Who’s Who York Theatre, Summer Play Festival, 37 ARTS, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep. 2007 Audelco Award for King Hedley II (Signature Theatre). 2003 Entertainment Design Magazine Tyro Talent. He is a member of Wingspace Design Group and a staff member of PlayPenn. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale. JAMES SUGG (Sound Designer/Composer) is an actor, sound designer, composer and 10 year member of Pig Iron Theatre Company with whom he has created 10 original works. He has also worked with Seattle Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Folger Theatre, The Wilma, Headlong Dance Theater, Rainpan 43 and Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental amongst many others. His work has been recognized with two Obies (Performance Chekhov Lizardbrain, Special Citation Hell Meets Henry Halfway), four Barrymores for Outstanding Sound Design, and the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist. He is the composer of the musicals A Murder, A Mystery And A Marriage (an adaptation by Aaron Posner of the short story by Mark Twain), James Joyce is Dead and So Is Paris (Pig Iron Theatre Co.), The Sea (a one man electric chamber opera) and Cherry Bomb (with writer Jen Childs). DALE ANTHONY GIRARD (Fight Director) is an award winning Fight Director and author of the stage combat manual Actors On Guard. He is a Black Belt in Taekwondo/Hopkido, a member of the North Carolina Stuntmen’s Association and a SAFD recognized Fight Master. Credits include the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Folger Theatre, Signature Theatre, Florida Grand Opera, Pioneer Theatre, Tulsa Opera, Triad Stage, and the Vancouver Opera. Recent film credits include Eyeborgs, The Trial and Junebug. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Playwright) (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men. In1599, his company constructed the Globe Theatre. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, or romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. MATT PFEIFFER (Director) Matt is thrilled to return to the Arden. Previous Arden credits include directing Go, Dog. Go! and a workshop of Wittenberg. Area directing credits include: Walnut St., Delaware Theatre Co., 1812 Productions, Brat Productions, Lantern Theatre, and 13 seasons with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Matt also serves as Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Exile where he’s directed Barrymore Nominated productions of Glengarry Glen Ross, Bug, and American Buffalo. Other credits include Two River Theatre and the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Later this spring Matt will direct Shining City (Theatre Exile) and The Foocy (Delaware Theatre Co). Matt is a fivetime Barrymore Nominee and the recipient of the 2008 F. Otto Haas Award. Thanks to Terry, Amy, and the entire Arden Crew. And special thanks to an amazing group of collaborators. Love to Kim. DAN HODGE (Assistant Director) Over the last season, he appeared as the title character in Woyzeck for EgoPo, in Bristol Riverside’s Absurd Person Singular, Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) for Theatre Horizon, and in Hamlet at the Lantern. For the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; King Lear and The Winter’s Tale. Dan appeared as a Weird Sister in Two River Theatre’s Macbeth directed by Aaron Posner and Teller. With Theatre Exile; Mr. Marmalade and Glengarry Glen Ross which took the 2007 Barrymore Award for Best Ensemble.
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