07/08 main season
Steven Epp, Adaptor and Surtitles
Dominique Serrand, Director and Scenography & Video
Sonya Berlovitz, Costume Design
Marcus Dilliard, Lighting Design
Kenneth Helvig, Assistant Lighting Design
Zach Humes, Sound Design
Bradley Greenwald, Music Adaptation
Barbara Brooks, Music Direction
Jason Sherbundy, Conductor & Pianist
Glenn D. Klapperich, Stage Manager
Daniel Lori, PM / TD Video Tech
Paulina Jurzec, Video Tech
cast (in alphabetical order)
Christina Baldwin, Cherubino
Bryan Boyce, Figaro
Steven Epp, Fig
Bradley Greenwald, Count Almaviva
Carrie Hennessey, Marcellina
Bryan Janssen, Bartolo
Justin D. Madel, Basilio
Jennifer Baldwin Peden, Countess
Dominique Serrand, Mr. Almaviva
Momoko Tanno, Susanna
Casey Greig, Fig (understudy)
Anna Hersey, Countess (alternate)
Julie Kurtz, Susanna (alternate)
7th avenue string quartet
Alex Kelly, Cello
Justin Mackewich, Violin
Katrina Weeks, Viola
Sarah Jo Zaharako, Violin
steven epp *
(Adaptor / Fig) portrayed Harpagon in The Miser and Sgnarelle in Don Juan Giovanni at Berkeley Rep. He also adapted The Green Bird. Steven began working with Jeune Lune in 1983, and has performed with them at numerous theatres including The Alley Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ART, La Jolla Playhouse, The New Victory Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston. He has played the titles roles in Crusoe, Gulliver, Hamlet, The Miser and Tartuffe; and major roles in The Little Prince, The Magic Flute, Maria de Buenos Aires, The Seagull and Twelfth Night. Steven adapted and directed Medea and collaborated on scripts for The 3 Musketeers; Amerika, or The Disappearance; Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream; Don Juan Giovanni; The Green Bird; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Magic Flute; Mefistofele; and adapted Marivaux’s The Deception. He is the recipient of a 1999 Fox Fellowship.
dominique serrand *
(Director / Mr. Almaviva) Paris native Dominique Serrand is Jeune Lune’s artistic director and co-founder. He studied at the National Circus School and the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Dominique has acted, conceived, directed or designed most Jeune Lune productions for over 27 years, focusing primarily on directing. His directing credits include Don Juan Giovanni, The Green Bird, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Miser at Berkeley Rep. He has also directed 1789, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, Gulliver, The Kitchen, The Little Prince, Lulu, The Pursuit of Happiness, Queen Elizabeth, Romeo and Juliet, Red Noses, The Seagull, The 3 Musketeers and Tartuffe, and operas including Carmen, Così fan tutte, Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, The Magic Flute, Maria de Buenos Aires and Mefistofele for various theatres including The Alley Theatre, ATL, ART, CTC, the Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Rep. Dominique is a USA Ford Fellow, and has been knighted by the French government in the order of Arts and Letters.
sonya berlovitz
(Costume Designer) returns to Berkeley Rep, having previously designed costumes for The Green Bird, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Miser. She has been designing costumes primarily for Jeune Lune since 1980, where her work includes Così fan tutte, Hamlet, The Magic Flute, Medea and Tartuffe. Her design credits elsewhere include three seasons at CTC, Triumph of Love at the Guthrie and The Deception at La Jolla Playhouse. Sonya is a graduate of La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and of The School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Sonya has worked as a textile designer for Yohji Yamamoto. Her many grants and honors for design include a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, a McKnight Theatre Artist Fellowship and participation in the juried exhibition of World Stage Design in Toronto in 2005. In 2007, she was invited to exhibit work from The Miser in the Prague Quadrennial.
marcus dilliard
(Lighting Design) previously designed Don Juan Giovanni, The Green Bird, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Miser for Jeune Lune and Berkeley Rep. For Jeune Lune, he also designed Amerika, Antigone, The Ballroom, Carmen, Così fan tutte, Description of the World, Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Prince, The Magic Flute, Mefistofele, Maria de Buenos Aires, The Seagull and Tartuffe. Marcus’ theatre and opera credits across North America and Europe include work at Arena Stage, The Athens Festival in Greece, ATL, ART, Canadian Opera Company, CTC, Dallas Theater Center, Flanders Opera, the Guthrie, Intiman Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opéra de Montréal, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, The Shakespeare Theatre, the Spoleto Festival in Italy and The Vancouver Opera. Marcus received a 2005 Ivey Award and a 2006 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellowship. His M.F.A. is from Boston University’s School of the Arts.
kenneth helvig
(Assistant Lighting Design) has been ART’s resident assistant lighting designer since 2004, assisting on Amerika; Britannicus; Desire Under the Elms; Don Juan Giovanni; Figaro; Oliver Twist; the tour of Orpheus X in Cambridge, Edinburgh and Hong Kong; Romeo and Juliet; Three Sisters; Carmen; The Miser; and Olly’s Prison. Other ART credits include Copenhagen, Island of Anyplace, No Exit and No Man’s Land. Productions with ART and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training include Betty’s Summer Vacation, Pants on Fire and Slaughter Game. Kenneth’s other regional credits include Clear Stage Cincinnati, Forestburgh Playhouse, Stoneham Theatre and University of Cincinnatti. Kenneth has an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati–College Conservatory of Music.
bradley greenwald *
(Music Adaptor / Count Almaviva) previously portrayed Leporello at Berkeley Rep in Jeune Lune’s Don Juan Giovanni. He has collaborated with Jeune Lune over the past 14 years as performer and music adaptor for Carmen, Cosí fan tutte, The Magic Flute, María de Buenos Aires and Mefistofele. He has performed concert and recital repertoire, musical theatre, opera and theatre in the Twin Cities with Ten Thousand Things, Ballet of the Dolls, CTC, The Guthrie, Jungle Theater, The Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater and others. Bradley is the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in music, the McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists and an Ivey Award for Jungle Theater’s 2006 production of I Am My Own Wife.
barbara brooks
(Music Director) is an active vocal coach and music director in the Twin Cities area. She has worked with various opera companies including Berkshire Opera Company, The Canadian Opera Company, Des Moines Metro Opera, Minnesota Opera, The New Orleans Opera Association, Opera Banff and Kentucky Opera, as well as the University of Minnesota Opera and University of North Texas Opera programs. Barbara has also served as a vocal coach for the Minnesota Opera’s Resident Artist Program and is on the music staff of the Wesley Balk Institute. She currently teaches piano at Macalester College and is the pianist for the Minnesota Chorale, the official chorus of the Minnesota Orchestra.
jason sherbundy
(Conductor / Pianist) Conductor, composer and keyboard player Jason Sherbundy has led over 32 regional musical theatre shows and 20 operas (five with Berkeley Opera), composed and arranged 17 theatre pieces (six with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and three with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival) and is currently associate conductor of The Lion King national tour. He is featured on the Grammy-nominated new cast recording of A Chorus Line and was the San Francisco music director for Spelling Bee; assistant conductor for Caroline, or Change; and keyboardist for White Christmas. Jason recently performed the two piano/percussion version of Carmina Burana for City Opera Vancouver, where he is the associate artistic director. He has worked extensively as a jazz, blues and rock keyboardist, and enjoys teaching piano and coaching singers.
glenn d. klapperich *
(Stage Manager) has been a stage manager at Jeune Lune for the past four years. His previous Jeune Lune productions include Amerika, The Ballroom, Carmen, Don Juan Giovanni, The Golem, The Little Prince, Maria de Buenos Aires, Mefistofele and The Miser, which played at Berkeley Rep in 2006. Over the past 15 years, his favorite productions have included Cloud Nine and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told at Outward Spiral Theatre Company, Escape from Happiness and The Gospel of the Messiah Widow with Bald Alice Theatre Company, and Love! Valour! Compassion! and Three Days of Rain at Park Square Theatre.
cast
christina baldwin *
(Cherubino) As a collaborator with Jeune Lune over the last eight years, Christina Baldwin’s projects include Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, the Astor Piazzolla tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires and the title role in its critically-acclaimed Carmen. Her credits at the Guthrie Theater include A Christmas Carol, A Comedy of Errors, The Great Gatsby, The Pirates of Penzance and She Loves Me. She has been a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra in concert, in its staging of the opera Hansel & Gretel and a featured soloist in its latest recording project. Christina has appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, and has lent her voice to animated short films by Cannes Film Festival award-winning director, Rosto A.D. Christina’s other credits include work at American Repertory Theatre (ART), The Minnesota Opera, Skylark Opera, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Ex-Machina, The Great American History Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater and New Breath Productions.
bryan boyce *
(Figaro) is originally from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has participated in the Central City Opera Young Artist Program for three seasons, most recently covering Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Other past engagements include Don Giovanni in Don Juan Giovanni and Figaro in Figaro with Jeune Lune and ART, Olin Blitch in Susannah and Colline in La Bohème with Theater Latté Da, Littore in L’incoronazione di Poppea and the Denver Politician in The Ballad of Baby Doe with the Central City Opera. Next season Bryan will be part of the Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Program.
steven epp *
(Adaptor / Fig) portrayed Harpagon in The Miser and Sgnarelle in Don Juan Giovanni at Berkeley Rep. He also adapted The Green Bird. Steven began working with Jeune Lune in 1983, and has performed with them at numerous theatres including The Alley Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ART, La Jolla Playhouse, The New Victory Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston. He has played the titles roles in Crusoe, Gulliver, Hamlet, The Miser and Tartuffe; and major roles in The Little Prince, The Magic Flute, Maria de Buenos Aires, The Seagull and Twelfth Night. Steven adapted and directed Medea and collaborated on scripts for The 3 Musketeers; Amerika, or The Disappearance; Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream; Don Juan Giovanni; The Green Bird; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Magic Flute; Mefistofele; and adapted Marivaux’s The Deception. He is the recipient of a 1999 Fox Fellowship.
bradley greenwald *
(Music Adaptor / Count Almaviva) previously portrayed Leporello at Berkeley Rep in Jeune Lune’s Don Juan Giovanni. He has collaborated with Jeune Lune over the past 14 years as performer and music adaptor for Carmen, Cosí fan tutte, The Magic Flute, María de Buenos Aires and Mefistofele. He has performed concert and recital repertoire, musical theatre, opera and theatre in the Twin Cities with Ten Thousand Things, Ballet of the Dolls, CTC, The Guthrie, Jungle Theater, The Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater and others. Bradley is the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in music, the McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists and an Ivey Award for Jungle Theater’s 2006 production of I Am My Own Wife.
casey greig *
(Fig—understudy) is pleased to appear at Berkeley Rep for the first time. His regional credits include The Deception at Jeune Lune and La Jolla Playhouse, Good Boys and Romeo & Juliet at the Guthrie and The Tempest at Actors Theater of Louisville. His Minneapolis credits include Thom Pain (based on nothing) at Emigrant Theater; Beauty Queen of Leenane, Cowbird and Skylight at Eye of the Storm; Iphegenia at Ten Thousand Things; The Glass Menagerie at THLD; Molly’s Delicious and Torch Song Trilogy at The Jungle Theater; The Pillowman at Jon Hassler Theater; and Sex Diaries… at Penumbra Theatre Company.
carrie hennessey *
(Marcellina) With this show, Carrie Hennessey makes her Berkeley Rep debut. She’s worked with Jeune Lune since January 2007 in Don Juan Giovanni and Figaro, reprising her roles in repertory at ART. A native of the Twin Cities, Carrie graduated with a B.A. in vocal performance from the University of Minnesota, Morris, and recently relocated to Sacramento, where she will sing the role of Edith in Pirates of Penzance for Sacramento Opera later this year. Carrie has worked almost exclusively with composer Hiram Titus since 2003, developing, premiering and performing his original works in recital. Their latest and most exciting collaboration is the release of Carrie’s debut CD, A Prelude to Summer, which premieres song cycles featuring wry and obscure Mother Goose rhymes as well as the ecstatic and mystical poetry of the Carmelite monk St. John of the Cross.
anna hersey
(Countess—alternate) credits include Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Nursemaid in Street Scene with University of Minnesota Opera Theatre, Fiona in Brigadoon with Stars Over VIESHEA, Frasquita in Carmen and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Iowa State University Opera Theatre and chorus work in Lakmé and Roméo et Juliette with The Minnesota Opera. Anna recently performed at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy, where she was awarded the Emma Contestabile Scholarship for study with acclaimed soprano Raina Kabaivanska. She holds a MM in vocal performance from the University of Minnesota. As a musicologist, she has conducted research at Università di Bologna, the Archivio di Stato in Siena and Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence. She is currently completing an M.A. in ethnomusicology.
bryan janssen *
(Bartolo) has performed in Minnesota with the Bach Society Chorus, the Lyra Baroque Orchestra, Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, North Star Opera, Oratorio Society of Minnesota and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed the title role in Ragamala Music and Dance Theater’s production of Asoka. Bryan’s other regional credits include work at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Kansas City Symphony Chorus and Kansas City Repertory Theater. He has been the bass soloist and section leader for 20 years at Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul.
julie kurtz
(Susanna—alternate) is thrilled to join Jeune Lune on the Berkeley Rep stage. Anna was part of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award-winning best ensemble for Anna Bella Eema with Crowded Fire Theater Company. Other Bay Area credits include work at 42nd Street Moon, Berkeley Playhouse, The Mountain Play, Radiostar Improv and San Francisco Shakespeare Company. Julie trained at ACT and holds a B.A. in Music from Whitworth University in Washington.
justin d. madel *
(Basilio) is pleased to make his Berkeley Rep debut with Figaro. Most recently, Justin performed Carmina Burana with the Minnesota Dance Theatre and Columbia Festival of the Arts. Over the last four years his work with Theatre de la Jeune Lune has included productions of The Ballroom, Carmen and Carmina Burana. He has also performed La Belle Hélène, Countess Maritza, The Red Mill and Wonderful Town with Skylark Opera; Carmina Burana, Pagliacci and Turandot with Minnesota Opera; and Madama Butterfly at the Pine Mountain Music Festival. Justin has been a featured soloist at the Silver Bay Music Festival, and won the Shubert Club competition in 2004.
jennifer baldwin peden *
(Countess) previously portrayed Soraya in Haroun and the Sea of Stories at Berkeley Rep. Her other credits include The Ballroom, Carmen, Carmina Burana, Così fan tutte, Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, Fishtank, The Magic Flute, Maria de Buenos Aires and Mefistofele with Jeune Lune; Carmen, Don Juan Giovanni and Figaro at ART; A Christmas Carol, The Comedy of Errors and Pirates of Penzance at The Guthrie; and various productions with the Minnesota Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, Nautilus Music-Theatre, Skylark Opera and The Great American History Theatre. Jennifer appeared in the film Drop Dead Gorgeous and her voice is used for the Dutch animated film Jona/Tomberry, which won the Grand Prix Canal at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. She has also appeared as a featured guest on A Prairie Home Companion. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Music from DePaul University and a Master of Music from the University of Minnesota.
dominique serrand *
(Director / Mr. Almaviva) Paris native Dominique Serrand is Jeune Lune’s artistic director and co-founder. He studied at the National Circus School and the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Dominique has acted, conceived, directed or designed most Jeune Lune productions for over 27 years, focusing primarily on directing. His directing credits include Don Juan Giovanni, The Green Bird, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Miser at Berkeley Rep. He has also directed 1789, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, Gulliver, The Kitchen, The Little Prince, Lulu, The Pursuit of Happiness, Queen Elizabeth, Romeo and Juliet, Red Noses, The Seagull, The 3 Musketeers and Tartuffe, and operas including Carmen, Così fan tutte, Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, The Magic Flute, Maria de Buenos Aires and Mefistofele for various theatres including The Alley Theatre, ATL, ART, CTC, the Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse and Yale Rep. Dominique is a USA Ford Fellow, and has been knighted by the French government in the order of Arts and Letters.
momoko tanno *
(Susanna) is delighted to make her debut at Berkeley Rep. She was part of the original cast in Figaro at Jeune Lune where she has also appeared as Donna Anna in Don Juan Giovanni and Frasquita in Carmen, reprising all three roles at ART. Momoko has also worked with Theater Mu as Omani/Teacher in The Walleye Kid in the Ordway McKnight Theatre, and Tamate/Shogun’s Mother in Pacific Overtures as a co-production with Park Square Theatre, as well as roles at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Dorian Opera Theatre, Mixed Blood Theater, Nautilus Music-Theater and others. As a soprano soloist, Momoko’s recent concert engagements include Christmas Oratorio in Germany with the Heinrich Schütz Choir, Heilbronn and Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Bach’s St. John’s Passion with the Heinrich Schütz Choir, Tokyo; and Bach’s B-minor Mass with the Bach Society of Minnesota.
7th ave string quartet
(Musicians) returns to Berkeley Rep following last season’s To The Lighthouse. Justin Mackewich (violin) is winner of numerous performance awards, and has appeared with the Oregon Symphony and several Bay Area symphonies. He has been a soloist on the PRI radio show From the Top at The Kennedy Center, and at Lincoln Center under the baton of Itzhak Perlman. Sarah Jo Zaharako (violin) has performed at Carnegie Hall on numerous occasions. Co-founder of the band Gojogo, and performer with Floating World and the Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, she performs and composes in a variety of genres throughout the Bay Area. Katrina Weeks (viola) has performed with numerous Bay Area symphonies, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the BluePrint Ensemble, The Music Lovers, Koozito, Finest Dearest, Fleeting Trance and The Clarences. Alex Kelly (cello) performs and composes music for symphonies, new music ensembles, dance companies and circus troupes across the US. He currently performs with Joan Jeanreaud, Pamela Z, the Dresher Ensemble, the Cooke Quintet, the Lizz Roman Dance Co., the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and the Alayo Dance Company. The quartet appears throughout the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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