THE MASTER BUILDER

The Cast

 

BILL BUELLBILL BUELL (DOCTOR HERDAL)

has appeared on Broadway in Equus, The History Boys, Inherit the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, Tommy, Taking Steps, Big River, Annie, Once a Catholic, The First, Welcome to the Club, The Miser, and Anna Karenina. His Off-Broadway credits include The Fourth Sister, Eight Days Backwards (Vineyard Theatre); Andorra, Waste (Theatre for a New Audience); Bad Habits, Aristocrats (Manhattan Theatre Club); Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre Company); On the Bum, Violet-concert (Playwrights Horizons); Picasso at the Lapine Agile, The Common Pursuit, The Mysteries, and The False Servant (Classic Stage Company). With The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park: Tartuffe, The Winter’s Tale, and Twelfth Night. He last appeared at Yale Rep in Much Ado About Nothing. Film and television credits include Across the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Requiem for a Dream, Quiz Show, Palindromes, Kinsey, Dark Water, and upcoming, The Box; The Bronx Is Burning, John Adams, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Jamie Kennedy Experience, Law & Order, Ed, 100 Centre Street, and Cosby. Back to top.

 

DAVID CHANDLERDAVID CHANDLER (HALVARD SOLNESS)

previously appeared at Yale Rep in Pentecost, St. Joan of the Stockyards, and Wall of Water. His New York credits include the Broadway productions of Lost in Yonkers, Death of a Salesman, and The American Clock; and Off-Broadway: Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse); Private Jokes, Public Places (La MaMa); The Swan (The Public Theater); Slavs! (New York Theatre Workshop); Phaedra (Vineyard Theatre); Black Sea Follies, Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons); The Grey Zone (Manhattan Class Company); and Cellini (Second Stage Theatre). Regionally, Mr. Chandler has worked at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Wilma Theater, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. Mr. Chandler appeared at London’s Bush Theatre in A Question of Mercy. Film and television credits include The Grey Zone, Hide and Seek, The Undeserved, Death of a Salesman, Upheaval, The Portrait, Her Alibi, Seinfeld, Third Rock from the Sun, Arliss, and numerous Law & Order episodes. Back to top.

 

SUSAN HEYWARDSUSAN HEYWARD (HILDA WANGEL)

just completed her run in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined at Manhattan Theatre Club. Other New York credits include The Oedipus Cycle, Nathan the Wise (The Pearl Theatre Company); and
I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document... (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble). Her regional theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, As You Like It, Pericles (American Shakespeare Center); The Snow Queen (Urban Stages); and You Can’t Take It With You (Peterborough Players). She can currently be seen in the hit Comedy Central series Michael and Michael Have Issues starring Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. Film work includes the upcoming feature film A Ticket for Hope. Ms. Heyward received her BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. Back to top.

 

ROBERT HOGANROBERT HOGAN (KNUT BROVIK)

most recently appeared in The New Group production of Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra. He has appeared on Broadway in Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, in which he originated the role of Matthew Markinson, and in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Hamlet. Other New York credits include Accomplices; Rainbow Kiss; Boy; What Didn’t Happen; Further Than the Furthest Thing; Romania. Kiss Me!; Baby Dance; Hope Is the Thing with Feathers; Waiting for Lefty (directed by Joanne Woodward); Major Crimes; Lighting Up the Two-Year-Old; Rutherford and Son; In the Western Garden; On the Bum; and Never the Sinner, for which he received the Outer Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Clarence Darrow. His regional credits include A Moon for the Misbegotten (Helen Hayes Award nomination, Arena Stage), as well as productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival and Long Wharf Theatre. He has appeared in over 150 primetime television shows, including Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, HBO’s The Wire, Third Watch, Ed, Cosby, Deadline, Hill Street Blues, and M*A*S*H. Back to top.

 

SLATE HOLMGRENSLATE HOLMGREN (RAGNAR BROVIK)

most recently appeared in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night with Anne Hathaway. His previous Yale Rep credits include Passion Play and Trouble in Mind. A third-year MFA candidate at Yale School Drama, his credits there include Grace, or The Art of Climbing; Learning Russian; The Current War; Love’s Labour’s Lost; and The Tempest. He has also appeared in Bone Songs, One for the Road, A Christmas Carol (Yale Cabaret); the title role in Macbeth (Actors’ Repertory Theatre Ensemble); The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and The Little Foxes at Brigham Young University, where he received his BFA. Television and Film credits include Everwood and Dragon Hunter. Slate also completed the British American Dramatic Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford Program at Balliol College. Back to top.

 

FELICITY JONESFELICITY JONES (ALINE SOLNESS)

previously appeared in the Yale Rep productions of A Woman of No Importance, Lulu, and The Ladies of the Camellias. Her New York credits include Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses on Broadway and Athol Fugard’s The Captain’s Tiger (Manhattan Theatre Club), Measure for Measure (The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival), and As You Like It (The Acting Company). Her regional credits include ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Lady Windermere’s Fan (CENTERSTAGE), Enrico IV (American Conservatory Theater), The Odyssey (The Goodman Theatre), and Cymbeline (Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center). She was an Artistic Associate at Theatre de la Jeune Lune for ten seasons, where she appeared in such works as Crusoe, Friday and the Island of Hope, The Green Bird, and Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream (also co-author, 1993 American Theater Critics Association Award). Ms. Jones’s film and television appearances include Julie & Julia, Wonderland, Deadline, Ed, and Law & Order.
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IRENE SOFIA LUCIOIRENE SOFIA LUCIO (KAJA FOSLI)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she most recently appeared as Becca in The Bedtrick (Carlotta Festival of New Plays) and Viola in Jelly’s Last Jam. Her other theatre credits include After the Revolution, Golden Gate (Williamstown Theatre Festival Fellowship Projects); the title role in Hedda Gabler; Laughing Wild; and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. She also appeared in the HBO Latino movie Casi Casi. Irene graduated from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature. Back to top.

 

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