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Anna Cody (Angela) Regional credits: Prudence in Beyond Therapy (Robby Award Nomination), Doll Tearsheet in Henry IV (with John Goodman, directed by Jack O’Brien), Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, Audrey in As You Like It, Getting Away with Murder (World Premiere by Stephen Sondheim), Way of the World and The Cherry Orchard (Old Globe Theatre); Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre & Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis); The Heiress (Lauren K. Woods Theatre); Waiting for the Parade (Mill Playhouse); A Lie of the Mind (Anderson Center). New York credits: Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet (Connolly Theatre); I, Bohemia (78th Street Theatre Lab); Janis Joplin in Icons Y2K (John Montgomery Theatre); The Unforgettable Moment (Lark Theatre) and her one-woman show about Sylvia Plath. Ms. Cody received her MFA in Acting from the Old Globe/University of San Diego.
Warren Kelley (Laurence) is a veteran of well over 150 productions in New York and regional theatres around the country. Warren just returned from Riverside Theatre in Florida where he appeared in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged]. Other regional credits include: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man [Cape Playhouse with Billy Campbell], Dear World [Goodspeed with Sally Ann Howes], The Sunshine Boys [Theatre Virginia with John Fiedler], Zorba [North Shore with Anita Gillette], Misalliance [Pioneer Theatre Co.], Richard Dresser’s Below the Belt [Florida Stage], The Gift [a World Premiere at Walnut St. Theatre where he starred as Truman Capote], and many more. Off Broadway: Warren did a stint in the long running mystery Perfect Crime, and at The York Theatre was featured in Baker Street [with Simon Jones] and in Rupert Holmes’ new musical of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Warren has spent the last seventeen summers with River Rep at Ivoryton where he has played everything from the title role in The Dresser to Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, and has been nominated twice by The Connecticut Critics Circle. Warren appeared in Noises Off here at Two River and is so pleased to return and have this opportunity to work with director Jonathan Fox.
Randall Newsome (Tony) Regional theatre credits include: The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Florida Stage, Stamford Fringe Festival, The Fulton Opera House, New American Theatre, Chicago’s Candlelight/Forum Theatre, Light Opera Works and Apple Tree Theatre. New York stage credits include: The 78th Street Theatre Lab, The Upper Depths and WPP. Randall also performed on the National Tour of the 125th edition of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Film and television credits include: Big Fat Liar, Tremors, Highlander II with Sean Connery, and NBC’s Ed. Randall recently completed filming a leading role as the bungling dogcatcher boss in Benji Returns: Rags to Riches, due out next summer. A member of the Directors Guild of America, Randall has assistant directed several feature films and television productions including Primal Fear, The Mighty Quinn, Dennis the Menace, Blink, Flipper, Poison Ivy, Chicago Hope, HBO’s Normal Life, and the Coen Brothers’ Barton Fink.
Henny Russell (Beverly) Broadway: Major Barbara. Off-Broadway: Boy Gets Girl, Fuddy Meers, Labor Day. Regional: World Premiere of One (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Spinning Into Butter (Hartford TheaterWorks); Dinner With Friends (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Proof (Virginia Stage Company); World Premiere of Smell of the Kill (Cleveland Play House); American Premiere of Things We Do For Love (Studio Arena); World Premiere of The Lake’s End (Adirondack Theatre Festival); It Pays To Advertise (Yale Repertory Theatre); State of the Union (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Mask of Moriarty (Paper Mill Playhouse); Sylvia, Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Dracula, Pericles, Macbeth (Old Globe Theatre); her one-woman show, Isabelle, at theatres in New York, California, and Ohio. Television: Pensacola: Wings of Gold, Silk Stalkings. Film: Corn and Loopy, both soon to be released. Ms. Russell is a graduate of New York University (BFA) and the Old Globe/University of San Diego (MFA).
Pamela Wiggins (Susan) is very pleased to be making her Two River debut. Other regional work includes: The House of Bernarda Alba and The Royal Family at the McCarter Theatre Center, Present Laughter at the Pioneer Theatre Company, Private Lives (dir. Marshall W. Mason) at the Rep. Theatre of St. Louis, Sideman at Stamford Theatreworks as well as Over the Tavern and Inspecting Carol for both Cincinnati Playhouse and the Rep Theatre of St. Louis. Off Broadway she appeared in Starting Monday at the WPA and Women of Manhattan at Theatre at St. Peter’s Church. TV guest appearances include: HACK and Law & Order. She has numerous commercial credits and lives with her dog, Alice (Lady A) in New York City.
Production Artists
Mike Leigh (Playwright) writer and film director, was born in 1943 in Salford, Lancashire. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, at Camberwell and Central Arts Schools, and at the London Film School. His first feature film was Bleak Moments, followed by the full-length television films, Hard Labour, Nuts in May, The Kiss of Death, Who’s Who, Grown Ups, Home Sweet Home, Meantime and Four Days in July. His feature films include: High Hopes, Life is Sweet, Naked (Best Director Award at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival), Career Girls, Secrets and Lies (Palme d’Or and Best Actress for Brenda Blethyn at the Cannes Film Festival), Topsy-Turvy and All Or Nothing. Mr. Leigh has also written and directed over twenty stage plays, including Babies Grow Old, Abigail’s Party, Ecstasy, Goose-Pimples, Greek Tragedy, and It’s a Great Big Shame!. He was awarded the OBE in 1993.
Jonathan Fox (Director) directed Two River Theatre Company’s productions of: The Tragedy of Carmen, Salome, Old Wicked Songs, A Delicate Balance, La Bete, Light Up The Sky, Blood Wedding, Hedda Gabler, The Illusion, Betrayal, and Machinal. He has directed in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Germany, including the German premiere of Mud at the Horizon theatre in Cologne. He is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship for research in Germany. Jonathan is Two River Theatre Company’s Artistic Director.
Andy Hall (Scenic Designer) recently designed Five Times Wilder for NYU at the Provincetown Playhouse. Other favored past shows include The Country Wife at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, In Spite of Myself at Urban Stages, Candida at the Hangar, and The Girl with the High Rouge at NJ Rep. Andy’s name appears in the scripts of Angles in America: Perestroika, North Fork, and Adult Fiction. He received his MFA at NYU and taught and designed at Monmouth University in NJ for six years.
Moira Shaughnessy (Costume Designer) has previously designed costumes at TRTC for last season’s productions of Spunk and Stinkin’ Rich. Moira is a freelance costume designer in New York City. Her credits incude: Greenwood, Tupu Kweli Theatre; Lying, Blessed Unrest Theatre; Pleasuredome, Combustive Arts; Women at Four, 78th Street Theatre Lab; Beautiful Warrior, Vineyard Theatre with QTIP; Twas the Night Before Christmas, American Stage; Man in the Flying Lawnchair, Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Einstein Project and This is Our Youth, Berkshire Theatre Festival; A Question of Mercy, A.R.T. Institute Harvard; A Tale of Two Cities, The Salon; and numerous other projects including Associate Designer on the Lord & Taylor’s Christmas windows 2001 and 2002, and Assistant Designer for the film CAMP, Killer Films.
Brenda M. Veltre (Lighting Designer) has been designing professionally for the past 20 years, lighting dance, regional theatre and opera. She is pleased to join Two River Theatre Co. for this production of The Tragedy of Carmen. Some of her work includes Rigoletto, Don Giovanni (Kentucky Opera), Carmen (Opera Festival of NJ), Shirley Valentine (George Street Playhouse), Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Merrimack Repertory Theatre) To Kill a Mockingbird (Coconut Grove Playhouse) and five seasons at New American Theatre. Ms. Veltre is a member of United Scenic Artists.
Kevin Dunayer (Sound Designer) has designed sound for over 250 productions including 60 Shakespearean productions. Dunayer’s credits include Sound Design for: Alley Theatre (Houston, TX), Dallas Theatre Center, GeVa Theatre (Rochester, NY), Meadow Brook Theatre (Michigan), N.C. Shakespeare Festival, Studio Arena (Buffalo, NY), Syracuse Stage, among many others. His Sound Engineer credits include: American Song directed by Anne Bogart and Svengali directed by Gregory Boyd, The Grammy Awards, President Clintons 50th Birthday Celebration, The Emmy Awards, The American Image Awards among many others. Kevin is a member of Local 1 in NY City and was nominated for two Denver Critic Circle Awards for Sound Design. He earned his BA at the Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Alison Dingle (Stage Manager) This is Alison’s debut with TRTC. Most recently, Alison was the production coordinator for the Christmas tour of Mooseltoe, A New Moosical. In New York City, she has been the production stage manager for the Off-Broadway production of Boobs! The Musical, New Georges’ None of the Above, Three More Sleepless Nights with The Drama League, and various staged readings at New Dramatists. Alison has also stage managed for such companies as: Utah Opera, Santa Barbara Grand Opera, Santa Barbara City College Theater Group, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the Forestburgh Playhouse. Alison received her MFA at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music.
Harriet Bass (Casting Director) is pleased to be making her casting debut at Two River Theatre Company with Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party. In New York City, Harriet has cast for ABC/TV, Fox Television Studios, Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre: NEW WORK NOW, The Minetta Lane Theatre, The Women’s Project, La Mama E.T.C., New York Women in Film and Television, and The Jewish Repertory Theatre. Selected regional theatre casting credits include: Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Trinity Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Repertory, Long Wharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Dallas Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Playmaker’s Repertory Theatre. Feature films credits include: Pushing Hands directed by Ang Lee, Underheat, starring Lee Grant, First We Take Manhattan, produced by Golden Harvest Inc., and Graves End, directed by Sal Stabile. Harriet has guest taught acting and auditioning at conservatory and university programs nationally and is presently an adjunct professor in the theatre arts department at Fordham University at Lincoln Center.