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TRANSCRIPT
presents
George Bernard Shawrsquos
MARCH 19 - APRIL 26 2009THE ODYSSEY THEATRE
Directed by Elina de Santos
presents
George Bernard Shawrsquos
Cast (in order of appearance)
Johnny Tarleton Jr13 Christopher FranciosaBentley Summerhays13 Orestes Arcuni
Hypatia Tarleton13 Abigail Rose SolomonMrs Tarleton13 Maggie Peach
Lord Summerhays13 Armin ShimermanJohn Tarleton13 Greg Mullavey
Joseph Percival13 Nick MennellLina Szczepanowska13 Molly Schaffer
Julius Baker (ldquoGunnerrdquo)13 David ClaybergMember of Actorsrsquo Equity Association
SettingAt the Tarleton familyrsquos house in Hindhead Surrey England exactly 100 years ago May 31 1909 six years after the Wright brothersrsquo famous flight
MISALLIANCE will have one ten-minute intermission
Production TeamAssistant Director13 Jeffrey Phillips
Assistant Stage Manager13 Megan WrightTechnical Director13 Scott TuomeyMaster Electrician13 Angeline Summers-Marvel
Carpenters13 DJ Higgenbottom Danny FelixMarketing Director13 Tanya Perez
Graphic Designer13 Micah FreedmanIllustrator13 Molly Crabapple
Publicist13 Phillip SokoloffPhotographer13 Christopher Moscatiello
Thank YouMichael Balsley Jerry Charlson Julianne Figueroa Beth Hogan Julianne Figueroa Alley Mills amp Orson Bean Evelyn amp Eric Newman Chuck Olsen Jennifer Rosen Harvey Saferstein Vanita Solomon Ron Sossi Linda Schapiro Sven Shelgren Peter Solomon Phil Torf Diana Wright
ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS INCpresents
Directed byELINA de SANTOS
withORESTES ARCUNIDAVID CLAYBERG
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSANICK MENNELL
GREG MULLAVEYMAGGIE PEACH
MOLLY SCHAFFERARMIN SHIMERMAN
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON
Set Design by STEPHEN GIFFORDLighting Design by LEIGH ALLEN
Costume Design by DENNIS BALLARDSound Design by CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO
Casting Director RAUL CLAYTON STAGGSProduction Stage Manager HENRY LIDE
THE ODYSSEY THEATREMARCH 19 - APRIL 26 2009
George Bernard Shawrsquos
The CompanyORESTES ARCUNI (Bentley) Recent stage credits include My Antonia (Pacific Resident eatre amp Rubicon eatre) Wt (Repertory East Playhouse) Of Mice and Men (Human Race eatre) and Romeo amp Juliet (Kentucky Repertory eatre) Orestes holds a BFA from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from e Hilberry eatre at Wayne State University in Detroit TV credits include Veronica Mars e Young and the Restless and All My Children Orestes
extends his thanks to the cast and crew of Misalliance and his family and Kathleen for their ongoing support
DAVID CLAYBERG (Gunner) is delighted to make his Odyssey debut especially accompanied by such a wonderfully creative cast and crew Other favorite roles include Happy in Death of a Salesman (also directed by Elina de Santos) Ronnie in Ray Cooneys Out of Order at the El Portal Center for the Arts Donal Davoren in Sean OCaseys Shadow of a Gunman and anything even remotely connected to Shakespeare Huge thanks to his beloved wife Robin For everything
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSA ( Johnny) has appeared in over 40 professional productions including e Charity at Began at Home (Off-Broadway) and regionally as Dan in Closer Treplev in e Seagull Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath Emperor Joseph in Amadeus Ellard in e Foreigner Laertes in Hamlet Trinculo in e Tempest and all the male roles in e Trojan Women As a playwright Christopherrsquos Pompeii recently had a very successful run at e Ruskin Group
eatre in Santa Monica
NICK MENNELL ( Joey) A recent NY transplant favorite stage credits include Memory of Two Mondays Hamlet The Marriage of Figaro and the world premieres of American Occupation The Odyssey and Bitch (Theater Audience Award Best Actor 2007) TV Numbers (CBS) and the upcoming John Wellsrsquo series Southland for NBC FILM My Little Eye (Universal) Halloween (Dimension) and the upcoming Lost Tribe (Lionsgate) as well as Michael Bayrsquos remake of Friday the
13th (Warner Bros) Graduate of the Juilliard School
GREG MULLAVEY (Mr Tarleton) Over 100 productions throughout North America including last yearrsquos Rosalind Production of Proof at the Odyssey Broadway Romantic Comedy Rumors National Tour e Sisters Rosensweig Latest off-Broadway Burnt Piano and last years Callback Regional favorites King Lear as Lear e Dinner Party Indiscretions e Price LAe Cherry Orchard ree Penny Opera etc Six Drama-Logue and LAWeekly Awards 100s of TV and film from BobCarolTedAlice Gunsmoke to ER
Best known as Tom Hartman of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman Dedication Ari and daughter Allison
MAGGIE PEACH (Mrs Tarleton) born with Sherwood Forest at the bottom of her garden is thrilled to be back at the Odyssey having last appeared here in Ackybournrsquos Absurd Person Singular directed by Ron Sossi A seasoned actress she recently won at Four-Star Theatre Award as The Countess in The Mad Woman of Chailott in Ojai Nominated for an Orange County Award as Callas in Master Class at the Long Beach Playhouse and winning a Drama-Logue Award as Myrtle in Noel
Cowardrsquos Still Life Maggie feels blessed to have a Life in the Theatre
MOLLY SCHAFFER (Lina) Recent theatre credits include Elina de Santos production of Proof at Pacific Resident eatre a three person Richard III at PRT and Maggie in Marshall Masons Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at both Cincinnati Playhouse and Repertory eater of St Louis Other theatre PRTs Tonight at 830 (LADCC Best Actress Nomination) Spinning into Butter at Actors eater of Phoenix and Marshall Masons Night of the Iguana Television credits include NBCs e Black Donnellys (recurring guest star)
CBSs e Unit and e West Wing (recurring) Film Crash Man on the Moon Mumford So much love and gratitude to Michael Ben Charlie and Will
ARMIN SHIMERMAN (Lord Summerhays) Broadway ndash Three Penny Opera St Joan Broadway Richard Rodgersrsquo I Remember Mama Los Angeles Theater ndash Matrix Theater Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle Nom Lead Performance) Odyssey Theatre Standup Shakespeare Mark Taper Forum Richard II Antaeus Theatre Company Tonight at 830 Regional Theater - San Diego Globe Richard III Loversquos Labors Lost Merry Wives of Windsor American Shakespeare Festival Henry V Indiana Repertory Theatre
Hoagy Bix Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus Guthrie Theatre Three Penny Opera Camille Wild Oats San Diego Repertory Theater (as the Fool) in King Lear TV ndash
Guest starring on nearly 100 different series including recurring Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series regular on Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Quark)
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON (Hypatia) has worked on-camera with Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Sarah Jessica Parker Jerry Orbach Joe Mantegna Barbara Hershey and on stage with Billy Crystal She played the recurring role of ldquoNurse Sollyrdquo on Days of Our Lives and has worked with Manhattan eatre Club Williamstown eatre Fest Berkeley Rep California Shakespeare Fest Ensemble eatre Co of Santa Barbara LA Womenrsquos Shakespeare Co and Sacred Fools
She has toured nationally with a one-woman show for seven years MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program Love and thanks to Daniel Walker
ELINA de SANTOS (Director) World premieres Rogue Machine Razorback ( John Pollono) Asses amp Elephants (Suzanne Bressler) 2008 Rosalind Productions Proof (Auburn) PRT Odetsrsquo Rocket to the Moon (LADCC direction nominee 2004) Millerrsquos Death of a Salesman Williamsrsquo Orpheus Descending (LADCC Awards for performance direction and production 2003) Albeersquos A Delicate Balance OTC LA Premiere of Speed the Plow (Mamet) Millerrsquos All My Sons Odetsrsquo Awake amp Sing (9 month run) Ark eatre A Doll rsquos House (Ibsen) (LA Weekly Best Direction 2007 nominee) Regional credits Vincent in Brixton (Wright) Pasadena Playhouse Orphans (Kessler) ICT (OC Weekly Best Production) Romeo amp Juliet Circus Verona DWT (Ovation Nomination) Awake amp Sing BTF amp PPT anks Megan
STEPHEN GIFFORD (Set Designer) is happy to be working with Elina again after designing for Razorback at Rogue Machine His work can currently be seen in the Actorrsquos Co-oprsquos production of Makinrsquo Hay West Coasts Ensemblersquos The Graduate Beggars in the House of Plenty at TheatreTheater and Beauty amp the Beast at Nine OrsquoClock Players His upcoming productions include Is He Dead and Facing East (ICT) and BIG (West Coast Ensemble) wwwstephengifforddesigncom
LEIGH ALLEN (Lighting Designer) is a recent recipient of the Career Achievement Award for Lighting Design from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Some of her work includes Champagne (for Regent Cruise Lines) Shimmy (for Princess Cruise Lines) Snoopy on Ice (for Jill Schultz) Killer Joe (winner of LA Ovation Award Production of the Year) e Prince of LA (at e Old Globe in San Diego) and Vincent in Brixton (at Pasadena Playhouse) She has also received the LA Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Awards for Johnny Got His Gun
DENNIS BALLARD (Costume Designer) has designed SpringScape Tea amp Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet eatre New York Off Broadway designs include Acts of Love Ascension Frankenstein Summer and Bartleby the Scrivener His theater design work has been seen throughout the USA as well as in France China England and Japan He is currently a Design Teaching Artist for the American Ballet eater and travels with the company when they perform throughout the US Dennis is thrilled to work with director Elina de Santos again having recently designed her production of Rogue Machines Razorback
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer composer and music director for theater television and film since the early 1980s His original composition and designs and have been heard in productions and programs on NBC Fox Television National Geographic BBC MSNBC the Discovery Channel AOLTime Warner e History Channel ZDF Germany e Smithsonian Institution e Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts e Folger Shakespeare eater e Edgemar theater Santa Monica Playhouse e Road eatre Company and ARK eatre Company
RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director who has cast projects for e eatre Boston Court e Getty Villa Workshop Series e Geffen Playhouse Disney Creative Entertainment eatre Planners Angels Gate Cultural Center and Playwrightsrsquo Arena where he serves as Associate Artistic Director
HENRY LIDE (Stage Manager) makes his Odyssey ldquodebutrdquo with Misalliance Over the past twelve years he has worked such varied venues as Will Geer eatricum Botanicum Open Fist Actors Studio West and the Whitefire In between he has acted at the Strasberg the Evidence Room and Stages and in two short films Currently he also stage manages eatre 40rsquos e Manor at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills
The Director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc
an independent national labor unionssdc
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker
Cast (in order of appearance)
Johnny Tarleton Jr13 Christopher FranciosaBentley Summerhays13 Orestes Arcuni
Hypatia Tarleton13 Abigail Rose SolomonMrs Tarleton13 Maggie Peach
Lord Summerhays13 Armin ShimermanJohn Tarleton13 Greg Mullavey
Joseph Percival13 Nick MennellLina Szczepanowska13 Molly Schaffer
Julius Baker (ldquoGunnerrdquo)13 David ClaybergMember of Actorsrsquo Equity Association
SettingAt the Tarleton familyrsquos house in Hindhead Surrey England exactly 100 years ago May 31 1909 six years after the Wright brothersrsquo famous flight
MISALLIANCE will have one ten-minute intermission
Production TeamAssistant Director13 Jeffrey Phillips
Assistant Stage Manager13 Megan WrightTechnical Director13 Scott TuomeyMaster Electrician13 Angeline Summers-Marvel
Carpenters13 DJ Higgenbottom Danny FelixMarketing Director13 Tanya Perez
Graphic Designer13 Micah FreedmanIllustrator13 Molly Crabapple
Publicist13 Phillip SokoloffPhotographer13 Christopher Moscatiello
Thank YouMichael Balsley Jerry Charlson Julianne Figueroa Beth Hogan Julianne Figueroa Alley Mills amp Orson Bean Evelyn amp Eric Newman Chuck Olsen Jennifer Rosen Harvey Saferstein Vanita Solomon Ron Sossi Linda Schapiro Sven Shelgren Peter Solomon Phil Torf Diana Wright
ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS INCpresents
Directed byELINA de SANTOS
withORESTES ARCUNIDAVID CLAYBERG
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSANICK MENNELL
GREG MULLAVEYMAGGIE PEACH
MOLLY SCHAFFERARMIN SHIMERMAN
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON
Set Design by STEPHEN GIFFORDLighting Design by LEIGH ALLEN
Costume Design by DENNIS BALLARDSound Design by CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO
Casting Director RAUL CLAYTON STAGGSProduction Stage Manager HENRY LIDE
THE ODYSSEY THEATREMARCH 19 - APRIL 26 2009
George Bernard Shawrsquos
The CompanyORESTES ARCUNI (Bentley) Recent stage credits include My Antonia (Pacific Resident eatre amp Rubicon eatre) Wt (Repertory East Playhouse) Of Mice and Men (Human Race eatre) and Romeo amp Juliet (Kentucky Repertory eatre) Orestes holds a BFA from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from e Hilberry eatre at Wayne State University in Detroit TV credits include Veronica Mars e Young and the Restless and All My Children Orestes
extends his thanks to the cast and crew of Misalliance and his family and Kathleen for their ongoing support
DAVID CLAYBERG (Gunner) is delighted to make his Odyssey debut especially accompanied by such a wonderfully creative cast and crew Other favorite roles include Happy in Death of a Salesman (also directed by Elina de Santos) Ronnie in Ray Cooneys Out of Order at the El Portal Center for the Arts Donal Davoren in Sean OCaseys Shadow of a Gunman and anything even remotely connected to Shakespeare Huge thanks to his beloved wife Robin For everything
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSA ( Johnny) has appeared in over 40 professional productions including e Charity at Began at Home (Off-Broadway) and regionally as Dan in Closer Treplev in e Seagull Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath Emperor Joseph in Amadeus Ellard in e Foreigner Laertes in Hamlet Trinculo in e Tempest and all the male roles in e Trojan Women As a playwright Christopherrsquos Pompeii recently had a very successful run at e Ruskin Group
eatre in Santa Monica
NICK MENNELL ( Joey) A recent NY transplant favorite stage credits include Memory of Two Mondays Hamlet The Marriage of Figaro and the world premieres of American Occupation The Odyssey and Bitch (Theater Audience Award Best Actor 2007) TV Numbers (CBS) and the upcoming John Wellsrsquo series Southland for NBC FILM My Little Eye (Universal) Halloween (Dimension) and the upcoming Lost Tribe (Lionsgate) as well as Michael Bayrsquos remake of Friday the
13th (Warner Bros) Graduate of the Juilliard School
GREG MULLAVEY (Mr Tarleton) Over 100 productions throughout North America including last yearrsquos Rosalind Production of Proof at the Odyssey Broadway Romantic Comedy Rumors National Tour e Sisters Rosensweig Latest off-Broadway Burnt Piano and last years Callback Regional favorites King Lear as Lear e Dinner Party Indiscretions e Price LAe Cherry Orchard ree Penny Opera etc Six Drama-Logue and LAWeekly Awards 100s of TV and film from BobCarolTedAlice Gunsmoke to ER
Best known as Tom Hartman of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman Dedication Ari and daughter Allison
MAGGIE PEACH (Mrs Tarleton) born with Sherwood Forest at the bottom of her garden is thrilled to be back at the Odyssey having last appeared here in Ackybournrsquos Absurd Person Singular directed by Ron Sossi A seasoned actress she recently won at Four-Star Theatre Award as The Countess in The Mad Woman of Chailott in Ojai Nominated for an Orange County Award as Callas in Master Class at the Long Beach Playhouse and winning a Drama-Logue Award as Myrtle in Noel
Cowardrsquos Still Life Maggie feels blessed to have a Life in the Theatre
MOLLY SCHAFFER (Lina) Recent theatre credits include Elina de Santos production of Proof at Pacific Resident eatre a three person Richard III at PRT and Maggie in Marshall Masons Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at both Cincinnati Playhouse and Repertory eater of St Louis Other theatre PRTs Tonight at 830 (LADCC Best Actress Nomination) Spinning into Butter at Actors eater of Phoenix and Marshall Masons Night of the Iguana Television credits include NBCs e Black Donnellys (recurring guest star)
CBSs e Unit and e West Wing (recurring) Film Crash Man on the Moon Mumford So much love and gratitude to Michael Ben Charlie and Will
ARMIN SHIMERMAN (Lord Summerhays) Broadway ndash Three Penny Opera St Joan Broadway Richard Rodgersrsquo I Remember Mama Los Angeles Theater ndash Matrix Theater Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle Nom Lead Performance) Odyssey Theatre Standup Shakespeare Mark Taper Forum Richard II Antaeus Theatre Company Tonight at 830 Regional Theater - San Diego Globe Richard III Loversquos Labors Lost Merry Wives of Windsor American Shakespeare Festival Henry V Indiana Repertory Theatre
Hoagy Bix Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus Guthrie Theatre Three Penny Opera Camille Wild Oats San Diego Repertory Theater (as the Fool) in King Lear TV ndash
Guest starring on nearly 100 different series including recurring Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series regular on Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Quark)
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON (Hypatia) has worked on-camera with Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Sarah Jessica Parker Jerry Orbach Joe Mantegna Barbara Hershey and on stage with Billy Crystal She played the recurring role of ldquoNurse Sollyrdquo on Days of Our Lives and has worked with Manhattan eatre Club Williamstown eatre Fest Berkeley Rep California Shakespeare Fest Ensemble eatre Co of Santa Barbara LA Womenrsquos Shakespeare Co and Sacred Fools
She has toured nationally with a one-woman show for seven years MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program Love and thanks to Daniel Walker
ELINA de SANTOS (Director) World premieres Rogue Machine Razorback ( John Pollono) Asses amp Elephants (Suzanne Bressler) 2008 Rosalind Productions Proof (Auburn) PRT Odetsrsquo Rocket to the Moon (LADCC direction nominee 2004) Millerrsquos Death of a Salesman Williamsrsquo Orpheus Descending (LADCC Awards for performance direction and production 2003) Albeersquos A Delicate Balance OTC LA Premiere of Speed the Plow (Mamet) Millerrsquos All My Sons Odetsrsquo Awake amp Sing (9 month run) Ark eatre A Doll rsquos House (Ibsen) (LA Weekly Best Direction 2007 nominee) Regional credits Vincent in Brixton (Wright) Pasadena Playhouse Orphans (Kessler) ICT (OC Weekly Best Production) Romeo amp Juliet Circus Verona DWT (Ovation Nomination) Awake amp Sing BTF amp PPT anks Megan
STEPHEN GIFFORD (Set Designer) is happy to be working with Elina again after designing for Razorback at Rogue Machine His work can currently be seen in the Actorrsquos Co-oprsquos production of Makinrsquo Hay West Coasts Ensemblersquos The Graduate Beggars in the House of Plenty at TheatreTheater and Beauty amp the Beast at Nine OrsquoClock Players His upcoming productions include Is He Dead and Facing East (ICT) and BIG (West Coast Ensemble) wwwstephengifforddesigncom
LEIGH ALLEN (Lighting Designer) is a recent recipient of the Career Achievement Award for Lighting Design from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Some of her work includes Champagne (for Regent Cruise Lines) Shimmy (for Princess Cruise Lines) Snoopy on Ice (for Jill Schultz) Killer Joe (winner of LA Ovation Award Production of the Year) e Prince of LA (at e Old Globe in San Diego) and Vincent in Brixton (at Pasadena Playhouse) She has also received the LA Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Awards for Johnny Got His Gun
DENNIS BALLARD (Costume Designer) has designed SpringScape Tea amp Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet eatre New York Off Broadway designs include Acts of Love Ascension Frankenstein Summer and Bartleby the Scrivener His theater design work has been seen throughout the USA as well as in France China England and Japan He is currently a Design Teaching Artist for the American Ballet eater and travels with the company when they perform throughout the US Dennis is thrilled to work with director Elina de Santos again having recently designed her production of Rogue Machines Razorback
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer composer and music director for theater television and film since the early 1980s His original composition and designs and have been heard in productions and programs on NBC Fox Television National Geographic BBC MSNBC the Discovery Channel AOLTime Warner e History Channel ZDF Germany e Smithsonian Institution e Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts e Folger Shakespeare eater e Edgemar theater Santa Monica Playhouse e Road eatre Company and ARK eatre Company
RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director who has cast projects for e eatre Boston Court e Getty Villa Workshop Series e Geffen Playhouse Disney Creative Entertainment eatre Planners Angels Gate Cultural Center and Playwrightsrsquo Arena where he serves as Associate Artistic Director
HENRY LIDE (Stage Manager) makes his Odyssey ldquodebutrdquo with Misalliance Over the past twelve years he has worked such varied venues as Will Geer eatricum Botanicum Open Fist Actors Studio West and the Whitefire In between he has acted at the Strasberg the Evidence Room and Stages and in two short films Currently he also stage manages eatre 40rsquos e Manor at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills
The Director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc
an independent national labor unionssdc
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker
ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS INCpresents
Directed byELINA de SANTOS
withORESTES ARCUNIDAVID CLAYBERG
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSANICK MENNELL
GREG MULLAVEYMAGGIE PEACH
MOLLY SCHAFFERARMIN SHIMERMAN
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON
Set Design by STEPHEN GIFFORDLighting Design by LEIGH ALLEN
Costume Design by DENNIS BALLARDSound Design by CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO
Casting Director RAUL CLAYTON STAGGSProduction Stage Manager HENRY LIDE
THE ODYSSEY THEATREMARCH 19 - APRIL 26 2009
George Bernard Shawrsquos
The CompanyORESTES ARCUNI (Bentley) Recent stage credits include My Antonia (Pacific Resident eatre amp Rubicon eatre) Wt (Repertory East Playhouse) Of Mice and Men (Human Race eatre) and Romeo amp Juliet (Kentucky Repertory eatre) Orestes holds a BFA from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from e Hilberry eatre at Wayne State University in Detroit TV credits include Veronica Mars e Young and the Restless and All My Children Orestes
extends his thanks to the cast and crew of Misalliance and his family and Kathleen for their ongoing support
DAVID CLAYBERG (Gunner) is delighted to make his Odyssey debut especially accompanied by such a wonderfully creative cast and crew Other favorite roles include Happy in Death of a Salesman (also directed by Elina de Santos) Ronnie in Ray Cooneys Out of Order at the El Portal Center for the Arts Donal Davoren in Sean OCaseys Shadow of a Gunman and anything even remotely connected to Shakespeare Huge thanks to his beloved wife Robin For everything
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSA ( Johnny) has appeared in over 40 professional productions including e Charity at Began at Home (Off-Broadway) and regionally as Dan in Closer Treplev in e Seagull Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath Emperor Joseph in Amadeus Ellard in e Foreigner Laertes in Hamlet Trinculo in e Tempest and all the male roles in e Trojan Women As a playwright Christopherrsquos Pompeii recently had a very successful run at e Ruskin Group
eatre in Santa Monica
NICK MENNELL ( Joey) A recent NY transplant favorite stage credits include Memory of Two Mondays Hamlet The Marriage of Figaro and the world premieres of American Occupation The Odyssey and Bitch (Theater Audience Award Best Actor 2007) TV Numbers (CBS) and the upcoming John Wellsrsquo series Southland for NBC FILM My Little Eye (Universal) Halloween (Dimension) and the upcoming Lost Tribe (Lionsgate) as well as Michael Bayrsquos remake of Friday the
13th (Warner Bros) Graduate of the Juilliard School
GREG MULLAVEY (Mr Tarleton) Over 100 productions throughout North America including last yearrsquos Rosalind Production of Proof at the Odyssey Broadway Romantic Comedy Rumors National Tour e Sisters Rosensweig Latest off-Broadway Burnt Piano and last years Callback Regional favorites King Lear as Lear e Dinner Party Indiscretions e Price LAe Cherry Orchard ree Penny Opera etc Six Drama-Logue and LAWeekly Awards 100s of TV and film from BobCarolTedAlice Gunsmoke to ER
Best known as Tom Hartman of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman Dedication Ari and daughter Allison
MAGGIE PEACH (Mrs Tarleton) born with Sherwood Forest at the bottom of her garden is thrilled to be back at the Odyssey having last appeared here in Ackybournrsquos Absurd Person Singular directed by Ron Sossi A seasoned actress she recently won at Four-Star Theatre Award as The Countess in The Mad Woman of Chailott in Ojai Nominated for an Orange County Award as Callas in Master Class at the Long Beach Playhouse and winning a Drama-Logue Award as Myrtle in Noel
Cowardrsquos Still Life Maggie feels blessed to have a Life in the Theatre
MOLLY SCHAFFER (Lina) Recent theatre credits include Elina de Santos production of Proof at Pacific Resident eatre a three person Richard III at PRT and Maggie in Marshall Masons Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at both Cincinnati Playhouse and Repertory eater of St Louis Other theatre PRTs Tonight at 830 (LADCC Best Actress Nomination) Spinning into Butter at Actors eater of Phoenix and Marshall Masons Night of the Iguana Television credits include NBCs e Black Donnellys (recurring guest star)
CBSs e Unit and e West Wing (recurring) Film Crash Man on the Moon Mumford So much love and gratitude to Michael Ben Charlie and Will
ARMIN SHIMERMAN (Lord Summerhays) Broadway ndash Three Penny Opera St Joan Broadway Richard Rodgersrsquo I Remember Mama Los Angeles Theater ndash Matrix Theater Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle Nom Lead Performance) Odyssey Theatre Standup Shakespeare Mark Taper Forum Richard II Antaeus Theatre Company Tonight at 830 Regional Theater - San Diego Globe Richard III Loversquos Labors Lost Merry Wives of Windsor American Shakespeare Festival Henry V Indiana Repertory Theatre
Hoagy Bix Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus Guthrie Theatre Three Penny Opera Camille Wild Oats San Diego Repertory Theater (as the Fool) in King Lear TV ndash
Guest starring on nearly 100 different series including recurring Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series regular on Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Quark)
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON (Hypatia) has worked on-camera with Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Sarah Jessica Parker Jerry Orbach Joe Mantegna Barbara Hershey and on stage with Billy Crystal She played the recurring role of ldquoNurse Sollyrdquo on Days of Our Lives and has worked with Manhattan eatre Club Williamstown eatre Fest Berkeley Rep California Shakespeare Fest Ensemble eatre Co of Santa Barbara LA Womenrsquos Shakespeare Co and Sacred Fools
She has toured nationally with a one-woman show for seven years MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program Love and thanks to Daniel Walker
ELINA de SANTOS (Director) World premieres Rogue Machine Razorback ( John Pollono) Asses amp Elephants (Suzanne Bressler) 2008 Rosalind Productions Proof (Auburn) PRT Odetsrsquo Rocket to the Moon (LADCC direction nominee 2004) Millerrsquos Death of a Salesman Williamsrsquo Orpheus Descending (LADCC Awards for performance direction and production 2003) Albeersquos A Delicate Balance OTC LA Premiere of Speed the Plow (Mamet) Millerrsquos All My Sons Odetsrsquo Awake amp Sing (9 month run) Ark eatre A Doll rsquos House (Ibsen) (LA Weekly Best Direction 2007 nominee) Regional credits Vincent in Brixton (Wright) Pasadena Playhouse Orphans (Kessler) ICT (OC Weekly Best Production) Romeo amp Juliet Circus Verona DWT (Ovation Nomination) Awake amp Sing BTF amp PPT anks Megan
STEPHEN GIFFORD (Set Designer) is happy to be working with Elina again after designing for Razorback at Rogue Machine His work can currently be seen in the Actorrsquos Co-oprsquos production of Makinrsquo Hay West Coasts Ensemblersquos The Graduate Beggars in the House of Plenty at TheatreTheater and Beauty amp the Beast at Nine OrsquoClock Players His upcoming productions include Is He Dead and Facing East (ICT) and BIG (West Coast Ensemble) wwwstephengifforddesigncom
LEIGH ALLEN (Lighting Designer) is a recent recipient of the Career Achievement Award for Lighting Design from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Some of her work includes Champagne (for Regent Cruise Lines) Shimmy (for Princess Cruise Lines) Snoopy on Ice (for Jill Schultz) Killer Joe (winner of LA Ovation Award Production of the Year) e Prince of LA (at e Old Globe in San Diego) and Vincent in Brixton (at Pasadena Playhouse) She has also received the LA Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Awards for Johnny Got His Gun
DENNIS BALLARD (Costume Designer) has designed SpringScape Tea amp Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet eatre New York Off Broadway designs include Acts of Love Ascension Frankenstein Summer and Bartleby the Scrivener His theater design work has been seen throughout the USA as well as in France China England and Japan He is currently a Design Teaching Artist for the American Ballet eater and travels with the company when they perform throughout the US Dennis is thrilled to work with director Elina de Santos again having recently designed her production of Rogue Machines Razorback
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer composer and music director for theater television and film since the early 1980s His original composition and designs and have been heard in productions and programs on NBC Fox Television National Geographic BBC MSNBC the Discovery Channel AOLTime Warner e History Channel ZDF Germany e Smithsonian Institution e Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts e Folger Shakespeare eater e Edgemar theater Santa Monica Playhouse e Road eatre Company and ARK eatre Company
RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director who has cast projects for e eatre Boston Court e Getty Villa Workshop Series e Geffen Playhouse Disney Creative Entertainment eatre Planners Angels Gate Cultural Center and Playwrightsrsquo Arena where he serves as Associate Artistic Director
HENRY LIDE (Stage Manager) makes his Odyssey ldquodebutrdquo with Misalliance Over the past twelve years he has worked such varied venues as Will Geer eatricum Botanicum Open Fist Actors Studio West and the Whitefire In between he has acted at the Strasberg the Evidence Room and Stages and in two short films Currently he also stage manages eatre 40rsquos e Manor at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills
The Director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc
an independent national labor unionssdc
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker
The CompanyORESTES ARCUNI (Bentley) Recent stage credits include My Antonia (Pacific Resident eatre amp Rubicon eatre) Wt (Repertory East Playhouse) Of Mice and Men (Human Race eatre) and Romeo amp Juliet (Kentucky Repertory eatre) Orestes holds a BFA from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from e Hilberry eatre at Wayne State University in Detroit TV credits include Veronica Mars e Young and the Restless and All My Children Orestes
extends his thanks to the cast and crew of Misalliance and his family and Kathleen for their ongoing support
DAVID CLAYBERG (Gunner) is delighted to make his Odyssey debut especially accompanied by such a wonderfully creative cast and crew Other favorite roles include Happy in Death of a Salesman (also directed by Elina de Santos) Ronnie in Ray Cooneys Out of Order at the El Portal Center for the Arts Donal Davoren in Sean OCaseys Shadow of a Gunman and anything even remotely connected to Shakespeare Huge thanks to his beloved wife Robin For everything
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSA ( Johnny) has appeared in over 40 professional productions including e Charity at Began at Home (Off-Broadway) and regionally as Dan in Closer Treplev in e Seagull Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath Emperor Joseph in Amadeus Ellard in e Foreigner Laertes in Hamlet Trinculo in e Tempest and all the male roles in e Trojan Women As a playwright Christopherrsquos Pompeii recently had a very successful run at e Ruskin Group
eatre in Santa Monica
NICK MENNELL ( Joey) A recent NY transplant favorite stage credits include Memory of Two Mondays Hamlet The Marriage of Figaro and the world premieres of American Occupation The Odyssey and Bitch (Theater Audience Award Best Actor 2007) TV Numbers (CBS) and the upcoming John Wellsrsquo series Southland for NBC FILM My Little Eye (Universal) Halloween (Dimension) and the upcoming Lost Tribe (Lionsgate) as well as Michael Bayrsquos remake of Friday the
13th (Warner Bros) Graduate of the Juilliard School
GREG MULLAVEY (Mr Tarleton) Over 100 productions throughout North America including last yearrsquos Rosalind Production of Proof at the Odyssey Broadway Romantic Comedy Rumors National Tour e Sisters Rosensweig Latest off-Broadway Burnt Piano and last years Callback Regional favorites King Lear as Lear e Dinner Party Indiscretions e Price LAe Cherry Orchard ree Penny Opera etc Six Drama-Logue and LAWeekly Awards 100s of TV and film from BobCarolTedAlice Gunsmoke to ER
Best known as Tom Hartman of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman Dedication Ari and daughter Allison
MAGGIE PEACH (Mrs Tarleton) born with Sherwood Forest at the bottom of her garden is thrilled to be back at the Odyssey having last appeared here in Ackybournrsquos Absurd Person Singular directed by Ron Sossi A seasoned actress she recently won at Four-Star Theatre Award as The Countess in The Mad Woman of Chailott in Ojai Nominated for an Orange County Award as Callas in Master Class at the Long Beach Playhouse and winning a Drama-Logue Award as Myrtle in Noel
Cowardrsquos Still Life Maggie feels blessed to have a Life in the Theatre
MOLLY SCHAFFER (Lina) Recent theatre credits include Elina de Santos production of Proof at Pacific Resident eatre a three person Richard III at PRT and Maggie in Marshall Masons Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at both Cincinnati Playhouse and Repertory eater of St Louis Other theatre PRTs Tonight at 830 (LADCC Best Actress Nomination) Spinning into Butter at Actors eater of Phoenix and Marshall Masons Night of the Iguana Television credits include NBCs e Black Donnellys (recurring guest star)
CBSs e Unit and e West Wing (recurring) Film Crash Man on the Moon Mumford So much love and gratitude to Michael Ben Charlie and Will
ARMIN SHIMERMAN (Lord Summerhays) Broadway ndash Three Penny Opera St Joan Broadway Richard Rodgersrsquo I Remember Mama Los Angeles Theater ndash Matrix Theater Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle Nom Lead Performance) Odyssey Theatre Standup Shakespeare Mark Taper Forum Richard II Antaeus Theatre Company Tonight at 830 Regional Theater - San Diego Globe Richard III Loversquos Labors Lost Merry Wives of Windsor American Shakespeare Festival Henry V Indiana Repertory Theatre
Hoagy Bix Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus Guthrie Theatre Three Penny Opera Camille Wild Oats San Diego Repertory Theater (as the Fool) in King Lear TV ndash
Guest starring on nearly 100 different series including recurring Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series regular on Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Quark)
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON (Hypatia) has worked on-camera with Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Sarah Jessica Parker Jerry Orbach Joe Mantegna Barbara Hershey and on stage with Billy Crystal She played the recurring role of ldquoNurse Sollyrdquo on Days of Our Lives and has worked with Manhattan eatre Club Williamstown eatre Fest Berkeley Rep California Shakespeare Fest Ensemble eatre Co of Santa Barbara LA Womenrsquos Shakespeare Co and Sacred Fools
She has toured nationally with a one-woman show for seven years MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program Love and thanks to Daniel Walker
ELINA de SANTOS (Director) World premieres Rogue Machine Razorback ( John Pollono) Asses amp Elephants (Suzanne Bressler) 2008 Rosalind Productions Proof (Auburn) PRT Odetsrsquo Rocket to the Moon (LADCC direction nominee 2004) Millerrsquos Death of a Salesman Williamsrsquo Orpheus Descending (LADCC Awards for performance direction and production 2003) Albeersquos A Delicate Balance OTC LA Premiere of Speed the Plow (Mamet) Millerrsquos All My Sons Odetsrsquo Awake amp Sing (9 month run) Ark eatre A Doll rsquos House (Ibsen) (LA Weekly Best Direction 2007 nominee) Regional credits Vincent in Brixton (Wright) Pasadena Playhouse Orphans (Kessler) ICT (OC Weekly Best Production) Romeo amp Juliet Circus Verona DWT (Ovation Nomination) Awake amp Sing BTF amp PPT anks Megan
STEPHEN GIFFORD (Set Designer) is happy to be working with Elina again after designing for Razorback at Rogue Machine His work can currently be seen in the Actorrsquos Co-oprsquos production of Makinrsquo Hay West Coasts Ensemblersquos The Graduate Beggars in the House of Plenty at TheatreTheater and Beauty amp the Beast at Nine OrsquoClock Players His upcoming productions include Is He Dead and Facing East (ICT) and BIG (West Coast Ensemble) wwwstephengifforddesigncom
LEIGH ALLEN (Lighting Designer) is a recent recipient of the Career Achievement Award for Lighting Design from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Some of her work includes Champagne (for Regent Cruise Lines) Shimmy (for Princess Cruise Lines) Snoopy on Ice (for Jill Schultz) Killer Joe (winner of LA Ovation Award Production of the Year) e Prince of LA (at e Old Globe in San Diego) and Vincent in Brixton (at Pasadena Playhouse) She has also received the LA Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Awards for Johnny Got His Gun
DENNIS BALLARD (Costume Designer) has designed SpringScape Tea amp Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet eatre New York Off Broadway designs include Acts of Love Ascension Frankenstein Summer and Bartleby the Scrivener His theater design work has been seen throughout the USA as well as in France China England and Japan He is currently a Design Teaching Artist for the American Ballet eater and travels with the company when they perform throughout the US Dennis is thrilled to work with director Elina de Santos again having recently designed her production of Rogue Machines Razorback
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer composer and music director for theater television and film since the early 1980s His original composition and designs and have been heard in productions and programs on NBC Fox Television National Geographic BBC MSNBC the Discovery Channel AOLTime Warner e History Channel ZDF Germany e Smithsonian Institution e Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts e Folger Shakespeare eater e Edgemar theater Santa Monica Playhouse e Road eatre Company and ARK eatre Company
RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director who has cast projects for e eatre Boston Court e Getty Villa Workshop Series e Geffen Playhouse Disney Creative Entertainment eatre Planners Angels Gate Cultural Center and Playwrightsrsquo Arena where he serves as Associate Artistic Director
HENRY LIDE (Stage Manager) makes his Odyssey ldquodebutrdquo with Misalliance Over the past twelve years he has worked such varied venues as Will Geer eatricum Botanicum Open Fist Actors Studio West and the Whitefire In between he has acted at the Strasberg the Evidence Room and Stages and in two short films Currently he also stage manages eatre 40rsquos e Manor at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills
The Director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc
an independent national labor unionssdc
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker
GREG MULLAVEY (Mr Tarleton) Over 100 productions throughout North America including last yearrsquos Rosalind Production of Proof at the Odyssey Broadway Romantic Comedy Rumors National Tour e Sisters Rosensweig Latest off-Broadway Burnt Piano and last years Callback Regional favorites King Lear as Lear e Dinner Party Indiscretions e Price LAe Cherry Orchard ree Penny Opera etc Six Drama-Logue and LAWeekly Awards 100s of TV and film from BobCarolTedAlice Gunsmoke to ER
Best known as Tom Hartman of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman Dedication Ari and daughter Allison
MAGGIE PEACH (Mrs Tarleton) born with Sherwood Forest at the bottom of her garden is thrilled to be back at the Odyssey having last appeared here in Ackybournrsquos Absurd Person Singular directed by Ron Sossi A seasoned actress she recently won at Four-Star Theatre Award as The Countess in The Mad Woman of Chailott in Ojai Nominated for an Orange County Award as Callas in Master Class at the Long Beach Playhouse and winning a Drama-Logue Award as Myrtle in Noel
Cowardrsquos Still Life Maggie feels blessed to have a Life in the Theatre
MOLLY SCHAFFER (Lina) Recent theatre credits include Elina de Santos production of Proof at Pacific Resident eatre a three person Richard III at PRT and Maggie in Marshall Masons Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at both Cincinnati Playhouse and Repertory eater of St Louis Other theatre PRTs Tonight at 830 (LADCC Best Actress Nomination) Spinning into Butter at Actors eater of Phoenix and Marshall Masons Night of the Iguana Television credits include NBCs e Black Donnellys (recurring guest star)
CBSs e Unit and e West Wing (recurring) Film Crash Man on the Moon Mumford So much love and gratitude to Michael Ben Charlie and Will
ARMIN SHIMERMAN (Lord Summerhays) Broadway ndash Three Penny Opera St Joan Broadway Richard Rodgersrsquo I Remember Mama Los Angeles Theater ndash Matrix Theater Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle Nom Lead Performance) Odyssey Theatre Standup Shakespeare Mark Taper Forum Richard II Antaeus Theatre Company Tonight at 830 Regional Theater - San Diego Globe Richard III Loversquos Labors Lost Merry Wives of Windsor American Shakespeare Festival Henry V Indiana Repertory Theatre
Hoagy Bix Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus Guthrie Theatre Three Penny Opera Camille Wild Oats San Diego Repertory Theater (as the Fool) in King Lear TV ndash
Guest starring on nearly 100 different series including recurring Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series regular on Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Quark)
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON (Hypatia) has worked on-camera with Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Sarah Jessica Parker Jerry Orbach Joe Mantegna Barbara Hershey and on stage with Billy Crystal She played the recurring role of ldquoNurse Sollyrdquo on Days of Our Lives and has worked with Manhattan eatre Club Williamstown eatre Fest Berkeley Rep California Shakespeare Fest Ensemble eatre Co of Santa Barbara LA Womenrsquos Shakespeare Co and Sacred Fools
She has toured nationally with a one-woman show for seven years MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program Love and thanks to Daniel Walker
ELINA de SANTOS (Director) World premieres Rogue Machine Razorback ( John Pollono) Asses amp Elephants (Suzanne Bressler) 2008 Rosalind Productions Proof (Auburn) PRT Odetsrsquo Rocket to the Moon (LADCC direction nominee 2004) Millerrsquos Death of a Salesman Williamsrsquo Orpheus Descending (LADCC Awards for performance direction and production 2003) Albeersquos A Delicate Balance OTC LA Premiere of Speed the Plow (Mamet) Millerrsquos All My Sons Odetsrsquo Awake amp Sing (9 month run) Ark eatre A Doll rsquos House (Ibsen) (LA Weekly Best Direction 2007 nominee) Regional credits Vincent in Brixton (Wright) Pasadena Playhouse Orphans (Kessler) ICT (OC Weekly Best Production) Romeo amp Juliet Circus Verona DWT (Ovation Nomination) Awake amp Sing BTF amp PPT anks Megan
STEPHEN GIFFORD (Set Designer) is happy to be working with Elina again after designing for Razorback at Rogue Machine His work can currently be seen in the Actorrsquos Co-oprsquos production of Makinrsquo Hay West Coasts Ensemblersquos The Graduate Beggars in the House of Plenty at TheatreTheater and Beauty amp the Beast at Nine OrsquoClock Players His upcoming productions include Is He Dead and Facing East (ICT) and BIG (West Coast Ensemble) wwwstephengifforddesigncom
LEIGH ALLEN (Lighting Designer) is a recent recipient of the Career Achievement Award for Lighting Design from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Some of her work includes Champagne (for Regent Cruise Lines) Shimmy (for Princess Cruise Lines) Snoopy on Ice (for Jill Schultz) Killer Joe (winner of LA Ovation Award Production of the Year) e Prince of LA (at e Old Globe in San Diego) and Vincent in Brixton (at Pasadena Playhouse) She has also received the LA Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Awards for Johnny Got His Gun
DENNIS BALLARD (Costume Designer) has designed SpringScape Tea amp Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet eatre New York Off Broadway designs include Acts of Love Ascension Frankenstein Summer and Bartleby the Scrivener His theater design work has been seen throughout the USA as well as in France China England and Japan He is currently a Design Teaching Artist for the American Ballet eater and travels with the company when they perform throughout the US Dennis is thrilled to work with director Elina de Santos again having recently designed her production of Rogue Machines Razorback
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer composer and music director for theater television and film since the early 1980s His original composition and designs and have been heard in productions and programs on NBC Fox Television National Geographic BBC MSNBC the Discovery Channel AOLTime Warner e History Channel ZDF Germany e Smithsonian Institution e Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts e Folger Shakespeare eater e Edgemar theater Santa Monica Playhouse e Road eatre Company and ARK eatre Company
RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director who has cast projects for e eatre Boston Court e Getty Villa Workshop Series e Geffen Playhouse Disney Creative Entertainment eatre Planners Angels Gate Cultural Center and Playwrightsrsquo Arena where he serves as Associate Artistic Director
HENRY LIDE (Stage Manager) makes his Odyssey ldquodebutrdquo with Misalliance Over the past twelve years he has worked such varied venues as Will Geer eatricum Botanicum Open Fist Actors Studio West and the Whitefire In between he has acted at the Strasberg the Evidence Room and Stages and in two short films Currently he also stage manages eatre 40rsquos e Manor at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills
The Director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc
an independent national labor unionssdc
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker
Guest starring on nearly 100 different series including recurring Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series regular on Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Quark)
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON (Hypatia) has worked on-camera with Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Sarah Jessica Parker Jerry Orbach Joe Mantegna Barbara Hershey and on stage with Billy Crystal She played the recurring role of ldquoNurse Sollyrdquo on Days of Our Lives and has worked with Manhattan eatre Club Williamstown eatre Fest Berkeley Rep California Shakespeare Fest Ensemble eatre Co of Santa Barbara LA Womenrsquos Shakespeare Co and Sacred Fools
She has toured nationally with a one-woman show for seven years MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program Love and thanks to Daniel Walker
ELINA de SANTOS (Director) World premieres Rogue Machine Razorback ( John Pollono) Asses amp Elephants (Suzanne Bressler) 2008 Rosalind Productions Proof (Auburn) PRT Odetsrsquo Rocket to the Moon (LADCC direction nominee 2004) Millerrsquos Death of a Salesman Williamsrsquo Orpheus Descending (LADCC Awards for performance direction and production 2003) Albeersquos A Delicate Balance OTC LA Premiere of Speed the Plow (Mamet) Millerrsquos All My Sons Odetsrsquo Awake amp Sing (9 month run) Ark eatre A Doll rsquos House (Ibsen) (LA Weekly Best Direction 2007 nominee) Regional credits Vincent in Brixton (Wright) Pasadena Playhouse Orphans (Kessler) ICT (OC Weekly Best Production) Romeo amp Juliet Circus Verona DWT (Ovation Nomination) Awake amp Sing BTF amp PPT anks Megan
STEPHEN GIFFORD (Set Designer) is happy to be working with Elina again after designing for Razorback at Rogue Machine His work can currently be seen in the Actorrsquos Co-oprsquos production of Makinrsquo Hay West Coasts Ensemblersquos The Graduate Beggars in the House of Plenty at TheatreTheater and Beauty amp the Beast at Nine OrsquoClock Players His upcoming productions include Is He Dead and Facing East (ICT) and BIG (West Coast Ensemble) wwwstephengifforddesigncom
LEIGH ALLEN (Lighting Designer) is a recent recipient of the Career Achievement Award for Lighting Design from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Some of her work includes Champagne (for Regent Cruise Lines) Shimmy (for Princess Cruise Lines) Snoopy on Ice (for Jill Schultz) Killer Joe (winner of LA Ovation Award Production of the Year) e Prince of LA (at e Old Globe in San Diego) and Vincent in Brixton (at Pasadena Playhouse) She has also received the LA Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Awards for Johnny Got His Gun
DENNIS BALLARD (Costume Designer) has designed SpringScape Tea amp Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet eatre New York Off Broadway designs include Acts of Love Ascension Frankenstein Summer and Bartleby the Scrivener His theater design work has been seen throughout the USA as well as in France China England and Japan He is currently a Design Teaching Artist for the American Ballet eater and travels with the company when they perform throughout the US Dennis is thrilled to work with director Elina de Santos again having recently designed her production of Rogue Machines Razorback
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer composer and music director for theater television and film since the early 1980s His original composition and designs and have been heard in productions and programs on NBC Fox Television National Geographic BBC MSNBC the Discovery Channel AOLTime Warner e History Channel ZDF Germany e Smithsonian Institution e Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts e Folger Shakespeare eater e Edgemar theater Santa Monica Playhouse e Road eatre Company and ARK eatre Company
RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director who has cast projects for e eatre Boston Court e Getty Villa Workshop Series e Geffen Playhouse Disney Creative Entertainment eatre Planners Angels Gate Cultural Center and Playwrightsrsquo Arena where he serves as Associate Artistic Director
HENRY LIDE (Stage Manager) makes his Odyssey ldquodebutrdquo with Misalliance Over the past twelve years he has worked such varied venues as Will Geer eatricum Botanicum Open Fist Actors Studio West and the Whitefire In between he has acted at the Strasberg the Evidence Room and Stages and in two short films Currently he also stage manages eatre 40rsquos e Manor at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills
The Director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc
an independent national labor unionssdc
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker
DENNIS BALLARD (Costume Designer) has designed SpringScape Tea amp Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet eatre New York Off Broadway designs include Acts of Love Ascension Frankenstein Summer and Bartleby the Scrivener His theater design work has been seen throughout the USA as well as in France China England and Japan He is currently a Design Teaching Artist for the American Ballet eater and travels with the company when they perform throughout the US Dennis is thrilled to work with director Elina de Santos again having recently designed her production of Rogue Machines Razorback
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer composer and music director for theater television and film since the early 1980s His original composition and designs and have been heard in productions and programs on NBC Fox Television National Geographic BBC MSNBC the Discovery Channel AOLTime Warner e History Channel ZDF Germany e Smithsonian Institution e Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts e Folger Shakespeare eater e Edgemar theater Santa Monica Playhouse e Road eatre Company and ARK eatre Company
RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director who has cast projects for e eatre Boston Court e Getty Villa Workshop Series e Geffen Playhouse Disney Creative Entertainment eatre Planners Angels Gate Cultural Center and Playwrightsrsquo Arena where he serves as Associate Artistic Director
HENRY LIDE (Stage Manager) makes his Odyssey ldquodebutrdquo with Misalliance Over the past twelve years he has worked such varied venues as Will Geer eatricum Botanicum Open Fist Actors Studio West and the Whitefire In between he has acted at the Strasberg the Evidence Room and Stages and in two short films Currently he also stage manages eatre 40rsquos e Manor at Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills
The Director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc
an independent national labor unionssdc
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker
Rosalind Productions Inc explores stories in which the femalecharacters are as vital complex and infl uential as the male characters Working with classical contemporary and original material we endeavor to engage move and inspire audiences on an intellectual emotional and spiritual level by allowing them to experience and empathize with each characterrsquos desires vulnerabilities and range of masculine and feminine traits Our hope is that our audiences will take with them a sense of recognition and a better understanding of their own humanity
Rosalind Productions Inc is a member of LA Stage Alliance In 2006 we produced the World Premiere play ldquoStagesrdquo by Abigail Rose Solomon which ran at Hudson Mainstage Theatre extended at The Matrix Theatre and received a NAACP Theatre Award nomination In 2007 we co-produced Shakespearersquos ldquoAs You Like Itrdquo at The Matrix Theatre with the Los Angeles Womenrsquos Shakespeare Company In 2008 we produced David Auburnrsquos Pulitzer Prize Winner ldquoProofrdquo which ran at The Odyssey Theatre and extended at Macha Theatre We collaborate with Artists who are intelligent talented and kind
wwwrosalindproductionscomPO Box 480820
Los Angeles CA 90048phone 310-358-2789 s fax 323-655-0368
abigailrosalindproductionscom
Executive ProducerAbigail Rose Solomon
Board of AdvisorsJames Burrows s Shirley Jo Finney s Joshua Rebell
Peter J Solomon s Daisy Walker