TheaterSounds: Don Juan in Hell

CAST & CREW

TOM BLOOM (The Statue) Broadway: RACING DEMON, LTC; THE REHEARSAL, Roundabout. Off Broadway: Lincoln Center; Playwrights’ Horizon; Manhattan Theatre Club; Circle-In-The-Square; NY Stage and Film; Pearl; Circle Rep; Naked Angels; Mobius Group; Century Center; Zipper Factory. Regional: Williamstown; Yale Rep; Hartford; McCarter; Trinity; Dallas; Buffalo Arena; Capital Rep; Dorset; Gloucester. Film: THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR; PALACE THIEF; GOOSECREEK STORY. Television: THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD; WONDERLAND; ED; LAW & ORDER; SVU; CRIMINAL INTENT; ALL MY CHILDREN

BEVERLY BRUMM (Director) is a teacher, director, and sometime playwright in the theatre. After receiving an MFA from Yale Drama School and a Ph.D. from NYU, she began a career as a college professor. She is currently a professor in the Theatre Department at SUNY-New Paltz, where her most recent production was THE GRAPES OF WRATH. As a director of over eighty productions, Beverly has worked in various venues, including educational theatre, community theatre, and regional theatre in Chicago, Santa Fe, Northampton, and Off-Broadway theatre in New York, as well as in and around the Hudson Valley. She also served for eight years as staging director of the annual “Village Voice” Obie awards.

SIR IAN HOLM (The Devil) has earned respect and praise from theatre, television and film critics alike. He won a BAFTA Award, Cannes Film Festival Award and an Oscar nomination for his performance in CHARIOTS OF FIRE. His films include Woody Allen’s ANOTHER WOMAN, Zefferrelli’s HAMLET, Kenneth Brannagh’s FRANKENSTEIN and HENRY V, David Cronenberg’s NAKED LUNCH and eXistenZ, and Nick Hytner’s THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE. Holm has also appeared in GREYSTOKE, Steven Soderburgh’s KAFKA, Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS and BRAZIL, ALIEN, DANCE WITH A STRANGER, and DREAMCHILD. His more recent films include: Stanley Tucci’s BIG NIGHT and JOE GOULD’S SECRET, Sidney Lumet’s NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN, Luc Besson’s THE FIFTH ELEMENT, A LIFE LESS ORDINARY, THE SWEET HEREAFTER, and, most recently FROM HELL, THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES and LORD OF THE RINGS. Appearing in numerous productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Holm has earned the Evening Standard Award (Best Actor) for HENRY V and THE HOMECOMING, the latter for which he also won a Tony Award (Best Supporting Actor) for the Broadway production. He won rave reviews and an Evening Standard Award for Harold Pinter’s MOONLIGHT. His performance as KING LEAR at the National Theatre won him an Evening Standard Award, an Olivier Award and the Critics Circle Award. He was nominated for an Emmy Award (Best Actor) for the televised version. He has also appeared in dozens of prestigious films for television. Most recently he was seen in THE LAST OF THE BLONDE BOMBSHELLS a co-production of the BBC and HBO. In 1998 he was awarded a Knighthood.

KATE INGRAM (Ana) returns to the Hudson Valley where she taught acting, Shakespeare, and voice and speech for fourteen years. Recent credits: Gertrude in HAMLET and Elizabeth THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE OF ELIZABETH I at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival; Ursula in MUCH ADO @ Lincoln Center’s Clark Theatre. Other credits: Maire in TRANSLATIONS, Thea in HEDDA GABLER, RICHARD III, OTHELLO, THE TEMPEST at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Kate in TAMING OF THE SHREW at Ohio’s Porthouse Theatre. Before moving to Florida, she initiated Shakespeare-under-the-Stars at SUNY New Paltz, and directed HECUBA, THE COUNTRY WIFE, and ARCADIA, among other productions. She is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice and Lessac Voicework, and an Associate Professor at UCF, where she performed the role of Eliza Gant in LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL last spring, and will direct THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR this fall. As an Equity Guest Artist, Ms. Ingram played Mrs Patrick Campbell opposite former RSC award-winning actor Bille Brown as G.B.Shaw in DEAR LIAR for the New Paltz Summer Rep company.

Although ROGER REES (Don Juan) may be best known in the United States for his recurring guest role on CHEERS as Robin Colcord, the rich boyfriend of Kirstie Alley’s character, it was his portrayal of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY that earned him the 1980 Oliver Award for Actor of the Year for the British stage adaptation of Dickens’ novel, the 1982 Tony Award for Best Actor for the American production, and an Emmy nomination for the BBC mini-series adaptation. He was nominated again for the Best Actor Tony in 1995 for his role in INDISCRETIONS. Fans of Mel Brooks will remember Mr. Rees as Mervin, Sheriff of Rottingham in ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS. He also appeared in this summer’s blockbuster THE SCORPION KING.

KEN THOMPSON (Stage Directions) has appeared in the Hudson Valley area in PAW's WENCESLAS SQUARE, ZOO STORY at UPAC's Back Alley Theatre, Shadowland's Social Security and THE MOUSETRAP; and Law & Order: SVU.