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Dietrich Bader | The House of Blue Leaves

Diedrich Bader

Billy Einhom

Regional: The Wedding Party (Westport Country Playhouse), Lilly Dale (Grove Shakespeare Festival). Film: Includes The Beverly Hillbillies, Office Space, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Napoleon Dynamite, Miss Congeniality II. Television: As a regular – Danger Theatre, The Drew Carey Show, Center of the Universe; As a guest – Cheers, Monk, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Frasier, among others. Extensive voiceovers include: Film – Ice Age, Surf’s Up, and the upcoming Open Season II and Bolt; Television – Hercules, Billy and Mandy, Lloyd In Space, Batman: The Brave and the Bold (as Batman). Diedrich would like to thank his wife, actress Dulcy Rogers, who makes everything possible..

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Kate Burton | The House of Blue Leaves

Kate Burton

Bananas Shaughnessy

Center Theatre Group: Arcadia, Jake’s Women, Wild Honey (also on Broadway). Broadway: Spring Awakening, The Constant Wife (Tony nomination), The Elephant Man (Tony nomination), Hedda Gabler (Tony nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination, Callaway Award, also Huntington, Williamstown, Bay Street), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (also KUK/Ireland tour), An American Daughter, Company, Some Americans Abroad (Drama Desk nomination), Doonesbury, Alice in Wonderland, Present Laughter (Theatre World Award). London/West End: Three Sisters. Williamstown: 19 seasons, including Beyond Therapy (also Bay Street), The Corn Is Green (with son, Morgan Ritchie), The Water’s Edge (also Second Stage). Huntington/Boston: The Cherry Orchard. Film: Lovely By Surprise, What Just Happened?, Sherry Baby, Unfaithful, Swimfan, The Ice Storm, August, Life With Mikey, First Wives Club, Big Trouble in Little China. Television: Ellis Grey on Grey’s Anatomy (two Emmy nominations), Cindy Whiting on Empire Falls, DA Susan Alexander on The Practice. Upcoming Theatre: The Corn Is Green (Huntington in Boston), Culture Clash project (December ’09). Upcoming Film: Max Payne, The Kings of Appletown, Consent. Councilor AEA. Education: Brown and Yale School of Drama. Happy to be sharing this stage with Yale roommate Ms. Kaczmarek.

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Mia Barron | The House of Blue Leaves

Mia Barron

Corrinna Stroller

Broadway: The Coast of Utopia, “QED.” Off-Broadway: The Pain and the Itch, She Stoops to Comedy, The World Over (Playwrights Horizons), Hardball, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty (Summer Play Festival), 1001 (Page 73 Productions), The Grille Room, Sixteen Wounded (Cherry Lane), The Penetration Play (13P); as well as co-writing and performing the off-Broadway production of Big Times (directed by Leigh Silverman, WET). Regional: A Flea in Her Ear (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Geometry of Fire (NYStage and Film), Becky Shaw (Humana Festival), Time Flies (Old Globe), Rivals, Springtime for Henry, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington, all directed by Nicholas Martin), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sixteen Wounded (Long Wharf), Heaven Can Wait, School for Husbands (Westport Playhouse), School for Scandal, Ah, Wilderness! (Guthrie). Television: Guiding Light, Blue Blood (Fox pilot), voice of Molotov on Venture Brothers (Cartoon Network). Film: 27 Dresses, Righteous Kill. MFA from the New York University Graduate Acting Program.

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Angela Goethals | The House of Blue Leaves

Angela Goethals

The Little Nun

Broadway: Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (by John Guare, Lincoln Center), Picnic (Roundabout), Coastal Disturbances (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: The Good Times Are Killing Me (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination), True History and Real Adventures (Vineyard Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (dir. Erica Schmidt, NYC Fringe Festival). Regional: Nothing Sacred (South Coast Repertory), Be Aggressive (La Jolla Playhouse), The Mandrake Root (by Lynn Redgrave, Long Wharf Theatre), Troilus and Cressida, Bus Reilly’s Back in Town, Tonight at 8:30, Hello Out There, Pera Palas, Chekhov x 4 (Antaeus Company, NoHo). Film: Behind the Mask, Spanglish, Changing Lanes, Jerry Maguire, V.I. Warshawski, Home Alone. Television: Without a Trace, Grey’s Anatomy, 24, Boston Public, The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (David E. Kelley), Do Over, Phenom. For Russell.

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James B. Harnagel | The House of Blue Leaves

James B. Harnagel

The M.P.

In Los Angeles: Three Hotels (Fremont Centre Theatre and Sierra Classic Theatre, Mammoth Lakes)directed by Kappy Kilburn, The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Festival/L.A.), year-long stints in the original production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble) and Bleacher Bums (Century City Playhouse), The Show-Off (Grove Theatre Company), Division Street (Valley Repertory Company). Film: Marital Bliss (written/directed by Tony Cammarata), Juggling Sand, The Stalkers’ Club. Television: The Practice, Newsradio, Sisters, Not Necessarily The News, various soaps, and an unsold pilot for CBS. He is a graduate of Pitzer College and received his MFA from Brandeis University.

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James Immekus | The House of Blue Leaves

James Immekus

Ronnie Shaughnessy

Stage: James has appeared in the title role in Wilder at the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), as Fergus in Finding the Sun at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and as Hank in Marvin’s Room at the Interact Theatre Company in Los Angeles, of which he is a member. Television: Ghost Whisperer, Grey’s Anatomy, The Cleaner, Medium, Bones, Without a Trace, House, Cold Case, Shark, Charmed, Drake & Josh and Numb3rs. Film: The Caretaker and Boxboarders! James is a graduate of the DePaul University Theater School.

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Jane Kaczmarek | The House of Blue Leaves

Jane Kaczmarek

Bunny Flingus

New York – Broadway: Lost in Yonkers. Other: Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, Second Stage, Long Wharf, New York Stage and Film. Also, the Berkshire and Williamstown Theatre Festivals. Los Angeles Theatre: Kindertransport at the Tiffany Theater, for which she won an Ovation Award. Also, premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner With Friends and Raised in Captivity (LA Drama Critics Circle Award) at South Coast Repertory. Television: Seven seasons on Malcolm in the Middle (seven Emmy Award nominations, Golden Globe and SAG nominations, American Comedy Award, Television Critics’ Award), Help Me Help You (with Ted Danson), Felicity, Equal Justice, Big Wave Dave’s, Paper Chase: the Second Year, Party of Five, Frasier, The Practice, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues. Upcoming: Raising the Bar (new TNT drama series). Film: Pleasantville, Vice Versa, DOA, Falling in Love, Uncommon Valor. Graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale School of Drama; founder of the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation, which auctions celebrity award show finery to benefit children’s charities.

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James Joseph O'Neil | The House of Blue Leaves

James Joseph O'Neil

The White Man

CTG/Mark Taper Forum: iWitness. Off-Broadway: Look Back In Anger (Classic Stage Company), understudy to Denis O’Hare in Ten Unknowns (Lincoln Center), The Hired Man (47th Street Theatre). Regional: Doubt at South Coast Repertory, Present Laughter (directed by Nicholas Martin), A Month in the Country (directed by Nicholas Martin) and Heartbreak House at the Huntington Theatre, King Lear and She Stoops to Conquer at Baltimore Center Stage, Anthony & Cleopatra, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (directed by Nicholas Martin), The Taming of the Shrew, Mister Roberts, Henry IV, Dancing at Lughnasa, Love’s Labour’s Lost and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (all at the Old Globe), Anna Christie at the Long Wharf, and West Side Story at the Pioneer Theatre Co. Film: Zodiac (directed by David Fincher), Acts of Worship. Television: 24, Veronica Mars, Numb3rs, Charmed, Sex and the City,

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John Pankow | The House of Blue Leaves

John Pankow

Artie Shaughnessye

Broadway: Cymbeline, Twelve Angry Men, The Iceman Cometh, Serious Money and Amadeus. Off-Broadway: Cloud Nine, Baby Anger, Henry V, Italian American Reconciliation, The Slab Boys, Forty-Deuce (Downtown Villager Award), Measure for Measure, Ice Cream and Hot Fudge, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Aristocrats (Clarence Derwent Award), Jazz Poets at the Grotto, North Shore Fish, The Tempest, Hunting Scenes, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Baby Anger, Barbra’s Wedding and Scheherazade. Dublin: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Abbey Theater). Film: To Live and Die in L.A., Mortal Thoughts, Life as a House, The Secret of My Success, Monkey Shines, Talk Radio, The Object of My Affection and A Stranger Among Us. Television: Law & Order, Mad About You, Ally McBeal and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

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Rusty Schwimmer | The House of Blue Leaves

Rusty Schwimmer

The Head Nun

Chicago: Race (Lookingglass), Macbeth (Ted Liss Theater). Los Angeles: Swing (Mark Taper Forum New Work Festival), Slightly Left of Center (performer, co-director and author, Gardner Stage). Film: The Informant (upcoming), The Hawk is Dying, North Country, Runaway Jury, The Perfect Storm and A Little Princess. Television: Private Practice, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, Boston Legal, The Guardian, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under and Broken Trail (A&E).

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Mary Kay Wulf | The House of Blue Leaves

Mary Kay Wulf

The Second Num

Regional: The Old Globe Theatre (Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Lady’s Not for Burning, Under Milkwood, Measure for Measure, Up in Saratoga, Jake’s Women, As You Like It, Hamlet), San Diego Repertory (A Christmas Carol), South Coast Rpertory (Wit, Blithe Spirit, An Ideal Husband, Shadowlands, Death of a Salesman), Center Stage (Our Town), The Folger Theatre (The Mayor of Zalamea, Othello, Hamlet), The Studio Theatre (The Wake of Jamey Foster). Los Angeles: The Antaeus Company, A Noise Within. Film: Infinity. Television: The Big Time, E.R., The West Wing, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Without a Trace, The Bold and the Beautiful. Training: M.F.A. in Dramatic Arts (Old Globe Theatre/University of San Diego).

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