production biographies He’d like to dedicate his performance to his amazing mother Lori. He wouldn’t be here without her…literally.
ORSON BEAN (J. Trumbull Sykes) Orson Bean was nominated for a SAG award for his performance in the film Being John Malkovich. As an actor, he starred on Broadway for twenty years, winning a Theater World Award and a Tony nomination in the process. As a comic, he appeared on The Tonight Show over 200 times, a hundred of them as substitute host. He played Mrs. McCluskey’s husband on the final three seasons of Desperate Housewives, and beat Charlie Sheen with a cane on Two and a Half Men. It seems to have done Charlie no good. Orson’s newly published memoir Safe at Home is available on Amazon.
AUSTIN BUTLER (Bradley) Austin Butler is excited to make his theatrical debut at the Geffen Playhouse. He has a long list of credits on the big screen and television which include Sebastian Kydd in the CW’s The Carrie Diaries, Switched at Birth, Life Unexpected, The Bling Ring, Hannah Montana, iCarly, Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure, Wizards of Waverly Place, Ruby & the Rockits, Zoey 101, The Defenders, CSI: NY, CSI: Miami. He also starred in the Fox feature film Aliens in the Attic and just shot Sony’s The Intruders with Tom Sizemore. P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe
DAVID CLAYTON ROGERS (Jeff) Most recently, David Rogers has been recurring on Nashville, Mixology and Back in the Game as well as being one of the leads on Jane By Design. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Rogers took to New York where he worked constantly in the illustrious basement theaters of the Lower East Side. Since landing in Los Angeles he played the role of “Pip” in Three Days of Rain at the Ventura Court Theater, where he also directed David Ives’ Ancient History. He’s also appeared on shows such as Grimm, Happy Endings, Cougar Town, Gilmore Girls, and a handful of CSIs as well as Warner Bros H+. Rogers may be familiar to British viewers from his lead role in the drama NYLON which co-starred Rashida Jones and Stephen Moyer. He is also known for his starring role in the successful Comedy Central web series Border Patrol.
LYNDON SMITH (Sarah) Lyndon Smith recurs as Natalie on the NBC hit series Parenthood. She can also be seen in the upcoming feature films The Circle and The
Forger, with John Travolta. She is starring in the new Ed Burns pilot Public Morals, on TNT. Her other credits include the CW’s Sci-Fi drama The Tomorrow People and 90210, as well as Showtime’s Californication. A native of Pensacola, she received her BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Florida. After graduating, she participated in a multiproduction, international tour throughout Greece portraying the classic characters Juliet and Antigone. Other past theatre credits include End Days, Shear Madness, Fool For Love and Reasons To Be Pretty. She currently resides in Burbank. Steven Drukman (Playwright) World premieres: Prince of Atlantis (South Coast Rep), The Innocents (Asolo Rep), In This Corner (Old Globe), Going Native (Long Wharf Theatre), Another Fine Mess (Portland Center Stage), The Bullet Round (Arena Stage), Flattery Will Get You (Connecticut Rep) and several others. Plays developed or commissioned by: Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Mark Taper Forum, Sundance Theatre Lab, Intiman Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Naked Angels and many others. Awards: Three-time Edgerton Award recipient, as well as winner of the Craig Noel Award, Paul Green Award, Critics’ Circle Award, Alfred P. Sloan Award, and grants and awards from several foundations. He is a 2014 MacDowell fellow, an ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award semi-finalist, and his newest play, Marquis Aurelius, was a finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. He is an Associate Producer of Alexander Buravsky’s forthcoming feature film Clairvoyant. For years, Drukman worked as a journalist, contributing frequently to The New York Times, The Village
Voice, The International Herald Tribune, The Nation and many others. He was the theatre critic for Artforum and WNYCFM (New York Public Radio), and a senior editor of American Theatre magazine. He is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University, where he teaches playwriting. Bart DeLorenzo (Director) Founding Artistic Director of the Evidence Room theater in Los Angeles. At the Geffen Playhouse, he previously directed Donald Margulies’ Coney Island Christmas and Shipwrecked!: An Entertainment as well as the world premiere of Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. His recent productions with Evidence Room includes Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, Sharr White’s Annapurna, Chekhov’s Ivanov and Len Jenkins’s Margo Veil, all produced with the Odyssey Theater. Other recent directing includes Annapurna with The New Group (Off-Broadway), Carla Ching’s Fast Company at South Coast Repertory, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline at A Noise Within, Charlayne Woodard’s The Night Watcher at The Studio Theatre in Washington, and Justin Tanner’s Day Drinkers at the Odyssey. He is on the faculty at CalArts. For his work, he has received six LA Weekly awards, three Backstage Garlands, four LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, including the Milton Katselas Award for career achievement, and is the 2012 recipient of TCG’s Alan Schneider Director Award. TAKESHI KATA (Scenic Designer) Geffen Playhouse: Ruth Draper’s Monologues, Slowgirl, American Buffalo, Coney Island Christmas, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Boston Marriage. LA: November, Other Desert Cities (Taper), Bones, 2 Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Palomino (Kirk Douglas), JDT Discord (NoHo Arts Center). NY: 3 Kinds of Exile, Through