BEAST
Company Biograhpies

RAUL ARANAS
Mr. Aziz/Victor Leung
NYTW debut. Broadway: LOOSE ENDS (Michael Weller), MISS SAIGON, THE KING AND I, FLOWER DRUM SONG. Off-Broadway: MOTHER COURAGE (Delacorte/Public Theater). Tour: MISS SAIGON (Helen Hayes Award, Carbonell Award, Jefferson Award nom.; First National Touring Company). International: MISS SAIGON (Theatre Royal). Regional: OLIVER (Gateway Playhouse), PACIFIC OVERTURES (IRNE Award, North Shore). Film & TV: Burn After Reading (Coen Brothers), Afterwards (with John Malkovich), Buzzkill, JFK, Company Man, Nighthawks, Turk 182, “Law & Order,” “Gideon Oliver.”

JEREMY BOBB
Schtyn/Smalldon/J.T.
NYTW debut. Broadway: MARK TWAIN’S IS HE DEAD?, TRANSLATIONS (MTC). Off-Broadway: THE CALAMITY OF KAT KAT AND WILLIE, LOVE: A TRAGIC ETUDE, HELL AND BACK, MURDER IN THE FIRST. Regional: Theatreworks (Palo Alto, CA), Weston Playhouse, Barrington Stage, The Hangar Theatre and The O'Neill. Film & TV: The Campaign (dir. Dan Poliner), August (dir. Austin Chick), White Lies Black Sheep (dir. James Spooner), “Law & Order.” Training: Otterbein College (BFA).

DAN BUTLER
Captain Adler/GW
NYTW: DOMINO, EMERALD CITY. Broadway: TWENTIETH CENTURY, OLD MONEY, BILOXI BLUES. Off-Broadway: THE ONLY THING WORSE YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME…(Outer Critics Circle & Drama Desk noms.), LISBON TRAVIATA, WIDOW CLAIRE, TRUE WEST, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, EARLY ONE EVENING AT THE RAINBOW BAR & GRILLE, WALK THE DOG, WILLIE. Film & TV: Karl Rove, I Love You (produced, codirected, cowrote); Chronic Town; Fixing Frank; Silence of the Lambs; Enemy of the State; The Fan; “Frasier” (6 seasons); “From the Earth to the Moon;” “House;” “Monk;” and many others.

LISA JOYCE
Liesl/Sherine/Bonnie Ann
NYTW debut. Broadway tour: DOUBT. Off-Broadway: RED LIGHT WINTER (Barrow Street Theatre); U.S. DRAG, VENGEANCE (StageFarm); ALICE IN WAR (SPF 07). International: WE ARE NOT THESE HANDS (German Theater Abroad). Regional: RED LIGHT WINTER (Steppenwolf), GRAPES OF WRATH (IRT & Syracuse Stage), THE CRUCIBLE (Milwaukee Rep). Film & TV: The Brave One, The Messenger, “Fringe,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order,” “Kidnapped.”

LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN
Jimmy Cato
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: US DRAG (StageFarm), KING LEAR (Drama League nom., Public Theater), PIG FARM (Drama League nom., Roundabout), DOG SEES GOD (Lortel nom.), SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS (Second Stage), THE DISTANCE FROM HERE (Drama Desk Award, Best Ensemble; Lortel nom.; MCC). Regional: GEOMETRY OF FIRE (NYSF); BUS STOP, LIGHT UP THE SKY, STREET SCENE, SKIN OF OUR TEETH, RAINMAKER (Williamstown). Film & TV: Across the Universe (dir. Julie Taymor), The Kindness of Strangers, The Great Raid, “Blue Blood” (dir. Bret Ratner, pilot), “Traveler,” “The OC,” “24,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Training: National Theatre Institute (Richard Digby Day), NYU Graduate Acting Program (MFA). Upcoming: Off Broadway: Stephen Belber's GEOMETRY OF FIRE (Rattlestick). Film: Brooklyn's Finest (dir. Antoine Fuquar).

EILEEN RIVERA
LT. Mariana Sanchez/Camilla
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: SIDES: THE FEAR IS REAL (dir. Anne Kauffman, Culture Project), DOGEATERS (dir. Michael Greif, Public Theater). Regional: THE LONG SEA¬SON (dir. Peter DuBois, Perseverance Theatre).
Off-Off Broadway: THE SMALL OF HER BACK, SERENADE (Jaraoda Theater, founding member). TV: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Conviction,” “Law & Order.”

COREY STOLL
Benjamin Voychevsky
NYTW debut. Broadway: OLD ACQUAINTANCE, HENRY IV. Off-Broadway: SOME AMERICANS ABROAD (Second Stage), THE HOLOGRAM THEORY, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, INTIMATE APPAREL (Drama Desk nom., AUDELCO nom.; Roundabout). Regional: INTIMATE APPAREL (L.A. Critics Circle Award; Ovation nom.; Mark Taper Forum), The Guthrie, ACT. Film & TV: North Country, Lucky Number Slevin, The Number 23, Push, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, “ER,” “Law & Order,” “Alias,” “NCIS,” “NYPD Blue,” “Without a Trace,” “CSI,” “CSI: Miami,” “A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story.” NYU Graduate Acting Program (MFA).

MICHAEL WELLER
Playwright
NYTW debut. Broadway: MOONCHILDREN, FISHING, LOOSE ENDS, SPOILS OF WAR. Film & TV: Hair, Ragtime, Lost Angels, “Spoils of War,” “Once and Again” (writer/producer). Training: Brandeis University (music composition, BA), University of Manchester, U.K. (graduate degree). Cherry Lane’s Mentor Program (creator, supervising mentor), Iraqi War Veterans Writers Project (Writer’s Guild of American Foundation, east; mentor). Dramatists Guild of America, Council.

JO BONNEY
Director
NYTW: Alan Ball’s ALL THAT I WILL EVER BE, Will Power’s THE SEVEN (Lucille Lortel Award, Best Musical), Universes’ SLANGUAGE. Off-Broadway/Regional: Eric Bogosian's SUBURBIA, Charles Fuller's A SOLDIER'S PLAY, Lisa Loomer's LIVING OUT (Second Stage); Neil LaBute's FAT PIG (MCC & Geffen Playhouse); SOME GIRLS (MCC); Caryl Churchill's TOP GIRLS (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Christopher Shinn's ON THE MOUNTAIN (Playwrights Horizons); Nilo Cruz's ANNA IN THE TROPICS (Arena Stage); Lanford Wilson's FIFTH OF JULY (Signature; Lucille Lortel Award, Best Revival); Jose Rivera's ADORATION OF THE OLD WOMAN (La Jolla), REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT, Diana Son's STOP KISS, Anna Deavere Smith's HOUSE ARREST (The Public Theater); Jessica Goldberg's GOOD THING (The New Group); John Osborne's LOOK BACK IN ANGER (CSC, NY); Danny Hoch's SOME PEOPLE AND JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIPHOP (USA/Britain); numerous solos and plays by Eric Bogosian (USA/Britain). Recipient of a 1998 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence of Direction and the editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG).

EUGENE LEE
Scenic Designer
NYTW: A NUMBER. Broadway: WICKED, THE HOMECOMING. Off-Broadway: DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE YOU? (Public Theater). Regional: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Go Chicago! Festival), THE PRICE (Long Wharf), A SEAGULL IN THE HAMPTONS (McCarter). Film & TV: Hammett, Mr. North, Vanya on 42nd Street, “Saturday Night Live” (since 1974). Awards: Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, American Theatre Wing Design Award, Pell Award, Elliott Norton Prize (Sustained Achievement), Theatre Hall of Fame.

COLLEEN WERTHMANN
Costume Designer
NYTW as costume designer: THE SOUND AND THE FURY (APRIL SEVENTH, 1928). NYTW as actor: LIGHT RAISE THE ROOF. Off-Broadway as costume designer: NO GREAT SOCIETY, GATZ (Elevator Repair Service); SONGS OF THE DRAGONS... (Young Jean Lee); 131 (Katherine Profeta, P.S. 122). Off Broadway as actor: MISS WITHERSPOON (Playwrights Horizons /McCarter), GONE MISSING (The Civilians, Barrow St. Theatre). Regional: THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE (Naked Angels/Yale Rep.) Film & TV: The Pink Panther, “Sopranos,” “Sex & the City,” “Law & Order.” Staff writer at 23/6 (236.com). NYTW Usual Suspect
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DAVID LANDER
Lighting Designer
NYTW: LIBERTY CITY, ALL THAT I WILL EVER BE, BACH AT LEIPZIG, DIRTY BLONDE (also Broadway, Kennedy Center, Tour, West End). Broadway: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, I AM MY OWN WIFE, GOLDEN CHILD. Off-Broadway: ADDRESS UNKNOWN, AMERICAN FIESTA, AFTER ASHLEY, BEAUTIFUL CHILD, BEAST ON THE MOON, EDWARD ALBEE’S OCCUPANT, FRAN’S BED, FROG BRIDE, GOING TO ST. IVES, KING LEAR (with Kevin Kline), MACBETH (Delacorte, 2006), MIMI LE DUCK, MODERN ORTHODOX, THE GOD OF HELL. Regional: ACT, Berkeley Rep., Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co., St. Louis MUNY, The Old Globe. International: Tokyo, UK, South America, Australia and Singapore. Film: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM
Composer & Sound Designer
NYTW: FLESH & BLOOD, A QUESTION OF MERCY, THE BEARD OF AVON. Broadway: DOUBT, INHERIT THE WIND, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, FROZEN, IS HE DEAD?, CYRANO, MAURITIUS, THREE DAYS OF RAIN, RECKLESS, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, THE GOOD BODY, THE CRUCIBLE, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, UNCLE VANYA. Off-Broadway: WIT, THE LITTLE FLOWER OF EAST ORANGE, DEFIANCE, THE GREY ZONE, THE DYING GAUL, STOP KISS, THE GLORY OF LIVING, JACK GOES BOATING, THE PARIS LETTER, AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, WOMAN BEFORE A GLASS. Film: Spinning Into Butter, Eye of God, Working Girls, Penn & Teller, White Homeland Commando (Wooster Group). Dance: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Michael Moschen, Boston Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet. As percussionist: Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Steve Reich. www.vantieghem.com.

TAL YARDEN
Video Designer
NYTW: LIBERTY CITY, THE MISANTHROPE, KAOS. Off Broadway: LE PETIT MORT (P.S. 122); THREE WILLIES, WIND (The Kitchen); CORPUS EXQUISITUS, EGG (DTW); DOG & PONY SHOW (chashama); TIGHT RIGHT WHITE, QUOTATIONS FROM A RUINED CITY (Dar a Luz); THE KING IS DEAD, NOT GARDEN (Joyce). International: ANGELS IN AMERICA, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, ROMAN TRAGEDIES (dir. Ivo van Hove, Toneelgroep Amsterdam); DAS RHEINGOLD, DIE WALKURE, SIEGFREID, GOTTERDAMERUNG (Vlaamse Opera); RENT (Joop van den Ende Theater Productions).

NATHAN JOHNSON
Makeup and Effects Designer
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: GREETINGS FROM YORKVILLE (Soho Playhouse), BOYS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN (Actors Playhouse). TV: “Project Runway” (Season 4, 5), “Big Gay Sketch Show,” “Tony Awards,” “GLAAD Awards,” “Rocco Gets Real,” “Good Morning America,” “Legally Blonde,” “Monday Night Football,” “New York State Lottery.” Training: Columbia University (MFA), Make¬Up Designory.

BOB FLANAGAN
Puppet Designer
NYTW debut. Broadway: WICKED (Time Dragon & Wonderful Wizard of Oz Head puppet). Off-Broadway: RAFFERTY RESCUES THE MOON, HAPPY PRINCE, THE HAIRY APE (2007 Hewes Design Award nom., The Irish Rep.). TV: “Sesame Street” (1986 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in costume design), “Saturday Night Live” (Toonces: the Cat Who Could Drive a Car), “Crank Yankers” (Comedy Central, 64 puppets). Designer for Muppet Workshop and Jim Henson Productions. Founder of Den Design Studio. Pratt Institute (BFA, Art Education).

THOMAS SCHALL
Fight Director
NYTW debut. Broadway: THE SEAFARER, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, CORAM BOY, JOURNEY’S END, WOMAN IN WHITE, WICKED, SIXTEEN WOUNDED, AWAKE AND SING, NOISES OFF. Off-Broadway: HAMLET, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, MOTHER COURAGE, IN DARFUR (Public Theater); BERNARDA ALBA, DESSA ROSE, BELLE EPOQUE, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Lincoln Center), HOMEBODY/KABUL (BAM).

DEBORAH HECHT
Dialect Coach
NYTW: HOMEBODY/KABUL, BEARD OF AVON. Broadway: EQUUS, TALE OF TWO CITIES, A CATERED AFFAIR, SOUTH PACIFIC, CYRANO, LITTLE MERMAID, YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, MARY POPPINS, OLD ACQUAINTANCE, ‘NIGHT MOTHER, AFTER THE FALL, LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, THE CARETAKER, VINCENT IN BRIXTON, THE CRUCIBLE, DIRTY BLONDE, THE MUSIC MAN, TITANIC, LION KING, CABARET, ANGELS IN AMERICA. Off Broadway: LCT, Signature, Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Roundabout, Vineyard, TFANA. Regional: Hartford Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Long Wharf, Guthrie, Seattle Rep., Yale Rep., Berkeley Rep., Center Stage Baltimore. International: THE WINTER’S TALE (RSC), BURIED CHILD (National). Film: Kinsey; Secret Passage; Illuminata; Surviving Picasso; Substance of Fire; My Cousin Vinny (Marisa Tomei), Millers Crossing (Marcia Gay Harden). NYU Graduate Acting, Faculty.

LINDA MARVEL
Production Stage Manager
Recent credits include 33 VARIATIONS (written & directed by Moises Kaufman, La Jolla Playhouse), Douglas Carter Beane’s THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED (Tony nomination for Best Play). Off-Broadway: The premieres of Sam Shepard’s THE GOD OF HELL, Julia Cho’s BFE, Howard Brenton’s SORE THROATS, Adrienne Kennedy’s THE OHIO STATE MURDERS. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Center Stage, Westport Country Playhouse and Olney Theatre Center. Tours include two nation¬al tours for the John F. Kenndedy Center, MINSTERMAN at the Dublin Theatre Festival and Lisa Kron’s 2.5 MINUTE RIDE.

SARAH BIERENBAUM
Assistant Stage Manager
Broadway: MARY POPPINS, TARZAN. Regional: TAMING OF THE SHREW (Shakespeare Theatre Company); ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, THE LADIES OF THE CAMELLIAS, THE CLEAN HOUSE (Yale Rep); AS YOU LIKE IT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, HAMLET (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Yale School of Drama (MFA, Stage Management). Proud AEA member.

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