Cast
Benigna
Ashley Clements
THE OLD GLOBE: Since Africa, Sea of Tranquility, 2008 Summer Shakespeare Festival. THE OLD GLOBE/USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles, Stuff Happens. ELSEWHERE: Arcadia, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, An Ideal Husband, Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Carol, Captain Manly. EDUCATION: Ashley holds a BA in Drama from Ithaca College.
Antonio
Greg Derelian
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: As You Like It, Henry V, Othello (NY Shakespeare Festival/ Public Theatre); Hairy Ape (Irish Rep); Oliver Twist, Antony and Cleopatra, Oroonoko (Theatre For A New Audience); Down South (Rattlestick); Big Trouble in Little Hazzard (Soho Rep). Regional: 10+ productions with Shakespeare Theatre of NewJersey, including, Streetcar Named Desire, Time of Your Life, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Othello, Tempest. ELSEWHERE: American Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Fulton Opera House, Elm Shakespeare Festival and Williamstown Theatre Festival. TV/Film: All My Children (ABC), Guiding Light (CBS), As The World Turns (CBS), Order of the Serpentine (Spike TV). Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Proud member of Actor's Equity Association.
Teresa
Vivia Font
Vivia Font is thrilled to be returning to the Festival stage after completing her master’s here. She most recently played América in the world premiere of Tortilla Curtain (San Diego Repertory Theatre). Her other recent credits include the world premieres of underneathmybed (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Menders (Flux Theatre Ensemble), Mariela in the Desert and Map of Heaven (The Denver Center for the Performing Arts) and workshops of new plays and musicals by Octavio Solis and Karen Zacarias at South Coast Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company and Perry Mansfield. Her other classical performances include Olivia in Twelfth Night (Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival), Bianca in The Shrew Tamer (Northern Stage) and Armada in Love’s Labour’s Lost (TriBeCa Playhouse). As an M.F.A. candidate, she performed at The Old Globe as Tess in Six Degrees of Separation directed by Trip Cullman, Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Darko Tresnjak and other memorable fruitsellers, maids, saloon girls, citizens and nuns in the’08 and ‘09 Festival seasons. She has appeared on film and television in Sarbane’s-Oxley and “One Life to Live.” www.viviafont.us.
Viola
Dana Green
Dana Green is delighted to be back at The Old Globe where she was last seen in the 2012 Summer Shakespeare Festival as Rosalind in As You Like It and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III. Her other Globe credits include Tamsin in Life of Riley and Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac and Viola in Twelfth Night in the 2009 Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Green has spent four seasons with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival where some of her favorite roles included Isabella in Measure for Measure, Carol Cutrere in Orpheus Descending, Princess in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Viola in Twelfth Night. Her regional theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Portland Center Stage), Pride and Prejudice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (South Coast Repertory), The 39 Steps (La Mirada Theatre), All’s Well That Ends Well (Yale Repertory Theatre), Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Twelfth Night (California Shakespeare Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost and Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), The Constant Wife and The Play’s the Thing (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Hay Fever (Court Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Meadow Brook Theatre) and Twelfth Night and Macbeth (Shakespeare Festival of Dallas). She is a proud member of The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles.
Sir Toby Belch
Eric Hoffmann
THE OLD GLOBE: All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. REGIONAL: Over 20 appearances including Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Peer Gynt, Camino Real, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, School for Scandal, Volpone and Henry IV and V in nine seasons at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC; The Tempest, Theatre Virginia; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pittsburgh Public Theatre; The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, King John, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; La Bete, Two River Theatre; Twelfth Night, Orlando Shakespeare Festival. INTERNATIONAL TOURS: West Side Story (50th Anniversary World Tour), The Crucible, Of Mice and Men, Little Murders, Death of a Salesman. TV: Law & Order. TRAINING: St. Cloud State and the University of Minnesota. Also a director and teacher. Proud member of Actors’ Equity since 1981.
Sebastian
Kevin Hoffmann
recently appeared at The Old Globe in Whisper House (Lt. Rando) as well as Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Cyrano de Bergerac (Musketeer), Coriolanus (Senator) and Six Degrees of Separation (Ben). He also played Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program where he was also seen in The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Greeks: The Murders. Regionally, Mr. Hoffmann has performed in Antony and Cleopatra and The Merry Wives of Windsor (The Theater at Monmouth), as well as Proof (Barksdale Theatre). His TV credits include “As the World Turns” and “All My Children.” His many commercials include Sony, Callaway Golf, and Fidelity Financial. Mr. Hoffmann holds a BFA in Acting from Elon University. www.kevinhoffmann.com
Giuseppe, Priest
Brian Lee Huynh
THE OLD GLOBE: 2008 Summer Shakespeare Festival. THE OLD GLOBE/USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM: The Greeks: The Murders, Pericles, Uncle Vanya, Stuff Happens. OFF-BROADWAY: Henry V, Lysistrata, The Threepenny Opera, Jean Cocteau Repertory Company. REGIONAL: Dr. Faustus, DC Fringe Festival; New Kid, Araboolies of Liberty Street, Imagination Stage; Resident Teaching Artist, Shakespeare Theatre Company. EDUCATION: Brian holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College.
Olivia
Katie MacNichol
THE OLD GLOBE: All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, All in the Timing. BROADWAY/OFF-BROADWAY: The Green Bird, King John, Cider House Rules, The Food Chain, Two Shakespearean Actors. LONDON: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Shakespeare’s Globe. REGIONAL: All My Sons, Voice of the Turtle, Westport Country Playhouse; The Rainmaker, The Glass Menagerie, The Show Off, Slavs, Baltimore Center Stage; The Real Thing, Dallas Theatre Center; The Molière Comedies, Mark Taper Forum; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, She Stoops to Conquer, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Importance of Being Earnest, McCarter Theatre and leading roles at Denver Center, Williamstown, Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Trinity Rep, Portland Center Stage, Intiman Theatre, Huntington Theatre. FILM/TV: Spooner, Garmento, Bamboozled, Bury the Evidence, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Medical Investigation, The Practice. EDUCATION/TRAINING: BFA, New York University, Tisch School of Arts.
Sea Captain, Reynaldo
Kern McFadden
THE OLD GLOBE: 2008 Summer Shakespeare Festival. THE OLD GLOBE/USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Greeks: The Murders, Pericles, Uncle Vanya, Stuff Happens. REGIONAL: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Macbeth, Great River Shakespeare Festival; Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, 1776, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Utah Shakespearean Festival; A Penny for a Song, Antony and Cleopatra, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, American Players Theatre; A Christmas Carol, Nebraska Theatre Caravan; Antony and Cleopatra, St. Louis Shakespeare Company; Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival; Titus Andronicus, Milwaukee Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet Redefined, The Gulfshore Playhouse. EDUCATION: BFA, The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University in St. Louis, MO.
Feste
James Newcomb
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. ELSEWHERE: Othello, Coriolanus, King Lear, Utah Shakespearean Festival; Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Rehearsal, Ladies of the Camellias, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Taming of the Shrew, South Coast Rep; Missing Persons, Berkeley Rep; Twelfth Night, New York Shakespeare Festival; How To Suceed in Business, Orphans, The Hostage, Denver Center Theatre Co, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare and Company; Macbeth, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Malvolio
Patrick Page
THE OLD GLOBE: Cyrano De Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company, Jeffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (San Diego Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award). Broadway: Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (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, The Kentucky Cycle. OFF-BROADWAY: Title role in Rex, Richard II. Regional: Macbeth in Macbeth and Iago in Othello (Helen Hayes Award) at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Sergius in Arms and the Man at Long Wharf; Henry V, Oberon, Richard III at Pioneer Theatre Company; plus leading roles (including Hamlet, Brutus, Mercutio, Benedick, Richard II, Dracula, Antony, etc.) at Seattle, Indiana and Missouri Reps, ACT, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Oregon, New York, Utah, Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, and many more. Playwright: Swansong (Off-Broadway, Kennedy Center, Seattle, etc.). TV/FILM: Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, All My Children, The Substance of Fire. Favorite Role: Husband to Paige Davis. www.patrickpageonline.com.
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Bruce Turk
has performed at The Old Globe in productions of Twelfth Night, Cyrano De Bergerac, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale (Craig Noel Award), The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It and Don Juan. His Broadway credits include the title role in The Green Bird and Juan Darien (Lincoln Center Theater). His Off Broadway credits include Pericles (Brooklyn Academy of Music), King John, Titus Andronicus and The Green Bird. Mr. Turk’s regional credits include seasons at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Shakespeare Santa Cruz as well as productions at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC, McCarter Theatre Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Prince Music Theatre and many others. His television and film credits include “Numb3rs,” “ER,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Third Watch” and Garmento. Mr. Turk has also been a resident company member of Tadashi Suzuki’s Acting Company in Tokyo, Mito and Togamura, Japan. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Orsino
Gerritt VanderMeer
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: Geffen Playhouse, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Will and Company, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, York Theatre Company, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse. FILM/TV: Rescue Me, Ugly Betty, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Stream, Maid of Honor, All My Children, As The World Turns. NATIONAL TOUR: The Music Man (Harold Hill). GUEST ARTIST: Purdue University, Kean University, East Carolina University. EDUCATION: MFA in Acting, UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television. www.gerrittvandermeer.com
Vanilio
Tony von Halle
THE OLD GLOBE: Sea of Tranquility, 2008 Summer Shakespeare Festival. THE OLD GLOBE/USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Greeks: The Murders, Pericles, Stuff Happens. NEW YORK: SubUrbia (2004 OOBR Award), Abingdon Theatre; Believe, York Theatre; Twelfth Night, Urban Stages; Romeo and Juliet, Greenwich St. Theatre; Caligula, the Musical, The Zipper Theatre; Dillinger, 42nd St. Studios. REGIONAL: A Christmas Carol, McCarter Theatre; The Fantasticks, Barnstormers; Thief River, Arena Theatre (dir. Mark Lamos); I’ll Be Seeing You, Kimmel Center (World Premiere); Hamlet, Michigan Shakespeare Festival; The Tape Recorder, Bailiwick. FILM/TV: Nearly Departed (Outstanding Individual Performance Award, Almost Famous Film Festival, Phoenix, Arizona), Frank (1st Place in Comedy, Almost Famous Film Festival), The Trial. EDUCATION: BFA in Theatre Performance from University of Michigan. www.tonyvonhalle.com
Team
Director
Paul Mullins
Paul Mullins returns to The Old Globe where he directed the Shakespeare Festival productions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Measure for Measure and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mr. Mullins is a company member at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where he has directed The Liar, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Lion in Winter, Noises Off, Private Lives, The Time of Your Life, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Richard II, Illyria, King John, The Illusion, Tartuffe, Rhinoceros, Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well and The Threepenny Opera. His regional credits also include Tynan, The Solid Gold Cadillac, The Seafarer, Fat Pig, This is How It Goes and The Russian National Postal Service (The Studio Theatre), You Can’t Take It With You (Chautauqua Theater Company), Heroes, The Center of Gravity, Third, Trying, Lettice and Lovage and True West (Portland Stage), The Whore and Mr. Moore and Superior Donuts (Dorset Theatre Festival), I’m Connecticut, Urinetown and The Comedy of Errors (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), The Swan, Reckless and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (American Stage Theatre Company), The Wild Duck (NYU Grad Acting), A Month in the Country, Summerfolk and The Time of Your Life (Yale School of Drama) and As You Like It (The Juilliard School).
Scenic Design
Ralph Funicello
Ralph Funicello is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has designed the sets for over 60 productions for the company including the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2004-2011. Elsewhere, Mr. Funicello has designed scenery on and off Broadway and for many theatres across the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, American Conservatory Theater, A Contemporary Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, New York City Opera, LA Opera and San Diego Opera. He currently holds the position of Powell Chair in Set Design at SDSU.
Costume Design
Linda Cho
Linda Cho (Costume Design) previously designed the Globe productions of The Recommendation, Twelfth Night, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsman, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well and Pericles. Her credits at Hartford Stage include The Whipping Man, Gee’s Bend and A Raisin in the Sun. Off Broadway she has designed The Merchant of Venice (Theatre for a New Audience), The Other Side (Manhattan Theatre Club), Some Men (Second Stage Theatre), Durango (The Public Theater), Eli’s Comin’ (Vineyard Theatre), Hurricane (Classic Stage Company), The Author’s Voice and Imagining Brad (Drama Dept.) and Wolf Lullaby (Atlantic Theater Company). Her regional credits include The Dog in the Manger (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Legacy of Light (Arena Stage), Mary’s Wedding (Westport Country Playhouse), True West (Williamstown Theatre Festival), What the Butler Saw (Huntington Theatre Company), Magnolia (Goodman Theatre) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Internationally she has designed The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Story of My Life (The Canadian Stage Company). Her opera credits include Die Vögel, Der Zwerg and Der Zerbrochene Krug (LA Opera), The Mikado and The Magic Flute (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis) and Orfeo and Euridice (Virginia Opera Association). She received an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and was Costume Curator for the Prague Quadrennial 2011 U.S. National Pavillion. She has received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for The Two Noble Kinsmen, a Craig Noel Award for Pericles and a Drama Desk nomination for Princess Turandot.
Lighting Design
York Kennedy
York Kennedy has designed for theatres across America and Europe including The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Sacramento Opera, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Goodspeed Musicals and Denver Center Theatre Company. For the Globe he has designed more than 45 productions and served for six seasons as resident lighting designer for the Summer Shakespeare Festival. His awards for theatrical lighting include the Drama-Logue Award, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award, Back Stage West Garland Award, ariZoni Theatre Award and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. In the dance world he has designed for Malashock Dance, Brian Webb and Tracey Rhodes. As an architectural lighting designer he has designed both nationally and internationally for numerous themed environments, theme parks and residential, retail, restaurant and museum projects including the Sony Metreon Sendak Playspace in San Francisco, Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Le Centre de Loisirs in Morocco and the LEGO Racers 4D attraction in Germany, Denmark, England and the U.S. He is head of lighting design in the theatre department at San Jose State University and is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and Yale University School of Drama.
Sound Design & Music
Christopher R. Walker
has designed numerous productions for the Globe including the 2004 - 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festivals, Don Juan, The Trojan Women, The Woman in Black, Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. Mr. Walker’s regional credits include over 30 productions with American Repertory Theatre, Dante’s Inferno (Huntington Theatre), Having Our Say (Trinity Rep), Shlemiel the First (Geffen Playhouse), The Beard of Avon and Romeo and Juliet (Seattle Repertory Theatre), In Real Life (Mark Taper Forum), Art (Alley Theatre), Don Juan (McCarter Theatre Center), Triumph of Love (Long Wharf Theatre), Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (Arizona Theatre Company) and When Grace Comes In (La Jolla Playhouse). His other credits include The Woman in Black (Minetta Lane Theatre), In Real Life (Manhattan Theatre Club), Dante’s Inferno (92nd Street Y), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company of Boston) and Long Day’s Journey into Night (Stamford Center for the Arts). Mr. Walker was also sound designer for productions in Singapore, Moscow and Taiwan. He is currently Resident Sound Designer at the Seattle Children’s Theatre, and prior to that served as Resident Sound Designer at American Repertory Theatre for seven years. He also spent four years as Sound Engineer/Resident Designer at Intiman Theatre in Seattle.
Voice & 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
Mary K Klinger
THE OLD GLOBE: All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Titus Andronicus. BROADWAY: QED with Alan Alda, Angels in America, Parts One and Two. NATIONAL TOURS: 50th Anniversary production of Death of a Salesman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Center Theatre Group (LA): Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, Radio Golf, The School for Scandal, Intimate Apparel, Topdog/Underdog, Gem of the Ocean, Ten Unknowns, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Molière Comedies, QED, In Real Life, Another American: Asking and Telling, Expecting Isabel, Enigma Variations, Tongue of a Bird, Nine Armenians (LA and Denver); Molly Sweeney, Changes of Heart, Slavs! (LA and La Jolla); Bandido!, The Woman Warrior, Unfinished Stories, Spunk (LA, London and Berkeley); Jelly’s Last Jam. REGIONAL: Arms and the Man, Spoke Song, Look Homeward Angel, Pasadena Playhouse; The Kathy and Mo Show, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Stars in the Morning Sky, Los Angeles Theatre Center; Agamemnon, The Getty Villa. Ms. Klinger teaches stage management at USC. She is ever grateful to her husband Philip J. Hilow. Proud Member of Actors’ Equity.
