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The School of Night

Cast Biographies

	Michael Bakkensen Thomas Kyd Broadway: Noises Off, Festen and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Off-Broadway: The Paris Letter. Other New York: The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath (Theater Row), Tales of Doomed Love (West End), Waxing West (Lark) and Alarms (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab). Regional: The Home Place (Guthrie), Born Yesterday (Arena Stage), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Baltimore Center Stage), Shakespeare’s R & J (Alliance), The Long Walk and Jack & Jill (Guthrie), Big Love (ACT), Light Up the Sky (La Jolla Playhouse), Romeo & Juliet and Twelfth Night (N.J. Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth, Titus Andronicus and Disguises (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Indoor/Outdoor and Fixed  (Hangar). Film: Memoria Mortals (Sundance), Not Quite Breathing, Not Quite Dead (Independent). Television: Law & Order, Guiding Light, Stage on Screen. MFA: UCSD, B.A.: Yale.
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	Ian Bedford Ingram Frizer Off-Broadway: Flags (59E59 Theatre). Regional: The Beaux Strategem, Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre Co.), Our Town (La Jolla Playhouse), title roles in Macbeth (Orlando Shakespeare), Richard III (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare) and Henry V (Marin and Pennsylvania Shakespeare). Also, Treasure Island (People’s Light & Theatre), Metamorphoses (Florida Studio Theatre), Moby Dick: Rehearsed (Guildhall), Macbeth, Othello, As You Like It, Henry IV Part 1 (Pennsylvania Shakespeare), Richard III, As You Like It (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), and three seasons with the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Other New York: Rue and Below the Belt (Theatre for the New City), Frankenstein: So Frightful an Event (McGinn-Cazale). Television: Law & Order: S.V.U. (recurring), Nash Bridges, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, The Brighton Chronicles. Education: MFA, U.C. San Diego; B.A., Yale.
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	Tymberlee Chanel Rosalinda Benotti Regional: False Creeds (O’Neill Playwrights Conference), The Game of Love and Chance (Folger Shakespeare Co.), The Importance of Being Earnest (Arena Stage), The Piano Lesson (Arena Stage), Color Me Dark (Kennedy Center), Insurrection: Holding History (Berkshire Theatre Festival), as well as work at the Crossroads Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Indiana Rep., Shenandoah Shakespeare Co., Washington Shakespeare Co. and Theatre J. New York: Worst Laid Plans (Upright Citizens Brigade). Los Angeles: Agamemnon (The Getty Villa), Worst Laid Plans (Upright Citizens Brigade). Television: Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, CSI, 12 Miles of Bad Road, Numb3rs. Education: Chautauqua Conservatory, Old Dominion University, The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University. Special Thanks to Thomasyne Hill, Tom Stables and Michael Einfeld.
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	Paula Christensen Landlady, Ensemble New York: The Third From The Left (Playwrights’ Arena, director Jon Lawrence Rivera). Regional: The Clean House (Ensemble Theater Company), Phaedra (Antaeus Company at the Getty Villa), The Song that Killed the Snake (Pegasus Repertory), The Orange Grove (Playwrights’ Arena), A Christmas Carol, Cyrano de Bergerac (South Coast Repertory), Manna: Or the Book of Madeline (SCR NewSCRipts series, dir. Anna D. Shapiro). Other L.A.: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare at Play), She Stoops to Conquer (Pasadena Shakespeare). Film: Now Here, La Casa de Azucar, Two Dogs Inside. Television: The Bold and The Beautiful, Justice, Boomtown.
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	Mark H. Dold Robyn Poley Broadway: 2005 revival of Absurd Person Singular. Off-Broadway: Shockheaded Peter (Little Shubert), Tall Grass (Beckett), The Winter’s Tale and Race (Classic Stage Co.), Timon of Athens, Othello and The Seagull with Meryl Streep (New York Shakespeare Festival), Mayhem (Lion), Comic Potential (Manhattan Theatre Club), Romeo + Juliet (directed by Bill Alexander). Regional: highlights include premieres of Lynn Nottage’s Las Meninas, Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice, Frank McGuinness’ Hecuba, Craig Lucas’ Singing Forest and five seasons at Barrington Stage Company. Film: Three Windows, Charlie’s Party, Say You’ll Be Mine. Television: Gossip Girl, Third Watch, Law & Order triumvirate, Conviction, Novel Reflections (pilot), Brother Outsider, The Progressives (PBS miniseries), All My Children (six years recurring principle). Education: Boston University, Yale School of Drama. Awards: Connecticut Critics Circle, N.J. Press and the Carole Dye.
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	Johnny Giacalone Mostyn, Officer, Ensemble Off-Broadway: As You Like It (The Public Theater), Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street), Blur (u/s, Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Mezzulah, 1946 (City Theatre of Pittsburgh), Edgardo Mine (Hartford Stage), Romeo & Juliet (McCarter Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Portland Stage Company), Romeo & Juliet (Princeton Repertory). Other New York: Ensemble Studio Theatre (company member), N.Y. International Fringe, Directors Company, Soho Rep, Present Company, Lincoln Center Institute, New York Performance Works. Other L.A. Theatre: Little Armenia (Fountain), The Gazillionaire Show (M Bar, Luna Playhouse), Twelfth Night (Lodestone). Television: Law & Order, Hate, iEarly, Ten Years of MTV. Film: Little Kings, Looking for An Echo, Rubout, Dark House.
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	Michael Kirby Prison Jailer, Ensemble Regional: The American Plan, 2008 Shakespeare Festival, 2007 Shakespeare Festival, Othello (Old Globe), A Tale of Charles Dickens (L.A. Theatre Works), Romeo and Juliet (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival), Hamlet (Curtis Theatre). Other L.A.: Chekhov x 4 (Antaeus), Spite for Spite, Don Juan (Siglo De Oro Festival with Andak Stage Company, Founding Member), Twelfth Night (The Company Rep). Film: Connected, Passing Normal, Chase, The Slut. Television: Boston Public, MTV. Education: MFA from The Old Globe/USD, B.A. in theatre from Cal State Fullerton..
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	Adrian LaTourelle Thomas Walsingham New York: Democracy Project (N.Y. Theatre Workshop), Texarkana Waltz (Kirk Theatre), Sherlock Holmes (Fringe Festival), Bloody Poetry (Synapse Production), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Target Margin Theater), The Propaganda Plays (Dixon Place). Regional: Bell, Book and Candle (Old Globe), Enchanted April (San Jose Repertory), Private Lives (Virginia Stage Company), 1984, Kiss of Blood, Arden of Faversham (Empty Space Theatre), The Misanthrope, Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), Big Love, An Experiment with an Air Pump, The Seagull, Inexpressible Island (Dallas Theater Center), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Triad Stage), Measure for Measure, The Inspector General, The Glass Menagerie (Yale Repertory Theatre). Film/T.V.: Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Without A Trace, Boston Legal, Numb3rs, Guiding Light, Little Crumb, Trust Me, The Temp. Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama; Sanford Meisner.
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	Henri Lubatti Sir Walter Ralegh Center Theatre Group: The Talking Cure (Mark Taper Forum). Regional Theatre: Hamlet (South Coast Repertory), Antigone (South Coast Repertory), Henry V (Old Globe, San Diego), An Ideal Husband (Seattle Repertory), An American Daughter (Seattle Repertory), Ghosts (Intiman Theatre). Television: Sleeper Cell, 11th Hour, Life, Standoff, The O.C., The Unit, 24, Spin City, ER, Enterprise, Felicity. Other: Member of Antaeus Classical Theater Ensemble.
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	Jon Monastero Harlequin, Ensemble ). Off-Broadway: Ten West (Chelsea Playhouse).National Tours: Ten West (L.A., S.F., Portland, Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver, Chicago, NYC, Toronto).Other New York: Ten West (Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre), NY Clown Theater Festival (Brick Theatre).Los Angeles: The Composer is Dead (Disney Concert Hall), SummerSounds (Hollywood Bowl), Nights Errant, I Wrote This/Ten West, Serial Killers, 365 Days/365 Plays (Sacred Fools Theatre), Fafalo (Miles Playhouse, Inside the Ford), Young Writer’s Project (Theatre of Note), The Tempest (Morgan-Wixson Theatre), Twelfth Night (Lost Studio), also Velveteen Rabbit, Antigone, Ten West (Comedy Central Stages, iOWest, Steve Allen Theatre). Film/Television: Wasting Away, The Procedure, Ingles Ya!, QTV, True Blood, Decisions, Decisions. Relevant Training: Commedia dell’Arte (John Achorn, Joan Schirle), Clown (Jef Johnson), Mime (Lorin Salm).
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	Rob Nagle Nicholas Skeres Regional: Taking Steps (South Coast Repertory), Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo & Juliet (The Old Globe), The Voysey Inheritance (Centerstage), Ctrl+Alt+Delete (San Jose Repertory), Lovers and Executioners (Connecticut Repertory), Macbeth, Henry V, All’s Well That Ends Well, Volpone, Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theatre). Other L.A.: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Angry (Black Dahlia), Bug (Lost Angels), Moonlight and Magnolias (Odyssey Theatre), James Joyce’s The Dead (Open Fist), Loot (Theatre East), Eighteen (Meadows Basement), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Festival/LA). Film: The Soloist, Fun with Dick and Jane, Cellular, American Wedding. Television: Eli Stone, Cold Case, The Middleman, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Without A Trace, Everwood, The Guardian, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson’s Creek. Education: Northwestern University. Geek: www.robnagle.com.
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	Richard Robichaux Steward, Ensemble Off-Broadway: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (Century Center). Regional: All’s Well That Ends Well (Yale Rep.), The Silent Woman (Shakespeare Theatre), Amadeus (Syracuse Stage), The Importance of Being Earnest (Indiana Rep.), Love’s Labors Lost (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Spring Storm (Marin Theatre Co.), as well as work at the N.Y. Fringe Festival, Wings Theatre, Milwaukee Rep and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Television: Law & Order (NBC), Law & Order: CI (NBC), Spin City (ABC), Hate (Showtime), Chicken Club (Comedy Central), Atom TV (Comedy Central), Scare Tactics (Sci-Fi Channel). Film: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding: The Movie (Tribeca Film Festival), Flannel Pajamas (Sundance Film Festival), Ready? OK! (Outfest), Foreign Exchange. MFA: Rutgers University. For Natalie and Gus.
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	Alicia Roper Audry Walsingham Broadway: Dance of Death (with Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen). Off-Off-Broadway: The Breadwinner (Keen Company/ Merrimack Repertory co-production). Regional: Well (Cleveland Playhouse), Enchanted April, Philadelphia Story and The Voysey Inheritance (Walnut Street Theatre), The Constant Wife (Coconut Grove Playhouse/Walnut Street Theatre co-production), Ice Glen and The Last Schwartz (Florida Stage), Richard III and The Way of the World (Yale Rep), Wit (George Street Playhouse). Film: Singles. Television: Law & Order, Six Degrees, Under One Roof. Education: Yale School of Drama.
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	John Sloan Tom Stone Los Angeles: System Wonderland and The Retreat From Moscow (South Coast Repertory), Mother Courage and Her Children (Antaeus), 1001 (Theatre@Boston Court). Off-Broadway: Anne Frank and Me (American Jewish Theatre), Maybe Baby, It’s You (Soho Playhouse). New York: Twelfth Night (La MaMa E.T.C.), Miss Lulu Bett (Mint Theatre Company), As You Like It (78th Street Theatre Lab). Regional Theatre: Denver Center Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Film: The Oh in Ohio, The Mountain King. Television: Grey’s Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, The Triangle, Happy Hour, Commander in Chief, Without a Trace, Gilmore Girls, Judging Amy, American Dreams, Tru Calling. Education: Skidmore College, B.A. English Literature.
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	Nick Toren Pantalone, Ensemble Broadway: The Elephant Man (director Sean Mathias, Royale Theater). Off-Broadway: Voice of the Turtle (Keen Company/Mint Theatre Company), Good Morning, Bill (Keen Company), Scenes from an Execution (Blue Light Theatre Company). Other New York: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (HERE), Fantasio (Helle Theatre), Sightseeing (Jose Quintero Theatre). Regional: A Christmas Carol (McCarter), Loose Ends, Stags and Hens (Guthrie Experience), Scenes from an Execution (Kennedy Center), as well as performances at the Utah Shakespearean Company, Missouri Rep, Northern Stage, Olney Theatre Center, Red Barn Theatre. Los Angeles: Suicide in B flat (Rangeview Productions). Film: Pink Panther. Television: Mad Men, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Close to Home, The Unit, Medium, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Nine. Education: B.A. Middlebury College, MFA. University of Missouri, Kansas City.
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	Gregory Wooddell Kit Marlowe Theatre: Cymbeline (Broadway - Lincoln Center), world premiere of Terrence McNally’s Some Men (Philadelphia Theatre Co.), Much Ado About Nothing (Kevin Kline Award nominee), Richard III (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Cyrano de Bergerac, The Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Othello, The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Richard II, Don Carlos (Shakespeare Theatre Co., Washington, D.C.), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Alley Theatre). Splitting Infinity (Summer Play Festival, NYC - Clurman Theatre). TV/Film: 30 Rock, Third Watch, Guiding Light (recurring), Exposed, Days of Our Lives, The Paradise Virus, One Life to Live. Graduate of The Juilliard School.
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Credits

Peter Whelan Playwright The Earthly Paradise (Almeida Theatre), The Bright and Bold Design (The Pit, London), Clay (Barbican Pit, London), The Accrington Pals (The Warehouse, Croydon), Lakota (Cockpit Theatre, London), A Revolutionary Marriage (Theatre Royal Plymouth), A Russian In The Woods (Other Place Theatre, Stratford), Divine Right (Birmingham Rep Theatre) 1996, winner of the Writers’ Guild Award, TMA Award, Eileen Anderson Award; The Herbal Bed (Other Place Theatre, Stratford), winner of the Writers’ Guild Award, Lloyd’s Private Banking Award, TMA Award; Eileen Anderson Award; The School of Night (Other Place Theatre, Stratford), nominated for Writers’ Guild Award Captain Swing (Stratford-on-Avon).

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Bill Alexander Director began his career at Bristol Old Vic, directing everything from the classics to innovative drama. He joined the RSC in 1977 with a special brief for new plays. Bill became an Associate Director of the RSC in 1984. His many productions include The Merry Wives of Windsor for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Director, Antony Sher in Tartuffe and the highly-acclaimed Richard III, The Accrington Pals, Clay, Captain Swing and The School of Night, all by Peter Whelan were given their productions at the R.S.C. by Bill. Bill became Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre and directed Othello, Volpone, Old Times, The Snowman, Awake and Sing!, The Tempest, Macbeth, The Way of the World, Divine Right, The Alchemist, The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. In 2003 Bill directed two plays at the Royal National Theatre, Frozen by Bryony Lavery and Mappa Mundi by Shelagh Stephenson. In 2004 Bill returned to the R.S.C. to direct Titus Andronicus. In 2005 Bill directed the two parts of Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre Washington. In the same year he again returned to the R.S.C. to direct Corin Redgrave in King Lear. His production of the children’s show The Snowman continues to run every Christmas in the West End of London.

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Simon Higlett Set Designer Regional USA: The Imaginary Invalid, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Helen Hayes Award Best Design) Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C. London: Thomas More, A Russian in the Woods, Singer (Royal Shakespeare Company), Enemies, Whistling Psyche, The Earthly Paradise (Almeida), Accidental Death Of An Anarchist (Donmar Warehouse), Clubland, The Force of Change (Royal Court), Hay Fever, Medea, Amy’s View, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Pygmalion. Regional U.K.: The Glass Menagerie, Collaboration and Taking Sides, The Circle, A Doll’s House, An Ideal Husband, The Triumph of Love, Nicholas Nickleby, To Kill A Mockingbird, David Copperfield. Opera Worldwide: The Barber of Seville Resurrection, Guilio Cesare, Don Giovanni, La Traviata, La Bohème, La Cenerentola, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Cosi Fan Tutte and Albert Herring. Stockholm 2009: The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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Robert Perdziola Costume Designer New York: Il Pirata, costumes (Metropolitan Opera), Le Spectre de la Rose, sets and costumes (American Ballet Theatre), Pilar of Fire, sets and costumes (American Ballet Theatre). Regional: Ace, costumes (Signature Theatre), The Imaginary Invalid, costumes (Shakespeare Theatre), Major Barbara, costumes (Shakespeare Theatre), Merrily We Roll Along, costumes (Signature Theatre), Lady Windermere’s Fan, costumes (Shakespeare Theatre). U.S. Opera: Anna Karenina, costumes (Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis), Ariadne Auf Naxos, sets and costumes (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Faust, sets and costumes (Lyric Opera of Chicago). International: Arabella, sets and costumes (Opera Australia), Cosi Fan Tutte, sets and costumes (Garsington Opera, Opera Monte Carlo), Le Nozze di Figaro, sets and costumes (Garsington Opera).

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Russell H. Champa Lighting Designer Previous projects at the Mark Taper Forum: Distracted, iWitness. Current and Recent Projects: The Slugbearers of Kayrol Island (Vineyard Theatre, NYC), Eurydice (Second Stage NYC, Yale Rep., Berkeley Rep.), The Four of Us (Manhattan Theatre Club), Back, Back, Back (The Old Globe), War Music, Blackbird, The Little Foxes (American Conservatory Theater). Broadway: Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York Theatres: Vineyard Theatre, Promenade Theatre, Union Square Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, New York Stage & Film, Primary Stages and La MaMa e.t.c. Regional: Wilma Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, CalShakes, Seattle Rep, Trinity Rep, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Campo Santo, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Actors Gang, The Kennedy Center. Thanks J+J. peace.

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Cricket S. Myers Costume Designer Broadway: assisted M. Roth Brooklyn Boy (MTC: Biltmore). Off-Broadway Designs: The Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). LORT Designs: Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum), Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back, Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Geffen Playhouse), Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse), 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) Henri Lubatti and Gregory Wooddell. Photo by Craig Schwartz.