OTHER DESERT CITIES | CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
BARBARA
BROUGHTON
Polly Wyeth
Barbara Broughton is
pleased to be making
her debut at Portland
Center Stage. Her
Broadway credits
include the original
Sunday in the Park with George and
Music Music at City Center Theatre.
Among her numerous Off-Broadway
credits are Grey Gardens at Playwrights
Horizons, Concertina’s Rainbow at
Cherry Lane Theatre, A Little Night
Music at The York Theatre and The
Red Truck at Epic Theatre. Some of
her favorite regional roles include
Big Edie in Grey Gardens (Studio
Theatre D.C.), Mrs. Bennett in Pride
and Prejudice (Dallas Theatre Center),
Marianne in The Bird Sanctuary
(Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Emilia
in The Comedy of Errors (Connecticut
Repertory Theatre), Dolly Levi in Hello
Dolly (Hangar Theatre), Mercy Lott
in Humble Boy (BoarsHead Theatre),
Ester in The Price (Northern Stage),
Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (Pioneer
Theatre) and Mme. De Volanges in Les
Liaisons Dangereuses and Annabelle
in George Washington Slept Here (The
Pittsburgh Public Theatre). National
Tours: Sarah (Company), George M!.
Television/Film: Law & Order, The
Sunset Gang (PBS) and The Producers.
SUSAN CELLA
Silda Grauman
Susan Cella is thrilled
to be making her
Portland Center
Stage debut in Other
Desert Cities, a play
near and dear to
her heart having played Polly twice
and Silda once before. Broadway:
The Graduate, Crazy He Calls Me, Me
and My Girl, Evita, On the Twentieth
Century and Allegro and Lady in the
Dark for New York City Center’s
Encores!. National Tours: Fiddler on
the Roof (opposite Topol, Theo Bikel
and Harvey Fierstein), Hairspray, 42nd
Street, La Cage aux Folles, Can-Can, Me
and My Girl. Regional: White Christmas,
Anything Goes, Mary Poppins, Gypsy,
Funny Girl, Witness for the Prosecution,
Lombardi, Noises Off, Gaslight, Bye
Bye Birdie, Hollywood/Ukraine, The
Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie,
Mame, Company, Time and Again,
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Sideman. Television/Film: Person of
Interest, The Sopranos, Law & Order
(two episodes), Hi Honey, I’m Home!
(series regular), All My Children, and
Follies and A Sondheim Celebration
for PBS.
D’ARCY DERSHAM
Brooke Wyeth
This is D’Arcy’s
Portland Center
Stage debut. Work
at other theaters
includes: Merrimack
Repertory Theatre
(Dusk Rings a Bell); Portland Stage
Company (The Sisters Rosensweig);
Trinity Repertory Company (Social
Creatures, House & Garden, The Skin
of Our Teeth, A Christmas Carol, The
Syringa Tree, Absurd Person Singular,
Homebody/Kabul, Dinner with Friends);
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (Body
Awareness, Neighborhood 3: Requisition
of Doom); The Vineyard Playhouse
(Hotline, To Kill a Mockingbird, Irene’s
Riff); Perishable Theatre (1:23, Falling
Up, Lazarus Disposed); Elemental
Theatre Collective (A Bright Room
Called Day, Amadeus, King Stag); Trinity
Summer Shakespeare (The Tempest,
The Comedy of Errors). A graduate
of Trinity Repertory Conservatory’s
M.F.A. Acting program, D’Arcy also
holds a B.A. in Dramatic Literature from
Oberlin College, and studied physical
theater under Jacques Lecoq at L’École
Internationale de Théâtre in Paris.
Voice and Speech faculty at the Brown/
Trinity Repertory M.F.A. Program
for eight years, and proud member of
Actors Equity Association since 2002.
With unending gratitude to all of my
parents, whose support has meant
everything to me. And for Billy.
JOEL REUBEN GANZ
Trip Wyeth
Mr. Ganz is thrilled
to make his Portland
Center Stage debut.
He appeared on
Broadway in War
Horse (Lincoln
Center Theater). Other New York
credits include Macbeth (Lincoln
Center Theater Educational) and The
Clown Play (New York Fringe Festival).
Regionally, Mr. Ganz appeared
in Measure for Pleasure (Woolly
Mammoth); Othello (The Shakespeare
Theatre Company); The Book
Club Play and Sherlock Holmes
and the Adventure of the Suicide
Club (Cincinnati Playhouse in
the Park); Shear Madness and The
Lisbon Traviata (The Kennedy
Center); The Picture of Dorian
Gray (Round House Theatre); The
Death of Meyerhold and Take Me
Out (Studio Theatre); Pangs of the
Messiah, Honey Brown Eyes and The
Admission (Theater J); and The Illusion
(Actor’s Express). Television credits
include Unforgettable on CBS and What
Would You Do? on ABC. Mr. Ganz is
an associate artist with Faction of
Fools, a commedia dell’arte troupe in
Washington, D.C. Internationally, he
worked on productions in Scotland,
France and Corsica. He received his
B.A. in Theatre Studies from Emory
University and his graduate degree
from the International Theater School
of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. Mr
Ganz teaches movement technique and
works as a movement and aesthetics
consultant.
NED SCHMIDTKE
Lyman Wyeth
Ned Schmidtke
is delighted to be
making his debut
at Portland Center
Stage and to be
working again with
Director Timothy Bond. Recent stage
appearances include You Can’t Take
It With You, The Curse of Oedipus,
Macbeth and Tonight At Eight Thirty
(Antaeus Company, Los Angeles); Loot
(Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa
Barbara); and Groundswell, The Pleasure
of his Company, Sea of Tranquility, A
Body of Water, Blue/Orange and Pericles
(Old Globe Theatre, San Diego). Ned
has worked two seasons at the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, as well as at the
Utah, Illinois and Stratford (Canada)
Shakespeare festivals. Other regional
credits include the Goodman and
Steppenwolf theaters in Chicago,
Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage,
Washington D.C., The Huntington
Theatre, Boston and the Long Wharf,
New Haven. He was in the Broadway
and National Tour of Aren’t We All with
Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert
and the National Tour of Six Degrees of
Separation with Marlo Thomas. Recent
films include The Change Up, Accepted