36-plus very productive years in the world of theatre---locally, nationally and internationally. Films: The City, Music of the Heart, Delta Force II, Fresh, Pinero, Company Men, Exposed, Shine On and Guerrilla (the life of Che Guevara, played by Benicio del Toro; Steven Soderbergh, director) to name a few. Countless TV appearances in the regular New York-based TV series.  He is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.

Education:  University of Maryland, College Park Campus, B.A. Speech and Drama Education.  Washington, D.C.:  Founding member of Folger Shakespeare Library's Folger Theatre Group and D.C. Black Repertory Theatre Company.  NYC:  Carlyle in Joseph Papp's Lincoln Center production of Streamers (dir. Mike Nichols).  Network television debut in "Carter Country"; other television credits are "Soap," "Lou Grant," "The Jeffersons," "Doogie Howser," "The Incredible Hulk," "Matlock" as Tyler Hudson, P.I., "The Josephine Baker Story," "Hill Street Blues" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." Film: The Philadelphia Experiment, Any Day Now, Dangerous Minds and Robert DiNiro's Everybody's Fine.

Broadway: The Invention of Love, Proof. Off-Broadway: From Up Here (Manhattan Theatre Club); Oh, The Humanity and other exclamations (Flea Theater); Mr. Marmalade (Roundabout Theatre); People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Indoor/Outdoor (Summer Play Festival, DR2 );The Hiding Place (Atlantic Theater); Theophilus North and Can't Let Go (Keen Company); and She Stoops to Conquer (Irish Repertory Theatre). Recent regional theatre credits include The Front Page (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Unmentionables, Black Snow (Yale Repertory Theatre); Burn This, The Rivals (Huntington Theatre), Barrington Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Old Globe. Film and TV: Ghostown, Dealbreaker, "Hope & Faith," "Law & Order: SVU" and "Law & Order: CI." MFA Old Globe/University of San Diego.

Broadway: Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Macbeth with Kelsey Grammer.  Off-Broadway: Svejk with Stephen Spinella.  Favorite roles include: Cyrano, Macbeth, Macduff, Cassius, Long John Silver, and of course, Lennie in Of Mice and Men.  World Premieres include: Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage, Natural Selection, Listeners and Under Midwestern Stars. Theatres include: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pioneer Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, as well as the Texas, St. Louis and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Film and TV: Kinsey with Liam Neeson, "Law & Order," "Knights of Prosperity," "Oz" and various soaps. Mark is a graduate of the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware.

Broadway: The Ritz (Roundabout Theatre, directed by Joe Mantello).  Off Broadway: God's Ear (Vineyard Theatre/New Georges), Five Flights (Rattlestick), Arms and the Man and The Mineola Twins (Roundabout Theatre, directed by Roger Rees and Joe Mantello, respectively), and Tartuffe (The PublicTheater/NYSF, directed by Mark Brokaw).  Regional: Vigils (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Take Me Out (TheatreWorks/Hartford Stage/The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue (Alliance Theatre), The Game of Love and Chance (Folger Theatre), Rough Magic (Hangar Theatre), Black Milk, Far Away and Far East (Studio Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Delaware Theatre Company), Richard II (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), The Sweepers (Capital Repertory Theater), and Beyond Therapy (Old Globe), among many others.  Television: "The Guiding Light," "All My Children" and "One Life to Live."

Broadway: The Little Mermaid, High Fidelity (Original Cast Recordings). New York Theatre and Workshops: The Addams Family (with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth), Prairie (with Patrick Swayze, dir. Francesca Zambello), Leap of Faith (dir. Taylor Hackford), Memphis (dir. Chris Ashley), The Fantasticks (2006 revival, dir. Tom Jones), Bernarda Alba, (Lincoln Center, dir. Graciela Daniele). National Tour: Mamma Mia!. TV: "Flight of the Conchords" (HBO). BFA from Emerson College.

Tommy Nohilly is making his regional theater stage debut.  A former U.S. Marine, he attended NYU and Columbia University where he was the recipient of the Shubert Fellowship and The Richard Rodgers Fellowship in playwriting.  He has made appearances on TV's "Law & Order" and "Third Watch."  He has also in appeared the films Reign Over Me, Campfire Stories and the Sundance Film Festival winner The Believer.  He currently lives in Hell's Kitchen in NYC. 

Westport Country Playhouse debut. Broadway: The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Off Broadway: Emancipation (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Sam Shepard's Chicago (Signature Theatre); BUK- The Life and Times of Charles Bukowski (HERE Theater).Recent Regional Theatre: The Front Page (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Doubt and American Buffalo (Geva Theatre); Glengarry Glen Ross; The Crucible and Of Mice and Men (Alley Theatre); Real Hush-Hush (Merrimack Theatre); Waiting For Godot (Edinburgh Festival). Film and Television:  Sleepers; Following Bliss; "Third Watch"; "Law & Order"; quot;Law & Order: Criminal Intent"; "The Black Donnellys."
Training:  R.A.D.A.; The Neighborhood Playhouse; and Atlantic Theater Company's Practical Aesthetics Workshop. Proud Equity Member.

Theatre credits include Sea of Tranquility (Atlantic Theater Company); Sleepwalkers (Alliance Theatre); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (Kentucky Shakespeare Festival); Dr. Treves in The Elephant Man and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream at University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he earned his MFA in Acting. Film credits include Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds; Neil Jordan's The Brave One; A Jersey Tale, for which he won the One to Watch Actor Award at the 2003 UrbanWorld Film Festival; and the upcoming adaptation of Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die. TV credits include "Law & Order:  CI," "Law & Order: SVU" and "CSI: Miami."

Broadway:  The Trip Back Down, Devour the Snow and Arthur Miller's The American Clock.  Off-Broadway:  16 productions at Circle Repertory Company including Talley and Son as Mr. Talley and Buried Child as Dodge.  Roundabout Theatre:  The Masterbuilder (Mr. Solness); Ghosts (Engstrand); and Of Mice and Men (Candy). A member of Pearl Theatre in NYC, Ed has completed 28 classical plays, the last being Machiavelli's The Mandrake (Ciro); next is Lessing's Nathan the Wise (The Friar).  Regional highlights:  Hector in Foxfire, Guthrie Theater tour and Krapp's Last Tape (Alley Theatre, directed by Edward Albee).

Steinbeck (1902-1968) was born in Salinas, California, of German and Irish ancestry. During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, nourishing his impression of the California countryside and its people. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Tortilla Flat (1935), Of Mice and Men (1937), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), East of Eden (1952) and Travels with Charley (1962). In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction book and several collections of short stories.
Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 "...for his realistic as well as imaginative writings, distinguished by a sympathetic humor and a keen social perception."

Mark Lamos is a director of plays, musicals and opera.  The New York Times called him "a poet of the theater" and his work received a chapter in "100 Great Directors," along with legendary directors of the 20th century.  Lamos spent 17 seasons as artistic director of Hartford Stage, for which he accepted the Tony Award in 1989.  During his tenure, he staged acclaimed productions of classics, new plays and musicals, many of which moved from Hartford to New York and beyond. Lamos received the Connecticut Arts Award and three honorary doctorates for his work at Hartford Stage.  He made his Broadway directing debut with a transfer of Our Country's Good, for which he received a Tony Award nomination.  His other Broadway credits include Cymbeline, Seascape, The Rivals, The Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm and The Deep Blue Sea. Off-Broadway credits include Tiny Alice (Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award nomination), Measure for Measure (Lortel Award) as well as plays by A.R. Gurney, Lee Blessing, Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and others. He has also worked on premieres with Arthur Miller, Alfred Uhry, and Simon Gray. Lamos' opera credits include the Met, NYC Opera and PBS's Central Park (Emmy Award nomination) and Madama Butterfly (Emmy Award win). As an actor, he appeared in the film Longtime Companion.

Theatre credits include designs for regional theatres in America, London's West End and numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including the currently running hit musical revival of South Pacific (for which he won Tony and Drama Desk Awards). Yeargan's extensive opera credits include the world premieres of A Streetcar Named Desire and Dead Man Walking for San Francisco Opera, The Great Gatsby for Metropolitan Opera, Cold Sassy Tree for Houston Grand Opera and Central Park for Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera. He is a professor of Stage Design at the Yale School of Drama.

Westport Country Playhouse:  Thurgood, The Archbishop's Ceiling, Time of My Life. More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including Thurgood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Receptionist, Trumpery, Heartbreak House, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, On Golden Pond, A Delicate Balance, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, Passion, The Heiress, The Sisters Rosensweig, Plenty, The Ballad of the Sad Caf', Burton's Hamlet, Vita and Virginia, Sylvia, The Lisbon Traviata.  Currently working on Way of the World at Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Michael Kahn.
Metropolitan Opera: Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby.  Film: Arthur, Can't Stop the Music, Glengarry Glen Ross.  Awards: Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, 14 Tony Award nominations.  Professor, Yale School of Drama.

Westport Country Playhouse:  The Turn of the Screw, Sedition, Constant Star, Jam & Spice, On the Verge, The Immigrant. Broadway:  David Copperfield's Dreams and Nightmares, The Deep Blue Sea.  Off-Broadway:  Two Trains Running, Hot N Throbbing, Othello, Big Love, Intrigue with Faye, Savanna Bay, Love's Fire: Fresh Numbers by Seven American Playwrights, among others.  Regional:  Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.), ACT (San Francisco), Chicago Shakespeare, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Berkley Rep, Alliance Theatre, among many others.  Opera companies of Paris (Garnier), Berlin, Tokyo, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Seattle, Virginia, Miami, Chicago (including Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre), Glimmerglass and New York City Opera, and numerous collaborations (22 years) with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Westport Country Playhouse: The Archbishop's Ceiling, Journey's End, Dear Brutus.  Broadway: A Bronx Tale, The Homecoming, Prelude to a Kiss, Old Acquaintance, Rabbit Hole, Well, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, Proof, Sight Unseen, Sixteen Wounded, The Retreat from Moscow, Enchanted April, Summer and Smoke, Holiday, A Few Good Men.  Off-Broadway: Dividing the Estate, Buffalo Gal, Crimes of the Heart, Pig Farm, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Small Tragedy; Trumbo, Living Out, Tea at Five, many others.  Long Wharf Theatre: Travesties, We Won't Pay!, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Twelfth Night.  Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol, Camino Real, Macbeth, many, many others.  NY Shakespeare Festival: Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, The Skriker, Machinal, The Swan.  Awards: Drama Desk Award, OBIE Award, NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, L.A. Drama-Logue Award, an EDDY, two Connecticut Critics Circle Awards. 

B. H. Barry, established over 30 years ago as one of the foremost fight directors in England, was a co-founder of the Society of British Fight Directors, now known as the British Society of Dramatic Combat.  In 1973 he helped found Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.  He currently teaches at Circle in the Square. He just returned from The Salzburg Festival in Austria and is currently working on a German musical in Berlin, Des Schu des Manitu. style='color:#340BFA'> He has been awarded both a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award for Sustained and Consistent Excellence in Stage Combat.

Broadway: Currently Legally Blonde the Musical, Annie (original Sandy), Camelot, Frankenstein, The First, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver!, Anything Goes (Lincoln Center Theater), Nick and Nora, La Bete, The Wiz, Annie (20th and 30th Anniversary), The Wizard of Oz, Dinner at Eight (Lincoln Center Theater), Double Feature (New York City Ballet), Chitty Chity Bang Bang, The Woman in White, Awake and Sing! (Lincoln Center Theater) and The Lieutenant of Inishmore.  Since 1977 he has trained animals for hundreds of Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions, tours, movies and television shows.  Published author Broadway Tails by Globe Pequot Press, June 2008. Recipient of the ASPCA Humanitarian Award and the American Humane Association Patsy Award.  Currently the Director of Animal Behavior at the Humane Society of New York. www.theatricalanimals.com

As Director: Washing Machine (Fist in the Pocket Theater - IT Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance); Chekhov's Mistress (Theatre Brut at New Jersey Rep); Porcelain (Tsunami Theatre Company - Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Director); Bat Boy: The Musical (3 Helen Hayes Award Nominations), A Clockwork Orange, Love's Fire (The Studio Theatre 2ndStage); Class Action (Imagination Stage); The Glory of Living (Didactic Theatre Company).  Assistant Director: Carnival!, Mister Roberts, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The Kennedy Center); Indian Blood (Primary Stages); The Matchmaker (Ford's Theatre); Glamour (NWF at Mark Taper Forum).  Artistic Director - Fist in the Pocket Theater: www.fistinthepocket.org.

Diane most recently completed Tryst at Westport Country Playhouse and is very happy to be doing Of Mice and Men. She just completed Good Boys and True, directed by Scott Ellis at Second Stage Theatre and Anna Deavere Smith's newest one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy. Recent Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia directed by Jack O'Brien, Absurd Person Singular, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and King Hedley, The Sound of Music, Dream, Drowning Crow, How to Succeed in Business and Arthur Miller's Broken Glass.  Her Off-Broadway credits include Entertaining Mr. Sloane, directed by Scott Ellis, with Alec Baldwin, at Roundabout Theatre, as well as Roundabout's Paris Letter, starring John Glover and Ron Rifkin, directed by Doug Hughes.  Other reputable work has been done at Manhattan Theatre Club and Manhattan Class Company. Diane is very happy to be working with Megan Smith once again.  She is currently a lecturer at Yale School of Drama.

Ms. Smith is thrilled to return to the Playhouse. Previously at Westport Country Playhouse: David Copperfield and Finian's Rainbow. Select credits include Off-Broadway: Good Boys and True (Second Stage); The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, American Fiesta, Mary Rose, The Internationalist (Vineyard Theatre); Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Roundabout Theatre); Ephemera (SPF); Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theatre Club); Last Easter (MCC); Book of Days (Signature Theatre); Derelicts and Dreamers and Battle of Angels (Blue Roses Productions). Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival. Ms. Smith is also a Founding Member of Blue Roses Productions, a non-profit theatre company dedicated to Tennessee Williams and New American Playwrights. Equity member since 1999.

Broadway/Tours: Speed-the-Plow, Equus, [title of show], South Pacific, In the Heights, Legally Blonde, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On (Vegas).  Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages, Blue Man Group, Boys' Life (Second Stage Theatre), Atlantic Theater, MCC, Signature Theatre.  Regional: 9 to 5 (Ahmanson), Hair (Arizona Theatre Company), La Jolla, Shakespeare Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse. Film: I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Sex and the City, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira and Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector.  TV: "Ugly Betty" (pilot), "Whoopi," HBO's "Undefeated," commercials.