Francis Hardy has an unusual job. He, his wife, Grace, and his loyal manager, Teddy, travel across the British Isles performing a series of almost vaudevillian faith healings. But like any professional, Hardy begins to worry about losing his talent, or whether or not he ever really had one. The strain is felt by his wife, observed by his manager, and so grips Francis that he becomes obsessed with curing the incurable, no matter the cost.
In David Adkins’s fourteen BTF seasons, he has performed in Waiting for Godot, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Misanthrope, The Father, Middle Ages, Hasty Heart, and Charley’s Aunt. This past season: To Kill a Mockingbird (Barrington stage), The Seafarer (George St. Playhouse), Trances (Merrimac), and One Life To Live. NY productions include Transfigures (The Women’s Project), Saint Joan (National Actors Theater), Boy Gets Girl (Manhattan Theater Club), Sabina, Immaculate Misconception (Primary Stages), and Agamemnon (Aquila Theatre Company). Regional productions: Three Sisters, Blythe Spirit, King Lear, Ideal Husband (CenterStage), I Am my Own Wife, Tuesday’s with Morrie (Madison Repertory Theatre), Boy Gets Girl (Goodman Theatre), Time Flies (The Old Globe), Going Native (Long Wharf Theatre), Colossus of Rhodes, The Misanthrope (ACT, San Francisco), Walk in the Woods (George Street Playhouse), Romeo & Juliet, Marisol (Denver Center Theatre Company), and The Misanthrope (Philadelphia Drama Guild). Television: Without a Trace, Chicago Hope, Trinity, Law & Order, L&O Special Victims Unit, the pilot: Blaq Jaq (Forest Whitaker), a docudrama for PBS: Ben Franklin, One Life to Live, Another World, All My Children. David trained at BTF and The Juilliard School.
Broadway: A Touch of the Poet, Molly Sweeney. Off-Broadway: Gloucester in Alvin Epstein’s King Lear, directed by Patrick Swanson (the Actors Shakespeare Project); Corrigan in The Colleen Bawn (Drama Desk Nominee); Philadelphia Here I Come!, Seconds Out, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, (the Irish Rep); Trust (the Play Company); John Lennon in Liverpool Fantasy, Danger Doyle in Poor Beast in the Rain. Regional Theatre credits include: Molly Sweeney at The Mark Taper Forum (Drama-Logue award, Best Actor); Pato in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Connecticut Critics’ Circle nominee), Hot’n’Throbbin at Arena Stage, DC; Long Day’s Journey into Night at Capital Rep; Dancing at Lughnasa, The Asolo; Hedda Gabler, Portland Stage; Rice Boy, Yale Rep; Peer Gynt, The Guthrie; Babbybobby in The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Wilma, Philadelphia; Aeneas in Dido, Queen of Carthage, American Reperatory Theatre; and Ross in The Elephant Man at Northern Stage. Over the years Mr. Lane has had the good fortune to appear, from time to time, on the stage of the historic Ivoryton Playhouse, most recently as Starbuck in The Rainmaker, directed by Julia Kiley. Movies: Broken Harvest, The Blood Oranges, and more. For Stephie.
BTF: The Book Club Play last season. The Goatwoman of Corvis County at Shakespeare & Co. Broadway: The Rivals (Lincoln Ctr. Theatre), Dance Of Death, Three Sisters. Off-Broadway includes: Hunting And Gathering (Primary Stages), Lucy (Ensemble Studio Theater), Indoor/Outdoor (DR2/SPF), All My Sons (Roundabout), Fizz, Evolution, The American Clock, Roses In December, Uncle Jack, Hotel Universe. Regional credits include Uncle Vanya and Wonder Of The World at Barrington Stage Company; the Sondheim Festival at the Kennedy Center; Proof at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes nomination); Cleveland Playhouse; Williamstown Theater Festival. Film: Cradle Will Rock, Blair Witch 2, Dumped!, Why Don’t You Dance? and Matt In Love. TV: 3 lbs, Law & Order SVU, Sex and the City, Guiding Light. Singer/songwriter with the rock band The Petersons (myspace.com/essexonhaugatuck & www.Petersonic.com). MFA from NYU.
