Peter

Theater: Talk Radio (Broadway), Opus (Primary Stages), Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Arena Stage), Three Days of Rain (Studio Arena Theatre), Eric Bogosian's Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theatre), The Faculty Room (Humana Festival), Tooth of Crime and Book of Days (Signature Theatre), Things of Dry Hours (Portland Center Stage), Wintertime (Wilma Theater), Tape (Stamford Theatre Works), Inventing Van Gogh (Seattle Rep), Troilus and Cressida (The Shakespeare Theatre). Film: The Operator, Follow Me Outside, Escape Artists, Room 314, Claire Dolan, Torte Blume, Love God, Particles of Truth. TV: "Third Watch," "Jonny Zero," "FX: The Series," "Ghost Stories," "As the World Turns," Showtime's "What's Not to Love?"

Kari

Tracy Middendorf is proud to be making her Westport Country Playhouse debut in The Pavilion. Her previous stage performances include: Ah, Wilderness at Lincoln Center Theater, directed by Daniel Sullivan; The Big Knife at Williamstown Theatre Festival, directed by Joanne Woodward; Summer and Smoke and After the Fall at The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, both of which earned her Ovation and Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress. Her television credits include "Lost," "24," "House," "Alias," "The Practice" and "Six Feet Under." Her most recent film, Just Add Water with Danny DeVito, Dylan Walsh and Jonah Hill, will be released this spring. Tracy would like to dedicate her performance to her family in gratitude for agreeing to make the big move to the East Coast.

Narrator

New York: Thom in Thom Pain, Isaac in The Golem with Robert Prosky, Manhattan Ensemble Theater. UK: Poster of the Cosmos, Edinburgh Fringe. Costard in Love's Labors Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company. The Shakespeare Theater (DC): Sganarelle in Don Juan, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, Costard in Love's Labors Lost. The McCarter Theater: Thom in Thom Pain, Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Lexy in Candida. Other: Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Charlotte Rep. Murray in A Thousand Clowns, Studio Arena. Michael has played Hamlet, Romeo, Mercutio, Angelo (Measure for Measure), Mark Antony, Feste and Sebastian (Twelfth Night), Cassio (Othello), Polixines (Winter's Tale), Dromio and Antipholus (Comedy of Errors), Orlando (As You Like It), Edgar (King Lear) and various spear carriers and shrub movers at Shakespeare festivals around the country. Michael attended Juilliard where he received the John Houseman Prize.

Playwright

Craig Wright's plays include The Pavilion (Rattlestick Theater - 2005-2006 Drama Desk Nominee for Outstanding Play; City Theatre; Florida Stage; Stages Rep), Main Street (Great American History Theatre), Orange Flower Water (The Edge Theater, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Jungle Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre), Recent Tragic Events (Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Molly's Delicious (Arden Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company), Melissa Arctic (Folger Theatre - Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play), Grace (Woolly Mammoth Theatre - Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding New Play; Northlight Theatre; Furious Theatre - LA Drama Critics Award for Best Play), Lady (Northlight Theatre - 2007 Jefferson Award Nomination for Best New Play; Stages Rep and Asolo Theatre) and The Unseen (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Stages Rep). His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts Inc., Dramatic Publishing, Samuel French and Smith & Kraus. He is the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds a M.Div. degree from United Theological Seminary. He has written for numerous television shows including "Six Feet Under" (Emmy nomination) and is the creator of the ABC series "Dirty Sexy Money."

Director

Chad has been an Artistic Associate at Westport Country Playhouse for the past three years. He has directed and assistant directed over 50 productions in theaters across the country. Favorites include How I Learned to Drive, WASP, FEAR, Mr. Marmalade and Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. His next production will be Noises Off! at the Weathervane Playhouse. In addition to WCP, Chad has directed/assistant directed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pittsburgh Public Theater, People's Light & Theatre Company, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Crested Butte Mountain Theatre (Artistic Director), Juilliard and Glimmerglass Opera. On the Westport stage he has directed the staged reading of A Strange and Separate People, three original youth productions (FEAR, Screaming for the Moon and A World of Dreamers), and has assistant directed All My Sons, The Old Settler, A Christmas Carol, On the Verge, Hay Fever and David Copperfield.