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A Returning favorite and new faces in the courtroom
Judgment at Nuremberg cast lead by four distinguished actors 

The Willows Theatre Company is pleased to have one familiar face and three “new” actors leading the outstanding ensemble of Judgment at Nuremberg.  This gripping courtroom drama examines justice and the justice system several years after the end of World War II.

Oakland actor Robb Bauer makes his Willows debut as Colonel Tad Parker, the military attorney in charge of the prosecution.

A recent transplant to the Bay Area, Robb has performed at Baltimore’s CenterStage in An Ideal Husband and Romeo & Juliet, at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the national tour of Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse, and in Much Ado About Nothing for the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. With Shakespeare on Wheels, a unique program to bring summer theatre to communities across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and neighboring states, he toured in The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

As an ensemble member with Action Theater (Baltimore), he appeared in two European tours of BeckettLand, as well as productions of The Madman and the Nun, The Artificial Jungle, Cloud Nine, The American Dream, Mondo Shakespeare, and many others.  He was most recently seen on stage by Bay Area audiences in Shakespeare in Hollywood at TheatreWorks. Robb’s screen credits include roles in Cry Baby, Avalon, and Hairspray.

Mark Farrell, also an Oakland resident, returns to the Willows theatre for his sixth appearance, having previously appeared in Funny Girl, 1776, Merrily We Roll Along, Fiddler on the Roof, and Look Homeward Angel, (for which he won a Dean Goodman award).  As defense attorney Oscar Rolfe, his job is to present arguments for the German jurists on trial for crimes against humanity.

Mark’s extensive Bay Area career includes performances in Scott Capurro’s Loaded at ODC Theatre; Cabaret at Solano College (Directed by George Maguire); The Fantasticks at SF Playhouse (for which he won a  Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award); A Map of the World (Dean Goodman Award) at Theatrefirst; 1776 for Woodminster Summer Musicals; Me & My Girl, Lady in the Dark, The Crucible, and Wonderful Town (BATCC nomination) at Marin Theatre Company; Nasty Little Secrets at UC Berkeley; and Caligula at Theatre Artaud. He has also worked with such esteemed companies as Central Works, Playground, 42^nd Street Moon, and Golden Thread, and most recently, appeared at Center REPertory as Noel Coward in their production of Noel & Gertie, directed by Barbara Damashek.

George Maguire’s work is already known to Willows audiences, though he makes his Willows Theatre acting debut as presiding Judge Dan Heywood — he directed the renowned Willows productions of Master Class and Breaking Legs.

Besides being the proud Artistic Director of Solano College Theater, this is the beginning of the San Francisco resident’s 41st year as a professional actor, having debuted in 1964 at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera with Ginger Rogers and Phil Silvers. 

His numerous stage credits include the Broadway revival of Canterbury Tales, the national company of Nicholas Nickelby, such regional theaters as Actors Theater of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, Tenessee’s Clarence Brown Theater, the Northshore Shakespeare Festival, the Pennsylvania Stage Company, PCPA Theaterfest, the Great Lakes Theater Festival and many more.  Locally, he has been seen at CenterREP in Woman in Black, Pacific Alliance Theater in Dancing at Lughnasa, Marin Shakespeare Festival in Othello & She Stoops to Conquer.

His over 30 film and TV Credits include: Fight Club, The Sweetest Thing, The Game, True Crime, the pilot episode of The Division, and as Lt. Gov. Mel Wexler on Nash Bridges. Upcoming film releases are The Darwin Awards with Joseph Feinnes and Winona Rider and The Zodiac Killer with Justin Chambers and Rory Culkin.

George brings with him a vast amount of personal knowledge to draw upon for this production.  He holds a degree in Germanistik from Philipps Universitat, Marburg, Germany and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He also studied at Goethe University, Munich, through Lewis & Clark University in Portland. While he lived in Munich, he visited both Nuremberg and Dachau; the latter trip was a life-altering experience.

Robert Parsons of Berkeley makes his Willows Theatre Company debut in the demanding role of principal defendant Ernst Janning.

Most recently seen in The Black Rider (directed by Robert Wilson) at the Sydney Festival in Australia, Robert’s local credits include work at ACT in The Black Rider, The Colossus of Rhodes, Buried Child and Good; at Berkeley Rep in The Heiress; with The Magic Theatre in The Right Kind of People, Lonesome West, Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, Schrödinger’s Girlfriend and The American in Me; for Marin Theatre Company in Communicating Doors, Visions of Kerouac and Pal Joey; and Word for Word (Three Blooms and Oil!) as well as work for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Stage Company, The Z Studio, Shotgun Players, Fifth Floor, Rough and Tumble, TheatreWorks and the Sacramento Theatre Company.

Regionally, Robert has performed with the Arizona Theatre Company in The Heiress, The Alley Theatre (Misalliance), New Repertory Theatre (One Flea Spare) and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Cyrano, Henry IV and Two gentleman of Verona.) His film work includes roles in the independent features Almost Famous and Black August.