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Democracy
Michael Frayn (Playwright) is the author of Copenhagen (Tony® Award, Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award), The Two of Us, Alphabetical Order (Evening Standard Award), Donkey's Years (Olivier Award), Clouds, Balmoral, Make and Break (Evening Standard Award), Noises Off (Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award), Look Look, and Here. He translated four of Chekhov's full-length plays: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya, and adapted Chekhov's first untitled play as Wild Honey. He has also translated four of his one-act plays: The Evils of Tobacco, Swan Song, The Bear and The Proposal. In addition, he adapted four short stories for the stage: Drama, The Alien Corn, The Sneeze, and The Inspector General, which were staged collectively as The Sneeze. He has translated Tolstoy's Fruits of Enlightenment, Yuri Trifonov's Exchange, and Anouilh's Number One. His film credits include Clockwise starring John Cleese, "First and Last" (Emmy® Award) and Noises Off. He has also published nine novels including Headlong, The Tin Men, The Russian Interpreter, Towards the End of the Morning, A Very Private Life, Sweet Dreams, The Trick of It, A Landing on the Sun, and Now You Know, together with a volume of philosophy, Constructions.

Michael Blakemore (Director) won the 2000 Tony® Awards for Best Director of a Play (Copenhagen) and Musical (Kiss Me Kate), becoming the first director in Tony history to win both in the same year. He has had five Tony® nominations for the Broadway premieres of Joe Egg, Noises Off, City of Angels, Lettice and Lovage, and The Life. Awards include the Drama Desk, the Hollywood Dramalogue and the Outer Critics Circle. In London, he was Laurence Olivier's Associate Director at the National Theatre and directed him in Long Day's Journey Into Night. Other National productions include The Front Page, Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, After the Fall, and Copenhagen. His 20 successful shows in the West End include Frayn's Make and Break, Benefactors, and translation of Uncle Vanya and Peter Nichols' Privates on Parade, which he later filmed. As writer-director, he also filmed A Personal History of the Australian Surf and Country Life. He has written for The New Yorker and his novel Next Season (1968) is still in print with Applause Books.

James Naughton (Willy Brandt) Directing, Broadway: Our Town with Paul Newman (also for Showtime and PBS), the Tony® Award-nominated production of Arthur Miller's The Price. Off-Broadway: Filumena for Blue Light Theatre Company. Regional: Williamstown and Westport. Acting, Broadway: Chicago (1997 Tony® Award), City of Angels (1990 Tony® and Drama Desk awards), Whose Life Is It Anyway?, I Love My Wife, Long Day's Journey Into Night (NY Drama Critics, Theatre World and Vernon Rice awards). Concerts and recordings: 1999 dAce Award, Best Male Vocalist, NYC for Street of Dreams. Recently released solo album It's About Time on DRG Records. Film: The Glass Menagerie, The Paper Chase, The Good Mother, Cat's Eye, First Kid. TV: "The Cosby Mysteries," "Brooklyn Bridge," "Who's the Boss?," "Planet of the Apes," "Ally McBeal," "The Truth About Jane" (Lifetime). Graduate of Brown and Yale.

Richard Thomas (Günter Guillaume) made his Broadway debut at the age of seven in Sunrise at Campobello. He won an Emmy® Award for his much beloved role of John-Boy on "The Waltons" which ran for five years. Since then he has segued back and forth between television and theater. He most recently starred Off-Broadway in Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome at Primary Stages and Tiny Alice at Second Stage and has worked regularly at Hartford Stage, Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and The Shakespeare Theatre. Theatrical highlights include the New York world premiere of Steve Tesich's Square One, Fifth of July, The Front Page, The Seagull, and the West End production of Art. He has appeared in over 40 television movies, most recently "Beyond The Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls," "In The Name of the People," "Down and Out and Dangerous," "A Thousand Men and a Baby," "A River's Rampage," three Walton reunions ("A Walton Thanksgiving," "A Walton Wedding" and "A Walton Easter"), "Andre's Mother," Stephen King's "It," "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus," "Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232," "Just Cause" and "Mission of the Shark: The U.S.S. Indianapolis." For the last few seasons, Richard has starred on PAX-TV in the hit series "It's A Miracle".

Michael Cumpsty (Arno Kretschmann) played the role of Werner Heisenberg in Michael Frayn's Tony® Award-winning production of Copenhagen, directed by Michael Blakemore. He recently played Leontes in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Winter's Tale at the RSC's home in Stratford-upon-Avon. Previous Broadway credits include: Enchanted April, 42nd Street, Electra, 1776, Racing Demon, The Heiress, Translations, Artist Descending a Staircase, La Bete, and Timon of Athens, for which he was honored by the Actor's Equity Association with the Bayfield Award. Off-Broadway credits include The Art of Success at the Manhattan Theatre Club (with Jayne Atkinson) and Man and Superman at the Roundabout Theatre. For the New York Shakespeare Festival he has appeared in Timon of Athens, All's Well That Ends Well, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, King John, and Hamlet starring and directed by Kevin Kline. That production, in which he played Laertes, was filmed and broadcast as part of the PBS Great Performances series. He was a series regular on "L.A. Law," recurred on "Star Trek: Voyager" and has appeared in numerous miniseries and television movies. His feature film work includes roles in State of Grace, Fatal Instinct, and The Ice Storm.

Robert Prosky (Herbert Wehner) Broadway: Tony-nominated for his performances in Glengarry Glen Ross and A Walk in the Woods; A View from the Bridge; Moonchildren. Over 100 roles at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. He has more than 50 films to his credit, including Thief, Broadcast News, Dead Man Walking, Things Change, The Last Action Hero, The Lords of Discipline, Outrageous Fortune, Dudley Do-Right, the 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street, and Mrs. Doubtfire. On television, he created the role of Sgt. Jablonski on "Hill Street Blues" and then went on to have featured roles in such series as "Veronica's Closet," "Coach," "Cheers," "Frasier" and "The Practice".

Terry Beaver (Reinhard Wilke) Broadway: Twentieth Century (Roundabout), Henry IV (Lincoln Center), The Man Who Came to Dinner (Roundabout), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony® nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award). Regional: Proof (Coconut Grove), How I Learned to Drive (Dallas Theater Center), The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Angels in America, Betrayal, The Dining Room. Features: Imaginary Heroes, Hearts in Atlantis, Company Man, and Pulse. Television: "The West Wing," "Shot in the Heart" (HBO film), "Now and Again," "Law & Order: SVU," "Third Watch," "Law & Order," "The Price of a Broken Heart," "Sins of the City," "Profiler," "A Season in Purgatory," "The Client," "I'll Fly Away," "In the Heat of the Night," "Complex of Fear," and "Stolen Babies."

John Dossett (Helmut Schmidt) Broadway: Gypsy (Tony® nomination), Dinner at Eight, An Almost Holy Picture, Tom Sawyer, Ragtime, Prelude to a Kiss, Mastergate, Fifth of July, King of Schnorrers. Off-Broadway/regional: A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center), Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts), Trudy Blue (MCC), Hello Again (LCT), How I Learned to Drive (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Czolgoz (P.S. 122), Jungle Movie (One Dream), Elmer Gantry and Captains Courageous (Ford's Theatre), Kiss of the Spider Woman (first national tour), Reckless, Poster of the Cosmos, Dalton's Back, Empty Hearts, Sunshine, Richard II, Childe Byron, El Salvador, The Diviners, Innocent Thoughts/Harmless Intentions (Circle Repertory Company). Film: Nick and Jane, That Night, Longtime Companion. TV: "Hack," "Law & Order," "Sex and the City," "Homicide," "JAG," "Blue Moon," "Clover," "Law & Order: SVU."

Richard Masur (Horst Emkhe) Richard's 30+ year career began in NY. He has had starring roles in more than 45 feature films, over 40 television movies, running roles on several television series and countless guest-starring appearances on others. His New York stage credits included two (in)famous productions: the critically acclaimed Broadway production of The Changing Room, and the critically reviled 1973 NY Shakespeare Festival production of Troilus and Cressida. He then fled town and spent the next 27 years living and working in Los Angeles. This past season, he appeared Off-Broadway downtown in the award-winning production of The Exonerated and at MTC in Daniel Goldfarb's Sarah, Sarah. Richard has directed for the stage, TV and radio, and has been nominated for Academy, Emmy® and Directors Guild awards.

Lee Wilkof (Günter Nollau) New York theater: Kiss Me, Kate (Tony®, Drama Desk nominations); The Boys from Syracuse; She Loves Me; The Front Page; Sweet Charity; The Underpants; Chaucer in Rome; Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks; June Moon; Assassins (Drama Desk nomination); Little Shop of Horrors; The Present Tense (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination); and many more. Regional theatre: McCarter, Yale Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Mark Taper, New York Stage and Film, Williamstown. Recent television: "The West Wing," "Ally McBeal," "Law & Order," "100 Centre Street." Film: Imaginary Heroes, Two Weeks Notice, The School of Rock, The Grey Zone, Tracks, Private Parts, This Boy's Life, Addicted to Love, The Associate, Chatahoochie, Ray's Male Heterosexual Dancehall, Kill Me Again, Xanadu. Proud participant of the 52nd Street Project.

Julian Gamble (Ulrich Bauhaus) Broadway: Jumpers, Dinner at Eight, The Caretaker, Invention of Love, The Iceman Cometh, Dinner at Eight. Roundabout: You Never Can Tell, A Month in the Country. Regional: Julian has performed with Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Old Globe, Geva, Studio Arena, Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center, Arizona Theatre Co., L.A. Theatre Festival, Intiman, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Shakespeare Festival and many others. Television: recurring roles on "Third Watch," "Law & Order" and "Days of Our Lives." Guest-starring roles on "Law & Order: SVU," "Criminal Intent," "New York Undercover," "L.A. Law," "Highway to Heaven," "Dallas," "Wright Verdicts," "Matlock," "Perry Mason," "Hier," "Willy" and many others.

John Christopher Jones (Hans-Dietrich Genscher) Broadway: Otherwise Engaged, Hurlyburly, The Iceman Cometh, A Month in the Country, The Goodbye Girl, Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway: Quartermaine's Terms, The Day Room, Prin, Aristocrats, Sight Unseen, Slavs, Golden Child, Fuddy Meers. TV regular: "The Royale," "The Popcorn Kid," "On Our Own." Film: Awakenings, Moonstruck, The Hurricane. He is an Associate Director of the Depot Theatre, Westport, New York.

The National Theatre is central to the creative life of the UK. In its three theatres on the South Bank in London, it presents an eclectic mix of new plays and classics, with seven or eight productions in repertory at any one time. It aims constantly to re-energise the great traditions of the British stage and to expand the horizons of audiences and artists alike. It aspires to reflect in its repertoire the diversity of the culture. By touring, the National shares its work with audiences in the UK and abroad. Recent work from the NT which has been seen in the US includes: Othello, Carousel, Arcadia, An Inspector Calls, Indiscretions, Racing Demon, Skylight, Stanley, An Enemy of the People, Amy's View, Closer, Not About Nightingales, Hamlet, Copenhagen, Noises Off, Oklahoma!, and Vincent in Brixton.

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