Director / Cast

The San Francisco 2008 production features:

Alfredo Fidani, Director is the renowned Argentinean director who in America directed The Dario Fo Festival of plays on the occasion of that playwright winning the Nobel Prize. He has directed the One Act Play Festival, Julius Caesar, Endgame, Of Mice and Men, The Lesson, Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden, and Inherent Vices. He was recently nominated Best Director for Give Us This Day: Loving Lotte Lenya.

Ariana Hooper performed as Princess Alais in The Lion In Winter in 2006, and was a student director at College of Marin. Recently she performed as Glenda Mills in Patrice Daly's black comedy, A Charred Slipper, at The Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. She trained extensively in England in drama and dance, and has been a woman of the theatre all her life.

Bruce Moody began his career holding a spear in Shaw's Saint Joan with Siobhan MacKenna and Peter Falk. He held another spear in The Changeling, also with Peter Falk. He acted in Nancy Fales' Surviving Death in Three Acts and also, with Raul Julia, in her Nicole Willing at The Actors' Studio. He has appeared in roles ranging from Undershaft in Major Barbara to Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. He is the father of The Great Amanda Moody whose brilliant one-woman creations, D’Arc, Serial Murderess, and The Winchester Rosary have riveted audiences in the Bay Area for years.

Candy Campbell is happy to be back in Stage Werx, where she last appeared doing stand-up comedy in James Judd's original productions of The Seven Sins. Her documentary film, Micropremature Babies: How Low Can You Go? won a Freddie Award. Candy has penned and performed two one-person shows, won a Drama Circle nomination as Mrs. Brice in Funny Girl with Broadway by the Bay, and is a founding member of The Barely Insane Players, an improv & stand-up comedy troupe.

Demetrius Martin* A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Martin has worked with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Word for Word. He has studied at the American Conservatory Theatre with William Ball, Deborah Sussell, Carolyn McCormick, and Anna Deavere Smith, and also taken the Acting Shakespeare Course at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Past performances include As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, The Misanthrope, A View from the Bridge, Prelude to A Kiss, Love! Valor! Compassion!, and Measure for Measure. As co-founder and acting director of the Acting Shakespeare Company, he was director of their Marathon Series Production of As You Like It and Director of Seraphim of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II.

Joe Higgins* has played principal roles with SF Shakes in Comedy of Errors, in TheatreWorks' Night of the Iguana, in CenterRep's Mystery of Edwin Drood, in Magic Theatre's Nine Armenians, in Willows Theatre's Inherit the Wind, and in Calaveras Rep's King Lear, Prelude to a Kiss, and The Importance of Being Earnest. His background includes television's Love of Life, voiceover, and film productions in the Bay Area and New York, where he also taught acting for dancers to students from Harkness Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet.

Kenna Hunt* is one of the great senior actors of the Bay Area, appearing in over 100 productions. She has played with every major theatre company, and most recently played Grandma in Lost In Yonkers at The Willows. In San Francisco, she won the Bay Area Critics' Circle Award for Noises Off. She has won five Dramalogue Awards as best actress—and, graduating from RADA in London, won three major awards, among them The Flora Robson for Shakespeare.

*appearing with the kind permission of Actors Equity