Johnson

Westport Country Playhouse:  The Turn of the Screw, On the Verge, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew.  Broadway:  Bobbi Boland, Epic Proportions, The Father (Roundabout Theatre). Off-Broadway:  Communicating Doors, Travels with My Aunt (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards).  Regional:  Moonlight and Magnolias (Intiman Theatre and San Jose Repertory Theatre), On the Verge (Arena Stage), Room Service (Cleveland Playhouse), Ladies of the Camellias (Yale Repertory Theatre), Twelfth Night and Travels with My Aunt (Long Wharf Theatre), Thumbs (Helen Hayes Theatre), The Triumph of Love (South Coast Repertory, Robby Award). Television:  John Adams (HBO), Mr. Foley on “Remember Wenn” for four years (American Movie Classics, SAG Award nomination), Gershwin in “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.”

Sam

Broadway:  After the Fall, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret, Ring Round the Moon.  Off-Broadway: Shockheaded Peter, Valhalla, Two Noble Kinsmen, Defying Gravity, Bernarda Alba, Mimi le Duck, Petrified Prince, Communicating Doors, View of the Dome.  Recently:  Little Dog Laughed at Hartfords TheaterWorks. Company member:  American Repertory Theatre --- Hedda Gabler, Misalliance, King Lear, among others. Company member:  Dallas Theater Center --- All the Kings Men, Cherry Orchard, among others.  Princess Grace Statuette; Drama Desk and Helen Hayes Award nominations.  Upcoming films:  Home; Sweet Kandy. TV:  “Gossip Girl,” “Law & Order:  Criminal Intent,” “Trinity,” “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” “As the World Turns.

Jane

Off-Broadway: Lifegame and Enter the Night. Off-Off-Broadway: True Crimes, Gint!, American Silents, B & G and Voyage of the Carcass. Regional Theatre: The Missionary Position, Mezzulah, 1946, A Picasso, Fiction and String of Pearls (City Theatre); The Exonerated, The Birthday Party and The Real Thing (Pittsburgh Playhouse); Bad Dates (Theatre Squared); Frame 312 (Alliance Theatre); Last Chance for a Slow Dance (New York Stage and Film); The Play About the Baby (Alley Theatre). Television: “Life on the Line,” “Sex and the City” and “Law & Order.” Film: Road and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Rebecca has an M.F.A. from Columbia University in New York.

Otis

Westport Country Playhouse: Sedition. Broadway: Waiting in the Wings. Off-Broadway: House and Garden. The Mark Taper Forum: The Molière Comedies. Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Likely Lad. Florida Stage: The Drawer Boy, The Hatchetman. The Guthrie Theater: The Constant Wife. New Jersey Shakespeare Festival: The Plays the Thing, Amadeus. The Alley: Arsenic and Old Lace. The Wilma: Ying Tong---A Walk with the Goons. UK: Five seasons with The Royal National Theatre including The Madness of George III, extensive West End, regional and TV credits. Australia: The Sydney Theatre Company: Democracy. USA Television: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

Temple

Recent highlights include Sara Murphy in Villa America (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Dutchman (Cherry Lane Theatre) opposite Dulé Hill (2007 Drama Desk Nomination), and Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Geffen Playhouse) with John Goodman. NY: The Pavilion (Rattlestick); The Stendhal Syndrome (Primary Stages); Reckless (Broadway); Only the End of the World (Directors Company).  Regional: Arena Stage; Bay Street Theatre; Alabama Shakespeare; Contemporary American Theater Festival; Sundance Institute Theatre; five seasons at Trinity Repertory Company with Oskar Eustis. Film/TV: Stephen Belbers Drifting Elegant and Play It by Ear, “Life is Wild,” “Canterbury’s Law,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Hope & Faith,” “Law & Order,” various soaps. Training: MFA, Trinity Rep. 2007 Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Fellowship.

Carter

Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway: Edward the Second and The Revengers Tragedy (Red Bull Theater), 1 0 0 1 (Page 73), Expats, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Hurlyburly (New Group), In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Keen Company), Book of Days (Signature Theatre). Regional Theatre: El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, American Repertory Theatre, and many others. TV: “Without a Trace,” “Criminal Intent,” “Jonny Zero,” “Navy NCIS,” “Leap of Faith,” “The DA,” “Law & Order,” “Metropolis” (pilot). Film: Order of Redemption, No Reservations, Invitation to a Suicide, Frankenfish, Future Imperfect, Balkanization. Graduate of both the ART Institute at Harvard and Princeton University.

Playwright

David Wiltse was appointed Westport Country Playhouse Playwright-in-Residence in January 2006. He has written 12 plays, published 12 novels and produced more than 50 projects for film and television. He is the winner of a Drama Desk Award for “Most Promising Playwright” for his first- produced play, Suggs, which premiered at Lincoln Center. His second play was the comedy, Doubles, which ran for the 1985-86 season on Broadway. Doubles was also produced subsequently at Westport Country Playhouse, the first of his seven productions in this theatre. The comedy Triangles for Two and the dramas The Good German and Sedition had their world premieres at Westport Country Playhouse. His comedy A Marriage Minuet and the thriller Temporary Help were also produced here. Scramble! was first produced at Florida Stage under the title Hatchetman. In a much earlier version, Hatchetman was developed at the Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport.

Director

Tracy is in her seventh season as City Theatres Artistic Director. Most recently at City Theatre she directed the American premiere of Mother Teresa Is Dead by Helen Edmundson and The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. This past summer she remounted City Theatre’s production of Eve Enslers The Good Body at Hartford Stage in Connecticut and directed the world premiere of Keith Reddins Human Error at Atlantic Theater in New York City. Last season at City Theatre, Tracy directed the world premiere of The Missionary Position by Keith Reddin, The Muckle Man by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and The Good Body. Other directing credits at City Theatre include the world premiere of Hearts Are Wild, Talking Heads, Outlying Islands, Fiction, The Underpants, the world premiere of Gompers (commissioned by City Theatre from Adam Rapp), the world premiere of Lovely Day, Topdog/Underdog, The Clearing, The Credeaux Canvas, Blackbird, Fair Game and the world premiere of Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (commissioned by City Theatre from Christopher Durang). She also directed A Marriage Minuet by David Wiltse at Westport Country Playhouse. Tracy created City Theatre’s annual new play festival, MOMENTUM: new plays at different stages. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh, Tracy was Associate Artistic Director of Hartford Stage in Connecticut and Artistic Associate and Line Producer for Manhattan Theatre Club. Other directing credits include productions at both regional and New York theatres. Awards and honors include Pittsburgh Magazine’s “40 Under 40” and the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Production and Best Director.

Set Design

Westport Country Playhouse and City Theatre: A Marriage Minuet. Broadway: Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate (upcoming). Off-Broadway: The Carpetbagger’s Children (Lincoln Center Theater); What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons); The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Henry Miller Theatre, Drama Desk nomination); The Day Emily Married and When They Speak of Rita (Primary Stages); Defying Gravity (Laura Pels Theatre); Letter From Ethel Kennedy and Colder than Here (MCC); Necessary Targets; The Red Devil Battery Sign. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville; Alley Theatre; Berkeley Rep; Goodman Theatre; Guthrie Theater; Long Wharf Theatre; New York Stage & Film; among many others. Recently on view, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore at Hartford Stage. Awards: Connecticut Critics Circle Award; Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation/NEA Artists Grant. More information at JeffCowie.com.

Costume Design

Previously at Westport Country Playhouse: Vigil, Sedition, The Voice of the Turtle.  New York credits include work at The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater, Signature Theatre and Vineyard Theatre. Recently designed Princess Wishes for Disney on Ice.  Also acted as Associate Designer for Broadway productions of Spamalot, The Crucible, Closer and Art. Regional credits include: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, Long Wharf Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse.  International credits: Norwegian National Ballet and Saturday Night Fever in Holland.  Ilona is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama and recent addition to its faculty.

Lignting Design

New York: Die Mommie Die!; Walmartopia; Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell; Rag and Bone; Lower Ninth; A Feminine Ending; Essential Self-Defense; In a Dark Dark House; Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful; Play Yourself; Light Raise the Roof; The Thugs; The Triple Happiness; The Dear Boy; Orange Flower Water; Stone Cold Dead Serious; Finer Noble Gases; American Sligo; Orange Lemon Egg Canary; Indoor/Outdoor; Wildlife.  Regional: Vigil (Westport Country Playhouse); The Injured Party (South Coast Rep.), Godspell, LIttle Shop of Horrors (Paper Mill Playhouse); The Atheist, Persephone and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington Theatre), Altar Boyz (Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati), The Cook (Hartford Stage), The Crucible (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Bus Stop and The Chekhov Cycle (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Loot (Intiman Theatre).

Sound Design

Recent projects include Almost an Evening (45 Bleecker); Fuerzabruta (Daryl Roth); Almost an Evening, Human Error and Anon (Atlantic Theater); Ghosts and Joe Turners Come and Gone (Juilliard); American Sligo and Rag and Bone (Rattlestick Theater); The Breach and The Clean House (Southern Rep); Los Angeles (Flea Theater); and Essential Self Defense (Playwrights Horizons - 2007 Lucille Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding Sound Design). 

Movenent Coach

Mark is a nationally recognized authority on theatrical movement. He specializes in ensemble and devised works. He has appeared on Broadway and toured internationally with the famed mime/mask group, Mummenschanz, and has acted in numerous regional theatre productions. Mark has worked as a movement coordinator and fight director for productions at the Houston Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage Company, Long Wharf Theatre, TheatreWorks, Alley Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, New York Shakespeare Festival and Public Theater. Mark is currently a professor of acting and movement at the Penn State School of Theatre.