Press Release

ROBERT FOXWORTH AND PATRICK PAGE TO
HEADLINE THE GLOBE’S 2010 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

Page plays the Fool to Foxworth’s King Lear and
Foxworth plays Doctor with Page’s King George III

ADRIAN NOBLE (Festival Artistic Director; Director, King Lear and The Madness of George III) led the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) as Artistic Director and Chief Executive from 1990-2003. Noble’s most recent theater productions include Hamlet for the Stratford Festival of Canada, Cosi Fan Tutte at the Opera De Lyon, Kean for Thelma Holt Ltd at the Noel Coward Theatre, Summer and Smoke and A Woman Of No Importance for Stanhope Productions, The Home Place by Brian Friel at the Gate Theatre and the West End, Brand by Ibsen starring Ralph Fiennes, Pericles at The Roundhouse in Stratford and the West End London and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at The London Palladium starring Michael Ball. In 1980 he joined the RSC as Assistant Director, becoming an Associate Director almost immediately. His first production for the RSC was Ostrovsky’s The Forest which transferred first to the Warehouse and then to the Aldwych and was named Best Revival in the 1981 Drama Awards. In 1988 he was appointed by Terry Hands to be Artistic Director of the RSC’s Stratford season and in 1989 went on to be Artistic Director of the RSC London season. His RSC productions include A Doll’s House, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, Henry V, Desert Air, As You Like It, Macbeth, Kiss Me Kate, The Art of Success, The Plantagenets and The Master Builder. In 1989 Adrian left the RSC to pursue an independent career and directed The Art of Success at Manhattan Theatre Club and Chekhov’s The Three Sisters at the Gate Theatre and Royal Court Theatre. Noble has directed Don Giovanni for Kent Opera, The Duchess of Malfi in a circus tent in Paris, The Faerie Queen for the Peter Hall Company at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and a Japanese production of Twelfth Night. He was also a member of the 1989 Gulbenkian Enquiry into Training Directors. His film A Midsummer Night’s Dream was released in 1996. His production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe opened at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in December 2000 and was revived in Stratford in 2002. Noble has been awarded D.Litt. from Birmingham University (1994) and Bristol University (1996).

RON DANIELS (Director, The Taming of the Shrew) was born and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was a founder member of the Teatro Oficina, in São Paulo. He is a former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) experimental theater, The Other Place, at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. After 15 years with the company, directing many of Shakespeare plays, including two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and the second with Mark Rylance, the “pajama Hamlet”) as well as works by contemporary British writers, Daniels was appointed an Honorary Associate Director of the RSC. He is a former Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater and he is now a freelance director. He has worked in many theaters and opera houses across the U.S., Japan and Brazil, where he staged King Lear in his own translation into Portuguese. Last year he directed the hip hop musical Kingdom, which performed at the Lincoln High School and at the Old Globe. Upcoming projects include Il Postino for the L.A Opera, which opens in Los Angeles in September starring Plácido Domingo. The production will then be seen in Paris and Vienna. His first feature film, The War Boys, is being distributed by Maya Entertainment.

ROBERT FOXWORTH (King Lear, King Lear; Dr. Francis Willis, The Madness of King George III) was most recently seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning production of August: Osage County. He has also recently starred as Claudius in Hamlet (South Coast Repertory), directed by Daniel Sullivan, and on Broadway in the award-winning production of Twelve Angry Men (Roundabout Theatre Company). In the 2001/2002 season he played Robert in the national Broadway tour of Proof. Foxworth made his Broadway debut in The American Shakespeare Festival’s production of Henry V. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of John Proctor in The Crucible (Lincoln Center Theater). His television credits include “Storefront Lawyers,” “Falcon Crest” and “Late Line” with Al Franken. He has guest starred on countless series episodes over the years. The most recent being a two-year stint on “Six Feet Under” and episodes of “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Gilmore Girls.” His stage work has included Cyrano (Great Lakes Theatre Festival), Iago and Macbeth (Guthrie Theater), George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Hartford Stage), Galileo (CENTERSTAGE), Uncle Vanya (Geffen Playhouse) and Cornelia, Julius Caesar, Private Lives and Below the Belt (The Old Globe). On Broadway, he was Count Shebyelski in Ivanov (Lincoln Center Theater), starred with Jane Alexander in Honour (Belasco Theater) and played Colonel Parker in Judgment at Nuremberg (Longacre Theater). Foxworth was seen in Syriana and is the voice of Ratchet in Transformers I and II.

PATRICK PAGE (Fool, King Lear; George III, The Madness of King George III) recently starred in I Do! I Do! at The Old Globe and was also seen in the 2009 Shakespeare Festival as Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac (San Diego Critics Circle’s Craig Noel Award), Malvolio in Twelfth Night as well as Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company and Jeffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (Craig Noel Award). His Broadway credits include Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons opposite Frank Langella (Outer Critics Circle nomination); The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Scar in The Lion King; Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington; Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast; Marley in A Christmas Carol and multiple roles in The Kentucky Cycle. Off Broadway credits include the title role in Rex and Steven Berkoff’s Richard II. His regional credits include the title role in Macbeth and Iago in Othello (Helen Hayes Award) both directed by Michael Kahn (The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.); Sergius in Arms and the Man (Long Wharf Theatre); Henry V and Richard III (Pioneer Theatre Company), plus leading roles at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company and the Oregon, Utah, Alabama and New York Shakespeare Festivals. Page’s play, Swansong, has been produced Off Broadway at the New York Summer Play Festival, as well as the Kennedy Center, the White Barn Theatre, and the Seattle Shakespeare Company. His one-man plays include Passion’s Slaves, Nothing Like the Sun (with Doug Christensen) and Love Will. His TV credits include “Law & Order: SVU,” “One Life to Live,” “All My Children” and “The Substance of Fire.”

JONNO ROBERTS (Edmund, King Lear; Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew) was seen on Broadway in Take Me Out and Off Broadway in Bug, Monster and Uncle Vanya. His regional credits include Goodman Theatre; King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Mother Courage, Richard II and Antigone (American Repertory Theater); Betty’s Summer Vacation (Huntington Theatre Company); The Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center); A Streetcar Named Desire (Intiman Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Henry V and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Roberts’ international credits include Wozzeck (Toronto); Villeggiatura Trilogy and The Spiritualists (Russia and Europe); and MedeaMaterial, Hamletmachine, States of Shock, Songs to the Judges, King Lear and Alicef**k (New Zealand). He has appeared in several television shows including “Flight of the Conchords,” “Lie to Me,” “Medium,” “Without A Trace,” “CSI: NY,” “NCIS,” “Numbers,” “The Unit,” “Brotherhood,” “Love Monkey,” “Shark,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Jericho,” “As the World Turns,” “Xena,” “Hercules,” “Kukli,” “Shortland Street,” “A Bit of a Hoot” and “In Search of the Kiwi Male.” Roberts’ film credits include The Elephant King, Downstream, Footsteps and BTK. He received his MFA from Harvard University/Moscow Arts Theatre School.

EMILY SWALLOW (Goneril, King Lear; Katherina, The Taming of the Shrew; Queen Charlotte, The Madness of George III) appeared on Broadway as Charlie and Marie LaSalle in High Fidelity. Her Off Broadway credits include Connie in John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger's Romantic Poetry (Manhattan Theatre Club), Delilah in The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop), Hermione in Measure for Pleasure (The Public Theatre/NYSF), She in Like Love (NY Musical Theatre Festival), Regan in the workshop of King Lear starring Kevin Kline (The Public Theatre/NYSF) and the Ensemble in Much Ado About Nothing (The Public Theatre/NYSF). Swallow’s regional credits include Viva in Pop! (Yale Repertory Theatre), Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Guthrie Theater), Caroline Bramble in Enchanted April (San Jose Repertory Theatre) and Eurydice/Pomona/Iris in Metamorphoses (Pioneer Theatre Company). Her film and television credits include The Lucky Ones, “Southland,” “NCIS,” “Medium,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “Journeyman,” “Jericho” and “Guiding Light.”

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