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Heather Lea Anderson (Miss Julie) recently graduated from Yale School of Drama, where she performed in Alcestis (Alcestis), Othello (Desdemona), King Lear (Cordelia), Know Dog (Alice), Sungatherers (Lady Rupkin), . . . And Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi (Cadence Verse), and many other original works by Yale playwrights. Regional credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), Private Eyes (Lisa), No Exit (Estelle), and Bash (Sue) at the Summer Cabaret Company at Yale; A Flea in Her Ear (Lucienne) and Kabuki Macbeth (Banquo) at Porthouse Theatre Company; Chekhov’s The Sneeze at CATCO (year in residence); Taking Sides (Emmi) at the Human Race; All My Sons (Ann Deever) at Halle Theatre; Keely and Du (Keely), Amadeus (Constanze), and Dancing at Lughnasa (Chris) at Beck Center; Mi Vida Loca (Lulu) and Simpatico (Cecilia) at Dobama Theatre. Heather also taught and performed Shakespeare residencies in high schools for Great Lakes Theatre Festival: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Hamlet (Ophelia), and Julius Ceasar (Portia).
Ed Onipede Blunt (Jean) recent credits include: Lobby Hero at The Director’s Company, Blurring Shine at the NYC Fringe Festival, The Exonerated at 45 Bleecker, Master Harold...and the Boys at Fleetwood Stage, A Lesson Before Dying at GEVA & Studio Arena Theatre, A Fair Country at Huntington Theatre Company, Two Trains Running at Cleveland Play House, Conviction in the Berkshires, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Missouri Rep. Theatre, Titus Andronicus at YSD, Six Degrees of Separation at Weathervane Theatre, Taming of the Shrew at Tri-C Theatre, Distant Fires at Dobama Theatre, For the Love of the Game at Karamu Theatre, and Measure for Measure at Yale Rep. Film & Television include: Bamboozled, Law & Order CI, Third Watch, 100 Centre St., Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and As the World Turns. Mr. Blunt studied at the St. Petersburg Drama Academy in Russia, the British American Drama Academy in Oxford and graduated Morehouse College and the Yale School of Drama.
Nedrah Banks (Kristine) a Detroit native, is honored to be making her Equity debut with Two River Theatre Company’s production of Miss Julie. She has her B.F.A from North Carolina School of the Arts and she holds her M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University. Recent credits include: Emilie from Les Liason Dangerouses, Delia from Blues For An Alabama Sky, Madame from The Maids, Anna from Golden Boy, Belise from Learned Ladies, Louise from Richard Cory, Annabella from A Brightroom Called Day, Sally Vicks from the World Premiere of Gint and Lena from Boesman and Lena. Nedrah taught acting at Rutgers University for two years. Nedrah would like to thank Harriet Bass, her director, cast, crew and Two River Theatre Company for this extraordinary opportunity. She thanks God for all things and dedicates this production to Will and her family at home.
Production Artists
August Strindberg (Playwright) was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1849. Throughout his writing career, Strindberg was responsible for over 70 plays, as well as novels, poetry and short-stories, with his collected works totaling 55 volumes. His first major work, the play Master Olof, was written in 1877, but was not recognized until 1881, after his breakthrough as a writer came with the novel The Red Room in 1879. Strindberg wrote Miss Julie in 1888. Strindberg died in May, 1912.


Jane Page (Director) is delighted to be directing at Two River Theatre Company. This year Jane directed Proof for Studio Arena Theatre (Buffalo), the regional premiere of The Drawer Boy for the Arvada Center (Denver), and the Wild West Much Ado About Nothing for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. In the past few years Jane’s directed seventeen productions, for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, NY; Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, NY; GeVa Theatre in Rochester, NY; and, the Goldstein Theatre in Queens, NY. Some have included A Streetcar Named Desire, Flyin’ West, How I Learned to Drive, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Dinner With Friends, Wait Until Dark, Driving Miss Daisy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Jane is well known throughout the Rocky Mountain region where she has directed over 70 productions including the regional premieres of Marvin’s Room, The Spoils of War, Nora, Three More Sisters, Four Portraits of Mothers and A Shayna Maidel. Amelia Lives, an original play Jane directed, garnered a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival in Scotland.


Harry Feiner (Scenic Designer) is a set designer, lighting designer and scenic artist, active in theatre, opera and dance. Resident designer for the Missouri Repertory Theatre, 1980-84. Designs for the Olney Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Two River Theatre Company, Pearl Theatre, GEVA, George Street Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Theatre Virginia, Montclair Theatrefest, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Riverside Shakespeare Co., The Actor’s Studio and The Actors’ Studio at Raw Space, Stony Brook International Arts Festival, Jewish Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Punchline, Jewish Repertory Theatre, and The Irish Arts Center. Designs for the Colorado, Alabama, New Jersey and North Carolina Shakespeare Festivals, Dance designs for North Carolina Dance Theatre, North Carolina School of the Arts, the Boston Conservatory of Music, and The Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, including seasons at The Joyce Theatre and the American Dance Festival. Opera designs for Central City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Lake George Opera, Pennsylvania Opera Theatre, Syracuse Opera, Chatauqua Opera, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Orchestra of St. Luke's and Manhattan School of Music. Principal designer and Head of Production for Lake George Opera, 1996-98. Professor of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Queens College, CUNY.


Deborah J. Caney (Costume Designer) is pleased to be working again with Two River Theatre Co., with whom she has designed twelve previous productions. At Two River Theatre Co. she has designed: Carmen, Old Wicked Songs, House Of Blue Leaves, The Heiress, La Bête, Arms and the Man, Light Up The Sky, Uncle Vanya, Blood Wedding, Noises Off!, Hedda Gabler and Machinal. Recent credits include in New York: Romeo And Juliet (The Pearl Theatre Co.) Little Man, The Undeads, Bad Skin, (The Ohio Theatre/Soho Think Tank). Regional: Dirty Blonde, A View From The Bridge, As Bees In Honey Drown, (TheatreFest); Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Alice In Wonderland and Arms and The Man (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); A Christmas Carol, Over The Tavern and Sylvia (Capitol Repertory Co.); Blithe Spirit and Swinging On A Star (Arizona Theatre Co.); The Glass Menagerie, Angel Street, Heartbeats and A Thousand Clowns (American Stage Co.).
Aaron Black (Lighting Designer) New York credits include: Dream on Monkey Mountain (NY Premiere) and Mother Courage (The Classical Theatre of Harlem); Mirandolina (Manhattan School of Music); Keith Reddin’s Almost Blue (Flatiron Playhouse); Magic Flute directed by Robin Guarino (St. Michaels); Hamlet Machine and Cloud 9 ( Loewe Theatre); The Waiting Room (Fifth Floor Theatre) and Soar Like an Eagle (Lion Theatre). Mr. Black has worked in regional theatre and opera companies throughout the US including: A Christmas Carol (People’s Light and Theatre); Medea (American Repertory Theatre); Top Girls (Warehouse Repertory Theatre); Turn of the Screw (Washington University Opera Department) and several productions at the North Coast Shakespeare Festival including Quilters, Macbeth, Our Town and Twelfth Night and several productions with the International Theatre Program at the University of Rochester including Hamlet, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Pterodactyls. Film, television and commercial credits include Art Director for The Primetime Television Special Shania Twain Up! Close and Personal; the independent films Three-Way (Art Director) and The Man who Killed Everybody (Lighting Director); the television pilot Fletcher’s Place Television (Art Director) and designs for various corporate trade shows and family entertainment parks. Mr. Black holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Kevin Dunayer (Sound Designer) is pleased to return to Two River after working on this season’s production of Abigail’s Party. Currently, Kevin is the resident sound designer at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival where he has been designing for the past 18 years. Kevin 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 NYC and was nominated for 2 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.
J. David Brimmer (Fight Choreographer) is pleased to be making his debut with Two River Theatre Company with this production of Miss Julie. David has been choreographing violence in New York, as well as regional theatres around the country, for over 20 years: from the national tour of Jekyll & Hyde and the acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of Bug and Killer Joe to the Joseph Papp Public Theater’s flamenco version of Blood Wedding. His choreography has been nominated for a Douglas Fairbanks Award for excellence in theatre and his work is currently on file at the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts. He is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, and has taught at the Classical Studio, the Stella Adler Conservatory, the Lee Strasberg Institute, the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Yale Schools of Music and Drama. He is the creator and current instructor of the stage combat program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. David would like to thank his wife, Amy, and his two daughters, Caitlin and Rachel, for their continued love and support.
Alison Dingle (Stage Manager) This is Alison’s second production with TRTC, having stage managed this season’s Abigail’s Party. 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 returning to Two River Theatre Company after casting 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.