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