University of Denver Department of Theatre production and design of Machinal.
KU Virtual Reality production of Machinal.
| directed by... | Risa Brainin |
| set design by... | Russell Metheny |
| costume design by... | Devon Painter |
| lighting design by... | Victor En Yu Tan |
| music and soundscape design by... | Michelle DiBucci |
| sound design by... | Tom Mardikes |
| production stage manager... | D. Christian Bolender* |
| assistant stage manager... | Karli Henderson* |
Walter Coppage (First Reporter, Ensemble) continues his work with
Missouri Repertory Theatre having performed in The Proposal, The Flying
Doctor, The Comedy of Errors, The Misanthrope, Antigone and Romeo
and Juliet, as well as The Gospel at Colonus in co-production with St.
Louis Black Repertory Theatre. Mr. Coppage has performed in As You
Like It, Love's Labour's Lost and Measure for Measure at Heart of
America Shakespeare Festival, and in Valley Song, My Children! My
Africa!, Green Eggs and Ham, and Lyle, Lyle the Crocodile at the
Coterie Theatre. At the Unicorn Theatre, Mr. Coppage has acted in How I
Learned to Drive, Quills, Flyin' West, All in the Timing, Betrayal of the
Black Jesus, Thanatos and Five in the Killing Zone. His television and
film credits include Truman for HBO, Gone in the Night and James Elroy's
Stay Clean . Top
Jeffrey Cribbs (Man at Table, Ensemble) is a graduate student in acting at UMKC, where he has performed in Department of Theatre productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Sea and The Winter's Tale. He also has performed in The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The War of the Roses at Utah Shakespearean Festival and in The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All My Sons, Johnny Pye and The Foolkiller, Getting Out and The Fantasticks at Wheaton Arena Theatre. Top
R. Ward Duffy (Dick Roe, Priest, Ensemble) is performing in his first production at Missouri Repertory Theatre. He has performed in Trophies and Bad Evidence off-Broadway, as well as productions with BACA/Downtown and the Brooklyn Project. Mr. Duffy's regional work includes Snakebit at TheatreFest, Long Day's Journey into Night at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, State of the Union at Indiana Repertory Theatre, As Bees in Honey Drown, Voir Dire, and Show and Tell at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Prelude to a Kiss at Pirate Playhouse. His television and film experience includes Untold Stories of the Navy Seals, Ghost Stories, Liability Crisis, As the World Turns, All My Children, Guiding Light, and Another World. Mr. Duffy received his MFA from the Florida State University Asolo Conservatory. Top
Kate Goehring (Young Woman/Helen) makes her Missouri Repertory Theatre debut in Machinal. Ms. Goehring has appeared in five productions overseen by Peter Altman at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston: Mrs. Warren's Profession, Ah, Wilderness!, The Glass Menagerie, My Mother Said I Never Should, and Aristocrats . She played Harper in Michael Mayer's national tour production of Angels in America, for which she received Los Angeles Pride and Miami Carbonell awards. Her regional credits also include How I Learned to Drive at Arizona Theatre Company, The Cherry Orchard at McCarter Theatre, Private Eyes and the world premiere of Slavs! at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dancing at Lughnasa at the Goodman Theatre and Arena Stage, An Ideal Husband at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Experiment With an Air Pump at Dallas Theatre Center, The Rover at the Goodman Theatre, and Collected Stories at A Contemporary Theatre. Ms. Goehring has appeared extensively in Chicago in such productions as Othello, Candida and Measure for Measure at Court Theatre, The Great Gatsby at Wisdom Bridge, and Laughing Wild, for which she received After Dark and Joseph Jefferson Awards. Her television credits include E.R., The Untouchables, The House that Jane Built, Early Edition, March in the Windy City for the BBC, and an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in NBC's Moment of Rage. Top
Antony Hagopian (Filing Clerk, Ensemble) returns to Missouri Rep having performed as Charles Lomax this season in Major Barbara. He also has recently been seen in Richard II at HERE/11th Hour Theatre and in The Garden of Hannah List at Hypothetical Theatre Company in New York. His other regional credits include Noises Off and Pygmalion at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Twelfth Night at Lantern Theatre, The Lower Depths at Venture Theatre, and The Merry Wives of Windsor and Guys and Dolls at Texas Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Hagopian has appeared in the independent feature films Breath and Clockin' Green , and his television appearances include All My Children and As the World Turns. He received his MFA from Temple University. Top
James Knight (Man at End, Ensemble) is a graduate student in acting at UMKC, where he has performed in Department of Theatre productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ecstasy, The Sea, and The Winter's Tale. He also has performed in Richard III at Shaw Theatre, SubUrbia and The Ballad of Cass at York Arena, Big White Fog, The Art of Dining, and Frankenstein at Multi-Form Theatre, and Much Ado About Nothing at Michigan Shakespeare Festival. Top
Joyce Lee (Telephone Girl, Ensemble) is making her Missouri Repertory Theatre debut in Machinal. In New York, she has performed in Mamba's Daughters, Five Hysterical Girls Theorem, and Penthesilea with Target Margin Theatre Company, The Breaking Light at Soho's Ohio Theatre, and Twilight: Los Angeles at Cornell University, where she also taught acting and completed a documentary entitled The Ethnic Groups of Ghana. Ms. Lee has portrayed Mattie Campbell in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and at New Federal Theatre in New York, for which she won the Audelco Award for best supporting actress. She earned her MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Top
Dan Mason (Gay Man, Defense Lawyer, Ensemble) is performing in his first production at Missouri Repertory Theatre. He most recently has performed in Amadeus on Broadway, The Roads to Home in New York, and A Doll House at Century Center for the Performing Arts. His other credits include Hedda Gabler at Two River Theatre Company, Lost in Yonkers at Theatre Virginia, The Skin of Our Teeth, Nora and A Christmas Carol at StageWest, and Cymbeline at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Mr. Mason has won two Los Angeles Drama-Logue Outstanding Performance Awards, for the one-man play Lit 305 and for the title role in Hamlet at the Globe Playhouse. His other Los Angeles productions include Temptation at Mark Taper Forum, The Petrified Forest at Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and A Provincial Episode at Odyssey Theatre, and Hedda Gabler and The Merchant of Venice at Cast Theatre. Mr. Mason's television and film work includes Law and Order, Give My Head Peace for the BBC , Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Last Starfighter, and Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II and Romeo and Juliet for the Bravo network. Top
Sharva Maynard (Mother, Ensemble) is making her Kansas City debut, having recently appeared in Violet at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle. Her other credits include Play It By Heart and Damn Yankees at Village Theatre, The Midwife's Apprentice, The Boxcar Children, The Book of Ruth, Little Rock, The Yellow Boat and The Rememberer at Seattle Children's Theatre, and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre production of Dragonwings for Seattle Children's Theatre. Ms. Maynard also has appeared in Working, Miracle in Memphis and Gifts of the Heart at Oregon Cabaret Theatre, and in Into the Woods at Civic Light Opera of Seattle. Top
Merle Moores
(Stenographer, Ensemble) was last featured at the Rep
in A Christmas Carol. Her other MRT productions include Major
Barbara, The Seagull, Later Life, Oedipus the King, Hamlet, Equus,
The Chalk Garden, The Shadow Box, Light Up the Sky and
Rosencrantz and Guildenetern Are Dead. She has performed at the
Unicorn Theatre in Angels in America Parts I and II, An American
Daughter, The Sisters Rosensweig, A Perfect Ganesh and Quills, at the
New Theatre Restaurant in Steel Magnolias and My Three Angels, and at
American Heartland Theatre in The Lion in Winter, Blithe Spirit, The
Little Foxes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, How the Other Half Loves, Whose
Life is it Anyway? and The Unexpected Guest. Ms. Moores has
appeared in Richard III and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Heart of
America Shakespeare Festival and also performed in regional theatre
productions of Playboy of the Western World, Private Lives and Luv.
She received her BA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is a
graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Her
television and film experience includes I Love You to Death: The Laura
Black Story and Ride With the Devil. Top
Saren Nofs-Snyder (Girl at End, Ensemble) is an MFA student at UMKC, where she has performed in Department of Theatre productions of Ecstasy, Mad Forest, The Sea, and The Winter's Tale . Her other productions include Vinegar Tom at Theatra Miniatura in Poland, The Crucible and Born Yesterday at Pioneer Memorial Theatre, Oedipus at Oregon Classical Greek Theatre, Hipolytus and Orestes at Utah Greek Theatre Festival, Fool For Love at Northwest Theatre Company, and A Little Night Music and Twelfth Night at the Babcock Theatre. Ms. Nofs-Snyder earned her BFA in Theatre from the University of Utah. Top
Larry Paulsen (Adding Clerk, Doctor, Prosecuting Lawyer, Ensemble) is making his Missouri Repertory Theatre debut, having appeared in six Peter Altman productions at the Huntington Theatre Company, including The Mikado, The Shaughraun, the world premiere of The Last Hurrah, Gross Indecency, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Mary Stuart. In New York, Mr. Paulsen has acted in The Kentucky Cycle on Broadway and in Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Festival. His other regional credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle and the world premiere of Inspecting Carol at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Changes of Heart at Mark Taper Forum, Death of a Salesman at South Coast Repertory, The Tempest at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and the U.S. premiere of Sunsets and Glories and the world premiere of For Our Fathers at A Contemporary Theatre. He is a veteran of seven seasons in the company of Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Top
Lauren Paige Stanford (Woman at Table, Ensemble) is making her debut at Missouri Rep, having performed in A Little Night Music and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid at Lost Nation Theatre, Oklahoma! and The Secret Garden at Papermill Theatre in New Hampshire, and The Kurt Weill Cabaret and Solo at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her other credits include The Woolgatherer and The Importance of Being Earnest at the University of Kansas, The Fantasticks at Hashinger Theatre, and Prelude to a Kiss at Kansas Summer Theatre. Ms. Stanford's film and television credits include Monday After the Miracle and The Putz. Top
Theodore Swetz (George H. Jones, Judge, Ensemble) continues his work at Missouri Rep, having been seen most recently in Inherit the Wind. His other Rep productions include Laughter on the 23rd Floor, The Imaginary Invalid, Whisper in the Mind, King Lear and Rough Crossing. His off-Broadway credits include Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Lincoln Center, Pericles at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Till Eulenspiegel at the Shade Company. Mr. Swetz also has appeared in Hamlet at Utah Shakespearean Festival, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night at American Players Theatre, and A Christmas Carol at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. He served as Assistant Artistic Director for American Players Theatre and his directing credits include The Comedy of Errors, The Flying Doctor, The Proposal and Visitor from Forest Hills for Missouri Rep, Side Man, All in the Timing and Mojo at the Unicorn Theatre, Room Service and Misalliance for the Commonweal Theatre Company, Hamlet and The Seagull for American Players Theatre, and An Absolute Turkey, As You Like It and An Enemy of the People for the UMKC Department of Theatre. Top
Tom Woodward (Harry, Ensemble) returns to the Rep, having performed in Gross Indecency here last season. He also has performed in Communicating Doors at American Heartland Theatre, My Soul to Keep at Footsteps Theatre Company in Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors at Summer Point Theatre, and Whose Life Is It, Anyway? at Manhattan Civic Center. In Los Angeles, Mr. Woodward has performed in Unexpected Tenderness at the Lee Strasberg Institute, The Rape of Djuna Barnes with Ivy Theatre Company, Jack and Jill at International City Theatre, and All My Sons with the Grace Players. His television and film credits include Sunset Beach, General Hospital, Home Improvement, Reasonable Doubt, Cora Unashamed, Second Chance Casino, An Occurrence on Harmony Lane, Witchcraft VIII: Salem's Ghost, and the soon to be released How Little We Know. Top
