Mr. de Lancie has enjoyed a diverse career:
His film credits include, “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle”, “The Fisher King”, “Bad Influence”, The Onion Field”, “Taking Care of Business”, “Fearless”, “Multiplicity”, “Women on Top”, “Nicholas”, “Good Advise”, “Patient 14”, “The Big Time”, “Reign on Me” and soon to be released “Pathology”, “Game”, “Crank” and “Teenius”.
Mr. de Lancie has appeared in numerous television shows including; “Hill Street Blues”, “West Wing”, “Shark”, “Without a Trace”, “Sports Night”, “Judging Amy”, “The Closer”; “Star Trek”, “Legend”, “LA Law”, “Picket Fences”, “Civil Wars”, “The Practice”, and “Touched by an Angel”.
He has been a member of The American Shakespeare Festival, The Seattle Repertory Company, The South Coast Repertory, The Mark Taper Forum, and the Old Globe where he recently performed Arthur Miller’s “Resurrection Blues”. His favorite performances include: “Man and Superman”, “The Common Pursuit”, “Childe Byron”, “Art”, and the recent world premiere of Richard Greenburg’s “The Naked Lady on the Appian Way”.
In the world of music, Mr. de Lancie has performed with a number of orchestras including: Kurt Masur, Sir Colin Davis, and the New York Philharmonic; Esa Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and The Montreal Symphony. His repertoire includes: “Peer Gynt”, “King David”, “The Bourgeois Gentleman”, “The Lincoln Portrait”, “St. Joan”, “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Oedipus Rex”, “Young People’s Guide to the Orchestra”, “The Nightingale”, “Egmont” and, of course, “Peter and the Wolf.”
Mr. de Lancie was the host of the L.A. Philharmonic “Symphonies for Youth” for four years. In addition, he’s written and directed ten Symphonic Plays: these ninety-minute programs are fully staged productions with orchestra; titles include “Romeo and Juliet”, “Midsummer Night’s Dream (Korngold score), “Bourgeois Gentleman”, “The Abduction from the Seraglio”, and a vaudeville — “Carnival of the Animals”. They were produced with the Milwaukee, St. Paul Chamber, Ravinia, L.A., and Pasadena Orchestras.
Mr. de Lancie was also the writer/director/host of “First Nights”, an adult concert series at Disney Hall with the L.A. Philharmonic that explored the life and music of Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mahler, Schumann, and Prokofiev. These were fully integrated, fully staged productions with orchestra.
Mr. de Lancie has performed or directed numerous plays for L.A. Theater Works, the producing arm of KCRW, KPCC, and National Public Radio where the series, “The Plays the Thing”, originates. He recently returned from a national tour of the “Scopes Monkey Trial” with Ed Asner where he played Clarence Darrow. Mr. de Lancie was co-owner, with Leonard Nimoy, of Alien Voices, a production company devoted to the dramatization of classic science fiction. Mr. de Lancie produced, co-wrote, and directed dramatizations of: “The Time Machine”, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, “The Lost World”, “The Invisible Man”, and “First Men in the Moon” as well as three television specials for the Sci-Fi Channel.
Mr. de Lancie has directed a number of operas. His latest was “Tosca” and “Cold Sassy Tree” with The Atlanta Opera Company.
Mr. de Lancie is a graduate of Kent State University and The Juilliard School and when all is said and done would rather be sailing.
Marnie Mosiman has worked with all four of the resident companies at The Music Center of Los Angeles, both as performer and director/producer. She has appeared as Madame Jordain in “The Bourgeois Gentleman” with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia and the NPR/LA Theatre Works original cast production of “Falsettos” as Trina. Previously, she appeared as Olga Kromow in the Los Angeles Opera production of “The Merry Widow” and as Joan of Arc in Honneger’s “Jean D’Arc Au Bucher” with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival. Her other orchestra appearances include the Witch of Endor in “King David” with Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
In the theatre she has played leading roles in eight shows at South Coast Rep, including most recently “Arcadia” and “Six Degrees of Separation”. Winner of a Los Angeles Drama Critics award and five Dramalogue awards, Ms. Mosiman has also worked with the Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, A.C.T., The Empty Space, and the Guthrie. She has performed major roles in such musicals and operas as the “National Tour of Godspell”, “Sweeney Todd”, “Cosi fan tutte”, and “A Little Night Music”. Her film credits include “What Women Want”, “Hero”, “Exit to Eden”; she has guest starred in such television shows as “Ally McBeal”, “Frasier”, and “Star Trek:TNG”. Ms. Mosiman sings with The Los Angeles Master Chorale and is the creator and artistic director of their outreach program Voices Within. For the past seven summers Marnie has written and directed the highly acclaimed Summersounds Festival at the Hollywood Bowl.
Lynn Robson, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., is a lecturer at Regent’s Park College University of Oxford, where she teaches Renaissance Literature and Shakespeare to graduates and undergraduates. She has lectured extensively on Shakespeare including topics such as “Shakespeare’s Witty Women” and “Puritan Attacks on Shakespeare’s Stage” and has run a seminar series for the past three years at the Oxford-Berkeley Summer School in Oxford: “A Nation’s Story? Shakespeare’s Histories”; “Famous Last Words: the Late Plays”; and “Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains.” Her research interests include popular print culture of the Renaissance, in particular pamphlets and murder stories and she has published articles in the Renaissance Journal and Literature and Theology.
Ms. Williams is an Independent Scholar and intermittently studies Shakespeare at St. John’s College in Santa Fe and Oxford University in England. She teaches “Discovering Shakespeare” for adults at a local college in Santa Fe and leads 12- to 16-week guided discussions of selected plays for advanced readers, called “The Understanders.” A strong advocate for reading the plays in addition to seeing them, Robin hosts two Shakespeare play readings a month. She is an Associate Member of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust in London (founded in 1922) at the invitation of Mark Rylance, and has three times been a featured speaker at the Authorship Conference at the Globe Theatre in London. She is a professional and acclaimed public speaker and instructor, a successful author of dozens of titles, and her books have been translated into twenty-three languages. Ms. Williams recently launched TheShakespearePapers.com, a project that combines her passion for Shakespeare with her passion for design.
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