Ticketing
December 31, 2009

The Einstein Project

The Einstein Project is a fascinating look at one of the titans of the 20th century: Albert Einstein. This truly unique theatrical experience seeks to humanize and contextualize a man that we all think we know. Through conversations with his son Edward and his colleagues, we are able to truly visualize the man who, however reluctantly, ushered in the Atomic Age.
In loving memory of Jack Silverman

"A fascinating exploration of an iconic figure and his times."
-Larry Murray, berkshirefinearts.com

"Eric Hill's blazing theatrical vision." -Jeffrey Borak, Berkshire Eagle

"Perfection" -J. Peter Bergman, berkshirebrightfocus.com

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A Christmas Carol

by Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein
Directed by Eric Hill
Actor
James Barry as Werner Heisenberg

James is honored to return to Berkshire Theatre Festival this season, and thrilled to have the opportunity to revisit the first play he ever performed in at BTF. Past BTF credits include: The Caretaker, Amadeus, The Misanthrope, The Who’s Tommy, Peter Pan, This Is Our Youth, A Dream Play, Brownstone and The Einstein Project (2000). Off Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public), Sive (Irish Repertory Theater). Regional credits include: The Full Monty (Drury Lane @ Watertower Place, Chicago), Two by Friel after Chekhov (Irish Rep, Chicago), The Bomb-itty of Errors (Syracuse Stage) as well as work with Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Project: Theatre, The 78th Street Theatre Lab, The Perishable Theatre and The Secret Theatre. James sends love and thanks to his families in CT, MA, NY and most especially to Tara.

Actor
Brandy Caldwell as Clara Immerwahr and Japanese Woman

Brandy is overjoyed to be returning to the BTF stage after performing the role of The Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol. Regional credits include leading roles in Spinning into Butter, The Cherry Orchard, Arms and The Man, The Crucible, Trumpet In The Land, and Servant of Two Masters. Supporting credits include Into the Woods, The Chairs, The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Tempest. Intl. Tour: Sioux Center Sudan (Japan). Brandy holds an MFA from Regent University and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity. She is thankful for the inspirational Berkshire Theatre Festival producing theatre that matters. www.brandycaldwell.net

Actor
David Chandler as Fritz Haber

David Chandler is delighted to return to BTF where he appeared last summer as Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons. Broadway: Lost in Yonkers, Death of a Salesman, American Clock. Off-Broadway: Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse), Private Jokes, Public Places (LaMama), The Swan (New York Shakespeare Festival), Slavs! (New York Theatre Workshop), Black Sea Follies and Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizon), The Grey Zone (MCC), Cellini (Second Stage), etc. Regionally: Guthrie, Long Wharf, McCarter, Yale Rep, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep, Wilma, among others. A Question of Mercy (Bush Theatre - London) Film/Television include: The Grey Zone, Hide and Seek, Death of a Salesman, The Undeserved, Seinfeld, Third Rock, Law and Order.

Actor
Kyle Fabel as Max Von Laue

BTF: Keely and Du, Four Dogs and a Bone, The Illusion. Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention. New York: The Triangle Factory Project, Long Island Sound, The Late Christopher Bean (director), Anouilh’s Eurydice (director), The Good Soup (director), He and She (director), The Actors Company Theatre; English Made Simple, Primary Stages; A Small Family Business (director), The Suicide (director), Enrico IV (director), The Ruffian on the Stair (director), NYU Graduate Acting Program. Regional: The Farnsworth Invention, Private Fittings, La Jolla Playhouse; Tranced (director), The Four of Us (director), Trying (director), A View of the Harbor, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Homecoming, Boy Gets Girl, Three Days of Rain, Merrimack Repertory Theatre; Closer, The Dead Eye Boy, Cincinnati Playhouse; The Taming of the Shrew, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Cymbeline, Loot, Hartford Stage Company; Hydriotaphia, Alley Theatre; Huntington, McCarter, O’Neill Center, Pioneer. Other: Rich Hall’s Best Western, Edinburgh. Education: NYU MFA and Alumni Director’s Lab.

Actor
Jesse Hinson as Eighth Man

Jesse is thrilled to be making his Berkshire Theatre Festival debut after completing his first year as an MFA Acting student at Brandeis University. Previously, he earned his BA in Theatre at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. While in Atlanta, he worked with numerous professional companies including Georgia Shakespeare (Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night), Theatre Gael (A Child’s Christmas in Wales) and Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre’s touring production of Give Peas a Chance. Recent Brandeis Theatre Company credits include Lawrence Selden in Tea and Flowers, Purity and Grace, Govinda in Siddhartha, and Polydorus in Hecuba.

Actor
Walter Hudson as Otto Hahn

Walter Hudson is delighted to return to BTF where he has appeared in A Man For All Seasons, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Amadeus, Peter Pan, H.M.S Pinafore, My Fair Lady, and Zorba. He has premiered plays by David Edgar, Ken Ludwig, Jeffrey Hatcher, Carter W. Lewis, Stewart Conn, and Freyda Thomas. He has debuted musical pieces by Marsha Norman, Tina Landau, Ricky Ian Gordon, Galt McDermott, William Bolcom, Freyer and Cook, and Dick Gallagher. He has appeared On and Off Broadway for the New York Shakespeare Festival, at over 50 regional theatres and has been an acting participant in the Eugene O’Neill and Sundance Theatre Conferences. Walter has been burying people recently on One Life To Live, which he does periodically

Actor
Tommy Schrider as Albert Einstein

Tommy is thrilled to be back at BTF where he has appeared in The Caretaker, A Man For All Seasons, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Einstein Project (2000). Off- Broadway: Close Ties (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Acts of Mercy, St. Crispin’s Day (Rattlestick Theatre); She Stoops To Conquer, Pigtown (Irish Rep); RACE (Classic Stage); Greek Holiday (Abingdon Theatre); Indoor/Outdoor (Kirk Theatre/SPF); Bread & Roses (NYTW); Miss Julie (Culture Project/NY Fringe); Uncivil Wars (37 Arts/ Pick Up Performance Co.); As I Lay Dying (Ohio Theatre/Essentials). Regional credits include South Coast Repertory, Huntington Theatre, Westport Playhouse, Williamstown, Syracuse Stage (Hamlet in Hamlet), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theaterworks Hartford, Virginia Stage, Portland Stage, Pioneer Theatre. Film: The…Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO). TV: Medium, Numb3rs, WHOOPI!, As The World Turns. MFA: NYU.

Actor
Miranda Hope Shea as Edward Einstein

Miranda is delighted to perform in her third production with BTF. Her previous performances as Fan in A Christmas Carol and Bet in Oliver! were both well-received. Other stage roles include Papagena in The Magic Flute, Demeter in Persephone and Demeter and Princess Ying Yawolak in The King and I. She has trained as an actor for five years with Shakespeare and Company’s Riotous Youth program as well as one year with Barrington Stage’s Kids Act. Miranda has also been a student of modern dance in the style of Isadora Duncan as well as being coached in gymnastics by Susan Kapchinski. In addition to being a voracious reader, in her spare time she also enjoys composing music, creative writing and drawing. Miranda attends the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, and hopes to pursue a career on stage and film. Miranda would like to express her heart-felt thanks to everyone at BTF for this wonderful opportunity and deep appreciation to her family for the encouragement and support she receives.

Actor
C.J. Wilson as Walter Gerlach

BTF credits: The Book Club Play. Broadway: Festen, Henry IV, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and The Best Man. Off-Broadway: OFFICES, The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic Theatre), Race (Classic Stage Company), Home of the Brave (Jewish Rep), Stop Kiss, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Public); Apple Cove (The Lark). Regional: Home, Diva (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Cherry Orchard (Chautauqua Theater); The Glass Menagerie, Amadeus (Fulton Opera House); Big Love (ACT); The Weir (Old Globe); Portia Coughlan, Cymbeline (McCarter); As You Like It, Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare Theatre); Henry V and Arms and the Man (Acting Company). Television: Brotherhood, New Amsterdam, Without a Trace, Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI, Ed, Deadline, All My Children, One Life to Live, and As the World Turns. Honors: Fox Fellow