Theatre for a New Audience

presents

Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Directed by Sir Peter Hall

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Prologue ...............................................................................ANDREW WEEMS

The Trojans

Priam, King of Troy.................................................................FRANK RAITER

Priam's Sons
Hector.........................................................................................DAVID CONRAD
Troilus................................................................................................ JOEY KERN
Paris.........................................................................................LORENZO PISONI
Deiphobus.......................................................................................LUKE KIRBY
Helenus.......................................................................ANDREW ELVIS MILLER

Margarelon, a bastard son of Priam......................THOMAS M. HAMMOND

Trojan Commanders

Aeneas..........................................................................THOMAS M. HAMMOND
Antenor........................................................................................MATT SEMLER

Calchas, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks......FRANK RAITER
Pandarus, uncle to Cressida..................................................TONY CHURCH

The Greeks

Agamemnon, the Greek General.......................................TERENCE RIGBY
Menelaus, his brother......................................................JORDAN CHARNEY

Greek Commanders

Achilles..............................................................................................IDRIS ELBA
Ajax.............................................................................................EARL HINDMAN
Ulysses...................................................................................PHILIP GOODWIN
Nestor................................................................................NICHOLAS KEPROS
Diomedes............................................................................MICHAEL ROGERS

Patroclus, Achilles' companion..................................................LUKE KIRBY
Thersites, a deformed and scurrilous Greek..................ANDREW WEEMS
Alexander, servant to Cressida.....................................JORDAN CHARNEY
Trojan Servant..........................................................ANDREW ELVIS MILLER

Helen, wife to Menelaus...............................................................CINDY KATZ
Andromache, wife to Hector......................................................TARI SIGNOR
Cassandra, daughter to Priam; a prophetess..........VIVIENNE BENESCH
Cressida, daughter to Calchas.....................................TRICIA PAOLUCCIO

Production Stage Managers - BRYAN SCOTT CLARK / ALEXIS SHORTER

VIVIENNE BENESCH (Cassandra) New York: The Deep Blue Sea (Roundabout), Pericles, All’s Well… (Public), Ancient History (Primary Stages), Hurricane (CSC), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Blue Light). Regional: ACT, Hartford Stage, NJSF, Shakespeare Theatre, Alley, McCarter, Long Wharf. Film: Trifling With Fate.  TV: "Sex and the City", "Law and Order". MFA from NYU.

JORDAN CHARNEY  (Alexander, Menelaus) Plays Judge Kelleher on “100 Centre Street” (A&E); appeared this season in Code of the West, and last season in TFANA’s Waste; will be seen in the feature film Linda; co-authored A Chekhov Concert with Sharon Gans (Applause Books) and is Artistic Director of the STEPS Theater Company.

TONY CHURCH (Pandarus) is a Founding Associate Artist of the RSC. Associate Artist (Acting) with the Denver Center Theatre Company and Dean Emeritus of the National Theatre Conservatory.  RSC roles include King Lear, Polonius, Henry IV, Don Armado, Friar Lawrence, Gloucester etc. from 1960-1988.  Roles in Denver include Malvolio, Prospero, Camillo, and leads in Molly Sweeney, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and his one person show Give ‘Em a Bit of Mystery.

DAVID CONRAD (Hector) Broadway: Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea (Freddy, Roundabout), Regional: Stoppard’s Arcadia (Septimus, Pittsburgh Public); American premiere, Stoppard’s Indian Ink (Durrance, A.C.T.); Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain (Walker, Pittsburgh Jewish Theatre).  Film: Return to Paradise, Men of Honor. TV: ABC’s ”Relativity,” WB’s “Roswell.”  Brown University ‘90, Juilliard School. From Pittsburgh.

IDRIS ELBA (Achilles) Born and raised in London, avoided “drama school” to get a Performing Arts Diploma.  Has achieved an extensive television career in England, moved to New York in 2000. Produces music demos for new artists; resident DJ to three NYC clubs.   IDRIS ELBA is appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and British Equity.

PHILIP GOODWIN (Ulysses) Broadway: The Diary of Anne Frank, The School for Scandal. Off-B’way: Cymbeline, Pericles, Hamlet (Public); The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NYTW); as Henry VI (TFANA, Drama Desk nomination); Drowning (Signature).  The Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.: Twelfth Night (Malvolio, Helen Hayes Award) King John, Timon of Athens.  Regional: Hartford Stage, Great Lakes Theatre Fest, Studio Theatre, D.C.

THOMAS M. HAMMOND (Aeneas) TFANA: Macbeth, Richard II, Richard III.  NYC: Fanny and Walt, Hamlet (Hamlet), As You Like It (Sylvius).  Regional: Twelfth Night (Orsino), The Real Thing (Billy), Ghosts (Osvald), John Brown’s Body, Streamers (Billy), Two for the Seesaw (Jerry, Best of Westchester commendation). Upcoming: “The Great Gatsby” (Tom Buchanan, PBS’ Great American Novel).

EARL HINDMAN (Ajax) Broadway, Off- B’way, leading regionals including Yale Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Center Stage, Kennedy Center. Films include Silverado, The Parallax View, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Three Men and A Baby. TV: wise neighbor ‘Wilson’ on “Home Improvement,” ten years on ABC’s “Ryan’s Hope,” “Law & Order,” “Deadline.”

CINDY KATZ (Helen)  Broadway: Amadeus. Off-Broadway and regionally, leading roles at Lamb’s Theater, Lincoln Center, The Ahmanson, South Coast Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Yale Rep, Intiman, Guthrie.  Film: Heat, The Age of Innocence, I Love Trouble, Sketch Artist II.  TV: Regular, recurring and guest star.  Graduate of Yale School of Drama.  For Dukes.

NICHOLAS KEPROS (Nestor) Broadway: You Never Can Tell, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector, Saint Joan, Amadeus, Execution of Justice.  Off-B’way: Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, Overtime, Rameau’s Nephew, Wars of the Roses (as Henry VI, NYSF), King John, Measure for Measure (Bayfield Award).  Guthrie: Measure for Measure (Angelo), School for Scandal (Joseph Surface, also on PBS).  Roles: Hamlet (Phoenix, NY), Richard II (GLSF), Macbeth (McCarter), Shylock (NJSF).  TV: “Witness to the Mob,”  “Star Trek,” “Golden Girls,” “Thornwell,” “Blood Ties.”  Film: Amadeus, The Sicilian, Quiz Show, The Associate.

JOEY KERN (Troilus) Off-Broadway: TFANA’s Saved (Robert Woodruff); The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Jo Bonney), Mojo (Neil Pepe).  Regional: The Complete Wks of William Shakespeare (abridged).  Member, NY’s comedy group Utah Arm.  TV: “Wonderland,” “Sex in the City.”  Film: The Virgin, Supertroopers (August ’01), XX/XY, Love the Hard Way, Garmento.  Graduate NYU.

LUKE KIRBY (Patroclus) Canada: Geometry in Venice (Factory Theatre), You Are Here (da da kamera); National Theatre School of Canada 2000 graduate.  Film: Lost and Delirious (Cité Amérique/Dummet Films).  TV: “Haven” (CBS/Alliance).

ANDREW ELVIS MILLER (Helenus) NYC: Blue Man Group, Mae West’s Sex (Hourglass), In-Betweens (Cherry Lane), Orpheus & Eurydice (Adobe), Hunting Humans (Currican).  Film: upcoming, leads in Fixing Frank, Bury the Evidence (Best Actor Award – B.I.F.F. 2000).  TV: “The Sopranos” (HBO), “Law & Order: SUV” (NBC), “The Beat” (UPN), “A Midwife’s Tale’ (PBS).

TRICIA PAOLUCCIO (Cressida) Broadway: The Green Bird (director Julie Taymor), A View From the Bridge (director Michael Mayer).  Off-Broadway: Night Blooming Jasmine.  Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), An American Daughter (Long Wharf), NJSF (two seasons).  TV/film: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Guiding Light,” “The Great Gatsby” (PBS).

LORENZO PISONI (Paris) began performing in circuses with The Pickle Family Circus (with Geoff Hoyle, Bill Irwin, Larry Pisoni).  Ringmaster, Cirque Du Soleil’s Mystere.  Theatre: Clown X7 (Seattle Rep Theatre Workshop), Romeo and Juliet (The Present Company/Liars’ Club), As You Like It (Liars’ Club), The White Devil (The Directors’ Company/Liars’ Club).

FRANK RAITER (Priam, Calchas) Broadway: Defying Gravity, Salome/ Oedipus (Al Pacino).  NYSF: Cymbeline (Andrei Serban), 'Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Othello, A Bright Room Called Day (Tony Kushner), Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale.  NYTW:  The Devils (Garland Wright).  Regional: Long Wharf: The Bungler (Doug Hughes), Hartford Stage: Happy Days (w Estelle Parsons), Comedy of Errors (Mark Brokaw).

TERENCE RIGBY (Agamemnon)  Major productions of Shakespeare, Pirandello, Racine, Ibsen, Chekhov, Pinter, Beckett in London and on Broadway including No Man’s Land with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, directed by Peter Hall.  Films: Elizabeth, Accident, Dogs of War, Testimony, Tomorrow Never Dies, Get Carter, Simon Magus.  Recently: Amadeus (Music Box), TFANA’s Saved, 2001.

MICHAEL ROGERS (Diomedes) Regional appearances in the U.S. and internationally.  For TFANA: King John, Othello, Comedy of Errors.  TV: NBC, CBS, ABC. Films: The Mosquito Coast, Weekend at Bernie’s II, Moonfire, Side Streets.  Member, BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.  Graduate, Yale School of Drama.  Mr. Rogers is also a director and educator.

MATT SEMLER (Antenor).  NY credits include: Apartment Building for the Blind; Christina; One for the Road; Talk to me Like the Rain…; 36 Exposures.  Film: A Walk in the Park.

TARI SIGNOR (Andromache) Credits include Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Twelfth Night (Viola), The Tempest (Miranda/Ariel), The Winter’s Tale (Hermione), The Bungler (Hyppolite), Arthur Miller’s Mr. Peters’ Connections (Rose), Woody Allen’s ‘Central Park West’ in Death Defying Acts (Juliet). TV: “A Midwife’s Tale” (PBS), “One Life To Live.”

ANDREW WEEMS (Thersites) NYC: The Green Bird, Princess Turandot, Mere Mortals, Marathon Dancing, London Assurance, Almond Seller, Mud Angel (TFANA). Elsewhere: Rhinoceros (NJ Shakespeare), Much Ado… (Long Wharf), Learned Ladies (McCarter), Adding Machine (Louisville), Midsummer… (Acting Co.); also Hartford, La Jolla, Arena, Anne Bogart’s Trinity Rep; Vienna’s English Theatre; A Thousand Clowns (Kathmandu).

SIR PETER HALL  (Director)  Born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, he was educated at the Perse School and at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.  After a debut at Windsor and the Oxford Playhouse, he ran the Arts Theatre in London where productions included the world premiere of the English language version of Beckett’s Waiting For Godot.  Peter Hall created the Royal Shakespeare Company which he ran for over ten years and was director of England’s Royal National Theatre for fifteen years.  With the Peter Hall Company (founded in 1988) he has directed over thirty major stage productions which have been seen in London and world wide.  Most recent plays directed by Peter Hall in London include Giuseppe Manfridi’s Cuckoos and an acclaimed production of Simon Gray’s latest play Japes currently at the Haymarket Theatre.  Since his debut with The Rope Dancers in 1957, Peter Hall’s many productions in New York have included No Man's Land, The Merchant of Venice, Orpheus Descending and Betrayal.  A nine-time Tony nominee he received this award for both The Homecoming and Amadeus. He directed the world premiere of John Guare's Four Baboons Adoring the Sun in 1992; and in 1996 his production of Wilde’s An Ideal Husband was also seen on Broadway.  1999 saw a further production of Amadeus in New York.  Also in 1999 Peter Hall formed a Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles directing Measure for Measure and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and most recently Romeo and Juliet.  In October last year his epic production of Tantalus was created at Denver’s Centre for the Performing Arts prior to a major season in May at London’s Barbican Centre and a European tour.  Peter Hall’s films for cinema and TV include Akenfield, The Homecoming, The Camomile Lawn and The Final Passage.  He has directed more than forty operas for the world’s leading houses including the Met, Bayreuth, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, the Royal Opera House in London and at Glyndeboume where he was artistic director from 1984-90. Peter Hall’s many awards include two for Lifetime Achievements in the Arts.  He is the author of a number of successful books including, most recently, an autobiography Making An Exhibition of Myself, and two books on the nature of drama - The Necessary Theatre and Behind the Mask.  Peter Hall is a distinguished lecturer and is Chancellor of London’s Kingston University.  He also holds the Wortham Chair in Performing Arts at the University of Houston.

DOUGLAS STEIN (Set Designer)  TFANA: Saved, King John, Love's Labours Lost.  Broadway: Falsettos, Our Town, Largely New York, Fool Moon, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector, The Moliere Comedies, Freak, Dirty Blonde.   Off-B-way: Texts for Nothing, The Regard of Flight, Scapin, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, Through the Leaves (Obie), The Devils.  Regional (w Woodruff): A Man's A Man, Figaro Gets A Divorce, Happy Days; Baal.  Opera/dance: Les Enfants Terribles (BAM), The Most Dangerous Room in the House, The Descent Beckons.

MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ (Costume Designer) Broadway: Kiss Me Kate (2000 Tony® and Drama Desk Awards); The Life (Tony nomination), The Diary of Anne Frank, Taller Than A Dwarf, Golden Child (Tony nomination).  NYC: The Wild Party (MTC); Waste (TFANA; Lortel Award w Wild Party); Give Me Your Answer Do!, Impossible Marriage, The Father, Anna Christie, Summer and Smoke (Roundabout); Twelve Dreams (LCT); The Misanthrope (CSC).  He designs extensively for opera, theatre and dance in the U.S., Europe and Asia.  He has received The Obie, The Lucille Lortel, and awards throughout the U.S.

SCOTT THOMAS ZIELINSKI (Lighting Design)  Scott’s design credits include productions for numerous theater companies throughout the United States and internationally for theaters in Toronto, London, Edinburgh, Zurich, Hamburg, Singapore, Japan and Australia.  Scott has also designed for numerous operas and dances including, most recently, two pieces with Twyla Tharp.  He has been associate designer to Robert Wilson.

HERSCHEL GARFEIN (Composer) Scores include Championship Wrestling After Roland Barthes (BAM) and Mythologies (NYC/Brussels) for choreographer Mark Morris; Sueños (composer/co-lyricist, music-theater work, Mabou Mines); String Quartet (premiered by the Lark Quartet) and Places To Live, (Boston Classical Orchestra, twentieth anniversary commission, Boston Globe’s “year 2000’s best”); chamber music, songs, and orchestral pieces heard at the 92nd Street Y, Tanglewood and the Ordway Theatre.  Numerous grants and awards.

B.H. BARRY (Fight Director) Currently on Broadway: Jane Eyre, Kiss Me Kate.  Berlin: Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.  Off-Broadway: Saved, Cellini, Extremities, Oleanna.  Film: Glory, The Addams Family, Disney's The Legend of Mulan.  Drama Desk Award, Obie for Sustained and Consistent Excellence in Fight Directing.  Co-founder, Blue Light Theater Company.  His inspiration is his daughter Olivia.

BRYAN SCOTT CLARK (Production Stage Manager).  Broadway: The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; Jesus Christ Superstar; Swing! Off-Broadway: Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding; Classic Stage Company; Women's Project; American Place. Workshops: Rock 'n' the Boat; Hoopz. Opera: The Abduction from the Seraglio (Bronx Opera Company). Regional: Utah Shakespearean Festival; StageWest; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Westport Playhouse; Two River Theatre Company.

ALEXIS SHORTER (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: A Christmas Carol, Jesus Christ Superstar; Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk; The Heiress, Marie Christine, Racing Demon, Abe Lincoln In Illinois.  Off-Bway include: The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, The Golden Child, The Radical Mystique, Holiday Heart, Police Boys, The Heliotrope Bouquet.

DEBORAH BROWN, C.S.A. (Casting) Credits include many Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.  She shared an Emmy Award for casting the HBO series " From the Earth to the Moon". This is her ninth season casting for Theatre For A New Audience. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with Robert Woodruff and Sir Peter Hall.

SPRINGER/CHICOINE (Press Representative) B'way: Side Man (WTG, Tony Award, Best Play), Judgment at Nuremberg (National Actors Theatre). Off-B'way: The Exact Center of the Universe, Fame Takes A Holiday, P.S. 69. Companies: Women's Project; Blue Light; TFANA; Aquila; Weissberger; Repertorio Espanol; Cold Prods. Annual Galas: MMI, 92nd Street Y, WNET.  Hamptons & Sarasota Film Festivals, Norsk Films; Aberdeen, The Invisible Circus, The Weekend.

ROBERT MARX (Associate Producer).  Off-Broadway: The Making of Americans (Music-Theatre Group), King John, Waste (TFANA 1999-2000).  Executive Director, NY Public Library for the Performing Arts (Lincoln Center, 1989-99), NEA/NYSCA theatre programs.  Projects at the RSC (London), Mark Taper Forum (LA), Salzburg/Avignon Festivals.  A widely published essayist on theatre/opera, and frequent intermission commentator on the Metropolitan Opera's radio broadcasts.

M. EDGAR ROSENBLUM (Executive Director) former Executive Director of the Long Wharf Theatre which, with Arvin Brown, he brought to a position of international prominence.  He was involved in every aspect of the theatre operations, including production, fiscal planning, development, and marketing.  Many Long Wharf productions extended their lives to other stages-- Broadway, Off-Broadway, Touring, and Television.  This expansion enabled the work of the theatre to reach a larger audience throughout the country and abroad.  Many of these productions won recognition including Obies, Tonys, Pulitzer Prizes, and Drama Desk Awards.  He has produced both national and international tours.  He is the former Chairman of the Board of the American Arts Alliance, founding President of the National Corporate Theatre Fund, and former President of the League of Resident Theatres.

JEFFREY HOROWITZ (Artistic Director) began his career in theatre as an actor and appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway and in regional theatre.  In 1979, he founded Theatre for a New Audience. At TFANA, Horowitz has produced Shakespeare, Greek, Jacobean and Italian classical drama, as well as contemporary classics with some of the most imaginative artists working today. He has also commissioned and developed new plays from authors such as Susan Lori Parks and Elizabeth Swados.  Horowitz has served on the Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts and on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group. He is currently on the Advisory Board of The Shakespeare Society, the Artistic Directorate of London’s Globe Theatre and the Artistic Advisor to the Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA).