Mary Zimmerman, Adapter/Director Daniel Ostling, Scenic Designer Mara Blumenfeld, Costume Designer T.J. Gerckens, Lighting Designer André Pluess and Ben Sussman, Sound Design & Original Music Cynthia Cahill *, Stage Manager CAST (alphabetical) Mark Alhadeff Christopher Donahue Laura Eason Anne Fogarty Raymond Fox David Kersnar Louise Lamson Erik Lochtefeld Tiffany Scott MARY ZIMMERMAN (Adapter/Director) is the recipient of a 1998 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director and 10 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including ones for Best Production and Best Direction. She is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago, an Artistic Associate of the Goodman and Seattle Repertory theatres and a Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Works which she has adapted and directed include The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Goodman, BAM, Seattle Rep, Second Stage, Berkeley Rep), The Odyssey (Lookingglass, Goodman, McCarter, Seattle Rep), Arabian Nights (Lookingglass, MTC, BAM), Journey to the West (Goodman, Huntington, Berkeley Rep), Metamorphoses (Lookingglass, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Second Stage, Broadway), The Secret in the Wings, S/M (Lookingglass) and Eleven Rooms of Proust (Lookingglass, About Face). Ms. Zimmerman has also directed Measure for Measure, Henry VIII (NYSF), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Huntington) and All’s Well That Ends Well (Goodman). In 2002, she created a new opera with Philip Glass called Galileo Galilei which played at The Goodman Theatre, the Barbican in London and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She will open a production of Shakespeare’s Pericles at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. this November. DANIEL OSTLING (Scenic Designer) At Berkeley Rep: Closer and Metamorphoses. On Broadway, Metamorphoses for Circle in the Square (Tony Nomination) after an off-Broadway run at Second Stage. Other New York credits: Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei at BAM (also at the Barbican, London and The Goodman, Chicago), Measure for Measure for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Arabian Nights at BAM (also at Actors’ Gang, L.A. and Lookingglass, Chicago). Regional work includes: Hard Times at Lookingglass and the Arden, Philadelphia; 36 Views at Portland Center Stage; A Little Night Music at Chicago Shakespeare, Pacific Overtures at The Donmar Warehouse, London (Olivier Award for Best Musical) and Chicago Shakespeare; Rage d'Amours and Ainadamar at Tanglewood Music Festival; Trojan Women directed by Mary Zimmerman at The Goodman; Race written and directed by David Schwimmer at Lookingglass. Mr. Ostling works extensively with writer/director Mary Zimmerman and is an ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago. He is also an Associate Professor at Northwestern University. MARA BLUMENFELD (Costume Designer) is happy to return to Berkeley Rep where she previously designed Mary Zimmerman’s productions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. New York credits include Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul (BAM), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage), Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square, Second Stage) and Measure for Measure (NYSF). Based in Chicago, she has designed numerous productions for The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Lookingglass Theatre Company, where she is an ensemble member. Regional credits include productions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Milwaukee Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, GeVa Theatre, Weston Playhouse and McCarter Theatre. Previous collaborations with Mary Zimmerman include Trojan Women, Galileo Galilei, The Odyssey, Eleven Rooms of Proust, Mirror of the Invisible World, S/M and Philip Glass’ Akhnaten. T.J. GERCKENS (Lighting Designer) T.J.’s design for The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci earned him a Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for the Berkeley Rep production and a Drama Desk nomination for the Off-Broadway production. Recent design credits include: Metamorphoses on Broadway and at Second Stage (Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Award, Lucille Lortel Award), as well as prior productions around the country including Lookingglass (Jefferson Award), Berkeley Rep (Theatre Critics Circle Award), Seattle Rep and The Mark Taper Forum (Ovation, Garland and Drama Critics Circle awards); Measure for Measure (NYSF); the world premiere opera Galileo Galilei with Phillip Glass and Mary Zimmerman at The Goodman Theatre, BAM and the Barbican Center in London; The Odyssey (McCarter, Seattle Rep, Goodman, Jefferson Award). Other designs: Oo-Bla-Dee, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Journey to the West (Goodman), Arabian Nights (L.A., Chicago, BAM) and Anne Bogart’s Going, Going, Gone (San Francisco). T.J. recently was named an Eddy Award winner by Entertainment Design Magazine for collaborative design. He was the resident lighting designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville 1994–96, and his work has also been seen at the Lincoln Center Serious Fun! Festival, La Jolla Playhouse and CATCO. ANDRÉ PLUESS and BEN SUSSMAN (Sound Design and Original Music) Design and composition credits include projects for Lookingglass Theatre Company (artistic associates), Court Theatre (1999–02 resident artists), Victory Gardens (resident designers), About Face (associate artists), The Goodman, Steppenwolf and many other Chicago theatres. Broadway credits include I Am My Own Wife and Metamorphoses. Pluess and Sussman have received six Joseph Jefferson Awards and Citations, an L.A. Ovation Award, Drama Critics Circle Award and a Lortel nomination for composition and sound design. Current and upcoming projects include The Day Emily Married for Primary Stages in N.Y., Pericles for the Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Festival and Silk at The Goodman Theatre (both with Mary Zimmerman), 1984 for Lookingglass, Intimate Apparel and One Arm at Steppenwolf and The Clean House at Yale Repertory Theatre. CAST MARK ALHADEFF * (Ensemble) Regional credits include playing Young Housman in the East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, for which he was nominated for a Barrymore Award; The Odyssey by Mary Zimmerman at both Seattle Repertory and McCarter Theatres; An Infinite Ache at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and Romeo and Juliet at Pittsburgh Public Theatre. Mark performed in the New York premiere of Conor McPherson’s one man show, Rum and Vodka, as well as the New York premiere of The Pagans. His television credits include Law and Order and the TNT Movie Monday Night Mayhem. Mark would like to give love and thanks to Lauren. CHRISTOPHER DONAHUE * (Ensemble) has previously appeared at Berkeley Rep in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and Journey to the West. New York credits include Metamorphoses on Broadway, Monster (Classic Stage Company, OBIE Award), Measure for Measure (New York Shakespeare Festival), Dogeaters (Public Theater), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage, Lincoln Center Festival) and The Arabian Nights (MTC). Elsewhere, he has performed at The Goodman Theatre, Remains Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Weston Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Court Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre. Film and television credits include Since You’ve Been Gone, The Big Kahuna, All My Children and Law and Order. LAURA EASON * (Ensemble) is an ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre, where she has appeared in more than 15 productions, originating roles in 10 world premieres, including The Secret in the Wings. This production marks her 15th collaboration with Mary Zimmerman. New York credits include Metamorphoses on Broadway, BAM and the Lincoln Center Festival. Regional credits include Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Arden Theatre Company and the Actors’ Gang, among others. Also a playwright, Ms. Eason’s plays have been produced by Steppenwolf and Lookingglass (Chicago), Touchstone Theatre (PA), Middlesex School (MA) and Sojourn Theatre (Portland, OR), where she is an associate artist. For six years, she served as Lookingglass’ artistic director, where she oversaw the planning and opening of their new theatre space and the development and production of more than a dozen world premieres, including two productions by Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman. ANNE FOGARTY * (Ensemble) is making her Berkeley Rep debut with The Secret in the Wings. Regional work includes: Metamorphoses at Hartford Stage, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Mark Taper Forum; Terry in Side Man, Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Anne Lindbergh in Hauptmann at Madison Repertory Theatre; and The Governess in Turn of the Screw at Illusion Theatre. In Chicago, she has appeared as Esther in The Glamour House at Victory Gardens Theatre; Tessa in Summertime, Alexandra in The Idiot and Aphrodite in the original production of Metamorphoses at Lookingglass Theatre Company; Julia Seton in Holiday and Ann Whitefield in Man and Superman at Remy Bumppo Theatre; and Carol in Oleanna. Ms. Fogarty is based in Chicago. She teaches drama to children and teens at Lookingglass. RAYMOND FOX * (Ensemble) previously appeared at Berkeley Rep in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, which he also performed on and off Broadway, in various regional productions and for Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre, where he is an ensemble member. Additional regional credits include the Court Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Next Theatre, Famous Door Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre, About Face Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Arden Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Repertory Theatre and Canada’s Stratford Festival. Mr. Fox is a graduate of Northwestern University and the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University. DAVID KERSNAR * (Ensemble) is a founding member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company and has performed, designed, directed, taught and toured with the company since 1988. He has also appeared at The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Remains, BAM, Actors’ Gang and Touchstone Theatres. David has served as the Lookingglass’ artistic director and director of education and community programs, and currently serves as E&C’s master teacher. Directing and writing credits include La Luna Muda, Flying Griffin Circus, Brundibar, Through the Looking Glass and several productions for Lookingglass’ World Circus, Lab and Teen Ensemble and Shaking the Tree Interactive Productions. In collaboration with Grammy-nominated recording artist, Jai Uttal, David was recently commissioned to write and direct a new opera, Sita Ram, for the Chicago Children’s Choir. Film and television credits include U.S. Marshals, Since You’ve Been Gone, Early Edition and Turks. David is delighted to return to the Bay Area where he performed as a youth with The San Francisco Boys Chorus, American Conservatory Theater, River Repertory Theatre and the San Francisco Opera. Love to wife, Christie, and sons, Drew and Kyle. LOUISE LAMSON * (Ensemble) returns to Berkeley Rep after appearing here in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses. She most recently appeared in Hard Times at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia. Other Lookingglass productions include Metamorphoses and The Idiot. She received an After Dark Award and a Jeff nomination for her role in Bash with About Face Theatre Co. Other credits include Metamorphoses on Broadway at Circle in the Square, The Odyssey at The Goodman in Chicago and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at Second Stage in New York. Louise is an artistic associate of Lookingglass Theatre Company. ERIK LOCHTEFELD * (Ensemble) returns to Berkeley Rep, having last appeared here in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses. New York credits include Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square, Second Stage) and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage). Regional credits include work with Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Lookingglass Theatre, About Face Theatre, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, as well as three seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. TV: All My Children and Third Watch. Erik recently self produced his Cabaret, Val Speaks, in New York. He is a graduate of Northwestern University. TIFFANY SCOTT (Ensemble) recently appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Short Shakespeare!) at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Other Chicago credits include James Joyce’s The Dead at Court Theatre, Finding the Sun as part of the Edward Albee Festival at The Goodman Theatre and productions with Apple Tree, Eclipse, Irish Repertory of Chicago and TimeLine, among others. Tiffany holds degrees in theatre from both Emory University and Northwestern University. * 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