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Charles Mee (Playwright, September 15, 1938). has written Big Love, True Love, First Love, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Orestes 2.0, Trojan Women 2.0, Summertime and Wintertime among other plays – all of them available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
 Jimonn Cole (Soldier) Off-Broadway and National Tours: The Exonerated, Puddn' Head Wilson (AUDELCO Award Nom. Best Supporting Actor); Pullman Car Hiawatha (Drama Desk Nom. Best Revival); Museum (both with The Keen Co. NYC). Regional: Gem of the Ocean (Arena), The Last Black Cowboy (Fringe NYC), The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (Alliance), Macbeth (NJ Shakes), Diva (Delaware Theatre Co.), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson), Othello starring Patrick Stewart, The Tempest, Peer Gynt, Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Theatre DC). Film: Spinning Into Butter, The Exonerated.
 Will Fowler (Soldier) Signature Debut. Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream (McCarter Theatre/Papermill Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Alley Theatre), Durango (Eugene O'Neil Center), Take Me Out (Unicorn Theatre), After Juliet (Coterie Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (Kansas City Shakespeare Festival), Guthrie Experience (2003). TV/Film: “Guiding Light”, Sex and Camping, Rigged (upcoming). Education: M.F.A. University of Missouri Kansas City.
 JD Goldblatt (Soldier) Broadway: Les Miserables (Revival). Off-Broadway: Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Acting Company), Avenue X (Dreamlight Theater Co.). Regional: Jelly's Last Jam (Alliance-Suzi Bass Award), Once on this Island (Centerstage), Hair (Barrington Stage Co.), Jacques Brel. . . (Olney Theater), The Servant of Two Masters (Pittsburgh Public Theater Young Co.) Film: BAQ-132, Brother. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
 Chasten Harmon (Soldier). Recently graduated from NYU where she was a part of the esteemed Tisch School of the Arts CAP 21 Musical Theatre Program. Favorite credits from NYU include: Hair, Radiant Baby, and Inside the Belly of the Beast.
 Jesse Hooker (Solider) New York: Some Men (Second Stage), Ex-Pats (The New Group), Drug Buddy (The STAGEfarm) Cigarettes and Chocolate (PTP), Comedia del Smartass (New Georges), Ping Pong Diplomacy (Reverie) Regional: The Rainmaker (Arena Stage), After Ashley, Hazard County (Humana Festivals), Amadeus (Actors Theatre of Louisville), As You Like, Tartuffe (National Players), The Laramie Project (Olney Theatre) TV: “Law and Order”, “As the World Turns”, “Guiding Light” and the animated series “One Piece”, “Yu-Gi-Oh Gx”, and “Chaotic”. Education: Middlebury College.
 Emily Kinney (Bridesmaid). New York: Mary in The One Night Stand Chronicles (Manhattan Repertory), Cinderella in Rupunzella White (13th Street Repertory). Regional: Hermia/Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Summer Theatre of New Cannan).).Film/TV: “Game Killers” (MTV), “Hallowin! Special” (Comedy Central), Gina in Aunt Tigress (Cannes Film Festival 2007), and Tamara in “The Match” (pilot episode) Training: BFA in theatre performance from Nebraska Weslyan University. Acting at Playwrights Horizon in NYU's Spring at Tisch program.
 Louisa Krause (Iphigenia) Most recently starred in Neil Labute's In a Dark Dark House (Lucille Lortel Theatre), Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Huntington Theatre), Aida (Ogunquit Playhouse), Dance Light (Carnegie Mellon Rauh Studio), Side Show and The Cripple of Inishmaan (George C. Marshall), and many others. Kennedy Center performances of Love's Labour's Lost, Coppelia (American Ballet Theatre), and Hansel and Gretel. The Washington Ballet's The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Upcoming Films: The Babysitters and Superheroes.
 Kate Mulgrew (Clytemnestra) New York: Our Leading Lady, Tea at Five (Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Nominations), Black Comedy, Titus Andronicus. London: The Exonerated. Regional: The Royal Family, The Film Society, What the Butler Saw, Hedda Gabler, Measure for Measure, The Real Thing, Another Part of the Forest, Major Barbara. Film: Star Trek: Nemesis, Camp Nowhere, Throw Mama from the Train, A Stranger is Watching. Television: “Ryan's Hope”, “Mrs. Columbo” (Golden Globe Nomination), “Kate Loves a Mystery”, “Cheers”, Captain Kathryn Janeway in “Star Trek: Voyager” (Golden Satellite Award, Saturn Award), and “Black Donnellys” on NBC.
 Tom Nelis (Agamemnon) also at Signature, Hot 'N' Throbbing. A veteran of Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off- Broadway, and off the grid, recent work includes: The Merchant of Venice (TFNA), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Broadway), Score, and The Seven (NYTW). Previously with Charles L. Mee, Jr: Another Person in a Foreign Country (En Garde Arts), Orestes (SITI), The Trojan Women/A Love Story (En Garde), Wintertime (La Jolla/Long Wharf) and bobrauschenbergamerica (SITI/ART). Nelis is a founding member of SITI Company, now celebrating 15 years of work under the direction of Anne Bogart. Awards: OBIE (The Medium), Drama League Nomination (Score), San Diego Critics Award, Ensemble (Wintertime), Barrymore Nomination (Candide). MFA, UC San Diego.
 Angelo Niakas (Greek Man) Greek Cultural Center: The Ten Little Indians, The Trees Died Standing, The Lady Gambler, An Italian Girl in Athens, The Winner. Theatron, Inc.: Friday The 13th, The Miser. Pen & Brush: Greek Decent. National Theatre of Greece: By Cross & Sword.
 Seth Numrich (Achilles) just graduated from The Juilliard School (Group 36!) and is thrilled to be making his Off-Broadway debut with the Signature Theatre. Recent Juilliard credits include Achilles in The Greeks: War and Romeo in Shakespeare's R+J. Seth has done workshops and readings with Rattlestick, Rising Phoenix Rep, MCC and New York Stage and Film, and has worked regionally with the Chautauqua Theatre Company, The Guthrie Theatre, and many others in his home state of Minnesota. Many thanks to Tina, Chuck and Jim for this amazing opportunity, as well as to my family for their boundless love and support.
 Rocco Sisto (Menelaus) Broadway: Amadeaus, A Month in the Country- Roundabout Theatre, The Comedy of Errors- Lincoln Center. Recent Off-Broadway: KAOS- New York Theatre Workshop, Souls of Naples- Theatre For A New Audience, The Harlequin Studies- Signature Theatre. Films include Donnie Brasco, Frequency, Illumata, Eraser, Carlito's Way and the cult hit The American Astronaut. Television: “The Soprano's”, “Law and Order”, “Law and Order C.I.”, “Law and Order C.S.I.”, “Close to Home”, “Star Trek T.N.G.”, “Alias”, “N.Y.P.D. Blue”, “J.A.G.”. Founding member Shakespeare & Co. Awards: OBIE for The Winters Tale, OBIE, Drama Desk nom. and Drama League Award for Quills.
Tina Landau (Director) has collaborated extensively with Chuck Mee since 1989, directing such plays as Orestes (A.R.T, En Garde Arts), Trojan Women (UW, En Garde), Time to Burn and Berlin Circle (both at Steppenwolf Theater.) Tina is a writer/director whose original works include Beauty (La Jolla) Space (Steppenwolf, NYSF/Public Theater, Mark Taper Forum), Theatrical Essays (Steppenwolf), Stonewall (En Garde), 1969 (ATL), as well as the musicals Floyd Collins with composer Adam Guettel (Playwrights, Prince, Old Globe, Goodman) and Dream True with composer Ricky Ian Gordon (Vineyard Theater). Tina is an ensemble member at Steppenwolf in Chicago, where she has also directed The Diary of Anne Frank, The Cherry Orchard, The Time of Your Life (also Seattle Rep, A.C.T.), Maria Arndt, and The Ballad of Little Jo. Other local productions include Mary Rose (Vineyard), A Midsummer Night's Dream (McCarter/Papermill), Bells are Ringing (Broadway), Miracle Brothers (Vineyard), and Saturn Returns (Public). Tina teaches regularly and wrote, with Anne Bogart, The Viewpoints Book. Thanks, Chuck, and Niki.
Blythe Quinlan (Set Designer) Regional: Syncopation (Triad Stage), Cosi Fan Tutte (Yale Opera), Lobby Hero (Portland Stage Company), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (The Studio Theatre), Making Tracks (San Jose Rep), King Lear (Yale Rep), Black Dahlia (Yale Rep, projections), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. NYC: The Wars (Juilliard), Swansong (SPF), Pink (SPF), Stars (Soho Rep). Associate designer to Ming Cho Lee: Lorenzaccio (Shakespeare Theatre), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Long Wharf), Stuff Happens (Mark Taper Forum), and the tour of Annie. Film/TV (Assistant Art Director): “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, “The Nanny Diaries”, “Before the Devil Knows You're Dead”, “College Road Trip”.
Scott Zielinski (Lighting Designer) New York: TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (Broadway), Lincoln Center, New York Theater Workshop, Public Theater, Theater for a New Audience, many others. Extensive U.S. regional theater work. International: Adelaide, Berlin, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Goteborg, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Luang Prabang, Oslo, Ottawa, Paris, Rotterdam, Singapore, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Zurich. Dance highlights: American Dance Festival, Joyce, Kennedy Center (all with Twyla Tharp), American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Centre National de la Danse, National Ballet of Canada, San Francisco Ballet. Opera: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Colorado, Pittsburgh Opera, Spoleto USA, Toronto Opera.
Anita Yavich (Costume Designer) Anna in the Tropics Broadway, The Wooden Breeks at MCC, Measure for Pleasure, Kit Marlowe, The Winter's Tale, Civil Set, and Pericles at The Public. Coriolanus and Svejk at TFANA. Opera: Les Troyens and Cyrando De Bergerac at the MET, Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar at Tanglewood, The Gambler at Opera Zuid, Steve Reich's Three Tales International Tour, Fidelio, Die Walkure and Das Rheingold at Washington Opera, Madame Butterfly at Houston Grand Opera; Der Fliegende Hollander and The Silver River at Spoleto Festival. Puppet and Costume Designer for The Sound of Music at Salzburg Marionetten Theater.
Jill BC DUBOFF (Sound Designer) Signature: King Hedley II, The Late Henry Moss. Broadway: The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory..., Three Days of Rain (assoc), Inherit The Wind (assoc) Off-Broadway includes; MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, WP, Flea, Cherry Lane, Culture Project, Clubbed Thumb, Actor's Playhouse, Prominade, Urban Stages, Houseman, Fairbanks, Soho Rep. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, The Alley, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana, Williamstown, ATF. Television: “Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen”, “NBC Late Fridays” Nominations: Drama Desk, Hewes
Winnie Y. Lok (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater/NYSF); Seven Guitars (Signature Theatre Company); Landscape of the Body (Signature Theatre Company); The Trip to Bountiful (Signature Theatre Company). Off-Off-Broadway: Lila on the Wall (EST Marathon One Acts). Regional: Menopause, The Musical (Coronet); Apollo Part I: Lebensraum, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Slanguage, Sex Parasite (Taper, Too); Wing on Wing (Walt Disney Concert Hall); M.Butterfly (East West Players); Topdog/Underdog, Nickel and Dimed (Mark Taper Forum). A Proud member of AEA.
Chandra LaViolette (Assistant Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: King Hedley II (Signature Theater Company), Pretty Chin Up (LAByrinth Theater Company), Spring Awakening (Atlantic Theater Company), Windows (INTAR), The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Off-Off Broadway: The FeMale Heart, Equality Playwrights Festival (Diverse City Theater Company), The Bus to Buenos Aires (EST Marathon 2006, Series C), screwmachine/eyecandy (Clancy Productions). Regional: All My Sons (Emerge Theater Company). Chandra holds a BA in theater from The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an MFA in stage management from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
Kim Weild (Assistant Director) Broadway: Michael Blakemore Deuce and this coming fall with Blakemore Is He Dead? Regional: Roger Rees and Rick Elice: Double Double (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Recent directing: Fetes de la Nuit by Charles Mee (NY premiere), Paradise Now (conceived by Weild for WTF), Uncle Vanya (official selection: Prague Quadrennial), Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Endgame and A Peddler's Tale (Women's Project). Kennedy Center Directing Fellow, Shubert Fellow, 2006 Foeller Fellow and David Parsons Chair at LACHSA. MFA Columbia University, Women's Project Director's Lab 2006-2008.
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