BIOGRAPHIES

CAST

CARMAN LACIVITA (Victor Prynne) is excited to be making his Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut! Broadway: Marvin’s Room (original Broadway cast) directed by Anne Kaufman, Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner directed by David Leveaux. OffBroadway: World Premiere of JC Lee’s To My Girls at Second Stage directed by Stephen Brackett. Sense & Sensibility (Bedlam), Henry 6 in Rose Rage; Henry the 6th Pts. 1, 2, 3 (St. Clair Bayfield Award, Jeff Award, Drama League Nomination) The Duke, Red Bull, The Public, The Atlantic, and The Pearl. Regional: Recently played Mr. Knightley in the World Premiere of Kate Hamill’s Emma at The Guthrie directed by Meredith McDonough, Two River Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival, George is Dead written and directed by Elaine May (George St. Playhouse/Arizona Theater Company), Chicago Shakespeare, Long Wharf and others. Television/Film: Blue Bloods (CBS), Golden Boy (CBS), Royal Pains (USA), The Chica Show (NBC), Cyrano de Bergerac (PBS Great Performances). Founding member of Amphibian Stage Productions. Training: MFA Rutgers, BFA Texas Christian University. For more information, visit www.carmanlacivita.com Social Media @lacivitacarman

STANTON NASH (Eloyt Chase) is an actor, playwright, singer, and screenwriter making his Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut. He has performed around the country, acting at the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, New York

City’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, D.C.’s Arena, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Denver’s Center for Performing Arts, Princeton’s McCarter, Chicago’s Steppenwolf, Greensboro’s Triad Stage, Minneapolis’ Twin Cities Theater Company, Atlanta’s Georgia Shakespeare, the Chicago company of Wicked, and many others. Training: University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre BFA Actor Training Program.

AMELIA PEDLOW (Amanda Prynne) is excited to be making her Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut! Off-Broadway: The Metromaniacs, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull Theater Company), Pride and Prejudice (world premiere, Primary Stages), The Liar, The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company), You Never Can Tell (Pearl Theatre Company), Regional: Emma (world premiere, The Guthrie), Dear Jack, Dear Louise (world premiere Arena Stage & George Street Playhouse), Doubt (Studio Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Folger Theatre), Fortune (Hangar Theatre), Red Velvet (The Old Globe), Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage & Huntington Theatre Company), The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet (Denver Center), Legacy of Light (Cleveland Play House), The Diary of Anne Frank (Virginia Stage). Television: The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Shades of Blue, The Blacklist. Training: B.F.A.The Juilliard School.

KERRY WARREN (Sibyl Chase) is a New York based Actor and Teaching Artist. She is so very happy to make her Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut with Private Lives. Broadway: The River with Hugh Jackman Off Broadway: Life Sucks (Theatre Row); This Is How It Ends (59E59); Much Ado About Nothing Mobile Unit (The Public Theater) Regional: The Tempest (Pittsburg Public); Romeo and Juliet (Dallas Theater Center); Office Hour (Berkeley Rep & Long Wharf); The Originalist (Arena Stage); Twelfth Night and The Book Of Will (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (Baltimore Center Stage) Television: Broad City, New Amsterdam, Law & Order SVU. Training: Juilliard. For more information, visit www.kerrywarren.com

YVONNE WOODS (Louise and u/s Amanda and Sibyl) is making her Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut! Yvonne most recently appeared in What Happened? The Michaels Abroad at Hunter Theater Project, and Uncle Vanya at The Old Globe and Hunter Theater Project. Other theatre: Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, Spoleto Festival, The Cherry Lane Theater, Lucille Lortel Theatre, The Kennedy Center, A.C.T., The Alley, The Huntington, The Court Theatre, The Ahmanson Theater and Williamstown Theater Festival, Yale Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Film: Happy 40th and Ramona at Midlife. Love to Brian.

SAMY CORDERO (Louise Understudy) is so excited to be making her Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut! She was most recently seen as Carla in In The Heights at Light Opera of New Jersey. Favorite theatre: Wendla in Spring Awakening, Suzanne in Amelie, Veronica in Heathers the Musical, Runaways at the ATA Theatre in New York. Samy has also sung in multiple New York cabarets at Don’t Tell Mama’s, The Triad, and The Metropolitan Room. Training: Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts (current senior, BFA candidate). Thanks to my wonderful family and Janeece for always encouraging me. Social Media @samycord

JESSE MUÑOZ (Eloyt and Victor Understudy) is extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with The Rep again. Past credits with The Rep include Captain Scott in Peter and the Starcatcher and Papa Grande/Florencio in Tomás and the Library Lady as part of the Imaginary Theatre Company. He also works frequently with the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. Training: Webster Conservatory (2016).

DIRECTION & DESIGN

MEREDITH MCDONOUGH (Director) Previously at The Rep: Lifespan of a Fact. She was the Associate Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville for seven seasons where favorite directing credits include both parts of Angels in America, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and The Last Five Years. Other Work: Humana Festival, she directed the premieres of Marginal Loss, Dot, brownsville song (b-side for trey) and Airness, amongst others. Before ATL, she was the Director of New Works at TheatreWorks in CA where she directed the world premieres of Triangle, Upright Grand and Auctioning the Ainsleys. Other San Francisco credits include the premieres of Miss Bennett - Christmas at Pemberly and Kitty and Georgianna at Marin Theatre Company, and The Lily’s Revenge with Taylor Mac at the Magic Theatre. Regionally, favorites include the premiere of Kate Hamill’s Emma and Noises Off (Guthrie), Fair Use (Steppenwolf), Eurydice (Williamstown), and the Washington, D.C., premiere of the musical Summer of ’42 and the US premiere of NSFW (Roundhouse). She was the New Works Director for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a Drama League Fellow and a Kesselring Award Panelist. Education: Northwestern; MFA, UCSD. For more information, visit www. meredithmcdonough.com

LEX LIANG (Scenic Designer) NYC/OffBroadway: 50+ productions. Recent work includes Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written, Nine Circles, The Bacchae and Antigone. Upcoming: The Acting Company’s Romeo & Juliet. Regional: Alliance Theatre, Asolo Rep., Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center, Geva Theatre, Goodspeed, Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Miami New Drama, Pasadena Playhouse, Playmaker’s Rep, Portland Stage, Portland Center Stage, The Repertory Theatre St. Louis, Syracuse Stage, Tantrum Theatre, Woolly Mammoth. He is the founder and owner of LDC Design Associates, an experiential event design and production company in NYC. Recent projects include Ubuntu Pathways: Fight For Good, Operation Smile’s 35th Anniversary Gala, The Tony Awards Gala, and BCBG’s 30 Year Retrospective, NYFW. Member, United Scenic Artists-829. For more information, visit www.LexLiang.com Social Media @lex924

KATHLEEN GELDARD (Costume Designer) Previously at the Rep: Lifespan of a Fact. Regional: The Year of Magical Thinking with Kathleen Turner (Arena Stage), Little Shop of Horrors (Portland Center Stage), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Peter and the Starcatcher, Humana Festivals 2015-2018

(Actors Theatre of Louisville), Alias Grace, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Misery, Shakespeare in Love (Cincinnati Playhouse), Steel Magnolias, An Iliad, Always...Patsy Cline (Weston Playhouse), Macbeth (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Henry IV, Part One (Folger Theatre), Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Kennedy Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Round House Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte.

COLIN K. BILLS (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to make his Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut. A Washington, Washington, D.C., based theater artist, he is a Company Member and Board Member at Woolly Mammoth where he has designed over 50 productions including Gloria, An Octoroon, Black Side of the Moon, Stupid Fucking Bird, The Convert, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Oedipus el Rey, Clybourne Park, and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. As a Conspirator with the devised theater company dog & pony dc, he collaborated in the writing, direction and design of A Killing Game and Beertown. His designs have been seen nationally at Arena Stage, Asolo Rep, The Berkshire Theater Festival, CENTERSTAGE, Chicago’s Second City, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Court Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Everyman Theatre, 59E59, Folger Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Forum Theatre, Imagination Stage, Intiman

Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Marin Theatre Company, Metro Stage, Opera Lafayette, Opéra Royal Versailles, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Smithsonian, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Theater J, The Washington Revels, The Wilma Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has won three Helen Hayes Awards and is a recipient of a Princess Grace Fellowship in Theater. Colin has taught design at Howard University and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

LINDSAY JONES (Sound Designer) Broadway: Slave Play (Tony nominations for Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play), The Nap, Bronx Bombers and A Time to Kill. OffBroadway: Privacy (The Public Theater), Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Feeding the Dragon (Primary Stages), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop) and many others. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre and many others. International: Stratford Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England) and many others. Audio dramas: Marvel, Audible, Next Chapter Podcasts, award-winning “The Imagine Neighborhood.” Film/ Television scoring: HBO Films’ A Note of Triumph (2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject)

and over 30 other films. He is the co-chair of Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association, and teaches Composition For Theatre and Music History at the University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts.

NATHAN KEEPERS (Fight Choreographer) is the Producing Artistic Director of The Moving Company in Minneapolis, MN. Since 2009 the company has been creating original works, including, Anamnesis, What If, Speechless Liberty Falls 54321, Werther & Lotte and Refugia (with The Guthrie Theater). Nathan spent 11 seasons with Theatre de la Jeune Lune, winner of a 2005 Tony Award. Elsewhere in the Twin Cities: The Jungle Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Ten Thousand Things, Sod House Theater, Playwright’s Center and CTC. Regionally: Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (ATL), American Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre-DC, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory and The Folger Theatre. Nathan has directed for Merrimack Repertory Theater and ATL. He has been an artist in residence at University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, Stanford University, NYU and Gustavus Adolphus. Nathan studied with Pierre Byland in Switzerland, and Philippe Gaulier in London.

JILL WALMSLEY ZAGER (Dialect Coach) has served as the Resident Voice, Text and Dialects Coach at the Guthrie, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and Milwaukee Rep Theatre. Regionally she has worked at the

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, Drury Lane Oakbrook, and The Lyric Opera of Chicago. Training: Master’s degrees in Voice and Dialects from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and Northwestern University.

KAJA AMADO DUNN (Intimacy Director) is an intimacy professional, diversity consultant, and associate faculty at Theatrical Intimacy Education. Kaja is a member of SAG-AFTRA and an actor, director, and activist with performances in over 40 productions in 5 countries including Theatrical Outfit, Playmakers Rep, Moxie Theatre and others. Current favorite intimacy work includes American Prophet (Arena Stage), Choir Boy (Denver Center and ACT Seattle) Harlem (Amazon), Strange Loop (Broadway, associate Intimacy Director), The Best Man, The Final Chapter (Peacock). She is a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s National Medallion for her work on theatre and race. She has published in several journals about race and theatre, intimacy and co-authored a chapter in Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance.

She has presented on issues of Equity and Diversity and theatre for theatre’s and universities, Actor’s Equity Association as their racial consultant, The Women’s Theatre Festival, Blumenthal Performing Arts, MICHA,

North Carolina Theatre Association (Keynote Panelist), Children’s Theatre Charlotte, Anti-Racism and Decolonization at University of London Goldsmiths, SETC and SETC Theatre Symposium, KCATF and The Association of Theatre in Higher Education, among other places. She is on the Executive Board of the Black Theatre Network and a former executive member of Black Theatre Association. She was recently interviewed in American Theatre Magazine around issues of Race and Theatre education. For more information, visit kajadunn.com. RODRIGO HERNANDEZ (Associate Scenic Designer) is a Scenic and Costume designer from Cancún and Mexico City currently based in NYC. Looking forward to critically engaging in nuanced, new stories in the hopes to collaborate with likeminded artist to lead our industry in a more just and welcoming path for disenfranchised communities. Works include: Costume Designer for Spring Awakening and Scenic Designer for Side By Side by Sondheim at Northern Stage, VT; Scenic and Costume designer for I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings for New York Children’s Theatre at Theatre Row, NYC; Scenic and Costume Designer for Fade at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY; Scenic Designer for Wizard Of Oz at Cape Fear Regional Theatre in Cape Fear, NC; Associate Scenic and Costume Designer for Cinderella and By The Way, Meet Vera Stark at The Fine Art Center in Colorado Springs, CO.

A Proud member of “Wingspace Theatrical Design”, “La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Design Network” and “Colegio Mexicano de Diseño Escénico” ERICA A. FEAGIN (Associate Sound Designer) Previously at the Rep: Associate Sound Designer, Stick Fly. Audio Technician (New York Stage and Film), Audio A2, Sound Designer (Young Playwrights Festival, Baltimore Center Stage) Add. Sound Designer, Around the Campfire (The Lobbyist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019). LUNA MARTIN (Assistant Director) is a trans and queer artist based in Seattle and St. Louis. She is currently a Junior at Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University studying directing. She is so excited to be making her Repertory Theatre of St. Louis debut as Assistant Director on Private Lives! Enjoy the show! SHANNON B. STURGIS (Stage Manager) favorite theatrical experiences include Atlantic Theater Company, Shear Madness (OffBroadway) and Altar Boyz (Off-Broadway and in The Rep’s Off-Ramp series). Other regional favorites include Westport Country Playhouse, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Totem Pole Playhouse, Victoria Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Phoenix Theatre (in New York) and the Gretna Playhouse.

ERIC BARNES (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be back at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis. Previously at the Rep: Stickfly, A Christmas Carol, Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Little Dog Laughed, Altar Boyz, Kiss Me Kate, Adventures of Tom Sawyer and many more. Other Theater/Opera: Humana Play Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville. And many opera seasons at Central City Opera, Tulsa Opera and Opera Theater of St. Louis. Education: Illinois Wesleyan University.

KELLY GILLESPIE (Casting Director) is a CSA Casting Director at Manhattan Theatre Club, where favorite recent projects include Cost of Living, Skeleton Crew, Prayer for the French Republic, Ink, Choir Boy. WP Theater: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Hatef*ck, Natural Shocks, What We’re Up Against, Sundown Yellow Moon, Stuffed, Dear Elizabeth, Ironbound, Bright Half Life. 13P: Melancholy Play, A Map of Virtue, The Zero Hour, Monstrosity. Foundry & Public Theaters: Good Person of Szechwan. E.S.T.: Photograph 51. Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Angels in America, Residence, Seven Guitars, 4000 Miles, Dot, The Roommate, Eat Your Heart Out. Several seasons for T.A.C.T. and Keen Company. B.A. University of Michigan.

NOËL COWARD (Playwright) Noël Peirce Coward was born in 1899 and made his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 12, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years. His breakthrough in playwriting was the controversial The Vortex (1924) which featured themes of drugs and adultery and made his name as both actor and playwright in the West End and on Broadway. During the frenzied 1920s and the more sedate 1930s, Coward wrote a string of successful plays, musicals and intimate revues including Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Easy Virtue (1926), This Year of Grace (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). His professional partnership with childhood friend Gertrude Lawrence, started with Private Lives (1931), and continued with Tonight at 8.30 (1936).

During World War II, he remained a successful playwright, screenwriter and director, as well as entertaining the troops and even acting as an unofficial spy for the Foreign Office. His plays during these years included Blithe Spirit, which ran for 1,997 performances, outlasting the War (a West End record until The Mousetrap overtook it), This Happy Breed and Present Laughter (both 1943). His two wartime screenplays, In Which We Serve, which he codirected with the young David Lean, and Brief Encounter quickly became classics of British cinema.

However, the post-war years were more difficult. Austerity Britain – the London critics determined – was out of tune with the brittle Coward wit. In response, Coward re-invented himself as a cabaret and TV star, particularly in America, and in 1955 he played a sell-out season in Las Vegas featuring many of his most famous songs, including Mad About the Boy, I’ll See You Again and Mad Dogs and Englishmen. In the mid-1950s he settled in Jamaica and Switzerland, and enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1960s becoming the first living playwright to be performed by the National Theatre, when he directed Hay Fever there. Late in his career he was lauded for his roles in a number of films including Our Man In Havana (1959) and his role as the iconic Mr. Bridger alongside Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1968).

Writer, actor, director, film producer, painter, songwriter, cabaret artist as well as an author of a novel, verse, essays and autobiographies, he was called by close friends ‘The Master’. His final West End appearance was Song at Twilight in 1966, which he wrote and starred in. He was knighted in 1970 and died peacefully in 1973 in his beloved Jamaica.

For further information on Noël Coward’s life and work, visit www.noelcoward.com and to join the Noël Coward Society, visit www.noelcoward.net. Twitter @NoelCowardSir

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