Cast
Dr. Fine
James Eckhouse
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Beyond Therapy. OFF-BROADWAY: Emily, Geniuses, Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, Soapy Smith, Dubliners. REGIONAL: Mother Courage, La Jolla Playhouse; The Goat, Mark Taper; Heads, Blank Theater; Downside, Pasadena Playhouse. Also Williamstown, Louisville, Guthrie, Hartford, Portland Stage, Goodman. FILM: Love at First Hiccup, Wake (2009 releases), Half-Life (2008 Sundance premiere), Jimmy and Judy, S.W.A.T., A Cinderella Story, One True Thing, 84 Charing Cross Road, Junior, Defending Your Life, Leaving Normal, Fat Man and Little Boy, Big, Trading Places. TV: Jim Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210, recent guest spots Criminal Minds, Boston Legal, Las Vegas, Nip/Tuck, Jericho, CSI, Without A Trace DIRECTOR -STAGE (LA): In Heat, Bright Boy, Cats and Dogs (World Premieres), A Raisin In The Sun, American Buffalo, Eastern Standard. Artistic Director -Ensemble Studio Theater LA ’99-‘01. TV: Once and Again, 90210, Enos and Emory (Pilot Presentation). DOCUMENTARY: Protecting The Possibilities. TRAINING: Juilliard, Second City.
Tess
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.
Doug
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.
Ben
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
Larkin
Donald Sage Mackay
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: The Wood Demon, Mark Taper Forum; Sir Peter Hall Shakespeare Repertory at the Ahmanson; La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, San Jose Rep, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Connecticut Rep, Theatre South Carolina, A Noise Within and five seasons at Utah Shakespeare Festival (title role in Doctor Faustus, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Rev. Morell in Candida). FILM/TV: Recently completed Transformers 2 (directed by Michael Bay) and Play The Game (starring Andy Griffith); guest starred in upcoming Warner Bros. pilot The Amazing Mrs. Novak (by the executive producer of The West Wing); past guest stars include Mad Men, House, The West Wing, The Shield, JAG, Frasier, According to Jim, ER, recurring roles on Scrubs, The Practice and Providence. AWARDS: Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for Lead Performance as Pip in Great Expectations. EDUCATION: Moscow Art Theatre, MFA UC San Diego (and currently a guest lecturer). Co-Artistic Director of Pegasus, a non-profit theatre in Aspen.
Hustler/Rick
Joaquin Perez-Campbell
THE OLD GLOBE: Back Back Back. ELSEWHERE: Columbinus, NYTW; A Soldiers Play, Second Stage; The School of Night, Romeo and Juliet, Appreciation, Richard III, Balm in Gilead, As You Like It, Juilliard. FILM: The Hurt Locker, War of the Worlds, The Manchurian Candidate. TV: Numb3rs, Veronica Mars, 3 Lbs, CSI: NY, Guiding Light. TRAINING: The Juilliard School.
Flan
Thomas Jay Ryan
The Old Globe: Debut. Off Broadway: The Misanthrope (Directed by Ivo Van Hove at New York Theater Workshop), Pinter's The Room And Celebration (American Premiere), Atlantic Theater; Juno And The Paycock, Roundabout Theatre; Venus, Public Theater; Sin, The New Group; In The Matter Of J. Robert Oppenheimer (title role), Keen Company. Regional: Suitcase, La Jolla Playhouse; Will Eno's Tragedy: A Tragedy, Berkeley Rep; Five By Tenn, Kennedy Center; The Philadelphia Story, Hartford Stage; As You Like It, Guthrie Theater; Hedda Gabler, Shakespeare Theatre; Sara Ruhl's Passion Play, David Rabe's The Black Monk, Yale Rep. Films: Hal Hartley's Henry Fool (title role and reprised role in the sequel Fay Grim), Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Legend Of Bagger Vance, Strange Culture, The Book Of Life, South Of Heaven and Degas and the Dancer (title role on HBO).
Paul
Samuel Stricklen
THE OLD GLOBE Debut. OFF-BROADWAY: Creation: A Clown Show. REGIONAL: Current Nobody, La Jolla Playhouse; Victor/Victoria, Phantom, Annie Get Your Gun, Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre; Cincinnati Pops w/Martin Short. NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL TOURS: SITI Company productions of bobrauschenbergamerica and Radio Macbeth, dir. Anne Bogart. OTHER THEATRE: I Ain’t Yo Uncle, A Dream Play, La Dispute, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Tempest, Arms and the Man. TV: Six Degrees, As the World Turns, M.O.N.Y. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: SITI Company (workshop); Mr. Stricklen received an MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego.
Geoffrey
Tony Torn
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. RECENT THEATER: The Tempest opposite Mandy Patinkin, Classic Stage Company (NYC); Yellow Face, Mark Taper Forum (LA)/The Public Theater (NYC); Camille, Bard Summerscape; Titus Andronicus, Vienna Kunstlerhaus. He is known for his extensive work with Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater and the late Reza Abdoh's company dar a luz, both in the States and in Europe. RECENT FILM & TV: All Good Things opposite Ryan Gosling, The Stepford Wives, Law & Order. He is also a filmmaker whose satirical mini-series The Grand Inquisitor is available online, and whose debut feature Lucky Days (co-directed with sister Angelica Torn) was recently awarded Best Feature at The 2008 Coney Island Film Festival.
Kitty
Keliher Walsh
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Coastal Disturbances. OFF-BROADWAY: The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, Gardenia, Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code, Postcards, James Joyce’s Dubliners, The Poker Session, Living Quarters. REGIONAL: Our Town, Eli, Tempest, Guthrie Theater; Scenes and Revelations, Pennsylvania Stage; Plough and the Stars, Huntington Theatre; The Royal Family, Pennsylvania Festival Theatre; Cloud Nine, Fifth of July, Portland Stage Company; Lady House Blues, American Stage Festival; Bad Art, Blank Theatre; This Old Man, Falcon Theatre; Bright Boy, Ensemble Studio Theatre. FILM: The Purple Hat. TV: Nip/Tuck. TRAINING: BA Fine Arts, Boston University. Member: Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Gordon Hunt Studio.
Ouisa
Karen Ziemba
Karen Ziemba previously appeared at the Globe in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Six Degrees of Separation and The First Wives Club. She received the Tony Award along with the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for her portrayal of The Wife in Contact at Lincoln Center Theater. Her other appearances on and Off Broadway include Curtains (Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk and Tony nominations), Never Gonna Dance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Steel Pier (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), And the World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award), I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nomination), Chicago, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, New York City Opera’s 110 in the Shade and The Most Happy Fella and, for City Center Encores!, Allegro, Bye Bye Birdie, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 and The Pajama Game. Regionally she has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hartford Stage), The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Sylvia (Long Wharf Theatre), Steel Magnolias (Cape May Stage) and Boeing Boeing (Riverside Theatre). Her film and TV appearances include The Producers, Once More with Feeling, “Scrubs,” several of the New York “Law & Order” series, “The Kennedy Center Honors” in tributes to Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris and, for PBS’ “Great Performances,” My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Ziemba has recorded many audiobooks and original cast albums and received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Niagara University.
Team
Playwright
John Guare
John Guare is the Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning playwright of such plays as House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation (which won London’s Olivier Award as Best Play and for which he also wrote the screenplay), Landscape of the Body, A Few Stout Individuals, as well as his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Louis Malle's Atlantic City. He won a Tony Award® for his libretto to the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona and was nominated for a Tony for his play Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and his libretto to Sweet Smell of Success. His adaptation of His Girl Friday premiered to great acclaim at London's National Theater. He co-edits the Lincoln Center Theater Review, teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama, is a council member of the Dramatists Guild, a trustee of PEN America and received the 2004 Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The NY Shakespeare Festival/ Public Theater will produce his new play, A Free Man of Color, next season.
Director
Trip Cullman
NEW YORK: Adam Bock’s The Drunken City, Playwrights Horizons; Gina Gionfriddo’s U.S. Drag, The StageFARM; Bob Farquhar’s Bad Jazz, The Play Company; Terrence McNally’s Some Men, 2econd Stage; Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Dark Matters, Rattlestick; Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Arabian Night, The Play Company; Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God, Century Center; Glen Berger’s The Wooden Breeks, MCC; Sarah Schulman’s Manic Flight Reaction, Playwrights Horizons; Adam Bock’s Swimming in the Shallows, 2econd Stage Uptown; Paul Weitz’s Roulette, EST; Jonathan Tolins’s The Last Sunday in June, Century Center and Rattlestick; Brooke Berman’s Smashing, The Play Company; Rinne Groff’s Of a White Christmas, Clubbed Thumb; Gary Sunshine’s Sweetness, Brooke Berman’s Sam and Lucy, Summer Play Festival; The Wau Wau Sisters, Ars Nova. Regional: Richard Greenberg’s The Injured Party, South Coast Rep; The Petersons Project, Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain, New York Stage and Film; Lauren Weedman’s Rash, The Empty Space. Upcoming: Lloyd Suh’s American Hwangap, Magic Theatre and then in NY for The Play Company/Ma Yi.
Scenic Design
Andromache Chalfant
Andromache Chalfant is a set designer for theater and opera. She is based in New York City. Andromache has collaborated with theater artists such as Mark Wing-Davey, Les Waters, Sarah Ruhl, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Doug Varone. Her recent work includes: Theater: Samuel Beckett’s Endgame ( upcoming), A.R.T.; Christina Anderson’s Inked Baby (upcoming), Playwrights Horizons ; Jose Rivera's School of the Americas (Henry Hewes Nomination for Set Design); Stephen Adly Guirgus' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, LAByrinth and The Public Theater; Anne Washburn's The Internationalist, The Vineyard Theatre; Rinne Groff’s Orange,Lemon,Egg,Canary, and The Civilians' (I am) Nobody's Lunch, PS122. Regional: Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, Cleveland Playhouse; Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing!, Arena Stage; Morris Panych’s VIGIL, Westport Country Playhouse; Craig Wright’s Lady, Asolo Repertory. Opera: Charles Gounod’s Faust (upcoming), Minnesota Opera ; Handel’s Semele, Opera Boston; Mozart’s The Abduction From the Seraglio, Opera Omaha; Dominick Argento’s Postcard From Morocco, The Curtis Institute; Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, The Berkshire Opera Festival. Andromache is an Associate Artist of The Civilians and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company. She has been a guest artist/lecturer at Sarah Lawrence and NYU. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Bennington College and a Masters in Scenic Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Costume Design
Emily Rebholz
Emily Rebholz has previously designed Six Degrees of Separation at The Old Globe. Her Broadway credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and recent New York credits include The Shaggs (Playwrights Horizon), When I Come to Die, On the Levee and Broke-ology, (Lincoln Center Theater), Honey Brown Eyes (Working Theater), Bachelorette (Second Stage Uptown), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public Theater, 2010 Henry Hewes Design Award nomination) and This Wide Night (Naked Angels, 2011 Lucille Lortel Award nomination). Her additional New York designs have been seen at The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ars Nova and Atlantic Theater Company. Ms. Rebholz’s recent regional credits include Betty’s Summer Vacation (Bay Street Theatre), Behind the Eye (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) and Prometheus Bound (American Repertory Theater) as well as designing at Center Theater Group, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Wilma Theater, Westport Country Playhouse and Asolo Repertory Theatre. She received her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
Lighting Design
Ben Stanton
Ben Stanton designed the Globe production of Six Degrees of Separation. His select New York credits include Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 (Signature Theatre Company), We Live Here, The Whipping Man (Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award nomination) and Humor Abuse (Manhattan Theatre Club), Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (The Public Theater), After the Revolution and Three Changes (Playwrights Horizons), Coraline and In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theater), The Metal Children (Vineyard Theatre), Bluebird and Dusk Rings a Bell (Atlantic Theater Company), Light Raise the Roof, Play Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop), Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful (Daryl Roth Theatre), Walmartopia and Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell (Minetta Lane Theatre), Bachelorette (Second Stage Theatre Uptown), The Coward (LCT3) and Dream of the Burning Boy (Roundabout Underground). Mr. Stanton has designed productions at most of the major American regional theatres. His live concert and tour credits include Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, St. Vincent and David Byrne.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
Paul Peterson has designed over 100 productions at The Old Globe, including The Brothers Size, God of Carnage, Nobody Loves You, Anna Christie, Odyssey, Engaging Shaw, Life of Riley, Plaid Tidings — A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Last Romance, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, The Women, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, and many more. His regional credits include designs for Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Malashock Dance, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and Freud Playhouse at UCLA. Mr. Peterson received his B.F.A. in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
Voice & Dialect Coach
Jan Gist
Jan Gist has been Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach for Old Globe productions since 2002. She has coached at theatres around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company. Ms. Gist has been a guest on KPBS radio’s “A Way with Words,” narrated San Diego Museum of Art documentaries, coached dialects for the film The Rosa Parks Story and recorded dozens of Books To Listen To. She is a founding member of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and has presented at many national and international conference workshops for them and for The Voice Foundation. She has taught workshops in Russia for the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre and at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. She has been published in VASTA Journals, and chapters in books include The Complete Vocal Warm-Up, More Stage Dialects and an interview in Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium: Conversations with Master Teachers. She is a professor in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program. www.jangistspeaking.com.
Stage Manager
Diana Moser
Diana Moser recently stage managed The Brothers Size, The Recommendation, August: Osage County, Rafta, Rafta…, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and The Whipping Man at The Old Globe. Her additional credits at the Globe include Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Price, Opus, Six Degrees of Separation, The Pleasure of His Company, The Glass Menagerie, In This Corner, 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Restoration Comedy, Christmas on Mars, A Body of Water, Lobby Hero, Fiction and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Ms. Moser’s regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Children’s Theatre Company and Arizona Theatre Company. Ms. Moser received her B.A. from Bard College and her M.F.A. in Directing from Purdue. When not doing theatre, she splits her time between Nova Scotia and the classic wooden sailboat Simba I. Ms. Moser is a strong supporter of the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides a college education to inmates.
Assistant Stage Manager
Jennifer Wheeler Kahn
Jennifer Wheeler Kahn has her B.F.A. in Stage Management from USC and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Some of her career highlights include the National Tour of In the Heights, the Off Broadway production of Clara’s Christmas Dreams and regional productions of Allegiance – A New American Musical, the 2012 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Some Lovers, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Cyrano de Bergerac, Working and Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Globe), DNA New Work Series, Little Miss Sunshine, Surf Report and Creditors (La Jolla Playhouse), Los Angeles Philharmonic (Walt Disney Concert Hall), Urinetown, Ragtime and Nine (Starlight Musical Theatre),The Who’s Tommy (Ricardo Montalbán Theatre) and many others.
