Doubt @ Westport Country Playhouse, Romeo And Juliet Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Final Follies for Primary Stages at Cherry Lane. All The Way and Beautiful on Broadway. Nikolai And The Others and Road at Lincoln Center with David Cromer. The Metal Children and Mary Rose at the Vineyard. Celebration at the Atlantic. TV: “Bull”, “Blacklist”, “Madam Secretary”, “Law And Order Svu” (Recurring), “The Americans”, “Orange Is The New Black”, Etc. Film: Ikonophile Z, A Vigilante, The Greatest Showman, Margaret, Irrational Man. OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. IRNE nom for All The Way, BWW AWARD for Mama’s Boy. Directing: A Doll’s House Part 2 at George Street Playhouse. For my family.
Yair is an Israeli-American actor, residing in NYC for the past 10 years. After graduating from the Lee Strasberg Film & Theatre Institute, Yair began a tremendous journey in acting- participating in many theater performances around the city and shooting a wide variety of films and TV spots around the US.
Some of his proud credits include: “WeCrashed”, “Quantico”, “Blue Bloods”,
Three Pregnant Men and many more.
Yair also writes, directs and appears in self-produced films and series such as Suddenly, Banana and Running Local.
For more information please visit
www.yairbendor.com
If that isn’t enough, Yair is also lead narrative director for indie game developer We Create Stuff. Find out more at
www.wecreatestuff.com
Selling Kabul, The Profane (Playwrights Horizons); I Call My Brothers, INVASION! (PlayCo); Motel Cherry (Clubbed Thumb/New Georges); Three Women (59E59); C:10 (The CollectiveNY). Film: Women Who Kill, Listen Up Phillip, Breaking Upwards, Arranged, Neal Cassady. TV: “Life and Beth,” “Daredevil,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “The Bronx is Burning.” Maggie Flanigan Studio. Ensemble member of The CollectiveNY.
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MTC debut. NYC theater credits include: My Name Is Asher Lev (Off-B’way); The Neil Simon Plays (B’way); The Lucky One (Mint); Black Tie (Primary Stages); Romeo and Juliet (NYSF); Much Ado About Nothing (NYCT); Scenes From Childhood (written by Ari Brand, 14th St Y). Other theater: Bad Jews (Geffen Playhouse); Arabian Nights (Berkeley, KC Reps); Last Night of Ballyhoo (Bay Street); Diary of Anne Frank (Westport); Diner (DTC); My Name Is Asher Lev (Long Wharf). TV/Film: Fosse/Verdon; Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; The Other Two; FBI; White Collar; To The Flame; Listen. B.A. Wesleyan University; BADA; LABA Fellow. For Savta.
PIERRE EPSTEIN PUBLIC THEATRE: The Singing Forest (Freud), Little Black Sheep, Soapy Smith, Museum, others. DELACORTE: Comedy of Errors, Henry V. BROADWAY: Filumena (director: Laurence Olivier), Plenty (director, David Hare), Thieves (1974), Fun City (Joan Rivers), Black Comedy, Enter Laughing (Alan Arkin), A Shot in the Dark (Julie Harris), Sly Fox, Bajour, Baker’s Wife, others. OFF-BWAY: SIN, (Baruch Thtr.) Threepenny Opera, Room Service, Promenade, Second City, Breakfast Conversations in Miami, The Front Page, Dwarfman (Goodman, Chicago), etc. FILMS: She’s Lost Control (New Directors MOMA 2014), Gigantic, Indecent Proposal, LA Story, Splash, Love and Death (Woody), HIstoires d’Amerique, (Chantal Akerman), Five Corners, others. TV: “ER”, “LA Law”, “Lonesome Dove”, “Frasier”, “Law and Order”, “Sex and the City” (Rabbi Minsch), “The Honeymooners”, (Jackie Gleason), “Beverly Hills 90210”, etc. AWARDS: Obie,1970 The Lesson, Fringe First Edinburgh Festival 1989 – one man show, Dramalogue Award (LA 1991), SAG Comedy Ensemble Award (LA 2003). THE MOTH (Igor).
Author: The Forgotten Father of Social Security, University of Missouri Press 2007.
Off Broadway/ Regional: NYC premiere of Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage), How To Transcend a Happy Marriage (Lincoln Center Theater); Hindle Wakes and The Price of Thomas Scott (Mint Theater Company); Hamlet and Macbeth (Utah Shakespeare Festival); 4,000 Miles (Shakespeare & Company); Up the Hill (The O’Neill) Film: In The Treetops (LA Film Festival). TV: “Elementary”; “The Good Fight”. UNCSA, 2016. emma-geer.com. Proud to be represented by BRS/Gage. For Gus, as always.
Peyton is thrilled to be making his MTC debut! Peyton’s theatre credits include Lincoln Center Theatre’s Broadway production of Falsettos, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (The Signature Theatre), Bar Mitzvah Boy (The York Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (New York Classical Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (The Greene Space). Television/film credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Blindspot, The Path, Nightcap, The Affair, and Law & Order: SVU. Podcasts/voiceovers include Jerry Craft’s Class Act and New Kid, Too Scary For Kids, and The Home Game. Much love to his amazing family, to John, Mallory, and David, and to the Prayer For The French Republic creative team and cast.
Nancy Robinette has worked in New York off-Broadway in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, at the New York Theatre Workshop in Trestle At Pope Lick Creek, and at the Roundabout. She is a recipient of the Helen Hayes Tribute, having performed in Washington DC for more than 40 years, including work at Woolly Mammoth, Arena, Ford’s, Round House, Studio, Scena, Signature, Theatre J, Shakespeare Theatre and the Folger. She has performed regionally at the Old Globe, Williamstown, Everyman, McCarter, Key West Waterfront, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, and Papermill playhouses. Film work includes The Three Christs, Serial Mom, and Soldier Jack.
Jeff Seymour started his 42-year acting career in 1979 in television, appearing as “Gang Kid #1” in Knott’s Landing. Early on in his career, Jeff designed and built The Gnu Theatre, one of Los Angeles’s most awarded and respected theaters. Jeff worked in Canada for fifteen years, where he co-created and co-wrote his own half-hour comedy series, Jeff Ltd. He was nominated four times for the Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy) and won for his performance as Kamal Azizi in The Eleventh Hour. More recently, Jeff has appeared on shows including The Expanse, Suits, Seal Team and Homeland. Jeff currently hosts a top-rated podcast, Real Life Actor.
Broadway: Fish in the Dark. Off-Broadway: The Revolving Cycles, Secret Order, Treasure Island, Nourish the Beast. Regional: Freud’s Last Session, The Price, Death of a Salesman, The Coming of Stork (Los Angeles Drama Critics Award), All My Sons (Carbonell Award), Uncle Vanya, Kvetch (Dramalogue Award). Vienna: Old Wicked Songs, Wir Spielen Frieden (in German). Film: The Avengers, Lethal Weapon 2&3, Primal Fear, Phantasm II, Just One of the Guys. TV: “Barney Miller”, “The Man in the High Castle”, “Dopesick”, “Hunters”, “House of Cards”, “Bull”, “The Blacklist”, “Elementary”, “The Good Wife”, “Magnum PI”, “Hill Street Blues”, “Star Trek: Voyager”, “Dallas”, “Dynasty”, “Cheers”.
Richard Topol’s appearances on Broadway include as Lemml in Indecent for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, Fish in the Dark with Larry David, Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino and the Tony Award winning revivals of Awake & Sing and The Normal Heart. Off Broadway appearances include at MTC in Regrets, as well as at The Public, Lincoln Center, The Atlantic, CSC, Playwrights Horizons, The Vineyard, Primary Stages, The New Group and TFANA. On film and TV he has appeared in Lincoln, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “The Blacklist”, “Elementary”, all the Law & Orders and recurring on “Godfather of Harlem”, “Billions”, “Manifest”, “Genius: Einstein”, “The Practice”, “Covert Affairs”, and “Perception” among others.
JOSHUA CHESSIN-YUDIN Broadway:
The Sound Inside. Regional: Golden Thread Productions, Theatre 22, ArtsWest, Seattle Shakespeare Company. Film:
Chasing 24,
A Prayer. Thank you DGRW, Saks&, LAPAZ, and the whole cast and crew.
www.joshuacy.com IG: joshua_zev
LAURIEL FRIEDMAN Theater: Tech Support (59E59), Fire (Theatre 54), Vanity Fair, The Dingdong, Winter’s Tale (Pearl), Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drilling Company), The Immigrant (George Street Playhouse), The Diary of Anne Frank (Shakespeare Theatre NJ), Pride and Prejudice (Guthrie). Television: “FBI: Most Wanted”, “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. Training: Guthrie B.F.A.
DALE PLACE (U/S Adolphe, Pierre) Broadway: Heisenberg (MTC). National Tour: The Humans. New York: King Lear (New York Shakespeare Festival), and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theatre). Regional: Huntington Theatre, Cleveland Play House, The Barnstormers. Film: The Fighter, The Proposal, Joy, Gone Baby Gone, and What’s Your Number?. Upcoming TV: WeCrashed, Julia.
STEPHEN SCHNETZER Broadway: Waverly Gallery, Osolo, Wit, The Goat, Filumena. Theatre: Awake and Sing (Huntington), Tribes (Barrow Street), We Live Here (MTC), Quality of Life (Arena Stage), Mankind (Playwrights Horizons), Fallen Angels (Roundabout), Cymbeline (NYSF). Television: Endgame, Blue Bloods, Billions, The Path, Blacklist, The Affair, Homeland, Rubicon, Good Wife, Damages, The Wire, Another World.
LORI WILNER MTC:The Assembled Parties Bwy: Fiddler on the Roof (2005 & 2015), A Catered Affair, On a Clear Day, The Diary of Anne Frank, Domesticated, Beautiful, Awake and Sing!, People in the Picture, Those Were the Days, Everett Beekin. Drama desk nom -Hannah Senesh. Off Bwy/Reg: lots.