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GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS ARTHUR MILLER’S

SEARING WAR DRAMA All My Sons FEATURING

MULTIPLE TONY-WINNING LEN CARIOU, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS AND LAURIE METCALF

Production Continues Geffen’s Decade-Long Festival of American Originals, Celebrating Works that Explore and Define the American Experience

Geffen Artistic Director Randall Arney Directs

Limited Engagement; Six Weeks Only

April 11, 2006 through May 21, 2006; Opening Night is April 19, 2006

Media sponsors: KCRW and KMOZART

LOS ANGELES—The Geffen Playhouse continues its 10^th Anniversary Season with Arthur Miller’s classic All My Sons, featuring multiple Tony Award-winning Len Cariou as Joe Keller, Neil Patrick Harris as Chris, and Laurie Metcalf as Kate Keller. Directed by Geffen Artistic Director Randall Arney, the production continues the Geffen’s decade-long Festival of American Originals, a celebration of theater that explores and defines the American experience.

“Nearly 60 years after its Broadway debut, All My Sons remains one of the quintessential American war dramas, acutely relevant to the present time in the American experience,” says Arney. “The play is a prescient study of denial, guilt and social responsibility, taking place on the home front during war time. It is also a great love story with a wonderful sense of nostalgia that centers in the volatile cauldron of family. Above all, this work reminds us that history repeats itself and that theater—time and time again—becomes art as social commentary.”

All My Sons is widely known as Miller’s first stage success. Directed by Elia Kazan, the original production opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947 and ran for 328 performances, establishing Miller as a giant of the American theater when he was only 33. It won the triple

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crown of theatrical artistry that year: the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Play. The play was made into a movie in 1948 that starred Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton, Howard Duff, and Frank Conroy, directed by Irving Reis. A 1986 made-for-TV movie also based on the play starred James Whitmore, Aidan Quinn, Michael Learned, Joan Allen, and Željko Ivanek, and was directed by Jack O'Brien. Miller later won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and his second Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Death of a Salesman, which opened on Broadway in 1949. 

A New York Times review by Brooks Atkinson (the theater critic for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960) ran on February 9, 1947, with the headline “Welcome, Stranger. Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ Introduces A New Talent to the Theatre” calling Miller a man “who is here to stay, and ought to have many more plays in his shop. He writes like a man with a mind of his own.” Atkinson lauded the play, stating that “there has seldom been a story on the stage so tightly woven as this one.” He concluded his review with glowing remarks on the cast, commenting that “No doubt [the cast is] fully aware of the fact that they are taking part in a notable theatre event—giving life to the work of the most interesting new writer Broadway has taken into the business. Call it an inspired performance. Like the play, it overflows with passion and life.”

All My Sons is a compelling story of love, guilt, and moral choices. The play brings us Joe Keller, an apparently successful businessman who made his fortune by selling airplane parts to the army during World War II. Not wanting to slow business, Keller knowingly sends out a batch of defective airplane parts to the army, creating a domino effect of devastation in both his life and the lives of others. Although Keller believes he has escaped the responsibility of the crime, Miller brings the plot to a head in the last shattering act.

The idea for Joe Keller’s crime in Miller’s All My Sons is based on a true story found by Miller, in which a manufacturer knowingly shipped defective parts for tanks during the Second World War, resulting in the deaths of many soldiers. The fault was discovered, and the manufacturer was eventually convicted. In All My Sons, Miller examines the morality of the man who places his narrow responsibility to his family above his wider responsibility to the men who rely on the integrity of his work.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller is one of the most frequently produced playwrights in America.  From his first theatrical success with All My Sons in 1947 to Broken Glass in 1994, his plays continue to energize the stage, explore the shadowy realm of human motivations, and probe the conflicts

at the bottom of the American dream. During his supremely influential career, Miller examined social morality and responsibility through an intensely personal lens, forcing his audiences to view their own role at home and in the world at large.

The Geffen’s production of All My Sons is directed by Geffen Artistic Director Randall Arney, who last directed the Geffen’s smash hit production of Take Me Out last year. Arney has also directed the Geffen productions of I Just Stopped By To See The Man, God’s Man in Texas and The Weir. He is an ensemble member and former artistic director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre (1987-1995), where he directed numerous plays including The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden and Curse of the Starving Class. Arney also directed the world premiere of Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Steppenwolf, as well as the subsequent Los Angeles, off-Broadway, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Tokyo productions.

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BIOGRAPHIES

ARTHUR MILLER

In the period immediately following the end of World War II, American theater was transformed by the work of playwright Arthur Miller. Profoundly influenced by the Depression and the war that immediately followed it, Miller tapped into a sense of dissatisfaction and unrest within the greater American psyche. His probing dramas proved to be both the conscience and redemption of the times, allowing people an honest view of the direction the country had taken. He was born in Manhattan in 1915 to Jewish immigrant parents. By 1928, the family had moved to Brooklyn, after their garment manufacturing business began to fail. Witnessing the societal decay of the Depression and his father's desperation due to business failures had an enormous effect on Miller. After graduating from high school, Miller worked a number of jobs and saved up the money for college. In 1934, he enrolled in the University of Michigan and spent much of the next four years learning to write and working on a number of well-received plays. After graduating, Miller returned to New York, where he worked as a freelance writer. In 1944, his first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, opened to horrible reviews. A story about an incredibly successful man who is unhappy with that success, The Man Who Had All The Luck was already addressing the major themes of Miller's later work. In 1945, Miller published a novel, FOCUS, and two years later had his first play on Broadway. All My Sons, a tragedy about a manufacturer who sells faulty parts to the military in order to save his business, was an instant success. Concerned with morality in the face of desperation, All My Sons appealed to a nation having recently gone through both a war and a depression. Only two years after the success of All My Sons, Miller came out with his most famous and well-respected work, Death of a Salesman. Dealing again with both desperation and paternal responsibility, Death of a Salesman focused on a failed businessman as he tries to remember and

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reconstruct his life. Eventually killing himself to leave his son insurance money, the salesman seems a tragic character out of Shakespeare or Dostoevsky. Winning both a Pulitzer Prize and a Drama Critics Circle Award, the play ran for more than seven hundred performances. Within a short while, it had been translated into over a dozen languages and had made its author a millionaire. Overwhelmed by post-war paranoia and intolerance, Miller began work on the third of his major plays. Though it was clearly an indictment of the McCarthyism of the early 1950s, The Crucible was set in Salem during the witch-hunts of the late 17th century. The play, which deals with extraordinary tragedy in ordinary lives, expanded Miller's voice and his concern for the physical and psychological wellbeing of the working class. Within three years, Miller was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and convicted of contempt of Congress for not cooperating. A difficult time in his life, Miller ended a short and turbulent marriage with actress Marilyn Monroe. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote very little of note, concentrating at first on issues of guilt over the Holocaust, and later moving into comedies. It was not until the 1991 productions of his The Ride Down Mount Morgan and The Last Yankee that Miller's career began to see a resurgence. Both plays returned to the themes of success and failure that he had dealt with in earlier works. Concerning himself with the American dream, and the average American's pursuit of it, Miller recognized a link between the poverty of the 1920s and the wealth of the 1980s. Encouraged by the success of these works, a number of his earlier pieces returned to the stage for revival performances. More than any other playwright working today, Arthur Miller has dedicated himself to the investigation of the moral plight of the white American working class. With a sense of realism and a strong ear for the American vernacular, Miller has created characters whose voices are an important part of the American landscape. His insight into the psychology of desperation and his ability to create stories that express the deepest meanings of struggle, have made him one of the most highly regarded and widely performed American playwrights. Miller died in February, 2005 at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, at the age of 89.

randall arney (Director)

Randall Arney begins his sixth season at the Geffen Playhouse where he has directed Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, Stephen Jeffreys; I Just Stopped by to See the Man, Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl, David Rambo’s God’s Man In Texas, and Conor McPherson’s The Weir. He is an ensemble member and former artistic director of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, where he directed I Just Stopped By To See The Man; The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Bang, A Walk in the Woods, Killers, and The Geography of Luck. In addition, he directed the world premiere of Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Steppenwolf, as well as the subsequent Los Angeles (Westwood Playhouse, Drama-Logue Critics' Award), Off-Broadway, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Tokyo productions. Under Mr. Arney's artistic leadership (1987-1995), Steppenwolf grew from a grass roots theater into an internationally recognized ensemble. He oversaw the design, creation and completion of a new, state-of-the-art theater facility (including two theaters), and created a New Plays Program. Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations); and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney's acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday (opposite Glenne Headly); Ghost in the Machine; The Homecoming; Frank's Wild Years (with Tom Waits, directed by Gary Sinise); You Can't Take it With You; Fool for Love; True West (directed by Gary Sinise); and Balm in Gilead and Coyote Ugly (both directed by John Malkovich). On film he has appeared in Normal, Weapons of Mass Distraction (HBO); Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), and Judging Amy (CBS). His honors include four Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for directing, two for acting, the Eastern Illinois University Distinguished Alumnus Award, and serving as a jurist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Prior to serving as artistic director and associate artistic director (1985-87) at Steppenwolf, he was an associate professor at Columbia College in Chicago, where he taught acting and directing, and Associate Professor at Illinois Stage University.

LEN CARIOU (Joe Keller)

This year, Len Cariou was honored to become a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame. He is a Drama Desk winner, a Theatre World Award winner, and a three-time Best Actor Tony nominee, for Applause, A Little Night Music, and his legendary performance as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony. His other Broadway credits include Nightwatch, Cold Storage, Teddy & Alice, Dance a Little Closer, The Speed of Darkness, Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, and most recently, Proof. He has also toured nationally as Cap’n Andy in Showboat, and as Nils Bohr in Copenhagen, for which he won the National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Actor. His onscreen performance in One Man garnered him a Genie Award, Canada’s Oscar, for Best Actor. Look for him in the upcoming Boynton Beach Bereavement Club with Sally Kellerman and Dyan Cannon, premiering at the Hampton’s Film Festival in October 2005, and The Greatest Game Ever Played, opening across the country in late September 2005.

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His other most popular films are The Four Seasons, Lady in White, Executive Decision, Thirteen Days, and the highly acclaimed About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Cariou is currently shooting the recurring role of "Judd Fitzgerald" in the new Showtime series, Brotherhood.  He has guest-starred on The West Wing, Law & Order, The Practice, Gabriel's Fire, and The Outer Limits, among many others. He starred in recurring roles as Sgt. Swift in Swift Justice, and most notably, as Det. Michael Haggerty opposite Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote.  Myriad TV movies include Surviving, Man in the Attic, Who Will Save Our Children, There Were Times Dear (PBS), Miracle on Route 880, Killer in the Mirror, Hallmark Hall of Fame’s The Summer of Ben Tyler, and Nuremberg (TNT).  His classical stage repertoire is far ranging, encompassing the title roles in King Lear, Oedipus the King, Macbeth, Cyrano, Coriolanus, as well as Iago, Petruchio, Prospero and many others. Off-Broadway, he has starred as Ernest Hemingway in the one-man show Papa, as William O. Douglas in Mountain, and as Joseph Stalin in Master Class. Regionally, he has starred in a multitude of productions throughout North America, including The Kennedy Centre, The Mark Taper Forum, The Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Stratford Shakespeare Festivals in both Ontario and Connecticut, The Caldwell Theatre (Boca Raton, Fla.), The Guthrie Theatre, and The Old Globe. Len Cariou is a former Artistic Director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and former Associate Director of the Guthrie Theatre.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS (Chris Keller)

Neil Patrick Harris most recently headlined Jonathan Larson’s musical Tick, Tick…Boom! at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory.  He previously starred in the dual role of Lee Harvey Oswald and The Balladeer in the Tony Award-winning revival Assassins which marked his third return to Broadway in just as many years, having  previously performed as the Emcee of the Kit Kat Klub in Cabaret at Studio 54, as well as the mathematician Hal opposite Anne Heche and Len Cariou in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof at the Walter Kerr. Additional theatre credits include Tobias in Sweeney Todd (Lincoln Center, with NY Philharmonic Orchestra); Mark in Rent (Ahmanson, La Jolla Playhouse); and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Old Globe Theatre). Harris’ feature film credits include the comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Undercover Brother, The Next Best Thing, Starship Troopers, The Proposition, and Clara’s Heart (Golden Globe nomination). On television, Harris stars as Barney in the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother, and previously portrayed the title role on ABC's Doogie Howser, M.D. (People’s Choice Award, Golden Globe nomination). Additional television projects include Stark Raving Mad, Joan of Arc, The Man in the Attic, Cold Sassy Tree, The Christmas Blessing, Will & Grace, Numb3rs, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.  

LAURIE METCALF (Kate Keller)

Laurie Metcalf is an original member of The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, currently in its 30^th season.  Among her Steppenwolf credits are Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, My Thing of Love (also Broadway), Wrong Turn at Lungfish, Educating Rita (also Off-Broadway), You Can't Take It With You, Coyote Ugly (also Kennedy Center), The Miss Firecracker Contest, Cloud 9, And a Nightingale Sang..., True West, Loose Ends, Arms and the Man, Balm in Gilead (also Off-Broadway), Waiting for Lefty, The Glass Menagerie, Exit the King, The 5th of July, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Other theatre credits include Bodies, Rest and Motion (Off-Broadway), School for Scandal (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Getting Out (Wisdom Bridge Theatre), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Northlight Theatre), The Man Who Came to Dinner and Member of The Wedding (Columbia College, Chicago), All My Sons (National Theatre, London) and Looking for Normal (The Geffen Playhouse).  Her film work includes JFK, Internal Affairs, Desperately Seeking Susan, Making Mr. Right, Scream II, Leaving Las Vegas, Dear God, U-Turn, Uncle Buck, Bullworth, Runaway Bride and Toy Story. She also co-starred on the hit television show Roseanne and The Norm Show.

AMY SLOAN (Ann Deever)

Amy Sloan is pleased to be making her Geffen debut in All My Sons. She recently appeared in the Downstage Black Box's production of Plunge in Los Angeles, The Crucible at the Centaur Theater in Montreal, the Canadian premiere of Proof at the Guild Hall Theater in Whitehorse, Yukon (her hometown), and numerous plays at the Monument Nationale du Canada including Richard III, Lysistrata and A Servant of Two Masters. Recent film and television credits include The Aviator, The Day After Tomorrow, Head In The Clouds, C.S.I., Cold Case, Without A Trace, Crossing Jordan and the upcoming CBS pilot, Sex, Love, Power and Politics. Amy Sloan is a graduate of the National Theater School Of Canada.

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CHRIS PAYNE GILBERT (George Deever)

Credits: THEATRE: New York: Kilt (The Directors Co.); Gross Indecency (Minetta Lane Theatre); Through Fred (Playwrights Horizons); Walking Off the Roof (Signature Theatre Co.); Eloise and Ray (New Georges); August Snow & Night Dance (Mint Theatre Co.); Come Clean (P.S. 122) Regional: To Whom it May Concern (BITEF), Experimental Actions, Wrench, Lem, Freesailing, What Alice Found There (all Williamstown Theatre Festival); TELEVISION: 10 Items or Less, Friends, The Shield, Sex & the City, Bones, N.C.I.S., C.S.I., C.S.I.: Miami, Law & Order, and Charmed. FILM: Broken Hearts Club, The Irish Vampire Goes West, Story of a Bad Boy, Saving Manhattan.

MORGAN RUSLER (Dr. Jim Bayliss)

Morgan Rusler is delighted to be back at the Geffen Playhouse in just one role after the nine he created for the Mark Taper Forum's, Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates. A long-time member of Los Angeles’ Troubadour Theater Company, Morgan originated leading roles in: Hamlet, the Artist Formerly Known as Prince of Denmark, It's a Stevie Wonderful Life, Fleetwood Macbeth, A Christmas Carol King, and All's Kool That Ends Kool. Other theater: The Foreigner (La Mirada), Paint Your Wagon (The Geffen Playhouse), The Importance of Being Earnest, On Borrowed Time (Pasadena Playhouse), Room Service, The Woman in Black (Laguna Playhouse), Around the World in 80 Days (17 roles, The Colony Theater), War Music (Ovation Award Best Ensemble, LATC), A Servant to Two Masters (Garland Award Best Ensemble, ICT). Film: Catch Me If You Can, Solaris and Galaxy Quest. Director Tom Putnam has given Mr. Rusler starring roles in Shafted!, Tom Hits His Head (Spirit of Slamdance Award, Aspen Shortsfest Grand Jury Prize, Academy Award Qualifying,184 film festivals worldwide) and Broadcast 23 (Sundance, 58 festivals worldwide and counting). Television: Charmed, Crossing Jordan, Touched By An Angel, Judging Amy, The Guardian, Firefly, Robbery/Homicide Division. 

ROBIN RIKER (Sue Bayliss)

A third generation actor on both sides of her family and classically trained in the theatre since age two, Ms. Riker has split her time between stage, film and television ever since. In the past seven months, she has received two Best Actress nominations (Ovation Awards, LA Weekly Theatre Awards) for her performance as La Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Blank Theatre) as well as Best Supporting Actress nomination (LA Weekly Theatre Awards) for her work in George Furth’s Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex & Sex (The Matrix Theatre). She has also won Dramalogue’s award for Best Supporting Actress as Diana in Mario Fratti’s Victim. Other stage work includes The Kiss at City Hall (Pasadena Playhouse), two long running production of Ladies Room (Theatre on the Square, San Francisco and the Tiffany Theatre, Los Angeles) Rommulus Linney’s Unchanging Love (The Fountain Theatre) and two seasons with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Riker has starred in six television series for ABC, CBS and FOX including The Gregory Hines Show, Get a Life (with Chris Elliott), Thunder Alley (with Edward Asner) and the comedy Brothers on Showtime. Guest appearances include roles on Boston Legal, Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, NCIS and Six Feet Under. She has two movies, Brink and Don’t Look Under the Bed, currently running on The Disney Channel, and has just completed filming How My Private Personal Journal Became a Best Seller, also for Disney.

LIAM CHRISTOPHER O’BRIEN (Frank Lubey)

Liam Christopher O’Brien is thrilled to be on stage at the Geffen in one of his favorite plays. In Los Angeles he has performed in the world premiere of Sex Parasite, at The Mark Taper Forum (Taper, Too), and in King John, performed at The Actor’s Gang. New York theatre credits include The Hothouse, Atlantic Theatre; Small Craft Warnings, Tartuffe, Worth Street Theatre; Carrin Beginning, Riverside Theatre; The Brothers Karamazov, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab; Spring Awakening, HERE; Marriage of Bette & Boo, NYU (director Marcus Stern). Regional: Orphans, Beauty Queen of Leenane, Caldwell Theatre (Florida’s Carbonell Award- Best Supporting Actor 2000/2001); Cripple of Innishman, Pioneer Theater Company; Shakespeare’s R&J (he played Juliet), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Loot, George Street Playhouse; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Princeton Repertory. Mr. O’Brien also lends his voice to lots of animation and video games, and can be heard often on the Cartoon Network.

MEGAN AUSTIN OBERLE (Lydia Lubey)

Megan Most recently she performed in Top Girls with LA Theatre Works in the roles of Kit and Shona. Regional theater credits include Nora in Sixteen Wounded and Julie in Pack of Lies with LA Theatre Works; Safe in Hell with the South Coast Playwrights Festival; Six Degrees of Separation and Camino Real with The Company Rep; Good Things for Taper Too; Fall at Berkeley Rep and Baltimore’s Center Stage; Six Characters in Search of An Author and

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Two Suitcases at The Milwaukee Rep; The Dragon of Wantley and Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Folger Shakespeare Library Theatre; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry at the Appletree Theatre; Anastasia Krupnik at the Lifeline Theatre; Dad’s Ham at the Trapdoor Theatre and The Guardsman and Land’s End at the St. Croix Festival Theatre. Television credits include: ER, Six Feet Under, Sex, Love & Secrets, The 70’s, Ping and Ball Lightning.

STERLING BEAUMON (Bert)

Sterling Beaumon has appeared onstage in everything from the award-winning revival Grapes of Wrath (West Coast Ensemble) to new works such as Dorian and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (NoHo Arts Center) and Tight Quarters (Genga Productions). Other stage credits include: The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun (Welk Resort Theatre); A Christmas Carol (ICT); Sail Away (Musical Theatre Guild); Wizard of Oz (Cabrillo Music Theatre). He has danced as Fritz in The Nutcracker (Alex Theatre), and with ABT in Giselle. Heskated as Young Scott Hamilton in Stars on Ice. Television credits include co-star appearances on 7th Heaven and House MD. Mr. Beaumon has also appeared innumerous national commercials and independent films.

ROBERT BLACKMAN (Scenic Designer)

Robert Blackman recently received the Spotlight Career Achievement Award in Television from the Costume Designers Guild. He was the costume designer for four Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. He won an Emmy Award in 1991-92 for Star Trek: The Next Generation and has received nine nominations. His film work includes ‘night Mother, The Running Man, Stones for Ibarra, Star Trek VII: Generations and Star Trek X: Nemesis. His recent theatrical work includes costume design for the premiere production of David Rambo’s The Lady with All the Answers at the San Diego Old Globe Theatre, The Royal Family at the Ahmanson Theatre (Ovation nomination), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Uncle Vanya at the Geffen Playhouse, and set design for The Winter's Tale at the Denver Center Theatre. He has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and has worked in every major regional theatre in the West. His design for the All My Sons set at the Geffen Playhouse is his first set design for a theater in Los Angeles.

RICHARD WOODBURY (Composer, Sound Designer)

Previous Geffen credits include sound design and/or original music for Boy Gets Girl, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, God’s Man in Texas and others. Broadway credits include Tony Award-winning productions of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Death of a Salesman, and The Young Man From Atlanta. Mr. Woodbury has created music and sound designs for numerous productions at Chicago’s renowned Goodman (Dollhouse, Finishing the Picture, Hughie, Moonlight and Magnolias, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? and others) and Steppenwolf Theaters (I Just Stopped By To See The Man, Hysteria, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Memory of Water, The Libertine, and others). His work has also been heard in Paris, London and numerous American regional theaters including the Alley in Houston, the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and Trinity Repertory in Providence. He has received the Helen Hayes Award for outstanding sound design, the Ruth Page award as Outstanding Collaborative Artist, as well as nominations for Drama Desk, Joseph Jefferson, and Ovation awards. He has composed numerous commissioned scores for dance including most recently Pentimento for Lar Lubovitch in New York, and Prairie for Ginger Farley in Chicago. Mr. Woodbury is a faculty member at Columbia College Chicago currently serving as Acting Chair of the Dance Department.

DANIEL IONAZZI (Lighting Designer)

Daniel Ionazzi is Production Manager for the Geffen Playhouse and a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Director of Production for the Department of Theater. His other credits include: Production Manager and Technical Director for the Denver Center Theatre Company and Santa Fe Festival Theatre; Executive Director of Colorado Stage Company; Director of Festivals and Events for The Denver Partnership; and Assistant Technical Director for the Juilliard School. Mr. Ionazzi is the author of The Stage Management Handbook and The Stagecraft Handbook. Design credits at the Geffen include: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Paint Your Wagon; Take Me Out; I Just Stopped By To See The Man; Boy Gets Girl (Ovation nomination); Under The Blue Sky; Oscar & Felix; God’s Man in Texas; The Unexpected Man; The Weir; Defiled; Merton of the Movies and All in the Timing (Ovation nomination); For the Dance Company Diavolo: Catapult and Traajectorie. Additional design credits: The Ahkmatova Project; Henry IV Part I; The Three Sisters; Telling Time; Othello; Trojan Women; Misalliance; The Night of the Iguana; Antigone; Amelia Lives; and Jenufa.

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David Kay Mickelsen (Costume Design)

Mr. Mickelsen returns to the Geffen Playhouse having designed last season’s production of Paint Your Wagon. He has designed over 200 productions at many regional theaters

across the country. Companies include: The Guthrie Theatre, The Fords Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre Company ; The Oregon, Colorado, Illinois and Utah Shakespeare Festivals; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Arizona, Pioneer, and Geva Theatre Companies; Tennessee, San Diego, New Mexico, Missouri, and St. Louis Repertory Theatres; Williamstown and Sundance Theatre Festivals; and The Childrens Theatre Company of Minneapolis.

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EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:

ALL MY SONS

Written by Arthur Miller; Directed by Randall Arney

Show runs from April 11, 2006 through May 21, 2006 as follows:

Previews April 11, 2006 through April 18, 2006

Opening Night is April 19, 2006; show continues through May 21, 2006.

Media sponsors: KCRW and KMOZART

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles (Westwood), CA 90024

across from the UCLA Campus

CAST

JOE KELLER………………	LEN CARIOU
KATE KELLER……………	LAURIE METCALF
CHRIS KELLER…………..	NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
ANN DEEVER……………	AMY SLOAN
GEORGE DEEVER……..	CHRIS PAYNE GILBERT
DR. JIM BAYLISS………	MORGAN RUSLER
SUE BAYLISS…………….	ROBIN RIKER
FRANK LUBEY………….	LIAM CHRISTOPHER O’BRIEN
LYDIA LUBEY……………	MEGAN AUSTIN OBERLE
BERT………….……………..	STERLING BEAUMON

KEY PRODUCTION PERSONNEL

LIGHTING DESIGNER……………….	DANIEL IONAZZI
COSTUME DESIGNER………………	David Mickelsen
SCENIC DESIGNER……………………	Robert Blackman
SOUND DESIGNER…………………..	Richard Woodbury
STAGE MANAGER……………………	Michelle Magaldi
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER..	Stacey Wilson
CASTING DIRECTOR…………………	PHYLLIS SCHURINGA

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ABOUT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

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