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The Allen, Outcalt, and Helen
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1407 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115
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From left: Jim Poulos as Jim, Roya Shanks as Bev, Daniel Morgan Shelley as Albert, and Kristen Adele as Francine. Photo by Ken Huth.
(Francine/Lena) appeared off-Broadway as Myrna in Myrna in Transit for Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional theatre credits include Rachel in Jackie & Me for Denver Center Theatre Company; Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun at Clarence Brown Theatre; and Helen in Machinal, St. Monica in The Last Days of more
(Kenneth) recently portrayed both Antipholus twins in The Comedy of Errors and Posthumus in Cymbeline for Ohio Shakespeare Festival. His performances at Cleveland Play House include Clybourne Park, Yentl, A Carol for Cleveland, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, and The Fagin Effect (reading). He has appeared in CWRU/CPH MFA more
(Director) has directed over one hundred plays and musicals across the country including At Wit’s End starring Pam Sherman at Geva Theatre where he served as Artistic Director for twenty-seven years. Among many others, his recent directing work at Geva includes Constellations, Ring of Fire, Once, The Humans, To more
(Betsy/Lindsay) has performed with American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in A Christmas Caroland Once in a Lifetime; Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Pericles; California Shakespeare Theater, Blithe Spirit and Hamlet; The Magic Theatre, Mauritius and Monkey Room; Idaho Repertory Theatre, Noises Off and The Taming of the Shrew; The Jewish Theatre more
(Karl/Steve) was last seen at CPH in 2014's Clybourne Park and is thrilled to be returning! Most recently he appeared in Ohio State Murders where he made his Broadway debut. Other credits include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Curran Theatre), Once (South Coast Rep), The 39 Steps (Maltz more
(Jim/Tom) performed on Broadway as Mark Cohen in Rent and Huck Finn in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. National Tours include Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, The Graduate and South Pacific. Regionally, Poulos has appeared at Geva Theatre Center as Bobby in Company, Mozart inAmadeus, Bobby in Urinetown, more
(Russ/Dan) appeared at Cleveland Play House inThe Kite Runner and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. Regional theatre includes The Caucasian Chalk Circle andMacbeth at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing and Pride and Prejudice at Arizona Theatre Company;The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Underpants, and The Foreignerat Cincinnati more
(Bev/Kathy) has performed off-Broadway with Abingdon Theatre Company, Urban Stages and Prospect Theater. She has also worked at the Texas Shakespeare Festival, Premiere Stages, Summer Theatre of New Canaan, The Old Globe and on more far-flung stages in Israel, Turkey and China. A graduate of Yale University and the more
(Albert/Kevin) previous to performing in Clybourne Park at Geva Theatre Center and Cleveland Play House, was seen as Athos in The Three Musketeers at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Other favorite credits include Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, also at HVSF, A Raisin in the Sun at Playmakers Repertory more
(Stage Manager) was Cleveland Play House's resident stage manager from 2001 to 2008 and returned to CPH in the fall of 2011. "Most recently, John stage managed A New Brain at Barrington Stage Company. John has also stage managed at North Shore Music Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, The more
(Assistant Stage Manager) serves as an Assistant Professor for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University, where he teaches courses in Stage Management, Production Management, Theatre Management, and an intro course to computing software for the theatre practitioner. Tom has been a part of the more
(Sound Designer) Broadway: Slave Play (Tony nominations for Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play), The Nap, Bronx Bombers, and A Time to Kill. Off-Broadway: Privacy (The Public Theater), Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Feeding the Dragon (Primary Stages), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop) and many others. Regional: more
(Scenic and Costume Designer) returns to Cleveland Play House where he designed the set and costumes for Touch the Names: Letters to the Vietnam Memorial, conceived by Randal Myler with original music by Chic Street Man. New York credits include Old Hats, starring Bill Irwin, David Shiner and Nellie more
(Playwright) is an actor and writer whose plays include The Actor Retires, The Vanishing Twin, The Infidel, Purple Heart, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, The Pain and the Itch, and The Unmentionables among others. He is the recipient of a 2011 Pulitzer Prize and an Olivier Award more
(Lighting Designer) is pleased to be returning to Cleveland Play House where she designed Clybourne Park last season. Ann designed the Broadway production of Souvenir and was a Tony nominee for her work on Tony Award-winning August: Osage County, which she designed for Broadway, London, Sydney and the National more
Our friend Robert Mark Morgan, Scenic Designer (Into the Breeches!, Diary of Anne Frank, The Whipping Man) created a fun video showing all of the uniq...
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The Allen, Helen and Outcalt theatres are located at Playhouse Square
1407 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115
Administrative Offices and Education Center
1901 E. 13th Street, Suite 200 Cleveland, OH 44114 (216) 400-7000
Production Center
7401 Detour Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44103