THE BEARD OF AVON
JULIET MILLS (Queen Elizabeth) last appeared at the Cape Playhouse in Dial M. for Murder with her husband Maxwell Caulfield. Her extensive theatre credits date back to her Tony-nominated performance in Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer. In her native England, she played the title roles in She Stoops to Conquer and Lady Windemere’s Fan in London’s West End, as well as Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream for director Peter Fall at the R.S.C. More recently she toured Australia and the U.K. with her sister Hayley in Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels; essayed the work of Alan Ayckbourn in Time of My Life (Williamstown, MA) and It Could Be Anyone of Us, the latter directed by Ayckbourn himself; she also starred opposite Brian Bedford in The Moliere Comedies. For the last seven years, she has delighted daytime audiences in her Emmy-nominated role as Tabitha on NBC’s “Passions”. Among her many film and television credits of particular note are Billy Wilder’s “Avanti!” with Jack Lemmon; the internationally successful series “Nanny and the Professor”; (Golden Globe Nominations) and her work in the miniseries “Q.B. VII” which garnered her a primetime Emmy award.
BRAD BELLAMY (Old Colin/Sir Francis Walsingham/ Richard Burbage) Currently: Members Council, NY’s Ensemble Studio Theatre; formerly: Artist-in-Residence, Manhattan Punch Line; numerous Off-Broadway and regional venues; Film: “Undone”, “Ira and Abby”, “Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle”; TV: special musical guest, ABC’s “On the Edge”, “Law and Order SVU”, “Conviction”, various soaps; Commercials for Sprint, DHL, AARP, FedEx, and many others too embarrassing to mention.
ARNIE BURTON (Henry Condel/Sir Francis Bacon/ Walter Fitch) is pleased to return to the Cape Playhouse, having appeared in last season’s Around the World in 80 Days. In New York Arnie appeared in the Broadway production of Amadeus, and also its national tour. Off-Broadway includes: Mere Mortals by David Ives; The Last Sunday in June; The Baltimore Waltz. Circle Rep company member. Several seasons with the Pearl Theatre - shows include The Venetian Twins, King Lear, Twelfth Night, and Cherry Orchard. Also, Primary Stages, E.S.T, Rattlestick Theatre. Regional credits include: The Seagull; Taming of the Shrew; Santaland Diaries (Old Globe Theatre); All In The Timing (Geffen Playhouse); I Am My Own Wife and Frozen (Rep Theatre of St. Louis). Also Berkeley Rep, Alley Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Studio Arena, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Co., and Penguin Rep. TV includes guest spots on “Frazier”, “Hope & Faith”, “Caroline in the City”, “Sister, Sister” and “Law and Order”. Film includes “Igby Goes Down” and “Game 6”.
GRACE GONGLEWSKI (Anne Hathaway) Regional: Walnut Street Theatre (The Heiress; Vohsey Inheritance; The Rivals; The Last Flapper; and Shooting Simone), The Arden Theatre Company (19 roles including Hedda Gabler; Candida; Major Barbara; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (6 seasons), Wilma Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, Mt. Gretna Theatre, and a tour of Ireland with Interact Theatre Company. Four Barrymore Awards, F. Otto Haas Award, Dorothy Haas Fellowship, Independence Foundation recipient, BFA North Carolina School of the Arts. Grace is the voice of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Boscov’s, Comcast, and many banks, hospitals, and politicians around the country.
BRENT HARRIS (Edward De Vere) New York: Promenade Theatre (Tryst); Pearl Theatre (Richard III); The Actors Company Theatre (Long Island Sound). Regional: Denver Theatre Center (Angelo in Measure for Measure); American Repertory Theatre (Achates in Dido, Queen of Carthage); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Garry in Present Laughter, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Tony in The Royal Family, Navarre in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Lucifer in Dr. Faustus); Seattle Rep (Theseus/Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream); The Shakespeare Theatre, D.C. (Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale); Actors Theatre of Louisville (Randall in Heartbreak House); Syracuse Stage (title roles in Dracula and Macbeth); Missouri Rep (Leontes in The Winter’s Tale); Virginia Stage Company (Iago in Othello). Television: “Guiding Light” and “Out of the Box”.
IAN KAHN (Will Shakspere) Film: “Brooklyn Lobster”, “Day Zero”, “Welcome to the Neighborhood”; TV: “Bull” (Series Regular), “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (Guest Lead), “Dawson’s Creek” (Recurring), “Sex and the City” (Guest Lead). Theatre: Ghosts (Osvald…Hartford Stage); The Glass Menagerie (Tom…St. Louis Rep); Arcadia (Septimus…Wilma Theatre); Leading Ladies (Leo…Ford’s Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon…Arena Stage).
ANDY PHELAN (Geoffrey Dunderbread/Lady Lettice) Andy is thrilled to return to the Cape Playhouse where he was last seen in Inherit the Wind with Andre De Shields and Alan Rachins. Other regional credits include Over The Tavern (Riverside Theatre) and Lila (Mill Mountain Theatre). Off-Broadway: Ladies of the Corridor (The Peccadillo Theatre Co.). Other New York credits: Expanded Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival, Vital Theatre, Drama League, etc. A graduate of the BFA Acting program at Marymount Manhattan College, his favorite roles include Richard in Ah, Wilderness!; Horst in Bent; Georgie in Over The Tavern; Jamie in Beautiful Thing; and Rob Luke in the original production of A Taste of Heaven. He has also appeared in several award-winning short films including “Prom Night” and “Flights”.
JOHN ROBERT TILLOTSON (John Heminge/Lord Burleigh) has performed extensively in theaters in both the United States and abroad, most recently in Mary Zimmerman’s production of Pericles for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. His performances include productions with The Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf, The Pearl Theatre Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Barrington Stage Company, Merrimack Rep, Weston Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Pioneer Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, John Houseman’s The Acting Company, and The Kennedy Center. He has been a company member of the Shakespeare Festivals of Alabama, Colorado and Utah. John toured nationally with The Sound of Music as Uncle Max opposite Marie Osmond, and internationally in Phantom of the Opera, including an engagement at Paris’ famed Opera-Comique. Film and TV appearances include “Die Hard With a Vengeance”, the award-winning “Anna”, and “Law and Order: S.V.U”. Career highlights include A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Bottom; Estragon in Waiting for Godot; being part of the first American company of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; and playing Santa Claus in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes. For Bill Gorman who was love and would have loved this play.
JEREMY WEBB (Henry Wriothesley/Earl of Derby) is thrilled to return to the Cape Playhouse where he played Renfield in 2001’s Dracula and Actor 3 in last summer’s The Dining Room. Recent projects include the title role in Moliere’s Don Juan at the Shakespeare Theatre (DC); Blifil in Tom Jones The Musical at the New York Musical Festival; and Joey Percival in Shaw’s Misalliance at the Old Globe. Off-Broadway credits include: Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz (Signature Theatre); Tabletop (Drama Desk Award); Three O’Clock in Brooklyn. Workshops: The Royal Family of Broadway; Dance of the Vampires; and Monica! The Musical. Also, The Long Wharf, McCarter Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Westport Playhouse, Hangar Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Hartford Theatreworks, North Shore Music Theatre, Indiana Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, NY Stage and Film and the Great Lakes Theatre Festival. Film: “Love Walked In”. Television: “Law and Order” (Guest Star); “Law and Order Criminal Intent”; “Law and Order: SVU”; and “Guiding Light”. He is a graduate of the Drama School, North Carolina School of the Arts.
RUSS TREYZ (Director) Previous Cape Playhouse: The Lion in Winter; The Cocktail Party; The Best Man; The Tale of the Allergist Wife; Da.; Inherit the Wind; The Mystery of Irma Vep; and Around the World in 80 Days. Off-Broadway in New York: The Guardsman; A Will of His Own; and George Kelly’s Daisy Mayme (The Pearl Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing; and A Winter’s Tale (West End Theatre Company). Recent regional directing credits: The Tempest (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis); Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King John, The Pirates of Penzance; and A Servant of Two Masters (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Cyrano de Bergerac; and Trapezium, a new play by NY Times puzzle writer Henry Rathvon (Orlando Shakespeare Festival); As You Like It (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Tuna Christmas (Actors Theatre of Louisville); and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head, SC). As author/director, he collaborated with songwriter, Harry Chapin, on the Broadway musical, Cottonpatch Gospel. Other NYC directorial credits include: American Place Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and La Mama, etc. Regional credits include: Goodspeed Opera and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. A graduate of Princeton University and Yale School of Drama, he received a Drama Desk award.
RICHARD WADSWORTH CHAMBERS (Set Designer) has designed scenery throughout the Northeast for companies such as The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, StageWest, North Shore Music Theatre, The American Stage Festival, the New Repertory Theatre, the Cape Playhouse and Shakespeare and Company, as well as Off-Broadway. Other projects include collaborations with the Buffalo Philharmonic, The Portland Symphony and the Virginia Symphony. He has designed premiers by playwrights such as Derek Walcott, Russ Lees and Kate Snodgrass. Recent productions are the premiers of Ronan Noone’s The Blowin of Baile Gall Off-Broadway and Aunti and Me at the Merrimack Rep. Richard holds an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he studied with Oliver Smith and John Conklin. For many years he worked with renowned designers Herbert Senn and Helen Pond on a variety of projects. He is the recipient of two Elliot Norton Awards and three Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, is a member of United Scenic Artists local 829, has been a professor of scene design at New York University, Ithaca College and Boston University and is currently a professor at Suffolk University.
JANINE MARIE McCABE (Costume Designer) most recently worked as Assistant Designer to Gregory Gale on The Wedding Singer on Broadway. Previous designs include Frank Wildhorn’s Waiting for the Moon at Lenape Regional PAC which will be remounted in NC in 2007. Other designs include The Stage Door at Fairleigh Dickinson University; Caligula the Musical for NYMTF; In The Realm of Chelm at The Juilliard School; Pierced! for New York City and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals; and Romeo and Juliet for Nevada Theatre Company. She has also assisted Martin Pakledinaz on numerous Broadway shows, ballets and operas, including Wonderful Town; Thoroughly Modern Millie; San Francisco Ballet’s The Nutcracker; and City Opera’s Alcina.
CHRISTOPHER S. CHAMBERS (Lighting Designer) Chris comes to the Cape Playhouse having completed his sixth season as resident lighting designer for American Repertory Ballet. Other recent credits include: Oliver! (Curtain Call Inc.); Beauty and the Beast, Dialogues and Exorcising Man (American Repertory Ballet); Candide (Boston College). Other credits: Dramatics NYC, Gallery Players, Choate Rosemary Hall, Manchester Ballet, Ram Island Dance, Dance Connecticut, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company and Boehm Opera. Chris holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut.
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