Jerome Kilty, who plays the role of Old
Ekdal in The Wild Duck, co-founded
The Brattle Theatre Company in 1948. For the A.R.T. he staged The Lost Boys
and Love's Labour Lost and has performed in nine productions, including
James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, the title role in King
Lear, Larry Gelbart's Mastergate, and Phil Hogan in A Moon for
the Misbegotten, a role he repeated on Broadway (Tony nomination, voted
best actor of the year by the Boston Theatre Critics Circle). He played Harry
Hope in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at The
Goodman Theatre in Chicago (Joseph Jefferson award for best actor). Most
recent credits include Horace Van Der Gelder in The Matchmaker at McCarter
Theatre and two seasons in Houston, both with the Alley Theater and Stages Repertory
Company, as director of Arms and the Man and playing Danforth in The
Crucible, Sheridan Whitehead in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Tobias
in A Delicate Balance (directed by Edward Albee). He also played King
Lear at The Asolo Theatre in Florida and the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival,
and was the Court Envoy in the world premiere of Robert Di Domenica's opera
The Balcony with the Opera Company of Boston both in Boston and at the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. His plays Dear Liar and The Ides of March
continue in the international repertoire.
American Repertory Theatre