BRT Bios for "Copenhagen"

COPENHAGEN CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

	KEITH BAKER (Werner Heisenberg) comes to Copenhagen after having been seen in numerous productions at BRT, including last season’s Proof, Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Moon for the Misbegotten, Hamlet, Arsenic and Old Lace, Forget Herostratus and A Man for all Seasons to name a few. He studied under Stanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and John Housman at Julliard. Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, the title role in Jeeves directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Al Carmine’s The Evangelist. He has been nominated eleven times and was twice the recipient of Best Actor for the Carbonell Awards. Most recently he has appeared on several episodes of Stella on Comedy Central. Keith is particularly excited and grateful to be reunited with Douglas Campbell and Moira Wylie in this production for BRT. Next, he directs Dear World for BRT.
	DOUGLAS CAMPBELL* (Judge Stanchfield R. Pearson) began his life in the theatre in 1942, touring with Dame Sybil Thorndike and Sir Lewis Casson in an Old Vic production of Euripides Medea. Now, in 2006, it seems almost impossible to enumerate the performances and places he has played. He has had a memorable full life in theatre having played most of the principal roles in the Shakespeare Canon and, indeed everything Doolittle to King Lear and enjoyed most of it enormously. Douglas was the recipient of the 2002 Barrymore Award for Leading Actor in a Play for The Dresser here at Bristol Riverside Theatre. Recently in his country, Canada, he was awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Services to the Arts. He is also a member of the Order of Canada – honors he is very proud of. He has enjoyed his association with the Bristol Riverside Theatre immensely.
	MOIRA WYLIE* (Sara Wainwright/Mrs. Dilber) last appearance at the Bristol Riverside was last year in the curious Trial of Ebeneezer Scrooge, and four years ago she played Simone de Beauvoir in Tete-a-tete with her husband, Douglas Campbell, directed by Keith Baker; she is greatly looking forward to a reunion in Copenhagen. She does not understand Physics. Among her favorite adventures in the theatre have been encounters (as actor, director, and teacher) with Shakespeare and the Greeek tragedies. A Bostonian by birth and nurture, she has never voted for anybody called Bush. She now lives in Montreal.
	Gregg Almquist (Understudy) appeared most recently as Scrooge at MumPuppettheatre. Prior to that tortured curmudgeon he played another: Alan Bennet in The Lady in the Van at Act II Playhouse and MumPuppettheatre. He also appears as Socrates in the Wilma Theater’s premiere of Itamar Moses’ Outrage. On Broadway he was in the original cast of I’m Not Rappaport (Tony Award for Best Play) and Richard III at Lincoln Center and Off-Off B’way credits include The Doctor’s Dilemma (Blenkinsop) at the Roundabout Theatre, King Lear (Gloster) with The Acting Company. Algerian Romance (Bob) at Primary Stages and Diet Theatre (various aliens) at the 17th St. Playhouse. Regionally, Gregg spent four seasons with The Denver Center Theater Company, and has performed at Portland Center Stage, the Guthrie, Yale Rep, the Long Wharf Theatre, and recently, at Geva Theatre in Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island (Peter Keegan.) At The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. he appeared as John Daw in the U.S. premiere of Ben Jonson’s The Silent Woman and Northumberland in Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. On television, he had recurring roles on Law & Order, The Practice and others. Movie credits include Heartburn, Woody Allen’s Radio Days and September, Mighty Joe Younge, A Private Matter, and the Philly Indie film, The 4th Dimension. His two published novels, Beast Rising and Wolf Kill, are available on the internet. Mr. Almquist is honored to be understudying Douglas Campbell, whose excellence he first encountered as an usher at The Guthrie Theatre in 1965.

CREATIVE TEAM
R. BRAD CRISWELL (Sound Designer) is excited to be working with the Bristol Riverside Theatre. Brad works mostly as a Lighting Designer and was resident Lighting Designer with the Millikin University Department of Theatre and Dance from 2004 to 2007. In August, Brad and his wife Jennifer moved to Chicago, where he has been busy working as a freelance designer and programmer as well as Followspot Operator/Programmer for Harpo Studios. Recent credits include lighting designs for Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, Backstage Theatre Company (Chicago), Cumberland County Playhouse (Tennessee), and several industrial events and corporate parties including Maly’s Midwest Hair Expo. This November, he also designed scenery for Signal Theatre ensemble (Chicago). Brad has been Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's Lighting Director since 2004, for Lyric, Brad has designed lighting for High School Musical, My Way, Pageant, Smokey Joe’s Café, and Plaid Tidings. www.criswelldesign.com
GREG MITCHELL (Scenic Designer) is thrilled to work with BRT and Keith Baker again after designing the set for The Skin of Our Teeth in 2004. Greg has designed scenery and/or lighting for over a hundred productions in New York and regional theatre. His design for American Buffalo at Washington DC's Source Theatre Company was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design. Recent projects include lighting designs for Forever Plaid at California's Sierra Repertory Theatre and two new plays in New York: Burn for New York Theatre Experiment at the Culture Project and A Good Farmer for the Three Graces Theatre Co. at the Bank Street Theatre. Other favorites include Hansel and Gretel for Capital City Opera (DC), The Boys Next Door for American Stage Festival (NH), The Turn of the Screw for Penobscot Theatre Company (ME), and Jane Eyre for Capital Playhouse (WA). Greg has served as a guest artist for Catholic University of America and The University of Maine. He holds a MFA in Scenery and Lighting Design from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
LINDA BEE STOCKTON (Costume Designer) was nominated for a Barrymore Award for her costume design for BRT’s production of Holiday. Her other design credits include: Baby, Romeo and Juliet (Pennsylvania Shakespeare), Grimm’s Tales (Penn Youth Theatre), 42nd Street, Sweet Charity, Will Roger’s Follies, Oliver, The King and I, Me and My Girl, Kismet, Swing, Chicago, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Kiss Me Kate (to name a few) at Bucks County Playhouse. Assistant Costume Design duties include: Evita, The Dresser, A Little Night Music, Hamlet and Smokey Joe’s Café at Bristol Riverside Theatre. She has also designed The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, The Woman In Black, Cliffhanger, Olympus On My Mind, The Fantasticks, Proof, and The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge for BRT where she is also the resident Costumer.
BLAIR WALSLEBEN* (Production Stage Manager) is happy to be returning to BRT for her 4th season. Originally from the great state of Texas, she is slowly becoming used to Northern winters. Favorite past productions include: The Taming of the Shrew, Amadeus, Sleuth, Othello (PA Shakespeare Festival), Once Upon A Mattress (BSC Youth Theatre), Alice in Wonderland (SSRT), and numerous productions at BRT including: Around the World in Eighty Days, Forever Plaid, Moon Over Buffalo, I Married Wyatt Earp (world premiere), Fences, and Olympus on my Mind. Thanks to Kate for keeping me sane on this zany Christmas journey. Love and thanks to Mom, Dad, and Bubba. Love to Sissi – the Lucy to my Ethel. And to Rob – my heart and love to you. Blair is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.
EDWARD PAYSON CALL (Director) cut his theatrical teeth at the Antioch Shakespeare Festival in Yellow Springs, Ohio, back in the 1950s. Since that time he has directed more than 100 productions in regional theatres from coast to coast. His longest association was with The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, where he started as an Assistant Stage Manager and seven years later became the theatre’s Producing Director. Mr. Call was also Founding Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company. Among his productions personal favorites include Caucasian Chalk Circle and Arturo Ui at The Guthrie; King Lear at the Old Globe in San Diego; Medea at the Denver Center, O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra at the Sydney Opera House in Australia; and a Hungarian work called Catsplay at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

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