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JOEY SLOTNICK

Ensemble Member

Since 1996

Joey Slotnick (he/him) is an Ensemble Member of Chicago’s Tony-award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company. Credits there include; OUR TOWN, WANTS & NEEDS, GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE, MASTER & MARGARITA, UP AGAINST IT. Other Chicago credits include; SEAGULL (Steppenwolf) ANIMAL CRACKERS (Goodman, Jeff Nomination). Broadway credits include THE BIG KNIFE (American Airlines theatre), JUNK (Lincoln Center), THE FRONT PAGE (Broadhurst). Off-Broadway; ALMOST AN EVENING, OFFICES, HAPPY HOUR (Atlantic Theatre Co. World Premiere plays written by Ethan Coen and directed by Neil Pepe).THE NEW YORK IDEA (Atlantic), DYING FOR IT (Atlantic), THE ALTRUISTS (Vineyard) TCHAIKOVSKY: NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (Signature). Regional; Ethan Coen’s A PLAY IS A POEM (Center Theatre Group), ANIMAL CRACKERS (Williamstown), CHAPTER TWO (Bucks County Playhouse), ROMANCE (Bay Street Theatre) Film; DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS (upcoming), PLANE, THEY/THEM/US, THE COBBLER, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, TOO BIG TO FAIL, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, HOLLOW MAN, PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY, BLAST FROM THE PAST, SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE, DINNER & DRIVING, TWISTER , A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. TV; THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL (Amazon), NEW AMSTERDAM (NBC), THE BLACKLIST (NBC), SEARCH PARTY (HBO), THE GOLDBERGS (ABC), the MURPHY BROWN reboot (pilot), THE DEUCE (HBO), BLUE BLOODS (CBS), PUSHING DAISIES (ABC), LAW & ORDER: SVU (NBC), UNFORGETTABLE (CBS), GROWING UP FISHER (NBC), PSYCH (USA), BOSTON LEGAL (ABC), THE OFFICE (NBC), MEDIUM (NBC), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (HBO), FAMILY GUY (Fox), ENTOURAGE (HBO) , LEVERAGE 2.0 (IMDb TV), NIP/TUCK (FX), ALIAS (ABC), BOSTON PUBLIC (Fox), THE SINGLE GUY (NBC)

Bio as of 2023

ARTIST MEDIA

LOOKINGGLASS PRODUCTIONS

OUR TOWN, 2009
WANTS AND NEEDS, 2006
GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE NOS. 21 AND 22, 2004
UP AGAINST IT, 1994
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, 1993
THE THIRD VOYAGE, 1992

EDUCATION

BFA, Professional Actor Training Program, Southern Methodist University

CREDITS AND AWARDS

  • THEATRE CREDITS

    Broadway:

    • The Big Knife (Roundabout Theatre Company)
    • The Front Page (Broadhurst Theatre)

    Off-Broadway:

    • Almost an Evening, Offices, Happy Hour, Dying for It, The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre Company)
    • The Altruists (Vineyard Theatre)

    Chicago:

    • Animal Crackers (Goodman Theatre Company)
    • Slotnick Katz & Lehr (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
    • Fun and Nobody (Next Theatre Company)

    Regional:

    • Chapter Two (Bucks County Playhouse)
    • Animal Crackers (Williamstown Theatre Festival)

  • FILM CREDITS

    • Too Big To Fail
    • Pirates of Silicon Valley
    • Humor Me
    • The Cobbler
    • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    • The Dictator
    • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    • Elevator
    • Hollow Man
    • Twister
    • Juda Kiss
    • Dinner & Driving
    • I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    • Blast from the Past
    • A League of Their Own

  • TELEVISION CREDITS

    • Boston Public (FOX)
    • The Single Guy (NBC)
    • The Good Wife (CBS)
    • Alias (ABC)
    • Nip/Tuck (FX)
    • Blue Bloods
    • Unforgettable
    • Psych
    • Boston Legal
    • Law & Order: SVU
    • The Office
    • Medium
    • Curb Your Enthusiasm
    • Ghost Whisperer
    • Family Guy
    • Pushing Daisies
    • Entourage.

  • AWARDS

    • Jeff Award Nomination for Actor in a Principal Role for Animal Crackers (Goodman Theatre, 2010)

DAVID SCHWIMMER

Ensemble Member

Since 1988

David Schwimmer (he/him)

Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, David Schwimmer trained at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is a co-founder of the Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, where he has acted in, directed, and produced many productions, including: The Jungle, Big Lake Big City, Plantation!, Trust, Our Town, West, The Master and Margarita, In the Eye of the Beholder, The Odyssey, The Idiot, Of One Blood, his adaptation with Joy Gregory of Studs Terkel’s book Race, and Alexander Zeldin’s play Beyond Caring. He starred in the premieres of d-girl (Century City Playhouse) and Turnaround (Coast Playhouse) in Los Angeles, Glimmer Brothers (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Some Girls (Gielgud Theatre) in London, the revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (Broadway), and Detroit (Playwrights Horizons), as well as directed Sex with Strangers for the Second Stage Theatre in New York. 

David starred as Robert Kardashian in Ryan Murphy’s anthology miniseries, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, for which he received an Emmy Award Nomination.  

David’s notable television and film credits include: The Iceman, Nothing But The Truth, Madagascar I, II, & III, Duane Hopwood, Big Nothing, Band of Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Intelligence, Six Days Seven Nights, Apt Pupil, The Pallbearer, and the hit comedy series Friends, for which he received an Emmy Award Nomination. His film and television directing credits include: Friends, Growing Up Fisher, Since You’ve Been Gone, Run Fat Boy Run, the HBO series Little Britain USA, and Trust starring Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Viola Davis. 

He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Rape Foundation in Santa Monica, California. 

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LOOKINGGLASS PRODUCTIONS

PLANTATION!, 2018
BEYOND CARING, 2017
BIG LAKE BIG CITY, 2013
TRUST, 2010
OUR TOWN, 2009
RACE, 2003
THE IDIOT, 1998
IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, 1993
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, 1993
WEST, 1991
THE JUNGLE, 1990
THE ODYSSEY, 1990
OF ONE BLOOD, 1989

EDUCATION

B.S. in Speech/Theatre, Northwestern University

CREDITS AND AWARDS

  • THEATRE CREDITS


    ACTING
    Broadway/West End:

    • The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, NYC)
    • Some Girls (Gielgud Theatre, London)

    Regional:

    • d-girl (Century City Playhouse, Dark Harbor Productions)
    • Turnaround (Coast Playhouse, Dark Harbor Productions)
    • Glimmer Brothers (Williamstown Theatre Festival)
    • Detroit (Playwrights Horizons)

    DIRECTING
    Off Broadway: 

    • Fault Lines (Cherry Lane Theatre)

    Regional:

    • Sex with Strangers (Second Stage Theater)

  • FILM CREDITS


    ACTING

    • The Iceman
    • Nothing But The Truth
    • Madagascar I, II, & III
    • Duane Hopwood
    • Big Nothing
    • Six Days Seven Nights
    • Apt Pupil
    • The Pallbearer

    DIRECTING

    • Trust
    • Since You’ve Been Gone
    • Run Fat Boy Run

  • TELEVISION CREDITS

    • American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (FX)
    • Friends (NBC)
    • Band of Brothers (HBO)
    • Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)

  • AWARDS

    • Primetime Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie for American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson
    • Primetime Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Friends
    • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Friends
    • Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television for Band of Brothers

DANIEL OSTLING

DANIEL OSTLING

Ensemble Member

Since 2003

Artistic Associate

Since 1997

Daniel Ostling (he/him) is a two time Tony Award-nominated Scenic (and Lighting) Designer based in San Francisco, Chicago and NYC. He has been an ensemble member of Lookingglass since 2003 (1997–2003, Artistic Associate) where he has designed over 26 productions. He is a long-time collaborator with fellow Lookingglass Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman with whom he has designed over 27 productions, including Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway, 2003 Tony Award Nomination for Best Scenic Design).

Recent productions worth note include: Rusalka (Metropolitan Opera in NYC, 2017), a new Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), an original ballet Carmen (K-Ballet, Tokyo), Timon of Athens and Guys & Dolls (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Lookingglass Alice (Lookingglass, regional theatre tours), King Charles III (American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco), Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway, 2012 Tony Award Nomination for Best Scenic Design, 2012 Tony Award-Winner for Best Play), White Snake (Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China; Guthrie Theater; The Old Globe; Goodman Theater; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; McCarter Theatre), Candide (Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston), Title and Deed (sets and lights, Lookingglass), and Danai Gurira’s The Convert (Princeton, LA, Chicago, Ovation Award for Best Scenic Design). He will be designing scenery for The Odyssey at Oregon Shakespeare Festival opening July 2017 and K-Ballet’s (Tokyo) new production of Cleopatra opening in October 2017.

His work as a director includes his 2016 Lookingglass directing debut production of Blood Wedding (which he also designed sets for) and his 2011 production of Jacque Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at Two River Theater in New Jersey.

He has worked at numerous regional theaters across the country, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York Shakespeare Festival (in Central Park), Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizon, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.), Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Theater Company (San Francisco), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center for the Arts and Portland Center Stage, among many others.

Opera designs include: Rusalka, Lucia Di Lammermoor, and La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera, NYC), LaScala (Milan, Tokyo), Merry Widow (Lyric Opera or Chicago), Ainadmar (Tanglewood Music Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic), Phillip Glass’ Galileo Galilei (NYC, London, Chicago) and Suor Angelica/Gianna Schicchi (San Francisco Opera Center).

Internationally, his Pacific Overtures traveled to Donmar Warehouse in London (2003 Olivier Winner for Best Musical). His work has also been seen in Japan, Italy, Australia, China, the UK and Canada.

Dan was a tenured Associate Professor at Northwestern University in Chicago from 2003–11 in the MFA program before he moved to San Francisco. Since, he has continued to teach at Northwestern part-time.

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Bio as of 2017

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LOOKINGGLASS PRODUCTIONS

MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN, 2019
HARD TIMES, 2017
BEYOND CARING, 2017
BLOOD WEDDING, 2016
TITLE AND DEED, 2015
LOOKINGGLASS ALICE, 2014
THE NORTH CHINA LOVER, 2013
BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, 2013
METAMORPHOSES, 2012
ETHAN FROME, 2011
LOOKINGGLASS ALICE, 2010
TRUST, 2010
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, 2009
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, 2008
LOOKINGGLASS ALICE, 2008
LOOKINGGLASS ALICE, 2007
ARGONAUTIKA, 2006
LOOKINGGLASS ALICE, 2005
THE SECRET IN THE WINGS, 2003
RACE, 2003
HARD TIMES, 2002
HARD TIMES, 2001
ELEVEN ROOMS OF PROUST, 2000
THE BARON IN THE TREES, 1999
METAMORPHOSES, 1998
THE IDIOT, 1998
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, 1997
28: PICTURES OF LIFE IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD, 1997
THE ODYSSEY, 1990

EDUCATION

MFA, Northwestern University
B.A., Northern Illinois University

CREDITS AND AWARDS

  • THEATRE CREDITS

    SCENIC DESIGN
    Broadway:

    • Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre, 2003)
    • Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr Theatre, 2012)

    Off-Broadway:

    • Metamorphoses (Second Stage Theatre)
    • Rusalka, Lucia Di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera)

    Chicago:

    • Candide, White Snake, The Convert (Goodman Theater)
    • Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago)

    International:

    • Carmen, Cleopatra (K-Ballet, Tokyo)
    • White Snake (Wuzhen Theatre Festival, China)
    • Pacific Overatures (Donmar Warehouse)

    Regional:

    • Christmas Carol, The Convert (McCarter Theatre)
    • Timon of Athens, Guys & Dolls, The Odyssey (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
    • King Charles III (American Conservatory Theater)
    • The Convert (Mark Taper Forum)

    DIRECTING
    Regional:

    • Jacque Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Two River Theater)

  • AWARDS

    • Tony Award Nomination for Best Scenic Design for Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre, 2003)
    • Tony Award Nomination for Best Scenic Design for Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr Theatre, 2012)
    • Ovation Award for Best Scenic Design for The Convert (Mark Taper Forum)
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