From left: Christa Hinckley, Stephen Spencer and Sarah Kinsey in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: Therese Anderberg, Stephen Spencer, Sarah Kinsey, TJ Gainley, Christa Hinckley, Bernard Bygott and Drew Derek in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: Sarah Kinsey and Christa Hinckley in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: Stephen Spencer, Bernard Bygott, Therese Anderberg, TJ Gainley and Christa Hinckley in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: Stephen Spencer and TJ Gainley in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: Sarah Kinsey, Bernard Bygott and TJ Gainley in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: TJ Gainley, Christa Hinckley, Therese Anderberg and Sarah Kinsey in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: Therese Anderberg, Stephen Spencer, Drew Derek, TJ Gainley, Sarah Kinsey, Bernard Bygott and Christa Hinckley in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: TJ Gainley, Christa Hinckley, Sarah Kinsey, Stephen Spencer, Bernard Bygott and Therese Anderberg in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
From left: Therese Anderberg, Stephen Spencer, Sarah Kinsey, TJ Gainley, Christa Hinckley, Bernard Bygott and Drew Derek in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Identity Theft directed by Anders Cato, in The Helen at PlayhouseSquare, February 27 – March 9, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.
“Who am I?” The question every person examines at least once in their lives. Director Anders Cato (Red, Crime and Punishment) returns to Cleveland Play House to work for the first time with the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program Graduate Ensemble as they explore this universal uncertainty. Using the works of daring playwright August Strindberg as inspiration, these seven young actors examine their own contemporary life experiences in this original piece and break open our preconceived notions of who we are.
Anders Cato: (Director/Playwright/Translator) directed Red, Crime and Punishment and I am My Own Wife for Cleveland Play House and is excited to work with the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program for the first time. He has directed extensively in New York and at many leading regional theatres in the United States. His work has been seen at the Alley Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, La MaMa E.T.C, 7 Stages Theatre, George Street Playhouse and A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle. He directed Beckett’s Text for Nothing at The Royal Court Theatre in London and When the World was Green at Moscow Art Theatre. He has translated, adapted and directed plays by Strindberg and Ibsen. At Berkshire Theatre Festival he has directed 16 productions, including plays by Moliere, Williams, Mamet and Shaw. He collaborated with Joseph Chaikin for over ten years and worked closely with some of America’s finest playwrights: Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, Maria Irene Fornes, Craig Lucas, Beth Henley and Doug Wright. He is a proud member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Presently, he is working on a film called Three Months. less directed Red, Crime and Punishment and I am My Own Wife for Cleveland Play House and is excited to work with the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program for the first time. He has directed extensively in New York and at many leading regional theatres in the United States. His work has... more
Bernard Bygott: (Ensemble) appeared at Cleveland Play House in the world premiere of A Carol for Cleveland (as Freddy and Wino/Santa); Every Good Boy Deserves Favor with The Cleveland Orchestra; and in The Fagin Effect (reading) by Michael Bloom. For CWRU/CPH’s MFA Acting Program, he performed in The Misanthrope and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Bygott originated the role of Calandrino in the opera Decameron at Prince Music Theater. Additional credits include American Shakespeare Center, where he acted in, among many more, The Comedy of Errors, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Ohio Shakespeare Festival; Theater For The New City; Northern New England Repertory; Quintessence Theatre Group; Storybook Musical Theatre; Ko Festival of Performance; Mum Puppettheatre; Glimmerglass Opera; International Opera Theater (Italy and U.S.); and The Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center. His Bachelor of Arts is from Amherst College, and he is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. less appeared at Cleveland Play House in the world premiere of A Carol for Cleveland (as Freddy and Wino/Santa); Every Good Boy Deserves Favor with The Cleveland Orchestra; and in The Fagin Effect (reading) by Michael Bloom. For CWRU/CPH’s MFA Acting Program, he performed in The Misanthrope and In Arabia We’d... more
Christa Hinckley: (Ensemble) most recently went on – with only four hours of rehearsal – as a performing understudy for the role of Gillian in Cleveland Play House’s production of Bell, Book and Candle. By all accounts her two performances were a success, having prompted a standing ovation and favorable notice (by Donald Rosenberg) in The Plain Dealer. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, she appeared in The Misanthrope and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. She was raised in Dallas, Texas and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, English, and Linguistics from Dartmouth College. Additional theatre studies include conservatory training at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center’s National Theater Institute and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Favorite regional theatre roles to date are Catherine in Proof, Sheila in Hair, and Hope Cladwell in Urinetown. Other professional credits include New York Musical Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, and Disney's Theater of the Stars. less most recently went on – with only four hours of rehearsal – as a performing understudy for the role of Gillian in Cleveland Play House’s production of Bell, Book and Candle. By all accounts her two performances were a success, having prompted a standing ovation and favorable notice (by Donald... more
Drew Derek: (Ensemble) recently appeared in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Misanthrope as Acaste and Dubois and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings as Charlie, Man #2, and a Holy Roller. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2008. Along with a number of acting credits in Buffalo (including Irish Classical Theatre Company) and New York City, he also performed at the International Theatre Institute in Romania. He has written and directed at Manhattan Repertory Theatre (Off-off-Broadway). less recently appeared in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Misanthrope as Acaste and Dubois and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings as Charlie, Man #2, and a Holy Roller. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2008.... more
Sarah Kinsey: (Ensemble) read the role of Nettie in The Fagin Effect for Cleveland Play House’s New Ground Theatre Festival 2012. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, she performed in The Misanthrope and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Chicago area credits include Theatre at the Center, Theatre Wit, Bailiwick Repertory, Collaboraction, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Timeline Theatre Company, Stage Left, Raven Theatre, and Tallgrass Gothic and The Typographer's Dream as actress/co-producer with Eva Gil (CWRU/CPH MFA '2012). A member of Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Acting Apprentice Company from 2003 to 2004, Kinsey appeared in Humana Festival in The Ruby Sunrise and Fast and Loose and apprentice productions of Balm in Gilead (portraying Darlene) and 22 Stories High (written in collaboration with Bronx-based performance group Universes). Kinsey has her Bachelor of Music in Voice Theatre, University of Colorado Boulder. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA, she is active in commercials and voiceover. less read the role of Nettie in The Fagin Effect for Cleveland Play House’s New Ground Theatre Festival 2012. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, she performed in The Misanthrope and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Chicago area credits include Theatre at the Center, Theatre Wit, Bailiwick Repertory, Collaboraction, Metropolis... more
Stephen Spencer: (Ensemble) recently appeared as This Guy in the world premiere of A Carol for Cleveland at Cleveland Play House where he was also seen in Every Good Boy Deserves Favor with The Cleveland Orchestra and in the first formal reading of Michael Bloom’s The Fagin Effect. CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program appearances include The Misanthrope and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Spencer has worked professionally with Triad Stage (Tartuffe) and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (The Tempest) as well as on tour with North Carolina Theatre for Young People. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2011. Last summer, Spencer joined Chautauqua Theater Company for the summer conservatory program at the Chautauqua Institution, appearing in As You Like It. Together with Therese Anderberg, he is recipient of the 2012 Oldenburg MFA Scholarship. less recently appeared as This Guy in the world premiere of A Carol for Cleveland at Cleveland Play House where he was also seen in Every Good Boy Deserves Favor with The Cleveland Orchestra and in the first formal reading of Michael Bloom’s The Fagin Effect. CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program appearances... more
Therese Anderberg: (Ensemble) appeared at Cleveland Play House as Sally and A Caroler in the world premiere production of A Carol for Cleveland, having also performed in CPH’s Roe Green Award-winning reading of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Daphne’s Dive alongside such luminaries as David Zayas and Liza Colon-Zayas. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, she appeared in The Misanthrope as Célimène and Stephen Adly Guirgis’ In Arabia We’d All Be Kings as Demaris. Other credits include So Far from God at Chicago Shakespeare Theater for an industry performance and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, in the original show Good Death, created in collaboration with Tectonic Theatre Project. Anderberg received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University where she played Celia in As You Like It and Aunt Monie and The Medium in See What I Want to See. Together with Stephen Spencer, she is recipient of the 2012 Oldenburg MFA Scholarship. less appeared at Cleveland Play House as Sally and A Caroler in the world premiere production of A Carol for Cleveland, having also performed in CPH’s Roe Green Award-winning reading of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Daphne’s Dive alongside such luminaries as David Zayas and Liza Colon-Zayas. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program,... more
TJ Gainley: (Ensemble) appeared at Cleveland Play House in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Misanthrope as Oronte, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings as Sammy and Vic, Present Laughter as Fred, An Orchard as the stranger, and As You Like It as Adam and Silvius. Previous credits in Northeast Ohio, among others, are Tartuffe as Tartuffe, Much Ado About Nothing as Benedick, The Philadelphia Story, and The Cure at Troy, as well as Heracles in Alcestis at the British American Dramatic Academy in London. He also performs improvisational comedy, at venues such as Improv Olympic in Chicago and Big Dog Theater here in Cleveland. less appeared at Cleveland Play House in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Misanthrope as Oronte, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings as Sammy and Vic, Present Laughter as Fred, An Orchard as the stranger, and As You Like It as Adam and Silvius. Previous credits in Northeast Ohio, among... more
Amanda Piccirillo: (Production Assistant) has worked for Cleveland Play House off and on as a crew member since 2007. Her many CPH credits include A Carol for Cleveland (world premiere), Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot (world premiere), Around the World in 80 Days, A Christmas Story, A Raisin in the Sun, Heaven's My Destination (world premiere), The Glass Menagerie and Arcadia. She also serves as an Artist in Residence at Cleveland School of the Arts. less has worked for Cleveland Play House off and on as a crew member since 2007. Her many CPH credits include A Carol for Cleveland (world premiere), Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot (world premiere), Around the World in 80 Days, A Christmas Story, A Raisin in the Sun, Heaven's My Destination... more
Brittany Lanahan: (Stage Manager) was most recently production assistant for The Whipping Man at Cleveland Play House, where she also assisted with My Name is Asher Lev, The Little Mermaid, This Wonderful Life, The Kite Runner and The 39 Steps. Lanahan has worked at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights as assistant stage manager for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and run crew member for Avenue Q. A lover of travel, she spent seven months at sea in 2011 – 2012, working in the theatre onboard Royal Caribbean International’s Radiance of the Seas. Lanahan stage managed The Pillowman and You Can’t Take It with You at her alma mater Allegheny College, from which she has a Bachelor of Arts in French. Other credits include productions at Solon Center for the Arts from 2003 to 2006. In the spring, she will be production assistant for Rich Girl at CPH. less was most recently production assistant for The Whipping Man at Cleveland Play House, where she also assisted with My Name is Asher Lev, The Little Mermaid, This Wonderful Life, The Kite Runner and The 39 Steps. Lanahan has worked at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights as assistant stage manager for... more
Carolyn Dickey: (Costume Designer) is currently in her twenty-third season at Cleveland Play House where she is the assistant costume shop manager. Dickey recently designed costumes for CPH’s New Ground Theatre Festival production with The Cleveland Orchestra of Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, having also designed for many productions in CPH’s Theatre for Children series including The Little Mermaid, Huck Finn, A Jewel of a Tale, The Emperor’s Groovy New Clothes, Bunnicula, Wind in the Willows, Balto, and John Henry. Other credits include Dobama Theatre, Cleveland School of the Arts, Cleveland SignStage Theatre, Ohio Light Opera, Cleveland’s Lyric Opera Company, Shakespeare & Company, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, and The Bang and The Clatter. less is currently in her twenty-third season at Cleveland Play House where she is the assistant costume shop manager. Dickey recently designed costumes for CPH’s New Ground Theatre Festival production with The Cleveland Orchestra of Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, having also designed for many productions in CPH’s Theatre for Children... more
Cyrus C. Taylor: (Dean of CWRU College of Arts and Sciences) is the Albert A. Michelson Professor in Physics at Case Western Reserve University. He joined the CWRU faculty in 1988, and he has been a member of the Faculty Senate and served as Chair of the Senate's Budget Committee, as well as a member of the SAGES Implementation Task Force. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Academic Careers in Engineering & Science (ACES) program at CWRU, the first private university to be funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program to promote full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership. Taylor earned his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A former Truman Scholar, Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow, he has published more than 60 papers and given more than 70 invited talks. Taylor has worked in theoretical and experimental high-energy physics, serving as co-spokesman of the MiniMax collaboration (FNAL T-864) at Fermilab and as co-spokesperson of the FELIX collaboration at CERN. He created and directed the Physics Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), which he helped expand into the now internationally known Science Technology and Entrepreneurship Program (STEP) at CWRU. In 2002 he was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for providing a new paradigm for graduate education in physics through creation of a Physics Entrepreneurship Master's Program and in 2003 was awarded the Price Institute Innovative Entrepreneurship Educators Award. less is the Albert A. Michelson Professor in Physics at Case Western Reserve University. He joined the CWRU faculty in 1988, and he has been a member of the Faculty Senate and served as Chair of the Senate's Budget Committee, as well as a member of the SAGES Implementation Task Force.... more
Jill Davis: (Scenic Designer) recently designed the set for A Doll’s House at American Stage. She is assistant professor of scenic and lighting design at CWRU’s Department of Theatre, and she had been resident scenic designer for the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program for seven years: highlights include set designs for Present Laughter, An Orchard, Cloud 9, All’s Well that Ends Well, Autobahn, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Arcadia, and Big Love. CWRU Eldred Theater designs include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Top Girls, The Rocky Horror Show, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, A Bright Room Called Day, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Glass Menagerie. Davis was Cleveland Play House’s charge scenic artist for over 100 productions, and she designed numerous CPH Theatre for Children sets. She has been charge artist for Playmakers Repertory, Chautauqua Theater Company, Bay Street Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Summer Repertory Theater, and Bigfork Summer Playhouse. Earlier, she was assistant scenic artist at Alley Theatre. She has also freelanced nationally. less recently designed the set for A Doll’s House at American Stage. She is assistant professor of scenic and lighting design at CWRU’s Department of Theatre, and she had been resident scenic designer for the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program for seven years: highlights include set designs for Present Laughter, An Orchard,... more
Michael Boll: (Lighting Designer) recently designed Cleveland Play House productions of Bell, Book and Candle; Every Good Boy Deserves Favor; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; and Stew and the Negro Problem. CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program credits are The Misanthrope, The Winter's Tale, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, An Orchard, Cloud 9, and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Cleveland lighting design work includes Cleveland Public Theatre, Cain Park, Cleveland Museum of Art, Karamu, Dobama, and Beck Center. Off-Broadway includes The Moliere Cycle, Classic Stage Company; Songs for a New World, George Street Playhouse; Dog Sees God, SoHo Playhouse; and The Moonlight Room (associate lighting designer), Beckett Theatre. His work has also been seen at New York International Fringe Festival, La Mama E.T.C., HERE Arts Center, Blue Heron Theatre, and Center Stage New York. He designed numerous Yale Cabaret shows including Say You Love Satan (Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) and Fake (Bess Wohl). less recently designed Cleveland Play House productions of Bell, Book and Candle; Every Good Boy Deserves Favor; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; and Stew and the Negro Problem. CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program credits are The Misanthrope, The Winter's Tale, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, An Orchard, Cloud... more
R.J. Hetman: (Sound Designer) previously worked at Cleveland Play House as a sound technician on The Whipping Man. Hetman’s sound designs include Ragtime, Oklahoma, Legally Blonde, Our Town, Hair, and The Mousetrap at the New London Barn Playhouse in New Hampshire. Audio Engineering credits include Annie at Beck Center for the Arts and Pippin at Cain Park. less previously worked at Cleveland Play House as a sound technician on The Whipping Man. Hetman’s sound designs include Ragtime, Oklahoma, Legally Blonde, Our Town, Hair, and The Mousetrap at the New London Barn Playhouse in New Hampshire. Audio Engineering credits include Annie at Beck Center for the Arts and Pippin... more
Identity Theft
Seven Lives Filtered Through the Ideas of August Strindberg
February 27 - March 9, The Helen
Written and assembled by Anders Cato and The Graduate Ensemble of 2014
Texts by August Strindberg
Translated by Anders Cato
Directed by Anders Cato
Runtime:
approx. 90 minutes, no intermission
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Extremely creative! A physical, chaotic, inter-woven and demanding performance!
- jmp, Bflo
energetic and unique - enjoyed the acting/singing
- ts, cleveland
I very much enjoyed the show - more than I have sometimes enjoyed similar spectacles. more Michael Boll's lighting is extraordinary.
- Robert Hawkes, Cleveland Heights
Extremely creative! A physical, chaotic, inter-woven and demanding performance!
- jmp, Bflo
