Cast
John
Avery Glymph
most recently appeared in The Overwhelming and Stick Fly at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Mr. Glymph’s Broadway credits include The Tempest and his Off Broadway credits include McReele (Roundabout Theatre Company), Antony and Cleopatra and Troilus and Cressida (NY Shakespeare Festival), Maid (Lincoln Center Theater) and ‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers (Drama Department). His regional appearances include Angels in America (Studio Arena and Syracuse Stage), Spunk and The Tempest (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Lost Creek Township (Crossroads Theatre, Regional Tony Award Season) and Fences (Cape Fear Regional Theatre). His film and television credits include “Ugly Betty,” “Oz,” “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “One Life to Live,” “The Electric Company,” “The X-Files,” “Becker,” “Cosby,” “Spin City,” “Titus,” “The Beat,” Last Ball, He Got Game, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Shift and I’m with Lucy. Also a playwright his first play had its reading at Louisville and is in plans to mount this fall. He received his BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Charlie Robinson
recently appeared as Troy in South Coast Repertory’s production of August Wilson’s Fences, a role for which he previously won the 2006 Ovation Award for Best Actor in a Play, and portrayed for six months at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He was also seen at South Coast Repertory in The Piano Lesson and the world premiere of My Wandering Boy. He is best known for his television credits, especially as Mac on “Night Court,” as well as regulars on “Buffalo Bill,” “Love & War,” “Ink,” and “Buddy Faro,” recurring roles on “Home Improvement” and now to recur in “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” Mr. Robinson has performed countless guest roles in shows such as “House,” “Big Love” and “Cold Case.” He also is a Cammie Award Winner for the made-for-television movies Miss Lettie and Me and Secret Santa. His television credits also include Roots: The Next Generation, “King” and “Buffalo Soldiers.” His film credits include Apocalypse Now, The River, Gray Lady Down, Beowulf, Set It off, Antwone Fisher, Even Money, Jackson, Steam, Natural Disasters, Sweet Kandy and House Bunny.
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Mark J Sullivan
was last seen at The Old Globe in The Sisters Rosensweig. His Broadway credits include To Be or Not to Be (Manhattan Theatre Club). Mr. Sullivan’s Off Broadway credits include The Dining Room (Keen Company, Drama Desk Award) and Surface to Air (Symphony Space). Sullivan’s regional credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Dining Room (The Dorset Theatre Festival), After Ashley (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and Big Death, Little Death (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Measure for Measure (Helen Hayes Award) and Melissa Arctic (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Shear Madness (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (The Studio Theatre). His television credits include “Kings,” “As the World Turns” and “One Life to Live.”
Team
Playwright
Matthew Lopez
The Whipping Man premiered at Luna Stage in Montclair, New Jersey and has received productions at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida and will open at Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires later this month. Matthew’s play Tio Pepe was presented at The Public Theater in New York as part of Summer Play Festival 2008. Other works include Zoey’s Perfect Wedding and Reverberation. Matthew’s work has been heard and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, McCarter Theatre Center, Ars Nova and the Lark Play Development Center. He is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group and is a 2010/2011 Old Globe Playwright-in-Residence.
Director
Giovanna Sardelli
has directed world premieres of Lila Rose Kaplan’s Wildflower, Rajiv Joseph’s plays Animals Out of Paper (Joe A. Callaway Award for Outstanding Director, Lucille Lortel Nomination Outstanding Play), All This Intimacy (Second Stage Theatre), The Leopard and The Fox (Alter Ego Productions), Huck & Holden (Cherry Lane Theatre), Absalom by Zoe Kazan (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival), Adriana Sevan’s Taking Flight (Goodman Theatre, Center Theater Group, San Diego Repertory Theatre and Sundance Institute Theatre Lab). She spent two seasons as Director of the Shakespeare Sedona Institute and two seasons as the Artistic Director of Studio Tisch. Sardelli received her MFA in Acting from NYU and is a graduate of their Director’s Lab. At NYU, she has directed shows and presentations for the Graduate Acting Program, The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, the Stella Adler Conservatory and the Dramatic Writing Program. Sardelli is on the faculty of the Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Dance at NYU. Her upcoming projects include Dreams of the Washer King (Playwright’s Realm), The Pavilion and Murder on The Nile (Dorset Theatre Festival) and Apple Cove by Lynn Rosen (Women’s Project).
Scenic Design
Robert Morgan
is thrilled to be back at The Old Globe where he last designed I Just Stopped By to See the Man. His regional credits include The Glass Menagerie, Emma, and the upcoming Bill W. & Dr. Bob (The Cleveland Play House), A Christmas Story (2006), Major Barbara and Bad Dates (San Jose Repertory Theatre), The Diary of Anne Frank, Jesus Hates Me, Lobby Hero, and Copenhagen (Denver Center Theatre Company), Saint Joan, Jekyll & Hyde, and The Rabbit Hole (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Subject Tonight is Love (Alliance Theatre), The Rainmaker, The Dazzle and A Moon for the Misbegotten (American Conservatory Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire and Lydia (Marin Theatre Company). Mr. Morgan is an Assistant Professor in Scenic Design at the University of Washington School of Drama. www.morgansetdesign.com
Costume Design
Denitsa D. Bliznakova
is happy to return to The Old Globe theatre where she has previously designed The Merry Wives of Windsor and Opus. Her design work elsewhere includes productions at The Falcon Theatre, A Noise Within, New Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre
Festival and others. Her previous work also includes touring shows for the Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre Program and projects for the Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Opera and the Law & Order TV show. Her design and stylist credits for other media include music videos for Switchfoot, Bigg Steele, John Mayer; short films: Midgetman, Sleep in Heavenly Peace and La Cerca; feature films Johnny Got His Gun and Undercover
Kids. Ms. Bliznakova is currently an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University where she leads the MFA Costume Design program. For more information visit www.denitsa.com
Lighting Design
Lap Chi Chu
has recently designed Medea, starring Annette Bening in Los Angeles and The Good Negro at The Public Theater in New York (Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Lighting). His New York City design credits include The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, The Kitchen, Danspace, Primary Stages, and Juilliard Opera. His regional designs include the Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare & Company, Cleveland Play House, Evidence Room, Virginia Opera, and Ordway Music Theater. Mr. Chu is the lighting designer for Chamecki/Lerner (Visible Content, Hidden Forms, I Mutantes Seras and Please Don’t Leave Me), performed in the United States and Brazil. He has received multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and a “Drammy” Award for Best Lighting. He holds degrees from Northwestern University and New York University. He teaches lighting design at California Institute of the Arts.
Sound Design
Jill BC Du Boff
recently designed The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory…, Three Days of Rain (associate) and Inherit The Wind (associate) on Broadway. Her Off Broadway credits include Lincoln Center Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Women’s Project, New Georges, Flea Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, Clubbed Thumb, Culture Project, Actor’s Playhouse, The New Group, Promenade Theater, Urban Stages, John Houseman Theatre, Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, Soho Rep Theatre, adobe theatre company. Ms. Du Boff’s regional credits include Hartford Stage, The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Bay Street Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Alley Theatre, Kennedy Center, New York Stage and Film, South Coast Repertory, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Adirondack Theatre Festival. Her film and television credits include We Pedal Uphill, “Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen” and “NBC Late Fridays.” Ms. Du Boff was the contributing producer for PRI’s Studio 360. She has received nominations for Spatter Pattern and Miss Julie (Drama Desk Awards) and Spatter Pattern and Umbrella (Henry Hewes Design Awards). She has received the Ruth Morley Design Award and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Jillduboff.com
Voice and Dialect
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
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.
