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Glenn Davis
Tom
Center Theatre Group: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Off-Broadway: Wig Out! (Vineyard Theatre). International: Edward II, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Regional: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, A Lesson Before Dying, The Bluest Eye (workshop) (Steppenwolf Theatre); Caligula, Polaroid Stories, Vassa Zheleznova (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Act-1); Wig Out! (Sundance Institute/Theatre Lab); Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Congo Square Theatre. TV: 24, The Unit, Jericho. BFA: The Theatre School at DePaul University. Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training. |
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Brad Fleischer
Kev
CTG: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Broadway: Coram Boy (Drama League ensemble nomination). Off-Broadway: Roundabout – David Rabe’s Streamers (director, Scott Ellis), Pig Farm (understudy). Regional: Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries (Alley Theatre), Pig Farm (South Coast Rep), Streamers (Huntington Theatre), Paris Commune (La Jolla Playhouse). Film: The Good Shepherd (director, Robert De Niro), and the short films – Big Al, Tim and Jyamers in Barclay’s (director, Nat Arata), Baby Drew and the Hoover Queenan (directors, Brad Schmidt/Josh Close). TV: 24, Jericho, The Unit, Prison Break, Law & Order, Over There. MFA: University of California, San Diego. 33.. |
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Arian Moayed
Musa
Thrilled to be back again with this extraordinary cast and crew. Center Theatre Group: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Kirk Douglas, director, Moisés Kaufman). Off-Broadway: Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven (Epic Theater), Fever Chart (Public Theater, director, Jo Bonney), Queens Blvd (Signature), Masked (Drama Desknomination), American Pilot (MTC, director, Lynne Meadow), Jeff Daniels’ Apartment 3A, Kite Runner (national tour, director, WynnHandman) and Homebody/Kabul (BAM & Steppenwolf,director, Frank Galati). Films: Roadie (upcoming), The Christians, Arranged and Church Story. TV: MONY (pilot series regular, director, Spike Lee), White Collar, all the Law & Orders and Six Degrees. Arian is co-founder of the critically-acclaimed theatre company Waterwell. He has acted/devised 11 Waterwell drops including The Persians…, Marco Millions (based on lies) (Drama Desk nomination), The|King|Operetta and two new musicals premiering this summer. www.waterwell.org. Also, his first full-length screenplay, This Island Made Me, starring Campbell Scott, is in development. OAK. |
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Kevin Tighe
Tiger
began his career as a juvenile lead at the Pasadena Playhouse in productions including Our Town and Turquoise Alley. After obtaining a MFA in Performing Arts from the University of Southern California, he appeared in the CTG productions of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Mark Taper Forum) and Design For Living (Ahmanson Theatre). Broadway and off-Broadway credits include A Skull In Connemara (Roundabout Theatre), Open Admissions (Music Hall) and The Ballad of Soapy Smith (Public Theater). Regional includes A Number (ACT Seattle), Anna Christie (Arena Stage), Mourning Becomes Electra (Long Wharf), Hedda Gabler (Seattle Repertory) and Yuri Lubymov’sproduction of Crime and Punishment (Arena Stage). Kevin studied with Jeff Corey in Los Angeles and with Bobby Lewis and Stella Adler in New York. Film: Tulse Luper Suitcases, Mumford, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Geronimo, Newsies, School Ties, Bright Angel, I Love A Man In Uniform (GenieAward), Eight Men Out, City Of Hope and Matewan. Television: Tales of the Crypt, Avenging Angels, In Cold Blood and recurring roles on Murder One, Freaks and Geeks and Lost. Kevin was last seen as the Tiger in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. Kevin dedicates this performance to the memory of John Edward Blankenchip. |
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Hrach Titizian
Iraqi Man, Uday
A native of Los Angeles, Hrach dropped out of college to be an actor... His parents were very proud of him! He has since performed in over a dozen plays, built a theatre, ran a theatre, and sold a theatre. Hrach also has numerous films to his credit including Universal’s The Kingdom and George Clooney’s The Men Who Stare at Goats. The most recent from his long list of TV credits includes a recurring role on this season’s 24 (and he didn’t play a terrorist!), and a series regular role on ABC’s comedy pilot (hopefully soon to be a hit series!) Funny In Farsi. |
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Sheila Vand
Hadia, Iraqi Teenager
originated these roles at the Kirk Douglas Theatre last year and feels so blessed to be back with the rest of the original cast and crew. Working with these guys is a dream. She recently graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and she is a Steppenwolf West alum. Film/TV: NBC’s Life, The Dark Knight/Verizon promo (directed by Stephen Gaghan) and Michael Eisner’s Prom Queen (series regular). L.A. Theatre: Portrait of the Architect in Ruins (LATC), Animal Magnetism (Blank Theatre). Directing Credits: Suzan Lori-Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays (Powerhouse Theatre), Bleed Rail (Boston Court, assistant director), Proof (La Mirada Performing Arts Center, assistant director) and Driving Miss Daisy (La Mirada, assistant director). |
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Necar Zadegan
Iraqi Woman, Leper
was born in Germany and currently resides in Los Angeles where she splits her time between television, film and stage work. She has performed across the globe from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to Radio City Music Hall. She attended UCSB on a performance scholarship, graduating with degrees in literature and writing. Favorite theatre credits include Workshop 79’s From Satellite With Love tour through three continents on stages including the Palace of Fine Arts SF to the Dubai Arts Complex, the West Coast premiere of Stop Kiss, L.A. Weekly Award-nominated show Gilgamesh at Boston Court and her recently debuted one-Amazon-woman-show at the Powerhouse Theatre. Her latest film, Unthinkable, has her starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Sheen and will be released in 2010. Other film work includes Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, as well as the upcoming indie festival film Elena Undone. Television work includes CSI: Miami, Lost, Nip/Tuck, The Unit, NCIS, How I Met Your Mother, Big Shots, General Hospital, The Shield and most recently, Necar can be seen recurring in the role of First Lady Dalia Hassan on the hit Fox television series 24. |
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Rajiv Joseph
Playwright
Off-Broadway: Animals Out of Paper (Lortel nomination), The Leopard and the Fox (Adaptation), All This Intimacy, Huck & Holden. Regional: Gruesome Playground Injuries (2009-10 season, The AlleyTheatre, Houston; Woolly MammothTheatre, Washington, D.C.). Los Angeles: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (world premiere – CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre), Huck & Holden (Black Dahlia). Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was developed through the Lark Play Development Center in New York. Rajiv served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa. |
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Moisés Kaufman
Director
is a Tony and Emmy-nominated director and playwright. His most recent play, 33 Variations, starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for five Tony Awards (including one for Ms. Fonda). Previous to that, Mr. Kaufman directed the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play I Am My Own Wife, earning him an Obie Award for his direction as well as Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations. His plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project have been among the most performed plays in America over the last decade. Mr. Kaufman also directed the film adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO, which was the opening night selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and won the National Board of Review Award, the Humanitas Prize and a Special Mention for Best First Film at the Berlin Film Festival. The film also earned Mr. Kaufman two Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer. He is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting. Other recent credits include Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Public Theater), This Is How It Goes (Donmar Warehouse), One Arm by Tennessee Williams (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Lady Windermere’s Fan (Williamstown Theatre Festival). |
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Derek McLane
Scenic Designer
Broadway: Ragtime, Million Dollar Quartet, 33 Variations, The Pajama Game (2006 Tony Award, Best Revival), Grease, The Threepenny Opera, Little Women, I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Best Play), Barefoot in the Park, Lestat, The Women, Present Laughter, London Assurance, Holiday, Honour, Summer and Smoke, The Three Sisters. Off-Broadway: Lie of the Mind, Ruined (2009 Pulitzer Prize), 10 Million Miles, Things We Want, 2000 Years, The Scene, The Voysey Inheritance, Two Trains Running, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park), Hurlyburly, Abigail’s Party, Modern Orthodox, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Creadeux Canvas, What the Butler Saw, Servicemen, East is East, suburbia, The Waverly Gallery, Hello Again, Saturday Night, and the entire Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Productions at most major resident theatres and operas, and work in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Krakow, Caracas, Sydney and Warsaw. Exhibited in the 2003 and 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Awards: 1997 and 2004 Obie Awards for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design; 2003 Michael Merritt Award in Chicago; many Drama Desk nominations; 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards; 2006 Tony Award nomination, 2009 Tony Award. |
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David Zinn
Costume Designer
Broadway: costumes for In The Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Xanadu and A Tale of Two Cities. Off-Broadway: recently, set and costumes for Orpheus X and Chair (both directed by Robert Woodruff)at Theatre for a New Audience; set design for The Pride (directed by Joe Mantello) at MCC Theater; Back, Back, Back and The Four of Us, as well as the upcoming That Face at MTC, and the set design for The Sound and the Fury with ERS at the New York Theatre Workshop (seen here in L.A. at REDCAT), as well their upcoming adaptation of The Sun Also Rises. Opera: set and costumes for The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera, and Tamerlano Washington National Opera and Los Angeles Opera). Regional: set design
for Notes From Underground with Bill Camp, directed by Robert Woodruff, at the Yale Repertory Theatre; and costumes for Girlfriend at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. At the Taper: costumes for The Cider House Rules, Parts One and Two. Mr. Zinn received an Obie Award in 2008 for Sustained Excellence of Design. |
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David Lander
Lighting Designer
Los Angeles: Bengal Tiger…, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Garland Award, plus LA Stage Ovation nomination (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Third (Geffen Playhouse); Dirty Blonde (Pasadena Playhouse); Golden Child, Drama-Logue Award (South Coast Rep). Broadway: 33 Variations with Jane Fonda, 2009 Tony Award nomination for Best Lighting Design; A Man For All Seasons with Frank Langella; I Am My Own Wife, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations (also National Tour, London, Dublin, Venezuela, Australia); Dirty Blonde, Drama Desk nomination (also National Tour, London); Golden Child. Selected Off-Broadway: Edward Albee’s Occupant, Fran’s Bed, Going to St. Ives, King Lear, Top Secret – The Battle For The Pentagon Papers, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre Company and Vineyard Theatre Company. Regional including Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, St. Louis MUNY , The Old Globe. International: Tokyo, UK, South America, Australia and Singapore. Film: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. |
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Cricket S. Myers
Sound Designer
Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Center Theatre Group: The Subject Was Roses, The School of Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); The Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Ovation nomination), The Little Dog Laughed (Ovation nomination), Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back, Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theatre); History Boys (associate), Dead End (assistant), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (assistant) (Ahmanson Theatre). Regional Theatre: Wrecks, Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Ovation nomination, NAACP nomination) (Geffen Playhouse); Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); Marvelous Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse); Crowns (Ebony Repertory). Selected L.A.: Life Could Be A Dream (Hudson Theatre); dark play or stories for boys (Garland Award, Ovation nomination) (Boston Court); Battle Hymn (Ovation nomination) (Circle X); Mary’s Wedding (Ovation nomination), Master Harold… and the boys (NAACP nomination), Trying (Ovation nomination) (ColonyTheater). www.cricketsmyers.com. |
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Kathryn Bostic
Composer
CTG: At the Douglas – Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Eclipsed and Of Equal Measure and at the Taper – Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean (also on Broadway). Regional: Harlem (Kennedy Center), Death and the King’s Horseman (Syracuse Stage), Little Women (Cornell University’s SchwartzTheater), The Ballad of Emmett Till (TheGoodman Theatre), Home (The Signature Theatre), Emergency (Geffen Playhouse), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (The Lillian Theatre). Other theatres include Center Stage, The Huntington, The Children’s Theatre, Seattle Rep. Awards: Sundance Fellowship for Filmscoring, two Ovation Award nominations. Performing credits as a singer and pianist includeRonnie Scott’s (London), The Blue Note (Tokyo and Osaka), The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Pori Finland Jazz Festival, Cape May Jazz Festival and Birdland, JVC Jazz Festival N.Y., Catalina (Los Angeles), The Vic (Santa Monica). Toured and/or recorded with k.d. Lang, Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Hiatt, Rod Stewart, The Manhattans. |
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