Devon Abner as Son
Devon Abner appeared in the Alley Theatre productions of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate, The Young Man From Atlanta and The Trip to Bountiful. He last appeared in Foote's epic masterwork The Orphans' Home Cycle. The production, directed by Michael Wilson, was widely considered the theatrical event of the 2010 New York season.

Elizabeth Ashley as Stella Gordon
Elizabeth Ashley made her Broadway debut in 1959 in The Highest Tree. Her Broadway credits include August: Osage County, Dividing the Estate, Enchanted April, the revival of The Best Man, Take Her, She’s Mine for which she won Tony and Theatre World Awards, Barefoot in the Park which was written for her by Neil Simon, directed by Mike Nichols and earned her a second Tony nomination, The Skin of Our Teeth, directed by Jose Quintero, opened the American Bi-Centennial at the Kennedy Center and Broadway, Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra, Legend, Hide and Seek and Agnes of God, for which she received the Albert Einstein Award for excellence in the performing arts. She is perhaps best known as one of the definitive interpreters of Tennessee Williams’ work, including Eight by Tenn (eight one-acts) at Hartford Stage, the 1973 Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for which she earned herthird Tony nomination and a Tennessee Williams Foundation Award, Suddenly Last Summer, Red Devil Battery Sign and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore at WPA Theatre and Out Cry and Sweet Bird of Youth, which received a Helen Hayes Award nomination and a Millennium Award. She also appeared in The Glass Menagerie at Hartford Stage, American Repertory Theater and Alley Theatre, and most recently she became the first actress to play Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and returned 30 years later to play Big Mama at Hartford Stage. Off Broadway she played Isadora Duncan in When She Danced at Playwrights Horizons, Dividing the Estate at Primary Stages and the New York premiere of Albee’s Me, Myself and I. Her National Tours and regional work include The Perfect Party and The Enchanted at The Kennedy Center, Master Class at the Royal Alexandria Theatre in Toronto and Regina in The Little Foxes, Vanities, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Coupla White Chicks, Full Gallop and Eleemosynary. Most recently she starred in Mrs. Warren's Profession at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Her film credits include The Carpetbaggers which debuted in 1962, Ship of Fools which received a Golden Globe Award nomination, Rancho Deluxe, Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Golden Needles, 92 in the Shade, The Great Scout, Cathouse Thursday, Coma, Paternity, Split Image, Dragnet, Vampire Kiss, A Man of Passion, Happiness which won an Independent Spirit Award, Just the Ticket, Stagecoach, Windows, The Cake Eaters and Broadway: The Golden Age. Among her television credits most recently she played Aunt Mimi in “Treme” on HBO. Other TV credits are A&E's “The Rope” for which she was nominated for a Cable ACE Award for Best Actress, “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,” “Miami Vice,” “Svengali,” “The War Between the Tates,” “When Michael Calls,” “Sandburg's Lincoln,” “Caroline in the City,” “Dave's World,” “Evening Shade” where she was a series regular and received an Emmy nomination, “The Buccaneers” on PBS, “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “The Larry Sanders Show,” “Homicide: Life on the Street” and many appearances on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.” Ashley was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute while serving on the first National Council of the Arts during the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and also served on the President’s Committee for the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Awards. She is the author of Actress: Postcards from the Road, published in 1978. She can be heard on Lou Reed’s CD The Raven.

Pat Bowie as Mildred
Pat Bowie made her Alley Theatre debut with this production. Her Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate and The Song of Jacob Zulu. Her Off Broadway credits include The Orphans’ Home Cycle and Dividing the Estate. Her regional credits include To Kill a Mockingbird at Hartford Stage, Pecong as Granny Root at Victory Garden in Chicago, Much Ado About Nothing as Ursula, A Raisin in the Sun as Lena at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Jar on the Floor as Ma Dear at Alliance Theatre, Gem of the Ocean as Aunt Esther at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville and The First Breeze of Summer at Court Theatre. She has also appeared in the tour of Flyin’ West as Miss Lea. Her credits in the United Kingdom include The Man From Auntie, Waking the Dead, One Fine Day, Disappearing Acts, Spell Number 7 on BBC, the tour of Playboy of the Western World, The Day the Bronx Died, the English premiere at Tricycle Theatre of August Wilson’s King Hedley II, Vieux Carre at Nottingham Playhouse and Small World at Southwark Theatre. She is a member of the Tricycle Theatre and a 2007 United States Artist Fellow.

James DeMarse as Bob
James DeMarse has Broadway and Off-Broadway credits that include Dividing the Estate, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Trip to Bountiful, Down the Garden Paths, White People, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Last Moon and Diminished Capacity. His regional credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, Dividing the Estate and The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Hartford Stage, Breaking Legs at Pasadena Playhouse, The Big Knife with Capitol Repertory Company, Cantorial at Jewish Repertory Theatre and Subject to Fits at The Public Theater. Selected television credits include “Royal Pains,” “The Good Wife,” “Chappelle’s Show,” “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Ferris Bueller,” “Sons and Daughters,” “One Life to Live” and “Law & Order.” His film credits include The Baxter, Side by Each, Fresh Cut Grass, If Freud Had a Video Camera and Surprise.

Hallie Foote as Mary Jo
Hallie Foote most recently appeared in Dividing the Estate at the Alley Theatre having previously appeared in The Trip to Bountiful and The Carpetbagger’s Children, also at Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, for which she won a Drama League Award. The daughter of Lillian Vallish Foote and Horton Foote, she began her stage career in 1986 in the title role of her father’s play The Widow Claire at Circle in the Square Theatre. Father and daughter later collaborated on multiple productions including The Last of the Thorntons for which she won a Drama League Award, Talking Pictures, Night Seasons and Laura Dennis at Signature Theatre Company, When They Speak of Rita at Primary Stages, The Carpetbagger's Children, The Day Emily Married, The Trip to Bountiful for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and Dividing the Estate for which she won a Richard Seff Award and received a Tony Award nomination. She appeared in The Orphans’ Home Cycle, which earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, Off Broadway and at Hartford Stage. Her other regional credits include The Death of Papa at PlayMakers Repertory Company and Hartford Stage and God’s Pictures at Indiana Repertory Theatre. Selected film credits include 1918, On Valentine’s Day, Courtship and Walking to the Waterline, and she was the producer of Lily Dale on Showtime and Hallmark Hall of Fame. Foote’s other awards include a Drama Desk for The Horton Foote Plays at Signature Theatre Company and an OBIE Award for The Roads to Home.

Horton Foote Jr. as Lewis Gordon
Horton Foote Jr. is returning to the stage after almost 20 years. He is thrilled to be working with his sister again and is excited for the chance to work with such a great cast. He is grateful for the opportunity that Michael Wilson has afforded him and is looking forward to being a part of what he considers to be one of his father’s greatest plays.

Penny Fuller as Lucille
Penny Fuller reprises this role having played it on Broadway, Off Broadway, at Hartford Stage and at the Alley Theatre. She began her Broadway career starring in Barefoot in the Park, three Shakespeare in the Park productions, and the musicals Cabaret, Rex and Applause, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for the role of Eve Harrington. Her television work garnered six Emmy nominations and an Emmy Award for ABC’s The Elephant Man. She received a Tony nomination in 2001 for her performance in Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Off Broadway she was seen in Love, Loss and What I Wore, at the Vineyard in Beautiful Child, at Primary Stages in Southern Comforts and at Manhattan Theatre Club in Three Viewings and New England. She has played a variety of roles in regional theater including Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Arkadina in The Seagull and Claire in A Delicate Balance. With William Finn’s A New Brain at Lincoln Center Theater, she returned to musical theater and has since starred in productions of A Little Night Music, Do I Hear a Waltz, and in London in Sail Away. She has embarked on a new career phase as a cabaret artist singing in New York clubs and theaters.

Maggie Lacey as Pauline
Maggie Lacey reprises the role she played at Alley Theatre. Her Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate, Inherit the Wind and Our Town. Her Off Broadway credits include The Orphans' Home Cycle at Signature Theatre Company, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore at Roundabout Theatre Company, Spirit Control at Manhattan Theatre Club, Dividing the Estate at Primary Stages, Engaged at Theatre for a New Audience, The Bald Soprano at Atlantic Theater Company and The Butterfly Collection at Playwrights Horizons. Her regional credits include Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage and Westport Country Playhouse. Her film and television credits include The Life Before Her Eyes directed by Vadim Perelman, Our Town on Showtime/PBS, “The Big C,” “Army Wives,” “Law & Order” and “All My Children.” She is the co-writer and performer of Off Broadway's Big Times with Mia Barron and Danielle Skraastad. She was a Eugene O'Neill Center Cabaret Fellow with Penny Fuller in August 2010.

Nicole Lowrance (official website) as Sissie
Nicole Lowrance reprises the role she recently played at Alley Theatre. Her Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate, also at Primary Stages. International credits include The Merchant of Venice at Royal Shakespeare Company. Her Off Broadway credits include The Merchant of Venice, The Jew of Malta, All’s Well that Ends Well, Engaged, Don Juan all with Theatre for a New Audience, Columbinus at New York Theatre Workshop, Tatjana in Color at Culture Project, Red Frogs at P.S. 122 and Measure For Measure at New York Shakespeare Festival. Her regional credits include Steel Magnolias at Cape May Stage, Beyond Therapy and David Copperfield at Westport Country Playhouse, Oleanna and Speed the Plow in repertory at American Theater Company in Chicago, The Importance of Being Earnest at CENTERSTAGE, Curse of the Starving Class at American Conservatory Theater, The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue at Hartford Stage, Romeo and Juliet at Folger Theatre and The Little Foxes and Hamlet at The Shakespeare Theatre Company. Her television credits include “Law & Order,” “Whoopi,” “Guiding Light” and “American Masters” on PBS.

Jenny Dare Paulin as Emily
Jenny Dare Paulin recently made her Alley Theatre debut with Dividing the Estate. Her Broadway and Off Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate and The Orphans’ Home Cycle. Her regional theater credits include Dividing the Estate and The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Hartford Stage, The Foreigner at John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, The Roads to Home at Second Story Theater, Angel Feathers at Lost Theater, The Trip to Bountiful at Actors’ Theater of San Francisco and Antigone. Her television credits include Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls, “Promised Land” and “Dawson’s Creek.” Her film credits include Young Adult, Bulletface, Double Born, Infection and Cool Air.

Keiana Richàrd as Cathleen
Keiana Richàrd, a native of Tennessee, returns to the role she played at Alley Theatre. Her Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate directed by Michael Wilson, and her Off Broadway credits include Forgotten World with the Sundance Institute at The Public Theater, Ghosts with The Pearl Theatre Company, Dividing the Estate at Primary Stages and 365 Days/365 Plays with Slant Theatre Project/The Public Theater. Her regional credits include Milk Like Sugar reading with Philadelphia Theatre Company, Eclipsed directed by Liesl Tommy at McCarter Theatre Center, Good Breeding directed by Robert O’Hara with UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse, La Dispute directed by Darko Tresnjak with UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse and The Wiz directed by Des McAnuff at La Jolla Playhouse. Her television credits include projects such as “12 Steps to Recovery” and “Delocated.”She received her M.F.A. from UC San Diego.

Roger Robinson as Doug
Roger Robinson has appeared on Broadway in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Award), Drowning Crow, St. Louis Women at City Center Encores!, the Tony-nominated Seven Guitars, Amen Corner the Musical, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Talent ’64, Elaborative Lives: The Legend of Aida, The Iceman Cometh, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie and Jitney. His Off Broadway credits include The Cherry Orchard, The Middle of Nowhere, Of Mice and Men, Do Lord Remember Me?, The Trials of Brother Jero, The Strong Breed, Who’s Got His Own?, Crooks, Lady Day, MacBird! and Walk in Darkness. His television credits include “Rubicon” on AMC, “NYPD Blue,” “The Education of Max Bickford,” three episodes of “ER,” “Kate Brasher,” “Friends,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Law & Order,” “New York Undercover,” “The Cosby Show,” “Hawk,” “The Equalizer,” “Kojak” (series recurring), “Dead Air,” “The Jeffersons,” two episodes of “Baretta,” the miniseries King, “Quincy M.E.” and Marcus/Nelson Murders. Select film credits include One the One, Brother to Brother, which won the Sundance 2004 Special Jury Prize, Vig, Burnsy’s Last Call aka Booze, Flodders Does Manhattan, It’s My Turn, Newman’s Law, Believe in Me, Suits, Who’s the Man?, The Lonely Guy, Meteor and Willie Dynamite.

Bree Welch as Irene Ratliff
Bree Welch returns to The Old Globe after appearing as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Ensemble in King Lear and The Madness of George III. Welch is an M.F.A. student in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program where she has also performed in The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Carver/Chekhov Project. Her regional credits include A Christmas Carol (Alley Theatre), The Rabbit Hole (Stages Reperatory Theatre), Essential Self Defense (Horse Head Theatre Company), Antigone and The Triumph of Love (Classical Theatre Company), One Flea Spare (Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company), Enchanted April, The Odd Couple and The Heiress (Unity Theatre) and six seasons with the Houston Shakespeare Festival where she performed in The Tempest, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Love's Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and The Taming of the Shrew. Welch recently played Mrs. Elton in the Broadway reading of Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy based on the novel by Jane Austen. She received her B.A. in Acting/Directing from The University of Houston.

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