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Cast Bios

DENIS ARNDT

Mark Rothko

Denis Arndt is a veteran of the American Stage and has performed in major theatres across the country and in Canada, including New York’s Public Theater and Chicago’s Goodman Theatre—as well as Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage and Studio Theatre. He has performed in Seattle with Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, The Empty Space and Intiman Theatre. Regional productions include God of Carnage (Alan Raleigh) at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Dealer’s Choice at Mark Taper Forum, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Intiman Theatre (where he is a founding member), Juno and the Paycock at Arena Stage and the title role in Richard III at Seattle Repertory Theatre, directed by Daniel Sullivan. He also played the title role in The Ballad of Soapy Smith for Joe Papp at New York’s Public Theater, Prospero in The Tempest at Goodman Theatre and Puntila in Puntila and His Hired Man at Remains Theatre in Chicago, for which he was awarded the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor. Mr. Arndt played 15 seasons with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, performing title roles in King Lear, Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, as well as Iago in Othello, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona. He was seen as James in Moon for the Misbegotten opposite Jean Smart and Jamie in Long Day’s Journey into Night with William Hurt, who played Edmund. He has been seen in many film and television roles including LA Law, Picket Fences, The Practice, Boston Legal, Providence, Colombo, Murder She Wrote, Basic Instinct, Metro, Supernatural, 24 and SWAT; most recently, he played Arizona’s father in Grey’s Anatomy.

CONNOR TOMS

Ken

Connor Toms has performed on Broadway at the New Victory Theatre. He has appeared at Seattle Repertory Theatre as Reuven Malter in Chaim Potok's The Chosen and at Intiman Theatre (The Diary of Anne Frank, The Grapes of Wrath), ACT Theatre (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play), Seattle Shakespeare Company (Cymbeline - Footlight Award, Two Gentlemen of Verona), Seattle Children's Theatre (Hamlet, A Tale of Two Cities), Book-It Repertory Theatre (Cider House Rules parts 1 & 2 -- Footlight Award, Gregory Falls Nomination for Outstanding Actor), Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Wooden O Shakespeare and many others.