BRIAN COX (Max)
Broadway: Art, Strange Interlude, Rat in the Skull. Royal National: King Lear, Richard III. Royal Court: Rock ’n’ Roll, Dublin Carol, Rat in the Skull (Olivier Award). RSC: Titus Andronicus (Olivier Award). Additional credits: St. Nicholas (Lortel Award, Primary Stages, NYC; Bush Theatre, London). Film: Zodiac, Running With Scissors, The Bourne Identity and Supremacy, Troy, X-Men 2, 25th Hour, L.I.E. (Independent Spirit nomination). TV: “Frasier” (Emmy nomination), “Nuremberg” (Emmy Award; Golden Globe, SAG nominations), “Deadwood.” Upcoming films: The Escapist, Red, Terra (2007 Toronto Film Festival). CBE, 2003.
SINEAD CUSACK
(Eleanor/Esme (older))
has performed in leading roles at the RSC including Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice and Antony and Cleopatra. West End credits include The Three Sisters, Our Lady of Sligo (Evening Standard, London Critics Circle Awards), The Mercy Seat and Rock ’n’ Roll. Broadway credits include Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing (Tony nominated). She has worked extensively in British television in acclaimed dramas including “North and South” and “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and has had a prolific film career which includes Stealing Beauty and V for Vendetta. She can currently be seen in David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises.
RUFUS SEWELL (Jan)
made his Broadway debut in the 1995 revival of Brian Friel’s Translations. London theatre credits
include Rock ’n’ Roll, Making It Better, Rat in the Skull, Macbeth and Luther. Film credits include The Illusionist, Paris je t’aime, Amazing Grace, The Holiday, The Legend of Zorro, Tristan & Isolde, A Knight’s Tale, Dark City, Dangerous Beauty, Illuminata, Carrington and Cold Comfort Farm. Upcoming films include Downloading Nancy and Vinyan.
NICOLE ANSARI (Lenka)
Broadway debut. Theatre credits include Island of Slaves (Shakespeare & Co, Berkshires); Rock ’n’ Roll (Royal Court and West End); The Shelter (Ovation Award nomination, Odyssey Theatre, L.A.), La ville parjure ou le reveil des Erinyes (Theatre du Soleil, Paris); A Sufi Feast (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London); Alma (Palazzo Zenobio, Venice); Shakespeare Love Songs (Shakespeare Company, Berlin); Much Ado About Nothing, Irma la Douce, Cyrano de Bergerac (Public Theatre, Vienna). Film: Woman in Winter; The Biographer; Oblivion, Nebraska, among others. Television: “Deadwood.” Training: HB Studio, Actors Studio, NY; Theatre du Soleil, Paris.
BRIAN AVERS (Stephen, u/s Jan, Piper, Policeman)
In the past year, Mr. Avers has performed in The Lieutenant of Inishmore on Broadway, King Lear at the Public Theater (Edgar), Black Comedy at Barrington Stage (Brindsley), Szinhaz for Naked Angels and My Dog Heart for EST, with featured roles on “Law & Order,” “The Progressives” (PBS) and “How to Seduce Difficult Women.” MFA: NYU. With love to Myvonwynn.
MARY BACON (Gillian/Magda, u/s Lenka, Candida)
Broadway: Arcadia (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: The Madras House (The Mint), Treason (Perry Street Theatre), Mother Lolita, Dream of Wealth (Urban Stages) and TACT. Regional(Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Iron Kisses premiere (Geva), Misalliance (Old Globe), Hazard County (Humana Festival/ATL), Don Juan (Old Globe, Seattle Rep, McCarter) and The Triumph of Love (Seattle Rep, Long Wharf). TV/Film: “Alexander Hamilton,” “Jonny Zero,” “Third Watch,” “Law & Order,” “Criminal Intent,” “The Gaveltons.”
ALICE EVE (Esme (Younger)/Alice)
was born in London and spent time between America and England during her childhood. She finished her education in England at Oxford, while making her first film - Richard Eyre’s Stage Beauty. Upon graduating she continued to work as an actress on TV (“Rotter’s Club,” “Losing Gemma”), films such as Big Nothing and Starter for Ten, and Rock ’n’ Roll in its London run. She just completed the film Crossing Over in L.A.
SETH FISHER(The Piper/Policeman, u/s Stephen, Ferdinand, Pupil)
Broadway: Julius Caesar. Regional: Persephone (Huntington), Big Wyoming (NYSF), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Huntington). Film: Death in Love, A Walk in the Park, The Wine Bar. Television: “The Wedding Album,” “All My Children,” “As the World Turns.” Training: Carnegie Mellon.
STEPHEN KUNKEN (Ferdinand)
Broadway: Frost/Nixon (Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Nominations), Festen, Proof. National Tour: Proof. Off-Broadway: A Very Common Procedure (Drama League Nomination), Speak Truth to Power, Fabulation, Journals of Mihail Sebastian, The Story, A Dybbuk, Arrangements, Henry VIII, Misalliance. Regional: Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center) Television: "New Amsterdam", "L&O's", "The Sopranos," "Spin City," "Far East." Film: Girl in the Park, Wait till This Year, Light/Sufferer and Bamboozled. Multiple honors from Juilliard's Graduate Acting Program. 2004 Fox Fellowship recipient.
QUENTIN MARÉ (Interrogator/Nigel)
Broadway: Coram Boy, Julius Caesar, King Lear. Off-Broadway: The Persians, A Little Night Music, Burn This, World of Mirth, Birdseed Bundles. Regional: Lensic Santa Fe, O’Neill, Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Longwharf, others. Film/Television: Body Of Lies (upcoming), Personal Velocity, Lisa Picard Is Famous, “Conviction,” “Law & Order,” “Jonny Zero.”
KEN MARKS (Milan/Waiter, u/s Max)
Broadway: Spring Awakening, After the Fall, Mamma Mia!, Present Laughter, Dancing at Lughnasa. Off-Broadway: Sir Larry in Orson’s Shadow, Stuff Happens (Drama Desk Award). TV: “Law & Order,” “Third Watch,” “New Amsterdam.” Film: The Wackness, Staten Island.
ALEXANDRA NEIL (Candida, u/s Eleanor, Esme (Older))
Broadway: Match. NY: Barrow Street, Ensemble Studio Theater, Jewish Repetory Theater, La Mama, SoHo Rep, Theater at St. Clement's, WPA. Regional: Alley Theater, Houston, Cincinnatti Playhouse in the Park, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Hartman Theater, Philadelphia Company, Syracuse Stage. Film: AfterSchool; Something’s Gotta Give; Marci X; Long-Time Companion; See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Television: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order SVU,” “Dudley,” “Madigan Men,” “Ed,” “The Sopranos.”
ANNA O’DONOGHUE (Pupil, u/s Esme (Younger)/Alice, Gillian/Magda)
Broadway debut! 2007 Juilliard graduate – favorite projects include A Doll’s House (Nora), The Greeks (Iphigenia), Living Room in Africa (Marie). Recently understudied and performed the title role in Eurydice (Second Stage). Workshops and readings: 78th St. Theatre Lab, Guthrie, NYTW, Epic Theatre Ensemble. Thanks to Ida Sawyer.
JOSEPH COLLINS (u/s Jan, Ferdinand, Piper/Policeman, Interrogator/Nigel, Stephen)
B’way: The Glass Menagerie, The Lonesome West. Off-B’way: Bug, The Antigone Project, Gross Indecency…Oscar Wilde, Venice Preserv’d, Apartment 3A. Regional: Triad Stage, Cleveland Play House, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, others. TV/Film: Bittersweet, “Kidnapped,” “Law & Order,” “13 Bourbon Street.” Proud husband and father.
ANGELA REED (u/s Eleanor/Esme (Older), Gillian/Magda, Lenka, Candida, Pupil)
B’way: The Rainmaker. Off-B’way: The Power of Darkness, The Daughter-in- Law, The Madras House (Mint Theater), Therese Raquin (CSC). Regional: ART, Denver Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Cleveland Play House, NJ Shakespeare, Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. TV: “Law & Order,” “L&O: Criminal Intent,” “Third Watch.”
JOE VINCENT (u/s Max, Interrogator/ Nigel, Milan/Waiter)
Mr. Vincent’s career includes 28 years at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, 63 productions of Shakespeare’s plays and 42 major musical theatre roles. He was in the company of The Elephant Man on Broadway in 2002.
TOM STOPPARD (Playwright)
was introduced to New York audiences with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967), followed by Jumpers, The Real Inspector Hound, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with Andre Previn), Dirty Linen, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Artist Descending a Staircase, Hapgood, Arcadia, The Invention of Love and, most recently, his trilogy The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center, which won seven Tony Awards. His other plays include Indian Ink and After Magritte. Translations and adaptations include Undiscovered Country (Schnitzler), On the Razzle (Nestroy), Rough Crossing (Molnar), Henry IV (Pirandello) and Heroes (Sibleyras). Film scripts as writer and co-writer include Brazil, Empire of the Sun, Enigma and Shakespeare in Love, which won him an Oscar and a BAFTA award. He directed his own screenplay of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which won the Golden Lion and the Venice Film Festival.
TREVOR NUNN (Director)
From 1968 to 1986, he was the longest-serving Artistic Director of the RSC, directing most of the Shakespeare canon as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his award-winning productions included The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk and The Cherry Orchard as well as Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady and Anything Goes. He directed the world premieres of Arcadia and The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard and of Cats and Starlight Express by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes Hamlet and Richard II (Old Vic) and most recently King Lear and The Seagull (RSC).
ROBERT JONES (Set Designer)
Extensive London credits include Look Back in Anger, Noises Off (also Broadway), Playboy of the Western World (National Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, The Sound of Music, Ragtime, Cyrano, The Dance of Death, Heroes (also L.A.) and On the Town (all West End). Many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Henry VIII (also BAM) and The Winter’s Tale (both Olivier nominated). Also, Donmar and Almeida theatres. In opera, Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne and Chicago), Don Carlo (Frankfurt), Poppea (Paris and Berlin).
EMMA RYOTT (Costume Designer)
Theatre includes Oedipus Rex, Ragtime, The King and I, Macbeth, The Entertainer. Dance includes Der Sandmann, Lulu eine monstre Tragodie, La Peau Blanche, Sleepers Chamber, The Return of Ulysses, Don Quichote, Leonce and Lena. Lulu goes to Helsinki in 2009 and Der Sandmann to Riga, Latvia, in 2008. Opera includes Aida; Otello; Damnation of Faust; Berenice by Johannes Maria Staud; The Barber of Seville; One Touch of Venus; The Marriage of Figaro; The Pearl Fishers; La Bohème; Masked Ball; Nine, the musical; Manon Lescaut.
HOWARD HARRISON (Lighting Designer)
Howard’s current work on Broadway includes Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll, Mary Poppins (2007 Tony nomination) and Mamma Mia! (also London and worldwide). In the West End: Macbeth, Glengarry Glen Ross, Guys and Dolls, Donkeys’ Years and Edward Scissorhands. Previous work in New York/on Broadway includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Putting It Together and The Makropulos Case and Nabucco for the Metropolitan Opera.
IAN DICKINSON (Sound Designer/ Projection)
Credits include Rhinoceros, The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Shining City, Hitchcock Blonde (Royal Court Theatre), The Hot House, Pillars of the Community (National Theatre), King of Hearts (Out of Joint), Love and Money (Young Vic), Much Ado About Nothing, Night of the Soul (RSC), A Few Good Men (Haymarket), Poor Superman, Coyote Ugly (Royal Exchange).