Berkshire Theatre Festival Announces Cast of “A Delicate Balance”

Posted by Gail M. Burns - June 2010

Stockbridge, MA – Artistic Director/CEO Kate Maguire is pleased to announce the final casting for Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance. The powerhouse lineup for this Pulitzer Prize winner includes Maureen Anderman, Mia Barron, Mia Dillon, Keir Dullea, Lisa Emery, and Jonathan Hogan. The production runs on the historic Berkshire Theatre Festival Main Stage from August 17 – September 4. The piece is directed by David Auburn and the design team includes R. Michael Miller (scenic), Wade Laboissonniere (costumes), Daniel J. Kotlowitz (lighting), and Scott Killian (original music and sound).

Maureen Anderman (Agnes) was last seen at BTF in Noël Coward in Two Keys. She has also appeared with the Huntington Theatre in Boston in Becky Shaw, Third, Rabbit Hole, and The Sisters Rosensweig. Her numerous Broadway credits include The Last of Mrs. Lincoln; Hamlet and Macbeth (both for Lincoln Center Theater); The Man Who Came to Dinner; A History of the American Film; and Edward Albee’s Seascape, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Lady From Dubuque for which she received a Tony Award ® nomination.

Mia Barron (Julia) has been seen on Broadway in Coast of Utopia and QED (Lincoln Center Theatre). She has also starred in many regional productions including Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Rivals, Springtime for Henry, and Heartbreak House (Huntington Theatre Co.), The School for Scandal (The Guthrie), and Macbeth (Ca. Shakespeare Fest.). She attended Tisch School of the Arts.

Mia Dillon (Edna) is a veteran stage actor whose Broadway credits include Our Town, The Miser, Hay Fever, Crimes of the Heart (Tony nomination, Clarence Derwent and Drama Logue Awards), Agnes of God, The Corn is Green, Once a Catholic (Drama Desk nomination), and Da. Her Off-Broadway credits include Mary Rose, The Exonerated, New England and The Three Sisters at Manhattan Theatre Club, and Come Back, Little Sheba for Roundabout Theatre Company. Her BTF credits include Ghosts, Noël Coward in Two Keys, Paris Bound and Palace of Amateurs (all four for BTF),

Keir Dullea (Harry) most recently starred Off-Broadway in the highly acclaimed revival of I Never Sang For My Father. His Broadway credits include Butterflies Are Free, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, P.S. Your Cat is Dead, and Doubles. His film credits include 2001, A Space Odyssey, David & Lisa (Golden Globe), The Thin Red Line, and The Good Shepherd. Mr. Dullea is very pleased to be back at BTF where he last appeared in Still Born Lover with Richard Chamberlin.

Lisa Emery (Claire) has been seen in The Matchmaker, Dinner with Friends, What the Butler Saw, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Talley & Son, Burn This, Rumors and Present Laughter. She was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her performances in Marvin’s Room and Abigail’s Party. She also had a recurring role on the television series Ed and has made guest appearances on many shows.

Jonathan Hogan (Tobias) is a Broadway veteran and has been in The Homecoming (Roundabout Theatre), Taking Steps (Circle in the Square), Burn This (Plymouth Theatre), As Is (Lyceum Theatre) for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor as well as a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.

David Auburn’s directing credits include last year’s production of Sick at BTF, as well as work at The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. Plays include Proof (MTC/Broadway, Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), An Upset (EST Marathon 2008), and The Journals of Mihail Sebastian (Keen Company). Films include The Girl in the Park (2007, writer/director) and The Lake House (2005).

A Delicate Balance- by Edward Albee
Directed by David Auburn
Previews: August 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Opening Night/Press Night: August 21
Closes: September 4

Agnes and Tobias, a 50-something couple, want nothing more than to be left alone. However, they are saddled with Agnes’s alcoholic sister. When their daughter returns home as a result of her fourth divorce and their best friends seek asylum from some unnamed “fear”, tensions fray and every relationship in the house threatens to fall apart. An examination of the intricate web we all create among our friends and family and how easily it can all fall apart, A Delicate Balance sings with Albee’s trademark lyricism and insight. This Pulitzer Prize-winning piece is poignant, incisive, and funny.

Tickets

Season passes to either the Main Stage or the Unicorn are still available. Contact the BTF Box Office at 413-298-5576 or visit www.berkshiretheatre.org for more information. Single tickets for all Main Stage and Unicorn productions are on sale as well. Contact the Box Office for more details. All plays, schedules, casting, and prices are subject to change.

About Berkshire Theatre Festival

Founded in 1928, Berkshire Theatre Festival is one of the oldest professional regional theatres in the United States and the longest-running cultural organization in the Berkshires. Now under the helm of Artistic Director and CEO Kate Maguire, BTF presents theatre that matters—world premieres, contemporary works, and classics that speak to who we are in our world today. The Main Stage (408 seats), cataloged by the National Register of Historic Places, was originally designed and built by Stanford White as the Stockbridge Casino in 1888. The mission of BTF’s second stage, the intimate Unicorn Theatre (122 seats), is to provide a home for emerging artists and new theatrical ideas. BTF’s education program, BTF PLAYS!, reaches over 10,000 children annually through school residencies, touring performances, and summer performance training and writing programs. During the summer months BTF opens its doors to over 75 administrative, acting, and technical interns and apprentices. For more information about Berkshire Theatre Festival, please visit www.berkshiretheatre.org.

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