Amy Finegan

Amy Finegan returns to the Kennedy Center following her work in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s As You Like It in the spring; she is also in The Tamer Tamed on the Eisenhower Stage tonight at 8pm.
An American actress, singer, composer, and voiceover artist, Amy has lived in London for fourteen years. Her stage experience includes a long collaboration with Gregory Thompson’s company AandBC, both performing and composing for The Rape of Lucrece, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Winters Tale and if I were lifted up from earth, a passion play based on William Tyndale’s 1534 New Testament. She has sung Shakespeare’s sonnets in Joann Green Breuer’s Have Thy Will at the Wang Center Boston, and soloed at the Purcell Room on London’s South Bank in A Load of Bowles. Her stage music has been performed at the Young Vic and St Bart’s Hospital in London, Bath Theatre Royal, Canterbury Castle, Prague Castle, the Edinburgh Festival, and throughout Eastern Europe for the British Council. This summer she played Dorothea Balano at the RSC’s TOP summer season in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Joann Green Breuer first came to the Kennedy Center as Peter Sellars’s Artistic Associate with the American National Theater. She was founder and Artistic Director of the Cambridge Ensemble in Massachusetts, where she adapted and directed novels, short stories, and folk tales for the stage. She also directed plays of the classic and modern repertory, from Aeschylus to Peter Handke. Joann then taught acting at Harvard University where she was advisor to the student Experimental Theatre, and directed with the American Repertory Theater. Joann has devised libretti for and staged several chamber operas, and directed deaf and hearing casts in dual language (ASL/English) productions. She is Artistic Associate with the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha’s Vineyard. Joann is the author of The Small Theatre Handbook, and the recipient of the Boston Critics’ Circle award for ‘Continuous Excellence in Directing.’

Branwell Donaghey is currently playing Second Watch and understudy for Petruchio in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Tamer Tamed being performed in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. His prior performances have included playing the roles of Fortinbras, Barnardo, and 1st Player in Hamlet (West Yorks Playhouse) and appearances in South Pacific, The Relapse, The Winter’s Tale, Remembrance of Things Past, Romeo and Juliet (Royal National Theater), Pains of Youth (RNT Studio); Laura (Sonning); Fool For Love (Redgrave, Bristol); Conquest of the South Pole (St Phillips Studio), and the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac (Lyric, Belfast). With the Royal Shakespeare Company he performed the role of Second Watch in The Tamer Tamed during the Company’s debut season and also performed in Titus Andronicus and as First Lord in As You Like It. His film appearances include Inferno, Hop-Frog, Little Brother, The Chocolate Scenario, and New World Disorder.

Allan Crossman has composed, arranged, and directed music for many theater productions, including original scores for The Comedy of Errors, Celestina, The Oresteia, and Alsino. Among shows he has music-directed are The Threepenny Opera, Happy End, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and Anne of Green Gables. He has also written for such concert soloists and ensembles as Twentieth-Century Ensemble (New York), Annex Players (Boston), guitarist Michael Laucke (Montreal), and pianist Max Lifchitz (New York). A number of his compositions appear on North/South Recordings, New York. The recording of The Log of the Skipper’s Wife can be ordered online and from major music stores. Crossman teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Lee De Cola began his career playing the piano on his father’s television program in Hollywood, later studying theater at UCLA and serving as stage manager at Reed College in Portland Oregon. He studied jazz keyboard at the School of Contemporary Music and was first clarinet for the Nigerian premier of Don Giovanni. He served as an apprentice quartermaster aboard the U.S. Coast Guard tall-ship Eagle, and is currently employed as a U.S. Geological Survey research scientist in Reston Virginia, studying the geography of health.

Amy Finegan returns to the Kennedy Center following her work in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s As You Like It in the spring; she is also in The Tamer Tamed on the Eisenhower Stage tonight at 8pm.
An American actress, singer, composer, and voiceover artist, Amy has lived in London for fourteen years. Her stage experience includes a long collaboration with Gregory Thompson’s company AandBC, both performing and composing for The Rape of Lucrece, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Winters Tale and if I were lifted up from earth, a passion play based on William Tyndale’s 1534 New Testament. She has sung Shakespeare’s sonnets in Joann Green Breuer’s Have Thy Will at the Wang Center Boston, and soloed at the Purcell Room on London’s South Bank in A Load of Bowles. Her stage music has been performed at the Young Vic and St Bart’s Hospital in London, Bath Theatre Royal, Canterbury Castle, Prague Castle, the Edinburgh Festival, and throughout Eastern Europe for the British Council. This summer she played Dorothea Balano at the RSC’s TOP summer season in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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12/30/03: The Log of the Skipper’s Wife

Amy Finegan of the Royal Shakespeare Company performs The Log of the Skipper’s Wife, a sung solo drama by Joann Green Breuer (libretto) and Allan Crossman (music).

The Log of the Skipper’s Wife

Amy Finegan of the Royal Shakespeare Company performs The Log of the Skipper’s Wife, a sung solo drama by Joann Green Breuer (libretto) and Allan Crossman (music).

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