A Life in the Theatre Biographies Performers Patrick Husted (Robert) was honored to have played the central character in Arthur Miller’s new play, Resurrection Blues this past fall at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. He also worked with Mr. Miller in his 1997 remake of the American Clock at the Signature Theater in NYC. He is very proud to have created the character of Ezra Pound in the world premiere of Pound of Flesh by Michael Bolus at the Berkshire Theater Festival, in the summer of 2001. He will be going back to the Berkshires this summer to play Mazzini Dunn in Shaw’s, Heartbeak House. Patrick spent a year in the NY Company of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit with Kathleen Chalfant. He has appeared in over 150 regional theater productions. Some of Patrick’s film credits include Blow with Ray Liotta, Tim Robin’s Cradle Will Rock with Bill Murray, Polio Water screened at the New York Film Festival. He has portrayed several characters on episodic television and most recently this past season he was seen on Law and Order Special Victims Unit. Erik Singer (John) is delighted to be making his debut at Two River. Theatrical credits include the title role in The Hostage (Off-Broadway at the Irish Repertory Theatre), Greetings! (Virginia Stage Company), Stones in His Pockets (Tri-State Actors’ Theatre), national tours of Othello and The Taming of the Shrew (playing Iago and Petruchio), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (BoarsHead Theatre), and The Tempest (Vermont Stage Company). He has also appeared on “All My Children” and “As the World Turns,” and was the voice of Vincent Van Gogh in the recent A&E Biography about Van Gogh and Gauguin. He has narrated several audiobooks, including the best-sellers The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom, and The Dogs of Babel, by Carolyn Parkhurst. Erik is a graduate of Yale University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Production Artists Robert Walsh (Director) Previous TRTC credits: Misalliance. Other theatres include: New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (Othello), Barter Theatre (The Little Foxes), Stagewest (I Hate Hamlet), Merrimack Repertory Theatre (The Norman Conquests, Later Life, Holiday Memories), Gloucester Stage Company (The Primary English Class), Lyric Stage (The Liar), and numerous productions at the American Stage Festival, where he was Producing Artistic Director from ‘99 - ‘01. Recently, he directed A Lie of the Mind for the Institute for Advanced Actor Training at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. For Major League Baseball, Robert directed all of the on-field ceremonies for the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway Park. Neil Prince (Scenic Designer) is very pleased to be working again with director Robert Walsh, after collaborating on TRTC’s Misalliance. Neil designed last season’s Old Wicked Songs for TRTC, as well as previous TRTC productions including The House of Blue Leaves, The Heiress, Light up the Sky and The Cocktail Hour. He has also designed recent productions of Proof and Crimes of the Heart. Neil continues to design for film and still photographers in New York. Amela Baksic (Costume Designer) New York City credits include productions at Second Stage (...in the absence of spring...), Playwrights Horizons (Light Years), New York Theatre Workshop (What You Get and What You Expect and A Streetcar Named Desire), Variety Arts (Endpapers), WPA, McGinn/Cazale, Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional work: Hartford Stage, Hangar Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Signature Theatre, VA, Stratford Festival of Canada; also Shakespeare’s R&J at Bath Shakespeare Festival, written and directed by Joe Calarco. Awarded NEA/TCG design fellowship. Dennis Parichy (Lighting Designer) has designed over four hundred productions during forty years as a lighting designer. Broadway productions include Talley’s Folly, Burn This, Penn & Teller and Crimes of the Heart. He was resident lighting designer for Circle Repertory Co. from 1977 to 1995 and now designs for many regional theaters, including Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Peoples Light & Theatre Co., the Guthrie Theatre, and the Arizona Theatre Co. He has received three Tony nominations and an Obie for his designs. Lisa McGinn (Stage Manager) Most recently, Lisa stage managed Passage Theatre’s Solo Flights Festival. Other credits include Barrymore at the Bickford Theatre; West Side Story at NJ Performing Arts Center and Algonquin Arts Theatre; This is our Youth and Pound of Flesh at Berkshire Theatre Festival. Lisa was the Assitant Stage Manager at George Street Playhouse for three years. Favorite productions include Wit, Proof, and Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Lisa was the Production Stage Manager for George Street’s Diva Project/Gentle Men 2001 and 2002. She graduated from The College of New Jersey. Harriet Bass (Casting Director) Harriet Bass (Casting Director) cast this season’s productions of Abigail’s Party and Miss Julie at TRTC. 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.