BRENDA WEHLE (Patty Benedict) now divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Brenda Wehle was born in Washington, D.C., the third of six children of a Career Military Officer and his wife. The family moved frequently, and by age 18 she had lived in 4 countries, 5 states and attended 8 different schools. The family's longest stay was three years in Paris, France, with other years spent in Germany, Virginia, Oklahoma, Washington State, Pennsylvania and Louisiana. She received her B.A in French Literature, followed by an M.A. in Speech and Drama from Catholic University of America. In 1980 she received her Equity Card along with Allison Janney, while both played faeries in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream starring Carol Kane and Graham Beckel. Card in hand she worked across the country in numerous regional theaters, including Seattle Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, The Philadelphia Company, Santa Fe, and Hartford Stage. In 1987, at the invitation of Garland Wright (Artistic Director of The Guthrie Theater) she moved to Minneapolis to join his Acting Company, where she worked with exceptional designers and directors on over 35 productions. Among these were directors Les Waters, Robert Woodruff, Lucian Pintilie, Bartlett Sher, and Garland Wright; designers Doug Stein, James F. Ingalls, Ann Hould Ward, Susan Hilferty and John Arnone. In 1997 Ms. Wehle moved to Los Angeles and began her first on camera work, including recurring roles on "Party of Five" and "Malcolm In The Middle," along with film work like Soldier with Kurt Russell and American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes. During that time she also appeared in the Broadway productions Come Back, Little Sheba with S. Epatha Merkeson; Pygmalion, starring Jefferson Mays, Boyd Gaines and Clare Danes (Roundabout); and with Kate Burton and Boyd Gaines at Lincoln Center in The Grand Manner, directed by Mark Lamos. She won her first OBIE award performing the role of Celia in Talking Heads, directed by Michael Engler at the Minetta Lane Theater, and worked over a two year stretch of time in New York and Europe rehearsing and appearing in Peter Sellars production of The Children Of Herakles. She was most recently seen in New York as Clio in Tony Kushner's 2011 The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with A Key To The Scriptures, directed by Michael Greif, a part for which she was awarded her second OBIE. She is currently working on Akiva Goldsman's film adaptation of Winter's Tale with Colin Farrell, and will next be seen on screen in Kill Your Darlings, a 2013 Sundance film starring Daniel Radcliffe.
CHIP ZIEN (Nat Danziger). Chip Zien created the central role of the Baker in Sondheim/Lapine’s award-winning Into The Woods (L.A. Drama-Logue Award, Outer Critics nomination) and also created the role of Mendel in William Finn’s highly acclaimed Falsettos. Most recently, he appeared in The Public Theater’s productions of The Twenty-Seventh Man and Into The Woods (at the Delacorte). He was recently seen on B'way in The People In The Picture, in Mike Nichols' The Country Girl, and as Thenardier in the revival of Les Miserables. Other Broadway credits include, Tommy Tune’s Grand Hotel, The Boys From Syracuse, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, All Over Town directed by Dustin Hoffman and The Suicide with Derek Jacobi. Mr. Zien began his long association with William Finn in the New York premier of In Trousers, at Playwrights Horizons and appeared thereafter in the original productions of March Of The Falsettos and Falsettoland. Mr. Zien also starred in the La Jolla reworking of Merrily We Roll Along (L.A. Drama-Logue Award). Among his many off-Broadway credits: Glenn Merzer’s Anonymous, Peter Parnell’s An Imaginary Life, Wendy Wasserstein’s Isn’t It Romantic (Drama Desk Nomination), Michael Weller’s Split and Moonchildren, Lanford Wilson’s Hot L Baltimore (both in NY and LA’s Mark Taper Forum), Allan Ginsburg’s Kaddish, as well as Finn’s A New Brain (Drama Desk Nomination), Diamonds, the Ashman/Menken Real Life Funnies, and the hit revue Tuscaloosa’s Calling Me. On TV, Mr. Zien was a series regular on “The Caroline Rhea Show,” “Almost Perfect” (CBS), “Now And Again” (CBS), “Deadline” (NBC), “Shell Game” (CBS), “Love, Sidney” (NBC), and “Reggie” (ABC). His various film roles include the voice of the infamous Howard The Duck, as well as The Siege, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead, United 93, Snake Eyes, Breakfast Of Champions, Dorothy Parker And The Vicious Circle, Grace Quigley with Katherine Hepburn, So Fine, Hello Again, House Of God, and The Rose. As a writer, Mr. Zien’s one man show Death In Ashtabula and a musical review with Deborah Abramson, et al. Travels With My Discontent were both developed and performed at The Barrington Stage. His project The History Of War, premiered in 2010 at NYMF.
KATYA CAMPBELL (u/s Connie Bliss, Dixie Evans).
Mauritius (MTC, u/s)
Recall,
Fisheye (Colt Coeur),
Vertebrae (@NYTW),
Three Days of Rain,
Matt and Ben (Amphibian),
27 Wagons Full of Cotton (EST). Film/TV:
Archaeology of a Woman,
Small Outdoors,
Crazy Glue,
Crimson Mask, "Law and Order". MFA Rutgers.
LEE AARON ROSEN (u/s Charlie Castle, Smiley Coy). Broadway:
The Normal Heart. Off-Broadway:
Gabriel (Atlantic Theatre Company),
The Lady From Dubuque (Signature Theatre). Regional: Williamstown, Westport Country Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Centerstage. TV: "The Big C," “Nurse Jackie,” “Damages,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent." Film:
Saving Private Ryan,
Company K. MFA, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.
BAYLEN THOMAS (u/s Hank Teagle, Buddy Bliss, Russell). Roundabout:
After the Fall Broadway:
Merchant of Venice,
Cyrano de Bergerac,
The Coast of Utopia,
Henry IV,
King Lear. Off-Broadway:
Twelfth Night. Film:
The Beaver,
The Namesake. TV: "The Good Wife," "Rubicon," "Life on Mars," "Law and Order".
MARK ZEISLER (u/s Nat Danziger, Marcus Hoff). Roundabout:
A View from the Bridge. Broadway:
Brooklyn Boy. Off Broadway:
The Accomplices,
Euryidice,
Circle Mirror Transformation,
The Sex Lives of Our Parents. Television: “The Americans,” “Blue Bloods,” “Pan Am,” “Rescue Me,” “Law and Order”.
ERIKA ROLFSRUD (u/s Marion Castle, Patty Benedict). Roundabout debut. BROADWAY:
Coast of Utopia,
Rabbit Hole,
Exit The King. OFF-BROADWAY:
Electra In A One-Piece,
Misalliance,
Glory of Living,
How I Learned to Drive,
Love’s Fire, and more. REGIONAL: Various. TV: “Law & Order”, “Third Watch”, “NYC 22”.
www.erikarolfsrud.com
CLIFFORD ODETS (Playwright). 1906–1963. In 1931, Odets began his career as an actor with The Group Theater, a New York company in which he was a founding member. He soon turned to writing, and his first play for the Group, Waiting for Lefty (1935), almost immediately launched him as the most celebrated American playwright of the 1930's. Lefty, as well as four other major Broadway productions in that decade, introduced theater audiences to subject matter and language that had never before been heard on the American stage. Odets’s work, spanning the three decades preceding his death in 1963, deeply influenced generations of American playwrights to follow. Among Odets’s other best-known plays are Awake and Sing, Paradise Lost, Golden Boy, Rocket to the Moon, Clash by Night, The Big Knife, The Country Girl and The Flowering Peach. Screenplay credits include The General Died at Dawn, None but the Lonely Heart, Humoresque, The Sweet Smell of Success, and Story on Page One. Film directing credits include None but the Lonely Heart and Story on Page One. Odets also directed the New York premieres of The Country Girl (1950) and The Flowering Peach (1954).
DOUG HUGHES (Director) has directed the Roundabout productions of Death Takes A Holiday, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Man For All Seasons, A Touch of the Poet and A Naked Girl on the Appian Way. He is currently in Dublin rehearsing Glengarry Glen Ross at the celebrated Gate Theatre. Hughes' most recent New York productions include Born Yesterday on Broadway at the Cort Theater and The Whipping Man off-Broadway at MTC’s Stage One. He serves as the Resident Director of Roundabout Theatre and has been awarded Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle, Lucille Lortel and Callaway Awards for his productions.