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The Beard of Avon creative team || Twelfth Night creative team || playwrights’ bios
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Kenneth Albers*
JOHN HEMINGE /LORD BURLEIGH (The Beard of Avon)
SIR TOBY BELCH (Twelfth Night)
Ken is delighted to return to Portland Center Stage, where he directed Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca and last appeared as John Tarleton in George Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance. He is also delighted to once again inhabit the worlds created by Bill Bloodgood, who designed Ken’s productions of Chicago and Ladies of the Camelias at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. But, most of all, Ken is delighted to be sharing the stage with his most treasured actress, friend and colleague, Catherine Lynn Davis, and to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary together in the City of Roses.
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Brad Bellamy*
OLD COLIN /EARL OF DERBY (The Beard of Avon)
FESTE (Twelfth Night)
Brad is a veteran of New York’s off-Broadway scene. He most recently appeared at the Cape Playhouse in Corpse. Other regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Atlanta’s Alliance Theater, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center, Long Wharf and Studio Arena, to name just a few. Film appearances include Ira and Abby, The Spring in Her Step, Character Assassins and The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Ben Buckley
GEOFFREY DUNDERBREAD /LUDIBUNDUS / CLEOPATRA / LAVINIA / KATE (The Beard of Avon)
CURIO /OFFICER/PRIEST (Twelfth Night)
This is Ben’s Portland Center Stage debut. He is a recent graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he earned a B.A. in acting. Since returning to Portland, he has been seen at Artists Repertory Theater (The Seagull), the Broadway Rose (The Andrews Sisters, Singin’ in the Rain), STAGED! (The Secret Garden) and Lakewood Theatre Company (Hello Dolly!, Where’s Charley?, Oklahoma).
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Catherine Lynn Davis*
ANNE HATHAWAY (The Beard of Avon)
MARIA (Twelfth Night)
Catherine has appeared at Yale, Milwaukee, Indiana, Kansas City and St. Louis Repertory Theaters, as well as Syracuse Stage, GeVa Theatre Center, Cleveland Play House, American Players Theater and the acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she was a company member for nine seasons. She has played Shakespeare’s Juliet, Cordelia, The Fool, Viola, Desdemona, Titania, Hermione, Miranda, Olivia, Dromio and Regan; Shaw’s Raina and Cleopatra; Chekhov’s Irena and Natasha; and Ibsen’s Nora. Cate is delighted to make her debut at PCS with this great rep!
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Carol Halstead*
QUEEN ELIZABETH /PLAYER (The Beard of Avon)
OLIVIA (Twelfth Night)
Carol was last seen at Portland Center Stage as Haley Walker in Bad Dates. Carol has appeared on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man and Off-Broadway in Walking Down Broadway, Pericles, Easter Candy, Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy and The Mask. Other New York credits include work at the Cherry Lane Theatre, the Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Mint, Red Bull Theatre, the Westbeth, NY International Fringe Festival and Vital Theatre Company. Regional credits include Milwaukee Shakespeare, Baltimore’s Center Stage, San Jose Rep, The Chautauqua Theater Company, Denver Center Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, the Shakespeare Theatre, DC and PCPA Theatrefest.
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Daniel Harray*
WALTER FITCH /GRUMIO (The Beard of Avon)
SEBASTIAN (Twelfth Night)
Daniel is delighted to make his Portland Center Stage debut. Theater credits include The Comedy of Errors (Orlando Shakespeare Theater, FL); The Beaux’ Stratagem, Don Juan (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC); As You Like It (The Kennedy Center); Twelfth Night (Perseverance Theatre, AK) and Wit (Seattle Repertory Theatre). Daniel is also a company member of Book-It Repertory Theatre (WA), and has performed in its world premieres of Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, The Awakening and Hard Times, all directed by Jane Jones.
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Brent Harris*
EDWARD DE VERE (The Beard of Avon)
ORSINO (Twelfth Night)
Brent recently played Laurence Olivier in Orson’s Shadow at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, for which he received a Barrymore Award nomination. In three seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he appeared in Present Laughter, Much Ado About Nothing, The Royal Family, Doctor Faustus and Richard II. Other regional credits include the Denver Center Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre, D.C, Seattle Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cape Playhouse, Missouri Rep, Syracuse Stage, Virginia Stage Company, and in New York, the Actors Company Theatre, the Pearl Theatre, and the Promenade Theatre.
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Rob Krakovski*
RICHARD BURBAGE / LORD WALSINGHAM / MARCUS / ALEXANDRIO./MARK ANTONY/PETRUCIO (The Beard of Avon)
CAPTAIN /ANTONIO (Twelfth Night)
Prior to the role of Victor Fleming in Capital Rep’s Moonlight and Magnolias and Jack Wetherall’s production of Measure for Measure at New Jersey Shakes, Rob originated Heidegger in Hannah and Martin at San Jose Rep, Macbeth in Macbeth, Claudius in Hamlet, Sergius in Arms and the Man at the St. Louis, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, respectively, as well as various roles at Hartford Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Place Theater —London, the Edinburgh Festival and the Georgian Republic Arts Festival.
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Darius Pierce*
WILLIAM SHAKSPERE (The Beard of Avon)
SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK (Twelfth Night)
Darius was last seen at PCS as Gunner in Misalliance and Louis in Marie Antoinette (JAW 2007). He is a proud member of Theatre Vertigo and the Anonymous Theatre Company. Past roles include: Nurse Silver and Principal Pea in Girl on Girl, Charles in Power of Sail (Brown/Trinity Repertory); Krogstad in A Doll’s House, Carl in A Devil Inside (Theatre Vertigo); Faust in Faust.Us. (Stark Raving Theatre); Ira in It’s Only a Play (Profile Theater); Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Northwest Children’s Theater); and Hysterium in A Funny Thing…Forum (Anonymous Theatre Company).
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Jennifer Lee Taylor*
MINSTREL / WENCH (The Beard of Avon)
VIOLA (Twelfth Night)
Jennifer is happy to return to Portland Center Stage after playing Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. In Seattle she has performed at Book-It Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, the Empty Space Theatre and A Theatre Under the Influence; in California at San Jose Repertory Theatre and L.A.’s Circus Theatricals. She has also performed at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia with Windmill Performing Arts. She also works extensively as a voice-over artist on radio and television and has voiced many video games, including Cortana in the Halo series and Princess Peach and Toad in the Mario Brothers games.
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Brian Thompson*
HENRY CONDEL / SIR FRANCIS BACON (The Beard of Avon)
MALVOLIO (Twelfth Night)
Brian has previously appeared at Portland Center Stage in Noises Off, Arms and the Man, Private Lives, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Devils, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Pride and Prejudice and, most recently, The Fantasticks, for which he won a 2006 Drammy Award as Henry. He has worked at Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center and San Jose Rep, as well as San Francisco’s Eureka and Marines Memorial Theatre. Brian spent six seasons as a member of the Berkeley Repertory Company, two seasons with Oregon Shakespeare Festival and seven seasons with Seattle’s Intiman. He was the founding artistic director of the Bathhouse Theatre in Seattle and has worked in Seattle’s major theaters.
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John Wernke*
HENRY WRIOTHESLEY /LADY LETTICE (The Beard of Avon)
VALENTINE / FABIAN (Twelfth Night)
John is elated to be making his PCS debut. He performed the title role in Theophilus North most recently at the People’s Light and Theater Co. John has also dabbled in modern dance with Meredith Monk, played in productions with Ma-Yi Theater company (an Asian American theater company specializing in new works), and aided/acted/collaborated with Collaboration Town (a collaborative theater experience specializing in new works).
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the playwrights
Amy Freed
The Beard of Avon
Amy is the author of The Beard of Avon, Freedomland, Safe in Hell, The Psychic Life of Savages and other plays. Her work has been produced at South Coast Rep, New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Rep, American Conservatory Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth and other theaters around the country. Her most recent play, Restoration Comedy, debuted at Seattle Repertory and was produced at the Old Globe last season. Amy has been the recipient of the Joseph Kesselring Award, the Charles MacArthur Award, is a several time winner of the LA Drama Critics Circle Award, and was a Pulitzer finalist for Freedomland. She is artist-in-residence in the drama department of Stanford University.
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.” His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer and part-owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men. Few records of Shakespeare’s private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
The Beard of Avon creative team
Playwright Amy Freed
Director Chris Coleman
Scenic Designer William Bloodgood
Costume Designer Deborah Trout
Lighting Designer Nancy Schertler
Sound Designer Casi Pacilio
Composer Joshua Kohl
Choreographer Jessica Wallenfels
Voice & Text Coach Teresa Thuman
Fight Director John Armour
Stage Manager Erin Robson-Smith* (Dec. 1, 2007 - Jan. 13, 2008)
Stage Manager Mark Tynan* (Jan. 14, 2008 - Close)
Assistant Stage Manager Mark Tynan* (Dec. 1, 2007 - Jan. 13, 2008)
Assistant Stage Manager Jamie Hill* (Jan. 14, 2008 - Close)
Associate Sound Designer Sam Kusnetz
Production Assistants Zachary Lifton and Ricardo Ramirez
NY Casting by Harriet Bass
Casting Rose Riordan
*The actors and stage managers in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Twelfth Night creative team
Playwright William Shakespeare
Director Jane Jones
Scenic Designer William Bloodgood
Costume Designer Deborah Trout
Lighting Designer Nancy Schertler
Sound Designer Casi Pacilio
Composer Joshua Kohl
Choreographer Jessica Wallenfels
Voice and Text Coach Teresa Thuman
Fight Director John Armour
Stage Manager Mark Tynan*
Assistant Stage Manager Erin Robson-Smith* (Dec. 1, 2007 - Jan. 13, 2008)
Assistant Stage Manager Jamie Hill* (January 14, 2008 - Close)
Production Assistants Zachary Lifton and Ricardo Ramirez
NY Casting by Harriet Bass
Casting Rose Riordan
*The actors and stage managers in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Recorded music for both plays performed by Joe Bichsel (cello, viola de gamba), Beth Fleenor (clarinet and bass clarinet), Michael Nicolella (guitar) and Samantha Boshnack (trumpet). Music recorded and edited by Robert Kunz.
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