On Borrowed Time

Oakes Fegley, age 8, is thrilled to be working with Joel Grey and such an accomplished cast and crew at Two River Theater! Earlier this summer he played Chicken Soup in Really Rosie at the Bucks County Playhouse. He played Tiny Tim twice, an urchin and Turkey Boy in A Christmas Carol at Civic Theatre back home in Allentown, PA. He plays Paul in the soon-to-be-released film Fort Bliss. Other film credits include This Is Where I Leave You (Young Judd), Prism (Young Bryan), The Truth About Lies (Boy), Glass (Boy), and Children of the Moon (Michael) a short film in which he got to act with his father. He has had an amazing time at Two River and will cherish this experience for the rest of his life.

Alexander Garfin is honored to be working with Joel Grey and the amazing cast and crew of On Borrowed Time! At 9 years old, Alex is a veteran of the Yorkville Theatre Company on New York City’s Upper East Side. Alex played Charlie in the group’s 2013 production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Alex has been in two episodes of Law & Order: SVU, the movie Salt with Angelina Jolie, and a bunch of commercials. Thank you to Yorkville Theater Company Artistic Director Scott Laughead; Robyn and Ashley at Nouveaux Talent; Grandma Dale and his brother Max, dad Jeff, and mom Karin. And special thanks to my buddy Oakes! There’s nothing better than jumping on couches and climbing apple trees with you.

Brian Gildea is thrilled to be in the company directed by Joel Grey, working with a great cast and crew. His most recent stage performance was playing Eddie in Lost in Yonkers directed by Brian Drillinger. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and has a few film and TV projects coming out. Follow him on www.briangildea.com. Thanks to family and friends for your support.

Brian Michael Hoffman starred as Horton in the acclaimed Off-Broadway revival and cast recording of Seussical and has performed in regional productions/national tours of The Browning Version (Taplow), Fortinbras (Polonius), 25th Annual…Spelling Bee (Barfée), The Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion), Assassins (Czolgosz), Threepenny Opera (Filch), Edwin Drood (Chairman), Jacques Brel and As Thousands Cheer at theaters such as Syracuse Stage, Pioneer Theatre, MTW, Sacramento Music Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, NCT, Lyric Theatre OKC, Maine State, Connecticut Rep, and Chicago’s Paramount and Marriott Lincolnshire. This Baltimore School for the Arts & Syracuse University grad led a barbershop quartet at Tokyo Disney Sea in Japan for three years, has performed in over 1,900 performances of Annie (some with Broadway’s original redhead, Andrea McArdle!), can be heard on the Annie: 30th Anniversary and Annie 2 cast recordings and the soundtrack to Cuba Gooding Jr.’s new film Carry Me Home, and happily works with 2011 Tony Award honoree William Berloni and his pups on Broadway (Legally Blonde, The Royal Family). Many thanks to Joel, Bill and everyone at Two River for this incredible opportunity. brianmichaelhoffman.com

Robert Hogan made his Two River debut earlier this season in On Borrowed Time. Broadway: A Few Good Men (Capt. Matthew Markinson), Hamlet (Ghost of Hamlet’s Father). Off-Broadway: Blood and Gifts, Luck of the Irish (Lincoln Center), Never the Sinner (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor), Waiting for Lefty (dir. Joanne Woodward), Further Than the Furthest Thing (Manhattan Theatre Club), Boy (Primary Stages), Murder in the First, Rainbow Kiss, Romania Kiss Me (59E59), What Didn’t Happen, On the Bum (Playwrights Horizons), Baby Dance (Lucille Lortel), Hope Is the Thing With Feathers (Drama Dept.), Rutherford & Son (Mint Theater), Mourning Becomes Electra, Accomplices (New Group), In the Western Garden (EST), Major Crimes, Lighting Up the Two-Year-Old (Actors Studio Free Theatre) and Abe Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party. Regional: Moon for the Misbegotten (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award nom. for Best Actor), William Kennedy’s Grandview (Capitol Rep), The Master Builder (Yale Rep), Uncle Vanya (Bard), Robbers (Long Wharf), Indolent Boys (Syracuse Stage), Ty Cobb (Chautauqua). Film: Too Big to Fail, Good Marriage, Welcome to Academia, Species II, Lady in Red, Sweet Land, Prince Jack, Maze, Michael Crichton’s Westworld and Hamburger: The Motion Picture. TV: The Wire, Law & Order, L&O: Criminal Intent, L&O: SVU, Hill Street Blues, Cosby, M*A*S*H, Batman (Role: Greatest Pitcher in the World), and over 150 primetime shows. Bob is married to author Mary Hogan whose latest novel, Two Sisters, was recently published by William Morrow.

Betsy Hogg is thrilled to make her Two River Theater debut. She proudly played Molly Aster in the closing company of Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway. Other B’way: Fiddler on the Roof, The Crucible. National Tour: Show Boat. Off-B’way/Regional: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (The New Group), Summer of ’42 (Bucks County Playhouse), A Maze (NYSAF), The Crucible (Barrington Stage Co.). TV/Film: Onion SportsDome, Law & Order: SVU, The Missing Person, Rocket Science. Proud Northwestern graduate and AEA member. If you’d like to hear her read a book, check out audible.com.

Patrick Husted played Dr. Bob in the Off Broadway premiere of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, about the two men who founded Alcoholics Anonymous during the Great Depression. Also in New York City he played Dr. Kelekian in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, and worked with Arthur Miller on his remake of The American Clock at the Signature Theatre. His regional theater credits of over 150 productions across the country include the central character in Arthur Miller’s last play Resurrection Blues. Film credits include Tim Robbins’ The Cradle Will Rock with Bill Murray, Blow with Ray Liotta, and Neil Jordan’s film The Brave One with Jodie Foster. He has guest starred in numerous episodic television shows and the television movie For One More Day with Michael Imperioli and Ellen Burstyn. He can be seen in the upcoming film The Immigrant with Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard. Patrick is the author of the memoir, Excavating Pieces: An American Childhood.

Diane Kagan played Mrs. Pierce in Mildred Pierce (HBO) with Kate Winslet and appeared in Julie & Julia with Meryl Streep and Merchant Ivory’s Mr. and Mrs. Bridge with Paul Newman. She recently appeared in the National Company of the Pulitzer-winning play Wit. On Broadway, she was standby for Angela Lansbury in Deuce and starred in Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré, after which she played Blanche DuBois in the 30^th anniversary production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Other Broadway: The Chinese Prime Minister, Any Wednesday, Hedda Gabler, and A Doll’s House. Off-Broadway includes: Enrico IV (Roundabout), starring as Zelda Fitzgerald in Clothes for a Summer Hotel (York), Ladyhouse Blues (Playwrights Horizons), and many roles at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and Lincoln Center. Regional credits include Suddenly, Last Summer (Triad Stage) and the one-woman show Hannah Pixley (Barrington Stage). She starred in the film In the Gloaming and can be seen in Jacob’s Ladder, White Man’s Burden, and Meet Joe Black. TV includes Huey Long, A Circle of Children, Barn Burning, The Art of Crime, Mother Seton, Follow the River, Sins of the City, Grace and Glory, and many appearances on Law & Order. Also a playwright, Diane is a member of New Dramatists, Dramatists Guild, and The Women’s Project. Her plays have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, La MaMa, and the WPA; Lucille Lortel produced her play Marvelous Brown on Theatre Row and Gian Carlo Menotti produced the world premiere of The Corridor at Spoleto USA. Her first book of fiction Who Won Second Place at Omaha? is published by Random House. 

Tom Nelis Broadway: Enron, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Aida. Off Broadway: Passion, Orlando (Classic Stage); Road Show, Richard III, Henry IV, title role in Henry VI, The Merchant of Venice, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Public Theater); Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons); Iphigenia 2.0, Hot ‘N’ Throbbing, (Signature); The Broken Heart, The Jew of Malta, The Merchant of Venice (TFANA, RSC); Septimus and Clarissa (Ripe Time); Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecencies (Minetta Lane); Hot Mouth (MTC); Pearls for Pigs (Richard Foreman/World Tour); Ahab in Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick (BAM/World Tour); Trojan Women/A Love Story, Strange Feet, Another Person Is a Foreign Country (En Garde Arts); The Blue Sky is a Curse (The Talking Band); Dionysus (Suzuki Company of Toga); Lilith (New York City Opera). Regional theaters throughout the country. Mr. Nelis is a founding member of SITI Company and as such has appeared in Cafe Variations; Antigone; Under Construction; Score; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; War of the Worlds; bobraushenbergamerica; The Radio Play; Going, Going, Gone; The Medium; Orestes, and American Document with The Martha Graham Dance Company. He teaches Suzuki and Viewpoints training for SITI and is on the faculty of Barnard College. Awards: OBIE (The Medium), Drama League nomination (Score), San Diego Critics Ensemble Award (WINTERTIME), Barrymore Nomination (CANDIDE). MFA, UC San Diego.

Angela Reed is pleased to be making her debut at Two River Theater. Her credits include the Broadway productions of The Country Girl, Rock ’n’ Roll, and The Rainmaker and the first national tours of War Horse and Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway, she has worked with Mint Theater, Keen Company, TACT, Classic Stage Company, and Primary Stages. Regionally, Ms. Reed has appeared in August: Osage County (The Old Globe), The Whale, After Ashley and Map of Heaven (Denver Center), Time Stands Still (Pittsburgh City Theatre), Rabbit Hole (Cleveland Play House), Olly’s Prison (A.R.T.), Talley’s Folly (Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, and Dorset Theatre Festival), The Real Thing and Crimes of the Heart (Syracuse Stage), Proof (Coconut Grove), Three Sisters and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Thornton Wilder Short Plays (Baltimore CenterStage), Ordinary Nation (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Camille (Round House Theatre), Women Who Steal (Merrimack Rep), The Herbal Bed (Indiana Rep), and How I Learned to Drive, Angels in America, Othello, The Triumph of Love, Dracula, and In Her Sight (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Her television credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Third Watch, Blue Bloods, and The Good Wife.

Snickers was rescued by her owner and guardian William Berloni in January of 2001 from the Cairn Terrier Rescue Group of Connecticut. She was given up because her family didn’t have enough time for her. She made her professional debut in The Wizard of Oz in Fort Worth, TX at the Casa Mañana Theatre in 2001 and made her Broadway debut in 2009 at Madison Square Garden in the National Tour of The Wizard of Oz. Since her humble beginnings, she has been delighting audiences all over the country in the role of “Toto.” As the Grande Dame of Theatrical Animals, she is thrilled to be playing Betty and honored to be working with Mr. Joel Grey.

Steven Skybell returns to Two River, where he was previously seen in On Borrowed Time, The Electric Baby, Much Ado About Nothing, and Candida. Broadway: Pal Joey; Wicked; The Full Monty; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Café Crown; Ah, Wilderness!. Off-Broadway includes: Antigone in New York (Obie Award); Love’s Labor’s Lost (The Public); A Man’s a Man, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Galileo, and The Age of Iron (all CSC); The Lesson (Atlantic); The Controversy (The Public), What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons); numerous Shakespeare productions at the Delacorte, The Public, and Theatre for a New Audience. Regional credits include Arthur in Camelot (Helen Hayes nomination); title roles in Uncle Vanya (McCarter/La Jolla) and Hamlet (California Shakespeare); Berkshire Theatre Festival; Westport Country Playhouse; former company member of American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Mass.; inaugural season of Shakespeare’s Globe, London (PBS Great Performances). BBC radio drama: The Day That Lehman Died (Peabody Award). TV/Film: 666 Park Avenue, Elementary, Law & Order, Sex and the City, All My Children, Simply Irresistible, Cradle Will Rock, Tom and Francie.

Lorenzo Villanueva is a recent graduate of Montclair State University where he received his BFA in theater. He feels fortunate to return to Two River Theater for his third time after four years. He is excited to be a part of this production, and honored to work with such talented individuals. Some past shows included Cloud 9 (Harry/Martin), Equus (horse ensemble), Romeo and Juliet (Paris), and Melissa Arctic (Ferris Anderson).

John Thomas Waite has the distinction of having played Dr. Watson to the Sherlock Holmes of Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes in a series of promos for Court TV. On Broadway John Thomas was one of the Mozarts in the original run of Amadeus. In London he was part of the Independent Shakespeare Theatre’s eight-man production of Macbeth. Off Broadway he has been in and out of The Fantasticks for years. His TV and film credits include: Ed (NBC), Royal Pains (USA), Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (HBO), The Understudy, and the recently completed feature Carry Me Home starring Cuba Gooding Jr.