Artists

CAST BIOS

Anthony Heald
Shag
In six seasons at OSF: Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII; Patrick in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler; Stage Manager in Our Town; Simyonov-Pischik in The Cherry Orchard; Tartuffe in Tartuffe; Iago in Othello; John Rosmer in Rosmersholm; Lucio in Measure for Measure; The Man in The Turn of the Screw; Otto Berg in The Magic Fire. Broadway: E.K. Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind; Perry in Love! Valour! Compassion!; Benedict Hough in A Small Family Business; Lord Evelyn in Anything Goes!; Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro; Wayne in The Wake of Jamey Foster. Off-Broadway: Later Life; John in Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Henry Higgins in Pygmalion; Elliot in Elliot Loves; Charlie in The Foreigner; Derek in Quartermaine’s Terms; Fluellen in Henry V; Gunner in Misalliance. Film/TV: Boston Public, Boston Legal, The Closer, Crossing Jordan, Navy NCIS, Numb3rs, The Practice, The X-Files, Frasier, Jumper, Accepted, X-Men III, Red Dragon, Proof of Life, 8MM, The Silence of the Lambs, A Time to Kill, The Client, The Pelican Brief, Kiss of Death, Postcards from the Edge. Awards: Tony Award nominations for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Anything Goes; OBIE Awards for The Foreigner, Quartermaine’s Terms and Henry V; Theater World Award for Misalliance; Audie Award for Elmer Gantry.

Richard Elmore
Richard, Ensemble
Richard Elmore has been a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland for 25 years. Among the more than 75 roles he has played there are: George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Joe Keller in All My Sons, Orgon in Tartuffe, Schell in The Visit, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and Vanya in Uncle Vanya. Richard has also appeared in regional theatres throughout the country including The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Denver Center, San Jose Rep, Alabama, Utah, and California Shakespeare Festivals, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Court Theatre, GEVA, Delaware Theatre Company and many others. He has appeared in over 100 commercials, films and television productions. Richard makes his home in Ashland, Oregon, with his children—twins Ethan and Emily and son Corin.

Jonathan Haugen
Nate, Ensemble
In eleven seasons at OSF: Nate in Equivocation; Steven in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler; Capulet in Romeo and Juliet; Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Faustus in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; Talbot in Henry VI, Part 1; Oedipus in Oedipus Complex (dir. Frank Galati); Løvborg in Hedda Gabler; Geordi in Handler; Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well; Christy in The Playboy of the Western World; Simon Stimson in Our Town (dir. Jim Edmondson), among others. Other theatres: Riff-Raff in The Rocky Horror Show; Laertes in Hamlet (dir. Hugh Dignon, Rock the Ground Theatre, Mendocino, CA); Pelleas in Pelleas and Melisande (dir. Hillary Spector, L’Academie Français, NYC); Antony and Cleopatra, The Oresteia (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Edward II (dir. Mark Lamos, American Conservatory Theater); Shannon in The Night of the Iguana (Center Repertory Theatre); Trust (Eureka Theatre); Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (dir. Moises Kaufman, Theatre on the Square); The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (San Jose Repertory Theatre); Malvolio, Berowine, Iachimo, Bassanio, Jacques, Puck, among others (California Shakespeare Theater).

John Tufts
Sharpe, Ensemble
In six seasons at OSF: Parolles and Ensemble in All’s Well That Ends Well, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Yasha in The Cherry Orchard, Peter Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank, Mikey Griffin in UP, Prince Henry, Melun and Ensemble in King John, Pageboy in The Philanderer, Flutter in The Belle’s Stratagem, Hallboy and Chauffeur in The Royal Family, King of France and Ensemble in King Lear, Chorus in Oedipus Complex. Regional: Tom in The Glass Menagerie (Playmakers Repertory Theater), Oliver in Pentecost (Chosky Theatre), Malcolm in Macbeth (Old Public Theatre), Cleomenes in The Winter’s Tale (Georgia Shakespeare Festival), Man in Sarah Ruhl’s Virtual Meditation (Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville). New York: Man in Sarah Ruhl’s Virtual Meditation (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Awards: Arthur Kennedy Award for Acting, 2003. Education: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University.

Gregory Linington
Armin, Ensemble
Gregory Linington just completed his 10th season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Favorite roles at OSF include: Armin in Equivocation, Donald in Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter (world premiere), Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard (world premiere translation), Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Doricourt in The Belle's Stratagem, Edgar in King Lear, Wilhelm Fliess in Oedipus Complex (world premiere) & Jack Rover in Wild Oats. Other theatres: Regional: Tom Hamilton in East of Eden (Western Stage), Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac (PCPA Theaterfest). International: Jaques in As You Like It, Louis in Angels in America (Misery Loves Company, Prague). TV/film: The West Wing (NBC), Joan of Arc (CBS), Dune (Sci-Fi Channel), Harrison's Flowers, Indigo.

Christine Albright
Judith
New York Credits Include: Marge in Walking Down Broadway (Mint Theatre); Ros in Arrangements (The Cherry Lane Theatre); Thomasina in Arcadia (Manhattan Theatre Source); Celia in As You Like It (New York Classical Theatre). For the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Judith (Equivocation); Juliet (Romeo and Juliet); Maria (Up); Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); and Anya (The Cherry Orchard). Other Regional Credits Include: Expectations (world premiere) starring Eartha Kitt, (Stamford Center for the Arts); Hortense in Burning Deck (La Jolla Playhouse); Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton (Virginia Stage Company); Dawn in Tina Landau’s Beauty Project; Harper in Angels in America; Nina in The Seafull (UCSD). MFA: University of California-San Diego.

Michael Patten
Understudy: Armin/Ensemble
At Seattle Rep: Freddie in Noises Off, Menelaus, a Cyclops, Odysseus’ crew, Suitor in Mary Zimmerman’s The Odyssey, Pygmalion. Seattle area theatres: Intiman, ACT, Seattle Shakespeare Festival, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Tacoma Actors Guild, Theater Schmeater, AHA! Theatre, Printer’s Devil. Regional: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Camden Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre. Film/TV: Prefontaine, Georgia, The Commish, As The World Turns, Ryan’s Hope, Highlander, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Countdown, Highway, Inheritance. Michael is the Executive Director and a founding company member of Seattle’s newest professional theatre company, New Century Theatre Company. Education: MFA, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. BFA, Boston University.