Cast
George
Robert Foxworth
is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has appeared in Cornelia, Julius Caesar, Private Lives and Below the Belt. He 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). Mr. Foxworth was seen in Syriana and is the voice of Ratchet in Transformers I and II
Ruby
Beth Grant
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. ELSEWHERE: Picnic, Summer And Smoke, Ahmanson Theatre; WORLD PREMIERES: Holy Ghosts, Romulus Linney; On A Southern Journey, Maya Angelou; Sordid Lives, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, Del Shores; The Day Emily Married, Horton Foote.. FILM: No Country For Old Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Rain Man, Donnie Darko, Speed; Extract, Rogue’s Gallery, All About Steve (upcoming). TV: The Office, Pushing Daisies, Jericho, Sordid Lives. EDUCATION: BFA Acting, East Carolina University; longtime student - Milton Katselas, Beverly Hills Playhouse. FAMILY: Husband - actor Michael Chieffo; daughter – 16 year-old actress Mary Chieffo. WRITER: With Judy Nagy, The New York Way, play with music. AWARDS: Lead Actress - LA Stage Alliance Ovation, Drama Critics Circle, Backstage Garland. Ensemble – LA Stage Alliance Ovation, LA Weekly; 2 Screen Actors Guild “Cast in a Motion Picture” (Little Miss Sunshine, No Country For Old Men.)
Cornelia
Melinda Page Hamilton
THE OLD GLOBE: Bell, Book and Candle, All My Sons. OFF-BROADWAY: Our Lady of Sligo. REGIONAL: The Royal Family, Ahmanson Theater; Cyrano de Bergerac, Cleveland Play House; To Fool the Eye, Guthrie Theatre; The Royal Family, Arena Stage; The Seagull, George Street Playhouse. FILM: Not Forgotten, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Promised Land, Ted's MBA. TV: Private Practice, Mad Men, The Closer, The Mentalist, Castle, Without A Trace, Big Love, Desperate Housewives, Nip/Tuck, Raines, Everwood, CSI NY, CSI Miami, Medical Investigation, Numb3rs, Enterprise. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: Ms. Hamilton recieved her MFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of The Arts.
Marie
Hollis McCarthy
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: Count of Monte Cristo, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, Henry VI parts A&B, Alabama Shakespeare; Indian Blood, Buffalo Studio Arena; Love’s Labours Lost, Chicago Shakespeare; Tartuffe, Two River Theatre; Helen, Next Theatre; Sherlock’s Last Case, Drury Lane Oakbrook; Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Colorado Shakespeare; Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, Notre Dame Shakespeare; As You Like It, Macbeth, Portland Center Stage; Romeo and Juliet, Things We Do for Love, Organic Theatre; Dancing at Lughnasa, Kansas City Rep; All in the Timing, Eleemosynary, Unicorn Theatre; You Can’t Take it With You, Arsenic and Old Lace, The New Theatre. FILM: Road to Perdition, Behind the Waterfall, Last Call. TV: Dead Before Dawn, Across Five Aprils. EDUCATION: MFA in Acting, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Nationwide and at home in Chicago, Hollis and husband Mark wield wit, words and swords in college workshops and their two-person Shakespeare show.
Gerald
T. Ryder Smith
THE OLD GLOBE: In This Corner, Lincolnesque (2006 San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Lead Performance). Recent work includes Equus on Broadway opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths; Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone opposite Mary-Louise Parker (Playwrights Horizons); and the premier of Of Equal Measure (Center Theatre Group, LA). Other New York work includes the world premieres of plays with Richard Foreman, David Greenspan, Will Eno and Anne Washburn, Glen Berger’s Underneath The Lintel (Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance), and the 3 actor, 40 character Lebensraum (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Cast). Regional work includes Passion Play (The Goodman); Waiting for Godot (in New Orleans), (Classical Theatre of Harlem in collaboration with artist Paul Chan and Creative Time); world premieres of Charles Mee’s Big Love (Humana Festival) and Jeffrey Hatcher’s Stage Beauty (CATF). TV/FILM: Includes appearances in the upcoming Happy Tears and Nurse Jackie, Law & Order, Conviction, Brainscan, the experimental feature Horrible Child, as well as supplying voices for the TV series The Venture Brothers, and for the video games Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto and Bioshock.
Team
Playwright
Mark V. Olsen
Three years as Executive Producer, co-creator and writer of HBO’s Golden Globe and Emmy nominated series Big Love, currently at work on the fourth season of the show. Two years creating and writing a six-part miniseries for HBO, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, based on the private lives of the Confederate elite and their slaves in Virginia during the Civil War, presently being produced by Anima Sola Productions, Mr. Olsen’s production banner with his partner Will Scheffer, Playtone Productions and HBO. Mr. Olsen is executive producing a new untitled pilot for HBO, and has several additional film projects in development, including a passion project on the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Cornelia is his first full length play.
Director
Ethan McSweeny
THE OLD GLOBE: In This Corner (San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play), and A Body of Water (SD Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director, Play, and Ensemble). NEW YORK: Mr. McSweeny’s most recent direction includes the premieres of Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons) and Jason Grote’s 1001 (p73), which, in a rare double header, were both picked among the top 10 productions of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly and Time Out magazines. Other NYC credits include the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival), Willy Holzman’s Sabina (Primary Stages), Aeschylus’ The Persians in a new translation by Ellen McLaughlin and the off-Broadway premiere of John Logan’s Never the Sinner (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best off-Broadway Play, Drama Desk and OCC nominations for Best Director). Of the more than 50 productions of new plays, classics and musicals that he has directed around the country, recent highlights include: the American premiere of David Lan’s translation of Euripides’ Ion at the Shakespeare Theatre; the world premiere of Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade at South Coast Rep (OCIE Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Center Stage, (Baltimore City Paper: Best Play, 2008); A View from the Bridge at the Guthrie; the world premiere of 1001 at the Denver Center (Ovation Award); the new musical Chasing Nicolette (Barrymore Award nomination); revivals of Major Barbara (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and The Persians for the Shakespeare Theatre Company; productions of Romeo and Juliet and Six Degrees of Separation at the Guthrie (Star-Tribune: Outstanding Director and Production). With his partner Vivienne Benesch, Mr. McSweeny spends his summers as the Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Theater Company and Conservatory in western NY.
Scenic Design
John Lee Beatty
THE OLD GLOBE: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Redwood Curtain. Broadway: The Color Purple, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, The Odd Couple, Chicago, Wonderful Town, Dinner at Eight, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Mornings at Seven, Proof, Footloose,The Little Foxes, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Anna Christie, Redwood Curtain, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Most Happy Fella, Penn and Teller (twice), Burn This, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (twice), Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, Crimes of the Heart. Off-Broadway: Sylvia, The Substance of Fire, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Road to Mecca, Song of Singapore, A Life in the Theatre, The Miss Firecracker Contest, 32 seasons at ManhattanTheatre Club and Circle Rep, 15 seasons at City Center Encores!. Credits also at major regional theatres, and in film, opera and TV. Recipient of the Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards; member of the Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama.
Costume Design
Tracy Christensen
THE OLD GLOBE: In This Corner. Also with Ethan McSweeney: Death of a Salesman, The Cherry Orchard and All My Sons at the Chautauqua Theater Company. NEW YORK: the Broadway production of Souvenir at the Lyceum, Meet Me In St. Louis at Irish Rep, Kismet at City Center for Encores!, Stopping Traffic at The Vineyard, Camelot at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic, and Seussical for Theatreworks USA (Lucille Lortel nomination). REGIONAL: Souvenir at The Brentwood Theater (Ovation Award); Lady Day… at The Long Wharf; Gypsy at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, starring Patti LuPone; Blue Horizons, the new whale and dolphin show for Sea World in Orlando; Richard III for the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis; Regina at The Kennedy Center; Quartet at Baystreet Theater. Associate Costume Designer for both The Little Mermaid, and Shrek, currently on Broadway. www.tracychristensen.com.
Lighting Design
Christopher Akerlind
THE OLD GLOBE: Hay Fever, Ace, The Piano Lesson. BROADWAY: Top Girls, 110 In The Shade (Tony nom.), Talk Radio, Shining City, Awake and Sing (Tony nom.), Well, Rabbit Hole, A Touch of the Poet, In My Life, The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards), Reckless, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars (Tony nom.) and The Piano Lesson. RECENT: Lydia,Taper; Equivocation, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Twelfth Night, McCarter; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Chicago Lyric Opera; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Guthrie; The Seagull, A.R.T.; Garden of Earthly Delights (off-Broadway); Tobacco Road, La Jolla Playhouse; Appomattox, San Francisco Opera; Kafeneion, Athens/Epidaurus Festival; I Capuleti et I Montecchi, Glimmerglass Opera. AWARDS: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration and numerous nominations for Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Awards.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
has designed over 80 productions at The Old Globe, including Boeing-Boeing, Alive and Well, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, The Price, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, Since Africa, The Women, Sight Unseen, The Pleasure of His Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, The Sisters Rosensweig, Trying, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. His regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, The Wilma Theater, L.A. Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Malashock Dance Company, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and the Freud Theatre at UCLA. He received his BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
Original Music
Steven Cahill
Steven is excited to compose his first show at the Old Globe and be working with Ethan and Mark on this World Premiere American play! Regional credits: Shipwrecked! by Donald Margulies (World Premiere) at South Coast Repertory with subsequent productions at the Geffen Playhouse and North Coast Rep; Cyrano De Bergerac, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way by Richard Greenberg (World Premiere) and The Constant Wife also at South Coast Rep; Additionally, he composed the World Premiere of The Ice-Breaker at The Magic Theatre (San Francisco) and Laguna Playhouse. At the Pasadena Playhouse, his credits include The Constant Wife, Private Lives (L.A. Times Critics’ Choice), Doubt (West Coast Premiere), As Bees In Honey Drown and Bicoastal Woman (World Premiere). Cahill is a three time Los Angeles Ovation Award nominee for Driving Miss Daisy, A Streetcar Named Desire and Defying Gravity at Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura. He has spent three summers at Ethan McSweeney and Vivienne Benesch’s Chautauqua Theatre Company where he worked on Reckless, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. Cahill is an established composer and arranger for film and TV with credits ranging from Til Death and Party of Five to Six Feet Under and Desperate Housewives. www.stevencahill.com
Voice and Speech Coach
Claudia Hill-Sparks
has coached over 60 productions as Voice and Speech Coach from 1993-2001. Her most recent work for The Old Globe includes The Whipping Man, Cornelia, Working, Since Africa and the 2008 and 2009 Shakespeare Festivals. Her Broadway credits include Dance of the Vampires. Her Off Broadway credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public Theater), Polish Joke (Manhattan Theatre Club), Time and the Conways (The Epic Theater Company) and Stone Cold Dead Serious (The Edge Theater Company). Her regional credits include Travesties, Arms and the Man, A Christmas Carol, The Little Foxes and The Way of the World (Huntington Theatre Company), A Christmas Carol (North Shore Music Theatre). Her television credits include Dialect Coach for Richard Easton as Ben Franklin for PBS. She was on the faculty of The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program from 1993-2001, Boston University BFA Professional Actor Training Program from 1988-1993, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Wilma Theater. She received her MFA in Acting from Temple University.
Stage Manager
Leila Knox
THE OLD GLOBE: The American Plan, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ace, The Violet Hour, Himself and Nora, Take Me Out, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘04 -‘08), 2004 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Resurrection Blues, Bus Stop, Much Ado About Nothing, Dirty Blonde. BROADWAY: Dirty Blonde, Amour, One Mo’ Time. REGIONAL: Production Supervisor of the National Tour and West Yorkshire Playhouse productions of Dirty Blonde; Observe the Sons of Ulster, Lincoln Center; Mislansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Red, The Memory of Water, Manhattan Theatre Company; All My Sons, The Mineola Twins, Roundabout Theatre; A Madhouse in Goa, Second Stage; Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992, Berkeley Rep; Alice’s Adventures Underground, Cabin Pressure, SITI; Demonology, Playwrights Horizons; The Woman Warrior, Huntington Theatre and Berkeley Rep; 11 seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. EDUCATION: Northwestern University.
Stage Manager
Anjee Nero
THE OLD GLOBE: The Savannah Disputation, Cornelia, Kingdom, Jerry Herman’s Broadway, 2007 Shakespeare Festival. ELSEWHERE: Herringbone starring BD Wong and directed by Roger Rees; Tobacco Road, The Seven, The Adding Machine, Mother Courage, Current Nobody, La Jolla Playhouse; Antigone, SITI Company; Post Office workshop, Center Theatre Group; Mother Courage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Filler Up!, Adirondack Theatre Festival; Suicide, Incorporated, Wait, Jem & I, id Theater Company/Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. DANCE: Dream Report, Allyson Green Dance, featuring Lux Borreal; Garden of Forbidden Loves, Garden of Deadly Sound, IMAGOmoves & International Hungarian Theater Festival of Cluj, Romania; Only Sound Remains, Japan America Theatre; iMan, Garden Trilogy, IMAGOmoves. OTHER: Schick Machine, The Paul Dresher Ensemble; (The New) UrSonata with Steven Schick, Let There Be Light: A Tribute to Chris Parry. EDUCATION: MFA Stage Management, UCSD.
