Tony Award-winning comedy - Best Play 2009
God of Carnage
Creative Team Bios
YASMINA REZA
PlaywrightYasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes, produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages. She has written seven plays (Conversations after a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life X 3, A Spanish Play, God of Carnage, How You Talk the Game) and six novels (Hammerklavier, Une Desolation (Desolation), Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L'Aube, le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night)). Her films include Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz, directed by Didier Martiny and Chicas, written and directed by the author.
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
TranslatorChristopher Hampton is an author whose plays, musicals and translations have garnered three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards and the New York Theatre Critics Circle Award. Prizes for his film and television work include an Academy Award, two BAFTAs, a Writer's Guild of America Award, the Prix Italian and a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His plays include Treats, Savages, The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse and When Did You Last See My Mother? Other plays include Art, Sunset Boulevard, The Talking Cure, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, White Chameleon, Tales from Hollywood, Life X 3, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Unexpected Man and Conversations after a Burial. His television credits include The Ginger Tree, Hotel du Lac, The History Man, and Able’s Will. He has written the screenplays for Atonement, The Quiet American, The Secret Agent, Mary Reilly, Carrington, Total Eclipse, Dangerous Liaisons, Wolf at the Door, The Good Father, The Honorary Consul and A Doll’s House.
RICK LOMBARDO
DirectorRick Lombardo is in his fourth season as Artistic Director at San Jose Repertory Theatre, where he has directed Love in American Times (world premiere), The Dresser, Black Pearl Sings!, The Weir and As You Like It, which received nominations for outstanding production and outstanding direction by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. He was the Artistic Director for 13 years at the award-winning New Repertory Theatre, the leading mid-size resident theatre in the greater-Boston area. In 2009, he was awarded the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence from the Boston Theatre Crit¬ics Association for his work at New Rep. He is also the recipient of four individual Elliot Norton Awards and is a nine-time winner of the “IRNE” Award for his productions of The Clean House, Sweeney Todd, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ragtime, Waiting for Godot and The Weir. His world premiere of According to Tip transferred to Boston’s theatre district in 2009, and his New Rep production of Bill W. and Dr. Bob enjoyed an extended run off-Broadway in 2007. In the New England area, Mr. Lombardo also directed at Opera Boston, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, and Actors Shakespeare Project, among others. He was previously Artistic Director of the Players Guild in Ohio, Co-Director of the theatre program at Fordham University’s College at Lincoln Center, as well as Founding Artistic Director of the Stillwaters Theatre Company in New York City. Mr. Lombardo is a member of the Stage Directors and Chore¬ographers Society and lives in San Jose with his wife, actress Rachel Harker, and daughter.
KENT DORSEY
Scenic DesignerKent Dorsey returns to ATC where his scenic designs include Enchanted April, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, For Better or Worse, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Work Song (ariZoni Award), How the Other Half Loves, Arms and the Man and The Tempest. He designed both scenery and lighting for ATC’s Ain’t Misbehavin’ and was the Lighting Designer for Misalliance, Fool for Love and What the Butler Saw. His New York credits include About Time, Alligator Tales, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Silence, Suds and Yankee Dawg You Die. Mr. Dorsey has designed scenery and/or lighting on over 95 productions for The Old Globe. He has also designed for most of the major resident theatre companies. Opera credits include the world premiere of The Conquistador at San Diego Opera, The Lighthouse at San Diego Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre, The Merry Widow at Opera San Jose, Lucia di Lammermoor at Greensboro Opera, The Flying Dutchman at Virginia Opera and La Boheme and Samson et Dalila for Palm Beach Opera.
KISH FINNEGAN
Costume DesignKish Finnegan has been with Arizona Theatre Company since 1989 and is the Costume Design Manager. Her ATC costume designs include Woody Guthrie’s American Song, [title of show], The Kite Runner, Hair, Touch the Names, Molly’s Delicious, Tuesdays with Morrie, Copenhagen, and 2 Pianos 4 Hands, among many others. Ms. Finnegan also enjoys designing costumes for children’s theatre including Seussical, Junie B. Jones, Go Dog Go, The Imaginators at Childsplay and Sabunana for Arts For All/Third Street Kids. A graduate of California Institute of the Arts, she began her career in Los Angeles in both theatre and film, designing for a variety of projects, from animated bears to MTV. She also designed for the Burbank Repertory Theatre and the Chamber Theatre, where she won the Los Angeles DramaLogue Award for Costume Design. Her most unique designs have been for Aquacades and aquatic costumes for the US national synchronized swimming team.
DAVID LEE CUTHBERT
Lighting DesignDavid Lee Cuthbert returns to Arizona Theatre Company where he designed lights for Lost in Yonkers, and lights and projections for The Kite Runner and Enchanted April. He lit Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays on Broadway and its subsequent US, Canadian and Australian tours. Internationally, he designed Terminal, directed by Joseph Chaikin, and his scenic and lighting design for The History (and Mystery) of the Universe has been seen at major theaters across the country. For San Jose Repertory Theatre, he designed lights and media for Spring Awakening and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, scenery and media for Secret Order and As You Like It, and he has lit Groundswell, Rabbit Hole, and others. His regional credits include Arena Stage, American Repertory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Opera San Jose, Magic Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Intiman Theatre, ACT Theatre, South Coast Repertory, San Diego Repertory Theatre and Sledgehammer Theatre. Mr. Cuthbert is a Professor of Design and Theatre Department Chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
BRIAN JEROME PETERSON
Resident Sound DesignerBrian Jerome Peterson celebrates his 26th season at ATC, where he has designed 69 productions, including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Lost in Yonkers, The Second City Does Arizona, Ain’t Misbehavin’, George is Dead, Somebody/Nobody, Enchanted April, Touch the Names, I Am My Own Wife, Twelfth Night, Tuesdays with Morrie, Crowns, Macbeth, The Pirates of Penzance, The Immigrant, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oh Coward!, Copenhagen, Fully Committed and The Mystery of Irma Vep (for which he won an ariZoni Award) and the world premieres of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Minor Demons and The Holy Terror. His designs have been heard in many theatres including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Northlight Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville and San Jose Repertory Theatre.
BRENT GIBBS*
Fight DirectorBrent Gibbs is a member of the Acting/Musical Theatre faculty at the University of Arizona where he teaches Acting and Stage Combat. He is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors. He has gained recognition as an Advanced Actor/Combatant by the Society of British Fight Directors, The Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors Canada. For several summers, he taught stage combat workshops at the International Theatreschool Festival held in Amsterdam. In Arizona, Mr. Gibbs garnered an ariZoni Award for his fight direction in the Southwest Shakespeare Company's production of Henry V. This year, he will direct Julius Caesar at the Arizona Repertory Theatre, where he serves as Artistic Director. Mr. Gibbs is also a member of Actors' Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild.
TIMOTHY TOOTHMAN
Stage ManagerTimmothy Toothman is the Artistic Associate at ATC. He has stage managed ATC’s productions of Lost in Yonkers, The Glass Menagerie, The Lady with All the Answers, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Immigrant and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Mr. Toothman spent five seasons as the Production Stage Manager for the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and was then Company Manager for five years for Sunshine Too, a national touring ensemble of deaf and hearing actors. He has also managed producing and presenting theatres in Indiana and Maryland. Prior to moving to Arizona, Mr. Toothman spent eleven years as a program and grants director for the Maryland State Arts Council and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Mr. Toothman stage managed the National Heritage Awards Program for the National Endowment for the Arts for ten years and was the Production Stage Manager for six seasons at the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha’s Vineyard.
GLENN BRUNER*
Assistant Stage ManagerGlenn Bruner is in his fifteenth season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, The Mystery of Irma Vep, [title of show], The Kite Runner, Hair, Enchanted April, and the world premieres of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club and Ten Chimneys, and Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh and Over the Moon. Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Studio Arena Theatre, and Maine’s Portland Stage Company. Mr. Bruner has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1981.
EMMA THROCKMORTON
Assistant to the Stage ManagerEmma Throckmorton is working on her first Arizona Theatre Company production. Regionally, she has worked at Utah Shakespearean Festival, Phoenix Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse (Handsome Little Devils), Scottsdale Center of Performing Arts and Southwest Shakespeare Company, as well as on The Magic of David Copperfield.
SAN JOSE REPERTORY THEATRE
Co-ProducerFounded in 1980, the San Jose Repertory Theatre is an award-winning regional theatre with a mission to engage, entertain, and inspire. They produce innovative theatrical performances that offer fresh perspectives into the human condition, educational programs that promote life-long learning, and outreach initiatives that benefit Silicon Valley’s diverse community. San Jose Rep presents seven mainstage productions and offers extensive education/outreach programming that serves over 100,000 community members annually. Over the last five years, San Jose Rep has received prestigious national awards for new works and outstanding artistic merit from organizations such as The Shubert Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Dean Goodman Awards, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, DramaLogue Critics Awards and AT&T OnStage. Previous co-productions with Arizona Theatre Company: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Pride and Prejudice, The Underpants, Ella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. God of Carnage will play at San Jose Rep from March 22 - April 15, 2012.
