Fred "Freddy" Arsenault as Perry Stewart
The Royal Family marks Freddy’s MTC and Broadway debut. Off-Broadway: Henry V (The Guthrie Theatre/The Acting Company), Blue Man Group. Regional: The Spy (The Guthrie Theatre/The Acting Company), Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure and She Stoops to Conquer (The American Shakespeare Center), Playboy of the Western World (The Hangar Theatre), jazz opera The Blackamoor Angel (Bard Summerscape), Camelot and 1776 (The Virginia Musical Theater), Cabaret and La Cage aux Folles (The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse). Film: In Praise of Shadows (upcoming). Training: B.A. from Christopher Newport University, M.F.A. from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

Kelli Barrett as Gwen
KELLI BARRETT was last seen as “Sherrie” in the Off-Broadway production of Rock of Ages, as “Maddie Coleman” on As the World Turns and as the talking mannequin/Hugh Dancy’s phone bidder (“Woman In Black”) in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic. Her recent films (out 2010) include “Jessica Nilson” (Patrick Wilson’s wife) in The Baster and “Tyler’s Girl” (opposite Robert Pattinson) in Remember Me. Previous theater credits include, Knickerbocker Holiday (Tina Tienhoven) York Theater; The Last Goodbye (Juliet) Joe’s Pub. Regional: Gypsy (Louise) Westchester Broadway Theater; ACE (Ruth u/s, Ensemble) Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep; Bright Lights, Big City (Amanda/dance captain) Prince Music Theater. Kelli is an alumna of UARTS.

Caroline Stefanie Clay as Della
Broadway: Doubt. Off-Broadway, National Tour, (u/s) Drowning Crow, Come Back Little Sheba. Off-B'way: Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Co., NYTW. Regional: Williamstown Theater Festival, Yale Rep, McCarter, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Goodman, ASF, Shakespeare Theater, Hartford Stage. FILM: Sherrybaby, The Heights. Upcoming films: Everybody's Fine, Made For Each Other, Holy Rollers, and Morning Glory. TV: “Law & Order,” “All My Children.” Caroline thanks her mother, her aunts, Walter, Penny, and Doug Hughes. For my guardian angel, James Earl Clay.

Rufus Collins as McDermott, Gunga
RUFUS COLLINS previously appeared on Broadway in To Be or Not To Be, An Ideal Husband and in Day In The Death of Joe Egg and The Homecoming at the Roundabout. Other New York credits: Aristocrats, Orson’s Shadow, House and Garden at Manhattan Theatre Club, Hamlet, Henry V, Richard II (title roles), A Doll's House and Pillars of Society. Regional engagements: The Colossus of Rhodes (ACT, San Francisco), Dinner with Friends and Spinning Into Butter (Pittsburgh Public), Hedda Gabler (Alley), Indian Ink (Studio Theatre), The Ruling Class (Wilma), Macbeth (Tennessee Rep), Inexpressible Island (Dallas), Cakewalk (Florida Studio). Television: “Law & Order,” “All My Children,” “The Guiding Light.” Rufus studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Ana Gasteyer as Kitty Dean
ANA GASTEYER recently starred to rave reviews as Fosca in Gary Griffin's production of Sondheim's Passion (Jefferson Award nom) at The Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Prior to that she earned raves as Elphaba in Wicked (Broadway & Chicago, Jefferson Award nom). Broadway: The Threepenny Opera (with Alan Cumming and Jim Dale), The Rocky Horror Show. Off-Broadway/Regional: Kimberly Akimbo (MTC), Roulette, The Vagina Monologues, Cinderella (NYC Opera), Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (Pittsburgh CLO) and Mary Zimmerman’s The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci. Film: Reefer Madness, Mean Girls, What Women Want, Dick, What's the Worst That Could Happen, The Women and the upcoming feature Dare. Former member of LA’s comedy troupe The Groundlings. Spent six seasons on Saturday Night Live - popular characters included music teacher Bobbi Moughan-Culp, NPR’s Margaret Jo, and impressions of Martha Stewart and Celine Dion. Other TV includes: “Frasier,” “Just Shoot Me,” “3rd Rock From the Sun,” “Seinfeld,” and “Law & Order.” Guest hosted “The Late Late Show,” and “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” and others. Recordings: the Grammy-nominated Hair (Actor’s Fund), Reefer Madness. Ana continues to perform her musical evening Let It Rip! around the country.

John Glover (official website) as Herbert Dean
JOHN GLOVER received a Tony and Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for Love! Valour! Compassion! which originated at Manhattan Theatre Club. Roundabout: Waiting for Godot (Tony Nomination), The Marriage of Bette and Boo, The Paris Letter (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortell, and Drama League Nominations), Give Me Your Answer Do. Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone, Design For Living, Whodunnit, Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest, Holiday, Chemin De Fer, The Visit, Don Juan, The Great God Brown (Drama Desk Award). Off-Broadway: Sorrows and Rejoicings, Oblivion Postponed, The Fairy Garden, Digby, A Scent of Flowers, Rebel Women, Criminal Minds, and the original House of Blue Leaves at the Truck Warehouse. Regional: Secrets of the Trade (LA’s Black Dahlia Theatre, Ovation and LA Drama Critics Circle Awards); The Traveler (Mark Taper Forum, LA Drama Critics Circle Award); Some Men (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrymore Nomination), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrymore Nomination); A Winters Tale (American Shakespeare Festival, Bayfield Award). In television he has appeared in “An Early Frost,” “Nutcracker: Murder, Money, and Madness,” “Brimstone” as the Devil, “Smallville,” and “Heroes.” Glover has received five Emmy nominations and has appeared in over 35 films including Payback, Batman and Robin, Love! Valour Compassion!, Gremlins II, Scrooged, The Chocolate War, Masquerade, 52 Pick-Up, White Nights, Melvin and Howard, Julia, and Annie Hall.

David Greenspan as Jo
Cornbury, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Obie for Some Men (Second Stage) and Goethe’s Faust (Target Margin), The Wax (Playwrights Horizons), Lipstick Traces (Foundry), and The Boys in the Band (Obie), his plays Jack, The Home Show Pieces and 2 Samuel 11, Etc., Dead Mother (Public), She Stoops to Comedy (Playwrights Horizons, Obie), The Myopia (Foundry) and The Argument (Target Margin, Obie); and with Stephin Merritt Coraline (MCC). Guggenheim, Lortel fellowships, Alpert Award.

Rosemary Harris as Fanny Cavendish
Rosemary Harris was born in England but brought up in India. She graduated from RADA with the Bancroft Gold Medal when she was directed by Mary Duff in The Heiress.

Her first job in the London theatre was understudying and looking after Nellie the greyhound in The Gay Dog at the Piccadilly Theatre. She then made her London debut in the The Seven Year Itch having already starred in Moss Hart's Climate of Eden on Broadway. Following a season at the Bristol Old Vic playing Elizabeth Proctor in the British premier of The Crucible she joined the London Old Vic to play Desedemona opposite Richard Burton in Othello followed by Cressida in Tyrone Guthrie's production of Troilus and Cressida.

When Ellis Rabb formed APA in 1960 she joined the Company and appeared in productions of works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Sheridan, Chekhov, Isben, Wilde, Pirandello and Kaufman and Hart at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. She also played the title role in Peter Pan.

In 1962 she appeared in Laurence Olivier's Company at the Chichester Festival Theatre for their first season in the The Broken Heart and Chances and returned the following year for Uncle Vanya. In 1964 she joined the National Theatre to play Ophelia opposite Peter O'Toole in Laurence Olivier's inaugural production of Hamlet followed by IIyena in his production of Uncle Vanya. In 1967 she created the part of Eleanor of Aquitane in The Lion in Winter on Broadway for which she won a Tony Award and in 1969 she was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her performance in Plaza Suite. In 1970 she appeared opposite Jack Lemmon in Idiot’s Delight at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, in 1971 she played Anna in Peter Hall's production of Old Times on Broadway, 1973 she played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Portia in the The Merchant of Venice at the Lincoln Centre Repertory Theatre directed by Ellis Rabb, in 1975 she played Julie Cavendish in The Royal Family on Broadway, 1980 she played Madame Arkadina in The Seagull at the Public Theater in New York followed by Three Sisters and New York Idea at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in 1982 she appeared in All My Sons in the West End in Heartbreak House with Rex Harrison and Diana Rigg at the Haymarket playing Ariadne Utterwood.

She appeared in Heartbreak House on Broadway, again with Rex Harrison but in this production she played Hesione Hushabye. She then played Barbara Jackson in Pack of Lies on Broadway. In 1985 she spent six weeks at Oxford University lecturing to American drama students after which she returned to Broadway to play Judith Bliss in Hayfever. In July 1986 she opened at the National Theatre in The Petition with John Mills which then transferred to the Wyndhams Theatre. In 1987, she appeared in The Best of Friends at the Apollo Theater co-starring with Sir John Gielgud and Ray McNally. In 1989, she starred in Steel Magnolias with Miranda Richardson at the Lyric. She starred in the Lyric Hammersmith's production of In the Summerhouse. In 2002, she starred in a highly acclaimed run of Edward Albee's All Over at the Roundabout in NYC.

Her numerous television credits include “Notorious Woman” in which she played George Sand for which she was awarded an Emmy for best actress. She was awarded Golden Globe for her portrayal of Berte Weiss. She also appeared in a television special entitled “The Chisholms” in which she co-starred with Robert Preston and “To the Lighthouse” adapted from Virginia Wolf's novel where she played Mrs. Ramsey. She also was in “Strange Interlude.” She then completed a BBC play, “Summer Day's Dream” with Sir John Geilgud, directed by Christopher Morahan.

Her films include “The Boys from Brazil” with Greogory Peck and Laurence Olivier, “Beau Brummel,” “A Flea in her Ear,” “The Shiralee,” “The Ploughman's Lunch,” “Sunshine,” “Tom and Viv,” “Being Julia,””Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3” and most recently “Before The Devil Knows Your’re Dead” directed by Sidney Lumet.

She still lectures regularly at Oxford University and is married to the novelist John Ehle and they have a daughter Jennifer who is also an actress [“Possession 2002”].

Jan Maxwell as Julie Cavendish
JAN MAXWELL has previously been seen at MTC in To Be or Not To Be and Alan Ayckbourn's House and Garden. Broadway: Coram Boy (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Sixteen Wounded (Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations), A Doll's House (Outer Critics nomination), Sound Of Music, The Dinner Party, Dancing At Lughnasa, City of Angels. Off-Broadway: Scenes From An Execution (Drama Desk nomination), Substitution, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Drama Desk nomination), The Bald Soprano (Atlantic Theatre), Opening Doors (Carnegie Hall), Jules Feiffer's A Bad Friend (Lincoln Center), Israel Horowitz’s My Old Lady (Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk nomination). Ms. Maxwell plays the role of Headmistress Queller on television’s “Gossip Girl,” has guest starred numerous times on “Law & Order” (NBC), and was a part of the PBS’ special “AIDS: Changing the Rule.”

Larry Pine as Gilbert Marshall
Broadway credits include: The Seagull, End of the World, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Bus Stop. Off-Broadway credits include: Beast, Secret Order, The Shanghai Gesture, Stuff Happens, Enemy of the People, The Women of Lockerbie, Saved or Destroyed, The Designated Mourner, The Chemistry of Change, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Uncle Vanya, The Disputation, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Mandrake, Alice in Wonderland, Talk Radio. Regional credits include Kreutzer Sonata (adaptation by Larry & Margaret Pine), Carol Mulroney, Enemy of the People, Wrong Mountain, Light Up The Sky, Heartbreak House, The Taming of the Shrew, Night of the Iguana, A Life in the Theatre, Joe Egg, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing. Film: OutSourced, TransBeMan, Sweet Flame, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Empire Falls, Door in the Floor, Particles of Truth, Maid in Manhattan, The Royal Tenenbaums, A Foreign Affair, The Shipping News, Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda, Small Time Crooks and Celebrity, Sunday (Sundance Grand Prize winner), Vanya on 42nd Street, Dead Man Walking, Addicted to Love, and Stranger in the Kingdom. Television: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Oz,” “100 Centre Street,” “A Will of Their Own” (Movie of the Week), “New York Undercover,” “New York News,” “Prince Street,” “Feds,” “All My Children,” “One Life to Live,” and much, much more.

Tony Roberts as Oscar Wolfe
Roberts’ ability to portray a variety of characters on stage, in films and on television has made him one of the busiest actors in America. He has appeared in over 20 Broadway plays and musicals, and has been twice nominated for the Tony Award. In 1969, he won the coveted critic’s Poll Award for his performance in Promises, Promises in London. Broadway credits include Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; Victor/Victoria; How Now, Dow Jones (Tony Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical); Play It Again, Sam (Tony Nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play); Sugar; Absurd Person Singular; Don’t Drink the Water; Doubles; Something About a Soldier (Professional debut); Saul Bellow’s The Last Analysis; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; and Xanadu. He played Scrooge at Madison Square Garden and starred with the New York City Opera Company in Brigadoon, and South Pacific. Other Broadway credits include Barefoot In the Park; Promises, Promises; They’re Playing Our Song; The Sisters Rosenzweig; Take Her, She’s Mine; Never Too Late; and Arsenic & Old Lace. Roberts had major roles in the films Annie Hall; Play it Again, Sam; Serpico; La Sauvage; Star Spangled Girl; Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy; Hannah And Her Sisters; Stardust Memories; Radio Days; The Taking of Pelham, One Two Three; 18 Again; Amityville 3D; Just Tell Me What You Want; and Switch. On television Roberts has starred on NBC in Leonard Stern’s “Rosetti and Ryan” on CBS in Alan Alda’s “The Four Season’s,” and on ABC in Mike Nichols’ “The Thorns.” His TV work includes Arthur Miller’s “The American Clock” and Saul Bellows “Seize the Day” for PBS. He has starred in three episodes of “Law & Order” and tracked down Anthony Hopkins in the TV movie “The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case.” Among his output are some 50 or more books on tape featuring portrayals of ‘Sam Spade’ in The Maltese Falcon for Random House, and ‘Stone Barrington,’ the hero of the very popular Stuart Woods detective series. He is the voice on the audio version of Rudolph Gulliani’s Leadership, for which he won an audio book award, and the narrator of the Bravo Profiles Television Series. Mr. Roberts makes his home in New York City where he was born. He attended the High School of Music and Art and graduated from Northwestern University where he majored in Drama and studied Acting with Alvina Krause.

Reg Rogers as Tony Cavendish
REG ROGERS recently finished Knickerbocker at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, directed by Nicholas Martin, where he was also seen last year in The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis. Other recent work includes the South Coast Repertory production of The Injured Party, directed by Trip Cullman, Richard in Richard III at California Shakespeare Theater and Astrov in Uncle Vanya on Lake Lucille. New York credits include The Pain and the Itch by Bruce Norris, the premiere of Beth Henley’s Ridiculous Fraud at McCarter Theatre Center, Bach at Leipzig, Miss Julie, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The New York Philharmonic. Not so recently he was seen as Cellini in Cellini by John Patrick Shanley, the premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle at the Grammercy Theatre (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards) and Holiday (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). Television and film credits include “Friends,” “Law & Order,” “CSI,” “Lipstick Jungle,” “Miss Match,” “Attila” for USA, “GIA” for HBO, “Stone Cold,” Primal Fear, I Shot Andy Warhol, Runaway Bride, I’ll Take You There, Get Well Soon, The Photographer, Analyze That, Igby Goes Down, Four Lane Highway, Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, and Lovely by Surprise.

Henny Russell (official website) as Miss Peake
Broadway: Impressionism, Major Barbara. Off-Broadway: Fuddy Meers (Minetta Lane), Boy Gets Girl (MTC), Marion Bridge (Urban Stages). Regional (partial list): The Scene (Hartford Stage & George St.), Same Time Next Year (Maltz Jupiter), The Constant Wife (Old Globe), Frozen (Rep. Theatre of St. Louis), One (Cincinnati Playhouse), Dinner with Friends (Pittsburgh Public), Proof (Virginia Stage). Film: You Don’t Know Jack, Revolutionary Road, Tie A Yellow Ribbon, Corn, Loopy. Television: “Possible Side Effects,” “Gossip Girl,” “Law & Order,” “Hope & Faith.”

Beth Dixon as (u/s Fanny Cavendish)
Broadway: Major Barbara, Wrong Mountain. Off-Broadway: Vieux Carre, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Mary Stuart, Endpapers, Therese Raquin, Booth is Back, America Dreaming, Unbound, The Grille Room. Regional: Tartuffe, All My Sons, The Grapes of Wrath, The Glass Menagerie, Vincent in Brixton, The Constant Wife, Fuddy Meers, King Lear, Williamstown, La Jolla, Long Wharf, Cleveland, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Humana Festival, McCarter, Hartford, Syracuse, Buffalo, St. Louis, Seattle, NYS&F. Film/TV: "Storm of the Century", Kinsey, The Ballad of Sad Cafe, Dark Tides, Hitch.

Anthony Newfield as (u/s Jo, Herbert Dean, Oscar Wolfe)
Broadway: Waiting for Godot, Tartuffe. Recent theatre: A Woman of No Importance, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Orson’s Shadow, Susan and God, Arcadia, The Play About the Baby. Theatres: Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Mint, Alliance, Huntington, NJ Rep, etc. Ireland: The Normal Heart, Tom & Viv, Peer Gynt. Russia: The Grapes of Wrath. TV/film: “Diagnosis Murder,” “AMC,” “OLTL,” Miss Bertram’s Awakening, and the recent Diminished Chords.

Cat Walleck as (u/s Gwen, Hall Boy, Miss Peake)
Regional: What the Butler Saw (Geraldine) at Marin Theatre Company, A Christmas Carol (Mary) at American Conservatory Theater, and Lulu (title role) at A.R.T. in conjunction with Harvard University. Alum of Guthrie Experience 2008 and Berkshire Theater Festival Apprenticeship program. A.B. in Romance Languages from Harvard University and M.F.A. from American Conservatory Theater. M.F.A. credits include Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Good Breeding (Cassandra), Great Catherine (Varinka), and La Ronde (The Young Wife).

John Wernke as (u/s McDermott, Perry, Gunga)
JOHN WERNKE is back with MTC after understudying The American Plan and playing Chuck in Accent on Youth. Out of town credits include: Betrayal (Hangar Theatre), The Fantasticks (People's Light and Theater Co.), Theophilus North (PLTC), The Beard of Avon (Portland Center Stage), Twelfth Night (PCS), and The Last Hurrah (Huntington Theatre Co.). He also appeared in the revival of Meredith Monk's Quarry at the Spoleto Festival. TV/Film: “Life on Mars,” The Good Shepherd, Broken English and NYC Serenade. John would like to thank his friends, family and the Cincinnati Reds. He is grateful for this opportunity.

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