     OCTOBER 5 through NOVEMBER 8, 2008 The Beckett Theatre Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street New York, NY “Delicious…Delightful…NEAR PERFECTION.” - The New York Times "Whenever people are desperate for a laugh, Alan Ayckbourn always comes through. So, hats off to The Actors Company Theater for bringing us "Bedroom Farce" in our hour of need." - Variety “Bedroom Farce - one of the funniest and well staged shows in town.” - CurtainUp "A First-Rate Revival!...Every one of the actors is on target." - TheaterMania THREE BEDROOMS, FOUR COUPLES, ONE HILARIOUS SLEEPLESS NIGHT. Trevor and Susannah are on the verge of a break-up – and they’re determined to take their friends and family down with them! After Trevor and his ex-girlfriend, Jan, are caught kissing at Malcolm and Kate’s housewarming party, all hell breaks loose. Susannah flees to her in-laws who are trying to salvage their anniversary celebration; while Trevor pays a midnight visit to Jan’s in order to explain his misdeeds to her husband, Nick. As the evening progresses, this unstable pair travels from bedroom to bedroom, raining hysterical havoc on everything they touch and assuring that no one will get any sleep. with TACT COMPANY MEMBERS Eve Bianco, Cynthia Harris, Larry Keith, Margaret Nichols, Scott Schafer, AshleyWest and guest artists Mark Alhadeff & Sean Dougherty Stage Manager ASM Fight Director Dialect Coach Mel McCue E. Sara Barnes Ax Norman Ameila White Casting Stephanie Klapper Scenic Design Lighting Design Costume design Sound design Robin Vest Aaron Copp Martha Hally Stephen Kunken Directed by Jenn Thompson Buy Tickets to BEDROOM FARCE Now!  FOR MORE ON THE PLAY, CLICK HERE!  MARK ALHADEFF (Trevor) TACT: Debut. New York: Piscary (EST Marathon); Widows (59e59); The Young Left (Cherry Lane); Tolstoy's The Power Of Darkness (Mint Theatre); Rearviewmirror (59e59); Conor Mcpherson's Rum & Vodka (Ohio Theatre); Pagans (Abingdon); Bigger Man (Partial Comfort). Regional: Seattle Rep, McCarter, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, Dorset Theatre, Wilma Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Film & Television: Law & Order; Monday Night Mayhem; Daily Pops.  EVE BIANCO (Susannah) TACT: Company Member since 1998/99. 12 productions with the company, most recently Dandy Dick. New York Theatre: An Artist's Life And Other Cautionary Tales by Kira Obelensky (Part Of The Dawn Powell Festival - Dir Will Pomerantz); A Dybbuk by Tony Kushner (Public Theatre, NY premiere, dir. Brian Kulick); The Adventures of Herculina (dir. Christopher Durang, Clark StudioTheatre). Regional: The Importance of Being Earnest (Cleveland Playhouse); All in the Timing (Long Wharf Theatre); One in Every Marriage (Phoenix Theatre); The Immigrant (Fulton Opera House); Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Theatre, D.C., dir. Daniel Fish); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Syracuse Stage); The Taming of the Shrew. Film: Jesus Factor; Deadline; Sylvia & Tammy; as well as work with Gregory Hines and Spike Lee. Television: One Life to Live and numerous voice-overs. Eve is a graduate of the Juilliard School's Drama Division. Her film Acoustic Dreams is currently in development.  SEAN DOUGHERTY (Malcolm) TACT: Debut. New York Theatre: Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Roundabout), Fortune's Fools (Cherry Lane), Kelly (York Theatre), Calamity (Director's Company), There's the Story (Blue Heron), Barista! (Here), The Art of Success (Greenwich Street Theatre) Film Chinois (2007 Los Angeles Ovation Award - Best Play, Grove Theater Ctr.). Regional: Yale Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville Humana Festival, Milwaukee Rep, The Alley, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, The Papermill Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Studio Arena Theater, Cleveland Play House, Missouri Repertory, Arizona Repertory Theater, Tennessee Rep, Two River Theatre, Dorset Theater, Henlopen Theater Project and Pioneer Theater. Film & Television: Pride & Glory (New Line - upcoming), Significant Romance in Compressed Time, Law & Order, Another World, All My Children.  CYNTHIA HARRIS (Delia) TACT: Co-Artistic Director, Founding Member. 37 productions with the company, most recently My 3 Angels (PA). Most Recently: World Premier of The Injured Party by Richard Greenberg (South Coast Rep.). New York Theatre: HOME; Long Island Sound; Bad Habits; Company; Any Wednesday; Natural Affection; Romance Language; Second Avenue Rag; Cloud Nine; Jules Feiffer’s Hold Me; The Beauty Part; White House Murder Case; Mystery Play; America Hurrah and The Serpent (member of the Open Theatre); Merry Wives of Windsor (NYSF); “Selected Shorts” at Symphony Space; Food for Thought Lunchtime Theatre. Regional: Light Up the Sky (Williamstown); Shadow Box (Premiere -originating the role of Beverly- Mark Taper Forum); Too Much Johnson; My Mother Said I Never Should (NY Stage & Film); Scenes from American Life. Film: I Do & I Don’t; The Distinguished Gentleman; Reuben, Reuben; Mannequin on the Move; Three Men and a Baby; Up the Sandbox; Isadora. Episodic Television & Movies of the Week: Rescue Me and the Movie of the Week Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman. Also, Now and Again; Mad About You (5 seasons); Law & Order; Edward and Mrs. Simpson (BAFTA nominee for Best Actress); LA Law; Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story; Ask Me Again (PBS); Harrison - Cry of the City; Passion (adapted from Edith Warton’s The Reef); the film version of An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein.  LARRY KEITH (Ernest) TACT: Founding Member. 25 productions with the company, most recently The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Broadway: Caroline or Change; Cabaret; Titanic; Gigi; High Spirits; I Had a Ball; My Fair Lady. Off-Broadway: HOME (TACT); Southern Comforts (Primary Stages); The God Committee (Lamb’s); Space (Public); Hurrah At Last (Roundabout); After Play (MTC); Only Kidding; Rose Quartet; The Homecoming; Miami; The Rise of David Levinsky; The Brownsville Raid; Monsieur Amilcar; Senor Discretion. Regional: You Can’t Take it With You, Pippin and The Lady in Question all at Bay Street; The Price (Seattle Rep); Mass Appeal (Stage West); Substance of Fire (Capital Rep); Captains Courageous (Goodspeed). Tours: I Do, I Do; Hallelujah Baby; Oh What a Lovely War; Beckett. Television: NYPD Blue; All My Children (2 Emmy nominations); The Baxters; Law and Order; Kate and Allie; The Equalizer; Stingray; Kennedy; Kane and Abel; The Littlest Victims.  MARGARET NICHOLS (Jan) TACT: Company member since 2001/02. 21 productions with the company, most recently A Shot in the Dark. New York: Long Island Sound (TACT); Christmas Carol (Lucille Lortel); What You Will (original musical based on 12th Night-world premiere, Moonwoork Prods); Naked (Gene Frankel Theatre, Themantics). National tour: Les Miserables. Regional: Jane Eyre (SF Critic's Circle Award- Best Actress; Theatreworks, Mtn. View, CA); A Little Night Music (Dean Goodman Award- Best Supporting, Post Street Theatre, SF, CA); Urinetown, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Gypsy, Little Shop and others (Weston Playhouse, VT). Television: All My Children. Margaret is a graduate of the Univ. of Michigan Musical Theatre Dept. and attended the Marymount London Drama Program. Also a member of Dog Run Rep in NYC, Jeff Cohen, Artistic Director.  SCOTT SCHAFER (Nick) TACT: Company Member since 1996/97. 44 productions with the company, most recently The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Broadway: Raggedy Ann (Nederlander). Off-Broadway: The Triangle Factory Fire Project (TACT); Finkel’s Follies (West Side); Once in a Lifetime (Samuel Beckett); On Tidy Endings (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Dracula (Cincinnati Playhouse); Our Town (Geva); No Exit (Imago); Side Man (St. Louis Rep); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Depot); Present Laughter (Pioneer); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Ordway Music Theat.); Almost September (St. Louis Rep); A Wonderful Life (Westchester Broadway); A Day in Hollywood (Pioneer). Television: Law & Order; Chapelle’s Show; American Dream; One Life to Live; Unsolved Mysteries.  ASHLEY WEST (Kate) TACT: Company Member since 2003/04. 10 productions with the company, most recently The Runner Stumbles. Off-Broadway: Missives (59 E 59th St. Theatres), Counsellor at Law (Lucille Lortel Outstanding Revival, Obie Award Best Director - Theatre at St. Clements). Regional: ACT, Pioneer Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Portland Stage Company, Buffalo Studio Arena and Cleveland Playhouse. Ashley is also featured in critically acclaimed photographer, Amy Arbus’s new book, The Fourth Wall. Much love and thanks to Christopher. JENN THOMPSON (Director) TACT: Company Member since 2002/03 and Associate Producer; 9 productions with the company, most recently The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Director). Jenn is a Producing Director and founding company member of Connecticut’s River Rep Theatre Company where she has performed in over 40 shows and has, most recently, directed productions of The Foreigner, Dinner With Friends, The Heiress and Damn Yankees. Jenn also directed the critically acclaimed new play Big Doolie, at the 10th Anniversary NYC Fringe Festival. Broadway: Tony Award-winning productions of Ah, Wilderness!, The Heiress, and Annie. Off-Broadway: Public; Playwrights’ Horizons; York; American Jewish Thea,; Hudson Guild; Soho Rep; W.P.A.; Protean; Perry Street and Ubu Rep. Regional: St. Louis Rep.; Pittsburgh Public; Ahmanson (Los Angeles); New Harmony (Indiana); Studio Arena; Paper Mill; Fulton Opera House; and Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center. Film & Television: The Girl In The Park; The Out-of-Towners; Bash; Little Darlings; and Honky Tonk Freeway. Extensive guest-starring appearances on: Third Watch; Ed; Law & Order; Law & Order: SVU; and other leading roles in The Renegade (CBS); the PBS series 3-2-1 Contact, and Harper Valley P.T.A. (NBC). Buy Tickets to BEDROOM FARCE Now! |
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