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Mudge is Cast Alongside Academy Award-winning Brenda Fricker as Big Mama, Emmy-nominated John Goodman as Big Daddy, and Jeremy Davidson Who Reprises Role of Brick Played at Kennedy Center in 2004
Production Opens With Celebrity Red Carpet Gala on November 16 and is First In Newly-Renovated Geffen Playhouse Culminating an 18 Month, $17 Million Renovation to the Historic Theater
LOS ANGELES (October 18, 2005)—After nearly a year-long search, Geffen Playhouse Producing Director Gil Cates today announced the selection of New York’s Jennifer Mudge as Maggie for the Geffen’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a sizzling story of sex, lies and dark secrets, opening the newly renovated Geffen Playhouse after an 18 month, $17 million renovation to the historic theater. Mudge is cast alongside Academy Award winning Brenda Fricker as Big Mama, Emmy-nominated John Goodman as Big Daddy, and Jeremy Davidson reprising the role of Brick played at the Kennedy Center in 2004.
“The Geffen is very pleased with the dynamic cast that has come together for the inaugural production in our stunning new home,” says Cates. “We have assembled an amazingly talented team, and I am looking forward to working with the entire cast in what promises to be a highlight of our 10th anniversary season. “
“To play Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Gil Cates directing is a dream job,” says Mudge. “I feel so thrilled that my first experience in LA is the opportunity to work with the Geffen Playhouse.”
Mudge comes to the Geffen Playhouse directly from Craig Wright's The Pavilion at the Rattlestick off-Broadway in New York, and recently completed the feature film Drifting Elegant, by Stephen Belber. She makes her Los Angeles debut with this production.
The powerful, highly charged Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is Tennessee Williams’ explosive portrait of a Mississippi family threatened by avarice, secret yearnings, and hypocrisy. The surface is merely an illusion in Big Daddy’s house: as the overbearing millionaire is dying of cancer, he lives in denial, firmly believing in his perfect health. While his oldest son Gooper and daughter-in-law Mae secretly plot a scheme to secure their lofty inheritance, Big Daddy’s favorite son Brick, a dejected former football star, turns to alcohol to cope with his secret desires. With Brick’s marriage to the seductive Maggie on the verge of destruction, Maggie “the Cat” fights to win back her husband and preserve the family fortune, only leading to Big Daddy learning the painful truth about his own illness—and the demons and hidden desires that drive his favorite son.
The production’s full cast is as follows: (in order of appearance)
Margaret: Jennifer MudgeBrick: Jeremy DavidsonDixie: Zoe PhotenhauerMae: Kirsten PotterGooper: Matthew GlaveBig Mama: Brenda FrickerSookey: Sonya EddyBig Daddy: John GoodmanReverend Tooker: William Dennis HuntDoctor Baugh: Gibby BrandChildren: Amanda Sue Walker, Aiden Lafraniere, Chaz Salazar
Playwright, poet, and fiction writer, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS left a powerful mark on American theater. He is perhaps best known for his three most popular plays, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he won his first Pulitzer Prize), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize). His twenty-five full-length plays combine lyrical intensity, haunting loneliness, and hypnotic violence. He is widely considered the greatest Southern playwright and one of the greatest playwrights in the history of American drama.
GIBBY BRAND (Dr. Baugh) On Broadway, Brand spent two years as Cogsworth the Clock in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. He was also in the original companies of Neil Simon’s Rumors, Sondheim’s Passion and the revivals of Little Me starring Jimmy Coco and Peter Pan starring Sandy Duncan. Regional: South Coast Rep (You Can’t Take It With You), The Doolittle (Rumors), Seattle Rep (Death of A Salesman), Godspeed Opera House (She Loves Me), Pioneer Theatre (Arms and the Man), Cincinnati Playhouse (Arsenic and Old Lace) and St. Louis Rep (Terra Nova). As part of the first international exchange between the United States and the former Soviet Union, Brand went to Moscow with William Gibson’s Rag Dolly. Locally: Mark Taper Forum (Big River, The Dinner Party) CLOSBC (Titanic, Carouse), Reprise! (1776, Most Happy Fella). Films: Raise Your Voice, Auto Focus, Tom’s Nu Heaven, Father of the Bride, Anna, F/X and The Rose Technique. TV: Boston Legal, The West Wing, Judging Amy, N.Y.P.D. Blue, The Guardian, Law & Order, The X-Files and recurring roles on Numb3rs, Ally McBeal and The Practice. Brand is married to writer Lucy Chase Williams.
JEREMY DAVIDSON (Brick) recently played Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Kennedy Center in 2004. He also recently reprised his role of Nijinsky in the one-man play Nijinsky’s Last Dance at both the Kennedy Center and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. He was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Nijinsky at the Signature Theatre Company. Other theatre credits include the Broadway production of Epic Proportions, La Terrasse at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Going Native at the Long Wharf Theatre and Dimetos, Desire Under the Elms, Quills and Wilder…Wilder at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. In Los Angeles, he appeared at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in First Nights: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Davidson’s film credits include the upcoming Little Chenier, Deprivation and Skeletons in the Closet. On television, he has guest starred on Without a Trace, Boston Legal, JAG, Ally McBeal, Strangers With Candy, The Practice, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order, NYPD Blue and Roswell. Davidson received his MFA from Rutgers Professional Actor Training Program, where he studied with William Esper and Maggie Flanigan.
SONYA EDDY (Sookey) is a native of Concord, California, and graduated from UC Davis with double bachelor’s degrees in English and African-American studies with a minor in Dramatic Arts. During her studies she began her acting career in the West Coast premiere of Zora, Is My Name! (Written by the award winning actress Ruby Dee). Eddy performed several roles in Zora including The Storyteller, The Slave, and Big Sweet- a bawdy blues singer. Eddy performed the role of the Courtesan in Comedy of Errors as well as performances in productions of The Crucible, Pericles, and the role of the Witch in Into The Woods. She won an Arty Award for her powerful portrayal of Bloody Mary in South Pacific. Television credits include recurring roles on Joan of Arcadia, Seinfeld, The Drew Carey Show and others. Eddy was also a series regular on Martin Short’s Primetime Glick as Nurse Frieda Mae. Her many guest appearances in other primetime shows include Less Than Perfect, Monk, Reba, Judging Amy, Touched by an Angel, Murphy Brown, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Diagnosis Murder, and many others. Her guest star performances include ER, Still Standing, The Hughleys and Felicity.
BRENDA FRICKER (Big Mama) won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Christy Brown’s (portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis) mother in director Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot. Drawing upon her own Irish upbringing, she revealed strength and rawness and bravely aged herself (actually only 12 years older than Day-Lewis) in the role which brought her international attention. A native of Dublin, Ireland, Fricker appeared in numerous productions at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre and went on to several starring roles for both the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company and the Royal National Theatre in London. Her television work includes many BBC projects such as The Gathering Seed and the series Casualty, Lethal Innocence for PBS, Journey for Hallmark Hall of Fame, and co-starring with Sally Field in the NBC mini-series A Woman of Independent Means. Her other film credits also reflect the diversity of her artistic interests, from moving dramas such as The Field, co-starring with Richard Harris, A Man of No Importance, co-starring with Albert Finney, and A Time to Kill to comedies such as Home Alone II and So I Married An Axe Murderer. She starred in the U.K. produced Resurrection Man, and co-starred with Anna Friel in both The War Bride and in Watermelon for Granada Films. Other recent films include The Intended for acclaimed dogma director Kristian Levering, Conspiracy of Silence for John Deery and Veronica Guerin for Joel Schumacher with Cate Blanchett. Fricker continues to reside in her hometown of Dublin.
MATTHEW GLAVE (Gooper) has theatre credits that include Demonology/Joy of Going Somewhere Definite for the Mark Taper Forum, Animal Farm for the Cleveland Playhouse, Treasure Island for the Cincinnati Playhouse, The Foreigner for the Monomoy, and Scapino, McBeth and What The Butler Saw for the Charlotte Shakespeare Company. Matthew's Film/MOW credits include Rock Star, The Wedding Singer, Port Chicago Mutiny and Legalese. He was a series regular on FOX’s Life On A Stick. Glave recurred on N.Y.P.D. Blue, Picket Fences, The X-Files, ER and guest starred in many shows such as The West Wing and E-Ring.
JOHN GOODMAN (Big Daddy) is one of the entertainment industry’s most respected actors. He earned a Golden Globe nomination in 1992 for his chilling performance in the Coen Brothers’ heralded Barton Fink. Coincidentally, Goodman's breakthrough motion picture performance was in Raising Arizona, another Coen Brothers film. He has since teamed with the Coen’s in The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? Goodman has lent his voice to numerous animated characters as well. His voice-over credits include Monsters, Inc., The Emperor’s New Groove and The Jungle Book II. He also voiced one of the main characters in NBC’s animated series Father of the Pride. His regional theatre credits include Henry IV, Parts I and II, Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It. He starred in two Broadway shows, Loose Ends in 1979 and Big River in 1985. In 2002, Goodman starred on Broadway in the Public Theatre’s Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. In 2001, he starred in the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Seagull. Goodman made his screen debut in the HBO production Mystery of the Moro Castle. His film credits include Beyond the Sea, Masked and Anonymous, Storytelling, O Brother, Where Art Thou, Coyote Ugly, What Planet Are Your From?, One Night at McCool's, Bringing Out the Dead, Fallen, The Borrowers, Blues Brothers 2000, The Runner, The Flintstones, Mother Night, Arachnophobia, Always, Pie in the Sky, Born Yesterday, Matinee, The Babe, King Ralph, Punchline, Everybody's All-American, Sea of Love, Stella, Eddie Macon's Run, C.H.U.D., Revenge of the Nerds, Maria's Lovers, Sweet Dreams, True Stories, The Big Easy, Burglar, and The Wrong Guys. Goodman has also given many acclaimed television performances. He received Emmy nominations for his starring role in TNT's Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long and for his role as Mitch in the CBS production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. He also starred in the HBO film The Jack Bull. For eight seasons, he played Dan Conner in the popular sitcom Roseanne, a role that earned him seven Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe.
WILLIAM DENNIS HUNT (Reverend Tooker) is a Resident Artist at A Noise Within, where he has appeared in over 25 productions, most recently in Mourning Becomes Electra, Julius Caesar, The School for Wives and A Midsummer Night's Dream (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl). He has also been seen at Theatricum Botanicum in Othello, The Ride Down Mt Morgan, Winter's Tale and King Lear. He has performed at other Los Angeles venues including The Mark Taper Forum, The Ahmanson, Pacific Resident Theatre, The Odyssey, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Colony and The Matrix Theatre Company, among many others. He has received two LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, seven Drama-Logue/Backstage West awards, and two LA Weekly awards for his work. Film and television appearances include Desperate Housewives, Judging Amy, Alias, Dragonfly, Bugsy, Chaplin, Android, Frasier, Just Shoot Me, Seven Days, The West Wing, Dr. Giggles, Deep Space Nine, Sabrina, Wings, LA Law, Major Dad and Reasonable Doubts. He was the co-founder of The Company Theatre and The Provisional Theatre in Los Angeles.
JENNIFER MUDGE (Maggie) comes directly from Craig Wright's The Pavilion at the Rattlestick off-Broadway, and recently completed the feature film Drifting Elegant, by Stephen Belber. Other upcoming features: Play It by Ear. Her New York theater credits include the world premiere of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome (Primary Stages); Reckless (Broadway); Rose's Dilemma (Manhattan Theatre Club); Only the End of the World (Company Charniere). Her regional credits include performances at Arena Stage; Bay Street Theatre; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Contemporary American Theater Festival; and five seasons as a member of Trinity Rep. under Oskar Eustis' artistic direction, including Saint Joan, Othello, The Music Man, As You Like It, Into the Woods, Angels in America, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her TV credits include Hope & Faith, Law and Order, Hack, Guiding Light, As The World Turns, All My Children. Mudge received her MFA from Trinity Rep.
Kirsten Potter (Mae) A relative newcomer to Los Angeles, Potter’s previous theater credits in town include: Honour and Bold Girls at the Matrix Theatre (Garland award nominee for Bold Girls); Sex Parasite at the Taper; and The Constant Wife at Laguna Playhouse. Regional credits include the premiere of Work Song by Jeff Hatcher and Eric Simonson, the premiere’s of Steven Dietz’ Over the Moon, Paragon Springs, and Force of Nature. For six years she was as a company member at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, performing in over 20 productions there including Twelfth Night, Amadeus, The Mai, An Ideal Husband, Inventing Van Gogh, Collected Stories, The Weir, The Glass Menagerie, Rocket Man, Dracula, and Mill on the Floss. She has performed with regional theaters across the country including Seattle Repertory Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Huntington Theater, Arena Stage, Geva Theater, American Contemporary Theater, American Conservatory Theater; and The Utah, California, Nebraska, and Santa Fe Shakespeare Festivals. Potter is a summa cum laude graduate of Boston University and the ACT Summer Congress. She has received awards from the American Academy of Achievement, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and was voted one of Milwaukee’s Top 40 Professionals Under 40.
ZOE PHOTENHAUER (Dixie) has appeared in the MTV video of the year "Lightning Crashes" when she was just 3 weeks old and has been performing in commercials, recitals and school plays ever since. She studies piano and guitar and enjoys composing her own songs.
AMANDA SUE WALKER (Trixie) makes her stage debut in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. She has appeared in the movie Monster-In-Law and also has done appearances in TV commercials.
AIDEN LaFRENIERE (Polly)—information to be announced.
RICK CHAZ SALAZAR (Sonny) made his professional debut on stage at the age of five as one of the ragazzi, street urchins, in Puccini’s La Boheme. He also performed in opera productions of Verdi’s Falstaff and Leon Cavallo’s Pagliacci. His film/television credits include Fox Good Day Live Back to School and Kids on Line.
PAUL WAGAR (Dialect/Vocal Coach): Credits include The Old Neighborhood, The Weir, God’s Man in Texas at the Geffen Playhouse; Afterplay, Erpingham Camp; Return to the Forbidden Planet; The Tempest; A Clockwork Orange; The Trojan Women, Laundry & Bourbon, Ark Theatre Company’ Rose Red, Pacific Resident Theatre. Film/TV credits include: Money Talks; Next Friday; The Secret Sea As Director: Frozen Hamlet; All’s Well That Ends Well; Cloud 9; Merry Wives of Windsor; Merchant of Venice; Pelican Bay; Plot Twist (also writer); Edward II. Ark Theatre Company; Romeo & Juliet, Comedy of Errors, Crimes of Passion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oh, What a Lovely War, Measure for Measure, Taming of the Shrew, Philadelphia Area Theatre; Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.; Cloud 9, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, New York. Film/TV: Shakespeare’s Merchant (director & screenplay). As Actor: Seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company (England), The Stratford Festival (Canada); The New Shakespeare Company (England, India, Sri Lanka). Film/TV: The Last Bluff; Good Advice; Silence; For Cara; The Ice Cream Man; Secret Army (BBC); Seeing Things (CBC). Teaching: Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Film Television and Theater (UCLA), and teacher for British American Drama Academy (Oxford, England).
JOHN ARNONE (Scenic Designer) information to be announced.
JON GOTTLIEB (Sound Designer) Over the last 25 years Gottlieb has designed the sound for hundreds of theatrical productions both nationally and internationally. He serves as the resident sound designer for Center Theatre Group; Mark Taper Forum / Ahmanson Theatres. Gottlieb recently served as the Acting Dean of the School of Theater at California Institute of the Arts where he also heads the Sound Design program. Local Los Angeles productions include Radio Golf, Stones in His Pockets , Like Jazz and Big River at the Mark Taper Forum, The Royal Family at the Ahmanson, King Lear for The Center for New Theater at CalArts and several productions at the Geffen Playhouse including Neil Simon’s Rose and Walsh and Oscar & Felix as well as Collected Stories directed by Gil Cates. Broadway designs include: QED (Lincoln Center), Master Class by Terence McNally , and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Recent system design and consulting includes the Kirk Douglas Theater in culver city and the Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater (REDCAT) at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Gottlieb has received eight Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Awards, over 60 Drama-Logue and L.A. Weekly Awards, Career Achievement awards from The Los Angeles Theatre Alliance, the L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and was recently presented with the Distinguished Artist Award from the Los Angeles Music Center Club 100. For Disney Imagineering, he created original sound effects and design for two attractions at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Robert Blackman (Costume Designer) was the costume designer for Star Trek: Enterprise. He won an Emmy Award in 1991-92 for Star Trek: The Next Generation and has received nine nominations (three each for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager). His film work includes ‘night Mother, The Running Man, Stones for Ibarra, Star Trek VII: Generations and Star Trek X: Nemesis. He has worked at every major regional theatre on the West Coast. His recent theatrical work includes costume design for the premiere production of David Rambo’s The Lady with All the Answers at the San Diego Old Globe Theatre, costume design for The Royal Family at the Ahmanson Theatre (Ovation nomination), set and costume design for various productions of Lost Highway and Love, Janis, set design for The Winter's Tale at the Denver Center Theatre, and costume design for Uncle Vanya at the Geffen Playhouse.
Bo Foxworth (Fight Choreographer) As a fight choreographer Foxworth has worked with numerous theaters around the country, with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as his third show with the Geffen. Bo is primarily an actor working at such theaters as The Geffen, Shakespeare Orange County, Laguna Playhouse, The Hollywood Bowl and A Noise Within where he received an Ovation Nomination for Best Featured Actor for Measure for Measure. In New York he was an original cast member of the Off-Broadway hit, As Bees in Honey Drown at the Lucile Lortel. He has worked Regionally at The Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C, Vienna’s English Theater in Vienna, Austria, The Long Wharf, Baltimore Center Stage, Playmakers Rep and The Old Globe. Film and TV credits include Blood Deep, The Monster and the Peanut (Winner: EMMY Best Student Film, ‘Best Lead Actor in a Short’, Nom. MethodFest); Last Stop; Shel Silverstein’s A Bloomingdale’s Shopping Bag; Skin Deep, directed by Blake Edwards; Diagnosis Murder; Law and Order SVU; Carl Wilson in Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys; The Rescue of Jessica McClure. He is a graduate of UCLA and received his Masters degree from the Yale University School of Drama.
DANIEL IONAZZI (Lighting Designer) is Production Manager for the Geffen Playhouse. He is also a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Director of Production for the Department of Theater. His other credits include: Production Manager and Technical Director for the Denver Center Theatre Company and Santa Fe Festival Theatre; Executive Director of Colorado Stage Company; Director of Festivals and Events for The Denver Partnership; and Assistant Technical Director for the Juilliard School. Ionazzi is the author of The Stage Management Handbook and The Stagecraft Handbook. Design credits at the Geffen include: Paint Your Wagon; Take Me Out; I Just Stopped By To See The Man; Boy Gets Girl (Ovation nomination); Under The Blue Sky; Oscar & Felix; God’s Man in Texas; The Unexpected Man; The Weir; Defiled; Merton of the Movies and All in the Timing (Ovation nomination); For the Dance Company Diavolo: Catapult and Trajectorie. Additional credits: The Ahkmatova Project; Henry IV Part I; The Three Sisters; Telling Time; Othello; Trojan Women; Misalliance; The Night of the Iguana; Antigone; Amelia Lives; and Jenufa.
ANNA BELLE GILBERT (Production Stage Manager) this is Gilbert’s first production with The Geffen Playhouse. She has been the stage manager for many productions at the Pasadena Playhouse and most recently worked on their production of Purlie. She also stage managed Lily Plants a Garden and the Legend of Alex for the Mark Taper Forum's P.L.A.Y tour. Among others, she has also been the stage manager for productions with the Matrix Theatre Company, the Ziggurat Theatre Company, The Echo Theatre Company and the MYE Theatre Company.
STACEY WILSON (Assistant Stage Manager) Past credits include My Fair Lady at the Hollywood Bowl; Madly, In Love, War Music at The Geffen; WHAT ARE YOU…DEAF?! at Deaf West; Intimate Apparel at The Mark Taper Forum; Leslie Jordan’s one-man show Like a Dog On Linoleum; Pippin for Reprise!, and Nine Parts of Desire at The Geffen. She has also worked on numerous benefits including S.T.A.G.E. and Help Is On The Way.
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CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOFWinner, 1955 Pulitzer Prize for DramaWritten by Tennessee WilliamsFeaturing Jeremy Davidson, Brenda Fricker, John Goodman and Jennifer MudgeDirected by Geffen Producing Director Gilbert CatesShow runs from November 8 through December 18, 2005 as follows:Previews November 8—November 15Opening Night/Official Press Opening is November 16, 2005; show continues through December 18.Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Avenue in Westwood
CAST (in order of appearance)Margaret: Jennifer MudgeBrick: Jeremy DavidsonDixie: Zoe PhotenhauerMae: Kirsten PotterGooper: Matthew GlaveBig Mama: Brenda FrickerSookey: Sonya EddyBig Daddy: John GoodmanReverend Tooker: William Dennis HuntDoctor Baugh: Gibby BrandChildren: Amanda Sue Walker, Aiden Lafraniere, Chaz Salazar
Brenda Fricker appears with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity.
The Geffen Playhouse is located at 10886 Le Conte Avenue in Westwood. Performances are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8:00 p.m.; Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; and Sundays at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. Ticket prices range from $35 to $69. Performance times and dates vary for the Geffen’s new second stage, the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse. Please call the box office for more information.
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