Recipient of the 2010 New York Innovative Theatre (IT) Award (nyitawards.com) as Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role for his performance in the title role of The Return of Peter Grimm at the Metropolitan Playhouse, where he had previously appeared in Nowadays, was seen most recently as McKee Rankin in the Blue Coyote Theatre Group (BCTG) production of David Foley's Nance O'Neil, directed by Gary Shrader, who had earlier directed Anderson at BCTG in David Johnston's Conversations on Russian Literature. Also at BCTG, he has appeared as Agamemnon in Johnston’s new Oresteia and as the Father in Matt Freeman's The Most Wonderful Love. At the Mint he was directed by Bob Kalfin in To Pay the Price. His other recent work includes Terry Cashman’s Passin’ It On opposite Len Cariou, and, for Abingdon Theatre Company, The Pagans and Leap . Frank originated the role of Honey Fitz in the Goodspeed production of Jack (the JFK musical). For two years, he was on the road with the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel, and then, in Hal Prince’s Show Boat , he appeared with, and understudied for, Len Cariou and, later, Tom Bosley. He has been featured on Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit as well as multiple featured appearances on the original Law and Order. Among his other screen credits is The Prince of Homburg with Frank Langella, directed by Bob Kalfin. On Broadway, he appeared with James Earl Jones in The Iceman Cometh.
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| Bethe B. Austin (Mrs. Bristed) |
Bethe made her Broadway debut starring opposite Robert Preston in Larry Gelbart's Sly Fox , followed by Whoopee with Charles Repole, Onward Victoria opposite Jill Eikenberry, Raggedy Ann directed by Pat Birch, and Noises Off with Dorothy Louden (Drama Desk Award 'Best Ensemble'). She also costarred with Richard Kiley in the pre-Broadway tryout of the thriller Guilty Conscience. Her Off-Broadway credits include Olympus on My Mind (from which she is delighted to own an original Hirschfeld of herself as Dolores), Anne of Green Gables, Iron Curtain, Melissa Manchester's I Sent a Letter to My Love, Pastorale (Second Stage), Zero Positive (Public Theater), and David Ives's All In The Timing. Recently, Bethe was seen as Annie Dummermont in Kander and Ebb's The Visit starring Chita Rivera and George Hearn which was nominated for nine Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical and Best Ensemble. She is also proud to have understudied Chita Rivera for that project. Her regional roles have covered a very wide range: from Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (directed by Rob Marshall) to Suzie in Wait Until Dark; from Mona in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas to Anne in Stagestruck ; from Ruth in Blithe Spirit, to Amnesia in Nunsense Jamboree and Penny in You Can't Take It With You. Also regionally, Bethe won the 1998 Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) for Best Supporting Actress in Larry Gatlin's musical Texas Flyer at the Bristol Riverside Theater where she has since performed in numerous pieces (nominated again in 1999 for She Loves Me). This summer at BRT, Bethe started work on a cabaret act, Journeys of the Night directed by Keith Baker. National tours include Hortense in The Boyfriend directed by Dame Julie Andrews and several seasons as Mrs. Claus in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. TV credits include guest starring roles on Growing Pains and Nurses; Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Film work: Our Sons with Julie Andrews, Serious Money, Stepford Wives, and Cannes Film Festival entry Surprise.
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| Abe Goldfarb ( Swiss Guard/Fred ) |
Abe Goldfarb is an actor, writer and director living in Brooklyn. He is the co-founder, with Brian Silliman, of the Royal Circus. As an actor, he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and has worked with such companies as The Pumpkin Pie Show, the Jean Cocteau Repertory, elsewhere, Studio 42, The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and many others. Favorite roles include Ben Frankllin in We the People: America Rocks!, Pistol in Henry V, the Frontman in Hostage Song, Tiger Brown in Threepenny Opera, Jaques in As You Like It, Arthur in In Public, the Mascot in Junta High, and Abe in The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist. His film writing has been seen in various publications in the U.S. and the U.K. As a director, his work includes Titus Andronicus (Gotham Shakespeare), The Magic of Mrs. Crowling (Royal Circus), and a segment in The Blood Brothers Present The New Guignol (Nosedive). Thank you, Rosebud...
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| Joseph Hill ( Singer ) |
Joseph Hill recently graduated with the Master of Music degree in voice from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. A native of Arkansas, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Furman University in South Carolina, where he also held the prestigious post of campus organist at the Daniel Memorial Chapel. At Rutgers, Joseph has been active in the Rutgers Opera Theater, playing the role of Joad in Handel’s Athalia, as well as involvement with Rutgers’ early music vocal ensemble, the Collegium Musicum . He has appeared three times as soloist with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and has made other solo appearances with Amherst Early Music (Purcell’s Fairy Queen ) and with the Collegium Musicum of The College of New Jersey (Purcell’s Come Ye Sons of Art ). Joseph has appeared as soloist with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra singing Bach’s Cantata 161, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s Missa Brevis. Past engagements have also included a recital for the Princeton Friends of Opera, Mopsa in Purcell's Fairy Queen with Rutgers Opera, and the title role in Handel’s Solomon with the Choral Arts Society of New Jersey, as well as soloist in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Joseph is also involved with the newly formed Alchemy Bach Ensemble, a five voice professional ensemble dedicated to the performance of early Baroque vocal music, as well as Vox Fideles, a small vocal ensemble specializing in the performance of Renaissance polyphony. In 2009, he travelled to England for the Tenth Annual Tallis Scholars Summer School, and in 2010, he was named finalist in the 6th Biennial Bach Vocal Competition sponsored by the American Bach Society and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Joseph holds the position of Director of Music and Organist at the Community Presbyterian Church of Mountainside, NJ, where he also teaches voice and piano.
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| Doug Kreeger ( Cesari ) |
Doug Kreeger most recently appeared at this summer's 2010 NYC Fringe Festival in VERITAS , which received the Fringe Award for Outstanding Ensemble. His previous experience with the Fringe Festival was in 2005 when he starred as Todd in Swimming Upstream, which earned him a Fringe Award for Outstanding Actor. On Broadway, Doug played Jean Prouvaire (Marius u/s) in the original company of the revival of Les Miserables. Off-Broadway, he created the roles of Ian in Rooms: A Rock Romance at New World Stages, Richard Loeb in Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at the York Theatre, Jordan in Departure Lounge at the Public Theatre, Jesus in Judas & Me at the NYMF, and Stu in Yank!, also at the NYMF. Doug made his Carnegie Hall debut this summer as Ignis in Eric Whitacre’s Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings . Regionally, Doug played Chita Rivera's boy-toy in Signature Theatre's production of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit and he appeared in Yale Rep’s Pop!, where he created the role of Ondine. Doug’s other regional credits include Arkansas Rep, Barrington Stage, Bay Street Theatre, Geva Theatre, Metrostage, Reagle Players, and The Old Globe. He has toured internationally as Danny Zuko in Grease and Berger in Hair. Doug appears on the Original Cast Recordings of Rooms: A Rock Romance, Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story, and Hair: European Tour. Doug is a Helen Hayes Award Nominee. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Doug attended Punahou School before attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and RADA in London. Thank you to THE MINE. Visit www.DougKreeger.com.
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| Melissa Miller ( Lillie ) |
Melissa Miller will be seen next year in Theatre for a New Audience's Merchant of Venice starring F. Murray Abraham, directed by Darko Tresnjak. Most recent projects include: Importance of Being Earnest (dir. John Gould Rubin), I Never Sang for My Father starring Marsha Mason (Keen Co, dir. Jonathan Silverstein); Richard III (NY Classical Theatre). Melissa appeared on Broadway in Tartuffe at the Roundabout Theatre Co. Other Off Broadway credits include: Heart of the City (Urban Stages); The Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective); Ariel Dorfman's Widows (59E59); West Moon Street (Prospect Theatre), Charles Mee's Mail Order Bride (Beckett Theatre), Mark Smith (13P). Plays/workshops/readings with: TACT, Flea Theatre, New Georges, New Group, Classic Stage, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, TFANA, Rattlestick, and Red Bull. Regional: Alley Theatre, Premiere Stages, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Williamstown, Chester Theatre. Television: Ed, All My Children. Vassar College (Phi Beta Kappa), RADA (Certificate). She would like to thank Guy, John Henry and this great cast. And Laurie Smith for her unwavering support. www.melissamiller.org.
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| Jacob Pinion ( Moreschi ) |
Jacob recently returned from London where he was a company member of the T.S. Eliot Exchange with The Public and The Old Vic Theaters. Favorite credits include Herb Stempel in
Night and her Stars, Jupiter in Ovid’s
Metamorphoses, Bill Calhoun in
Kiss Me, Kate, and Teresias in
The Bacchae, which was also performed at the Warsaw Theatre Festival in Poland. He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Drama. Much love to the rents, mates, and all the Boals.
JacobPinion.com.
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| Jonathan Tindle ( Perosi ) |
Jonathan Tindle was last seen as Henry in Stoppard’s The Real Thing (Walker St Theatre). Other NY credits include the sole character in Tennyson’s Maude ~ The Madness, co-adapted and directed by Niegel Smith (June Havoc Theatre) for which he received an Innovative Theatre Award nomination; Pentheus in Chuck Mee’s The Bacchae 2.1, with Rude Mechanicals (Flea); the mad Doctor in Lloyd Suh’s Not All Korean Girls Can Fly (Ensemble Studio Theatre); After Darwin, (Impetuous Theatre); Mushroom Pickers (Alloy); Welcome To Our City (Mint); Wolfpit (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble); Limbs (HERE). His numerous regional roles include Susan, the alcoholic vicar’s wife, in the US premier of Alan Bennett’s Bed Among The Lentils, (Helen Hayes Award nomination); eighteen separate characters including Narrator in Craig Wright’s The Pavilion, a little girl in Heather MacDonald’s Available Light; the swan in Elizabeth Egloff’s The Swan, (Theatre Lobby Award and Helen Hayes nom’); Major Swindon, opposite Richard Dreyfuss, in The Devil’s Disciple; the elf in Santaland Diaries, and Frank in Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Helen Hayes nom’). Film/TV: Law & Order, Wired City, Second Born, All My Children, The Hunley, The Pitch, The Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Gentleman, Full Moon Fables (SAG Peer Award, Best Actor). He is a recipient of an NEA grant for "significant contribution to the arts." Reel: www.vimeo.com/7106243.
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| Liam Torres ( Sarto ) |
Recently seen at 59E59 Theater’s Summer Shorts Festival as Walter in Fit, by Neil Koenigsberg. New York credits include: Theatre for the New City as Tom in Havana Journal, King Claudius – Hamlet – John Henry Davis director, Tony – Paula – Eduardo Machado director, and Don Hermano – Night Over Taos – Estelle Parsons director. Regional credits include: Juan Julian - Anna In the Tropics (SpeakEasy, Boston), Bloody Butcher - Sleepwalkers (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), and Better (Pinter Studios, London) Film credits include: Vlad - My Mother and Other Monsters, James Bevan - The Wounded & The Slain.