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(from left) Henny Russell as Kathryn, Dana Green as Tamsin, Colin McPhillamy as Colin and Ray Chambers as Jack in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
(from left) Rebecca Gold as Tilly, Ray Chambers as Jack, Dana Green as Tamsin, David Bishins as Simeon, Nisi Sturgis as Monica, Colin McPhillamy as Colin and Henny Russell as Kathryn in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
Henny Russell as Kathryn and Colin McPhillamy as Colin in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
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Ray Chambers as Jack and Dana Green as Tamsin in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
(from left) Ray Chambers as Jack and Colin McPhillamy as Colin in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
Nisi Sturgis as Monica and David Bishins as Simeon in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
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(from left) Henny Russell as Kathryn, Dana Green as Tamsin, Ray Chambers as Jack and Colin McPhillamy as Colin in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
(from left) Dana Green as Tamsin and Henny Russell as Kathryn in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
Dana Green as Tamsin and Ray Chambers as Jack in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
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(from left) Rebecca Gold, Dana Green, Ray Chambers, Colin McPhillamy, Henny Russell, Nisi Sturgis and David Bishins star in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
(from left) Rebecca Gold, Dana Green, Ray Chambers, Colin McPhillamy, Henny Russell, Nisi Sturgis and David Bishins star in the U.S. Premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Life of Riley, at The Old Globe April 30 - June 5, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco. |
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Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The United States Premiere of Life of Riley runs April 30 - June 5, 2011 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. Photo by Tony Bartholomew. |
Richard Seer will direct The United States Premiere of Life of Riley runs April 30 - June 5, 2011 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe. |
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Cast and Creative Team
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David Bishins (Simeon) was recently seen at the Globe as Jack Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound. His New York theater credits include The Glass House with Harris Yulin (Clurman Theatre), We Declare You a Terrorist (Summer Play Festival at The Public Theater), Incident at Vichy andHenry Miller in Anais Nin: One of Her Lives (The Beckett Theatre), Catch-22 (Lucille Lortel Theatre), A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun with Olympia Dukakis (Dodger Stages), Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson (Second Stage Theatre), Bad Girls (The Directors Company), The Nest (directed by Moisés Kaufman), The Boys in the Band (WPA Theatre and Lucille Lortel Theatre), Teibele and Her Demon (Jewish Repertory Theatre) and Tower of Evil (Classic Stage Company). His regional credits include Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird (Intiman Theatre), Place Setting (directed by Evan Bergman), The Great Game (directed by Wilson Milam), Lee in True West (Vermont Stage Company), Rag and Bone (directed by Tina Landau), A Month in the Country (Long Wharf Theatre), As Bees in Honey Drown (directed by Evan Bergman), Arcadia (The Wilma Theater), The Dybbuk (Pittsburgh Public Theater) and Reckless (Hartford Stage). Bishins’ film and television credits include Salt, The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon, Henry’s Crime with Keanu Reeves, Sorry, Haters, The War Within, Tracks, “Liberty! The American Revolution” (PBS), A Magic Helmet, “Fringe,” “Babylon Fields,” “Law & Order,” "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury." |
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Ray Chambers (Jack) has worked as a classical actor and director with numerous regional theaters across the country since first training with The Old Globe in the mid-‘80s. For nearly two decades as an Associate Artist with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Chambers has worked as an actor, director, writer and instructor. He also served as Director of the Master of Fine Arts/Professional Actor Training Program at ASF from 2001 to 2009. His regional acting credits include title roles in Hamlet, The Count of Monte Cristo, Richard III, Coriolanus, King John, Henry V and Tartuffe and leading roles in Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale, The Rivals, Henry IV, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Great Expectations, The Importance of Being Earnest and Saint Joan, among many others. His credits at The Old Globe include Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, The School for Scandal, Coriolanus, Love’s Labours Lost, Hamlet and Macbeth. |
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Rebecca Gold (Tilly) is a senior at The Bishop's School in La Jolla and will be attending college in the fall. She played Celia in The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Intensive production of As You Like It and most recently played Yvette in her high school's production of Mother Courage and Her Children. This is her first professional performance and her Globe debut. |
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Dana Green (Tamsin) was last seen at The Old Globe as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac and Viola in Twelfth Night in the 2009 Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Green has spent four seasons with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival where some of her favorite roles included Isabella in Measure for Measure, Carol Cutrere in Orpheus Descending, Princess in Love's Labour’s Lost, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Viola in Twelfth Night. Her regional theater credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (South Coast Repertory), All's Well That Ends Well (Yale Repertory Theatre), Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Twelfth Night (California Shakespeare Theater), Love's Labour's Lost and Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), The Constant Wife and The Play's the Thing (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Hay Fever (Court Theatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Meadow Brook Theatre) and Twelfth Night and Macbeth (Shakespeare Festival of Dallas). She is a proud member of The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles. Her television credits include "Early Edition." |
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Colin McPhillamy (Colin) trained at Central in London, U.K. His Broadway and Off Broadway credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, Waiting in the Wings and House and Garden. His American regional credits include When We are Married and The Constant Wife (Guthrie Theater), The Play’s the Thing, Amadeus and Servant of Two Masters (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), Hamlet and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Ying Tong: A Walk with the Goons (Wilma Theatre), Arsenic and Old Lace (Alley Theatre), Sedition and Scramble (Westport Country Playhouse), The Drawer Boy, Hanging Fire and The Hatchetman (Florida Stage), The Likely Lad and The Faculty Room (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and The Molière Comedies (Mark Taper Forum). McPhillamy has appeared on television in “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” In the U.K., he spent five seasons with the Royal National Theatre and has extensive West End, regional, festival and television credits. In Australia he appeared in Democracy with Sydney Theatre Company. His film credits include The Madness of King George. McPhillamy has taught and guest directed at London University, University of San Diego and in Beijing. His plays and short stories for BBC Radio were nominated for the Prix Italia and the Writers’ Guild Comedy Award. |
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Henny Russell (Kathryn) is thrilled to be back in San Diego and is grateful to the producers of Lombardi on Broadway for granting her a leave of absence as standby for Judith Light. Her other Broadway credits include The Royal Family, Impressionism and Major Barbara. Off Broadway, she appeared in Fuddy Meers (Minetta Lane Theatre), Boy Gets Girl, (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Marion Bridge (Urban Stages). Previous Globe productions include The Constant Wife, Sylvia, The Comedy of Errors, Dracula, Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew. This play marks her fourth Ayckbourn, after Absurd Person Singular (Barrington Stage Company), Season’s Greetings (Denver Center Theatre Company) and the American premiere of Things We Do For Love (Studio Arena Theater). She has also worked at Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pittsburgh Public Theater, George Street Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, Cleveland Play House, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, TheaterWorks, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Two River Theater Company and Paper Mill Playhouse. On television, Russell can be seen in You Don’t Know Jack (HBO movie), “Law & Order,” “Gossip Girl,” “Possible Side Effects,” “Hope & Faith,” “Pensacola: Wings of Gold” and numerous commercials. Her film credits include Revolutionary Road, Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Loopy and Corn. |
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Nisi Sturgis (Monica) is overjoyed to return to The Old Globe where she has been seen as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (directed by Richard Seer), Loves and Hours (directed by Jack O'Brien), Pentecost (directed by Mark Lamos), Taming of the Shrew (directed by John Rando), Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Brendon Fox) and Pericles (directed by Darko Tresnjak). Her Broadway and New York credits include Annabella, Margaret and Pamela in The 39 Steps (directed by Maria Aitken), Mrs. Van Buren understudy in Intimate Apparel (Roundabout Theatre Company and Mark Taper Forum, directed by Daniel Sullivan), Kerri Taylor and Tobi McClintoch in Perfect Harmony (Essential Theatre) and Dsyphoria and The Less We Talk (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, directed by Alec Duffy). Sturgis’ regional credits include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Rose in I Capture the Castle and Raina in Arms and the Man (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Inherit the Wind (Geva Theatre), three seasons with Denver Center Theatre Company as Vivie Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Alice Sycamore in You Can’t Take It with You, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Sister James in Doubt and Lady Anne in Richard III. She has a recurring role as June Thompson in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” |
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Alan Ayckbourn (Playwright) was born in Hampstead in 1939 to a violinist father and a mother who was a writer. No doubt he inherited their creativity but a bigger gift was his first close-up view of two people who couldn't be happy together. By 1945 they had split up and in 1948 his mother married her bank manager. Utterly incompatible, she had a complete breakdown before Alan persuaded her to leave home. He left school at 17 with two 'A' levels and an exhaustive knowledge of miserable relationships perceived through the woman's eyes which may explain so much of his writing. Two years in regional theater as an actor and stage manager led in 1959 to the writing of his first play The Square Cat for Scarborough's Theatre In the Round at the instigation of his then employer and subsequent mentor, Stephen Joseph. Some 74 plays later, his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world and has won countless awards. There have been English and French screen adaptations, the most notable being Alain Resnais’ fine film of Private Fears in Public Places. Major successes include Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Norman Conquests (recently revived to great acclaim by Matthew Warchus), A Small Family Business, Henceforward…, Comic Potential, Things We Do For Love, House & Garden and My Wonderful Day. He is also a noted director and it was only in 2009 that he retired as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, a post he held for 37 years. Indeed, he would perhaps consider his greatest achievement to be the establishment of this permanent home for the Theatre in the Round company he first worked for all those years ago when the splendid two auditoria complex fashioned from a former Odeon Cinema opened in 1996. His current plans include the world premiere of Dear Uncle, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and, in the autumn of this year, the premiere of his 75th play Neighbourhood Watch. In addition to the many honorary degrees and other awards he has received, he was recently inducted in to American Theatre's Hall of Fame, received the Society of London Theatres' Special Award and this year has been honoured with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre as well as the Critics' Circle Award for services to the arts. He was knighted in 1997. www.alanayckbourn.net. |
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Richard Seer (Director) is an award-winning director and actor and has directed and/or performed on Broadway, Off Broadway, on film and television and in over 70 productions at regional theaters in this country and Great Britain, including The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Huntington Theatre Company, Playwrights Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena Theater, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Sybil Thorndike Theatre in England. He originated the role of Young Charlie in the 1978 Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Hugh Leonard’s Da and received the Theatre World Award for his performance. At The Old Globe, he has directed productions of The Last Romance, The Price, Romeo and Juliet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Trying, Fiction, Blue/Orange (San Diego Critics Circle Award), All My Sons, Da and Old Wicked Songs (Patté Award). Recent directing assignments also include Third (Huntington Theatre Company) and Sonia Flew (San Jose Repertory Theatre). He received his M.F.A. in directing from Boston University, where he was awarded the prestigious Kahn Directing Award in 1985. In 1990, Seer was invited to return to Boston University’s School for the Arts as an Associate Professor of Acting and Directing. He has been Director of The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program since 1993. In 2010, he was awarded the Craig Noel Distinguished Professorship. |
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Robert Morgan (Scenic and Costume Design) is an Old Globe Associate Artist and has designed scenery and/or costumes for 37 productions since 1977, among them Measure for Measure, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, The Full Monty, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Hamlet (‘77 and ‘07), A Midsummer Night’s Dream ('78 and '85), Macbeth ('79 and '96), Twelfth Night ('83 and '01), Romeo and Juliet ('80 and '99) and King Lear ('81 and '93). Elsewhere, Morgan has designed in New York, on and off Broadway, London’s West End, Maria Theresa’s private theater at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and regional theaters across the United States. From 1987 to 1992, Morgan served as Director of the Theatre Division at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. |
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Chris Rynne (Lighting Design) has designed several shows for The Old Globe including Plaid Tidings – A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, The Last Romance, Boeing-Boeing, I Do! I Do!, Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Opening Gala, The Price, Sight Unseen, The American Plan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Lincolnesque (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), Pig Farm, Trying, Vincent in Brixton (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), The Lady with All the Answers, The Food Chain, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Knowing Cairo, Beyond Therapy, The Santaland Diaries and was the Associate Lighting Designer for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Rynne has also designed productions for The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program including The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, All in the Timing, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth and Getting Married. His other credits include San Diego Opera, South Coast Repertory, Madison Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre Company, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Diversionary Theatre and Starlight Musical Theatre. |
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Paul Peterson (Sound Design) has designed over 90 productions at The Old Globe, including Rafta, Rafta…, Plaid Tidings – A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Last Romance, Boeing-Boeing, Alive and Well, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, The Price, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, Since Africa, The Women, Sight Unseen, The Pleasure of His Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, The Sisters Rosensweig, Trying, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. His regional credits include designs for Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, The Wilma Theater, L.A. Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Malashock Dance, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and Freud Playhouse at UCLA. Peterson received his B.F.A. in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University. |
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Jan Gist (Dialect Coach) has been Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach for The Old Globe since 2002. Previously she was Head of Voice and Speech for Alabama Shakespeare Festival for nine years and 140 productions. She has coached at theaters around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company. Gist has been a guest on KPBS radio’s A Way with Words, narrated San Diego Museum of Art documentaries, coached dialects for the film The Rosa Parks Story and recorded dozens of Books To Listen To. She is a founding member of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and has presented at many national and international conference workshops for them and for The Voice Foundation. Recently she was invited to Russia to teach in the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre and to London’s Central School of Speech and Drama to teach Shakespeare. She has been published in VASTA Journals, and chapters in books include The Complete Vocal Warm-Up, More Stage Dialects and an interview in Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium: Conversations with Master Teachers. She teaches in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program. |
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Elizabeth Stephens (Stage Manager) recently stage managed the Globe’s production of Plaid Tidings – A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid. She has stage managed locally for North Coast Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company. Stephens was the Production Stage Manager for the San Diego Symphony for four years. She has also stage managed for Pasadena Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company and The Acting Company. |
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