CAST
MICHAËL ATTIAS (Apollon/Musician/ Composer/Sound Designer) is a New York City-based saxophonist/composer. He has performed concerts in clubs and festivals throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Japan with such musicians as Paul Motian, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Oliver Lake and many others. Pursuing multifarious action as recording artist and leader of several ensembles, he has also composed and designed for dance and theatre in both the U.S. and Europe. Recent theatre credits include Chair, Notes from Underground and Battle of Black and Dogs, all directed by Robert Woodruff.
BILL CAMP (Co-Adaptor/Man). Broadway: Coram Boy, Heartbreak House, Jackie: An American Life, The Seagull, St. Joan. Off- Broadway credits include Macbeth, Measure for Measure (TFANA); The Misanthrope, Beckett Shorts, Homebody/Kabul (Obie Award), The Devils, Lydie Breeze, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NYTW); Inferno (Jewish Rep). Regional theatres include Yale Rep, A.R.T., BAM, Mark Taper Forum, NYS&F, Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater, Seattle Rep, among others. Film: Tamara Drewe, Public Enemies, Love and Roadkill, The Guitar,Coach, Deception and The Dying Gaul. TV: “Brotherhood,” “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
MERRITT JANSON (Liza/Musician). Theatre credits include A.R.T.: Paradise Lost (Libby), Britannicus (Junia, IRNE nomination), Onion Cellar (Bear Girl/Mute Girl); La Jolla Playhouse: Notes From Underground (Liza/Musician), The Deception (Chevalier); Shakespeare & Company: Twelfth Night (Viola), Othello (Desdemona); Yale Rep: Notes From Underground (Liza/Musician); The Wilma: Eurydice (Title); Theatre de la Jeune Lune: The Deception (Chevalier); Vineyard Playhouse: The English Channel (Emilia). Film: Mail Order Wife; Otto and Anna. Training: A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard University, MFA.
CREATIVE TEAM
MARK BARTON (Lighting Designer). Off- Broadway credits include The Shipment, Chair, The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928), Paradise Park, Church, All the Wrong Reasons, No Child…, Five Course Love and Thom Pain (based on nothing). Other New York credits include many productions with companies including Elevator Repair Service, New York Theatre Workshop, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Theatre for a New Audience, Target Margin Theater, Signature Theatre Company, Salt Theater, P.S.122, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts Center, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Edge Theater Company, among many others. Productions of Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz in Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich, Minneapolis, Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Lisbon, Vienna, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Dublin, Chicago. Regional work includes productions at Perseverance Theatre, REDCAT, Berkeley Rep, Los Angeles Theater Center/Kirk Douglas Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Southern Rep and Hangar Theatre. Other credits include Wozzeck, Ainadamar, Albert Herring, L’Ormindo, The Magic Flute and Postcard from Morocco with The Curtis Opera Theater in Philadelphia.
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AMY BORATKO (Production Dramaturg) is the Literary Manager at Yale Repertory Theatre, where recently she has served as dramaturg on We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Battle of Black and Dogs and Compulsion. She has been a teaching fellow At Yale College and Yale School of Drama and was a managing editor of Theater magazine. A graduate of Rice University, she received her M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama.
MORIA CLINTON (Costume Designer) designed Notes From Underground at La Jolla Playhouse which was originally produced at Yale Repertory Theatre where her credits also include Peer Gynt and I Am Superhero as well as The Underneath, Korean Elektra, Bone Songs and The Do- Over at Yale Cabaret. Recent credits include Electra in a One-Piece (Wild Project, NYC); Uncle Vanya, Duchess of Malfi, Woyzeck, and Much Ado About Nothing (Brown/Trinity Consortium); Stairs to the Roof (A.R.T. Institute); and Grey Gone (Impact Theatre, NYC). She has also been Associate to Jane Greenwood on Dallas Opera’s world premiere of Moby-Dick and Broadway’s Driving Miss Daisy, Million Dollar Quartet and Present Laughter. Moria is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
KRIS LONGLEY-POSTEMA (Stage Manager). Recent stage management credits include Notes from Underground at La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Repertory Theatre; Santa Fe Opera’s Albert Herring and The Tales of Hoffmann; SITI Company’s American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Company), bobrauschenbergamerica, Antigone and Who Do You Think You Are; an the 75th anniversary tour of Porgy and Bess. Other notable credits include The Public Theater, The Playwrights Realm, The Playwrights’ Center and Glimmerglass Opera. A graduate of Cornell College, he received his M.F.A. in Stage Management from Yale School of Drama.
PETER NIGRINI (Projection Designer). Video design credits for theatre include the Broadway productions of Say Goodnight Gracie, 9 to 5 and Fela! conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones; Jean Genet’s Elle starring Alan Cumming (The Art Party, NYC); Biro (The Public Theater); Blind Date with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Camille, Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s La Dameaux Camelias, directed by Kate Whoriskey; Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown Theatre Festival). His opera credits include the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s adaptation of Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (New York City Opera); world premiere of Frau Margot by Thomas Pasatieri and Angels in America by Peter Eötvös (Fort Worth Opera). Mr. Nigrini received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his M.A. from Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design’s International Scenography Centre (London).
RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY (Translators). Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the French Ministry of Culture. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated Dead Souls and The Collected Stories by Nikolai Gogol; The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov; The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, The Idiot and The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were twice awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and for Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina). Their translation of Dostoevsky’s Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.
RICK SORDELET (Fight Director) has staged 44 Broadway productions including Disney’s The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid and Aida. He has staged the fights for the opera Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and La Scala in Milan; and for over 40 first-class productions on five continents. Film: The Game Plan starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson; Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche; and Hamlet starring Campbell Scott. He is the chief stunt coordinator for “Guiding Light” and staged the fights for First Jedi, a CD-ROM for George Lucas. Rick received the Lucille Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence in 2007. He teaches at Yale School of Drama, The New School for Drama and The Neighborhood Playhouse. He is a company member of Drama Dept., a board member of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and the author of the play Buried Treasure. He is married to actress Kathleen Kelly and has three children: Kaelan, Christian and Collin.
DANIEL VATSKY (Associate Projection Designer). Theatre projection design credits include The Psychasthenia Society (Collective Unconscious, NYC) and The Situation Room (New York International Fringe Festival). Film credits include animation for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film and We Shall Remain: Tecumseh, both by Ric Burns; Summer Sun Winter Moon by Hugo Perez; and The Lord God Bird by George Butler. He has created onstage video content for Laurie Anderson’s Homeland and Chris Rock’s No Apologies tour and interactive exhibits for The New Museum and The Goethe Institut-New York. Mr. Vatsky holds a B.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase College and an M.S. from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
ANDREW WADE (Vocal Coach). Previously for Theatre for a New Audience: Hamlet and Chair. Head of Voice, RSC, 1990–2003. Assistant Voice Director, RSC, 1987–1990. Co-directed/devised “Journeys,” “Words, Words, Words,” “More Words” and “Lifespan” with Cicely Berry for BBC World Service, awarded Bronze Medal, International Radio Festival, New York, 2000. Verse Consultant, Shakespeare in Love. Andrew teaches, lectures and voice coaches internationally with particular associations with Stella Adler Studio, Delaware University, NTS Canada and Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis where he’s coached Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Comedy of Errors, Othello, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Toronto/London: The Lord of the Rings. TV: “Triple Sensation,” 2007/2008. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2008: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Clay Cart. The Guthrie Theater: Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
WALTON WILSON (Vocal Coach) is head of Voice and Speech at Yale School of Drama. He was trained and designated as a voice teacher by Master Teacher Kristin Linklater and was trained and certified as an associate teacher by Master Teacher Catherine Fitzmaurice. He also studied with Richard Armstrong, Meredith Monk and Patsy Rodenburg. His New York credits include the Broadway productions of The Violet Hour and Golden Child; and the world premiere productions of The Laramie Project, Humpty Dumpty, Argonautika and Endangered Species. His regional theatre credits include productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare & Company and Williamstown Theatre Festival. At Yale Rep, he has served as voice and dialect coach on Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Evildoers, The Cherry Orchard, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Black Monk, Medea/Macbeth/ Cinderella, Betty’s Summer Vacation, The Birds and Richard III.
ROBERT WOODRUFF (Co-Adaptor/Director) has directed over 60 productions across the U.S. at theatres including Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater and Mark Taper Forum, among others. Most recently, he directed Chair at Theatre for a New Audience and created Ifigeneia in Aulis with Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Philip Glass’s Appomattox for the San Francisco Opera. Internationally, his work has been seen at the Habimah National Theatre in Israel, Sydney Arts Festival, Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Hong Kong Festival of the Arts, Jerusalem Festival and Spoleto Festival USA. Mr. Woodruff has taught at the University of California campuses at San Diego and Santa Barbara, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Columbia University. He is now on the faculty of Yale School of Drama. In 1972, he cofounded the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, where he served as Artistic and Resident Director until 1978. In 1976, Mr. Woodruff established the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a summer forum for the development of new plays that is still flourishing. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Woodruff was the Artistic Director of American Repertory Theatre. He was named a 2007 USA Biller Fellow by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America’s top living artists.
DAVID ZINN (Scenic Designer). TFANA: sets and costumes for Orpheus X, sets and costumes for Chair, costumes for The Jew of Malta. Broadway: costumes for In the Next Room, Xanadu and A Tale of Two Cities. Off-Broadway: set and costume design for Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons), Back Back Back and The Four of Us (MTC); set design for Paradise Park (Signature) and The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) (ERS/NYTW). Also: set and/or costume designs at American Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie, Yale Rep, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Mark Taper Forum, Santa Fe Opera, Intiman, Seattle Rep, Lyric Opera of Chicago and many others. 2008 Obie Award for sustained excellence. www.mrdavidzinn.com
