight languages, which will be staged artists in an array of music, theater, dance, and around the world. Directed by Jean-Baptiste Sastre and entertainment in over a dozen venues in February and written by Frédéric Boyer, the work will see a series March. Its performances enrich cultural life in Hong of actresses bringing the new Phaedra to life in each Kong, serving an annual audience of over 150,000 country. including 10,000 Young Friends of the Festival. In addition to commissions, the festival publishes CO-COMMISSIONERS and produces original work, mainly in theater and Athens and Epidaurus Festival, an outstanding multimedia, available for touring. International Greek cultural event, has undergone a renaissance artists who have appeared include Akram Khan, since 2006. Yorgos Loukos has implemented changes Bolshoi Theatre, Cecilia Bartoli, Cloud Gate Dance that have transformed the 50-year-old institution. Theatre, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Herbie Hancock, By rejecting policies of exclusion, he has brought Mariinsky Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Paris Opera variety to the Festival and opened it up to young artists; Ballet, People’s Art Theatre of Beijing, Tanztheater insisting upon concepts such as diversity and a spirit Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Philip Glass, Robert Lepage, of adventure, he has sought to relate to the public’s Sylvie Guillem, Yo-Yo Ma, Youssou N’Dour, and Zingaro. need for real art, to commune with the new and the unfamiliar. Links have been forged through Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) international co-productions with major festivals and was founded under the leadership of Dr. Nejat F. historic institutions across the globe. Eczacıbası in 1973, the 50th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, with the goal of introducing new Centro Niemeyer, Spain is a new international initiatives to art enthusiasts in Istanbul. One of cultural center in Asturias designed by the legendary Turkey’s most established civil society organizations, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. This leading IKSV presents the Istanbul Festivals of Music, cultural institution aims to become a reference point Film, Theatre and Jazz; the Istanbul Biennial; for artistic production associated with excellence in and the Istanbul Design Biennial, in addition to education and culture. It is conceived as a magnet for events abroad. Since 1989, the Istanbul Theatre talent, a place of knowledge and creativity, a factory Festival has offered the finest examples of Turkish of ideas and cultural content. The center includes an theater, plus internationally acclaimed theater and auditorium, exhibition halls, cinema, theater, and an dance companies. With its educational programs, open-air space. Centro Niemeyer is the key element productions, co-productions, seminars, and of a plan transforming a former polluted, derelict workshops, it has had a significant impact on young industrial area into a new urban space, based around audiences and artists. environmental protection, sustainability and the technological industries. Istanbul Municipal Theatres, the first institutional theater in Turkey, was established in 1914 under Doha Film Institute (DFI) is an independent cultural the name Darülbedayi (House of Beauties). Its first organization established in 2010 by H.E. Sheikha artistic director was the founder of Théâtre Libre Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani to in France, André Antoine. From 1927, under the incorporate Qatar’s film initiatives under one banner. leadership of Muhsin Ertugrul, the founder and Along with Her Excellency, DFI leadership comprises pillar of the contemporary Turkish theater scene, the Vice-Chair H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Fahad Al- Istanbul Municipal Theatre prospered. Since then, Who’s Who it has hosted the work of classic and contemporary many playwrights whose work she has cultivated, playwrights at its seven stages located across four of them won their first Pulitzer Prize for plays the Asian and European districts of the city. The she produced. Hays, winner of six Tony Awards, Municipal Theatre attracts more than 500,000 leads SHN in its commitment to present Bay Area spectators with at least 40 productions in its audiences with pre-Broadway world premieres, repertoire each year. The theater also realizes tours original Broadway cast productions, the launch of within Turkey and abroad, and organizes festivals for national tours, award-winning plays, and current hits young artists. fresh from Broadway.

Kay and McLean Productions Pty Ltd was Singapore Repertory Theatre established by Liza McLean and Andrew Kay in Founded in 1993, Singapore Repertory Theatre 2008. They have produced (SRT) is one of the leading English-language theater starring Ian McKellen (Australian and New Zealand producers and presenters in Asia. In addition to its tour), Haunted starring Brenda Blethyn (Sydney), repertoire of original musicals such as Forbidden City: The Graduate starring Jerry Hall (Perth), Alfred Portrait of an Empress, the company has produced Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (Australian tour, Hong a number of critically acclaimed plays that include Kong), Elizabeth Coleman’s Secret Bridesmaids’ Into the Woods, Rent, M. Butterfly, They’re Playing Business, Warriors of Brazil (Australian tour), Our Song, ART, Avenue Q, and The Pillowman. SRT and Feline Intimate (Melbourne, Brisbane, and is also one of the biggest producers of children’s Edinburgh). The 2010 tour of Waiting for Godot theatre in Southeast Asia, as well as the producer of represents a continuation of their ongoing relationship a biennial Shakespeare in the Park series. SRT was with Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliott. Together the first Singaporean theater company on Broadway they have produced and been associated with the in 1998 as associate producer of David Henry Australian, New Zealand, and West End seasons of Hwang’s Golden Child, which went from Singapore The Importance of Being Earnest, The Hollow Crown, to New York and garnered three Tony Award and the Australian and New Zealand tours of two nominations. It was the first (and only Asian) stop for double bills of Alan Bennett’s famous Talking Heads the RSC’s world tour of King Lear and The Seagull series—A Bed Among the Lentils and Soldiering On, starring Ian McKellen in 2007. SRT has been a co- followed by Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet and Her Big commissioning partner of The Bridge Project with The Chance. Winter’s Tale in 2009 and The Tempest in 2010.

Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, promoted by the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) Founded in 1913, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali and Regione representing more than 49,000 stage actors and Campania, began in 2008. This new festival has stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to constructed an identity for itself with an eye to the advance, promote, and foster the art of live theater future: above all international, featuring productions as an essential component of our society. Equity and co-productions, fostering new writing, and negotiates wages and working conditions, providing focusing on the theatrical components in other arts. a wide range of benefits, including health and The festival’s international dimension is seen in the pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and work of artists who give expression to highly original is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of idioms and also in the network of partnerships performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our which it has set up around the world, establishing mark of excellence. collaborations on creative projects and productions. The Napoli Teatro Festival Italia has a special UK Equity Equity was founded in 1930 by a group relationship with its region: productions are staged of London-based actors unwilling to continue being in some of the city’s foremost theaters, but also at at the mercy of unreliable theater managers. The specific sites that exert a particular fascination and group grew from these beginnings to become the only are accessible just for these events. UK trade union to represent artists from across the entire spectrum of arts and entertainment. As well as SHN (Carole Shorenstein Hays & actors, Equity now also represents singers, dancers, Robert Nederlander), the pre-eminent theatrical choreographers, stage managers, theater directors entertainment company in San Francisco, fosters and designers, variety and circus artists, television new work and spearheads world-class productions— and radio presenters, walk-on and supporting honoring the past, leading the present, and artists, stunt performers, and theater fight directors. envisioning the future. SHN, a joint venture between The union is over 36,500 strong and in addition commercial producers Carole Shorenstein Hays has around 5,000 student members. The main and Robert Nederlander, owns and operates the function of Equity is to negotiate minimum terms and Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate Theatres—San conditions of employment throughout the entire world Francisco’s premier theatrical venues. As artistic of entertainment and to endeavour to ensure these director for SHN, Hays’ nurtures the voices of take account of social and economic changes. playwrights in both classical and new plays. Of the