Company bios TIM ACITO (choreographer) – Tim toured internationally as a modern dancer for many years before returning to Yale to get his MFA in Playwriting. His choreography has been seen throughout the U.S. and abroad, and his musical, Zanna!, is currently being developed for a Broadway run in 2005. DANIEL BAKER (Sound Designer) Selected Sound Design credits: The Mystery Plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacassa (Second Stage), The Vampires (Double Helix Theatre Co.), Cuckooland by Gip Hoppe (Wellfleet Harbor Actor's Theater), The Last of the Chatterbox Wolves (Yale School of Drama), and The Black Dahlia (Yale Repertory Theater). Original Music and Sound Design credits: Uncle Vanya and Coriolanus (YSD) and A View From the Bridge (Dartmouth College). Sound, Video and Web Design: Faust is Dead (Yale Cabaret). SCOTT BOLMAN (Lighting Designer) Regional: Taming of the Shrew directed by Mark Lamos, Fighting Words (Yale Repertory Theater), Fran’s Bed (staged reading directed by James Lepine; Long Wharf Theater), Art (Hope Summer Rep). Off Broadway: The Moonlight Room. Off-Off Broadway: Jose Rivera’s Sonnets for an Old Century (New York premier), Les Liaisons Dangereuse, Red Town Utah, Say You Love Satan, 2 Josh, St. Fatso's Lament, I Am Not Peter Pan. Dance: NYC Butoh Festival, Rate of Exchange (David Dorfman), Attracted to Accidents (KT Niehoff; U.S., Canada, Japan, Ecuador). GREG COPELAND (Producer) Greg was a co-founder and producer of About Face Theatre in Chicago where he produced 18 productions. His productions have won many Chicago-area awards, including Joseph Jefferson and After Dark awards of Best Production for Dream Boy, bash, and Raising Voices: About Face Youth Theatre, and Overall Technical Design awards for Whitman and Eleven Rooms of Proust. As General Manager for the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts in New Haven, he produced a summer stock season of 4 new American plays in 8 weeks. Greg is currently developing a new musical Winesburg, Ohio with About Face Theatre and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He holds a MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama. CHRISTIE EVANGELISTO (Dramaturg) is the Assistant Literary Manager at Playwrights Horizons, where she oversees the Musical Theatre division of the Literary department. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama and a BA in Dramatic Literature, Theater History, and Cinema from New York University. Christie recently moved back to NYC from DC, where she worked as the Dramaturg/Associate Literary Manager at the Studio Theatre and as a freelance dramaturg and writer with the Washington National Opera, Arena Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater Alliance. GREG FELDEN (director) This is Greg's New York directorial debut. He most recently directed the critically acclaimed Zombie Attack! at the Yale Cabaret, where he also helmed 8/28 an original work by Jammer star Kevin Rich. Greg graduated in 2003 with an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. He spent the winter months at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC where he appeared as Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. by Mark Lamos). Other credits include Jared in Say You Love Satan (NY Fringe Festival 2003) and The Play About Rosemary's Baby (Soho Rep), both by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa , and Will in Naked Will (PS 122). At Yale, he appeared in The Rocky Horror Show as Riff Raff, Rough Magic (Aguirre-Sacasa), Three Sisters, Turpike (Jamie O'Brien), and The Great Magician (Calderon). SANDRA GOLDMARK (Set Designer) Recent work includes the Yale Rep/Second Stage co-production of The Mystery Plays, and the current NY Fringe Festival production of You’ve Never Done Anything Unforgivable. New York work includes sets for Cooper Savage, Waiting for Godot at the East River Amphitheatre, The Propaganda Plays, Bold Girls, sets and costumes for Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, and various productions with the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab. Sandra is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where she designed sets for Changes of Heart and Alcestis, costumes for William Shakespeare’s Can You Dig It? (or As You Like It if you can’t) and Richard III. Yale Cabaret credits include sets for Pageant, You’ve Never Done Anything Unforgivable, The SantaLand Diaries, Kennedy’s Children, costumes for 8 X 10, and sets and costumes for the Summer Cabaret at Yale 2003 season. ROLIN JONES (Playwright) just graduated from Yale School of Drama’s Master of Fine Arts playwriting program where he was the recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Scholarship. His full length plays include Time of no Reply, The Jammer, and Last of the Chatterbox Wolves. He has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory and was one of four American playwrights chosen to participate in this year’s Old Vic/ New Voices festival in London. His play The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow won Orange County Weekly’s Best New Play Award and the American Theater Critics Association’s 2004 Elizabeth Osborne Award for an Emerging Playwright. Most recently he lucked into a NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Grant and will be pinching himself at Yale Repertory Theater for the next year and a half. 6’2, 185 lbs. Despite his mailing address, a Californian wherever he lays his hat. ANNE KENNEY (Costume Designer) Recent design work includes costumes for Kid Simple (Summer Play Festival), Last of the Chatterbox Wolves by Rolin Jones, Changes of Heart by Marivaux at Yale School of Drama, The Black Dahlia at Yale Repertory Theater and scenery for As You Like It at Yale School of Drama. In New York, Anne has designed costumes for a variety of projects including the short film Upheaval which was part of the Lincoln Center series New Directors New Films, the series finale of "Strangers with Candy" and choreographer Molly Rabinowitz/Wormworks Dance Company. GRACE E. O’BRIEN (Stage Manager) most recently worked on an international tour with Peter Sellars on The Children of Herakles. She also recently completed The Veil of the Temple that was the closing performance of the Lincoln Center Festival. Regionally her credits include King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and Kingdom of Earth at the Yale Repertory Theatre and Camille Claudel with Linda Eder at the Goodspeed Opera House in Chester. Ms. O’Brien is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Montclair State University. Cast Bios (*appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association) GABRIELLE CASTELLINI* (Beth Nutterman) Recent Graduate of Yale School of Drama. Regional work: Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, livin' tired, The Home, Leah's Train. Favorite work includes: Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Changes of Heart, Orpheus Descending, The Sungatherers, and Banditos. National Tours: The Sound of Music. TV and Film: Riding in Cars With Boys, “Third Watch”, and “Walker Texas Ranger”. ANDREW GUILARTÉ (Father Domingo) Last seen in Despina’s 7/11 franchised at the Tenement Theater. Other NY credits include: The Winter’s Tale at CSC, The Journey Project with the Immigrant Theatre, and Kingdom of Lost Songs at Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab. Other favorite roles include: Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, Mercuto in Romeo and Juliet, and Trigorin in The Seagull. Television: “Turks” (CBS), “Early Edition” (CBS), “The Work Place” (PBS). Education: MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama. BILLY EUGENE JONES* (Lenny Ringle) is a recent graduate of Yale School of Drama. He appeared in this season’s Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun. At Yale, Billy appeared in The Muckle Man, and Othello (both directed by David Muse), as well as As You Like It, A Streetcar Named Desire, Our Town and ...and Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi also by one of Yale’s up and coming playwrights, Marcus Gardley. Billy has numerous regional theatre, film, television, and commercial credits and is thrilled to be a part of this exciting new play. JASON LINDNER (Bert Feinberg) is a recent graduate of Yale School of Drama with an MFA in playwriting. He has had plays produced in NYC and across the country. He has performed as an actor, a singer, an improviser, and a stand-up comedian. Jason has been a participant of the FringeNYC for 3 years in a row to great reviews from the Post and nytheatre.com. Though not a novelist, he is working on his bid for the Nobel Prize in literature so he can have a venue to sing his (soon to be) hit single "The Nobel Prize for literature-ah… That's-a-what I'm-gonna win-ah". PETER MACON* (Charlie Heartbreak) Broadway: Drowning Crow (Manhattan Theatre Club’s Biltmore Theatre). Off-Broadway: The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae (New Federal Theatre). Regional: Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (Yale Repertory Theatre), Dream on Monkey Mountain (Guthrie Theatre), Macbeth (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Hecuba (American Conservatory Theatre), Fences (TheatreWorks), and four years as a company member of California Shakespeare Festival. Film/Television: “Animated Tales of the World: John Henry the Steel Driving Man” (Narrator - 2002 Creative Emmy® Award Winner), Numb, Just One Night, “Nash Bridges”, King of the Bingo Game. Training: Yale School of Drama (MFA 2003). JAMES LLOYD REYNOLDS* (Father Kosciusko) Regional: Antony and Cleopatra (Hudson Valley Shakespeare, directed by David Muse), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hot 'N' Throbbing, and Private Eyes (Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts). Film: Cat Woman (with Hallie Barry), The Road From Erebus (HBO at 3:00 AM). Yale School of Drama: Lonesome West, The Wild Party, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Jammer by Rolin Jones, The Sungatherers by Tim Acito, and Rough Magic by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Training: Yale School of Drama (MFA 2004). KEVIN RICH* (Jack Lovington) lived in Chicago prior to getting his MFA at Yale School of Drama and now lives in New York. He originated the role of Jack Lovington at Yale; other YSD roles include Uncle Vanya, Peer Gynt, Harlequin in Changes of Heart, Mr. Marcus in Rolin Jones' The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow and Menenius Agrippa in Coriolanus, directed by David Muse. Kevin played The Trader in the Factory Theater's The Vinyl Shop in FringeNYC '99 and this fall will play both Dromios in The Comedy of Errors at Milwaukee Shakespeare. JEANINE SERRALLES* (Lindy Batello) Off-Broadway: Hold Please (Drama Desk Nomination). Regional: The King Stag, Serious Money (Yale Repertory Theater); The Glass Menagerie, Be Aggressive (Dallas Theater Center); Fuente, Smoking Kills (O'Neill Playwrights Conference). National Tour: Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing (National Shakespeare Co.). NYC Theatre: Woyzeck (Woyzeck), King Lear (The Fool), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), Antigone (Antigone), Twelfth Night (Viola), Mayhem at Summer Play Festival. Television: “Sex and the City”, “Guiding Light”. Training: Yale School of Drama (MFA 2002). KEIKO YAMAMOTO (Cindy Gums) A recent graduate of the MFA Acting program at Yale School of Drama, Keiko has appeared in Hamlet (Ophelia), Orpheus Descending (Vee), Richard III (Margaret), and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Jenny Chow), which will be performed at Yale Repertory Theater this coming fall. She is very happy to be in Rolin's play.