BETTY GILPIN (Emma). Theatre credits include That Face (MTC City Center); What is the Cause of Thunder? (Williamstown); Boys Life (Second Stage); Good Boys and True (Second Stage); Top Girls (Fordham Lincoln Center); The Laramie Project (Fordham Lincoln Center); Earth-Leigh Delights (Fordham Lincoln Center); The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Baruch College). She has also been seen at the Loomis School in Taxi (penned and performed); Wonderful Town; Hamlet; Kiss Me Kate; As You Like It; Cabaret; and West Side Story.

JOHN HORTON (Resten). Broadway: A Touch of the Poet, Noises Off; Kiss Me, Kate; Golden Child, London Assurance; The Homecoming; Bedroom Farce; Amadeus; Allegro (Encores!); Spokesong; Lettice and Lovage (national tour); Moby Dick; Photo Finish; Otherwise Engaged. Off-Broadway: Damn Yankees, Engaged, The Stand-In, The Rear Column, Close of Play, A Backer's Audition, After the Prize, Love's Labour's Lost, Engaged. Regional: Racing Demon (Guthrie), Alphabetical Order (Long Wharf), The Recruiting Officer (Long Wharf), Heartbreak House (BTF, Stockbridge). Television: "Law & Order: CI," "NY Undercover," "Liberty," "Benjamin Franklin," "Trinity," "One Life to Live," "George Washington". Film: Shawshank Redemption, Thinner, Donnie Brasco. Mr. Horton has performed, as narrator, in concerts and recordings with Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, Penderecki, Glenn Gould and the Juilliard String Quartet. He has recorded more than 500 titles for the American Foundation for the Blind's Talking Books Program.

JAYNE HOUDYSHELL (Alta). Broadway: Bye Bye Birdie at Roundabout; Wicked; Well (2006 Tony Nomination, Theatre World Award Winner 2006). Off-Broadway: The New Century at Lincoln Center Theater (Outer Critics Circle Nominations, Drama League Nomination), The Receptionist at Manhattan Theatre Club (2008 Lucille Lortel Nomination, Drama League Nomination), The Pain and the Itch (2007 Drama League Nomination); Well, Public Theatre (2004 Obie Award and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Award Nominations); Much Ado About Nothing, NYSF; Fighting Words, Playwrights Horizons; True Love, Zipper Theater; Attempts on Her Life, SoHo Rep. Regional Theater: The Pain and The Itch, Steppenwolf Theatre (2005 Jefferson Award); The Clean House, Wilma Theatre (2005 Barrymore Award), Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Missouri Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, Asolo Theater, Studio Arena Theater, Meadow Brook Theater and many others. Film: Everbody's Fine, Garden State, Changing Lanes, Trust The Man, and Things That Hang From Trees. Television: "Unorthodox," "Conviction", "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Third Watch." Proud Member of Actors Equity Association.

MATT LETSCHER (George). After attending the University of Michigan, Matt Letscher made his professional debut at Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, MI, in the Daniels-penned farce, The Tropical Pickle. This led directly to being cast in Turner Films' Civil War epic, Gettysburg, after he was seen by director Ron Maxwell. Living in Los Angeles since 1993, Letscher has steadily built an extensive and diverse resume covering screen and stage. Films include Straight-Jacket, Identity, Gods and Generals, Madison, Supersucker, Lovelife, The Mask of Zorro and, most recently, Alan Ball's Nothing is Private, opposite Toni Colette. Television work includes series regular roles on "Good Morning Miami," Fox's "Living in Captivity," CBS' "Almost Perfect" and ABC's "Eli Stone" and starring roles in TNT's "King of Texas," ABC's "The Beach Boys: An America Family" and NBC's "Jackie, Ethel, and Joan: Women of Camelot." Matt recurred in "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "The West Wing," as well as in "Joey," "NYPD Blue," "Criminal Minds," and most recently on HBO's "Entourage." On stage Letscher has appeared on Broadway in The Rivals at Lincoln Center and Neil Simon's Proposals, and regionally in the world premiere of Lanford Wilson's Raindance, Love's Labors Lost, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, The Sisters, Absolution, On Approval, Tonight at 8:30, What They Have and The Seagull. He has recently been working once again with the Purple Rose Theater, this time as a playwright and director, with the premiere of his farce, Sea of Fools. He most recently performed at the South Coast Repertoire in In the Garden.

HEIDI SCHRECK (Mary). New York theatre credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons; 2010 Theatre World Award, OBIE and Drama Desk for ensemble), Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (Two-Headed Calf at HERE, 2008 Obie Award); The Happy Sad (SPF); Open House (The Foundry); Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb); Women of Trachis (Target Margin); The Internationalist (13P); and Demon Baby (Clubbed Thumb). Regional Credits include In the Wake (Center Theatre Group; Berkeley Repertory Theatre) and roles at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Empty Space, ACT, New York Stage and Film, Sundance Theatre Lab, and Printer's Devil Theatre. Film includes Hedda Gabler and Perfidia.

JULIA CHO (Playwright) is the author of The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Winchester House, BFE, The Architecture of Loss and 99 Histories, which have been produced at SCR, The Vineyard Theatre, The Public Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, East West Players and The Theatre @ Boston Court among others. An alumna of the Juilliard School and NYU's Graduate Dramatic Writing Program, Ms. Cho is a member of New Dramatists.


MARK BROKAW (Director). For the Roundabout: After Miss Julie, Distracted, Suddenly Last Summer, The Constant Wife. Other Broadway: Reckless and the musical Cry-Baby. New York premieres include Mouth to Mouth, This is Our Youth (New Group); The Long Christmas Ride Home, Stranger, The Dying Gaul, How I Learned to Drive, (Vineyard Theatre); The Busy World is Hushed and Lobby Hero (Playwrights Horizons); As Bees in Honey Drown (Drama Dept.); The Good Times are Killing Me (Second Stage); Old Money (Lincoln Center); 2.5 Minute Ride (Public). Other work includes Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, Steppenwolf, Huntington, Berkeley Rep, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, New York Stage & Film, Sundance and the O'Neill Conference. He has also directed at London's Donmar Warehouse and Dublin's Gate Theatre. Mark is the Artistic Director of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, and is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre.


The Language Archive design team includes Neil Patel (Sets), Michael Krass (Costumes), Marc McCullough (Lights) and David Van Tieghem (Sound).