Colin L. Byrne (Young Collector/Musician) is thrilled to be playing at Intiman. Credits include Bug, Robin Hood (Theater Schmeater); blahblahblahBang!, What Is Sexy? (Washington Ensemble Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities, Broken for You, Little Women (Book-It Repertory Theatre); and Measure for Measure (Seattle Shakespeare Company). He is an Associate Member of Washington Ensemble Theatre.  

Jose J. Gonzales (Pablo Gonzales/Musician/Composer) received his training at Cornish College of the Arts and is both a professional actor and musician. He has been performing in Seattle theaters since graduating in ’89. His work has included Professor Willard/Pianist in Our Town (Intiman), Franz Kafka in the Philip Glass opera In the Penal Colony (ACT), Buddy Holly in The Salvation of Iggy Scrooge and Aldo in The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico (Empty Space Theatre). Nationally, Mr. Gonzales reprised the role of Franz Kafka at Chicago’s Court Theatre, and played Anthony in A Question of Mercy at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. As a professional pianist, he’s composed and performed music for a wide variety of projects: theater, film, video and Web. Look for the Jose Gonzales Trio playing regularly in and around Seattle. 

Timothy Hyland (Steve Hubbell) recently appeared as Dyson in Craig Wright’s Lady at Houston’s Stages Rep, and in the title role of The Life of Galileo at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, where he has also been seen in Enemy of the People and The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Other credits include School for Scandal (Seattle Shakespeare Company); The Secret in the Wings, The Beard of Avon (Seattle Rep); A Christmas Carol (ACT); The Neverending Story; The Red Badge of Courage; Go, Dog. Go!; Into the West; The Odyssey; Animal Farm (Seattle Children’s Theatre); Stones in His Pockets (CHAC); Ubu, Dealer’s Choice (Empty Space); and more than 30 productions as a member of Bathhouse Theatre Company. Regional credits include: Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare); The Taming of the Shrew (Tygres Heart Shakespeare); King Henry IV, Part 1, The Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar, You Never Can Tell (Montana Shakespeare). International credits include: Kilroy Was Here, Svengali the Great, Wonderful Life (Edmonton, Alberta); Dog, Killer’s Head, Justice Is a Red Lipped Whore (Adelaide, Australia). Film credits include the Hong Kong kung fu feature, In the Line of Duty IV, directed by Yuen Wo Ping. Mr. Hyland serves on the steering committee of 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival, and has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for 17 years.

Charles Leggett (Doctor/Cop/Musician) is making his Intiman debut. Recent work: Sir Toby Belch in Twelfe Night at Seattle Repertory Theatre (Seattle Times Footlight Award) and the BFG in The Big Friendly Giant at Seattle Children’s Theatre. This fall he will appear in the world premiere of Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Car at ACT. He has worked at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Portland Center Stage, Book-It Repertory Theatre and numerous smaller companies. His voice-over work enjoys release on several video games and in six audio book recordings. He has been playing blues harmonica in clubs, festivals and theatres for more than 15 years. 

Rebecca Meneses (Flower Seller/Prostitute/Musician) is honored to make her Intiman debut with this play. She began her training at The Juilliard School of Drama, and went on to continue her education at Cornish College of the Arts, from where she graduated in 2008. Her favorite roles at Cornish include Allison in Language of Angels, directed by Dawson Nichols, and Aase in Peer Gynt, directed by Sheila Daniels. Most recently she appeared as Julie in The Highest Tide at Book-It Repertory, directed by Jane Jones. Elsewhere, she performed in numerous productions at the Riverside Civic Light Opera in Southern California, including The Mistress in Evita. She also portrayed Sonya in Uncle Vanya at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Mother in Blood Wedding at Norco Theatre Conservatory.

Angela Pierce (Blanche DuBois) is delighted to be working with Sheila Daniels on this production. Last season at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey she played Margaret of Anjou in a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy directed and arranged by Brian B. Crowe. Broadway credits include Heartbreak House and A Streetcar Named Desire. Off-Broadway credits include Peter & Jerry (Second Stage), King Lear playing Goneril opposite Kevin Kline (dir. James Lapine, The Public Theater), Soldier’s Wife (Mint Theatre, Drama Desk nomination, Best Revival), Silver Nitrate (Blue Heron), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Irish Rep), Hedda Gabler, Photographing Women, The Rivals (dir. Nicholas Martin) and Macbeth. Regional credits include The Bald Soprano (dir. Matthew Arbour); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Royal Shakespeare Company/Shakespeare Theatre co-production, dir. Michael Khan); Proof (Conn. Critics Circle nomination for Lead Performance, Hartford TheatreWorks, dir. Steve Campo and AriZoni nomination for Lead Performance, Arizona Theatre Company, dir. Samantha Wyer); Noises Off; Suddenly Last Summer; Ten Unknowns; A Flea in Her Ear; Crimes of the Heart and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Film/TV: Able Danger (winner, Brooklyn Film Festival 2008), Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe opposite Orson Bean and Rob Clohessy (winner, LI Film Festival 2007 and Kent Film Festival 2008), Law & Order, L&O: Special Victims Unit, L&O: Criminal Intent and All My Children. Ms. Pierce is a BFA graduate of The Juilliard School, proud alum of the Tony-winning The Acting Company, recipient of the AFTRA and Robert Lansing Memorial Scholarship, and member of the Juggernaut Theatre Company.     

Shelley Reynolds (Eunice Hubbell) is delighted to be back at Intiman, where she launched her Seattle career in 1992 playing the title role in Warrior. Most recently she appeared in The Highest Tide at Book-It Rep and Mitzi’s Abortion at ACT. Also at ACT, her performances in The Notebook of Trigorin and The Big Slam won her the Back Stage West Garland Award. Empty Space fans may remember her work in Killer Joe; Wuthering! Heights! The! Musical!; The Laramie Project and Mr. Universe, to name a few. At Seattle Rep she was seen in Twelfth Night, An Ideal Husband and Design for Living. Other favorite Seattle appearances include PileDriver! (Bald Faced Lie), Saint Joan (Greek Active), Hedda Gabler (Triad Ensemble) and Waiting for Godot (One World Theatre). In her native Louisiana, as a company member of Swine Palace Theater, she was Colombia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Santa Battaglia in A Confederacy of Dunces, Sooze in SubUrbia and Gloria Duplex in Gloria Duplex. Ms. Reynolds was born in New Orleans and knows what it means to miss it. Much gratitude to the company for letting her go back home—if only in her imagination.

Chelsey Rives (Stella Kowalski) previously appeared at Intiman as Marianne in the world premiere of Prayer for My Enemy by Craig Lucas and The Skin of Our Teeth. At Seattle Rep, she played Carol in The Lady from Dubuque. Other regional credits include: Jesus Hates Me at Denver Center; Hazard County and Moot the Messenger at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Lady Windermere’s Fan at Baltimore Center Stage; Splendour at the Old Globe; and Lysistrata, Marat/Sade, Othello and Three Farces and a Funeral at American Repertory Theatre. Ms. Rives earned her MFA from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre School.

Jonno Roberts (Stanley Kowalski) New York theatre credits include Tracy Letts’ Bug off-Broadway, and Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out on Broadway. Regional theatre credits include: King Lear (Goodman Theatre, to be remounted at the DC Shakespeare Theatre in May 2009); Mother Courage, Richard II, Antigone (American Repertory Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center); Betty's Summer Vacation (Huntington Theatre); and Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Henry V and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). His film The Elephant King has won awards at numerous international film festivals. On television he has been a guest star on CSI: NY, NCIS, Shark, Jericho, Love Monkey, Numb3rs, The Unit, Xena, Hercules, Law & Order, L&O: Criminal Intent and The Brotherhood; played evil twins on As the World Turns; and appeared in the New Zealand documentary In Search of the Kiwi Male. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Oxford, Cairo and SoCal international film festivals, as well as by the Independent Reviewers of New England. Mr. Roberts is a native of New Zealand and received his training at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre School.

Khatt Taylor (Neighbor Woman/Nurse) is pleased to be making her debut at Intiman. She was recently seen as Rita in the West Coast premiere of Wild Black-Eyed Susans and Mother in Ring Round the Moon. Other credits include: The Water Children, Anton in Show Business and 4 Big Plays/4 Big Ideas. Ms. Taylor is also a poet and solo performance artist with shows seen at Washington Ensemble Theatre and the Hillel Cultural Center. She is a native of Los Angeles and a recent graduate of the University of Washington Professional Acting Training Program.

Tim True (Mitch) is making his debut at Intiman. Earlier this year he appeared in the world-premiere adaptation of Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion at Portland Center Stage, where he has also appeared in The Pillowman, The Fantasticks, Pride and Prejudice, O Lovely Glowworm (world premiere), A Christmas Carol, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Christmas Carol, Apollo II: The Dark Side of the Moon, and Jaw/West 2003-06. Other Portland credits include: Number Three (world premiere), The Lonesome West (Best Actor, Portland Civic Theatre Guild) and Recent Tragic Events at Third Rail Repertory Theatre, where he is a founding member; House and Garden, Mr. Marmalade, Take Me Out, The New House (world premiere), Touch, Night of the Iguana, The Laramie Project and Art at Artists Repertory Theatre; and A Moon for the Misbegotten at CoHo Theatre. Regional credits include Othello at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Ain’t Got Long to Stay Here (world premiere) at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Much Ado About Nothing, Henry VIII, King Lear, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cyrano De Bergerac at Utah Shakespearean Festival; Richard II, Troilus and Cressida at Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Henry VI, Pt. I, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. New York credits include Richard II (Douglas Fairbanks Studio Theatre) and Sweat (Westbeth Theatre). Television/film: The Guiding Light, All My Children, Green Lights and The Spiral.

Sheila Daniels (Director, Associate Director) has been creating theatre as a director, actor, teacher and producer in Seattle since 1994. She was Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of both Theater Under Ground and Baba Yaga Productions, and served as the Associate Artistic Director at Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC). From 1999-2002, she was Artistic Director of Theater Schmeater. Directing credits include According to Coyote (Seattle Children’s Theatre), Pericles (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Crime and Punishment (Theater Under Ground/CHAC), Waiting for Lefty, God’s Country, Arcadia (CHAC), Rhoda: A Life in Stories (Book-It), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Strawberry Theatre Workshop), Burning Bridget Cleary (Ladykiller Productions), Macbeth (Wooden O), The Last State (On the Boards) Vaya con Lola, Shock Brigades: Women in Combat (Baba Yaga), Anaphylaxis (Throwing Bones) Trojan Women: a Love Story, Dream of A Common Language, Language of Angels, Transformations and Other Tales, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Theater Schmeater), The Magnificent Adventures of Petal & Stalk (Riddic Productions) and Machinal (A Theater Under the Influence). She also has adapted numerous texts for the stage, including a commission from the Tacoma Museum of Glass to adapt and direct A.S. Byatt’s short story COLD. She taught Acting and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration from 1998 until this year at Cornish College of the Arts, while also serving as a Resident Director there. For Aunt George.

Thomas Lynch (Scenic Designer) has designed for Broadway, off-Broadway, international opera, national tours and London’s West End. He is noted for more than 250 theater credits, including designs for Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, ACT, Mark Taper Forum and Berkeley Rep. On Broadway, his credits include Susan Stroman’s long-running Contact; The Heidi Chronicles and The Music Man, for which he received Tony nominations; the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun; Tintypes and Swing!. He has designed sets for the Metropolitan Opera (Handel’s Rodelinda), New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Nederlandse Opera, and the Vienna Staatsoper. He made his Seattle Opera debut in 1988 designing Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, and has returned for Handel’s Xerxes and Wagner’s Lohengrin, Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) and Ring des Nibelungen, and Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris. Mr. Lynch received a 1999 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, an Obie for the 2005 Woman Before a Glass, the Elliott Norton Award, two Joseph Jefferson Awards and, for Seattle Opera’s 2001 Ring, an EDDY (Entertainment Design) Award. He was twice a participant in the Prix d’Or of the Quadrennial Exhibition of Scenography in Prague. Mr. Lynch received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He has taught at the NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is currently a Professor in Scenic Design at the University of Washington.

Frances Kenny (Costume Designer) most recently designed The Diary of Anne Frank and Native Son at Intiman. Some of her favorite past projects have been at Intiman, including Angels in America and The Kentucky Cycle, which also had productions at the Mark Taper Forum, the Kennedy Center and Broadway. Her work has been seen at ACT (The Clean House, The Goat, Enchanted April, Born Yesterday and Miss Witherspoon) and recently at Seattle Rep in Doubt, Twelfe Night, Birdie Blue and By the Waters of Babylon. In Seattle, Ms. Kenny has designed extensively with the Pat Graney Dance Company including the Vivian Girls, The Faith Trilogy and Vivaldi. Regionally her work has appeared at the La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theater Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Company and Honolulu Theatre for Youth. She also designed costumes for The Mandrake Root, written and performed by Lynn Redgrave, which premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre and San Jose Rep. When not doing theatre Ms. Kenny also styles wardrobe for commercials, print shoots and related media.

 L.B. Morse (Lighting and Projections Designer) is a lighting, scenic and multimedia designer for theatre and dance. In Seattle he has designed for Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, The Empty Space, Maureen Whiting Dance Company, Lingo dancetheater, UMO Ensemble, On the Boards, The Workshop, Printer’s Devil, Union Garage, Theater Schmeater, North Seattle Community College and EXITheatre. Recent design credits include lighting for Fathers and Sons at ACT and sets and multimedia for Pericles with Seattle Shakespeare Company. Mr. Morse holds a BA in Theatre Arts and a Graduate Certificate in Scenic Design from University of California, Santa Cruz and is the Lighting Design Associate at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Joseph Swartz (Sound Designer) started working at Intiman in 1994 and has performed in nearly every technical aspect here in that time. For Intiman, he previously designed sound for the American Cycle productions of To Kill a Mockingbird and Native Son, Uncle Vanya, Rounding Third, Nora and Black Nativity (2002, 2004-2007). He recently designed sound for the world premiere of Wake for Onward Ho! Productions. Mr. Swartz has also worked and designed for many local theatre companies including the Seattle Fringe Festival, ACT, the Bathhouse Theatre, Center Stage Theatre, and a variety of other small companies.  In 1996-1997 he worked as an intern for Seattle Repertory Theatre. Mr. Swartz is a Seattle native, graduated from the music program at the Art Institute of Seattle, and has two beautiful children.

Peter Dylan O’Connor (Fight Choreographer) is an actor, fight choreographer, scenic designer, scenic builder, director and producer. His fight choreography credits include Action Movie: The Play!, PileDriver!, Petal’s Grand Adventures, Marisol, American Buffalo, Edward the Second, Pericles, Waiting for Lefty, God’s Country, Cloud Tectonics, Much Ado About Nothing, Crime & Punishment, Rhoda: A Life in Stories and Iphigenia. Peter is a Steering Committee member of 14/48 The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival, and a Company Member of New Century Theatre Company. He was also a Company Member with the Novosibirsk State Children’s Theatre (Siberia, Russia) in 1994-95 and has performed all over Europe. He is a professional photographer. In his off hours he builds houses and looks for the next opportunity to travel.  

Lisa Norman (Dialect Coach) was born and bred in the South. She has worked throughout the country as a performer, teacher and dialect coach for theatre and film (recently Our Very Own, starring Allison Janney). She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee, and studied voice and text at RADA and later with Cicely Berry of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Currently an adjunct instructor at Cornish College of the Arts, she also has taught on the faculties of the University of South Carolina, University of Tennessee and Marymount Manhattan College (NYC). Member: SAG, AFTRA, AEA, VASTA.

Janet Foster, C.S.A. (New York Casting) has worked with Intiman on many productions including The Diary of Anne Frank and the American Cycle productions of To Kill a Mockingbird, Native Son and The Grapes of Wrath. Broadway: The Light in the Piazza, Lennon, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Taking Sides (co-cast). Off-Broadway includes: True Love (Zipper Theater); The Dying Gaul, A Maiden’s Prayer, Dream True: My Life with Vernon Dexter (Vineyard); and Trojan Women, A Love Story (En Garde Arts). Credits at Playwrights Horizons include Fit to Be Tied, Arts & Leisure, Floyd Collins (Obie Award), The Monogamist, A Cheever Evening (Obie Award), Later Life and Police Boys. Regional credits include Dallas Theater Center, Berkeley Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Yale Rep, Prince Music Theater, Goodman, Steppenwolf, American Rep and California Shakespeare Theatre. Film and Television: COSBY, Tracy Ullman Takes On New York, The Deal and Advice from a Caterpillar, all directed by Don Scardino.

Amy Poisson (Stage Manager) is delighted to be joining the Intiman for the first time. Ms. Poisson was stage manager at the Seattle Repertory Theatre for Thom Pain (based on nothing), The Cook, The Breach and How? How? Why? Why? Why?. She has also worked in Seattle at ACT (Fully Committed), House of Dames (Invisible Ink) and the dearly departed Empty Space Theatre (Strange Attractors, Before the Comet Comes, Frozen, Bust, Forbidden Xmas). Ms. Poisson has also produced events for the Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle International Children’s Festival and Bumbershoot. She is honored to work with Sheila Daniels and this amazing group of performers.