TIMOTHY
ALTMEYER*
(Narrator 4, Mavor, Marvin
Taylor, Others)
Tim is home at the Hipp,
having previously appeared in How I Learned to Drive,
The Illusion, The Mineola Twins, and Private
Eyes. Other theater credits include the New York production of
Three Tall Women (1994 Pulitzer Prize); the premiere of Tennessee Williams’
The Notebook of Trigorin, opposite Lynn Redgrave; and regional productions
of Arcadia, Ghosts, Twelfth Night, The Three Musketeers, The Glass Menagerie,
You Never Can Tell, Hard Times, It Runs in the Family, The Miser, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and Pericles.
DAVID
ARROW*
(Clarke, Narrator 6, Others)
David has played leading roles
Off Broadway at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and at Circle in the Square.
He has worked at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC, the Globe Playhouse
in Los Angeles, with the Bristol Old Vic Company in England and at the
Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Recent theatre roles include Gerry
in Dancing at Lughnasa, the title role in Albert Camus’ Caligula at Theater
Artaud, for which he won a Drama-Logue Award and The Woman in Black at
Arkansas Rep. and at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton Ohio. Television
credits include Death of a Stranger, Days of Our Lives and Growing Pains.
David recently completed two feature films - The Gift for Alpine Pictures,
and Crazy with Marcus Schenkenberg and Beatrice Macola. David trained
at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
KEVIN
BLAKE*
(Narrator 3, Parker, Harris,
Others)
Kevin made his debut at
the Hippodrome earlier this season as Peachy in The
Last Night of Ballyhoo. He has just come from Actors Theatre
of Louisville where he played Laertes in Hamlet directed by Jon Jory.
Other Actors Theatre credits include Young Ebenezer in A Christmas Carol
and the world premiere of Like Totally Weird by William Mastrosimone, during
the 22nd Humana Festival. He was also in the original production
of Benedict Arnold at Florida Stage. Other theatre credits include
A Bright Room Called Day, As You Like It, Greater Tuna, Kennedy’s Children,
The Seagull, Misalliance, Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy
Dean and Hedda Gabler. His favorite role to date would have to be
Stavros in Haunted Taxi Ride directed by the incomparable Gregg Jones at
Santa Fe Community College, where Kevin received his AA in 1993.
Love to the Reardons!
JOHN
FELIX*
(Queensberry, Gill,
Lockwood, Narrator 8)
John comes to the Hippodrome
from the Florida Repertory Theatre, where he portrayed Tino in Breaking
Legs. He will appear next in a world premiere production at the Caldwell
Theatre in Boca Raton as Wriothesely in The King’s Mare, a comedic treatment
of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. John also works in film, TV,
radio, and does voice recordings.
CAMERON
FRANCIS
(Narrator 1, Wood, Shaw,
Others)
Cameron is making his first
appearance at the Hippodrome State Theatre. He was most recently
seen as Narrator 3, Parker, Harris and Others in Gross Indecency at The
Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. Other credits include MacBeth in
MacBeth for Longacre Lea Productions at Arena Stage’s Old Vat Theatre,
Philip in Really Big Expectations at Axis Theatre in Baltimore, the Master
in Jaques and His Master for the Georgetown Theatre Company, Louis in Angles
in America part One: Millennium Approaches at Arena's Old Vat Theatre,
Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Lucentio in Tamming of the Shrew
for Upstart Crow Productions. He is a graduate of the Baltimore School
for the Arts and recently received his MFA in Acting from Catholic University.
ANTHONY
NEWFIELD*
(Oscar Wilde)
Seen earlier this season as
Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive and Uncle
Adolph in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Anthony
is currently working with the actress Katherine Houghton, helping to develop
her new play, Best Kept Secret, which has been presented as a work-in-progress
in New York City, Connecticut and at the Hippodrome. New York work
includes The Bad Infinity; The Grapes of Wrath, It’s Only a Play, Ourselves
Alone, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mrs. Bromely. Regional theatre work
includes: Arcadia (Huntington Theatre); Death Defying Acts (Coconut
Grove Playhouse); several seasons at the Caldwell Theatre including
Bent (Carbonnel Award – Best Supporting Actor); Antony & Cleopatra
with Jane Alexander (Alliance Theatre); Benedict Arnold (Florida Stage);
The Rivals, Peg O’ My Heart (Delaware Theatre Company). In Ireland:
The Normal Heart (Ned Weeks) Dublin and national tour; Tom and Viv (T.S.
Eliot) and Peer Gynt (Cotton, et al) Gate Theatre. In Russia:
The Grapes of Wrath (Moscow Art Theatre). Television appearances:
All My Children, One Life to Live, Capitol. Film: Farewell Miss Fortune,
Dogwood, Ace in the Hole. His article about his experiences in Russia,
‘After the Orchard,’ was published recently in American Theatre magazine.
DAVID
SCHMIDT
(Narrator 2, Atkins, Wright,
Others)
David has a Bachelor
of Fine Arts degree in acting and directing from Florida Atlantic University.
His theatre credits include Tuzenback in Three Sisters, Constable in The
Provok’d Wife (directed by Bill Homewood), Pentheus in The Bacchae, Husz
in A Bright Room Called Day, Oliver in As You Like It (directed by Patricia
Conolly), Jean in Miss Julie, Carl in The Baltimore Waltz, Higgins
in Titanic and Conductor in Prelude and Liebestod. He originated
the role of Miguel in the world premiere of Sign of the Lizard (directed
by Robert Whitehead) and the role of Richard in The Bathtub, written and
directed by fellow cast member Kevin Blake.
MARK
SEXTON*
(Carson, Narrator 5)
Mark first appeared on the
Hipp mainstage in 1977 as Alan Strang in Equus. His favorite roles include
the Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show,
Renfield in Dracula, Greg in Sylvia,
Danforth in I’m Not Rappaport, Scoop in The Hiedi Chronicles, Jake in Rum
and Coke, Rex Stockman in Accomplice, Mark in M. Butterfly, Orlando in
As You Like It, Lord Alfred in Lord Alfred's Lover, and Bob Cratchit in
A
Christmas Carol. His non-stage roles include General Manager
of the Hippodrome.
BRIAN
WILLIAMS
(Lord Alfred Douglas, Narrator
7)
Brian is thrilled to make
his Hippodrome debut. Currently, he is pursuing his Master of Fine
Arts degree in Acting at the University of Florida and working as an intern
in the Marketing department here at the Hipp. Some of Brian’s favorite
roles while at UF include: Parnell James in Blues for Mister Charlie, Jeff
in SubUrbia, Jerry in Betrayal, Buddy in The Diviners, Rick in Six Degrees
of Separation, and Percy Bysshe Shelley in Bloody Poetry. While working
on his BA at Auburn University, Brian portrayed Eugene in Brighton Beach
Memoirs, Robert in The Rimers of Eldritch, Charlie in Purlie, Bobby in
A Chorus Line, and many roles in Greater Tuna. Directing credits
at UF and Auburn include Landscape of the Body, The Tibetan Book of the
Dead, The Passion of Dracula, Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer, Danny and
the Deep Blue Sea, and Baby With the Bathwater. Brian would like
to thank his Mom, Beth Kingry, and his original mentors—Larry Williams
and Trish McAdams. Thanks also to Damian, for the encouragement and
friendship.
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