Michael Cerveris, Jorgen Tesman
Michaal Cerveris is one of Broadway’s most versatile actors, having appeared in shows as wide
ranging as The Who’s Tommy and Romeo and Juliet. Born in Maryland and raised in West Virginia, Cerveris studied classical singing at Yale University.Broadway credits include: The Who’s Tommy (Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Nomination); Titanic, Assassins (Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony, Won, 2004); Sweeney Todd (Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Nomination 2005); Love Musik (Best Leading Actor in a Musical Tony Nomination 200); Cymbeline and Hedda Gabler. West End credits include Hedwig and the Angry Itch.
Mary-Louise Parker, Hedda Tesman
Mary-Louise Parker is a Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner whose work spans across drama, television and film. Born in South Carolina, she majored in drama at the North Carolina Academy of the Arts.Recent film credits include: The Spiderwick Chronicles (2007); Solitary Man (2009) and Red (2010) for which she was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress. She is best known for her television appearances in Weeds for which she has won the Golden Globe and Satellite Awards for Best Actress between 2006-2009.
On Broadway she has twice been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a play for both Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 and Reckless in 2004. She won the Tony Award in the same category in 2000 for her performance as Catherine in Proof.
Paul Sparks, Ejlert Lovborg
Paul Sparks was born in Oklahoma, gaining a degree in chemical engineering before graduating witha BFA in acting from NYU. Sparks is a regular to the stage and has been nominated for four Drama Desk Awards as well as a British Stage Award for Acting Excellence. Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: Take Me Out; Coyote on a Fence; Orange Water Flower; Essential Self Defence and Finer Noble Gases. He can currently be seen on screen in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce.
Peter Stormare, Judge Brack
Peter Stormare is a Swedish film, theatre and television actor probably best known for his roles in
Prison Break. Stormare grew up in Sweden and studied with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre before taking a position at the Tokyo Globe Theatre as Artistic Director. Significant film credits include: Fargo; The Minority Report, Jurassic Park 2 – The Lost World; Chocolat and Bad Boys II. His television credits feature Seinfeld; Prison Break; CSI; Entourage and Weeds. Stormare enjoys stage acting, in particular Shakespeare, with his favourite performance being Hamlet which he played at the Dramaten.
Helen Carey, Miss Julianne Tesman
Helen Carey has led a mixed professional life performing in multiple mediums. Her Broadway credits include: Pygmalion; London Assurance (Tony nomination and Theatre World Award). Also at Roundabout: Hotel Suite; Give Me Your Answer, Do! Regional credits: Anthony and Cleopatra, Macbeth; (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC) and Noises Off . Films include: 21 (March 2008), Little Children, The Emperor’s Club, Black Knight.
Lois Markle, Berte
Lois Markle’s Brodway credits include True West (2000); Something Old, Something New (1977); A Warm Body (1967); Abraham Cochrane (1964) and Calculated Risk (1962) .
Ana Reeder, Thea Elvsted
Ana Reeder has enjoyed a varied career on both stage and screen. Most recent screen roles include: You Don’t Know Jack (2010); Homewrecker (2010); The Getaway (2008); The Assastant and No Country for Old Men (2007). She has also featured in episodes of Law and Order.
Ian Rickson – Director
Ian Rickson is a British director who has worked extensively in both film and theatre. He was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre in London’s Sloane Square from 1998 – 2006.
West End Theatre credits include: Betrayal (2011); The Children’s Hour (2011);Jerusalem (2009); Parlour Song (2009);The Seagull (2008); The Hothouse (2007).
Christopher Shinn – Adapter
Shinn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and currently lives in New York City. His works have been performed in both London and New York at venues such as The Royal Court, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, and the Vineyard Theatre, He has won both an Obie Award for Playwriting as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently teaches playwriting at the New School for Drama.