A Noise Within Resident Artist JOEL SWETOW (Myron Berger) has played Estragon in ANW's Waiting for Godot for the past two seasons as well as Pastor Manders in the 2008-09 season production of Ghosts. Also with ANW, he portrayed Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure, Philante in The Misanthrope, Jaggers in Great Expectations, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Vershinin in The Three Sisters, Arnolphe in The School for Wives, the title role in Tartuffe, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, as well as major roles in Under Milk Wood, The Seagull, Major Barbara, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Blood Wedding, Man and Superman, The Duchess of Malfi and The Way of the World. For ANW he also co-directed The Learned Ladies. Among his numerous roles with New York City and regional theatre companies, Swetow played Marc Antony in Antony and Cleopatra at Theatricum Botanicum, appeared in Mad Forest at the Matrix Theatre Company, and played lead roles in The Normal Heart, Talley's Folly, and The Sound of Teeth. He directed The Cherry Orchard at Interact Theatre Company, which earned the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Production of 1999, As You Like It at Actor's Co-op, and the world premieres of My Brain Tumor and Muckrakers. Swetow directs The Crucible at Actors Co-op this spring. His film and television credits include Burn Notice, Charmed, Alias, Judging Amy, Stargate, She Spies, various Star Treks, Days of our Lives, 3 Ninjas, Live From Baghdad, The President's Man 2, Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions, the award winning shorts Chicxulub and Vartan LLP, and many others.
ALAN WASERMAN (Schlosser) is the third cast member making his A Noise Within debut in Awake and Sing! The Canadian-born actor, who was raised in Los Angeles area and has more than 20 years of stage experience, has appeared at the Knightsbridge Theatre as Inspector Trotter in Mousetrap, Earl of Glouster in King Lear, Joe Pendelton in Heaven Can Wait, Don Adriano De Armado in Love's Labours Lost and Inspector Rough in Gaslight. His resume of independent films includes North Mission Road - Minute Evidence, The Wedding Video, Reckoning, Before Turning the Gun and The Appointment. Waserman studied theatre at Los Angeles Valley College.
Single Tickets are $44 (Friday and Saturday evenings, Sunday matinees); $40 (Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings, Saturday matinees); and $30 (previews). Groups (10 or more) are $25, or $30 on Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees; School Groups (10 or more) are $16, or $20 on Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees.
A NOISE WITHIN is located at 234 South Brand Boulevard, Glendale, CA 91204. To purchase tickets or for a full season brochure, call 818-240-0910 x1 or visit www.ANoiseWithin.org.
