Cast
Louie
Jeffrey M. Bender
has previously appeared at The Old Globe in The Mystery of Irma Vep and Opus. His Broadway credits include Cymbeline at Lincoln Center Theater and he was seen in The Acting Company’s Off Broadway production of Jane Eyre. Mr. Bender’s regional credits include The Three Musketeers, Seattle Repertory Theatre; Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Rivals, Life of Galileo, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Enrico IV, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and Camino Real, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; The Nerd, Delaware Theatre Company; Rounding Third and Fuddy Meers, Capital Repertory Theatre; and The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare on the Sound.
Jay
Steven Kaplan
was last seen on stage as Henry in Terrible Infant at the New York International Fringe Festival. Mr. Kaplan appeared in productions of What I Learned In School Today and The Flaw, Young Connecticut Playwrights Festival. His favorite roles include Harry Witherspoon in Lucky Stiff, Irvington Town Hall Theater; Jesus in Godspell and Jack in Into the Woods, White Plains Performing Arts Center. Mr. Kaplan
made his feature film debut starring opposite William H. Macy in Bart Got a Room, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He will next be seen in the upcoming film, Beware the Gonzo. His television credits include “Law & Order” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” Mr. Kaplan is currently enrolled at NYU Tisch School of the Arts CAP21
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Judy Kaye
starred on Broadway in Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins for which she was nominated for a Tony® Award. She also performed it at the York Theatre, where she was nominated for Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards, and at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Subsequently, the show was done in Los Angeles, Westport, Tucson, Phoenix, San Francisco, Baltimore, Sarasota and Rochester. Ms. Kaye also appeared in Zorba for the Reprise Series in Los Angeles (Ovation Award nomination), and appeared in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway as Mrs. Lovett, which she then repeated on the National Tour, garnering a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Garland Award and Carbonell Award. Her career highlights include the Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera (Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination), Mamma Mia! (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), On the Twentieth Century (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk nomination)
and Ragtime (Ovation Award). She has also appeared as Musetta in La Bohème, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld and Lucy Lockett in The Beggar’s Opera, all at the Santa Fe Opera. Her other roles range from Sally in Follies, Maggie in The Man Who Came to Dinner and Penny in You Can’t Take It With You, to Kitty Dean in The Royal Family and Mama Rose in Gypsy. She has appeared with symphony orchestras around the country and the world, and has sung at the White House twice. She has recorded numerous albums, and is the voice of Kinsey Millhone for the Sue Grafton/Random House Audio Book Alphabet Mystery Series. www.judykaye.com
Arty
Austyn Myers
recently appeared at The Old Globe in The First Wives Club. He was part of the Lost in Yonkers cast at McCoy Rigby Entertainment. Mr. Myers appeared on Broadway in the revival of Les Misérables and was also in the National Tour. His other credits include The Secret Garden, Lamb’s Players Theatre; A Christmas Carol, North Coast Repertory Theatre; Roar of the Greasepaint..., Starlight Theatre; Big River, Seussical the Musical, Ragtime, Les Misérables, California Youth Conservatory; Li’l Abner, American Rose Theatre; Seussical the Musical, J*Company Youth Theatre; Celebrity Sonnets, San Diego Shakespeare Society and King John, Intrepid Shakespeare Company. His film and television roles include “Meet Dave”, “Moon Rocks & Lighter Fluid” and “Bommi and Friends.” He is an Associate Artist with CYC Theatre.
Gert
Amanda Naughton
THE OLD GLOBE: Paramour, Loves and Hours, The Constant Wife. BROADWAY: The Secret Garden (and National Tour), Into The Woods (2002 revival). OFF-BROADWAY: Romance in Hard Times, Hundreds of Hats, 3 Postcards, Mr. President. REGIONAL: A Little Night Music, Goodspeed Musicals, L.A. Opera and South Coast Rep; Amour, O. Henry's Lovers, Goodspeed Musicals; On the Town, PCLO; Gypsy, Tartuffe, The Waves, Misalliance, Bedroom Farce, The Threepenny Opera, Hangar Theatre; The Royal Family, Caldwell Theatre; The Betrayal of Nora Blake, Cuillo Center; Another Kind of Hero, Walnut St.; Edith Stein, GeVa. TELEVISION: Betty Roberts on AMC's Remember WENN, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Payne, Chappelle's Show. EDUCATION: BFA, Ithaca College.
Bella
Jennifer Regan
previously appeared at The Old Globe in Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues and The Trojan Women. Her additional theatre credits include working with Dame Maggie Smith in Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque (London’s West End); Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Broadway (standby); Buffalo Gal, Primary Stages; Ivanov, Off Broadway; Girl, Cherry Lane Theatre; Edgardo Mine, Guthrie Theater; A Streetcar Named Desire, Barrington Stage Company; Yerma, Cleveland Play House. Her television and film work includes “Law & Order: SVU” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” the upcoming “Gravity” (Starz), “As the World Turns” and “Guiding Light.” Her feature films include Final Rinse and the upcoming Ten Stories Tall, premiering at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in 2010. She has trained at UCLA Theater, BADA, Oxford University and the Shakespeare Lab, The Public Theater.
Eddie
Spencer Rowe
was last seen as Harry in the Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s production of Company, directed by Michael Lichtefeld. His regional credits include Anselmo in Man of La Mancha, Sacramento Music Circus; Giuseppe Naccarelli in The Light in the Piazza, Lamb’s Players Theatre; Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar, Westchester Broadway Theatre; and Lt. Marco Rodriguez in the world premiere of Camila, Walnut Street Theatre. Mr. Rowe has also performed in several National and European tours of West Side Story and A Chorus Line.
Team
Playwright
Neil Simon
has been represented on Broadway by Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Old Couple, Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God’s Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They’re Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues (1985 Tony Award), the female version of The Odd Couple, Broadway Bound, Rumors, Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), Jake’s Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Proposals, The Dinner Party and 45 Seconds from Broadway. Off Broadway: London Suite. Films include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, The Heartbreak Kid, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Murder by Death, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, Chapter Two, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Max Dungan Returns, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers.
Scenic Design
Ralph Funicello
has designed numerous shows at The Old Globe including I Do! I Do!, Restoration Comedy, Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2004-2009, The Constant Wife, The Lady With All the Answers, Julius Caesar, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, The Trojan Women, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Hostage, Paramour, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Pride’s Crossing, Macbeth, American Buffalo, Private Lives, The Gate of Heaven, Mister Roberts, Henry IV, Dancing at Lughnasa, Hedda Gabler, The Way of the World, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Ghosts, Interior Decoration, From the Mississippi Delta, The Winter’s Tale, Mr. Rickey Takes a Meeting, Bargains, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, The White Rose, Hamlet, Our Town, Driving Miss Daisy, Measure for Measure. 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, Guthrie Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Stratford Festival in Ontario, The 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
Alejo Vietti
has designed costumes for several shows in New York including Secrets of the Trade (Primary Stages), Manhattan Theatre Club’s Nightingale and MCC Theater’s Grace both staring Lynn Redgrave, Rooms, William Finn’s Make Me a Song, Tryst, Roulette starring Anna Paquin, The Last Sunday in June, 16 Wounded, Two by Tennessee, Servicemen directed by Sean Mathias, Five Flights, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure and Of a White Christmas. His regional credits include over 11 productions at the Alley Theatre including Cyrano de Bergerac, A Christmas Carol, Eurydice, Othello and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Meet John Doe and A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.), Our Town starring Hal Holbrook, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Dying City, Bad Dates, Mistakes Were Made (Hartford Stage), the world premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Opera Santa Barbara) The Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre), Altar Boyz and The Last Train to Nibroc (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), John Patrick Shanley’s Romantic Poetry (New York Stage and Film), Camelot, Big River and 1776 (Goodspeed Opera), over 25 productions of the Ella Fitzgerald biographical play Ella and Enchanted April (Pasadena Playhouse, Ovation Award nomination). He also works at Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Cleveland Play House, Colorado Ballet, Columbia University, Florida Stage, Guthrie Theater, Hangar Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, San Diego Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Theatreworks Hartford, Westport Country Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His international credits include The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Donetsk Opera in the Ukraine. Mr. Vietti’s additional credits include Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Gold Unit 08/09.
Lighting Design
Matthew McCarthy
recently designed Lost in Yonkers at The Old Globe. He has designed several Off Broadway productions including Blue Man Group in New York, Boston and Chicago, The Odyssey, A Stage Version by Derek Walcott for Willow Cabin Theatre Company, and Rum & Coke and Texas Homos for Abingdon Theatre Company. His opera credits include Juilliard Opera Company, Opera Columbus, Connecticut Opera and Arizona Opera. Mr. McCarthy’s regional credits include Florida Repertory Theatre, Stages St. Louis, Contemporary Stage Company, New Harmony Theatre, and Cumberland County Playhouse. He has served as Lighting Director for extensive tours of Poland, Brazil and Austria with several modern dance companies.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
has designed over 85 productions at The Old Globe, including The Last Romance, Alive and Well, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, The Price, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, Since Africa, The Women, Sight Unseen, The Pleasure of His Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, The Sisters Rosensweig, Trying, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. His regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, The Wilma Theater, L.A. Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Malashock Dance Company, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and the Freud Theatre at UCLA. He received his BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
Stage Manager
Diana Moser
recently stage managed 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 of Minneapolis and Arizona Theatre Company. Ms. Moser received her MFA in directing from Purdue University. When not doing theatre, she splits her time between Nova Scotia and the classic wooden sailboat, Simba I.
