Twelfth Night

March 05–April 13

Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Gavin Witt

Revelry, disguises, swashbuckling, and (of course) pining lovers abound in what some call Shakespeare’s most perfect comedy. Twins Viola and Sebastian, separated in a shipwreck and presuming each other dead, wash ashore in the beautiful but mysterious land of Illyria. A tale of mistaken identity and mismatched ardor unfurls as lords and ladies, servants and masters wind a topsy-turvy path to happiness…

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Cast

William Connell*
Orsino

Julie-Ann Elliott*
Maria

Buddy Haardt*
Sebastian

Caroline Hewitt*
Viola

Richard Hollis*
Andrew

Linda Kimbrough*
Feste

Allen McCullough*
Malvolio

Ryan McCurdy*
Valentine

Jon Hudson Odom*
Antonio

Brian Reddy*
Sir Toby Belch

Vanessa Wasche*
Countess Olivia

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night (Duke Orsino). Broadway—A View from the Bridge (2010 revival); Lincoln Center Theater: The Coast of Utopia. Off Broadway/Other New York—Keen Company: Alphabetical Order, The Maddening Truth; New York Musical Theatre Festival: Sherlock Holmes, The Early Years; Theatre for a New Audience: All’s Well That Ends Well; Lincoln Center Institute: The Dinner Party; NYCT: Mary Stuart; Threads Theater Company: Babette’s Feast; Theatreworks USA: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere; Sonnet Repertory Theatre: The Tempest; New York International Fringe Festival: …Categories. Regional—Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: The Mousetrap; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: The 39 Steps; Gulfshore Playhouse: The Importance of Being Earnest; San Francisco Playhouse: Bell, Book & Candle; Actor’s Theatre of Louisville: The Hour of Feeling, Hero Dad; Merrimack Repertory Theatre: The Voice of the Turtle; Geva Theatre Center: Pride and Prejudice; Two River Theater Company: The Glass Menagerie; Dorset Theatre Festival: Murder On The Nile; Weston Playhouse: As You Like It. Film/TV—Not Fade Away, Smash, Gossip Girl, Law & Order, Guiding Light. Education—BFA, North Carolina School of the Arts.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night . Regional—Olney Theatre: Angel Street, Dinner with Friends, Night Must Fall, The Millionairess, The Mousetrap, The Constant Wife, Hedda Gabler, An Enemy of the People, The Heiress, Lend Me a Tenor, Blithe Spirit, Necessary Targets, Tartuffe, Trip to Bountiful; Potomac Theatre Project: The Best Man, Crave, Arcadia, Stanley, Mad Forest; Everyman Theatre: As Bees in Honey Drown, Nude with Violin, The Price; Rep Stage: God’s Ear, Faith Healer; Round House Theatre: Charming Billy; Studio Theatre: Superior Donuts; Shakespeare Theatre: Way of the World, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It; Kennedy Center: Shear Madness, Mockingbird (workshop); Theater J: Central Park West; Born Guilty/Peter and the Wolf; Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Arena Stage; Age of Innocence (workshop); Washington Stage Guild: Old Times; MetroStage: Earhart. Film/TV—Veep, Jamesy Boy, The Wire. Audiobooks—Potomac Talking Books, Inc. for Library of Congress; Graphic Audio. Education—MFA, The Catholic University of America.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Broadway/West End—National Theatre: Coast of Utopia, His Girl Friday, The Country Doctor, Tartuffe, The Wonders of Sex; National Theatre Studio: workshops of The Changeling and Twelfth Night. London/Off West End—Torn (World Premiere); The Years Between; The Skin Game; Diana of Dobson’s ; Oz; State of Innocence (World Premiere); Hamburg (World Premiere). New York—Queens Theatre: Hit Lit. National Tours—Present Laughter, Macbeth, Henry V. Regional—Two River Theater Company: Present Laughter; Hudson Stage: Stones in His Pockets; Triad Stage: The Illusion; Capital Rep: The Sisters Rosensweig; Northern Stage: Romeo and Juliet, The Real Thing, Amadeus; Pitlochry Festival Theatre: The Real Thing. Film/TV—Dark Shadows, The Office (BBC), Shakespeare’s Happy Endings, Eastenders, Silent Witness, Doctors, Waking the Dead, Believe.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Off Broadway— Provincetown Playhouse: Edmond (Edmond’s Wife). International— Barbican Theatre, London: The Man Who Came to Dinner (Nurse Preen); Galway Arts Festival, Ireland: Better Late (Nora). Regional— Actors Theatre of Louisville: Gnit (Mother); Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre: Pride & Prejudice (Lady Catherine), The History Boys (Mrs. Lintott), The Pitmen Painters (Helen Sutherland); Cleveland Play House: Noises Off (Dottie); Alliance Theatre: The Fourth Wall (Julia); Indiana Repertory Theatre: The Gospel According to James (Mary); Goodman Theatre: Other Desert Cities (Silda), The Water Engine (Mrs. Varek), The Good Person of Setzuan (Mrs. Yang), The Cherry Orchard (Charlotta); Chicago Shakespeare Theatre: Cymbeline (The Queen), All’s Well That Ends Well (The Countess), Richard III (Margaret), King John (Elinor). Film/TV—Spartan, Red Belt, State & Main, Homicide, The Phil Spector Story (HBO), Door to Door (TNT), The Unit (CBS).

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Broadway—Roundabout: Twelve Angry Men (National tour); Off Broadway—The Irish Rep: The Hairy Ape; Directors Co: Ashes to Ashes; Theatre for a New Audience; The Shaw Project; The Flea; Ensemble Studio. Regional—Folger Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (Montague); Westport Playhouse: The Diary of Anne Frank; TheatreWorks Hartford: The Seafarer (Mr. Lockhart); Living Room Theatre: Uncle Vanya (Astrov), The Seagull (Trigorin); Long Wharf: The Crucible; Hubbard Hall: Our Town (The Stage Manager), The Real Thing (Henry), Private Lives (Elyot) As You Like It (Jacques); also Williamstown and Berkshire Festivals. Film/TV—Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene; Monkfish (2014); Just Like the Son; Vampire’s Kiss; Law& Order:CI; Onion News. Upcoming—The Cherry Orchard with Living Room Theatre’s site-specific productions, of which he is a founding Co-Director. allenmcc.com. With love, for Angus and Randolyn.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Broadway—Gypsy of the Year, Easter Bonnet Competition (Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids for Once: A New Musical). Off Broadway—American Theatre of Actors: Two Noble Kinsmen. Other New York— Manhattan Theatre Source: Wise Men (Pew); The Players Club: The Secret Sharer (Captain Dana, Reading). Concert Appearances—The Bitter End, Toshi’s Living Room, Alphabet Lounge (w/ Bonfire Falls); B.B. King Blues Club, Arlene’s Grocery, Pete’s Candy Store (solo). Education—Savannah College of Art and Design. Professional—Faculty, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music; Technical Consultant, Historic Tours of America; Freelance Composer: Marvel Entertainment, Film, Theatre. For Mom and Dad.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Broadway—Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Free Man of Color, Finian’s Rainbow, Gypsy (w/ Patti LuPone), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Dinner at Eight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Steven Douglas), The Crucible (Rev. Parris), A Little Hotel, Alice in Wonderland, and the National company of M. Butterfly. Off Broadway—Death Defying Acts, Othello (Iago), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), The Cradle Will Rock (dir. John Housman), Orchards. Regional—Extensive credits, including the Guthrie: Christopher Hampton’s Appomattox (World Premiere), Pygmalion, Ah, Wilderness; Alley Theater: Rajiv Joseph’s Monster at the Door (World Premiere); Arena Stage; Goodman Theatre; two seasons at Shakespeare Theater of DC; three seasons with The Acting Company. Film/TV—Many credits, including O Brother Where Art Thou, Envy, Lost Souls, The Birdcage, Casino, What About Bob?, Elementary, House of Cards, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, Numbers, Law & Order, Ed, Gilmore Girls, Buffy, and notably “The High Talker” on Seinfeld.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Off Broadway— Axis Theater/Rattlestick: Killers and Other Family; 59 E 59: The Pillowbook. Regional— Cleveland Play House: Venus in Fur; TheaterWorks, Hartford: Motherf**ker With the Hat; Guthrie Theater: Major Barbara, A Christmas Carol; Arts Center Coastal Carolina: Black Coffee; Chautauqua Theater Company: My Children! My Africa!, Light Up the Sky; Tennessee Williams Festival: The Parade (World Premiere); Minneapolis Theater Garage: Allison Moore’s Split (World Premiere); Shakespeare on The Cape: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet; NYU Studio Tisch: The Pink Bedroom. Film/TV—The Good Wife (Recurring), The Reluctant Professor (Hugh Grant comedy). Education—MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program; BFA, University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program.

Creative Team

Gavin Witt
Director

Catherine Miller
Choreographer

Josh Epstein
Scenic & Lighting Designer

David Burdick
Costume Designer

Palmer Hefferan
Sound/Composer Designer

Steve Satta
Violence Coordinator

Leigh Wilson Smiley
Voice/Dialect Director

Ryan McCurdy*
Music Supervisor

Pat McCorkle
Casting Director

Daniel Pruksarnukul
Additional Casting

Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Production Dramaturg

Laura Smith*
Stage Manager

Captain Kate Murphy*
Assistant Stage Manager

Caitlin Powers
Assistant Stage Manager

Director of Dramaturgy and Associate Director Gavin Witt came to Baltimore Center Stage in 2003, after nearly 15 years in Chicago as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, and teacher—and co-founder of the classically based greasy joan & co theater. Among his translations and adaptations are a half-dozen Shakespeare plays, including a Jeff-nominated version of Pericles and the BCS production of As You Like It; Jeff-nominated translations of Beaumarchais’ The Barber of Seville and Ionesco’s Macbett; and the BCS adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, he is currently on the Humanities faculty at Peabody Conservatory, having previously taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul, and Towson; has served on the advisory boards of several theaters; and spent more than a decade as a regional vice president of LMDA, the national association of dramaturgs, before recently joining its board.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Artistic Director, WalkingTalking Company: performed at Jacob’s Pillow, 92nd Street Y, American Dance Festival, APAP City Center, Actor’s Fund Arts Center, Orpheum Theater, Powerhouse Books, Dance Theater Workshop. Choreographer—Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop, “Pharmacophore” Storefront for Art and Architecture, The Yard (artist in residence multiple years), University of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Dancer/Performer—New York City Opera: originated the principal dance role “Thanatos” in premiere of Telemann’s Orpheus (dir. Rebecca Taichman); Mark Dendy DanceTheatre (Associate Artistic Director for 3 years); Doug Varone and Dancers; Jonah Bokaer; Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company; Shen Wei Dance Arts; Guest artist with Metropolitan Opera, Opera Colorado, Minnesota Opera, and the Aquila Theatre Company. Film—Katie in the feature film Five Dances.

Baltimore Center Stage: As You Like It, Twelfth Night, …Edgar Allan Poe. Regional—Kansas City Rep, Arena Stage: Indecent; The Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Trinity Repertory, Long Wharf, Alliance, South Coast Repertory, Geva Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, PlayMakers Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse. Education—MFA: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Awards—LA Ovation Award, Knight of Illumination nom., recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers. Professional/Other—Josh is also a lecturer at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He serves on the O’Neill Playwrights Conference Artistic Council and currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three daughters. joshepsteindesign.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Next to Normal; Amadeus; Twelfth Night; dance of the holy ghosts; Animal Crackers; …Edgar Allan Poe; The Mountaintop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; A Skull in Connemara; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Working it Out; Cyrano; Caroline, or Change; Hearts; Things of Dry Hours; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Elmina’s Kitchen; Picnic; a.m. Sunday; The Rainmaker; Blithe Spirit; and many others. Regional—Everyman Theatre: Sweat, Dancing at Lughnasa, Intimate Apparel, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Revolutionists, The Book of Joseph, Dot, Los Ostros, An Inspector Calls, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ruined, Ghosts, Blithe Spirit; Walnut Street/Totem Pole: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Moon Over Buffalo. Opera—Cincinnati: Don Giovanni; Boston Lyric: I Puritani; Tulsa: Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Fidelio. Dance—BAM: FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance; Dayton Contemporary Dance: Lyric Fire (world premiere, dir/choreographer Dianne McIntyre). Other—Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Spectacular.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Broadway—Mothers and Sons (w/ Tyne Daly, assistant). Off Broadway—Clurman Theatre: The Surrender; 59E59: I Am The Wind; Keen Company: The Film Society; The Public (SPF): Tio Pepe; MTC: Taking Care of Baby (assistant), Choir Boy (associate); Play Company: American Hwangap (assistant); Second Stage: Boys’ Life (assistant); MCC: Fifty Words (assistant). Regional—Studio Theatre: Edgar & Annabel; Signature Theatre: Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill; Yale Rep: American Night; American Players: Heroes; Hartford Stage: Dying City, Hedda Gabler (assistant); Westport Playhouse: Dinner with Friends, Tartuffe (assistant). DC Area—Constellation Theatre: 36 Views; Taffety Punk: Titus Andronicus. Education—BFA, Savannah College of Art & Design; MFA, Yale School of Drama. Special thanks to Drew Lichtenberg for his love and support. www.palmerhefferan.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Combat Work—The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, The Metropolitan Opera, Riverside Shakespeare Company (NY), West End Theatre (NY), University of Nebraska (guest artist), Towson University (faculty). Actor—National Actor’s Theatre, Riverside Shakespeare, The Pearl Theatre, Wayside Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre, National Shakespeare Company, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Iron Crow Theatre (Baltimore). Voice/Dialect coach—The Wire (guest coach), Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Olney Theatre, York University (Toronto), Towson University. Other Professional—Artistic Director, Iron Crow Theatre Company. Awards—Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Regional—Excellence in Fight Choreography (R&J), Excellence in Direction (Romeo and Juliet and Angels in America: Perestroika); National—Distinguished Production of a Classic Play (Macbeth), National Teaching Artist Award. Education—BFA, NYU Tisch; MFA, York University. Faculty at Towson University. Thanks to Gavin, Laura, and the company. Love to Patrik.

Baltimore Center Stage: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Marley . Leigh is the Director of the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland where she teaches voice, acting, and Shakespeare. Smiley has worked as a Dialect and Voice Director and Coach at Ford’s Theatre, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Round House Theatre, Cirque du Soleil, Folger Shakespeare, Everyman, and Signature and continues to develop her internet Visual Accent and Dialect Archive. She is a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.

Baltimore Center Stage: A Wonder in My Soul, King of the Yees, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, SOUL The Stax Musical, Mobile Unit Twelfth Night, Animal Farm, Skeleton Crew, Lookingglass Alice, The Christians, Jazz, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Detroit ’67, As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, Amadeus, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, A Civil War Christmas. Broadway—Amazing Grace, On the Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men, etc. Off-Broadway—Clever Little Lies, Dr. Ruth, Stalking the Bogeyman, Freud’s Last Session, Tribes, Our Town, Almost Maine and Driving Miss Daisy. Over 50 regional theaters—Guthrie, George Street Theatre, Connecticut Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Barrington Stage. Over 60 films—Senior Moment, Year by the Sea, Child of Grace, Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard III, School Ties. TV/Web—Planned Parenthood series Talkin’ About, Twisted, Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nom), Max Bickford, Hack, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, Chappelle’s Show. mccorklecasting.com

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Twelfth Night, The Whipping Man, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fabulation, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Mosaic Theater Company: Queens Girl in Africa; Kennedy Center: The Wings of Ikarus Jackson, Locomotion, New Voices/New Visions; African Continuum: The Amen Corner, Fresh Flavas New Play Development program; TheatreWorks: Fences; Crossroads: Former Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Spirit North (world premiere); Arena Stage: Holiday Heart, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Odyssey (American premiere). Professional— Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. Education— BA: Spelman College; MA; Washington College; Stanford University

Baltimore Center Stage: Detroit ’67, As You Like It; 4000 Miles; After the Revolution; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Amadeus; Wild with Happy; Twelfth Night; Stones in His Pockets; dance of the holy ghosts; Clybourne Park; Beneatha’s Place; The Mountaintop; Bus Stop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; Gleam; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Working it Out; Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Shakespeare Theater Company: Salome; Contemporary American Theater Festival: World Builders; Everyman: Pygmalion, Shipwrecked, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Measure for Measure, Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea.

Baltimore Center Stage: One Night in Miami…, Next to Normal, Animal Crackers, Mud Blue Sky, The Mountaintop, …Edgar Allan Poe, A Skull in Connemara, American Buffalo, Crime & Punishment, Let There Be Love, The Santaland Diaries, The Importance of Being Earnest, Things of Dry Hours, Trouble in Mind, Three Sisters, Radio Golf, The Murder of Isaac, Once on This Island, King Lear. Regional—Trinity Rep: Boeing-Boeing; Actors Theatre of Louisville: All Hail Hurricane Gordo*, The Clean House, Moot the Messenger*, Dracula, The Ruby Sunrise*, Tall Grass Gothic*, The Drawer Boy, Amadeus, As You Like It (*premieres at the Humana Festival of New American Plays); Contemporary American Theater Festival: The Overwhelming, Pig Farm; Totem Pole Playhouse: Over 75 productions through 13 summer stock seasons. Film/TV—Route 30, Route 30 Too!, The Father and the Bear, Next Food Network Star. Professional—Director of Stage Management at Virginia Tech University. Proud Actors Equity and ASCAP Member. For Whitney – with love and gratitude.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Reviews

“"A giddy, irresistible revival." "Everything clicks in this fast-flowing production."”— The Baltimore Sun

“"A beautiful realization of Shakespeare's vision..one of the truly special ones."”— Broadway World

“"Impassioned, playful and fun."”— MD Theatre Guide

“"Inspired performances."”— BmoreArt

In the News

03.14.14: The Baltimore Sun — 'Twelfth Night' gets inspired updating at Center Stage
03.14.14: Broadway World Baltimore — Visiting the Illyrian Casbah: Center Stage Does TWELFTH NIGHT Proud
03.13.14: DC Metro Theater Arts — ‘Twelfth Night’ at CENTERSTAGE
03.15.14: MD Theatre Guide — ‘Twelfth Night’ at Center Stage
03.15.14: Baltimore Post-Examiner — Centerstage Twelfth Night: A fitfully funny farce

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