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Bradley Whitford
Currently appearing on Broadway in Boeing Boeing, for director Matthew Warchus. Whitford was most recently seen starring in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. For seven years, Whitford was seen weekly on the celebrated The West Wing, created by Aaron Sorkin. His performance earned him a 2001 Emmy Award as well as Golden Globe Award nominations in 2001 and 2002. Whitford's film credits include An American Crime costarring Ellen Page and Catherine Keener, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Alcon Entertainment's adaptation of the best-selling Ann Brashares book co-starring Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel), Little Manhattan (a romantic comedy written and directed by Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett), Miramax's romantic comedy Kate and Leopold (opposite Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman), The Muse (with Albert Brooks), Bicentennial Man (opposite Robin Williams), Scent of a Woman, A Perfect World, Philadelphia, The Client, My Life, Red Corner, Presumed Innocent, and My Fellow Americans. Whitford grew up in Wisconsin and studied theater and English literature at Wesleyan University and attended the Juilliard Theater Center. Whitford appeared on Broadway in Sorkin's military courtroom drama, A Few Good Men; his professional performance debut was in the Off-Broadway production of Curse of the Starving Class, opposite Kathy Bates. Additional theater credits include Three Days of Rain at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Measure for Measure at Lincoln Center Theater, and the title role in Coriolanus at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Jonathan Groff
JONATHAN GROFF recently completed his lauded run as Melchior Gabor in the critically-acclaimed musical, Spring Awakening, a role which garnered him a 2007 Theatre World Award, in addition to Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award nominations. Jonathan created the role of Melchior Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, prior to transferring to the production's current Broadway home at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Jonathan will be seen later this summer as Claude in the Public Theatre's highly-anticipated revival of Hair at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Additional Broadway: In My Life. Tours/Regional: The Sound of Music (Rolf), Fame (Nick Piazza), Bat Boy (Bat Boy), Honk! (Ugly). Television: "Pretty/Handsome" (pilot), "One Life to Live." A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Jonathan is a proud member of Actor's Equity.
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Julie White
Julie White can currently be seen on stage in From Up Here at Manhattan Theatre Club. New York theater credits include The Little Dog Laughed (Tony Award, Best Actress; Obie Award; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Drama League nominations), Fiction, The Heidi Chronicles, Dinner With Friends, Barbra's Wedding, as well as Bad Dates, Spike Heels, and The Family of Man, all by Theresa Rebeck. Television credits include Cavemen, guest starring as Mitzi Dalton Huntley on HBO's Six Feet Under, a series regular on Grace Under Fire, The Heidi Chronicles, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Whoopi, Ally McBeal, Strong Medicine, Touched by an Angel, and Arli$$. Film credits include The Astronaut Farmer, Michael Clayton, The Nanny Diaries, Transformers, War of the Worlds, Slap Her...She's French, and Sunday on the Rocks.
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Marisa Tomei
Marisa currently stars on Broadway in Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls playing three roles (Isabella Bird/Joyce/Mrs. Kidd). Other credits include Salome (Broadway), Oh, the Humanity and Other Exclamations (Flea Theater), Slavs (New York Theatre Workshop), Demonology (Playwrights Horizons), Beirut (MCC), The Summerwinds (Naked Angels), Design for Living, Rocket to the Moon, We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (all regional)...among many others. Film: War Inc, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, In the Bedroom, My Cousin Vinny... among many others.
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Neil Patrick Harris
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS currently stars as Barney Stinson on the hit CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, a role which garnered him recent Emmy and People's Choice Award nominations. On Broadway, Harris performed the dual roles of the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald in the Tony Award–winning production of Assassins. Other Broadway credits include the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club in Cabaret at Studio 54, and the unexpected suitor to Anne Heche in the Pulitzer Prize–winning drama Proof at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Additional theater credits include: All My Sons (Geffen Playhouse, L.A.); Tick, Tick...Boom (Menier Chocolate Factory, London); The Paris Letter (Kirk Douglas Theatre, L.A.); Sweeney Todd (Lincoln Center); Rent (L.A., La Jolla); and Romeo and Juliet (Old Globe Theatre, San Diego). Harris recently made his theatrical directing debut with I Am Grock at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Harris's feature film credits include Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Undercover Brother, The Next Best Thing, Starship Troopers, and Clara's Heart (Golden Globe nomination). On television, Harris portrayed the title role on Doogie Howser, M.D. (People's Choice Award, Golden Globe nomination), as well as the lead in the NBC comedy series Stark Raving Mad. Along with guest-starring roles on Will & Grace, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Boomtown, and Numb3rs, Harris's television projects include The Christmas Blessing, Joan of Arc, The Man in the Attic, Cold Sassy Tree, Snowbound, and The Wedding Dress.
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Priscilla Lopez
Priscilla Lopez is currently appearing on Broadway in In the Heights. Other Broadway credits include: Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize–winning Anna in the Tropics. She won a Tony Award for best featured actress in Hollywood/Ukraine portraying Harpo Marx. She received a Tony nomination and Obie Award for A Chorus Line, where she introduced "What I Did for Love." The Drama Desk nominated her for Class Mothers '68, a one-woman six-character play by Eric Weinberger. Ms. Lopez is also a recipient of the Rita Moreno Hola Award and the Raul Julia Award. Broadway credits include: The Sisters Rosensweig, Nine, Lysistrata, Pippin, Company, Her First Roman, Henry Sweet Henry, and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Off-Broadway she played in Beauty of the Father, The Oldest Profession, newyorkers, The Passion of Frida Kahlo, Antigone in New York, Other People's Money, Extremities, Key Exchange, Buck, Non Pasquale, What's a Nice Country..., and Your Own Thing. Regionally: Vanities (Westwood Playhouse, L.A.), Irma La Douce (Chandler Pavillion, L.A.), Death and the Maiden (Santa Fe Stages). TV audiences may have seen her on Law & Order SVU, Conviction, The Annisa Ayala Story, All in the Family, Cosby, Family, and Law & Order. On film, she appeared in Maid in Manhattan with Jennifer Lopez, Center Stage, Revenge of the Nerds II, Chutney Popcorn, Cheaper to Keep Her, and Tony and Tina's Wedding.
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S. Epatha Merkerson
Theater: Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore Theatre, Broadway; Kirk Douglas Theatre, L.A.), F**king A (Lortel nomination), The Piano Lesson (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), I'm Not Stupid (Obie Award), Birdie Blue (Obie Award). Film: Black Snake Moan, Slipstream, The Rising Place, Radio (Cammie Award), Jersey Girl, Terminator II. TV: Lackawanna Blues (HBO; Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, Image, Gracie Allen Awards), Peewee's Playhouse, Moe's World, The Cosby Show, Frasier, The Closer, and Law and Order (14 seasons as Lt. Anita Van Buren). A native of Detroit, Ms. Merkerson has been a member of AEA since 1978.
