Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl

The Cast

 

Kathleen Chalfant |  Passion PlayKELLY AuCOIN* (JOHNNY)

appeared as Octavius Caesar in Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington on Broadway and in the national tour of Copenhagen directed by Michael Blakemore. His Off-Broadway credits include Some Men directed by Trip Cullman (Second Stage Theatre), the world premiere of Ernest Hemingway’s The Fifth Column directed by Jonathan Bank (Mint Theater Company), Boy directed by Joe Calarco (Primary Stages), The Sketch Comedian directed by Alex Timbers (Drama League), Dorothy Parker’s The Ladies of the Corridor (East 13th Street Theater). Regional credits include Finks directed by Charlie Stratton (New York Stage & Film); The Real Thing and Born Yesterday directed by Bob Moss (Syracuse Stage); Melissa Arctic directed by Aaron Posner (Folger Theatre); Arcadia (TheatreVirginia); Quills (Florida Stage, Carbonell Award); and he was a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting company. Currently, he is a resident actor at New River Dramatists. Film and television: Julie & Julia, The Kingdom, Serial, A Perfect Fit starring Adrian Grenier, A Perfect Murder, A Normal Life, Love & Stuff, Without a Trace, Third Watch, Waterfront (recurring), The Sopranos, numerous episodes of Law & Order, and Good God (Comedy Central, Series Regular). Back to top.

Austin Durant |  Passion PlayMARY BACON* (KITTY)

recently appeared Off-Broadway as Alma in The Actors Company Theatre production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale and on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll. Her other New York credits include Arcadia (Lincoln Center Theater), Treason (Perry Street Theatre), The Madras House (Mint Theater Company), as well as The Lark Theatre Company, New Dramatists, The Directors Company, The Drama League, and New York Stage & Film. Regional credits include Misalliance (Old Globe Theatre); Hazard County (Humana Festival of New American Plays); the premiere of Don Juan (Seattle Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center) and The Triumph of Love (Seattle Rep, Long Wharf Theatre), both adapted and directed by Stephen Wadsworth; The Bald Soprano, The Rivals (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); the world premiere of Iron Kisses (Geva Theatre); as well as work at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, Capital Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, CENTERSTAGE (Baltimore), Denver Center Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Works Festival at Perry-Mansfield, and others. Television and film: Alexander Hamilton, Jonny Zero, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Suzanna Most, and The Gaveltons. Ms. Bacon is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon Drama School and a member of The Actors Company Theatre and the workshop company of The Actors Center. Back to top.

Laura Esposito | Passion PlayBRIAN KEANE* (CARL)

has appeared in New York in Cyrano de Bergerac directed by Frank Langella, All My Sons directed by Barry Edelstein (Roundabout Theatre Company); Sideman directed by Michael Mayer (Naked Angels Theater Company); The Misanthrope with Roger Rees and Uma Thurman, and Richard III with John Turturro (Classic Stage Company). His regional theatre credits include Book of Days directed by Wendy C. Goldberg (Arena Stage), How I Learned to Drive directed by Barry Edelstein (CENTERSTAGE), Discovery of America directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman (New York Stage & Film), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by David Frank (Buffalo Studio Arena). His television and film credits include all three current Law & Order series, Queens Supreme, All My Children, Urbania, and Going Under. Back to top.

Dieterich Gray |  Passion PlayDAVID ANDREW MACDONALD* (MICHAEL)

has appeared in the Broadway productions of Coram Boy and Two Shakespearean Actors and the national tour of An Inspector Calls (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination, Chicago). His Off-Broadway credits include The Green Heart and A Night and Her Stars (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage); A Seagull in the Hamptons (McCarter Theatre Center); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis); A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Arms and the Man, Henry IV Part I, The Importance of Being Earnest (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); I Hate Hamlet, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Big Numbers, The Wizards of Quiz (Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays); Hay Fever (INTIMAN Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Cambridge Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Manitoba Theatre Centre); and The Way of the World (New York Stage & Film). On television, he appeared for six years as Edmund Winslow on Guiding Light and also has appeared on Sex and the City, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Another World, One Life to Live, and Loving. Mr. Macdonald is a graduate of The Juilliard School and father to Ian and Elena. Back to top.

Brian Hastert | Passion PlayJOAN MacINTOSH* (JUNE)

previously appeared at Yale Rep in Talley’s Folly and Elizabeth I: Almost by Chance a Woman. New York credits include Orpheus Descending, Our Town, The Seagull, and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (all on Broadway); Alice in Concert, Dispatches, A Bright Room Called Day, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, 365 Days/365 Plays (The Public Theater); More Stately Mansions (OBIE Award, Drama League Award, The Herald Angel Award: Edinburgh Festival), Alice in Bed (also in The Netherlands, Belgium), The Misanthrope (New York Theatre Workshop); Request Concert (Drama Desk Award), Night Sky, Endgame, and A Shayna Maidel. With the Performance Group she appeared in Dionysus in 69 (OBIE), Commune (OBIE), The Tooth of Crime (OBIE), Mother Courage and Her Children, The Marilyn Project, and Seneca’s Oedipus. Ms. MacIntosh is also the recipient of the OBIE for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Regional credits include Britannicus (Elliot Norton Award), King Lear, Hedda Gabler, The Three Sisters, Plenty, Happy End, Sore Throats, By the Bog of Cats. Film and television: Awakenings, A Flash of Green, The Confession, Fresh Horses, The West Wing, Law & Order, Lincoln and Seward, Fool’s Fire. She has received the John D. Rockefeller III, USIA, ITI, and Spencer Cherashore grants. Ms. MacIntosh is a Fox Fellow and an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Yale University, where she teaches acting in the School of Drama and the Theater Studies program at Yale College. Back to top.

Slate Holmgren | Passion PlayQUENTIN MARÉ* (Miles)

is making his Yale Rep debut. His Broadway appearances include Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll, Coram Boy, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, and King Lear with Christopher Plummer. Other New York stage credits include A Little Night Music (New York City Opera), Burn This (Signature Theatre Company), The Persians (National Actors Theatre), World of Mirth (Theatre Four), and Birdseed Bundles (Dance Theater Workshop). Regional: Compleat Female Stage Beauty (The Old Globe), New Patagonia (Seattle Repertory Theatre), and Hedda Gabler with Martha Plimpton (Long Wharf Theatre), among others. His film and television credits include the upcoming New York, I Love You; Body Of Lies; Personal Velocity; Lisa Picard Is Famous; Conviction; Law & Order; and Johnny Zero. Back to top.

Polly Noonan | Passion PlayKATHARINE POWELL* (Bea)

is making her Yale Rep debut. She was most recently seen on Broadway in Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention. Off-Broadway, Ms. Powell has originated roles in the New York premieres of Josh Tobiessen’s Election Day, Theresa Rebeck’s The Water’s Edge (Second Stage Theatre); David Mamet’s The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic Theater Company); and Brooke Berman’s Smashing (The Play Company). Ms. Powell’s regional theatre credits include The Farnsworth Invention (La Jolla Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (American Repertory Theatre), and Three Sisters (American Conservatory Theater). She appears in the films The Girl in the Park by David Auburn, Oranges, and The Baxter; and has guest starred on Guiding Light, Out of Practice, and Without a Trace. Ms. Powell is a graduate of Brown University and received her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Back to top.

*MEMBER OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES.