Playwright
Glen Berger

Director
Trip Cullman

Cast
Adam Rothenberg (Tom "Chimney" Bosch)
Ana Reeder (Hetty Grigs/Anna Livia Spoon)
Jaymie Dornan (Wicker Grigs)
T. Ryder Smith (Jarl von Hoother)
Stephen Mellor (Enry Leap)
Ron Cephas Jones (Toom the Stoup)
Veanne Cox (Mrs. Nelles)
Maria Dizzia (Tricity Tiara)
Louis Cancelmi (Armitage Shanks)

GLEN BERGER (Playwright) launched his playwriting career in earnest as a member of Annex Theatre in Seattle. He has spent the last decade in New York. He is a fifth-year member of New Dramatists and a member of MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition. His plays include: UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL (Over 450 performances Off-Broadway, 2001 Ovation Award (Los Angeles) and 2003 Sterling Award (Edmonton) for Best Play, Garland Award for Best Playwriting, and one of Time Out New York's Ten Best Plays of 2001, 55 productions on 3 continents), O LOVELY GLOWWORM (2005 Portland Drammy Award Winner for "Best Script"), the musical A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE, (Loewe Award), GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE, Nos. 21 & 22 (1998 Ovation Award and 1998 L.A. Weekly Award for Best Play), I WILL GO...I WILL GO (published in Applause Book's 2001 Best Short Plays Anthology), and the musical ON WORDS AND ONWARDS (Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation Fellowship). Glen has also received musical commissions from the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis and the Lookingglass Theatre. He has written several episodes for the PBS children's series "Arthur", (for which he was nominated for two Emmys), its spin-off "Postcards from Buster" (one Emmy nomination), "Time Warp Trio" (NBC), "Peep" (The Learning Channel), and is the head writer for "Fetch", to debut on PBS in 2006.

TRIP CULLMAN (Director) DOG SEES GOD (Century Center), MANIC FLIGHT REACTION (Playwrights Horizons), SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS (Second Stage), ROULETTE (John Houseman), THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE (Century Center and Rattlestick Theater), SMASHING (The Play Company), SWEETNESS and SAM AND LUCY (Summer Play Festival '04), OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS (Clubbed Thumb), THE WAU WAU SISTERS (Ars Nova). Upcoming: ARABIAN NIGHT (Play Company). Training: Yale School of Drama.

ADAM ROTHENBERG (Tom "Chimney" Bosh) New York Theater includes Second Stage's revival of DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA and The Women's Project's BIRDY. Regional: Starred opposite Patricia Clarkson as 'Stanley Kowalski' in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE directed by Garry Hynes as part of the Kennedy Center's Tennessee Williams Festival. Williamstown Theatre Festival:'Lord Darlington' in LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN directed by Moises Kaufman and 'Doug' opposite Estelle Parsons in Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros's MOTHER OF INVENTION directed by Nicholas Martin. Film: COYOTE BEACH directed by Markus Griesshammer, winner of the 21st Century Filmmaker Award for Best American Short in the Avignon/New York Film Festival. Adam is currently starring as 'Eddie' opposite Jane Leeves on the WB's half hour comedy MISCONCEPTIONS. Television work includes CBS's HACK, FOX's THE JURY, NBC's NY-70 and the pilot A.U.S.A. for NBC. Adam studied at The Acting Studio Inc. under James Price and John Grabowski.

ANA REEDER (Hetty Grigs/Anna Livia Spoon) New York Theatre: Sight Unseen (Manhattan Theater Club - Broadway), Hedda Gabler (New York Theatre Workshop), Small Tragedy (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award); Humble Boy, An Experiment with an Air Pump (MTC); The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center); Some Voices (The New Group); Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick Theatre); Maid (Lincoln Center Festival); Fire Eater (New York Stage & Film); Macbeth (The Public); Henry VIII (Delacourt Theatre). London: The Distance from Here (Almeida Theatre). Boston: Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theatre Co.). Washington D.C.: The Tempest (The Shakespeare Theatre). TV: "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Katie Joplin," "The Jury." Film: Diary of a City Priest, Acts of Worship (Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actress, Santa Barbara Film Festival), Marie and Bruce. Undergraduate: Middlebury College. MFA: NYU.

JAYMIE DORNAN (Wicker Griggs) Film: Mending Steff (with Kelly Deadmon), Young Dorian in Dorian Gray (with David Gallagher), Michael in Pedal Foot (with Karen Ziemba and Tom Noonan), Young Jimmy Page in The Notorious Betty Page (with Gretchen Moll ). Theater: A Victorian Christmas (Atlanta Theatre Group).

T. RYDER SMITH (Jarl von Hoother) Recent NY credits: Will Eno's THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) at the DR2, Anne Washburn's APPARITION (Connelly), Richard Foreman's THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD and KING COWBOY RUFUS RULES THE UNIVERSE, at the Ontological, David Greenspan's Obie-winning SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY, at Playwright's Horizons, and Glen Berger's UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL, at Soho Playhouse, for which T. received a Drama Desk Nomination as Outstanding Solo Performer. Other NY credits include The Rude Mech's LIPSTICK TRACES (Foundry Theater), Mae West's SEX (Hourglass Group), and work with Target Margin, Arden Party and Signature Theater. Regional credits include the premiere productions of Charles Mee's BIG LOVE at the Humana Festival, and Jeffrey Hatcher's STAGE BEAUTY at CATF, as well as Amy Freed's THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF SAVAGES at the Wilma, and work at Santa Fe Stages, Dallas Theater Center, and New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Film work includes BRAINSCAN, NOCTURNE and the upcoming HORRIBLE CHILD and FADED ANGEL.

STEPHEN MELLOR (Enry Leap) has appeared in films including CELEBRITY, MICKEY BLUE EYES and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE and on television shows including THE HIGH LIFE, LAW AND ORDER, ED and THE SOPRANOS. In the theater he has appeared on Broadway in BIG RIVER, Off-Broadway in NIXON'S NIXON and has worked at such regional theaters as Arena Stage, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Stage, Wilma Theatre and Yale Rep. He received his first Village Voice Obie Award in 1990 for his performance of Mac Wellman's TERMINAL HIP at P.S. 122 and performed the piece in London and at the Dionysia Festival conference in Tuscany. He received his second Obie in 2003for his portrayal of Ambrose Beirce in Mr. Wellman's BITTER BIERCE, also at P.S. 122. He has been a member of the outlaw lounge act THE DREAM EXPRESS since they appeared in Len Jenkin's CARELESS LOVE at Soho Rep.

RON CEPHAS JONES (Toom the Stoup) Joe in Jose Rivera's Massacre: Sing to Your Children (LAByrinth/Public Theater), Carson McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Alliance Theatre, Doug Huges Dir.), Clarence in Richard III (NY Shakespeare Festival Public Theater), The Moor in Othello (Royal/Derngate and Greenwich Theatre London, England), Rooftop in Stephen Guirgis' Our Lady of 121st St (LAByrinth, Union Square Theater, Nominated for Lucille Lortel Award, Best Actor), Lucius Jenkins in Jesus Hopped The A-Train (LAByrinth, CSC, Edinburgh, West End London Arts Theatre, Donmar). TeeVee in Black Codes from the Underground (Lincoln Center's Directing Lab, National Black Theatre), The Exonerated (Culture Project), Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (Long Wharf, Derek Anson Jones Dir.), Marvell in Thunder Knocking on the Door (Yale Rep, Reggie Montgomery Dir., Best Actor Connecticut Critics Circle), Silas in Holiday Heart (MTC, Seattle Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Cheryl West/Tazwell Thompson Dir.), Everybody's Rub (Public Theater, Kenny Leon Dir.), Anna Deveare Smith's House Arrest (Arena Stage), Lee Morris' Don't Explain (Nuyorican Poet's Café, Adelco Best Actor Award), Charlie in Pork Pie (Denver Center Theatre, Israel Hicks Dir.) Film: "Across the Universe" directed by Julie Taymor, "Carlito's Way: Rise & Fall", Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown", Spike Lee's "He Got Game", Charles Stone's "Paid in Full." Indy Films: "A Day In Black And White" directed by Desmond Hall, "Half Nelson", "The Ballad of Pinto Red", "Little Senegal", "Murder and Magic", "Naked Acts". TV: "Law & Order", "Feds", Don Johnson's TNT movie of the week "Word of Honor". LAByrinth Theater Company Member, Class of 1999. Props to Bernie, Bob, Will. Thanks to Stephanie. For my London family.

VEANNE COX (Mrs. Nelles). Broadway: Caroline, or Change (from the Public Theater), The Dinner Party, Company (Tony/Drama Desk nominations), Smile. Off-Broadway: Last Easter (MCC), House/Garden, Labor Day (Manhattan Theater Club), The Altruist, The Batting Cage, The Waiting Room, Flora the Red Menace (The Vineyard Theater), Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons), A Question of Mercy (New York Theater Workshop), A Mother, A Daughter and A Gun, The Vagina Monologues, The Food Chain, Showing Off. Regional Theater: The Boyfriend, The Ugly Duckling, (Bay Street Theater), The Imaginary Invalid (Yale Rep), The Importance of Being Earnest (La Jolla), Isn't it Romantic?(Pasadena Playhouse), The Heidi Chronicles (Actors Theater of Louisville), A Flea in Her Ear (Long Wharf), Superman (Goodspeed Opera House), Steel Magnolias (Papermill Playhouse). Film: Erin Brockovich, Marci X, Big Eden, Beethoven's 4th, Henry Fool. TV: "CSI," "Joan of Arcadia," "My Sexiest Mistake," "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "Cinderella," "Seinfeld."

MARIA DIZZIA (Tricity Tiara) New York: APPARITION (Apparition Productions), THE MAP MAKER'S SORROW (SPF), PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA (Keen Company), GONE MISSING (The Civilians), CAUSE FOR ALARM (FringeNYC 2002). Regional: Sarah Ruhl's EURYDICE (Dean Goodman Choice Awards), world premiere of FETES DE LA NUIT (Berkeley Rep), KID SIMPLE (Humana Festival), George Street Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory, Geva Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, La Jolla Playhouse. MFA, UCSD. Associate Artist with The Civilians.

LOUIS CANCELMI (Armitage Shanks) Broadway and West End: Vincent in Brixton, dir. Richard Eyre. Regional: The Drawer Boy (Paper Mill Playhouse, opposite John Mahoney); UntilWeFindEachOther, dir. Anna Shapiro (Steppenwolf), Mother of Us All and 5 Movements for People and Sound (Williamstown). Other New York credits: Night Sings Its Songs (U.S. premiere), The Nest, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen and The Vortex (both dir. Trip Cullman), Sincerity Forever (Flea). Film: Stay, Pursesnatcher, The Hitchhiking Game, New Guy, Daughter of Arabia, Eloge de Rien. Television: "Third Watch", "Law and Order: Criminal Intent". Trained at Yale University, Acting International in Paris, and The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago.