06/07 season
Adele Edling Shank, Playwright
Paul Dresher, Composer
Les Waters, Director
Annie Smart, Scenic Design
Christal Weatherly, Costume Design
Matt Frey, Lighting Design
Darron L West, Sound Design
Jedediah Ike, Video Design
Madeleine Oldham, Dramaturg
Lynne Soffer, Dialect Coach
Lynne Morrow, Singing Coach
Elizabeth Moreau, Stage Manager
Amy Potozkin, Casting
Janet Foster, New York Casting
cast (in order of appearance)
Jarion Monroe, William Bankes
Rebecca Watson, Lily Briscoe
Monique Fowler, Mrs. Ramsay
Edmond Genest, Mr. Ramsay
Clifton Guterman, Andrew / Adult James
Jack Indiana, Young James
Gabriel Stephens-Siegler, Young James
Sophie Gabel-Scheinbaum, Young Cam
Amara Radetsky, Young Cam
David Mendelsohn, Charles Tansley
Whitney Bashor, Prue / Adult Cam
Lauren Grace, Minta Doyle / Mrs. McNabb
Noah James Butler, Paul Rayley
musicians
Alex Kelly, Cello
Charith Premawardhana, Viola
Justin Mackewich, 1st Violin
Sarah Jo Zaharako, 2nd Violin
adele edling shank
(Playwright) has written numerous plays which have been produced throughout the United States and in England, with multiple productions at the Magic Theatre and the Humana Festival. Her works include the California Plays—a series of six interconnected stories set in various California locations—as well as Rocks in Her Pocket (featuring the ghosts of Diane Arbus, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf), Sex Slaves, War Horses, With Allison’s Eyes and The Wives of the Magi. She is also the author of Dry Smoke—a chamber opera text performed by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra—and has written the text for two works by British choreographer Yolande Snaith. Adele is an active professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, where she served as head of playwriting. She is also an editor of TheatreForum. For more information, please visit adeleshank.com
paul dresher
(Composer) is an internationally active composer noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own unique personal style in multiple different formats. He has received commissions from American Repertory Theater, Kronos Quartet, the Library of Congress, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and others. He has performed or had his works performed at venues including the BAM/Next Wave Festival, Carnegie Zankel Hall, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Lincoln Center, Munich State Opera, the Minnesota Opera and the New York Philharmonic. His most recent project, The Tyrant, premiered at Cleveland Opera in 2006 and will be presented by Cal Performances at its Edge Fest of Contemporary Music in June. Paul received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2006–07, for which he is composing a new music theatre work using invented instruments for virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick.
les waters
(Director) is in his fourth year as associate artistic director of Berkeley Rep, where he has staged Eurydice, Fêtes de la Nuit, Finn in the Underworld, The Glass Menagerie, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Pillowman, Suddenly Last Summer and Yellowman. He won an Obie Award for Big Love, directing its premiere at the Humana Festival and subsequent runs at Berkeley Rep, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Classic Stage Company, Goodman Theatre and Long Wharf Theater. Elsewhere in America, he has staged work at A.C.T., Connelly Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre, Steppenwolf and Yale Rep. In his native England, Les has directed for the Bristol Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre Club, Joint Stock Theatre Group, National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and Traverse Theatre Club. He often works with prominent playwrights like Caryl Churchill and Charles Mee, and champions important new voices, such as Jordan Harrison and Sarah Ruhl. He is also an associate artist of The Civilians. The former head of the M.F.A. directing program at UCSD, Les’s many honors include a Drama-Logue Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, a KPBS Patte and several awards from critics’ circles in the Bay Area, Connecticut and Tokyo.
annie smart
(Scenic Designer) is originally from England, where she designed the premieres of Caryl Churchill’s Fen, Ice Cream and Hot Fudge and A Mouthful of Birds. She also designed for the Royal Court Theatre and Joint Stock Theatre Company, numerous regional and London companies, and four plays at the National Theatre: Black Snow, Say It with Flowers, The Father, The Mountain Giants and Churchill’s The Skriker. In the U.S., Annie has designed for Arena Stage, BAM, The Guthrie Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, The Public, Steppenwolf and others. Her California productions include A Doll’s House, Night and Day and The Threepenny Opera at A.C.T; Othello and The Tempest for Cal Shakes; Going to St. Ives, The Importance of Being Earnest, Norah, Sheridan and Wintertime for La Jolla Playhouse; and Big Love, Fêtes de la Nuit, Finn in the Underworld, Honour, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Passing Strange, Suddenly Last Summer and Yellowman at Berkeley Rep. Annie has served as chair of the master’s program in theatre design at London’s Wimbledon Art School, professor of stage design at UCSD and a costume lecturer at UC Berkeley.
christal weatherly
(Costume Designer) returns to Berkeley Rep after designing costumes for Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell and Fêtes de la Nuit. Her recent projects include Anon(ymous) for The Children’s Theatre Company Minneapolis and Amnesia Curiosa with rainpan43. Her New York credits include Les Waters’ Apparition at the Connelly Theatre, Jane Eyre for The Acting Company and The Map Maker’s Sorrow at the 2005 Summer Play Festival. She has designed costumes for The Actors’ Gang, Center Theatre Group, Deaf West Theatre, the Humana Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Long Wharf, Madison Repertory Theatre, Open Fist Theatre Company, Sledgehammer Theatre and We Tell Stories. Christal’s film credits include Lee Kirk’s The Man Who Invented the Moon and Jessica Goldberg’s Affair Game. Her upcoming projects include I Am My Own Wife for Hartford Stage and The As If Body Loop and Strike-Slip for the 2007 Humana Festival. Christal is a UCSD graduate and a recipient of the 2004–2006 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers.
matt frey
(Lighting Designer) designed Finn in the Underworld and The Glass Menagerie at Berkeley Rep last season. His recent work includes David Lang’s The Difficulty of Crossing a Field with Ridge Theater and Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave at the Barbican Theatre in London and at Lincoln Center. Matt’s upcoming projects include Bach’s Saint John Passion with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Frau Margot with Fort Worth Opera. Matt’s work has also been seen at BAM, the Corn Exchange Theatre Company (Dublin), MCC Theater, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, Theatre For A New Audience and regional theaters around the US and abroad.
darron l west
(Sound Designer) is a company member and sound designer with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company. On Broadway, off-Broadway, nationally and internationally, his work has been heard in over 350 productions. He is the former resident sound designer for Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. His directing credits include Eurydice and Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse for the Children’s Theatre Company Minneapolis; Kid Simple for the 2004 Humana Festival; Big Love for Rude Mechanicals of Austin (for which he won an Austin Critics Table Award for best director); and the national tour of SITI’s War of the Worlds radio play. Darron’s awards for sound design include the Entertainment Design Magazine Eddy, a Princess Grace award, the 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award, the 2006 AUDELCO and Lortelle Awards and an Obie.
jedediah ike
(Video Designer) is excited to make his Berkeley Rep debut. Jedediah returns to the Bay Area after completing an M.F.A. in theatre design at UCSD. At UCSD, he won KPBS Patte Awards for his scenic designs in Arms and the Man and Measure for Measure. He also created sets for Better Homes and Homelands; Cargo, directed by Kyle Donelly; Citizens of Rome; La Dispute, directed by Darko Tresnjak; and We Dance Our Dances; as well as projection designs for A Dream Play, Citizens of Rome and Measure for Measure. Selections of his student work will be displayed at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial, an international forum and exhibition for theatre design. Locally, Jedediah created the settings for Paul Whitworth’s Sleeping Beauty at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, where he will be designing both The Tempest (directed by Kirsten Brandt), and Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Kim Rubenstein), this summer. His TV credits include scenic design for an episode of NBC’s The Contender.
elizabeth moreau *
(Stage Manager) is in her sixth season as stage manager for Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, with whom she has stage-managed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, bobrauschenbergamerica, Death and the Ploughman, Hayfever, Hotel Cassiopeia, Intimations for Saxophone, La Dispute, Score, systems/layers (with the band Rachel’s), Marina (featuring soprano Lauren Flanigan) and Radio Macbeth at theatres around the country and at international festivals. Elizabeth’s New York credits include work with BAM, Classic Stage Company, Lightbox Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, The Play Company, The Public and Vineyard Theatre. She also stage-managed Anne Washburn’s Apparition, directed by Les Waters. Elizabeth created Match-Play with the Rude Mechanicals of Austin and is the artistic associate of the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
cast
whitney bashor *
(Prue / Adult Cam) is delighted to make her Berkeley Rep debut with To The Lighthouse. Her New York credits include Bus To Buenos Aires with Ensemble Studio Theatreand White Noise at Kirk Theatre, as well as concert productions of Edges with Abingdon Theatre Company, Become: The Music of Pasek and Paul at Joe’s Pub and Prom King with Gavin Creel at Second Stage Theatre. Her most recent project was a workshop production of Kind Hearts and Coronets at Sundance Theatre Lab. Whitney’s TV credits include All My Children and Love Monkey; she can also be seen in Off The Black, starring Nick Nolte. Whitney is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s musical theatre program.
noah james butler *
(Paul Rayley) is proud to return to Berkeley Rep’s stage after two triumphant performances as the understudy for Clive in Cloud 9. Noah has been acting on stage and in commercials in the Bay Area for the last eight years, and was last seen as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 at the Willows Theatre Company in Concord. His other credits include Doing Good with San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Love Play and Making Noise Quietly, both with TheatreFirst. Noah lives in Oakland with his beautiful wife Colleen, Brutus the Precious Pit Bull and the newest edition to their clan: his lovely baby daughter, Rosalind Edith O’Brien.
monique fowler *
(Mrs. Ramsay) was most recently seen in Pride and Prejudice and The Rivals at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Her New York credits include the Broadway production of You Can’t Take it With You and the off-Broadway production of The Skin Game. Monique’s regional credits include work at The Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, South Coast Repertory and The Old Globe Theatre, where she played Virginia Woolf in Vita and Virginia. Her television and film appearances include Celebrity and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Monique created the play Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and has performed it in Ouro Preto, Brazil and at The New School in New York. She is an associate artist of the Old Globe Theatre.
sophie gabel-scheinbaum
(Young Cam) is thrilled to make her debut at Berkeley Rep. This past year she appeared in Animal Crackers at the Contra Costa Civic Theater and Ruthless! The Musical at Masquers Playhouse. Sophie currently studies voice with Denise Wharmby. She is 11 years old and attends Albany Middle School. When not singing or acting, she enjoys playing soccer and spending time with her friends. Sophie is very excited to be in To the Lighthouse.
edmond genest *
(Mr. Ramsay) is appearing at Berkeley Rep for the first time. His Broadway credits include A Few Good Men, Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land, the recent revival of The Elephant Man, Onward Victoria, The Real Thing and two productions of Whose Life is it, Anyway? Off Broadway, Edmond has appeared in Pantomime at Hudson Guild, Escape from Happiness at Naked Angels Theater Company, The Real Inspector Hound, Later Life at Playwrights Horizons and The Browning Version at the Roundabout Theatre Company. His regional credits include work at The Alley, Alliance Theatre, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford Theatre Works, Huntington Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, The Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage and Yale Repertory Theatre as well as 11 seasons at the Shakespeare Company of New Jersey and five seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
lauren grace *
(Minta Doyle / Mrs. McNabb) was last seen as Dulce in Ice Glen at the Aurora Theatre. At the Aurora, she has also played the title role in the Michael Fry adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, and Hilda in The Master Builder. Lauren’s other credits include Ethel in the A.C.T. and Kansas City Repertory Theatre co-production of David Mamet’s The Voysey Inheritance; Les Liaisons Dangereuses and A Mother, also at A.C.T.; Holes at The Orpheum Theatre; Cooking with Elvis, Othello and Desdemona: A Tale Of A Handkerchief and Unhampered by Sanity at The Phoenix Theatre; Inkwell Communiqués and The Lysistrata Project with Randall Stuart’s Upon These Boards; The Colour of Justice and The Great Celestial Cow at TheatreFIRST; and Hilda at the Zeum Theater.
clifton guterman *
(Andrew / Adult James) is delighted to work with Les again after starring in last season’s Finn in the Underworld. In 2005, he also appeared as Smike in Nicholas Nickleby at Cal Shakes, for which he received a Bay Area Critics Circle Award nomination. Clifton now calls New York home, after acting regionally for five years—most recently completing a run as Arpad in She Loves Me at Arena Stage. Other favorite credits include Beautiful Thing and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? at Actor’s Express in Atlanta; A Christmas Carol at Alliance Theatre; and Bat Boy: The Musical at Dad’s Garage Theatre. He previously worked on the artistic staffs of Actor’s Express and Alliance Theatre. Clifton holds an M.F.A. in acting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a B.A. in drama from the University of Georgia.
jack indiana
(Young James) is pleased to make his Berkeley Rep debut in this production of To The Lighthouse. His previous credits include the role of Tiny Tim in A.C.T.’s 2005 production of A Christmas Carol, Feste in San Francisco Shakespeare Camp’s production of Playing the Fool, Mike TeeVee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland with the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Summer Camp Theatre Program. Jack has also appeared in several commercials, print advertisements and national voice-overs. Jack is eight years old, and is home-schooled.
david mendelsohn *
(Charles Tansley) is delighted to make his Berkeley Rep debut with To the Lighthouse. His credits include Enrico IV and The Misanthrope at A.C.T.; Emma at the Aurora, where he won a Dean Goodman Choice Award for ensemble performance; Macbeth at Cal Shakes; The Dreamstealers and The Illusion at foolsFURY; and Come, My Beloved with Traveling Jewish Theater. David also spent five seasons with the Carmel Shake-speare Festival at Pacific Repertory Theatre where his credits include The Beard of Avon; Edward III; the title role in Henry VI, pts. 1, 2 and 3; The Taming of the Shrew; Twelfth Night; and many others. David is a graduate of A.C.T.’s M.F.A. program.
jarion monroe *
(William Bankes) has appeared in more than 19 seasons at Berkeley Rep since 1985, including earlier this season in Mother Courage as well as Hard Times, House of Blue Leaves, Our Town, Rhinoceros and Volpone. Elsewhere in the Bay Area, his credits include A.C.T., San Jose Rep, Cal Shakes, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre and Marin Shakespeare Company. Jarion has also worked with Yale Rep, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company and the Ahmanson. His TV and film credits include The Californians, In Control of All Things, The Game, Seinfeld and Frasier. He’s also in numerous commercials and video games, both on camera and as a voice-over talent.
amara radetsky
(Young Cam) has been acting in theatrical productions since age five. She made her professional theatre debut this past year playing both Tiny Tim and Precious Wilkins in A.C.T.’s A Christmas Carol. Other favorite roles include Alice in Wonderland and Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical: The Musical, both with Marin Theatre Company. She has appeared in several children’s musical theatre productions, and was proud to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and the title role in Cinderella. Amara, now nine, studies acting at the A.C.T. Young Conservatory and takes Broadway dance and voice lessons. In addition to performing, Amara also writes plays, songs and short stories.
gabriel stephens-siegler
(Young James) made his acting debut as Tiny Tim in a Colorado performance of A Christmas Carol, and has been a regular performer in California Revels’ children’s chorus and mummers’ play since 2001. Gabriel lives in Sonoma County where he has portrayed numerous characters at Sonoma County Repertory Theater, including Roo in their recent production of Winnie the Pooh. He has also performed in A Tribute To Richard Rogers at Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater, played Mosquito and Servant in Garcia Lorca’s Billy Club Puppets at Actor’s Theater for Children in Santa Rosa and performed in Hansel and Gretel at Missoula Children’s Theatre. Gabriel loves musical theatre and comedy, and he studies violin and piano, as well as ballet.
rebecca watson *
(Lily Briscoe) is thrilled to work with Berkeley Rep for the first time. Her Broadway and New York credits include Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves, The Cocoanuts, Romeo and Juliet, Tim & Scrooge and the workshop of Little Women. She’s sung for Disney, toured in Moon Over Buffalo and originated the role of Cassie in the world premiere of I’ll Be Seeing You. Her favorite regional credits include Ring Round the Moon at Barrington Stage, Into the Woods at Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Me and My Girl at Goodspeed Musicals, The Miser at Indiana Rep, A.R. Gurney’s The Snow Ball at Studio Arena Theatre, as well as The Cherry Orchard, Major Barbara, Measure for Measure, The Rover and Twelfth Night at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Rebecca’s television credits include appearances on All My Children, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Law & Order and Third Watch.
* The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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