The Acting Company
Asolo Rep's acting company is composed of the following talented individuals. In addition to our resident company and third year M.F.A. students of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, they come to our stage from other cities and our own community. "Associate Artist" is a title given to a group of resident Equity actors who have made a personal and professional commitment to Asolo Rep for more than three years, established an official residence in this community and have made a special commitment to Asolo Rep's longevity. In return, these actors constitute the "leadership" of the acting company and serve in a variety of capacities for the institution, including mentoring students of the Conservatory. Those professional actors who are members of the Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, are noted with an asterisk.

	AUSTIN ABRAMS Second season (Mamillius, The Winter’s Tale) Recent roles include the Footman and Children’s Chorus, The Plexiglass Slipper (Asolo Rep); Chip, Beauty and the Beast (Golden Apple Dinner Theatre); and Craig in the original production of The Book (commissioned by the City of Sarasota). He is 12 years old and has been acting since the age of 5 after attending a summer camp at Florida Studio Theatre, where he has continued his theatre education. Other interests include table tennis, aikido, singing, and snowboarding. Much love and thanks to his family for their support.
	ELISABETH AHRENS First season, third-year Conservatory student (Lily, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Angelique, The Imaginary Invalid; Dorcas, The Winter’s Tale) Last season: The Duchess, The Duchess of Malfi; Karen, Speed the Plow; and The Woman, Murder by Poe. A native Kansan, Elisabeth received her bachelors in theatre from the University of Kansas and has worked regionally in theatre and film. She thanks her loving family and generous sponsors Bruce and Janet Udell, Leland and Ginny Miles, and Janet Cantor and Shirley Sivitz.
	BRENT BATEMAN First season, third-year Conservatory student (The Giver, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; De Bonnefoi, The Imaginary Invalid; Autolycus, The Winter’s Tale; Executioner, The Devil’s Disciple) Last season: Theo,The Underpants; Accent Actor/Minister, Murder by Poe; and Cadmus, The Bacchae. Favorite roles include Orson Welles, It’s All True; Dr. Watson, Sherlock’s Last Case; Pseudolus, A Funny Thing Happened…Forum; and Sweeney, Sweeney Todd. BA in Theatre, University of Alaska, Anchorage. He thanks his friends, family, classmates, instructors and donor Mrs. Esther M. Mertz, for their love, guidance and support. Gratitude to Dr. John Clark and staff at Providence Alaska Medical Center for saving his life.
	DAVID BREITBARTH* Associate Artist, thirteenth season (Bouchard/Gauguin, Inventing Van Gogh; Polixenes, The Winter’s Tale; Hawkins, The Devil’s Disciple; Kreutzer, Perfect Mendacity) Last season: Paul, Misery; Erskine, Smash; and Kenny, Lady. David returns from Peterborough, NH, where he was proud to be in the Players’ 75th season's production of Our Town as Doc Gibbs with the ageless James Whitmore. Over 60 Asolo Rep roles include: Men of Tortuga, A Few Good Men, Pride and Prejudice, Laughing Stock, Rounding Third, Peter Pan, The Front Page, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Immigrant, Hobson's Choice, and Art. Off-Broadway: Short Change (Beckett), Perfect Crime (Clurman), Fluorescent Hunger (EST), This Hard Life (American Jewish Theatre). Los Angeles: Life in the Trees (west coast premiere) and David's Mother. Film & Television: Frasier, Taken!, Law & Order, Fame, and Ena's Adventures. For the Banyan Theater Company (founding member): Sight Unseen, Betrayal, Don Juan in Hell and Otherwise Engaged. He and his dog Koufax happily make Sarasota their home.
	JAMES CLARKE* Associate Artist, thirteenth season (Purgeon, The Imaginary Invalid; Old Shepherd/Gaoler, The Winter’s Tale; Major Swindon, The Devil’s Disciple) Last Season: Mansky, The Play’s the Thing; Jansenius, Smash; Dalton, Equus; Graham, Lady. Past seasons: Amadeus, Men of Tortuga, A Few Good Men, Pride and Prejudice, Enchanted April, Anything to Declare?, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Rounding Third, Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror, The Front Page, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible, The Millionairess, Murder by Misadventure, The Diary of Anne Frank, Inherit the Wind, You Never Can Tell, Filumena, A Flea in Her Ear, Born Yesterday, The Hollow and Twelfth Night. He has performed at Yale Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Geva, Circle in the Square and SoHo Rep. He graduated from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in the 1970s and spent a year with Asolo Rep after graduation. TV credits: Ryan’s Hope (Pat Ryan), Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Legwork (CBS series) and Saracen, a series in England.
	KRIS DANFORD* Guest artist, third season (Beline, The Imaginary Invalid; Hermione, The Winter’s Tale) Kris is delighted to be back for third season with Asolo Rep! She has been seen previously on the Mertz stage as Henrietta in Smash, Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice, Cinderella in The Plexiglass Slipper and in the ensemble of Expecting Isabel. Other favorite projects include The Last Five Years, Five by Tenn, Mirandolina and Sight Unseen. Kris has a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Fredonia State University and an M.F.A. in Acting from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Kris would like to thank her parents, Margot and Warren Coville, and her wonderful newlywed husband, Sam, for supporting her.
	DAN DONOHUE* – Guest Artist, First season (Van Gogh, Inventing Van Gogh; Leontes, The Winter’s Tale; Dick Dudgeon, The Devil’s Disciple) Broadway: The Lion King (Scar). Regional credits include: The Triumph of Love (Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Missouri Rep); The Game of Love and Chance, The Beard of Avon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Seattle Rep); Servant of Two Masters (Intiman); and the world premiere of Inventing Van Gogh (Arizona Theatre Company). In nearly 30 productions with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dan has played such roles as: Lago, Mercutio, Caliban, Mark Antony, Touchstone, Aguecheek, Dvornichek in Rough Crossing, a three year cycle as “Hal” in Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V. TV: The Drew Carey Show. www.dandonohue.com
	MERCEDES HERRERO* Guest artist, first season (Paulina, The Winter’s Tale; and Minka, Murderers) Ms. Herrero is delighted to be making her Asolo Rep debut. Previous credits with these eminent directors include: Las Meninas (San Jose Rep) and King Lear (Indiana Rep/Syracuse Stage) directed by Michael Donald Edwards; Twelfth Night (Yale Rep) and Arms and the Man (national tour/The Acting Company) directed by Mark Rucker. Ms. Herrero has been in many world premieres including the original production of the award winning The Laramie Project. Classical parts include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Arena Stage), Mistress Quickly in Henry V (Delacorte in Central Park), Queen Elizabeth in Richard III (Public) and Augustias in The House of Bernarda Alba. Film and TV: a bevy of lawyers on all four Law & Orders, Deception, The Tao of Steve. Ms. Herrero is a graduate of UVA and the Yale School of Drama.
	DAVID S. HOWARD* Associate Artist, eighteenth season (Mr. Green, Visiting Mr. Green) Past seasons include: Yogi Berra, Nobody Don’t Like Yogi; Judge Biddle, Trying; Grandpa Ben, Broadway Bound. M.F.A., Brandeis University, guest artist and acting teacher there 1967 to 1975. He appeared in over forty plays at the original Asolo from 1976 to 1982, returned in 1995 for A Stone Carver, rejoined company as Associate Artist in 1997. On film, Mr. Howard was featured as Anthony Hopkins’ friend Eddie Sloane in Meet Joe Black; Robin Williams’ doctor in Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry; Doctor Kramer, The Substance of Fire; Irv, Moonstruck; Davis, No Way Home; and Sol Rosenthal in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors. Broadway: Nat in I’m Not Rappaport. Performed in Sam Waterston’s Hamlet at Lincoln Center, and appeared in many regional, Off-Broadway and TV productions.
	DOUGLAS JONES* Associate Artist, twenty-third season (Argan, The Imaginary Invalid; Camillo, The Winter’s Tale; Rev. Anderson, The Devil’s Disciple; Roger, Perfect Mendacity) Last season: Mortimer, The Constant Wife; Turai, The Play’s the Thing; Frank, Equus; Dyson, Lady. Past seasons: Amadeus, Men of Tortuga, A Few Good Men, Pride and Prejudice, Darwin in Malibu, Laughing Stock, Enchanted April, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible, Hay Fever, You Never Can Tell, Art, A Flea in Her Ear, Golden Boy, Black Coffee, King Lear, Nicholas Nickleby and The Kentucky Cycle. Other favorites: Directing The Clean House and playing Vanya (Uncle Vanya) at The Banyan Theater. Doug has spent seasons at Baltimore’s Center Stage, The Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Rep, California Shakespearean Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Boston’s Huntington Theatre, American Stage, The Playmakers, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Florida Studio Theatre and four plays Off-Broadway. Doug graduated from Hobart College and The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London.
	HEATHER KELLEY First season, third-year Conservatory student (Mother/ Rosemary, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Hallie Miller/Marguerite Gachet, Inventing Van Gogh; Perdita, The Winter’s Tale; Judith Anderson, The Devil’s Disciple) Last seen on the Mertz stage in purple tap shoes, understudying the Queen in Plexiglass Slipper. Other credits: Dorset Theatre Festival, Arden Theatre Company, Prospect Theater Company, NY Neo-Futurists and toured for two seasons with the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. She dedicates this season to the memory of her donor, Foster Harmon, and her donors-in-spirit, Eric and Angel Hissom. Love to my class, my family and Lucas. Member of AEA.
	HEATHER KOPP Second season (Shepherdess/Musician, The Winter’s Tale) Heather is thrilled to be returning to Asolo Rep after being in the ensemble of the sold-out pre-Broadway engagement production of A Tale of Two Cities. She just recently finished playing Ulla in The Producers and before that was in Forbidden Broadway, both at Venice Theatre. Heather also played June in Chicago at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre (summer 2008). She has been seen in many shows with the Manatee Players, Sarasota Players and The Island Players. Thank you all involved in The Winter’s Tale for this wonderful opportunity!
	JAMES LEAMING* Guest Artist, first season (Actor, This Wonderful Life) Sixth season as George Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life, American Theater Company (ATC), Chicago. Eighth season, Peninsula Players, Wisconsin: Born Yesterday, The Lady’s Not for Burning, Sherlock Holmes–The Final Adventure, and Botanic Garden (directed by Olympia Dukakis). Chicago: Last of the Boys (Steppenwolf), Prelude to a Kiss (Fox Theatricals), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Big Leap Productions, Victory Gardens), Spinning Into Butter (Goodman) and an After Dark Award for his Dellwood Barker, The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon (Running With Scissors Theater Company). Founding member of ATC, where roles include: Lewie, American Dead; Yank, The Hairy Ape; Cathcart and Major Major, Catch 22. TV: Early Edition and Prison Break. Training: American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), Second City (Chicago).
	DEMARIO MCGREW First season, third-year Conservatory student (Ensemble, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Fleurant, The Imaginary Invalid; Mariner/Shepherd, The Winter’s Tale; Soldier, The Devil’s Disciple; Peoples, Perfect Mendacity) Last Season: Cat, Murder by Poe; Ferdinand, The Duchess of Malfi; and Herr Kinglehoff, The Underpants. A proud graduate of the Theatre Arts department at Alabama State University, DeMario hails from the Port City of Mobile, Alabama. He would like to thank Eva Slane and Phil and Brenda Rever, Tommie Tonea Stewart, Ramona Ward, and Jarvis Adams for their continued support; and his parents Deborah McGrew and Ethel Merriweather for the endless love.
	CAROLYN MICHEL* The Keating Family Foundation Actor Chair – Associate Artist, eighteenth season (Toinette, The Imaginary Invalid; Mrs. Dudgeon, The Devil’s Disciple) Last Season: Mrs. Culver, The Constant Wife; and Ms. Wilson, Smash. Past Seasons: Enchanted April, String of Pearls, Broadway Bound, Morning Star, Hobson’s Choice, The Smell of the Kill, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Millionairess, I’m Not Rappaport, The Corn is Green, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Over The Tavern, Communicating Doors, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Immigrant, How the Other Half Loves. Broadway: Opposite Sid Caesar in Sid Caesar & Company. Off-Broadway: Sold to the Movies. Florida Studio Theatre: Four one-person plays: Ann Landers, The Lady with All the Answers; Rose; The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; Dorothy Parker, One Foot in Scarsdale. Other: Sylvia, Sylvia; Lillian Hellman, Cakewalk; Don’t Dress for Dinner; The Triumph of Love; Learned Ladies. Appeared at Golden Apple & other regional theatres. B.A., Boston University.
	ANN MORRISON* Guest artist, fourth season (Lucy, Murderers) Broadway credits: Lovemusik, Merrily We Roll Along (1982 Theatre World Award). London West End: Peg. Off Broadway: Goblin Market (Drama Desk Nomination), Forbidden Broadway. Ann has done massive regional theater including Asolo Rep’s 1940s Radio Hour, All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Swingtime Canteen; and Banyan Theater’s A Clean House; and world premieres, television, recordings, cabarets and concerts throughout the U.S. and England. Writer/performer: Discourse of a Maid and Annie’s Celtic Kitchen. Co-Founder/Director: Kaleidoscope Theater and Random Play–musical theatre programs for persons with developmental differences. Currently she is resident playwright and master storyteller for Storyteller Theatre of Wonderment, puppetry theatre.
	STEVEN O’BRIEN First season, third-year Conservatory student (Chief Elder, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Cleomenes/Shepherd, The Winter’s Tale; Soldier, The Devil’s Disciple) B.A. Oakland University. Credits include: Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Performance Network, Boars Head, Waterworks, Michigan Classical Reparatory Theatre, the FSU/Asolo Conservatory and independent films. Thank You to Esther M. Mertz for making this experience possible. Following graduation plans include working in regional theaters both as a director and actor, running a company and teaching. Thanks to my family for exceptional support.
	KEVIN O’CALLAGHAN First season, third-year Conservatory student (Jonas, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Florizel, The Winter’s Tale; Christy, The Devil’s Disciple) Last season: Charlie, Speed-the-Plow; Heart, Murder by Poe; and Delio, The Duchess of Malfi. Other credits include American Buffalo, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Private Eyes, Art, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth and Merchant of Venice. Kevin is a proud graduate of Western Michigan University. He thanks his family, friends, and wonderful donors Warren and Margot Coville and Jean and Ted Weiller. Cheers!
	BRAD OSCAR* Guest Artist, first season (P.T. Barnum, Barnum) Brad recently completed a run of The Mystery of Irma Vep at Arena Stage in his hometown of Washington, D.C. where he was also seen as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret and Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees. He originated the role of Franz Liebkind in the Broadway production of The Producers (2001 Tony nomination), and later went on to play the role of Max Bialystock over 1200 times on Broadway, on tour, in London and in the Las Vegas production. Other Broadway and New York credits: Spamalot, the original casts of Jekyll & Hyde and Aspects of Love, Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway, the Encores! Do Re Mi, as well as Santa in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Los Angeles and Branson. Film: The Producers, Building Girl and Old Days. TV: Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Brad is a graduate of Boston University.
	LEAH PAGE  First season (Shepherdess/Musician, The Winter's Tale).  Previous roles include Pam, Baby; Victoria, The Waiting Room; Meg, Little Women; Cecily, The Importance of Being Earnest and Agnes in the Banyan’s reading of E.G.O. She received her MFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Central Florida and is the Education Associate at Asolo Rep. Love to her family, friends, and Kip.
	RANDOLPH PAULSEN First season, third-year Conservatory student (Ensemble, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Cleante, The Imaginary Invalid; Dion/Shepherd, The Winter’s Tale; Soldier, The Devil’s Disciple) Last Season: William Wilson, Murder by Poe; Antonio, Duchess of Malfi; and Versati, The Underpants. Other credits include Life is a Dream, The Swan, Julius Caesar, Bovver Boys, True West and much more. Dolph is excited to join the Asolo Rep company during the 50th anniversary season and to perform great roles with seasoned professionals. Dolph would like to thank his wife Melis, family, classmates and his donors/adoptive parents Bruce and India Lesser, for their love and support.
	JASON PECK First season, third-year Conservatory student (Father, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Patrick, Inventing Van Gogh; Archidamus/Time, The Winter’s Tale; Dr. Doll, Perfect Mendacity) Jason has spent much of his career developing and performing in “new work” for the theatre, collaborating first hand with playwrighting luminaries including: Charles Mee, Eric Bogosian, Jane Anderson and Mark Ravenhill. Film/television: In Her Shoes, NYPD Blue, Family Law, King of Queens, LA Law (MOW), three seasons on Roswell, among others. His work has garnered both the LA Critics’ Drama-logue and Garland Awards. He thanks his incredible donors Nancy Markle, Evelin Corsey and Joyce Menschell, and Alana for her ceaseless love. Member of AEA.
	KRAIG SWARTZ* Guest Artist, second season (Ross, Visiting Mr. Green) Past seasons: Fully Committed and Syncopation. Off-Broadway: Edward Voysey, The Voysey Inheritance; Mr. Windlesham, The Madras House; and Jungle Book at BAM. Philadelphia: Barrymore Awards for Fully Committed (2003); Mason Marzak, Take Me Out (2005); and Betty/Edward, Cloud 9 (2006 nom). Chicago: Goodman, Victory Gardens and Chicago Shakespeare Theatres. Regional: Angels in America (Milwaukee Rep), Major Barbara (Rep/St. Louis), Christmas Carol/Macbeth (Guthrie), Beauty & The Beast (Pioneer), Peter Pan (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Fully Committed (Coconut Grove), Shear Madness (Kennedy Center), Detroit Free Press Theatre Excellence Award for Broadway Bound (Meadowbrook Theater) and Carbonell Award Nominations for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Bent (Caldwell Theatre). TV: SNL. Film: World and Time Enough.
	KIP TAISEY First season (Shepherd/Musician, The Winter’s Tale) Kip is thrilled to make his Asolo Rep debut in The Winter’s Tale. Previous credits include Cliff, Cabaret; Ganymede, Prometheus; Crookedfinger Jake, The Threepenny Opera; Louis/Billy Webster, Sunday in the Park With George; Bob Baker, Wonderful Town; Bob Wallace, White Christmas. M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from the University of Central Florida, B.M. in Music Education from Central Washington University. Kip sends love and thanks to his family in Oregon and to Leah.
	OWEN TEAGUE Second season (Mamillius, The Winter’s Tale) Owen, a ten-year-old fourth-grader at MacFarlane Park IB Magnet School in Tampa, is delighted to return to Asolo Rep. Recent roles include: Ralphie, A Christmas Story (Orlando Repertory Theater); Randolph, Bye Bye Birdie (Players Theatre); Fleance and Young Macduff, Macbeth (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre); Little Gaspard, A Tale of Two Cities (Asolo Rep); Oliver, Oliver! (New Tampa Players); Little Guido, Nine (Players); and Winthrop, The Music Man (Salerno Theatre).
	BRYAN TORFEH* Guest Artist, third season (Gerald, Murderers) Last Season: John, The Constant Wife; Almady, The Play’s the Thing. Past Asolo Rep seasons: Salieri, Amadeus; and King, The Plexiglass Slipper. London and West End roles: Passepartout, Around The World; George, High Society; Mr. Sowerberry, Oliver!; Rico, Copacabana; Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro; Hamlet, The Reduced Shakespeare; and seasons with Royal Shakespeare Company, notably Nicholas Nickleby (U.K. & Broadway). U.S. credits: Kerner, Hapgood (Ahmanson Season, L.A.); Jack, The Importance of Being Earnest (Indiana Rep); Salieri, Amadeus (Indiana Rep and Syracuse Stage); twin Antipholi, Comedy of Errors; King, Loves Labour’s Lost; and Prince, Kean (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). TV: This is Dom Joly and Dead Air (BBC). Film: Velvet Goldmine. Former Director of Drama at Jakarta International School in Indonesia and Course Tutor at Drama Studio London. B.A. from UCSC and trained at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
	MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG First season, third-year Conservatory student (Fiona, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Mopsa, The Winter’s Tale; Essie, The Devil’s Disciple) Last season: Marie Roget, Murder by Poe; Julia, The Duchess of Malfi; and Gertrude, The Underpants. Other favorite productions include: Candy Star, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Wendy, Mysterious Skin; and Young Girl, Autobahn. Michelle remains particularly proud of her understudy performance as Constanza in Asolo Rep’s production of Amadeus (2006-07). Michelle is a 2005 Acting graduate from UCSD. She thanks her family, friends and her donor Leslie Glass for being her support away from home.
	DAVID YEARTA First season, third-year Conservatory student (Asher, The Giver; Preshow, Barnum; Claude, The Imaginary Invalid; Young Shepherd, The Winter’s Tale; Titus, The Devil’s Disciple) Last season: Helicanes, Pericles; Prefect, Murder by Poe; Cardinal, The Duchess of Malfi; and Cohen, The Underpants. Other credits include the FSU Late Night Series and student films; Frank, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Banyan); and favorites Woyzeck, Woyzek; Wilson, The Ruffian on the Stair and Phil, Hurlyburly. BFA in Acting, Florida State University (2001). He thanks his family, the esteemed faculty and his donors, Carol Rickard and Clare Levin for their love and support.
	CAROLYN ZAPUT Eighth season (Emilia/Shepherdess, The Winter’s Tale). Last season: US/Headmistress, Smash. Past seasons: A Christmas Carol; The Crucible; Hay Fever; Look Homeward, Angel; Inherit the Wind; and The Corn is Green. A ‘perspiring’ actor from NYC, Carolyn is thrilled to return this season. She thanks Mr. Edwards, all Angels, artists and crew, applauds all students, and adores her sister and underdiva, Mollie. Above all, she thanks you for your support of the arts.

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MUSICIANS

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THE CREATIVE TEAM

PETER AMSTER Director (This Wonderful Life) Directing credits: Tartuffe, The Importance of Being Earnest, Twelfth Night, The Royal Family and Idiot’s Delight (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Our Town, Driving Miss Daisy, Pride and Prejudice, State of the Union and The Gifts of the Magi (Indiana Shakespeare Festival); London Assurance (American Players); M. Butterfly (Apple Tree); The Mystery of Irma Vep and the Jeff-winning production of Master Class (Northlight); Die Fledermaus, La Traviata and The Magic Flute (Lyric Opera of Chicago); La Belle Helen and Die Fledermaus (Light Opera Works); The Mikado, Side by Side by Sondheim (Skylight Opera); Cosi fan Tutte and Elixir of Love (Chicago Opera); Carmen, The Magic Flute and Tosca (DuPage Opera). Has taught theatre, opera and performance studies at Northwestern University, CalArts, LSU, Columbia College and Roosevelt University.

JEFF BARON Playwright (Visiting Mr. Green) Nominated as Best Play by the Drama League with over 200 productions including several Union Square Theatre performances (New York). Awards include Best Play in Israel, Greece, Germany and Turkey. Baron is the first American playwright awarded with the KulturPreis Europa 2001. Other credits include: Mother’s Day; Mr. & Mrs. G; Bless Me, Father; Give ‘Em an Inch (Los Angeles), and his one act opera Song of Martina (Carnegie Hall). Awards include the Cine Golden Eagle, and presentations at film festivals around the world. TV Credits: The Tracey Ullman Show, A Year in the Life, Sisters, Almost Grown (David Chase) and Nickelodeon. His works have been published in New York Magazine, Dallas Times-Herald, Tetu (Paris), T.O. (Toronto), New York Daily News.

DAVID COVACH Costume Designer (This Wonderful Life) In his thirteenth season, David began with Asolo Rep as a designer/draper and has been the costume shop manager for eight years. In addition to ensuring that all costume production runs smoothly, David is a freelance designer whose credits include: Five Course Love, (Human Race Theatre Company—Dayton, Ohio); Murder by Poe and The Underpants (FSU/Asolo Conservatory); and Nobody Don’t Like Yogi (Asolo Rep) in the Historic Asolo Theater. He has designed more than 100 productions and worked on more than 100 others. Having worked in all levels of theatre from community theatre to the Broadway stage, David appreciates the uniqueness of each opportunity. Some of his work is featured at the Motown Café in NY, Sony headquarters in Japan, and the LBJ library in Texas.

BRAD DALTON Director (Inventing Van Gogh) Recent credits include The Unseen, Black Pearl Sings, The Birth of Something, Madame Butterfly, Carousel and Dead Man Walking, for which he won the prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Director of an Opera in Australia. Other credits include Nickel and Dimed, An American Brat, The Spitfire Grill, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Hamlet, Equus, The Glass Menagerie, The Barber of Seville, Alceste, La Clemenza Di Tito, Il Trovatore, Carmen and A Streetcar Named Desire (at the Kennedy Center and at
the Barbican in London). Brad is a graduate of Harvard University and the National Shakespeare Conservatory. Upcoming shows include Cosi Fan Tutte and the Houston premiere of Grey Gardens.

JEFFREY W. DEAN Scenic Designer (This Wonderful Life, Visiting Mr. Green) Company Senior Property Master Jeffrey has designed well over 200 shows in Florida including designs for television and film. Asolo Rep shows include: Nobody Don’t Like Yogi, Laughing Stock, To Kill a Mockingbird, Broadway Bound, The Smell of the Kill, The Front Page, Inherit the Wind, The Corn is Green, Broadway, You Can’t Take it with You, Look Homeward, Angel, Much Ado About Nothing, The Diary of Anne Frank, I’m Not Rappaport, Sicilian Vespers, Ernani, Tales of Hoffman and L’Ariesiana for the Sarasota Opera. Execution of Justice, Invictus and The Sum of Us for Florida Studio Theatre. Anna in the Tropics, Dracula and We Got Gershwin for American Stage. He is a nationally recognized sculptor and recipient of two Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Awards for Set Design.

PATRICIA DELOREY Vocal Coach (The Giver, The Imaginary Invalid, The Winter’s Tale, The Devil’s Disciple) This is Patricia’s sixth season with Asolo Rep. She is the head of voice, speech, & dialects at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training and is a Certified Associate Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher with her M.F.A. in Voice & Speech from the M.X.A.T./American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. Patricia has taught voice at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia, the University of Bologna at Forli in Italy, and at Texas State University. Ms. Delorey has worked extensively as a professional voice and speech coach both in the United States and internationally, including Phaedra 4.48 directed by Robert Woodruff, Enrico IV directed by Karen Coonrod, and the world premiere of Nocturne directed by Marcus Stern.

STEVEN DIETZ Playwright (Inventing Van Gogh) Steven Dietz’s plays have been widely produced at American regional theatres, as well as Off-Broadway and internationally. Awards include the PEN USA West Award for Lonely Planet; the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award for Fiction; and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play for Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. Recent work includes the Pulitzer-nominated Last of the Boys, and three upcoming premieres: Becky’s New Car, Shooting Star and Yankee Tavern. Mr. Dietz divides his time between Seattle and Austin, where he teaches playwriting at the University of Texas.

ERIK FLATMO Scenic Designer (Murderers) recently designed The Constant Wife for Asolo Rep. Other projects include productions with American Conservatory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, The San Francisco Opera, The San Jose Opera and The Magic Theatre. He teaches set design at Stanford University and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

JUDY GAILEN Scenic Designer (The Imaginary Invalid) recently designed sets for The 13th of Paris (Pittsburgh’s City Theatre), 12 Angry Men (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), and Babes in Arms (Bowdoin College, where she is adjunct lecturer in design). Other projects include sets, and sometimes costumes, for La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Long Wharf, Trinity Rep, Beau Jest Moving Theater, Merrimack Rep, Portland Stage, Yale Rep, George Street Playhouse, Florida Stage, Triad Stage, Anchorage Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Omaha, Perseverance Theatre, Primary Stages, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Skylight Opera, Virginia Stage, Off- and Off-off Broadway. Judy directed The Stooge: A Troubled Clown for Troubled Times and The Dark Clown, written and performed by Michael Lane Trautman. In 2003, she was awarded a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for artistic excellence.

SARAH GLEISSNER* Stage Manager (The Giver, This Wonderful Life, Visiting Mr. Green) Sarah is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2004 with a B.A. in Media and Performing Arts. Production stage management credits at SCAD include The Grapes of Wrath, Pirates of Penzance, The Night of the Iguana, and Balm in Gilead. She spent last summer at Millbrook Playhouse in central Pennsylvania stage managing four musicals in ten weeks, including Peter Pan! Three years ago she was an Asolo Rep stage management intern, and she has stage managed for Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp, the Perry-Mansfield New World Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and the Coastal Carolina Chamber Music Festival.

GORDON GREENBERG Director (Barnum) returns for his second season, after directing Working, to be seen in 2009 at The Old Globe. Credits include: Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel… (Zipper Theatre, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Award noms), Pirates! or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d (conceived with Nell Benjamin) Goodspeed & Paper Mill, Happy Days by Garry Marshall & Paul Williams (Goodspeed, Paper Mill, Boyett Theatricals, National Tour), Edges (Capital Rep., Off-Broadway 12/08 at Urban Stages), The Baker’s Wife (Stephen Schwartz & Joe Stein, Paper Mill, Goodspeed), Cam Jansen (Larry O’Keefe & Nell Benjamin, Lambs Theatre), Theory of Three (NY Stage & Film), Peter Pan (National Tour); Floyd Collins (Signature Theatre), and many TV commercials. Artistic director for Broadway Teachers Workshop (www.broadwayteachersworkshop.com) and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Stanford University, NYU Film School and the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab.

HELEN GREGORY Musical Director (Barnum) has performed Off-Broadway (NY Theatre Workshop, WPA, The Vineyard, Public Theatre, LaMama E.T.C., Hudson Guild), in regional houses, (Goodman Theatre, Indiana Repertory, New Jersey Repertory Company, Birmingham Theatre, Papermill Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre [received 2 Carbonell nominations], Riverside Theatre, & The Hangar Theatre), on national tours (Grease, Joseph…, Oklahoma), for educational institutions, summer stock, dinner theatre, and for numerous weddings. Her original works and arrangements have been featured at several regional theatres (Hudson Guild, Hanger Theatre, Gaslight Theatre, Top Hat Theatre Club, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Diamond Circle Melodrama, & Walnut Hill School) as well as for industrials (American Movie Classics and the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas). Helen wishes to thank her mother, Alice, for paying for many years of piano lessons.

MICHELLE HART Hair/Wig Design (all shows) Michelle, a licensed cosmetologist and certified professional make-up artist, is in her eighth season with Asolo Rep and designs for both Asolo Rep and FSU/Asolo Conservatory shows. Other credits: Sarasota Ballet: Last Call; Florida Studio Theatre: Ruthless the Musical and Lady With All the Answers; West Coast Black Theatre Troope: One Mo Time; Four seasons with Banyan Theater, and Open Stage Theatre: Ideal Husband, Dorian Gray, and Rumors (where she won the Opius Award for Best Hair). She has also done hair and make-up for Joan Rivers, Doris Roberts, and Martin Short. She wants to express her gratitude and great respect to all involved in every aspect of Theatre.

JIM HOSKINS Choreographer (The Imaginary Invalid, The Winter’s Tale) Mr. Hoskins has performed, directed, and choreographed in educational theatre, television, film, the corporate theatre, opera, nightclubs and the legitimate theatre. He has staged more than 400 productions in this country and abroad. Over the past 30 years Mr. Hoskins has taught period movement and dance, and he was the movement specialist for both the graduate and undergraduate programs at Penn State University and the graduate program at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. He resides in Sarasota, where he is an adjunct professor of theatre at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory and staff choreographer for Asolo Rep. Mr. Hoskins’ book, The Dances of Shakespeare, is published by Routledge, New York/London.

KEVIN KENNEDY Sound Designer (This Wonderful Life, Perfect Mendacity) is pleased to return to Asolo Rep for this season’s productions of This Wonderful Life and Perfect Mendacity. Kevin has designed, engineered, recorded, and composed for numerous artists and shows including Darwin In Malibu and Lady at Asolo Rep, Phantom of the Opera, Ghetto, On the Razzle, Webb’s City, The Hellbound Heart, Batboy, Hector and Greshika, many cabaret shows at The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center’s Jaeb Theatre, and numerous local and professional acts. Kevin has also toured as Sound Engineer with the 1st National Tours of Mamma Mia, The Wizard of Oz, Martin Guerre, and Ralph Lemon’s Geography Tour. Kevin is currently the house sound engineer at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater and the sound engineer for the Alan Parsons Live Project.

CATHERINE KING Costume Designer (Visiting Mr. Green) returns this season to design Visiting Mr. Green. She was the resident Costume Designer here for many years, and has designed over 100 productions for Asolo Rep. Now retired (well, almost) and living in Vermont, she is happy to design for this production in the Historic Asolo Theater, an old friend. Most recently she designed Broadway Bound and Front Page for the 2004–2005 season.

TRACI KLAINER Lighting Designer (Barnum) NY credits include: The Asphalt Kiss (59E59, Drama Desk nomination); Based on a Totally True Story (MTC); the Broadway production of Prune Danish starring Jackie Mason (Royale Theatre); Four (MTC, Lucille Lortel nomination); Echoes of the War (Mint Theatre); Dragapella (Upstairs Studio 54); Aliens in America (Second Stage); and BC/EFA’s Nothing Like a Dame 2001–2004. Regional credits include: The Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Capital Repertory, City Theatre, Charlotte Repertory, Adirondack Theatre Festival, George Street Playhouse, and Act II Playhouse. Ms. Klainer is the resident designer for the dance company The Chase Brock Experience and is a partner in the design firm Luce Group.

VIC MEYRICH Production Manager (all shows) Victor is a graduate of Carnegie Tech and worked at New York Shakespeare Festival, Brandeis, University of California Institute of Repertory, APA, American Conservatory Theatre and again in New York. As head of production and technical staffs, he is responsible for the overall technical operation of Asolo Rep and serves as consultant for the FSU Center for the Performing Arts. He has been a member of the Asolo Rep family since 1969.

LIBBY MICKLE Assistant Stage Manager (Barnum, The Imaginary Invalid, Inventing Van Gogh) is proud to be returning to Asolo Rep after being a part of last fall’s pre-Broadway run of A Tale of Two Cities. Libby is an Atlanta native but has also worked regionally at Seaside Music Theatre and Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Libby is now a proud member of Actor’s Equity!  

HOWARD J. MILLMAN Director (Visiting Mr. Green) Mr. Millman retired from Asolo Repertory Theatre where he served as producing artistic director from 1995-2006, and managing director from 1968-1980. Prior to rejoining Asolo Rep in 1995, he was producing artistic director for Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York, and executive director of Pittsburgh Public Theatre. Mr. Millman’s guest directing credits include Pioneer Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Meadowbrook Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Buffalo’s Arena, Delaware Theatre, Theatre Virginia, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Stage West, Peterborough Players and the Cape Playhouse. He was awarded the Florida Professional Theatre Association’s Richard G. Fallon Award for Excellence in Professional Theatre, the Florida Theatre Conference Distinguished Career Award and the Sarasota County Arts Council’s Arts Leadership Award.

AARON MUHL Lighting Designer (This Wonderful Life, Perfect Mendacity) Credits: Around the World in 80 Days, Trapezium, A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Orlando Shakespeare Festival), A Little House on the Prairie, Dancing at Lughnasa (Orlando Repertory Theater), La Serva Pedrona, Bastienne et Bastiette (Historic Asolo), My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra (Florida Studio Theatre). Dance credits: The Two Pigeons, Las Hermanas, Vespri, Grosse Fuge, Elite Syncopations, Allegro Brillante, Infernal Gallop (Sarasota Ballet), Sleeping Beauty, Titus Andronicus, Mozart Trilogy (DWDT), Voices of Fuzion, Shifting Phantoms (Historic Asolo Theater). Currently he is the technical resident lighting designer for the Sarasota Ballet, Moving Ethos Dance Company, and Dominic Walsh Dance Theater. B.F.A. – University of Central Florida.

FABIAN OBISPO Composer & Sound Designer (The Imaginary Invalid) Obispo returns to Asolo Rep after having designed and composed for Pride and Prejudice. Recent off-Broadway credits include Grace, A Very Common Procedure, Last Easter, Oroonoko, The Children of Vonderly, Durango, The Right Kind of People, No Foreigners Beyond this Point, The Romance of Magno Rubio, Two Sisters and a Piano and The Square, to name a few. Regionally, he has designed and composed for Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, DC’s The Shakespeare Theatre, Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. His work has been recognized by the American Theatre Wing’s Hewes Design Award, as well as Helen Hayes, Barrymore, NAACP, Jackie and the Bay Area Critics Circle.

JOSEPH P. OSHRY Lighting Designer (Visiting Mr. Green) A Florida resident since 1986, Joseph is pleased to return to Asolo Rep to light Visiting Mr. Green. His work was seen here last season in the production of Lady. He has designed lighting for over 425 productions with such organizations as the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Seaside Music Theatre, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Ballet Eddy Toussaint USA, the Interlochen Dance Ensemble, Palm Beach Opera and New Orleans Opera. He currently serves as resident lighting designer for in-house productions at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Joseph received an Individual Artist Fellowship in 1997 and 2007 from the state fellowship program sponsored by the Florida Arts Council. Further, he has served as a theatre panelist for the 1999–2000 grant period.

CHRISTOPHER OSTROM Lighting Designer (Inventing Van Gogh) Recent credits include: Semele, Ernani, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony and The Pearl Fishers (Opera Boston); The Magic Flute (Tulsa Opera); and Werther, Once Upon a Mattress, Vanessa and The Cunning Little Vixen (Chautauqua Opera). Other credits include; the world premiere of Eric Sawyer and John Shoptaw’s Our American Cousin and the North American premiere of Peter Eotvos’ Angels in America (Boston Modern Orchestra Project) as well as productions for New Rep, Stoneham Theatre, Provincetown Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Boston Ballet, Snappy Dance Theatre, Boston’s Christmas Revels, Northeast Youth Ballet, Opera Providence, Mobile Opera, Boston Conservatory and New England Conservatory. 2009 marks Christopher’s 11th season as resident lighting designer with Opera Boston.

MATTHEW PARKER Sound Designer (Barnum, The Giver, Inventing Van Gogh, Visiting Mr. Green, Murderers, The Devil’s Disciple) Matt received his B.F.A. in Theatre Production Design and Technology from Ohio University, where he designed Heartbreak House, Luann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Hot L Baltimore. As resident sound designer at the Monomoy Theatre (Cape Cod), he designed South Pacific, Dracula, Private Lives, Richard III, and others. Sound and special effects credits at The Flat Rock Theatre (North Carolina) include I Hate Hamlet, the world premiere of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical, and others. He is most proud of his sound and video designs for the 1992 production of Jesus Christ Superstar at Cumberland County Playhouse (Tennessee). Since 1993, he has designed sound for most of Asolo Rep’s productions. He also wrote and performed the musical scores for The Count of Monte Cristo and Nicholas Nickleby.

CLINT RAMOS Scenic Designer (The Winter’s Tale) Blonde, Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead and Equus (Asolo Rep), The Good Negro (Dallas Theater Center); Una Cosa Rara (Opera Theater, St. Louis); King Lear (Shakespeare Theater, NJ); Three Sisters (Williamstown Theater Festival); Twelfth Night (CalShakes). New York: Public/NYSF, Culture Project, Juilliard, Vineyard, Mint, NAATCO, Ma-Yi, Women’s Project, Red Bull, SPFNY, Foundry, PS 122, Here, Play Company. Regional/International: American Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater, Baltimore Centerstage, Williamstown, Roundhouse, Shakespeare NJ, Folger, La Jolla Playhouse, Opera Boston, Barbican, O’Reilly (Kanon, Rijksteatern, Thalia). Awards/Nominations: Live Design magazine’s 2007 Designer to Watch, NYTW Design Fellowship, Audelco, American Theater Wing Henry Hewes, Elliot Norton, IRNE, Drama Desk, Upcoming: Eurydice (Roundhouse), The Good Negro (Public Theater), Boys’ Life (Second Stage Theater), Endgame (A.R.T)

EMILY REBHOLZ Costume Designer (Murderers) New York: The Language of Trees (Roundabout Theatre); Clay (LCT 3); The Ones That Flutter (SPF); Jollyship the Whizbang, Boom (Ars Nova); U.S. Drag (StageFarm); The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (HERE); Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13P); The Lacey Project (The Ice Factory, Ohio Theatre); Momma (PS 122); Gutenberg! The Musical! (The Actors Playhouse); The Private Lives of Eskimos, I (heart) Kant (The Committee Theater). Regional: Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (Centre Theatre Group); Marat/Sade (Bard College); Doubt, Expecting Isabel (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Broke-ology, Beyond Therapy (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Safe in Hell (Yale Repertory Theatre). Emily has also designed costumes for the photographer Gregory Crewdson. Education: B.A., Northwestern University; M.F.A., Yale School of Drama.

JOSHUA RHODES Choreographer (Barnum) Josh is thrilled to return to Asolo Rep after choreographing Working earlier in the year. Other choreography credits include Neil Sedaka’s musical Breaking Up is Hard to Do at the Ogunquit Playhouse; Chess and Dreamgirls at the North Carolina Theatre; All Singing All Dancing and Broadway by the Year 1954 at Town Hall; Bonnie and Clyde for New York Musical Theatre Festival; and the 2008 Broadway Gala for the Kennedy Center. Josh was the assistant choreographer for the Broadway, West End and national touring productions of The Drowsy Chaperone. His performance credits on Broadway include: Fosse, Bells are Ringing, Sweet Smell of Success, Urban Cowboy, Man of La Mancha, The Boy From Oz and Chicago.

MARK RUCKER Director (Murderers) Previously directed The Constant Wife and Catherine Sheehy’s Pride and Prejudice for Asolo Rep. Recent credits include Rough Crossing (Yale Rep), Twelfth Night (California Shakespeare Theatre) and Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). An associate artist at South Coast Repertory Theater (California), he has directed over 20 productions there including world premieres by Richard Greenberg, Christopher Shinn, Annie Weisman and Culture Clash; and for Arena Stage, the world premiere of Anna Deveare Smith’s House Arrest. Other theaters include: La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep, ACT in San Francisco, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Old Globe, Intiman Playhouse, Ford’s Theater, Utah Shakespearean Festival, George Street Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and The Acting Company. His film Die Mommie Die! won a Sundance Film Festival jury prize.

JAMES D. SALE Lighting Designer (The Imaginary Invalid, The Devil’s Disciple) Mr. Sale has designed over 500 shows in the last 30 years. His work in theater, opera and ballet has taken him all over the United States and the world. Design credits include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, English Speaking Theater of Vienna, Asolo Rep, Denver Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Portland Center Stage, Alley Theater, Seattle Repertory, Studio Arena, Intiman Theater, St. Louis Repertory, Alliance Theater, Hartman, Alley Theater, Alaska Repertory, Spoleto Festival in Italy, LA Opera, Wolf Trap, Opera Colorado, Palm Beach Opera, Tulsa Opera, Colorado Opera Festival, Kansas City Opera, Central City, Sarasota Ballet and Colorado Ballet. He is also senior designer and partner at James Sale Lighting, Inc., a firm specializing in high-end residential and commercial lighting design in Denver, Colorado.

LEE SAVAGE Scenic Designer (Inventing Van Gogh) New York: West Moon Street (Prospect Theater Company), I (Heart) Kant, The Private Lives of Eskimos (Committee Theatre Company), Harvest (LaMaMa E.T.C.), Go-Go Kitty Go! (Fringe NYC, Best Play Award) and Frag (HERE). Regional: The Old Globe, Long Wharf, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, Berkshire Theater Festival, Chautauqua Theater Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater and Philadelphia Theatre Company. International: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Jammer (Fringe First award). Awards: Helen Hayes Award Nomination (Richard III), Connecticut Critics Circle Award (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow) and The Donald and Zorka Oenslager Travel Fellowship. Affiliations: Wingspace Theatrical Design Group, The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Education: B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.

MICHAEL SCHWEIKARDT Scenic Designer (Barnum) created the sets for Ella and critically acclaimed productions 1776 and Big River for Goodspeed Musicals. He designed the American premiere of Frank McGuinness’ The Bird Sanctuary (starring Elizabeth Franz and Hayley Mills) and productions of Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories (starring Lynn Redgrave). For Blue Light Theater Company, Michael designed the sets for Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy, Waiting For Lefty (starring Marisa Tomei), The Big Knife (all directed by JoAnne Woodward); The Seagull (directed by Austin Pendelton) and Michael Cristofer’s Amazing Grace (starring Marsha Mason). Other credits: All Under Heaven (starring Valerie Harper) and Tallulah Hallelujah (starring Tovah Feldshuh). He has designed for numerous regional theaters and James Taylor’s One Man Band Tour. Upcoming projects include the new Duncan Sheik/Kyle Jarrow musical Whisper House. www.msportfolio.com

DANIEL SCULLY Lighting and Projection Designer (The Winter’s Tale) is happy to return to Asolo Rep after designing The Blonde, The Brunette, and The Vengeful Redhead. Recent designs include: Seven Last Words (Lincoln Center Chamber Orchestra Society); Cymbeline, As You Like It, Richard III (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival);  Di Ksube (Folksbeine National Yiddish Theatre); The Greeks - Part II (Juilliard Drama); A Ghost’s Bargain (Two River Theatre Co.); With Glee (NYMTF); Novel and A Wive’s Tale (SPF);  Il Tabarro (Vertical Player Rep. Opera); Big Love (Fordham University); Caligula (Soho Rep) and Alive @ 10 and Rainy Day People (NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program). Dan is resident lighting designer for Abraham in Motion Dance Company and has designed at New York’s City Center, The Kitchen, PS122, Symphony Space, Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Chocolate Factory. M.F.A. – NYU.

EDUARDO SICANGCO Costume Designer (The Imaginary Invalid) returns to Asolo Rep after having designed the sets and the costumes for Das Barbecu and The Plexiglass Slipper. He is happy to be back and working with the incredible David Covach and his fabulous costume shop.

RANDY SPAULDING Music Director (The Imaginary Invalid) has worked with the FSU/Asolo Conservatory since 2004, leading choral workshops and singing tutorials. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Ball State University and a Master’s in Choral Conducting from the University of South Florida. A full-time pastor of the Covenant Mennonite Fellowship and a private piano and voice instructor, he has been active in the Sarasota music scene since 1991. He is also honored to appear on stage with his students this season in the Conservatory production of Three Postcards.

JOHANN STEGMEIR Costume Designer (Inventing Van Gogh) has recently designed We Shall Remain: Tecumseh, a documentary for PBS directed by Ric Burns; Pagliacci for Teatro Verdi in Sassari, Sardinia; and the National Commercials for S& K Men’s Wear. Last fall he worked with Franco Zefferelli in Tel Aviv and Moscow. He has designed for the Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmer Glass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, The Clarence Brown Company, San Diego Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Innovative Theatre, Charlotte Repertory and The Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, among others. He has worked at Covent Garden, Teatro Real (Madrid), La Scala, The Rome Opera, The New Israeli Opera, Savonlinna Festival (Finland) and Theatre des Westens (Berlin). Johann is currently on faculty at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Member USA local 829.

ALEJO VIETTI Costume Designer (Barnum) NY: Grace, Make Me a Song, Tryst, Roulette, The Last Sunday in June, 16 Wounded, 2 X Tennessee, The Wau Wau Sisters, Servicemen, Waiting for Godot, Five Flights, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, Othello, Of a White Christmas, and productions at NY Musical Theatre and NY Fringe Festivals. Regional: Alley Theatre Houston, Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre, Barrington Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Colorado Ballet, Columbia University, Florida Stage, Ford’s Theatre Washington DC, Goodspeed Opera, Hangar, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Metrostage, New York Stage & Film, Northlight, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public, Rockland Opera, San Diego Repertory, Saint Louis Repertory, Signature Theatre Washington, Theatreworks Hartford and Westport Country Playhouse. International: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Donetsk Opera (Ukraine). Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Gold Unit 2007.

MARIAN WALLACE Stage Manager (The Imaginary Invalid, The Winter’s Tale, The Devil’s Disciple, Perfect Mendacity) Marian began stage managing for Asolo Rep in the summer of 1968 with productions of The Alchemist and The Visit, and has continued stage managing from three to five shows each season for 39 years. In addition to stage-managing, Marian is responsible for developing the rehearsal and performance schedules for Asolo Rep’s rotating repertory season. She and her husband, Brad Wallace (Associate Artist), celebrated their 43rd anniversary in September 2008. Along the way they’ve purchased the same home twice, driven one Dodge van for thirty years, and raised three wonderful daughters.

TONY WALTON Director/Scenic and Costume Designer (The Devil’s Disciple) A director and designer, honored with 16 Tony Award nominations for his Broadway sets and/or costumes. Pippin, House of Blue Leaves, and Guys and Dolls won him Tonys. Among his 20 films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz and Murder on the Orient Express earned him 5 Academy Award nominations. All That Jazz won him the Oscar, and Death of a Salesman the Emmy. During the last 12 years he has directed productions of Wilde, Shaw, Coward, and others for New York’s Irish Rep, San Diego’s Old Globe and Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor). He is currently preparing to direct and design the Sherman Brothers’ musical Busker Alley, starring Jim Dale, for Broadway. In 1991 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame.

THOM WEAVER Lighting Designer (Murderers) Recent: Scorched (Wilma Theatre), My Name is Asher Lev (Arden Theatre), ReENTRY (Two River Theatre), Five Fingers of Funk (Children’s Theatre Company, MN), Two Rooms (Lion Theatre Off-B’Way), Twelfth Night (Cal Shakes), Pageant Play and Eleanor (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Teller’s Macbeth (Two River Theatre, Folger Theatre), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (CenterStage), Frankenstein (37 Arts), (DR2), Villa America (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and King Hedley II (Signature Theatre, AUDELCO award). New York: Thrill Me, Medea in Jerusalem, Brian Dykstra: Cornered and Alone, Ghost Lovers and The Transparency of Val. Other Regional: Syracuse Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre and Spoleto Festival USA, and internationally. Resident designer, Eva Silverstein’s SilverBrown Dance; Member, Wingspace Design Group. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

DAVID ZINN Costume Designer (The Winter’s Tale) Broadway costumes for A Tale of Two Cities and Xanadu. Off-Broadway: costumes and/or scenery at NYTW, Theater for a New Audience, Second Stage, Atlantic, MCC, SALT, and Target Margin (Obie Award). Opera: sets and costumes for Orlando, Flavio, La Donna Del Lago (New York City Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen (Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera); Don Giovanni and La Clemenza Di Tito (Santa Fe Opera); and at Glimmerglass, Curtis Institute, Spoleto Festival USA, Arizona Opera and Opera Theater of St. Louis. Theater: sets and/or costumes at A.R.T, the Dallas Theater Center, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Centerstage, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Guthrie Theater, Intiman Theater and Children’s Theater Company.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PROGRAM (all shows) In 07–08, Florida State University instituted a new program in which graduate directing students from Tallahassee spend their second year of training with the FSU/Asolo conservatory and Asolo Repertory Theatre. During this important part of their professional training, the directing students attend classes in text analysis, movement, and directing, the latter taught by conservatory director Greg Leaming and Asolo Rep artistic director Michael D. Edwards. As an essential part of their studies, each directing student is partnered with two professional directors working in the Asolo Rep season. As assistant directors, the students are given professional experience with some of this country’s most important artists. Assigning these young artists to Asolo Rep productions provides the essential bridge from the classroom to the business of creating theater. Our 08–09 directing students are: Candace Cihocki (Assistant Director: The Winter’s Tale and Murderers), Anne Towns (Assistant Director: The Giver and The Imaginary Invalid) and Joel Waage (Assistant Director: Inventing Van Gogh and The Devil’s Disciple). In addition to their work as assistant directors, in the spring these students will also be developing and producing 45-minute adaptations of classic plays, to be presented in various venues around the community. Dates and times for these performances will be announced in the spring.

AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER is a Tony Award–winning theater and educational institution dedicated to nurturing the art of live theater through dynamic productions, intensive actor training in its conservatory and an ongoing dialogue with its community. A.C.T. embraces its responsibility to conserve, renew and reinvent its relationship to the rich theatrical traditions and literatures that are our collective legacy, while exploring new artistic forms and communities. A commitment to the highest standards informs every aspect of A.C.T.’s creative work. Founded in 1965, A.C.T. opened its first San Francisco season at the historic Geary Theater in 1967. More than 300 A.C.T. productions have since been performed to a combined audience of seven million people. The conservatory has moved to the forefront of America’s actor training programs, while serving as the creative engine of the company at large.

MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE (Co-producer, Barnum) In six years, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre (MJT) has become one of Florida’s preeminent professional theatres committed to performance, production and education through its collaborations with local and national artists. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Kato and Managing Director Tricia Trimble as well as a dedicated Board and staff, MJT has received the Best Musical Carbonell Award, South Florida’s highest honor for artistic excellence, for the last two years and increased its subscription base to over 7,000. The Theatre recently built world-class facilities in support of their Conservatory of Performing Arts that serves 350 students in after-school, weekend and summer programs. This year, MJT is the proud recipient of a prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant for its Emerging Artist Series in Musical Theatre Playwriting.

ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES
Creating each season here at Asolo Repertory Theatre is a task that utilizes the talents and creativity of every member of the theatre's artistic and administrative staff. In addition to those who make up the day-to-day heart of Asolo Rep, there is also a select and growing group of outstanding local and national artists whose wisdom and expertise I have come to rely on. Asolo Rep's Artistic Associates help to provide our season with bold artistic excellence and deepen the richness and vitality of Asolo Rep's body of work. It is my pleasure to introduce these individuals to you. – Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director

HOWARD MILLMAN Producing Artistic Director, Asolo Repertory Theatre (retired)

MITCHELL J. MILLS Actor, Producer, digital artist

ROBERT MOSS Artistic Director Syracuse Stage

LYNN NOTTAGE Playwright, professor Yale School of Drama

MARK RUCKER Director

TONY WALTON Set and Costume designer

DAVID ZINN Set and Costume designer

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