Robert Breuler (Sydney Greenstreet) is a member of the Steppenwolf Acting Ensemble of Chicago. He has been in over 40 productions including Detroit, Of Mice and Men, The Song of Jacob Zulu with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and The Grapes of Wrath. His favorites include A Walk in the Woods and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy Pollitt. He’s worked at The Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre and across the country at the Dallas Theater Center, American Conservatory Theater and on Broadway in Death of a Salesman, Carousel, The Grapes of Wrath and The Song of Jacob Zulu. Nicholas Nickleby in Chicago is also a favorite. He and his wife, Suzanne, are readying Duo: 1 is 1; 2 is Math to be produced at Steppenwolf right now. Films: Crucible and Trial by Jury. TV: Early Edition, Untouchable and Prison Break. -Top-

Grant Goodman (Alfred Lunt) is elated to be back at The Rep where he has previously appeared as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, and for the past two seasons as Fred in A Christmas Carol. Most recently, Grant completed the National Tour of The Merchant of Venice starring F. Murray Abraham. Off-Broadway: Antony & Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice (Theatre for a New Audience), King Lear, The Iliad (Lincoln Center) and Pericles (Red Bull). Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), The Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Old Globe, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Northlight Theatre, Court Theatre, PlayMaker’s Repertory, The Aquila Theatre Company of London, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Illinois Shakespeare Festival and The Centennial Theater Festival, among others. Film/TV: As the World Turns and Sex and the City. Training: Grant is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. -Top-

Nick Harazin (Carl Sederholm) makes his Milwaukee Rep debut with Ten Chimneys, and could not be more pleased to be part of such an amazing story. Previous performances include work with American Players Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Milwaukee Shakespeare Company, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, goats & monkeys, among others. He studied at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, and would like to thank Sandy and Joe for this fantastic opportunity. Later this fall, he will be playing the title character in The Farnsworth Invention, with Forward Theater of Madison. -Top-

Leah Karpel (Uta Hagen) makes her Milwaukee Rep debut with Ten Chimneys. Leah was last seen in Tina Landau's Hot L Baltimore at Steppenwolf Theatre Company where she understudied and performed the role of The Girl. Other Chicago credits include: Feet of Clay (Last Match Theatre) and Picked (Goodman New Stages Series). New York credits include, Half and Half (Penguin Rep), Evanston: a Rare Comedy (HERE Arts/PS 122) and The Play about My Dad (Collaboration Town). Leah received her BFA from Boston University and is a recent graduate of The School at Steppenwolf. -Top-

Jenny McKnight (Louise Greene) is very happy to be back at Milwaukee Rep, where she appeared as Sonja and Sarah in Speaking In Tongues last season, and as Ann Deever in All My Sons in 2003. In Chicago, Jenny performed in Talking Pictures and The Actor at The Goodman Theatre; Pride and Prejudice at Northlight Theatre; Old Times at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company; Frozen, The Laramie Project and The Incident at Next Theatre; Ariadne’s Thread at Victory Gardens Theater; Three Tall Women at Apple Tree Theatre; as well as work with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Redmoon Theater, Chicago Dramatists and others. Jenny is a former member of Eclipse Theatre Company, where she has been seen in Childe Byron, Another Part of the Forest, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale and Watch on the Rhine (Jeff Citation: Best Supporting Actress). Regionally, she appeared in Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice, Painting Churches and The Turn of the Screw at Indiana Repertory Theatre and Liliom at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. She is an MFA graduate of the University of Alabama. Many thanks to many friends at The Rep. -Top-

Linda Stephens (Hattie Sederholm) was seen here last season as Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret. Since moving from New York in 2005, she's also played in State of the Union and Edward Albee’s Seascape. Earlier Rep roles include Linda in the 1993 production of Death of a Salesman, Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy and Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town. Linda's played at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Next Act Theatre and Skylight Opera Theatre where she played Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir. In 2002, Linda played The Old Lady in Sunday in the Park with George at The Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, working with Stephen Sondheim. She created the role of Emily Stilson in the musical version of Arthur Kopit’s Wings at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago and The Public Theater in New York. On Broadway, Linda played Meg in the 1994 revival of Damn Yankees, Daisy in The Man Who Came to Dinner and Kate in All My Sons at the Roundabout Theatre Company working with Arthur Miller. Linda has been awarded best actress in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami and DC. TV includes Law & Order SVU, Spin City and Frasier. She’s an award-winning narrator for Recorded Books.com. This one is for Rose and Jim! -Top-

Wendi Weber (Lynn Fontanne) is thrilled and grateful to make her Milwaukee Repertory Theater debut. A Chicago actor, recent credits include: the Midwest premiere of Greg Kotis and Mark Holliman’s Yeast Nation (ATC); the premiere of James Sherman’s Relatively Close (Victory Gardens Theater); the premiere of Lisa Dillman’s My Yeti Dreams (Collaboraction’s Sketchbook, Artistic Associate, Best Actress Award); the premiere of Brett Neveu’s 4 Murders (A Red Orchid Theatre) and the premiere of Keith Huff’s The Age of Cynicism or Karaoke Night at the Hog (Chicago Dramatists, Associate Artist). She is adjunct faculty at the sublime Columbia College Chicago and was the recipient of their Excellence in Teaching Award. -Top-

Creative Team

Jeffrey Hatcher (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has been seen on and Off-Broadway, across the country and abroad. Hatcher authored the book for the Broadway musical, Never Gonna Dance. Off-Broadway, he has had several plays produced, including Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club, Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw, Tuesdays with Morrie at Minetta Lane Theatre, Murder by Poe and The Turn of the Screw with The Acting Company, Neddy at The American Place Theatre and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline. His plays – among them, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Mrs. Mannerly, Murderers, Ella, Mercy of a Storm, Smash, Armadale, Korczak's Children, To Fool the Eye, The Falls, A Piece of the Rope, All the Way with LBJ, The Government Inspector, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Work Song – have been seen at such theaters as Yale Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Florida Stage, The Empty Space Theatre, California Theatre Center, Madison Repertory Theatre, Illusion Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Hatcher also wrote the screenplays for Stage Beauty, The Duchess and Casanova, as well as authoring episodes of the Peter Falk television series Columbo. He has won grants and awards from the NEA, TCG, Lila-Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Barrymore Award and others. A four-time participant at the O’Neill Playwright Conference is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, New Dramatists and the WGA. -Top-

Joseph Hanreddy (Director) has directed original and contemporary plays, as well as classics by Shakespeare, Schiller, Chekhov, Pirandello, Gogol, Oscar Wilde, John Millington Synge, George Farquhar, Tom Stoppard, W.S. Gilbert and Brian Friel; many at Milwaukee Repertory Theater where he served as Artistic Director from 1993 to 2010. He has also directed stage adaptations of novels by Goethe, Tolstoy, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Shusaku Endo. Over the last two seasons, his adaptation (with J.R. Sullivan) of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has received productions at several of America’s leading regional theaters. His direction of Molière’s The Misanthrope, which played last season Off-Broadway at the Pearl Theatre Company was nominated for a Lucile Lortel Award. This year he will direct Ten Chimneys and A Christmas Carol for Milwaukee Rep, Our Country’s Good for the Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware and in the spring he will direct Deborah Staples as The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead at the Writer’s Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois. -Top-

Linda Buchanan (Set Design) has designed hundreds of stage productions at regional theaters throughout the country and abroad. She has received the Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration, Jefferson Awards for Scene Design for House (The Goodman Theatre), Black Snow (The Goodman Theatre) and I Hate Hamlet (Royal George Theatre) and a Helen Hayes Award for Dancing at Lughnasa (Arena Stage). Recent design work includes The 39 Steps (Cleveland Playhouse, Syracuse Stage and Indiana Repertory Theatre) and The Gospel According to James (Indiana Repertory Theatre and Victory Gardens Theater). Notable past projects include the American Premiere of House and Garden at The Goodman Theatre, the musical adaptation of Wings (The Goodman Theatre, The Public Theater) and the premiere production of Marvin’s Room and ten subsequent regional productions and commercial productions in New York and London. Buchanan was Resident Designer at Court Theatre (1976 – 1984) and Design Director of R.D. Design Associates (l985 – 1989) where her work included the State of Illinois Center dedication ceremony and over 100 environments for corporate theater and special events. Buchanan is Associate Dean for Curricular Development at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she is also Head of the Scene Design program. She has also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College. Her work has been published in Interior Design, Contract, Exhibit Builder, American Theatre and TCI (Theatre Crafts International) and ED (Entertainment Design). -Top-

Rachel Healy (Costume Design) is honored to return to Milwaukee Repertory Theater where previous works include The Seafarer, The Cherry Orchard, State of the Union, Endgame, Translations and Inventing Van Gogh. Based in Chicago, Ms. Healy’s designs have been seen on various stages including The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, American Players Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theater, The Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, American Theater Company, Next Theatre and Timeline Theatre. Currently, Ms. Healy’s designs can also be seen on stage in Indiana Repertory Theatre’s production of Around the World in 80 Days and American Players Theatre 2010 season in Another Part of the Forest. -Top-

Thomas C. Hase (Lighting Design) has worked extensively in the United States and abroad. His work includes: Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, BAM, Seattle Opera, The Minnesota Opera, Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, The Goodspeed Opera, The Portland Opera, New Orleans Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Center Stage, Alliance Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Maine State Music Theatre. Recently he designed John Doyle’s Company on Broadway and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles Opera, both to international critical acclaim and released on DVD. Internationally his work includes: The Barbican in London, Abbey Theatre, the Finnish, the Columbian and Dutch National Operas, Opera North, UK, Canadian Opera Company, Luminato Festival Toronto, Opera de Marseille, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Erfurt, Bavarian State Opera, Vancouver Opera, the Singapore Arts Festival, Tokyo Metro Arts Center and over 100 designs for theater, opera and ballet at the Stadttheater Giessen, Germany. As Ping Chong and Company’s Lighting Designer, his work was seen worldwide. He recently premiered Riverdance’s new production Magik Macabre in Dublin as well as the blockbuster European revival of The Wiz for Stage Holdings in Holland. Concurrent with his many freelance projects, Mr. Hase is the Resident Lighting Designer and Director for the Cincinnati Opera. -Top-

Barry G. Funderburg (Sound Design) is excited to return to The Rep and to be working again with Joe Hanreddy. Memorable Rep productions include The 39 Steps, The Cherry Orchard, Pride and Prejudice, Armadale, Mary Stuart, Work Song and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Off-Broadway, Barry recently designed the critically-acclaimed New York premiere of Wittenberg at The Pearl Theatre Company. Other regional theater credits include Fake, Carter’s Way and Mother Courage and Her Children at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and productions at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, City Theatre (Pittsburgh), CenterStage (Baltimore), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Peninsula Players, American Players Theatre, LA Theatre Works and Indiana Repertory Theatre. Chicago credits include Next Theatre, Theater at the Center and Lookingglass Theatre. Barry has received four Chicago Equity Jeff Award nominations, the 1996 and 2008 Jeff Awards for Sound Design and an MFA in sound design from Purdue University. -Top-