Fiasco Theatre
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THE CAST OF FIASCO'S TWELFTH NIGHT:
Noah Brody
Co-Director, Orsino, Antonio
Noah co-directed Fiasco's productions of Cymbeline and Two Gentlemen of Verona, and co-taught Table Work and Rehearsal Technique for the 2009 Free Training Initiative. Acting credits include Portland Stage Company, the Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Madison Rep, and Trinity Repertory Company, as well as European tours with the Reduced Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Law and Order and as recurring characters on both All My Children and As the World Turns. As an adjunct faculty member at NYU and the Stella Adler School of Acting he taught Voice & Speech, Scene Study, and directed plays. Noah is a fight choreographer for stage and film who trained with Richard Ryan, Master at Arms at RADA and J. Allen Suddeth. He is the author of the plays “The Vexed Question” and ”Cold.” Noah received an MFA in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.
Paul L. Coffey
Maivolio
With FIASCO: Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (workshop), member of Fiasco's Acting Company. New York: The Public, Ars Nova, HERE, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Mint Theater Co., blessed unrest, Theatre Lila, Gorilla Rep, Aquila Theatre Co. Regional: Trinity Repertory Co., Pig Iron Theatre Co., The Vineyard Playhouse, The Theater at Monmouth, Lost Nation Theater, BoarsHead Theater, The Peterborough Players and The Berkshire Theater Festival. Paul received his M.F.A. in acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium where he was a Stephen Sondheim Fellow.
Georgia Cohen
Olivia
Georgia toured nationally with the Acting Company and Guthrie Theater in productions of Henry V (dir. Davis McCallum) and The Spy. NY credits: Henry V (New Victory), The Joe Donovan Variety Show parts 1 & 2 (Don’t Tell Mama), various workshops and readings at PS 122, The Public and the Atlantic Theater Company. Regional theater: Postcards from Earth (dir. Marcela Lorca at the Guthrie Experience), For a Barbarian Woman (dir. Jackson Gay, workshop at The Long Wharf) , A Christmas Carol (dir. Fred Sullivan at Trinity Repertory Theater), Don Carlos, Red Noses, Oleanna, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Crucible (The Gamm Theater, RI). Georgia has taught drama and volunteered for 5 summers at Camp Amerikids, as well as teaching yoga and dance at The Ensemble Theatre Community school in Eagles Mere, PA. She was born and raised in New York City, and received a B.A. in Theater Arts from Brown University. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.
Andy Grotelueschen
Sir Toby Belch
For Fiasco: Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (workshop), member of Fiasco's Acting Company. Andy has toured nationally with the Guthrie Theater and the Acting Company (Henry V/The Spy, dir. Davis McCallum) and internationally with the Glass Contraption. Other credits include Servant of Two Masters (Yale Rep, dir. Christopher Bayes), Lucy Thurber's Monstrosity (13P, dir. Lear deBessonet),The Scariest (The Exchange, dirs. Ari Edelson/Meredith McDonough), The Glass Contraption's The Amazing Ted Show! (Ars Nova), Clowns. (The Public/NY Clown Festival, dir. Christopher Bayes), Don Cristobal, Billy Club Man (St. Ann's Warehouse, Here, dir. Erin Orr), and Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ (Women's Project). Other regional credits include the Guthrie, Arizona Theatre Company, and Trinity Rep. (Moliere Impromptu, dir. Christopher Bayes). Andy is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep. Consortium (MFA). He is currently apprenticed to Christopher Bayes studying the Clown, and he's from Iowa.
Elizabeth King-Hall
Maria
Lizzie's New York acting credits include Candide at the Kitchen (Cunegonda) and Freshplay 2009 at MCC. Regional work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chautauqua Theatre Company (Helena), and Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing at Illinois Shakespeare Festival (the Princess and Antonia). Favorite roles at Brown/Trinity include Claire in the premiere of Anne Marie Healy's What Once We Felt, Emilia in Paula Vogel's Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief, and Katerina in The Taming of the Shrew. Lizzie was born and raised in Kansas City, MO, holds a BA in English and Drama from Colorado College, and earned her MFA at Brown/Trinity.
Annie Purcell
Viola
Broadway: The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage (LCT), Dividing the Estate, Awake and Sing! Off-Broadway: Cycling Past the Matterhorn. Regional: Mary's Wedding (Portland Stage Co.) The House in Hydesville (Geva) Uncle Vanya (Cal Shakes.) Workshops: The Cherry Sisters Revisited(LSU/ATL) Six (Cape Cod Theater Project) This Bloody Mess (Lincoln Center Directors Lab). Film: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. TV: "Louie", “The Black Donnellys.” MFA: NYU; BA: Fordham University at Lincoln Center. As a playwright: Book the Third (Studio Tisch). Annie is always grateful for/to her family and friends, and grateful and stoked to be working with Fiasco, on this, her favorite of Shakespeare's plays.
Haas Regen
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Haas is truly ecstatic to make his Fiasco debut as Sir Andrew. Off-Off Bway: Jump Jim Crow (Subjective Theatre Co.), Importance of Being Earnest (Counting Squares Theatre Co.); Regional: As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakes), A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep), The Learned Ladies (SRT Santa Rosa), Williamstown Free Theatre. He served as dramaturg for Guerrilla Shakespeare Co. productions of Two Noble Kinsmen and King John. MFA: Brown/Trinity Graduate Program.
Ben Steinfeld
Co-Director, Feste, Sebastian
Ben co-directed and acted in Fiasco’s productions of Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (workshop), and The Two Gentlemen of Verona and co-taught Voice and Rehearsal Technique for the Free Training Initiative in 2009. In the spring of 2010 he will appear in “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” at The Public Theater. Other acting credits include: Center Theatre Group, Portland Center Stage, Bread Loaf, Williamstown Theatre Festival, SpeakEasy Stage Co., Seven Angels, and Trinity Repertory Company. Ben has been seen on television on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” He is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where he teaches acting, musical theater, and theater history. He has narrated three Young People’s concerts with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at NJPAC. Ben received a BA in Theater Arts from Brown University, and an MFA in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.