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The Loudest Man on Earth About the Cast & Creative Team

ADRIAN BLUE (Jordan/Sign Master) was last seen as Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia). He toured with the National Theatre of the Deaf playing such roles as Morris Rosenberg in One More Spring, the Barber in The King of Hearts, Rabbi in The Dybbuk, John Henry in All the Way Home, Patrolcus in The Iliad Play by Play and others. For the Cleveland Playhouse Mr. Blue played Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, Dracula in Dracula, and multiple roles in Story Theatre. In addition, he works internationally as a director. He has directed for such companies as Lark Theater, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Wheelock Family Theater, and Sena y Verbo in Mexico City. He was the recipient of the Cleveland Critic’s Circle Outstanding Original Script for his play, Circus of Signs.

CASSIDY BROWN (Men) appeared at TheatreWorks most recently in The 39 Steps, Distracted (Daniel/Dr. Jinks/Dr. Karnes), Doubt (Father Flynn) and at the New Works Festival in These Shining Lives, Equivocation, and Touch(ed). His regional credits include Troilus and Cressida (Achilles), Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Syracuse), and Doubt (Father Flynn) at Pacific Repertory Theatre, and Hunter Gatherer and The North Plan at Capital Stage. His Bay Area credits include The Jewish Theatre of San Francisco in The Maze of Our Own Lives and The Sisters Rosensweig, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival in A Comedy of Errors, and Center REPertory Company in The Underpants and The 39 Steps. He has also appeared at Aurora Theatre Company in Bosoms and Neglect (Scooper), at Shotgun Players in The Forest War (Kulan), Cabaret (Cliff), and The Death of Meyerhold (Meyerhold). JULIE FITZPATRICK (Haylee) has the following New York credits: Sunrise In Times Square, Anniversary, PTSD, Close Ties, Christmas Present, Breakfast and Bed, and A Very Very Short Play (Ensemble Studio Theatre); In Quietness and The Pillow Book (Firework Theatre); Graceful Living (Living Image Arts); Valparaiso (rUDE mechanicals). She has performed there with F*It Club, Theatre of the Expendable, and Godlight. Regionally, she played Sally in Talley’s Folly (Pittsburgh Public Theater) and wrote a solo show called Riddle Like Love (with a side of ketchup) which she performed at numerous theaters including Town Hall Theater in Vermont, where it originated. Her film and television appearances include Law & Order, Very Sorry, Cold Tea, and a web series called The Share. She went to University of Pennsylvania and received her MFA from American Conservatory Theater. juliefitzpatrick.com

MIA TAGANO (Women) returns to TheatreWorks after appearing in Snow Falling on Cedars and M Butterfly. Her New York credits include Far East (Lincoln Center, off-Broadway), 99 Histories (Cherry Lane Theater) and Song of Singapore (Capital Repertory). Regionally she appeared in Snow Falling on Cedars (Portland Center Stage and Hartford Stage), Hamlet and Nicholas Nickleby (California Shakespeare Theatre), Tantalus (Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Royal Shakespeare Company—including UK tour), Tamburlaine (Shakespeare Theatre, opposite Avery Brooks), Twelfth Night (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), Waiting for Tadashi (George Street Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (Virginia Stage) and the solo show Cincinnati (San Francisco, London). TV/film credits include All My Children, Law & Order, Tantalus: Behind the Mask, and John Barton’s The Shakespeare Sessions. She is a graduate of the University of Washington’s MFA Professional Actor Training Program. CATHERINE RUSH (Playwright) wrote The Loudest Man on Earth as a commission from the Philadelphia Theater Workshop. It was further developed at New York Theater Workshop. Her full-length play, Losing the Shore was commissioned and produced by BCKSEET Productions in Philadelphia. With Adrian Blue, Ms. Rush wrote This Island Alone, developed and produced at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse and A Nice Place to Live, commissioned and produced by Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston. Her play, Double Helix, won the American Theatre Co-op Full-Length Play Contest. Ms. Rush worked with the ASL Shakespeare Project translating Twelfth Night into American Sign Language. She has taught at the Wilma Studio Theatre School in Philadelphia and Toi Whakaari in Wellington, New Zealand. Ms. Rush is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. PAMELA BERLIN (Director) directed the original Steel Magnolias in New York as well as the national tour and LA and Chicago productions. Other New York credits include premieres of The Cemetery Club on Broadway, To Gillian on her 37th Birthday at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Circle in the Square, Elm Circle and Black Ink at Playwrights Horizons, The Family of Mann and The Red Address at Second Stage, Crossing Delancey at The Jewish Repertory Theatre, Club Soda and Peacetime at the WPA Theatre. Regionally, she has directed Dancing at Lughnasa (Seattle Repertory Theatre), The Plough and the Stars (Huntington Theatre Company), Clybourne Park, Red, A Moon for the Misbegotten (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Jitters and Fossey (Virginia Stage Company), Ruler of My Destiny (Long Wharf Theatre), and Joe Egg (Portland Stage). She also directs opera.

CLIFF CARUTHERS (Sound Designer) has created soundscapes and original music for over 200 theatrical productions, and was TheatreWorks’ resident sound designer from 2005 through 2010 last designing Upright Grand. Recent work includes American Night and The Tempest for California Shakespeare Theater, Elektra and Dead Metaphor for American Conservatory Theater; Troilus and Cressida for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Circle Mirror Transformation for Marin Theatre Company, TRAGEDY: a tragedy for Berkeley Repertory Theatre; The Happy Ones for Magic Theatre; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity for Aurora Theatre Company; Happy Days for Guthrie Theater; Julius Caesar for The Acting Company; On the Waterfront for San Jose Stage Company; Bug for SF Playhouse; and Pelleas and Melisande for Cutting Ball Theater. Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Lasso of Truth at Marin Theatre Company, and Hound of the Baskervilles for TheatreWorks. TANYA FINKELSTEIN (Costume Designer) designed costumes for TheatreWorks’ world premieres of Wheelhouse, Fly By Night, and The North Pool, plus the developmental production of Fly By Night in 2010’s New Works Festival. She designed hair/makeup for Magic Theatre’s Monkey Room. For Renegade Theatre Experiment she designed lights for Boom, 9 Circles, All This Intimacy, and Bug and costumes for Imperial Fizz, Killer Joe, A Clockwork Orange, and co-costumed Right Place Right Time at Renegade and A Hand in Desire for Emspace Dance. As a founder of Collective Theatre Productions she designed lights for The Empire Builders and costumes for No Exit. Ms. Finkelstein graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz receiving her BA in Theatre Arts (2006) and her Graduate Certificate (2007). She is also Renegade Theatre Experiment’s managing director and TheatreWorks’ wardrobe manager. KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL (Dialect Coach) has served as Dialect Coach on over 16 shows for TheatreWorks, including The Pitmen Painters, Snow Falling on Cedars, The North Pool, Doubt, Theophilus North, Arcadia, Jane Eyre, Baby Taj, and Anna in the Tropics, to name a few. An Assistant Professor in Acting at Santa Clara University she continues to teach, direct, and coach throughout the Bay Area. Ms. Hill recently directed Footloose at Santa Clara University and she directed last season’s acclaimed production of In the Next Room (or, the vibrator play) at City Lights Theatre in San Jose. She has published two books with Smith & Kraus: Scenes in Dialect for Young Actors and Monologues in Dialect for Young Actors. Volume II of Monologues in Dialect is due out soon. JAMIE D. MANN (Stage Manager) stage managed TheatreWorks’ Being Earnest, Somewhere, 33 Variations, Upright Grand, Of Mice and Men, The Pitmen Painters, Clementine in the Lower 9, Fly By Night, Snow Falling on Cedars, The 39 Steps, and Superior Donuts, as well as Triangle, Wild with Happy, and Fly By Night in TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival. He stage managed the world premiere of Mrs. Whitney (Magic Theatre); 2 X Malmud–The Jewbird and The Magic Barrel (Word for Word/The Jewish Theatre); and The Last Yiddish Poet (The Jewish Theatre); among others. Previously he was production manager at San Jose Stage Company, stage managing Dirty Blonde; Rock ’N’ Roll; Always…Patsy Cline; Altar Boyz; Blade to the Heat; The Diary of Anne Frank; and Beehive, The Musical. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting Director) is TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic Director. For TheatreWorks, her directing credits go back over twenty years, including, most recently, the regional premieres of Time Stands Still, The Pitmen Painters, and Superior Donuts. A graduate of Occidental College, she has been a Watson Fellow in political theatre, a member of Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, a member of the LaMaMa International Directing Symposium, and has served on Theatre Bay Area’s Theatre Services Committee since 2002. She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Stage Direction from the Arts Council of Silicon Valley for artistic achievement and community impact. In addition to directing, she leads master classes and workshops and teaches in the Musical Arts department at Notre Dame de Namur University. VICKIE ROZELL (Dramaturg) co-directed TheatreWorks’ Doubt, Arcadia, and Wrong for Each Other. She is the company’s resident dramaturg and was associate director/dramaturg for 33 Variations; Yellow Face; Caroline, or Change; M Butterfly; Into the Woods; Dolly West’s Kitchen; Shakespeare in Hollywood; Jane Eyre; Ragtime; Pacific Overtures; Side Show; and Floyd Collins among many others. She has directed Picnic, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Little Foxes, and Ladies of the Camellias (Palo Alto Players), W;t (Bus Barn Stage Company), Proof (City Lights Theatre Company), CTRL+ALT+ DELETE (Pear Avenue Theatre), and The Vagina Monologues (California Theatre), taught at Ohlone and Foothill Colleges, is a member of the West Coast Director’s Lab, has BAs in English and Psychology from Stanford University, and an MFA in directing from the University of California. www.vickierozell.com JASON SIMMS (Scenic Designer) designed the New York productions of Urge for Going (The Public Theater), The Bad Guys (Second Stage Theatre Uptown), Headstrong and Finks (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), A Bright New Boise and After (Partial Comfort Productions), Dot and Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb), and American Treasure and Melancholy Play (13P). His regional credits include The Whale (Denver Center Theatre Company), A Thousand Clowns (Two River Theater Company), Venus in Fur (Philadelphia Theatre Company and George St. Playhouse), Dutch Masters and The Puppetmaster of Lodz (Berkshire Theatre Group), Rent (Bristol Riverside Theatre), and Talley’s Folly (Hudson Stage Company). Simms received an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. He received the 2012 USITT Rising Star Award. PAUL TOBEN (Lighting Designer) designed TheatreWorks’ Upright Grand, Fly By Night, [title of show], Daddy Long Legs, and Auctioning the Ainsleys. His New York credits include The Story of My Life (Broadway), The Judy Show (DR2), Saturn Nights (Incubator Arts Project), The Realm and Electra in a One Piece (The Wild Project), Futurity (HERE Arts Center), Romeo & Juliet (Columbia Stages), and The Red-headed Man (Down Payment). Regionally, he has designed for Magic Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Arizona Theatre Company, Flat Rock Playhouse, Theatre by the Sea, Cleveland Playhouse, and the Walker Art Center, among others. In three seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he designed Caravan Man and Demon Dreams. Mr. Toben is also the associate designer on many Broadway shows and touring productions. www.paultoben.com

ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) is a Bay Area native and Stanford University graduate. He founded TheatreWorks in 1970 and has been its Artistic Director ever since. He has directed over 150 TheatreWorks productions, including many world or regional premieres. He has received the Silicon Valley Arts Council’s Legacy Laureate Award, the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Paine Knickerbocker Award for lifetime achievement, BATCC Awards for Outstanding Direction for his productions of Into the Woods; Pacific Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; Another Midsummer Night; Sunday in the Park with George; Jane Eyre; and Caroline, or Change; Bay Area Drama-Logue Awards for his direction of Ah, Wilderness! and Once in a Lifetime; Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Violet, Ragtime, Proof, Dolly West’s Kitchen, and Harold & Maude; and Back Stage West Garland Awards for his direction of Side Show and Sunday in the Park with George. He recently directed Being Earnest, Big River, 33 Variations, Of Mice and Men, and The Secret Garden. PHIL SANTORA (Managing Director) joined TheatreWorks in 2007 after spending four years as Managing Director of Northlight Theatre outside Chicago. Prior to working at Northlight, he was Managing Director of Georgia Shakespeare Festival (GSF) in Atlanta, as well as Development Director for Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland and George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He holds an MFA in Theater Administration from the Yale School of Drama and a BA in Drama from Duke University. He serves on the Board of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and has served on the boards of the League of Chicago Theatres, the Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, and the executive committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). He was named 2000’s Best Arts Administrator by Atlanta Magazine and received the Atlanta Arts and Business Council’s 1998 ABBY Award for Arts Administrator.