2010 Shakespeare Festival: The Madness of George III

By Alan Bennett
Directed by Adrian Noble
June 19, 2010 - September 24, 2010
Lowell Davies Festival Theatre

An international theatrical sensation that was later adapted into a film and nominated for four Academy Awards, The Madness of George III is a masterpiece of royal intrigue by renowned playwright Alan Bennett, a Tony Award®-winner for The History Boys. In the years immediately following the American Revolutionary War, this powerful play explores the majestic court of England's King George III and his deterioration into madness and his determination to hold on to political power from those around him.

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Miles Anderson as King George III in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Miles Anderson (center) as King George III with (l. to r.) Steven Marzolf, Shirine Babb, Ben Diskant and Emily Swallow in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Miles Anderson (front left) stars as King George III in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
(l. to r.) Robert Foxworth as Dr. Francis Willis, Miles Anderson as King George III and Emily Swallow as Queen Charlotte in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
(l. to r.) Robert Foxworth as Dr. Francis Willis, Miles Anderson as King George III with Jordan McArthur, Ben Diskant, Andrew Hutcheson and Steven Marzolf in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Jay Whittaker as William Pitt (center) with (l. to r.) Jordan McArthur as Papandiek and Craig Dudley as Dundas in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Miles Anderson (center) starts as King George III in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Miles Anderson as King George IIIin the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Miles Anderson (center) as King George III with (l. to r.) Christian Durso, Steven Marzolf, Shirine Babb, Ben Diskant and Emily Swallow in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III directed by Adrian Noble, at The Old Globe June 19 - Sept. 24, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Miles Anderson will play King George in The Madness of King George III, directed by Adrian Noble, in The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Miles Anderson will play King George in The Madness of King George III, directed by Adrian Noble, in The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Robert Foxworth will play King Lear and Dr. Willis in The Madness of King George III, both directed by Adrian Noble, in The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival. Photo by Tom Munnecke.
 
Robert Foxworth will play King Lear and Dr. Willis in The Madness of King George III, both directed by Adrian Noble, in The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Erin Chambers as Jessica Poole and Patrick Page as Biddeford Poole in The Old Globe’s production of The Pleasure of His Company, July 12 – August 10, 2008. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
     
Robert Foxworth as George Wallace in the world premiere of Corneila by Mark V. Olsen, directed by Ethan McSweeny, at The Old Globe May 16 – June 21, 2009. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Robert Foxworth (right) as Brutus in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar (with David Purdham and Joel Polis), directed by Daniel Sullivan, July 5 - August 10, 2003. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Robert Foxworth as Brutus in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar directred by Daniel Sullivan, July 5 - August 10, 2003. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Playwright Alan Bennett. Photo by Cato Lein.
Adrian Noble, Artistic Director of The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival. Photo by Ken Howard.
Adrian Noble, Artistic Director of The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival, and Executive Producer Lou Spisto. Photo by J. Katarzyna Voronowicz.

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
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Adrian Noble (Director) is a playwright, composer, lyricist, arranger, screenwriter, conductor, novelist and singer-songwriter.  To date, he has authored (and composed the music for) five Broadway shows: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony award-winner for Best Musical); the Tony nominated play Say Goodnight Gracie (about the life of George Burns); the Edgar award winning comedy-thriller Accomplice; the tour‑de-force for actor Stacy Keach, Solitary Confinement; and, in collaboration with the legendary songwriting team of Kander and Ebb, the recent hit musical Curtains, starring David Hyde Pierce.  He has solely won Tony awards as an author, composer and lyricist and received four additional Tony nominations.  He has won five New York Drama Desk awards, including Best Orchestration and, for Curtains, the 2007 award for Best Book of a Musical. In the nineties, he created and wrote AMC’s critically-acclaimed television “dramedy” Remember WENN.  With the millennium, his first novel, Where the Truth Lies, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut Crime Novel, nominated for a Nero Wolfe award for Best American Mystery, and made into a film by Atom Egoyan starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. His second novel Swing reached #24 of all books on Amazon. His short story “Monks of the Abbey Victoria” is part of the prestigious anthology Best American Mystery Stories 2008. His current non-musical theatre projects include the first stage adaptation of a John Grisham novel, A Time to Kill, which will premiere in 2011 at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage.  He has also completed a new stage version of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution with the approval of Dame Agatha's estate.  He has recently finished stage musicals of: the beloved screwball comedy  My Man Godfrey with Urinetown’s Mark Hollmann; book and lyrics for Jerry Lewis's comedy classic The Nutty Professor, with  Marvin Hamlisch as composer; and Secondhand Lions with the songwriting team of Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. He is delighted to return to the Old Globe, where his book for last year's sell-out run of the musical First Wives Club was warmly received by the San Diego audience.
Michael Stewart Allen (Duke of Cornwall, King Lear; Tranio, The Taming of the Shrew; Fox, The Madness of George III) has been seen in several Off Broadway productions including Starbuck in Moby Dick Rehearsed, Caliban in The Tempest, Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Orlando in Love Shakespeare (The Acting Company) and the title role in Don Carlos (Prospect Theatre Company). His recent credits include Hamlet (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), A Tale of Two Cities (People’s Light & Theatre Company), King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival), Doubt (The Hippodrome State Theater), The Tempest (Folger Theatre in Washington, DC), Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath (Arkansas Repertory Theater). He has performed at theatres all over the country, including Arkansas Repertory Theatre, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, 12 Miles West Theater Company, and he has spent 11 seasons as a company member at The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. His film and television credits include “Law & Order: SVU” and voice work on Cold Mountain. He is a member of AEA and SAG.
Miles Anderson (King George, The Madness of George III) has been acting for stage and screen for many years. The Madness of George III reunites Mr. Anderson with Adrian Noble after their work at the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors. Other appearances include the Olivier-nominated Sigismund in Life’s a Dream, Twelfth Night and Volpone and the receipt of three British Theatre Awards. His West End appearances include The Weir, Oliver!  and The Rehearsal. His film work includes Cry Freedom! and The Shepherd. Mr. Anderson’s television appearances include “Criminal Minds” and UK credits including Dempsey in ITV’s “Ultimate Force”, Roger O’Neill in BBC’s award-winning "House of Cards" and Dan Fortune in the hit series “Soldier, Soldier.” His work with directors, including Richard Attenborough, Trevor Nunn, Max Stafford-Clark, and Sam Mendes, has established Mr. Anderson internationally as an actor of immense versatility, notability and popularity. Mr. Anderson lives in Los Angeles.
Shirine Babb (Ensemble, King Lear; A Widow, The Taming of the Shrew; Lady Pembroke, The Madness of George III) was recently seen in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her London credits include Widows and her New York credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), Trickle (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Single Black Female (The Duke on 42nd St), Aliens With Extraordinary Skills (Women’s Project), A Role Once Played (29th Repertory Theatre, 2004 AUDELCO Nominee) and American Girls Revue (American Girl Place). Ms. Babb’s regional credits include Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Antony & Cleopatra, She Stoops to Conquer, A Christmas Carol, Omnium Gatherum, Play To Win: The Jackie Robinson Story, Almost Heaven: The John Denver Story and Bessie: Life & Music of Bessie Smith. Her television and film credits include “All My Children” and Picture Perfect. Her commercial work includes WE Network, Optimum Light Path and Fair Housing Act. Ms. Babb holds an MA from East 15 Acting School, UK and BFA from SUNY Fredonia.
Donald Carrier (Duke of Albany, King Lear; Hortensio, The Taming of the Shrew; Sheridan, The Madness of George III) is making his Old Globe debut with the 2010 Shakespeare Festival. His regional credits include Joseph Surface in The School For Scandal (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nomination), Frederick in Noises Off and Francis in Lincolnesque (Cleveland PlayHouse), Ian in Shining City (The Studio Theatre), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival) and Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency (Huntington Theatre Company). Other theatres include Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Wilma Theater, Intiman Theatre and TheatreWorks. He spent nine seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival appearing in As You Like It (Orlando), The School for Scandal (Charles Surface), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peter Quince), The Importance of Being Earnest (John Worthing), Coriolanus (Sicinius), The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio) and Measure for Measure (Lucio). He also spent two seasons at the Shaw Festival. Mr. Carrier most recently assistant directed Cyrano de Bergerac at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and performed in Tom Stoppard’s Rock 'n' Roll. His television and film credits include The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Passion Of Ayn Rand, Earth: Final Conflict, Dead by Monday and 54. His writing credits include the musical Evangeline, written with Anaya Farrell.
Andrew Dahl (Oswald, Ensemble, King Lear; Servant Lad, The Taming of the Shrew; Prince of Wales, The Madness of George III) previously appeared at The Old Globe in Six Degrees of Separation, Cyrano De Bergerac, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus. He recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife, The Two Gentlemen of Verona as well as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Water Engine. Mr. Dahl’s New York credits include The Winter’s Tale, A Flea in Her Ear and The Twelfth Labor. His other credits include If This is a Man in Moscow, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Dear Brutus, A View from the Bridge, Time Remembered and Boy Gets Girl (Dartmouth College). Mr. Dahl holds a BA in Theater from Dartmouth College.
Grayson DeJesus (Ensemble, King Lear; Servant Lad, The Taming of the Shrew; Ramsden, The Madness of George III) was last seen in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His regional credits include Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well and The Antiquarian’s Family (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). His national tours include Winnemucca, Three Days In The Belly (San Jose Stage Company, Fringe NYC, Minnesota Fringe Festival) and West Coast credits include FILM (Theater of Note), New Playwrights Project (TheatreWorks). His New York credits include Here I Go Boys, A Diner A Shiner and New Beulah (Shelby Company). Mr. DeJesus received his BA in Theatre from Occidental College.
Ben Diskant (King of France, Ensemble, King Lear; Servant Lad, The Taming of the Shrew; Greville, The Madness of George III) most recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. His regional credits include Speech and Debate (TheaterWorks Hartford), The History Boys (The Studio Theatre), Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Freedom Train (Theaterworks/USA). Mr. Diskant holds a Bachelor’s of Music and a BA in Sociology from Northwestern University.
Craig Dudley (Doctor, Ensemble, King Lear; A Tailor, Vincentio, The Taming of the Shrew; Dundas, The Madness of George III) has appeared in several shows in New York including Macbeth and Othello (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Miser (Bank Street Theatre), New York Fringe Festival, War and Peace (Symphony Space), Ursula’s Permanent (Kraine Theatre), Misalliance (Equity Library Theatre) and The Seagull (Guest Artist/Columbia University). His regional credits include Richard II and the North American Premiere of The Woman (Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada), Hamlet (Coconut Grove Playhouse), A Tale of Two Cities (Repertory Theatre Of St. Louis), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Fulton Opera House), An Inspector Calls (Florida Studio Theatre), The Hasty Heart (Kennedy Center), Mary Stuart (Ahmanson Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (American Stage Festival), Racing Demon (Merrimack Theatre), Amadeus (Wayside Theatre), Dial M For Murder (Long Island Stage), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Mill Mountain Theatre), Crown of Kings (Byrdcliffe Theatre Festival), Miracle (White Barn Theatre), Noises Off (New Harmony Theatre, Boston Herald Repertory Company) and Twelfth Night (Tri-state Actor’s Theatre). Mr. Dudley has appeared in several stock productions of Camelot playing King Arthur. His television credits include “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,” “One Life to Live,” “Gimme a Break” and “Exiled.” He co-produced a theatrical documentary about Sir Derek Jacobi, was mentored for over 20 years by Philip Burton, father to Richard Burton, received a scholarship to the American Theatre Wing and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Christian Durso (Duke of Burgundy, Ensemble, King Lear; Servant Lad, The Taming of the Shrew; Braun, The Madness of George III) was last seen in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His New York credits include Nocturne (Under St. Marks), Cinephilia (Theatre Row), Spring Awakening (Blue Heron Arts Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Julius Caesar (Theatre For A New City), Shoe Polish (13th Street Repertory Company) and Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (The Tank). Mr. Durso’s regional credits include Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Macbeth (RADA) and Minnesota Moon (Boulder Fringe). His television credits include “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light.” Mr. Durso holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Robert Foxworth (King Lear, King Lear; Dr. Willis, The Madness of George III) is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has appeared in Cornelia, Julius Caesar, Private Lives, Below the Belt and Antony and Cleopatra. He was most recently seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning production of August: Osage County. He has also recently starred as Claudius in Hamlet (South Coast Repertory, directed by Daniel Sullivan) and on Broadway in the award-winning production of Twelve Angry Men (Roundabout Theatre Company). In the 2001/2002 season he played Robert in the national Broadway tour of Proof. Mr. Foxworth made his Broadway debut in The American Shakespeare Festival’s production of Henry V. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of John Proctor in The Crucible (Lincoln Center Theater). His television series include “Storefront Lawyers,” “Falcon Crest” and “Late Line” with Al Franken. He has guest starred on countless series episodes over the years, the most recent being a two-year stint on “Six Feet Under” and episodes of “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Gilmore Girls.” His stage work has included Cyrano (Great Lakes Theatre Festival), Iago in Macbeth (Guthrie Theater), George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Hartford Stage), Galileo (CENTERSTAGE), Uncle Vanya (Geffen Playhouse). On Broadway, he was Count Shebyelski in Ivanov (Lincoln Center Theater), starred with Jane Alexander in Honour (Belasco Theater) and played Colonel Parker in Judgment at Nuremberg (Longacre Theater). Mr. Foxworth was seen in Syriana and is the voice of Ratchet in Transformers I and II.
Catherine Gowl (Cordelia, King Lear; A Maid, The Madness of George III) has been seen at The Old Globe in The Women, Six Degrees of Separation, Coriolanus, Cyrano de Bergerac and Twelfth Night. She recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona as well as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Water Engine. Her New York credits include ‘Twas, The Director, Oh, The Humanity and Other Exclamations (The Flea Theater), Hamlet, The Great God Brown, Don Juan, A Piece of My Heart and Clash By Night. Ms. Gowl’s regional credits include The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse), The Taming of the Shrew and Othello (Virginia Shakespeare Festival) and Proof. Her other credits include Julius Caesar, Richard III, Memory of Water, Simpatico, Camino Real and many new works in New York, Boston and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ms. Gowl holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard.
Kevin Hoffmann (Ensemble, King Lear; Servant Lad, The Taming of the Shrew; Duke of York, The Madness of George III) recently appeared at The Old Globe in Whisper House (Lt. Rando) as well as Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Cyrano de Bergerac (Musketeer), Coriolanus (Senator) and Six Degrees of Separation (Ben). He also played Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program where he was also seen in The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Greeks: The Murders. Regionally, Mr. Hoffmann has performed in Antony and Cleopatra and The Merry Wives of Windsor (The Theater at Monmouth), as well as Proof (Barksdale Theatre). His TV credits include “As the World Turns” and “All My Children.” His many commercials include Sony, Callaway Golf, and Fidelity Financial. Mr. Hoffmann holds a BFA in Acting from Elon University.
Andrew Hutcheson (Ensemble, King Lear; Servant Lad, The Taming of the Shrew; Fortnum, The Madness of George III) was last seen in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His New York credits include Elizabeth Rex, Kosher Harry, Richard III (Nicu’s Spoon Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Staten Island Shakespeare) and Titus Andronicus (Rising Phoenix). National Tours include Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) and Beauty and the Beast (American Family Theatre). His regional credits include The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, The Crucible, A Lion in Winter, As You Like It and Jungalbook (Austin Theatre) as well as Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, 1776, Tartuffe, Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Texas Shakespeare Festival). Mr. Hutcheson received his BA in Acting from The University of Texas at Austin.
Charles Janasz (Earl of Gloucester, King Lear; A Pedant, Curtis, The Taming of the Shrew; Thurlow, Madness of George III) is an Associate Artist and has been seen in 20 Old Globe productions including Pericles and the Summer Festivals of 1985 and 2004-2009. He was seen on Broadway in Amadeus (’99-2000 revival) and has been a leading company member and returning artist of both Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater and Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. Mr. Janasz’s other credits include Ahmanson Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Empty Space Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Walker Art Center and Loring Playhouse. He has also done television and radio. He trained at The University of Washington and The Juilliard School. Mr. Janasz is a proud member of Actors’ Equity since 1980.
Joseph Marcell (Earl of Kent, King Lear; Gremio, The Taming of the Shrew; Sir George Baker, The Madness of George III) has worked extensively in both the UK and the US. Of the 200 productions that he has been involved in, he has worked with many premier theatre companies. In the UK, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, Royal Court and Shakespeare’s Globe where he has been on the Artistic Directorate & Council for 25 years. In the US, he has worked on Broadway, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hudson Theater and Shakespeare & Company. He has also performed in Africa and on a British Council Tour of India with the director John Dexter. His film and television work includes Cry Freedom, Sioux City, Rough Crossings, Fever, “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Sesame Street,” ”Jericho,” “Rumpole of the Bailey,” “A Touch of Frost,” “Holby City,” “EastEnders,” “Brothers and Sisters,” “Empire Road” and “The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.”
Steven Marzolf (Curan, Herald, Ensemble, King Lear; A Haberdasher, Servant Lad, The Taming of the Shrew; Captain Fitzroy, The Madness of George III) has been seen in several productions at The Old Globe including Six Degrees of Separation, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus. He also appeared in The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Greeks: The Murders (The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program). His regional credits include Fair Use and August: Osage County (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), As You Like It (Writers’ Theatre), Twilight of the Golds (Apple Tree Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Provision Theater), The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse), Richard III, Mary Stuart, A Christmas Carol and Napoli Milionaria (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), The Romeo and Juliet Story (Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare), Twelfth Night and The Tempest (Riverside Theatre) and Two Rooms (In Tandem Theatre).
Jordan McArthur (Ensemble, King Lear; Biondello, The Taming of the Shrew; Papandiek, The Madness of George III) previously appeared in Six Degrees of Separation, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus at The Old Globe. His other credits include The Country Wife, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Midsummer Night’s Dream  (The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program), What the Butler Saw, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth (Virginia Shakespeare Festival), Of Mice and Men, Arcadia  and The Scarlet Letter. Mr. McArthur holds a BA in Acting from Christopher Newport University in Virginia.
Brooke Novak (Ensemble, King Lear; Margaret Nicholson, The Madness of George III) has appeared at The Old Globe in Coriolanus and Cyrano de Bergerac. She has also appeared in several productions with The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program including The Country Wife, The Two Gentleman of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Greeks: The Murders. Ms. Novak’s regional credits include The Antiquarian’s Family and All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Her other credits include Macbeth, As You Like It, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Little Eyolf and Trip to Bountiful. She received her BA in Theater from Occidental College.
Jonno Roberts (Edmund, King Lear; Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew) was seen on Broadway in Take Me Out and Off Broadway in Bug, Monster and Uncle Vanya. His regional credits include King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company and Goodman Theatre), Mother Courage, Richard II and Antigone (American Repertory Theater), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Huntington Theatre Company), The Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center), A Streetcar Named Desire (Intiman Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Henry V and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Mr. Roberts’ international credits include Wozzeck (Toronto), Villeggiatura Trilogy and The Spiritualists (Russia and Europe) and medeamaterial, hamletmachine, States of Shock, Songs to the Judges, King Lear and Alicef**k (New Zealand). He has appeared in several television shows including “Flight of the Conchords,” “Lie to Me,” “Medium,” “Without A Trace,” “CSI: NY,” “NCIS,” “Numb3rs,” “The Unit,” “Brotherhood,” “Love Monkey,” “Shark,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Jericho,” “As the World Turns,” “Xena,” “Hercules,” “Kukli,” “Shortland Street,” “A Bit of a Hoot” and “In Search of the Kiwi Male.” Mr. Roberts’ film credits include The Elephant King, Downstream, Footsteps and BTK. He received his MFA from Harvard University/Moscow Arts Theatre School.
Aubrey Saverino (Regan, King Lear; A Maid, The Madness of George III) has been seen in The Old Globe’s productions of Twelfth Night as Maria and Coriolanus. She also appeared in The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Julia, as well as The Country Wife, The Greeks: The Murders and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program). Her other credits include Viola in Twelfth Night and Lady Percy in Henry IV Part I & II (The Independent Shakespeare Company), Desdemona in Othello, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (El Portal Theatre), An Impending Rupture of the Belly (Furious Theatre Company), Climbing Everest (The Colony Theater), Wit and Nicholas Nickleby (The Production Company), Inventing Van Gogh, The Imaginary Cuckhold and Creep (The Chance Theater) Ms. Saverino holds a BA in Theater from Occidental College, has studied abroad at The London Dramatic Academy and is a native San Diegan.
Ryman Sneed (Ensemble, King Lear; A Maid, The Madness of George III) was recently seen in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Ms. Sneed’s Off Broadway credits include None of the Above (The Lion Theater, Theater Row). Her New York credits include The Tempest, Seven Short and Very Short Plays by Jean-Claude Van Itallie, Pied a Terre and The Crucible. She recently appeared in the “Buzzed” PSA on the Starz Movie Network. Ms. Sneed holds a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College.
Adrian Sparks (Old Man, Ensemble, King Lear; Baptista Minola, The Taming of the Shrew; Sir Lucas Pepys, Sir Boothby Skrymshir, The Madness of George III) has played leading roles in a wide variety of theatre classics at such theatres as Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Long Wharf Theatre, Stage West Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. His extensive Shakespearean credits include acting or directing assignments in Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Othello, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard II, Henry IV (Parts I and II), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts I, II and III) and Richard III. His 2009 portrayal of Sharky in The Seafarer for Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati led to Best Actor Awards from both the Acclaim and Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. In 2005, Mr. Sparks was honored by the highly respected Ovation Awards Committee with a Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway in the one man show Papa by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John deGroot. He has since performed this solo show at numerous venues across the United States, and across the world with an extended tour of major theatres and universities throughout Turkey.
Emily Swallow (Goneril, King Lear; Katherine, The Taming of the Shrew; Queen Charlotte, The Madness of George III) appeared on Broadway as Charlie and Marie LaSalle in High Fidelity. Her Off Broadway credits include Connie in John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger’s Romantic Poetry (Manhattan Theatre Club), Delilah in The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop), Hermione in Measure for Pleasure (The Public Theatre/NYSF), She in Like Love (NY Musical Theatre Festival), Henrietta in Orange Lemon Egg Canary (P.S. 122), Regan in the workshop of King Lear starring Kevin Kline (The Public Theater/NYSF) and the Ensemble in Much Ado About Nothing (The Public Theater/NYSF). Ms. Swallow’s regional credits include Viva in Pop! (Yale Repertory Theatre), Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guthrie Theater), Caroline Bramble in Enchanted April (San Jose Repertory Theatre) and Eurydice/Pomona/Iris in Metamorphoses (Pioneer Theatre Company). Her film and television credits include The Lucky Ones, “Southland,” “The Odds,” “NCIS,” “Medium,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “Journeyman,” “Jericho” and “Guiding Light.” She received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Bruce Turk (Fool, King Lear; Grumio, The Taming of the Shrew; Dr. Richard Warren, The Madness of George III) has performed at The Old Globe in productions of Twelfth Night, Cyrano De Bergerac, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale (Craig Noel Award), The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It and Don Juan. His Broadway credits include the title role in The Green Bird and Juan Darien (Lincoln Center Theater). His Off Broadway credits include Pericles (Brooklyn Academy of Music), King John, Titus Andronicus and The Green Bird. Mr. Turk’s regional credits include seasons at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Shakespeare Santa Cruz as well as productions at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC, McCarter Theatre Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Prince Music Theatre and many others. His television and film credits include “Numb3rs,” “ER,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Third Watch” and Garmento. Mr. Turk has also been a resident company member of Tadashi Suzuki’s Acting Company in Tokyo, Mito and Togamura, Japan. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Bree Welch (Ensemble, King Lear; Bianca, The Taming of the Shrew; A Maid, The Madness of George III) most recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program productions of The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her regional credits include The Tempest, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew (Houston Shakespeare Festival), The Rabbit Hole (Stages Repertory Theatre), Antigone (Classical Theatre Company), One Flea Spare (Mildred’s Umbrella), Enchanted April, The Odd Couple and The Heiress (Unity Theatre), Snow White and the Wolf and the Foolish Little Kids (Children’s Theatre Festival). Ms. Welch received her BA in Acting/Directing from The University of Houston.
Jay Whittaker (Edgar, King Lear; Lucentio, The Taming of the Shrew; William Pitt, The Madness of George III) has been seen Off Broadway in Frank’s Home at Playwrights Horizons and Rose Rage at The Duke on 42nd St. His other credits include Awake and Sing (Northlight Theatre, directed by Amy Morton), Shining City (Huntington Theatre Company), Tamburlaine and Edward II (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Shining City and Frank’s Home (Goodman Theatre), Mother Courage and David Copperfield (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Henry IV (Royal Shakespeare Company). Mr. Whittaker’s film and television credits include Dustclouds, Let’s Go To Prison, Death of a President, “Prison Break” and “Early Edition.”