Long Day's Journey into Night

Who's Who

CAST (in alphabetical order)

ANDY BEAN (James Jr.). Arena Stage debut. New York: ’68 (LAByrinth Theatre Company); Three Sisters, In Memoriam: A Recession Play in 13 Acts (Glass Bandits); Theory of Everything (Lake George). Regional: From Prague (world premiere, Contemporary American Theater Festival); Blind Date (Wingspan Theatre Company); The Wrestling Season (DCT); Our Town, The Time of Your Life (Purchase Rep). Andy is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based theater company Glass Bandits. Education: B.F.A., SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory. Back

HELEN CAREY (Mary) last appeared at Arena in Noises Off (Helen Hayes nom). At Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre, productions included leading roles in Major Barbara (Helen Hayes Award), The Persians, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth and Volpone (Helen Hayes Award). Broadway: London Assurance (Tony nom, Theatre World Award), Pygmalion, Hedda Gabler. Her international credits include All My Sons (Irish Times/ESB Award nom) at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and Arms and the Man at Ontario’s Shakespeare Festival Theatre. Her association with the Guthrie Theater spans four decades. Some favorite productions have been Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard, Death of a Salesman. Film credits include Julie & Julia, The Next Three Days and Little Children. TV: House, Without a Trace, Seinfeld. Back

NATHAN DARROW (Edmund). Arena Stage debut. Credits include Richard III (BAM, Old Vic, intl. tour); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Broadway-LCT); Major Barbara (Roundabout); Trade, Paternity (Cherry Lane); Death of a Salesman (Weston Playhouse); Ajax (ART); Translations, Taking Sides, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Kansas City Actors’ Theatre); Henry V, Romeo and Juliet (HASF); To Kill a Mockingbird (KC Rep); Much Ado About Nothing (Berkeley Rep); The Pillowman, The Little Dog Laughed (Unicorn Theatre); Magnetic North (Public Theatre Maine). Film: Civil War Stories. Education: B.S., University of Evansville; M.F.A., NYU under Zelda Fichandler, Ron Van Lieu, and Liviu Ciulei. Back

PETER MICHAEL GOETZ (James Sr.) appeared on Broadway as Barrymore in Ned and Jack and in Macbeth, Sex and Longing, Beyond Therapy, The Queen and the Rebels, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Government Inspector, and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. He also has appeared in many repertory theaters and in Dublin’s Abbey and Gaiety theaters, as Joe Keller in All My Sons and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. This summer he will appear in The Sunshine Boys at Guthrie Theater, where he’s been in nearly 100 productions over 45 years. He was the father of the groom in both Father of the Bride movies and has been in over 200 TV productions, including Masterpiece Theater, Arrested Development, The West Wing, The Golden Girls and Twilight Zone. Back

HELEN HEDMAN (Cathleen) is delighted to return to Arena Stage, where she was previously seen in A Delicate Balance, The Women, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and numerous offerings in last year’s Albee Festival. Area credits include Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Country Wife and Camino Real (Shakespeare); The Year of Magical Thinking (Studio); Sabrina Fair, A Christmas Carol (Ford’s); Show Boat, I Capture the Castle, My Fair Lady and The Sex Habits of American Women (Signature); Piaf (Helen Hayes nom), Triumph of Love, Omnium Gatherum, Broken Glass and Stanley (Olney); Mrs. Farnsworth, The Seagull and Kimberly Akimbo (Rep Stage); Pygmalion, School for Scandal, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Everyman, Baltimore); and a host of theaters across the U.S. Back

CREATIVE TEAM

EUGENE O’NEILL (1888-1953) began writing when melodrama dominated American theater. Influenced by Strindberg and Ibsen, O’Neill vowed to strip theater of sentimentality. He won Pulitzers for Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, and Strange Interlude and received further acclaim for The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Desire Under the Elms, The Great God Brown, and Mourning Becomes Electra. In 1936, he won the Nobel Prize, the only American playwright so honored. The autobiographical The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten tower over his other works and portray with “faithful realism” the haunting figures of his family. He won a fourth Pulitzer, posthumously, in 1956 for Long Day’s Journey into Night. In a career of more than three decades, O’Neill experimented with dramatic techniques, tackled controversial issues, and changed American theater forever. Back

ROBIN PHILLIPS (Director) studied at Bristol’s Old Vic and acted across the U.K., on TV and in film. In 1970, he staged Abelard and Heloise (in London and on Broadway) and was soon directing at the RSC. He was artistic director at Company Theatre (Greenwich, 1973-75) and Stratford Festival (1975-80). He led Stratford’s Young Company (1987-88) before being appointed director general of Citadel Theatre (1990- 95). He directed Jekyll and Hyde on Broadway in 1997. In London’s West End, Robin has directed Jessica Lange in Long Day’s Journey into Night in 2000 and Ghosts in 2001. For his contribution to Canadian theater, he was awarded an honorary degree by Univ. of Western Ontario, the Order of Canada, and a Governor General’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Back

HISHAM ALI (Set Designer) was born in Cairo and studied at universities of Alberta, Calgary, Cairo and Cinecittà, Rome. Design credits include: I Am My Own Wife (National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage); Colossus of Rhodes (ACT); Ya Salaam Salem (American Univ. in Cairo); Larry’s Party (Canadian Stage, National Arts Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre); Owen Wingrave (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); One Cool Cat, The Thwarting of Baroness Bolligrew, and Sleeping Beauty (International Children’s Festival). Extensive design work at Citadel, Edmonton, includes: Art, Oh What a Lovely War, The Cherry Orchard, A Man for All Seasons, Hay Fever, Someone Who’ll Watch over Me, Our Town, Cyrano de Bergerac, Waiting for the Parade, Alice and Emily, La Bête, The Two of Us, She Stoops to Conquer, Fallen Angels, Warriors and Richard III. Back

SUSAN BENSON (Costume Designer) was associated with Stratford Festival from 1974 as both head of design and designer, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Maggie Smith. She also designed sets and costumes for the highly acclaimed The Mikado, The Gondoliers and H.M.S. Pinafore. Her U.S. theater designs include Denver Theater Center, Guthrie Theater and Dallas Theater Center. Her opera designs include San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Australian Opera, and Canadian Opera Company. Ballet designs include Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, National Ballet of China, and National Ballet of Canada. In 2009 Susan received an honorary membership in Canadian Actors’ Equity. Her paintings and drawings are in many collections, including Ottawa’s National Portrait Gallery. Back

MICHAEL WHITFIELD (Lighting Designer) comes to his first assignment for Arena Stage with an extensive background in lighting design for theater, ballet and opera. In over 25 years as resident lighting designer for Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, he lit upwards of 100 productions. Among many designs for Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is the recent Andrew Lloyd Webber/Ben Elton musical The Boys in the Photograph. His work has also been featured in other Canadian regional theaters from Neptune Theatre (Halifax) to Vancouver Playhouse. Michael’s opera credits include over 75 productions for the Canadian Opera Company and designs for San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera and Houston Grand Opera. His ballet designs include lighting for National Ballet of Finland, National Ballet of Canada, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Back

JAMES SUGG (Sound Designer) was asked “on a dare” in 1998 to make music for Pig Iron Theatre Company’s Gentlemen Volunteers. Consequently, he has designed for Seattle Rep, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Folger, Wilma, and Arden and has toured Peru, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine, Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany. His curiosity has led him to work with collaborative artists and companies such as Headlong Dance Theater, Rainpan 43, Lucidity Suitcase International, and Subcircle. These experiments have expanded his work into dance and installation. James received his Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory in vocal performance. He has won an Obie for his performance in Chekhov Lizardbrain and four Barrymore Awards for sound design. James received a Pew Fellowship in 2010. Back

PAUL HUNTLEY (Wig Designer), London born, has worked on hundreds of Broadway shows since his 1972 arrival in New York, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, and Hairspray. A recipient of Drama Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, from Bette Davis, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Glenn Close, and Jessica Lange. Current shows include Anything Goes, War Horse, Other Desert Cities, Leap of Faith and Nice Work. Back

MARTHA KNIGHT (Stage Manager) has worked with Arena Stage for over 25 years and is delighted to be with this wonderful production. Most recently, she stage managed At Home at the Zoo in the Kogod Cradle, The Fantasticks at the historic Lincoln Theatre, and A Delicate Balance in Crystal City. From 1962 until the mid-1980s, Martha worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and national tours such as Foxfire; Annie; The Magnificent Yankee; Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!; Over Here!; and The Me Nobody Knows. For 35 years, she has been happily working in Washington’s many theaters doing plays, musicals, and freelance productions and 26 years of stage managing the Helen Hayes Awards. Martha proudly joined Actors’ Equity 50 years ago at Musicarnival “under the big, blue tent” in Cleveland, Ohio. Back

MARNE ANDERSON (Asst. Stage Manager) is thrilled to be back at Arena Stage. Regional credits include: Oklahoma!, A Time to Kill, Arabian Nights, Sophisticated Ladies, The Fantasticks, The Quality of Life (Arena Stage); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (No Rules Theatre Company); Sanctified at the Lincoln Theatre (Pro2Play Productions); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Wings of Ikarus Jackson (Theater for Young Audiences at the Kennedy Center); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Woolly Mammoth). National Tour: Young Frankenstein. Graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts and proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Thanks to her family for all their support. Back

MELCAP CASTING (Mele Nagler, David Caparelliotis). Recent Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Good People, Fences, Lend Me a Tenor. Also: Second Stage, MTC, Atlantic, Williamstown Theatre Festival (three seasons), Ars Nova, Goodman, Arena, Ford’s, Hartford Stage, ACT and ART. Film/ TV: Brotherhood, Gossip Girl (two seasons), Rubicon, Love & Other Drugs (NY casting), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Back

The Eugene O'Neill Festival is generously sponsored by Joan and David Maxwell.