Artist Biographies

ANNE O’SULLIVAN (DR. RUTH K. WESTHEIMER) Anne is delighted to be making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. Since first understudying Becoming Dr. Ruth, off-Broadway in 2015, Anne has been performing the role in theatres around the country; last staged in 2019 by Stephen Nachamie at the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Mass. She celebrates over 45 years as a working actor in more than 100 productions including Broadway’s Blithe Spirit. Her off-Broadway credits include Marisol (The Public Theater), Mere Mortals (Primary Stages), Juno (Vineyard Theatre), The Plough and the Stars (Irish Repertory Theatre) and Mary MacGregor at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a member. Regionally, she has starred in plays at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Actors Theatre of Louisville; McCarter Theatre Center; Berkshire Theatre Festival; Intiman Theatre; Old Globe Theatre and Bay St. Theatre. On television, Anne has been on six Law & Order episodes; Sex and the City; Cosby; ER; a reoccurring role on Models Inc; The Howard Stern Show and The Flight Attendant. Film credits include The Mirror Has Two Faces, Speed and the upcoming Miramax film The Home. Visit annemosullivan.com.

MARK ST. GERMAIN (PLAYWRIGHT)

Mark St. Germain’s play Freud’s Last Session ran for two years Off-Broadway, closing July 24th, 2012. The play has been open in Argentina since January 2012 and in repertory in Sweden, Australia, Denmark. His play Becoming Dr. Ruth premiered in July 2012 at the Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires, played at Hartford Theaterworks, and was brought to NYC to the Westside Theatre. Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah co-premiered in the summer of 2013 at the Contemporary American Theater Festival and Barrington Stage Company. His play The Best of Enemies, first produced by the Barrington Stage Company, is now being produced throughout the country. The Fabulous Lipitones, a musical comedy co-written with John Markus, premiered at the Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta in summer, 2013, and then at Goodspeed Playhouse. Mark’s other plays include Camping with Henry and Tom (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Ears on a Beatle, the God Committee, Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, and Dancing Lessons (premiered at the Barrington Stage Festival). Mark wrote the Tammy Wynette Musical Stand By Your Man, which began at the Ryman Theater in Nashville. With composer Charles Strouse he co-wrote the book for his adaption of Dreiser’s American Tragedy. With composer Randy Courts Mark has written the perennial musical The Gifts of the Magi as well as Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller (AT&T Award Grant) and Jack’s Holiday (Playwrights Horizons). Television work includes Writer/Creative Consultant for “The Cosby Show” and Dick Wolf’s “Crime and Punishment.” He co-wrote director Carroll Ballard’s film “Duma” and produced and directed the documentary “My Dog, An Unconditional Love Story,” with Richard Gere, Glenn Close, Edward Albee and others. Mark also wrote the award winning children’s book “Three Cups.” Mark is an Associate Artist of the Barrington Stage Company, a recipient of the William Inge Festival’s New Voices Award, and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writer’s Guild East. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists.

STEPHEN NACHAMIE (DIRECTOR)

Stephen is making his Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. His Broadway credits include Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of She Loves Me as Associate Director. Stephen’s New York credits include Little Shop of Horrors Reunion Concert with Alan Menken, Small Town Confessions with Alice Ripley, Buyer & Cellar, My Name Is Asher Lev, Rounding Third at the Penguin Repertory Theatre, the premieres of Mr. Confidential, Foreverman and Torch Song Trilogy with Seth Rudetsky. Stephen’s regional credits include Sex with Strangers; 4,000 Miles at the Capital Repertory

Theatre; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater; Tick, Tick… BOOM! and Gutenberg! The Musical! at the New Repertory Theatre; 1776, Camelot and A Chorus Line at the Olney Theatre Center (which received the Helen Hayes Award); Hank Williams: Lost Highway Tour; West Side Story for the North Carolina Theatre and Dreamgirls at the West Virginia Public Theatre. His film and television credits include Macy’s Singing Christmas Tree for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC); Stand Still which received the Telly Award; and the internet hit Jersey Christmas. Other credits include Kellie Pickler in Music City Christmas with the Nashville Symphony. Stephen works with Witness Project which brings together Holocaust survivors with high school students to keep these first-person accounts alive. He received his BFA from New York University. Stephen dedicates these performances to his brother Stanley, who ignited his passion for theatre. He is a proud member of Stage Director and Choreographers Association. www.stephennachamie.com.

BRIAN PRATHER (SET DESIGNER) Brian is excited to be making his debut at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. His off-Broadway work includes Daniel’s Husband at Primary Stages, Mrs. Warren’s Profession at the Gingold Theatrical Group, Becoming Dr. Ruth at the Westside Theatre and Freud’s Last Session at New World Stages. Brian has designed internationally for the Chungmu Art Hall in South Korea and regionally for Asolo Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, the Barrington Stage Company, Theaterworks Hartford, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and many more, including the national tour of A Night With Janis Joplin. Brian is a regional Emmy Award nominee for the design of The Kate concert series on Public Television, a Joseph Jefferson Award winner for Set Design in Chicago and the winner of multiple Berkshire Theatre Critics Association awards. He is the Resident Designer at TheaterWorks Hartford, an Associate Artist at the Barrington Stage Company and a member of the United Scenic Artists. See Brian’s work at brianprather.com.

GORDON DeVINNEY (COSTUME DESIGNER) Gordon has served as Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Costume Shop Manager since 1994. Over the years, Gordon has also designed numerous Playhouse productions including Rooted, The Last Wide Open, Be Here Now, Disgraced, Mothers and Sons, Low Down Dirty Blues, Circle Mirror Transformation, Chapatti, The North Pool, The Book Club Play, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Always ... Patsy Cline (2011, League of Cincinnati Theatres Award),The Pavilion, The Piano Teacher, The Understudy, Victoria Musica, Marry Me a Little, Love Song, Murderers, Reckless, This Wonderful Life, The Clean House, A Picasso, Sing Hallelujah!, Hiding Behind Comets, Proof, God’s Man in Texas, Shakespeare’s R&J, Wit, The Woman in Black, Coyote on a Fence, Nixon’s Nixon and The Turn of the Screw. His design for Nixon’s Nixon appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Toronto and on London’s West End. His Playhouse designs for God of Carnage, Sleuth, God’s Man in Texas, Doubt, The Woman in Black and Nixon’s Nixon appeared at numerous regional theatres across the country. Recently Gordon designed The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later for Xavier University.

AMBER WHATLEY (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Amber is a lighting designer for live performance. Her skills include lighting for theatre, dance and concert, and lighting for the camera. Her technical strengths are programing and moving light programing. She was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. She then completed her B.F.A. at Savannah College of Art and Design. She has consulted for several theatres and

churches in the Southeast U.S. Her MFA graduate studies in Lighting Design at The University of Texas at Austin led her to the creation of Blackout, a workshop and video series in which her objective is to bring lighting design and technology awareness to Black youth and under-supported communities. Her research interests include creating accessible lighting knowledge for BIPOC youth and under-supported communities, new works and non-traditional theater design. As a recent graduate and post MFA fellow at The Ohio State University, Amber enjoys teaching, freelance designing and furthering the development of Blackout.

FABIAN OBISPO (SOUND DESIGNER) Fabian returns to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where his credits include Speaking in Tongues, Love Song, An Infinite Ache, Havana Is Waiting and Ah, Wilderness! His recent off-Broadway credits include Public Theater’s Out of Time (The National Asian American Theatre Company), The Chinese Lady (MaYi Theater Company), Sea Wall/A Life, Oedipus El Rey and Teenage Dick. His musical Felix Starro premiered off-Broadway last fall. Other off-Broadway credits include Manhattan Theatre Club, Manhattan Class Company, Atlantic Theatre Company, Vineyard Theatre, The New Group, Classic Stage Company, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, Theater For A New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center and Women’s Project Theater. He has designed extensively for regional theatres including Cleveland Play House, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Alliance Theater, Minneapolis’ Children Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Indiana Repertory Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, PlayMakers Repertory Company, George Street Playhouse, Delaware Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival, among others. He has been recognized by the Barrington Awards, Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, International Motion Picture Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival’s Indie Short Fest Awards.

BROOKE REDLER (STAGE MANAGER) Brooke is pleased to return for her sixth season with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Her off-Broadway credits include Breathing Time, The Faire and From White Plains (production stage manager, Fault Line Theatre). Regional theatre credits include Destiny of Desire, Once on This Island, In The Heights, Million Dollar Quartet, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Summerland and Native Gardens (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Hair: Retrospection, Stillwater, The Whipping Man, August: Osage County, Cabaret and five seasons of A Christmas Carol (production stage manager, Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher and Richard II (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Center Stage in Baltimore); The Drowsy Chaperone, Is He Dead? and Harry the Great (Creede Repertory Theatre). Assistant stage management credits include Our Town, A Flea in Her Ear, Clay, Jitney and Love, Janis (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); and work at Starlight Theatre, Stages St. Louis and Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Brooke also has worked in opera, with credits including Moscow, Cherry Town and Medea (PSM, Opera Long Beach); and Ariadne Auf Naxos, The Coronation of Poppea, Frida, Die Fledermaus and Tosca (ASM, Cincinnati Opera). She also spent two seasons at The Santa Fe Opera.