Sarah Ruhl, Playwright Les Waters, Director Scott Bradley, Scenic Designer Meg Neville, Costume Designer Russell H. Champa, Lighting Designer Bray Poor, Sound Designer Michael Suenkel, Stage Manager Amy Potozkin, Casting Professor Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr., U.C. Berkeley Classics Department MaryBeth Cavanaugh, Movement Eddie Kurtz, Assistant Director CAST (in order of appearance) Maria Dizzia, Eurydice Daniel Talbott, Orpheus Charles Shaw Robinson, Eurydice’s Father Mark Zeisler, Nasty Interesting Man & Lord of the Underworld T. Edward Webster, Little Stone (from Chorus of Stones) Ramiz Monsef, Big Stone (from Chorus of Stones) Aimée Guillot, Loud Stone (from Chorus of Stones) SARAH RUHL (Playwright) Sarah Ruhl’s plays include The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn Award), Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: A Cowboy Song, Orlando and Passion Play. Upcoming productions of her work will take place at Yale Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre and Woolly Mammoth. Sarah’s plays have been developed and produced at theatres around the country, as well as in London and Germany. Her work will be available in an anthology published by TCG in 2005. She received her M.F.A. from Brown University, and is originally from Chicago. In 2003, Sarah was the recipient of a Helen Merrill Award and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She is a member of New Dramatists. LES WATERS (Director) For Berkeley Rep: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Yellowman, Suddenly Last Summer and Big Love. Regional theatre credits: Buried Child, Glengarry Glen Ross (A.C.T.); Wintertime, Nebraska, Life During Wartime, The Importance of Being Earnest and Nora (La Jolla Playhouse); Big Love (Humana Festival, Long Wharf, Goodman Theatre); Ghost On Fire, Spinning Into Butter (Goodman); The Designated Mourner, The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf); The House of Bernarda Alba (Guthrie). New York credits: Fen, Ice Cream with Hot Fudge, Rum and Coke, Romeo and Juliet (New York Shakespeare Festival); Life During Wartime (Manhattan Theatre Club); Big Love (Next Wave Festival at BAM); Savannah Bay (Classic Stage Company). His U.K. credits include productions at the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead Theatre Club, Bristol Old Vic, Traverse Theatre Club and Joint Stock Theatre Group. Awards include: Edinburgh Fringe First, Tokyo Theatre Critics, Dramalogue, KPBS Patte, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dean Goodman, Bay Area Critics Circle and an OBIE for directing Big Love. He is an associate artist of The Civilians, the New York based theatre group. As Berkeley Rep’s associate artistic director, in addition to Eurydice, this season Les will direct Charles L. Mee’s Fêtes de la Nuit. SCOTT BRADLEY (Scenic Designer) has collaborated with writer/director Mary Zimmerman on several projects: The 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 Theatre. Bradley designed the world premiere of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at the Goodman Theatre and earned a Drama Desk Award and Tony nomination for Set Design. He was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his Broadway set design of Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Most recently, he designed sets for Picnic at Center Stage, Topdog/Underdog at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He recently designed a production of Much Ado About Nothing on the Boston Commons during the DNC this summer and is currently working on Mary Zimmerman’s Silk, to open at The Goodman in May. Off-Broadway, Bradley designed Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Wendy MacLeod’s Sin, both at the Promenade Theatre. He designed sets for “Late Night with David Letterman” and was production designer for Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands. MEG NEVILLE (Costume Designer) Bay Area design credits include Ghosts, Suddenly Last Summer, The Life of Galileo, Closer and Dinner With Friends at Berkeley Rep, Buried Child at A.C.T., Joe Goode Performance Group, the Magic and numerous productions at California Shakespeare Theater, including A Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Costume Design). Recent credits include Monteverdi’s Orfeo at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cosi Fan Tutte for Chicago Opera Theater and Three Tall Women at Center Stage, Baltimore. Meg has worked at The Atlantic (N.Y.C.), Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Dallas Theater Center, San Jose Rep, South Coast Rep and San Francisco Opera Center. Meg is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and resides in San Francisco with her husband and daughter. RUSSELL H. CHAMPA (Lighting Designer) Recent projects include The Stendhal Syndrome at 59E59 in N.Y.C., Limonade Tous Les Jours at the Bay St. Theatre in the Hamptons and Jesus Hopped The A Train at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia. Bay Area credits include Henry IV, parts 1 and 2 at Cal Shakes, Waiting For Godot at A.C.T. and Dr. Faustus at the Magic. On Broadway, Russell designed Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” at the Lyceum Theatre. Theatres in New York that Russell has designed for include The Promenade Theatre, The Union Square Theater, Classic Stage Company, New York Stage and Film, Lincoln Center Institute and La Mama Etc. Regionally, Russell has designed for Baltimore Center Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, McCarter Theater Center, Long Wharf Theater, ACT/Seattle, The Actors’ Gang, The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theater, The Dallas Theater Center and Seattle Rep. PEACE. BRAY POOR (Sound Designer) is happy to return to Berkeley Rep. He last worked here as an actor, playing Harlequin in Stephen Wadsworth’s Changes of Heart. As a sound designer, he recently worked at Actors Theatre of Louisville for Humana 2004 on Kid-Simple and Ruby Sunrise. Bray also designed Ruby Sunrise at Trinity Rep. In New York, he designed Chuck Mee’s Orestes with lightbox, The Laramie Project at Baruch Performing Arts and Sarah Ruhl’s Late for Clubbed Thumb. Regionally, he has designed Slide Glide the Slippery Slope by Kia Corthron for Humana Festival 2003 and Beauty at the Trilogy Theatre. In addition to designing several pieces for Columbia’s Director Program, Bray supervised sound for Crowns at Alliance. Off-Broadway, he co-designed sound on The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant with Darron West and acted as assistant sound designer with Mr. West on projects at New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage and the McCarter Theater Center. Mr. Poor is the sound designer for Mediarights.org and contributed to the Sonic Memorial, a web installation created by NPR and Picture Projects about the World Trade Center. Before becoming a designer, Mr. Poor was an actor. Some acting credits include work at The Old Globe, San Diego Rep, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown and Long Wharf, as well as several movies and television programs. Mr. Poor is a member of lightbox. CAST MARIA DIZZIA (Eurydice) New York credits include: Pullman Car Hiawatha (Keen Company), Match (Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab), Cause for Alarm (Fringe NYC, 2002) and Gone Missing (Belt Theatre), The Ladies (Public Theatre: New Work Now!, HERE, Dixon Place), Canard, Canard, Goose? (Joe’s Pub) all with The Civilians. Regional credits include: Kid-Simple (Humana Festival—ATL), Agnes of God (George Street Playhouse), Proof (GeVa Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Iphigenia at Aulis (Yale Rep), She Stoops to Conquer and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Maria is an artistic associate of The Civilians. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from U.C. San Diego. AMIÉE GUILLOT (Loud Stone) previously appeared at Berkeley Rep in Big Love, also directed by Les Waters. Off-Broadway: Big Love (BAM 2001 Next Wave Festival, OBIE Award winner), Xtravaganza (St. Ann’s Warehouse). Other New York credits: Canard, Canard, Goose? (The Civilians at HERE Performance Space), Xtravaganza (Guggenheim Museum/Works in Process, Whitney Performance Space), Master Builder (Builder’s Association). Regional theatre credits include: The Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago. European credits include: Kaaitheatre, The Rotterdam Schowburg, Le Maillon, Mousanturm and Le Volcan. Film and television: Interstate 84 (Toronto Film Festival), MTV’s Austin Stories and As the World Turns. Ms. Guillot received her M.F.A. from U.C. San Diego. Much love to Said. RAMIZ MONSEF (Big Stone) Ramiz is proud to be making his Berkeley Rep debut in Eurydice. A 2002 graduate of the Cornish College of the Arts, Ramiz spent his first two years out of school at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he appeared in Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Wild Oats, As You Like It and Titus Andronicus. He then returned to Seattle to play Willie in The Time of Your Life (Steppenwolf production) at Seattle Rep, which he also performed on tour at A.C.T. in San Francisco this past April. When he is not working as an actor, Ramiz can be seen around the Bay Area performing as an M.C. with the hip-hop group The Subliminal Twinkeez, who just completed a two month tour of the U.S. He is also a guest M.C. with the group Alphabet Soup. CHARLES SHAW ROBINSON (Eurydice’s Father) Not too long ago, and just down the street, Charles appeared in Betrayal, directed by Tom Ross for the Aurora Theatre Company. His work for Berkeley Rep includes roles in Homebody/Kabul, directed by Tony Taccone, and in The Magic Fire, directed by Jack O’Brien. DANIEL TALBOTT (Orpheus) last worked with Berkeley Rep on Skylight (BATCC Award Nomination). Other theatre credits include Three Sisters (Theatre at Lake Lucille), Erin Go Braghless (O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Venice in Vegas (HB Playwrights), Now That’s What I Call a Storm (Edge Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (American Repertory Theatre), Big Love (Dallas Theater Center), Ah, Wilderness (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/Repertory Theatre of St. Louis) and Fortune and Men’s Eyes (New Conservatory Theatre/Dramalogue Award), among others. Film credits include Missionary Position and ‘A’ is for Assets. Daniel is a recent graduate of Juilliard, a 1998 graduate of Solano College Theatre’s ATP and artistic director of Rising Phoenix Repertory. He couldn’t be happier to be back at Berkeley Rep and home with his family and friends. T. EDWARD WEBSTER (Little Stone) Eurydice marks Edward’s second appearance at Berkeley Rep, following his debut here in 2003’s Suddenly Last Summer. Other Bay Area credits include Night and Day, A Christmas Carol, Edward II, No For an Answer and The Time of Your Life at A.C.T., Two Gentlemen of Verona at San Jose Rep, Cymbeline, The Skin of Our Teeth, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing at California Shakespeare Festival, The Taming of the Shrew at Pioneer Memorial Theatre and Lobby Hero and The Man of Destiny at the Aurora Theatre Company. Edward is a graduate of A.C.T.’s M.F.A. program. MARK ZEISLER (Nasty Interesting Man / Lord of the Underworld) is very happy to return to Berkeley Rep, where he worked with Les Waters and Aimée Guillot in the 2001 production of Big Love. Mark has worked around the U.S. at such theatres as The Goodman, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville and American Repertory Theatre, where he was a company member for two seasons. On Broadway, he played both Mike and Alfieri in A View from the Bridge, which won the 1998 Tony for Best Revival. Past roles have included Iago in Othello, Ariel in The Tempest, Krogstad in A Doll’s House, Lenny in The Homecoming, Tartaglia in The King Stag, the title role in Dracula, Konstantin in The Seagull and Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. His many television credits include all three incarnations of Law and Order, Third Watch, New York Undercover and numerous soaps and commercials. Films: Random Hearts, Shaft, The Thomas Crown Affair, Head of State and Two Weeks Notice. Mark was born and raised in New York and studied at SUNY Purchase. 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