CAST
JESSICA HECHT (Julie)
was recently seen on Broadway starring opposite Jim Parsons in Harvey and on film in The Magic of Belle Isle with Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen, directed by Rob Reiner. She will next be seen in The English Teacher, a comedy with Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear and Nathan Lane and Northern Borders, an independent film. Recent releases include her portrayal of the famous anarchist ‘Emma Goldman’ in J. Edgar with Leonardo DiCaprio for director Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers, as well as The Sitter, playing Jonah Hill’s mother, for 20th Century Fox.
Her other films include Helena From the Wedding, an ensemble drama from Beech Hill Films, and appearances in Fair Game with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, The Winning Season opposite Sam Rockwell and My Soul to Take directed by horror master Wes Craven. She also appeared with Larry David in Woody Allen’s Whatever Works, Dan in Real Life with Steve Carrell, Starting out in the Evening with Frank Langella, Sideways directed by Alexander Payne with Paul Giamatti, The Forgotten with Julianne Moore and The Grey Zone directed by Tim Blake Nelson.
Hecht’s television work is extensive and most recently includes the HBO pilot “Spring/Fall.” She performed a recurring role opposite Ted Danson on “Bored to Death” as well as a recurring role on the Emmy-nominated cable hit “Breaking Bad” (AMC) opposite Bryan Cranston. Well known for her five season recurring role as ‘Susan’ on “Friends” (NBC), she starred with Jonathan Silverman in “The Single Guy” (NBC) and with Joan Cusack in “What about Joan?” (ABC) created by James Brooks. Equally adept in drama or comedy, her many memorable performances include appearances on “The Good Wife,” “Nurse Jackie,” “CSI,” “Medium,” “ER,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Seinfeld” and “Jesse Stone: Thin Ice” with Tom Selleck.
Hecht completed her eighth season at the world famous Williamstown Theatre Festival where she performed as ‘Blanche’ opposite Sam Rockwell’s ‘Stanley’ in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by David Cromer. Hecht is proud to have been nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for her performance as ‘Beatrice’ in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge in which she starred with Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson. Her other Broadway credits include the revival of Neil Simon’s award-winning play Brighton Beach Memoirs, Arthur Miller’s After the Fall, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar opposite Denzel Washington and the world premiere of the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Her many Off-Broadway starring roles include Three Sisters with Maggie Gyllenhaal (Classic Stage Co.); Make Me (Atlantic Theater); The House in Town (Lincoln Center); Stop, Kiss (The Public); Lobster Alice and Plunge (Playwrights Horizons); Flesh and Blood (N.Y. Theater Workshop) and The Fourth Sister (Vineyard Theatre).
Hecht lives in New York with her husband, Adam Bernstein, and two wonderful children, Stella and Carlo.
JUDITH LIGHT (Faye)
In June of 2012, Light was awarded the prestigious Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Other Desert Cities. She also won a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress for the same play. Written by Jon Robin Baitz, Other Desert Cities is centered on a daughter played by Rachel Griffiths who presents her family with a memoir she is about to publish. Light played the role of Silda Grauman, the alcoholic aunt who is known to make snide remarks.
Light was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play in 2011, for her performance in Lombardi, the American play by Academy Award winner Eric Simpson. Directed by Tony nominee Thomas Kail, the play was based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by Pulitzer-winning author David Maraniss. Light stared in the play as Marie Lombardi alongside Dan Lauria who played sports icon Vince Lombardi.
Light’s television career began with her two-time Best Actress Emmy award-winning turn as Karen Wolek on “One Life to Live.” She then went on to play Angela Bower on the hit comedy series “Who's the Boss?” Up until 2010, she was seen on the Emmy Award-winning ABC-TV series “Ugly Betty,” for which she received an Emmy nomination playing the character of Claire Meade. Simultaneously, she co-starred on NBC’s long-running drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” in the recurring role of Supreme Court Judge Elizabeth Donnelly. Light has also starred in “Phenom” (created by James Brooks), “The Simple Life,” created by long-time manager/producer Herb Hamsher, “The Stones” (created by Max Mutchnick, David Kohan, and Jenji Kohan) and in over 15 television movies, including her role as Ryan’s mother, Jeanne, in “The Ryan White Story.”
Light has starred in three independent films, The Shoemaker with Danny Aiello; Ira & Abby by Jennifer Westfeldt, with Robert Klein, Fred Willard and Frances Conroy - which was voted Best Comedy at the 2007 HBO Comedy Festival; and Save Me with Chad Allen and Robert Gant, a film which she also produced with Herb Hamsher through their production company, Tetrahedron Productions, in conjunction with GKE and Mythgarden Productions. Save Me had its U.S. premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, followed by screenings at both NYC’s NewFest and LA’s Outfest, as well as a screening and panel discussion aboard RSVP Vacations Queen Mary II transatlantic crossing. Save Me was released theatrically nationwide in the summer of 2008 by First Run Features.
In 2005, Light returned to her performing roots in theater, opening at MCC in New York in the production of Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here. Light showcased her musical abilities in 2004 in the role of Joanne in Steven Sondheim’s Company at the Freud Theatre in L.A. as part of Reprise! Light also appeared in Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings in 2002 at the Second Stage Theatre in New York and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
In 2001, Light opened in Washington, D.C. at the Shakespeare Theatre Company portraying the title character in the Henrik Ibsen classic Hedda Gabler. In 1999 she also took to the stage at the Union Square Theater, starring as the brilliant and uncompromising Dr. Vivian Bearing in the critically acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning Off-Broadway play Wit. Originally directed by Derek Anson Jones, Wit is a heartbreaking and at times very funny play about how Dr. Bearing copes with ovarian cancer, and how it transforms her and her views of life. A university professor who has always treasured her independence and lack of personal connections, Dr. Bearing is forced to change her stance when she undergoes radical chemotherapy. Light performed in New York until January 2000 and then toured with Wit nationwide, in such cities as Boston, Washington (at the Kennedy Center) and San Francisco. For her outstanding performance, Light received the Helen Hayes Award in Washington, D.C., as well as the Elliot Norton Award in Boston.
A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA, Light has worked in repertory theaters throughout the United States and Canada as well as a USO Tour of Guys and Dolls with William Atherton and Paula Wagner throughout Europe. Light’s Broadway debut was in A Doll’s House with Liv Ullmann and was followed by a season at the Eugene O’Neil Playwright’s conference.
Light is a board member and advocate for many organizations and charities representing AIDS-related and Human Rights issues including: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Names Project/The AIDS Memorial Quilt, The National AIDS Memorial Grove, CDC’s Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS, Hollywood Health and Society, Faith in America, Project Angel Food, The Matthew Shepard Foundation, The Point Foundation, The Rome Chamber Music Festival and The Trevor Project.
Light lives in New York and Los Angeles and is married to writer/actor, Robert Desiderio.
REMY AUBERJONOIS (Jeff)
Broadway: Death of a Salesman, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Country Girl, Frost/Nixon, Off-Broadway: Equivocation at MTC, also Rattlestick, Atlantic, The Public, Primary Stages, Studio Dante, Williamstown, Yale Repertory, Old Globe, McCarter, Dallas Theater Center, Mark Taper, and many more. TV includes: “Believe” (pilot, upcoming), “Veep,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Zero Hour,” “666 Park Ave.,” “Made in Jersey,” “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” “Homeland,” “Pan Am,” “Person of Interest,” “Mildred Pierce,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Good Wife," “Mad Men,” “30 Rock,” “Weeds,” “Sopranos,” all “Law & Order” series. Film: The Maids Room (upcoming), The English Teacher, Price Check, Fair Game, The International, Michael Clayton and others. MFA Yale School of Drama.
MARK BLUM (Mort)
Broadway: Twelve Angry Men, The Graduate, A Thousand Clowns, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (twice), Lost in Yonkers, My Thing of Love, The Merchant. Off-Broadway: The Good Mother, Lonely I’m Not, Picked, We Live Here, After the Revolution, The Overwhelming, The Waverly Gallery, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Music Teacher, The Seagull, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Gus and Al (Obie), It’s Only A Play, Little Footsteps, Key Exchange, Table Settings, Say Goodnight Gracie. Regional: Long Wharf, Huntington, Old Globe. Film: I Don’t Know How She Does It, The Green, Passing Harold Blumenthal, Step Up 3-D, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, Shattered Glass, The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth Winning, Getting to Know You, You Can Thank Me Later, Miami Rhapsody, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, The Defenders, Just Between Friends, Lovesick. TV: “Damages,” “The Good Wife,” “Fringe,” “Jesse Stone,” “The Sopranos,” “The West Wing,” “NYPD Blue,” ”CSI: Miami,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Frasier,” “Ed,” “The Practice,” “Wings,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Capitol News,” and Steve Martini’s “The Judge.” He is on the faculty of Brooklyn College and HB Studio.
LAUREN BLUMENFELD (Shelley)
Off-Broadway: We Are Proud to Present…(Soho Rep). Selected New York credits: Exit Carolyn (2012 IT award nomination, Best Featured Actress), Sailor Man (NYC Fringe Award), Man is Man (HERE), Let Me Collect Myself, We Are Not Birds (Ars Nova). Selected regional credits: Six Degrees of Separation, After the Revolution, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Circle Mirror Transformation (Pittsburgh Public), Tigers Be Still (TheatreSquared, AR). Film credits: Black Dog Red Dog (2013), The Rebound, A Little Princess. Lauren is also a member of Old Vic New Voices and a performer and writer for Naked Angels’ Naked Radio. Training: NYU, Tisch (the Experimental Theatre Wing and the Classical Studio)
ALEX DREIER (Timmy)
performed on Broadway in Billy Elliot the Musical (Small Boy) for 1 ½ years, and performed Off-Broadway in A Child Shall Lead (Erik Kosek), The Seven Little Foys (Irving Foy), and in a benefit performance of Oliver (Fagin Boy) for the Irish Repertory Theatre. His television work includes two episodes of “Royal Pains” (Young Evan) and the HBO movie (with Christopher Plummer) Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (Joey Edelstein). He also recently appeared in New York City Ballet’s production of The Sleeping Beauty (Cape Bearer). His voice has been heard on a Carols for a Cure CD and a “SpongeBob Squarepants” promo (Nickelodeon). Alex studies ballet (at the School of American Ballet) and tap and other dance forms. He loves science, computer programming, and acrobatics, and has a brown belt in karate.
JAKE SILBERMANN (Scotty/Tim)
Shortly after graduating from Syracuse University, Silbermann joined the cast of “As the World Turns” where he created the groundbreaking role of Noah Mayer. Most recently, Jake completed the co-production of Marie Antoinette at A.R.T. and Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as David Adjmi’s world premiere of 3C at The Rattlestick. Other selected credits include: Dracula alongside George Hearn at the Little Shubert Theatre, and the world premieres of Phaedra Backwards (McCarter Theatre) and Derby Day (Camisade Theatre Company). Television work includes “Guiding Light,” “Gossip Girl,” and “The Good Wife.”
JONATHAN WALKER (Ben)
Broadway: Twentieth Century, After the Fall. Off-Broadway: The American Plan (MTC); The Divine Sister (Soho Playhouse); The Third Story (MCC); Strangers Knocking (New Group); Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts); When She Danced, Waterchildren, Fran’s Bed (Playwrights Horizons); Everybody’s Ruby, Found a Peanut (Public); Man and Superman (RTC). Regional: Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing (Old Globe); Baltimore Waltz (Yale Rep); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Huntington); Not Suitable for Children (McCarter); Sons of Ulster (Williamstown). Film: Man on a Ledge, Malevolence 2, Michael Clayton, People I Know, Heights, Far From Heaven. TV: “Zero Hour,” “Elementary,” “The Big C,” “The Carrie Diaries,” “Made in Jersey,” “The Good Wife,” “Sex and the City,” “Chappelle’s Show,” lots of “Law & Order.”