Cast and Creative Team Announced for South Coast Rep's NOISES OFF

South Coast Repertory today announced the cast and creative team for Michael Frayn's ingenious comedic masterpiece, Noises Off. Directed by Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winner Art Manke, Noises Off will run from Feb. 6 through March 8 on the Segerstrom Stage. Low-priced previews are available from Feb. 6 through Feb. 12. Opening night is Feb. 13. Press night is Saturday, Feb. 14 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to Noises Off may be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.

Noises Off follows the on-and off-stage antics of an inept acting troupe as they stumble from bumbling dress rehearsal to disastrous closing night. Everything that can go wrong does, as actors desperately try to hang on to their lines, their performances and the furniture. Add a slippery plate of sardines and many slamming doors, and you have the most hilarious backstage farce ever written.

Art Manke received his fifth Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for directing SCR's West Coast premiere of Bach at Leipzig in 2006. Other work with SCR includes last season's Taking Steps, the world premiere musical version of The Wind in the Willows and choreography for numerous productions. Elsewhere in Southern California, Manke has directed The Constant Wife, Private Lives and the American premiere of Noel Coward's Star Quality for Pasadena Playhouse and the world premiere of The Ice-Breaker at Laguna Playhouse. Manke was a co-founder and artistic director (1991-2001) of A Noise Within where he directed the works of Shakespeare, Molière, Wilde, Coward and Sophocles. Other credits include work with Denver Center Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, American Players Theatre, among others.

The cast features Nancy Bell (BeLinda Blair), Bill Brochtrup (Garry Lejeune), Kandis Chappell (Dotty Otley), Winslow Corbett (Poppy Norton-Taylor), Kaleo Griffith (Lloyd Dallas), Brian Hostenske (Tim Allgood), Timothy Landfield (Frederick Fellows), Jenn Lyon (Brooke Ashton) and Nick Ullett (Selsdon Mowbray).

The creative team for Noises Off includes John Iacvelli (Set Design), Angela Balogh Calin (Costume Design), York Kennedy (Lighting Design), Vincent Olivieri (Sound Design), Ken Merckx (Movement Consultant), David Newell (Dialect Coach), Linda Sullivan Baity (Dramaturg) and Jamie Tucker (Stage Manager).

Dee and Larry Higby are the Honorary Producers of Noises Off. OC Metro is the Media Partner.

Associated events taking place during the run of Noises Off include:

POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS Wednesday, Feb. 18 & Tuesday, Feb. 24

Discuss the play with members of the Noises Off cast during free post-show discussions led by South Coast Repertory's literary team after the 7:30 p.m. performances on Feb. 18 and Feb. 24.

INSIDE THE SEASON: Noises Off Saturday, Feb. 21, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. $12

Inside the Season is a series of interactive classes that provide a comprehensive inside look at the theatrical production process. Each two-hour class is led by School and Community Programs Director Linda Sullivan Baity and features creative personnel from South Coast Repertory's current production. Tickets are $12 each and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at (714) 708-5555. (Tickets to Noises Off are sold separately.)

TICKETS to Noises Off can be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or by visiting the box office at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa. Performances begin on Feb. 6 and continue through March 8. Ticket prices range from $20 to $64. Low-priced preview performances are available from Feb. 6 to Feb. 12. Performance times: Previews: Friday, Feb. 6 and Saturday, Feb. 7 at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 8, Tuesday, Feb. 10 and Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m.; and Thursday, Feb. 12 at 8:00pm. Regular Performances: Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.; and Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m. Discounts are available for full-time students, patrons 25 years of age and under, educators, seniors and groups of 15 or more. There will be a "Pay-What-You-Will" performance on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 2:30 p.m. ($10 Minimum) and an ASL-interpreted performance on Saturday, March 7 at 2:30 p.m.

LOCATION: South Coast Repertory is located at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa, at the Bristol Street/Avenue of the Arts exit off the San Diego (405) Freeway in the Folino Theater Center, part of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Parking is available off Anton Blvd. on Park Center Drive.

COMING UP: A Year with Frog and Toad (2/13 - 3/1), Goldfish (3/15 - 4/5), Our Mother's Brief Affair (4/3 - 5/3), Emilie - The Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life at the Petit Théâtre at Cirey Tonight (4/19 - 5/10), Collected Stories (5/15 - 6/14), The Brand New Kid (5/29 - 6/14).

Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, under the artistic direction of David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theaters in the United States. Founded in 1964, SCR is committed to theater that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theater, SCR is renowned for its extensive new play development program, including the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Of SCR's more than 400 productions, 108 have been world premieres with subsequent stagings achieving enormous success across America and around the world. SCR-developed works have garnered eight Pulitzer Prize nominations with Margaret Edson's Wit winning the prize in 1999 and David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole in 2007. Located in Costa Mesa, California, in 2002 SCR opened the Folino Theater Center, an expanded three-theater complex that includes the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio.

BIOGRAPHIES

Nancy Bell (BeLinda Blair) appeared in last season's What They Have. Additional SCR credits include All My Sons, The Circle and The Philanderer, for which she received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nomination. Other theater credits include world premieres at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Hartford Stage, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, Pasadena Playhouse, The Old Globe and McCarter Theatre, among many others. In Los Angeles, she is a member of the Echo Theater Company, where she has performed many times, including in the award-winning War Music. Most recent television credits include The Sitter for Lifetime Television and guest appearances on "Huff," "Medium" and "Numb3rs." She is a lecturer in Voice and Speech at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

Bill Brochtrup (Garry Lejeune) returns to SCR after playing Henry in The Real Thing and Mark in last season's Taking Steps. He appeared Off-Broadway in David Marshall Grant's Snakebit, and in Los Angeles has worked with The Antaeus Company (Tonight at 8:30, Pera Palas), Black Dahlia Theatre (Jonathan Tolins' Secrets of the Trade, Richard Kramer's Theater District), Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (Small Tragedy), L.A. Theatre Works (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial), Pasadena Playhouse (If Memory Serves), Coast Playhouse (Snakebit), WordTheatre and the Un-Cabaret Lab. He can be seen in the feature films Duck, Ravenous, Man of the Year, Space Marines and the upcoming He's Just Not That Into You; the television movies Betrayed and Two Small Voices; and on television shows as varied as "Without a Trace," "The Wild Thornberrys" and Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown" (where he suffered a humiliating defeat). He is a frequent guest host of the PBS newsmagazine "In The Life" and has been a series regular on three Steven Bochco shows, the CBS sitcom "Public Morals," ABC drama "Total Security" and seven seasons as John Irvin on "NYPD Blue."

Kandis Chappell (Dotty Otley) has appeared in more than 15 productions at SCR, most recently The Importance of Being Earnest, and received Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards for Collected Stories, Woman in Mind, The Crucible and Shadowlands. She is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe in San Diego, where her credits include more than 25 productions, from Shakespeare to Donald Margulies to Alan Ayckbourn. Chappell has played on Broadway in Neil Simon's Rumors, Getting Away with Murder by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, at Lincoln Center in Pride's Crossing, and in regional theatres across the country. She appeared in the feature film Another You and on television's "L.A. Law" and "Frasier."

WINSLOW CORBETT (Poppy Norton-Taylor) is making her SCR debut. Theater credits include the national tour of The Graduate; David Copperfield at the Westport Country Playhouse; John Kolvenbach's Fabuloso at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; You Can't Take It With You at Rubicon Theatre; Born Yesterday at Santa Barbara's Garvin Theatre, (2008 Independent Theatre Award); The Underpants at Playmakers Repertory (directed by Gene Saks); Doubt at Capital Repertory Theatre; The Importance of Being Earnest at Pittsburgh Public Theatre The Learned Ladies, The Mother of Us All, and five pieces for movement and sound at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Arcadia and Grand Magic at ACT; Private Lives at Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre; Ah, Wilderness! at Cincinnati Playhouse and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Pericles at Shakespeare & Company; and Arcadia at Portland Repertory Theatre. New York credits include The Skin Game at Mint Theatre; Romulus Linney's Lark at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lee Kalcheim's Kitchen Drama at New York Stage & Film and The Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Television credits include Change of Heart for Lifetime and Comedy Central's "Stand Up Nation with Greg Giraldo."

KALEO GRIFFITH (Lloyd Dallas) is making his SCR debut. Stage credits include The Constant Wife at Pasadena Playhouse, The Stillborn Lover with Richard Chamberlain and Jessica Walter at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Restoration Comedy at California Shakespeare Theater, Jack Tanner in Man and Superman at Kansas City Repertory Theatre (for which he won a People's Choice Award for Best Performance In A Play), The Head at Chelsea Playhouse (Off-Broadway), Can't Go Nowhere With Ya at John Houseman Theatre (Off-Broadway), Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at Colonial Theatre Company, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Othello and Terra Nova at Virginia Stage Company. Tesman in Hedda Gabler at The New Theatre, The Mousetrap at George St. Playhouse, the world premiere of Laughing Stock at Pioneer Theatre Company, Don't Dress For Dinner at Northern Stage Company, A Funny Thing Happened ...Forum at Bristol Riverside Theatre, and as The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, among others. Film and television credits include Hosting "Look What I Did" (current) on HGTV, Dark Room Theater, Diagnosis X, guest starring roles on "Law & Order," "Law & Order SVU" and "The Street," recurring roles on "As The World Turns," "One Life to Live" and "Another World."

Brian Hostenske (Tim Allgood) is making his SCR debut. Theater credits include The Winter's Tale and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Mother Courage at La Jolla Playhouse; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Center Theatre Group; and Labyrinth of Desire, Killer Joe, Measure for Measure and Blood Wedding at the University of California, San Diego's MFA acting program at La Jolla Playhouse.

Timothy Landfield (Frederick Fellowes) appears annually in SCR's A Christmas Carol as the Ghost of Christmas Present. He has also been seen in SCR's productions of Bach at Leipzig , Pinocchio, The Clean House, The Norman Conquests, Round and Round the Garden and Hay Fever. He recently appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Hollywood Bowl with the L.A. Philharmonic, The Miser at A Noise Within and in the Broadway revivals of Company and The Sound of Music. He appeared on Broadway in Rumors, Arsenic and Old Lace, Wild Honey, The Crucifer of Blood and Tartuffe. Off-Broadway, he was in the original production of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Actor's Nightmare, as well as the musical Charlotte Sweet. He has played major roles in regional theaters across the country including Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days at La Jolla Playhouse and The Guardsman at The Huntington Theatre with Kandis Chappell. Television and film credits include "Numbers," "Bones," "Six Feet Under," "Without a Trace," "Monk," "Frasier," "Boston Public," "CSI," "Family Law," "Law & Order" and The Cooler with William H. Macy. He is on the faculty at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.

Jennifer Lyon (Brooke Ashton) returns to SCR after appearing as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday. Lyon has since appeared on Broadway with the likes of Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Ehle and Richard Easton in Tom Stoppard's trilogy, Coast of Utopia which garnered a record-breaking 11 Tony Awards. She recently played Crystal Allen in The Women at ACT Theatre in Seattle, and can now be seen in a series of Aflac commercials.

Nick Ullett (Selsdon Mowbray) is making his SCR debut. Broadway credits include Me and My Girl, Loot and Cole Porter's Gay Divorce. Additional theatre credits include The Tempest and Endgame at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Zhivago and Loot at La Jolla Playhouse; Pygmalion, Man for All Seasons, Woman in Black and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Bristol Riverside Theatre; Tooth and Claw at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York where he is a member; Major Barbara and School for Scandal at Mark Taper Forum; Many Happy Returns at Laguna Playhouse; and Fields of Ambrosia at George Street Playhouse. Film and television credits include Hook, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, "Yes, Dear," "The Practice," "Home Improvement," "Golden Girls" and "As the World Turns."