Alexis Molnar
Lottie
Alexis is a high school senior. Theater/Performance:
Broadway Takes Charge (Le Poisson Rouge);
Our Hit Parade, Trapper’s Greatest Hits (Joe’s Pub);
The Tempest (RADA);
The Dining Room, Tartuffe, Kiss Me, Kate (The GSB Players);
Socks, All a Twitter (Turtle Shell Theater). Films:
Admission, Not Fade Away, The Bourne Legacy. TV: “The Next Big Thing” (Oxygen); “Electric Company” (PBS); “You’ve Changed” (Sia music video); “Danger Dawgz” (MTV); “Great White Way” (Osaka TV Japan); Nike, Visa commercials; voice overs for The Olive Garden and PSAs. Training: RADA London, Second City Chicago, Trapper Felides, Broadway Artists, Christian Coulson and Clancy O’Connor. Shirley Grant Management.
www.alexismolnar.com
Kate Nowlin
Donna Adams
New York:
Cards, Ever Less Free (Naked Angels);
Anon (Atlantic Theatre);
All This Intimacy (Second Stage);
Valparaiso (Rude Mechanicals). Regional:
Fool and
The Way of Things (O’Neill Center),
Our House (Denver Center),
The Real Thing (Huntington Theatre),
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Washington, D.C.; Helen Hayes nom.; dir. Mark Lamos),
Big Love (Dallas Theater Center),
Antony and Cleopatra (Guthrie Theater, dir. Mark Lamos),
The Birds (Yale Repertory Theatre). Film:
Young Adult, The Mighty Macs, They’re Out of the Business, The Adjustment Bureau, The Narrows, Sunday (short). Television: “Carrie Diaries” (upcoming), “Pan Am,” “Rubicon,” “Royal Pains,” “Mercy,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Black Donnellys.”
Bobby Steggert
Kevin
Broadway:
Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League award nominations),
110 in the Shade (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination),
Master Harold…and the Boys. Off-Broadway:
Assistance (Playwrights Horizons);
The Grand Manner (dir. by Mark Lamos),
A Minister’s Wife (Lincoln Center Theater);
Yank! (Drama Desk, Drama League Award nominations, York Theatre);
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations, Vineyard Theatre);
columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop);
The Music Teacher (New Group);
Mordred in Camelot (New York Philharmonic). Regional includes:
The Nightingale (La Jolla Playhouse);
Betty’s Summer Vacation (Bay Street Theatre);
Broadway 3 Generations, Ragtime (Kennedy Center);
Shakespeare’s R & J, St. Joan (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis);
The Cripple of Inishmaan (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre);
Brighton Beach Memoirs, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Pioneer Theatre);
The Great Game (Theater Previews at Duke). Film/TV:
The Namesake (Mira Nair),
Kinsey (Bill Condon),
Camelot (PBS Live @ Lincoln Center),
Game 6, Night Swimming, “The Good Wife” and a year as Sam Grey on “All My Children.” He is a graduate of NYU and studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Upcoming:
Giant at The Public Theater.
Paul Anthony Stewart
Ted
Westport Country Playhouse:
Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Broadway:
The People in the Picture (Roundabout Theatre Company),
Fiddler on the Roof, Cyrano. Off-Broadway:
The Landing. Regional:
The Last Five Years (Berkshire Theatre Festival),
Funny Girl (Drury Lane, Chicago),
Marry Me a Little (Dorset Theatre Festival),
Crime and Punishment (Cleveland Play House),
Changes of Heart (Mark Taper Forum),
Quills (Geffen Playhouse),
Hello Again (LA premiere),
Pera Palas (Long Wharf Theatre),
The Game of Love and Chance (Huntington Theatre),
Children of Eden (American premiere). Films:
Somewhere in the City, Duty Dating. Television: Danny Santos on “Guiding Light” (Emmy Award nomination), “Damages,” “Law & Order,” “Dream On,” “The Hunger,” The Inheritance (Hallmark Movie), “First Time Out,” “Loving.” BA: Princeton
Chad Beguelin
Author
Chad Beguelin is a two-time Tony Nominee for his work on the Broadway musical
The Wedding Singer (Tony Award Nomination for Best Book and Best Original Score, Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Lyrics). He wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical
Elf, which broke several box office records at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. He also wrote the book and lyrics for
Judas & Me (NYMF Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing),
The Rhythm Club (Signature Theater),
Wicked City (American Stage Company, Mason Street Warehouse) and wrote the book for Disney’s stage version of
Aladdin (The Fifth Avenue Theater, Hyperion Theater). He is the recipient of the Edward Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyric Writing, the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Award and the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. Chad is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Dramatic Writing Program.
Mark Lamos
Director/Westport Country Playhouse Artistic Director
Westport Country Playhouse:
Into the Woods; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Happy Days, She Loves Me, The Breath of Life, That Championship Season, Of Mice and Men. Mark’s collaborations with contemporary writers include Arthur Miller (
Resurrection Blues - Old Globe Theater); Tony Kushner (
Dybbuk, a Lamos commission, as well as
The Illusion, both for Hartford Stage); A.R. Gurney (
The Grand Manner, Black Tie, Big Bill and
Buffalo Gal - Off-Broadway). He staged the premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's
The End of the Day (Off-Broadway); directed Edward Albee's
Seascape (Broadway) and
Tiny Alice (Hartford Stage and Off-Broadway - Lortel Award); Jeffrey Hatcher's
Compleat Female Stage Beauty; David Edgar's
Pentecost, also at the Globe; U.S. premiere of Simon Gray's
Hidden Laughter (Hartford Stage);
Love's Fire, short plays by Wendy Wasserstein, Eric Bogosian, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, William Finn and Kushner (The Acting Company at The Public Theater; played on U.S. tour at Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts). He made his Broadway directing debut with Timberlake Wertenbaker's
Our Country's Good (Tony Award nomination) and has also staged Alfred Uhry's
Edgardo Mine for the Guthrie Theater. He began his directing career with Athol Fugard's
Hello and Good-Bye at the Guthrie Theater.
Andrew Jackness
Scenic Design
Westport Country Playhouse:
Lips Together, Teeth Apart. Broadway:
Bye Bye Birdie, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Little Foxes, Wings, Grownups, Beyond Therapy. He has worked at almost all American regional theaters, as well as the National Theatre of Great Britain, and the Schiller Theater in Berlin. Opera: New York City Opera, Washington Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Boston Opera. Film:
The Big Wedding, Everybody's Fine, Killshot, Big Night, Prelude to a Kiss, The Impostors, The Love Letter, Joe Gould's Secret, Longtime Companion, Reckless. Television: “Off the Map,” “Life As We Know It,” “Lights Out,” and the upcoming series “The Masters of Sex.” He illustrated the children's book
Pamela's First Musical, and he teaches film design at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Candice Donnelly
Costume Design
Westport Country Playhouse:
Into the Woods; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; She Loves Me; The Turn of the Screw. Broadway:
Our Country’s Good, Fences, Hughie, Search and Destroy, Mastergate. Off-Broadway:
Fires in the Mirror, The Skin of Our Teeth, Love’s Fire, others. Regional:
The Wiz, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Matchmaker, A Little Night Music, The Three Sisters, The Murder of Isaac, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Misalliance, The Winter’s Tale, She Stoops to Conquer, many others. CENTERSTAGE, ACT San Francisco, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, American Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, others. Opera: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, La Finta Giardiniera, Central Park, The Flying Dutchman, The Tales of Hoffmann, Ermione, Casino Paradise, Black Water. Film/TV:
Dolley Madison; Ben Franklin; Alexander Hamilton; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Liberty!; others. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama.
Japhy Weideman
Lighting Design
Westport Country Playhouse:
Old Wicked Songs. Off-Broadway:
4000 Miles, All-American, Stunning, What Once We Felt (Lincoln Center);
Sons of the Prophet, Tigers Be Still (Roundabout Theatre Company);
All New People, The Talls (Second Stage);
The Singing Forest (The Public/NYSF);
Jack Goes Boating (Drama Desk/Lortel nom.),
Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Little Flower of East Orange (LAByrinth Theatre Company);
Frankenstein (Soho Rep, Drama Desk nom.). Regional: ACT, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Old Globe, Santa Fe Opera, Shakespeare Theatre, Signature Theatre. International: West End, RSC, La Scala, Nederlandse Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Epidaurus Greece, National Theater of Korea.
John Gromada
Music Composition and Sound Design
Westport Country Playhouse:
Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Beyond Therapy; Happy Days; Of Mice and Men; The Archbishop’s Ceiling; Journey's End; Dear Brutus; Trumbo. Broadway:
The Columnist, Clybourne Park, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, The Road to Mecca, Man and Boy, Seminar, Next Fall, Proof, Sight Unseen, Dividing the Estate, Prelude to a Kiss, A Bronx Tale, Well, Rabbit Hole, Twelve Angry Men, Twilight LA, A Few Good Men, more. Gromada has composed many scores for Hartford Stage productions, including Horton Foote's epic
Orphans' Home Cycle, and Michael Wilson's
A Christmas Carol. Long Wharf Theatre:
The Old Masters, Train Driver, more. Other New York:
Measure for Measure (Delacorte),
Vera Stark, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Screwtape Letters, Shipwrecked!..., Clybourne Park, The Grand Manner, more. Public Theater:
The Singing Forest, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Skriker, Machinal, more. Regional: over 200 productions. Television:
The Interrogators (Biography). Awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes, Obie, Eddy, Drama-logue, NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, ASCAP awards.
www.johngromada.com
Matthew Melchiorre
Production Stage Manager
Westport Country Playhouse:
Into the Woods; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Happy Days; She Loves Me; and
That Championship Season (all directed by Mark Lamos);
Tartuffe; The Year of Magical Thinking; Suddenly Last Summer; Beyond Therapy; The Diary of Anne Frank; Tick, Tick...Boom!; Around the World in 80 Days; A Holiday Garland; The Pavilion. Broadway:
The Light in the Piazza, Coram Boy, Hamlet, Curtains, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Wicked, The Lion King, All Shook Up, The Frogs. Off-Broadway:
Black Tie and
Buffalo Gal (dir. by Mark Lamos),
Happy Now?, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment…, White Chocolate, Open Heart, The Architecture of Loss. Other New York:
Show Boat In Concert (Carnegie Hall). Regional:
Honk! (Two River Theater Company),
Into the Woods (CENTERSTAGE).
Harbor
August 28 - September 15, 2012
Review Quotes - Harbor
The New York Times
By Anita Gates
“…highly enjoyable...directed with considerable wit and style.”
Variety
By Frank Rizzo
“...wickedly funny play receiving a solidly acted and staged world preem… witty and tender…[Playwright Chad] Beguelin has a gift for clever lines and vivid descriptions.”
Brooks Community Newspapers
By Geary Danihy
“...a lot to think about, and a lot to laugh about…”
Hartford Courant
By Frank Rizzo
“…keenly-observed comedy-drama... bright, engaging and bittersweet.”
BroadwayWorld.com
By Sherry Shameer Cohen
“..you will have a terrific time...the audience was roaring with laughter at the clever dialogue.”
HamletHub.com
By John Francis Hoctor
“...a much needed reality check with perfect timing, cultural rhythm, and themes. Its contemporary comedic voice and vision and superb four character stage assembly are a truly evolved 2012 edition of the traditional American family… worth seeing…”
Examiner.com
By Andrew Beck
“…can indeed pivot from the absurdly comic to the unexpectedly touching...”
The Ridgelea Reports on Theatre
By Tom Nissley
“The acting is good, and the provocative issues – so many – that are sprinkled in the mix will give you something to chat about for days or months to come.”
Middletown Press
By Bonnie Goldberg
“...candid and revealing...”
NYTheaterscene.com
By Irene Backalenick
“...intriguing and relevant themes... moves along smoothly at a brisk tempo.”
TalkinBroadway.com
By Fred Sokol
“...inventive comedy...impressive...plenty of zip...also a thoughtful play...alternates between wryly comic dialogue and the belly laugh variety. Harbor and its creator speak with sensitivity of contemporary life and times.”
Hersam-Acorn Newspapers
By Joanne Greco Rochman
“...as provocative as it is entertaining.”
Scarsdale Inquirer
By Jackie Lupo
“…a superior comedy…”
DC Theatre Scene
By Richard Seff
“…adroit and mature and makes for very good theatre... absorbing, arresting and provocative...you’ll be hearing more of this play...”.
News Articles
September 5, 2012
Connecticut Theater News and Views
Wise Beyond Her Years...Yet Still 17
by Geary Danihy
September 1, 2012
WestportNow.com
Opening Night for
Harbor
Photos by Dave Matlow
August 30, 2012
BroadwayWorld.com
Photo Flash: Bobby Steggert and More in Westport Country Playhouse's
Harbor World Premiere!
August 30, 2012
Westport Now.com
Playhouse Hosts LGBT Night Out
Photos by Dave Matlow
August 30, 2012
HamletHub.com
Set Sail for
Harbor Now at Westport Country Playhouse: A Comedy with Heart by Chad Beguelin
by John Francis Hoctor
August 30, 2012
The Hour
Westport Country Playhouse Premiers Tony-nominated Writer's New Play about Family
by Keir Loria
August 29, 2012
WestportNow.com
Playhouse Fun - Author Jane Green
Photo by Phyllis Groner
August 28, 2012
Westportnow.com
Harbor Begins Playhouse Previews Tonight
Photo by Dave Matlow
August 21, 2012
Hearst News Media
World Premiere Comedy Sails into Westport Country Playhouse
by Christina Hennessy
August 20, 2012
CT.com
Harbor Playing at Westport Country Playhouse through September 15
August 17, 2012
WPKN-FM - State of the Arts
Interview with Chad Beguelin, playwright of the world premiere comedy,
Harbor
Hosts Richard Pheneger and Peggy Nelson
August 16, 2012
Theatermania.com
Author Jane Green Set for Westport Country Playhouse's 'Books Worth Talking About' Literary Salon
by Bethany Rickwald
July 31, 2012
Playbill.com
Westport's Harbor to Feature Bobby Steggert and Paul Anthony Stewart
by Adam Hetrick
July 31, 2012
Theatermania.com
Bobby Steggert, Paul Anthony Stewart to Headline Chad Beguelin's Harbor at Westport Country Playhouse
by Brian Scott Lipton
June 14, 2012
The Hour
Being a father is being a father
by David A. Rosenberg
Press Releases
August 16, 2012
Author Jane Green at Books Worth Talking About Literary Salon on August 29 at Westport Country Playhouse
July 31, 2012
Westport Country Playhouse to Stage World Premiere Comedy Harbor by Tony Award Nominee Chad Beguelin, Directed by Mark Lamos
July 31, 2012
Westport Country Playhouse to Stage World Premiere Comedy Harbor by Tony Award Nominee Chad Beguelin, Directed by Mark Lamos
