Cast
Volumnia
Celeste Ciulla
THE OLD GLOBE: All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Trojan Women. BROADWAY: The neon lights are bright. OFF-BROADWAY: Phantom Lady, Exit the King, She Stoops to Conquer, The Good Natur’d Man, Phedre, Andromache, The Tempest, Nathan the Wise and many others at the The Pearl Theatre. REGIONAL: ...And LA is Burning, Brooklyn Boy, Hysteria, As Bees in Honey Drown, Florida Studio Theatre; Frost/Nixon, Geva; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Pioneer Theatre; Moon Over Buffalo, Tea and Sympathy, American Stage Festival; and Thou Art, Life Theatre. FILM: Celeste made a film called Time’s Up, which she’s never seen. TV: She needs a new one. EDUCATION: Northwestern and Harvard Universities. Celeste is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and The Urban Rocks Project.
Coriolanus
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.
Roman Citizen, Volscian Partygoer
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.
Sicinius Velutus
Grant Goodman
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. OFF-BROADWAY: Antony and Cleopatra, Theatre for a New Audience; King Lear, The Iliad, Lincoln Center; Pericles, Red Bull. REGIONAL: Most recently Mr. Goodman appeared as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice at Milwaukee Repertory. Other regional appearances include Yale Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Court Theatre, PlayMaker’s Repertory, The Aquila Theatre Company of London, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Victory Gardens; Remy Bumppo, Tennessee Repertory, Milwaukee Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Chekhov Now Festival and The Centennial Theatre Festival, among others. FILM/TV: As the World Turns, Sex and the City, Sleepers. TRAINING: Mr. Goodman is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Roman Soldier, Roman Citizen, Volscian Servant
Sloan Grenz
was last seen at The Old Globe in Six Degrees of Separation, Sea of Tranquility and the 2008 and 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festivals. His other credits include a season at Weathervane Theatre, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (Whit & Will Players), Cinderella (Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts), Meaningless (Bailiwick Repertory Theatre), the premiere of Henry & Mudge and Huckleberry Finn (Theatreworks/USA), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (The Gallery Players), Robin Hood (Park Playhouse), Tradition (Fringe NYC) and Little Shop of Horrors (Jewish Theatre Ensemble). He has appeared in multiple industrials for NYU, Bellevue and various police departments. As a singer, he's performed at CBGB, The Knitting Factory, Pianos, the Chicago Humanities Festival and in his own one-man show at The Duplex. He received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University’s Theatre/Music Theatre program and his MFA in Acting from The Old Globe/USD.
Aufidius, Roman Citizen
Brendan Griffin
The Old Globe: Back Back Back. ELSEWHERE: Clouds, Dog and Pony Theatre; FILM/TV: Generation Kill, Taking Chance, Guiding Light, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Nanny Diaries, Conviction, One Life to Live, Law & Order: SVU. TRAINING: BA Drama, Kenyon College; The British American Drama Academy.
Roman Senator, Roman Soldier, Roman Citizen, Volscian Servant
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
Roman Citizen, Roman Solider
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.
Menenius Agrippa
Charles Janasz
Charles Janasz is an Associate Artist and has appeared in 26 Old Globe productions including Pericles and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals of 1985 and 2004-2011. He appeared on Broadway in the 1999-2000 revival of Amadeus and has been a leading company member and returning guest artist of both Guthrie Theater and Arena Stage. His other credits include work at Ahmanson Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Empty Space Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Walker Art Center and Loring Playhouse. He trained at the University of Washington and The Juilliard School and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1980.
Roman Citizen, Roman Solider
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.
Junius Brutus
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.
Cominius
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
Volscian General, Roman Citizen, Bodyguard
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
Volumnia's Maid, Roman Citizen
Barbra Wengerd
THE OLD GLOBE: 2008 Summer Shakespeare Festival. THE OLD GLOBE/USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM: Pericles, Uncle Vanya, Stuff Happens, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Greeks: The Murders. NEW YORK: The Taming of the Shrew, The New Duke on 42nd Street (Off-Broadway); Twelfth Night, Hamptons Shakespeare Festival; Maybe Baby, It's You, Penguin Repertory; Medea, Jean Cocteau Repertory; The Misanthrope, Columbia University; Fit for Feet, Vital Theatre Company; Tamburlaine, Target Margin Theater; Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The National Shakespeare Company (National Tour). REGIONAL: Leaving Iowa, The Royal George; Panic, 2007 International Mystery Writers' Festival (Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role). Barbra holds a BA from Arizona State University and has trained with Uta Hagen, Patsy Rodenburg and Improv Olympic Chicago.
Team
Director
Darko Tresnjak
Darko Tresnjak (Director) is the fifth Artistic Director of Hartford Stage. His directing credits at Hartford Stage include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Breath & Imagination, Bell, Book and Candle and The Tempest. He was the Artistic Director of The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival from 2004 to 2009. His directing credits at the Globe include Cyrano de Bergerac, Coriolanus, The Women, The Pleasure of His Company, All’s Well That Ends Well, Bell, Book and Candle, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Pericles. He received four awards from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for Outstanding Direction of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale and Pericles and for Excellence in Artistic Direction. His recent credits include Titus Andronicus (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), City of Angels (Goodspeed Musicals), Twelfth Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and the National Tour of The Merchant of Venice featuring F. Murray Abraham as Shylock. The production originated in 2007 at Theatre for a New Audience and transferred to the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of their Complete Works Festival. Mr. Tresnjak’s directing career began at Williamstown Theatre Festival where, over eight seasons, he directed The Skin of Our Teeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Love of Three Oranges, Princess Turandot, The Blue Demon, The Winter’s Tale, Moving Picture and Under Milk Wood. He has also directed at The Public Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Vineyard Theatre, Blue Light Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and Westport Country Playhouse.From 2002 to 2004 he was Director in Residence at Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company.
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
Anna R. Oliver
THE OLD GLOBE: The Women, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Magic Fire, Don Juan, Misalliance. Elsewhere: Her work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse in Fraulein Else and at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre (The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Heartbreak House, The Pillowman, Fraulein Else, The Magic Fire, and Missing Persons), ACT (The Constant Wife, The House of Mirth, and The Guardsman), California Shakespeare Festival (Man and Superman, Restoration Comedy, Nicholas Nickelby and The Skin of Our Teeth), The Aurora (The Trojan Women, Saint Joan, Dear Master, among others), and at San Jose Repertory Theatre (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Iphigenia in Aulis and Major Barbara). National/ international: Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Seattle Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Arizona Theatre Co, Dallas Theater Center, Brava!, BAM, San Francisco Opera, NY City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Los Angeles Opera. She is the recipient of a 2006 Helen Hayes nomination for Best Costumes (Don Juan), Garland Award, San Diego Critics Circle “Craig Noel Awards”, and numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle and Dean Goodman Awards.
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.
