Henry V

A.R.T. Senior Actor, founding member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the A.R.T. Yale: more than 40 productions (including The Seagull). A.R.T.: 100 productions including The Seagull (three turns as Sorin), Julius Caesar, Three Sisters, The Onion Cellar, Major Barbara (Undershaft), Heartbreak House (Shotover), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Quince four times, Snug once), Henry IV (Falstaff), Twelfth Night (Toby Belch), The Caretaker (Davies), The Homecoming (Max), Loot (Truscott), Man and Superman (Mendoza/Devil), Waiting for Godot (Vladimir), The Threepenny Opera (Peacham/Petey), Ivanov (Lebedev), Three Sisters (Chebutkin), Buried Child (Dodge), The Cherry Orchard (Gaev) and The King Stag (Pantelone). Teaches at Harvard College, Harvard’s Summer and Extension Schools and at the A.R.T/MXAT Institute. Trained at the Old Vic Theatre School and subsequently taught there. Acted at the Old Vic, Young Vic, The Royal Court, in the West End, in films and television and has been hosting his own show “The Caravan” for the BBC for five years. Came to the U.S. with the satirical revue The Establishment and acted on and off Broadway, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and at the Lincoln Center Festival. Lectured on Shakespeare in India and the Netherlands Theatre School. Received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Boston Actor and the Jason Robards Award for Dedication to the Theatre.

Mike in Olly's Prison. A.R.T.: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Prince Hal), Henry V (King Henry), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Picasso), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Jamie—Elliot Norton Award, Best Actor), Richard II (Bollingbrooke), The Provok'd Wife (Sir John Brute). Broadway: St. Joan, The Seagull, Jackie: An American Life. Off-Broadway: Homebody/Kabul (Obie Award), Lydie Breeze, The Demons, New York Theatre Workshop; Macbeth, Theatre for a New Audience; Measure for Measure, One Flea Spare, Joseph Papp Public Theater. Resident: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mark Taper Forum, the Guthrie Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage. Television/Film: The Dying Gaul, Rounders, In and Out, Reversal of Fortune, Law and Order, Joan of Arcadia, The Great Gatsby.

Josh Karch is a 1996 graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. He has appeared on A.R.T. stages as Gloucester in Henry V, directed by Ron Daniels, and as Alex in The Island of Anyplace. In A.R.T. Institute productions, some of his roles included Giovani in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, directed by Leland Patton; Eric Bellows in Tina Landau's production of The Great Attractor; Clarence in Richard III, directed by Alvin Epstein; and as Benoit in Michel Vinaver's Overboard, directed by François Rochaix. Josh currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the Classical Theater Lab, having appeared as Roderigo in Othello, Arlequin in Successful Strategies, and Troilus in Troilus and Cressida.

Vlad Tepes/the Functionary in The Communist Dracula Pageant. A.R.T.: Fifty-four productions, including Alfed in Cardenio, Conspirator in Julius Caesar, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Eddie Darko in Donnie Darko, A Marvelous Party!, Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Garcin in No Exit, Kulygin in Three Sisters, Uncle Jacob, Innkeeperess, Head Waiter in Amerika, Jupiter in Dido, Queen of Carthage, Valère in The Miser, Goldberg in The Birthday Party, Egeus and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream, several roles in Highway Ulysses, the President of the Senate in Lysistrata, Marat in Marat/Sade, Brabantio and Lodovico in Othello, Dantly in Animals and Plants, the Father in Nocturne, Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington in The Doctor's Dilemma, Gregory Smirnov and Gonov in Three Farces and a Funeral, Heiner Müller in Full Circle, Borkin in Ivanov, the State Trooper, Policeman, Grave Digger, and Grandfather in We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, Dr. McSharry in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Karl Hudlocke in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid, Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew, Tiresias in The Bacchae, the title role and other parts in Shlemiel the First, the Doctor in Woyzeck, Hjalmar in The Wild Duck, Brighella in The King Stag, Will in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Mother/Father in Alice in Bed, King Wenceslas/McGreedy in Ubu Rock, Cléante in Tartuffe, Sebastian in The Tempest, Murray in Demons, Exeter in Henry V, Aegisthus and Chorus in The Oresteia, Sagot in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Earl of Westmoreland in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Lord Chief Justice in Part 2. Other credits include The Rivals and Melinda Lopez's Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre), Twelfth Night (Feste, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Brian Friel's Faith Healer (Gloucester Stage Company), Shear Madness (all male roles), the Boston Pops premiere of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (narrator). Film: Next Stop Wonderland. Television: the Cable Ace Award–winning animated series Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (voice of Stanley).

A.R.T.: 119 productions, including R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Myster) OF THE UNIVERSE (R. Buckminster Fuller), Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider), Endgame (Clov), The Seagull (Dorn), Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Birthday Party (Stanley), Highway Ulysses (Ulysses), Uncle Vanya (Vanya), Marat/Sade (Marquis de Sade), Richard II (Richard). Broadway: Jackie: An American Life (23 roles). Off-Broadway: Johan Padan (Johan), Big Time (Ted).  Tours with the Company across the U.S., with residencies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and throughout Europe, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, Japan and Moscow, and has recently been performing Julius Caesar in France. Other: I Am My Own Wife, Boston TheatreWorks; Approaching Moomtaj, New Repertory Theatre; Twelfth Night and The Tempest, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.; London’s Battersea Arts Center; five productions at Houston’s Alley Theatre, including Our Town (Dr. Gibbs, directed by José Quintero); and many theatres throughout the U.S. Awards: 1994 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence, 2000 and 2004 IRNE Awards for Best Actor, 1997 Los Angeles DramaLogue Award (for title role of Shlemiel the First). Television: Julie Taymor’s film Fool’s Fire (PBS American Playhouse), "Unsolved Mysteries," "Del and Alex" (Alex, A&E Network). Film: Mystic River (directed by Clint Eastwood), The Pink Panther II. He is on the faculty of the A.R.T. Institute, teaches acting at Harvard University and Emerson College, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

John Douglas Thompson (title role in Othello) previously appeared at the A.R.T. as the Duke of York in Richard II, as the Cook in Mother Courage, as Creon in Antigone, as Polixines in The Winter's Tale, and in The Ohio State Murders, The Idiots Karamazov, Full Circle, and Henry V. He previously appeared as Othello in a production at the Trinity Repertory Company, where he was also seen in A Preface To An Alien Garden, A Christmas Carol, Measure for Measure, The Good Times Are Killing Me, and The Winter's Tale. His off-Broadway credits include The Changeling at the Salon, Overtime (understudy) at Manhattan Theatre Club, and Oroonoko at The Mint Theatre. Resident credits include Spunk at Portland Stage; Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well that Ends Well, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, and Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare and Company; A Thousand Clowns and To Kill a Mockingbird at Vineyard Playhouse; and Romeo and Juliet at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. He has also worked at the Huntington Theatre, Hartford Stage, People's Light and Theatre Company, and Philadelphia Theatre Company, and he performed the role of the Narrator in "With Voices Raised" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His films and television credits include Malcolm X, The Secret, American Shakespeare (BBC), and Brush Up Your Shakespeare, with Claire Bloom and the Boston Pops Orchestra (WGBH). He is a 1994 graduate of Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island.

Randall Jaynes, a graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, returns to the A.R.T. to play Boo in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. He was previously seen on the A.R.T. stage in Henry V, Hot 'n' Throbbing, The Cherry Orchard, Winter Circus, and Demons. Mr. Jaynes has performed in and directed Blue Man Group: Tubes at the Astor Place Theatre in New York City, was a writer of and performer in The Pinocchio Experiment at the Moscow Solo Arts Festival and at the Ontological, and wrote and performed in The Bird Catchers at the Henson Festival, P.S. 122. He has performed a great variety of other roles, including the Soldier in A Soldier's Tale, the title role in Amphitryon, Vladimir in Waiting for Godot, Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Horner in The Country Wife, Frank in Mrs. Warren's Profession, and Ronnie in The House of Blue Leaves, among others.

Jim Farmer, the composer of music for Alice in Bed, lives in New York City. He has scored music for director Tom Dicillo's feature films Johnny Suede, Living in Oblivion, and the forthcoming Box of Moonlight. He has composed music and sound design for various television and radio commercials for Sony and MTV, among others, and for Bob McGrath's Ridge Theater productions of Jungle Movie and Fragments of Ridge. Mr. Farmer has written, directed, and composed music for the plays Frontier Halloween, Pistols and Stamens, The Savage Routine of Living, We Never Learn, and When Existential Things Happen to Good People.

Benjamin Evett has appeared at the American Repertory Theater in La Dispute, as Ilya Ilych Telegin in Uncle Vanya, Kinesias in Lysistrata, Jacques Roux in Marat/Sade, Peter in Absolution, Cassio in Othello, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk/Sir Stephen Scroope in Richard II, Burris in Animals and Plants, the General in Mother Courage, the Messenger in Antigone, Time in The Winter's Tale, Lvov in Ivanov, the Policeman in Charlie in the House of Rue, Babbybobby in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Hyppolytus in Phaedra, Clèante in The Imaginary Invalid, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, Pentheus in The Bacchae, Zalman Tippish/Chaim Rascal/Dopey Petzel in Shlemiel the First, the Dreamer in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Leandro in The King Stag, the Son in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Punch 2/Judy Bell/Taxi Judy in Punch and Judy Get Divorced, Bouggerslas in Ubu Rock, Vince in Buried Child, Ariel in The Tempest, Charles Filch/Walt Dreary/Beggar Joe in The Threepenny Opera, Bardolph/Montjoy in Henry V, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Herald/Chorus/Pylades/Hermes in The Oresteia, Epihodov in The Cherry Orchard, Nicholas Beckett in What the Butler Saw, Pistol in Henry IV, Part 2, and as Sir Richard Vernon in Part 1, in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and in Platonov. He has also performed at the Missouri Repertory Theatre, where he played the title roles in Billy Bishop Goes to War and Amadeus, and at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, where he played Swiss Cheese in Mother Courage. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Mr. Evett currently serves as artistic director of the Actors' Shakespeare Company in Boston.

Ben Halley, Jr., was most recently seen at the American Repertory Theater as Durandarte in the summer 1995 Cambridge performances of The King Stag, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera, Pistol in Henry V, and Agamemnon and Apollo in The Oresteia. He is a classical actor whose artistry has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood, to the prominent resident theaters of America, to London, and to the major festival houses of Europe. Mr. Halley made his professional directorial debut with the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, California.

A.R.T.: The Lily’s Revenge, Cabaret, Paradise Lost, Endgame, The Seagull, Oliver Twist, Island of Slaves, The Onion Cellar, The Communist Dracula Pageant, Cardenio, Julius Caesar, Amerika, The Miser, Henry IV and V, The Birthday Party, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Dispute, Uncle Vanya, Enrico IV, The Winter’s Tale, The Wild Duck, Buried Child, Tartuffe, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Waiting for Godot. Regional: Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, Lyric Stage Company; Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; The Poets’ Theater; Israeli Stage; Central Square Theater; New Repertory Theater; Hartford Stage.

Alvin Epstein is a former artistic director of the Guthrie Theater and associate director of Robert Brustein's Yale Repertory Theatre. He has directed over twenty productions (five at the American Repertory Theater, including the inaugural A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1980) and performed in over one hundred (over fifty at the A.R.T.). His A.R.T. roles include Old Man in Lysistrata, the Herald in Marat/Sade, Dionisio Genoni in Enrico IV, John of Gaunt/First Gardener in Richard II, Erich Honecker in Full Circle, McLeavy in Loot, Shabelsky in Ivanov, and Lee Strasberg in Nobody Dies on Friday; Mr. Epstein has also appeared in The Doctor's Dilemma, Antigone, Three Farces and a Funeral, The Winter's Tale, Charlie in the House of Rue, The Merchant of Venice, In the Jungle of Cities, The Bacchae, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable), Slaughter City, Tartuffe, The Tempest, Beckett Trio, The Threepenny Opera, and Waiting for Godot, among many others. His twenty Broadway and off-Broadway productions include his debut with Marcel Marceau, the Fool in Orson Welles's King Lear, Lucky in the American premiere of Waiting for Godot, Clov in the American premiere of Endgame, Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (co-starring with Sting), and the world premiere of Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin's When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable). For twenty years he and Martha Schlamme performed A Kurt Weill Cabaret on tour in the U.S. and South America and a year's run on Broadway. He has performed at many resident theaters throughout the U.S., in films and on television. Awards include Most Promising Actor ('56 Variety Poll), Brandeis Creative Arts Award ('66), Obie for Dynamite Tonight! ('68), Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence ('96), and the IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actor as Shabelsky in Ivanov ('99). Mr. Epstein teaches acting at the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Jeremiah Kissel (Ivan Lomov/Anton Chekov in Three Farces and a Funeral) has previously appeared at the American Repertory Theater as the Dauphin in Henry V and as Dr. Greyson in The Accident. He recently played Stephano in The Tempest and previously was seen as Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, as Jaques in As You Like It, and as Cassius in Julius Ceasar at the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. He has been a member of the West Side Repertory Theater in NYC, the State Shakespearean Theater of Maine at Monmouth, and the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. For twenty years he has appeared on stages throughout the Boston area, winning the 1999 IRNE best supporting actor award and the first annual Outstanding Boston Actor Award at the Elliot Norton Awards ceremony in 1990.

Michael Edo Keane, who plays Dionysos in The Bacchae, was last seen at the American Repertory Theater in Henry V. He has performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music and toured across the United States, Japan, and Singapore with Ping Chong and Co. in Deshima and Chinoiserie. He has also performed at numerous resident theaters, including the Huntington Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Music Theatre of Oregon, American Music Theatre Festival, the Eureka, the Magic Theatre, Theatreworks, and San Jose Repertory Theatre. Mr. Keane has performed as a collective member with Tribal Warning and Elbows Akimbo, and with Veronique Guillaud in Suspended Life at the Theatre des Amandiers in Paris. He is artistic director of Kai Hsin Productions, a company that produces socially progressive film and theater. He directed the short film Prizm and is currently working on Ridin' on Pride, a sixty-minute documentary film following the lives of several young Asian American men incarcerated in the California Youth Authority. He premiered his play Wandering Ghost, The Visions of Lafcadio Hearn at Noh Space in San Francisco last year. This past summer, Mr. Keane's latest play, The Good Guys, An American Tragedy, received a workshop production at New World Theatre in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Georgine Hall's roles at the American Repertory Theater have included Halie in Buried Child, Madame Pernelle in Tartuffe, and Alice in Henry V. She previously appeared in Sam Shepard's plays True West and A Lie of the Mind at the Public Theater in New York. Other New York credits include Present Laughter with George C. Scott, 'Night Mother, The Birthday Party, Molière's The Learned Ladies, and The Rimers of Eldrich, among others. She has appeared in the films Green Card, Being There, and The Rosary Murders, and most recently on television in Law and Order.