Alex Hernandez: (Ludovico Marsili) recently completed his acting apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where credits include the world premiere of The End (2011 Humana Festival) and Dracula. Other theatre credits include The Lost Colony at Waterside Theatre and the staged reading of The Specialist at Hippodrome State Theatre. He is a proud collaborator in Signs of Life, a hip hop theatre troupe based in Gainesville, Florida. Hernandez has his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, University of Florida. less recently completed his acting apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where credits include the world premiere of The End (2011 Humana Festival) and Dracula. Other theatre credits include The Lost Colony at Waterside Theatre and the staged reading of The Specialist at Hippodrome State Theatre. He is a proud collaborator in Signs... more

Andrew Gorell: (Ensemble) Andrew is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Andrew appeared in Cleveland Play House’s production of The Life of Galileo this season and portrayed Albert Porter in a staged reading of Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, CPH FusionFest 2011. Gorell was featured in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s Tale, Present Laughter, An Orchard and Cloud 9. Regionally he has been seen in Hamlet, Pericles and The Duchess of Malfi, American Shakespeare Center; Much Ado About Nothing, Oberlin Summer Theater Festival; Noises Off, Milwaukee Rep; Romeo and Juliet, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre; and The Mines of Sulphur and The Good Soldier Schweik, Glimmerglass Opera. Andrew has toured the United States with Richard III (as Richard III) with the American Shakespeare Center and Cyrano de Bergerac (as Cyrano) with the National Theater of Arts and Education. He has acted in Chicago with Bailiwick Rep; New York City with The Ensemble Studio Theatre and Collective Act; and in France with Les Compagnons Balladins. His film work includes Pretty All the Time, screened at the 2012 Cleveland International Film Festival. Andrew has appeared in multiple commercials on radio and television, including the Ohio Lottery and the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinal. Education includes a Bachelor of Arts, University of Minnesota and he is a Chloe Oldenburg scholarship recipient. less Andrew is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Andrew appeared in Cleveland Play House’s production of The Life of Galileo this season and portrayed Albert Porter in a staged reading of Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, CPH FusionFest 2011. Gorell was featured in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s... more

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Aric Generette Floyd: (Andrea Sarti, a boy) performed at Cleveland Play House and Arizona Theatre Company in the 2008 – 2009 season as Travis in A Raisin in the Sun. Now a sophomore at Hawken School, he had his first theatrical experience in Great Lakes Theater Festival productions of A Christmas Carol, where he appeared as Tiny Tim from 2002 to 2004. Floyd has since appeared in Antigone at Baldwin Wallace College, Goldilocks on Trial and Caroline or Change at Karamu House, The Wiz at East Cleveland Theater, Shenandoah at University School, Der Rosenkavalier with The Cleveland Orchestra, Oliver and Nine at Cain Park, 13 at Fairmount Performing Arts Center and Hairspray at Hawken School. He has also attended Fairmount Performing Arts Camp and Camp Cleveland Play House. less performed at Cleveland Play House and Arizona Theatre Company in the 2008 – 2009 season as Travis in A Raisin in the Sun. Now a sophomore at Hawken School, he had his first theatrical experience in Great Lakes Theater Festival productions of A Christmas Carol, where he appeared as Tiny... more

Bob Goddard: (Ensemble) recently appeared as Dinny in The Walworth Farce at Dobama Theatre where he will also be seen this December as Richard Harkin in The Seafarer. Other local credits include Goldstar, Ohio at Cleveland Public Theatre and appearances at Clague Playhouse and The Beck Center for the Arts. Favorite work includes The Caretaker, Comedians, Greater Tuna and Hedda Gabler. Chicago credits include the original production of The Good Times Are Killing Me at City Lit Theater.  Goddard holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Bowling Green State University. less recently appeared as Dinny in The Walworth Farce at Dobama Theatre where he will also be seen this December as Richard Harkin in The Seafarer. Other local credits include Goldstar, Ohio at Cleveland Public Theatre and appearances at Clague Playhouse and The Beck Center for the Arts. Favorite work includes... more

Charles Kartali: (Bursar/Cardinal Barberini) played the Bursar and Cardinal Barberini in The Life of Galileo at Cleveland Play House this season. Other CPH credits include The Old Man in all five productions of A Christmas Story, a role he reprised at Syracuse Stage; several roles in Bill W. and Dr. Bob; Christopher Trumbo in Trumbo; Mitch Albom in Tuesdays with Morrie; and FusionFests 2006 – 2011. Cleveland area acting work includes The Book of Grace and A Bright Room Called Day at Cleveland Public Theatre; Pangs of the Messiah and Brooklyn Boy, produced by The Mandel Jewish Community Center; The Price and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Ensemble Theatre; The Seafarer and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Dobama Theatre; and Awake and Sing, at the Halle. Regionally he has performed at American Stage, Aspen Theatre in the Park, BoarsHead, Shadowland and Steppenwolf Theatre Company, among others. Film and television includes High Spirits and Lost Subs. less played the Bursar and Cardinal Barberini in The Life of Galileo at Cleveland Play House this season. Other CPH credits include The Old Man in all five productions of A Christmas Story, a role he reprised at Syracuse Stage; several roles in Bill W. and Dr. Bob; Christopher Trumbo in... more

Christian Prentice: (Ensemble) recently appeared in Fever/Dream at Cleveland Public Theatre.  Other Cleveland area credits include Quake, Ouroboros, and Dark Ride at Convergence-Continuum and Prodigal Lizard Returns to Feckin Hell, GYMWorks at Dobama Theatre.  Prentice is a recent graduate of Kent State University.

Dan Hendrock: (Ensemble) Dan just filmed “Big Change,” a commercial for GE which landed him another spot with GE that is still in the works. He also just finished filming a commerical/print shoot for Powerhouse Generators. He was most recently seen at Cleveland Play House in The Winter’s Tale as Polixenes and Young Shepherd and as Lord Chamberlain in The Life of Galileo. He also participated in a staged reading of Silent Sky for CPH Fusion Fest 2011 and performed in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of Present Laughter, An Orchard and Cloud 9. He helped conceive and produce an experimental Michael Chekhov technique production of Dead Man’s Cell Phone where he performed the role of Dwight. Other credits include The Players Theatre, New York; Porthouse Theatre; Cain Park; Beck Center for the Arts; La Commedia Dinner Theatre; Ohio Shakespeare Festival; The Palace Theatre; Huron Playhouse; Shawnee Playhouse; and national tours with Artspower and Periwinkle National Theatre. He has appeared in several original, conceptual projects such as the international premiere of The Secret of the Ceiba Tree, The David Gonzalez Project; Billy Goat Gruff, Fort Tryon Park, N.Y.; and the original staged reading of Cumberland Blues, Carousel Dinner Theatre. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Kent State University. less Dan just filmed “Big Change,” a commercial for GE which landed him another spot with GE that is still in the works. He also just finished filming a commerical/print shoot for Powerhouse Generators. He was most recently seen at Cleveland Play House in The Winter’s Tale as Polixenes and Young... more

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Eva Gil: (Ensemble) Eva recently appeared as Hermione, as well as Mopsa, in The Winter’s Tale. Other roles in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program’s productions include: Joanna in Present Laughter, Varya in An Orchard, Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9, and Hermia/The Other Woman in Dead Man’s Cell Phone. At Cleveland Play House she appeared in The Life of Galileo, and she understudied as well as played the role of Daria Chase in the world premiere of The Game’s Afoot. Eva recently worked in Chicago with Collaboraction, the side project theatre company, Redtwist Theatre and 5th Floor Productions. She also spent a season at Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the Acting Apprenticeship Company where she performed in A Christmas Carol, Neon Mirage (Humana Festival), The Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiny Baby, among others. Also a passionate producer of new plays, she has co-produced six critically successful productions in New York and Chicago. Commercially, Eva has booked spots with Moen, Sunstar Toothbrush and The Maids. less Eva recently appeared as Hermione, as well as Mopsa, in The Winter’s Tale. Other roles in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program’s productions include: Joanna in Present Laughter, Varya in An Orchard, Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9, and Hermia/The Other Woman in Dead Man’s Cell Phone. At Cleveland Play House she appeared... more

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Jeffrey Grover: (Ensemble) appeared at Cleveland Play House in FusionFest staged readings of U.S. v. Howard Mechanic (2009), The Will to Art (2008) and Americans (2006). Favorite work includes Free Man of Color, Ensemble Theatre; How I Learned to Drive and Lady, The Bang and the Clatter; Two Rooms, Charenton Theater Company/Cleveland Public Theatre; Six Degrees of Separation, Charenton; Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Seagull, and Art, The Beck Center for the Arts; and The Old Neighborhood and The Exonerated, Dobama Theatre. Film includes the soon to be released Take Shelter, The War That Made America, A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho and Compliance (post production). Grover continues his involvement producing plays and related programming focused on issues of social relevance. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Case Western Reserve University. less appeared at Cleveland Play House in FusionFest staged readings of U.S. v. Howard Mechanic (2009), The Will to Art (2008) and Americans (2006). Favorite work includes Free Man of Color, Ensemble Theatre; How I Learned to Drive and Lady, The Bang and the Clatter; Two Rooms, Charenton Theater Company/Cleveland Public... more

Jeremy Kendall: (A Little Monk) was at Cleveland Play House first thing this season playing the role of A Little Monk in The Life of Galileo, the inaugural production at the newly revamped Allen Theatre. Kendall recently played the role of Denny in A Steady Rain at Dobama Theatre. Before moving to Cleveland he originated the role of Tricky Pete/Matthias Paine in Christopher Cartmill’s Home Land for Nebraska’s Lied Center for Performing Arts. Other credits include Resident Alien and Bus Stop for Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing for Flatwater Shakespeare. less was at Cleveland Play House first thing this season playing the role of A Little Monk in The Life of Galileo, the inaugural production at the newly revamped Allen Theatre. Kendall recently played the role of Denny in A Steady Rain at Dobama Theatre. Before moving to Cleveland he originated the... more

Jonathan Ramos: (Ensemble) has performed in New York in Way to Heaven at Repertorio Espanol and Wanderlust: A History of Walking, presented by Cleveland Public Theatre at Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival. Other credits include Show Boat, Grand Hotel, and The Scarlet Pimpernel with Mercury Summer Stock; High School Musical at West Virginia Public Theatre; and the title role in Peter Pan at Porthouse Theatre. Ramos has his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wright State University. less has performed in New York in Way to Heaven at Repertorio Espanol and Wanderlust: A History of Walking, presented by Cleveland Public Theatre at Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival. Other credits include Show Boat, Grand Hotel, and The Scarlet Pimpernel with Mercury Summer Stock; High School Musical at West... more

Kelli Ruttle: (Ensemble) Kelli was recently seen in an acclaimed performance as Uta Hagen in Ten Chimneys at Cleveland Play House.  Also at CPH, she appeared in The Life of Galileo and in Bill W. and Dr. Bob as a performing understudy.  Other Cleveland credits include Silent Sky and Eyes Forward (CPH FusionFest), Grizzly Mama (Dobama Theatre, VO), and the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s Tale, Present Laughter, An Orchard and Cloud 9. Regional theatre credits include Tartuffe, directed by Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, and the premiere workshop of Guitar, La Jolla Playhouse; Hamlet, Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Stories of the Night Told Over, Hayworth Theatre; As You Like It, La Jolla Stage Company; The Ladies of the Camellias, The Clearing and The Kid from Stratford, Carlsbad Playhouse; and Hay Fever, Onstage Playhouse.  She came to the program from Los Angeles where she worked in TV/film, commercials, as well as theatre.  Besides her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from San Diego State University, she is a British American Drama Academy alumna and Chloe Oldenberg scholarship recipient. less Kelli was recently seen in an acclaimed performance as Uta Hagen in Ten Chimneys at Cleveland Play House.  Also at CPH, she appeared in The Life of Galileo and in Bill W. and Dr. Bob as a performing understudy.  Other Cleveland credits include Silent Sky and Eyes Forward (CPH FusionFest),... more

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Kim Krane: (Virginia Galilei) Kim made her way to Cleveland by way of Kalamazoo, Michigan. She recently appeared at Cleveland Play House as Virginia Galilei in The Life of Galileo and in the CPH FusionFest 2011 staged reading of Silent Sky.  She also understudied the role of Aggie Wheeler in the world premiere of The Game’s Afoot. In the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, Krane was seen as Maud/Lin in Cloud 9, Anya in The Cherry Orchard,  Monica Reed in Present Laughter and most recently Mamillius/Perdita/The Bear in The Winter’s Tale.  Krane holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University. While there she worked with hip-hop artist Will Power to conceive and perform in an original show; performed in WMU’s production of Dracula at the Pabst Theatre in 2007; originated the role of Abby in the world premiere of The War Wound; collaborated with Leon Inglsrud of the SITI company on a production of Dr. Faustus; and played Kattrin in Mother Courage. Regional credits include Jean in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, CWRU; Alice in Closer, Knockabout Theatre Company; Ellen in Little Dog Laughed, Whole Art Theatre; and Dorothy in Hotline, Knockabout Theatre Company. less Kim made her way to Cleveland by way of Kalamazoo, Michigan. She recently appeared at Cleveland Play House as Virginia Galilei in The Life of Galileo and in the CPH FusionFest 2011 staged reading of Silent Sky.  She also understudied the role of Aggie Wheeler in the world premiere of... more

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Michael Herbert: (Ensemble) Michael recently appeared in Cleveland Play House’s production of The Life of Galileo and as the understudy for the role of Simon Bright in the immensely successful world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s play The Game’s Afoot. In the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, Herbert has starred as Florizel in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (directed by R.A.D.A.’s Geoff Bullen), Hugo in Present Laughter, Trofimov in An Orchard and Harry/Martin in Cloud 9. Other recent credits include Ferdinand in The Tempest, Menelaus in Iphigenia 2.0, Cyrano de Bergerac, and the title role in Ion. Herbert has also worked at The Space Theatre in London and performed on tour last summer with Student Life, traveling over 11,000 miles in two months. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance from Baylor University.   less Michael recently appeared in Cleveland Play House’s production of The Life of Galileo and as the understudy for the role of Simon Bright in the immensely successful world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s play The Game’s Afoot. In the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, Herbert has starred as Florizel in Shakespeare’s The... more

Myra Lucretia Taylor: (Signora Sarti) recently performed in Going to St. Ives at Barrington Stage Company. Broadway credits include Nine, Macbeth, Electra, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Mule Bone, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Selected off Broadway credits are The Little Foxes, New York Theatre Workshop; Love, Loss and What I Wore, Westside Theatre; Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Creek, Crazy Mary, and Fabulation, world premieres at Playwrights Horizons; and The Colored Museum, world premiere, Crossroads Theatre Company and Public Theatre. Taylor toured nationally with Wicked as Madame Morrible. Regional credits are world premieres Mary, Goodman Theatre and The Old Settler, McCarter Theatre Center and Long Wharf Theatre. Internationally she has appeared in The Winter's Tale and Pericles, Royal Shakespeare Company; and The Colored Museum, London’s West End. Film and television includes Silver Tongues, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Lobster Farm, Changing Lanes, The Big C, and Law & Order. Taylor earned a 2004 Fox Foundation Fellowship. less recently performed in Going to St. Ives at Barrington Stage Company. Broadway credits include Nine, Macbeth, Electra, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Mule Bone, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Selected off Broadway credits are The Little Foxes, New York Theatre Workshop; Love, Loss and What I Wore, Westside Theatre; Cool... more

Paul Whitworth: (Galileo Galilei) studied at St. Andrews and Oxford Universities and began his acting career at Royal Shakespeare Company (1976-1982). During a long association with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, he played many Shakespearean leading characters. Other major roles include Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Sheffield Crucible Theatre; Higgins in Pygmalion, Seattle Repertory Theatre; George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Neils Bohr in Copenhagen, Syracuse Stage; George in Night and Day, ACT San Francisco; Dr. Robert Smith in Blue/Orange, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley; John in Shining City, San Francisco Playhouse; and, at Asolo Repertory Theatre: Dysart in Equus, Mr.Hammerschmidt in The Perfume Shop and the title role in The life of Galileo. Most recently Whitworth played Forrest in Hurricane by Nilo Cruz at Ringling International Arts Festival and Krapp in Krapp’s Last Tape at Jewel Theatre, Santa Cruz. Whitworth has directed in the UK and USA. From 1996 to 2007 he was artistic director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. less studied at St. Andrews and Oxford Universities and began his acting career at Royal Shakespeare Company (1976-1982). During a long association with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, he played many Shakespearean leading characters. Other major roles include Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Sheffield Crucible Theatre; Higgins in Pygmalion, Seattle Repertory... more

Philip Goodwin: (The Cardinal Inquisitor) appeared on Broadway in Tartuffe, The Diary of Anne Frank, and The School for Scandal. Off Broadway acting work includes The Public Theater, King Lear, Pericles, Macbeth and Hamlet; MCC Theater, Grace; Atlantic Theatre Company, The Room/Celebration; Signature Theatre Company, Drowning; New York Theatre Workshop, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek; and Theatre for a New Audience, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida and Henry VI as Henry VI, resulting in a Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Actor. Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington DC work earned him Helen Hayes Awards for Malvolio in Twelfth NIght, Timon in Timon of Athens and Mayor Stockman in An Enemy of the People. He has also been seen at The Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Studio Arena Theatre, Intiman Theatre and The Acting Company. Film and television follows: The Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Two, Diary of a City Priest, Men in Black II, and Law and Order episodes. less appeared on Broadway in Tartuffe, The Diary of Anne Frank, and The School for Scandal. Off Broadway acting work includes The Public Theater, King Lear, Pericles, Macbeth and Hamlet; MCC Theater, Grace; Atlantic Theatre Company, The Room/Celebration; Signature Theatre Company, Drowning; New York Theatre Workshop, The Trestle at Pope Lick... more

Robert Ellis: (Federzoni/Vanni) appeared at Cleveland Play House in The Life of Galileo earlier this season and in CPH FusionFest 2010 as the General in sold-out performances of A Soldier’s Tale with Catch and Release. Other area acting work includes Stone Cold Dead Serious, Cleveland Public Theatre; Circle, Mirror, Transformation and The Late Henry Moss, Dobama Theatre; Of Mice and Men and Dog Eat Dog, Ensemble Theatre; and Annie Get Your Gun, The Foreigner, The Art of Dining, Inherit the Wind, and The Learned Ladies, Porthouse Theatre. Regional theatre credits include The Illusion, Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, Florida and Harvey with Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bennington, Vermont. Ellis is a professor of theatre at Cuyahoga Community College West, and he is Ohio State chair for Region number three of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ American College Theater Festival. He is also a founding member of Cabaret Dada, a well-respected improvisational theatre based in downtown Cleveland.   less appeared at Cleveland Play House in The Life of Galileo earlier this season and in CPH FusionFest 2010 as the General in sold-out performances of A Soldier’s Tale with Catch and Release. Other area acting work includes Stone Cold Dead Serious, Cleveland Public Theatre; Circle, Mirror, Transformation and The Late... more

Sheldon Best: (Andrea Sarti, a man/Masked Guest/Old Cardinal's Monk) is based in New York City where credits include Freed, 59E59 and Penguin Rep Theatre, for which he received an AUDELCO Viv Award nomination; Soul Samurai, Ma-Yi Theater Company and Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company; Alice in Slasherland, Vampire Cowboys; Paradox of the Urban Cliché, LAByrinth Theater Company; and Gentrifusion: Crawl, Red Fern Theatre Company. Best has also appeared in many new works with Ensemble Studio Theatre where he is a company member. Regional credits include Superior Donuts, Denver Center Theatre Company, receiving the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry nomination; Lydia R. Diamond’s Harriet Jacobs, Underground Railway Theater; Much Ado About Nothing, Actors’ Shakespeare Project; The Oil Thief, Boston Playwrights' Theatre; The History Boys, SpeakEasy Stage Company; and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Berkshire Theatre Festival. Best holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts and in English and American Literature, Brandeis University. less is based in New York City where credits include Freed, 59E59 and Penguin Rep Theatre, for which he received an AUDELCO Viv Award nomination; Soul Samurai, Ma-Yi Theater Company and Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company; Alice in Slasherland, Vampire Cowboys; Paradox of the Urban Cliché, LAByrinth Theater Company; and Gentrifusion: Crawl,... more

Stephen Caffrey: (Sagredo/Cardinal Bellarmin) Selected theatre credits are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Portland Center Stage; Victoria Musica, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; King Lear and Autumn Garden, The Antaeus Company; The Constant Wife, The Pasadena Playhouse; Bach at Leipzig, South Coast Repertory; Heartbreak House, Berkeley Rep; The Voysey Inheritance, The Real Thing and A Doll’s House, ACT San Francisco; 36 Views, Laguna Playhouse; The Body of Bourne, Mark Taper Forum; All’s Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Bargains, The Old Globe; The Miser, Hartford Stage; I Hate Hamlet, Royal George Theatre; What You Get and Expect, New York Theatre Workshop; Scarlet Letter, Classic Stage Company; and Restoration Comedy, Seattle Rep. Film and television includes Cinema Verite, HBO; CSI Miami; Columbo; Tour of Duty, CBS (series  regular); Longtime Companion; Chicago Hope; Buried Alive; The Profiler; Indiana Jones Chronicles; Nothing Lasts Forever; Blowback; and Murder of Innocence. less Selected theatre credits are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Portland Center Stage; Victoria Musica, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; King Lear and Autumn Garden, The Antaeus Company; The Constant Wife, The Pasadena Playhouse; Bach at Leipzig, South Coast Repertory; Heartbreak House, Berkeley Rep; The Voysey Inheritance, The Real Thing... more

Thomas Weil: (Cosimo de Medici, a boy) understudied all the young male parts in Cleveland Play House’s 2009 production of A Christmas Story—not an easy feat for a then nine-year-old, as this meant learning the lines for five roles including the protagonist Ralphie! In 2010 Weil played The Young Hero Timothy in FamFest USA’s production of Ultimus Veneficus: Last of the Sorcerers and in 2009 appeared in Beachwood Community Theater’s production of A Boy Called Pinocchio. He also appeared in Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory productions of The Dancing Man and Children of Eden. In 2010 he won the Best Acting Award for his age group at Cleveland Indie Festival. Weil moved to Cleveland from Bethesda, Maryland. In addition to theatre he enjoys football, basketball, and reading. less understudied all the young male parts in Cleveland Play House’s 2009 production of A Christmas Story—not an easy feat for a then nine-year-old, as this meant learning the lines for five roles including the protagonist Ralphie! In 2010 Weil played The Young Hero Timothy in FamFest USA’s production of Ultimus... more

Yan Tual: (Ensemble) Yan is a French actor born in Paris. He recently appeared in The Life of Galileo and The Game’s Afoot (u/s) at Cleveland Play House as well as in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s Tale, Present Laughter, An Orchard, Mnemonic and Cloud 9. Other credits include A Bright Room Called Day at the University of Minnesota’s Rarig Center; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at LAMDA, London; El Visitante at U. Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid; Sur la Grand’ Route at Maison Louis Jouvet in Montpellier, France; and Retour de Guerre et Bilora directed by Jean-Louis Benoit at Théâtre de Nîmes. Before arriving to the U.S., Tual trained and performed internationally in France, Spain and the U.K. He is very much looking forward to moving to such an exiting city as New York. Upcoming roles include portraying Antoine Fourcroy in The Mystery of Matter: Oxygen for PBS by Emmy Award-winning director Muffie Meyer. less Yan is a French actor born in Paris. He recently appeared in The Life of Galileo and The Game’s Afoot (u/s) at Cleveland Play House as well as in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s Tale, Present Laughter, An Orchard, Mnemonic and Cloud 9. Other credits include A... more

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DIRECTOR'S NOTE: The Life of Galileo: It seems such a simple act. Point a telescope at the night sky – it was the result of that most natural of human impulses: curiosity. Then comes the thrilling, awesome and frightening moment: grasping what it is you are actually seeing. It is 400+ years since Galileo first did this – the pointing and the grasping - and 40 years since man landed on the moon. They are of course directly connected events. Small steps and great leaps. It is almost impossible for us to imagine a world where it was an absolute given for everyone that the earth was still and flat, that the sun and all the planets and moons, revolved around the earth and that the earth was the center of the universe. Yet this was the case a mere 400 years ago. Steadily, meticulously, through the most painstaking observation - which probably cost him his eyesight – Galileo proved that the earth is spinning on its axis as it rotates around the sun, that the sun is one of many billions of stars and that the earth is a tiny speck in one of many universes. This insight, this observation, this proof changed everything: scientifically, spiritually, politically. Everything. All our certainties about what, why, and how the world is, were suddenly profoundly challenged, examined and doubted. Some people at the time recognized what we now call a paradigm shift. They were excited that we could now question everything and that this liberation of the act of human enquiry would lead to extraordinary achievements in science and civilization. And in so many ways they were right. Three hundred and sixty years later the descendents of Galileo’s telescope landed on the moon. But for many this was a moment of great fear. They saw that somehow dark and chaotic forces would be unleashed by letting the world in on Galileo’s discoveries. They dreaded that pure scientific inquiry would become unmoored from morality and ethics and lead to destruction. As we now know all too well, they too in many ways were right. We have all pondered the awful achievement of a nuclear winter. Brecht’s superb play, as adapted by David Edgar, lives and breathes at the heart of this great paradox. It vividly reminds us that this great intersection of faith and reason, of science and morality, is directly connected to the future of us all. less It seems such a simple act. Point a telescope at the night sky – it was the result of that most natural of human impulses: curiosity. Then comes the thrilling, awesome and frightening moment: grasping what it is you are actually seeing. It is 400+ years since... more

Did Galileo Influence Theater?: William Shakespeare was born in 1564, just two month before the birth of Galileo. Shakespeare’s works were influenced by earlier writings such as ancient and Greek plays, but they were also heavily influenced by the world around him. Shakespeare describes the sights and sounds of London in his plays. His works include observations about current political struggles, the fear of diseases, and the popular language of the city's tradesmen and other professionals. Was Galileo one of those professionals that influenced Shakespeare’s plays? Galileo's discovery of the four brightest moons of Jupiter was reported in his 1610 publication of Sidereus Nuncius. Shakespeare’s play, Cymbeline, which first appeared about six months after Galileo’s publication, seemingly makes a strong connection to Galileo’s publication: While one character is asleep on the ground, Jupiter is hanging in the air above him, with four ghosts circling the tableau. It is possible that the ghosts represent the four moons of Jupiter that had recently been announced by Galileo in Sidereus Nuncius. less William Shakespeare was born in 1564, just two month before the birth of Galileo. Shakespeare’s works were influenced by earlier writings such as ancient and Greek plays, but they were also heavily influenced by the world around him. Shakespeare describes the sights and sounds of London in his plays. His... more