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Simon Russell Beale (George) will make his Broadway debut with
Jumpers. Beale's previous appearances in National Theatre productions include the
title role of Hamlet for which he won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards,
Humble Boy, Candide, Summerfolk, Money, and Stoppard's
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He was most recently seen at the Donmar Warehouse in
Sam Mendes' productions of Uncle Vanya (2003 Olivier Award for Best Actor) and Twelfth
Night, for both of which he won the Evening Standard and Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.
Both productions subsequently transferred to BAM. TV credits include A Dance to the Music of
Time for which he won a BAFTA Best Actor Award. His film work includes An Ideal Husband
and Alice in Wonderland.
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Essie Davis (Dorothy) will make her Broadway debut with
Jumpers. Davis made her National Theatre debut as Stella in Trevor Nunn's production
of A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a
Supporting Role. She has worked extensively in Australia for the Sydney Theatre Company and Company
B Belvoir Street, where her roles have included Catherine in A View from the Bridge, Juliet
in Romeo and Juliet and Viola in Twelfth Night. Her most recent film work includes
Girl with a Pearl Earring, in which she stars opposite Colin Firth, and Code 46,
directed by Michael Winterbottom, to be released this year.
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Tom Stoppard (Playwright) His plays include Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, Night and Day, The Real Thing,
Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, and The Invention of Love. His
shorter plays include The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Dirty Linen,
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (music
by Andre Previn). Translations and adaptations include Undiscovered Country (Schnitzler),
Dalliance (Schnitzler), On the Razzle (Nestrov), Rough Crossing (Molnar)
and, most recently, The Seagull (Chekov) for the Peter Hall Company. His radio plays
include "Albert's Bridge" (Italia Prize), "Artist Descending a Staircase" and "In the Native State"
(Sony Award). His television play "Professional Foul" won a BAFTA Award. His plays have won seven
Evening Standard Awards, one Olivier Award and three Tony® Awards. His screenplays as writer and
co-writer include Brazil, Empire of the Sun, The Russia House, Billy
Bathgate, and, most recently, Shakespeare in Love, which won several awards including
an Oscar® and BAFTA Award. He directed his own screenplay of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. His plays are published by Faber
& Faber Ltd.
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David Leveaux (Director) reunites with Tom Stoppard for
Jumpers. In 1999, Leveaux directed The Real Thing which opened at the
Donmar Warehouse, transferred to the West End and Broadway, where it won three 2000 Tony® Awards,
including Best Revival of a Play. Leveaux's recent credits in his international career include the
critically acclaimed, Tony® Award-winning revival of Nine, Neil LaBute's The Distance
from Here, Harold Pinter's Betrayal, No Man's Land, and Moonlight all
at the Almeida. His other Broadway credits include Anna Christie with Natasha Richardson
and Liam Neeson, Electra with Zoë Wanamaker and Betrayal with Juliette Binoche.
Since 1993, he has been Artistic Director of Theatre Project Tokyo. This season, Leveaux will also
direct the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, with Alfred Molina.
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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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