Center Theatre Group - L.A.'s Theatre Company

THE WAKE

Find Out More
Program Magazine

( pdf | 1.31Kb )

The Wake

Cast Biographies

Emily Donahoe | A_New_Play_by_Lisa_Kron

Emily Donahoe

Amy

Broadway: 33 Variations. Off-Broadway: Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature Theatre), The Attic (Play Company), Great Expectations (Theatreworks/Lucille Lortel), Deathbed (McGinn-Cazale), Apparition (Connelly), The Hasty Heart (Keen Company). Regional: Shakespeare in Hollywood (Arena Stage / 2004 Helen Hayes Award - Outstanding Supporting Actress), Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse), Honour with Kathleen Chalfant and The Glass Menagerie with Rita Moreno (both Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film/TV: Handsome Harry, National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie, Zelimo, Weeki Wachi Girls, As The World Turns. Co-founder and producer all projects Apparition Productions, NYC.
Back to Top
Carson Elrod | A_New_Play_by_Lisa_Kron

Carson Elrod

Danny

Broadway: Reckless, Noises Off. Off-Broadway: Based On A Totally True Story, House, Garden, Comic Potential (MTC), Cavedweller (NYTW). Regional: Peter and The Starcatchers/Our Town (La Jolla Playhouse), A Flea In Her Ear (Williamstown), How The Other Half Loves, Time Of My Life, The Drawer Boy (Westport Country Playhouse), Arsenic and Old Lace, Misalliance (Baltimore Center Stage), Oliver Twist (A.R.T./Theatre for a New Audience/Berkeley Rep), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Cherry Orchard (Yale Rep). Film: When A Stranger Calls, The Wedding Crashers, Kissing Jessica Stein. TV: 30 Rock, Law &Order: Criminal Intent, The Medium, Out Of Practice, Carnivale. Founder of Improv Troupes: Hypothetical 7, Teenage FBI. Princess Grace Foundation Award Recipient. New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. AEA since 2000. BA: KU. MFA: NYU.
Back to Top  
Andre Frankle | A_New_Play_by_Lisa_Kron

Andrea Frankle

Kayla

Los Angeles: Squabbles, Alice Sloan (Norris Center for Performing Arts). Portland, OR: A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche; Three Sisters, Olga - world premiere adaptation by Tracy Letts (Artists Repertory Theatre). Alabama: A Christmas Carol (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). New Orleans: A Winter’s Tale, Hermione; Hamlet, Ophelia; Othello, Desdemona; Richard II, Queen Isabel (Shakespeare Festival at Tulane); Doubt, Sister James; Bat Boy: The Musical (Southern Rep); The Glass Mendacity, Maggie/Laura (Le Chat Noir). Baton Rouge: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena; To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella Ewell (Swine Palace). Film: The Reaping, In the Electric Mist. TV: The Riches (FX), In Plain Sight (USA), K-Ville (FOX); movies of the week (TNT, ABC Family and Lifetime). B.A. – The University of Alabama at Birmingham; MFA – Louisiana State University.
Back to Top  
Miriam F. Glover | A_New_Play_by_Lisa_Kron

Miriam F. Glover

Tessa

“My nephew asked me how can education be important if we’re cutting funding and closing schools. My only reply was if you do your best, your future will be bright. As I said that my heart was breaking because I knew closing schools meant overcrowded classrooms (amongst other things) and cutting funds meant less scholarships (amongst other things). Please give free tutorials, donate supplies, write a letter to your mayor about how you oppose cutting school funds. If you don’t make noise you’ll never be heard. Do whatever it is that YOU can to let OUR youth know and see their education is important to us because they are our FUTURE.” Training: BFA, Texas Southern University; MFA, University of Southern California.-peace-.

Back to Top  
Deirdre O'Connell | A_New_Play_by_Lisa_Kron

Deirdre O’Connell

Judy

Recent theatre includes Circle Mirror Transformation at Playwrights Horizons, and work at such theatres as New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, The Play Company, Rattlestick, Signature Theatre, Vital Theatre Company, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Labyrinth, Sundance Theatre Lab, New York Stage and Film, Classic Stage Company and the Keen Company. In the Los Angeles area she worked at Los Angeles Theatre Center, South Coast Rep and La Jolla Playhouse. She has received two Drama-Logue Awards, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and an Obie for Sustained Excellence of Performance. She has appeared extensively on television and in films. Favorite film appearances include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Synecdoche, New York; Fearless and Pastime, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Back to Top
Heidi Schreck | A_New_Play_by_Lisa_Kron

Heidi Schreck

Ellen

is an NYC-based actor and playwright who most recently appeared in Annie Baker’s acclaimed Circle Mirror Transformation at Playwrights Horizons, and Drum of the Waves of Horikawa at HERE Arts Center, for which she won an Obie Award. She has also performed or developed new plays with New York Theatre Workshop, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Foundry and The Talking Band. Regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Empty Space, Passage Theatre and On The Boards. Heidi is an original member of Printer’s Devil Theatre in Seattle, and an artistic associate with Obie-winning companies Two-Headed Calf, Clubbed Thumb and New Georges. Film: Hedda Gabler, directed by Paul Willia and Rodrigo Bellot’s Perfidia.

Back to Top
Danielle Skraastad | A_New_Play_by_Lisa_Kron

Danielle Skraastad

Laurie

Broadway: All My Sons. Off-Broadway: The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons), Anon (Atlantic), Carrie (PS 122),co-creatorand performer in Big Times directed by Leigh Silverman, Fugue (Cherry Lane). Other N.Y.: The One That Flutters (SPF at The Public), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Continuum Co.), Lascivious Something (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Cressida Among the Greeks, Red-Haired Thomas (Ohio Theater), Save The World (Roundtable Ensemble). Regional: Becky Shaw, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Wintertime, Big Love (Wilma), Othello (Hartford), Magnetic North (Portland Stage Co), Family Stories: Belgrade (Market Theater), Brutal Imagination, The Countess, How I Learned to Drive (StageWorks/Hudson), Big Love (ACT Seattle), Grapes of Wrath (CapRepAlbany). TV/Film: Mercy, Fringe, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, As the World Turns, All My Children, 27 Dresses, The Business of Story.

Back to Top

Credits

Lisa Kron

Playwright

has been writing and performing theatre since coming to New York from Michigan in 1984. Best known plays include the Tony-nominated Well (listed among year’s ten best by New York Times, Associated Press, Newark Star Ledger, Backstage, The Advocate; included in Best Plays of 2004) and 2.5 Minute Ride (Obie, L.A. Drama-Logue, GLAAD Media Award). Honors include Guggenheim, Lortel, Lark and Sundance fellowships and awards from Creative Capital and the Alpert Foundation. Lisa is a founding member of the Obie and Bessie Award-winning theatre company, The Five Lesbian Brothers. In the works: a new musical with composer Jeanine Tesori, as well as commissioned plays from the Sloan Foundation with Playwrights Horizons and from Drew University. Lisa teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama.

Back to Credits

Leigh Silverman

Director

Broadway: Lisa Kron’s Well. Recent N.Y. (world premieres): From Up Here (Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Desk nomination), Coraline (MCC/True Love), Creature (New Georges/P73), The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons), Yellow Face (Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater), Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass Group/37 Arts), Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages), Well (The Public Theater, The Huntington Theatre and ACT), Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons and Seattle Repertory Theatre), Oedipus At Palm Springs (New York Theatre Workshop), Jump/Cut (Woolly Mammoth Theatre/Theater J and Women’s Project) and Big Times (W.E.T.). Also: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Second Stage Theatre). West End: Wit (Vaudeville Theatre). Recent Regional: Of Equal Measure (CTG). Upcoming: The Wake (Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater), David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish and David Greenspan’s Go Back To Where You Are.
Back to Credits

David Korins

Scenic Design

CTG: The House of Blue Leaves, Yellow Face. Broadway: Passing Strange, Bridge and Tunnel. New York: When The Rain Stops Falling, Stunning (Lincoln Center Theater); The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Roundabout); The Wiz (City Center); The Receptionist, Pumpgirl, Romantic Poetry (MTC); Hamlet (Delacorte); Why Torture is Wrong… (Drama Desk and Hewes Awards), Passing Strange, Yellow Face (Public Theater); Jack Goes Boating (LAByrinth, Lortel and Drama Desk nominations); Drunken City, Floyd and Clea…, Miss Witherspoon (Playwrights Horizons); Farragut North (Atlantic); Blackbird (Hewes Award, Drama Desk nomination); Orange Flower Water (Edge Theater, Drama Desk nomination); Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage, Lortel nomination). Regional: The Pee Wee Herman Show (Club Nokia), The Huntington, Old Globe, ACT, Williamstown, Geffen Playhouse, Berkeley Rep., Santa Fe Opera, Toho Tokyo. 2009 Obie Award For Sustained Excellence. www.davidkorinsdesign.com.
Back to Credits

Meg Neville

Costume Design

Recent Credits: the premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice directed by Les Waters (Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, N.Y.’s Second Stage), premieres of Will Eno’s Tragedy A Tragedy directed by Les Waters, and Itamar Moses’ Yellowjackets directed by Tony Taccone (Berkeley Rep); Beckett’s Happy Days (California Shakespeare Theater), as well as upcoming premiere of Octavio Solis’ Pastures Of Heaven and Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession (California Shakespeare). West Coast: numerous productions at Berkeley Rep, California Shakespeare Theater, San Jose Rep, A.C.T., The Magic Theatre, South Coast Rep, Joe Goode Performance Group, San Francisco Opera Center. New York/Regional: includes BAM, NYS&F, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage Company, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Dallas Theater Center, Chicago Opera Theater. Graduate of Yale School of Drama. .
Back to Credits

Alexander V. Nichols

Lighting and Projection Design

Broadway: Wishful Drinking with Carrie Fisher (also Berkeley Rep). Off-Broadway: Los Big Names, Horizon, Bridge and Tunnel, The Wake. Other Theatre: Designs for A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep. Dance: Several seasons as Resident Designer for Pennsylvania Ballet, Hartford Ballet, American Repertory Ballet; Lighting Supervisor for American Ballet Theatre; Resident Visual Designer for Margaret Jenkins Dance Co. His designs are in the permanent repertory of San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hubbard Street, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre and ODC/SF. Recent Projects: Museum installation “Circle of Memory,” in collaboration with Eleanor Coppola, and video and visual design for “LIFE - A Journey Through Time” with photographer Frans Lanting and composer Philip Glass.
Back to Credits

Cricket S. Myers

Sound Design

Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Center Theatre Group: The Subject Was Roses, School of Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); 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) (Colony Theater). www.cricketsmyers.com.
Back to Credits
Photo Credit

The Wake graphic.