Anthony Chisholm
Simon
Mr. Chisholm is a Tony Award nominee for his portrayal of Elder Joe Barlow in August Wilson’s Radio Golf. Other Broadway credits include August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Gem of the Ocean. Off-Broadway credits include a Drama Desk and Obie award for playing Fielding in August Wilson’s Jitney, roles with the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre and others. Overseas he has been seen at London’s Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre and in the hit Vietnam play, Tracers, at The Seymoure Center, Sydney, Australia; the Universal Theatre, Melbourne, Australia. His film work includes the soon to be released 13 with Mickey Rourke; Black Out, Reign Over Me, A Jersey Tale, and Beloved. Television credits includes “Vietnam War Stories” (Cable Ace nominee), “Law and Order: SVU,” “Third Watch,” “NY Undercover,” “The Handler” and the role of Burr Redding on HBO’s “Oz.” He is also the recipient of the NAACP Theatre Award, the AUDELCO Award, the Ovation Award, and the I.R.N.E. Award. He has also received nominations for The Drama Desk, Drama League, Joseph Jefferson Award, Ovation Award, NAACP Theatre Award, and AUDELCO Awards. This is his Long Wharf Theatre debut.
Harry Groener
Roelf
Mr. Groener is very happy to be returning to Long Wharf Theatre where he was seen in three plays – Hobson’s Choice, The Recruiting Officer, and Journey’s End. He recently completed an extremely successful run as King Lear in the Anteaus Company production of King Lear in Los Angeles. Mr. Groener was seen as Richard Burbage and the Jesuit priest Henry Garnett in Equivocation at the Geffen Theatre in LA, Putting it Together at South Coast Rep, as well as in Follies and Assassins at Reprise! His Broadway credits include Crazy For You (Tony nomination), Oklahoma! (Theatre World Award, Tony and Drama Desk award nominations), Cats (Tony Award nomination), Harrigan and Hart (Drama Desk Award nomination), Oh Brother! Is There Life After High School, Slight of Hand, George in Sunday in the Park With George, Imaginary Friends, and King Arthur in Spamalot. Lincoln Center credits include Twelve Dreams. He has appeared Off-Broadway in Picasso at the Lapin Agile and If Love Were All. Television: over 60 credits including The Mayor in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Ralph in “Dear John;” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Voyager” and “Enterprise”; “Medium,” “Bones,” “Las Vegas,” “CSI,” “Mad About You,” “Breaking Bad” and “The West Wing.” Film: About Schmidt, Road To Perdition, Amistad, Dance With Me, Patch Adams, Brubaker, Manna From Heaven, Role of a Lifetime and The Day The World Ended. He is a member of Actors Equity. He is an associate artist of the Globe Theatre in San Diego. He is also a founding member of The Anteaus Company in Los Angeles with his wife of 32 years, actress Dawn Didawick.
Eugene Lee
Set Design
Mr. Lee holds BFA degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon, an MFA from Yale and three honorary doctorates. He has been the production designer at "Saturday Night Live" since 1974. He has received the Tony Award, the American Theatre Wing's Design Award, Outer Critics' Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Elliott Norton Prize for Sustained Achievement, and the Pell Award. He is currently represented on Broadway by the musical Wicked, and was recently inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in New York. Previous Long Wharf credits include The Price, Hughie, Coming Home, and last season's Have You Seen Us ? Other recent work includes Compulsion at Berkeley Rep, Wally Shawn's Grasses of a Thousand Colors at the Royal Court, and Will Ferrell's You're Welcome, America, a Final Night with George W. Bush, on Broadway. Films include Coppola's Hammett, Huston's Mr. North, and Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street. He lives with his wife Brooke and their dogs in Providence, where they raised their two sons.
Susan Hilferty
Costume Design
Hilferty has designed over 300 productions from Broadway to the Bay area- and internationally including Japan, London, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Recent designs include Wicked (2004 Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination) August Wilson’s Radio Golf and Jitney, Lestat (Tony nomination) Assassins, Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations; Hewes Award), Manon at LA opera and Berlin Staatsoper, Richard Nelson’s Conversations in Tusculum, Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland. She works with such well-known directors as Joe Mantello, James Lapine, Michael Mayer, Walter Bobbie, Robert Falls, Tony Kushner, Robert Woodruff, JoAnne Akalaitis, the late Garland Wright, James MacDonald, Bart Sher, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Christopher Ashley, Emily Mann, David Jones, Marion McClinton, Rebecca Taichman, Laurie Anderson, Doug Wright, Carole Rothman, Garry Hynes, Richard Nelson and Athol Fugard (the South African writer with whom she works as set and costume designer and often as co-director since 1980). Hilferty also designs for opera, film, and dance, and chairs the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Hilferty's many awards include a 2000 OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Design.
Christopher Akerlind
Lighting Design
Mr. Akerlind returns to Long Wharf Theatre where he designed Uncle Vanya, A Touch Of The Poet, Faith Healer, and Working. Broadway credits include Superior Donuts, Top Girls, 110 In The Shade (Tony nom.), Talk Radio, Shining City, Well, Awake And Sing! (Tony nom.), Rabbit Hole, A Touch Of The Poet, In My Life, The Light In The Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards), Reckless, The Tale Of The Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars (Tony nom.), Philadelphia, Here I Come!,and The Piano Lesson among others. Recent projects include Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando for Classic Stage Company, Martha Clarke’s revival of Garden of Earthly Delights at the Minetta Lane, and Virginia, Hubicka, and The Golden Ticket all for the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland. He has received an Obie for Sustained Excellence, the Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration, and numerous nominations for Tony, Drama Desk, Lortel, and Outer Critics awards.
JOHN GROMADA
Original Music & Sound Design
LWT: The Old Man and the Sea, The Blue Album, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, How Do You Like Your Meat, others, Broadway: Music and sound design for Next Fall, Proof, Sight Unseen, Dividing the Estate, Prelude to a Kiss, A Bronx Tale, Well. Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, Sixteen Wounded, The Retreat from Moscow, Enchanted April, Summer and Smoke, Twilight LA, A Few Good Men, more. Gromada has composed many scores for Hartford Stage productions, including Horton Foote's epic Orphans' Home Cycle, and Michael Wilson's A Christmas Carol Other NY: The Screwtape Letters, Shipwrecked, Clybourne Park, The Grand Manner, Streamers, Buffalo Gal, Some Americans Abroad, Pig Farm, Bach at Leipzig, Oedipus at Palm Springs, Small Tragedy, many others. Public Theater: The Singing Forest, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Skriker, Machinal, more. Regional: over 200 productions. Television: The Interrogators (Biography) Awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel. Henry Hewes, Obie, Eddy, Drama-logue, NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, ASCAP awards. Visit www.johngromada.com.
