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The Little Dog Laughed

Cast Biographies

John Galecki | The Little Dog Laughed

Johnny Galecki

Alex

Mr. Galecki originated the role of Alex off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre. Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed (received a 2007 Theatre World Award for outstanding Broadway debut). Other theatre credits include The Drawer Boy and Pot Mom (at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre), The Member of the Wedding (Stage Left Theatre, Joseph Jefferson nomination) and Galileo (Goodman Theatre), among others. This production is Mr. Galecki’s Los Angeles stage debut. Television: currently starring in the The Big Bang Theory; Roseanne, My Boys, My Name is Earl. Film: Hancock, The Opposite of Sex, Bounce, Happy Endings, Vanilla Sky, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Suicide Kings, Bookies, Chrystal, Playing Mona Lisa and the upcoming Table for Three. Deep gratitude to Casey for support and understanding.

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Brian Henderson | The Little Dog Laughed

Brian Henderson

Mitchell

Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed (Cort Theatre). Off-Broadway: Election Day (Second Stage), The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), Getting Home (Second Stage), In The Wings (Promenade Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare in Central Park). Other New York: All My Sons (Shubert Theatre). Regional: The Shape of Things (Barrington Stage Co.), The Seagull (Actors Theatre Sacramento), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare on the Sound), Benched (Sacramento Theatre Co.). Film: Don’t Look Up (2009), Samantha (2008 CineVegas Fest.). Television: The Guiding Light. Education: MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. Other: Thanks to Em, the Fam, Bill, David and Cat.
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Zoe Lister-Jones | The Little Dog Laughed

Zoe Lister-Jones

Ellen

Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed. Off-Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed (Second Stage), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (The Roundabout), The Accomplices (The New Group), Codependence is a Four Letter Word: a one-woman show (PS-122), which she wrote and produced. Film: All Good Things, State of Play, Arranged, The Marconi Bros., Goyband, Turn the River, Armless, and the upcoming Breaking Upwards, which she co-wrote and produced. Television: the upcoming HBO series The Washingtonienne (executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker), The Class, Kidnapped, Law and Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Trial by Jury and Adult Swim’s upcoming live action series Delocated. Graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Julie White | The Little Dog Laughed

Julie White

Diane

is happy to be stepping back into Diane’s killer shoes after originating the role at Second Stage (Obie Award, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics nominations) and subsequently on Broadway at the Cort Theatre (Tony Award). In the Southland she has been seen in Expecting Isabel at the Taper, Dinner With Friends at South Coast (and in the New York production at the Variety Arts) and Gun Play with Naked Angels. In New York she was seen this spring in From Up Here at Manhattan Theatre Club (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations). Other New York credits include The Heidi Chronicles (Broadway), Fiction at the Roundabout (Drama League nomination), the one-woman play, Bad Dates, written for her by Theresa Rebeck, she went on to do the show at Boston’s Huntington Theatre (Elliot Norton Award) and the Dallas Theater Center; The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at Second Stage (also by Ms. Rebeck). Television: Grace Under Fire as Nadine, Alan Ball’s Six Feet Under as Mitzi Dalton Huntley, Dr. Anne Morela on Law & Order: SVU (whenever they need a neurosurgeon) and spent a season with ABC’s Cavemen. Films include Michael Clayton, The Astronaut Farmer, The Nanny Diaries, The Heidi Chronicles and Transformers. Upcoming: Dreamworks Animation’s Monsters Versus Aliens, Breaking Upwards and Transformers 2, Revenge of the Fallen.

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Credits

Douglas Carter Beane

Playwright

Douglas Carter Beane’s credits on Broadway include the stage adaptation of the film Xanadu (Outer Critics Circle and HX Awards for Best Musical, Drama Desk Award for Best Book, and four Tony nominations including Best Musical) and The Little Dog Laughed (Tony Award nomination, GLAAD Media Award and HX Award for Best Play). His other plays include As Bees In Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Music From A Sparkling Planet, The Country Club, Advice From A Caterpillar, The Cartells and Mondo Drama. Upcoming projects include The Big Time, The Bandwagon and Mr. & Mrs. Finch. He wrote the film adaptation of his play Advice From A Caterpillar, as well as the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar. He resides in New York City with his partner, composer Lewis Flinn and their son, Cooper and daughter, Gabrielle.
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Scott Ellis

Director

Broadway: Curtains (Tony nomination), The Little Dog Laughed (Drama League nomination), Twelve Angry Men (Tony, Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, Best Revival), The Boys From Syracuse, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Rainmaker, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony nomination Best Director), She Loves Me (Tony nomination, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Picnic (Outer Critics nomination), Company, A Month in the Country, Steel Pier (Tony nomination, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards). London: She Loves Me (Olivier Award). Off-Broadway: Streamers, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Waverly Gallery, The Dog Problem, That Championship Season, Dark Rapture, And the World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards) and Flora, the Red Menace (Drama Desk nomination). L.A. Opera: A Little Night Music. Television: 30 Rock (Emmy nomination, Best Director), The Closer, Weeds, Desperate Housewives, Frasier. Mr. Ellis is the Associate Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company.

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Allen Moyer

Set Designer

Broadway: Grey Gardens (Tony/Drama Desk nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, The Constant Wife, Twelve Angry Men, In My Life, Reckless, The Man Who Had All The Luck. Off-Broadway: The New Century (Lincoln Center Theater); Mr. Marmalade, The Dazzle (Roundabout); Landscape Of The Body, A Few Stout Individuals (Signature Theatre Company); Lobby Hero (Playwrights Horizons), This Is Our Youth (New Group/Second Stage); productions for the Drama Dept. including Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees In Honey Drown, Music From a Sparkling Planet and Mondodrama. Regional: Passion Play (Yale Rep, Goodman), also Steppenwolf, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Center Stage. Opera: Orfeo ed Euridice (Metropolitan Opera), The Grapes of Wrath (Minnesota Opera), and productions for San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Scottish Opera and Houston Grand Opera. Dance: Sylvia (San Francisco Ballet), Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare (Mark Morris Dance Group). Recently awarded an OBIE for Sustained Excellence.
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Jeff Mahshie

Costume Designer

Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed. Off-Broadway: Hurlyburly (Drama Desk nomination), Next To Normal, Privilege, Show People, The Scene, Laughing Wild, as well as The Corn Is Green. Jeff is also a fashion designer; his work has been shown at Bryant Park and has been featured in such magazines as InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue as well as on the red carpet for many awards shows.
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Donald Holder

Lighting Design

Broadway: 30 productions, including South Pacific (2008 Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, A Streetcar Named Desire, Gem of The Ocean, Movin’ Out, Juan Darien (all Tony-nominated), The Lion King (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Cyrano de Bergerac, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Boy From Oz. Recent off-Broadway: The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Romantic Poetry, Saved, Almost an Evening, The Pain and the Itch, Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte). Regional Theatre: Center Stage, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Huntington, Seattle Rep, Intiman, Williamstown, Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, many others. Mark Taper Forum: Pippin (upcoming), The House of Blue Leaves, Jitney, Hughie, Spunk, Yellow Face, Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, many others. LA Opera: Grendel.

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Lewis Flinn

Original Music and Sound

Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed; Off-Broadway: Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die (Daryl Roth/New World Stages),The Busy World is Hushed (Playwrights Horizons), Good Boys and True, Privilege, Show People (Second Stage), Old Money (Lincoln Center), Music from A Sparkling Planet, Mondo Drama (Drama Dept), The Complete Works Of W. Shakespeare (abridged)(The Century Center), among others. Regional: The Third Story (La Jolla), many others at The Cleveland Play House, Old Globe, Hartford Stage and the Geffen (L.A.). Musicals include Lysistrata Jones, with Douglas Carter Beane, On Girl, with Steven Sater, Down There, with Brian Crawley, Like Love, with Barry Jay Kaplan, (NYMF 2007) and The Winner, with Joe Sutton (Lyric Stage, Dallas, TX 2007). Guest artist at Cornell, Dartmouth and Boston Conservatory. Television: The Power of 10 (CBS), Million Dollar Password (CBS) and numerous national commercials. www.lewisflinn.com
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Cricket S. Myers

Sound Design

Broadway: assisted M. Roth Brooklyn Boy (MTC: Biltmore). Off-Broadway Designs: The Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). LORT Designs: The School of Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back, Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Some Girl(s), Emergency (Geffen Playhouse); Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); The Marvelous Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse). Cricket has designed over 200 productions in Los Angeles, in theatres such as the Colony Theatre, Furious Theatre Company, Celebration Theatre and West Coast Ensemble. In 2007, she won a Garland Award (three Honorable Mentions as well), and was nominated for two Ovation Awards, an LADCC and an NAACP Award.  Named a “Young Designer to Watch” by Live Design Magazine, April 2007 and an “Artist to Watch” by LA Stage Magazine, Sept 2007. www.cricketsmyers.com..
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Photo Credit

(L to R) Julie White and Johnny Galecki. Photo by Carol Rosegg.