LAURA LINNEY (La Marquise de
Merteuil). Most recent theatre credits include Daniel Sullivan's production of Sight Unseen (Tony nomination) at MTC and Sir Richard Eyre's production of The Crucible with Liam Neeson (Tony nomination). Other credits include Uncle Vanya and Hedda Gabler at the Roundabout, Honour, Holiday, The Seagull, Beggars in the House of Plenty and Six Degrees of Separation. Television: “John Adams,” “Frasier” (Emmy Award), “Wild Iris” (Emmy Award), “Tales of the City,” “More Tales of the City,” “Further Tales of the City” and “The Laramie Project” among others. She received Academy Award nominations for her work in The Savages, Kinsey and You Can Count on Me. Other film work includes The Squid and the Whale, Jindabyne, Love Actually, Mystic River, The Nanny Diaries, Breach, Man of the Year, The Hottest State, Driving Lessons, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, P.S., The Life of David Gale, The Mothman Prophecies, Maze, The House of Mirth, The Truman Show, Absolute Power, Primal Fear, Congo, Lorenzo's Oil and Dave. Upcoming projects include Richard Eyre's The Other Man with Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas and City of Your Final Destination with Sir Anthony Hopkins. Laura was trained at the Juilliard School. Member of AEA and SAG.
BEN DANIELS (Le Vicomte de Valmont) is making his Broadway debut. Theatre includes, at the Royal National Theatre: Thérèse Raquin, Iphigenia at Aulis, Three Sisters, All My Sons (Olivier Award, WhatsonStage Award). For the Donmar Warehouse: The Wild Duck, The God of Hell, Christopher Hampton's Tales From Hollywood. Other credits include As You Like It (Lyric, TMA nomination), Martin Yesterday (Royal Exchange, MEN nomination), Naked (Almeida/Playhouse), 900 Oneonta (Old Vic/Ambassadors, Evening Standard Award nomination), Waiting for Godot (Lyric Hammersmith), Cracks (King's Head), Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Greenwich), Never the Sinner (the Playhouse, Olivier nomination), The Tutor (Old Vic). Film includes Luna, Doom, Fogbound, Married/Unmarried, Fanny and Elvis, Madeline, I Want You, Beautiful Thing, Passion in the Desert. Television includes “The Passion,” “Lark Rise to Candleford,” “Who Killed Mrs. De Ropp,” “The State Within,” “Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen,” “MI-5,” “Miss Marple,” “Conspiracy,” “Brittanic,” “Real Men,” “Ian Fleming: Bondmaker,” “Cutting It,” “Aristocrats,” “Truth or Dare,” “Inspector Alleyn Mysteries,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Lost Language of Cranes,” “Silent Witness.” Ben trained at LAMDA.
SIÂN PHILLIPS (Madame de Rosemonde). Welsh, Welsh-speaking Siân, a RADA gold medalist, spends most of her time on the London stage, starring in musicals (Pal Joey, A Little Night Music), classics (Shaw, Tennessee Williams) and new plays, also appearing at Stratford and the National (many Olivier nominations). Television work (“I, Claudius,” “Platonov”) has brought awards from the British Academy and the Royal Soc. New York: most recently Marlene (Tony nom.), Regrets Only and her own cabaret. She has worked for many remarkable film directors (Milos Foreman, Scorsese, Marc Evans). Many cast albums. Solo CD. Her two autobiographies were well received, and she was made CBE in 2000.
JESSICA COLLINS (La Présidente de Tourvel) is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut. Collins made her Off-Broadway debut in the world premiere of Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons. While attending Juilliard, she performed in Macbeth, Three Sisters and Faust. She also attended the British American Drama Academy in England. Collins was a series regular on “The Nine” and guest starred on “CSI,” “Law & Order: CI” and “Ghost Whisperer.” Last fall, Collins wrapped the feature film Loss of a Teardrop Diamond opposite Bryce Howard and Ellen Burstyn.
MAMIE GUMMER (Cécile Volanges). Theatre, NY: Mr. Marmalade at Roundabout (Theatre World Award), Water's Edge (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Hunting and Gathering. Regional: The Autumn Garden (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: The Hoax, Evening, Stop Loss, the upcoming Loss of a Teardrop Diamond. Television: “John Adams,” HBO. Ms. Gummer is a 2005 graduate of Northwestern University. Les Liaisons Dangereuses marks her Broadway debut. AEA/SAG.
KRISTINE NIELSEN (Madame de Volanges). Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire (Roundabout), Spring Awakening, The Greenbird, Jackie: An American Life, The Iceman Cometh. Off-Broadway: Die, Mommie, Die! (New World Stages); Our Leading Lady, Based on a Totally True Story, Wonder of the World (Manhattan Theatre Club); Miss Witherspoon, Betty's Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nomination) at Playwrights Horizons; Machinal, Dog Opera (Obie Award) at the Public. Film: The Savages, Small Time Crooks. TV: “Conviction,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Law & Order.”
BENJAMIN WALKER (Le Chevalier Danceny). Broadway: Inherit the Wind, directed by Doug Hughes. Roundabout: workshops for The Threepenny Opera directed by Scott Elliott, Bye Bye Birdie directed by Robert Longbottom and Untitled Mormon Musical directed by Jason Moore. Lincoln Center: Spring Awakening directed by Michael Mayer (workshop). Atlantic: Arrangements directed by Christian Parker. Mark Taper Forum: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson directed by Alex Timbers. Film: Flags of Our Fathers directed by Clint Eastwood, The Notorious Bettie Page directed by Mary Harron, Kinsey directed by Bill Condon. Upcoming: The War Boys. Ben is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
ROSIE BENTON (Émilie). Broadway: debut. Roundabout: Howard Katz (Laura Pels Theatre). Other credits: the American premiere of The Night Season (Bay Street Theatre); Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage); Dancing at Lughnasa (Cider Mill Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest (Arcadia Shakespeare Festival); The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare on the Sound). Also appeared at the Guthrie, EST, NYSF. NYU Graduate Acting, 2006. AEA.
DEREK CECIL (Azolan) is making his Broadway debut. Regional: Sweet Bird of Youth, How I Fell in Love (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Sleuth (Bay St. Theater); Aloha Say the Pretty Girls (Humana Festival); Equus, Joseph K and Macbeth (Urban Theater); As You Like It, Pericles, and Love's Labour's Lost (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Man and Superman, 1918 (A.C.T., Studio). Television: “Recount” (HBO), “Push, Nevada” (ABC). Graduate of the American Conservatory Theatre.
KEVIN DUDA (Footman/Tenor). Broadway debut. National tour: Little Women, Cinderella. Other: Ain't We Got Fun (London), Guys and Dolls (Macau). Regional: Goodspeed, Walnut Street, North Shore Music Theatre, Barrington Stage, Florida Rep. Thanks to Carnahan Casting, Renee Glicker at About Artists, Mom and Dad, Chad, TGA, family and friends. BFA: the Hartt School. AEA.
DELPHI HARRINGTON (Servant, u/s Madame de Rosemonde). Broadway: The Seagull, Chapter Two, Thieves, Romeo and Juliet, Everything in the Garden. Off-Broadway: The Sea, The Hairy Ape, Beckett/Albee, Blithe Spirit (Drama League Award nomination), Three Tall Women, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Roundabout). Regional: NJ Shakespeare, Bay Street, Playmakers Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Paper Mill, Pioneer Theatre, the Guthrie, Yale, Great Lakes. TV: “Law & Order,” soaps, “Ms. O.W.” Film: Marcy X, Cookie.
TIM McGEEVER (Major-domo, u/s Le Vicomte de Valmont, Azolan). Broadway debut. National tour: Zazu in The Lion King. Off-Broadway: Roxy Font (Cherry Lane), Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center), The White Devil (BAM), Lifegame (Improbable, UK), Tartuffe (Delacorte), Fully Committed (Cherry Lane). Regional: Portland Stage Company; St. Edward's University; Coconut Grove Playhouse; Cleveland Play House; Williamstown Theatre Festival; the Alley, O'Neill, Guthrie, Studio Arena and Pioneer theatres. Training: Juilliard. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. For Mom.
NICOLE ORTH-PALLAVICINI (Servant, u/s La Marquise de Merteuil, Madame de Volanges). Off-Broadway: Treason (Perry St. Theatre), The Lonely Way (Mint Theatre). Regional includes Copenhagen, A Streetcar Named Desire, Killing Time (premiere), Rough Crossing, Betrayal, Communicating Doors, The Misanthrope. L.A.: Tiffany Theatre, Women of Manhattan and Double Double. Film/TV: “The Doctor,” “Law & Order,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and contract roles on “All My Children” and “One Life to Live.”
JANE PFITSCH (Soprano, u/s Cécile Volanges, Émilie) is thrilled to be part of this dynamic production. She recently made her Broadway debut as Amy in John Doyle's Tony-winning revival of Company. Off-Broadway: Pumpgirl (MTC). Credits include A Mouthful of Birds, The Desire Project. Film/TV: 27 Dresses, “All My Children.” Brown/Trinity Consortium. Proud member of AEA.
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON (Playwright). Christopher Hampton's plays, musicals and translations have garnered three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and the New York Theatre Critics Circle Award, while prizes for his film and television work include an Oscar, two BAFTAs and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Plays include The Talking Cure, White Chameleon, Tales From Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Treats, Savages, The Philanthropist and Total Eclipse. He wrote the book and lyrics (with Don Black) for the musicals Sunset Boulevard and Dracula and the libretto for the Philip Glass operas Waiting for the Barbarians and Appomattox. He has translated extensively from Chekhov, Ibsen, Moliere, Odon von Horvath and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life (x) 3). His screenplays include The Quiet American, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse, Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed. His latest screenplay was for the film Atonement, which won both Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for Best Picture.
RUFUS NORRIS (Director) has directed extensively in the UK and London, where he lives with his partner Tanya Ronder and their two boys. He is associate artist at the Young Vic where productions include Tintin (Barbican and West End), Vernon God Little, Peribanez, Sleeping Beauty and Afore Night Came. Other recent work includes Festen and Blood Wedding at the Almeida, Festen going on to run in the West End and Broadway; Market Boy at the National Theatre; and Under the Blue Sky at the Royal Court. His production of Cabaret is currently running in the West End. Work with his own company Wink includes The Lizzie Play, Rosa Carnivora, The Art of Random Whistling and Strike Gently Away From Body. He has received two Evening Standard Awards, a Critics Circle Award and an Arts Foundation Fellowship.
