07/08 limited season
Will Eno, Playwright
Les Waters, Director
Antje Ellermann, Scenic Design
Meg Neville, Costume Design
Matt Frey, Lighting Design
Cliff Caruthers, Sound Design
Michael Suenkel, Production Stage Manager
Amy Potozkin, Casting Director
Janet Foster, New York Casting
cast (in alpahbetical order)
David Cromwell, Frank in the Studio
Max Gordon Moore, Michael, Legal Advisor
Thomas Jay Ryan, John in the Field
Marguerite Stimpson, Constance at the Home
Danny Wolohan, The Witness
will eno
(Playwright) is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow and a Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. He received the first Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Playwriting Fellowship after being nominated for the award by Edward Albee. Will’s first play, The Flu Season, received the Oppenheimer Award in 2004 for the best New York debut by an American playwright. His play Thom Pain (based on nothing) won many awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of Intermission and the short plays in oh, the humanity and other good intentions, which recently appeared at the Flea Theater in New York. An excerpt of TRAGEDY: a tragedy appeared in the June 2006 issue of Harper’s magazine. Will taught playwriting as a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University in 2006, and was a Fellow of the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library in 2007. His plays are published by Oberon Books in London, and by TCG and Playscripts in the United States.
les waters
(Director) is in his fifth year as associate artistic director of Berkeley Rep, where he has staged Eurydice, Fêtes de la Nuit, Finn in the Underworld, The Glass Menagerie, Heartbreak House, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Pillowman, Suddenly Last Summer, To the Lighthouse 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, the Goodman and Long Wharf Theatre. In addition to Big Love, his New York credits include the Connelly Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Second Stage Theatre and Signature Theatre. Elsewhere in America, he has directed for A.C.T., the Goodman, the Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Yale Rep. In his native England, Les has staged work with the Bristol Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre Club, Joint Stock Theatre Group, National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and Traverse Theatre Club. He has a long history of working collaboratively with prominent playwrights like Caryl Churchill and Charles Mee, and champions important new voices, such as Jordan Harrison, Sarah Ruhl and Anne Washburn. Les is an associate artist of The Civilians, a New York-based theatre group, and former head of the M.F.A. directing program at UC San Diego. His many honors include a Drama-Logue Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and several awards from critics’ circles in the Bay Area, Connecticut and Tokyo.
antje ellermann
(Scenic Design) is excited to return to Berkeley Rep where she designed sets for last season’s production of The Pillowman and the previous season’s 9 Parts of Desire. Her other design projects include The Cook at intar, Liberty City by April Thompson and Jessica Blank at NYTW, Lydia by Octavio Solis at Denver Center Theatre Company and Sakharam Binder and Trust at The Play Company. Her scenic designs for opera include The Medium at The Kaye Playhouse, The Tender Land at the Fisher Center and Xerxes at Pittsburgh Opera Center. Antje’s TV design credits include a documentary series about the history of the Supreme Court for PBS and Becoming American, The Chinese Experience, for which she received an Emmy nomination. She is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers and has been nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award and an Ovation Award. For more information about Antje, please visit antjeellermann.com.
meg neville
(Costume Design) At Berkeley Rep, Meg Neville previously designed Dinner With Friends, Eurydice, Galileo and Suddenly Last Summer. She also worked with Les Waters on the Second Stage and Yale Rep productions of Eurydice, and Buried Child at A.C.T. Meg’s other recent Bay Area credits include The Crowd You’re in With at the Magic and King Lear at Cal Shakes, where she is an associate artist and has designed numerous productions. Her New York and regional credits include work at Atlantic Theater Company, BAM, CenterStage, Chicago Opera Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory and Yale Rep. Meg is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and resides in San Francisco with her husband and three children.
matt frey
(Lighting Design) This is Matt Frey’s fourth project at Berkeley Rep with Les Waters, having also worked on Finn in the Underworld, The Glass Menagerie and To the Lighthouse. His recent design work includes Frau Margot at Fort Worth Opera, Tan Dun’s The Gate at BAM, Hearts at CenterStage, Bach’s St. John Passion with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 with Brooklyn Philharmonic and Ridge Theater at BAM. Other highlights include Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave at Citè de la Musique in Paris, David Lang’s The Difficulty of Crossing a Field with Ridge Theater and Dublin By Lamplight in London with the Dublin-based Corn Exchange. Matt’s work has also been seen at Manhattan Class Company, The New Group, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Theatre For A New Audience, regional theatres throughout the U.S. and numerous theatres abroad.
cliff caruthers
(Sound Design) has created soundscapes and music for over a hundred Bay Area productions, most recently Anna Bella Eema for Crowded Fire, Brainpeople for A.C.T. and Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World for Cutting Ball Theater Company. He is an artistic associate at Cutting Ball, a company member of Crowded Fire and the resident sound designer for TheatreWorks. Cliff has also created sound designs for A.C.T., Cal Shakes and TJT. Outside the theatre world, he is co-curator of the San Francisco Tape Music Center and technical director for the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Cliff’s electronic music has been performed at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial, 964 Natoma, Deep Wireless, Noise Pancakes, SFEMF, SFTMF and the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States.
cast
david cromwell
(Frank in the Studio) TRAGEDY: a tragedy is David’s Berkeley Rep debut. His West Coast credits include work at The Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Other regional credits include work at CenterStage, Geva Theatre Center, Huntington Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center and elsewhere, including eight seasons of Shakespeare at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. On Broadway, David most recently appeared as Peter Chaadaev in Tom Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia. Other Broadway work includes Denzel Washington’s Julius Caesar, A History of the American Film, Me and My Girl, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Scarlet Pimpernel. David’s off-Broadway credits include Bad Habits, Big Bill and Hamlet. He has also appeared in many sitcoms, episodics, daytime dramas and movies of the week; his feature films include Speechless and Picture Perfect.
max gordon moore
(Michael, Legal Advisor) is pleased to make his Berkeley Rep debut in TRAGEDY: a tragedy. Locally, he’s also appeared with the Aurora Theatre Company in Private Jokes, Public Places; California Shakespeare Theatre in As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Richard III; Magic Theatre in Pleasure and Pain; and Traveling Jewish Theatre in 2x Malamud and Family Alchemy. Max also recently worked with local group Campo Santo in Des Moines. His regional credits include Bach At Leipzig at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, A Christmas Carol with the Actors Theatre of Louisville, John Bull’s Other Island at Geva, Marvin’s Room at Seattle Rep and The Seagull at The Cleveland Play House. Max is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and studied with the British Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He lives in Oakland.
thomas jay ryan
(John in the Field) off-Broadway credits include Pinter’s Celebration (American premiere) and The Room with Atlantic Theatre Company, the title role in In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer with Keen Company, Juno and the Paycock at Roundabout Theatre Company, Ivo Van Hove’s production of The Misanthrope at New York Theater Workshop, Sin with The New Group and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus at The Public Theater. His regional credits include work at Hartford Stage, the Guthrie Theater, the Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Shakespeare Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre. Thomas made his film debut as the title character in Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool and reprised the role in last year’s sequel, Fay Grim. Subsequent films include The Book of Life, Dreamboy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Legend of Bagger Vance and South of Heaven. Thomas has also twice collaborated with acclaimed San Francisco filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson, in Teknolust and last year’s Strange Culture.
marguerite stimpson
(Constance at the Home) recently made her Broadway debut in Butley, opposite Nathan Lane. Off Broadway, she also appeared in Transfigures at Women’s Project. Regionally, Marguerite has appeared in Antigone and The Idiots Karamazov (U.S.) at American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.); Apple Cove at the Todd Mountain Theater Project; Butley at the Huntington; Closer, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Play About the Baby, Proof and Romeo and Juliet at the Hippodrome State Theatre; and Mary Zimmerman’s Pericles at both the Goodman and Shakespeare Theatre. Her film and television credits include As the World Turns, Blood Night, Ed, Going Under and Lipstick Jungle. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, Marguerite received her M.F.A. from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at A.R.T.
danny wolohan
(The Witness) is a member of Campo Santo and The ESP Project, the resident theatre and dance-theatre companies, respectively, of San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts. With ESP, he has danced, written, sung and spoken in three critically-acclaimed world-premiere productions: 51802, One Window and Orbit. With Campo Santo, he has appeared in seven world-premiere productions, collaborating with such writers as Dave Eggers, Philip Kan Gotanda, Jessica Hagedorn, Denis Johnson and Octavio Solis. Danny has been nominated for several Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and is the recipient of a Dean Goodman Choice Award for best supporting actor. He was SF Weekly’s best ensemble actor of 2006, the Bay Area Reporter’s best drag performance of 2005 and was featured on the cover of American Theatre magazine as one of seven actors in the nation one should travel to see.
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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