CAST/CREATIVE BIOS

DANIEL T. BOOTH (Serena) Off-Broadway Debut. Infamous drag persona “Sweetie” since 1991. Film: To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar; StarrBooty; No Exit.

JOSHUA CRUZ (Venus) Off-Broadway Debut. NY workshops: Timmy the Great (John Nervous); Rubirosa (Y. Rubirosa). Regional: Altar Boyz (Juan); LOUD (Parker); A Chorus Line (Mark); Streakin' (World Premiere, Donny); Working (Emilio); Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour). Nat'l tours: West Side Story (Ensemble, U/S); Diva Diaries (Y. Damsel); Mouse Cookie (Mouse). TV: Rescue Me. BFA in Music and Theater at the Univ. of Florida and the Conservatory for Music and Theater at the Florida School of the Arts.

GLENN DAVIS (Deity) Off-Broadway Debut. Regional: A Lesson Before Dying, The Bluest Eye (Steppenwolf); Polaroid Stories, Caligula, Vassa Zheleznova (Williamstown); Edward II, Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Tempest (Stratford Festival); Deep Azure (Congo Square). Sundance Theatre Lab; Goodman; Chicago Shakespeare. TV: 24; The Unit; Jericho (recurring); Lie To Me (pilot); S.I.S (pilot). BFA DePaul University. Goodman School of Drama. Conservatory at the Stratford Festival.

SEAN PATRICK DOYLE (Loki) International: Baby John in West Side Story (dir. Joey McKneely, Asian/European Tours); Fame: The Musical (Asian Tour). Regional Theatre/Opera: Carmen Ghia in The Producers; Starkey in Peter Pan; Chantal in La Cage Aux Folles (dir. BT McNichol); Emcee in Cabaret; Mistoffelees in Cats; and numerous appearances at The John F. Kennedy Center, including A Salute to 1940s Broadway (dir. Baayork Lee), Bernstein's Mass, and Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans. Film/Television: Kennedy Center Honors (dir. Rob Marshall); Full Grown Men; Young Lincoln; and numerous commercials. www.seanpatrickdoyle.com.

McKENZIE FRYE (Faith) Off-Broadway: Mama I Want to Sing (Benefit Concert); 365 Plays/365 Days; My Secret Garden; Broadway Soul; Damn Yankees (Benefit Concert); Diss Diss, Dat Dat; River Deep. Regional: Damn Yankees; Dreamgirls; Crowns; Golf: The Musical; Harriet’s Return starring Debbie Allen (The Kennedy Center). TV: Law & Order; Law & Order: CI; Law & Order: SVU. BFA in Musical Theater, Howard University.

NATHAN LEE GRAHAM (Rey-Rey) Film: Zoolander; Sweet Home Alabama; Hitch. Television: The Comeback; Absolutely Fabulous; Scrubs. Broadway: The Wild Party (LADCC Award Best Featured Performer in a Musical). Recordings: William Bolcom's Songs Of Innocence and of Experience (Grammy award winner classical recording 2005). First national tours: Jesus Christ Superstar; Showboat. Regional theatre and commercials. Upcoming: indie film 818; the CD Easy. BFA in musical theatre, Webster University Conservatory.

ANGELA GROVEY (Fate) Off-Broadway Debut. Regional: Little Shop of Horrors (Paper Mill Playhouse, “Ronette”); Buddy (Westchester Broadway Theatre, “Apollo Singer”); Spunk (Actor's Theatre Louisville, “Blues Speak”); World Goes ‘Round (Barrington Stage, “Woman 1”); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Fulton Opera, “Muzzy”); Ain't Misbehavin’ (Maltz Jupiter, “Nell”); Crowns (Arizona Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, “Wanda”); Abyssinia (Goodspeed Opera, North Shore Music Theatre, “Mavis”); Crowns (Arena Stage, Geva Theatre, Studio Arena, “Mabel”); Showboat (Marriot,“Ethel”); Kiss Me Kate (Drury Lane, “Hattie”); Bubbly Black Girl… (Apple Tree, “Granny”). Graduate of Roosevelt University's Theatre Conservatory in Chicago, IL.

ANDRE HOLLAND (Eric) Recent theatre includes Tempest Tossed (Classic Stage Company); In the Red and Brown Water (Alliance Theatre); Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons); Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It (Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park); Andorra (Young Vic, London); Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Saint Joan (Georgia Shakespeare Festival). Recent film: Bride Wars (FOX); Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee, dir.); Sugar (Ryan Fleck/Anna Boden, dir.). Television: Law & Order (NBC); Black Donnellys (NBC); The News (ABC Pilot).

REBECCA NAOMI JONES (Fay) Broadway: Passing Strange. Off-Broadway: Passing Strange (Public Theater); How Love is Spelt (Playwrights Horizons-SPF). Tours/Regional: Caroline, or Change (OBC Tour); Little Shop of Horrors (1st Nat'l Tour); Rent (Both US Nat'l and 10th Anniversary Tours); Funked Up Fairy Tales (Sundance); Wig Out! (Sundance); Passing Strange (Berkeley Rep). Films: Miracle at St. Anna; Passing Strange (both directed by Spike Lee). Vocalist for Deetown Entertainment. Songs in Alvin and The Chipmunks; Gossip Girl; Sydney White; Fools Gold. B.F.A. in Drama, North Carolina School of the Arts.

ERIK KING (Lucian) Theatre credits include: Servy ‘N Bernice 4Ever, Streamers (dir. Terry Kinney, Steppenwolf Company); Balm In Gilead (Circle Rep); Wasted (WPA). TV: Dexter (Sgt. Doakes); Oz (Moses Dyell); The District (Travis Hayward); The Division; Malcolm in the Middle; CSI: Miami; Charmed; JAG; Law & Order. Film: National Treasure; Ice Princess; Desperate Measures; True Crime.

CLIFTON OLIVER (Ms. Nina) Broadway: The Lion King (Simba); Wicked (Fiyero). Off-Broadway: Miracle Brothers (Vineyard Theatre). LA/1st National Tour: Rent (Benny, Australian Tour); Grease (Teen Angel); Smokey Joe`s Café (Victor); Regional: Godspell (North Shore, “Judas”); Ragtime (MUNY); Pippin (Papermill). TV & Film: Law & Order; Making The Band Season 1; The Oprah Winfrey Show; The Tonight Show; Side Effects; Whirlwind. Upcoming recording. www.myspace.com/cliftonolivermusic.

TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY (Playwright) Plays include The Brothers Size (The Public Theater, New York; The Abbey Theater produced with the Foundry Theater; the Young Vic Theater, London); In the Red and Brown Water (Winner of the 2007 Kendeda Award Alliance Theater Atlanta, GA); and Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet. Other plays: The Breach (Southern Rep. Theater, New Orleans 2007, Seattle Rep Theater 2008); A Taurian Tale (52nd Street Project 2008). Awards: 2007 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award (Vineyard Theatre); 2007 Giles Whiting Writing Award. International Writer-in-Residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company 2008-2010. Hodder Fellow, Princeton University and new member at New Dramatists in New York, NY. Graduate: New World School of the Arts High School, 1999; DePaul University, 2003; Yale School of Drama in playwriting 2007.

TINA LANDAU (Director) recently directed Tracy Letts's Superior Donuts (at Steppenwolf, where she is an ensemble member); Tarell McCraney's In The Red and Brown Water (Alliance); and Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature). Work which she has both written and directed includes Beauty; Space; Dream True; Floyd Collins; Stonewall. Other productions include Time of Your Life, Diary of Anne Frank, Cherry Orchard, Berlin Circle and many more at Steppenwolf; Midsummer Night’s Dream (McCarter/Papermill); Bells are Ringing (Broadway); Miracle Brothers and Mary Rose (Vineyard). Tina teaches at Yale School of Drama, is a current U.S. Artists Fellow, and has written (with Anne Bogart) The Viewpoints Book.

KIM WEILD (Associate Director) With Tina Landau: Iphigenia 2.0; Michael Blakemore: Deuce and Is He Dead?; Roger Rees and Rick Elice: Double Double. Directing: Fêtes de la Nuit by Charles Mee (Riverside Theater); Safe Home (CAP 21); The Good Woman of Setzuan (Wortham Theater-U.H.); Paradise Now (conceived by Weild-Williamstown Theatre Festival); Uncle Vanya (Prague Quadrennial); A Peddler's Tale (Women's Project); I'll Be Home Tomorrow (The Tank); Eccentricities of a Nightingale; Endgame; & Constitution (Columbia University). Readings: Somewhere Like Santa Monica (NYTW); Charity (Primary Stages). Foeller Fellow, Shubert Fellow, Kennedy Center Fellow, Women's Project 2006-2008, David Parsons Chair-LACHSA. Upcoming: bobrauschenbergamerica. MFA Columbia University. SSDC. www.kimweild.com.

JAMES SCHUETTE (Scenic Design) Designed Mary Rose directed by Tina Landau (Vineyard Theatre). As a set and costume designer: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Glimmerglass Opera, dir. Anne Bogart); Julius Caesar (American Repertory Theatre, dir. Arthur Nauzyciel); and Oedipus Complex (Goodman Theatre, dir. Frank Galati). Other: American Conservatory Theatre; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Arena Stage; Berkeley Rep; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis; La Jolla Playhouse; Manhattan Theatre Club; Mark Taper Forum; New York Theatre Workshop; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Playwrights Horizons; The Public Theater; Papermill Playhouse; Seattle Rep; Trinity Rep; Yale Repertory Theatre; Houston Grand Opera; Minnesota Opera; New York City Opera; Opera Colorado; Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Seattle Opera. Upcoming projects: Kafka on the Shore directed by Frank Galati (Steppenwolf); A Civil War Christmas by Paula Vogel (Long Wharf Theatre, dir. Tina Landau); Freshwater (Women's Project, dir. Anne Bogart); and Faust (Minnesota Opera, dir. Doug Varone).

TONI-LESLIE JAMES (Costume Design) Broadway: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; One Mo’ Time; King Hedley II; The Wild Party (Fany Award); Marie Christine; Footloose; The Tempest (Drama Desk Nomination); Twilight: Los Angeles 1992; Angels in America; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony & Drama Desk nominations, Hewes Design Award & LA Drama-Logue Award). Off-Broadway: Bernarda Alba (Hewes Design Award nomination); Dessa Rose; Elegies; A New Brain; God’s Heart; Hello Again; Macbeth; Henry VIII; Dancing On Her Knees; Insurrection; Measure for Measure; East Texas Hot Links; Dog Opera; The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Drama Desk & Hewes Design Award Nominations); Spunk. Television: Three specials for WNET/13 Great Performances series; As The World Turns; Whoopi (NBC). Film: The Huey P. Newton Story; A Tale of Two Pizzas & Tightrope. Recipient of Connecticut Critics Circle Award and Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award for Costume Excellence.

PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Design) Broadway: Over 35 plays and musicals including Is He Dead?; Young Frankenstein; Curtains; Grey Gardens; The Pajama Game; The Producers; The Music Man; Contact; Kiss Me Kate. Numerous productions for Lincoln Center, Roundabout, MTC, NYSF, Playwrights Horizons, Encores. Regional: Guthrie, Goodman, CTG, La Jolla, Seattle Rep, Hartford, Long Wharf. Opera: The Met, NYCO, San Francisco Opera, LAMCO, Santa Fe, Seattle, St. Louis. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, Bonn State Opera, Maggio Festival Florence, L'Arena di Verona, La Fenice, Cagliari and Lisbon. He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Hewes design awards.

ROBERT KAPLOWITZ (Sound Design) At The Vineyard: Anne Washburn's The Internationalist. Other favorite designs and/or compositions include: Bill T. Jones' Fela! (37 Arts); John Beluso's The Poor Itch, Tracey Scott Wilson's The Story & Jose Rivera's School of the Americas (Public Theater); Kia Corthron's Light Raise the Roof (NYTW); Abbey Spallin's Pumpgirl (MTC); Adam Bock's The Thugs (Soho Rep); and Eric Jackson's drag adaptation of Carrie (PS 122/Theatre Couture). He received a 2007 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design, and has been a resident artist at Sundance and the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference.

WENDY PARSON (Hair, Wig, & Make-up Design) Smoke and Mirrors Productions. Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors; Play What I Wrote; Long Day's Journey Into Night; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Our Town; Hollywood Arms; The Elephant Man; Glengarry Glen Ross. Off- Broadway: The Bluest Eye; The Clean House; Bernard Alba; Dessa Rose; Valhalla; Little Fish; Night Heron; A Second Hand Memory; City Center Encores!. Music Video: Beyonce’s Goldmember.

BARBARA REO (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Our Country's Good. Off-Broadway: Kicking A Dead Horse; The Brothers Size; Emergence-SEE! (The Public Theater). Regional: Trinity Repertory Company; Paper Mill Playhouse; Hartford Stage; Alliance Theatre; Huntington Theatre Company; Perishable Theater. Other: Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium; Production Coordinator, Brown University New Plays Festival; Producer/Production Coordinator. Proud Member of Actors' Equity Association.

KATRINA LYNN OLSON (Assistant Stage Manager) International Tour: The Brothers Size at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Off-Broadway: The Poor Itch, The Brothers Size at The Public Theater. Regional: Three Musketeers & As You Like It (Elm Shakespeare Company); Lulu, Black Snow & All's Well That Ends Well (Yale Repertory Theatre); 12th Night (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Julius Caesar, Jenufa, & The Barber of Seville (Houston Grand Opera). MFA, Yale School of Drama. Proud member of Actors' Equity Association.

DOUGLAS AIBEL (Artistic Director, Vineyard Theatre) was the first recipient of the Ross Wetzsteon OBIE Award for his work with The Vineyard and was pleased to accept special Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards for The Vineyard's body of work. Mr. Aibel is also widely known in the film world as a casting director, with credits including: We Own The Night, The Squid and the Whale, The Royal Tenenbaums, Signs, Dead Man Walking, Kinsey, The Village, The Life Aquatic, Little Odessa, Cradle Will Rock, Fresh, The Myth Of Fingerprints, Unbreakable, Bob Roberts, Five Corners, The Dying Gaul, Margot at the Wedding. Upcoming: All Good Things, The Rebound and Margaret.

VINEYARD THEATRE is a non-profit theatre company dedicated to new work, bold programming and the support of artists. One of America's preeminent centers for the creation of new plays and musicals, Vineyard Theatre has consistently premiered provocative, groundbreaking works by both new and established writers. From our current Broadway successes Avenue Q, and [title of show], to two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas — Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive and Edward Albee's Three Tall Women — to such notable projects as Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, Becky Mode's Fully Committed, Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul, Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live, Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination, Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley, the Laura Nyro musical Eli's Comin', Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist and last season's acclaimed productions of Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher, Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy's The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island and Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear — we strive to produce new work that challenges both our audiences and artists. It is our goal to bring a spirit of adventure and risk to the art of making theatre. We're proud to be the recipient of special OBIE, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence.