The Rivals

September 28–October 30

The Rivals
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by David Schweizer

Swooning lovers, plucky maids, wily valets, irate guardians, and of course a duel: this is the world of Bath, which leaps to sparkling life with matchless wit and lively invention in this enduring classic. With all the brilliance of his fellow Irish scribes Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, Sheridan single-handedly revived English stage comedy with his landmark play.

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Cast

Clifton Duncan*
Faukland

Danny Gavigan
Fag/David

Caroline Hewitt*
Julia Melville

Jimmy Kieffer*
Bob Acres

David Margulies*
Sir Anthony Absolute

Manu Narayan*
Captain Jack Absolute

Kristine Nielsen*
Mrs. Malaprop

Libya Pugh*
Lucy

Owen Scott
Thomas

Zoë Winters*
Lydia Languish

Evan Zes*
Sir Lucius O’Trigger

Baltimore Center Stage: The Rivals, Snow Falling on Cedars. Tour—Of Mice and Men (Ireland). Regional—La Jolla Playhouse/KC Rep: Peer Gynt; Studio Theatre: Mojo, All That I Will Ever Be; Rorschach Theatre: Dead City, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Rough Magic; Longacre Lea: Cat’s Cradle (Angela); Constellation: The Ramayana; Bay Theatre Company: Mauritius; Keegan Theatre: Of Mice and Men (Lennie); Theater Alliance: Five Flights; Forum: Marat/Sade (Marat); Solas Nua: Made in China; Maryland Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Film/TV—America’s Most Wanted, Psychic Detectives. Company member, The Hub Theatre.

Baltimore Center Stage: Edgar Allan Poe, The Rivals. Regional — Shakespeare Theatre Co: Merry Wives of Windsor; Playmakers Repertory: Big River, As You Like It, Opus, All My Sons, Pride and Prejudice, Nicholas Nickleby Parts 1 & 2, Shipwrecked!, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Little Prince, Pericles; Chautauqua Theater: Amadeus, Macbeth; Alliance Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Livin’ in the Garden, To Kill a Mockingbird, Twelfth Night. Other credits—99 Ways to F@#k a Swan, The Flu Season, Autobahn. Film/TV—Criminal Minds, A Place Apart, A Reason to Believe. Education—MFA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Awards—Independent Weekly Best Supporting Performances 2010.

Baltimore Center Stage: The Rivals, The Murder of Isaac. Broadway—Conversations With My Father, Wonderful Town, Angels in America, 45 Seconds From Broadway, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Iceman Cometh, Comedians, The West Side Waltz, and more. Off Broadway—New York’s Signature Theatre: The Illusion; Playwrights Horizons: After The Revolution; New York Theater Workshop: All That I Will Ever Be; The New Group: The Accomplices (Actors Equity’s Richard Seff Award 2007). Regional—Portland Center Stage: The Imaginary Invalid, The Chosen (2010 Drammy Award); Long Wharf Theatre: Lil’s 90^th, The Price, Rocket to the Moon, She Stoops to Conquer; McCarter Theatre: Hamlet; Mark Taper Forum: Hysteria; Arlington’s Signature Theater: The Happy Time (Helen Hayes Award 2008); The Guthrie; Hartford Stage. Film/TV—upcoming Roadie, Ira and Abby, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, 9V Weeks, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, All That Jazz, Dressed to Kill, Running On Empty, A Jersey Tale. He was Tony Soprano’s lawyer Neil Mink.

Baltimore Center Stage: The Rivals, Cyrano, Boys from Syracuse. Broadway—Bombay Dreams (Drama League nom). Off Broadway/New York—NY Fringe Festival: Yeast Nation (at La MaMa); Second Stage: subUrbia, Getting Home; Dodgers Stages: Sidd; NYSF/Public: Fucking A; NY Stage & Film: Largo. Tour—Miss Saigon. Regional—Kennedy Center: The Lisbon Traviata; Yale Rep: The People Next Door; Shakespeare & Company: Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labor’s Lost; St. Louis Rep/Cincinnati Playhouse: Metamorphoses; Wilma Theatre: Indian Ink; Missouri Rep: The Winter’s Tale; St. Louis MUNY: Les Miserables, Godspell; TUTS, Houston: Fame: The Musical. Film/TV— A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, The Love Guru (w/ Mike Myers), The Last Airbender, Walkaway, Good Night |Good Morning, Quarter Life Crisis, Unforgettable, Rubicon, Nurse Jackie, All My Children, The Sopranos, L&O: SVU, Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle, M-O-N-Y. Band—DARUNAM (lead vocals and saxophone). Education—BFA, Carnegie Mellon University.

Baltimore Center Stage: The Rivals, The Baltimore Waltz, Triumph of Love, Picnic. Broadway—Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, To Be or Not to Be, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Spring Awakening, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Greenbird, Jackie: An American Life, The Iceman Cometh. Off Broadway—The Public: Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Nominations), Dog Opera (Obie Award); Playwrights Horizons: Crazy Mary, Miss Witherspoon, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Drama Desk Nomination, Critics Circle Nomination); Manhattan Theater Club: Our Leading Lady; Variety Arts Theater: Omnium Gatherum. Regional—Guthrie, Huntington, Williamstown Theatre (nine seasons), McCarter, Alley, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Cleveland Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Philadelphia Theatre Co., Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Sundance Theatre Lab. Film/TV—Morning Glory, That’s What She Said, The Savages, Adelaide, Small Time Crooks, Law & Order, L&O: CI, L&O: Conviction, Third Watch.

Baltimore Center Stage: Edgar Allan Poe, The Rivals; Caroline, or Change. Off Broadway/Tour—New Victory: The Bluest Eye (Claudia); Classical Theatre of Harlem: Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet, NY, FL, NC, PA), Ain’t Suppose to Die a Natural Death (Scavenger Lady). Off Off Broadway—Lookingglass: Odyssey. Regional—Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet (Gertrude); Peterborough Players: Doubt (Mrs. Muller); Shakespeare on the Sound: Julius Caesar (Portia); Goodman: Dreams of Sara Breedlove (dir. Regina Taylor); Steppenwolf: The Bluest Eye, Wedding Band (Julia); Congo Square: From the Mississippi Delta, The Piano Lesson (Berniece); Chicago Shakespeare: Macbeth; Milwaukee Rep: A Christmas Carol; Milwaukee Shakespeare: As You Like It (Rosalind); First Stage Milwaukee: Smoldering Fires; St. Louis Black Rep: Train Is Comin’. Film/TV—Platinum Wings (TV Pilot), Law & Order: SVU, One Life To Live, Jack’s Big Music Show. Education—UIUC (MFA). Professional—Co-founding Ensemble Member of Congo Square. Teaching Artist—Harlem School of The Arts.

Baltimore Center Stage— The Rivals, Snow Falling on Cedars, First Look: The Cobbler. Regional—Everyman Theatre: The Cherry Orchard (Yepikhodov); Single Carrot Theatre: The Other Shore; The Studio Theatre: The History Boys (Posner); Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: Antigone (Hamon); Hamlet; Tabard Theatre (London): Five Finger Exercise (Clive). Film—Merchant of Venice, (Bassanio); Carmax Commercial: Wheels (Spare Tire). Education— GSA Conservatoire, BA Honors in Acting. Awards— Helen Hayes Nominee: The History Boys (Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actor). Thank you mom and Jake.

Baltimore Center Stage— The Rivals, The Matchmaker. Off Broadway— Lincoln Center Theater: 4000 Miles (LCT3); 59E59: Love Song. Other NY— Ohio Theatre: Hater (modern translation of Molière’s The Misanthrope, NYT Critics’ Pick); Firebird Productions: Othello; Sabooge Theatre Company: Speak Easy. Regional— Magic Theatre: Mauritius (Principal Female, Bay Area Critics Circle nomination); Paper Mill Playhouse: The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. David Schweizer); Seattle Repertory Theatre: The Imaginary Invalid (Seattle Times Footlight Award for Acting, dir. David Schweizer); Virginia Stage Company: The Diary of Anne Frank; TheatreWorks; Colorado Springs: The Comedy of Errors. Film/TV— In the Family, Under, Law & Order, Ugly Betty, Gossip Girl, Army Wives. Education— BFA, SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory. Thank you David, forever and always.

Baltimore Center Stage— The Rivals. New York— Irish Repertory Theatre: White Woman Street, Around the World in 80 Days; The Acting Company: American Dreams, The Tempest, As You Like It; Beckett Theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Lucille Lortel: Romeo & Juliet. International— Barbican: The King Stag (dir. Julie Taymor/Andrei Serban); Moscow Art Theatre: Dream Play. Regional— La Jolla/Kansas City Rep: Peer Gynt; Berkely Rep/Arena Stage: Arabian Nights; City Theatre: 39 Steps; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Victoria Musica; Lookingglass: Arabian Nights; Westport/Cincinnati Playhouse: Around the World in 80 Days (Outstanding Performance Acclaim Award, Best Actor nom. Cinn. Ent. Award); Goodman: Pericles; Old Globe: The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth; Shakespeare Theatre: Pericles; American Repertory: Full Circle, The Merchant of Venice, Ivanov, All My Sons; Pioneer Theatre: Othello; Shakespeare on the Sound: Comedy of Errors. Film/TV— Last Night at Angelo’s, French Fries, The Street, Guido & Luigi, All My Children, Slapstick Comedy Special.

Creative Team

David Schweizer
Director

Caleb Wertenbaker
Scenic Designer

David Burdick
Costume Designer

Russell H. Champa
Lighting Designer

M. Florian Staab
Sound Designer

Ryan Rumery
Original Music

Ashley Smith
Dialect Director

Lewis Shaw
Fight Choreographer

Whitney Eggers
Production Dramaturg

Janet Foster
Casting Director

Laura Smith*
Stage Manager

Raine Bode*
Assistant Stage Manager

Captain Kate Murphy*
Assistant Stage Manager

Baltimore Center Stage: Next to Normal; Bus Stop; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Caroline, or Change; These Shining Lives; The Boys From Syracuse; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Permanent Collection; The Miser; And God Created Great Whales. Broadway—Lincoln Center: Troilus and Cressida. Off Broadway—The Junket, I’m A Stranger Here Myself, And God Created Great Whales (OBIE), Horizon, Songs from an Unmade Bed, White Chocolate, Wintertime, My Price Point, Getting Home, Cologne, It’s a Man’s World, Bad Sex with Bud Kemp, All for You, The Waiting Room, Booth, You Could Be Home Now, Kingfish, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador, Gogol, Earthworms, The Last Days of British Honduras. International Tours/Residencies—Warsaw; Prague; Lisbon; Hamburg; London; Stockholm; Oslo; Toga Village, Japan. Regional—La Jolla Playhouse; Kansas City Rep; McCarter; Seattle Rep; Arena Stage; Mark Taper; LATC; Pasadena Playhouse; Williamstown; Yale Rep; Trinity Rep; Geffen Playhouse; Magic Theater; Opera—NYCO: The Mines of Sulfur; Glimmerglass: The Greater Good (world premiere); Boston Lyric Opera: The Emperor of Atlantis, Macbeth; Gotham Chamber Opera: Albert Herring; Long Beach: La Indian Queen, Elegy for Young Lovers, Powder Her Face, La Perichole, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Soldier’s Tale/Fiddler’s Tale; Houston Grand Opera: Abduction from the Seraglio; Chicago Opera: Giovanna D’Arco; Washington Arts Society: Nytrate Hymnal. Education—Yale School of Drama.

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: The Rivals, ReEntry, Cyrano, The Miser (dir. David Schweizer). Broadway—Lincoln Center Theater/Lyceum Theater: In the Next Room (or the vibrator play); Lyceum Theater: God Said “Ha!”. Off Broadway—Lincoln Center/Mitzi Newhouse: The Grand Manner; Vineyard Theater: Slugbearers of Kayrol Island; 2^nd Stage: Eurydice; MTC: The Four of Us, Yellowman, The Other Side; The Public Theater; The Promenade Theater; Union Square Theater; Classic Stage Company; New York Stage and Film; Cherry Lane Theater; Primary Stages; MCC; The Zipper; La Mama ETC. Regional— ACT, Mark Taper Forum, Wilma Theater, Berkeley Rep, Trinity Rep, Yale Rep, Long Wharf Theater, McCarter Theater, Old Globe, ATL/Humana Festival, Williamstown Theater Festival, Seattle Rep, Cal Shakes, Philadelphia Theater Company, The Kennedy Center.

Baltimore Center Stage: Next to Normal, An Enemy of the People; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Caroline, or Change; Arsenic & Old Lace; The Boys from Syracuse. Broadway—Thurgood. Off Broadway—Atlantic Theatre Co.: Between Riverside and Crazy, What Rhymes With America; Irish Rep: A Mind-Bending Evening of Beckett; LCT: 4000 Miles; Rattlestick Theatre Co.: Horsedreams; MTC: We Live Here; Public Theatre: Neighbors; Irish Rep: The Emperor Jones (Lortel Award nom.). Regional—Over 200 including Center Theater Group: The Royale (Ovation nom.); Old Globe: Be A Good Little Widow; Dallas Theater Company: Tigers Be Still, The Who’s Tommy; Long Wharf Theatre: Macbeth 1969; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Behind The Eye (Acclaim Award); Philadelphia Theatre Co.: Golden Age (Barrymore nom.); Woolly Mammoth: The Convert (Helen Hayes nom.), Vigils (Helen Hayes nom.), Stunning (Helen Hayes nom.); Ford’s Theatre: The Heavens are Hung in Black (Helen Hayes nom.); Theatre Alliance: Thief River (Helen Hayes nom.), Florida Stage: Cradle of Man (Carronell nom.). Film—SyncroNYCity, Gatewood, Flowerman, and And, Apart.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, The Rivals. Regional—Studio Theatre: Sucker Punch; Victory Gardens Theatre: My Children! My Africa!; American Players Theatre: Exits and Entrances, The Circle; Dallas Theater Center: The Good Negro, Pride and Prejudice, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, My Fair Lady. Regional (acting)—Shakespeare Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well; Great Lakes Theatre Festival: Arms and the Man; Utah Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Our Town; Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing; Dallas Theater Center: Pride and Prejudice, The Misanthrope, The Glass Menagerie. Education—University of Delaware. Professional—Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting, University of Maryland: School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, A Skull in Connemara, Gleam, The Rivals, Crime & Punishment, Snow Falling on Cedars. Broadway—Addams Family, Life in Theatre, Shrek, Pirate Queen, Aida, Scarlet Pimpernel, Tarzan. International—West End: Royal Family. Regional—Ben-Hur Live, Metropolitan Opera, Baltimore Opera, Washington Opera, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre. Fight Direction—Everyman Theatre: Private Lives, All My Sons, Mystery of Irma Vep, Filthy Rich, Much Ado About Nothing. Baltimore Opera—Romeo et Juliette, Otello, Elektra, Aida; Studio Theatre: Frozen, Mojo; Rep Stage: Bach at Leipzig, Lonesome West, Swan; Globe Theatre, London (Workshop Season); Shakespeare Theatre: Taming of the Shrew; over 40 episodes of America’s Most Wanted. Film/TV—Killer Joe, Death Games. Other Professional—Weapons and Specialty Prop Design; Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and on faculty for the Opera Studio at University of Maryland, College Park.

Baltimore Center Stage: The Rivals, American Buffalo, Crime & Punishment; Snow Falling on Cedars; The Homecoming, The Wiz, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Importance of Being Earnest; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Fabulation or, The Re-education of Undine; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Matchmaker; A Little Night Music; Hearts; Arsenic & Old Lace; Trouble in Mind; The Boys from Syracuse; Death and the Maiden. Broadway—The Light in the Piazza (Artios nom.); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Lennon; Taking Sides (co-). Off Broadway—Westside Theater: DUST. Endpapers; True Love; The Dying Gaul; The Maiden’s Prayer; Dream True; Trojan Women; A Love Story; Playwrights Horizons: Floyd Collins, The Monogamist, A Cheever Evening, Later Life. Regional—Kennedy Center: Golden Child; Westport Country Playhouse; Intiman; Dallas Theater Center; Berkeley Rep; Pittsburgh Public; Yale Rep; Prince Music; Goodman; Steppenwolf; A.R.T.; Cal Shakes. Film/TV—The Deal; Advice from a Caterpillar; Cosby; Tracey Ullman Takes on New York. BBC World Services radio dramas “The Day That Lehman Died” (Peabody Award) and “Severed Threads.”

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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