Who’s WhoJOSH CARPENTER (Pip) Arden: Brother Felix in Incorruptible. Regional: Mourning Becomes Electra, Hamlet in Hamlet, She Stoops to Conquer, Iago in Othello, The Seagull, The Venetian Twins, The Importance of Being Earnest, Henry V in Henry V (Quintessence Theatre Group); Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Theater at Monmouth); The 39 Steps (GTA Southern Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice, The Cherry Orchard (The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (American Shakespeare Center). Training: Northwestern University. Thanks to my family and friends, and everyone at the Arden. www.joshcarpenter.net

kATE CzAJkOWSki (Narrator - Estella) Arden debut. Regional: Eva in The Adults (FringeArts, New Para-dise Laboratories); Cressida in Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, Nora in Assistance, Harper in Angels in America: Parts I and II, Rachelka/Marianna in Our Class, and Sabrina Daldry in In the Next Room (Or the Vibra-tor Play) (The Wilma Theater); Marina in Pericles (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Sissy Hanksaw in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and Elizabeth in Persuasion (Book-It Rep.); Annamae Dickie in Louis Slotin Sonata (Empty Space); Claire in Proof (Tacoma Actors Guild); and Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (Montana Rep). Training: MFA from Temple University. Thanks for Mom and Pop.

dOug HARA (Narrator - Herbert) Arden: The Cat in the Hat, Pinocchio, Cyrano, Threepenny Opera, Something Intangible, Sleeping Beauty, Go Dog Go, Lookingglass Alice, and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Broadway: The Boys of Winter and Metamorphoses. Regional: Goodman Theatre, About Face Theatre, Jellyeye Drum Opera, Huntington Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Alliance Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and The Joyce Theatre. Doug is an ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company where he has participated in over 20 productions. Doug’s work is dedicated with love to his family and friends.

bRiAN mCCANN (Narrator - Magwitch) Arden debut. Regional: Antonio/Eglamour in Two Gentleman of Verona (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Shrewsbury in Mary Stewart (Philadelphia Artist Collective); Larry in North of the Boulevard (Theatre Exile); The Butler in To Fool the Eye (1812 Productions); Larry in Pookie Goes Grenading (Azuka Theatre). Brian sends much love to his family and friends, without who’s support he would be lost. “Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron, or gold, or thorns or flowers, that never would have bound you, but for the formation of the first link.”

SAlly mERCER (Narrator - Miss Havisham) Arden: Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music, Sonia in Some-thing Intangible, Modron in Sleeping Beauty, Ensemble in The Boxcar Children, Ma in The Grapes of Wrath. Regional: Elizabeth in Richard III, Margrethe in Copenhagen (Lantern Theatre Company); Amanda in The Glass Menagerie (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival).

liNdSAy SmiliNg (Narrator - Joe Gargery) Delighted to be making his Arden debut! Off-Broadway: Treasure Island (Golden Rivet Productions). Regional: The Learned Ladies, Measure for Measure, Othello (The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq, Macbeth (The Wilma Theater); Macbeth/Failure: A Love Story, Comedy of Errors (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); North of the Boulevard (Theatre Exile); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Syracuse Stage); Beautiful Boy (People’s Light & Theatre Company); Othello (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), As You Like It (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Superior Donuts (Dorset Theater Festival); Charlotte’s Web (Two River Theater). Training: Illinois State University (BS), Temple University (MFA). www.lindsaysmiling.net

gAlE CHildS dAly (Playwright) has been a playwright, director, teacher and actor in the theatre for many years. A gradu-ate of the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now DePaul University), Daly has worked at the Goodman Theatre, the Alley Theatre, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Great River Shakespeare Festival and the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, among others. As a playwright, she has adapted The Secret Garden, The Story of Opal and The Lament for Ignacio Sanchez. Some of Daly’s directing credits include The Government Inspector, Julius Caesar and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. As an actor, she has enjoyed playing such roles as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Goneril in King Lear and Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. Daly is a freelance director, teacher and text coach in the Midwest. She is married to actor Jonathan Gillard Daly and has two children. Currently, she lives in Milwaukee.

CHARlES diCkENS (Author) was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsmouth, in England. The second of eight children, Dickens was pulled out of school at the age of twelve and forced to work at a local factory. In his early twenties he began to publish stories about London life in various periodicals, but it wasn’t until the publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836 that he became well known. Dickens in now considered the most successful British author of the Victorian Age, having written such masterpieces as Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens died in 1870.

mATTHEW dECkER (Director) Arden: Incorruptible, Pinocchio, Robin Hood. Matthew is the Associate Artistic Director of the Arden and Co-Founder and Resident Director of Theatre Horizon, where his credits include Circle Mirror Transformation, (Barrymore Nomination), Spring Awakening, Kimberly Akimbo, Fat Pig, and …Spelling Bee (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Mu-sical). Matthew has developed Theatre Horizon’s Autism Drama Program and teaches with Arden Drama School and Arden for All. Training: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Atlantic Theatre Company. Upcoming: Into the Woods (Theatre Horizon), a concert of A New Brain (11th Hour) and the world premiere of Greg Banks’ The Jungle Book (Arden).

TimOTHy R. mACkAbEE (Scenic Designer) Arden debut. Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper); Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (directed by Spike Lee). Off-Broadway: Heathers: The Musical; Luce (Lincoln Center Theater); Much Ado About Nothing (The Public Theater); Our New Girl (Atlantic Theater Company). Regional: Amadeus (Center Stage); The Odd Couple (Dal-las Theater Center); Chinglish (Portland Center Stage/Syracuse Stage); Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre); Fairfield (Cleve-land Play House); American Hero (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film/television: NBC’s Smash, The Today Show, Football Night in America. Training: North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA), Yale School of Drama (MFA). Upcoming: The Band’s Visit (directed by Hal Prince). timothymackabeedesign.com

OliVERA gAJiC (Costume Designer) Arden: Three Sisters, The Flea and the Professor; Off Broadway: God’s Ear (Vineyard Theatre); Regional: Chekhov Lizardbrain, Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Pig Iron), Jedermann/Everyman (Salzburg Festival), Ivanov, Uncle Vanja, Platonov, Seagull (Lake Lucille). Olivera designs extensively for the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Juilliard School. She has been part of the US National Exhibit at the 2004&2007 Prague Quadrennial and Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance. Olivera is 2004 recipient of the NEA/TCG CDP for Designers, recipient of 2010 IT Award for Outstanding Costume Design, recipient of TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award 2010 and 2012 Barrymore Award for Out-standing Costume Design for Pig Iron Theatre Company’s Twelfth Night.

THOm WEAVER (Lighting Designer) Arden: 15 total productions including La Bête, Parade, Next to Normal, A Little Night Music, and Stick Fly; Regional: The Wilma Theater, People’s Light & Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Lantern Theater Company, Walnut Street Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, The Curtis Institute of Music, New Paradise Laboratories, Theatre Exile, 1812 Productions, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and Flashpoint Theatre Company, where he is Artistic Director. Other credits: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Children’s Theatre Company. 2 Barrymores, 18-time nominee, 3-time Helen Hayes nominee, and the 2007 AUDELCO Award. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

RiCk SimS (Sound Designer) Arden: The Cat in the Hat. Regional: Icarus at the Getty, Hephaustus (Jeff Award Winner) (Lookingglass); Gary (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Brothers of the Dust, Bulrusher (BTAA Award Winner) (Congo Square Theatre Company); nu-merous works at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Writers Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, Chicago Children’s Theatre, The Hypocrites, The House Theatre of Chicago, Court Theatre, American Theater Company, Victory Gardens Theater, Raven Theatre, Steep, Northlight, and About Face Theatre. Ricker is an artistic associate at Lookingglass Theatre Company and an associate designer with Aria Music Designs. Rick also wrote the book, music and lyrics for Hillbilly Antigone (Lookingglass).

SCOTT mCPHEETERS (Choreographer) Arden debut. Regional: Andy: A Popera (Bearded Ladies Cabaret), Aladdin and Other Enchant-ing Tales (Enchantment Theatre Company). Scott is a company member of Subscribe and performs regularly with Nicole Canuso Dance Company. Training: BA in Theatre Arts with a Dance Emphasis from Dickinson College. Special thanks to Sally Ollove, Amanda Morton, John Jarboe, Matt Decker, and Niki Cousineau.

NEill HARTlEy (Dialect Coach) Arden: Parade, Next to Normal, Tulipomania, August: Osage County, Wannamaker’s Pursuit, Sunday in the Park with George, Something Intangible. Neill is on the theater faculty at the University of the Arts and has been a speech/dialect coach for several professional productions. He has acted with many companies including the Arden, InterAct Theatre Company, People’s Light & Theatre Company and Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater. He has six one-man shows that he presents, is in many

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voice-overs, commercials and films, and has a recurring role on the Netflix show House of Cards. He is the Artistic Director for Acting Without Boundaries, a theater company for physically disabled performers and he has directed for many local colleges and theaters.

liAm CASTEllAN (Assistant Director) Arden: A Year with Frog and Toad. Regional directing credits: Communicating Doors, Corpse! (Hedgerow Theatre Company); Traveling Light (FringeArts: Neighborhood Fringe, Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress); Titus Andronicus (Plays & Players); What the Butler Saw (Curio Theatre Company). Acting credits: Jaggers/Orlick/Bentley Drummle/Ensemble in Great Expectations (Curio Theatre Company). Training: Northwestern University (BS). Member of Curio Theatre Company since 2006. www.liamcastellan.com

kATE NElSON (Stage Manager) Arden: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Parade, Ghost-Writer. Regional: Becky Shaw; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Montgomery Theater); Cinderella, Six Characters in Search of an Author (People’s Light and Theatre Com-pany). Many thanks to this outstanding crew, cast, and Matt.

TERRENCE J. NOlEN (Producing Artistic Director) is co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Arden Theatre Company. Favorite Arden productions include all-Philadelphia casts of August: Osage County; Death of a Salesman; The Grapes of Wrath and Hedda Gabler and such musicals as Next to Normal; Sweeney Todd; Pacific Overtures; Violet; and Caroline, or Change. Terry directed the inaugural production of Arden Children’s Theatre, Charlotte’s Web. He has directed six world-premiere plays by Michael Hollinger, three by Dennis Raymond Smeal, three by Michael Ogborn, two by Rogelio Martinez, and Bruce Graham’s Something Intangible. Terry has been nominated for 24 Barrymore Awards for his directing work at the Arden and received awards for The Baker’s Wife; Sweeney Todd; Opus; Winesburg, Ohio; Assassins; and Something Intangible. He directed Michael Hollinger’s Opus at Primary Stages in New York and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director. His short film The Personal Touch was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Amy l. muRPHy (Managing Director) A Philadelphia native, Amy co-founded the Arden in 1988 with Terrence J. Nolen and Aaron Posner. She is especially proud of the Arden Professional Apprentice program and its contribution to the Philadelphia cultural community. A graduate of Susquehanna University, Amy received the university’s first-ever Young Alumni Achievement Award. She completed the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders-Arts which is a joint program of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation and National Arts Strategies. Amy serves on the Board of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and Theatre Philadelphia. She has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Arts Council, Theatre Communications Group and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and the Local Advisory Council of the Non Profit Finance Fund. Amy was named a Hepburn Fellow 2008-9 by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College.

ARdEN THEATRE COmPANy Founded in 1988, Arden Theatre Company is dedicated to bringing to life great stories by great storytellers–on the stage, in the classroom, and in the community. We stage five productions each season as part of our mainstage series and two productions through Arden Children’s Theatre, the city’s first resident professional children’s theatre program. We create and produce new work through the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase. The Arden Professional Apprenticeship program trains future theatre leaders, and Arden Drama School classes teach children and teens about the craft of making plays. Our access program, Arden For All, makes our work available to the entire community through subsidized tickets and books for economically disadvantaged young people, and our Arden Arts Education Fund provides scholarships for Arden Drama School classes and camps. In 2013, we opened the Hamilton Family Arts Center. The Arden has received seven Philadelphia Magazine “Best of Philly” Awards, the Arts & Business Council’s Arts Excellence Award, five City Paper “Reader’s Choice” Awards, four Philadelphia Inquirer “Theatre Company of the Year” citations, 58 awards and 276 nominations from the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia’s Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, and was named “Best Theatre Com-pany” by Philadelphia Weekly in 2009. Arden Theatre Company, a professional, nonprofit 501(c)(3) theatre company, is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the League of Resident Theatres, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau and Old City Arts Association. The Arden participates in The Barrymore Awards, a program of Theatre Philadelphia.

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Arden Theatre Company wishes to thank: East End Salon