Mark Bramhall as Pompey
Mark Bramhall, an ANW resident artist, has appeared for the last three seasons as Lucky in the company’s critically acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot and also appeared as Dogberry in the spring 2010 production of Much Ado About Nothing and the spring 2009 production of Ghosts. He began his professional acting career in 1966 as a member of the original company of The American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) in San Francisco. In five seasons there, he played leading roles under the guidance of some of the country’s foremost theatrical directors, including William Ball, Ellis Rabb, Alan Schneider and Nagle Jackson. In his New York debut, he starred as George in Our Town opposite Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Estelle Parsons and Jo Van Fleet. In Los Angeles, he appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in the “New Plays For Now” series, directed by Gordon Davidson. He abandoned his burgeoning acting career for 17 years to father four daughters and pursue political activism, and, in the throes of mid-life crisis, returned to his art—and his birthplace, Los Angeles—in 1990. Since then, he has appeared at the Pasadena Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Colony Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble, Skirball Cultural Center, Egyptian Arena, Theatre Forty, Tamarind Theatre, Taper Amphitheatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Arizona Theatre Company and Portland Center Stage. He has been a resident artist at A Noise Within for 16 years, where he has played leading roles in thirty celebrated productions. Among his favorite roles are Alceste in The Misanthrope, Harpagon in The Miser, Dr. Prentice in What The Butler Saw, Howard in Picnic and Virgil in Bus Stop. His acting awards and nominations include LA Drama Critics Circle, Ovation, Dramalogue, LA Weekly and Robby honors, as well as industry awards for Books On Tape narration. Among his film and television roles are All Through The Night, Vanilla Sky, Too Pure, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Sliver, Fools, One Is A Lonely Number, NYPD Blue, Dark Skies, The Burning Zone, 7th Heaven, X-Files, and recurring roles on Alias, That 70’s Show, Days Of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Passions, and General Hospital. Bramhall holds a B.A. from Harvard, and has studied at U.C. Berkeley, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Fulbright Scholar), American Conservatory Theatre, Classical Theatre Lab and Steve Eastin Studio.

Robertson Dean as The Duke
Robertson Dean, a resident artists with A Noise Within who most recently at the company played the Inspector in Crime and Punishment and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot, has also appeared in the company’s productions of The Rehearsal, Oliver Twist, King Henry IV in Henry IV, Part 1, Phaedra, As You Like It, The Tempest, The School For Wives, Twelfth Night, The Price, Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Pericles, Hayfever, Life is a Dream, Cymbeline, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Taming of the Shrew, and Oedipus the King, among others. Dean is also noted for recording dozens of books on tape; Audiofile stated, “What distinguishes his work is a judicious use of understatement and careful pacing.” Trained at Yale Drama School, Dean has appeared in Broadway productions of Pygmalion and The Circle. Off Broadway he performed in The Common Pursuit, The Fairy Garden, Crossfire and Fanshen. In addition, he has appeared with Yale Rep, American Repertory, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, GeVA, Long Wharf, Baltimore Center Stage, Buffalo Studio Arena, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Pasadena Playhouse, International Theater Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Magic Theater in San Francisco. Dean has played a recurring role on the television series 24, and has appeared on Enterprise, Frasier, Sabrina, Cybill, Star Trek, Working, All American Girl, Dream On, Larroquette, The Bold and the Beautiful and Ugly Betty and enjoyed a seven-year run as Ned on The Young and The Restless. His film credits include Parole, Here Come The Munsters, Disney’s The Red Coat, and the features Money Talks, Bombshell, Vanilla Sky, Star Trek: Nemesis and Forgiving the Franklins (Sundance Film Festival). He also records many voiceovers, narrations, radio dramas and CD-ROM games.

Geoff Elliott as Angelo
Geoff Elliott, who this season also co-directs A Noise Within’s productions of Great Expectations and Noises Off – is co-founder and co-artistic director of A Noise Within with his wife, Julia Rodriguez-Elliott. They have co-produced close to 100 productions and directed/co-directed more than 40 for the company. Elliott has also performed major roles for some of the leading regional theatres in America, including The American Conservatory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and California Shakespeare Festival. He has received three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards and more than a dozen other awards for acting. His Shakespearean roles include Iago in Othello, Theseus/Oberon in a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Richard in King Richard III and Hamlet. He has also performed leading roles in classic plays by such authors as O’Neill, Miller, Ibsen, Rostand, Wilde and Williams. Last season, he directed Richard III, Noises Off, in which he also played the role of Director, and The Playboy of the Western World, in which he played Old Mahon. Elliott holds a BFA from the University of Florida and an MFA from the American Conservatory Theatre.

Karron Graves as Isabella
Karen makes her A Noise Within debut in this production of Measure for Measure. On Broadway, she appeared in Coram Boy, and has also performed Off-Broadway at the prestigious Manhattan Theatre Club and at Lincoln Center’s Newhouse Theatre. Active in regional theatre as well, Graves has appeared in Doubt, Our Town and An Ideal Husband at Peterborough Players; SITI Co.’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Trying at Ford’s Theatre; Intimations for Saxophone at the Arena Stage; The Glass Menagerie at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Hamlet at the Dallas Theatre Center; Maggie’s Riff at the Vineyard; and the Denver Center’s Life with Father. Graves’ film credits include The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro; Mary Warren in The Crucible, directed by Nick Hytner; and The Fig Tree, directed by Calvin Skaggs. She also also appeared on such television shows as Monk, Guiding Light, Law & Order, Dolphin Cove and Saturday Night Live. Graves earned an MFA from Yale; and a BA from Princeton.

Jill Hill as Mariana, Mistress Overdone
Jill Hill, a long-time resident artist with A Noise Within, last season played Brenda Blair in the company’s production of Noises Off, and Widow Quin in The Playboy of the Western World. Her numerous roles with the company include Hortensia in The Rehearsal, Nancy in Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Oliver Twist, Mistress Quickly in Henry IV, Part 1, Hannah Jelkes in The Night of the Iguana, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Mrs. Purdie in Dear Brutus, Fay in Loot, Deborah in A Touch of the Poet, Queen Rosumund/Anna Stanislas in Ubu Roi, Aline Solness in The Master Builder, Emilia in Othello, Lucienne in A Flea in Her Ear, Mrs. Molloy in The Matchmaker, Virgilia in Coriolanus, Clarice/Smeraldina in The King Stag, First Witch/Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Imogen Parrott in Trelawny of the Wells, Estrella in Life is a Dream, Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth, Mae in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Belle/Charwoman in A Christmas Carol, Bianca in Taming of the Shrew, Geraldine in What the Butler Saw, Teiresias in Oedipus the King, Molly/Mrs. Joe in Great Expectations and Birdie in The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest, among others. She has also appeared in productions with American Conservatory Theatre, Nassau Repertory, Kenyon Festival Theatre, The Westbank (NYC), and The Matrix Theatre (LA). Television viewers will recognize her from various soap operas and television guest star roles, and her distinct voice can be heard on such audio books as Gapcreek and The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan, produced by John Runnette. She studied at the English Speaking Theatre in Copenhagen and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, earned a BFA from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and is a graduate and company member of the American Conservatory Theatre.

William Patrick Riley as Claudio
ANW debut. His extensive credits include playing DJ in Hoover Comes Alive! at La Jolla Playhouse; Curio in Twelfth Night and Byplay in The Antipodes at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Caliban in The Tempest and Orlando in As You Like It at Shakes-To-Go; and as Konstantin in The Seagull, Kilroy in Camino Real, Rodney in Obscura, Jacques in As You Like It and Guhl in The Physicist, among others, at UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse. He has BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego.

Stephen Rockwell as Lucio
Stephen, an A Noise Within resident artist for more than 14 years, has appeared in numerous productions at the repertory theatre company, including as Frederick Fellowes in Noises Off, Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew, Ensemble in Oliver Twist, Don Carlos in Don Juan, Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale, Carrasco in Man of La Mancha, Jamie Cregan in A Touch of the Poet, George F. Babbitt in Babbitt, Captain Macnure/Ensemble in Ubu Roi, Ragnar Brovik in The Master Builder, Roderigo in Othello, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Rugby in A Flea In Her Ear, Lysander in A Midsummer Nights Dream at The Hollywood Bowl, Orestes in Electra, Swallow in A Wilde Holiday, Junius Brutus in Coriolanus, Deramo in The King Stag, Banquo in Macbeth, Semyon Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard, King Ferdinand of Navarre in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Tom Wrench in Trelawny of the Wells, Clarin in Life is a Dream, Oscar Hubbard in The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest, Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie, Joe Gargery in Great Expectations, Randall Utterword in Heartbreak House, Clitandre in The Misanthrope, and more. Among other acting credits, Rockwell has appeared at the Fremont Centre Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center, American Conservatory Theatre and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF). He has also directed Julius Caesar at the Open Fist Theater, Two Gentleman of Verona at HVSF, and Living Together at Fremont Center Theatre. His film and television appearances include In Justice, Rodney, The Mikes (Pilot), The Comeback, Hawaii, Malcolm In the Middle, Good Morning Miami, Miss Match, ER, Roswell, M.Y.O.B., The Drew Carey Show and 3rd Rock From the Sun. He has also been in several national television commercials, most notably in a T-Mobile spot as the father who “catches” his daughter with her boyfriend in the back seat of the car "texting!" Rockwell earned a BA in Drama from Vassar College and an MFA from American Conservatory Theatre.

Sarah Armstrong as Girl, Others
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Mitchell Edmonds as Escalus
Regional: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Great Expectations, Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Michael Faulkner as Elbow
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Ariana Hodes as Girl, Others
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Courtney Kocak (official website) as Julietta, Others
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Peter Larney as Abhorson, 1st Gentleman, Others
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Thomas Moses as Friar Thomas, Friar Peter
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Kurt Quinn (official website) as Police, Aide, Others
Regional: Great Expectations, Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Matt Shepherd as Police, Aide, Others
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Lindsay Styler as Brothel Girl, Others
Regional: Measure for Measure (Lindsay Styler)

Steve Weingartner as Provost
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

Elizabeth Zerebko as Girl, Others
Regional: Measure for Measure (A Noise Within)

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