The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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.

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.

Mr. Costin is the first alumnus of the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University to join the board. He is the Executive Director of Counseling Service of the Eastern District of New York (CSEDNY), a New York State-licensed mental health and substance abuse treatment agency with multiple sites in New York City and Long Island. With Diane Paulus, Mr. Costin initiated A.R.T. In NYC, a group of arts-lovers and friends supporting works originally produced or developed at the A.R.T. in Cambridge which have gone on to play in New York including Sleep No More, The Glass Menagerie, and the Tony-award winning productions of Once, Pippin, and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. He has also been active with other non-profits- as Executive Director of ComALERT and on boards including New York City Anti-Violence Project, CorbinDances, and The Workplace Center at Columbia University School of Social Work. Mr. Costin is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a MSW degree from Columbia University. 

A.R.T.: Cherry was a founding member of the A.R.T. and has appeared multiple times on its stage, including: King Lear, Twelfth Night (with Diane Lane), Three Sisters, As You Like It, The Serpent Woman, Life is a Dream, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Major Barbara, Love’s Labors Lost, Lysistrata. Broadway and Off-Broadway: Doubt (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), The Heiress (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Pride’s Crossing (Drama Desk Award), Lincoln Center Theater; Angels in America; Imaginary Friends; Moon for the Misbegotten (Tony Award nomination); The Night of the Iguana; Our Country’s Good (Tony Award nomination); Faith Healer; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; The Baltimore Waltz (OBIE Award). Television: “24” (Emmy Award for role as President Allison Taylor), “What Makes a Family,” and most recently as Dr. Judith Evans in “Awake.” Film: Ocean’s Twelve, Cradle Will Rock, The Horse Whisperer, The Perfect Storm, Erin Brockovich, Signs, The Village, Mother and Child, Swimmers, Terrence Malick’s upcoming film Knight of Cups.

Sean Runette (Durandarte in the A.R.T. tour of King Stag) is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, and previously appeared with the American Repertory Theater in The King Stag at the Mitsui Festival in Tokyo, and in the A.R.T. New Stages production of Fun and Nobody. His New York credits include Waterbird at PS 122, The Merchant of Venice and Dead House at the End of the Street at NADA, Royal Blood and The Changeling at HERE, Yikes! at the Cucaracha Theatre and CSV Theater, Easter at Naked Angels, Proof through the Night at the Public Theater, and Sin at the Ohio Theater. Resident credits include Death of a Salesman at the Alley Theatre and the Papermill Playhouse, and Pick Up Axe at San Jose Repertory Theatre. Mr. Runette appeared in the films Copland, Two If By Sea, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Angel in New York, and the upcoming film of Easter. Television credits include Law and Order, Sex in the City, and Third Watch.