RUTHERFORD & SON BIOGRAPHIES ROBERT HOGAN (John Rutherford) Broadway: A Few Good Men, Hamlet. OffBroadway: Blood & Gifts (Lincoln Center), Mourning Becomes Electra, Abe Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party, Accomplices (New Group), What Didn’t Happen, On the Bum (Playwrights Horizons), Further Than the Furthest Thing (Manhattan Theatre Club), Never the Sinner (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor), Hope is the Thing With Feathers (Drama Dept.), Waiting for Lefty (Dir: Joanne Woodward), Boy (Primary Stages), Romania Kiss Me, Rainbow Kiss (59 E. 59), Baby Dance (Lucille Lortel), In the Western Garden (EST), Major Crimes, Lighting Up the Two-Year-Old, (Actors Studio Theatre). Regional: Ibsen’s The Master Builder (Yale Rep), William Kennedy’s Grand View (Capitol Rep, Albany), Eugene O’Neill’s Moon for the Misbegotten (Arena Stage, Washington DC, Helen Hayes Award nom. for Best Actor). FILM: “Too Big to Fail”, “Welcome to Academia”, “Species II”, “Lady in Red”, “Sweetland”, “Universal Signs”, “Borough of Kings”, Michael Crighton’s “Westworld”, “Hamburger, the Motion Picture”. TV: “The Wire”, “Law and Order”, “L&O Criminal Intent”, “L & O: SVU” “Deadline”, “Now and Again”, “Cosby”, “Cupid & Cate” (Hallmark Hall of Fame), “M*A*S*H” and many other shows. Robert was in the original cast of Rutherford & Son and is happy to be back at the Mint. ELI JAMES (John) last appeared at the Mint as Moses Barron in Temporal Powers. His solo play William and the Tradesmen has been performed at numerous venues around the city, including Ars Nova and La Mama. Other stage credits include the Broadway production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Four of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club, Becky Shaw at Boston’s Huntington Theater, and the world premiere of Jason Grote’s Maria/ Stuart. Further regional credits include the East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love at The Wilma Theater, and Gross Indecency with Philadelphia Theater Company. TV credits include “Lights Out” on FX and “Mercy” on NBC. His essay “Finding the Beat” was published in the Random House anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, a Boston Globe bestseller. He co-founded, wrote and performed
with the comedy group Quiet Library at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and People’s Improv Theater. www.eli-james.com. ALLISON MCLEMORE (Mary) Mint: The Madras House. New York: Nora and The Dybbuk at Marvell Repertory Theatre. Regional: Dracula at The Pioneer Theatre Company. A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. The Nibroc Trilogy and Turn of the Screw at Chester Theatre Company; Last Train to Nibroc at Peterborough Players; The Underpants at The Olney Theatre; Cyrano at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Othello and Jane Eyre at Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre; Pygmalion (Denver Post Ovation Award) and Enchanted April at Creede Repertory Theatre. JAMES PATRICK NELSON (Richard) made his Off-Broadway debut in Austin Pendleton’s production of The Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. Regional Theatre: The Norman Conquests (dir. John Christopher Jones), Galileo (dir. David Wheeler), The Duchess of Malfi (Actors Shakespeare Project), Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Olney Theatre Center) and The Group (at the Actors Theatre of Louisville). National Tour: Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Knight of the Burning Pestle with the American Shakespeare Center. NYC: Primary Stages, Page 73, 47th Street Theatre (dir. Estelle Parsons), the Actors Studio (dir. Diane Ladd), Theatre for the New City, Hudson Guild, HERE, etc. He is the voice of Tom Daniels in “The Adventurecast” (Episode 1: Shark Bait!). James is a Young Arts Scholar with the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Education: BFA Boston University School of Theatre, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. SANDRA SHIPLEY (Ann) BROADWAY: The Importance of Being Earnest, Blithe Spirit, Equus, Pygmalion, Retreat from Moscow, Vincent in Brixton, Indiscretions. OFFBROADWAY: Suddenly Last Summer, Arms and the Man, Deep Blue Sea (Roundabout) Stuff Happens, Venus (Public), Kindertransport (MTC), Once Around the City (Second Stage), Phaedra In Delirium (CSC), The Clearing (Blue Light), Hannah and Martin (Epic),