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Glenn Davis
Tom
Off-Broadway: Wig Out! (Vineyard Theatre). International: Edward II, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Regional: Caligula, Polaroid Stories, Vassa Zheleznova (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Act-1), A Lesson Before Dying, The Bluest Eye (Steppenwolf Theatre), 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. Graduate of the Stratford Festival’s Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training.
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Brad Fleischer
Kev
Center Theatre Group debut. Broadway: Coram Boy (Drama League ensemble nomination). Off-Broadway: David Rabe’s Streamers (director, Scott Ellis), Pig Farm (understudy - Roundabout Theatre). Regional: 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 Grey Jyamers in Barclay’s (director, Nat Arata), Baby Drew and the Hoover Queenan (directors, Brad Schmidt/Josh Close). TV: Jericho, The Unit, Prison Break, Law & Order, Over There. MFA: University of California, San Diego. 33.
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Arian Moayed
Musa
Off-Broadway: Naomi Wallace’s Fever Chart (director, Jo Bonney), Queens Blvd (Signature), Masked (Drama Desk nomination, Best Featured Actor), American Pilot (MTC, director, Lynne Meadow), Jeff Daniels’ Apartment 3A, Kite Runner (director, Wynn Handman)and Homebody/Kabul (BAM, director, Frank Galati). Regional: Homebody/Kabul (Steppenwolf, director, Frank Galati), As You Like It, Othello (Utah Shakespearean Festival). Films:M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender (upcoming), The Christians, Arranged and Church Story. TV: MONY (series regular, director, Spike Lee), all the Law & Orders and Six Degrees. Arian is co-founder of the critically-acclaimed theatre company Waterwell. He has acted/devised nine Waterwell drops including The Persians…, Marco Millions (based on lies) (Drama Desk nomination), The/King/Operetta and #9, premiering this summer. www.waterwell.org. Also, his first full-length screenplay, This Island Made Me, starring Campbell Scott, is currently in development. |
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Kevin Tighe
Tiger
Began his career with CTG productions of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Mark Taper Forum) and Design For Living (Ahmanson Theatre). Broadway and Off-Broadway: A Skull In Connemara (Roundabout Theatre), Open Admissions (Music Hall) and The Ballad of Soapy Smith (Public Theater). Regional: A Number (ACT Seattle), Anna Christie (Arena Stage), Mourning Becomes Electra (Long Wharf ), Hedda Gabler (Seattle Repertory) and Yuri Lubymov’s production of Crime And Punishment (Arena Stage). Film: Tulse Luper Suitcase, Mumford, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Geronimo, Newsies, School Ties, Bright Angel, I Love A Man In Uniform (Genie Award), Eight Men Out, City Of Hope and Matewan. Television: Tales of the Crypt, Avenging Angels, In Cold Blood and recurring roles on Lost, Freaks and Geeks and Murder One.
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Hrach Titizian
Uday
A native of Los Angeles, Hrach dropped out of college to act… his parents were very proud! He has since founded The Actor’s Playpen, a theatre and acting school in Hollywood, where he’s performed in over a dozen productions, most of which are original works. Hrach also has numerous films to his credit including Peter Berg’s The Kingdom and the upcoming Men Who Stare At Goats, starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. He’s also gearing up to co- produce and co-star in an untitled feature film with Borat’s Ken Davitian. TV credits include 24, Mad Men, Alias, NCIS, Mind Of Mencia, Las Vegas, The Shield and Raising The Bar. |
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Sheila Vand
Hadia, Iraqui Teenager
) is pleased to report that dreams do come true. Thank you Rajiv for this beautiful story. Thank you Moisés for the endless inspiration. Thank you CTG for bringing me in. Thank you Untitled for sending me in. I couldn’t be more grateful for this priceless journey. |
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Necar Zadegan
Iraqui Woman, Leper
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, LA Weekly Award-nominated show Gilgamesh at Boston Court and her recently debuted one-Amazon-woman-show at the Powerhouse Theatre. Television: Lost, Nip/Tuck, The Unit, NCIS, How I Met Your Mother, Big Shots, General Hospital and The Shield. Film: Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, the award-winning indie festival film The Touch and the upcoming film Unthinkable alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Sheen. Currently, the spokesmodel for Harvey Nichols in their international commercial campaign and serves as the Ambassador for Cultural Affairs for the Levantine Center in Los Angeles. Necar can be seen weekly on the webisode series Floored and Lifted. |
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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 Alley Theatre, Houston; Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington, D.C.). Los Angeles: 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 award-winning playwright. Currently, his play 33 Variations is running on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill Theater, starring Jane Fonda. The play has already received five Outer Critics Circle nominations including Outstanding Director of a Play, three Drama Desk and five Drama League nominations. His other plays as a writer/director – Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Joe Callaway Award, GLAAD Media Award) and The Laramie Project (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk nominations, GLAAD Media Award) have been among the most performed plays in America in the last decade. Mr. Kaufman also directed the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play I Am My Own Wife (Obie Award and Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations). Other recent credits: 33 Variations (La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage), Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Public Theater), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Williamstown Theatre Festival), This Is How It Goes (Donmar Warehouse), One Arm by Tennessee Williams (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). He also directed the film 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. Mr. Kaufman earned 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.
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Derek McLane
Scenic Design
Broadway: 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: 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; 1997 Drama Logue Award for Harmony at La Jolla Playhouse; 2003 Michael Merritt Award in Chicago; seven Drama Desk nominations; 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards; 2006 Tony Award nomination.
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David Zinn
Costume Design
Broadway: costumes for Xanadu and A Tale of Two Cities. Off-Broadway: recently, set and costumes for Back, Back, Back and The Four of Us at MTC, Chair at Theatre for a New Audience, and the set design for The Sound and the Fury with ERS at the New York Theatre Workshop. Opera: set and costumes for The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Tamerlano (coming to LA Opera in the fall of ‘09). Regional: set design for Notes From Underground with Bill Camp, directed by Robert Woodruff, at the Yale Repertory Theatre; and costumes for In The Next Room 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 Design
Los Angeles: Third (Geffen Playhouse), Dirty Blonde (Pasadena Playhouse), Golden Child – Drama-Logue Award (South Coast Rep). Broadway: 33 Variations, A Man For All Seasons, 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,NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre Company and Vineyard Theatre Company. Regional including – Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, 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 Design
Broadway: Assisted M. Roth, Brooklyn Boy. Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Center Theatre Group: The School of Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); The Little Dog Laughed, Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back, Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theatre); History Boys, Dead End (assistant), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (assistant) (Ahmanson Theatre). Regional Theatre: Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Ovation nomination) (Geffen Playhouse); Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); Marvelous Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse); Crowns (Ebony Repertory); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Ovation nomination) (Rubicon Theater). Selected L.A.: dark play or stories for boys (Garland Award, Ovation nomination) (Boston Court); Norman’s Ark (Ovation nomination) (Ford Amphitheatre); Battle Hymn (Circle X); Bacchae (Ovation nomination), Stupid Kids (Celebration Theatre); Mary’s Wedding, Master Harold and the boys (NAACP nomination), Trying (Ovation nomination) (Colony Theater); Hunter Gatherers, Impending Rupture of the Belly, Back of the Throat (Furious Theater). www.cricketsmyers.com
www.restingbell.net.
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Kathryn Bostic
Music
CTG: Of Equal Measure, Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean (also on Broadway). Regional: Harlem (Kennedy Center), Death and the King’s Horseman (Syracuse Stage), Little Women (Cornell University’s Schwartz Theater), The Ballad of Emmett Till (The Goodman Theatre), Home (The Signature Theatre), Emergency (Geffen Playhouse). Other theatre productions include Center Stage, The Huntington, The Children’s Theatre, Seattle Rep. Awards: Sundance Fellowship for Filmscoring. Performing credits as a singer and pianist include Ronnie 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, David Byrne.
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