Chautauqua Theater Company

Spring 2014

On Broadway

• Santino Fontana stars opposite Tony Shalhoub in a stage version of the Moss Hart showbiz inspired memoir Act One.

• Alex Morf joins James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in the revival of Of Mice and Men.

• Bill Heck stars opposite Michelle Williams in the revival of Cabaret.

• Bryce Pinkham continues a stellar run opposite Jefferson Mays in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and last year’s Tony Award winner, Gabriel Ebert, now stars in Harvey Fierstein’s newest play Casa Valentina.

• Just a few other highlights: also on Broadway, CTC production stage manager Jenn Rae Moore and stage manager B. Bales Karlin continue working on Bridges of Madison County.

Off Broadway

• Clifton Duncan stars in Kung Fu at the Signature Theater.

• Amelia Pedlow, Dave Quay and Claire Karpen make up fully half the cast of David Ives’ The Heir Apparent at Classical Stage Company.

• Michael Schantz and guest artist Karl Kenzler star in Beyond Therapy at TACT.

• Blake DeLong is in a new dance theater piece, The World is Round at BAM.

• Internationally, after winning the Irish Times Theater Award as Best Director for A Streetcar Named Desire last season, CTC resident director Ethan McSweeny returns to Dublin to direct Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband running through July.

Winter 2014

On Broadway

• Bryce Pinkham (’07) stars in Broadway’s newest hit, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

• Brian Smith (’05) received rave reviews as the Gentleman Caller in the revival of The Glass Menagerie.

• Shuler Hensley (’91) stars in the double bill of Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land opposite Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart.

• Shauna Miles (‘08 & ’10) appeared in this year’s Radio City Holiday Spectacular.

Off Broadway

• Marin Hinkle (’87) stars in the revival of Dinner with Friends at the Roundabout.

• Susannah Flood (‘05 & ’06) and Irene Sophia Lucio (‘10) will be in the American premiere of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information.

• Amelia Pedlow (‘07 & 08), Dave Quay (‘11 & ‘12) and Claire Karpen (‘11) make up half the cast of David Ives’ The Heir Apparent, opening in March at Classical Stage Company.

• Ryan Garbayo (‘08 & ‘09) and Rebecca Brooksher (‘01) both appear in Loot with the Red Bull Theatre.

• Clifton Duncan (‘07) will be seen in Signature Theatre’s Kung Fu.

• Jimmy Kieffer (’10) and Nicole Lowrance (’99) starred in the New York Company production of Peter and the Starcatcher.

• Zach Appleman (‘08 & ‘09) was seen in Julie Taymor’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theater for a New Audience.

Around the Country

• Two CTC alums took on the phenomenal role of Wanda in the much-produced hit Venus in Fur: Vanessa Wache (’04) at the Cleveland Playhouse and Andrea Syglowski (’11) at the Huntington Theater in Boston.

• Helen Cespedes (’11) is in Tribes at the Studio Theater in Washington, D.C. Vince Nappo (’05) is appearing in the National Tour of Million Dollar Quartet.

• Julie Jesneck (’01) appeared at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre as Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac. 

• Blake Segal (’09 & ’10) was seen in Nerds with the Philadelphia Theater Company and heads up to Maine’s Public Theater for Good People.

• Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch will direct Love Alone, a new play premiering at PlayMaker’s Rep in North Carolina this March. Her creative team includes lighting designer Cecilia Durbin (’11), set designer Lee Savage (8 years of CTC design) and composer Peter Mark Kendall (‘11 & ‘13).

Film & TV 

• Frankie Alvarez (’08) is on billboards everywhere promoting his new HBO series, “Looking.”

   

• Brett Dalton (’10) stars in the ABC series “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,” in which David Conrad (’89) also has a recurring role.

• Aya Cash (’03) appears in The Wolf of Wall Street.

• Molly Bernard (’12) appears as a regular in the new Amazon series “Alpha House.”

• Anthony Mackie (’98) will be in the 2014 films Shelter and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

• Elizabeth Reaser (’96) can be seen on the new TV miniseries “Bonnie and Clyde.”

• Bill Heck (’00) will appear in the TV series “Taxi: Brooklyn South” and the film Happy Baby.

• Jessica Chastain (‘01) remains incredibly busy shooting new films. She graced the December cover of Vogue.

Spring 2013

On Broadway

• Gabriel Ebert (’07 & ‘08) stars as the father in the megahit Matilda and Santino Fontana (’02 & ‘03) stars as the Prince in Cinderella.

• Guest Artist Kristine Nielsen (You Can’t Take It With You) received unanimous raves in Christopher Durang’s Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, while Guest Artist Michael Gaston (Fifty Ways) and conservatory alum Andrew Hovelson (‘07) appear with Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy.

• Brendan Titley (‘10) will be one of only two actors alongside Alan Cumming in the exciting limited run of Macbeth.

Around the Country

• CTC’s Resident Director, Ethan Mc- Sweeny, is going to have a hard time being in residence this season because he’ll be directing A Streetcar Named Desire at the famed Gate Theatre in Dublin! Exploring his Irish roots with some classic American fare, he’ll be collaborating once again with CTC set designer extraordinaire Lee Savage.

• Zach Appelman (‘08 & ‘09) received unanimous raves in the title role of Henry V at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post review stated, “Demonstrating decisively that a hero can always be found waiting in the wings, a young actor by the name of Zach Appelman has come along to grab hold of the oratorical reins of ‘Henry V’ and carry us with astonishing confidence back once more unto the breach.”