Cast Announced for INDECENT
Vineyard Theatre, in association with La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Repertory Theatre, will present the New York premiere of INDECENT, a new play with music, written by Paula Vogel, created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, and directed by Rebecca Taichman, at The Vineyard (108 East 15th Street) with previews beginning April 27 and opening […]
Vineyard Theatre, in association with La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Repertory Theatre, will present the New York premiere of INDECENT, a new play with music, written by Paula Vogel, created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, and directed by Rebecca Taichman, at The Vineyard (108 East 15th Street) with previews beginning April 27 and opening night set for May 17. INDECENT features music composed by Lisa Gutkin (KLEZMATICS) and Aaron Halva (RED NOSES) and choreography by David Dorfman (GREEN VIOLIN).
The cast of INDECENT includes Katrina Lenk (ONCE), Mimi Lieber (ACT ONE), Max Gordon Moore (RELATIVELY SPEAKING), Tom Nelis (THE VISIT), Steven Rattazzi (THE FOURTH SISTER), Richard Topol (FISH IN THE DARK) and Adina Verson (HIM).
INDECENT, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (Vineyard’s HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE and THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME) and award-winning director Rebecca Taichman (STAGE KISS), is a deeply moving new play with music, inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s GOD OF VENGEANCE — a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. INDECENT charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
PAULA VOGEL (PLAYWRIGHT) is Playwright in Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre. Her play HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as her second OBIE Award. Other plays include DON JUAN COMES HOME FROM IRAQ, THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, THE MINEOLA TWINS, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, HOT ‘N’ THROBBING, DESDEMONA, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN, THE OLDEST PROFESSION, and A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS. In 2004-05, she was the playwright in residence at New York’s Signature Theatre. TCG has published four books of her work: The Mammary Plays, The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and A Civil War Christmas. Most recent awards include the Theatre Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild, and the 2015 Thornton Wilder Award. She is honored to have two awards to emerging playwrights named after her: the Paula Vogel Award, created by the American College Theatre Festival in 2003, and the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given annually by the Vineyard Theatre since 2007. Ms. Vogel won the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OBIE for Best Play in 1992, the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, The Laura Pels Award, the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Award, a Guggenheim, an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the McKnight Fellowship, and the Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was recently awarded a Thirtini from 13P in New York. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Double UCross Colony, as well as Yaddo. She has taught for 24 years at Brown University and for five years at Yale School of Drama where she was the Eugene O’Neill Professor of Playwriting. She is honored by Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Quiara Hudes, who is curating the Paula Vogel Mentors Project.
REBECCA TAICHMAN (DIRECTOR) Off-Broadway credits include FAMILIAR by Danai Gurira (upcoming, Playwrights Horizons); THE OLDEST BOY by Sarah Ruhl (Lincoln Center Theater); THE LUCK OF THE IRISH (LCT3); STAGE KISS, MILK LIKE SUGAR (Playwrights Horizons); ORLANDO (Classic Stage Company); ORPHEUS (New York City Opera); DARK SISTERS (Music Theater Group, Gotham Chamber Opera); RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER (Gotham Chamber Opera); MARIE ANTOINETTE (Soho Rep.); THE SCENE (Second Stage, Humana Festival of New Plays); and MENOPAUSAL GENTLEMAN (Ohio Theatre). Regional credits include SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES, MILK LIKE SUGAR (La Jolla Playhouse); TWELFTH NIGHT, TIME AND THE CONWAYS (The Old Globe); MARIE ANTOINETTE (A.R.T.); SHE LOVES ME (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); THE WINTER’S TALE (McCarter Theatre Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company); CYMBELINE, TWELFTH NIGHT, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Shakespeare Theatre Company); TWELFTH NIGHT, SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES (McCarter); DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE and THE CLEAN HOUSE (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), the world premieres of FAMILIAR by Danai Gurira and David Adjmi’s THE EVILDOERS and MARIE ANTOINETTE at Yale Rep, and INDECENT at La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Rep. She received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.
LISA GUTKIN (CO-COMPOSER and MUSICAL DIRECTOR) Grammy-winning Lisa Gutkin is best known as violinist, vocalist, and composer for the Klezmatics, and recently for her work in Sting’s Broadway production THE LAST SHIP. As an actress/musician/composer she has appeared in “Sex and the City,” HAVA NAGILA (The Movie), THE KLEZMATICS: ON HOLY GROUND, and Seeing Is Believing by Dutch choreographer Maggie Boogaart. Lisa’s compositions include the score for Mabou Mines’ SONG FOR NEW YORK: WHAT WOMEN DO WHILE MEN SIT KNITTING, a multi-ethnic folk opera, directed by Ruth Maleczech, and songs with lyrics by Woody Guthrie, Maggie Dubris, and Anne Sexton. She records and performs with an immense array of artists and has appeared on “The Conan O’Brien Show,” A Prairie Home Companion, World Cafe, Mountain Stage, etc. Lisa is a MacDowell Artist Fellow, has released an instructional DVD called Play Klezmer Fiddle! on Homespun Tapes, and is soon to release the first of three collections of newly composed songs and compositions.
AARON HALVA (CO-COMPOSER and MUSICAL DIRECTOR) Raised amongst polkas and hymns in Iowa, Aaron has since studied music in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Greece, and Spain. His previous work at Yale Rep includes Dario Fo’s ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST, Molière’s A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, and Goldoni’s THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, all directed by Christopher Bayes. New York theatre credits include RED NOSES by Peter Barnes, FOUR by Feydeau, THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN, THE MOLIÈRE ONE ACTS, MONSIEUR DE POURCEAUGNAC, THE LOVE OF THREE ORANGES by Carlo Gozzi (The Juilliard School); THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Molière, THE NEW PLACE by Carlo Goldoni, WE WON’T PAY! WE WON’T PAY! by Dario Fo, and a new adaptation of Molière’s THE RELUCTANT DOCTOR OF LOVE (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program). Regional credits include THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (Guthrie Theater, ArtsEmerson, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Seattle Rep), A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (Intiman Theatre, Berkeley Rep), and THE MOLIÈRE IMPROMPTU (Trinity Rep). International: BALLYWOONDE (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Film: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as leader and arranger for Cuban music group Nu D’Lux.
DAVID DORFMAN (CHOREOGRAPHER), artistic director of his vainly named company since 1987, is also Professor of Dance and Chair at Connecticut College since 2004. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, four NEA fellowships, a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award, and a Barrymore Award in Philadelphia for Best Choreography on GREEN VIOLIN, his first collaboration with Rebecca Taichman. 2014-15 brought David Dorfman Dance to Armenia, Tajikistan, and Turkey via the State Department, DanceMotion USA, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, where DDD has appeared in three Next Wave Festivals. David also tours a serio-comic evening, LIVE SAX ACTS, with long-time collaborator, Dan Froot.
Leadership support for INDECENT provided by Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation. Support for Vineyard Theatre comes in part from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Public funds are provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The New York State Council on the Arts.
Artists
TARA RUBIN CASTING
(Casting) Select Broadway: Falsettos (upcoming), School of Rock, Dr Zhivago, It Shoulda Been You, Gigi, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Les Misérables, How to Succeed…, A Little Night Music, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Guys and Dolls, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera. Off-Broadway: Here Lies Love, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: Sundance Theatre Lab, Yale Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Old Globe.
SVEN NELSON
(Props Master) has been a prop artisan at Irish Repertory Theatre, Classic Stage Company, and the NYU Steinhardt School, all in New York. Regionally, he has propped at Le Petit Théâter in New Orleans and TheaterWorks in Hartford, Connecticut.
VERONICA LEE
(Assistant Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: FUTURITY (Soho Rep/Ars Nova), ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (Transport Group) Regional: THE JACKSONIAN, THE EXPLORERS CLUB, THE BEST BROTHERS (B Street Theatre), NORA, THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE (Westport Country Playhouse). Training: Elon University.
Terri K. Kohler
(Production Stage Manager) Vineyard Theatre: INDECENT. New York: THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD…, CHERI (Signature); RED SPEEDO, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, BELLEVILLE, THE BLACK EYED (New York Theatre Workshop); MOTHER COURAGE, DOCTOR FAUSTUS, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, THE SCHOOL FOR LIES, THE FOREST (CSC); FUTURITY (Soho Rep/Ars Nova); WASHETERIA, WE ARE PROUD…., ORANGE, HAT & GRACE (Soho Rep); PRETTY FILTHY, IN THE FOOTPRINT, PARIS COMMUNE, THE GREAT IMMENSITY (Civilians); THE DESIGNATED MOURNER, IN DARFUR, (The Public); GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, ANGEL REAPERS (Conceived by Martha Clarke). Select Regional: WILD SWANS (ART/Young Vic); OEDIPUS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, LA DISPUTE, THE SOUND OF A VOICE (ART). Usual Suspect (NYTW), Associate Artist, The Civilians.
SIMON THOMAS-TRAIN
(Assistant Choreographer) began dancing at Middlebury College, transitioning from an extensive background in competitive cross country skiing to graduate with a BA in Dance and Architectural Studies in 2009. Since then he has had the pleasure of working with Tiffany Rhynard/Big Action Performance Ensemble, Satya Roosens, Attack Theatre, Megan Bascom and Dancers, Alexandra Beller/Dances, Tiffany Mills and Company, Red Dirt Dance, Boomerang, Vanessa Anspaugh, Pavel Zustiak|palissimo, Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, David Dorfman Dance and most recently with the Bessie-winning THEN SHE FELL and THE GRAND PARADISE, both by Third Rail Projects. He has taught extensively in NYC as well as numerous colleges and universities across the country. He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the multidisciplinary performance company The Space We Make.
RACHEL DART
(Assistant Director) Selected directing credits include work at Actors Theatre of Louisville (CABIN FEVER; BROTHERS IN A RIOT; SEVEN BELLS INN), Williamstown Theatre Festival (HARRISON RIVERS’ BUT NOT FOR LOVE), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Kim Davies’ TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT, among others), Culture Project (BROADWAY! BROADWAY! BROADWAY!), The Flea (Emily Schwend’s NOTES TO A GHOST), York Theatre (CLONED!), and The Atlantic Alumni Workshop (Evan Twohy’s DOG YEARS) and Acting School (CHEMISTRY READ and WELCOME TO THE MOON). Assisting includes BAM (THE GLORY OF THE WORLD), Williamstown Theatre Festival (AMERICAN HERO), Roundabout Theatre Company (TALLEY’S FOLLY), The Acting Company (DESIRE), and Manhattan Theatre Club (NIGHTINGALE; Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow). BFA, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
RICK SORDELET
(Fight Director) He and his son, Christian Kelly-Sordelet are creators of Sordelet INC, a combat company bringing over 30 years of action movement to the New York City theatrical community. Sordelet INC has 68 Broadway credits including BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE LION KING, ECLIPSED, and BRIGHT STAR. They have 65 first-class production credits in hundreds of cities on five continents including BEN HUR LIVE (Rome, European Tour) and four international and national tours currently running. They are presently working on THE NEW YORK SPECTACULAR for Radio City Music Hall and three operas for Santa Fe Opera. They are stunt coordinators on over 1,000 episodes of television and for numerous feature films. Rick is a board member of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and author of the play BURIED TREASURE. He is also the author of the upcoming film 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea produced by Fox and directed by Bryan Singer. sordeletink.com.
MATT HUBBS
(Sound Designer) Recent designs include: THE ROYALE (Lincoln Center Theater, Old Globe); INDECENT (La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep); NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (ART, Ars Nova, Kazino); TIME AND THE CONWAYS (Old Globe); STAGE KISS, 100 SAINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW (Playwrights Horizons); MARIE ANTOINETTE (ART, Yale Rep, SoHo Rep); THREE PIANOS (NYTW, ART); THE HUMAN SCALE (The Public); TELEPHONE (Foundry Theatre); HOW WE GOT ON, DEATH TAX, A DEVIL AT NOON (Humana Festival); HAMMOCK and BLUEPRINTS OF RELENTLESS NATURE (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange). As a company member of The TEAM, Matt has designed ROOSEVELVIS, THE HOLLER SESSIONS, WAITING FOR YOU ON THE CORNER OF…, MISSION DRIFT, ARCHITECTING, PARTICULARLY IN THE HEARTLAND, and A THOUSAND NATURAL SHOCKS. B.A. in Philosophy from Xavier University.
CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND
(Lighting Designer) has designed lighting for over 600 productions at theater, opera and dance companies across the country and around the world. At The Vineyard: THE DYING GAUL, and ANTIGONE IN NY. With Rebecca Taichman: TWELFTH NIGHT, THE WINTER’S TALE, MARIE ANTOINETTE, SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES, among others. Recent: the Broadway productions of THE LAST SHIP, ROCKY (Tony Award nomination), and THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS (Tony Award Nomination); Martha Clarke’s new works ANGEL REAPERS and CHERI for the Signature; VANESSA for Santa Fe Opera; GROUNDED at The Public; and the world premiere of SHALIMAR THE CLOWN for Opera Theater of St Louis. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle for THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, an Obie for Sustained Excellence, and the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration.
EMILY REBHOLZ
(Costume Designer) Broadway: IF/THEN, VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. Recent Off-Broadway: DEAR EVAN HANSEN, THE WAY WE GET BY (Second Stage), THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM (Roundabout), THE TEMPEST (Shakespeare in the Park), PRETTY FILTHY (The Civilians), OUR LADY OF KIBEHO (Signature), YARDBIRD (Apollo Theater). Recent Regional: INDECENT (La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Rep), ANOTHER WORD FOR BEAUTY (The Goodman), OTHELLO (Shakespeare DC). Upcoming: LA BOHÈME (Opera Theater of Saint Louis), DON GIOVANNI (Santa Fe Opera), AND NO MORE SHALL WE PART (Williamstown Theater Festival). MFA: Yale University.
RICCARDO HERNANDEZ
Scenic Designer) La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Rep productions of INDECENT. Broadway: THE GIN GAME; THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS; THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE; CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (also Royal National Theater, London); ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY (also National Tour, Old Vic London); TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (Royal Court); BELLS ARE RINGING; PARADE (directed by Hal Prince; Tony and Drama Desk noms); BRING IN ‘DA NOISE, BRING IN ‘DA FUNK (also National Tour, Japan) and THE TEMPEST. Recent: GROUNDED directed by Julie Taymor, THE LIBRARY directed by Steven Soderbergh (The Public); LA MOUETTE (Cour d’Honneur, Palais des Papes, Avignon Festival); ABIGAIL’S PARTY (Oslo National Theatre); THE DEAD (The Abbey Theatre); KING LEAR (TFANA). He has designed over 200 productions in the U.S. and internationally. Faculty: SUNY Purchase.
REBECCA TAICHMAN
(Director) NY: FAMILIAR by Danai Gurira, MILK LIKE SUGAR by Kirsten Greenidge, and STAGE KISS by Sarah Ruhl (Playwrights Horizons); HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE by Sarah Ruhl (LCT); THE OLDEST BOY by Sarah Ruhl (LCT); LUCK OF THE IRISH (LCT3); ORLANDO (CSC); ORPHEUS (NYCO); DARK SISTERS (MTG/Gotham); RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER (Gotham); MARIE ANTOINETTE (Soho Rep), THE SCENE (2econd Stage), MENOPAUSAL GENTLEMAN (The Ohio). Select regional: INDECENT, FAMILIAR, EVILDOERS, and MARIE ANTOINETTE (Yale Rep); INDECENT, SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES (La Jolla); TWELFTH NIGHT, TIME AND THE CONWAYS (The Old Globe); MARIE ANTOINETTE (A.R.T.); SHE LOVES ME (OSF); THE WINTER’S TALE (McCarter Theatre Center, STC); TWELFTH NIGHT, WINTER’S TALE, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (STC); DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE, THE CLEAN HOUSE (Woolly Mammoth) Rebecca is a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute. www.rebeccataichman.com.
PAULA VOGEL
(Playwright) HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME (The Vineyard); DO JUAN COMES HOME FROM IRAQ (Wilma Theatre); A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS (Long Wharf, New York Theatre Workshop); THE MINEOLA TWINS (Roundabout); HOT ‘N’ THROBBING (A.R.T., Signature Theatre); THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, DESDEMONA, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN (Circle Rep); THE OLDEST PROFESSION (Signature Theatre). Awards include the Pulitzer Prize, two Obies, the NY Drama Critics Circle, Theatre Hall of Fame, Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement, and The Thornton Wilder Award. She is most honored by three awards given in her name: the Paula Vogel Award at the American Theatre College Festival, the Paula Vogel mentorship program for Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award given by the Vineyard Theatre. After teaching for 30 years at Brown University and Yale School of Drama, she now conducts workshops at theatres, schools, and community organizations. Upcoming projects: Jitterbugging and the War Effort (Long Wharf), Baby Girl, a musical theatre work with Matt Gould, and the book, How to Bake A Play.
AARON HALVA
(Co-Composer & Co-Music Director, Musician) Yale Rep: Dario Fo’s ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST, Molière’s A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSLEF, and Goldonoi’s THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS. Regional credits include THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (Guthrie Theater, ArtsEmerson, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Seattle Rep), A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (Intiman Theatre, Berkeley Rep), and THE MOLIERE IMPROPTU (Trinity Rep). International: BALLYWOONDE (Edinbrugh Fringe Festival). Film: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as leader and arranger for Cuban music group Nu D’Lux.
LISA GUTKIN
(Co-Composer & Co-Music Director, Musician) is a Grammy Award-winning musician known as violinist, vocalist and composer for the Klezmatics and her work on Sting’s THE LAST SHIP. She has appeared in “Sex and the City,” Hava Nagila (The Movie), The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground, and SEEING IS BELIEVING by Dutch choreographer Maggie Boogaart. Compositions include the score for Mabou Mines’ multi-ethnic folk opera SONG FOR NEW YORK: WHAT WOMEN DO WHILE MEN SIT KNITTING, and songs with lyrics by Woody Guthrie, Maggie Dubris and Anne Sexton. She performs with an array of artists and has appeared on “The Conan O’Brien Show,” “Prairie Home Companion,” and “Mountain Stage.”
Lisa has an instructional DVD called “Play Klezmer Fiddle!” and will soon release the first of three collections of new songs and compositions.
MIKE COHEN
(Musician) performs throughout the country at venues as diverse as Lincoln Center, the Blue Note, Dizzy’s, Birdland, and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. He is the clarinet player and bandleader of the Kleztraphobix. Mike produced and recorded “I Love to Sing, Music of the Ugandan Jews” featuring the choir of the Orthodox Jewish Village of Putti, Uganda, which was released in December 2014. His jazz CD “Open Window” was released in December 2013 and features eight original tunes he composed. The core narrative of this album was inspired by Cohen’s teenage battle with Leukemia. www.mikecohenmusic.com
ADINA VERSON
Actor) Yale and La Jolla productions of INDECENT. Other credits include AS YOU LIKE IT (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC), Chris Bayes’s THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Rep, ArtsEmerson), THE WINTERS TALE (Yale Rep), 4000 MILES (Cincinnati Playhouse), HIM (Primary Stages), and MACHINE MAKES MAN (Amsterdam Fringe — Best In’tl Performance, National Arts Festival of South Africa), which she co-created with Michael McQuilken. TV: Miriam Setrakian on “The Strain” (FX), and “Deadbeat” (Hulu). BFA, Boston Conservatory. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
RICHARD TOPOL
(Lemml) Yale and La Jolla productions of INDECENT. Broadway: FISH IN THE DARK with Larry David, the Tony Award-winning revivals of THE NORMAL HEART and AWAKE & SING, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE with Al Pacino, CYMBELINE, THE COUNTRY GIRL, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, and JULIUS CAESAR with Denzel Washington. Off-Broadway: REGRETS (MTC), BRONX BOMBERS and OPUS (Primary Stages), WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (Lincoln Center), KING LEAR, TWELFTH NIGHT and THE WINTER’S TALE (The Public), HAMLET (TFANA), The New Group, Soho Rep, and Playwrights Horizons. Film: Lincoln, Mickey Blue Eyes, Party Girl, Path to Paradise, and the upcoming Indignation, Great Gilly Hopkins, and Yinz. TV: “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” all “Law & Order” series, and recurring roles on “The Practice”, “Covert Affairs” and “Perception.”
STEVEN RATTAZZI
(Actor) Yale and La Jolla productions of INDECENT. New York: DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS (New Ohio); CITY OF (Playwrights Realm); STUNNING (LCT3); GALILEO with F. Murray Abraham; THE TEMPEST with Mandy Patinkin, directed by Brian Kulick (CSC); THE TEMPEST, DINNER PARTY directed by David Herskovits (Target Margin); SPY GABRO (3LD); Taylor Mac’s WALK ACROSS THE AMERICA FOR MOTHER EARTH (La MaMa E.T.C.); HENRY V with Liev Schrieber (The Public); PAINTED SNAKE ON A PAINTED CHAIR (OBIE Award, Talking Band); MCGURK (Elevator Repair Service); THE FOURTH SISTER (The Vineyard); and Richard Foreman’s Samuel’s MAJOR PROBLEMS (Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s). Regional: David Adjmi’s MARIE ANTOINETTE (ART/Yale Rep); THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES (Two River Theater). Film: The Family. TV: Dr. Orpheus on “The Venture Brothers.”
TOM NELIS
(Actor) Yale and La Jolla productions of INDECENT. Broadway: THE VISIT, ENRON, THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL, AIDA. Off-Broadway: ROAD SHOW, RICHARD Ill, HENRY VI (title role), ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, HENRY VI PARTS 1 AND 2, AMERICAN DOCUMENT with The Martha Graham Dance Company (The Public); THE SEVEN, SCORE, THE MEDIUM (NYTW); DORIS TO DARLENE (Playwrights Horizons); IPHIGENIA 2.0, HOT ‘N’ THROBBING (Signature); PASSION, ORLANDO (CSC); SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA; THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (TFANA/The Royal Shakespeare Company); THE TROJAN WOMEN/A LOVE STORY, MARATHON DANCING, ANOTHER PERSON IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; Ahab in Laurie Anderson’s SONGS AND STORIES FROM MOBY DICK (BAM/World Tour); Oscar Wilde in GROSS INDECENCIES (Minetta Lane); HOT MOUTH (MTC); ANTIGONE (Dance Theater Workshop); PEARLS FOR PIGS (Richard Foreman/World Tour); 20+ years with SITI Company.
MAX GORDON MOORE
(Actor, Fight Captain) Yale and La Jolla productions of INDECENT. On Broadway, he was seen in RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act plays written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen. Other recent credits include THE MASTER BUILDER with John Turturro (BAM); ARCADIA, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (Yale Rep); TIME AND THE CONWAYS (The Old Globe); CONSTELLATIONS (The Seattle Rep), MAN AND SUPERMAN, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Irish Rep); TRAGEDY: A TRAGEDY (Berkeley Rep); THE SEAGULL (Cleveland Playhouse); RICHARD III, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (California Shakespeare Theater); PLEASURE AND PAIN (Magic Theatre); PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES (Aurora Theatre). Film and TV: Gods Behaving Badly, The Terrors of Basket-Weaving, “Madam Secretary,” and “The Good Wife.” MFA, Yale School of Drama; Herschel Williams Prize in Acting.
MIMI LIEBER
(Actor) Yale and La Jolla productions of INDECENT. Broadway: ACT ONE (Lincoln Center Theater), BROOKLYN BOY, I’M NOT RAPPAPORT (revival). Off-Broadway: DISTRACTED (Roundabout). Regional: TWO THINGS YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT AT DINNER (Denver Center Theatre); PERSEPHONE, THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG (Huntington Theatre); WE WON’T PAY! WE WON’T PAY! (Long Wharf); TAKING SIDES, THE GREEKS, LOVE COUNCIL, FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS (Odyssey); LEON & LENA (AND LENZ) (Guthrie Theater); FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE (La Jolla Playhouse); MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, OTHELLO (L.A. Shakespeare Festival). National tour: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES. Film and TV includes: The Thing About My Folks, Arranged, Cold Souls, Permanent Midnight, Bulworth, Corrina, Corrina, Wilder Napalm, Just Another Story, “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order,” “Medium,” “Friends,” “The Practice,” “Seinfeld,” “ER,” “The X-Files,” “NYPD Blue.”
KATRINA LENK
(Actor, Dance Captain) Yale and La Jolla productions of INDECENT. Broadway credits: ONCE, SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK, and THE MIRACLE WORKER. Regional theatre includes: IWITNESS (Mark Taper Forum), ELMENO PEA, CLOUDLANDS, CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (South Coast Rep), CAMILLE (Bard Summerscape), LOST LAND (Steppenwolf Theater), and LOVELACE: A ROCK OPERA (LA Weekly, LADCC and Garland Award winner). Film/TV: Look Away, Evol: The Theory of Love, FracKtured, “Elementary,” “The Get Down” and “The Blacklist.” She is a co-creator of the comedy web series “Miss Teri” and is a member of several bands including her own, moxy phinx. katrinalenk.com