Geoff Hoyle, Translator and Adaptor David Ira Goldstein, Director Kent Dorsey, Scenic Designer David Kay Mickelsen, Costume Designer York Kennedy, Lighting Designer Brian Jerome Peterson, Sound Designer Fitz Patton, Composer Kevin Johnson *, Stage Manager Amy Potozkin, Casting Sandrine Bourrie, Production Assistant Jamie Keller, Studio Teacher Carolyn Crimley, Studio Teacher CAST (in order of appearance) Geoff Hoyle, Bastien Follavoine Sharon Lockwood, Julie Follavoine Amy Resnick, Clémence Lynnda Ferguson, Mme. De Champrinet Rudy Guerrero, M. de Champrinet Amy Resnick, Rose Jarion Monroe, Adhéume Chouilloux Austin Greene, Toto Follavoine Gideon Lazarus, Toto Follavoine Lynnda Ferguson, Mme. Chouilloux Rudy Guerrero, Horatio Garcia Zarzuela de Zaragoza y Pau DAVID IRA GOLDSTEIN (Director) has been Artistic Director of Arizona Theatre Company since 1992 where he has directed over 30 mainstage productions and produced over 125 other plays, workshops and presentations including two acclaimed appearances by the National Theatre of Great Britain. In 2003 he received the Governor’s Arts Award for his contributions to the arts in Arizona. He has been a guest director at theatres across the country including Kansas City Rep, Seattle Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Alaska Rep, The Empty Space Theatre, Mixed Blood, The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Illusion Theatre and Portland Rep. In an association of over 20 years, he has directed many world premieres by playwright Steven Dietz including God’s Country, Private Eyes, Inventing Van Gogh, Rocket Man, Dracula and Over the Moon. Before coming to Arizona, Mr. Goldstein was associate artistic director of ACT Theatre in Seattle and at Actors Theatre of St. Paul. He has been a visiting instructor and director at Arizona State University, University of Washington and University of Minnesota. He has served as a panelist for the NEA, TCG and the Arizona, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington State Arts Commissions as well as being a co-founder of Minnesota Young Playwrights. He is married to public radio announcer Michele Robins. They share their home with their cats: Joey, Cary, Reggie and Dexter. KENT DORSEY (Scenic Designer) returns home to Berkeley Rep, where he was the scenic designer for The Alchemist, Serious Money, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dancing at Lughnasa, Mother Jones and Blue Window. At Berkeley Rep he also designed both sets and lights for Tooth of Crime, Volpone, Life During Wartime, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, Missing Persons, Yankee Dawg You Die, Fish Head Soup and Speed-The-Plow. His Berkeley Rep lighting designs include Dream of a Common Language, Geni(us), The Convict’s Return, Major Barbara and Diary of a Scoundrel. His New York theatre credits include About Time, Alligator Tales, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Silence, Suds and Yankee Dawg You Die. He has designed scenery and/or lighting on over 95 productions for San Diego’s The Old Globe. He has also designed for most major resident theatre companies. DAVID KAY MICKELSEN (Costume Designer) is pleased to be making his Berkeley Repertory Theatre design debut. He has received seven AriZoni Awards for his work with Arizona Theatre Company, where For Better or Worse marks his 42nd production. He has designed over 150 productions at many regional theatres across the country including Denver Center Theatre Company, Guthrie Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Pioneer Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Sundance Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Ford’s Theatre, Portland Center Stage, ACT/Seattle, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pennsylvania Center Stage, as well as The Oregon, Colorado, Utah and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals. Originially from Canby, Oregon, Mr. Mickelsen now makes his home in Long Beach, California. YORK KENNEDY (Lighting Designer) Mr. Kennedy’s designs have been seen in theatres across America and Europe. His awards for theatrical lighting design include the Dramalogue, San Diego Drama Critics Circle, Back Stage West Garland, AriZoni Theatre Award and the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. In the dance world he has designed and toured throughout Eastern Europe and the United States. As an architectural lighting designer, he has designed lighting for numerous themed environment, theme park and museum projects including the Sony Metreon Sendak Playspace (2000 I.E.S. Award) in San Francisco, Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid and The LEGO Racers 4D attraction in Germany, Denmark, England and the U.S. A graduate of the California Institute for the Arts and the Yale School of Drama, Mr. Kennedy lives in Berkeley, CA. FITZ PATTON (Composer) was the sound designer for the Broadway production of As Long as We Both Shall Laugh, and the off-Broadway productions of Barbara’s Wedding and Fighting Words. He has designed and scored plays and dance in New York at the Lincoln Center Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Atlantic Theatre Company, The Julliard School, Clubbed Thumb, The Flea and Naked Angels, as well as at numerous regional theatres. Recent scores include Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop with Amy Irving, Warren Leight’s James and Annie, James Lapine’s Fran’s Bed, Naomi Wallace’s Things of Dry Hours and Matt and Ben. He has an M.F.A. in design from Yale School of Drama and composition degrees from Bard College and Vassar College. BRIAN JEROME PETERSON (Sound Designer) is in his 19th season at Arizona Theatre Company, where he is the Resident Sound Designer. His credits include The Pirates of Penzance; A Street Car Named Desire; Oh Coward!; Copenhagen; Dirty Blonde; Moon for the Misbegotten; Much Ado About Nothing; Proof; Ghosts; The Mystery of Irma Vep (ariZoni Award); Fences; The Importance of Being Earnest and the world premieres of Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Minor Demons and The Holy Terror. His designs have been heard in many theatres including La Miranda Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Seattle Repertory, Cleveland Playhouse, Coconut Grove, Northlight, Missouri Repertory and San Jose Repertory. Mr. Peterson has produced for several music groups, including Cuerpos Sin Sombra, The Trade, Eye Pennies and The Hillwilliams. CAST LYNNDA FERGUSON * (Mme. De Champrinet / Mme. Chouilloux) returns to Berkeley Repertory Theatre where she has previously appeared in Private Lives, The Misanthrope, Major Barbara and Heartbreak House. She performed on Broadway in Rumors and Bring Back Birdie, and off-Broadway in Mrs. Feuerstein and Romeo and Juliet. Her regional credits include Habeas Corpus, Hedda Gabler, Private Lives, The Misanthrope, The Philadelphia Story, Tartuffe, Misalliance, Twelfth Night, The Miser and Round and Round the Garden at South Coast Repertory; Continental Divide at La Jolla Playhouse; Coriolanus and Love’s Labour’s Lost at The Old Globe and The Marriage of Figaro and The Guardsmen at American Conservatory Theatre. She has also performed at Padua Playwrights, Matrix Theatre Company, A Noise Within, The Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Center Stage, Arena Stage and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. AUSTIN GREENE (Toto) is already a seasoned actor at age 9! Last year he appeared on the Geary Stage in two A.C.T. productions—as Ivar in A Doll’s House and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. He has also performed locally in John Muir’s Mountain Days at the Willows Theatre in Concord, and in the Willows Conservatory productions of Phantom, Les Meserables and Honk. Austin attends the fourth grade at Sycamore Valley Elementary School and would like to thank his teacher, Mrs. Erhart, and his entire family for helping him be a success in school and on stage. RUDY GUERRERO * (Horatio Garcia Zarzuela de Zaragoza y Pau / M. de Champrinet) previously appeared at Berkeley Rep in Code Blue at the Genome Zoo. His award-winning Bay Area credits include Tartuffe at A.C.T., Don Juan and Merry Wives of Windsor at Marin Shakespeare Company, Once Upon a Mattress at 42nd St. Moon (Dean Goodman Choice Award), A Question of Mercy at Magic Theatre (Bay Guardian Upstage/Downstage Award) and Stories by Tobias Wolff with Word for Word (Bay Area Critics Circle Award). Other Bay Area credits include Alcazar Theater, Marin Theater Company, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, Theatreworks and Willows Theater Company. He has an M.F.A. in Acting from A.C.T. and a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from Boston Conservatory. GEOFF HOYLE * (Bastien Follavoine / Translation and adaptation) was last seen in Rhinoceros at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He trained with Marcel Marceau’s teacher, Etienne Decroux, and clowned with Circus Flora, Pickle Family Circus and Cirque de Soleil. He created the role of Zazu in the original Broadway cast of The Lion King (NY Drama Desk nomination), and appeared off-Broadway in his solo Feast of Fools and more recently in Mr. Fox by Bill Irwin. His award-winning work Boomer!, Feast of Fools, The Convict’s Return, Geni(us) and The First Hundred Years has been seen in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London, Berlin, Taiwan, England and the former Soviet Union. Regional theatre credits include Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, A.C.T., La Jolla Playhouse and American Repertory Theatre. His film credits include Popeye, Smooth Talk and Spirit of ‘76. He has received several National Endowment for the Arts grants and an ArtsLink grant to visit circuses in Latvia and Russia. A National Theatre Artist’s Residency Program Fellowship from Theatre Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust enabled him to work with ATC giving workshops in mask, clown and mime, while translating many of Georges Feydeau’s one-act plays, two of which he adapted into For Better or Worse. GIDEON LAZARUS (Toto) is happy to be back at Berkeley Rep after having attended the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre’s Summer Intensive. He is currently a fifth-grader at The Crowden School in Berkeley, where he studies double bass with Micheal Taddei. When he is not practicing, he enjoys reading fiction and history and arguing about politics. This is his first appearance in professional theatre. SHARON LOCKWOOD * (Julie Follavoine) has long been associated with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where she has performed in The Oresteia, The Alchemist, The Magic Fire, The Triumph of Love, Pentecost, Volpone, The Convict’s Return, Reckless and The Importance of Being Earnest among others. Her regional credits include the Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. As a long-time member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe she performed in over 30 productions. Her film and television credits include The Psychic Detective, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Long Road Home and Midnight Caller. JARION MONROE * (Adheume Chouilloux) has been seen at Berkeley Rep in House of Blue Leaves, Rhinoceros, Volpone and Hard Times in nine previous seasons. Other credits include: Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead as the player and Jacob Marley in Christmas Carol at A.C.T.; the world premieres of Sex Habits of the American Woman and The Right Kind of People at the Magic Theatre; Search and Destroy at South Coast Rep and Santos Y Santos for Thick Description. Other theatres include Yale Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hudson Guild, California Shakespeare Theater, Marin Shakes, Cal Rep, San Jose Rep, the Ahmanson, Theater 890 and Vector where he recently played Capt. Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. TV and film credits: The Californians, In Control of All Things, The Game, Seinfeld and Frasier. AMY RESNICK * (Clemence / Rose) was last seen at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in The Laramie Project (Bay Area Critics’s Award). She was seen Off-Broadway in I Think I Like Girls (Cherry Lane), Death of Frank and Goldberg Variations. Her regional credits include: The Real Thing (Mark Taper and South Coast Rep); Around the World in 80 Days, Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and Boston Marriage (B Street); Two for the Seesaw (Marin Theatre Company); The Old Neighborhood (Aurora); Map of the World (Theatre First; Goodman Award) and Why We Have a Body (Magic; DramaLogue Award). TV & Film credits: Haiku Tunnel, The Californians with Noah Wiley, Law & Order and Picket Fences. * 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