Kevin Loreque (Charlotte von Mahlsdorf):
Originally from Los Angeles, Kevin Loreque studied acting at the prestigious Beverly Hills Playhouse. He received an Ovation Award nomination for his portrayal of Pirelli in Sweeney Todd at East West Players and has a Drama-Logue Award for his work in ICT's Lies and Legends.
Mr. Loreque's Broadway National debut was as the Rum Tum Tugger in the final company of the musical Cats, and toured in the U.S. Premiere of Hot Shoe Shuffle as Slap Tap. He also created the role of George M. Cohan in the World Premiere production of Yankee Doodle Dandy. Other notable theatrical credits include Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, the Los Angeles Premiere of Sondheim's Assassins as Guiseppe Zangara, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and King of Hearts at the Goodspeed Opera House, Tommy Walker in The Who's Tommy, title roles in Pippin, George M! and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Malcolm McGregor in The Full Monty.
I Am My Own Wife marks Kevin's second collaboration with Northern Stage. His first being their critically acclaimed production of Cabaret as The Emcee, he later returned as Associate Director on Cats, also reprising the role of the Rum Tum Tugger.
As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, Kevin can be seen in the feature films Virtuosity with Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington, as well as The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams. Television credits include All My Children, Hope & Gloria, California Dreams, and Saved By the Bell.
Recordings: Sondheim, A Celebration on Varese Sarabande and East West Overtures Sings Sondheim.
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Kevin Loreque is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. He now resides in New York City.
BROOKE CIARDELLI (Co-Director) founded Northern Stage in 1997, and since then, the company has presented over 65 productions, 28 directed by Ciardelli, including seven musicals, four World Premieres, one American Premiere, and the post-New York New England Premieres of Wit and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. She also directed two acclaimed staged readings: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Patrick Stewart and Lisa Harrow, and Resurrection Blues, which featured an appearance by playwright Arthur Miller. The company has twice won the Moss Hart Award from the New England Theatre Conference, for To Kill A Mockingbird (1999) and All My Sons (2004), and picked up an Addison Award for their World Premiere production, The Shrew Tamer. Through groundbreaking Northern Stage productions such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (set in 1929 Harlem) and the World Premieres of Ovid: Tales of Myth & Magic and The Shrew Tamer, Ciardelli has raised the bar for regional theaters by rediscovering classic works in a way that electrifies modern audiences.
CATHERINE DOHERTY (Co-Director) has directed Moon Over Buffalo, Lend Me A Tenor, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!, Of Mice and Men, Private Lives and the staged reading of An Empty Plate at the Café Du Grande Boeuf. She previously directed Stones In His Pockets and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! at St. Michael's Playhouse. Before coming to Northern Stage, Catherine’s credits include co-producing several Off-Broadway productions with Padua Playwrights and random.acts theatre co (of which she is a member). She was the assistant director and production stage manager of the Lincoln Center production of Normal Heart. Catherine has worked with numerous theater companies, including Papermill Playhouse (Milburn, NJ), The John F. Kennedy Center and Arena Stage. She is also on the advisory board of the Instant Theatre Company in Highlands, NC. While in Los Angeles, she worked in a variety of capacities with television networks CBS, ABC and Fox. Catherine holds an MFA in Performance from the University of Georgia and an MFA in Film Direction from the American Film Institute. Her short film, Family Portrait, received the prestigious Ida Lupino Award for Outstanding Film Direction from the Director's Guild of America.
Doug Wright (Playwright):
What triggered Doug Wright’s fascination with people on the edge of society? Growing up gay in Texas may have begun the process. From a childhood in Dallas, he went on to Yale and then successfully pursued a graduate degree from NYU’s Tisch School, where he is a professor.
Wright won an Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting and the Kesselring Award for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club for his play Quills. He went on to write the screenplay Adaptation, making his motion picture debut. The film was named Best Picture by the National Board of Review and nominated for three Academy Awards. His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and received the Paul Selvin Award from the Writer’s Guild of America.
Wright’s stage work has been produced at the New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center, the WPA Theater, and many other distinguished experimental theaters. In addition to I Am My Own Wife, titles include: The Stonewater Rapture, Interrogating the Nude, Watbanaland, Buzzsaw Berkeley, and Unwrap Your Candy. He has been commissioned to write screenplays for Twentieth Century Fox, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, Universal, and New Regency Productions. Wright has been published three times in The Best Short Plays series, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review. His musical version of the film Grey Gardens is currently on stage in New York. In addition, he is writing a thriller for actress Reese Witherspoon.
"No human construct should ever be elevated beyond art's firing range. No human appetite is too base, no idea so holy, no institution so revered that it should be spared art's scrutiny. At it's best, art can function in a society as its collective conscience. And such a conscience is useless unless it can operate unchecked. Propaganda provides answers; art should stimulate questions. Dali, Duchamp and de Sade did more than churn out pages of prose or canvas after canvas. They each took center stage in their own time as agitators, while--at the same time--revolutionizing their respective crafts. I hope to follow their example."
-Doug Wright
