South Coast Rep Announces Full Cast and Creative Team for 'The Heiress'
By: Faetra Petillo Sep. 25, 2008
South Coast Repertory today announced the cast and creative team for The Heiress, the psychological drama of love, innocence and betrayal by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz. Helmed by Artistic Director Martin Benson, The Heiress will run from Oct. 17 through Nov. 16 on the Segerstrom Stage. Low-priced previews are available from Oct. 17 through Oct. 23. Opening night is Oct. 24. Press night is Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to The Heiress may be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.
Loosely based on the classic Henry James novel Washington Square, The Heiress "alternately pierces the mind with its wit and shakes up the emotions with its brutality," according to The New York Times, and has achieved international success both on stage and screen. Set in 1850s New York, a widower and his daughter go about their lives, each craving love but powerless to express their needs. Into their home comes a suitor of great charm who awakens the daughter’s spirit and brightens her world – and may or may not be a fortune hunter.Kirsten Potter heads up the cast as Catherine. Potter appeared at SCR in last season’s production of Taking Steps. Other theater credits include As You Like It at A Noise Within; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Geffen Playhouse; Honour, for which she was nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Bold Girls, for which she earned a Garland Award honorable mention at Matrix Theatre Company; Sex Parasite at Mark Taper Forum; Red Herring and The Constant Wife at Laguna Playhouse; Major Barbara, The Living Room, Top Girls and Ride Down Mount Morgan at L.A. TheatreWorks and The Voysey Inheiritance and Tonight at 8:30 at The Antaeus Company. While a company member with Milwaukee Repertory Theater, she premiered Work Song by Jeffrey Hatcher and Eric Simonson, Steven Dietz’ Paragon Springs and Force of Nature, and performed in over 20 productions. Potter has also performed at theaters across the country including Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Geva Theatre Center, American Contemporary Theatre, American Conservatory Theater; and The Utah, California, Nebraska and Santa Fe Shakespeare Festivals.POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS Wednesday, Oct. 29 & Tuesday, Nov. 4Discuss the play with members of the The Heiress cast during free post-show discussions led by South Coast Repertory’s literary team after the 7:30 p.m. performances on October 29 and November 4.
INSIDE THE SEASON: The Heiress Saturday, Nov. 1, 1:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. $12
Inside the Season is a series of interactive classes that provide a comprehensive inside look at the theatrical production process. Each two-hour class is led by Literary and Education Associate Linda Sullivan Baity and features creative personnel from South Coast Repertory’s current production. Tickets are $12 each and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at (714) 708-5555. (Tickets to The Heiress are sold separately.)
Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, under the artistic direction of David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theaters in the United States. Founded in 1964, SCR is committed to theater that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theater, SCR is renowned for its extensive new play development program, including the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Of SCR’s more than 400 productions, 103 have been world premieres with subsequent stagings achieving enormous success across America and around the world. SCR-developed works have garnered eight Pulitzer Prize nominations with Margaret Edson’s Wit winning the prize in 1999 and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole in 2007. Located in Costa Mesa, California, in 2002 SCR opened the Folino Theater Center, an expanded three-theater complex that includes the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio.
Tony Amendola (Dr. Sloper) has appeared at many of the leading theaters throughout the country. He was a resident actor, director and associate artist at Berkley Repertory Theatre from 1980-1990. His credits there include Pillowman, American Buffalo, Belly of the Beast, View from the Bridge and Twelfth Night. Other theater credits include Uncle Vanya, Glengarry Glen Ross and Othello at American Conservatory Theater; Lewis and Clark and Our Country’s Good at Mark Taper Forum; Cymbeline and Timon of Athens at The Old Globe; Triumph of Love at La Jolla Playhouse; Filumena at Williamstown Theatre Festival (which later went on to New York); Waiting for Godot and Mad Forest at The Matrix Theatre Company, The Rite of Spring at Disney Hall and the theater event Tamara. Film and television credits include Blow, The Legend of Zorro, The Mask of Zorro, Lone Star, The Perfect Sleep, Read You Like a Book, “Dexter,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “The West Wing,” “Alias,” “CSI,” “Seinfeld,” “26 Miles,” “Dollhouse,” a longtim role on “Stargate SG-1” as the Jaffa Warrior Bra’Tac. Karen Hensel (Mrs. Montgomery) has been associated with SCR since her debut in Spokesong in 1979. Her performances at SCR have included Cold Sweat, Hotel Paradisio, Bosoms and Neglect, Unsuitable for Adults and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a production that was also presented at the Singapore Theatre Festival. She also appeared in Cloud Nine, Our Country’s Good, Hay Fever and, memorably, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, which was also presented by SCR at the Westwood Playhouse and for which she was awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. She has also performed at Mark Taper Forum, Pasadena Playhouse and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. A member of the Broadway cast of Zoot Suit, she might be recognized by television viewers as Doris on “The Young and the Restless” (12 years), or for her many guest spots on nighttime dramas. She is currently the Director of the Adult Program and the Professional Intensive Program at SCR. BRANDEN MCDONALD (Arthur Townsend) appeared in last season’s A Little Night Music and A Christmas Carol. McDonald is a graduate of SCR’s Professional Intensive Program. Theater credits include Godspell, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Holy Ghosts, How the Other Half Loves and The Dining Room at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Romeo and Juliet and 1902: Century Project at Cuesta College. Film credits include Road to Nowhere and All is NOT Quiet on the Western Front.Lynn Milgrim (Mrs. Penniman) appeared at SCR previously in Caucasian Chalk Circle, Bosoms and Neglect, The Countess, Death of a Salesman and Pygmalion. On Broadway she was seen with Tom Courtenay in Otherwise Engaged, directed by Harold Pinter; Bedroom Farce, directed by Sir Peter Hall; Charley’s Aunt with Louis Nye; and in the year-long international tour of Brighton Beach Memoirs, directed by Gene Saks. Her many Off-Broadway appearances include Win/Lose/Draw, Echoes, Macbeth, Crimes of Passion, City Scene, and at Manhattan Theatre Club: Talking With, Ribcage and Close of Play; Museum at New York Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Milgrim has played leading roles in regional theaters nationwide, at Boston’s Charles Playhouse, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. She played Reba in The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for which she won the Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Visiting Actress and most recently appeared there in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House. In Los Angeles she was seen in The Marriage of Bette and Boo at Los Angeles Theatre Center, Harvey at La Mirada Civic Playhouse, Eastern Standard (Robby Award), Treasure Hunt (Robby nomination), Accelerando and Brush Strokes. She has guest-starred on numerous movies-of-the-week and episodic television shows, as well as been a series regular in pilots for CBS and ABC. Her most recent film credit is Employee of the Month with Matt Dillon. She is a member of The Antaeus Company, where she recently appeared in Tonight at 8:30 and Classics Fest ’08. Rebecca Mozo (Marian) appeared at SCR previously in Doubt, a parable. Other theater credits include Educating Rita and Trying at The Colony Theatre Company (for which she was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Actress); The Cherry Orchard opposite Annette Bening and Alfred Molina at Center Theatre Group; and Pera Palas, Classicfests’ A Month in the Country and The Dresser at Antaeus Theatre Company. She also appeared in the Hollywood Food Chain production of I Capture the Castle for which she was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Actress. Film and television credits include Zerophilia, Headless Horseman, The Water Hole, “Cold Case” and “Medium.” She earned her BFA from Rutgers University, and studied at The Globe in London.MICHAEL A. NEWCOMER (Morris) is making his SCR debut. Theater credits include Titus Andronicus, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors and The Winter’s Tale at The Old Globe; The Merchant of Venice, The Seagull, Flesh and Blood, Antigone and The Devils at Portland Center Stage; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Devils at Actor’s Express; Tallgrass Gothic and A Bone Close to my Brain at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival; The Importance of Being Earnest at Dallas Theater Center; Romeo and Juliet at ALLIANCE THEATRE; Loot at the Intiman Theatre; Wintertime at A Contemporary Theatre and The Glass Menagerie at Virginia Stage Company. Film and television credits include Pants on Fire, Unforgivable, In the Flesh, “All My Children” and “A Father’s Revenge.” Jennifer Parsons (Maria) most recently appeared at SCR in A Christmas Carol. She also appeared in The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), James and the Giant Peach, The Only Child, Bunnicula, Cyrano de Bergerac, Getting Frankie Married—and Afterwards, Our Town, She Stoops to Folly, The Importance of Being Earnest and Buried Child. Other stage credits include How I Learned to Drive at San Diego Repertory Theatre and Talley’s Folly at International City Theatre in Long Beach. In New York she appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway in Quilters, Steel Magnolias, Smoke on the Mountain, Native Speech and Unchanging Love. Other regional theater credits include Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center Theatre Co, Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Royal George and The Abbey (Ireland). As a company member at Theatre 40 she has performed leading roles in Holy Days, Heartbreak House, Little Murders, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Yiddish Trojan Women, Chapter 2 and many others. Among her most current television appearances are guest starring roles on "Without a Trace", “Boston Legal,” “The O.C.,” “Judging Amy,” “JAG,” “The West Wing,” “For the People,” “Philly” (recurring), “NYPD Blue,” “The X Files”, “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Star Trek: Voyager” and “The Jersey” (recurring) .Film credits include American Girl, Dragonfly, Never Been Kissed, Box Boarders! and Self Medicated. Kirsten Potter (Catherine) appeared in last season’s Taking Steps. Other area theater credits include As You Like It at A Noise Within; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Geffen Playhouse; Honour, for which she was nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Bold Girls, for which she earned a Garland Award honorable mention at Matrix Theatre Company; Sex Parasite at Mark Taper Forum; Red Herring and The Constant Wife at Laguna Playhouse; Major Barbara, The Living Room, Top Girls and Ride Down Mount Morgan at L.A. TheatreWorks and The Voysey Inheiritance and Tonight at 8:30 at The Antaeus Company. While a company member with Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Ms. Potter premiered Work Song by Jeffrey Hatcher and Eric Simonson, Steven Dietz’ Paragon Springs and Force of Nature, and performed in over 20 productions including Twelfth Night, Amadeus, The Mai, An Ideal Husband, Inventing Van Gogh, Collected Stories, The Weir, The Glass Menagerie, Rocket Man, Dracula and Mill on the Floss. Potter has performed at theaters across the country including Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Geva Theatre Center, American Contemporary Theatre, American Conservatory Theater; and The Utah, California, Nebraska and Santa Fe Shakespeare Festivals. Film and television credits include “Medium,” “Judging Amy,” “Bones” and The Eyes Have It. Amelia White (Elizabeth Townsend) appeared in last season’s The Importance of Being Earnest. On Broadway she appeared in Crazy for You and The Heiress and Off-Broadway in The Butter and Egg Man at Atlantic Theater Company and The Accrington Pals at Hudson Guild Theatre. Los Angeles appearances include Penny for a Song at The Antaeus Company, Bold Girls at The Matrix Theatre Company, Ernest in Love at Fremont Centre Theatre, Heathen Valley at Stella Adler Theatre and Mirror, Mirror at Cast Theatre. Other regional theater credits include Chicago at Weston Playhouse Theatre, A Small Family Business at The Cleveland Play House, The Mask of Moriarty and Loot at The Old Globe, A Penny for the Guy at Studio Arena Theatre, Pericles at Hartford Stage Company, Angel Street at Caldwell Theatre Company, On the Verge and Top Girls at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, A Christmas Carol at Guthrie Theater, And a Nightingale Sang at Geva Theatre Center and Under Milkwood and Wings at Denver Center Theatre Company. Film and television include The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Bastard, The Siege of Golden Hill, Three Ways to the Sea, “Judging Amy” and “The Young and the Restless.”
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