MAMIE GUMMER
Midsummer in Oxford ’04
Film/TV: Taking Woodstock, John Adams, Stop-Loss, Evening. Theatre: Les Liasons Dangereuses (Broadway), Mr. Marmalade (Roundabout, Theatre World Award), The Water’s Edge (Second Stage, Lucille Lortel Award nom.), Uncle Vanya (Classic Stage, Lucille Lortel Award nom.)
FRANCOIS BATTISTE
Midsummer in Oxford ’05
Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss (Roundabout). London: One Night in Miami… (Donmar Warehouse). Off-Broadway: The Good Negro (The Public Theater, 2009 Obie Award, 2009 Lucille Lortel nomination), 10 Things to Do Before I Die (Second Stage Theatre), Public LAB. Films: One Week, 51/50, Blood in the Sand.
JORDAN THALER
Midsummer in Oxford ’85
New York City casting director for more than 25 years in theatre, film and television, based at the Public Theater. Has cast more than 150 productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, including Hair and The Tempest.
JUSTIN THEROUX
Bennington College Program ’91
“While at BADA, I was afforded priceless experiences. Ones that gave me the opportunity to attend numerous master classes with incredible veterans of the stage and film… all the while talking in London’s incredible performances on the West End, The Fringe and The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon. My teacher’s influence, guidance and real life experience grounded me on my own path to explore the craft of acting. BADA is unquestionably a unique experience, and if one is fortunate enough, as I was… can and should be part of every drama student’s education.”
Film: Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Tropic Thunder (co-writer), TV: The Leftovers, John Adams, Broadway: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
DONNA LYNNE CHAMPLIN
Midsummer in Oxford ’92
TV: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Submissions Only; Theatre: Billy Elliot: The Musical (Broadway), Sweeney Toddy (Broadway), Hollywood Arms (Broadway), By Jeeves (Broadway), James Joyce’s The Dead (Broadway) Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Park), The Qualms (Playwrights Horizons), As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Park), Film: Downsizing
DONAL LOGUE
London Theatre Program ’88
TV: Gotham, Terriers, Sons of Anarchy, Vikings, Grounded for Life, ER, The Knights of Prosperity, Life, Copper; Film: The Patriot, Charlie St. Cloud, We Only Know So Much, 9 Full Moons, Tao of Steve (Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Outsanding Performance)
STEFANIE ZADRAVEC
London Theatre Program ’89
Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, playwright-in-residence at The Women’s Project, and the 2017 Keen Company Playwrights Lab. Her plays include Colony Collapse (Theatre@Boston Court: 2015 Kilroys List and LA Times Critics Choice); The Electric Baby (Two River Theater, Quantum Theater); Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J, Working Theatre, SF Playhouse); and currently – The Boat (The Working Theater Commission) and Tiny Houses (Women’s Project Commission). She received a 2015 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award,the Francesca Primus Prize, Helen Hayes Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, & the Women in Arts & Media Collaboration Award; as well as fellowships from NYFA, the Lark, Playwrights Realm, The Dramatists Guild, & Sewanee Writers Conference, and commission/developmental support from The Edgerton Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, The Mellon Foundation, SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Lilly Awards, New York Stage & Film, The Lark, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, Play Penn, The Women’s Project, Epic Theatre Ensemble, The Barrow Group, and New Dramatists.
DAVID SCHWIMMER
Midsummer in Oxford ’85
“The Summer I spent in BADA’s program at Oxford University was one of the most memorable and illuminating experiences of my life. Any young actor who has the opportunity to attend Midsummer in Oxford should grab it.”
Emmy nominee, Friends; Madagascar; Band of Brothers; The Pallbearer; The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (Broadway); Some Girls (West End); co-founder, Lookingglass Theater Company.
NICOLE OLIVER
Midsummer in Oxford ’90
TV: Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
ERIK PATTERSON
London Theatre Program ’98
Film: Another Cinderella Story (writer, WGA Award winner), TV: R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour
OLIVER PLATT
Midsummer in Oxford ’86
Theatre:Tony nominee, Shining City; Guys and Dolls (Broadway); TV: Chicago Med, Huff (Emmy Nomination, Golden Globe Nomination); The West Wing (Emmy Nomination); Nip/Tuck (Emmy Nomination), The Big C Film: Kinsey; Casanova; Bulworth; Postcards From the Edge; 2012
MARK COLSON
Midsummer in Oxford ’84
TV: Outsiders, Banshee, Invasion, Heroes, Angel Theatre: Of Mice and Men (Theatre Banshee), Gaps in the Fossil Record (Purple Rose Theatre, world premiere)
ELIZABETH MARVEL
London Theatre Program ’88
Theatre: Picnic (Broadway), Other Desert Cities (Broadway), Top Girls (Broadway), Saint Joan (Broadway), Little Foxes (New York Theatre Workshop), The Book of Grace (The Public Theater), Fifty Words (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk nomination), Hedda Gabbler (New York Theatre Workshop), King Lear (The Public Theater) TV: House of Cards, Fargo, Homeland, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, The District Film: True Grit, A Most Violent Year, Lincoln, Hyde Park on Hudson, The Bourne Legacy
PAUL RUDD
Midsummer in Oxford ’93
Film: Ant-Man, I Love You, Man; Knocked Up; Getting Over Sarah Marshall; The Forty Year Old Virgin; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; The Shape of Things; The Cider House Rules; Clueless. Broadway: Twelfth Night, Three Days of Rain, The Last Night of Ballyhoo
JOE MYDELL
Midsummer in Oxford ’84
Trained at the New York University of the Arts and BADA (1984). His theatre experience includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Last Confession, and The Boys Next Door, (London’s West End), The Tempest (Regent’s Park), Medea(Broadway), and A Season in the Congo(The Young Vic). Joe has starred in many productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company: Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Breakfast with Mugabe, Worlds Apart and Macbeth and the National Theatre: The Comedy of Errors, Edmond, Alice’s Adventures Underground, Angels in America, Perestroika (Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role) and Lyrics of the Hearthside (Edinburgh Fringe First). Most recent TV work includes Homeland, Midsummer Murders and The Missing. Radio credits include Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Falco, Great Escape, Henry VIII and The Lost Boys.
TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY
Midsummer in Oxford 2005
Tarell won the 2017 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight, based on his play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. He is best known for his acclaimed trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet which have been performed at the McCarter Theatre, The Public Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre, and the Young Vic (Olivier Award nomination) in London. Tarell has received the prestigious Whiting Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, the inaugural NY Times Outstanding Playwright Award, and the inaugural Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.
