Henry IV

Dakin Matthews (Adapter, King Henry IV/Traveler) Besides acting on stage in over 250 productions in his 60-year career, nine on Broadway (including originating roles in Rocky the Musical, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Waitress the Musical), on screen with over 300 TV appearances (including Gilmore Girls, King of Queens, and The Gilded Age) and 30 films (including True Grit, Bridge of Spies, Lincoln, and Zero Charisma), Mr. Matthews is an award-winning playwright (L. A. Critics Circle 2005 Award for The Prince of L.A.), Shakespearean dramaturge (Drama Desk Award for Henry IV), and script translator (five Walker Reid Awards for translating Spanish Golden Age plays). He is also a Shakespeare scholar, the creator/host of the YouTube video series “Sheltering with Shakespeare,” a teacher of Shakespeare Masterclasses around the world, a former Artistic Director of three theatres, and an Emeritus Professor of English from Cal State East Bay.

New York: The Ally, Richard II (The Public Theater); Confederates (Signature Theatre Company, Audience Development Committee, Inc Award for Outstanding Ensemble). Regional: Henry V (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Bonez (People’s Light, 2024 Barrymore Nomination for Best Ensemble), Airness, As You Like It (Chautauqua Theater Company); Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Television: The Crowded Room (AppleTV+). Education: MFA, The Juilliard School; BA, Penn State University.

Cara Ricketts recently starred as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway this past fall. Fans of the hit TV series The Resident will recall her as Morris Chestnut's feisty love interest. A brilliant stage and screen actress, Cara won the 2020 ACTRA Award  (Best Supporting Actress) for her role in Netflix's 19th-century period drama Anne with an E. TV credits include the Canadian series reboot of Street Legal, Orphan Black, and the critically acclaimed mini-series The Book of Negroes.

Jay O. Sanders appeared in the Broadway revival of Purlie Victorious (filmed for Great Performances), the world premiere of Pulitzer-winning Primary Trust (Outer Critics Circle Award), the Broadway premiere of Girl From The North Country, as Cyrano at the Guthrie Theater, and Uncle Vanya (Drama Desk Award) at Hunter Theater Project. He and wife, Maryann Plunkett, received a 2024 NY Critics Circle Joint Lifetime Achievement Citation and originated all 12 plays comprising Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck Panorama, including two international tours and three Zoom plays. Having played many of Shakespeare’s great roles, he is honored to embrace Falstaff. Many films and television projects, (most recently His Three Daughters), documentary and audiobook narration.

Off Broadway: The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center),  The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (The Playwrights Realm), Mies Julie (Classic Stage Company), Macbeth (The Public Theater), The Winter's Tale (The Pearl Theatre Company), Tamburlaine (Theatre for a New Audience). Select Regional: Primary Trust (La Jolla Playhouse), The Taming of the Shrew (The Old Globe), Father Comes Home From the Wars (Yale Rep and A.C.T. (San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for BEST ACTOR)), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare and Company), Romeo and Juliet (Elm Shakespeare Company). Film: Macbeth (A24), Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros), Murder City (Village Roadshow), Crown Heights (Amazon Studios). TV: Upcoming Apple TV series Chief of War opposite Jason Momoa. Echo 3 (Apple TV), The Sandman (Netflix), Accused (Hulu), Chicago PD, Law and Order SVU, Evil (NBC). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama (Princess Grace award and Hershel Williams prize for excellence in acting).

Theater: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway, San Francisco); Tommy and Me (Bucks County Playhouse); As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth (Barefoot Shakespeare); Twelfth Night (Dumb Theater Co). Film: The Cathedral. Music: Guitar (Daddy Longlegs, White Heron Theater), Composer (Twelfth Night, Dumb Theater), (Pericles, Fools and Kings).

Jordan Bellow is happy to return to Theatre for a New Audience after previously appearing in Gnit and Richard II + Henry IV. NY credits include California at Clubbed Thumb, Interior at 59E59, The Feels (KMS) at New Ohio Theatre, and Alkestis and Macbeth at The Connelly. Regionally, he has performed across the country including The Wilma, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Chester Theatre Company, Fisher Center at Bard, Westport Country Playhouse, Denver Center, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre and South Coast Repertory. Film/TV: Dickinson, Gotham, and Orange Is The New Black.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune: Co-Artistic Director, over 50 productions, 1983-2008. Lead roles: Hamlet, Tartuffe, The Miser, Figaro. The Moving Company: 2009-present, Love/Labor/Lost, Speechless, Liberty Falls, Say All the Truth. Broadway: Hamlet (New Victory Theatre). Off Broadway: Servant of Two Masters (TFANA); Ruzante (workshop) (The Public); Orlando: a Rhapsody (The Tank). Regional: Indecent, Metamorphosis, The Little Prince, Refugia, The Guthrie; Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof, The Winter’s Tale, Iphigenia at Aulis (Ten Thousand Things); The Lorax (The Children’s Theatre). Other: Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, American Rep, The Alley. The Moving Company

Recent: Women of Will (Bedlam); The Dadda, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (ACP - Gene Frankel); Voltaire, Emilie du Chatelet Defends her Life Tonight (Duende NYC); Scrooge, Christmas Carol, 2021 & 2022; York/Dick the Butcher, Henry VI Part 2; Gloucester, King Lear, w/Christopher Lloyd; Prospero, The Tempest (Shakespeare and Company); George, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Eliot Norton Award Outstanding Actor). Off-Broadway: Dr. Rank, A Doll’s House; Ostermark, The Father (TFANA). Pickering, Pygmalion; Col. Brandon, Sense & Sensibility; Dorn, The Seagull (Bedlam). Regional: Enobarbus, Antony & Cleopatra; Killigrew, Nell Gwynne (Folger DC); Richard, Richard III; Macbeth, Macbeth; Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Colorado Shakes).

Othello (NYTW); The Public: King Lear, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park). New York: The Seagull (Culture Project); The Cherry Orchard, Double Falsehood (CSC). Regional: The Taming of the Shrew (California Shakespeare); Passion Play, The Master Builder, Trouble in Mind (Yale Rep); Macbeth (A.R.T.E.). Film/TV: The Instigators, FBI: Most Wanted, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Douglas Brown, The Factory, The Following, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Elementary. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama.

(They/Them). Broadway: Wicked (former Keyboard 2 sub). Off-Broadway: Music City (Bedlam), Big Gay Jamboree, DRAG, Classical Theatre of Harlem (AUDELCO nomination). Regional: Milwaukee Rep, Hope Summer Rep (BroadwayWorldMI Runner-Up). NYC Music Director: 54 Below, Prospect Theatre Co., Circle in the Square Theatre School. Songwriting: JoJo Siwa’s XOMG POP! 1234Ever, Apple Music Country, Spotify editorials, SiriusXM TopOfTheCountry, iHeartRadio, NY Shorts International Festival, Nashville Film Festival, The Cutting Room, The Bitter End, The Listening Room, The Bluebird Cafe. Juilliard School Pre-College. Taipei National Symphony Orchestra (soloist), Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall. Inaugural Winner, MUSE/Maestra MD Experience w/Wicked. BMI Lehman-Engel Composer 2024.

John Keating is delighted to make his seventh appearance with Theatre for A New Audience (The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing, all directed by Arin Arbus; Pericles, directed by Trevor Nunn; The Broken Heart, directed by Selina Cartmell). A prominent New York theatre actor, he has also performed in 27 shows with Irish Rep (most recently, the 2024 Lortel winning Translations, Molly Sweeney, Autumn Royal, Two by Synge, and The O’Casey Cycle (Calloway Award 2019)). Numerous other New York appearances include Atlantic, Roundabout, Mint, Pearl, Pond. Most leading regional theatres. Extensive TV includes a dozen guest star appearances, and his work on film includes three recent A24 films: First Cow - Time magazine film of the year in 2020, A Different Man, and Marty Supreme (fall 2025). Also upcoming: the title role in Sticky (fall 2025), Misty Button, Lone Ranger, Emerald City, Freedom. John has narrated over 250 audiobooks (Audie winner).

Owen Laheen (they/them) is a non-binary actor from Wicklow, Ireland. Their most recent credits include Translations (Irish Repertory Theatre, Lucille Lortel Award Winner for Outstanding Revival), The Wolves (McCarter Theater), Belfast Girls (Irish Repertory Theatre). Screen: Mutt (Sundance 2023, Berlinale 2023), City On A Hill (Showtime). They have devised and developed new work in collaboration with LaMaMa ETC, Clubbed Thumb, Mercury Store, and others. They trained at UNCSA and BADA, and received a BFA from SUNY Purchase. For Charles Tuthill.

Michael Rogers was born in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and has worked at theatres across the US and internationally in roles varying from Titania, Dracula, God, Robert Mugabe; his association with TFANA stretches over 30 years. Films: The Mosquito Coast, Weekend at Bernie's II, and Dopefiend, among others. Television: NBC, ABC, and CBS episodics. Mr. Rogers’ directing reaches from Off-Broadway to universities. He has written for film and television and was story editor for Soho films US. Mr Rogers is proud of his written work for Brooklyn’s Carnival with PAGWAH, UTOPIA PAN SOUL; and his work with Jazz musicians is Still Swinging. Graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Broadway: Present Laughter, Indiscretions, The Importance of Being Earnest, Blithe Spirit, Equus, Vincent in Brixton. Off-Broadway: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Stuff Happens, Suddenly Last Summer, Venus, The Daughter in Law, Phaedra in Delirium. Regional: Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre D.C.), Mousetrap (McCarter), The American Plan (Old Globe), Major Barbara (Guthrie), Lady Windermere’s Fan (Williamstown), Platonov, Tis Pity She’s a Whore (ART), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Gloucester Stage), Act a Lady (ATL Humana), Way of the World, Escaped Alone (Yale), Macbeth (Boston Shakespeare), Medea ( Merrimack Rep), Merry Wives of Windsor (Huntington). National Tours: Anything Goes, Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury. UK: London Assurance, When Thou Art King (RSC), Look Back in Anger (Royal Court).

Elan Zafir is originally from Montreal, Canada. He is a company member of Bedlam and lives in Manhattan with his wife and kids. THEATER: Merchant of Venice (CSC); Our Class (CSC); The Seagull Experience (En Garde Arts); Arcadia, The Winter's Tale, Hedda Gabler (Bedlam); Everybody, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Salomé (STC); God of Carnage (Milwaukee Rep); There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth); Junk (Arena Stage); Twelve Angry Men, Ragtime, (Ford’s Theatre); King John, The Way of the World (Folger Theatre); Eureka Day, The Vagrant Trilogy, Paper Dolls (Mosaic Theatre). FILM/TV: Triumph of the Will, Hired Hands, Good Boy, Your Friends & Neighbors (recurring), House of Cards, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, East New York, FBI: International, and Law & Order(s).

Eric Tucker (Director) is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Off-Broadway theater company Bedlam, for which he has directed The Crucible, Pygmalion, Sense and Sensibility, Saint Joan, Hamlet and Twelfth Night. Other Off-Broadway include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vanity Fair (The Pearl), Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 & 2 Workshop Production (TFANA). Other highlights include: Angels in America, parts 1 & 2, (Bedlam/Boston), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (OSF), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River), Pericles (American Players), Mate (The Actors Gang). Tucker has won Off Broadway Alliance, Obie, Helen Hayes and Elliott Norton awards for his work. He has also been nominated for a Lortel and Drama League award.