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Company), Impossible Marriage, Henry V, Man and Superman, Baal, Ah Wilderness!, Iphigenia and Other Daughters directed by Ellen McLaughlin (American Conservatory Theater). Ms. Bakker is currently a candidate for an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco.

BOBBY CANNAVALE* (Understudy). Theatre: Virgil Is Still the Frog Boy, Noel Coward in Two Keys, Incident at 118th, The Young Man and the World, Chilean Holiday, Latins in La La Land, among others. Film: When Trumpets Fade, Gloria, The Postman, Night Falls on Manhattan, I'm Not Rappaport, Insomnia. For Jenny and Jake.

SAXON PALMER* (Performer/Understudy). Broadway: The Three Sisters, (Dir. Scott Elliot). NY Theatre: Truffaut (Naked Angels), The Waterboy (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Twelfth Night (LaMaMa, Andy Goldberg: Dir). Regional: King Lear, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, Romeo and Juliet (Georgia Shakespeare Festival). Film: Something in the Night, The Wager. Television: "All My Children." Training: B.F.A. Florida State University.

FEYDEAU, GEORGES-LEON-JULES-MARIE (1862-1921), encouraged by his father, novelist Ernest-Aime Feydeau (1821-73), began writing at an early age. His first professional production, Fitting for Ladies (1886) was a triumph. Although not everything Feydeau wrote was equally successful, few playwrights were as popular in their time. A Flea in Her Ear (1907) is one of 65 bedroom farces he would go on to write, including The Happy Hunter (1892), Not by Bed Alone (1894), Hotel Paradiso (1894), Look After Lulu (1908), The Lady From Maxim's (1899), and Don't Walk Around Stark Naked! (1911).

JEAN-MARIE BESSET (Co-Adapter). Plays include Villa Luco, The Function, A Foreign Fair, What You Get and What You Expect, The Best of Schools, Marie Hasparren, A French Heart and Baron. He is also the adapter of the French versions of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (running at the Comédie Francaise in Paris, January-February, 1998), Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, Michael Frayn's Benefactors, David Hare's The Secret Rapture, Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and the upcoming revival of A Streetcar Named Desire (fall '98), among others. Besset's plays have been nominated for numerous Molière Awards (the French Tony) and What You Get and What You Expect was named the Best New Play of 1993 by the French Critics Circle.

MARK O'DONNELL (Co-Adapter) collaborated with Bill Irwin on last year's Roundabout adaptation of Molière's Scapin. His own comedies include That's It Folks!, Fables for Friends, and The Nice and the Nasty (all produced at Playwrights Horizons); Strangers on Earth (Zena Group Theatre), Vertigo Park, and the musical Tots in Tinseltown. His humor, cartoons and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, Spy, The Atlantic and The New Republic. Knopf has published two collections of his writings, Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales, and a recent comic novel Getting Over Homer. He translated Copi's A Tower Near Paris and Jean-Marie Besset's The Best of Schools for the Ubu Rep, and recently wrote a new prologue and epilogue for Douglas Hughes' production of She Stoops to Conquer at the Long Wharf. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lecomte du Nuoy Prize, The Academy of American Poets Prize (at Harvard) and was the first recipient of Arena Stage's George S. Kauffman Fellowship. His new novel Let Nothing You Dismay, will be published by Knopf in November.

BILL IRWIN (Director). He returns to the Roundabout where he directed and starred in Scapin. He was an original member of Kraken, a theatre company formed by Herbet Blau, and was an original member of the Pickle Family Circus of San Francisco, where he worked with Larry Pisoni and Geoff Hoyle. The ODC Dance Company of San Francisco first produced his original work. His own pieces, often developed with Doug Skinner and Michael O'Connor, include Not Quite/New York, The Courtroom and The Regard of Flight (PBS "Great Performances"). Largely/New York, another original work, received five Tony Award nominations and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Dance and Performance awards. Most recently on Broadway Mr. Irwin performed Fool Moon with David Shiner and the Red Clay Ramblers. Other theatre: Texts for Nothing (directed by Joe Chaikin); The Tempest (directed by George Wolfe); Waiting for Godot with Steve Martin, Robin Williams, and F. Murray Abraham (directed by Mike Nichols); A Man's a Man; The Sea Gull; Three Cuckholds; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; 5-6-7-8-... Dance!; Strike Up the Band. TV: "3rd Rock from the Sun," "Letterman," "The Tonight Show," "The Cosby Show," Bette Midler: Mondo Beyondo," "Northern Exposure," PBS's "Great Performances," "Sesame Street." Film: Popeye, A New Life, Eight Men Out, My Blue Heaven, Scenes From a Mall, Stepping Out, Illuminata, Hot Shots, Silent Tongue. In 1981 and 1983, Mr. Irwin was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship and in 1984 was named a Guggenheim Fellow and awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship. A Pugh Artist's Residency Grant, administered by T.C.G. enabled work to begin on Scapin at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

DOUGLAS STEIN (Set Design). Broadway: Our Town, Largely/New York, Falsettos, Fool Moon, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector

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and Moliere Comedies (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: The Regard of Flight (Lincoln Center), Scapin (Roundabout), March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, Through the Leaves (Obie Award) and The Devils (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: all major theatres, including a ten year association with the Guthrie Theater during Garland Wright's tenure as Artistic Director. Recent credits include Anna Deavere Smith's new play HOuse Arrest for Washington's Arena Stage. Opera/dance: Les Enfants Terribles (Philip Glass and Susan Marshall) and Black Water (Joyce Carol Oates and John Duffy). Teaching and affiliations: NYU, Princeton, School of Visual Arts, (NYC), Board of Theatre Communication Group and Board of Theatre for a New Audience.

BILL KELLARD (Costume Design) collaborated with Bill Irwin and David Shiner on the Broadway production of Fool Moon. He is currently working with his partner Terry Roberson on the Children's Television Workshop production "Sesame Street" where he completed his 20th season. Bill has also designed for the daytime dramas "Ryan's Hope" and "Search for Tomorrow." His other stage endeavors include tours of the musicals Show Boat, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and Shenandoah. For his work on Fool Moon, he was nominated for an L.A. Ovation Award in 1994. For his efforts in television, he has received four Daytime Emmy Awards.

NANCY SCHERTLER (Lighting Design). Broadway: Fool Moon and Largely/New York (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway: Scapin at Roundabout. Regional: Uncle Vanya, Lovers and Executioners, The Visit, Old Times, Crime and Punishment at Arena Stage, among others; Hamlet, Streetcar Named Desire at Huntington Theatre Co; Hedda Gabler at Seattle Rep; Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare Theatre, among others. Angels in America at Milwaukee Rep; The House of Bernada Alba at McCarter Theatre.  Off-Broadway: The Brides of the Moon at New York Theatre Workshop, and Falsettoland, at Playwrights Horizons among others.  Operas: Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte and Julius Caesar, among others at Wolf Trap Opera.  Ms Schertler has also received numerous Helen Hayes Award nominations and an American Theatre Wing Design nomination for lighting design.  Ms. Schertler is currently on sabbatical from Smith College where she teaches Lighting Design.

TOM MORSE (Sound Design) has designed sound for over 50 Broadway productions.  In 1994 he won the Ovation Award in L.A. for his design of Fool Moon.  He has also designed Shakespeare in the Park for three years.  In the past his designs have included Neil Simon's Jake's Women, Lost in Yonkers, Rumors, Broadway Bound, Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Odd Couple, They're Playing Our Song, Little Me, Fools.  He also designed Grease, Once Upon a Mattress, Me and My Girl, Artist Descending a Staircase, Ain't Misbehavin', The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Sunday in the Park with George, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Radio Gals, Sam Shepard's Simpatico, Tony Kushner's A Dybbuk, Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, Bill Irwin's Scapin, Safe Sex, Mail, Most Happy Fella, Duet for One, Doonesbury, Human Comedy, Ice Man Cometh, Precious Sons, Execution of Justice, Children of a Lesser God, Long Day's Journey into Night and Peter Allen Up in One.

NANCY HARRINGTON (Associate Director) has worked extensively with Bill Irwin over the past 15 years as production stage manager and collaborator on a variety of film, video and theatre projects including The Regard of Flight, The Courtroom, Largely/New York, Hip Hop Wonderland, Fool Moon, Scapin and the Olympics in Atlanta.  She is currently production stage manager of What the World Needs Now.

GARY MICKELSON (Production Stage Manager).  Broadway: Triumph of Love, Victor/Victoria.  National tour: Grease!  Regional: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and Camelot (St. Louis Muny), Over the Tavern (Studio Arena), On the Town and Abyssinia (North Shore Music Theatre).  He is grateful to Arturo for this and other opportunities.  Thanks and love to Erin.

SARAH FELDER (Dialects) coached A View from the Bridge and has been vocal consultant for four seasons both at Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C.  Recent productions include Michael Kahn's Peer Gynt, Patrick Stewart's Othello, Zelda Fichandler's Uncle Vanya, Garland Wright's The Tempest, Liviu Ciulei's Ghosts, Joe Dowling's School for Scandal, and Anna Deavere Smith's House Arrest, Center Stage: H.M.F. Pinafore, The Glass Menagerie, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet.  Trained at Juilliard with Elizabeth Smith and Edith Skinner.  Currently teaches in the graduate program at the NYU Tisch School and the Public Theater/Shakespeare Lab.

JEFFREY FRANK (Hair Design) is currently resident wig and makeup designer for more than 20 opera companies in the U.S. and Canada.  Broadway: The Merchant of Venice, Two Trains Running, Jelly's Last Jam, Angels in America.  Off-Broadway: Hello Again, The Petrified Prince, June Moon.  Other: Jekyll and Hyde and Funny Girl tours, and Siegfried and Roy.  TV: "The Colored Museum" (PBS Great Performances), "Fires in the Mirror" (America Playhouse).

JULIE TUCKER (Casting).  With Associate Amy Christopher, Williams Theatre Festival '97 Season.  TV: Casting Associate for "Cosby".