Cast & Crew: Cast

mia.jpgMIA BARRON (”D“) Work in New York this past season includes the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater), Stephen Belber’s The Geometry of Fire (New York Stage & Film) and Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons). Other New York credits include: “Q.E.D.” (Lincoln Center); The World Over, She Stoops to Comedy (Playwrights Horizons); Hardball, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty (SPF); The Grille Room (Cherry Lane); Bread and Roses (NYTW); co-created and performed in Big Times (W.E.T., directed by Leigh Silverman). Regional: Time Flies (Old Globe); Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sixteen Wounded (Long Wharf); School for Scandal, Ah, Wilderness! (Guthrie); Breath Short of Breathing (NYStage & Film); School for Husbands, Heaven Can Wait (Westport Country Playhouse); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Heartbreak House (Huntington), Rivals (Acting Company), among others. Television: “Guiding Light”, voice of “Molotv” on Venture Brothers (Cartoon Network). M.F.A. from NYU.

drew1.jpgDREW CORTESE (”F“) – New York credit’s include: Erica Schmidt’s As You Like It (The Public/NYSF); Honor and the River (SPF/New York Stage & Film); The Life and Death of Pier Paolo Pasolini (ActFrench Festival); As I Lay Dying (Basement Flat @ the Ohio); and expat/inferno (FringeNYC). Regional: The Guthrie, Denver Center Theatre Company, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Papermill Playhouse, Missouri Rep, Clarence Brown Theatre. MFA: NYU.

Roxanna HopeROXANNA HOPE (”A“) – Broadway: Frost/Nixon (Caroline Cushing, Ensemble), After the Fall (Secretary, Ensemble), The Women (Princess Tamara, Helene, Debutante); Off Broadway/New York Theater: The Play Co: Arabian Night (Fatima), Manhattan Ensemble Theater: The Idiot (Nastasya Filipnova), Blue Light Theatre Co: Princess Turandot (Turandot), Rude Mechanicals: little Willy (Woman), The Flu Season (Woman), The Winter’s Tale (Hermione) Regional-Williamstown Theater Festival: Hecuba (Polixena); American Conservatory Theater: The House of Mirth (Lily), Tartuffe (Dorine), Indian Ink (Nell), Hecuba (Polixena); Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Richard III (Lady Anne), Julius Caesar (Portia), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Mme Tourvel), Pericles (Thaisa); Other Regional Credits at Cleveland Playhouse, The Huntington Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and The Alley Theater. Film\T.V: No Reservations, “Law and Order”, “Law and Order Criminal Intent”, “Law and Order SVU”, “The Jury”, “All My Children”, “Deadline”, “100 Centre St.”, “Funny Valentine”.

hova.jpgJONATHAN HOVA (”B“) — Jonathan is thrilled to be joining the excellent creative team behind 1001. He currently has 2 feature films in post-production; Capers with Danny Masterson, in which he plays a Russian whose American dream is to be a tech-support specialist, and How to Seduce Difficult Women, a French-American coproduction in which he portrays a lovelorn Algerian fruit vendor. Past stage projects include the original production of Sixteen Wounded at the Cherry Lane Theater, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife with Valerie Harper, and How I learned to Drive with Debra Winger at A.R.T. Jonathan works regularly lending his voice to looping for feature films, including Angels in America, The Devil Wears Prada, Closer, Music and Lyrics and Mike Nichols’ upcoming Charlie Wilson’s War with Tom Hanks. Jonathan is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard.

Matthew RauchMATTHEW RAUCH (”C“) – Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway: Expats, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Hurlyburly (New Group), In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Keen Company), The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull), Book of Days (Signature). Regional: The Front Page(Williamstown), Modern Orthodox (premiere - Long Wharf), The Miser (Arena Stage), Macbeth, Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre), Arcadia, Ghosts (Rep. Theatre of St. Louis), The Brothers Karamazov (Cincinnati Playhouse), Black Snow, Cakewalk, The LA Plays (American Repertory Thetare), others. TV: “Without a Trace”, “L&O: Criminal Intent”, “Jonny Zero”, “NCIS”, “Leap of Faith”, “The D.A.”, “L&O”, “Metropolis”(pilot). Film: Order of Redemption, No Reservations, Invitation to a Suicide, Frankenfish. Also: O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, Brand:NEW, N.Y. Fringe Festival, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, N.Y. Stage and Film. Graduate of the ART Institute at Harvard.

rolle.jpgJOHN LIVINGSTONE ROLLE (”E“) has worked the past seven seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre Company in such productions as The Oedipus Plays, Lorenzaccio, The Silent Woman, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Pericles, among others. Other theatre companies of note: The Acting Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Pearl Theatre Company, as well as The New York Shakespeare Festival. Most recently, John played in the world premiere of Jason Grote’s 1001 at Denver Center Theatre (directed by Ethan McSweeny). The summer of 2005, he was a participant at the Sundance Theatre Festival and collaborated with directors Kate Whoriskey and Michael Grief. John can be seen as Festus Lepetu in this season’s Law & Order. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

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