Actor Scott Moreau*

Actor Morgan Morse*

Actor Elizabeth Nestlerode*

Actor Katie Barton*

Actor Ben Hope*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member of United Scenic Artists]

Director Ben Hope

Associate Directors Katie Barton & Scott Moreau

Music Director Eric Anthony

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Katie Barton

Lighting Designer Jamie Grant

Sound Designer Christopher Sutton

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Assistant Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

Willy Holtzman The Morini Strad, Inside Out, and The Real McGonagall received full productions at Portland Stage Company. Sabina and The First Mrs. Rochester were developed at The Little Festival of the Unexpected. New York productions include The Morini Strad, Sabina, Something You Did, Bovver Boys (Primary Stages), Inside Out (Theater for a New Audience), San Antonio Sunset, The Last Temptation of Joe Hill, The Closer (The Working Theatre). His plays have been produced regionally at City Theatre, The Long Wharf Theater, Geva Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, People’s Light, and Theater, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, The Colony Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Alliance Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and New York Stage and Film. He wrote and produced the Independent Film Edge of America for which he received the Peabody Award, the WGA Award, and The Humanitas Prize. He is a board member at New Dramatists and PlayPenn.

Louise Beach writes music for the concert stage as well as for the theater, and her chamber works are widely performed. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her musical adaptation of Sabina and won the National Art Song Competition for her Songs of Dusk. With a Masters in Composition from Purchase Conservatory, she was a composer in the New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio and a long-time member of the Advanced Class of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, where Sabina was developed alongside shows such as Avenue Q and Next to Normal.

Darrah Cloud’s full-length play, TURNING, premieres in March 2020 at Centenary Stage in NJ. OUR SUBURB premiered at Theater J in Washington, DC in 2014. JOAN THE GIRL OF ARC premiered at Cincinnati Playhouse in January 2014, then toured. Other plays produced in New York, Europe and across the U.S. include WHAT’S BUGGING GREG?, THE STICK WIFE, THE MUD ANGEL, DREAM HOUSE, BRAILLE GARDEN, and THE SIRENS. Her produced musicals, written with composer Kim D. Sherman, include HEARTLAND, (Madison Repertory Theatre, The Majestic Theatre in Dallas, TheatreWorks Palo Alto) THE BOXCAR CHILDREN (Theatreworks USA, tour), HONOR SONG FOR CRAZY HORSE (TheatreWorks Palo Alto) and the stage adaptation of Willa Cather’s O PIONEERS!, which has received over 100 productions in the United States and was filmed starring Mary McDonnell for American Playhouse. She has won numerous awards, including the Macy’s Prize for Theatre for Young Audiences, an NEA and a Rockefeller. She has had over 10 movies-of-the-week produced on CBS and NBC, is a proud alum of the Iowa Writers Workshop and New Dramatists, and co-directs Howl Playwrights in Rhinebeck, NY. She is the Town Supervisor of Pine Plains, NY.

Carl Jung Philip Stoddard*

Sabina Spielrein Stephanie Machado*

Ludwig Binswanger Jason Michael Evans*

Emma Jung Sarah Anne Fernandez*

Sigmund Freud Bruce Sabath*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Co-Director Danilo Gambini

Co-Director Daniella Topol***

Musical DIrector Bradley Vieth

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Fabian Fidel Aguilar**

Lighting Designer Christopher Akerlind**

Sound Designer Charles Coes**

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Anthony Pascal Arquimedes*

Caroline Sarah Lord*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

Director Cait Robinson

Scenic Design Riw Rakkulchon**

Costume Design Fabian Fidel Aguilar**

Light Design Molly Tiede**

Sound Design Kathy Ruvuna

Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

Greg Lam is a playwright, screenwriter, and board game designer who is a transplanted Bostonian now living in the Bay Area. He is the co-creator of the “Boston Podcast Players” podcast (bostonpodcastplayers.com) Boston’s virtual podcast stage for new works by local playwrights. He is the co-founder of the Asian-American Playwright Collective and a member of The Pulp Stage Writer’s Room.

Morris Emerson Tom Ford*

Adelaide "Addie" Russell Marcy McGuigan*

Henry Hirano Kennedy Kanagawa*

Tunde/Control 2 Jamal James*

Paz/Control 1 Octavia Chavez-Richmond*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

Director Kevin R. Free

Scenic Design Germán Cárdenas-Alaminos

Costume Design Haydee Zelideth

Light Design Jamie Grant

Sound Design Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

Tor Hyams and Lisa St. Lou (Playwrights) Grammy nominated songwriter, Tor Hyams, and Broadway performer, Lisa St. Lou (The Producers) offer a unique blend of comedy and heart through musicals, plays and screenwriting. Original theater works include Stealing Time, where a woman struggles to reconcile her place in a failing marriage (premiered NYMF/2012); The Skylight Room, a collection of stories about lonely people searching for connection, with actor/writer, John Cariani; Howie D: Back in the Day, a family musical about belonging and race, based on the real-life experience of Backstreet Boy, Howie D (world premiere at The Rose Theatre – Omaha, NE January 2020); and Collateral Beauty, an adaptation of the film starring Will Smith (with screenwriter, Allan Loeb). Commissions include a musical adaptation of the legendary television show, Green Acres; Ensemble, a collection of previously unpublished letters by Tennessee Williams; Untitled, a “Golden Age” musical for middle and high school age students; and aTypical Family, a story about a family coping with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Tor & Lisa have adapted Senior Living into a 1/2 hour television show. Additional TV pilots include The Lou, the story of a singer/songwriter forced to return home and face her dysfunctional family in St. Louis; Animal Control, about an elite squad in Beaver County, OK who keep us safe from the animals and the animals safe from us; Clusterf*ck, the story of two forty-something’s who stop at nothing to “write” all the wrongs of life’s banalities; and The Whites, the story of a black family living in a wealthy, white suburb during the Obama years.

Lynn / Alice / Mary / Ellen Cynthia Barnett*

Angelina / Edith / Susan Grace Bauer*

Lily / Carol / Denise Beth Glover*

Morty / Richard / Paddy / Brobson / Lou Steve Vinovich*

Frank / Robert / Joe / Dr. Miller David Wohl*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

Director Judith Ivy***

Scenic Designer David Goldstein**

Costume Designer Vanessa Leuck**

Lighting Designer SeifAllah Salotto-Cristobol

Sound Designer John Morrison

Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Charles Dickens’ poignant and action-packed novels lifted him from a lower-middle-class childhood to become an international celebrity of the Victorian era, and remain popular today. Still, in book after book, from Oliver Twist to Great Expectations, he remained true to his roots: calling attention to hypocrisy, injustice, and the plight of the poorest among us.

Ebenezer Scrooge Tom Ford*

Bob Cratchit Dustin Tucker*

Ghosts Marcy McGuigan*

Nephew Fred Jared Mongeau

Mrs. Cratchit Samantha Rosentrater*

Belle Reanne Acasio*

Jacob Marley Alex Purcell*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

Director Sally Wood

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Susan Thomas

Lighting Designer Bryon Winn**

Sound Designer Christ Fitze

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Richard Topol – He is making his playwriting debut with Searching For Mr. Moon, and he thanks his co-writer Willy for the idea in the first place, and his patience and sense of humor along the way. As an actor he has previously appeared at Portland Stage in Loot and Scapin. He has performed on Broadway numerous times including as Lemml in the Tony Award winning production of Indecent, for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award; with Larry David in Fish in the Dark; with Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice; with Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar; with Mark Ruffalo in the Tony Award winning revival of Awake and Sing; with Joe Mantello in the Tony Award winning revival of The Normal Heart, and with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in The Country Girl, directed by Mike Nichols. His off-Broadway appearances include productions at the Atlantic, Classic Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, The Public, The Vineyard and Primary Stages. His film and TV credits include Lincoln, Indignation, Mickey Blue Eyes, Party Girl, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Blacklist, all the Law & Order series and recurring roles on Billions, Godfather of Harlem, Manifest, Genius: Einstein, The Practice, Perception, and many others. Richard has received two Drama Desk Awards, a Cullman award from Lincoln Center, and an Audelco Award. He holds an MFA in Acting from NYU and a BA in Political Science from Brown University.

Willy Holtzman – His The Morini Strad, Inside Out, and The Real McGonagall received full productions at Portland Stage Company. Sabina and The First Mrs. Rochester were developed at The Little Festival of the Unexpected. New York productions include The Morini Strad, Sabina, Something You Did, Bovver Boys (Primary Stages), Inside Out (Theater for a New Audience), San Antonio Sunset, The Last Temptation of Joe Hill, The Closer (The Working Theatre). His plays have been produced regionally at City Theatre, The Long Wharf Theater, Geva Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, People’s Light, and Theater, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, The Colony Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Alliance Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and New York Stage and Film. He wrote and produced the Independent Film Edge of America for which he received the Peabody Award, the WGA Award, and The Humanitas Prize. He is a board member at New Dramatists and PlayPenn.

Julia Gibson directed Greater Tuna at Portland Stage several years ago and is very happy to return! She has directed with Rattlestick, Barrow Street, Origin Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, and Epic Theatre Ensemble in New York City; and at Chautauqua Theater Company, Gulfshore Playhouse, New London Barn, Juilliard, NYU Graduate Acting, SMU in Dallas, The Actors Center Conservatory, A.C.T. Conservatory in San Francisco, Stony Brook University, and Stella Adler Conservatory. She was Associate Director of the revival of Angels in America at the Signature Theatre. As an actor, she has performed on and off Broadway and at major theaters across the US, as well as on TV and film. She is currently Co-Head of the Graduate Acting Program at UNC Chapel Hill where she also serves as a company member of PlayMakers Repertory Company. She received her MFA in Acting from New York University (alongside Richard Topol), is a founding member of The Actors Center in New York City and of the National Alliance for Acting Teachers; she is a Fox Fellowship recipient and has narrated over 160 audio books. Julia recently received a Carolina Women’s Center Faculty Scholarship grant to create a theater piece about women and aging.

Rich Richard Topol

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Director Julia Gibson

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Anita Stewart**

Light Designer Mari Yokoyama**

Sound Designer David Van Tieghem**

Projections Designer Michael Commendatore

Stage Manager Meg Lydon*

Callie Kimball (Playwright) earned her MFA under Tina Howe at Hunter College, where she won the Rita & Burton Goldberg Playwriting Award two years in a row. Her plays have been produced and developed in New York, Chicago, LA, Boston, and DC, at the Kennedy Center, MCC Theater, Lark Play Development Center, Portland Stage Company, Rep Stage, Ashland New Plays Festival, The Drama League, Echo Theatre, The Brick Theater, Dramatic Rep, Mad Horse Theatre, Project Y Theatre, Team Awesome Robot, Washington Shakespeare Company, Halcyon Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Everyman Repertory Theatre, Absolute Theatre, and many colleges and festivals across the country. She’s an Affiliate Artist at Portland Stage Company, an Affiliate Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, Playwright-in-Residence at Theater at Monmouth, and a former MacDowell Fellow. She won a Ludwig Vogelstein grant to research her play Sofonisba, which won Portland Stage’s Clauder Gold Prize, was a finalist for the O’Neill, a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award, and was included on The Kilroys’ 2016 List. Her themes range from historical dramas and classical adaptations to socio-political comedies and futuristic dystopias. Many of her plays feature characters balanced at the intersection of language and power, who struggle to break free from societal assumptions around gender, class, and race.

PERSEVERANCE "PERCY" TURNER. Nedra Snipes*

"JUDGE" ELMER Vin Knight*

LELAND "MOSS" TARKER William Oliver Watkins*

DAWN DAVIS Catherine Buxton

COOPER "COOP" DAVIS Brendan D. Hickey*

DILLY Sally Wood*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

Director Jade King Carroll***

Scenic Designer Anita Stewart**

Costume Designer Kathleen Brown

Light Designer Bryon Winn**

Sound Designer Karin Graybash**

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

[*member Actors Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Julia Gibson is very happy to return to Portland Stage. Last year she directed Searching for Mr. Moon, and several years ago …. Greater Tuna. She has directed with Rattlestick, Barrow Street, Origin Theatre, ManhattanTheatreSource and Epic Theatre Company in New York City; and at Chautauqua Theatre Company, Gulfshore Playhouse, New London Barn, Juilliard, NYU Graduate Acting, SMU in Dallas, The Actors Center Conservatory, A.C.T. Conservatory in San Francisco, Stony Brook University and Stella Adler Conservatory. She was Associate Director of the revival of Angels in America at The Signature Theatre. As an actor she has performed on and off Broadway and at major theatres across the U.S., as well as on TV and film. She is currently Co-Head of the Graduate Acting Program at UNC Chapel Hill where she also serves as a company member of PlayMakers Repertory Company. She received her MFA in Acting from New York University and is a founding member of The Actors Center in New York City as well as the National Alliance for Acting Teachers; she is a Fox Fellowship recipient and has narrated over 160 audio books. Julia recently received a Carolina Women’s Center Faculty Scholarship grant to create a theatre piece about women and aging.

Tom Ford Portland Stage: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, The Last Ship to Proxima Centauri, A Christmas Carol, Read to Me, Greater Tuna, Bach at Leipzig, The Mystery of Irma Vep, I Am My Own Wife, The Snow Queen, Iron Kisses, The Woman in Black, Lend Me a Tenor, Art, and Gaslight. Boise Contemporary Theater: The Show on the Roof (World Premiere of a New Musical, book by Tom Ford, music and lyrics by Alex Syiek), Lewiston, Tru and This Wonderful Life. Northern Stage: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play and Miss Trunchbull in Matilda. Idaho Shakespeare and Great Lakes Theater: Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Wargrave in And Then There Were None, the Fool in King Lear, Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap, Sweeney in Sweeney Todd, Thenardier in Les Miserables, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid, Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap, Baker in Into the Woods, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened…, and the title role in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. New London Barn Playhouse: The Odd Couple, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Drowsy Chaperone, A Funny Thing Happened…, Hairspray, Harvey, The Pirates of Penzance, The Producers, and She Loves Me. Broadway: By Jeeves. tomfordactor.com.

Nathaniel P. Claridad Off-Broadway/NYC include: Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History…(St. Ann’s Warehouse); Regional credits include work at The Kennedy Center, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Two River Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Imagination Stage, Hangar Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Florida Studio Theatre. International credits include work at the Brisbane Festival and the Sydney Opera House with Dead Puppet Society. TV: New Amsterdam, Harlem. As a director, credits include work at Weathervane Theatre, Imagination Stage, Southern Rep., Out of the Box Theatrics, as well as being named a Drama League Resident in 2019 & 2016. MFA: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Actor 1 Tom Ford*

Actor 2 Nathaniel P. Claridad*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Director Julia Gibson

Scenic Designer Randall Parsons**

Costume Designer Cole McCarty**

Lighting Designer SeifAllah Salotto-Cristobal

Sound Designer Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*