Mary Zimmerman, Adapter/Director Scott Bradley, Scenic Designer Mara Blumenfeld, Costume Designer (based on the original designs by Allison Reeds) T.J. Gerckens, Lighting Designer Michael Bodeen, Sound Designer Miriam Sturm and Michael Bodeen, Original Music Cynthia Cahill, Stage Manager Michael Suenkel, Assistant Stage Manager CAST Lucia Brawley, Leonardo Jane Cho, Leonardo Lizzy Cooper Davis, Leonardo Christopher Donahue, Leonardo Kyle Hall, Leonardo Doug Hara, Leonardo Mariann Mayberry, Leonardo Paul Oakley Stovall, Leonardo MARY ZIMMERMAN (Adapter/Director) is the 1998 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director and 10 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including ones for Best Production and Best Direction. She is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago, an Artistic Associate of the Goodman and Seattle Repertory theatres and a Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Works which she has adapted and directed include The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Goodman, BAM, Seattle Rep), The Odyssey (Lookingglass, Goodman, McCarter, Seattle Rep), Arabian Nights (Lookingglass, MTC, BAM), Journey To The West (Goodman, Huntington, Berkeley Rep), Metamorphoses (Lookingglass, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Second Stage and Broadway), Secret in the Wings, S/M (Lookingglass) and Eleven Rooms of Proust (Lookingglass, About Face). Ms. Zimmerman has also directed Measure for Measure, Henry VIII (NYSF), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Huntington), and All’s Well That Ends Well (Goodman). Last summer she created a new opera with Philip Glass called Galileo Galilei which played at the Goodman Theatre, the Barbicon in London and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her production of Seneca’s Trojan Women played at the Goodman this spring. SCOTT BRADLEY (Scenic Designer) has collaborated with Mary Zimmerman on several projects: Goodman Theatre productions of The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and Journey to the West (which traveled around the country and earned the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for set design); Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, produced by Boston Lyric Opera; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Huntington Theater. Bradley designed the world premiere of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at the Goodman Theatre and earned the Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination for set design. He was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for his Broadway set design of Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Most recently he designed sets for The Rainmaker at Center Stage, Electra at Hartford Stage and The Piano Lesson at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He recently designed a production of Macbeth which was mounted on The Boston Commons this summer. Off-Broadway, Bradley designed Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Wendy MacLeod’s Sin, both at the Promenade Theater. He designed sets for Late Night with David Letterman and was production designer for Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands. MARA BLUMENFELD (Costume Designer) is happy to return to Berkeley Rep where she previously designed Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Her New York credits include The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage), Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square, Second Stage) and Measure for Measure (NYSF). Based in Chicago, she has designed numerous productions for the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Lookingglass Theatre Company, where she is an artistic associate. Regional credits include productions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, Geva Theatre, Weston Playhouse and McCarter Theatre. Previous collaborations with Mary Zimmerman include Trojan Women, Galileo Galilei, The Odyssey, Eleven Rooms of Proust, Mirror of the Invisible World, S/M and Philip Glass’ Akhnaten. T. J. GERCKENS (Lighting Designer) Mr. Gerckens’ recent design credits include: Metamorphoses on Broadway and at Second Stage (Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Award, Lucille Lortell Award) as well as prior productions around the country (Lookingglass, Jefferson Award; Berkeley Rep, Drama Critics Circle Award; Seattle Rep; the Mark Taper Forum, Ovation, Garland and Drama Critics Circle awards); Measure for Measure (NYSF); the world premiere opera Galileo Galilei with Phillip Glass and Mary Zimmerman at the Goodman Theatre, BAM and the Barbican Center in London; The Odyssey (McCarter, Seattle Rep, Goodman, Jefferson Award). Other designs include Oo-Bla-Dee, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Journey to the West (Goodman), Arabian Nights (L.A., Chicago, BAM) and Anne Bogart’s Going, Going, Gone (San Francisco). He recently was named as an Eddy Award winner by Entertainment Design Magazine for collaborative design. He was the resident lighting designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville 1994—96, and his work has also been seen at the Lincoln Center Serious Fun! Festival, La Jolla Playhouse and CATCO. MICHAEL BODEEN (Co-composer, Sound Designer) returns to Berkeley Rep where he composed music and designed sound for Journey to the West. Broadway credits include music and sound for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, music for My Thing of Love, and sound for A Year With Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Hollywood Arms. Off-Broadway credits include music and sound for Boy Gets Girl and Red, Manhattan Theatre Club; music and sound for Space and music for Measure for Measure and Henry VIII, Public Theater/NYSF. His work has been heard nationally in most regional theatres and internationally in London and throughout Japan. Michael has received 17 award nominations resulting in seven awards. MIRIAM STURM (Co-composer) has composed music for some 17 plays, having previously collaborated with Mary Zimmerman on four. She has also appeared as an onstage, costumed musician in some additional 10 plays, including the Tony Award-winning 1990 production of The Grapes of Wrath on Broadway. She composed the music for the Roundabout Theatre special anniversary production of The Glass Menagerie in 1994. Her score for Black Snow at the Goodman Theatre (1993) won a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Original Music. For the past seven years, her compositional and performing skills have been applied as the violinist in John Mellencamp’s band, recording, performing and touring extensively with him. CAST LUCIA BRAWLEY (Leonardo) Ms. Brawley’s theatre credits include: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage); Naranja in Buicks by Julian Shepperd, directed by Brian Kulick (Underwood Theater); Miranda in The Tempest (Shakespeare & Co.); Irina in Three Sisters (Yale School of Drama); and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, directed by Tina Packer (A.R.T. Mainstage/Harvard College). Her television and radio credits include: Maxine Hatters on Law & Order: SVU (NBC); Nurse Garcia on Guiding Light (CBS); Juliet, Desdemona and Ophelia in Brush Up Your Shakespeare, directed by Tina Packer (PBS); and multiple roles in American Heavy, BBC Radio. JANE CHO (Leonardo) is delighted to return to Berkeley Rep, where she last appeared in Journey to the West (also at the Huntington Theatre and the Goodman Theatre). Other credits include The Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theatre Company at BAM, Steppenwolf Studio, Actors Gang), S/M (Lookingglass Theatre Company at Steppenwolf Studio), Everyman (directed by Frank Galati at Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Heaven (directed by Evan Yionoulis at Yale Repertory Theatre), The Birds (directed by Christopher Bayes at Yale Repertory Theatre), among others. Television credits include: ER, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Division and recurring roles on The Shield, Presidio Med and The District. Jane is an artistic associate of the About Face Theatre and a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama. LIZZY COOPER DAVIS (Leonardo) Ms. Davis’ recent theatre credits include: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and …in the absence of spring (Second Stage); La Dispute (American Repertory Theater) and Lilith (NYC Opera), both with Anne Bogart & the SITI Company; Wit (Arizona Theatre Company); Gull (Ellen Beckerman & Company); The Tempest and Twelfth Night (Stonington Opera House); Julius Caesar (NY Shakespeare Festival); and Measure for Measure (Women’s Shakespeare Company). Recent film and television credits include: Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and title roles in the independent features Kali’s Vibe and Joy. Lizzy has also worked as a teaching artist through out New York City’s public schools and community centers, and with incarcerated women in Rhode Island. CHRISTOPHER DONAHUE (Leonardo) returns to Berkely Rep, having appeared in Mary Zimmerman’s Journey to the West. New York credits include Metamorphoses on Broadway, Monster at Classic Stage Company (for which he received an Obie Award), Measure for Measure (NYSF), Dogeaters (Public Theater), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage and Lincoln Center Festival) and The Arabian Nights at MTC. Elsewhere, he has performed at the Goodman Theatre, Remains Theatre, Lookingglass, Weston Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Court Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre. KYLE HALL (Leonardo) recently appeared in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at Second Stage, and as Pyrrhus in Mary Zimmerman’s production of Seneca’s Trojan Women at the Goodman Theatre. Prior to that Mr. Hall performed the role of Hermes and others in Second Stage Theatre’s production of Metamorphoses and its subsequent Broadway transfer. Other credits include The Odyssey at the Goodman, McCarter and Seattle Repertory Theatres; Valparaiso and Everyman at the Steppenwolf Theatre and Bash, Eleven Rooms of Proust, Dream Boy and In the Heart of America at About Face Theatre. Mr. Hall is the co-founder and associate artistic director of About Face Theatre where he adapted and directed award-winning productions of Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World and Rebecca Brown’s The Terrible Girls. Television and film credits include Token of Love and All My Children. DOUG HARA (Leonardo) is an ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago where he has appeared in 13 productions since 1991 including Journey to the West, Arabian Nights, The Master and Margarita, Up Against It and Metamorphoses. Outside Lookingglass, Mr. Hara has appeared on Broadway in Metamorphoses and The Boys of Winter. He has performed on the stages of the Goodman Theatre, The Huntington Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, The Joyce Theatre, BAM and Second Stage Theatre in various productions including Journey to the West, The Odyssey and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mr. Hara has also collaborated and performed with The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, About Face Theatre and Jellyeye Drum Opera. Film credits include Mad Dog and Glory and Since You’ve Been Gone. MARIANN MAYBERRY (Leonardo) most recently appeared in Mary Zimmerman’s The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at Second Stage and Metamorphoses on Broadway. She is a Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member where she has appeared in numerous productions including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Chicago, London and Broadway). Other credits include: Metamorphoses (Second Stage), The Odyssey (Goodman, McCarter, Seattle Rep), How I Learned to Drive (Northlight, Alliance), Hamlet, As You Like It (Chicago, Shakespeare), Mirror of the Invisible World (Goodman) and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Goodman, Lincoln Center Serious Fun!). TV credits include Pennsylvania Miner’s Story and Law and Order: SVU. Film credits include Since You’ve Been Gone and Robert Altman’s soon to be released The Company. PAUL OAKLEY STOVALL (Leonardo) returns to Berkeley Rep where he was last seen in Mary Zimmerman’s Journey to the West. His Off-Broadway credits include The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at Second Stage and Lincoln Center Serious Fun!. His national tours include Rent and Once On This Island. His regional credits include The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Drowning Crow, Play On! (Jeff nomination), The Odyssey and Good Person of Setzuan (Goodman); Words on Fire (Steppenwolf); Adam Guettel’s Myths and Hymns (Prince Music Theatre); Undone (About Face) and works at La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, the Huntington and McCarter. International credits include Otonari No Dasso-Hei (Kinokuniya Hall, Tokyo). Film credits include Robert Altman’s upcoming The Company, Dreams and Passions (Norway) and Caught. A singer/songwriter, Mr. Stovall is currently at work on his second CD, Angels and Aliens, with his band, Into the Green. The first CD, Ghettos and Oceans, produced by ten-time Grammy winner Steve Rodby, is available at www.cdbaby.com/intogreen. 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