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The clock is ticking. The November election looms. “Accidental President” Lyndon B. Johnson’s window is closing to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and win the American people over to the side of momentous social change. Backroom deals and showdowns between the infamous and the influential take center stage in this absorbing Tony Award-winning drama. A mirror of our times, All the Way reflects the power of one person and one vote to transform our country.
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) has previous off-Broadway and regional credits that include My Mañana Comes (Playwright’s Realm); As You Like It, Black Odyssey (Denver Center Theatre Co.); The Lake Effect (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); June Moon (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse/Huntington); A Raisin In The Sun, Ma more
(Sen. Richard Russell/ensemble) mostly does new plays around the country. more
(Sen. Everett Dirksen/ensemble) is delighted to return to Cleveland Play House, where he has appeared in My Fair Lady, Bill W. and Dr. Bob and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. He is a longstanding member of the Trinity Repertory Company, where he has worked on about 125 productions. He more
(Stokely Carmichael/ensemble) has credits that include off-Broadway: Lift (59E59 Theaters). Regional theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Folger); Stick Fly, Under The Skin (Arden Theatre Company); The Ashes Under Gait City (Contemporary American Theater Festival); The Whipping Man (Syracuse Stage, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Gulfshore Playhouse); Lift (Crossroads Theatre more
(Stanley Levison/ensemble) has appeared at CPH in The Life of Galileo and in staged readings of Americans, U.S. v Howard Mechanic and 8. Recent NY credits include Botanic Garden at the NY Theater Festival. He has appeared at most area professional theaters, including Beck Center for the Arts, Charenton, more
(Gov. George Wallace/ensemble) is happy to be making his Cleveland Play House debut! Greg recently completed a thrilling Broadway run in the Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder, where he covered Jefferson Mays’ mammoth role(s) as the D’Ysquith family and was lucky enough more
(Bob Moses/David Dennis/ensemble) is making his CPH debut . Off-Broadway credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Classic Stage Company). His regional theatre credits include The Heart of Robin Hood (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); X’s and O’s: A Football Love Story (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Center Stage Theatre Co.); Fences (Marin Theatre Company); more
(Coretta Scott King/ensemble) is pleased to be back at CPH, where she previously appeared as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible and also in In The Next Room, or the vibrator play. In NYC, Rachel appeared in Nightlands (New Georges), The Conscientious Objector (Keen Company) and Women of Orleans (HERE more
(J. Edgar Hoover/ensemble) created roles in 10 original Broadway productions, including James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and Passion (both filmed for PBS); as well as Into the Light, The Leaf People, Agamemnon (Lincoln Center) and the original Jesus Christ Superstar. Also on Broadway: more
(Muriel Humphrey/Lurleen Wallace/ensemble) appeared as Ann Putnam in CPH’s critically acclaimed 2016 production of The Crucible. Her recent appearances include summer productions of Sister Act and Footloose with Porthouse Theatre at Blossom Music Center, as well as The Realistic Joneses at Dobama Theatre last spring. Other credits include The more
(Walter Jenkins/ensemble) is making his CPH debut! Off-Broadway and NYC credits include The Misanthrope (Lucille Lortel Award Nomination, Best Revival) and The Philanderer (The Pearl Theatre Company); The League of Youth (Project Shaw); Richard II (Gallery Players) and Mint Theatre Company. Recent regional and local credits include Sons of more
(Rev. Ralph Abernathy/ensemble) is a New York-based actor and proud alumnus of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. Off-Broadway credits include The Convent of Pleasure (Cherry Lane Theatre), Sense of an Ending (59e59), Macbeth (The Pearl Theatre Co.) and Gutting (National Black Theatre). Regional credits include Three Sisters (Playmakers Repertory Company), more
(Lady Bird Johnson/ensemble) last appeared in Cleveland Play House’s production of All The Way and the CWRU/CPH MFA production of The Three Sisters. She recently appeared in Tom At The Farm at convergence-continuum, and By The Bog of Cats and Well at Ensemble Theatre. Other credits include Lady Windermere’s more
(Sec. Robert McNamara/ensemble) is making his Cleveland Play House debut. New York credits include Scaring the Fish, Those Left Behind and Disconnect. On Broadway, Lou was understudy for the incredibly healthy Joey Pantoliano in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Lou has performed in, and physically built, more
(President Lyndon Baines Johnson) has been doing this acting thing for a while. Broadway: All The Way, Loose Ends, Lost in Yonkers, The Magic Show, The Robber Bridegroom, The Grand Tour and The Secret Rapture. Off-Broadway: Old Jews Telling Jokes. National tour: The Dinner Party. Recent regional: A Funny more
(Roy Wilkins/ensemble) was most recently seen on Broadway in Amazing Grace. Other Broadway credits include Miss Saigon, Smokey Joe’s Café and Jekyll & Hyde. At the Grand Roman Theatre in Lyon, France, Mr. Wallace appeared in Robert Wilson’s chamber opera Zinnias: The Life of Clemintine Hunter. Other credits include more
(Sen. Hubert Humphrey/ensemble) most recently directed The Liar for the MFA Program, Othello at Texas Shakespeare Festival, Ellis Island: The Dream of America for The Cleveland Orchestra and Doubt for the Beck Center. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, he has also directed Passage, Fifth of July, Clybourne Park, 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
(Lighting Designer) designed for Cleveland Play House: Good People, Ten Chimneys, My Name is Asher Lev, The 39 Steps, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Chosen, Rabbit Hole and Of Mice and Men. His career encompasses over 300 designs, including Copenhagen, Skylight more
(Costume Designer) returns for his 23rd production at Cleveland Play House, having recently designed costumes for The Diary of Anne Frank; All the Way; A Christmas Story; Bell, Book and Candle; and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. He has designed more than 400 productions at regional more
(Scenic Designer) designed Into the Breeches!, Sweat, The Diary of Anne Frank, All the Way, A Christmas Story, The Whipping Man, The Glass Menagerie, Emma, and Bill W. and Dr. Bob for Cleveland Play House. Other credits include Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Misérables, West Side more
(Casting) credits include Poisoner’s Handbook, Becoming Helen Keller, and Mystery of Matter, PBS. Other PBS projects include The Abolitionists, Dolley Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin (Emmy Award), Liberty (Peabody Award), God in America, People vs. Leo Frank, Louisa May Alcott, Great Performances (Artios Award in more
(Dialect Coach) is honored to be working at Cleveland Play House for the first time. Previous Alley Theatre productions include: One Man, Two Guvnors; The Foreigner; Dracula; Good People; Communicating Doors; Venus in Fur; You Can’t Take it With You; The Hollow; The Elephant Man; Death of a Salesman; more
(Director) is happy to return to CPH where she directed the critically acclaimed productions of Mr. Wolf by Rajiv Joseph and The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez. Sardelli is an award-winning director who has worked on numerous plays by Rajiv Joseph (over 10 productions), including the recent West Coast more
(Playwright) received a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.F.A. from Cornell University. He has worked as an actor/writer on Broadway, off-Broadway, in film, television and at regional theatres across the country. Portions of The Kentucky Cycle were developed at the Mark Taper Forum’s ’88 more
(Projections Designer) is a Brooklyn-based projection and lighting designer whose work explores the intersection of visual art, technology and storytelling. Previously at CPH: The Life of Galileo and The Mountaintop. Other projects include Rocky (Broadway); If/Then (national tour); Jedermann (Salzburger Festpiele); Untitled America (Alvin Ailey/ADT); Rudolph the Red Nosed more
(Sound Designer) for Cleveland Play House: Sweat; The Royale; Shakespeare in Love (original music); All the Way; Steel Magnolias; The Crucible; The Little Foxes; Grounded; A Carol for Cleveland; and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. Her credits include Engagement Party (Hartford Stage), Actually (MTC), Annie Get more
(Wig Design) owned and operated by Mary Schilling-Martin and Caitie Martin; provides wig, hair and specialty makeup services to performing arts organizations and educational institutions around the country. Their motto is: “To hair is human, to wig divine.” Local credits include Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater, Dobama Theatre, more
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1407 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115
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