GERRY BAMMAN (David McBane) received Obie and Drama League awards and a Drama Desk nomination for best featured actor for his performance as Richard Nixon in Nixon’s Nixon. He was a founding member of the Manhattan Project, one of the foremost experimental theater companies of the 1970’s, directed by Andre Gregory. Their production of Alice in Wonderland received an Obie award and was performed over 500 times in New York and around the world. He has appeared in many New York productions on Broadway and off, and in regional theaters. His most recent work was in the American premiers of Bartleby the Scrivener, Jean-Claude Carriere’s Encounter at Valladolid, the title role in Ward Just’s Lowell Limpet, Robert Moses in Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp — which won the Helen Hayes award for best new play—and A.R. Gurney’s Mrs. Farnsworth. Films: “Runaway Jury”, “Two Family House”, “Passion of Mind”, “Home Alone 1 and 2”, “Lorenzo’s Oil”, “Secret of My Success”, “Bodyguard”, “True Believer”, “Pink Cadillac”, and --- awaiting release --- “My Father’s Will”. Many appearances on “Law & Order”.
CHET CARLIN (Dr. Edward Gratton) appeared at the Mint as George Booth in The Voysey Inheritance and is excited to be back. Recent work includes the Abbe Faria in The Count of Monte Cristo at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Candy in Of Mice and Men at the Studio Arena in Buffalo, and, Off-Off Broadway, as Seamus in Shift Change by his son, Ben Carlin. He appeared on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s An Evening With Richard Nixon and later, as a nervous lawyer opposite Henry Fonda, in First Monday in October. National tours include Fiddler on the Roof, Dial “M” for Murder, and Sir Peter Hall’s As You Like It. Favorite roles include the title role in King Lear, Thomas More in Man for All Seasons and Scrooge in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Television includes “Return to Lonesome Dove”, all the “Law & Order” shows and most of the soaps. He lives in the Catskills with Miriam, his patient wife for forty years.
MICHAEL CRANE (Douglas McBane) is excited to be making his Mint debut. New York theater credits include Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), The Young Left (Cherry Lane Theatre), West Moon Street (Prospect Theater Co.-nominated for 2007 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role), The Mag-7 (Naked Angels), Saint Joan of the Stockyards (P.S. 122-Stillpoint Prods.), The Leopard and the Fox (Alter Ego Prods., nominated for 2008 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Ensemble) and Bone Portraits (Stillpoint Prods.). Regional theater credits include Hell Meets Henry Halfway (Pig Iron Theatre Co.), Ubu the King (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Rat in the Skull (Berkshire Theater Festival), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Weston Playhouse) TV: “Kings” (NBC-upcoming). MFA:NYU.
CHAD HOEPPNER (John Harvey) Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba (Bruce), Butley (Student, u/s Joey, Mr. Gardener). Off-Broadway: Richard III (Classic Stage Company), The Three Musketeers, Macbeth (The Acting Company). Other New York credits: As You Like It (NYSF), Scituate (TBG), The Book Play (Fringe 2007) originated the role of Edward in Edward the King (Gayfest NYC). Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Skin of Our Teeth (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Workshops / readings: NYSAF, Studio Dante, MTC, New York Theatre Workshop, Guthrie Theater. TV: “Law & Order: SVU.” MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program. BA: Colorado College. Chad also works as a consultant for The Trust for Public Land and other environmental groups.
ROBIN MOSELEY (Mildred McBane) last appeared in New York in the Roundabout’s production of Pygmalion. Prior to that she was a company member of the production of Heartbreak House (also for the Roundabout) and was the standby for the role of Grace in Faith Healer at the Booth. Other New York roles have included Violet in The Memory of Water and Judith in Aristocrats, both for Manhattan Theatre Club, Lady Faulconbridge in King John at the Delacorte and Belinda in Seasons Greetings at the Joyce. She has appeared at over 15 Regional theatres most recently at the Denver Center where favorite roles included Maureen in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Margrethe in Copenhagen, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. She was a company member with the Alley Theatre for 6 years. Television and film credits include “Law & Order”, “Law & Order SVU”, and “As the World Turns”, and the films “The Juror”, “The Sky’s No Limit” and “Manhunter”.
SAXON PALMER (Angus Mc Bane) Mint Theatre debut. Other NY theatre includes Measure for Pleasure (The Public), Design for Living, You Never Can Tell, Three Sisters, and A Flea in Her Ear (all Roundabout Theatre), Merchant of Venice (NY and RSC), Jew of Malta, and The Ohio State Murders (all Theatre for a New Audience). Favorite regional credits include Will Eno’s King (NY Stage and Film), Hamlet in Hamlet, and Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty. Was schooled at Florida State University.
JEANINE SERRALLES (Jean McBane) Mint Theater debut. Off-Broadway credits include: The Misanthrope (NYTW, Drama League Nom), The Black Eyed (NYTW, Drama League Nom); Hold Please (Working Theater, Drama Desk Nom-Featured Actress); Antigone Project (Women’s Project). NYC Theatre include: Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb); Paris Commune (Public Lab); Perfect Harmony (Westbank). Some regional credits include: 1001(Denver Center); Aunt Dan and Lemon (Merrimack); Lucy and the Conquest (Williamstown). She has also worked at Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater, Barrington Stage, O’Neill Playwrights Conference and Sundance Theatre Lab. Film & TV credits: “All Good Things”, “Two Lovers”, “Across the Universe”, “Sex and the City” and “Guiding Light”. She is a NYTW Usual Suspect, and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Many thanks to Lou Jacob and the Mint Theater.
FIANA TOIBIN (Bridget) Broadway: Long Day’s Journey into Night (2003 Tony Best Revival), The Weir, Shining City ; Off-Broadway: Sive (Irish Rep), Crestfall (Origin/59E59), The Ginger Man (Irish Arts), The Boys (Outhouse), Fire Eater. Other : Mrs. Packard (McCarter), Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre DC), The Weir (Pittsburgh Public, Geffen Playhouse), Conversations on a Homecoming (Druid Theatre Co at Donmar Warehouse London), Witches (Olympia Theatre) and A Dolls House, Stags and Hens (Andrews Lane, Dublin); TV: “Sopranos”,” Law & Order: CI”,” Law & Order: SVU”,” All My Children” and “Fair City” . She directed Morna Regan’s new play for Origin Theatre’s End of Lines in the First Irish Theatre Festival currently running at 59E59.
SANDRA STRUTHERS-CLERC (Elspie McBane) is delighted to be making her debut at the Mint. She has worked regionally with Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore CenterStage, American Repertory Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Williamstown Theatre Festival, as well as many theaters in her hometown of Minneapolis. Sandra has an MFA in acting from Harvard/ART, and a BA from Wesleyan University.
JACK WETHERALL (Malcolm McBane) Mint Theater: debut. Broadway: The Elephant Man (title role). Off-Broadway: originated the role of Mario in Tamara; Henry VI (Warwick), Theater for a New Audience; Swansong (Will Shakespeare) Lucille Lortel’s White Barn Theatre; Bad Women (Phaedra), Talking Band. Stratford Festival Theatre of Canada (under Robin Phillips’ artistic direction): Henry V (title role), As You Like It (Orlando), and The Seagull (Konstantin) with Dame Maggie Smith and Roberta Maxwell. Other: Willi (title role), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde), The Retreat from Moscow (Edward), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Heartbreak House (Shotover), Goodman Theater; Cyrano de Bergerac (title role), Guthrie Theatre; Pericles (title role), Hartford Stage Company; Twelfth Night (Orsino), The Rivals (Jack Absolute), The Old Globe; Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), Long Wharf Theatre; Macbeth (title role), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Berowne), Alabama Shakespeare Festival; The Cherry Orchard (Lopakhin), American Conservatory Theatre; Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Valmont), Pittsburgh Public Theatre; Democracy (Ralph Waldo Emerson) G.C.T.C., Ottawa. Film: starring role in “Third Man Out” and “This Time Forever.” Television: Four seasons as Vic on the Showtime series “Queer as Folk.” Additional: Mr. Wetherall won Dramalogue Awards for his performances in The Bacchae (Dionysis), Odyssey Theatre, and Man and Superman (Jack Tanner), A Noise Within in Los Angeles. He directed a critically praised production of Measure for Measure at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and continues to work on a one-man show titled Tunney/Shakespeare in Six Rounds by David Lane playing the role of Gene Tunney (former heavy-weight boxing champion) that had a successful debut at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre recently.
LOU JACOB (Director) Recent Off-Broadway productions include the world premiere of Sam Shepard’s The God Of Hell, starring Tim Roth, Randy Quaid, J. Smith-Cameron and Frank Wood; Coyote On A Fence, (2 Drama Desk Award Nominations, Village Voice Top 10); Hard Times (Village Voice Season Highlight, Drama Desk Nom. Best Director); Vilna’s Got A Golem (Village Voice Season Highlight); Live Girls by Victoria Stewart at Urban Stages. Summer Play Festival for 3 years, directing Hardball by Victoria Stewart, Courting Vampires by Laura Schellhardt and Arrivals And Departures by Rogelio Martinez. Internationally and on tour, his new production of Saturday Night Fever, for two seasons at the Beatrix Theatre in Amsterdam, and his play, Night Train To The Stars, premiered in Tokyo at the Metropolitan Theatre. He is the director of Backyardigans Live! For Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America. Other recent US productions include Black Comedy at Barrington Stage Company; Wintertime, Speaking In Tongues and Shakespeare, Moses And Joe Papp (2 Helen Hayes Awards, including Outstanding New Play) at The Roundhouse Theatre, Washington, DC; Julius Caesar at People’s Light and Theatre Co.(Production of the Year: Philadelphia Inquirer); Angus MacLachlan’s The Radiant Abyss at Woolly Mammoth/Kennedy Center; Red Herring at Florida Stage; Chesapeake, Honus And Me and Fuddy Meers (Production of the Year: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) at City Theatre; Just So, produced by Cameron MacKintosh and Goodspeed Musicals; Mr. Jacob is the recipient of The PRINCESS GRACE STATUE AWARD and a previous PRINCESS GRACE AWARD. He was Resident Director at New Dramatists in 1999-2000 and an original New York Theatre Workshop ‘Usual Suspect.’ Lou is on the faculty of The New School for Drama.
ROGER HANNA (Set Design) is pleased to return to the Mint, for whom he designed Walking Down Broadway, directed by Steven Williford (2005—2006 Drama Desk nomination, Best Set Design of a Play). Recent productions include Cloudless, choreographed by Susan Marshall (Bessie Award), and Dialogues of the Carmelites for Mannes Opera. Favorite collaborations include On the Town and Assassins, directed by Jack Allison, Dario Fo’s Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas and The Peasant Bible, directed by Ron Jenkins, L’enfant et les Sortilegès, directed by Robin Guarino, and Keith Reddin’s Black Snow, directed by Ralph Buckley. During the course of this production, Roger drove 9,098 miles with his five-year-old son through 28 states in 32 days without the benefit of video games or DVDs. They had fun. Roger next designs Ghosts and Ballet of Light, choreographed by Jody Sperling, at the Alvin Ailey in October. To see some of his work, visit www.rogerhanna.com.
CAMILLE ASSAF (Costume Design) is a Franco-American designer living in New York. Recent theater credits: The Backyardigans Live! (Nickelodeon national tour, with Lou Jacob), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Syracuse Stage), Killing the Boss (Cherry Lane), The Taming of the Shrew (Great River Shakespeare Festival), Richard II (Milwaukee Shakespeare), Three Children (Shanghai Fringe Festival, Hong Kong Fringe Club), The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theater). Opera credits: Elmer Gantry (Nashville Opera, Montclair State University), Don Giovanni, and the upcoming Falstaff (New York Opera Society, Théâtre Municipal de Castres, France). Also upcoming: the premiere of Cambodian-American opera Where Elephants Weep (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). Her costumes for dance have appeared at the New York City Ballet, the Joyce Theater, the Guggenheim museum, Dance New Amsterdam. She is an associate artist of Moving Theater and a recipient of the 2007 NEA/TCG career development program for designers. MFA: Yale School of Drama.
MARCUS DOSHI (Lighting Design) designs lighting for theatre, opera & dance as well as collaborating with artists & architects on a wide array of non-theatrical ventures. Recent projects of note include Queens Blvd and First Breeze Of Summer (Signature, NYC), The Skin Of Our Teeth (Intiman, directed by Bartlett Sher), and the international tour of Pamina Devi, choreographed by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. NYC & Regional: The New Group, Soho Rep, Synapse, Joyce, Lincoln Center, Yale Repertory, Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh Public, St. Louis Repertory, Dallas Theatre Center, Chicago Shakespeare, Court, Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage, Virginia Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Florentine Opera, Seattle Opera among others. Art & Exhibition: DESIGN LIFE NOW (Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum 2006), KARAOKE ICE (ISEA/ZeroOne Festival 2006, LACE 2007), ABOVE & BELOW by artist Maya Lin (Indianapolis Museum of Art 2007). Education: Wabash College, Yale School of Drama. More at www.marcusdoshi.com.
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LINDSAY JONES (Original Music and Sound Design) Off-Broadway credits include: The God of Hell, Dedication Or The Stuff of Dreams, In the Continuum, 1001, Something You Did, John Ferguson, String of Pearls, Boy, O Jerusalem, Beautiful Thing and Closet Land. Regional credits include: Center Stage, South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Alliance, Goodman, Cincinnati Playhouse, Kansas City Repertory, Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ford’s Theatre, Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Lookingglass, Yale Repertory, as well as many others. International credits include productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland and with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England. Lindsay has received four Joseph Jefferson Awards and 12 nominations, an Ovation Award, LA Drama Critics Circle Award, two ASCAP Plus Awards, nominations for Barrymore, Austin Critics Circle and NAACP Theatre Awards and was the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. Recent TV/Film scoring work includes the pilot “Family Practice” for Sony Pictures/ Lifetime Television and “A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin” (2006 Academy Award winner, Best Documentary, Short Subject) for HBO Films.
DEBORAH GAOUETTE (Properties Design) has been propping and scene designing in the NYC area for the past six years. Prop credits include: Off-Broadway: String of Pearls, Sakarhem Binder, Sabina, and Going to St. Ives, props coordinator for the national tours of Evita, Sound of Music, Crazy for You, and South Pacific for Troika Entertainment, Cabaret and 42nd Street at the Trump Plaza Casino in Atlantic City, and was the assistant props coordinator for New York City Opera. Scene design credits include: The Dead Guy at The Producer’s Club, the workshop production of the opera Rain for CMC USA, The Retreat, Autumn Moon, A Rock Opera, Meet George Orwell, and various productions for City Lights Youth Theatre.
BRIAN MASCHKA (Production Stage Manager) has previously worked on Susan and God and John Ferguson at The Mint. Other New York credits include: 100 Saints You Should Know; Frost/Nixon, Spiegelworld, Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad and Beautiful, Here Lies Jenny, Indoor/Outdoor, Ears on a Beatle, Sakharam Binder and The Dew Point. He is the stage manager for the Perform! series at the Museum of the City of New York and the producer of The Snake Oil Show. Brian has toured the country with Turn of the Screw and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Regionally Brian has done Rabbit Hole and Doubt at Florida Rep; Kiss Me, Kate and Swingtime Canteen at Weston Playhouse; and Peter Pan, Wit and Art at Syracuse Stage. He has spent seasons with Barrington Stage Company, The Krannert Center’s Summerfest and The Utah Arts Festival. Brian attended Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and California Institute of the Arts.
ANDREA JO MARTIN (Assistant Stage Manager) credits include: sub work with Rent on Broadway; Broadway Backwards 3; The Madras House; (Mint Theater — thanks for having me back!); Busker Alley, Fanny Hill, A Fine and Private Place, 2005 & 2007 Musicals in Mufti Series, NEO 3 (York Theatre Company); A Dangerous Personality (Perry Street Theatre); WASPs In Bed (Om Productions); Beauty on the Vine (Epic Theatre Center); De Novo (Houses on the Moon); Trouble in Shameland (EMPYREproductions); One Act Plays, 2006 (Our Time); Show Up! (Enact). Thanks to Brian & our fantastic PA, Will.