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May 9, 2015 , The Helen

Play Reading - Ken Ludwig's A Comedy of Tenors

A Play Reading

Directed by Stephen Wadsworth

Run time: 2 hours with one intermission

Three tenors. Three egos. One Stage. What could possibly go wrong? Producer - and former mayor of Cleveland - Henry Saunders is about to find out as he attempts to stage the concert of the century. But with an amorous Italian superstar and his hot-blooded wife causing chaos on an operatic level, all bets are off! As opening night draws near, flaring tempers, mistaken identities and bedroom hijinks bring new meaning to the phrase "the show must go on." This New Ground reading is a laugh-out-loud farce set amidst the glitz and glamour of 1930s Paris.

Artists

Susannah Flood

Susannah Flood

(Mimi) is a New York-based actress whose recent off-Broadway work includes Ivo Von Hove's Scenes From A Marriage and the U.S. premier of Caryl Churchill's Love and Information, New York Theater Workshop; The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise, The Play Company; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, Playwrights Horizons; more(Mimi) is a New York-based actress whose recent off-Broadway work includes Ivo Von Hove's Scenes From A Marriage and the U.S. premier of Caryl Churchill's Love and Information, New York Theater Workshop; The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise, The Play Company; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, Playwrights Horizons; Tribes, Barrow Street Theatre; As You Like It, The Public Theater and New York Shakespeare Festival; Bird in the Hand, Fulcrum Theater; Baby Screams Miracle, Clubbed Thumb; and Okay, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Susannah has worked regionally at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Trinity Repertory Company (Independent Reviewers of New England Award nomination for Best Actress) and is very happy to be able to add Cleveland Play House to the list. Television credits include Law & Order: SVU and The Civilians. Susannah is a graduate of Brown/Trinity and U.C. Berkeley.

Cameron Folmar

Cameron Folmar

(Max) is returning to Cleveland Play House after his performance in this season’s The Little Foxes. He's happy to be working with Stephen Wadsworth again, after teaming up with him for The Figaro Plays last year at McCarter Theatre. With the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C., Cameron more(Max) is returning to Cleveland Play House after his performance in this season’s The Little Foxes. He's happy to be working with Stephen Wadsworth again, after teaming up with him for The Figaro Plays last year at McCarter Theatre. With the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C., Cameron is an Affiliated Artist and has appeared in Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, An Ideal Husband, Hamlet, Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear. New York credits include The 39 Steps on Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include The 39 Steps, Volpone, The Merchant of Venice, The Jew of Malta, Five by Tenn and Waiting for Godot. Regional credits include The Habit of Art, Studio Theatre; Five by Tenn, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; The Winter’s Tale and Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Don Juan, Seattle Repertory Theatre; Scapin, Denver Center for the Performing Arts; The Tempest, McCarter Theatre Center; and The Mousetrap, Studio Arena Theatre. Television credits include Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Conviction. Cameron is also credited as the voice of Genn Graymane in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

Greg Germann

Greg Germann

(Saunders) is a native of Houston and was raised outside of Golden, Colorado. Greg graduated from University of Northern Colorado. He is a member of Circle Repertory Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre, accumulating credits in off-Broadway and Broadway shows including Assassins, The Person I Was and War Games, among more(Saunders) is a native of Houston and was raised outside of Golden, Colorado. Greg graduated from University of Northern Colorado. He is a member of Circle Repertory Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre, accumulating credits in off-Broadway and Broadway shows including Assassins, The Person I Was and War Games, among others. Greg also starred in the hit play Speed The Plow at Geffen Playhouse. Television credits include Ally McBeal, Darrow, Conduct Unbecoming and House of Lies. Film credits include Get Hard, Quitters, Atlas Shrugged: Part III, Here Comes the Boom, Answers To Nothing, Talladega Nights, Friends With Money, Down to Earth, Sweet November, The Last Producer, Jesus’s Son, Committed, Caught in the Act, Down and Derby, Once Around and Clear and Present Danger. He starred in the short film Culture, which earned a 1999 Academy Award nomination.

Shuler Hensley

Shuler Hensley

(Tito/Beppo) has appeared on Broadway in No Man’s Land and Waiting For Godot in repertory; Young Frankenstein (as well as in the U.S. National Tour); Tarzan; Oklahoma! (also at The National Theatre and London’s West End; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Olivier Awards); and Les Misérables. Off-Broadway more(Tito/Beppo) has appeared on Broadway in No Man’s Land and Waiting For Godot in repertory; Young Frankenstein (as well as in the U.S. National Tour); Tarzan; Oklahoma! (also at The National Theatre and London’s West End; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Olivier Awards); and Les Misérables. Off-Broadway credits include How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Madison Square Garden); Carousel (Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic); The Most Happy Fella and Fiorello! (Encores!), among others. Other credits include No Man’s Land, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; The Guardsman, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County, Alliance Theatre; All About Us, Westport Playhouse; The Phantom of the Opera, Hamburg, Germany; and The Most Happy Fella, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ American Songbook. Opera appearances include Wozzeck, Curtis Institute Of Music; and Regina, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This past year, Shuler was awarded the “Stage Performance of the Year” by New York Magazine for his work in The Whale.

Julia Murney

Julia Murney

(Tatiana Racón) last appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked after playing the role on the national tour for which she received an Acclaim Award. Other New York credits include Lennon, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Drama Desk nomination), Falling (Drama Desk nomination), The Landing, The Vagina Monologues and more(Tatiana Racón) last appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked after playing the role on the national tour for which she received an Acclaim Award. Other New York credits include Lennon, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Drama Desk nomination), Falling (Drama Desk nomination), The Landing, The Vagina Monologues and A Class Act, among others. Regionally she has performed at Signature Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Reprise!LA, Sacramento Music Circus, NCT, MUNY, Rubicon Theatre Company and Goodspeed Opera House, among others. Among her television credits are 30 Rock, Sex and the City, Brothers and Sisters, Ed, NYPD Blue, Law and Order and many, many voiceovers. A Syracuse University graduate, Julia’s recordings include the original cast albums of The Wild Party and A Class Act, the Grammy nominated Actor’s Fund Benefit of Hair and her first solo album, I’m Not Waiting, which is available on Sh-K-Boom records and at juliamurney.com.

Daniel Reece

Daniel Reece

(Carlo Nucci) recently finished playing the title character in the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Robin Hood! at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Other credits include Belleville, The Realistic Joneses, Owners (Yale Repertory Theatre), Pygmalion, The Bachelors (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Arabian Nights, A Man For All more(Carlo Nucci) recently finished playing the title character in the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Robin Hood! at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Other credits include Belleville, The Realistic Joneses, Owners (Yale Repertory Theatre), Pygmalion, The Bachelors (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Arabian Nights, A Man For All Seasons, HAIR, Love's Labour's Lost (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), Romeo & Juliet, Petty Harbour, Dead Ends., Hedda Gabler, Twelfth Night, Sunday in the Park with George (Yale School of Drama). TV credits include Elementary, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Public Morals. Daniel is a co-founder of Old Sound Room. Last year he appeared in their most recent production, JIB, which will be making its New York City debut in 2019. MFA: Yale School of Drama. daniel-reece.com

Mary Lou Rosato

Mary Lou Rosato

(Maria) has appeared on and off-Broadway, regionally at Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theater (Washington), Seattle Repertory Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She played Queen Aggravain in the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, staring Sarah Jessica Parker. Mary Lou was directed more(Maria) has appeared on and off-Broadway, regionally at Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theater (Washington), Seattle Repertory Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She played Queen Aggravain in the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, staring Sarah Jessica Parker. Mary Lou was directed by Stephen Wadsworth in The Triumph of Love, Mirandolina and Changes of Heart, which she received a best actress nomination for the LA Drama Critics Circle Awards. Her films include Quiz Show, Hudsucker Proxy, The Wedding Banquet, Two Bits starring Al Pacino and John Tutturo’s Illuminata. Television credits include Titus, Law and Order: SVU, Caroline in the City and Warehouse 13. A graduate of Juilliard Drama and a founding member of The Acting Company, Mary Lou teaches and directs. She currently teaches and co-heads the B.F.A. Acting Program at the California Institute of the Arts.

Tom Humes

(Stage Manager) returns for his sixth season as a resident member of the stage management staff at Cleveland Play House. Selected area stage management credits include Memphis, Rock of Ages, Godspell, The Frogs, Smokey Joe's Café, Avenue Q, Pippin, and Oliver! (Cain Park); Le Nozze di Figaro and more(Stage Manager) returns for his sixth season as a resident member of the stage management staff at Cleveland Play House. Selected area stage management credits include Memphis, Rock of Ages, Godspell, The Frogs, Smokey Joe's Café, Avenue Q, Pippin, and Oliver! (Cain Park); Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte (The Cleveland Orchestra); Tosca, La Boheme, and Lucia Di Lammermoor (Opera Cleveland); Caroline, or Change (Dobama Theatre and Karamu House); and History Boys (Beck Center for the Arts). He is a proud member of both Actors' Equity Association and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with a minor in Mathematics from Bowling Green State University.

Ken Ludwig

Ken Ludwig

(Playwright) has had six shows on Broadway and seven in London’s West End. His 32 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year. His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of more(Playwright) has had six shows on Broadway and seven in London’s West End. His 32 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year. His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You, which returns to the West End this summer, was on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theater, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. His other plays include Moon Over Buffalo (Broadway with Carol Burnett, Lynn Redgrave, and Tony Shaloub, in London with Joan Collins); Twentieth Century (Broadway with Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Broadway with Kristen Bell); Be My Baby (Alley Theatre with Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter); Leading Ladies (Alley Theatre and Cleveland Play House); a stage version of Murder on the Orient Express written expressly at the request of the Agatha Christie Estate; Baskerville (Cleveland Play House); A Comedy of Tenors (Cleveland Play House); A Fox on the Fairway; The Gods of Comedy; Shakespeare in Hollywood; and The Game’s Afoot (Cleveland Playhouse). His adaptations include Treasure Island (Alley Theatre, Theatre Royal Haymarket, AATE Distinguished Play Award); The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); Sherwood, The Adventures of Robin Hood; and The Beaux’ Stratagem; and His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and his essays are published in the Yale Review. His first opera, Tenor Overboard, opened in 2022 at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival. His newest plays include Lend Me A Soprano (Alley Theatre), Pride and Prejudice, Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberley; and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. For more information, see his website at www.kenludwig.com.

Stephen Wadsworth

(Director) Wadsworth’s productions of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Wagner’s Ring cycle, a series of Marivaux comedies, the Beaumarchais Figaro trilogy, and plays and operas by Shakespeare, Molière, Handel, Goldoni, Mozart, Shaw, Wilde, and Coward, have established him as a master of the classical repertoire and one of the most influential directors more(Director) Wadsworth’s productions of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Wagner’s Ring cycle, a series of Marivaux comedies, the Beaumarchais Figaro trilogy, and plays and operas by Shakespeare, Molière, Handel, Goldoni, Mozart, Shaw, Wilde, and Coward, have established him as a master of the classical repertoire and one of the most influential directors in the American theater. He has also directed plays by John Guare, Beth Henley, Anna Deavere Smith, and Terrence McNally (Master Class on Broadway and in London’s West End, starring Tyne Daly) and during the 1990s reintroduced the work of Marivaux to the U.S. in a series of translations and productions (available as Marivaux: Three Plays from Smith and Kraus). His translation/production of Molière’s Don Juan reimagined and revived a lost text, and, with his work on Marivaux, earned him the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the government of France. He has three productions in the repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera (Rodelinda, Boris Godunov, and Iphigénie en Tauride) and has directed opera in Milan, Vienna, London, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and notably in Seattle, where his famous production of Wagner’s Ring cycle played 2000-2013. He wrote the opera A Quiet Place with Leonard Bernstein (Grammy nomination) and was a 2013 Fellow at the Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross, and a 2015 McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman playwriting fellow. He is the James S. Marcus Faculty Fellow at the Juilliard School and Head of Dramatic Studies in the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

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