Playwright
Mick Gordon
AC Grayling

Director
Joseph Hardy

Cast
Philip Goodwin
Oscar Isaac
K.K. Moggie
Lynn Redgrave

MICK GORDON (Playwright) is Artistic Director of On Theatre and On Film. He was Trevor Nunn's Associate Director for the National Theatre’s award-winning Transformation Season. Artistic Director, Gate Theatre 1998-2000, where awards include Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the Peter Brook Award for Most Outstanding Theatre. Graduated from Oxford with First Class Honors. As writer-director: On Emotion, On Religion, On Ego (Soho Theatre, London); On Love in Uzbekistan (Ilhom Theatre, Tashkent); On Love, On Death (Gate Theatre, London). Directing includes: The Grimms Tales (Dusko Radovic, Belgrade); Dancing at Lughnasa (Lyric, Belfast); Optic Trilogy (Dramatan, Stockholm); War, Lovers (Strindberg Theatre, Stockholm); A Play in Swedish, English and Italian (Dramatan, Stockholm); The Real Thing, Betrayal (Strindberg Theatre, Stockholm, Critics Award Best Production); A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Walls, Le Pub! (National Theatre, London); Monkey! (Young Vic, London); Trust (Royal Court), Salome (Riverside Studios), Godspell (Chichester), My Fair Lady, Closer, Art (National Theatre Buenos Aires, Three ACE Awards Best Production); Volunteers, Marathon, Une Tempete (Gate Theatre, London); Measure for Measure (English Touring Theatre), Hamlet, The Tales of Hoffman (National Theatre Studio), Renard (National Youth Ballet), The Promise, Arabian Nights (BAC), The Soldiers Tale (Institut Francais), Alice in Wonderland, Jungle Town (Oxford Playhouse).

AC GRAYLING (Playwright) is an author and a Professor of Philosophy at London University. He has written and edited many books, and is a regular columnist and contributor to the major British newspapers and magazines, as well as to the New York Times and New York Review of Books. He is a frequent broadcaster on the BBC, is Editor of Online Review London, and is a Contributing Editor of Prospect Magazine. In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British philosophical association, the Aristotelian Society. He is a past chairman of ‘June Fourth’, a human rights group concerned with China, and has been involved in UN human rights initiatives. Anthony Grayling has worked with the World Economic Forum and is a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2003 was a Booker Prize judge. With his co-writer of Grace, Mick Gordon, he is working on several further theatrical projects.

JOSEPH HARDY (Director) returns to the New York stage for the first time in 30 years with Grace.  In the intervening years, he has worked extensively in theater, film and television throughout the United States and abroad, from eight years with a production company in Paris to acting as Executive Producer for such iconic television programs as “General Hospital” and “Knot’s Landing,” to name a few.A Tony Award-winner for Child’s Play, Mr. Hardy is also the recipient of two Drama Desk Awards and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award.  Mr. Hardy directed the American premiere of Ms. Redgrave’s third play Nightingale, which she wrote and starred in, at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum in 2006 and this past spring for Connecticut’s Hartford Stage.  East Coast directing highlights include the original Broadway productions of Gigi and Play It Again, Sam with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, the revival of Night of the Iguana with Richard Chamberlain and Dorothy McGuire and the original Off Broadway production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is an associate artist of The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and has worked there since 1982.  Mr. Hardy currently resides in New York and is Artistic Advisor for the Red Bull Theater.

PHILIP GOODWIN (Tony) has appeared on Broadway in Tartuffe, The Diary of Anne Frank and The School for Scandal. Off Broadway he has been seen at The Public Theatre in King Lear, Pericles, Macbeth and Hamlet, at the Atlantic Theatre Company in The Room/Celebration, Signature Theatre in Drowning, New York Theatre Workshop in The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Theatre for a New Audience in Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida and Henry VI as Henry VI, for which he received a Drama Desk nomination. He is a company member of the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C. and received Helen Hayes Awards there for Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Timon in Timon of Athens and Mayor Stockman in An Enemy of the People.  Other regional theatre includes the Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre DC, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Studio Arena Buffalo, Intiman Theatre and The Acting Company.  Film and TV: The Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Deux, Diary of a City Priest, Men in Black II, and episodes of “Law and Order.”

OSCAR ISAAC (Tom) Upcoming films: Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies (Warner Brothers) opposite Leo DiCaprio, Vadim Perelman’s The Life Before Her Eyes, Steven Soderbergh’s Guerrilla, opposite Benecio del Toro. Film Credits: Scott Z. Burns' PU-239 (HBO Films), Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story (New Line), Blood in the Sand (Independent), All About the Benjamins (New Line). Theater credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Dir: Michael Greif) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Dir: Kathleen Marshall), both at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, Nilo Cruz’s Beauty of the Father (Dir: Michael Greif; Manhattan Theatre Club) among other plays at Juilliard and prior. TV includes “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” Mr. Isaac, a recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Award, graduated from the Drama Division of the Juilliard School (Group 34).

K.K. MOGGIE (Ruth) Theatre credits include Richard III (CSC), A Peddler’s Tale (Women’s Project), The Tempest (CSC Monday Night Tempest), Fetes de la Nuit, Love: A Tragic Etude, Metamorphosis from Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid, Cleansed, Uncle Vanya, The Vagina Monologues, Our Country’s Good, Agamemnon.  Film and TV: MTV’s “Gamekillers,” Anna and the King, The Sleeping Dictionary.  Training: 2007 graduate of Columbia University’s MFA acting program.

LYNN REDGRAVE (Grace) was born in London into a family of actors and has enjoyed a remarkable career on stage, screen and beyond spanning four decades.  She has been nominated for 3 Tony Awards, 2 Oscars, 2 Emmys and most recently, a Grammy.  Film highlights include Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters, Shine and Kinsey. Her latest film is The Jane Austen Book Club.  Other recent credits include the final Merchant / Ivory production, The White Countess, acting alongside sister Vanessa and niece Natasha Richardson, and as ‘Dahlia Hainsworth’ on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives.”  She can also be heard as the voice of Nanny in the animated film series of Me, Eloise,and her latest audio book release is Roald Dahl's The Witches (Grammy nomination). Ms. Redgrave is the author of three plays, Shakespeare For My Father, The Mandrake Root and Nightingale.  She has also written the text for Journal, A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery From Breast Cancer, featuring photographs by her daughter, Annabel Clark.  She serves on the boards of The Actors Fund and The Folger Shakespeare Library in DC. A member of Actor's Equity since 1967.

TOBIN OST (Set Design) Broadway: Brooklyn – The Musical (costume design).  Off-Broadway: The Overwhelming (costume design and associate set design); Almost Heaven – John Denver's America (costume design); A Woman of Will (costume design); Zanna – Don't (co-set and costume design); Carrie – a Period Piece (set design) and Fighting Words (set design).  Regional:  Nightingale (both Mark Taper Forum and Hartford Stage Company); Indoor/Outdoor (Portland Stage Company); Elegies (Barrington Stage); Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Shenandoah (Ford’s Theatre); Breakin’ Up Is Hard To Do (Capital Repertory Theatre); Elegies (Barrington Stage); Himself and Nora (Old Globe); Gemini (Prince Music Theatre); Four Saints in Three Acts (Yale School of Music); The Scarlet Pimpernel (Croswell Opera House); Gemini (Prince Music Theatre); Rice Boy (Yale Repertory Theater) and Richard II (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey).

ALEJO VIETTI (Costume Design) New York: Make Me a Song, Tryst, Roulette, The Last Sunday in June, Sixteen Wounded, 2 X Tennessee, The Wau Wau Sisters, Servicemen, Waiting for Godot, Five Flights, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, Othello, Of a White Christmas, and works at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and New York Fringe Festival. Regional: Alley Theatre Houston, Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Colorado Ballet, Columbia University, Florida Stage, Ford’s Theatre Washington DC, Goodspeed Opera, Hangar Theatre, Hartford Stage, Longwharf Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Northlight Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Rockland Opera, San Diego Repertory Theater, Saint Louis Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre Washington, Theatreworks Hartford. International: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Donetsk Opera in the Ukraine. Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Gold Unit 2007.

MATTHEW RICHARDS (Lighting Design) Recent and upcoming NYC credits include: Seussical (TheatreworksUSA), A Small Melodramatic Story (The Public/LAByrinth), Port Authority (Atlantic Theatre Co.), Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons), One Loss Plus (B.A.M. Next Wave Festival), The Polish Play (Katharsis), Active Eye, Ars Nova, Edge Theatre, Rattlestick. Regional credits include: The Alliance Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Bay Street Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, The Hangar Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, The Old Globe, New York Stage and Film, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Skylight Opera Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Wolf Trap Opera, and Yale Repertory Theatre.  Matthew is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and The University of Massachusetts.

FABIAN OBISPO (Sound Design) returns to MCC where his credits include A Very Common Procedure, What of the Night, Last Easter, Bright Ideas, Intrigue With Faye and Sueňo.  Off-Broadway credits include Oroonoko, The Children Of Vonderly, Durango, The Right Kind of People, No Foreigners Beyond this Point, The Romance of Magno Rubio, The Square, Two Sisters and a Piano, La Terrasse, Neat, When They Speak of Rita, High Life, Servicemen, The Batting Cage, Clean, and Phaedra in Delirium to name a few.  Regionally, he has designed and composed for Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, DC’s The Shakespeare Theatre, Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre among others. His work has been recognized by the American Theatre Wing’s Hewes Design Award, as well as Helen Hayes, Barrymore, NAACP, and Jackie awards.

JEREMY CHERNICK (Properties Supervisor) is thrilled to be back working with MCC on his 9th production. He designs Special Effects and Props for all types of live events. Recent credits include Wintuk for Cirque Du Soleil; Broadway: Inherit the Wind, The Pirate Queen, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 3 Days of Rain, Tarzan; Off Broadway: MCC, The Labyrinth, Hair of the Dog, Making Books Sing. Personal favorites include: Mike Albo’s My Price Point, David Schweitzer’s Woyzeck, and The Bad Seed produced at the Meisner Theatre and directed by AnnaCatherine Rutledge. 

B.D. WHITE (Production Manager) Previous productions with MCC include A Very Common Procedure, Nixon’s Nixon, Some Girl(s), Frozen, Fat Pig, Runt of the Litter, A Letter From Ethel Kennedy, The Mercy Seat, Scattergood, Intrigue With Faye, Bright Ideas, The Distance From Here, What of the Night, Colder Than Here, The Wooden Breeks, In a Dark Dark House. Other Off-Broadway credits include The Milliner, Temporary Help, Cheat, Hard Feelings, Aloha Las Vegas, Birth of the Boom, The Strange Case of Mary Todd Lincoln, Bitter Lemon, Nuyorican Stories, Night of the Assassins, St. Lucy’s Eyes, Leaving Queens, Underneath the Lintel, Sophie Tottie and Bell, Songs of Paradise, Buicks and Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran and several productions at Theatreworks USA. Brian has also toured with Jam on the Groove, the Hip-Hop Dance Musical and the Elevator Repair Service production of Gatz.
        
ROBERT BENNETT (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Coast of Utopia, Awake and Sing, The Blonde in the Thunderbird, Bus Stop, Nick & Nora, Dancing at Lughnasa, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Nerd, Nicholas Nickelby, Macbeth, I Love My Wife, I Remember Mama, Bent, Going Up.  Touring: Guys and Dolls, Grease, My Fat Friend, Shenandoah, Sugar Babies, Evita, La Cage Aux Folles. Off-Broadway: Gertrude Stein and a Companion, Groucho, Advice from a Caterpillar, March On Russia, Enter A Free Man. Regional and International: The Cherry Orchard (Peter Brook) at BAM, Russia & Tokyo, The Berkshire Theater Festival (2 seasons), Goodspeed Opera House. General Manager at BAM. Vice President Stage Operations Radio City Music Hall. Graduate of The University of Michigan.

SHANNA SPINELLO (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy (MTC). Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks, The Scene, The Water’s Edge (Second Stage); Third(Lincoln Center Theatre); Bingo! The Musical (sub). National Tour: Monty Python’s Spamalot. Graduate: Boston University, 2003.