ABOUT | CREATIVE TEAM | AUTHORS
Patrick Boll (Bill Wilson)
This production of Bill W. and Dr. Bob is Patrick’s 92nd show. Originally from Grosse Pointe, Michigan and a graduate of NYU, Patrick’s Broadway credits include the “possible dad Bill Austin” in MAMMA MIA, FAITH HEALER with Ralph Feinnes, TWENTIETH CENTURY with Alec Baldwin, HEDDA GABLER with Kate Burton and Michael Emerson, DEATH OF A SALESMAN with Brian Dennehy and THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. Off Broadway credits include ALL THE WAY HOME and THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (both with the Award Winning Transport Group), THE UNDERPANTS (Classic Stage Co.), TWO ROOMS, HENRY & MUDGE and the Obie Winning production of MOLLY’S DREAM with Soho Rep. Regionally Patrick has worked at Williamstown, O’Neill, Goodspeed, Papermill, McCarter and many others. TV&FILM credits include PERSON OF INTEREST, GOSSIP GIRL, all the LAW & ORDERs, SPIN CITY, ROYAL PAINS and BURN AFTER READING. Patrick lives in New Jersey with 2 remarkable children, 2 troublesome Labrador Retrievers, and 1 very understanding wife. Special thanks to everyone at HCA for all the years of support. www.patrickboll.com
Steve Brady (Dr. Bob Smith)
Steve Brady has worked on Broadway and Off, as well as National Tours and major regional theatres around the country. In Washington DC, he was nominated for a Helen Hayes award for his work at Theatre J, and received a Best Actor Award from the Detroit Free Press for WILD HONEY. Steve’s appeared on TV from “SEINFELD” to “LAW & ORDER” and everything in between. He lives in New York City with a rabbit-eared television and life size poster of John Wayne.
Margaret Daly (Anne). Off Broadway: Katie Roche, Is Life Worth Living? (The Mint), Alphabetical Order, Theophilus North (Keen Co.), All Day Suckers, T.L.C. (NY Int’l Fringe). Regional: American premiere: Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art (Studio Theatre; Helen Hayes Award Nom.); The Guthrie, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, & many others. Founding Member: The American Shakespeare Collective. Recent TV: “House of Cards” (Recurring), “The Blacklist,” “The Following,” “Boardwalk Empire.”
Denise Cormier (Lois Wilson)
1st National tour: The Graduate (dir. Peter Lawrence). Regional credits include Good People (dir. Seth Gordon, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Intimate Apparel (dir. Timothy Bond, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Cleveland Play House), The Diary of Anne Frank (dir. Janet Allen, Indiana Repertory Theatre and Pioneer Theatre Company), world premiere of Annapurna (dir. Loretta Greco, Magic Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labours Lost (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), as well as American Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre. TV and Film: Six Degrees, Law & Order CI, Guiding Light. MFA: Shakespeare Theatre Company – Academy for Classical Acting at GWU. www.denisecormier.com
MICHAEL FREDERIC (Man) Just finished the world premiere of Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City with the Harold Clurman Lab Theatre Company here in NYC. Other NY theatre credits include Night Over Taos(Theatre for a New City – Estelle Parsons, dir.), The Eyes of Others (New Ohio Theatre), Summer and Smoke (Theatre Row), Thorny Bushes (INTAR), VampireUniversity (Ohio Theatre), Expressing Willie (West End Theatre), The Sky Over Ninevah (HERE), The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet (NYU), among others. Regional: Fulton Theatre (August: Osage County, Doubt, The Unexpected Guest), Cleveland Play House (Doubt), Actors’ Playhouse and Florida Studio Theatre (The 39 Steps), Two River Theatre Company and Round House Theatre (26 Miles), PlayMakers Rep (Gross Indecency, As You Like It, The Threepenny Opera, Violet), Public Theatre of Maine (The Hound of the Baskervilles, Around the World in 80 Days, A Christmas Carol, Deathtrap), Gretna Theatre (Watson), StageWorks/Hudson (Play by Play), Saratoga Springs Shakespeare Festival (The Comedy of Errors), and Open Stage of Harrisburg (Assassins). Film and TV: Royal Pains, The Men Who Built America. Member: Actors’ Equity Association. Training: MFA (UNC-Chapel Hill), Michael Howard (Michael Howard Studios). www.michaelfrederic.com
Kelli Ruttle (Woman) Regional: Tartuffe (Dir. Des McNuff), premiere workshop of Guitar (La Jolla Playhouse); Ten Chimneys (Broadway World Award), The Life of Galileo (Cleveland Playhouse); Hamlet (Idaho Shakespeare Festival). Other Theatre Credits: As You Like It (La Jolla Stage Co.), Hay Fever (Onstage Playhouse), Ladies of the Camellias, The Clearing, and The Kid from Stratford (Carlsbad Playhouse). Film/TV: Gunfight at Yuma, The Spaceship, Sonnet 10 (available at sonnetprojectnyc.com). M.F.A. from CWRU/CPH, alumna of BADA. www.kelliruttle.com.
Bruce Ward (Understudy) Bruce has performed as Man in three previous productions of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, including at the San Diego Repertory Theatre during the 60th anniversary of A.A. He has performed Off Broadway and in regional theaters across the country and has appeared in four episodes of the Law and Order franchise. brucewardnyc.com.
