FRANK LANGELLA (Sir Thomas More). Broadway: Peter Morgan's Frost Nixon, Belber's Match, Turgenev's Fortune's Fool, Strindberg's The Father, Coward's Present Laughter, Schaffer's Amadeus, Rabe's Hurlyburly, Nichols' Passion, Albee's Seascape, Coward's Design for Living, Marowitz's Sherlock's Last Case, Hamilton-Dean's Dracula, Gibson's A Cry of Players, Lorca's Yerma. Off-Broadway: Rostand's Cyrano, Miller's After the Fall, Lowell's The Old Glory: Benito Cereno, Webster's The White Devil, Von Kliest's The Prince of Homburg, Gide's The Immoralist, Pendleton's Booth, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and A Christmas Carol (Menken/Ahrens). Films: Good Night, and Good Luck; Superman Returns; Starting Out in the Evening (2007); Lolita; Dave; The Ninth Gate; Dracula; 1492; The Conquest of Paradise; Those Lips, Those Eyes; I'm Losing You; Diary of a Mad Housewife; The Twelve Chairs; The House of D; Back in the Day. Directors include George C. Scott, Arthur Penn, Roman Polanski, Adrian Lyne, Sir Peter Hall, Mike Nichols, Susan Stroman, Ivan Reitman, Ridley Scott, George Clooney, Bryan Singer, Denys Arcand, and Mel Brooks. Upcoming film: Frost/Nixon directed by Ron Howard released by Universal in December, The Box with Cameron Diaz directed by Richard Kelly and All Good Things directed by Andrew Jarecki. Television: PBS' "Eccentricities of a Nightingale" and Chekhov's "The Seagull," ABC's "The Beast," HBO's "The Doomsday Gun", Vonnegut's "Monkey House" for Showtime and HBO's "Unscripted" executive produced by George Clooney. Honors: Induction into the 2003 Theatre Hall of Fame, three Tonys, six Drama Desks, three Obies, three Outer Critics Circles, the Drama League, the National Society of Film Critics, the Cable Ace Award, as well as Golden Globe, Emmy and Olivier nominations, an Independent Spirit Award nomination and the Boston Film Critics Award . Several dozen roles in America's leading regional theatres include Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon, Whiting's The Devils, Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady, Shepard's The Tooth of Crime and Barker's Scenes from an Execution.


HANNAH CABELL (Margaret More). Broadway debut. Off-Broadway: Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club), Jane Eyre (The Acting Company), and Millicent Scowlworthy (SPF); other New York credits include Gentleman Caller (Clubbed Thumb), Mark Smith (13P), and Uncivil Wars (Pickup Performance Company). Regional: Dial M for Murder (Barnstormers Theatre); Sedition and Mary's Wedding (Westport Country Playhouse). Training: MFA, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting.


MICHAEL ESPER (William Roper). Recently in Itamar Moses' The Four of Us (MTC)and Edward Albee's Me Myself and I (McCarter). NY: Crazy Mary and Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons), subUrbia (Second Stage), The Agony and the Agony (Vineyard), As You Like It (NYSF/Public Theater), Big Bill (Lincoln Center), Gone Missing (Zipper), Moon Bath Girl (EST). Regional: Long Day's Journey Into Night (dir. Garry Hines, Gaeity Theatre, Dublin), Blur (Dallas Theater Center), American Buffalo (Two River), Henry Flamethrowa (Trinity Rep), Drawer Boy (Penguin Rep.). Film: Bittersweet Place (dir. Alexandra Brodsky), Loggerheads (dir. Tim Kirkman), Light and the Sufferer (dir. Chris Peditto). Michael attended the B.F.A. program at Rutgers University. Associate Artist of The Civilians. AEA member.


MICHEL GILL (Duke of Norfolk). B'way: Debut. Off-Bway: The Milliner (Director's Co. / CSC), Speaking in Tongues (Roundabout) A Winter's Tale, Naked (CSC), Othello (NY Shakespeare Festival), Lincoln Portrait (Joyce Theatre), Da Caravaggio (MCC), Coyote Ugly (NY Theatre Workshop). Regional: Yale Rep., Long Wharf, Folger, Old Globe, Huntington, Portland Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alley, Great Lakes, Pittsburgh Public. Film & TV: Ideal, To Forget Palermo, "Law and Order CI," "L.A. Law," "Guiding Light." Juilliard 1985.


ZACH GRENIER (Thomas Cromwell). Broadway: Voices in the Dark. Theatre includes: Tartuffe (McCarter & Yale Rep), Stuff Happens (NYSF, Drama Desk & Drama League Awards for Outstanding Ensemble), Art (Royal George Theatre, Chicago, Jefferson Award nominee), A Question of Mercy (NY Theatre Workshop, Drama League Award), Uncle Vanya (Yale Rep). Film: Fantastic Four: Rise of Silver Surfer, Zodiac, Rescue Dawn, Pulse, Swordfish, Fight Club and more. TV: “CSI” (all 3), “Cold Case”, “Numbers”, “The Nine” (recurring), “Deadwood” (recurring), “24” (recurring), “Medium” and more.


DAKIN MATTHEWS (Cardinal Wolsey). Broadway: Shakespeare's Henry IV (Bayfield Award for acting, Drama Desk Award for adaptation). Off-Broadway: Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons), The School For Scandal, The Hostage, The Lower Depths, and Women Beware Women (Acting Company). Recent Regional: Shadowlands (LADCC Award), Hitchcock Blonde, Hamlet, and Major Barbara (OC Weekly Award) for South Coast Rep; The History Boys, Stuff Happens, Romeo and Juliet, and Water & Power with Culture Clash (Ovation and LADCC Awards) for Center Theatre Group; The Prince of L.A., Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Old Globe Theatre; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Dallas Theater Center); Hamlet (The Shakespeare Theatre, D.C).; and the title role in King Lear (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre). Film: over twenty films, including The Fighting Temptations, The Muse, The Siege, And the Band Played On, Clean and Sober. TV: over 200 shows including recurring roles on “The King of Queens,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Desperate Housewives” & “Huff.” Also former artistic director of California Actors Theatre, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and The Antaeus Company, an Associate Artist of the Old Globe Theatre, a director, a dramaturge, an award-winning playwright and translator, a Shakespeare scholar, and an Emeritus Professor of English (Cal State, East Bay).


GEORGE MORFOGEN (Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop). Broadway: Fortune's Fool, An Inspector Calls, Arms and the Man, John Gabriel Brokman, Kingdom. Off-Broadway includes: Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for a New Audience), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Delacotre), The Madras House (Mint), Richard II (Classic Stage, Bayfield Award), Heartbreak House (Pearl), Othello (Public), Uncle Bob (Soho Playhouse) and more. TV: “The Jury”, “Oz”, “Law and Order” and more.


PATRICK PAGE (King Henry VIII). Broadway: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Grinch), The Lion King (Scar), The Kentucky Cycle, Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), A Christmas Carol (Scrooge—standby for Roger Daltry). Off-Broadway: Rex (title role), Richard II (NYSF). Regional: Leading roles at Long Wharf (Sergius), Oregon Shakespeare (Marc Antony, Autolycus, Brazen, etc.), Pioneer Theatre Co. (Cyrano, Richard III, Henry V), Alabama Shakespeare (Richard II), Utah Shakespeare (Iago, Brutus, Armado, Jaques, Richard III, etc.), Indiana rep (Hamlet), Missouri Rep (Mercutio), Arizona Theatre Co. (Dracula), as well as Seattle Rep, ACT, Cincinnati Rep, and many others. Patrick is recipient of the Princess Grace Award, The Joseph Jefferson Award and the Utah Governor's Medal for the Arts.


MARYANN PLUNKETT (Alice More). Broadway: Saint Joan, The Seagull, Little Hotel on the Side, The Crucible, Me and My Girl (Tony Award), Sunday in the Park with George, Agnes of God. Off-Broadway: Rodney's Wife (Playwrights Horizons), Aristocrats (MTC). National Tour: Agnes of God, Great Expectations. Regional includes: Rodney's Wife (World premiere at Williamstown), Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (Westport & Harvard), Jane Eyre (Geva), The Crucible (Long Wharf), Saint Joan (Huntington). Film: The Squid and the Whale, Center Stage, Fools Rush in and more. TV: guest leads on “Law and Order”, “Star Trek”, “LA Law”, “Murder She Wrote” and more.


JEREMY STRONG (Richard Rich). Theatre: David Ives' New Jerusalem (CSC / Walter Bobbie Dir.); Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum (Public Theater, Richard Nelson Dir.); Richard Nelson's Frank's Home (Playwrights Horizons & Goodman / Robert Falls Dir.); John Patrick Shanley's Defiance (MTC/ Doug Hughes Dir.); A Matter of Choice (John Gould Rubin Dir.); Conor McPherson's Rum and Vodka (The Belt); Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs, JT Roger's White People (Williamstown Non-Eq); Fuddy Meers (Steppenwolf School); Look Back in Anger, American Buffalo, Marat/Sade, The Indian Wants the Bronx (Yale); Richard III (RADA). Film: M Night Shyamalan's The Happening / 20th Century Fox; starring in upcoming independent Humboldt County. Training: Williamstown Act One, Steppenwolf School, RADA Shakespeare Intensive. BA in English from Yale University.


CHARLES BORLAND (Jailor). Roundabout Broadway: Twelve Angry Men (National Tour), A Streetcar Named Desire, Roundabout Off-Broadway: A Shot In The Dark, MITF; Missing Celia Rose, SPF; Deathvariations, 59E59; Lascivious Something, Cherry Lane; Dirty Story, LAByrinth; Out of Sterno, Cherry Lane. Regional: Hamlet, Long Wharf; The Merchant of Venice, Portland Center Stage; Smash, The Old Globe. Television: "New Amsterdam," "Numb3rs", "Law & Order: CI", "Jonny Zero," "Whoopi," "Third Watch," "Ed," "Hack," "All My Children," "Guiding Light," "As The World Turns," "One Life To Live." Film: Honored, Into The Fire. Training: The Juilliard School; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).


PETER BRADBURY (Steward). Broadway: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The Herbal Bed. Roundabout: The Overwhelming. Off-Broadway: Back From the Front (The Working Theater), Bulrusher (Urban Stages), Snakebit (Century Theater), Passion Play (Minetta Lane Theater), Surviving Grace (Union Square Theater), A Late Supper (Maverick Theater). Regional: Pittsburgh Public, Cleveland Playhouse, Alliance Theater, Rep. Theater of St. Louis, Berkeley Rep., Coconut Grove Playhouse, Walnut St. Theater and American Conservatory Theater among many others. Television: “Sally Hemings” (CBS miniseries), “Law and Order” (NBC) “Law and Order Criminal Intent” (NBC), “Rescue Me” (FX), “Another World” (NBC), “Guiding Light” (CBS), “One Life to Live” (ABC), “As the World Turns” (CBS) “All My Children” (ABC).


PATRICIA HODGES (Woman). Broadway: Design for Living and Lion in Winter (Roundabout), The Best Man, Dancing at Lughnasa, Sisters Rosensweig, Six Degrees of Separation. Off-Broadway: Woman Before Glass (standby for Mercedes Ruehl), Rose's Dilemma (MTC), Communication Doors (Variety Arts), On the Verge (Acting Company), The Normal Heart (NYSF). National Tour: Carousel. Regional includes: Night of the Iguana (ACT, Seattle and Guthrie), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Pittsburgh Public), 3 Tall Women (Center Stage), The Seagull (Dallas Theater Center), Black Forest (Long Wharf) and more. TV/Film: “Law & Order”, “Cagney and Lacey”, “Another World”, Heaven's Gate.


TRINEY SANDOVAL (Thomas Chapuys). Broadway: Frost/Nixon. New York: Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue; As You Like It; The Idiot. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage, Yale Rep, Oregon Shakes, The Alliance, Old Globe, Milwaukee Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Alabama Shakes, Virginia Stage, San Jose Rep, among others. Over 35 productions of Shakespeare. TV: “The Sopranos,” “One Life to Live,” “All My Children,” recurring role on “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: SVU.”


EMILY DORSCH. Yale: Richard III, Three Sisters, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Venus, Balm in Gilead, Fill Our Mouths, The Lacy Project and more. Regional: Alls Well That Ends Well (Yale Rep), Self-Accusation & Baal (Yale Summer Cabaret), Wuthering Heights & The Human Comedy (Wayside, VA), Man of La Mancha (Show Palace, FL). MFA from Yale School of Drama.

ROBERT BOLT (Playwright). Robert Oxton Bolt was born in Sale in Manchester on 15 August 1924, the son of a shopkeeper. Early education at Manchester Grammar School was followed by a history degree at Manchester University. After serving in the Royal Air Force in World War II, Bolt qualified as a teacher and taught English in the prestigious private school Millfield between 1950 and 1958. It was here that, in his spare time, he wrote both radio and stage plays. Many of his radio plays received an airing and he also did some producing. In 1958, encouraged by the London success of his play The Flowering Cherry, he gave up teaching to concentrate full time on his writing. In 1960 he had two plays running in London, The Tiger and the Horse and A Man for All Seasons. The eponymous role of Sir Thomas More shot actor Paul Scofield to stardom, and A Man for All Seasons proved a huge hit both in London's West End and on Broadway where in 1962 it was voted Best Foreign Play of the Year. This success attracted the attention of Hollywood, and producer Sam Spiegel approached Bolt to revise Michael Wilson's script for Lawrence of Arabia. Directed by David Lean, it was Bolt's first successful screenplay and he received an Academy Award nomination for it. Bolt won his first Oscar for his next collaboration with Lean, Doctor Zhivago in 1963. In 1966 his screen adaptation of A Man for All Seasons won him a second Oscar. Meanwhile, on stage, Bolt produced Gentle Jack in 1963 and a play for children, The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew at Christmas 1965. In 1970 another historical play, charting the relationship between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, Vivat! Vivat! Regina! played to full houses at the Chichester Festival and later enjoyed a long run in the West End. When it was transferred to Broadway two years later was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Meanwhile, Bolt wrote the screenplay for two films starring his then wife, Sarah Miles; Ryan's Daughter in 1970 and the historical costume drama Lady Caroline Lamb in 1972. Sarah was both his second and fourth (last) wife; the first married in 1967, but divorced in 1976, then after a third marriage ended in divorce in 1985, Sarah and Bolt remarried in 1988. In 1972, Bolt was appointed a CBE. In 1976, David Lean approached Bolt with an idea to rework the story of the infamous Bounty mutiny and, for two years, he worked on this epic project, creating two versions. Before he could complete the second, however, Bolt suffered a massive heart attack in April 1979, followed by a stroke. His one completed script was made into the film The Bounty five years later in 1981, directed by Roger Donaldson. His final film script, for The Mission, was produced in 1986. Robert Bolt died on 12 February 1995 at the age of seventy.

DOUG HUGHES (Director) recently directed Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius for MTC. He also directed John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt (2005 Tony, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Awards for Best Direction of a Play) and Shanley's Defiance. Hughes is the Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company, where he has directed Howard Katz, A Touch of the Poet, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Paris Letter and McReele. Other work in New York includes Inherit The Wind at the Lyceum Theatre (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Director; Tony Award Nomination, Best Revival), The House in Town at Lincoln Center, Frozen (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and Lortel nominations) and The Grey Zone (1996 Obie Award, Direction) at MCC; Engaged at TFANA; Flesh and Blood (Callaway Award, Best Direction) at NYTW; Othello at the Public and Lake Hollywood at Signature. In May 2005, Hughes received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.