reviews synopsis pix cast & crew playwright hunting humans contact home			TIM ARTZ (Beef)	Tim was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. A former United States Marine, he received his BA from Point Park College in Pittsburgh and his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Theater: Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, Jed Jenkins in Fifth of July, Bloody Five in A Mans a Man and Antonio in Twelfth Night. Television: New York Undercover, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and the recurring role of Rocky DiVinci on ABC’s One Life to Live. Film: Stonewall, Borough of Kings, the short film End of the Road for which Tim was nominated for Best Actor at the Denver Short Film Festival and most recently, Jonathan Demme’s re-make of The Manchurian Candidate starring Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep. Tim has also served as co-producer of the Off-Broadway play The Brave at David Mamet and William Macys’ Atlantic Theatre in Chelsea as well as being the Artistic Director of Bravo Company, a veterans based Theatre Company centered on veterans and their causes.
			TODD GEARHART (Les)	Todd has appeared in the Off-Broadway productions of Young Girl and the Monsoon, Playwrights Horizons; The Magic Lamp, Vineyard Theater; Voir Dire and Warm Love, HB Playwrights. Regionally he appeared in All My Sons, Guthrie Theater; Bluish, Alliance Theater; Going Gone, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Do I Hear a Waltz?, George Street Playhouse; Room Service, Cleveland Playhouse; The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, New Harmony Theater; Death of a Salesman and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, West Virginia Public Theater; Bus Stop, The Human Race; Girl of My Dreams and Doctor, Doctor, The Barter Theater; Dream Dream Dream, The Allenbery Playhouse; The 1940s Radio Hour, Hilton Head Playhouse; Grease, Gateway Playhouse. Film credits include Moving Mike, Neurotica and Peppermills. He has appeared on TV in Law and Order and Law and Order: SVU, The Education of Max Bickford (with Richard Dreyfuss), As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Todd is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and studied in New York with Uta Hagen.
			EDWARD JAMES HYLAND (Marty Futch)	Makes his Fringe Festival debut in Big Doolie. Broadway: Festen (understudy for Helge) at The Music Box, The Man Who Had All The Luck (Andrew Falk) at Roundabout Theatre Company, The Price (understudy for Walter and Victor) at the Royale Theater and Ah! Wilderness (understudy for Uncle Sid) at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway: Juno & the Paycock at Roundabout Theatre Company. Regional Theater: Passion Play: A Cycle by Sarah Ruhl, and Theophilus North at Arena Stage, The Man Who Had All The Luck at Williamstown Theatre Festival, MacBeth at The Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Stuart, The Tempest at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Heartbreak House at Huntington Theatre Company, The Last Night At Ballyhoo, The Tempest, and Gross Indecencies at The Denver Center Theatre Company, The Philadelphia Story at Missouri Repertory Company, King John, Cyrano de Bergerac at Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, along with numerous productions at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Paper Mill Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Virginia Stage, among many other theatres around the country. Film and TV: Kinsey, Solos, The Cradle Will Rock, Object of My Affection, The Next Big Thing, Lifebreath, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Dead Drunk, The Kevin Tunnell Story, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Time of Your Life, Dellaventura, Oz, Ed, 100 Center Street, Feds, Guiding Light, One Life To Live, Loving, and Ryan’s Hope. Ed’s greatest productions - his children Sarah and Ian, co-produced with wife, Melissa. He dedicates this performance to the memory of his beloved mother, Florence.
			PETERSON TOWNSEND (Reggie Banks)	Peterson Townsend is pleased to be working with the cast of Big Doolie again. New York and regional theatre include roles in productions with the Metropolitan Opera including Tosca, Aida, and Mazeppa. Also in the annual Hospital 2005 with the Axis Theatre Company he played Vietnam soldier Doc Franklin in North Star and Jefferson in A Lesson Before Dying (Triad Stage), George Gibbs in Our Town (Americulture Arts Festival), and Wanchese in The Lost Colony (Waterside Theatre). Other productions include Young Mickey in The Day the Bronx Died, Henry in Stand-Up Tragedy, and Silvius in As You Like It (Theatre VCU). Television credits include the role of Martin Hemmings in Sally Hemmings: An American Scandal. Training: BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
			EVAN THOMPSON (Jack Mungo)	Evan most recently appeared in Charles Grodin’s The Right Kind of People for Primary Stages at 59 East 59th Street. Broadway: He has played at Lincoln Center in Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov and Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Daughter and in the musicals City of Angels, 1776 and Jimmy, as well as the National Company of La Cage aux Folles. Off-Broadway: credits include Everybody’s Ruby for the New York Shakespeare Festival, George Orwell’s 1984, Camping with Henry and Tom, The Fantasticks and the U.S. premiere of the Brecht/Weill opera Mahagonny. Regional: Evan has played both Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady in separate productions of Inherit the Wind, the Lord Chamberlain in Galileo at Yale Rep, Dr Rance in What the Butler Saw for Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Andrew Wyke In Sleuth, Governor Danforth in The Crucible, the title role in ‘Da’, Sir Toby Belch, Prospero and Bottom at theatres including The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, The Walnut Street, The Wilma, Portland Stage Company, North Shore Music Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, Delaware Stage and Florida’s Riverside Theatre. In 2005 he appeared in Ferenc Molnar’s The Guardsman at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre and as Niels Bohr in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen for the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, OH. Television: He has been seen in the made-for-TV movies Saturday Night Mayhem and The Electric Grandmother as well as Law and Order, Saturday Night Live, Kate and Allie, and for those with long memories, Cheyenne, The Untouchables and The Donna Reed Show. Evan is co-author, with his wife Joan Shepard and composer John Clifton, of 12 musical plays for Young Audiences which tour the Eastern U.S. with The Fanfare Theatre Ensemble; and he is a founding member of The River Rep in Connecticut, where in 19 seasons he has played 66 roles, most recently Joe Keller in All My Sons, Lord Caversham in An Ideal Husband and the title role in The Mikado.
			ADINA VERSON (Rosie Lynch)	Adina most recently appeared as the Girl in the Actor Company Theatre's production of The Hot L Baltimore. Favorite roles include Yum-Yum in the Mikado [nominated for a Connecticut Critics Circle Award], Catherine in Proof, and Souffle in PS04:a paint show at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest. Adina holds a degree in Musical Theatre from the Boston Conservatory. Thanks so much to Jenn and the River Rep/Fanfare family!
			DAVID CHRISTOPHER WELLS (Bird Dog)	Broadway: The Rivals (Lincoln Center). New York and Regional: Six Available Men (HB Playwrights Foundation); Sylvia, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Subject was Roses (New Harmony Theatre), Proof, Present Laughter, How the Other Half Loves (River Rep); Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure and The Tempest (Nebraska Shakespeare Festival); Henry V, The Seagull, and Merry Wives of Windsor (The Old Globe Theatre), and productions at Stonington Opera House and Artists Rep. Film: The Man Who Would Not be King (upcoming). Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Training: BA, Vassar College; MFA, Old Globe Theatre/USD Actor Training Program.
			JENN THOMPSON (Director)	Jenn is a Producing Director and founding company member of Connecticut’s River Rep Theatre Company where she has performed in over 40 shows and directed the productions of Dinner With Friends, The Heiress and Damn Yankees. Other performing credits include on Broadway: Tony Award-winning productions of Ah, Wilderness!, The Heiress, and Annie. Off-Broadway: New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theatre; Playwrights’ Horizons; American Jewish Theatre; The Hudson Guild; Soho Rep; W.P.A.; Protean Theatre Company; Perry Street Theatre; Ubu Rep; The York Theatre; and The Actor’s Company Theatre ­ where she is a company member. Regional: The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Pittsburgh Public; The Ahmanson (Los Angeles); The New Harmony Theatre (Indiana); Studio Arena; Paper Mill Playhouse; The Fulton Opera House; and The Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center. Film/TV: The Out-of-Towners; Bash; Little Darlings; and Honky Tonk Freeway. Extensive television appearances include guest starring roles on: Third Watch; Ed; Law & Order; Law & Order: SVU; and other leading roles in The Renegade (CBS), the acclaimed PBS series 3-2-1 Contact, and Harper Valley P.T.A. (NBC).
			STEVEN COZZI (Costume Design)	Most recently Nickel and Dimed, Stone Soup, Horton Hatches the Egg (Children's Theatre Company of New York), He and She (The Actor's Company Theatre, NYC) and All My Sons (River Rep). As a Wardrobe Supervisor shows include Trouble in Paradise (Hourglass Group, NYC), Saving Aimee (White Plains Performing Arts Center), How the Other Half Loves, An Ideal Husband, The Mikado and Dinner with Friends (River Rep).
			AMY EHRENBERG (Production Stage Manager)	Amy Ehrenberg (PSM) has 15 years of stage management, technical and administrative experience on the Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional levels. Credits include: The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Ambassador), Vienna Lusthaus Revisited (NYTW), The Dying Gaul (Vineyard), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Minetta Lane), A Child's Christmas in Wales (NJSF), two seasons with The River Rep Theatre Company in Connecticut, and most recently, The Snow Hen and The Eaten Heart with The Debate Society. Amy also served as Line Producer/Unit Production Manager on the short film, Christine.1403. Myriad thanks to Jenn Thompson.
			NEIL EHRENBERG (Assistant Stage Manager)
			STEPHEN KUNKEN (Set and Sound Design)	Broadway: The American premiere of Festen at the Music Box Theater. Stephen starred as Harold Dobbs, opposite Anne Heche and Len Cariou, in the Tony Award-winning production of David Auburn's Proof at the Walter Kerr Theater - a role he created in the national tour. Off-Broadway: He created the role of Mihail Sebastian in the world premiere of David Auburn's Journals of Mihail Sebastian.  Other New York premieres include Lynn Nottage's acclaimed Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons, Ken Weitzman's Arrangements at the Altantic Theater Company, The Story (Public Theater) opposite Phylicia Rashad and Erika Alexander, Tony Kushner’s adaptation of A Dybbuk (Public Theater). As well as Home of the Brave (Jewish Rep. Theater), Henry VIII (NYSF, Delacorte Theater), and Misalliance (Roundabout Theater). Regional: Performed for President Bush as Doc in The Kennedy Center production of Mister Roberts.  He originated roles in the world premieres of Stephen Belber’s Tape (Humana Festival, ATL), Touch (Humana Festival, ATL), Jerusalem (Cleveland Playhouse), and King of the Moon (Pittsburgh Public Theater). Other regional work includes the title role in Henry V (Chicago’s Shakespeare Theater), Seattle Rep, Studio Arena Theater, Portland Stage, and The Acting Company. Television: Law & Order, Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, The Sopranos, Spin City, Guiding Light, Mary and Rhoda, Now and Again, and the PBS special Far East (directed by Daniel Sullivan). Film: Stephen can be seen in the upcoming films Wait Until This Year, Light and the Sufferer, based on the book by Jonathan Lethem, and in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled. Stephen holds a BA from Tufts University and graduated with multiple honors from the Juilliard School’s Graduate Acting Program. He is a 2004 Fox Fellowship recipient.
			ELIZABETH MUNN (Lighting Design)
			TED SELDEN (Production Assistant)	Ted is really excited about working with this production. Though he has no previous professional experience, he has been involved in community theater since the age of fifteen. He attended the School of Performing Arts in East Brunswick, NJ as a theater tech major, where he was stage manager for The Living. Other credits include Assistant Stage Manager, Our Town (Brook Theater), Booth Operator for over 6 productions (Circle Theater, Piscataway NJ), and at Playhouse 22 in East Brunswick, NJ, where he was assistant director for The Heiress and light operator for Snakebit.