Cymbeline
 

CAST
JESSIE AUSTRIAN (Imogen) is one of Fiasco Theater’s co-artistic directors and has acted in Fiasco’s Cymbeline and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lend Me a Tenor. Off-Broadway: Fiasco’s Cymbeline, The Marriage of Bette and Boo. Regional favorites include Jane Eyre, Guthrie Theater; Is He Dead?, Pioneer Theatre; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Trinity Repertory Theatre; My Fair Lady, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Virginia Stage Company; and Cabaret & Main, Williamstown. She teaches and coaches privately and at NYU’s Gallatin School. Proud graduate of Brown University and the Brown/Trinity M.F.A. Acting Program.
NOAH BRODY (Co-Director/Posthumus/Roman Captain) is a one-time chemist, now actor, director, writer and co-artistic director of Fiasco Theater. He has co-directed and acted in all of Fiasco’s productions including Cymbeline, Twelfth Night and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He has acted at theatres around the country and in Europe. He has appeared shirtless on soaps, headless on a crime drama, has taught Voice at Stella Adler and choreographs fights for money. Noah writes plays, including The Vexed Question, currently under development with Fiasco. He is a graduate of the Brown-Trinity M.F.A. Acting program and luckiest man in the world: in October the line “my queen, my life, my wife” will become blessed reality.
PAUL L. COFFEY (Pisanio/Philario/Caius Lucius/Guiderius) is a member of Fiasco’s Acting Company and has appeared in Cymbeline and Twelfth Night. New York: The Public, Arts Nova, HERE, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Mint Theater Co., blessed unrest, Theatre Lila, Gorilla Rep, Aquila Theatre Co. Regional: Trinity Repertory Co., Pig Iron Theatre Co., The Vineyard Playhouse, The Theater at Monmouth, Lost Nation Theater, BoarsHead Theater, The Peterborough Players, Company of Fools, and The Berkshire Theater Festival. Paul received his M.F.A. in acting from the Brown/Trinity Graduate Program where he was a Stephen Sondheim Fellow.
ANDY GROTELUESCHEN (Cymbeline/Cloten/Cornelius). NYC: Henry V (Acting Co./Guthrie, dir. Davis McCallum), Twelfth Night (Fiasco Theater), Balm in Gilead (dir. Brian Mertes), Monstrosity (13P, dir. Lear deBessonet), The Scariest (The Exchange Theatre), The Amazing Ted Show! (Ars Nova/South African tour). Regional: Servant of Two Masters (Yale Rep., dir. Christopher Bayes), Molière Impromptu (Trinity Rep., dir. Christopher Bayes), Ivanov (Lake Lucille Chekhov, dir. Brian Mertes). Training: M.F.A. Brown/Trinity, École Philippe Gaulier. Fiasco Theater Company member, apprentice to Christopher Bayes and he’s from Iowa.
BEN STEINFELD (Co-Director/Iachimo/Arviragus). Ben is one of Fiasco Theater’s co-artistic directors and has acted in and codirected Fiasco’s Cymbeline, Twelfth Night and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off-B’way: The Public Theater, TFANA. Regional work includes everything from Shakespeare and Shaw to musicals and world premieres at Center Theater Group, Portland Center Stage, Williamstown and Trinity Rep, among others. TV: “Law & Order: CI.” Film: The Jew of Malta (upcoming). Ben teaches at NYU’s Gallatin School, narrates concerts with the NJ Symphony and is a graduate of Brown University and the Brown/Trinity MFA Acting Program. www.bensteinfeld.net
EMILY YOUNG (Queen/Frenchman/Belaria) Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off Broadway: Juliet, Mercutio, Paris, and five others in Theatre Breaking Through Barriers’ Romeo and Juliet at Theatre Row; staged readings of Major Barbara, The Devil’s Disciple and The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet with Project Shaw at The Players; Tracy in Colorado with Summer Play Festival. Regional: King Lear (Cordelia), Much Ado About Nothing (Hero) at the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; Loves Labor’s Lost (Katherine), Henry V (Alice), Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret) at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival; Cherry Orchard (Anya) at Trinity Rep, Emma (Emma) at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. Film: Manhattan Melody. Training: Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA.
ELLEN ADAIR (Understudy). Off-Broadway: What the Public Wants (Mint Theater), The Playboy of the Western World (Pearl Theatre), Romeo and Hamlet (Abingdon/GayfestNYC). Regional: Shakespeare Theatre NJ, Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Pioneer Theatre, Folger Shakespeare, Huntington Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Kitchen Theatre, American Shakespeare Center, New Repertory, Publick Theatre/Boston, Lyric Stage/Boston, SpeakEasy Stage, Actors’ Shakespeare Project. TV/film: “As the World Turns,” “Brotherhood” (Showtime) and films about Louisa May Alcott, Louis Brandeis, John Audubon and the “God in America” series for PBS. www.ellenadair.com
PATRICK MULRYAN (Understudy). Off-Broadway debut. Regional: Cabaret (Trinity Rep), Chain of Fools (Guthrie Theater), The Importance of Being Earnest (Trinity Rep). New York: Lark Play Development Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre. National tours: A Christmas Carol (TWUSA), Are You My Mother? (ArtsPower). Patrick is a proud graduate of the Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. Acting program and is thrilled to be working with Fiasco, TFANA and Barrow St. Other training: Guthrie Experience, Moscow Art Theatre, Oberlin College (B.A.). Many thanks to his incredible family and friends.

CREATIVE TEAM
JEAN-GUY LECAT (Scenic Designer). In 1965, after having been a model maker and later a draftsman in factories, Lecat completed six months of training at the Les Buttes Chaumont television studios. At that time, he met Claude Perset, a set designer and theatre architect and became his assistant, working with him on several theatres and festival spaces, including the famous Théâtre d’Orsay. From there, Lecat simultaneously practiced every technical and artistic job in theatre and took part in more than 100 productions for many directors, including Jean-L. Barrault, and with such companies as Living Theatre and La MaMa E.T.C.. From 1976 to 2000, Lecat worked for Peter Brook as technical director and space designer and was charged with researching, transforming or creating more than 200 spaces throughout the world.  Those remaining include the Harvey-Majestic Theatre and La MaMa Annex in New York, the tramway in Glasgow, the Gaswaerk in Copenhagen, The Mercat de les Flore in Barcelona, Carrière Boulbon in Avignon, T.N.S. in Strasburg and Bockenhaimer Depot in Frankfurt. Today, Lecat remains focused on architecture as a theatre consultant around the world. New York: Theatre for a New Audience; Lisbon: Teatro Azul de Almada; Paris: Théâtre Ouvert, Les Etés de la Danse, Les 3 Baudets; Madrid: Naves del Antiguo Matadero; London: Young Vic Theatre, The Roundhouse: Dublin: The Abbey Theatre; Prague: theatre in cardboard-boxes; others in Bucharest, Moscou, St. Petersbourg, Berlin and elsewhere. As set, costume and lighting designer: L’Iliade by Homer; Der Theatermacher by Bernhard; Othello, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, The Tempest, Timon of Athens by Shakespeare; Quarto Minguante, Tuning by Francisco; Carmen by Bizet; Wozzeck by Berg; Mahagonny, The Mother, The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht; La clemenza di Tito by Mozart, Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini; Hughie, Before Breakfast by O’Neill; Antigone by Anouilh; Miss Julie by Strindberg, Collected Stories by Margulies; Paula Spencer by Doyle, among others. As director, Oedipus by Sophocles.
WHITNEY LOCHER (Costume Designer). Recent design credits: Off-Broadway: Fiasco Theater’s Cymbeline (Theatre for a New Audience); Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis (At Play Productions). Other credits: Jubilee, The Merry Widow, The Fortune Teller (Ohio Light Opera); Boeing-Boeing (Sierra Repertory Theatre, CA); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The New School for Drama, NYC); A Bright New Boise, After (Partial Comfort Productions, NYC). Whitney is the Resident Costume Designer for Fiasco Theater, Partial Comfort Productions and a member of United Scenic Artists. www.whitneylocher.com
TIM CRYAN (Lighting Designer). Recent collaborations: Welkom in het Bos (dir. Erwin Mass), Las minutas de Marti (dir. Javierantonio González); East River Commedia, The Magnificent Cuckold (dir. Paul Bargetto); Fiasco Theater Company, Twelfth Night (dir. Noah Brody & Ben Steinfeld); Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Fragment and Poetics-a ballet brut (dir. Pavol Liska). He is also an Adjunct Faculty member of the Dance Department at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus and a guest artist with the Theatre Department at Providence College. M.F.A.: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.timcryan.net
JACQUES ROY (Trunk Design/Fabrication). In addition to his work for Fiasco, Jacques has created sets and set pieces for the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project, Babel Theatre Project, P.S.122, Trinity Repertory Company, Great River Shakespeare Festival and many others.
CAITE HEVNER (Prop Design) is a NYC based scenic, projection and properties designer. Upcoming scenic design: Triassic Parq Off-Broadway. Recent scenic design: My Base and Scurvy Heart, Studio 42; My Way and Little Shop of Horrors, Infinity Theatre Company; Rent, Yale Dramat; The Tenth Floor, NYMF. Recent projection design: Greenwich Music Festival 2011 season; Carmen, Allentown Symphony. Graduate of the Yale School of Drama and NYU/Tisch School of the Arts (M.F.A.). www.caitehevnerdesign.com
CHRISTINA LOWE (Production Stage Manager). Off-Broadway: MCC: The Break of Noon. Classic Stage Company: Venus in Fur directed by Walter Bobbie, An Oresteia and The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin. The Public Theater: Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1 and 8 ) by Suzan-Lori Parks directed by Jo Bonney, The Fever Chart by Naomi Wallace directed by Jo Bonney, The Bacchae (workshop), Durango by Julia Cho directed by Chay Yew (ASM). Lincoln Center Theater: Open Stages’ production of Macbeth, LCT Directors Lab 2008 & 2009. FringeNYC: The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival, Kaddish (or the Key in the Window) directed by Kim Weild. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; Rag and Bone and Stay. Regional: A.R.T., Hartford Stage Company, New York Stage & Film, Paper Mill Playhouse and Trinity Repertory Company.
J. ALLEN SUDDETH (Fight Direction Consultant). SAFD Fight Master, J. Allen is a Broadway veteran of nine shows, over 150 Off-Broadway shows and hundreds of regional theatre productions. He has staged action for over 750 television shows and teaches at Rutgers, SUNY and Strasberg. Allen is also the author of a book, Fight Directing for the Theatre. Theatre for a New Audience: Henry V, Henry VI, As You Like It.
CICELY BERRY (Vocal and Text Consultant) has been Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1970 when she was invited by Trevor Nunn to take over the voice work with the actors. This work has developed considerably, and there is now a four-member voice team working in the Company. Cicely has worked with major theatre companies all over the world: she has also worked regularly with Nos Do Morro, a company based in Vidigal, one of Rio’s favelas. She has made a series of videos, Working Shakespeare, with top English and American actors. She has had a very close and happy association with TFANA over many years. Cicely has recently been awarded the CBE, Commander of the British Empire, for her pioneering work in theatre.
MICHAEL PAGE & AMY DALBA (General Management). As a team Michael and Amy have general managed the recent productions of No Child… by Nilaja Sun, Craig Wright’s Mistakes Were Made starring Michael Shannon and Thaddeus Phillips’ Capsule 33 at Barrow Street Theatre. Michael is has been the managing director at BST since 2008, managing the venue for many productions including the landmark production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. www.barrowstreettheatre.com
PRODUCTION CORE (Production Supervision) lends support and guidance to theatre companies who produce high quality theatrical performances and events, who need direction/support on the collaboration, planning and execution of the production process. The Production Core team is James E. Cleveland, Katy Ross, Joshua Scherr, Jared Goldstein, Adrian White, Rob Reese and Ron Grimshaw. Current projects include Unnatural Acts at Classic Stage Company, Play It Cool at Theatre Row, The Ohmies at Playwrights Horizons, Septimus & Clarissa at Baruch Performing Arts Center, Invasion! at The Flea Theatre and Kithless in Paradise at Theatre Row. www.productioncore.net
JEFFREY HOROWITZ (Producer, Founding Artistic Director, Theatre for a New Audience) 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. 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 and the Artistic Directorate of London’s Globe Theatre. He received the John Houseman Award in 2003 and The Breukelein Institute’s 2004 Gaudium Award.
SCOTT MORFEE & TOM WIRTSHAFTER (Producers, Founders of Barrow Street Theatre). Since founding BST in 2003, Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter have presented more than 50 shows and artists from around the world. Additionally, they produced the recent landmark production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Mistakes Were Made, Gone Missing, No Child…, Orson’s Shadow, Bug, TJ & Dave and Eat the Taste. Also, Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre); Underneath the Lintel (SoHo Playhouse); and finer noble gases and Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Mr. Morfee also produced Killer Joe at SoHo Playhouse. Mr. Wirtshafter has produced Bridge & Tunnel (Culture Project & Broadway) and serves on the boards of The Town Hall Foundation and Culture Project.
JEAN DOUMANIAN (Producer). Broad way credits include The Book of Mormon (Tony Award for Best Musical), The Motherf**ker With the Hat, The House of Blue Leaves, Superior Donuts, August: Osage County (Tony Award for Best Play; producing the feature film adaptation with The Weinstein Company) and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Upcoming on Broadway: the 2010 Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop. Off-Broadway highlights include David Cromer’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Mistakes Were Made, When the Rain Stops Falling, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Fuddy Meers, Bat Boy the Musical, Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, Dinah Was and Death Defying Acts. The company has produced films by David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner), David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls), Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, Sweet and Lowdown, Celebrity and Small Time Crooks) and Sven Nykvist (The Ox).
SOMERLED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Producer). Founded in 2005 by Robert and Wendy Macdonald, The Somerled Charitable Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation primarily focused on nurturing artists,  performers and new works. Major projects include Bloodties (2010, world premiere at NYMF, Award for Excellence in Music); Ron Carter’s Great Big Band (2010, jazz CD); Time After Time (2009, new musical reading directed by Gabriel Barre); Star Dust & Beyond: A Tribute to Artie Shaw (2006, big band CD).
BURNT UMBER PRODUCTIONS (Producer), Judi Krupp and Bill Gerber. Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, American Idiot, Elling. Off-Broadway: David Cromer’s Our Town, Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl (Edinburgh Fringe and London Mime).
CHRISTIAN CHADD TAYLOR (Producer) was a producer on Craig Wright’s Mistakes Were Made at the Barrow Street Theatre and he serves as the Chair of the Board of A Red Orchid Theatre. He is based in Chicago and San Francisco and practices intellectual property law at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP.
MARC AND LISA BIALES (Producers) have been associated with The Book of Mormon, Mistakes Were Made, Killer Joe, Bug, Adding Machine, Orson’s Shadow and Our Town. Marc is president of Wild Berry Incense. He started the company in 1971 making hand tooled leather goods and incense. The Wild Berry Store is located in the heart of Oxford, Ohio, and now Wild Berry Incense can be found worldwide. Marc was raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and graduated from Miami University where he first met Scott Morfee. Lisa is an independent performing songwriter with six CDs of music under her belt. She performs mostly in the Midwest and is known for her crystal pure voice. Lisa grew up in Fairfield, Ohio and graduated from Ohio University with a Master’s in Theatre. Look for Lisa on the silver screen in Francis Ford Coppola’s new movie Twixt.
TED SNOWDON (Producer) is represented this fall with the Olivier Award-winning The Mountaintop on Broadway and Terrence McNally’s Master Class at MTC. Recent credits include Time Stands Still, Our Town, Secrets of the Trade, The Mountaintop in London (Olivier Award), Spring Awakening, reasons to be pretty, The Little Dog Laughed and Souvenir. His career dates back to the 1979 Tony winner The Elephant Man.
DOROTHY RYAN (Managing Director, Theatre for a New Audience) joined Theatre for a New Audience in 2003. She spent the previous ten years devoted to fundraising for the 92nd Street Y and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Ryan began her career in classical music artist management and has also served as company manager for Chautauqua Opera, managing director for the Opera Ensemble of New York and general manager of Eugene Opera.