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BRIAN FARISH Second year acting student at the A.R/T//MXAT Institute; appeared in War and Peace, Zoya’s Apartment, and The Front Page. He is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he worked at Light Opera Oklahoma and Discoveryland. In Chicago he worked at the Noble Fool, Breadline, and drove a trolley. KRISTEN FRAZIER Second year acting student of A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training. Credits: The Island of Anyplace (Great Great Grandfooler, Loeb Stage): Zoya’s Apartment (Lizanka, Moscow Art Theater), War And Peace (Natasha//Sonya, Moscow Art Theater). Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska; before attending the Institute she studied Astrophysics and Public Policy at Cornell University. JEREMY GEIDT* Senior Actor, founding member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the A.R.T. Yale: over forty productions. A.R.T.: ninety-six productions including in Major Barbara (Undershaft), Heartbreak House (Shotover), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Quince four times, Snug once), Henry IV (Falstaff), Twelfth Night (Toby Belch), The Caretaker (Davies) , The Homecoming (Max), Loot (Truscott), Man and Superman (Mendoza/Devil), Waiting for Godot (Vladimir), The Threepenny Opera (Peacham/Petey), Ivanov (Lebedev), Three Sisters (Chebutkin), Buried Child (Dodge), The Cherry Orchard (Gaev). The King Stag (Pantelone). Teaches at Harvard College, its Summer and Extension Schools and at the A.R.T/MXAT Institute. Trained at the Old Vic Theatre School and subsequently taught there. Acted at the Old Vic, Young Vic, The Royal Court, in the West End and in films and television, hosting his own show “The Caravan” for the B.B.C. for five years. Went to the U.S.A. with the satirical revue The Establishment and acted on and off Broadway, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and the Lincoln Center Festival. Lectured on Shakespeare in India and the Netherlands Theatre School. Received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Boston Actor and the Jason Robards Award for Dedication to the Theatre. MERRITT JANSON Second-year acting student at A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Institute credits: Zoya’s Apartment (Zoya); War and Peace (Natasha/Countess Rostov). Regional: Tuesday (2005 Barrymore Award - Outstanding Ensemble), Amaryllis Theatre Co., Philadelphia; HurlyBurly (Bonnie), Drive to a Departing Flight (Maggie), Adrienne Theatre, Philadelphia. New York: Three Years from Thirty (Ashley), Pantheon Theatre; Daddy Longlegs in the Evening (Kate), Chashama; Cavalleria Rusticana, Opera of the Hamptons. Film: Mail Order Wife (Best American Film - 2005 Santa Barbara International Film Festival), First Independent Pictures; Otto and Anna (Anna), Hypnotic Pictures. KAREN MACDONALD* A.R.T.: founding member, fifty-eight productions. Recent seasons: Island of Slaves (Euphrosine), Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), No Exit (Estelle, Elliot Norton Award), Olly’s Prison (Ellen, Elliot Norton Award), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Anna), The Provok’d Wife (Madamoiselle, IRNE award), The Miser (Frosine, IRNE award), The Birthday Party (Meg,IRNE Award), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hypolita/Titania, IRNE award), Pericles (Dionyza), Highway Ulysses (Circe), Uncle Vanya (Marina), Lysistrata (Kalonika), Mother Courage and Her Children (Mother Courage), Marat/Sade (Simone), Othello (Emilia, IRNE award). Director of Dressed Up! Wigged Out!, Boston Playwrights Theatre. New York: Roundabout Theatre, Second Stage, Playwright’s Horizons, and Actors’ Playhouse. Regional: The Misanthrope (Arsinöe), Berkshire Theatre Festival; Infestation (Mother), Boston Playwrights Theatre; Hamlet (Gertrude) and Twelfth Night (Maria), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Maureen) and The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Boo) Vineyard Playhouse; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha, Elliot Norton Award) and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Frankie), Merrimack Repertory Theatre; As You Like It (Rosalind), Shakespeare & Co; Shirley Valentine (Shirley), Charles Playhouse. Other: Alley Theatre (Company member), the Goodman Theatre, the Wilma Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Geva Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Buffalo Studio Arena, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Philadelphia Festival of New Plays.
AMANDA PALMER* Lead singer, songwriter, and pianist for the internationally renowned punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. Inspired by the workshop and experimental theater she was exposed to by Steven Bogart while attending Lexington High School, Palmer went forth to make theater outside of the box during and after college. Directed The Shadowbox Theatre’s The Last Show On Earth in 1995 and Hotel Blanc in 2002 (both collectively written workshop pieces) as well as creating the now legendary Harvard Square living statue street performer known as “The Eight Foot Bride”, who has now traveled and handed out flowers to passing strangers on three continents. She has incorporated her theatre roots and passion for directing into The Dresden Dolls’ shows both on and off stage by organizing The Dresden Dolls’ Brigade, a volunteer art corps which features everything from local street performers and living statues to butoh and physical theatre groups who often choreograph pieces and installations in conjunction with band’s live show. Most recently Palmer contributed piano and vocals to …And You Will Know us by The Trail of Dead’s recent major label release and was also named one of the most stylish in Boston by The Boston Globe. NEIL P. STEWART Second year acting student at A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Institute credits: Zoya’s Apartment, War and Peace, The Front Page. New York credits: Hello Herman, Death in One-Acts, Feiffer’s People (Back House Productions). Regional: I’ll Tell You What (SceneShop, Fort Worth, TX); featured several times in the Broadway Theatre Project’s annual revue (Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center). Founder, former creative director of Back House Productions, in residence at the Arthur Seelen Theatre at New York City’s legendary Drama Book Shop. Member of the permanent acting faculty at Tampa’s Broadway Theatre Project, founded by Ann Reinking, and recipient of its Gwen Verdon Award. Film: lead in the independent short Up to the Roof (Hook Line Sinker Films), 7-11’s Operation Alert. BRIAN VIGLIONE* Introduced to the drums by his father at age five with his interest quickly deepening at age nine when rock music became a primary focus and passion. In 1992 Brian’s father brought him to see The Elvin Jones’ Jazz Machine and he witnessed his first up-close exposure to the drummer who would become his principal inspiration on the instrument. At sixteen he began playing gigs in clubs with bands around New England before moving from New Hampshire to Boston in 1999. Played with several Boston punk bands on both drums and bass guitar, before forming The Dresden Dolls in October 2000 with songwriter/pianist, Amanda Palmer. When not on tour with The Dresden Dolls, he gives drum lessons and collaborating with many other Boston musicians including The Gill Aharon Trio, Neovoxer Ensemble, Reverend Glasseye, and HUMANWINE. Artistic Staff JONATHAN MARC SHERMAN — Writer Co-founded the Malaparte theater company. His plays include Things We Want, Sophistry, Veins & Thumbtacks, Evolution, Sons & Fathers, Jesus on the Oil Tank, Serendipity & Serenity, Wonderful Time, and Women & Wallace. Dr. ANTHONY MARTIGNETTI — Consultant Writer and psychotherapist, lives in Lexington, Mass. MARCUS STERN — Director Associate Director of the A.R.T. and the A.R.T./ MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. A.R.T.: Suzan Lori Parks’ The America Play, Adrienne Kennedy’s The Ohio State Murders, Büchner’s Woyzeck, Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, Adam Rapp’s Stone Cold Dead Serious, and Nocturne; Christopher Durang’s Marriage of Bette and Boo (also at NYU and Harvard University). A.R.T. Institute: a stage adaptation of the film Donnie Darko. Other: Hang Ong’s The Chang Fragments and Martin Crimp’s The Treatment, The Joseph Papp Public Theater; Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits, Theater Neumarkt, Zurich; Jose Rivera’s Marisol, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival; Mac Wellman’s Hyacinth Macaw, Primary Stages, New York; Instant Girl’s On the Run, Dance Theater Workshop; Mac Wellman’s The Land of Fog and Whistles, Whitney Museum Biennial; Neena Beber’s The Living Goddess, The Magic Theater; Erin Cressida Wilson’s Cross Dressing in the
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