Ellen Hay (Production Stage Manager) Ellen Hay has been stage managing in Chicago for the past decade. Most recently, she stage managed Thyestes directed by JoAnne Akalaitis at Court Theatre. Other Court credits include Arcadia, Raisin, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, The Chairs, Mary Stuart, The Invention of Love, The Little Foxes, La Bête and Nora. Other regional credits include Goodman Theatre (The David Mamet Festival, Floyd & Clea Under the Western Sky, Mariela in the Desert, Moonlight and Magnolias, The Edward Albee Festival, The Play About the Baby, Trojan Women, Lobby Hero, The Gift Horse, Among the Thugs, House and Garden, Schoolgirl Figure, Millennium Mambo and Mirror of the Invisible World), Northlight Theatre (Grace and Lady) and Hartford Stage (Floyd & Clea Under the Western Sky).

Patrick Vaill (Dionysus) New York Theater: A Month in the Café (Theater for the New City), Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir (NY Fringe and Fringe Encores), and the upcoming Edward II with the Red Bull Theater. Proud new member of the Bats at the Flea Theater. Training: Bard College and The Actors Center.

Steven Rishard (Cowherd) The Public: King Lear (understudy), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (understudy), title role in Coriolanus (workshop, dir. Joanna Settle). Off-Broadway includes work with director Chen Shi-Zheng for Lincoln Center, The Pagans (Michael, Abingdon Theater), A Heartbeat to Baghdad (Dan, dir. Jim Simpson), Act Without Words 1 for Becket Shorts 4, Journeys Among the Dead (HERE), In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company). Regional credits include, at the Court theater in Chicago: The Real Thing, and Gross Indecency... (dir. Gary Griffin), Quartet, and Life's a Dream (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis), A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Lazlo Marton) La Bete, and The Learned Ladies (dir. Charles Newell). Big Love at the Wilma Theater, and The Rainmaker at Triad Stage. TV: "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU," "Ed.", "Guiding Light", and "As the World Turns".

Corey Sullivan (Pentheus) Off Broadway: Christopher Durang's Vietnamization of New Jersey (NY Premier/Beckett Theater); The Myth Cycle: Ahraihsak (Under The Radar Fest); Without Skin or Hair (NYMF/Ars Nova); Little Building (Jollyship the Whizbang); Sleepless Somniloquy (BAM/Chashama). Regional: Dhammashok (RMT/Mark Taper Forum); Jack or The Submission (Hudson River Theater). Member: Mitu, (Company in Residence, NYTW) with Mitu: Happy Accident #1, Hamletmachine; Four Saints In/Mexico; The Ramayana. Upcoming Films: Young Abraham, Peekskill, The Escapists. Training: Bard College, Theater and Theology.

George Bartenieff (Tiresias) The Public: six productions, most recently Stuff Happens. Other recent theater credits include Prometheus Bound (CSC), Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway), Tuesdays with Morrie (Tour), and two one-man shows, I Will Bear Witness (Part I and II), based on the diaries of Victor Klemperer and directed by Karen Malpede. Co-founder, Theater for the New City and Theater Three Collaborative. Winner: three Obies, one Philly Award.

Joan Scheckel (Agave) Joan performed with some of the country's most visionary stage directors including Anne Bogart and Joanne Akalaitis at such theatres as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. As a theatre director, Scheckel staged Pirandello's "I'm Dreaming...But Am I?" at the Evidence Room Theatre; Gillian Plowman's "Me and My Friend" at The Los Angeles Theatre Center; and Strindberg's "Miss Julie" on a sound stage at Warner Hollywood. Joan Scheckel is known throughout the world for her revolutionary filmmaking workshops. Her edgy, groundbreaking work has gained her international respect as a visionary master of film craft. Joan began workshopping films in 1998 and has since guided the development of over 250 features and shorts worldwide.

Mick Weber (Koryphaeus) Mick Weber comes to Stanford straight from working with JoAnne Akalaitis on Seneca's Thyestes at Court Theatre in Chicago. In Chicago, he has also been seen in Bus Stop (Writers Theatre), Shear Madness (Chicago Theater), Gypsy (Porchlight), Hanging Fire (Victory Gardens), The Ride Down Mount Morgan (ELT) and A Ritual of Faith (Theatre Building). He lived in New York for several years and acted Off-Broadway in Balm in Gilead and Another Paradise, as well as in several Off-Off Broadway productions. Regionally, he has been seen at Milwaukee Shakespeare, Merrimack Rep, American Stage, Arkansas Rep, Stamford Theatreworks and TheatreVirginia, among others. He holds an MFA in Acting from NYU and was a long-time member of the Circle Rep Lab in New York City. He has also appeared in several films and commercials. He has been a member of Actors Equity since 1984.

Rocco Sisto (Servant) Broadway: AMADEUS (Musicbox Theater); A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (Roundabout); THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Lincoln Center). Recent Off-Broadway: IPHIGENIA 2.0 (Signature Theater); KAOS (New York Theater Workshop); SOULS OF NAPLES (Theater For A New Audience). Many plays for the New York Shakespeare Festival and other theaters in New York. Films include: DONNIE BRASCO, FREQUENCY, ILLUMINATA, ERASER, CARLITO'S WAY and the cult hit THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT. Television: THE SOPRANOS, LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER C.I., HOMICIDE, CSI, CLOSE TO HOME, STAR TREK T.N.G., ALIAS, NYPD BLUE, JAG. Founding member of Shakespeare & Co. Awards: Obie for THE WINTER'S TALE; Obie, Drama Desk Nom and Drama League Award for QUILLS.

Colleen Fitzpatrick (Chorus) Broadway leading roles: Passion, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Company, 110 in the Shade (Roundabout), Lestat, original companies of Into The Woods and Cats. Public Theater: Mother Courage (Delacorte) National tours: Mamma Mia (Donna Sheridan), Into The Woods (Lucinda). Concerts/albums: South Pacific; Anyone Can Whistle; A Sondheim Celebration (Carnegie Hall); Call Me Madam, Do-Re-Mi, Strike Up The Band, The Broadway Bash (all Encores!); Passion, Lestat. TV/Film: South Pacific, Passion (mistress) Ð both PBS; Liar, Liar; The Mambo Kings; Naked Gun 2; Just Cause.

Marisa Echeverría (Chorus) Off-Broadway/NYC: Surface to Air (Symphony Space), Kingdom (NAMT & New York Musical Festival, NYMF award for outstanding individual performance), At Said (P.S.122/13P), Tight Embrace, points of departure (INTAR), Welcome to Arroyo's (SPF), and Missionaries (BAM). Regional work includes: Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage), Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse), The New New, Pleasure Cruise (Guthrie Lab), My Fair Lady (Berkshire Theatre Festival). TV:"Canterbury's Law", "Law & Order", "Rescue Me", "Strong Medicine". Education: BA, Harvard College; MFA, NYU.

Alexa Kryzaniwsky (Chorus) Alexa is a graduate of NYU's Tisch. Some of her credits include the 2006 Baryshnikov Arts Center Fellowship, A Brilliant Play by, John McEnroe, Out of Time; A Puppet Spectacle at the St. Ann's Warehouse, an independent film, Rich From Within, and she is now apart of EPIONE, a tragic improv group which performs twice a month in NYC.

Ereni Sevasti (Chorus) This is Ereni's debut production with the Public Theater. She was last seen as Lili in Carnival at The Kennedy Center. Other credits include Leisl in The Sound of Music at the Paper Mill Playhouse and The Magic Flute at NJPAC and the McCarter Theater. She is a graduate of the Mason Gross School of the Arts. www.erenisevasti.com

Karen Kandel (Chorus) MABOU MINES' LEAR (OBIE); TALK (OBIE); PETER AND WENDY (OBIE, Drama League, Dramalogue, Connecticut Critics Circle, Craig Noel Awards). Karen and Mabou Mines are participants in the Fox Resident Artist Fellowship Program funded by the William & Eva Fox Foundation, administered by Theatre Communications Group. She is an Artistic Associate with Mabou Mines.

Jennifer Ikeda (Chorus) The Public: The Two Noble Kinsmen, As You Like It. New York credits include Coriolanus (TFANA), Kid Simple (SPF), The Square (Ma-Yi at The Public), Young Playwrights Festival at the Cherry Lane. Regional: The Shakespeare Theater (DC) as well as the New Jersey and St. Louis Shakespeare Festivals. Other: "Guiding Light", Selected Shorts for NPR. BFA from Juilliard.