How to Write a New Book for the Bible 11/12 - Berkeley Repertory Theatre

2011/12 season > How to Write a New Book for the Bible > Who’s who

who’s who

Bill Cain, Playwright
Kent Nicholson, Director
Scott Bradley, Scenic Design
Callie Floor, Costume Design
Alexander V. Nichols, Lighting Design
Matt Starritt, Sound Design
Madeleine Oldham, Dramaturg
Kathy Rose, Stage Manager
Amy Potozkin, Casting
Erin Kraft, Casting
Megan McClintock, Production Assistant
Jocelyn Leiser Herndon, Assistant Costume Designer

Cast

Aaron Blakely, Paul
Linda Gehringer, Mary
Leo Marks, Pete
Tyler Pierce, Bill

Bill Cain

Playwright

Bill’s last two plays, Equivocation (which premiered at Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and 9 Circles (which premiered at Marin Theatre Company), both received the American Theater Critics’ Association/Steinberg Award, the first time ever that an author received the award in consecutive years. Stand-Up Tragedy was awarded best production honors in Los Angeles and Washington, DC and the Joe A. Callaway Award for its Broadway production. Bill’s work for television (including the ABC-TV series Nothing Sacred) has been honored with the George Foster Peabody, Humanitas and Writers’ Guild Awards. He dedicates this play to his parents, Pete and Mary Cain, and his brother, Paul Cain.

Kent Nicholson

Director

Kent is happy to be making his Berkeley Rep debut. His recent directing credits include the world premieres of 9 Circles by Bill Cain at Marin Theatre Company, Long Story Short at San Diego Repertory Theatre and Saint Ex (music by Jenny Giering, book and lyrics by Sean Barry) at the Weston Playhouse. His New York credits include Five Flights by Adam Bock at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Wet by Liz Duffy Adams on Theatre Row. Locally Kent’s work has been seen at Aurora Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, San Jose Stage Company and TheatreWorks, where he served as director of new works from 2001 to 2009. His credits at TheatreWorks include All My Sons, Ambition Facing West, Grey Gardens and Vincent in Brixton. Kent is currently the director of musical theater and literary associate at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.

Scott Bradley

Scenic Design

Scott designed Eurydice, The Glass Menagerie and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone for Berkeley Rep. On Broadway he designed the premieres of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Drama Desk Award) and Seven Guitars (Drama Desk Award and Tony nomination). His recent credits include All My Sons and Prelude to a Kiss for the Huntington, Italian American Reconciliation for Long Wharf Theatre and She Loves Me for OSF. He is currently designing Clybourne Park for Seattle Repertory Theatre, the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s Dead Accounts for Cleveland Playhouse and Scorched for American Conservatory Theater. He designed sets for Journey to the West (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Lucille Lortel Award) and Silk (Joseph Jefferson Award), all adaptations written and directed by Mary Zimmerman. Scott also provided production design for the film Pushing Hands, written and directed by Ang Lee.

Callie Floor

Costume Design

Callie has designed for many Bay Area theatres including A.C.T. (A Number, As You like It and Philistines), Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (Fabulation), the Magic (Expedition 6 and Quality of Mercy), San Francisco Mime Troupe, West Bay Opera (Madame Butterfly, La Traviata and Turandot) and Zaccho Dance Theatre (partial list). Her recent projects include 9 Circles, Fuddy Meers and Seven Guitars for Marin Theatre Company and A Delicate Balance for Aurora Theatre. She is the resident designer for the California Revels and currently holds the position of costume rentals supervisor at A.C.T. Callie has a BFA from the University of Utah and a higher diploma in theatre design from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

Alexander V. Nichols

Lighting Design

Alexander’s theatre credits include over 20 productions with Berkeley Rep, including most recently Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup. He designed the Broadway production of Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking, originally presented at Berkeley Rep, and the off-Broadway productions of Danny Hoch’s Taking Over, Lisa Kron’s In the Wake, Marga Gomez’s Los Big Names, Rinde Eckert’s Horizon and Sarah Jones’ Bridge & Tunnel. His other credits include the touring production of Hugh Jackman in Concert and Daniel Beaty’s Through the Night. Alex has created production designs for A.C.T., OSF and the Taper, among others. His dance credits include several seasons as the resident designer for American Repertory Ballet, Hartford Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet, lighting supervisor for American Ballet Theatre and resident visual designer for Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. His designs are in the permanent repertory of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance, ODC/SF and San Francisco Ballet. Recent projects include the museum installation Circle of Memory, presented in Stockholm, and video design for LIFE—A Journey Through Time, recently presented at the Barbican Center by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Matt Starritt

Sound Design

Matt is a freelance sound designer for both theatre and dance and a writer from Seattle. A founder of the Washington Ensemble Theatre, he was the resident sound designer for the company’s first four seasons. He has most recently designed the sound for A Crack in Everything for the Zoe|Juniper Dance Company, which will premiere at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and be presented this year at Bates Dance Festival, Diverse Works in Houston, New York Live Arts, On the Boards and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Matt has designed for the Alley Theatre, Book-It Rep, Cornerstone Theater Company, Intiman, Seattle Rep, the Seattle Shakespeare Company, the Strawberry Theatre Workshop, the University of Washington School of Drama, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Waxie Moon and Zoe|Juniper Dance Company. Matt is a part-time lecturer at the UW’s School of Drama.

Kathy Rose

Stage Manager

Kathy is honored to be stage managing her first production for Berkeley Rep. She has stage managed for the Magic, Meredith Monk, the Santa Fe Opera and the Stern Grove Festival. Most recently Kathy was the production manager for companies such as Joe Goode Performance Group, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, ODC Dance Company, Teatro ZinZanni and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (interim). She managed tours for Boston Ballet II, New Pickle Circus and Santa Fe Opera Community Concerts. Kathy has acted as technical director for Lines Ballet’s 2007 home season and European tour, as well as the Shakespeare & Company. Her proudest achievement is having acted as general manager for the San Francisco Circus Center. Kathy studied acting at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

cast

Aaron Blakely

Paul

This is Aaron’s debut at Berkeley Rep. He has worked regionally at Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Southern Rep, as well as off-off Broadway. He will soon be seen in the feature film We Need to Talk About Kevin, which stars Tilda Swinton. His other film credits include Frayed and We Go Way Back. Aaron holds an MFA in acting from the University of Washington, Professional Actor Training Program.

Linda Gehringer

Mary

Linda is thrilled to make her Berkeley Rep debut. She recently appeared in Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation directed by Sam Gold at South Coast Repertory. Her other credits at South Coast Rep include world premieres for Julia Cho’s The Language Archive and The Piano Teacher, Horton Foote’s Getting Frankie Married and Afterwards, Richard Greenberg’s A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Keith Reddin’s But Not for Me, Annie Weisman’s Hold Please and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow by Rolin Jones, a role which she repeated in its New York premiere at Atlantic Theater Company. Linda also appeared in the world premieres of Weisman’s Be Aggressive and Surf Report at La Jolla Playhouse, The Crowd You’re in With at the Goodman Theatre (Joseph Jefferson nomination) and participated in the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, New York Stage and Film, Pacific Playwright’s Festival and the Ojai Playwright’s Festival where this play began. She has played leading roles in theatres across the country including Arena Stage, Baltimore Centerstage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, seven seasons with Dallas Theater Center, the Huntington Theatre Company, the Taper and the Old Globe. Linda’s television work includes Ally McBeal, Cold Case, Columbo, four seasons on Evening Shade, Frasier, Gilmore Girls, the last two seasons of Justified, The Larry Sanders Show, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Raising Hope, Weeds, The West Wing and Without a Trace, and she appeared in the film As Good As It Gets.

Leo Marks

Pete

Leo has performed around the country at theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Ahmanson Theatre, the Geffen, Intiman Theatre (as Jack Burden in All the King’s Men), the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Shakespeare Theatre Company, South Coast Rep (in Major Barbara and the world premiere of The Language Archive, which earned him Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor) and he played Hamlet at Ojai’s Theater 150. He was a founding member of New York’s Elevator Repair Service. His TV work includes Frasier, Gilmore Girls, K-Ville, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, The New Adventures of Old Christine, NYPD Blue, The Practice, Prison Break and Six Feet Under. Leo won an Obie Award for Heather Woodbury’s Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks, as well as several LA Weekly nominations and awards.

Tyler Pierce

Bill

Tyler last appeared at Berkeley Rep in Crime and Punishment. He has appeared in tours of Barriers, Legends with Joan Collins and Linda Evans and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Tyler’s regional theatre credits include A Christmas Carol and Dracula at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Death of a Salesman at the Old Globe; Fat Pig and The Internationalist at the Studio Theatre; Lorenzaccio, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles and The Tempest at the Shakespeare Theatre Company; the world premiere of The Night Is a Child at Milwaukee Repertory Theater and also at Pasadena Playhouse; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Guthrie Theater; and Youth Inc at the McCarter Theatre Center. His other New York credits include work at the Atlantic and Atlantic Theater Studio, Circle Rep East, HERE, Lark Theater, New Dramatists, New Georges, New York Classical Theatre, Theatre at St. Clement’s and Theatre for a New Audience. Tyler has appeared in the films Alchera, Best Friends, The Kiss, Modern Day Arranged Marriage, A Professional and The Rub. He has also appeared on the following television shows: Asteroid, The Guiding Light, Kidnapped, Runner (pilot) and Third Watch.

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.

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