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This programme is printed on environmentally friendly paper. Joan Marcus Edward Bennett and Juliet Rylance 25-28.3.2010 香 港 演 藝 學 院 歌 劇 院 Lyric Theatre Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Performed in English with Chinese surtitles Running time: approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes with no interval 08 Credits 13 Synopsis 14 Director s Notes Biographies 17 William Shakespeare 18 Cast 30 Creative Team 36 Producers and Co-commissioners Please switch off all sound-making devices. Unauthorised photography or recording of any kind is strictly prohibited. Thank you for your co-operation. Cover photographs Evan Kafka

Credits Creative Team Playwright Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Hair and Wig Designer Music Composer Music Coordinator Music Director Choreographer Casting Directors William Shakespeare Sam Mendes Tom Piper Catherine Zuber Paul Pyant Simon Baker for Autograph Tom Watson Mark Bennett Curtis Moore Stephen Bentley-Klein Josh Prince Maggie Lunn and Nancy Piccione Producers International Tour Producer The Old Vic, BAM & Neal Street Claire Béjanin 8

Production Team Associate Director Gaye Taylor Upchurch Production Manager Stage Coordinator Head of Stage Associate Lighting Designer Production Electrician Associate Sound Designer Production Sound Wardrobe Mistress Wardrobe Dresser Wigs Mistress Dominic Fraser Anthony Field Tom Humphrey Dan Large Leigh Porter Jeremy Lee Ross Chatfield Fiona Lehmann Dean Nichols Anna Morena Co-commissioned by and produced in association with Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Holland Festival, Centro Niemeyer, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Teatro Español de Madrid and Théâtre Marigny-Paris. 2010 3 25 28 4 2 10 4 14 24 4 29 5 9 5 26 30 6 2 6 6 12 8 21 8 27 28 Bridge Project Internation Performances in 2010 Hong Kong Arts Festival (Mar 25 28) Singapore Repertory Theatre (Apr 2 10) Théâtre Marigny-Paris (Apr 14 24) Teatro Español de Madrid (Apr 29 May 9) Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (May 26 30) Holland Festival (Jun 2 6) The Old Vic, London (Jun 12 Aug 21) Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Greece (Aug 27 28) Centro Niemeyer, Spain 9

Cast In order of appearance Prospero (the rightful Duke of Milan) Ariel (a Spirit) Caliban (a Slave) Boatswain Alonso (King of Naples) Gonzalo (an honest old Counsellor) Sebastian (brother of the King of Naples) Antonio (Prospero s brother, the usurping Duke of Milan) Miranda (daughter to Prospero) Ferdinand (son to the King of Naples) Adrian (a Lord) Trinculo (a Jester) Stephano (a drunken Butler) Iris Ceres Juno Spirits and Mariners Stephen Dillane* Christian Camargo Ron Cephas Jones Ross Waiton* Jonathan Lincoln Fried Alvin Epstein Richard Hansell* Michael Thomas* Juliet Rylance* Edward Bennett* Aaron Krohn Anthony O Donnell* Thomas Sadoski Michelle Beck Jenni Barber Ashlie Atkinson Members of the Company 10

Stage Managers Company Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Richard Clayton Jenefer Tait Sara Elizabeth Ford Musicians Musical Director Musician Stephen Bentley-Klein Shane Shanahan Understudies Trinculo Ceres Iris Miranda Juno Ariel Ferdinand Sebastian Stephano Boatswain Prospero Caliban Gonzalo Alonso Antonio Ashlie Atkinson Jenni Barber Michelle Beck Richard Hansell* Aaron Krohn Michael Thomas* Ross Waiton* Chinese surtitles based on the translation by Zhu Shenghao Surtitles Editor Zeng Yilin Lei Yuen-hung The British Actors (denoted with *) are appearing with the permission of Actors Equity Association. The American Actors (names without *) are appearing with the permission of UK Equity, incorporating Variety Artistes Federation, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity. The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors Equity Association for its assistance of this production. 11

Synopsis Joan Marcus From left: Edward Bennett, Stephen Dillane, Juliet Rylance Twelve years ago, Prospero, the Duke of Milan had his position usurped by his brother, Antonio. He was cast away to sea, and found himself on a desert island with his daughter Miranda. They share the island with the spirit Ariel and the native Caliban. Both are enslaved to Prospero, and wish for their freedom. One day, Prospero asks Ariel to create a storm. The storm wrecks the ship carrying Prospero s enemies, and washes them onto his shore. What will happen on Prospero s island in the hours after the shipwreck? Will Prospero bring his enemies to justice? Will Miranda find a husband? Will Ariel achieve his freedom? Will Caliban get his revenge? 13

Director s Notes 12 Text: Sam Mendes When I was researching the two plays that make up year two of The Bridge Project*, I came across this passage in a book by Ted Hughes. It seemed to me to sum up perfectly the connections between As You Like It and The Tempest: [In The Tempest] Prospero escapes with his baby daughter, Miranda, just as in As You Like It the banished Duke lives (finally) in the forest with his daughter, Rosalind. Antonio who, with the help of Alonso, King of Naples, usurped his brother Prospero and cast him away to sea, is a Macbeth-type Rival Brother who fails to kill. More obviously, he is a duplication of Duke Frederick who, in the tragic overture, As You Like It, usurped and banished Duke Senior, as if the Devil s Island where Prospero now finds himself were what remained of the Forest of Arden after the holocaust of the tragedies. Perhaps one should not make light of the fact that the Mother Forest of those lyrical days, when Shakespeare answered the call, in mezzo del cammin, has become the rocky, storm-beaten island of a terrible dead witch and her devil-god. Or that Prospero numbers off rather precisely the twelve years between the composition of As You Like It (when Jaques sets out on the inward journey following the convertite Duke) and the composition of The Tempest, when Prospero, so much older, seeing the chance to settle the account, lifts his head from his books. (from Ted Hughes Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being) The plays this year are designed and conceived as a single gesture, a single journey. We hope it s a rewarding one. 14

Joan Marcus Juliet Rylance and Stephen Dillane 2010 * The Bridge Project 2010 is the second season of The Bridge Project, a three-year partnership uniting The Old Vic, BAM and Neal Street, with participation from some of the finest talents of the New York and London stage. The programme for the second year consists of The Tempest and As You Like It. 15

Biography WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564 1616) 1564 4 23 1582 1588 1594 1596 35 1612 1616 1611 1623 36 William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway and by 1588 he had moved to London, attaining success as an actor and playwright. In 1594 he became a charter member of a group of actors known as the Lord Chamberlain s Men, later changing their name to the King s Men when they won the sponsorship of King James I. By 1596 Shakespeare was recognised as the leading London playwright and at the age of 35 he invested money in the Globe Theatre, where he was also a member of the acting troupe. Shakespeare retired from London life around 1612 and died at Stratford in 1616. Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611. When it was published in 1623 in the First Folio, a collection of 36 of Shakespeare s works, it was listed as a comedy. Many modern scholars have relabeled The Tempest a romance, and it is believed to be his last play. Since a re-appraisal of the play in the 20th century, The Tempest is now considered to be one of Shakespeare's greatest works. 17

Cast Ashlie Atkinson 2005 Ashlie Atkinson is a graduate of Hendrix College and the Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC. She has appeared in The Ritz, Butcher of Baraboo and Fat Pig which won her a Theater World Award for Outstanding Debut, 2005. She has appeared onscreen in Inside Man, Invention of Lying, All Good Things, Eat Pray Love, Puccini for Beginners, Quid Pro Quo, Another Gay Movie, and Hungry Years. Her television credits include Rescue Me, The Unusuals, 3 Lbs, Law & Order, and Filthy Gorgeous. Jenni Barber 25 Jenni Barber graduated from the University of Michigan s School of Music. She has appeared in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, From Up Here, The High Life, The Unauthorized Biography of Samantha Brown and A Chorus Line. Barber has appeared on film in PLAY and on television in Law & Order: SVU, and as a series regular on The Electric Company. Michelle Beck Michelle Beck s credits include Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Spoon Lake Blues. She also appeared in The Malcontent, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tartuffe, The Rover, The Way of the Buddha, My Juilliard, Robots vs. Fake Robots and The Changeling. Her film credits include Spinning into Butter, Anika and Thunderbolt. Edward Bennett Some of Edward Bennett s theatre credits include Love s Labour s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Othello, Nan, Skin Game, Pygmalion, Habeas Corpus, Little Nell, Hay Fever, The School for Scandal, Alice in Wonderful, Charley s Aunt, Dr Faustus, and Hamlet, which earned him a WOS 18

nomination, an Ian Charleson Award, and five other nominations. Some of his film and television credits include Twelve in a Box, Doctors, Silent Witness, After You re Gone, The Scum Also Rises, Above Suspicion and The Red Dahlia. Christian Camargo K-19 Juilliard Group 25 Broadway: All My Sons, Skylight (Theater World Award). Off-Broadway includes title roles in Coriolanus and Hamlet (Obie and Drama League nom) for Theater for A New Audience, Kit Marlowe (Public), Henry V (NY Shakespeare Festival), Steve Martin s Underpants (Classic Stage Company). Regional includes The Illusion (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Camino Real (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Poison Tree (Taper), Private Lives (Goodman). Camargo is an inaugural company member of Shakespeare s Globe (London), where he performed in Henry V and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Film/TV includes The Hurt Locker, K19: The Widowmaker, National Treasure 2, Henry May Long, Harlem Aria, Find Love, CSI, Without a Trace, The Cleaner, Numbers, and Showtime s Dexter. Upcoming film: Michael Lichtenstein s Happy Tears. Writing and producing credits include MTV s Fast Inc and Palm Pictures/New Line documentary Sunday Driver. A member of Juilliard Group 25. Stephen Dillane Performances include TS Eliot s Four Quartets (Donmar Warehouse, Lincoln Center); One Evening by Schubert and Beckett (Royal Festival Hall, Aldeburgh Festival and Lincoln Center); Drunk Enough to Say I Love You by Caryl Churchill (Royal Court); Macbeth (Los Angeles Redcat, Almeida in London and Adelaide Festival); Tom Stoppard s Coast of Utopia (National Theatre) and The Real Thing (Donmar Warehouse and Broadway); Uncle Vanya (Young Vic/RSC); Endgame (Donmar Warehouse); Hamlet (West End); Tony Kushner s Angels In America, Long Day s Journey Into Night, Brian Friel s Dancing at Lughnasa and Farquhar s The Beaux Stratagem (all NT). Film and TV includes 44 Chest, John Adams, Storm, The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, God on Trial, Last Word, Savage Grace, Fugitive Pieces, Goal, Klimt, The Greatest Game, Nine Lives, The Hours, Spy Game, The Cazalets, Anna Karenina, The Parole Officer, The Darkest Light, Welcome to Sarajevo, Firelight, Hamlet. 19

Alvin Epstein 1955 150 19941996 199920012007 Alvin Epstein made his New York stage debut in 1955 with Marcel Marceau. He has had roles in Orson Welles King Lear, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, No Strings, Threepenny Opera, Tuesdays with Morrie and more than 150 other productions. He was associate director, Yale Repertory Theatre; artistic director, Guthrie Theater; and a founding member of the Berkshire Theatre Festival and American Repertory Theatre. Epstein has won many awards including the Torch of Hope Award (1994), Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence (1996), Independent Reviewers of New England Award (1999), Jason Robards Award (2001) and the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award (2007). Jonathan Lincoln Fried 1951 Jonathan Fried has had roles in Hamlet, Women Beware Women, Landscape of the Body, Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Two Noble Kinsmen, Richard III, 1951, Coriolanus, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Slavs, The Glass Menagerie, The Seagull, and many other productions. He has appeared on film in BAPS, Kate and Leopold and Brink of Summer s End; and on television in Law & Order: SVU and Criminal Intent. Richard Hansell E=MC2 Richard Hansell trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His theatre credits include Troilus and Cressida, Crown Matrimonial, As You Like It, Tonight at 8.30 and Hamlet. Hansell has appeared in BBC television s Doctors, Spooks, Holby City, and Berkeley Square; and Channel 4 televison s E=MC2, Prince Charles The Bachelor Years, and Queer as 18th Century Folk. Other television credits include The Royal, The Wolf Man, Crossroads, Family Affairs, Hamlet and Murder Most Horrid. Hansell also appeared in Shine by Momentum Films. 20

Ron Cephas Jones A 121 Ron Cephas Jones won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre for appearing as Wolf in Two Trains Running. Some of his other awards include The Connecticut Critic s Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play and the Adelco Best Actor Award. His theatre credits include Jesus Hopped the A-Train, Our Lady of 121st St and Othello. Jones s film credits (as Ron C. Jones) include Across the Universe, Half-Nelson, Carlito s Way, On the One, Little Senegal, Real Men, Sex & Friendship and Naked Acts. He also has numerous television credits. Aaron Krohn Aaron Krohn has a Master s of Fine Art from the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and performed in year one of The Bridge Project. He has appeared in The Farnsworth Invention, The Coast of Utopia, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, The Invention of Love, The Glass Cage, Echoes of the War, Philoktetes, The Hostage, As You Like It, In the Jungle of Cities, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Beauty and the Beast, Sheppey and the upcoming rock musical adaptation of El Cid with Epic Theatre Ensemble. Anthony O Donnell Some of Anthony O Donnell s numerous theatre credits include The Shaughraun, Bartholemew Fair, Ghetto, The Miser, Arturo Ui, Under Milk Wood, The London Cuckolds, President of an Empty Room, Witch of Edmonton, The Winter s Tale, Measure for Measure and A New Way to Pay Old Debts which won him a London Critics Award for most promising newcomer. His television credits include Nuts in May, Knock for Knock, Tess of the D Urbervilles, Moll Flanders and Robin Hood. His film credits include Vera Drake, Secrets and Lies, Match Point, Santa Claus and Caught in the Act. 21

Juliet Rylance 2002 Trained at RADA. Recent theatre includes Perdita in The Winter s Tale and Cressida in Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare s Globe Theater, London); Desdemona in Othello (TFANA, Off-Broadway, NY, Lucille Lortel Award Nomination Best Featured Actress); Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Caliban in The Jamestown Masque (Middle Temple Hall, London); Medea in Neil LaBute s Bash: Latter- Day Plays (Trafalgar Studios, West End, London); Mary Sidney in I Am Shakespeare (Chichester Festival Theatre and UK Tour). Film includes: Julie in The Burl (New Moon Productions) and Maria in Animal (Légende Films, Studio Canal, nominated for Discovery of the Year, LA Film Festival). Thomas Sadoski Betty Broadway: reasons to be pretty (TONY, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League award nominations for Best Leading Actor), Reckless (MTC/Second Stage). Off-Broadway: reasons to be pretty (MCC), Becky Shaw (Lucille Lortel nomination Best Featured Actor), This Is Our Youth, Gemini, All This Intimacy (Second Stage), Stay, Where We re Born (Rattlestick), The Joke (Studio Dante), The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), Jump/Cut (The Women s Project), The General from America (TFANA), Thunderbird (Cherry Lane). Regional: Santaland Diaries, The Waverly Gallery (Long Wharf Theatre), Moonlight & Magnolias (Alliance Theater), Left (NY Stage & Film), Street Scene, The Skin of Our Teeth, Hot L Baltimore, Rodney s Wife, Dissonance (Williamstown Theater Festival). FILM/TV: 30 Beats, The New Twenty, Circledrawers, Loser, Happy Hour, Company K, Winter Solstice, As the World Turns, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ugly Betty. For my beautiful wife Kim. 22

Michael Thomas SAS Michael Thomas recently played Lafew in All s Well That Ends Well at the NT. Other NT productions that he has appeared in include Saint Joan, Pillars of the Community, The Oresteia, The Shoemaker s Holiday and The Life of Galileo. He has also appeared in Women Beware Women, Edward III, The Roman Actor, The Malcontent, Henry V, Henry IV and A Midsummer Night s Dream. Thomas television credits include Inspector Morse, Trial and Retribution, Doctors, New Tricks, Ultimate Force, Rosemary and Thyme, EastEnders and Twelfth Night. He has appeared on film in Paper Mask and Pirate Radio/The Boat That Rocked. Ross Waiton Ross Waiton s theatre credits include The Revenger s Tragedy, Much Ado About Nothing, Saint Joan,The Duchess of Malfi, Antony & Cleopatra, Rutherford & Son, Corpse!, Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice and The Stars Look Down. His television credits EastEnders, Holby City, G-Force, Identity and The Welsh in Shakespeare. 23

Creative Team Stephen Bentley-Klein Stephen Bentley-Klein has been the lead violinist for many artists, including Shirley Bassey, Neil Sedaka, Rod Stewart, Barry White, Burt Bacharach, The Moody Blues, and Elvis Presley The Concert. He has collaborated on albums with Morcheeba and David Byrne, playing tours with both, and also Paolo Nutini s number one album, Sunny Side Up. Some of his work for theatre includes Rosencrantz, The Forest, Coast of Utopia, Stuff Happens, Power, Major Barbara, Summerfolk, The Waves, Revenger s Tragedy, The Relapse, The Winter s Tale and The Cherry Orchard (Bridge Project year one, Old Vic). He has composed albums and film scores and often performs on human rights platforms with Vanessa Redgrave and Terry Waite. Shane Shanahan 2000 Since 2000, Shane Shanahan has been touring the globe with cellist Yo-Yo Ma as an original member of the Silk Road Ensemble. Shanahan can be heard on all three of the ensemble s recordings and he can also be seen and heard on Ma s holiday CD/DVD release Songs of Joy. Shanahan has performed and/or recorded with Philip Glass, Alison Krauss, Sonny Fortune, Fantasia, Chaka Khan, GE Smith, Glen Velez and others. He has been seen/heard on television and radio throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Richard Clayton Some of Richard Clayton s numerous theatre credits include The Winter s Tale and The Cherry Orchard (Bridge Project); Othello, King Lear, The Seagull, Antony and Cleopatra, Little Eagles, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Hamlet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Coriolanus, Henry VI Parts 1-3, Richard III, Tales From Ovid, Timon of Athens, School for Scandal, Uncle Vanya, In the Company of Men, As You Like It, The Honest Whore and A Mad World My Master. 30

Jenefer Tait Jenefer Tait s theater credits as deputy stage manager include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Chalk Garden, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Parade, Parthenogenesi, After Dido, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter s Tale, Sweeney Todd, Movin Out, The Venetian Twins and The Gentleman From Olmedo. Tait also worked in film as stage manager for Nine. Sarah Elizabeth Ford + 2 F Âme Sarah Elizabeth Ford has worked on Lightning at Our Feet, Shelter, American Tunes, Songs from The Capeman, Happy Days, Red Hot + Rio 2, Puppetmaster of Lodz, Bartleby the Scrivener, Uncle, Red Fly/Blue Bottle, Mediterranean Voices, As You Like It, All in the Timing and For Lovers Only. Ford is also a resident member of Fine Feathered Friends Theater and studied with Compagnie Théâtrale F Âme in Dakar, Senegal. Sam Mendes 1992 2002 2000 Sam Mendes is the artistic director of The Bridge Project and he was the Minerva Theatre s first artistic director. In 1992 Mendes founded the Donmar Warehouse in London where he was the artistic director until 2002. Some of his numerous credits as director include Assassins (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards), Translations, Cabaret, The Glass Menagerie (Olivier Award), Company (Olivier Award), Habeas Corpus, Uncle Vanya (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards) and Twelfth Night (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards). Mendes film credits include American Beauty (Academy Award Best Director and Best Picture, Golden Globe, DGA Award), Road to Perdition, Jarhead and Away We Go. He has received the Shakespeare Prize, the Director s Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in the theatre. He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2000. 31

Tom Piper 2009 Tom Piper is the associate designer of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has designed for the Histories Cycle, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3, and Richard III for which he won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Set Design. Other recent work for the RSC includes As You Like It, The Grain Store and The Drunks. He has also worked on Zorro, Dealer s Choice, Falstaff, Fall, Spyski, The Scarecrow and His Servant, The Crucible and Six Characters in Search of an Author. Catherine Zuber OCC OCC 2003 2004 2007 2004 2005 20041997 2005 Catherine Zuber s work for Broadway can be seen in The Royal Family, Oleanna, South Pacific (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia (Tony, OCC Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award, OCC nomination) Dinner at Eight, Dracula, The Sound of Music and Triumph of Love. Some of the numerous awards Zuber has garnered include the 2003, 2004, and 2007 Henry Hewes Award for Design; 2004 and 2005 Lucille Lortel Award; 2004 Ovation Award; 1997 and 2005 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement. Zuber also designs for opera. Paul Pyant Paul Pyant is a graduate and associate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He has long associations with Glyndebourne Opera, English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Royal National Theatre, English National Ballet, Donmar Warehouse, and Northern Ballet Theatre. His international opera work includes productions in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Monte Carlo, Israel, Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and Japan. 32

Simon Baker for Autograph 1992 1999 Autograph 2007 2007 Simon Baker graduated from the Guildhall School in 1992. He has served time in the sound departments of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre and designed shows across a broad spectrum of theatre from large-scale musicals on Broadway to street theatre in the rain. In 1999 he joined renowned British sound design and rental company Autograph. Some of his credits include Lord of the Rings (2007 Olivier Nomination for Best Sound), Boeing Boeing (2007 Tony Nomination for Best Sound) and God of Carnage. Gaye Taylor Upchurch 2008 Gaye Taylor Upchurch is happy to be working again with Sam Mendes on The Bridge Project after taking last year s double-bill (The Winter s Tale and The Cherry Orchard) on its international tour. Upchurch s directing credits include Paper Dolls (Outstanding Ensemble Award 2008), Fit for Feet, minor gods, Language of Angels, and The Save. Other directing credits include developing new work at The Kennedy Center, Dixon Place and The Barrow Group. Tom Watson 35 Tom Watson is head of the wig department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 35 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Addams Family, A View from the Bridge, Present Laughter, Wicked, The Royal Family, Waiting for Godot, Accent on Youth, Rock of Ages, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George and Cyrano de Bergerac. 33

Creative Team Biographies Nancy Piccione 17 Nancy Piccione has been the director of casting at Manhattan Theatre Club for the past 17 years. Her Broadway credits include Topgirls, Shining City, and Reckless, as well as Proof (Tony Award for Best Play) and The Tale of the Allergist s Wife (Tony nomination for Best Play). She received the CSA Artios Award for her casting of Ruined, Lynn Nottage s Pulitzer winning play. She teaches at New York University s Classical Acting Studio and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and a member of the Casting Society of America. Maggie Lunn 2008 Maggie Lunn s film, television and theatre credits include Notes on a Scandal, Cranford, (Emmy nomination, 2008), All the Small Things, Robin Hood, Oliver Twist, Lost in Austen, Trinity, Vernon God Little, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Cabaret, Dirty Dancing, Richard II, Hamlet and Lord of the Rings. Her work as Casting Director and Artistic Associate include Festen, Blood Wedding, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, The Mercy Seat, Hedda Gabler and Romance. Lunn has been Head of Casting at the RSC and Acting Head of Casting at the NT. Mark Bennett 2009 2007 1998 2009 Mark Bennet s work for the Bridge Project 09 includes The Cherry Orchard and The Winter s Tale. His recent Broadway scores and sound designs include A Steady Rain, The Coast of Utopia (2007 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Music for a Play; Henry Hewes Award, Sound Design), Henry IV, The Goat, and Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He is the recipient of a Bessie Award for his work with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma. Bennett also received a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design as well as Ovation, Robbie, and Garland Awards, and ten Drama Desk nominations, including two for his Bridge Project 09 scores. 34

Curtis Moore 2009 2010 Curtis Moore is honoured to continue his collaboration with Mark Bennett on this second year of the Bridge Project. In 2009, Moore was awarded a Jonathan Larson Grant with longtime collaborator Thomas Mizer. Together they wrote the musicals Triangle, Stagecoach Mary, and The Bus to Buenos Aires. With Mizer, Matthew Brookshire, and Amanda Green he wrote the critically acclaimed musical, For the Love of Tiffany. His new musical Venice (with Matt Sax and Eric Rosen) will premiere as a joint production between The Center Theater Group and The Kansas City Repertory Theatre in 2010. Josh Prince 2009 Josh Prince s experience on Broadway includes Shrek The Musical. Some of his other experience includes Bridge Project 2009 (BAM), The Jerry Springer Opera, Camelot, All Singin All Dancin, Emerald Man, Barnum, Tales from the Bad Years and Calvin Berger. He has acted on Broadway in Little Me and Saturday Night Fever, and toured the country in Cats. Prince is also a proud alumnus of Forbidden Broadway. Claire Béjanin 1990 2008 Claire Béjanin became involved in performing arts production and administration at the MC93 Bobigny Theatre in France in 1990, when she worked with leading international artists such as Robert Wilson, Deborah Warner, Peter Greenaway, Peter Sellars, and Lucinda Childs. Since 2008, she has been the international tour producer for The Bridge Project. She is also the international producer of Zimmermann & de Perrot, currently touring Chouf Ouchouf with the Tangiers Acrobats, öper öpis, and Gaff Aff. 35

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) (Jan 12 Mar 13) BAM is recognised internationally for its innovative programming of dance, music, theatre, and opera. It is the US s oldest performing arts centre in continuous operation, presenting performances since 1861. BAM also identifies and supports the work of ground-breaking contemporary creators in the performing arts with its Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983, one of the world s most important cultural festivals. BAM s Spring Seasons often feature fresh takes on theatre and opera classics, as well as renowned dance and popular concerts. The Old Vic (Jun 12 Aug 21) The Old Vic is one of the best-known and best loved theatres in the world. Its iconic building in London has a rich history of great performances, and The Old Vic Theatre Company under the artistic leadership of Kevin Spacey, alongside producers Kate Pakenham and John Richardson, continues to attract the best creative talent. The Old Vic Theatre Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Old Vic Theatre Trust (Chief Executive Sally Greene), a charity supported in the US by The American Associates of The Old Vic, a registered US non-profit organisation. Neal Street Producer Caro Newling Formed in 2003 by Sam Mendes, Caro Newling, and Pippa Harris to produce film and theatre. Currently: The Bridge Project Year Two, Enron (London/Broadway), Shrek the Musical co-produced with Dreamworks Animation. In development: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Warner Bros Theatre Ventures Inc. Previously: Three Days of Rain (dir. Jamie Lloyd) starring James McAvoy, The Vertical Hour (dir. Sam Mendes) starring Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy. For more information, go to www.nealstreetproductions.com. The Athens & Epidaurus Festival (Aug 27 28) The Athens & Epidaurus Festival is an institution established in 1955 to promote Greek drama, music, theater, and dance and has hosted major artists like Maria Callas, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Rudolf Nureyev, and Herbert von Karajan. Since 2006, under the direction of Yorgos Loukos, the Festival has opened in ten different venues across the city of Athens as well as hosted major contemporary theatre, dance, and music productions. Holland Festival (Jun 2 6) The Holland Festival, founded in 1947, is the Netherlands trendsetting international performance arts festival. Each year the Festival presents exceptional work at the international level in Amsterdam theatres and concert halls. Artistic director Pierre Audi offers the public a kaleidoscopic window on the world with a mix of big names and daring experiments. The Festival covers all disciplines within the performing arts, including music, music theatre, dance, opera, and theatre and every hybrid form in between. Hong Kong Arts Festival (Mar 25 28) The Hong Kong Arts Festival, established in 1972, presents close to 150 performances and events by top international, regional, national, and local talent during February and March each year. The eclectic mix of classical and contemporary works cater to an audience of about 120,000 including participants of the Festival s Young Friends Scheme. The Festival also commissions, produces, and publishes new works independently or in collaboration with international partners. 36

Producers and Co-commissioners Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (May 26 30) Now in its 64th year, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in Germany is one of the world s leading theatre festivals. Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen was founded after the Second World War. In the severe post-war winter of 1946/47 and at great personal risk, miners of the renowned Ruhr area in Germany bootlegged coal past occupying forces and on to Hamburg, where it was used to fuel the city theatres. The following summer, the theatres repaid their deep debt of gratitude by bringing theatre performances to the people of Recklinghausen and so the annual festival was born. Singapore Repertory Theatre (Apr 2 10) Founded in 1993, Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) is one of the leading English language theatre producers and presenters in Asia, and is also one of the biggest producers of children s theatre in Southeast Asia. It also produces a biennial Shakespeare in the Park series. SRT was the first Singaporean theatre company on Broadway in 1998 as Associate Producer of Golden Child, which went from Singapore to New York and garnered three Tony Award nominations. Teatro Español, Madrid (Apr 29 May 9) Audiences have enjoyed shows on the site where the Teatro Español now stands since the middle of the 16th century. It is a great theatre at the heart of Madrid, which has established a reputation both nationally and internationally, as one of Spain s most exciting producing and presenting theatres, winning the most prestigious awards for its productions. Théâtre Marigny-Paris (Apr 13 24) In 1835, the Théâtre Marigny, situated in Paris, began as a theatre with the set-up of a small hall called Folies-Marigny. After its inauguration in 1855 by Offenbach, Folies-Marigny flourished and enjoyed a growing reputation as a famous theatrical hall. It was Charles Garnier who gave the theatre a panoramic building, the Opéra de Paris. In 2000, François Pinault became the owner of the Théâtre Marigny and appointed Robert Hossein to undertake the artistic direction. In January 2008, Robert Hossein retired and François Pinault assigned Pierre Lescure as the head of the Marigny Theatre. The Musicians employed in this production are members of and represented by the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of the BAM Harvey Theater are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 37