Cast and Creative Team Bios for MACBETH[1969]

CAST

Shirine Babb
Nurse 2
Ms. Babb is thrilled to be making her Long Wharf Theatre debut immediately following the completion of her MFA degree from the Old Globe/USD PTAP. Some of her Old Globe highlights are The Importance of Being Ernest (Gwendolyn), The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Adrian Noble’s production of The Madness of King George III (Lady Pembroke) and King Lear (u/s Goneril performed). Other credits include London: Widows. New York: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), Trickle (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), Single Black Female (The Duke on 42nd Street), Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women’s Project), A Role Once Played (29th Repertory Theatre, 2004 AUDELCO nominee) and American Girls Revue (American Girl Place). Regional: Twelfth Night (Olivia), Measure for Measure (Isabella), She Stoops to Conquer, A Christmas Carol (American Shakespeare Theatre), and title roles in Bessie: Life & Music of Bessie Smith and Antony and Cleopatra (Roxy Regional), Omnium Gatherum (The Theatre Project), Play To Win: The Jackie Robinson Story (TheatreWorks USA), and Almost Heaven: The John Denver Story (Barter Theatre). TV/Film: “All My Children” and Picture Perfect. Commercial: WE tv, Optimum Light Path and Fair Housing Act. Ms. Babb holds an MA from East 15 Acting School, U.K. and a BFA from SUNY Fredonia.

McKinley Belcher III
Soldier 1
Mr. Belcher is excited to be making his debut at Long Wharf Theatre. McKinley is a proud graduate of USC’s Graduate Acting Program (MFA-2010). Theatre Credits: To Kill a Mockingbird (Bay Street Theatre), Medal of Honor Rag (Shadowland Theatre), Merchant of Venice (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co.), Southbridge (Moving Arts/LFTC), Romeo & Juliet (Merrywar Theatre Co.), Macbeth, All’s Well That End’s Well (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co.), Hamlet (Gangbusters Theatre Co.), Victor Woo (Village Theatre/NY Fringe Fest.), The Wiz (True Colors Theatre Co.), Orestes 2.0, Pericles, The Fisher King, Much Ado About Nothing, Our Lady of 121st St., Baal (USC Graduate Acting Program). TV Credits: Timmy “Law & Order: LA” (NBC), “Rizzoli & Isles” (TNT).

Jackie Chung
Nurse 3
Off-Broadway: Microcrisis (Ma-Yi Theater Company), The Children of Vonderly (Ma-Yi). Other theatre credits: After. (Partial Comfort Productions), Japanoir and Trickle (EST Marathon), The Sporting Life (Studio 42),The Bereaved (Partial Comfort), The Germ Project (New Georges), The Director (The Flea), They Call Him Young Lou (Columbia Stages), Mother Courage and Her Children (The Public Theater). Film/TV/Web credits include: Tomorrow Arigato and The Picnic (Acting Award for both films, First Run Film Festival), Going Local, Pretty Precious, Unicorns, Four Dates, The Desperate. Jackie is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Partial Comfort Productions.

George Kulp
Politician
Mr. Kulp is appearing for the first time on the Long Wharf Theatre stage. He appeared locally with the New Haven Theater Company in Glengarry Glen Ross (Shelly Levene), A Civil War Christmas (Abraham Lincoln), and will be appearing in The Seafarer (Mr. Lockhart), opening March 2012. His television credits include “Ryan’s Hope” (Hal Turner). He graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts/NYC and is a co-founder of the Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, NY.

Barret O’Brien
Soldier 2/A Civilian
Off-Broadway: Crane Story (Playwrights Realm). New York: Five Genocides (Clubbed Thumb), Maybe Even Tammy (the Flea), Conspirators (HERE), In My Father’s Eyes (Chashama), Mag Mor (Theater for the New City), The Bacchae (NY Fringe Festival). Regional: Passion Play (Yale Rep), Leading Ladies, The Trip to Bountiful (Montana Rep and Nat. Tours), Vulgar Soul (Southern Rep; Ambie award Best Actor), Rosary O’Neill’s quintet Amazing Greed (Southern Rep and Int. Tours). International: Big Al (Man in the Moon Theater, London), Uncle Victor (Contemporary Theatre, Budapest). Film: Runaway Jury, Malpractice, Netherworld. MFA: Yale School of Drama (Oliver Thorndike Award). Barret was the Artistic Director of American Dog Theatre Company in New Orleans for three seasons and is a founding member of nth, a national collective of artists dedicated to redefining the methods of creating theater. As a playwright his works have been performed in New Orleans, Austin, Missoula, Seattle, New Haven, and New York City. For Erica.

Socorro Santiago
Nurse 1
Long Wharf Theatre: Italian American Reconciliation. Broadway: The Bacchae (Circle in the Square). Off- Broadway: Lessons for an Unaccustomed Bride by Jose Rivera (59E59st Theatre), Estrella Cruz (Ars Nova), The Promise, also by Jose Rivera (Ensemble Studio Theatre), L'illusion, adapted by Tony Kushner (New York Theatre Workshop), Microcrisis (HERE), De Donde, Women Without Men, Poets From The Inside (Public Theatre), Take I by Wendy Wasserstein (Naked Angels), and Dancing With The Dead, a project Ms. Santiago co-wrote and produced (Intar). Regional credits include Like Water For Chocolate (Sundance), the world premiere of 26 Miles (Alliance Theatre), Boleros For The Disenchanted (Huntington Theatre – IRNE actress nomination), Two Sisters And A Piano (Old Globe), Clean House (WHAT), A Midsummer Night's Dream/Three Sisters (Acting Company), A Good Counselor (Premiere Stages), Trojan Women (Shakespeare Theatre), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Arena Stage) and Cure At Troy (Yale Rep). Film Credits: soon to be released Order of Redemption, Happiness, Music of the Heart, Night Falls on Manhattan, Devil’s Advocate, and All Good Things. TV Credits include: “The Good Wife,” “Kings,” “Bored To Death,” “The Cosby Mysteries,” “Third Watch” and “All My Children,” for which she received the ALMA award for her work as Isabella Santos.

CREATIVE TEAM

Eric Ting
Director
Mr. Ting is in his eighth season at Long Wharf Theatre, his fifth as Associate Artistic Director. Recent Long Wharf directing credits include It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Italian American Reconciliation, the world premiere of Agnes Under the Big Top, Sylvia, The Old Man and the Sea (a production he co-adapted from Hemingway’s book), The Bluest Eye (Hartford Stage and Long Wharf) ) and Underneath The Lintel (Connecticut Critics Circle awards for Best Director and Best Production of a Play). Other credits: Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy (American Repertory Theatre), The Little Prince (Round House Theatre) and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment… (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Upcoming: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… (Victory Gardens, Chicago) and dancer/choreographer Nora Chipaumire’s Miriam (BAM 2012). Ting's work has been presented internationally, including France, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bali. Awards and grants include a TCG New Generations Future Leaders fellowship and a Jerome & Roslyn Milstein Meyer Career Development Prize.

Mimi Lien
Set Design
Ms. Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. She was born in New Haven, CT, and lives/works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent work includes Hansel & Gretel (Virginia Opera), Body Awareness (Wilma Theater), and Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla and Playwrights Horizons). Other notable designs include Born Bad (Soho Rep), Neighbors (The Public Theater), Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre), Strange Devices from the Distant West (Berkeley Rep), and The Less We Talk (Hoi Polloi). Mimi is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company and The Civilians, and resident designer at BalletTech.  Her work has been recognized by a Barrymore Award, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award nomination, Bay Area Critics Circle nomination, and she was a recipient of the 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program. Mimi studied Architecture at Yale University, and Stage Design at NYU. Her design for Love Unpunished (Pig Iron) was presented in the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and her sculpture work was featured in the exhibition, Landscapes of Quarantine, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.  

Toni-Leslie James
Costume Design
Ms. James has designed costumes for Broadway productions of Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, One Mo’ Time, King Hedley II, The Wild Party (Fany Award), Marie Christine, Footloose, The Tempest (Drama Desk nomination), Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Angels in America, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Hewes Design Award and LA Drama-Logue Award). Her Off-Broadway credits include Bernarda Alba, Dessa Rose, Elegies, A New Brain, God’s Heart and Hello Again for Lincoln Center Theater; Macbeth, Henry VIII, Dancing on Her Knees, Insurrection, Measure for Measure, East Texas Hot Links, Dog Opera, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Drama Desk and American Theatre Wing nominations) and Spunk for the New York Shakespeare Festival; Face The Music, Of Thee I Sing, Can-Can, House of Flowers, The Boys From Syracuse, Babes in Arms, Bloomer Girl and A Connecticut Yankee for Encores. Regional credits include productions for Arena Stage, Second Stage, Circle Rep, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Mark Taper Forum, The Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Rep, The Houston Grand Opera, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ballet Hispanico. Television work includes three specials for WNET/13 Great Performances series, the soap opera “As the World Turns”, and “Whoopi” on NBC. She has worked on the films The Huey P. Newton Story and A Tale of Two Pizzas. Ms. James is a recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle Award and the Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award for Costume Design Excellence.

Tyler Micoleau
Lighting Design
Past Long Wharf credits: Agnes Under the Big Top, Shipwrecked! (Connecticut Critics Circle award), The Good Person of New Haven, and The Shoulder. Other regional designs for: Huntington, Goodman, Alley, ART, Trinity Rep, Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Theatre, and many others. New York design credits include: Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling (Atlantic); Middletown (Vineyard Theatre), When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater); That Face (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Aliens (Rattlestick), Blasted (Soho Rep); Bug, Orson's Shadow (Barrow Street). He is the recipient of a American Theatre Wing Hewes Award, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Village Voice OBIEs, three Barrymore nominations, and a Jefferson nomination. He has held visiting artist positions at Yale University, Dartmouth College and for six years served as adjunct faculty at Sarah Lawrence College Department of Dance. He received a 2010 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design.

Ryan Rumery
Sound Design
Broadway: Thurgood. Off-Broadway scores: The Submission (MCC); 4000 Miles (LCT3); Urge for Going (Public); Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Orlando, Uncle Vanya (CSC); A Bright New Boise (Wild Project); The Emperor Jones (Irish Rep. Lortel Nom); Precious Little (Clubbed Thumb). Sound design: We Live Here (MTC); Horsedreams (Rattlestick); Neighbors (Public); Gruesome Playground Injuries, Let Me Down Easy (Second Stage). Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville, CENTERSTAGE, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Alley Theatre, KC Rep, La Jolla, Trinity Rep, Geffen Playhouse, and Woolly Mammoth. Film: SyncroNYCity.

David Anzuelo
Fight Director
Theatre credits: Burning; One Arm; Blood From A Stone; Rafta Rafta; Jayson With A Y and Mourning Becomes Electra (New Group). After (Partial Comfort). Drawn & Quartered; Tight Embrace (INTAR). Superior Donuts; Dial M For Murder (Dorset Theater). Squealer (Lesser America). The Libertine (Playhouse Creatures). Underneathmybed; Post No Bills; Killers & Other Family; War (Rattlestick Theater). Hamlet (Gallery Players). Othello (Shakespeare On The Sound). When Father Comes Home From the War (Public Theater). Guinea Pig Solo; Paradox of the Urban Cliche; Dutch Heart of Man (Labyrinth). Monstrosity (13P). Othello; Passion Play (Epic Theater Ensemble). Film: “Last Night At Angelo’s”; “Helen At Risk”; “The Ribbon”; “Emoticon” and “The Ossining Project”. David is a member of Labyrinth Theater Company and has a 2nd degree black belt in Olympic style Taekwondo. 

Lisa Ann Chernoff
Production Stage Manager
Ms. Chernoff returns to Long Wharf Theatre, where she previously worked on A Doll's House and the world premieres of Lil’s 90th, Craig Lucas’ Prayer for My Enemy (also at Playwrights Horizons) and Singing Forest.  Broadway: Catch Me If You Can, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Ragtime, Shrek the Musical.  Off-Broadway: King Lear (Public Theater).  National Tour: Spamalot.  Regional: ACT, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Hangar Theatre, and eight seasons with the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.

Amy Patricia Stern
Assistant Stage Manager
Amy Stern’s production stage manager credits include Mary Stuart (Pearl Theatre Company); Waiting For Godot, Therese Raquin and Another Part of the House (Classic Stage Company); and The Dying Gaul (Vineyard Theatre). Her Assistant Stage Manager credits include It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Old Masters, Italian American Reconciliation, Ella, A Doll’s House, Sylvia, Have You Seen Us?, The Fantasticks, The Glass Menagerie, The Old Man and the Sea, A Civil War Christmas, Carousel, The Bluest Eye, Let Me Down Easy, The Price, Uncle Vanya, Man of La Mancha, Rocket to the Moon, and Travesties (Long Wharf Theatre); A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Intimate Apparel and The Foreigner (Roundabout Theatre Company); Sorrows and Rejoicings, Crimes of the Heart and Tiny Alice (Second Stage); The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Manhattan Theatre Club); Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Amphitryon and Endgame (Classic Stage Company); The Waiting Room (Vineyard Theatre); and Golden Boy (Blue Light Theatre Company).

Calleri Casting
James Calleri, Paul Davis, Erica Jensen
Theatre: 33 Variations with Jane Fonda on Broadway, Fuerza Bruta (from the creators of De La Guarda). Past Broadway credits include: A Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, James Joyce’s The Dead. Other:  Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons), numerous seasons for Long Wharf including the recent NY transfer of The Glass Menagerie at The Roundabout and Taper. Other credits: CSC including the critically acclaimed Venus in Fur. Also, The Flea, Rattlestick, Soho Rep, The Culture Project, Naked Angels, New Georges, stageFARM, Epic Theater Ensemble, and many seasons of SPF (Summer Play Festival) and NY Stage & Film Co. Long running productions include Fully Committed, Dinah Was, The Vagina Monologues National Tour. TV: Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Z Rock on IFC, the critically acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun on ABC, also Ed, Hope & Faith, Monk.  Film: Merchant Ivory’s recentThe City of Your Final Destination, also Heights, The White Countess, Lisa Picard is Famous, The Jimmy Show, Ready? OK!, and Trouble Every Day. Peter & Vandy, and Armless (Sundance ‘10) Awarded six Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting.  Member CSA.