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erkeley rep presents
henry Woronicz
the pOet
Henry last appeared
at Berkeley Rep in The
Playboy of the Western
World. On Broadway,
he performed in Julius
Caesar with Denzel
Washington. Henry
has acted and directed
at numerous regional
theatres, including Actors
Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory
Theater, American Players Theatre,
Arden Theatre Company, Boston Shakespeare
Company, Centerstage, Delaware
Theatre Company, the Hong Kong Repertory
Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, La Jolla
Playhouse, Meadow Brook Theatre, Syracuse
Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre Company,
and the Alabama, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. His
TV credits include Ally McBeal, Cheers, Law
& Order, Picket Fences, Seinfeld, Star Trek, and
Third Rock from the Sun. Henry was a resident
actor and director at Oregon Shakespeare
Festival from 1984 to 1991 and its artistic director
from 1991 to 1995; from 2008 to 2009
he was the executive producer of the Lake
Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Henry was also
the head of the mfa acting program at Illinois
State University from 2009 to 2012.
brian ellingsen
bassist
Brian is reprising his
role as bassist from the
ljp, McCarter Theatre
Center, and New York
Theatre Workshop
productions of An Iliad.
A double bassist, his
playing has been hailed
as “shocking and evocative”
by the Philadelphia
Enquirer, and the New York Times has described
him as “coaxing an amazing variety of sounds
from his instrument.” As a soloist, he has been
featured at New Music Hartford and the Spoleto
Festival usa. As a chamber musician, he is
a standing member of the Heavy Hands bass
quartet and Le Train Bleu. As an orchestral
musician, Brian has performed as principle
of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
under the direction of Pierre Boulez, as well
as principle of Gotham Chamber Opera and
the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. In 2011, Brian
performed with the Lucerne Festival Academy/Ensemble
Intercontemporain tour, a
six-city European tour showcasing Pli Selon Pli,
a masterwork of Pierre Boulez. As an advocate
for multimedia and experimental music, Brian
has collaborated with visual artists, dancers,
and actors to bring their work to life through
music and his own improvisations. Brian holds
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a bachelor’s degree from the Hartt School and
a master’s from Yale University.
Denis O’hare
CO-aDaptOr
Denis won the Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and
Drama Desk Awards for his performance
as Mason Marzac in the hit Broadway play
Take Me Out. His Broadway productions also
include Assassins (Tony nomination), Inherit the
Wind, and Sweet Charity, among many others.
He has appeared off Broadway numerous
times, as well as in many regional theatres. An
Iliad, for which he won an Obie Award, is his
first collaboration and his debut as a writer
for theatre. He has written two screenplays,
as well as short stories and poetry. While at
Northwestern University pursuing an acting
degree, he followed the poetry writing program
for two years and studied poetry under
Reginald Gibbons, Mary Kinzie, and Alan Shapiro.
He has appeared in many films, including
21 Grams, Charlie Wilson’s War, Duplicity, Eagle,
An Englishman in New York, Garden State,
Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart, and Milk.
His television work includes roles on Brothers
and Sisters, csi: Miami, all of the Law & Order
franchises, and on the hit series True Blood as
Russell Edgington.
lisa peterson
CO-aDaptOr/DireCtOr
Lisa previously directed Antony and Cleopatra,
The Fall, and Mother Courage at Berkeley Rep.
She earned an Obie Award for An Iliad. Her
other nytw credits include Bexley OH, Light
Shining in Buckinghamshire (Obie Award),
Slavs!, Traps, and The Waves. Her other New
York credits include The Batting Cage and
The Fourth Sister at Vineyard Theatre; Birdy
and Chemistry of Change at wpp/Playwrights
Horizons; Collected Stories at Manhattan
Theatre Club; End Days at the Ensemble
Studio Theatre; The Model Apartment and
Shipwrecked at Primary Stages; The Poor Itch,
The Square, and Tongue of a Bird at The Public
Theatre; The Scarlet Letter at Classic Stage
Company; Sueño at mcc; and Tight Embrace
at Intar. Her regional work includes productions
at atl, Arena Stage, California Shakespeare
Theater, Centerstage, Dallas Theater
Center, the Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage,
the Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman
Theatre, ljp, Long Wharf Theatre, the Mark
Taper Forum (resident director, 1995 to 2005),
McCarter, Midwest Playlabs, New York Stage
& Film, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, osf,
Philadelphia Theater Company, Seattle Repertory
Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre,
Sundance Theater Lab, and Yale Repertory
Theatre. Lisa graduated from Yale and serves
on the executive board of sdc.
profiles
rachel hauck
sCeniC Designer
Rachel is the original set designer for An Iliad.
Her recent New York credits include Bluebird
at Atlantic Theater Company, A Boy and
His Soul and Picked at the Vineyard, ethel’s
TruckStop: The Beginning at bam Next Wave,
Go Back to Where You Are at Playwrights
Horizons, Orange, Hat & Grace at Soho Rep
(Drama Desk nomination), Regrets at mtc,
Slowgirl at lct3, and This Wide Night at Naked
Angels (Lortel nomination). Rachel’s regional
credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the
Guthrie, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella at osf,
and Phaedra Backwards at McCarter, as well
as work for Arena, Hartford Stage, ljp, the
Shakespeare Theater, and the Taper, among
others. She is the recipient of the Lilly Award
and the Princess Grace Award for theatre,
and was a National Endowment for the Arts/
Theatre Communications Group fellow. Rachel
has been the resident designer for the O’Neill
since 2005.
marina Draghici
COstume Designer
An award-winning costume designer and
celebrity stylist, Marina designs costumes for
theatre, opera, film, and television companies
in the United States and abroad. At Berkeley
Rep, she was the scenic and costume designer
for Mad Forest in 1992. She earned a Tony Award
in costume design for the Broadway production
of Fela! Marina’s off-Broadway and regional
credits include An Iliad at nytw and McCarter;
Cymbeline and Mother Courage at the Delacorte
Theater; Hamlet, The Skriker, and Woyzeck at The
Public; and Mad Forest at nytw. Her international
credits include 24 Images Secondes at
Opéra de Lyon, Les Indes Galantes, and L’Italiana
in Algeri at Opéra National de Paris, and La
Traviata at Opéra National de Bordeaux. Marina
worked on the films The Grey Zone, Heights,
Precious, Rage, and Twelve and Holding, TV
shows including Blue Bloods, Dexter, Elementary,
and Homeland. Marina holds an mfa from Yale
School of Drama.
scott zielinski
lighting Designer
Scott’s Berkeley Rep credits include designs
for Fall, Ghosts, Oliver Twist, and Our Town. His
New York credits include Topdog/Underdog on
Broadway and work at Atlantic, csc, Lincoln
Center Festival, mtc, nytw, Playwrights
Horizons, The Public, Signature Theatre Company,
and Theatre for a New Audience, among
others. He has designed at most regional
theatres throughout the U.S. Internationally,
he has designed in Adelaide, Amsterdam,
Avignon, Berlin, Bregenz, Edinburgh, Fukuoka,
Gennevilliers, Goteborg, Hamburg, Hong
Kong, Istanbul, Linz, London, Luang Prabang,
Lyon, Melbourne, Orleans, Oslo, Ottawa,
Paris, Reykjavik, Rotterdam, Rouen, St. Gal