BE R K E L E Y R E P P R E S E N T S Paul Jennings
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Paul is delighted to be returning to Berkeley Rep, where he was last seen onstage as the Sturgis Drang understudy in Troublemaker, or the Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright. Recent local credits include Richard III in Dick 3 (San Francisco Theater Pub), Judge Danforth in The Crucible (Custom Made Theatre Co.), Pilate in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Jake in H2O (Aluminous Collective). His television credits include John Wayne Gacy in Behind the Screams: Killer Clown. In 2013, Paul was selected as an International Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, London.
Billy Eugene Jones
R O S S/ T H I R D M U R D E R E R
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Gala. During his school’s annual concert he conducts up to two pieces. Leon believes he will pursue acting and theatre as a career, and his dream is to be in a Broadway musical. Leon’s hobbies include singing, watching action movies, stage combat, and live plays.
Adam Magill M ALCOLM
Adam is making his Berkeley Rep debut. His Bay Area credits include Stupid Fucking Bird (SF Playhouse), The Whale (Marin Theatre Company), The Mousetrap (Shotgun Players), Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (City Lights Theater Company), and Shiner (FaultLine Theater). He is a graduate of the Foothill Theatre Conservatory.
Rami Margron
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Billy’s Broadway credits include A Raisin in the Sun, The Trip to Bountiful, The Big Knife, The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, Radio Golf, and Gem of the Ocean. He appeared off Broadway in Pitbulls (audelco nomination for Best Actor at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), The Jammer (Atlantic Theater Company), In the Footprint (the Civilians), and Waiting for Godot and Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem). His regional credits include The Good Negro (Goodman Theatre); Stick Fly (Elliot Norton nomination for Best Supporting Actor at Arena Stage and the Huntington Theatre Company); Richard II, Death of a Salesman, and Breath, Boom (Yale Repertory Theatre); Othello (California Shakespeare Theater); and Spunk (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Other regional credits include Two River Theater, the Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, and numerous productions at Dallas Theater Center. Billy is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
Rami is pleased to be returning to Berkeley Rep after playing The Bawd, Batman, and others in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. She has performed locally with California Shakespeare Theater, Crowded Fire Theater, Intersection for the Arts, the Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Mugwumpin, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Pear Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Shotgun Players, Town Hall Theatre Company, Willows Theatre Company, Woman’s Will, Word for Word, and a handful of dance companies. She studied acting at the Bennett TheatreLab in San Francisco, clown and buffoon in Paris, and over 20 styles of dance and movement in the U.S., Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, and Indonesia. She is a company member of Crowded Fire and Rara Tou Limen Haitian dance company, and she co-hosts The Shout, a monthly storytelling event in Oakland.
Leon Jones
Frances McDormand
At age 7, Leon began acting in plays such as The Lion King as Rafiki the monkey. While attending California Shakespeare Theater’s Summer Conservatory, he played Edmund in King Lear. He regularly participates in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratorical Festival and has performed violin and vocals at Yoshi’s in Oakland. He also performed for Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland, at the Education Fund
On Broadway, Frances received the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance in David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People directed by Daniel Sullivan. Other stage appearances include The Country Girl directed by Mike Nichols on Broadway, Caryl Churchill’s Far Away directed by Stephen Daldry at New York Theatre Workshop, her Tony–nominated performance as Stella in A
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Streetcar Named Desire, The Sisters Rosensweig directed by Daniel Sullivan at Lincoln Center Theater, The Swan at the Public Theater, A Streetcar Named Desire (this time as Blanche) at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, and Dare Clubb’s Oedipus. With the Wooster Group, she performed in To You, The Birdie!; North Atlantic; and Early Shaker Spirituals. Films include The Good Dinosaur, Moonrise Kingdom, Promised Land, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Friends with Money, North Country, Laurel Canyon, Something’s Gotta Give, Almost Famous, Wonder Boys, Madeline, Primal Fear, Short Cuts, Lone Star, Beyond Rangoon, Paradise Road, Mississippi Burning, Hidden Agenda, Darkman, and in collaboration with Joel and Ethan Coen, Burn After Reading, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Fargo (for which she received an Academy Award), Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, and the upcoming Hail Caesar!. With her company Hear/Say, Frances produced Every Secret Thing and Olive Kitteridge (which received eight Emmy Awards including Outstanding Limited Series and Leading Actress) and is developing a screen adaptation inspired by Michael Pollan’s book Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Devin O’Brien ENSEMBLE
Devin is pleased to be joining Berkeley Rep for the first time. He has recently performed with a host of Bay Area theatres, including Aurora Theatre (Mud Blue Sky), Encore Theatre at Z Space (Hookman), and New Conservatory Theatre Center (Die Mommie Die!). He also serves as a company member with Sonoma Valley Shakespeare. You can see him next at SF Playhouse in Red Velvet. He received his BA in Theatre Arts from Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo.
Nicholas Pelczar
A N G U S/ S E C O N D M U R D E R E R
Nicholas is pleased to be making his Berkeley Rep debut. Bay Area credits include Major Barbara, Arcadia, War Music, Rock ’n’ Roll, and A Christmas Carol at American Conservatory Theater; The Whale, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, The Whipping Man, Othello, The Glass Menagerie, and boom at Marin Theatre Company; The Pitmen Painters at TheatreWorks; Hamlet and As You Like It at Pacific Repertory Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; The Lyons, Marius, and Dublin Carol at Aurora Theatre Company; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pygmalion, Hamlet, The Tempest, Titus Andron-