Cast and Creative Team
JUDITH IVEY
Shirley Valentine
Ms. Ivey is the recipient of the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for her portrayals in Steaming and Hurlyburly, the Obie Award for her performance in THE MOONSHOT TAPE, and countless others for her stage and film work. Most recently she was honored with the Lucille Lortel Award and a Drama League nomination for her portrayal of Amanda Wingfield in the Long Wharf Theatre’s production of The Glass Menagerie at the Roundabout Theatre. She received the Texas Medal of Arts Award in Theatre and the Barrow Group’s award for sustained excellence. Some film credits include Devil’s Advocate, Washington Square, Mystery, Alaska, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Love Hurts, Compromising Positions, What Alice Found, Flags Of Our Fathers, and the soon-to-be-released The Loop. Judith starred in four television series, the most memorable being “Designing Women.” Some television film credits include The Long, Hot Summer, What The Deaf Man Heard, and Rosered. Ms. Ivey recently guest starred on “Nurse Jackie,” “Past Life,” “Big Love,” and “The Whole Truth.” Judith portrayed Eppie Lederer/Ann Landers in The Lady With All The Answers at the Cherry Lane this past season, and was nominated for the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and the Drama League awards for Best Solo Performance. Judith directed Vanities-the musical, at the Pasadena Playhouse and Second Stage in NYC. She has also directed Secrets Of A Soccermom, The Butcher Of Baraboo, Fugue, Southern Comforts, Bad Dates, More, and Steel Magnolias, and most recently, A Short History Of Women at NYSAF this past summer. Ms. Ivey is married to Tim Braine, and is the proud mother of Maggie and Tom. Judith has been a member of Actors’ Equity for 36 years, and the SSDC for 7 years.
FRANK J. ALBERINO
Scenic Design
Mr. Alberino, Long Wharf Theatre’s assistant properties manager, is pleased to be in his fourteenth season at the theatre. A Connecticut native, Frank received his BFA from Purchase College in New York and works locally as a scenic designer. His Long Wharf design credits include Take The Stage(LWT Gala 2010 & 2009), Sylvia, Lil’s 90th, Bad Dates, Black Nativity,A New War, My Red Hand - My Black Hand, Gary Grinkle’s Battles with Wrinkles and Other Troubles in Mudgeville, Race, and the upcoming production of Agnes Under The Big Top. Frank works closely with Julian Schlusberg and the students at The Foote School in New Haven. Some of his Foote productions include The School For Wives, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Boys Next Door,The Secret Garden, Pippin, Steel Magnolias, Chess, Barnum and Big River. Frank is the recipient of Outstanding Production in CT & Excellence in Design (CT Drama Association) for his productions of On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning and Summer and Smoke.
MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ
Costume Design
New York theatre includes Gordon Edelstein's The Glass Menagerie (Lucille Lortel nomination), Lend Me A Tenor (Henry Hewes Award, Tony and Outer Critics nominations); The Lady With All The Answers with Judith Ivey; Blithe Spirit, Gypsy (Patti Lupone), Grease, The Pajama Game, The Trip to Bountiful, Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie; Kiss Me, Kate; and The Wild Party (Lippa).
His credits in dance include works with the Mark Morris Dance Group, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. His designs for opera will be seen this season at the Metropolitan Opera (Iphigenie en Tauride), the Juilliard School (The Bartered Bride), and the Manhattan School of Music (La Vida Breve). Two Tonys, Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel awards, among others.
RUI RITA
Lighting Design
LONG WHARF: The Mandrake Root. Broadway—Present Laughter; Dividing the Estate; Old Acquaintance; Enchanted April; The Price; A Thousand Clowns. Off Broadway—Roundabout Theatre Company: Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore; Signature Theatre Company: Horton Foote's Orphan’s Home Cycle; Primary Stages: Dividing the Estate, The Day Emily Married; Duke:All’s Well That Ends Well; MTC: Moonlight and Magnolias; TFANA: Engaged; Lincoln Center: Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East, Ancestral Voices; Variety Arts: Endpapers, Dinner with Friends; Public: Antony and Cleopatra; Second Stage: Crimes of the Heart. Regional—Alley; A.C.T.; Centerstage; Ford’s; Goodman; Hartford Stage; Huntington; Kennedy Center; Mark Taper; Westport; Williamstown.
RYAN RUMERY
Sound Design
Broadway Thurgood. Off-Broadway Orlando, The Forest, Uncle Vanya (Claissic Stage Company), A Bright New Boise (Wild Project), Now Circa Then (Ars Nova), Blind (Rattlestick), Neighbors (Public), Let Me Down Easy (Second Stage), Emperor Jones, Banished Children of Eve (Irish Rep/Soho Playhouse), Precious Little (Clubbed Thumb), End Days (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Back Back Back, Based on a Totally True Story (Manhattan Theatre Club), Deathbed (McGinn/Cazale), Beauty on the Vine (Epic Theatre), Rearviewmirror (59E59). Regional: Actors Theatre, Alley Theatre, Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage, Syracuse Stage, Trinity Rep, Geffen Playhouse, and Eugene O' Neill Theatre Center.
