Creative Team

PERICLES

Written by William Shakespeare
Music Composed by Shaun Davey
Featuring Christian Camargo
Directed by Trevor Nunn

Featuring: Oberon K.A. Adjepong*, Earl Baker Jr.*, Christian Camargo*, Philip Casnoff*, Patrice Johnson Chevannes*, Gia Crovatin*, Lilly Englert*, Nina Hellman*, Zachary Infante*,  John Keating*, Ian Lassiter*, Sam Morales, John Rothman*, Will Swenson*, Raphael Nash Thompson*, and PigPen Theatre Co. with Alex Falberg*, Ben Ferguson*, Curtis Gillen*, Ryan Melia*, Matt Nuernberger*, Arya Shahi*, and Dan Weschler*.

Musicians: Haley Bennett, John Blevins, Philip Varricchio, and Jessica Wang

Scenic Designer: Robert Jones; Costume Designer: Constance Hoffman; Lighting Designer: Stephen Strawbridge; Sound Designer: Daniel Kluger; Choreographer: Brian Brooks; Props: Eric Reynolds; Fight Director: J. Allen Suddeth; Vocal Coach: Andrew Wade; Dramaturg: Jonathan Kalb; Casting: Deborah Brown; Hair/Wig & Makeup Designer: David Bova;  Music Director: Charles Reuter; Associate Director: Illana Stein
Assistant Stage Manager: Marjorie Ann Wood*
Production Stage Manager: Renee Lutz*

*Actors and Stage Manager appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association.

TREVOR NUNN (Director). Trevor Nunn is the former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1968-1986) and Great Britain’s National Theatre (1996-2003). He is renowned for his numerous classical productions with the RSC, as well as some of the most successful contemporary musicals and plays of our time, including Les Misérables, Cats, Starlight Express, and Sunset Boulevard. Most recently, he was made the Artistic Director in Residence at Theatre Royal Haymarket for the 2011-2012 season, during which time he directed The Flare, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Tempest. He has continued a highly successful career in the commercial theater and has directed the films Hedda, Lady Jane, and Twelfth Night.
ShaunDavey SHAUN DAVEY (Music Composer) . Scores include Twelfth Night (dir. Trevor Nunn), The Tailor of Panama, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Ella Enchanted. In 2000, he collaborated with Richard Nelson on the musical James Joyce’s The Dead which was performed on Broadway, for which the score was nominated for a Tony.
Oberon KA Adjepong_150x150 OBERON K.A. ADJEPONG (Thaliard/Pandar) TFANA: Tamburlaine. NY/Regional: 12 Angry Men (Billie Holiday); Like I Say, Cellophane (Flea); Mother Courage, The Blacks (Classic Stage, CTHNYC); Wabenzi (New Ohio); Hamlet Project (LaMama); Sango (AUDELCO Nom./NBT); Civil War Christmas (Centerstage); Electric Baby (Two Rivers); Good Goods (Yale Rep); Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre/IRNE Award, Berkeley Rep); Timon of Athens, Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre); Rhyme Deferred (Kennedy Center). TV/Film: “Blacklist,” “The Knick,” “Louie,” Tallulah, Freedom, Crazy Famous, Colin Warner. Training: BADA & Howard University.
EBaker400x400 EARL BAKER JR. (Antiochus/Cerimon) Some memorable theatre credits include: The Tempest (La Mama), Angelique (MCC), Superior Donuts (Denver Center Theatre), Luminosity (Playmakers Rep), Proof (Virginia Stage Co.), 12 Angry Men (Merrimack Rep), After-Play (George St. Playhouse), Othello (Playmakers Rep), Twelfth Night  (Yale Rep), The Killing Act (Williamstown). TV: Multiple roles. Film: The Cobbler, Win Win, The Visitor, The Ten, Four Lane Highway, Everyday People, Brother to Brother. MFA Yale.
Patrice Johnson_150x150 PATRICE JOHNSON CHEVANNES (Bawd/Lychorida) TFANA: Tamburlaine, Coriolanus. Broadway: Racing Demon; The Crucible, starring Liam Neeson.  Patrice also starred as Desdemona, opposite Patrick Stewart, in Othello. Off-Broadway: Steel Hammer. AUDELCO Nom., Best Actress: Tamburlaine, Angelique. Barrymore Nom., Best Actress: Coming Home. AUDELCO Award: For Colored Girls (dir. Ntozake Shange). Patrice directed three feature films through her company God-And-All-O-Wee Productions: Kings County, NY’s Dirty Laundry, and Hill and Gully. She’s happy to return to TFANA.
NewChristainCarmargo400x400 CHRISTIAN CAMARGO (Pericles) TFANA: title roles in Hamlet (Obie Award, Drama League Nom.), Coriolanus. Christian Camargo began his career in New York and London theatre after graduating from the Juilliard School of Drama. Broadway/Off-Broadway: Romeo & Juliet, All My Sons, Skylight (Theatre World Award), Kit Marlowe (Public), Underpants (CSC). Inaugural company member of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London, performing in Henry V and A Chaste Mad in Cheapside. Was also a company member of BAM/Old Vic’s the Bridge Project, performing in The Tempest and As You Like It.
PCasnoff400x400  PHILIP CASNOFF (Helicanus) Broadway: Chicago (with Bebe Neuwirth), Shogun (Blackthorn), Chess (Freddy, Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Nom.), Devil’s Disciple (with wife, Roxanne Hart). New York/Regional: Todd Rundgren’s Up Against It (NYSF, Drama Desk Nom.), Dodgers Theater Company (in residence at BAM & NYSF), Twelfth Night (Orsino, Yale Rep), Longwharf, Arena Stage, ACT. TV: “Strong Medicine” (Series Regular, also directed several episodes), “Oz” (Stanislavsky, HBO), “North and South,” title role in “Sinatra” (Golden Globe Nom.), “Dollhouse,” “Perception,” “Gray’s Anatomy,” “CSI,” “Scream Queens.”
GCrovatin400x400 GIA CROVATIN (Thaisa) Theatre: The Money Shot (MCC), reasons to be pretty and Reasons to Be Happy (LA Theatreworks), Good Luck [In Farsi] (59E59), In The Beginning (Theatre Row), Lovely Head (LaMama), The Learned Ladies (art.party.theatre.company). TV: “Younger” (TVLand), “Benders” (IFC), “The Knick” (Cinemax), “Billy & Billie,” “Full Circle” (DirecTV), “The Good Wife” (CBS), “Hell On Wheels” (AMC), “Californication” (Showtime). Film: The Depths, Finding Her, Dirty Weekend, Seven Lovers, Ned Rifle, Sure Thing, My America, BFF, Ostrander, When Harry Tries to Marry.  
LEnglert400x400 LILLY ENGLERT (Marina) made her stage debut as Hermia in Julie Taymor’s critically-acclaimed adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at TFANA. Additional theatre credits include Cordelia in King Lear (TFANA) and Cissy in Punk Rock (MCC, dir. Trip Cullman). Englert will next be seen in the feature Wilde Wedding, by writer/director Damian Harris, opposite Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Minnie Driver, Patrick Stewart and Peter Facinelli. Lilly trained at Stella Adler and RADA.
NHellman400x400 NINA HELLMAN (Dionyza) Off-Broadway: 10 out of 12 (Soho Rep); Great Lakes (New Georges & Women’s Project); Paris Commune (BAM-Civilians); The Internationalist (Vineyard – Lortel Nom.); Trouble In Paradise (Hourglass – Obie Award); Curmudgeons in Love  (EST); The Ladies, In The Footprint (Civilians); Boozy, Heddatron (Les Freres); Once in a Lifetime (Atlantic). Regional: Huntington, South Coast Rep, Geva. Film/TV: “Wet Hot American Summer” (Netflix, Series Regular), “Nurse Jackie” (Recurring), Role Models, The Ten, “Damages,” “Venture Brothers,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Webseries: “Wainy Days,” “Expecto Patron.” Board Member of Clubbed Thumb.
ZInfante400x400 ZACHARY INFANTE (Leonine/2nd Fisherman) is happy to be home at TFANA and honored to be working with Trevor Nunn. Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dir. Julie Taymor), Matthew Lopez’s Somewhere (Dir. Giovanna Sardelli, Hartford Stage), Tamburlaine The Great (Dir. Michael Boyd), and Peter Pan (Dir. Mark Hoebee, Paper Mill Playhouse). Film/TV: School Of Rock (Dir. Richard Linklater), GOTHAM, and Alpha House. NYU’13 (CAP21 & ETW) & Founding Executive Director of Madcap Repetory Theatre www.ZacharyInfante.com
JKeating400x400 JOHN KEATING (Boult/1st Fisherman) TFANA: Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, The Broken Heart, Measure for Measure. Off-Broadway: Atlantic (The New York Idea), Mint (John Ferguson and Is Life Worth Living?), Roundabout (Juno and the Paycock), Irish Rep (15 shows, recently: Da, Juno, The Weir, Aristocrats). Most leading regional theatres. TV: “Boardwalk Empire” (Eddie Moran), “John Adams” (Pickering), “The Following,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Alpha House,” etc. Film: The Lone Ranger, Emerald City. 120 audiobook narrations (Audie winner).
Ian Lassiter_150x150 IAN LASSITER (Lysimachus). TFANA: An Octoroon. Broadway: War Horse (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: Antony & Cleopatra (Public, RSC Swan Theatre UK), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Kazino), Mission Drift (co-writer/performer; Connelly Theater, US; National Theatre, London). Regional: Oliver! (Arena Stage), Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Co.), An Iliad: Guerrillas at Troy (Continuum Company, Florence, Italy), Henry V (Two River Theater). MFA: NYU. ianlassiter.com
SMorales400x400 SAM MORALES (Daughter/Handmaid) is ecstatic to be making her TFANA debut; she is honored to be working with this cast and with Trevor Nunn! New York: Halley Feiffer’s It’s Just Weird Now… Regional: Romeo & Juliet, The Tavern, The Comedy of Errors (Scranton Shakespeare Festival). Sam is an acting student of Matthew Corozine. A HUGE thank you to Debby Brown. Proud graduate of the University of Scranton. This is for Anthony.
JRothman200x200 JOHN ROTHMAN (Simonides) TFANA debut. Recent: The Homecoming (Berkshire Theater Group), Romeo and Juliet (CSC). Broadway: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Relatively Speaking, Prelude to a Kiss, Some Americans Abroad. Off-Broadway: Richard Nelson’s plays at Playwrights Horizons; New Group; The Vineyard. His film career spans more than thirty years and ninety films from Ghostbusters, The Devil Wears Prada. He will star in the new Amazon series “One Mississippi” with Tig Notaro.
WSwenson400x400 WILL SWENSON (Cleon) most recently starred opposite his wife Audra McDonald in Moon for the Misbegotten at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Broadway: Les Miserables, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Hair (Tony and Drama Desk Noms.), 110 in the Shade, Lestat, Brooklyn. Off-Broadway: Murder Ballad, Little Miss Sunshine, Rock of Ages, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Adrift in Macao. Tours: Miss Saigon, We Will Rock You. Film/TV: The Switch, Sons of Provo, “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order,” This Is Where I Leave You.
RNashThompson400x400 RAPHAEL NASH THOMPSON (Gower) TFANA: The Tempest (dir. Julie Taymor), The Merchant of Venice (with F. Murray Abraham). New York: Othello (Pearl), Black Codes from the Underground (LCT), Appelemando’s Dream (Vineyard), The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull). Regional: Paul Robeson (TheaterWorks), Drowning Crow (Goodman), The Threepenny Opera (Wilma), Richard III (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival). Film: Searching for Bobby Fischer, Clockers, Kiss of Death. TV: “Third Watch” (NBC), “Ed” (CBS), “Soul Food” (Showtime).
PIGPEN THEATRE CO. (Players and Musicians) TFANA debut. Theatre: The Old Man and The Old Moon, The Mountain Song, and The Nightmare Story. Film: Ricki and the Flash (dir. Jonathan Demme).
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