Ann

HOLLAND TAYLOR

Playwright

HOLLAND TAYLOR (Playwright) wrote and starred on Broadway in Ann, her one-woman show about the late Texas Governor Ann Richards (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, and the Outer Circle Critics award for Best Solo Performance). The filmed version of Ann is available on Broadway HD. New York: Bess in Breakfast with Les and Bess; Butley, opposite Alan Bate; The Cocktail Hour and the historic flop, Moose Murders. More recently: The Front Page (Broadway); Ripcord, (Manhattan Theatre Club). In Los Angeles: Kindertransport, and The Unexpected Man. She has given narrations for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and narrated the Harry Potter Suite (Chicago Symphony Orchestra). Her film credits include: Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, To Die For, Next Stop Wonderland, One Fine Day, George of the Jungle, The Truman Show, Happy Accidents, Spy Kids (2 & 3), Keeping the Faith, Legally Blonde, and Baby Mama. Television: seven Emmy nominations and winning Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the sexy, brilliant Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice. TV starring roles include: The Powers that Be, Bosom Buddies, with Tom Hanks, and Two and a Half Men. Current projects: Mr. Mercedes; Gloria with Julianne Moore.

KRISTEN VAN GINHOVEN

Director

KRISTEN VAN GINHOVEN (Director) is the artistic director of WAM Theatre, located in the beautiful Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. WAM’s vision is to create opportunity for women and girls through a mission of theater as philanthropy. WAM has donated over $65,700 to organizations taking action in girls' education, women’s leadership, teen pregnancy prevention, sexual trafficking awareness, midwife training and more. Kristen is a member of the 2013 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and the prestigious Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival of Canada. WAM credits include Ann (co-production with Dorset Theatre Festival), In Darfur (New England premiere) and Emilie (New England premiere). Elsewhere, Kristen’s selected directing credits include Disgraced, I and You (Chester Theatre), The Whale (Adirondack Theatre Festival), 10 Minute Play Festival (Barrington Stage Company) and Petticoats of Steel (Capital Repertory Theatre). She has an MA from Emerson College, where she received the Presidential Fellowship. www.wamtheatre.com

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JULIANA VON HAUBRICH

Set Designer

JULIANA VON HAUBRICH (Set Designer) is making her Arena Stage debut. In NYC, Juliana designed opera and theater productions for The Juilliard School, as well as a National Tour for The Acting Company. She also designed for theater (Echo Theatre Co.) and television (Star Trek NG/Voyager and Babylon 5) on the West Coast, earning a Best of LA nomination for her design of Ghosts in the Cottonwoods by Adam Rapp. Currently, Juliana is an associate artist and scenic designer for WAM Theatre, located in the Berkshires, designing for them as well as Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Group, Chester Theatre Company and Dorset Theatre Festival. Juliana received her MFA in Scenic Design from The California Institute of the Arts (Calarts) and is the founding scenic designer for Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit.

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JESS GOLDSTEIN

Costume Designer

JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Designer)’s Arena Stage credits include The Little Foxes, Shakespeare in Hollywood, A Wonderful Life, Baskerville and Tintypes. Broadway and New York credits include: On the Town; Jersey Boys; Newsies; Proof; How I Learned to Drive; Take Me Out; Love! Valour! Compassion!; and Buried Child. He received a 2005 Tony Award for The Rivals and Tony nominations for Henry IV and The Merchant of Venice. Jess also designs opera, most notably Il Trittico (Metropolitan Opera), and his film designs include Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and has taught costume design there since 1990. He was the 2012 winner of the Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration and 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Award for Lifetime Achievement.

ANDI LYONS

Lighting Designer

ANDI LYONS (Lighting Designer) is delighted to be working on this timely production of Ann as her introduction to Arena Stage and its politically astute audiences. Other favorite credits include WAM Theatre’s Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight; La MaMa E.T.C.’s Sole Sisters; Theater for the New City’s Distant Music; Tri-Cities Opera’s Tosca; Stageworks/Hudson’s Imagining Madoff and I Am My Own Wife; Des Moines Metro Opera’s Street Scene; and Capital Repertory Theatre’s Looking Over the President’s Shoulder. She is resident lighting designer and professor of Theatrical Design and Technology at the University at Albany, SUNY. Andi is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a proud fellow of USITT.

M.L. DOGG

Sound Designer

M.L. DOGG (Sound Designer) has designed for such companies as the Alley Theatre, Studio Theatre, Primary Stages, WAM Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Second Stage Theatre, Actors Theatre Of Louisville, MTC Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Women’s Project, Signature Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Playwrights Realm, Playwrights Horizons, American Repertory Theatre, Colt Coeur, MCC Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Royal National Theatre, Debate Society, Ars Nova, South Coast Repertory, Pearl Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Almeida Theatre, Public Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Nicholas Ward Productions, 13P and Shakespeare & Company. Broadway credits include: Straight White Men; Oh, Hello On Broadway; The Pee-wee Herman Show, Lortel Award for Here Lies Love, fringeNYC Award for Go-Go Kitty, GO!; Drama Desk, IRNE and IT nominee.

PAUL HUNTLEY

Wig Designer

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ANNA BARANSKI

Stage Manager

ANNA BARANSKI (Stage Manager) is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine, with an MFA in Stage Management, and has been a seasonal stage manager with the Dallas Theater Center since 2011. She has enjoyed stage managing at the following select theaters: Triad Stage, Musical Theater West, Circle Theater, Casa Mañana Theatre, Theatre Arlington, Kids Who Care, Inc., Trinity Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival and Second Thought Theatre. Anna completed her professional internship at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

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MARNE ANDERSON

Assistant Stage Manager

MARNE ANDERSON (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be at Arena Stage for her 10th season, starting as an Allen Lee Hughes Fellow in 2009. Some highlights include Indecent, Dave, Two Trains Running,The Great Society, Nina Simone: Four Women, A Raisin in the Sun, Moby Dick, All the Way, Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, King Hedley II,Five Guys Named Moe, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Mountaintop, Metamorphoses, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Arabian Nights and Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.