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HAMISH LINKLATER
HAMISH LINKLATER will be appearing in the park this summer in The Winter's Tale and Merchant of Venice. Other off broadway credits include Twelfth Night (Drama Desk nomination), Hamlet, The Square, Love’s Fire (Public); The Busy World is Hushed, Recent Tragic Events (Playwrights Horizons); Good Thing (New Group);Cyclone (Studio Dante); Romeo & Juliet(Acting Co). Regionally he has appeared in Hamlet, Violet Hour (South Coast Rep); Hamlet, Singing Forest (Long Wharf); A Midsummer nights dream & Measure for Measure (Ahmanson) He currently appears as Julia Louis-Dreyfus' brother on “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” Other TV and Film includes “Gideon’s Crossing,” “Pushing Daisies,” "Ugly Betty", Fantastic 4,Live from Baghdad, Groove, and Miranda July's upcoming feature The Future. He is married to the playwright Jessica Goldberg.
—c/o Alexa, Amendolagine
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J. SMITH-CAMERON
J. SMITH-CAMERON most recently appeared Off-Broadway in The Starry Messenger opposite Matthew Broderick. Off-Broadway: Looking For The Pony, Good Boys And True, Sarah, Sarah ( Drama Desk nomination ), Fuddy Meers (Outer Critics Award nomination), The God Of Hell, Music From A Sparkling Planet, Bees In Honey Drown (Obie Award, Outer Critics Award and Drama Desk nominations), Dinner, and The Naked Eye (Drama Desk nomination). Broadway: Crimes Of The Heart, Wild Honey, Lend Me A Tenor, The Plays The Thing, The Real Inspector Hound, Night Must Fall , Our Country's Good (Tony nomination),Tartuffe, After The Night And The Music. This summer she will appear in HBO's True Blood and has a lead in the upcoming film Margaret.
—c/o Amanda Broomell
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JENNIFER WESTFELDT
JENNIFER WESTFELDT is best known for co-writing, co-producing, and playing the title role in the 2002 indie hit Kissing Jessica Stein. She won various awards and accolades for her film, including Best Feature at the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Audience Favorites Award at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Miami Film Festival and the GLAAD Media Award for Best Picture. Her second feature, Ira & Abby, also won numerous awards. Jennifer started her career as a New York-based theater actress, starring in more than 25 Off-Broadway and regional productions, including the long-running hit The Fantasticks. In 2003, she made her Broadway debut in the critical and commercial hit Wonderful Town. Jennifer received a 2004 Tony nomination for her performance, a Theater World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut, and a Drama League Award. TV: Grey's Anatomy, Before You Say I Do, Notes From the Underbelly, Numbers, Judging Amy, Hack, Snoops, Two Guys, A Girl and A Pizza Place, Holding The Baby, and 24.
—c/o Troy David Mercier
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LILLIAS WHITE
LILLIAS WHITE is currently starring as Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti in the Broadway musical FELA!. She received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as Sonia in The Life. Other Broadway: Barnum, Dreamgirls, Cats, Once on This Island, How to Succeed… and Chicago. Film/TV: Pieces of April, Game 6, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Sesame Street (Emmy), Law & Order: SVU, The Jury, NYPD Blue, PBS performance at the White House, Great Performance's South Pacific and Disney’s Hercules. Off-Broadway: Crowns (AUDELCO Award), William Finn’s Romance in Hard Times (Obie), The Best Is Yet to Come (2009 L.A. Ovation Award nom.) and as Dinah Washington in Dinah Was. Recordings: Dreamgirls in Concert and From Brooklyn to Broadway.
—C/O KELSEY GLASSER
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LINDA LAVIN
LINDA LAVIN is currently starring in the Broadway premiere of Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories directed by Lynne Meadow at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre. Other Broadway: The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Tony nomination), The Sisters Rosensweig, The Diary of Anne Frank (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Gypsy, Broadway Bound (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Helen Hayes awards), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Tony nomination), Cop Out, Story Theatre, Something Different, It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman, A Family Affair, Hollywood Arms. Off-Broadway: Cakewalk, Death Defying Acts (Obie Award), The Comedy of Errors (Public), The Mad Show, Oh, Kay!. Regional: Finishing the Picture, Collected Stories, Doubt. Film: The Muppets Take Manhattan, See You in the Morning, I Want to Go Home, The Backup Plan (upcoming). TV: Alice, Barney Miller, Room for Two, Conrad Bloom, The Sopranos, The O.C., Law & Order: Criminal Intent. TV Films: The $5.20 an Hour Dream, A Matter of Life and Death, A Place to Call Home, Lena: My 100 Children, Best Friends for Life, The Ring, Collected Stories, Another Woman’s Child, The Sunset Gang (producer). TV Specials: Flour Babies (producer/director), Linda in Wonderland (2 Emmy Awards). Cabaret: Songs and Confessions of a One-Time Waitress.
—c/o Erin McGuff
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MARIN IRELAND
MARIN IRELAND won an Obie Award for her performance in 2006’s Cyclone. Additional Off-Broadway: A Lie of the Mind (New Group), Blasted (Soho Rep), The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (4th Street, 37 Arts), Bad Jazz (The Play Company); The Ruby Sunrise (Public Theater), The Harlequin Studies (Signature), The Triple Happiness (Second Stage), Manuscript (Daryl Roth), Fighting Words (Underwood), Savannah Bay (Classic Stage), Where We’re Born (Rattlestick), the title role in Sabina (Primary Stages), Far Away and Nocturne (both at New York Theatre Workshop). Royal Court’s American tour of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis. Broadway: reasons to be pretty (Theatre World Award, Drama League nomination, Tony nomination), After Miss Julie. Regional work includes Mauritius (Huntington Theatre, IRNE Award, Elliot Norton nomination), Heartbreak House (Goodman), The Bells (McCarter), Uncle Vanya (Lake Lucille), As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare) and Richard Greenberg’s new play The Injured Party (South Coast Rep). Film/TV: Law & Order, I Am Legend, The Understudy, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Suburban Girl, Rachel Getting Married.
—c/o Cynthia St. Juste
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MICHAEL SHANNON
MICHAEL SHANNON is currently Off-Broadway in David Cromer's acclaimed production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at the Barrow Street Theatre. Off-Broadway: Lady (Rattelstick Theatre), The Metal Children (Vineyard Theater), The Little Flower of East Orange (Public Theater), The Pillowman (Steppenwolf Theater), Bug (Barrow Street Theatre, Red Orchid Theatre and Gate Theatre), Man From Nebraska (Steppenwolf Theatre), Mr. Kolpert (Red Orchid Theatre), Killer Joe (Soho Playhouse, Next Lab and Vaudeville Theatre), The Idiot (Looking Glass Theatre), Killer (Red Orchid Theatre) and Woyzeck (Gate Theatre). Film: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Bad Lieutenant, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, World Trade Center; Bug, Lucky You, Bad Boys II, 8 Mile¸ Kangaroo Jack, Vanilla Sky, Pearl Harbor, Cecil B. DeMented The Missing Person and The Greatest. Most recently, Shannon was seen in a supporting role in Revolutionary Road, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Shannon can currently be seen in the film The Runaways and in the upcoming DC Comics' Jonah Hex. He is currently in production on Martin Scorsese's HBO pilot Boardwalk Empire and recently completed production on Gela Babluani's 13.
—c/o Adam Kerbel
