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WHO’S WHO IN TRAVESTIESRENÉ AUGESEN(Gwendolen), anA.C.T. associateartist and coreacting companymember, made herA.C.T. debut inThe Misanthrope;she has appeared in recent seasons inCelebration and The Room, The Beard ofAvon, Blithe Spirit, Buried Child, Nightand Day, The Dazzle, The Three Sisters, ADoll’s House, A Mother, The Real Thing,The Gamester, The Voysey Inheritance (alsoat Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Caton a Hot Tin Roof, The Rivals and, mostrecently, Happy End. New York creditsinclude Spinning into Butter (LincolnCenter Theater), Macbeth (with AlecBaldwin and Angela Bassett, PublicTheater), It’s My Party . . . (with F.Murray Abraham and Joyce Van Patten,Arc Light Theater), and Overruled(Drama League). Regional theatercredits include Mary Stuart (dir. CareyPerloff, Huntington Theatre Company);several productions, including the worldpremieres of The Beard of Avon and TheHollow Lands, at South Coast Repertory;and productions at the Great LakesTheatre Festival, Baltimore’s CenterStage, the Los Angeles ShakespeareFestival, Yale Repertory Theatre, andStage West. Film and television creditsinclude The Battle Studies, “Law &Order,” “Guiding Light,” “AnotherWorld,” and Hallmark Hall of Fame’sSaint Maybe. Augesen is a graduate ofthe Yale School of Drama.ANTHONYFUSCO (JamesJoyce) has appearedat A.C.T. inThe Rivals, TheVoysey Inheritance,The Gamester, AMother, Les LiaisonsDangereuses, The Three Sisters, Night andDay, The Room and Celebration, EnricoIV, The Misanthrope, Edward II, and AChristmas Carol. Other Bay Area creditsinclude leading roles in The Tempest, TheImportance of Being Earnest, Arms andthe Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Cymbeline, and The Skin of Our Teethfor California Shakespeare Theater(where he is an associate artist); My OldLady at Marin Theatre Company; andTraveling Jewish Theatre’s productionof The Chosen. On Broadway, he wasin Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing andThe Real Inspector Hound. Fusco’s manyoff-Broadway credits include The HolyTerror, Cantorial, Danton’s Death, and ALife in the Theatre. He is a graduate ofThe Juilliard School.GEOFF HOYLE(Lenin, Bennett)recently returnedfrom New York,where he playedThe Dog inBrundibar, adaptedby Tony Kushnerand designed by Maurice Sendak. Hehas appeared at A.C.T. in Juno and thePaycock, Dario Fo’s The Pope and theWitch, Travels with My Aunt, and TheTempest. He was the original Zazu inThe Lion King on Broadway, for whichhe received a Drama Desk Awardnomination. An accomplished mime, hehas clowned with San Francisco’s PickleFamily Circus, Cirque du Soleil, andCircus Flora. He wrote and performedthe award-winning solo shows Boomer!and Feast of Fools and later created TheConvict’s Return, Geni(us), and TheFirst Hundred Years, all commissionedby Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Filmappearances include Smooth Talk, RobertAltman’s Popeye, and the upcomingValley of the Heart’s Delight. He is therecipient of a 2004 Pew/TCG NationalTheatre Artists Residency Fellowship.The actors and stage managers employed in this production aremembers of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professionalactors and stage managers in the United States.16 American Conservatory Theater
WHO’S WHOGEORDIEJOHNSON(Henry Carr) hasperformed for nineseasons with theStratford Festivalof Canada, wherehis performanceshave included roles in Guys and Dolls(Nathan Detroit), Troilus and Cressida(Hector), Richard II (Richard II),Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), King Lear(Edmund), The Winter’s Tale (Autolycus),The Comedy of Errors (Antipholusof Syracuse/Ephesus), The Relapse(Worthy), The Cherry Orchard (Yasha),Pride and Prejudice (Darcy), Death ofa Salesman (Biff ), Sweet Bird of Youth(Chance Wayne), The Night of the Iguana(Reverend Shannon), and Cat on a HotTin Roof (Brick). This season he directedthe hit one-woman play The Blonde, theBrunette, and the Vengeful Redhead. Othertheater includes Syncopation (Henry) atthe Winter Garden Theatre (Toronto);Hosanna (Hosanna) and Farther West(Thomas Shepherd) at Tarragon Theatre(Toronto); Holiday (Nick Potter) atthe Shaw Festival (Niagara); and, inEngland, The Taming of the Shrew(Petruchio) at the New ShakespeareCompany. Film and television include“Largo Winch” (Kerensky), “Dracula:The Series” (Dracula), “Traders” (DanielBooth), Liszt’s Rhapsody (Liszt), and TheEnglish Patient (Dr. Oliver). Johnson isthe recipient of a Dora Mavor MooreAward for I Am Yours (Toilane) at theTarragon Theatre and a Gemini Awardfor “The City” (Oliver) on CTV.JOAN MANKIN(Nadya) was lastseen at A.C.T. inThe Gamester andThe Three Sisters (dir.Carey Perloff). Mostrecently she playedAnne in the RobertWilson/Tom Waits collaboration TheBlack Rider at the Ahmanson Theatre inLos Angeles. She has been a companymember of the San Francisco MimeTroupe, Pickle Family Circus, and theDell’Arte Players Company. An associateartist with California ShakespeareTheater, she has also performed with theSan Francisco Shakespeare Festival, SanDiego Repertory Theatre, Marin TheatreCompany, the Aurora Theatre Company,TheatreWorks, Traveling Jewish Theatre,San Jose Stage Company, and the MagicTheatre. Film credits include Bee Season,Made in America, and Desert Hearts. Shehas directed for the Magic Theatre, theSan Francisco Shakespeare Festival, andthe Bricks and Earth Circus of Calgary,as well as performances for the SanFrancisco New Vaudeville Festival filmedfor HBO. Mankin is on the faculty of theClown Conservatory of the San FranciscoCircus Center.GREGORYWALLACE(Tristan Tzara), anA.C.T. associateartist and core actingcompany member,has been seen atA.C.T. in The Rivals,Gem of the Ocean, Lilies: or, The Revivalof a Romantic Drama, The Gamester, ADoll’s House, Waiting for Godot, The ThreeSisters, The Dazzle, Night and Day, BlitheSpirit, Celebration and The Room, “MasterHarold”…and the boys, The Misanthrope,Edward II, A Christmas Carol, Tartuffe,Insurrection: Holding History, and Angelsin America (Bay Area Theatre Critics’Circle Award). Other theater creditsinclude Our Country’s Good (Broadway),A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NewYork Theatre Workshop), As You LikeIt (Public Theater), Much Ado aboutNothing (Alliance Theatre), The Screens(Guthrie Theater), The Learned Ladies(Williamstown Theatre Festival), KingLear (Whole Theater), The Queen andthe Rebels (Center Stage), and The Beaux’Stratagem (Berkeley Repertory Theatre).Screen credits include Peter Sellars’sThe Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez, The BeverlyHillbillies, Dark Goddess, “Crime Story,”and Internal Affairs. Wallace is a FoxFellow and a graduate of the Yale Schoolof Drama.ALLISON JEANWHITE (Cecily),an A.C.T. associateartist and core actingcompany member,has been seen atA.C.T. in TomStoppard’s The RealThing (dir. Carey Perloff ) and A.C.T.’s2004 production of A Christmas Carol.She was also seen in last spring’s FirstLook presentations of The Shaker Chair,Donna Wants, Warsaw, and Waiting forthe Flood at Zeum Theater. She appearedin Chez Moi, a clown cabaret, withTravesties 17
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