The Heart of Robin Hood

A.R.T.: Debut. David Farr is a writer and director of theater and film. Recent: Metamorphosis (co-adapted and directed with Gisli Örn Gardarsson), London, Lyric Hammersmith, ArtsEmerson, world tour. Other plays as writer: Night of the Soul, RSC; The UN Inspector, National Theatre; The Nativity, Young Vic; Elton John’s Glasses, West End; The Danny Crowe Show, Bush Theatre. Directing credits: Hamlet, King Lear, Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Homecoming, Silence with Filter, RSC Coriolanus, RSC/Old Vic; Julius Caesar, RSC/Lyric Theatre Hammersmith; The Odyssey (adapted and directed), The Birthday Party, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London 1993-97; Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic 2002-05; Artistic Director and co-chief executive of Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 2005-09; Associate Director of RSC 2009-13. Film/television writing credits: “Spooks” (BBC-TV series); Hanna (co-writer), Focus Features. David is currently writing screenplays for BBC Film, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, and Origin Films.

A.R.T.: Debut. Poor Old Shine is a roots band with a grassroots ethos. The Connecticut band prizes the human element that underpins their music, from songwriting to recording to album design. Members include: singer and banjo player Chris Freeman, mandolin and banjo player Antonio Alcorn, Max Shakun on guitar and pump organ, Harrison Goodale on bass, and Erik Hischmann on drums. Poor Old Shine has played live shows in renowned venues, including: the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington D.C.; Music City Roots, Nashville; Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT; Club Passim, Cambridge; Mercury Lounge, NYC; World Café Live, Philadelphia. Poor Old Shine has just released its self-titled debut studio LP on Signature Sounds.

A.R.T.: Debut. Poor Old Shine is a roots band with a grassroots ethos. The Connecticut band prizes the human element that underpins their music, from songwriting to recording to album design. Members include: singer and banjo player Chris Freeman, mandolin and banjo player Antonio Alcorn, Max Shakun on guitar and pump organ, Harrison Goodale on bass, and Erik Hischmann on drums. Poor Old Shine has played live shows in renowned venues, including: the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington D.C.; Music City Roots, Nashville; Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT; Club Passim, Cambridge; Mercury Lounge, NYC; World Café Live, Philadelphia. Poor Old Shine has just released its self-titled debut studio LP on Signature Sounds.

A.R.T.: Debut. David Farr is a writer and director of theater and film. Recent: Metamorphosis (co-adapted and directed with Gisli Örn Gardarsson), London, Lyric Hammersmith, ArtsEmerson, world tour. Other plays as writer: Night of the Soul, RSC; The UN Inspector, National Theatre; The Nativity, Young Vic; Elton John’s Glasses, West End; The Danny Crowe Show, Bush Theatre. Directing credits: Hamlet, King Lear, Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Homecoming, Silence with Filter, RSC Coriolanus, RSC/Old Vic; Julius Caesar, RSC/Lyric Theatre Hammersmith; The Odyssey (adapted and directed), The Birthday Party, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London 1993-97; Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic 2002-05; Artistic Director and co-chief executive of Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 2005-09; Associate Director of RSC 2009-13. Film/television writing credits: “Spooks” (BBC-TV series); Hanna (co-writer), Focus Features. David is currently writing screenplays for BBC Film, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, and Origin Films.

A.R.T.: Debut. Gisli co-founded the Icelandic film and theatre company Vesturport (www.vesturport.com) in 2001. Vesturport received the European Theatre Award in 2011. Theater includes: The Housewife (Writer and Director), Reykjavik City Theatre; Love the Musical (Writer and Director), Reykjavik City Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith and commercially in Seoul, S-Korea; Metamorphosis (Adaptor and Director), Lyric Hammersmith, BAM, Arts Emerson, World Tour; Faust (Writer and Director), The Young Vic, BAM, World Tour; Woyzeck, Barbican/BAM/World Tour; Together (Writer and Director; based on the Swedish film with same title), Reykjavik City Theatre and performed commercially in Mexico; The Tempest (director), Residenzteater Munich; Romeo and Juliet, Vesturport, Reykjavik City Theatre, Young Vic, West End/World Tour; Bastard (by Richard LaGravenese), Vesturport, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland. Gisli has worked at the Reykjavik City Theatre, The National Theatre in Norway, Iceland and London, the Malmö City Theatre in Sweden, the Residenzteater in Munich, The Sidney Theatre, LG Arts Centre in Seoul, S-Korea, At the State National Ballet and Circus in Belarus and more. Gisli has produced five feature films, four of which he co-wrote.

A.R.T.: Debut. Theater design credits include: Der Sturm, Residenzteater; The Heart of Robin Hood, RSC; Return of Ulysses, ENO/Young Vic; King Lear, The Three Penny Opera, Celebration, Chicks, Ohapp, Macbeth, National Theatre of Iceland; Electric Hotel, Fuel; Woyzeck, Vesturport/Reykjavík City Theatre/Barbican; Romeo and Juliet, Love, Vesturport/Reykjavík City Theatre/Young Vic; Bastard a Family Saga, Vesturport/Reykjavik City Theatre/Malmo City Theatre/Theater Faar302; Enron, August: Osage County, Blasted, Together, Terrorism, Canin Canin, Bloodwedding, Reykjavik City Theatre. Awards: Reumert, Danish Theater awards 2013 for Bastard; Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Design for Metamorphosis; Icelandic Theatre Awards for Stage Design 2006, 2008, and 2010. Nominated for the Evening Standard theatre awards in 2006 for Metamorphosis.

A.R.T.: Debut. West End/Braodway: Rock ’n’ Roll. Other theater: Sunset Boulevard, Goteborg; The Heart of Robin Hood, RSC. Opera: Manon Lescaut, ENO, London; Aida, WNO, Cardiff; Falstaff, Wiesbaden; Otello, Salzburg; Orphee et Eurudice, Stuttgart; Mathis der Maler, Theater am der Wien, Vienna; La Damnation de Faust, DO Berlin. Ballet: Woyzeck, Romeo and Juliet, Leonce and Lena, Zurich; Der Sandmann, Lulu; Fraulein Von S., Stuttgart; The Return of Ulysses, Antwerp. Film: Arhat taming the Dragon, Death of Pentheus, Poppea/Poppea, Arte 3D.

A.R.T.: Debut. One of the founders of Vesturport Theater and lighting designer for Vesturport productions including: Romeo and Juliet, Metamorphosis, Together. Other lighting design: The Heart of Robin Hood, RSC; The Tempest, Residanz Theater, Munich. Has worked as a technical director for the independent theater “Loftkastalinn” in Reykjavik for five years. Film/television credits as cinematographer, cameraman, and gaffer: “Heimsendir,” Kings Road, Woyzeck (theater for DVD), Heima (Sigurrós documentary), Mezzoforte (concert for DVD), Country Wedding (feature film).

(he/him) A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, The Heart of Robin Hood. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill (Tony nomination); Waitress, NYC and UK; Finding Neverland; Pippin (Tony nomination); La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). Other recent credits: Bhangin It, La Jolla Playhouse; Anything Goes, Barbican and Tour; Lune Rouge, PY1; The Tempest; Red Velvet; Invisible Thread; Young Frankenstein; Pirate Queen; Carrie (Drama Desk nomination); Parade (Drama Desk nomination); Fosse, NYC, UK; Ragtime. Jonathan has designed fifteen Cirque du Soleil productions including Drawn to Life, MJ ONE, LOVE, KA, O, Mystère, Ovo, Corteo, and more. Operas include a residency at the Royal Opera House and the LA Opera. designingsound.com

A.R.T.: Debut. Recent arrangement/music direction work: The Last Goodbye, Old Globe; Animal Crackers, Williamstown Theatre Festival; LaMama Cantata, Spoleto, Belgrade, Zagreb; From The Fire, Edinburgh; In The Footprint, Civilians; The Daughters, CAP 21; It’s Judy’s Show, DR2/Theatre J; Revolting Rhymes, Lortel; Kaspar Hauser, The Flea. Resident MD for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Elizabeth Swados’s Arranger/MD. Composed music for: Wing It!, Camp Monster, Williamstown; Beauty Queen, 3 Graces; Dash Dexter, MTC; Midsummer Night’s Dream, National Theatre of Greece; Oliver Twist, Shakespeare Theatre Of New Jersey. International work; Heracles (dir. Andre Serban); Bokan, Bogota; The Bacchae, Warsaw; The Frogs, Epidauros Festival. Adjunct faculty NYU/Tisch.

A.R.T.: Debut. Fight Director Credits include: Broadway: Ragtime, LiveEnt. Upcoming Broadway: Les Miserables, Cameron Mackintosh. For Mirvish Productions-Toronto: Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings (Assoc.), Dirty Dancing, Beauty and the Beast Canada (Assoc.). Regional: Phantom of the Opera, US National Tour, NETworks & Cameron Macintosh; Ragtime, Toronto & 1st US National Tour; Trainspotting, Canadian Stage; Peter Pan, Crazy for You, Drayton Entertainment; I Hate Hamlet, Stage West. Thanks to Stephanie, Devon, Jesse, Bruce, and David for your support and inspiration.

A.R.T.: Debut. Director: Les Miserable, Oliver, The Town of Cardamom, National Theatre of Iceland; The Heart of Robin Hood (Associate Director/Choreographer), RSC, Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, Norwary; Grease, Loftkastalinn Theatre; Pinocchio, Reykjavik City Theatre. Actress: Metamorphosis, The Housewife, Vesturport; Ástin er diskó lífi› er pönk, National Theatre of Iceland; Footloose, Reykjavik City Theatre. Chorographer/Assistant Director: Little Shop of Horrors, Rocky Horror, Hair. Solo album 1999 – I Am, Platinum selling album, most sold CD in Iceland 1999. Performer of the year at the Icelandic Music Awards 2000.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Chicago, Pippin, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Man of La Mancha, Oklahoma!, The Lion King, Barbara Cook’s Broadway, Mamma Mia, Avenue Q, Barbara Cook’s Mostly Sondheim, A Thousand Clowns, Aida, Miss Saigon. National Tours: Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera. As Production Supervisor: Original companies of Spamalot 1st US National Tour, London, Las Vegas as well as international companies of Miss Saigon in Stuttgart, Manila, and 2001 Asia Tour. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: HEAR WORD!; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/Training: Graduate of Boston University (Summa cum laude) College of Fine Arts.

A.R.T.: Resident vocal coach since 1997; 70 productions, most recently dialect design for Once, Pippin, and Glass Menagerie. Regional theater coaching: A.C.T., Guthrie. Has worked with directors Diane Paulus, John Tiffany, Sarah Benson, Bill T. Jones, Andrei Serban, David Mamet, Robert Woodruff, among others. A.R.T. Institute Head of Voice & Speech: vocal production, dialects, Shakespeare; heads M.F.A. program in voice pedagogy. National workshops on public speaking and storytelling; Harvard’s Bok Center filmed her work with Harvard faculty: “The Act of Teaching.” Performance credits: A.C.T., California Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theater, San Jose Rep, Alaska Rep & Joyce Theater. B.A. Stanford, M.F.A. American Conservatory Theater, Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: The Fantastics (Mortimer); Happy Days: A New Musical (Jumpy Malachi); Disney’s Aladdin (Iago); Godspell (Herb). Other theater: King Lear (Lear), Glasgow’s Shakespeare in the City; Doctor Faustus (Good Angel), Blood, Love and Rhetoric; Fever Dream: Southside (Joe), One Academy Production; Desire (Oscar), 2Landa. M.A. in Acting from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.