Ambrose starred in the 2006 Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! and appeared in Buried Child at London's National Theatre. She is best known for playing Claire Fisher in the HBO series Six Feet Under. The 29-year-old actress and her photographer husband became the parents of a son named Orson on January 17.
Isaac played Proteus in the 2005 Central Park revival of John Guare and Galt Mac Dermot's musical Two Gentlemen of Verona and appeared in Manhattan Theatre Club's off-Broadway production of Nilo Cruz's Beauty of the Father, directed by Greif. Born in Guatemala in 1980, Isaac is a graduate of Juilliard. He played Joseph in the recent film The Nativity Story and will appear alongside Benicio del Toro in Stephen Soderbergh's upcoming film Guerrilla.
Although the Public had announced last June that Brian Dennehy would star in Henry IV, Part I in the park, that choice of play and casting has now been scratched. Dennehy is co-starring with Christopher Plummer in the Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind, which begins performances at the Lyceum Theatre on March 19 and is scheduled to run through July 8.