06/07 season
Bertolt Brecht, Playwright
David Hare, Adaptor
Lisa Peterson, Director
Rachel Hauck, Scenic Design
David Zinn, Costume Design
Alexander V. Nichols, Lighting Design
Jill BC DuBoff, Sound Design
Gina Leishman, Composer / Music Director
Steve Rankin, Fight Director
MaryBeth Cavanaugh, Movement Director
Jennifer Setlow, Associate Lighting Design
Shirley Fishman, Dramaturg
Michael Suenkel *, Stage Manager
Anjee Nero *, Assistant Stage Manager
Amy Potozkin, Bay Area Casting
Sharon Bialy & Sherry Thomas, CSA, Los Angeles Casting
Marissa Wolf, Assistant Director
cast (in order of appearance)
Marc Damon Johnson, Recruiting Officer / Ensemble
Brent Hinkley, Sergeant / Ensemble
Ivonne Coll, Mother Courage
Katie Huard, Kattrin
Drew Hirshfield, Swiss Cheese / Ensemble
Justin Leath, Eilif / Ensemble
Jarion Monroe, Cook / Ensemble
Katie Barrett, Yvette Pottier / Ensemble
Patrick Kerr, Chaplain / Ensemble
David W. Collins, Drummer / Ensemble
Mark Danisovszky, Piano / Accordion / Ensemble
Ara Anderson, Tuba / Accordion/ Ensemble
lisa peterson
(Director) is happy to return to Berkeley Rep, where she previously directed Antony & Cleopatra and The Fall. Her New York credits include Tight Embrace at Intar Theatre; Birdy and Chemistry of Change at the Women’s Project; Bexley Oh, Trestle At Pope Lick Creek, Slavs! and Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at NYTW; Sueño at MCC Theater; Tongue of a Bird and The Square at the Public Theatre and Collected Stories at Manhattan Theatre Club. She has directed many world premieres and classics regionally at theatres including La Jolla Playhouse, the Guthrie Theater, the Taper, Intiman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf, Cal Shakes, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, New York Stage & Film and Sundance Theatre Lab. Lisa has received an Obie Award, Drama Desk and Drama-Logue nominations and a Theatre Communications Group / National Endowment for the Arts grant. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theater and the Drama Dept.
gina leishman
(Composer / Music Director) returns to Berkeley Rep, where she last composed Endgame / Act Without Words. Her New York credits include the Broadway productions of Juggling & Cheap Theatrics and Comedy of Errors at Lincoln Center as well as Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with BAM / Next Wave, Tongue of a Bird and Helen at the NYSF. Her work on Centenary Stage Company’s Therese Raquin received a Drama Desk nomination. Gina’s other credits include scores for Oedipus the King at the Guthrie, Burning Dreams and Red Noses at San Diego Rep, Imaginary Invalid at Yale Rep, Brothers Karamazov with Arena Stage and Seattle Rep, Alice at Dallas Theater Center and Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing and others at Cal Shakes. Her recordings can be found on Koch Jazz and New World Records. Visit ginaleishman.com
shirley fishman
(Dramaturg) oversees new plays in development as associate artistic director at La Jolla Playhouse, acting as dramaturg on many of that theatre’s mainstage productions. At New York’s Public Theater, she served as dramaturg on productions, readings and workshops and co-curated the Public’s annual New Work Now! Festival. As creative advisor and dramaturg at Sundance Theatre Lab, she worked on such projects as Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife and Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project. Shirley holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University in dramaturgy, is a guest lecturer at UCSD’s Theater Department and is a dramaturg for UCSD’s annual Playwrights Festival. She is also executive vice president of the San Diego Performing Arts League Board.
rachel hauck
(Scenic Design) last designed Antony & Cleopatra for Berkeley Rep. Recent West Coast credits include Winter’s Tale, Richard III and Hedda Gabler at OSF; Water and Power, Electricidad and Chavez Ravine at the Taper; The Clean House and Mr. Marmalade at South Coast Rep; and The Country, Be Aggressive at La Jolla Playhouse. In New York, Rachel recently designed The Cataract for the Women’s Project. Off-Broadway credits include the Public Theater, Minetta Lane, the Vineyard Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ma-Yi Theatre Company. Additionally, she’s worked at Yale Rep, the Intiman, Trinity Rep, the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis and Tokyo’s Parco Theatre. Rachel has been the resident set designer at the O’Neill Playwrights Festival since 2005. Rachel is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theater and an NEA/TCG Design Fellowship.
david zinn
(Costume Design) recently designed costumes for the world premiere of The Greater Good at Glimmerglass Opera (directed by David Schweizer) and has provided both set and costume design for Marivaux’s The Island of Slaves and Rinde Eckert’s Orpheus X at A.R.T., both directed by Robert Woodruff. He has designed scenery and/or costumes regionally at the Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Guthrie, CenterStage, the Taper, Seattle Rep, the Intiman, Yale Rep and many others. In New York, his sets and costumes have been seen at New York City Opera, Second Stage, NYTW, the Atlantic Theater, MCC Theater and Target Margin Theater, where his work received an Obie Award. Visit mrdavidzinn.com.
alexander v. nichols
(Lighting Design) was the lighting and projection designer for last season’s Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell. Other Berkeley Rep designs include Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, Surface Transit, Continental Divide and Fê?tes de la Nuit. He has also worked with Arena Stage, Alley Theater, A.C.T., OSF, Cal Shakes, Huntington Theatre, CenterStage, National Theater of Taiwan, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey, ODC/SF, Hubbard Street, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Kronos Quartet, Paul Dresher Ensemble and Rinde Eckert. Alexander served as resident designer for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Pennsylvania Ballet and Hartford Ballet and was lighting director for American Ballet Theater. Dance credits include designs for choreographers Christopher d’Amboise, Ann Carlson, Val Caniparoli, Bill T. Jones, Jean Grand Maitre, Mark Morris, Mikko Nissinen, Kevin O’Day, Kirk Peterson, Stephen Petronio, Dwight Rhoden, Michael Smuin and Brenda Way.
jill bc duboff
(Sound Design) designed The Constant Wife, The Good Body and Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home on Broadway, and was associate sound designer for Three Days of Rain and The Odd Couple. Off Broadway credits include Jump/Cut and Birdy at Women’s Project, Memory House and Splatter Pattern at Playwrights Horizons, What Then with Clubbed Thumb and Well at the Public Theater, in addition to work with Vineyard Theatre, NYTW, Cherry Lane, Signature Theatre and Adobe Theater Company. Regionally, she’s worked with New York Stage & Film, the Humana Festival, Woolly Mammoth and South Coast Rep. Her TV work includes Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen and NBC Late Fridays. Jill was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and a Hewes Award in 2005.
steve rankin
(Fight Director) frequently works with La Jolla Playhouse, where recent fight credits include Zhivago, Palm Beach, Jersey Boys and Dracula: The Musical. Fight credits at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre include Antony & Cleopatra, Two Noble Kinsmen, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On Broadway, Steve has directed fight sequences for Jersey Boys; Dracula: The Musical; Henry IV, Parts I and II; The Who’s Tommy; Twelfth Night; Two Shakespearean Actors, Getting Away with Murder; Anna Christie and The Real Inspector Hound. Additionally, Steve has worked at the Metropolitan Opera, San Diego Opera, the Taper, the Ahmanson, Asolo Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, CenterStage, Virginia Stage Company, GEVA and elsewhere, and has numerous off-Broadway and film credits.
anjee nero
(Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to be assisting her first show at Berkeley Rep. Regional credits include Mother Courage and Current Nobody at La Jolla Playhouse; Jem & I and Be Here Then at id Theatre Company’s Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; Waiting for Godot and Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Risk Theatre Initiative; Cyrano, Inspecting Carol and A Chorus Line at Plano Repertory Theatre; Hamlet at the Curtis Theatre and Lava with Son of Semele Ensemble; Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus at Dallas Theater Center. Anjee’s other credits include Only Sound Remains with Japan America Theatre and Southern California industrial events with MSI Production Services.
cast
ara anderson *
(Tuba / Accordion / Ensemble) is a San Francisco performer and composer who leads two bands: Boostamonte! and Iron & the Albatross. He has also worked with J.C. Hopkins, Geoff Hoyle, Jolie Holland, Jonathan Richman, Sean Hayes, Victoria Williams, Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks, Tom Waits, the New Pickle Circus band and Tin Hat, among others. Ara began singing and playing trumpet, violin, drums and piano in fifth grade with encouragement from his father, a trained trombonist and composer. Throughout college, he played in several school orchestras, concert bands and jazz bands, playing hand bells and singing at a local church, and playing in an after-school jazz ensemble led by bassist Herbie Lewis. Ara studied classical pedagogy and performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
katie barrett *
(Yvette) is delighted to debut at Berkeley Rep and continue in the role of Yvette she created for La Jolla Playhouse. Stage credits include the East Coast premiere of Amy Freed’s Safe In Hell at Yale Rep, directed by Mark Wing-Davey, and numerous productions with Ensemble Studio Theatre, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Studio Theatre (Trudy Blue, title role), the Kennedy Center (Jo, Little Women), Arena Stage, Baltimore CenterStage, Woolly Mammoth, Round House Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, Folger Shakespeare Library, Berkshire Theatre Festival and HERE. Film and TV credits include Fast Track, as well as HBO’s The Corner, Riders and Pride and Prejudice. As a singer, Katie has performed with the Washington Bach Consort, Woodley Ensemble and the Oratorio Society of Washington and has appeared as a soloist at Washington National Cathedral.
ivonne coll *
(Mother Courage) is delighted to bring her portrayal of Mother Courage to Berkeley Rep. Broadway credits include the Tony Award-nominated Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Shakespeare on Broadway and Goodbye, Fidel. Regionally, she has appeared at the Goodman Theatre (2002 Jeff Award nominee, Best Supporting Actress for Electricidad), La Jolla Playhouse (2000 Craig Noel Award, Outstanding Lead Performance for Adoration of the Old Woman), Mark Taper Forum, Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, the Public Theater and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (1988 ACE Award, Best Actress for Orinoco). Ivonne made her film debut in The Godfather, Part II. Recent television credits include roles on CSI, Crossing Jordan, Nip/Tuck and Six Feet Under, among others. During the Vietnam War, she was the only Hispanic entertainer who sang for the troops.
david w. collins *
(Young Soldier / Ensemble) makes his Berkeley Rep debut with Mother Courage. Favorite regional roles include Anthony in Sweeney Todd at Solano College Theatre and Tom in The Glass Menagerie at Whitworth College. As a voice-over actor, David can be heard in numerous radio ads, video games and TV commercials. He’s also highly involved at LucasArts, a division of LucasFilm, Ltd, where he’s been a lead sound designer and voice director since 2000. Recently, David was nominated by the internationally recognized Game Audio Network Guild for a “Sound Design of the Year” award. He holds a B.A. in theatre and music from Whitworth College and is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music, where he studied music production and engineering, drum set and conducting.
mark danisovszky *
(Piano / Accordion / Ensemble) is a musical director, composer, pianist and accordionist in diverse settings. As solo accordionist, Mark’s recent credits include The Lord of the Rings Symphony with Howard Shore and the Atlanta Symphony; Vanessa by Samuel Barber (San Diego Opera); The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyaam by Alan Hovhaness (Hilton Head Orchestra) and Tango by Robert Xavier Rodriguez (San Diego Symphony). Theatrical credits include the Pianist in Luck, Pluck, and Virtue and Oronte/Accordionist in The School for Wives at La Jolla Playhouse, as well as Mark Blitzstein/Pianist in The Cradle Will Rock, Red Noses, The Dybbuk and Six Women With Brain Death at San Diego Rep. Mark has also composed scores for productions of Three Sisters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Odyssey and Fern Street Circus, and he performs with many world music groups.
brent hinkley *
(Sergeant / Ensemble) is the associate artistic director of the Actors’ Gang in Los Angeles where he has directed several plays, including Underneath the Lintel (which won Ovation Awards for direction and production) and Blood! Love! Madness! (which won the L.A. Weekly Award for direction and Garland Awards for direction and production). At Actors’ Gang he has also performed in Woyzeck, The Seagull, 1984, Carnage and Embedded, the latter two also having runs at the Public Theater in New York. TV and film credits include The Sidler on Seinfeld, CSI, The Closer, Monk, Gilmore Girls, ER, The West Wing, The X Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ed Wood, Falling Down, Silence of the Lambs, Bob Roberts, Jacob’s Ladder and Say It Isn’t So. Brent resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Kate, and their 6-year-old son, Declan.
drew hirshfield *
(Swiss Cheese / Ensemble) is a Bay Area native. His credits include work at A.C.T. (Happy End, A Christmas Carol), Magic Theatre (Nero [Another Golden Rome]), Shakespeare Santa Cruz (Merry Wives of Windsor, The Seagull), Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Marin Shakespeare Company, Sacramento Theatre Company and Santa Rosa’s Summer Repertory Theatre. As an apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville he appeared in workshop productions of the plays Creep, Slut and Description Beggared. He holds a B.A. from U.C. Davis and an M.F.A. from A.C.T. He is delighted to make his Berkeley Rep debut.
katie huard
(Kattrin / Ensemble) is excited to join Berkeley Rep for this production. Currently in her final year of graduate school at A.C.T., Katie is a proud native of New Orleans. She began her acting training at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and then attended the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where she received a B.A. in theatre with a minor in Spanish. Her favorite projects have been The House of Blue Leaves on the College of Charleston’s mainstage (Bananas), The Wait (a movement project at Piccollo Spoleto Festival) and her A.C.T. first-year project The Lady from Dubuque (Elizabeth). Katie would like to thank A.C.T. for allowing her to be in this show and her parents for their continuous love, support and enthusiasm.
marc damon johnson *
(Recruiting Officer / Ensemble) is elated to return to Berkeley Rep, where he was last seen in Polk County. His theatre credits include the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF), Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Acting Company in New York, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater Festival and Signature Theatre in New York, where he received a Drama League nomination for his appearance in Mr. Fox: A Rumination with Bill Irwin and Geoff Hoyle. Marc has appeared on numerous TV shows including Rescue Me, The Sopranos, Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 100 Centre Street and Deadline. His film credits include Preaching to the Choir, It Runs in the Family, Grace & Glorie and Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown.
patrick kerr *
(Chaplain / Ensemble) After attending Yale School of Drama Patrick lived in NYC performing in lots of theatre. Highlights include the title role in Tartuffe opposite Cherry Jones, Liviu Ciulei’s The Bacchae at the Guthrie and The Devils, directed by Garland Wright for New York Theater Workshop (NYTW). He moved to Los Angeles as part of the original cast of the off-Broadway hit Jeffrey and has since appeared on dozens of television shows, including recurring roles as Noel Shemsky on Frasier, for which he won a SAG Ensemble Award, and as the blind guy on Curb Your Enthusiasm. West Coast theatrical credits include Steve Martin’s The Underpants at the Geffen Playhouse, Dealer’s Choice at the Mark Taper Forum and Love! Valour! Compassion! here at Berkeley Rep, for which he won a Bay Area Critics Circle Award.
justin leath **
(Eilif / Ensemble) is a member of American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. class of 2007, and most recently appeared as Baby Face in A.C.T.’s Happy End. Other M.F.A. productions include The Virtuous Burglar, Much Ado About Nothing, The Love of the Nightingale, Myths and Hymns and The Lady from Dubuque. Regional theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet; Richard III; Henry IV, Part I; My Fair Lady; 1776; Born Yesterday and Camelot—all with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, where he received the Michael and Jan Finlayson Memorial Acting Award. Justin has also performed as a soloist with the Milwaukee and San Antonio Symphony
jarion monroe *
(Cook / Ensemble) has appeared in more than 17 seasons at Berkeley Rep since 1985. Shows include House of Blue Leaves, Rhinoceros, Volpone, Hard Times and Our Town. His other Bay Area credits include the world premieres of Sex Habits of the American Woman and The Right Kind of People at the Magic Theatre and Old Wicked Songs at Marin Theatre Company. Jarion has also worked at Marin Shakes, California Rep, Cal Shakes and San Jose Rep, and appeared as The Player in Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead and as Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, both at A.C.T. He has also worked with Arizona Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, Yale Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) and the Ahmanson Theatre. His TV and film credits include The Californians, In Control of All Things, The Game, Seinfeld and Frasier.
* 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.
** Equity Professional Theatre Intern
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