Kimberly King as Dotty Otley in the Alley Theatre’s production of Noises Off. Noises Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
THE ALLEY THEATRE
www.alleytheatre.org
Gregory Boyd, Artistic Director
Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director
PRESENT
NOISES OFF
By Michael Frayn
Directed by Gregory Boyd
May 25 - June 24, 2012
Kimberly King as Dotty Otley in the Alley
Theatre’s production of Noises Off. Noises
Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage. Photo by
T. Charles Erickson.
Alley Theatre Announces Cast and Creative Team for Noises Off
HOUSTON, TX - Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd announces the cast and creative team for the Alley Theatre's production of the Michael Frayn's delightful, uproarious romp Noises Off.
New York Magazine says Noises Off is "As side-splitting a farce as I have ever seen. Ever? Ever!" The New York Times agrees saying "Is, was and probably always will be, the funniest play written in my lifetime." A farce within a farce, Noises Off takes the clichés of the genre and shakes them up in a wild comic blender into a hilarious melee of compromising situations and eccentric characters as they stampede in and out of doors, voices rising, trousers falling - to create something truly brilliant and unique. The funniest of modern comedies and a tour de force for the actors, Noises Off is a special treat for audiences.
Noises Off features longtime Alley artists Josie de Guzman as Belinda Blair (Alley's The Seagull , August: Osage County) and Kimberly King as Dotty Otley (Alley's The Seagull, The Man Who Came to Dinner).
Noises Off also features Alley Theatre Resident Acting Company members James Black as Lloyd Dallas, Melissa Pritchett as Brooke Ashton, John Tyson as Selsdon Mowbray and Todd Waite as Frederick Fellowes.
Making their Alley Theatre debuts are Ben Diskant as Tim Allgood, Allison Guinn as Poppy Norton-Taylor and Mic Matarrese as Garry Lejeune.
Noises Off features scenic design by Hugh Landwehr and costume design by Alejo Vietti. Lighting design is by Pat Collins and sound design is by Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen with Movement Director Brian Byrnes, and Dialect, Voice and Text Coach Pamela Prather.
Michael Frayn, a playwright, novelist, and journalist was born in London, first established his reputation with witty, gently satirical columns in The Manchester Guardian and The Observer. He wrote a series of novels in the same vein, including The Russian Interpreter (1966). His many plays include Copenhagen, Benefactors, Alphabetical Order and Clouds. He also wrote the script for the film "Clockwise" and the novel The Trick of It.
Noises Off, by Michael Frayn and directed by Gregory Boyd, begins previews Friday, May 25, opens Wednesday, May 30, and runs through Sunday, June 24, 2012, on the Hubbard Stage.
Mic Matarrese as Garry Lejeune in the Alley
Theatre’s production of Noises Off. Noises
Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage. Photo by
T. Charles Erickson.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Michael Frayn was born in 1933, in the suburbs of London. He began his career as a reporter for The Guardian, then became a columnist for that paper from 1959 to 1962, and then for The Observer from 1962 to 1968.
He has written a number of plays for television, and for the stage his work includes The Two of Us, Alphabetical Order, Donkeys' Years, Clouds, Balmoral (Liberty Hall), Make and Break, Noises Off, Benefactors, Look Look and Here. Alphabetical Order, Make and Break and Noises Off all received Best Comedy of the Year awards, whilst Benefactors was named Best Play of the Year.
He has translated four of Chekhov's full-length plays - The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya and adapted Chekhov's first, untitled play as Wild Honey. He has also translated four of his one-act plays - The Evils of Tobacco, Swan Song, The Bear and The Proposal and adapted five short stories Drama, The Alien Corn, The Sneeze, The Inspector General, Swan Song and Plots for the stage. He has translated Tolstoy's Fruits of Enlightenment, Yuri Trifonov's Exchange and Anouilh's Number One.
"Clockwise," his first film, was released in 1986 starring John Cleese. His second film, "First and Last," won an International Emmy Award in 1990. The film of his play "Noises Off" was produced by Disney.
His latest play, Afterlife, about impresario Max Reinhardt premiered at the National Theatre in 2008 and has been performed variously abroad.
He has published 10 novels, including a book about philosophy, "The Human Touch," published in 2006. "Stage Directions" followed - a collection of his prefaces and postscripts and his latest book, "My Father's Fortune," was published in September 2010. Michael was awarded the Writer's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.
Earlier this year, Noises Off transferred from London's Old Vic Theatre to London's West End.
ABOUT THE CAST
James Black (Lloyd Dallas) is proud to be celebrating his 24th consecutive season at the Alley where as an actor and occasional director, he has been involved in over 100 productions. Recent appearances include The Seafarer as James "Sharky" Harkin, The Seagull as Trigorin, Dividing the Estate as Lewis Gordon, Pygmalion as Colonel Pickering, Amadeus as Count Orsini-Rosenberg, August: Osage County as Steve Heidebrecht, Peter Pan as Captain Hook/Mr. Darling, St. Nicholas, Boeing-Boeing as Bernard, Harvey as Elwood P. Dowd, Mrs. Mannerly as Jeffrey, Our Town as Stage Manager, The Farnsworth Invention, Rock 'n' Roll as Max, The Man Who Came to Dinner as Sheridan Whiteside, A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Dilber/Jacob Marley, Cyrano de Bergerac as Le Bret, Othello as Iago, Arsenic and Old Lace as Jonathan Brewster, Treasure Island as Long John Silver, Hitchcock Blonde as Hitch, A Moon for the Misbegotten as James Tyrone Jr., Orson's Shadow as Olivier, Journey's End as Lieutenant Osborne, A Christmas Carol as Scrooge, The Crucible as Proctor, After the Fall as Quentin, Black Coffee as Hercule Poirot, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Marcus Lycus, Twelfth Night as Sir Toby Belch, Sherlock Holmes as Moriarty, Hamlet as Claudius, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest as McMurphy, How I Learned to Drive as Uncle Peck, A View From the Bridge as Eddie Carbone, and Not About Nightingales as Butch O'Fallon among others. He has also directed A Behanding in Spokane, Doubt, Death on the Nile, Glengarry Glen Ross, Deathtrap, Dial "M" for Murder, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Foreigner, Of Mice and Men and As Bees in Honey Drown. His film and television credits include Olympia, The Man with the Perfect Swing, Houston: The Legend of Texas, Fire and Rain, Challenger, Night Game, and Killing in a Small Town. He received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actor for Not About Nightingales, and a BackStage West Garland Award for his appearance as Eddie Carbone in the Alley's production of A View from the Bridge.
Josie de Guzman as Belinda Blair in the
Alley Theatre’s production of Noises Off. Noises
Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage. Photo by
T. Charles Erickson.
Josie de Guzman (Belinda Blair) returns to the Alley, having recently appeared as Arkadina in The Seagull, Vera Claythorne in And Then There Were None, Barbara Fordham in August: Osage County, Miss Casewell in The Mousetrap, Berthe in Boeing-Boeing, Mrs. Mannerly in Mrs. Mannerly, Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town, Eleanor/Esme in Rock 'n' Roll, Maggie Cutler in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Matilde in The Clean House, the title role in Hapgood, as well as After the Fall, Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, And Then There Were None, and House & Garden. She appeared as Mrs. Gibbs in Hartford Stage's production of Our Town. Her Broadway career includes Tony nominations for Guys and Dolls and West Side Story, as well as creating roles in Nick and Nora, Runaways, and Carmelina. She won the 2002 Connecticut Critics Award for Anna in The King and I, and has appeared extensively at the Public Theatre; where she created roles in Elizabeth Swados' Runaways, Lullaby and Goodnight and The Haggadah; at BAM in Missionaries and Off-Broadway in Tamara and Once Removed. Her regional theatre appearances include Hartford Stage in Diosa, Great Lakes in She Loves Me and Denver Center in Man of La Mancha, as well as such varied classical roles as Carmen, Viola, Varya, and Beatrice. Her films include Exiles in New York, FX and FX2, while television appearances include Miami Vice, The Cosby Show, Third Watch, All My Children, and Guiding Light. Her recordings include Lullabies for Everyone and Nanas Para Todos, both sold at cdbaby.com, as well as the cast recordings of Guys and Dolls, Carmelina, and Runaways.
Ben Diskant (Tim Allgood) is making his Alley Theatre debut. New York theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard at Classic Stage Company. Regional theatre credits include Merrily We Roll Along as Frank Jr. at Cincinnati Playhouse, Death of a Salesman as Bernard, The Tempest as Ariel, The Madness of George III as Greville, King Lear and Taming of the Shrew at The Old Globe, San Diego, Speech and Debate as Solomon at TheatreWorks, Hartford, The History Boys as Scripps at Studio Theatre, Washington D.C. and Anything Goes at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Television credits include One Life to Live and Guiding Light. Education & Training at The Old Globe/USD MFA Program and Northwestern University.
Allison Guinn (Poppy Norton-Taylor) is making her Alley Theatre debut. Theatre credits include Hair as Ensemble/Mother on Broadway and West End, as well as the national tour of Hair as Mother/ Buddadalirama, Courage in Concert at the Public Theater, and Williamsburg! The Musical! at NYC Fringe. Television credits include HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
Kimberly King (Dotty Otley) debuted at the Alley Theatre in 1991 and has appeared as Paulina in The Seagull, Harriet Stanley in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Joanna Mace in House & Garden, Inez in Life X 3, Raymonde in A Flea in Her Ear (twice), Keely in Keely and Du, Aggie in Dancing at Lughnasa and Lucy in Dracula, A Musical Nightmare . Kimberly is the founding artistic director of West Sound Repertory Theatre, a Washington State registered 501c3 non-profit professional theatre. Recently Kimberly and husband actor/director Ken Grantham appeared as Agnes and Tobias in the highly acclaimed Aurora Theatre Berkeley production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, both are nominated for Critics Circle awards. Kimberly created the roles of Becky in the world premiere of Steven Dietz's Becky's New Car, directed by Kurt Beattie, Dolores in the world premiere of Craig Lucas' Prayer for My Enemy at the Intiman directed by Bart Sher, and Agatha in the premiere of Amy Weisman's Hold Please at South Coast Rep. Kimberly was Sister Aloysius in Doubt at TheatreWorks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. King was nominated for a Critics Circle award for her portrayal of Mary Tyrone in Long Days Journey Into Night at San Jose Repertory. She has worked as a leading ensemble member with theatres across the country including Berkeley Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre in Princeton, and the Mark Taper Forum (Gretta in the Broadway production of James Joyce's The Dead). A classically trained mezzo-soprano, Ms. King has sung opera, musical theatre, and jazz. Her website is www.westsoundrepertorytheatre.org.
Mic Matarrese (Garry Lejeune) Mic makes his debut at the Alley with Noises Off. Other favorite stage roles include Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at Artists' Repertory Theater, Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carole at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Raskolnikov in Crime & Punishment at Chamber Theater, the title role in Coriolanus, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, both with Texas Shakespeare Festival, Talthybius in Trojan Women at Renaissance Theaterworks, and Anthony in The House of Yes at Bialystock & Bloom. Mic makes his home in Newark, Del., where he is a member of the Resident Ensemble Players, and has played such roles as Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opposite Elizabeth Heflin's Maggie, Willie Stark in All the King's Men, adapted for the stage and directed by Adrian Hall, Richard Greatham in Hay Fever, Babbybobbie in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Simon West in the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's O Beautiful, and, most recently, the Stage Manager in The Skin of Our Teeth.
Melissa Pritchett (Brooke Ashton) is an Alley Company Artist recently appearing in Ether Dome as Elizabeth Whitman Morton, Pygmalion as Clara Eynsford-Hill, Amadeus as Constanze Weber, Boeing-Boeing as Gretchen, Harvey as Betty Chumley/Miss Johnson, The Farnsworth Invention as Agnes, Rock 'n' Roll as Gillian/Magda, Eurydice as Little Stone, Cyrano de Bergerac as Lise, Othello as Bianca, Death on the Nile as Louise, Treasure Island as Jim's Mother/Anne Bonny, Hitchcock Blonde as Blonde, Much Ado About Nothing as Ursula, Black Comedy as Clea, Witness for the Prosecution as The Other Woman, The Miser as Servant, The Pillowman as Mother, After the Fall as Nurse/Ensemble and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Panacea. Other theatre credits include Broadway 2003 directed by Ann Reinking at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Beauty and the Beast, Brigadoon at Theatre Under the Stars, and Footloose at Great Caruso. As a dancer, she was a principal dancer for Longview Ballet Theatre and locally with SparacinoCompany Dancers. Her training includes the Broadway Theatre Project 2003 with Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Sam Houston State University.
Todd Waite as Frederick Fellowes in the
Alley Theatre’s production of Noises Off. Noises
Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage. Photo by
T. Charles Erickson.
John Tyson (Selsdon Mowbray) has appeared in a wide variety of roles in his 13 seasons at the Alley Theatre. Recent credits include Richard Harkin in The Seafarer, Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion, The Storyteller in Peter Pan, Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap, Professor Metz/Banjo in The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Librarian in Underneath the Lintel, Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Tupolski in The Pillowman. Notable performances include Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night,Boris Kolenkhov in You Can't Take It With You, AEH in The Invention of Love, both Dromios in The Comedy of Errors and Henry Carr in Travesties. Before coming to the Alley Theatre, Mr. Tyson worked at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Stagewest and Playmakers Repertory Company. At the Alley he directed The Woman in Black and his own play, Act Of Passion. He recently directed The Good Thief at the Mosaic Theatre. He has also written an adaptation of Christmas Carol and, with Santry Rush, written the musical Happy Ending.
Todd Waite (Frederick Fellowes) is in his 11th season as an Alley Company Artist. He has appeared in over 60 productions including four Christmas seasons of the one-man show: The Santaland Diaries.Other shows include Pygmalion as Henry Higgins, Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes, Rock 'n' Roll as Jan, The Goat or Who is Sylvia? as Martin, Arsenic and Old Lace as Mortimer Brewster, Hapgood as Kerner, Deathtrap as Sydney, Art as Ivan, Stones in His Pockets as Jake, The Devil's Disciple as Burgoyne, The Mousetrap as Christopher Wren, and The 39 Steps as Richard Hannay. Previously, Mr. Waite spent six seasons with the renowned Shaw Festival, played Enjolras in the Canadian premiere of Les Miserables, and guest-starred on all major U.S. and Canadian networks. Awards include the Critic's Choice Award for Intimate Exchanges at Dallas Theater Center, and a Best Actor nomination for his performance in the world premiere of The Coronation Voyage. He has directed several Canadian premieres and was the resident director for Cirque du Soleil's 'O' in Las Vegas. A recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship for master actor/teachers, Mr. Waite holds a BFA in Acting and a MFA in Directing, and is currently an adjunct professor for both the University of Houston's Graduate Program in Theatre Education and BFA Theatre Program. His private students attend Juilliard, Yale, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Stella Adler School, as well as Stage Door, Interlochen, and Houston's High School for the Performing Arts.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
Gregory Boyd (Director) During his tenure the Alley has risen in national and international prominence, winning the Special Tony Award and experiencing record growth in its Houston audiences, while also transferring its productions to major European Festivals (including two in one season at the Venice Biennale), Broadway and on tour to 40 American cities. Boyd's addition of artistic associates has enhanced the Alley's visibility and reputation worldwide; while his commitment to maintaining a resident company of actors has made the Alley unique among American theatre companies. At the Alley, Mr. Boyd has produced over 100 new productions of the widest ranging repertoire in the country. His Alley premieres have been nominated for eight Tony Awards - among them the premieres of Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams (Alley, London, Broadway), Jekyll & Hyde, (Alley, National Tour, Broadway), The Civil War (which he also co-authored). New Alley productions have included: Shakespeare's Roman Plays (with Vanessa and Corin Redgrave); Robert Wilson's productions of Hamlet, When We Dead Awaken and Danton's Death (with Richard Thomas); Ellen Burstyn in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and Tony Kushner's Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 (both directed by Michael Wilson), premieres by Keith Reddin (Synergy); Eve Ensler (Lemonade); and Alley Artistic Associates Edward Albee (The Play About the Baby), Horton Foote (The Carpetbagger's Children), Ken Ludwig (The Gershwins' An American in Paris, Leading Ladies) and Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, Wonderland, and Boyd's collaborator on The Civil War, a musical theatre production that premiered at the Alley before going onto Broadway and two national tours). In addition, Boyd directed the recordings of "The Civil War" and "Jekyll & Hyde" for Atlantic Records. At the Alley, he has appeared as an actor in Danton's Death (Tom Paine) and Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano) and directed over 40 productions including: Rock 'n' Roll, Eurydice, Cyrano de Bergerac, Treasure Island, Subject to Fits, Hitchcock Blonde, Hapgood, The Pillowman, Jekyll & Hyde, Three Sisters, In the Jungle of Cities, After the Fall, The Greeks, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Macbeth, As You Like It,and A Midsummer Night's Dream. This season, he will direct The Seagull, Noises Off, and The Seafarer. His recent directing projects outside the Alley have included Our Town at Hartford Stage (Hal Holbrook), Coward's Design for Living at Williamstown (Marisa Tomei, Campbell Scott, Steven Weber), Stoppard's Travesties at Long Wharf (Sam Waterston, Tom Hewitt) and the premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Boyd has served as Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He has taught on the faculties of Carnegie-Mellon, Williams College, the University of Houston, and the University of North Carolina, where he headed the Professional Theatre Training Program. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a Distinguished Alumnus, and at Carnegie-Mellon.
Hugh Landwehr (Scenic Design) has designed scenery throughout the U.S. At the Alley, he designed scenery for The Seafarer, Peter Pan, Harvey, The 39 Steps, Rock 'n' Roll, Eurydice, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Cyrano de Bergerac, Arsenic and Old Lace, Doubt, Witness for the Prosecution, Journey's End, Steel Magnolias, Death of a Salesman, The Front Page, Hedda Gabler, Noises Off!, A View from the Bridge and Hay Fever. His work on Broadway has included productions of Frozen, Bus Stop, All My Sons, and A View from the Bridge . Off-Broadway, he has designed Last Easter, Scattergood, Filumena, The Baby Dance, The Entertainer, and Candide , among others. He has had long and productive relationships with many regional theatres including Center Stage in Baltimore, Denver Center Theatre Co., The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, Kansas City Rep., South Coast Rep., Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory, and A.C.T. in Seattle. During summers he has designed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Westport Country Playhouse. He is presently a member of the faculty of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has taught at University of Wisconsin (Madison), The North Carolina School of the Arts and Williams College. He has twice been the recipient of NEA grants as an Associate Artist. Other awards include Murphy Award in Design (administered by Long Wharf Theatre) and the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design. He was educated at Yale College.
Melissa Pritchett as Brooke Ashton in the
Alley Theatre’s production of Noises Off.
Noises Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage.
Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
Alejo Vietti (Costume Design) recently designed the Alley Theatre productions of What We're Up Against, The Seagull, Pygmalion, August: Osage County, The 39 Steps, Our Town, Rock 'n' Roll, Mauritius, Eurydice, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Other Alley Theatre productions include The Unexpected Guest, Othello, The Scene, Death on the Nile, Tryst for the 60th anniversary season of the Neuhaus Stage, A Christmas Carol and Bad Dates. New York credits include Stephen Schwartz' Séance on a Wet Afternoon at NYC Opera, Secrets of the Trade, MTC's Nightingale and MCC's Grace both starring Lynn Redgrave, Manipulation, Rooms, William Finn's Make Me a Song, Tryst, Roulette, The Last Sunday in June, 16 Wounded, 2 X Tennessee, The Wau Wau Sisters, Servicemen directed by Sean Mathias, Waiting for Godot, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure and Othello among others. Regional credits include Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Colorado Ballet, Columbia University, Florida Stage, Ford's Theatre Washington DC, Goodspeed Opera, Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Longwharf Theatre, Minnesota Opera, New York Stage and Film, Northlight Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Rockland Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Saint Louis Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre Washington, Theatreworks Hartford, Westport Country Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival. International credits include The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Donetsk Opera in the Ukraine. Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Gold Unit 07/09. He is the recipient of the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.
Pat Collins (Lighting Design) returns to the Alley, having designed lighting for The Seagull, Harvey, Rock 'n' Roll, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Arsenic and Old Lace, Journey's End, The Underpants, The Crucible, After the Fall, The Real Thing, Hay Fever, A View from the Bridge, and Hedda Gabler. Her Broadway credits include Doubt, Proof, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Once Upon a Mattress, An American Daughter, A Delicate Balance, The Sisters Rosensweig, I'm Not Rappaport , Execution of Justice, Ain't Misbehavin', Death and the King's Horseman, Threepenny Opera and Ten Unknowns. Off-Broadway her work was seen in Doubt, Sight Unseen, Rose's Dilemma, Burn This and Occupant. Her opera credits include Wagner's Ring Cycle at The Royal Opera House-Covent Garden and over 100 productions for such companies as The Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, The Flemish Opera, Netherlands Opera, The Bayerische Staatsoper - Munich and The Paris Opera at the Garnier.
Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen (Sound Design) Broadway credits include music composition and sound for The Miracle Worker, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Speed of Darkness; music for My Thing of Love; and sound for Superior Donuts, reasons to be pretty, A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath . Off-Broadway credits include music and sound for Inked Baby, After Ashley, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Marvin's Room; sound for Brundibar, The Pain and the Itch and Jitney; and music direction and sound for Eyes for Consuela and Ruined. Recent original music and sound credits include: The Seagull, Peter Pan and Cyrano de Bergerac (Alley Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), American Buffalo (Steppenwolf, McCarter Theatre); Red Hot Patriot (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Austin's Zach Theatre); Having Our Say (McCarter Theatre) and sound for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Steppenwolf, Arena Stage); The Master Butcher Singing Club (Guthrie Theatre); Family Week (Manhattan's MCC); and the world premiere of, Houston's own, Bruce Norris' A Parallelogram (Steppenwolf). They have created music and sound at many of America's resident theatres (often with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre), the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, The Barbican Center, the National Theatre of Great Britain, the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, the Subaru Acting Company in Japan and festivals in Toronto, Dublin, Galway, Perth and Sydney.
Allison Guinn as Poppy Norton-Taylor in the
Alley Theatre’s production of Noises Off.
Noises Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage.
Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
Brian Byrnes (Movement Director) has staged fights and movement for over 60 Alley Theatre productions including The Seafarer, Ether Dome, August: Osage County, Peter Pan, Intelligence-Slave, Cyrano de Bergerac, Othello, The Pillowman, Deathtrap, Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Of Mice and Men, A Flea in Her Ear, As Bees in Honey Drown, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Zoo Story, Travesties, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Noises Off! , and others. His credentials include Fight Director and Certified Teacher via the Society of American Fight Directors. Brian has also been honored with the title of SAFD Fight Master for his outstanding contributions to the art form and to the SAFD. Other fight direction includes New York theatres, regional theatres, opera companies, Shakespeare festivals, American Players Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Houston Grand Opera, Stages Repertory Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Houston Ballet, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Catastrophic Theatre, Nova Arts Project, and "motion capture" for animation companies in the U.S. and Sweden. Brian is a proud member of AEA and acting work includes the Alley Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre, regional theatres and Shakespeare festivals. He also works as a director and has written several plays that have been professionally produced. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance.
Pamela Prather (Dialect Coach) is delighted to return to the Alley Theatre after coaching Boeing-Boeing, The Gershwins' An American in Paris, Othello and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Other credits include Hartford Stage Company's Our Town directed by Gregory Boyd, Yale Repertory Theatre's Happy Now? Directed by Liz Diamond, Black Snow directed by Evan Yionoulis, Miss Julie directed by Liz Diamond,Fighting Words directed by Liz Diamond, The Psychic Lives of Savages directed by James Bundy, Primary Stages Happy Now? Directed by Liz Diamond, Underwood Theatre's Fighting Words directed Liz Diamond, The Play Company's Trust directed byErica Schmidt, The Edge Theatre Co.'s Living Room In Africa directed by Carolyn Cantor, and Now That's What I Call A Storm directed Carolyn Cantor, New York Classical Theatre's Macbeth & Mary Stuart directed Stephen Burdman, St. Ann's Warehouse DUMBO (Hiroshima Maiden), Dance Theatre Workshop's Blood Cherries, Hampton's Shakespeare Festival's The Winter's Tale directed by Michael Landman. Pamela has taught at Yale School of Drama, NYU and UCLA. She received her MFA in Acting from UCLA and is certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Laughter Yoga and Prana Yoga. Pamela is the founder of "Laughing Voice" www.pamelaprather.com
Melissa Pritchett as Brooke Ashton in the
Alley Theatre’s production of Noises Off. Noises
Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage. Photo by
T. Charles Erickson.
SPONSORS
Noises Off is generously sponsored by Premiere Sponsor The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, Lead Sponsors Chevron and Enbridge Energy Company and Supporting Sponsors PricewaterhouseCoopers, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. and Baker Botts L.L.P. The Alley Theatre is supported by the 2011-2012 season sponsor United Airlines, the official airline of the Alley Theatre.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets to Noises Off start at $25. All tickets to Noises Off are available for purchase at www.alleytheatre.org, at the Alley Theatre Box Office, 615 Texas Avenue, or by calling 713.220.5700. Groups of 10 or more can receive special concierge services and select discounts by calling 713.220.5700 and asking for the group sales department.
CAPTIONED AND AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE
Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 2:30 p.m.
The Alley Theatre offers access services for our deaf or hard of hearing and sight-impaired patrons. Audio Description is provided for each Hubbard Stage production and Open Captioning is offered for every Hubbard Stage and Neuhaus Stage production. To ensure that your seats will accommodate your needs, please call the box office 713.220.5700 when ordering tickets to this performance. Discounted tickets are available for groups of 10 or more.
Ben Diskant as Tim Allgood in the Alley
Theatre’s production of Noises Off. Noises
Off runs May 25 through June 24, 2012 on the Hubbard Stage. Photo by
T. Charles Erickson.
TURNING POINT $10 TIX
Saturday, May 26, 2012
The Alley Theatre continues its efforts to make the theatre affordable to patrons. Partnering with other social non-profit organizations, the Alley seeks to generate in-kind donations and reward patrons with $10 Tix for select performances. The $10 Tix are available in person only on Saturday, May 26 and are limited to two tickets per person. With your donation, you can purchase two $10 tickets for Saturday, May 26 at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. or Thursday, May 31 at 7:30 p.m. Donate and purchase in person at the box office (615 Texas Ave.) on Saturday, May 26 only. Limited availability. The $10 Tix partner for Noises Off is The Turning Point Center. The date to donate and purchase is Saturday, May 26, beginning at 11 a.m. The donated item is new, wrapped toilet paper and paper towels.
TALKBACK
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Members of the cast return to the stage following the performance to take questions from the audience. TalkBacks are led by a member of the Alley Artistic Staff.
ACTOUT
Thursday, June 7, 2012 from 6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
Houston's premiere theatre group for gay and lesbian theatre fans and their friends celebrates the Alley Theatre's production of Noises Off . This pre-curtain event is complimentary with your ticket to the Thursday, June 7, 7:30 p.m. performance Noises Off . To buy a ticket, required for this event, use the promo code: ACTOUT. Purchase online at www.alleytheatre.org or call the box office at 713.220.5700.
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