2012 Cape Playhouse Main Stage Season

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jun 11 - jun 23


JONATHAN BRODY

has been a proud member of Actor's Equity for 29 years.  He appeared on

Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot, and the original companies of Titanic, Me and My Girl, and

Sally Marr...and her escorts opposite Joan Rivers.  Off-Broadway credits include Gimpl Tam (in

Yiddish), Eating Raoul and as the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance. He’s toured with Mary Poppins

(George understudy), Spamalot (Arthur/Lancelot understudy), Funny Girl (Eddie Ryan),  My Fair Lady

(Jamie), and appeared regionally in Hamlet, I Hate Hamlet, The Diary of Anne Frank,

The Dybbuk, The Mystery of Irma  Vep, Urinetown, Animal Crackers, Groucho; A Life in Revue, and many

productions of Forever Plaid. TV credits include HBO's Boardwalk Empire,

Guiding Light on CBS, and Sondheim; A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, An Evening With Alan Jay Lerner,

and Porgy and Bess; An American Voice (as George Gershwin) all on PBS.

 

DAN DOMINGUES

Off-Broadway: The Cherry Orchard (Atlantic Theater

Company); Night Sky (Baruch PAC); His Greatness (NY Fringe Festival at Cherry

Lane Theatre, later extended at SoHo Playhouse); King Lear (LaMaMa

Cymbeline (NY Classical Theatre); The Coffee Trees (Resonance Ensemble); El

Perro Del Hortelano (Repertorio Español).  Regional credits: The Great

Immensity (w/The Civilians at Kansas City Rep); It’s A Wonderful Life; Live

Great Immensity (McCarter Theatre workshop w/ The Civilians); Julius

Caesar and 2 seasons of A Christmas Carol (Portland Stage Company);

Human Events, Wit, Ancestral Voices (George Street Playhouse); Pirandello’s

Henry IV (Rep of St. Louis); Amadeus, Othello (Pioneer Theatre); Wait Until

Dark (Stoneham Theatre); A Girl’s War (New Repertory Theatre); Macbeth

(Commonwealth Shakespeare); La Dispute, Island of Anyplace, Othello (ART)

as well as work at New Jersey Rep and Playwrights Theatre of NJ.  TV & Film:

Gossip Girl, Law and Order, Hope and Faith, Third Watch, As The World

Turns.  Dan has an MFA from the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre

Training at Harvard and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts

in NY.  He is an associate artist with The Civilians and a company member of

New Jersey Rep and the non-profit Only Make Believe, which brings live

theatre to children in hospitals throughout the five boroughs of NY.

 

 

GREG JACKSON

Recent work includes Timon in Timon of Athens at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and

the roles of Richard Hannay, Man 1 and Man 2 as the sole male understudy in the

Broadway transfer of The 39 Steps.  Greg also co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred

creative partner Erin Quinn Purcell.  The due received a Jonathan Larson grant for

their underwater musical-fantasia A Fish Story and the award for most Outstanding

Overall Production in the 2005 NYC International Fringe Festival with their biker-babe-boobfest Go-Go Kitty, Go!

Other regional/touring credits:  Portland Center Stage, Geva, Pioneer, Mile

Square, Tennessee Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and many

productions at the Shakespeare Festival of New Jersey, The Acting

Company.  NYU Grad Acting alum.

 

Mark Shanahan (Director) returns to The Cape Playhouse having

directed last season's No Way To Treat A Lady and 2010s The 39 Steps. Also:

Hound Of The Baskervilles (Penguin Rep and NJ Rep), The 39 Steps (George

Festival), Gaslight (Fulton Opera House), The Woman In Black (Penguin Rep

and Actor's Theatre Of Nantucket), Butterflies Are Free (Westport Country

Playhouse Script In Hand, with Blythe Danner and Jonathan Groff),

Charlotte's Web (Dorset Theatre Festival),The Greatest Gift (WCP

Workshop Premiere, with Howard McGillin), Women And

Elephants (Michael Howard Studio Theatre) and more. Upcoming

productions include The Weston Playhouse and The Depot Theatre. New

York acting credits include the original Broadway company of The 39 Steps

(American Airlines and Cort Theatre, directed by Maria

Aitken); Tryst (Irish Rep, directed by Joe Brancato); The Shaughraun (Irish

Rep); As Bees In Honey Drown (Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by Mark

Brokaw); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Roundabout); The Internationalist (45

Bleecker and Fairfield Theatre); Downwinders, Lake Wanaga Macbeth,(Soho

Rep); Madame Killer, Demon Baby (Ohio Theatre). Regional theatre

appearances include  David Copperfield, (directed by Joanne Woodward and

Anne Keefe), Around The World In 80 Days,Tryst, Sedition, (Westport

Country Playhouse); Journey’s End (directed by Gregory Boyd); Hitchcock

Blonde, Treasure Island, Witness For The Prosecution, Harvey (Alley

Theatre); Dial M For Murder (The Fulton Opera House); Dead Man's Cell

Phone (Hartford Theatreworks, directed by Rob Ruggiero); The West End

Horror (Bay Street, Pioneer Theatre, directed by Marcia Milgrom

Dodge); One Foot On The Floor (Denver Center); Andromeda Shack (The

Kennedy Center); Augusta (Merrimack Rep);  Noises Off!; Bus Stop;

Picasso at The Lapin Agile, and others. Film includes The Felix

ChroniclesSafe Men, Bug, Kinsey Three, Endsville, Mad About Harry. On

television Mark has appeared on David Letterman and All My Children. He is

a graduate of Brown University (BA) and Fordham University (MA). He

serves on the faculties at Pace and Fordham University, where he teaches

courses on Orson Welles, "New York In Film," Shakespeare and the films of

Alfred Hitchcock. Mark is a Connecticut Critic's Circle and IRNE nominated

actor, an award winning voice over artist, an Edgar Award nominated

playwright and the co-story writer for the screenplay of The Troubleshooter,

purchased by Universal Studios. This August he will perform Tryst at Hartford Theatreworks.

 

HUGH LANDWEHR (Scenic Designer) On Broadway Hugh Landwehr has

designed has designed productions of Frozen, Bus Stop, All My Sons, and A

View From The Bridge. Off-Broadway, he has designed Last Easter,

Scattergood, Filumena, and The Baby Dance, among others. He has had long

and productive relationships with many regional theatres including Long

Wharf Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, the Alley

Theatre in Houston, the Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and

ACT in Seattle. During the summer he has designed at the Berkshire Festival

Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is presently a member of

the faculty of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has taught at the North

Carolina School of the Arts and Williams College. He is proud to have won

the Murphy Award in Design (administered by Long Wharf) and to be the

2003 winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design. He was educated at Yale College.

 

PATRICIA DOHERTY (Costume Designer) NY: Southern Comfort – The

Musical with Annette O’Toole/Jeff McCarthy 2012 GLAAD Award for

Outstanding Off-Off Broadway (Cap21); The Devil’s Music – Life and Blues of

Bessie Smith (St. Luke’s Theatre); Poetic License, Fall To Earth, Freed, The

Housewives of Mannheim (59E59 Theatres); The Goldman Project (Abingdon

Theatre).  Regional: Around the World in 80 Days, The Woman in Black,

Shipwrecked, Tour de Farce, The Pavilion, Greetings! (Penguin Rep); Little

Women – the Musical (Engeman Theatre); Man of La Mancha, Inherit the

Wind (Blossom Music Festival); The Diary of Anne Frank, Romeo and Juliet,

Boy Meets Girl with Jane Krakowski, Only Kidding (Cleveland Play House);

Riverside Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Santa Barbara.  At Houston’s Alley

Theatre (former resident designer), her designs included The Miracle

Worker, The Immigrant.  Patricia is currently resident designer for New

Jersey Repertory Company, designing the premieres of Puma, The Color of

Flesh as well as new musicals The Little Hours, Bookends and Immortal

Interlude.Television/New Media:  “Unsolved Mysteries”, Pennsylvania Public

Television, AT&T Tech Channel.  Member: United Scenic Artists Local 829

 

STEVEN CANNY (Author) Steven is a two-time Sony Gold winning executive

producer, writer and director. As writer and adapter, his work includes

No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); Origins (Pleasance and Theatre Severn);

Foot/Mouth (Soho Theatre); Spyski (Lyric Hammersmith and national tour);

The Hound of the Baskervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse, national tour and

Duchess Theatre, West End); A Dulditch Angel (national tour); A Shropshire

Lad (Cottesloe, London and Radio 4); Humble Boy (Radio 4); Mnemonic

(Radio 3); The Virtuous Burglar by Dario Fo (World Service). Directing

includes Brian Gulliver’s Travels by Bill Dare; Beautiful Dreamers by James

Lever and Nat Segnit; Rik Mayall’s Bedside Tales; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

(with Simon  Russell Beale); Hum by Laura Wade; People Snogging in

Public Places by Jack Thorne; Donation by Sean Buckley; Burglar Beware by

Matthew Broughton (Union Chapel); Eleven Lessons for the Paranoid, The

Observed (BAC). As executive producer he has worked on Just a Minute, The

Now Show, The News Quiz and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. Work as an

Associate Director and Dramaturg with Complicite includes Measure for

Measure, The Elephant Vanishes, Mnemonic, The Noise of Time, Light,

Genoa 01. He was also Associate Director of Al Pacino’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

 

John Nicholson (Author) John works as a writer, director and performer.

He is joint Artistic Director of Peepolykus with whom he has

toured throughout the UK and worldwide since 1995. Writing credits

on award-winning Peepolykus productions include Let The Donkey Go, I am

a Coffee, Horses for Courses, Goose NightsMindbender, The Midsummer

Rude Mechanicals (commissioned by the Royal National Theatre). Writing

credits with Steven Canny include No Wise Men, an original Christmas

story (Liverpool Playhouse); Spyski, a theatre company take on MI6 (Lyric

Hammersmith); The Hound of the Baskervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse

and West End); Origins, Darwin’s beginnings (for Pentabus). Other writing

credits include P.S. Comedy Sketch Show, Comedy Shuffle and Under

Surveillance for BBC TV, Force 9 and a Half: a musical (MTM award

at Edinburgh Festival); The First Thing That Ever, Ever Happened (Lyric

Hammersmith); Fallen Angels (UK tour); Rik Mayall’s Bedside Tales and

Marley Was Dead (Radio 4), Richard’s Rampage (The Kevin Spacey

Foundation). John has also written many shows for large casts of

young people, including an adaptation of Paul Gallico’s The Love of Seven

Dolls. Current projects include his first screenplay, Winning Peal, and Nina Conti’s new show for 2012.


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