Cast
Duke of Cornwall
Michael Stewart Allen
Michael Stewart Allen was last seen at the Globe in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival (San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award nomination). He has been in several Off Broadway productions, most recently Margaret (Red Bull Theater), and including Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love, Shakespeare (The Acting Company) and the title role in Don Carlos (Prospect Theater Company). His recent credits include The Foreigner (Festival Stage of Winston-Salem), Hamlet (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), A Tale of Two Cities (People’s Light & Theatre Company), King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival), Doubt (Hippodrome State Theatre), The Tempest (Folger Theatre) and Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath (Arkansas Repertory Theatre). He has performed at theatres all over the country, including Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Festival Stage of Winston-Salem, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival and 12 Miles West Theater Company, and he has spent 11 seasons as a company member at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. His film and television credits include “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and voice work on Cold Mountain.
Ensemble
Shirine Babb
Shirine Babb previously appeared at The Old Globe in The Madness of George III, King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew. She recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her London credits include Widows, and her New York credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), Trickle (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), Single Black Female (The Duke on 42nd Street), Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women’s Project), A Role Once Played (29th Repertory Theatre, 2004 AUDELCO nominee) and American Girls Revue (American Girl Place). Ms. Babb’s regional credits include Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, She Stoops to Conquer, A Christmas Carol, Omnium Gatherum, Play to Win: The Jackie Robinson Story, Almost Heaven: The John Denver Story and Bessie: Life & Music of Bessie Smith. Her television and film credits include “All My Children” and Picture Perfect. Her commercial work includes WE tv, Optimum Light Path and Fair Housing Act. Ms. Babb holds an M.A. from East 15 Acting School, U.K. and a B.F.A. from SUNY Fredonia.
Duke of Albany
Donald Carrier
Donald Carrier was last seen at The Old Globe in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival, appearing in King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. His regional credits include Joseph Surface in The School For Scandal (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nomination), Frederick in Noises Off and Francis in Lincolnesque (Cleveland Play House), Ian in Shining City (The Studio Theatre), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival) and the title role in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Huntington Theatre Company). He most recently played Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol at Great Lakes Theatre Festival and directed The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the University of Notre Dame. Other theatre credits include Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Wilma Theater, Intiman Theatre and TheatreWorks. Mr. Carrier spent nine seasons at Stratford Shakespeare Festival appearing as Orlando in As You Like It, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Sicinius in Coriolanus, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice and Lucio in Measure for Measure. His television and film credits include The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Passion of Ayn Rand, “Earth: Final Conflict,” Dead by Monday and 54. His writing credits include the musical Evangeline, written with Anaya Farrell.
Oswald
Andrew Dahl
previously appeared at The Old Globe in Six Degrees of Separation, Cyrano De Bergerac, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus. He recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife, The Two Gentlemen of Verona as well as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Water Engine. Mr. Dahl’s New York credits include The Winter's Tale, A Flea in Her Ear and The Twelfth Labor. His other credits include If This is a Man in Moscow, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Dear Brutus, A View from the Bridge, Time Remembered and Boy Gets Girl (Dartmouth College). Mr. Dahl holds a B.A. in Theater from Dartmouth College.
Ensemble
Grayson DeJesus
Grayson DeJesus has appeared at The Old Globe in The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. He was last seen as Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest with The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. program where he was also seen in The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His regional credits include Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well and The Antiquarian’s Family (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). His National Tours include Winnemucca (three days in the belly) (San Jose Stage Company, New York International Fringe Festival and Minnesota Fringe Festival), and his West Coast credits include Film (Theatre of NOTE) and New Playwrights Project (TheatreWorks). His New York credits include Here I Go Boys, A Diner, a Shiner and New Beulah (Shelby Company). Mr. DeJesus received his B.A. in Theatre from Occidental College.
King of France
Ben Diskant
Ben Diskant has previously appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project. At the Globe he has appeared in Death of a Salesman, King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. His regional credits include Speech and Debate (TheaterWorks, Hartford), The History Boys (The Studio Theatre), Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and the National Tour of Freedom Train (TheatreworksUSA). Mr. Diskant holds a Bachelor’s of Music and a B.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University.
Doctor
Craig Dudley
has appeared in several shows in New York including Macbeth and Othello (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Miser (Bank Street Theatre), New York Fringe Festival, War and Peace (Symphony Space), Ursula’s Permanent (Kraine Theatre), Misalliance (Equity Library Theatre) and The Seagull (Guest Artist/Columbia University). His regional credits include Richard II and the North American Premiere of The Woman (Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada), Hamlet (Coconut Grove Playhouse), A Tale of Two Cities (Repertory Theatre Of St. Louis), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Fulton Opera House), An Inspector Calls (Florida Studio Theatre), The Hasty Heart (Kennedy Center), Mary Stuart (Ahmanson Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (American Stage Festival), Racing Demon (Merrimack Theatre), Amadeus (Wayside Theatre), Dial M For Murder (Long Island Stage), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Mill Mountain Theatre), Crown of Kings (Byrdcliffe Theatre Festival), Miracle (White Barn Theatre), Noises Off (New Harmony Theatre, Boston Herald Repertory Company) and Twelfth Night (Tri-state Actor's Theatre). Mr. Dudley has appeared in several stock productions of Camelot playing King Arthur. His television credits include “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,” “One Life to Live,” “Gimme a Break” and “Exiled.” He co-produced a theatrical documentary about Sir Derek Jacobi, was mentored for over twenty years by Philip Burton, father to Richard Burton, received a scholarship to the American Theatre Wing and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Duke of Burgundy
Christian Durso
Christian Durso was last seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His New York credits include Nocturne (UNDER St. Marks), Cinephilia (Theatre Row), Spring Awakening (Blue Heron Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), Julius Caesar (Theater for the New City), Shoe Polish (13th Street Repertory Company) and Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (The Tank). Mr. Durso’s regional credits include Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Macbeth (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and Minnesota Moon (Boulder International Fringe Festival). His television credits include “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light.” Mr. Durso holds a B.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts. www.christiandurso.com.
King Lear
Robert Foxworth
Robert Foxworth is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has appeared in Inherit the Wind, Richard III, August: Osage County, King Lear, The Madness of George III, Cornelia, Julius Caesar, Private Lives, Below the Belt, Love Letters and Antony and Cleopatra. In 2011 he played Arthur in Superior Donuts at San Diego Repertory Theatre, for which he won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. He most recently appeared in Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. His most recent appearance on Broadway was in August: Osage County as Charlie Aiken. Also on Broadway, Mr. Foxworth has appeared in Twelve Angry Men, Ivanov, Honour, Judgment at Nuremberg and Henry V. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of John Proctor in The Crucible at Lincoln Center Theater. His television series include “Storefront Lawyers,” “Falcon Crest” and “LateLine” with Al Franken. He has guest starred on countless television shows over the years such as a two-year stint on “Six Feet Under,” episodes of “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Mr. Foxworth’s regional theatre work has included Cyrano de Bergerac (Great Lakes Theatre Festival), Iago in Othello and The Scottish King in Macbeth (Guthrie Theater), George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Hartford Stage), Uncle Vanya (Geffen Playhouse) and many more. He is the voice of Ratchet in the Transformers movies.
Cordelia
Catherine Gowl
has been seen at The Old Globe in The Women, Six Degrees of Separation, Coriolanus, Cyrano de Bergerac and Twelfth Night. She recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona as well as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Water Engine. Her New York credits include 'Twas, The Director, Oh The Humanity and Other Exclamations (The Flea Theater), Hamlet, The Great God Brown, Don Juan, A Piece of My Heart and Clash By Night. Gowl’s regional credits include The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse), The Taming of the Shrew and Othello (Virginia Shakespeare Festival) and Proof. Her other credits include Julius Caesar, Richard III, Memory of Water, Simpatico, Camino Real, and many new works in New York, Boston and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ms. Gowl holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard.
Ensemble
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
Ensemble
Andrew Hutcheson
Andrew Hutcheson was last seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona, as well as last summer’s productions of The Madness of George III, King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew. His New York credits include Elizabeth Rex, Kosher Harry and Richard III (Nicu’s Spoon Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Staten Island Shakespeare) and Titus Andronicus (Rising Phoenix Productions). His National Tours include Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) and Beauty and the Beast (American Family Theatre). His regional credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Crucible, The Lion in Winter, As You Like It and Jungalbook (Austin Live Theatre) and Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, 1776, Tartuffe, Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Texas Shakespeare Festival). Mr. Hutcheson received his B.A. in Acting from The University of Texas at Austin.
Earl of Gloucester
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.
Earl of Kent
Joseph Marcell
Joseph Marcell is best known to American audiences for his roles as Geoffrey on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and Hudson on “The Bold and the Beautiful.” He has appeared in over 60 plays at theatres such as Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare & Company, Young Vic, Royal Court Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket in such key roles as Bynum in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Estragon in Waiting for Godot, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the title roles in Peer Gynt, Macbeth, “Master Harold”…and the Boys and Othello. He also appeared in Adrian Noble’s first season as Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director at The Old Globe in 2010 in King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. He has appeared in such films as Cry Feedom and Sioux City. On U.K. television Mr. Marcell has appeared in Rough Crossings, “Brothers and Sisters,” “Juliet Bravo,” “Renford Rejects,” “Eastenders,” “Doctor Who” and “Empire Road.” Recently he starred on Broadway in the world premiere of A Free Man of Color, and he also starred alongside Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
Curan, Herald
Steven Marzolf
has been seen in several productions at The Old Globe including Six Degrees of Separation, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus. He also appeared in The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Greeks: The Murders (The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program). His regional credits include Fair Use and August: Osage County (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), As You Like It (Writers’ Theatre), Twilight of the Golds (Apple Tree Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Provision Theater), The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse), Richard III, Mary Stuart, A Christmas Carol, and Napoli Milionaria (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), The Romeo and Juliet Story (Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare), Twelfth Night and The Tempest (Riverside Theatre) and Two Rooms (In Tandem Theatre).
Ensemble
Jordan McArthur
previously appeared in The Country Wife, The Two Gentleman of Verona and A Midsummer Night's Dream with (The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program). His Old Globe credits include Six Degrees of Separation, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus. McArthur’s regional credits include What the Butler Saw, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (Virginia Shakespeare Festival). His other credits include Of Mice and Men, Arcadia, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Scarlet Letter. McArthur holds a BA in Theater from Christopher Newport University in Virginia.
Ensemble
Brooke Novak
has appeared in several productions with The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program including The Country Wife, The Two Gentleman of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Greeks: The Murders. She also appeared at The Old Globe in Coriolanus and Cyrano de Bergerac. Ms. Novak’s regional credits include The Antiquarian's Family and All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Her other credits include Macbeth and As You Like it. She received her BA in Theater from Occidental College.
Edmund
Jonno Roberts
Jonno Roberts is thrilled to be back at The Old Globe this summer after appearing here last year as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Edmund in King Lear. His other major credits include the original Broadway production of Take Me Out and the Off Broadway productions of Bug, Monster and Uncle Vanya. His regional credits include King Lear (Goodman Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Mother Courage and Her Children, 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) and Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Henry V and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Mr. Roberts has also toured or created performances in theatres in Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Russia and extensively back home in New Zealand. His television credits include “CSI: Miami,” “Detroit 187,” “The Flight of the Conchords,” “Lie to Me,” “Medium,” “Without a Trace,” “CSI:NY,” “NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service,” “Numb3rs,” “The Unit,” “Brotherhood,” “Love Monkey,” “Shark,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Jericho,” “As the World Turns,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “Shortland Street,” “A Bit of a Hoot” and “In Search of the Kiwi Male.” Mr. Roberts’ film credits include The Elephant King, Downstream, Footsteps and BTK.
Regan
Aubrey Saverino
has been seen in The Old Globe’s productions of Twelfth Night and Coriolanus. She also appeared in The Country Wife, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Greeks: The Murders (The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program). Her other credits include Twelfth Night and Henry IV Part I & II (The Independent Shakespeare Company), Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare by the Sea and Romeo and Juliet (El Portal Theatre), An Impending Rupture of the Belly (Furious Theatre Company), Richard III and Climbing Everest (The Colony Theater), Wit and Nicholas Nickleby (The Production Company), Inventing Van Gogh, The Imaginary Cuckhold and Creep (The Chance Theater) and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Arcadia and We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (Occidental College). Ms. Saverino holds a BA in Theater from Occidental College. www.aubreysaverino.com
Ensemble
Ryman Sneed
Ryman Sneed has appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project and in The Old Globe productions of Death of a Salesman, King Lear and The Madness of George III. Her Off Broadway and other New York credits include None of the Above and The Tempest. Ms. Sneed holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College. www.RymanSneed.com.
Old Man
Adrian Sparks
Adrian Sparks has, over the past 40 years, played leading roles in a wide variety of theatre pieces across the country, appearing on the stages of such theatres as Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Stage West, CENTERSTAGE, Indiana Repertory Theatre, PAF Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. This is Mr. Sparks’ third year as a member of Adrian Noble’s Festival company at the Globe. During the 2011 season he performed the roles of Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing and Stephano the drunken butler in The Tempest. In addition to his 2010 Festival assignments in Taming of the Shrew, King Lear and The Madness of George III, Globe audiences have seen him portray Uncle Ben in Death of a Salesman. Mr. Sparks first came to The Old Globe in 1976 doing Troilus and Cressida, Othello and playing Corin in As You Like It (a role he is reprising over 35 years later). His most recent theatrical engagement was playing Leonato in Ethan McSweeney’s version of Much Ado About Nothing with The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. For the camera, Mr. Sparks has portrayed cowboys, doctors, soldiers, professors, dads, best friends and evil villains in more than 75 film and television projects. www.AdrianSparks.com.
Goneril
Emily Swallow
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). Ms. 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.”
Fool
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.
Ensemble
Bree Welch
Bree Welch returns to The Old Globe after appearing as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Irene Ratliff in Dividing the Estate and Ensemble in King Lear and The Madness of George III. Ms. Welch is an M.F.A. student in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program where she has also performed in The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Carver/Chekhov Project. Her regional credits include A Christmas Carol (Alley Theatre), The Rabbit Hole (Stages Repertory Theatre), Essential Self-Defense (Horse Head Theatre Company), Antigone and The Triumph of Love (Classical Theatre Company), One Flea Spare (Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company), Enchanted April, The Odd Couple and The Heiress (Unity Theatre) and six seasons with Houston Shakespeare Festival where she performed in The Tempest, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and The Taming of the Shrew. She received her B.A. in Acting/Directing from The University of Houston.
Edgar
Jay Whittaker
Jay Whittaker appeared in the Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival as Mozart in Amadeus and Don John in Much Ado About Nothing. He also appeared in the 2010 Festival as Edgar in King Lear, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew and William Pitt in The Madness of George III, for which he received the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award honoring his work in all three productions. He has been seen Off Broadway in Frank’s Home at Playwrights Horizons and Rose Rage at The Duke on 42nd Street. His other credits include Old Masters, Mother Courage and Her Children and David Copperfield (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Sense and Sensibility, directed by Jon Jory, and Awake and Sing! directed by Amy Morton (Northlight Theatre), Shining City (Huntington Theatre Company), Tamburlaine and Edward II (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Shining City and Frank’s Home (Goodman Theatre), The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Royal Shakespeare Company). Mr. Whittaker’s film and television credits include Dustclouds, Let’s Go to Prison, Death of a President, “Prison Break” and “Early Edition.”
Team
Director
Adrian Noble
Adrian Noble has served as Artistic Director of The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival since 2010, where his productions include King Lear, The Madness of George III, The Tempest and Amadeus. He served as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003. His productions at RSC include Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Thebans, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, Travesties (and West End), Macbeth, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (and Broadway), Romeo and Juliet, The Cherry Orchard (and West End), Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (and West End), The Family Reunion, The Seagull, Kiss Me, Kate (and West End), Pericles, A Doll’s House, Forest, Art of Success (and New York), The Secret Garden (and West End), Henry V, The Plantagenets, As You Like It and Measure for Measure. His additional West End credits include The Duchess of Malfi, Three Sisters, Brand, Home Place, Kean, A Woman of No Importance, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (and Broadway) and Summer and Smoke. For opera he has directed The Fairy-Queen and Il Ritorno d’Ulysse (Aix-en-Provence), Macbeth (Metropolitan Opera) Mozart/Da Ponte cycle (Opéra de Lyon), The Magic Flute (Glyndebourne), Carmen (Paris), Alcina (Staatsoper, Vienna) and Serse (Theater an der Wien). He also directed the film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is the author of How to do Shakespeare. A Doll’s House won the Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Revival and Best Director in 1981, along with the Plays and Players Best Director Award, for which Mr. Noble was jointly awarded for The Duchess of Malfi. He won the Best Director Award at the Globe Theatre Awards for The Winter’s Tale.
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
Deirdre Clancy
Deirdre Clancy is in her third year designing all three Shakespeare Festival shows at The Old Globe. She began her career as house designer for the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1960s with such cutting-edge authors as Edward Bond, Joe Orton and D.H. Lawrence. She went on to design all over the world for the stage, opera, film and television. Among Ms. Clancy’s many successes were costumes for Kiri Te Kanawa in Cosí Fan Tutte at The Metropolitan Opera, Ian McKellen in Wild Honey at The National Theatre, Los Angeles and Broadway and Glenda Jackson in Strange Interlude in the West End and on Broadway. She won a BAFTA Best Costume Design Award for Mrs. Brown featuring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly and Olivier Awards for her work on Twelfth Night and Love’s Labour’s Lost, both for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2011 Ms. Clancy completed the trilogy of Mozart operas for Opera de Lyon, directed by Adrian Noble, with costumes for Cosí Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. Ms. Clancy has written and illustrated Costume Since World War Two. www.clancy.uk.com.
Lighting Design
Alan Burrett
Alan Burrett designed the 2010 and 2011 Shakespeare Festivals and The Savannah Disputation for The Old Globe. Mr. Burrett’s designs for theatre, opera and dance are seen regularly in many parts of the world in venues from San Diego Opera to the Opéra national de Paris. His theatre work includes 15 productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and 25 productions for LA Opera. Mr. Burrett is Professor of Design at UC San Diego. www.burrett.com.
Sound Design
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 and Dialect 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.
Fight Director
Steve Rankin
Steve Rankin is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe as an actor and fight director. This is his 26th season staging fights for the Globe, including the 2004-2011 Summer Shakespeare Festivals, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, In This Corner, Pig Farm, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Richard II, Titus Andronicus and Cyrano De Bergerac. His Broadway credits include Henry IV, Memphis, Jersey Boys, Twelfth Night, Getting Away with Murder, Dracula, The Who’s Tommy, Anna Christie and Two Shakespearean Actors. His Off Broadway work includes The Third Story, Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died and Below the Belt. His Stratford Shakespeare Festival credits include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra and Henry V. His film work includes Renaissance Man, Human Error and Tumbleweeds. He has worked with the Seattle, San Diego and Metropolitan Opera companies. Mr. Rankin plays mandolin with the Appalachian Roots artist Susie Glaze and the Hilonesome Band.
Original Music
Shaun Davey
Shaun Davey composed music for last year’s Festival production of The Tempest. His concert music includes “The Brendan Voyage” (the first work for an Irish traditional musician and orchestra), “The Deers’ Cry” (St. Patricks’ prayer) and “Suite for the Dublin Special Olympics.” His “Relief of Derry Symphony” was part of the early Northern Ireland Peace Process. His work features in the Irish schools syllabus and can be heard on seven albums on the Tara label, the most recent being Voices from the Merry Cemetery. His credits include Ballykissangel (BAFTA nomination), “The Hanging Gale” (Ivor Novello Award and BAFTA nomination), scores for the feature films Waking Ned Devine, The Tailor of Panama and Twelfth Night (Ivor Novello nomination) and Hallmarks’ David Copperfield. His theatre credits include the musical James Joyce’s The Dead (Tony Award nomination for Best Original Musical Score), The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, The Tempest, Pericles, Fair Maid of the West and The Lion and the Witch and the Wardrobe (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Silver Tassie, Well of the Saints, Angels from America, The Crucible and Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey Theatre). www.shaundavey.com.
Stage Manager
James Latus
has Broadway credits that include Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Stones In His Pockets, Bells Are Ringing and was the Assistant Director- for Paul Simon’s The Capeman. Mr. Latus’ Off Broadway credits include The Great American Trailer Park Musical, They Wrote That?, The Persians (National Actor’s Theatre), 21 other productions including Stephen Sondheim’s Roadshow, King Lear with Kevin Kline, The Skriker, WASP by Steve Martin, Stuff Happens by David Hare, Antony and Cleopatra starring and directed by Vanessa Redgrave (The Public Theater), Chinese Friends, Memory House (directed by David Esbjornson, Playwrights Horizons), nine productions for The New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, Young Playwrights Festival, Theatre for a New Audience and BAM. His regional credits include Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, most recently the rep of Henry V and Richard II, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre Center. Mr. Latus’ international credits include Oedipus at the Athens Festival. He has had training at the Professional Theatre Training Program, now at the University of Delaware
Assistant Stage Manager
Moira Gleason
has stage managed several shows at The Old Globe including Alive and Well, Whisper House, Since Africa, Back Back Back, Sea of Tranquility, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Constant Wife, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘05), Summer Shakespeare Festivals (2005, ‘07, ‘08 and ‘09), Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Fiction, The Full Monty, as Douglas Pagliotti Stage Management Intern: Old Wicked Songs. She has also been the Stage Manager for Adoption Project: Triad (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company), Miss Witherspoon (San Diego Repertory Theatre) and Fathom (Malashock Dance, ‘06). Ms. Gleason has held many different positions at The Old Globe from House Manager to Carpenter, Master Sound Technician to Education Coordinator. She holds a BA from Southern Oregon University and is a proud member of The Actors’ Equity Association.
Assistant Stage Manager
Annette Yé
Annette Yé (Assistant Stage Manager) served as stage manager for The Old Globe’s Pygmalion, God of Carnage, Anna Christie, Groundswell and the 2010 production of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Her other Globe credits include Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (’11 and ‘12), Boeing-Boeing, The First Wives Club, Opus, Dancing in the Dark, Hay Fever and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2008 and 2010-2012. Ms. Yé’s regional credits include Peter and the Starcatchers, Tobacco Road and ¡Salsalandia! (La Jolla Playhouse). Her other credits include 9 Parts of Desire (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company).
Assistant Stage Manager
Erin Gioia Albrecht
Erin Gioia Albrecht previously worked on the Globe productions of Dividing the Estate, August: Osage County, Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Working and Bell, Book and Candle. Her regional credits include Hands on a Hardbody, Milk Like Sugar, Creditors, The Third Story and No Child… (La Jolla Playhouse). Her New York credits include The Third Story (MCC Theater), Marvin’s Room (T. Schreiber Studio), The Great American Desert (78th Street Theatre Lab) and The Chekhov Dreams (Manhattan Theatre Source). Ms. Albrecht obtained her M.F.A. in Stage Management from UC San Diego.
