Tennessee Williams, Playwright Les Waters, Director Scott Bradley, Scenic Designer Lydia Tanji, Costume Designer Matt Frey, Lighting Designer Peter Golub, Composer Cynthia Cahill, Stage Manager Madeleine Oldham, Dramaturg Laura Brueckner, Assistant Dramaturg MaryBeth Cavanaugh, Dance Consultant Lynne Soffer, Dialect Coach Amy Potozkin, Casting Kristi Lynn Johnson, Assistant Designer Karen Szpaller, Production Assistant THE CAST (in alphabetical order) Emily Donahoe, Laura Wingfield Erik Lochtefeld, Tom Wingfield Rita Moreno, Amanda Wingfield Terrence Riordan, Jim O’Connor LES WATERS (Director) has been associate artistic director of Berkeley Rep since 2003, where he has staged Eurydice, Fêtes de la Nuit, Finn in the Underworld, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Suddenly Last Summer and Yellowman. Other directorial credits include American Conservatory Theater, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and Steppenwolf Theatre Company as well as the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead Theatre Club and Joint Stock Theatre Group in his native England. New York credits include the Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Signature Theatre and recently, the Connelly Theatre. In addition to several Bay Area Critics Circle awards, a Drama-Logue and an Edinburgh Fringe First award, Waters won an OBIE award for his world-premiere production of Charles Mee’s Big Love. SCOTT BRADLEY (Scenic Designer) returns to Berkeley Rep after designing Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice last season. He has designed over 200 productions in the country’s regional theatres and was awarded the New York Drama Desk award and a Tony nomination for his design of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars as well as a Drama Desk nomination for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. He was awarded the Joseph Jefferson Award for Mary Zimmerman’s SILK, the Bay Area Critics’ Award for Zimmerman’s Journey to the West, a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for her Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at Second Stage in New York and an IRNE award for Zimmerman’s production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten at Boston Lyric Opera. Most recently he was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for his set design of Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer-nominated Passion Play, which premiered at Arena Stage. Scott is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. LYDIA TANJI (Costume Designer) has previously designed Berkeley Rep productions including Our Town, Honour, Master Class, Homebody/Kabul, Ballad of Yachiyo, Slavs! and Heartbreak House. Recently, she designed Making Tracks at San Jose Rep and 36 Views at Laguna Playhouse, Portland Center Stage and Geva Theatre. Other theaters include: Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Aurora Theater, A.C.T., Indiana Rep, The Children’s Theatre, Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Huntington Theatre, Syracuse Stage and Arena Stage. She has received five Bay Area Theatre Critics awards and two Drama-Logue awards. Film credits include: The Joy Luck Club, Hot Summer Winds, Dim Sum, The Wash, A Thousand Pieces of Gold and Life Tastes Good. MATT FREY (Lighting Designer) designed Finn in the Underworld at Berkeley Rep. Recent work includes The Music Teacher with New Group at the Minetta Lane Theatre, Shelter Project at the BAM/Next Wave Festival with Ridge Theater, Peninsula at Soho Rep, The Hopper Collection at the Huntington Theatre. Other projects include [sic] and Suitcase at Soho Rep, The Death of Klinghoffer at BAM/Next Wave/Ridge Theater, Decasia and Harry Partch’s opera Oedipus at Ridge Theater, Brooklyn Bridge at The Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis), and The Orphan of Zhao (English version) at the Lincoln Center Festival. Matt has also worked at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Class Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theater, Theatre For A New Audience, Corn Exchange (Dublin) and other regional theatres throughout the US. PETER GOLUB (Composer) designed music for Berkeley Rep’s Mystery of Irma Vep and The Laramie Project. Other theatre credits include Measure for Pleasure (Public Theatre), Hedda Gabler (Broadway), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons), Amphigorey, a musical written and designed by Edward Gorey (Perry Street Theatre) and The Idiots Karamazov (ART) as well as productions at the Huntington, Denver Center Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Geffen Playhouse. Films include Wordplay, The Laramie Project (HBO), Stolen (winner of 2005 Best Music Award, Avignon Film Festival), American Gun and Sunset Story. He has also composed ballets for Miami City Ballet, Ballet West and others, as well as numerous concert works including performances by Tashi and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Golub is also composer-in-residence at Charles Ludlam’s legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company and has been director of the Sundance Film Music Program since 1999. THE CAST EMILY DONAHOE (Laura) is thrilled to return to Berkeley Rep after appearing last season in Honour with Kathleen Chalfant, directed by Tony Taccone. Most recently she was in Apparition off Broadway at the Connelly Theatre, directed by Les Waters. New York: The Hasty Heart (Keen Company), Sundays Out of Country (Ontological-Hysteric), Apartment Building of the Blind (Soho Rep). Regional: world premiere of Shakespeare in Hollywood (Arena Stage, 2004 Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Supporting Actress), world premiere of Charles Mee’s Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse, Los Angeles Times Critic’s Choice, director Les Waters), Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Cape Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, New York Stage & Film and Signature Theater. Films: festival award-winners Zelimo and Weeki Wachi Girls and the upcoming feature Telephone. Co-founder of Apparition Productions in New York City. M.F.A.: UCSD. B.A.: Vassar College. ERIK LOCHTEFELD (Tom) returns to Berkeley Rep having appeared in Mary Zimmerman’s productions of The Secret in the Wings and Metamorphoses. New York credits include Metamorphoses on and off Broadway (Second Stage), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Second Stage) and the musical But I’m a Cheerleader (NYMF). Erik most recently appeared in Amy Freed’s Safe in Hell at Yale Rep and has worked at Seattle Rep, McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Lookingglass Theatre, About Face, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare and three seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Television credits include Law & Order, Third Watch and All My Children. RITA MORENO (Amanda) is one of a select group of performers to have won all four of the most prestigious show business awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy. She earned an Oscar for West Side Story, Emmys for The Muppet Show and The Rockford Files, a Tony for The Ritz and a Grammy for The Electric Company Album. Her countless credits for stage and screen extend from her Broadway debut at age 13 in Skydrift with Eli Wallach all the way to her recent roles in John Sayles’ Casa de los Babys and the acclaimed HBO series Oz. Having appeared in more than 40 feature films—most notably Carnal Knowledge, The Four Seasons and The King and I—Moreno was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. In 2004, during her celebrated run as Maria Callas in Berkeley Rep’s Master Class, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given to a civilian in commemoration of a lifetime of meritorious service. Ms. Moreno would like to thank: Laura Brueckner for her painstaking research on all aspects of the play; Dr. David Richman and Roni Dengel for their generosity in providing telling and moving insights into the character of Amanda Wingfield; and most of all, thanks to Berkeley Rep for inviting her back to the party. TERRENCE RIORDAN (Gentleman Caller) is honored to be making his Berkeley Rep debut in a Tennessee Williams play. His regional credits include A Naked Girl on the Appian Way (Thaddeus Lapin) at South Coast Rep (world premiere); Take Me Out (Jason Chenier) at Old Globe, Seattle Rep and Golden/SF; Betty’s Summer Vacation (Buck) at Huntington Theater. Television: Rescue Me, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, All My Children. Training: William Esper Studio. He was most recently seen at the Sundance Film Festival in Maria Maggenti’s Puccini for Beginners. Terry is proudest of his latest accomplishments—his marriage to his wife, Sarah, and the birth of their son, Kellye. The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. BACK TO TOP