The Servant of Two Masters

The Cast

SARAH AGNEWSARAH AGNEW (BEATRICE)

is making her Yale Rep debut. Her theatre credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tartuffe, The Seagull, Hamlet, The Government Inspector, The Miser (Theatre de la Jeune Lune, company member); the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Three Sisters (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Syringa Tree (a one-woman performance, The Jungle Theater); Major Barbara, the American premiere of Brian Friel’s Home Place, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, As You Like It (Guthrie Theater); Hamlet (The New Victory Theater); a new adaption of archy and mehitabel, which she co-created, directed, and designed (Open Eye Figure Theater); and productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Trinity Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, and The Wilma Theater. Sarah studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA), Actors Theatre of Louisville (apprenticeship), École Philippe Gaulier, and at the Burlesk Center with Pierre Byland.
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WILL COBBSWILL COBBS (WAITER)

is making his Yale Rep debut. A first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, he began his career in Atlanta working at theatres including Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Theatre in the Square, and Alliance Theatre. His theatre credits include Yellowman and In the Red and Brown Water. He also played PFC Brian Day on Lifetime’s Army Wives.
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LIAM CRAIGLIAM CRAIG (BRIGHELLA / PORTER)

is making his Yale Rep debut. His New York credits include the Broadway production of Boeing Boeing (understudying and performing the role of Robert); and Off-Broadway: The Internationalist (Vineyard Theatre), Aunt Dan and Lemon (The New Group), Two Noble Kinsmen (The Public Theater), and Don Juan (Theatre for a New Audience). His regional theatre credits include A Christmas Story (Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Scene (Hartford Stage, Alley Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Studio Theatre), The Lady from the Sea (Intiman Theatre), and Henry V (Shakespeare on the Sound). Television and film: Mercy, Rescue Me, Boston Legal, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Liam received his BA in English and Theater Studies from Yale College and his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program.
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JOHN TREACY EAGANJOHN TREACY EGAN (IL DOTTORE)

is making his Yale Rep debut. His Broadway credits include Bye Bye Birdie, Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Chef Louis), The Producers (Max Bialystock, Roger DeBris, and Franz Liebkind), Jekyll & Hyde, as well as the national and European tours of Kiss Me Kate and Cats. His other stage credits include the Off-Broadway productions of When Pigs Fly!, Batboy! The Musical; as well as the Actors Fund Chess benefit concert, Master Class, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Odd Couple, and Children of Eden. Television and film credits include 30 Rock, Cupid, Law & Order, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, As the World Turns, Bravo Presents: Linda Eder, Martin Scorcese’s upcoming Boardwalk Empire on HBO, The Producers, and Last Night with Keira Knightley and Eva Mendes (upcoming). His solo CDs Counts the Stars and On Christmas Morning are available on iTunes and cdbaby.com.
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STEVEN EPPSTEVEN EPP (TRUFFALDINO)

was an actor, writer, and co-Artistic Director at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, from 1983–2008. Title roles there included Tartuffe, Crusoe, Hamlet, Gulliver, Figaro, and The Miser; as well as major roles in Yang Zen Froggs, Romeo and Juliet, Cyrano, Children of Paradise, Scapin, Germinal, Don Juan Giovanni, The Three Musketeers, Twelfth Night, The Magic Flute, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Seagull, and The Little Prince. He last appeared at Yale Rep in Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s Children of Paradise in 1993. His other theatre credits include productions at the Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Spoleto Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, and Off-Broadway’s The New Victory Theater. Steven wrote and performed the solo show The House Can’t Stand. Steven holds a degree in theatre and history from Gustavus Adolphus College. He was a 1999 Fox Fellow and is a 2009 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children.
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ALLEN GILMOREALLEN GILMORE (PANTALONE)

is happy to be making his Yale Rep debut with friends Chris Bayes and Jesse Perez. His previous collaborations with Bayes include the roles of Argant in Scapin (Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, and Court Theatre), Angelo in The Comedy of Errors (Idaho Shakespeare Festival), and Hamm in Endgame (Court Theatre). He recently performed as The Tragedian in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Writers’ Theater in Chicago). Other favorite roles include both Othello and Iago in Othello, Bynum in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, and James Hewlett in The African Company Presents Richard the Third. Following the run of The Servant of Two Masters, he will return to the Court Theatre in Sizwe Banzi Is Dead. Allen is from Texas and is a US Army Infantry veteran.
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ANDY GROTELUESCHENANDY GROTELUESCHEN (SILVIO)

is making his Yale Rep debut. Originally from Iowa, he is a clown apprentice to Christopher Bayes and has performed in Bayes’s Clowns (The Public Theater/New York Clown Festival) and The Molière Impromptu (Trinity Rep). His other theatre credits include the Guthrie Theater and The Acting Company’s national tours of The Spy and Henry V, directed by Davis McCallum; international touring with The Glass Contraption; Cymbeline (Fiasco Theater, directed by Ben Steinfeld and Noah Brody); Lucy Thurber’s Monstrosity (13P, directed by Lear deBessonet); The Scariest (The Exchange, directed by Ari Edelson and Meredith McDonough), The Glass Contraption’s The Amazing Ted Show! (Ars Nova); Don Cristobal, Billy Club Man (St. Ann’s Warehouse, HERE Arts Center, directed by Erin Orr); as well as productions at Guthrie Theater and Arizona Theatre Company. Andy is a Fiasco Theater company member and received his MFA from the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium.
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CHRIS HENRYCHRIS HENRY (WAITER)

is making his Yale Rep debut. A first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, his theatre credits include productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Origin Theatre Company, Columbia University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has also appeared on All My Children. He received his BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University.
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JESSE J. PEREZJESSE J. PEREZ (FLORINDO)

previously appeared in Yale Rep’s productions of Lulu (2007), The Cherry Orchard (2005), and The Taming of the Shrew (2003). His New York credits include Triple Happiness (Second Stage Theatre), Barrio Girl (Summer Play Festival), Recent Tragic Events (Playwrights Horizons), In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company), Up Against the Wind (New York Theatre Workshop), and Lucia di Lammermoor (The Metropolitan Opera). Regional theatre productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Sound), Hard Weather Boating Party (Humana Festival of New Plays), Arabian Nights (Berkeley Rep), Argonautika (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Celebrity Row (Portland Center Stage), Pericles (Goodman Theatre), and Hamlet (McCarter Theatre Center). Film and television: American Splendor, All Night Bodega, Playing God, Kazaam, Life on Mars, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, The Job, and Third Watch. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
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DA'VINE JOY RANDOLPHDA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH (CLARICE)

is making her Yale Rep debut. She is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has appeared in Orlando, The Seagull, The French Play, and Jelly’s Last Jam. Her other credits include Into the Woods, Our Lady of 121st Street, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Hair. She received her BA from Temple University.
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LIZ WISANLIZ WISAN (SMERALDINA)

previously appeared in Yale Rep’s 2008 production of A Woman of No Importance. She is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Phèdre, Almost Always Something, La Ronde, The Bedtrick, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Current War, Man=Man, Good Egg, and Peer Gynt. Other Yale credits include Language of Angels, Babs the Dodo, See What I Wanna See, One for the Road (Yale Cabaret); The Who’s Tommy and Recess (Yale Summer Cabaret). Her regional theatre credits include The Winter’s Tale (Chautauqua Theater Company); Anything Goes, Twelfth Night, and Cloud Tectonics (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Liz co-wrote and performed in two shows for Upright Citizens Brigade: The Goods Are Odd (2006 New York International Fringe Festival) and Seriously Extremely Important.
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