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2 PIANOS
4 HANDS
About the Cast & Creative Team
DARREN DUNSTAN (Ted) is making his TheatreWorks debut.
His theatre credits include Glorious! (Cosme McMoon) at
Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Sweeney Todd (Sweeney) at Second
Company; Pokemon Live! (Giovanni) at Radio City Music Hall;
and most recently, Civil War Voices (Joshua Chamberlain) at the
University Club of New York. He has performed as a baritone
soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and Toronto Symphony
Orchestra. He can be heard in numerous animated series,
including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Splinter) and Yu-Gi-Oh!
(Pegasus). Mr. Dunstan would like to thank his childhood piano
teachers, Mary Gardiner and Pat Dunstan, aka Mom.
CHRISTOPHER TOCCO (Richard) is making his TheatreWorks
debut. He has previously appeared in 2 Pianos 4 Hands both
at City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh and Rubicon Theatre
Company. Regionally, he has played opposite Mark Linn-Baker
in Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch at George Street Playhouse
and the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Other regional credits
include performances with the American Conservatory Theater,
the Dorset Theatre Festival, and Santa Rosa Summer Repertory
Theatre. His numerous off-off-Broadway credits include a recent
appearance in Preston Sturges’ Strictly Dishonorable at The Flea
Theater, and developing ensemble work with Mabou Mines,
Odyssey Works, and Dzieci Theatre. Mr. Tocco earned his MFA
from the American Conservatory Theater and has maintained a
complicated relationship with the piano since the age of six.
TED DYKSTRA (Writer) has performed 2 Pianos 4 Hands over
750 times in Canada, New York, the West End, and Tokyo,
among others. He has also directed it across the US, in Australia,
and Hong Kong. He has received numerous Dora Mavor Moore
Award nominations as an actor, director, writer, producer and
composer, and has won five. He has played leading roles on
every major stage in Canada, including title roles in Hedwig and
the Angry Inch, Hamlet, and Amadeus; Cousin Kevin in The
Who’s Tommy; Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ariel in
The Tempest; and Ralph in The Motherf**ker with the Hat. Mr.
Dykstra is a founding member of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre,
where he has directed many shows, including The Norman
Conquests, The Sunshine Boys, Leaving Home, Under Milkwood,
and Fool for Love.
RICHARD GREENBLATT (Writer) trained at London’s Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art, and has acted and directed across
Canada and abroad, as well as for radio, television and feature
films. He has directed over 100 productions for the stage, from
original Canadian plays to classical texts, including works by
Shakespeare, Chekhov, Brecht, and Shepard. He co-wrote the
award-winning plays i.d., 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Letters from Lehrer,
Care, and Sibs. He has performed 2P4H 950 times, including
four runs in Toronto, two extensive Canadian tours, The Promenade Theatre in New York, London’s West End, The Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan. He has won five
Dora Mavor Moore Awards, two Chalmers Playwriting Awards,
and received numerous other nominations. He lives in Toronto
with his partner Tanya Greve and their daughter, Amelia.
TOM FREY (Director) is making his TheatreWorks debut. This is
the fourteenth time he has directed 2 Pianos 4 Hands. He began
his association with this show over 15 years ago, performing it
nearly 800 times all over the United States and Canada in such
venues as Hartford Stage, Houston’s Stages Repertory Theatre,
Portland Stage Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Merrimac
Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Ordway Center for the
Performing Arts, The Laguna Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center,
and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, among others.
Other credits include Daniel Beaty’s Breath & Imagination
(Hartford Stage and Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company); The
Voysey Inheritance, Arms and the Man, and The 39 Steps
(Peterborough Players); Dirty Blonde (Cleveland Play House and
Pittsburgh Public Theater); Souvenir (Seven Angels Theatre); and
Woman In Black and Free Man Of Color (Penguin Rep Theatre).
Mr. Frey recently played Wilson Mizner in the American regional
theatre premiere of Sondheim’s Road Show at Stages Repertory
Theatre. He graduated from the University of North Carolina
School of the Arts’ Professional Actor Training Program, and lives
in Astoria, NY.
BRENDAN AANES (Sound Designer) most recently designed Peter and the Starcatcher, Sweeney
Todd, and Marry Me a Little at TheatreWorks. Other recent designs include The Hundred Flowers
Project (Crowded Fire, winner of the Will Glickman Award for best new play); Bloody Bloody
Andrew Jackson, Honey Brown Eyes, The Aliens, and Tigers Be Still (San Francisco Playhouse);
Polaroid Stories and Seven Guitars (American Conservatory Theater); The Tempest (Marin
Shakespeare Company); Caliban Dreams (Berkeley Opera); A Bright Room Called Day (Custom
Made Theatre Company, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Best Sound Design Nominee); and assistant
design for Stuck Elevator (American Conservatory Theater). He also has engineered sound locally
and nationally for The Paul Dresher Ensemble, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, SF Contemporary
Music Players, ECO Ensemble, and Chitresh Das. Mr. Aanes received his MFA in Music from Mills
College.
DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be back at TheatreWorks, having
previously worked on the 2014 New Works Festival production of The Disappearing Man. Her
regional theatre credits include The Great Tragedies: Mike Daisey Takes on Shakespeare and
Lady Windermere’s Fan (California Shakespeare Theater); Game On, Next Fall, Next to Normal,
A Christmas Carol 2011 and 2012, and Spring Awakening (San Jose Repertory Theatre); the World
Premiere of Bonnie and Clyde and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse); and
the Shakespeare Festival 2011, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 2010, Brighton Beach Memoirs,
Broadway Bound, and The Mystery of Irma Vep (The Old Globe). Ms. Holland holds an MFA in
stage management from the University of California, San Diego.
STEVE LUCAS (Scenic and Lighting Designer) has designed award-winning sets and lighting for
more than 300 productions of theatre, dance, and performance art. His work has toured extensively
all across Canada, the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Australia, and Asia. He is focused
on new and original plays; he has designed the world premieres of hundreds of shows, many of
which have gone on to further acclaim—including 2 Pianos 4 Hands, which he is proud to have been
a part of for the last 18 years! He has received several awards including a MECCA award and four
Dora Mavor Awards for his set and lighting designs. He has also been nominated for several of
Canada’s most prestigious awards, including the Simonvitch Prize in Theatre, the Pauline McGibbon
Award, the K.M. Hunter Award, and twenty-nine Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.
NOAH MARIN (Costume Designer) is TheatreWorks’ Assistant Costume Designer, and designed
costumes for Warrior Class. He has assisted on many TheatreWorks productions, including
Wheelhouse, Of Mice and Men, Now Circa Then, The Pitmen Painters, The Secret Garden,
Clementine in the Lower 9, and Sense and Sensibility. He also assisted on Broadway productions of
Ragtime and Blithe Spirit. Other assistant design credits include Westport Playhouse (She Loves
Me), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Three Sisters), California Shakespeare Theater (Titus Andronicus),
Marin Theatre Company (The Seagull), and Magic Theatre (Why We Have a Body). His film credits
include Disney’s The Sorcerer's Apprentice. He earned his MFA from Brandeis in Boston and BFA
from San Francisco State, both in costume design.
LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting Director) is TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic Director and Casting
Director. Her many TheatreWorks directing credits include the regional premieres of Water by the
Spoonful, Warrior Class and Time Stands Still, and the West Coast premieres of The Pitmen Painters
and Superior Donuts. A graduate of Occidental College, she has been a Watson Fellow in political
theatre, a member of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, a member of the La MaMa International
Directing Symposium, and has served on Theatre Bay Area’s Theatre Services Committee since
2002. She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Stage Direction from the Arts Council of
Silicon Valley for artistic achievement and community impact. In addition to directing, she leads
master classes and workshops in the Bay Area, and teaches in the Musical Arts department at Notre
Dame de Namur University.
ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) is a Bay Area native and Stanford University graduate. He
founded TheatreWorks in 1970 and has directed over 165 TheatreWorks productions, including
many world and regional premieres. He has received the Silicon Valley Arts Council’s Legacy
Laureate Award; the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Paine Knickerbocker Award for lifetime
achievement; BATCC Awards for Outstanding Direction for his productions of Into the Woods,
Pacific Overtures, Rags, Sweeney Todd, Another Midsummer Night, Sunday in the Park with
George, Jane Eyre; and Caroline, or Change; and Back Stage West Garland Awards for his direction
of Side Show and Sunday in the Park with George. He recently directed Peter and the Starcatcher,
Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Once on This Island, Little
Women, Being Earnest, Big River, 33 Variations, Of Mice and Men, and The Secret Garden.
PHIL SANTORA (Managing Director) joined TheatreWorks in 2007. He has served as Managing
Director of Northlight Theatre (Chicago) and Georgia Shakespeare Festival (Atlanta), as well as
Development Director for Great Lakes Theatre Festival (Cleveland) and George Street Playhouse
(New Brunswick). He holds an MFA in Theatre Administration from the Yale School of Drama and a
BA in Drama from Duke University. He is Vice President of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre
Board. Prior board service includes the League of Chicago Theatres, Atlanta Coalition of Theatres,
and the executive committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). He was named 2000’s
Best Arts Administrator by Atlanta Magazine and received the Atlanta Arts and Business Council’s
1998 ABBY Award for Arts Administrator.