Chapatti

2022 and 2023

By Christian O’Reilly

Directed by Robynn Rodriguez

Featuring Michael Elich and Robin Goodwin Nordli

This production was originally performed as part of our 2022 Season.

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Meet the Artists

Michael Elich (Dan)

Michael was last scene as Dan in Rogue Theater Company's production of Chapatti. A Juilliard graduate, Michael spent 21 seasons as an OSF acting company member, where he was seen in roles as varied as Claudius in Hamlet; The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance; Orsino and Feste in Twelfth Night; King John in King John; Harold Hill in The Music Man; Jaggers in Great Expectations; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Kodaly in She Loves Me; Prince John in The Heart of Robin Hood; Marcus in Party People; Aufidius in Coriolanus; Buckingham in Richard III; Harry Van in Idiot’s Delight; Thersites in Troilus and Cressida; The Actor in Enter the Guardsman; Hotspur and Bardolph in Henry IV; Antonio in The Merchant of Venice; Hap in Death of a Salesman; and Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing!, among others. In three seasons with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Michael has been seen as Long John Silver in Treasure Island; The Duke of York in the Henry VItrilogy; Macduff in Macbeth; Burbage in Shakespeare in Love; and Jaques in As You Like It. Internationally, he premiered in David Edgar’s Continental Divide as Don D’Avanzo at London’s Barbican Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Michael has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway and regional theaters including Party People at The Public Theatre; Mark Rothko in RED; Prime Minister Evans in King Charles III; Claudius and The Ghost in Hamlet at the Clarence Brown Theatre; Gregor in The Monster Builder; and as Victor (2015 Drammy Award) in The Price at Artists Repertory Theatre. Other theaters include Playwrights Horizons, The York Theatre Company, Orpheum Theatre, Hartford Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, the Dallas Theatre Company, and the 30th anniversary production of Inherit the Wind with E. G. Marshall and Robert Vaughn at The Papermill Playhouse. TV credits include One Life to Live and Ryan’s Hope. michaelelich.com

Robin Goodrin Nordli (Betty)

Robin was last scene in Rogue Theater Company's production of Chapatti, (Betty), and as Nora in A Doll’s House, Part 2. She has been a company member with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 26 seasons: 76 roles in 58 productions, including Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Jack’s Mother in Into the Woods (both at OSF and the Wallis Annenberg Center, Los Angeles); Gertrude in Hamlet; The Chorus in Henry V; Rosalind in As You Like It; Viola in Twelfth Night; Lady Macbeth in Macbeth; Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance; Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler and The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler; Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac; Margaret in Henry VI Parts One, Two/Three and Richard III; Irene in Idiot’s Delight; Becca in Rabbit Hole; Portia in The Merchant of Venice; and Rebecca West in Rosmersholm. Other theatres include California Shakespeare Theater, (two seasons), Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, (three seasons), South Coast Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Arizona Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Grove and VITA Shakespeare Festivals and Artist Repertory Theatre, among others. She authored and performed “VIRGINS TO VILLAINS: My Journey with Shakespeare’s Women” (a one-woman show), “BARD BABES” and “SHAKESPEARE’S LABORS IN LOVE.” Film/TV credits include White Mile, Eyes of Terror, Wolf, Dead Pan Alley, Amen, Cutters, and Raspberry Heaven, among others. Awards: Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship (2013), Oregon Arts Commission 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship, Bay Area Theatre Critics, Drama-logue, and Back Stage West Award. Robin holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Tulsa and an MFA from the American Conservatory Theatre. RGNordli.com

Michael Elich and Robin Goodrin Nordli have performed in 22 productions together.

Robynn Rodriguez (Director)

Robynn is an actor who began directing plays professionally in 2013. Once a resident actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, her acting work has been seen at the Public Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Kennedy Center, Berkeley Rep, and the Barbican (UK), among others. She has directed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival (King John, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It), American Players Theatre (A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur), Pacific Conservatory Theatre (Richard III), West Virginia University (Hedda Gabler), and University of Texas, Austin (Twelfth Night). Robynn’s work as a director has been a welcome and challenging extension of her work as an actor. r obynnrodriguez.com