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 Chronicles, Safe 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 Nights, Mindbender, 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. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS
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