CAST:

 
Peter Goldfarb (The Playwright) last appeared in New York in a multimedia adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, with music by Philip Glass. Prior to that, he performed in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, the inaugural production of The Manhattan Ensemble Theatre. In Los Angeles, he appeared as Sir in the revival of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, for which he received a Drama-Logue Award for Best Actor. Subsequently he appeared in John Marans’ Pulitzer Prize-nominated Old Wicked Songs at the Studio Theatre in Washington, for which he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as Outstanding Lead Actor. Regionally, he has starred as Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof at the Clarence Brown Theatre, as Claudius in Hamlet, and as Robert in David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre at the Denver Civic Theatre. Peter is a Vice President of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute Training and Education committee, and has created original ensemble theatre works and taught master classes in many countries around the world.


 
Dan Domingues (The Assistant) Off-Broadway: Night Sky (Nagelberg Theatre/Baruch College); The Cherry Orchard (Atlantic Theater Company); King Lear with Alvin Epstein (LaMaMa/Actor’s Shakespeare Project); Dog in the Manger (Repertorio Español). Other NY: Cymbeline (NY Classical Theatre); Masquerade (Cherry Lane Theatre Studio, Best Supporting Actor nominee- IT Awards); Who Popped Papi Chulo? (2003 NY Fringe Festival), which Dan also co-wrote and produced. Regional credits: Brutus in Julius Caesar and Fred in A Christmas Carol (Portland Stage Company); Pirandello’s Henry IV (Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Amadeus and Othello (Pioneer Theatre Company); Wait Until Dark (Stoneham Theatre); A Girl’s War (New Repertory Theatre); Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); La Dispute, Island of Anyplace, Othello (ART); The Best Man, Love and Murder (NJRep); Sunrise at Monticello, Flying Crows (Playwrights Theatre of NJ); Human Events, Wit, Ancestral Voices, In Between (George Street Playhouse). TV & Film: Hope and Faith, Third Watch, As The World Turns, and the independent shorts Blindfold and Gypsy Girl. Dan has an MFA from the ART/MXAT program at Harvard.


Michael Busillo (The Young Man) NY: Steve & Idi (Rattlestick); Texas Homos (Abingdon); This Property is Condemned (Diverse City/EST); Joy (Actor’s Playhouse); Henry & Mudge (Lucille Lortel); Bright. Apple. Crush, (Vital Theatre Co., Winner: Sam French OOB New Play Fest). Regional: Altar Boyz (D.C. Premiere); Les Miserables (PCLO, NSMT); Other People, Mojo, Camino Real, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rutgers Theatre Company). BFA: Rutgers University and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London.


CREATIVE TEAM:
Daniel MacIvor (Playwright) has been creating new theatre since 1986. For twenty years he was the Artistic Director of da da kamera, an international touring company based in Toronto. His many theatre credits include: See Bob Run, Never Swim Alone (Winner of the NY International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award), You Are Here, In On It (winner of a GLAAD and a Village Voice Obie Award), How It Works, etc. With Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House, Here Lies Henry, Monster, and Cul-De-Sac. In 2006, five of his plays were published as “I Still Love You” – Never Swim Alone, The Soldiers Dreams, You Are Here, In On It, and A Beautiful View) – and won him the Governor General’s Award for Drama). MacIvor was recently Playwright-in-Residence at the Banff Playwright’s Colony where he developed his new play Communion and a new screenplay for Bruce McDonald called 45’s. www.danielmacivor.com


Tom Gualtieri (Director) is a playwright, lyricist, actor, and director. Book & Lyrics: Falling to Earth, The Supper at Elsinore, and Last Call, My Darling. Plays: Me…and Medea, The Garden of the Earth, and That Play, his solo Macbeth, and additional material for Broadway Bares. Assistant Director: Right You Are for the National Actors Theatre (Tony Randall, Penny Fuller, Maria Tucci), Judgment at Nuremberg, Sherlock Holmes: The Early Years, and The Night of the Hunger (Dee Hoty, Beth Fowler) for NYMF, Shore Points (Irish Arts). Actor: Hay Fever (w/ Joanne Woodward), South Pacific (w/ Marin Mazzie, chor. by Rob Marshall), Privates on Parade, Dragapella!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Rivals, Cloud 9. Proud original cast member of Off-Broadway’s Naked Boys Singing. Film roles in: Fade to White, Rubberneck, Blinding Goldfish, and That’s All She Wrote. Recipient of the Best Actor award from the National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival for David Sisco’s Bait. Advanced member of the BMI Workshop.


Adam Blanshay (Producer) Producing credits include: Scott Nevins’ One Night Stand (New World Stages), Scott Nevins’ Rece$$ioni$sta & Celebutant (National Tours), and the upcoming Little Tragedies (Baryshnikov Arts Center), and Dr. Zhivago, The Musical (Associate Producer). His directing credits include: Associate Director on Piaf: Love Conquers All (winner of the 2007 FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Musical). Additional credits include: The Black Monk (Theatre Row/Beckett Theatre), The Second Tosca (45th Street Theatre), Clean (Urban Stages), A Woman Of Will (Daryl Roth Theatre). Opera: La Bohéme, Tosca (Regina Opera, Brooklyn, NY), Le Nozze Di Figaro (Modus Opera, NYC), Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Le Médecin Malgré Lui (IVAI, Tel Aviv). Mr. Blanshay also directed the most recent Montreal revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita (Moyse Hall). Special thanks to Anita Waxman.


Tania Bijlani (Set Design) Film: Production design for Watching TV With the Red Chinese (dir. by Shimon Dotan), Notes On Being Young (dir. Michael Masaro), The Lie: Book Trailer for Harper Collins (dir. by James Monohan); Art Direction: In Praise of Shadows (dir. by Jay Anania), Home Wrecker (dir. by Brad Barnes); Theatre: Set Design for Grace (Rising Circle Theatre, dir. by Nandita Shenoy), The Alice Complex (dir. by Bill Oliver, Winner: Outstanding Set Design, FringeNYC 2008).


Seth Reiser (Lighting Design) Recent credits include: NON-Play (Mikhael Garver, Columbia), Sweet Charity (Michael Allosso, Boston College), Radio Play (Tommy Smith, Ars Nova), The Woman (Andrea Ferran, Columbia Stages), Transition (Tommy Smith, Public Theatre), The Rover (Erica Gould, The New School), The Vanished (Awoye Timpo, Novisi), The Seagull (Adrianna Baer, Columbia Stages), The Sleeping Giant (Larry Goldhuber), The Cabaret and Performance Conference (The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center), Disinformation with Reggie Watts/Tommy Smith (The Public Theatre), Rabbit Hole (Cigdem Onat), Shakespeare’s Tap Sonnets (Awoye Timpo, Novisi). Upcoming projects include: Middlemen, (Josie Whittlesey, Human Animal Collective), The Lilly’s Revenge, (Taylor Mac, HERE Arts), Twelfth Night (Scott Cummings, Boston College), Transformations, (Ed Berkeley, Juilliard Opera). Seth has his MFA from NYU. www.sethreiserdesign.com.


Ciera Wells (Costume Design) Before returning to New York City in 2005 to complete her MFA in costume design at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ciera spent four years in Antwerp, Belgium and Nagoya, Japan designing costumes for theater, dance, and film and teaching. Most recently she’s been designing for film, dance, and theater in NYC. Film: The Imperialists Are Still Alive, directed by Zeina Durra and produced by Hi, Jack Film, LLC as well as numerous short films; Theatre: Green Girl (dir. Wendy McClellan and part of the Summer Play Festival at the Public Theater), Misalliance (New York Classical Theater), Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Loft Theater), What the Thunder Said (Bluemouth), various projects for The 52nd Street Project, and works by choreographers Cherylyn Lavignino and Christopher William. She is one of the resident costume designers for the Actor’s Studio at Pace University’s repertory season, and for the past two years has been The Continuum Company’s set and costume designer for their Essential Shakespeare Series.


Daniel Kluger (Sound Design) The Temperamentals (The Barrow Group), Jailbait (Cherry Lane), Raised In Captivity (Red Fern Theatre Company), Hardly Wonder (Columbia University), The Greeks Part III (Juilliard), James and the Giant Peach (Arden Theater Company), Melissa Arctic, Heartbreak House, A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage (Two River Theatre Company), The Persians (People’s Light & Theatre), Metamorphoses (Weston Playhouse), The Dining Room and Keen Teens (Keen Company), The Ones That Flutter (SPF/The Public Theatre), Talley’s Folly (Dorset Theatre Festival), Cecilia’s Last Tea Party (Todd Mountain Theatre Project), Platonov and Uncle Vanya (Lake Lucille, dir. Brian Mertes), Running (Milkcan), The Framer (Broken Watch), The Woodpecker, The Young Left, Jailbait (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Couldn’t Say (MITF), New York Innovative Theatre Awards (dir. Jose Zayas).


Mary Kathryn Blazek (Production Stage Manager) Off-Off Broadway: Candy and Dorothy (Theater Three); Alive in the World, The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (NYMF); Thicker Than Water 2007 (EST/Youngblood). Opera: Dialogues of the Carmelites, La Traviata, Daphne, and Le nozze di Figaro (New York City Opera); Stephen Paulus’ Summer and Alice in Wonderland (Center for Contemporary Opera); Orlando and Don Giovanni (Glimmerglass Opera); L’elisir d’Amore (Indianapolis Opera); Rigoletto and Fidelio (Virginia Opera); Zemire und Azor, Cendrillon, Lord Byron’s Love Letter/The Village Singer, L’Italiana in Londra (Manhattan School of Music). Other projects with MSM: Into the Woods, I Remember It Well: A Tribute to Lerner and Loewe, and Defying Gravity. Mary Kathryn is a native of Chattanooga, TN and an alumna of the Conservatory of Design/Technology at Purchase College.


Alexis Caldwell (Stage Manager) Alexis is pleased to be celebrating her tenth year in New York with His Greatness. She is a graduate of NYU and currently the technical coordinator for two theaters at Manhattan School of Music.


Melissa Magliula (Assistant Stage Manager) Melissa is a graduate of SUNY Oneonta with a BS in Theatre and a minor in Business. She recently worked on the stage management team for Broadway Bares 29.0: Click It! Other previous theater credits include Beauty and the Beast (Orpheus Theatre), Sweet Charity, The Ugly Ducking, The Maker of Dreams, and The Childrens’ Hour. She would like to thank her family, especially her mother, for all their support.


Sean Barrett (Production Assistant) is a graduate for the School of Visual Arts with a BA in Directing for Film, however he is no stranger to theater and is thrilled to be a part of the crew for His Greatness. NJ Theater credits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Guys and Dolls, I Hate Hamlet, Grease!, and The Wizard of Oz. Film & Television credits include Horizon, Gossip Girl, Cupid, The Support Group, Sheep That Sleep, and Nueva York. He wishes the cast and crew the best of luck!