Cast – Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Masha)

Broadway: Hurlyburly (Tony Award nom.), Sex and Longing (LCT). Other theater: Crazy Mary, Gemini (Playwrights Horizons); Mrs. Farnsworth, The Guys (Flea Theater); The Mercy Seat (MCC); Beyond Therapy (Phoenix Theatre); Das Lusitania Songspiel (Drama Desk nom.), Titanic (Van Dam Theatre); Marco Polo Sings a Solo, New Jerusalem (The Public Theater); The Nature and Purpose of the Universe (The Direct Theatre); The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Better Dead Than Sorry (Yale Cabaret). Films include: Alien, The Year of Living Dangerously, Ghostbusters, Gorillas in the Mist, Working Girl, Dave, Death and the Maiden, The Ice Storm (BAFTA Academy Award), A Map of the World, Galaxy Quest, The Guys, Holes, Snow Cake, The TV Set, Avatar, Cabin in the Woods, and Paul. Television: “Political Animals.” Co-founder of The Flea Theater, winner of the Drama Desk Award for Most Adventurous Theater in New York.

DAVID HYDE PIERCE (Vanya)

Broadway: La Bête, Accent on Youth, Curtains (Tony Award), Spamalot, The Heidi Chronicles, and Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy. Off-Broadway: The Landing, Close Up Space, Elliot Loves, Zero Positive, That’s It Folks!, The Maderati, The Author’s Voice, Summer, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Peter Brook’s The Cherry Orchard. Regional: Guthrie, Goodman, Long Wharf, Ahmanson Theatre and Geffen Playhouse. Film: The Perfect Host, Down With Love, Full Frontal, Wet Hot American Summer, A Bug’s Life, Treasure Planet, Wolf, Nixon, Sleepless in Seattle, Little Man Tate, Crossing Delancey. Television: “The Powers That Be,” “The Outer Limits,” “Titus,” “Frasier” (Emmy and SAG awards). As Director: The Importance of Being Earnest (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Hargrove and Anselmi’s It Shoulda Been You (George Street Playhouse).

KRISTINE NIELSEN (Sonia)

LCT: Ubu. With Christopher Durang: Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Drama League, Outer Critics Circle noms.); Miss Witherspoon; Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle noms.); Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, To Be or Not to Be, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Spring Awakening, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Green Bird, Jackie, The Iceman Cometh. Off-Broadway: Crazy Mary, Our Leading Lady, Dog Opera (Obie Award). Regional includes Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie, Huntington Theatre, Long Wharf, McCarter, Alley Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, La Jolla Playhouse. Film: Morning Glory, That’s What She Said, The Savages, Adelaide, Small Time Crooks. Television: “Political Animals,” “Smash,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Third Watch.” Education: M.F.A., Yale School of Drama; B.S., Northwestern.

BILLY MAGNUSSEN (Spike)

is proud, elated and thankful to be part of this prestigious company. Broadway: The Ritz. Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (LTC), Paper Dolls. Film: Twelve, Happy Tears, Damsels in Distress, 2nd Serve, Surviving Family, The Brass Teapot, The East, The Lost Valentine. Television: "Boardwalk Empire," "Blue Bloods," "Your Pretty Little Face is going to Hell," "In Plain Sight," "Law & Order," "Poopstains," "Law & Order: CI," "The Unusuals," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "CSI," "As the World Turns." Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He is also a member of the rock band "Reserved for Rondee."

SHALITA GRANT (Cassandra)

Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (LCT); The Philanderer (Pearl Theatre); Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice (The Public Theater); Roxy Font (FringeNYC). Regional: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (McCarter Theater); Luck of the Irish (Huntington Theatre); The Laramie Project (England); Unaccompanied Minors (Vanguard Arts); The Children’s Hour (Everyman Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun, Into the Woods (Mainstage Theater); Body and Soul (Baryshnikov Arts Center). Film: Empire Corner, Invisible, Rehearsing a Dream (Academy Award nom., Best Documentary Short, 2006). Television: “The Good Wife.” Education: The Juilliard School. Affiliated with NFAA Arts.

GENEVIEVE ANGELSON (Nina)

Broadway: debut. Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Lincoln Center Theater, McCarter Theater); Film: Open Five. Television: "The Glades," "Army Wives." Education: MFA, NYU Grad Acting.

CREED GARNICK (Spike Understudy)

Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (LCT). Theater: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Little Shop of Horrors, Cat Ballou. Juilliard: Savage in Limbo; Othello; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Scapin; The Mound Builders; The Seagull; Coldfront; The Crucible; The Skin of Our Teeth; Romeo and Juliet; Bus Stop; Henry IV, Part I. Training: Juilliard Drama Division.

LINDA MARIE LARSON (Sonia/Masha Understudy)

Broadway: Deuce, Jackie: An American Life; Morning’s at Seven (Lincoln Center Theater). Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike u/s (LCT); Anon (Atlantic Theater); Bright Ideas, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (MCC Theater); Machinal (The Public Theater/Naked Angels). Other NYC: Motel Cherry (Clubbed Thumb/New Georges), Nightlands (New Georges); Little Eyolf (Century Center). Regional: The Clean House (Syracuse Stage), House Arrest (Mark Taper Forum), The Smell of the Kill (Cleveland Play House), The Servant of Two Masters (Hartford Stage), Three Tall Women (Pittsburgh Public Theater). Film: Labor Day, Just Another Story, G. Television: “Law & Order: SVU,” “Masters of Sex” (pilot).

HEATHER ALICIA SIMMS (Cassandra Understudy)

Broadway: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A Raisin in the Sun, Gem of the Ocean. Off-Broadway: Born Bad; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; The Brother/Sister Plays; The Exonerated; Breath, Boom; Insurrection. Other theater credits include The Kennedy Center, Denver Center Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse. Film: Red Hook Summer, The Nanny Diaries, Broken Flowers, Head of State, You Belong to Me. Television: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: CI,” “The Good Wife,” “Americana,” “As the World Turns.” Education: M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Tufts University. Round 4 TCG/Fox Foundation Award recipient.

LIESEL ALLEN YEAGER (Nina Understudy)

Broadway: debut. Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (LCT). Other theater: Too Much, Too Soon (Lesser America); The Sporting Life (Studio 42). Film: A Picture of You. Television: “The Good Wife,” “How to Make It in America.” Education: The Juilliard School. Member of Lunar Energy Theater Co. Liesel would like to thank Chris Durang for his beautiful, funny play and her family for being full of goofiness and love.