Glenn B. Stoops

Glenn has performed at NJ Rep in Theatre Brut I-IV, the readings of Home Movies, The Hard Way, Lapse of Reason, and in the short lived cult favorite, Underground Rep. Other local appearances include work with Dorothy Parker Day and Arsenic and Old Lace at Shadowlawn Theater. NYC credits include Boomerang Theatre Company: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Berowne), Quest Theater Ensemble: Angel Street (Rough), Blunt Theater Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon), The Bacchae (Cadmus), Macbeth (Duncan), Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre: Dinner with Friends (Tom), Little Shop of Horrors (Orin, etc.), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato Dooley), Crimes of the Heart (Doc), Banned in Warwick Productions: Pantalone’s War, Pantalone’s Dungeon, The Miss Perfect Padua Pageant (Dottore), Pulse Ensemble Theatre: A Flea in Her Ear (Ferraillon), The Tempest (Antonio), King Lear (Albany), Trinity Players: The Seagull (Shamrayev), Vital Theatre Company: America is My Home (Man), Theatreworks USA: Charlotte’s Web (Templeton/ Lurvy/Arable). Regional credits include Civic Theatre of Central Florida (Orlando, FL), Beechwood Theatre Company (Newport, RI), Playhouse on the Square (Memphis, TN), Sterling Renaissance Festival (Sterling, NY), Nebraska Theatre Caravan (Omaha, NE), EPCOT Center, and Universal Studios Florida. Glenn (AEA/ SAG) can also be seen in his long running (since 2005) one person show about Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, performed daily on Liberty Island in New York City.

John Lombardi

John received his BA in theatre from Roger Williams U., and his MA in speech and theatre from Montclair State U., where he was also employed as an adjunct professor. John has performed in NY and throughout the US with the award-winning children's theatre company Theatreworks USA, bringing theatre to young audiences all across the country in such roles as Ferdinand in Columbus and Theodore Sr. in Teddy Roosevelt. His stock and regional theatre credits include El Gallo in The Fantasticks (Worcester Foothills), Garfinkle in Other People's Money (Public Theatre, ME.), Matt in Tally's Folly, Jules in Sunday In The Park With George, Don Quixote in Man Of La Mancha and the gangster Frankie Scarpini in the revival of Fiorello! with Tom Bosley (Westbury Music Fair). Recently he appeared at the Forum Theater in The Jazz Singer and at NJ Rep in the readings of Lying in State, Maggie Rose and in the mainstage production of Harry and Thelma in the Woods.

Rusty Ross

Broadway: Original cast of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Hilton Theatre & St. James Theatre). New York: Robert Wilson’s Alice (Brooklyn Academy of Music), N. Richard Nash’s The Loss of DNatural. Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pioneer Theatre), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, directed by Jack O’Brien (Old Globe Theatre), The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by John Christopher Jones, How to Succeed... and Proposals (Depot Theatre), Crimes of the Heart and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Totem Pole Playhouse), Six Degrees of Separation (Weston Playhouse). TV: Law & Order.

Al Mohrmann

Al was recently seen in Centenary Stage Company's Alice in Ireland and. Al was last heard there as the voice of Byron Weld, the ailing radio DJ in Park Your Car in Harvard Yard. In the Fall, Al appeared at Centenary as Prosecutor Smith in The Tillie Project. Al has been a working actor for the past twenty years. During that span he has worked in theatre, film, television, commercials, and industrial films. In January he completed an eight-week run of Big Boys, a play co-produced by the New Jersey Repertory Company and Playwright’s Theatre of New Jersey. In two earlier visits to NJ Rep., Al appeared as Jerry in the East Coast premiere of Maggie Rose, and as Fred in the world premiere of Till Morning Comes. Al has performed in a Murder Mystery while cruising down the Nile in Egypt, and in a wide variety of other Murder Mysteries in many exotic - and some not so exotic – locations around the world. Other favorite acting roles include Johnny in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at the Gallery Players in Brooklyn; Barrymore in I Hate Hamlet at the Ozark Actor’s Theatre in Missouri; Artie in House of Blue Leaves at The Height’s Players in Brooklyn; Morrell in Candida at The Seventh Sign in NYC; and James in A Circle on the Cross at The Open Eye, also in NYC. Al has an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University (where he was also a Warner Teaching Fellow), and an MA in English Literature from the University of Michigan. Al would like to thank his wonderful wife Jessica, and his beautiful daughter Gillian, for letting him spend time at the theatre and play.

Philip Lynch

Philip (AEA) received his B.F.A. in Acting from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. His New York credits include Candide (78th Street Theatre Lab), Medea (Duality Playhouse), Boys in Bars (featuring Kevin Bacon), Flash, Adrift, and Sunday Morning. In Philadelphia, Philip starred in The Virgin Molly and When She Danced at the Wilma Theatre, Of Mice and Men at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Don Juan, The Winters Tale, and Treasure Island at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, and played the lead in Live Long, Drink Juice, an independent film. Most recently, Philip was seen in NJ Rep's Main Stage production of Ends. In addition, he has appeared in staged readings of The Horrors of Doctor Moreau, Past Palpable, Maggots, For the Love Juliet, Strangers in the Night with Kelly Bishop, and Greytop in Love with Kim Hunter and Bob Emmett.

Burt appeared at NJ Rep in the mainstage productions of Piaf in Vienna and Immortal Interlude, as well as the staged readings of Immortal Interlude, The Dead Boy, and The Speck of Dust in Bugsy's Eye with Kim Hunter, directed by Peter Bennett, with whom he worked at Pittsburgh Public Theatre in The Cocktail Hour. Prior to the Pittsburgh engagement, he had appeared in the Gurney play in New York, Cleveland and Paper Mill Playhouse. Burt was in the farewell Yul Brynner production of The King and I at the Broadway Theatre and was also on Broadway in Shaw's Getting Married. Since then he has worked in regional theatres across the nation, as well as appearing in most soap operas and twice on Law and Order.

Peter Zazzali

Peter's professional acting experience includes work with: NY Theatre: Target Margin Theatre Co., Ensemble Studio Theatre, Metropolitan Playhouse, Judith Shakespeare Co., and the American Globe Theatre. Regional Theatre: George St. Playhouse, Portland Stage Co., North Shore Music Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, American Shakespeare Theatre, Theatre at Monmouth, and the Utah, Fort Worth, and New Jersey Shakespearean Festivals. As a director Peter has worked for Dixon Place, Riant Theatre, Genesius Guild, Shadowlawn Summerstage, and the Professional Performing Arts High School where he also teaches acting. Peter received his training at Calarts and the University of Delaware.

Brian has been primarily acting in independent films. His credits include Kevin Smith's Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Groupies, Dogma and Vulgar. A recent feature, Drop Dead Rose will be at the Phoenix Film Festival this spring. His theater credits include: Sylvia, Wait Until Dark, The Glass Menagerie, The Dresser, Dracula, and Crimes of the Heart. He starred in A World I Never Made at NJ Rep and An Unhappy Woman, and has also performed in several staged readings including Belial, The Body Guard, Panama, Looking for Love, The Good Daughter and Sight to See. He starred in the animated TV series Clerks. It is also being made into a feature film due to be released next year. Most recently he appeared in Kevin Smith's, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and was seen on The Tonight Show in the 10-minute film The Flying Car.

Kurt Elftmann

Kurt Elftmann is a veteran stage actor and a member of Actor's Equity Association as well as SAG and AFTRA who currently resides in New York City. He received his professional training at the American Musical & Dramatic Academy as well as in private study with his mentor the late Judy Magee. During a career that has garnered him several awards and honors, among them five OOBR Awards, Kurt has worked with such notable talents as Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei, as well as Tony Award winners Anthony LaPaglia, Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Pamela Isaacs and Lorraine Serabian. His off-Broadway appearances have included performances in Blue Light Theater Company's award winning revival of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty, directed by Joanne Woodward as well as creating several roles in the original workshop production of Cy Coleman and Ira Gasman's Tony Award winning The Life, directed and choreographed by Joe Layton. From the beginning of his career Kurt has enjoyed being part of the new works development process and that commitment has continued with participation in ground breaking companies like New York's Expanded Arts, Hypothetical Theater Company and Workshop Theater. Kurt is also an original member of New Jersey Repertory Company and has been pleased to call it his artistic home-away-from-home, having taken part in many readings and two full productions; Octet and Slave Shack. Film work includes appearances in Happy Hour, with Mr. LaPaglia and Eric Stoltz and the romantic interest in the upcoming Slice. In December ’06 Kurt will appear with Keir Dullea in the premiere production of the new play Strings in New York.

Clark Carmichael

This year, Clark Carmichael has appeared as Nick in Expecting Isabel at Dreamcatcher Rep, Michael in Dead Certain at the Bickford Theatre and George Deever in All My Sons at Two River Theater Company. Clark played a Jumper on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers directed by David Leveaux and starring Simon Russell Beale. Regionally, he has appeared at the Missouri Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Theatre Project, Mill Mountain Theatre, The Acting Company, Hope Summer Rep, Apple Tree Theatre, New York State Theatre Institute, and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. On television, Clark appeared on As The World Turns, Campbell Scott’s film Hamlet and will appear this season on Law & Order and Kidnapped. Clark holds a M.F.A. in acting and directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and BS in speech with a major in theatre from Northwestern University. Love and thanks to Lynn, Sean and Sara.

Ames Adamson

Ames Adamson has played in seven NJRep productions, Panama (as the Everyman) and Maggie Rose (as Mr. Deluca), the co-production with The Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey of Circumference of a Squirrel (as Chester, et al) and Old Clown Wanted (as Niccolo), Tilt Angel (as Red), Tour de Farce (as Man et al), and Engaging Shaw (as G. Bernard Shaw) as well as a dozen or so staged readings, including presenting one of his own plays Bug Chasers in a reading, and four Theatre Brut plays. He has also directed two short plays for the Theatre Brut Festival. Already scheduled in 2009 he will appear in the World Premier of Little Lamb at the Interact Theatre in Philadelphia,  2008 regional credits include: Circumference of a Squirrel at the Riveride Theatre in Vero Beach, FL, King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, On Golden Pond and The Mousetrap at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre in Arrow Rock MO.   2007 credits include: A Christmas Carol and Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Tour de Farce at the Penguin Rep in Stony Point NY, and Driving Miss Daisy at Riverside Theater of Vero Beach, FL. Other Regional credits include: Circumference of a Squirrel at the Shadowlands Theatre in Ellenville, NY, Greater Tuna at the Actors Theatre of Atlanta, Merry Wives of Windsor, Illyria, Love's Labour's Lost, and King John at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, where he also toured with Shakespeare LIVE!, the educational touring company, as well as Foreign Exchange at Playwrights Theatre of NJ, and a wild British farce called The Lying Kind at What Exit? Theatre.He can be seen and sometimes not seen in background work in both film and television.  Ames considers his artistic home to be the NJRep. He is a resident of Philadelphia. For more infrmation, his website is www.amesadamson.com.

Duncan Rogers

New Jersey 's largest daily, The Star Ledger, calls him "One of the states most impressive young performers".  He is the founder and executive producer of Freshwater Films, LLC whose second film, The Reader starring Elizabeth Franz and Morgan Hallett is in post production. The Company's first film, The Ables House is Green recently screened at the Vermont International Film Festival and is under consideration at a number of other festivals around the world. As an actor he was most recently seen as Hamilton Orr in the Bickford Theater production of Smoke and Mirrors . Before that as Tranio in Taming of the Shrew at North Shore Music Theater in Beverly Ma. Dr. Jim Tennyson in Ira Levin's melodrama Dr. Cooks Garden at the Bickford Theater. Mark in Emily Mann's Still Life with the Women's Theater Cooperative in Madison, NJ; Alfred Allmers in Ibsen's Little Eyolf at the Century Center for the Performing Arts in NYC, where he had previously appeared as Dr. Relling in The Wild Duck. First Night at the Bickford Theater in NJ and the critically acclaimed production of Naked By The River with The New Jersey Repertory Co. NYC credits include Becoming Becoming at The Flatiron Theater, Desperations at Theater for the New City, Durang, Durang and More Durang with the American Globe Theater; The Ball of Roses and The Richardson Exhibit with Theatrix, The Time of Your Life with Chain Lightning, 12th Night with SOS Productions. Regional credits include Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive in Maine, Lenny in Rumors, Horatio in Hamlet, and Max in The Real Thing with The Hilberry Rep Co in Detroit. Numerous roles with Israel Horowitz's Gloucester Stage Co., as well as The Lyric, The Publick, and the Huntington theaters, all in Boston.

Frederic Heringes

Frederic Heringes studied acting at The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in California and was a member of the repertory acting company there for five seasons, appearing in over thirty plays and musicals. He has performed the role of the tenor Ubaldo Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera with theBroadway, Toronto, and San Francisco companies.   Recent New York City stage roles include: Alonso in The Tempest (Sonnet Repertory Theatre), Ariste in The Learnèd Ladies (Gallery Players, Brooklyn), Henry in Mud (Red Room Theater), and Marty/Sunbarker in Trouble in Shameland, a new musical by Bryan Putnam, at the NY International Fringe Festival.  He was in residence at The Mountain Playhouse in Pennsylvania this past summer appearing in Unnecessary Farce, Beauty and the Beast, the premiere production of Stonewall's Bust (by John Morogiello), Be My Baby, and The Road to Washington (premiere).  Recent film: Harlan in Brutal Massacre, A Comedy directed by Stevan Mena. TV: appearances on The Guiding Light (CBS) www.Frederic-Heringes.com  Theatrical representative: Judy Boals www.JudyBoals.com

Gregory Mikell

Gregory is pleased to make his debut with the Quantum Theatre’s Breakfast With Mugabe.   Other work includes Othello and Macbeth as part of New Perspective Theatre’s Shakespeare’s Villains series, New Jersey Repertory’s Theatre- Brute Series, All For Love with Boomerang Theatre at NY Center Stage, The Exonerated at Florida Studio Theatre, Gentleman caller in a Creative Artist Lab adaptation of The Glass Menagerie as well as The Seagull.  Other work includes Wings Theatre Company’s Richard The Lionheart while rehearsing with Stage East ensemble for a production of Lee Blessing’s A Walk In The Woods in the role of John Honeyman.  Soon after, he played the role of Kulygin in Chekhov’s Three Sisters with the Prospect Theatre Company, The Memory Orchestra at HERE Art Center, Welcome To Our City by Thomas Wolfe at The Mint Theatre, toured with Theatre Works USA’s The Color of Justice by: Cheryl Davis. Other favorite roles include Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Cloten in Cymbeline, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy.  Recent film credits include the lead role in the Indie GUN; Broken City, shorts: Heart Attack and Buddy Hampton, as well as being a voice-over artist. You can view his work at www.gregorymikell.com  

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Clark Gookin

Clark Gookin is a Colorado native.  New York credits: Shelf: A Tragety at 45 Degrees.  Regional credits: She Stoops To Conquer and Tartuffe, at Centenary Stage; Midsummer Night’s Dream and Scapin, at Mile Square Theatre; Twelfth Night and three productions of A Christmas Carol, at Tri-state Actors Theater; Colorado Quickies, at The New Denver Civic Theatre; and The Country Club, at Alliance Rep.  He earned his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, and his BFA from the University of Evansville.

James Nugent

Broadway: The Nerd. Off- and Off-Off Broadway: Pearl Theatre Company; Medicine Show Ensemble, Workshop Theatre Company, Hudson Guild Theater, Theatron, Inc., The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Ubu Repertory, The Negro Ensemble Company, Riverside Shakespeare Company. Regional:  Luna Stage, Airmid Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, The Studio Theatre, Source Theatre. TV:  Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Hope and Faith, Spin City, Welcome to New York, Madigan Men, Autopsy, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, All My Children, Loving, Ryan's Hope, The Equalizer.  (AEA, SAG, AFTRA).

Jim Donovan

Jim Donovan (A.E.A.) has acted locally, Off-Broadway and in regional theatres throughout the country, including Theatre for a New Audience, La Mama, and Riverside Shakespeare in NYC; South Coast Repertory and others in California, and Theatre at Monmouth, Oldcastle Theatre and Portland Stage in New England. At New Jersey Repertory, Jim served as Director and Actor in  Tomorrow's Promise, a project he helped to develop in response to the events of 9-11-01. In addition, Jim appeared as the Cellist in the premiere of Octet. He has also participated in many of NJ Rep's staged readings. In addition to his work at NJ Rep, Jim made an Equity Special Appearance in the title role in Barnum at Holmdel Theatre Company. Prior to that, Jim served as Faculty Guest Artist at Monmouth University, appearing as Galileo in Brecht's Galileo and Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey. In addition to playing numerous roles in classical and contemporary plays, Jim has performed in musical theatre and operatic productions, including work with the Monmouth Civic Chorus and Monmouth Conservatory of Music. Jim has enjoyed directing as well, from children's opera to college and professional productions. He directed, scene-designed and wrote music for a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Holmdel Theatre Company. Currently, Jim is working hard to create a Cultural Arts & Enrichment Center so that music and arts may play a greater role in his town, Holmdel, NJ. He holds an MFA in Acting from the University of California at Irvine. He has taught Acting and Theatre courses there, at Monmouth University, and for the Holmdel Township Recreation Department. Jim has been a member of the NJ Rep company since 1998.

Barney Fitzpatrick

Barney's latest film, A Normal Life, written and directed by Dewey Moss is enjoying great success as an Official Selection by festivals domestically and internationally including New Zealand and Manila. The film has also been selected as the Winner of the Best Feature Debut of The 2003 Q Cinema International Film Festival. Other film credits include Bravo Giorgio, Hollywood, PA and Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite. His TV credits include a co-starring role in the mini-series A War of China's Fate, three years in a recurring role on All My Children and a recurring role this past season on Law & Order, including the season opener of Ed with Danny DeVito, and the Chappelle Show. New York theatre credits include the Off-Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Stealing Fire at SOHO Rep and Moony's Kid Don't Cry at the Westside Art's Theater. He was producer and founding member of The Artist's Theatre Company where he appeared in productions of The Perfect Party and Social Security. This is his return to NJ Rep where he originated the role of Captain Lob in the world premiere production of The Girl with the High Rouge and participated in several readings for their script in hand series. Most of all, he thanks his beautiful wife, Donna, for her love and unending support.

NJ Rep credits include: Sidney Webb in Engaging Shaw on the Main Stage and the Theatre Brut 2005 and 2008 Festivals as well as numerous readings as an actor and as a director. Marc recently directed the world premiere of the new Off-Broadway show Acts of Love at the Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row. Other directing credits include Julie Jensen's Two-Headed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, MA, Souvenir at StageWorks/Hudson in Hudson, NY, the world premieres of the hit Off-Broadway show Ascension and Dammerung both at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row as well as The Fabulous Kane Sisters in Box Office Poison at the Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC. Recent acting credits include the world premiere of Stephen Temperly’s play The Pilgrim Papers directed by Vivian Matalon at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Mystery of Irma Vep as Nicodemus, Lady Enid, Alcazar and Pev Amri at The Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, CT. and the world premiere of Trio Sonata as Robert Schumann for the Women’s Theatre Company in Parsippany, NJ. NYC acting credits include: Joshua/Cathy in Cloud 9 at the Perry Street Theatre, Tennessee Williams in Adjoining Trances at the Beckett Theatre, the Herald in Marat/Sade at the Clurman Theatre and Saul in As Is at the 45th Street Theatre, Carl Spector in Holy Ghosts at the Judith Anderson Theatre, Chicklet in Psycho Beach Party at Theatre Row Theatre and the world premieres of The Frankenstein Summer (Lord Byron), Naked Will (Oscar Wilde), The Blue Flower (Typewriter Man), Bomber Jackets (Erica), Prince Hal (Irwin) as well as the first NYC revivals of Shopping and Fucking (Brian), Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love (David), Bent (Rudy) directed by Michael Mayer and Exit The King (Berenger I). He is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actor’s Guild and AFTRA.

David Sitler

David Sitler is thrilled to be on the roster of men at NJ Rep.  He will be seen next at Luna Stage in A Beautiful Home for the Incurable.  He has worked on Broadway (An Inspector Calls), and around the NYC area with over 16 theatre companies as well as regionally from Maine to Utah at Ford's Theatre, TN REP, Charlotte Rep, Swine Palace, Human Race, Surflight, Centenary Stage, Trump Plaza, Clarence Brown and Luna Stage to name a few playing roles from "Peck" in How I Learned to Drive, "Atticus" in To Kill A Mockingbird, "Robert" in Betrayal...twice..."Morgan" in the Drawer Boy...twice, "Serge" and "Marc" in ART, "Gene" in Side Man.   He has played lead roles in the outdoor dramas Blue Jacket and Utah! and the titular role in Tecumseh. TV credits include Law and Order-SVU, Now and Again, Guiding Light, As The World Turns, and the award winning films Ghetto Dawg, and Treeshade and the soon to be released Life's Decision.  When not onstage he has played the web wonder Spider-Man around the world for Marvel Comics.  He is married to actor Carolyn Popp.

Peter Bisgaier

Some of Peter’s favorite roles include Mr. Orange in the NY Stage Premier of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (Empire Theatre Co.), Jonathan Harker in Dracula (Delaware Theatre Co.), Faulkland in The Rivals (Horse Cave Theatre), the title role in The Nerd (Phoenix Theatre), and Clive/Cathy in Cloud Nine (Green Room Theatre, L.A.). He is co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of the Empire Theatre Company which most recently produced the controversial Roberto Zucco in NYC. He is also a playwright and his adaptation of the novel Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), had its first public staged reading this September 2003. Peter is a graduate of the Michael Howard Studios Professional Conservatory and has been associated with the studio since 1998. Peter would like to thank his wife, Corinna, and his family for their continued support.

John Morton

John Morton has lived and worked all over the northeast. Roles include Ferdinand in The Tempest and Dorset in Richard III (Maine Shakespeare Festival), Gilbert in Anne of Green Gables (Penobscot Theater), Claudio and Elbow in Measure for Measure (Theater Cooperative), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Footlight Club), Cinesias in Lysistrata (Queens Players), John F. Kennedy in Road to Freedom (Theater Garden), and several roles in Wildlife Theater at the Central Park Zoo. John is a member of the Actor's Equity Association and studies at the T. Schreiber Studio with Terry Schreiber.

Brian Patacca

Brian most recently completed shooting Pastoral, an independent film on location in the Adirondacks. Other film credits include Trans (lead), Burp (lead), Broken Eros (supporting). He has appeared on As The World Turns, All My Children; and VH1's Games People Play where he won the grand prize in the actors' game show. Off-Broadway he was part of the original cast of John Fisher's Joy and shook his groove thing nightly in the runaway disco hit, The Donkey Show. He has appeared with TVI Consultant Kate Tellers as husband and wife in Horticultural Therapy at The American Globe Theater. Regionally he has been seen with The Provincetown Theatre Company as The Third Man in Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz and in The Dead Boy as the title role. Provincetown also saw him as Perry in Love! Valour! Compassion! Media, Pennsylvania audiences saw him as Pharaoh and Napthali in Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Internationally Brian has been seen with The Honeyboys (think The Monkees meet N'Sync). Brian received his bachelors degree in theatre from Northwestern University and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio.

Gary Lamadore

Gary had a blast this past summer entertaining audiences as Polonius in a NYC parks tour of Hamlet. His numerous NYC Theatre credits include the role of Saul Kimmer in The National Shakespeare Company's Special Presentation of True West (Chelsea Playhouse), the doomed Cradeau in No Exit (Playwrights Horizons Summerfest), Oliver Edwards in Return Engagements ( Mint Theatre) and a number of original plays at such theatres as The Ensemble Studio Theatre; La Mama; Theatre For The New City; P.S. 122; The Currican Theatre; The Miranda Theatre Company; The West Side Rep and on Theatre Row the Harold Clurman, Samuel Beckett and Judith Anderson Theatres. He can be seen on second season re-runs of the hit HBO series The Sopranos as "Chuckie" the detective opposite mob boss Uncle Junior. Other TV and film includes One Life To Live;Guiding Light;The Dana Carvey Show and many corporate and independent films.

Cliff Jewell (A.E.A., SAG) received his training at the Drama Studio, London, UK. Recently relocated to New Jersey, he has appeared as Clive in Cloud 9, guest artist Kean University, Union, New Jersey, and as Detective Cole in Stop, Kiss also at Kean. Regional credits include Laertes in Hamlet, and Tranio in Taming of the Shrew at the Tennessee Repertory Company, Oedipus in Oedipus for Theatre Parthenos, Nashville, Bassov in Gorky's Summerfolk, and Gunner in Shaw's Misalliance at L.A. Repertory, Los Angeles, for which he was nominated for an Ovation Award as Best Featured Actor. Cliff's performance as Mark Twain in Sam Clemens and the Real Mark Twain has been seen nationally and on PBS. As a member of Young Audiences of New Jersey he brings the life and works of Mark Twain into New Jersey schools with the program, 'Twain You and Me. Cliff has adjunct taught classes in Period Styles in Acting for Kean University and has choreographed over 30 armed and unarmed stage combats.

Kevin Sebastian

Theatre – NYC: Importance of Being Earnest (Jack), Dark of the Moon (John), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Comet), Waiting for the Bus (Man, American Globe Theatre Best Actor Award), Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged (Jess), Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow), a 3-pack of Off and Off-Off Bway Shakespeare at the American Theatre of Actors. Regional & Tours: A Few Good Men (Sam Weinberg) at Cortland Rep, Omnium Gatherum (Khalid) & Valhalla (James Avery) at The Theater Project, Ragtime (Tateh) & West Side Story (Action) at NJPAC, Tartuffe (Orgon), Dracula (Van Helsing), National Theatre for Children Natl. tour, Legend of Sleepy Hollow Regional tour, London's Modern Eyes Theatre Company workshops. Film & Television - Killswitch at Cannes Film Festival and Seattle's Science Fiction Short Film Fest, Flatland Film Festival's The Cyclist , Hofstra Film Fest's award-winning The Lake Passage, Goyband, Sunday Times, Chad Lowe's Beautiful Ohio, and No Love in the City. Kevin is also a proud member of 12 Miles West & The Theater Project. Contact: kevsebastian@gmail.com.

Chris Harcum

Chris Harcum has appeared in Heaven and Earth and Leaving the Universe as well as a stage-in-hand reading of his one-man show, Anhedonia Road at NJ Rep. He has performed in over 120 plays by other playwrights. Favorite roles include: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Mozart in Amadeus, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Buff in Suburbia, The Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Cleante in The Miser, Lt. Clark in Our Country's Good, Julian in Toys in the Attic and Krogstad in A Doll's House. Independent films:  The Apostles of Park Slope, Cold War and My Little Friend. He has created the solo performances The Monster and the City, Some Kind of Pink Breakfast, Gotham Standards, Anhedonia Road, Weight and Weightlessness, Things You Don't Know, Mahamudra, and American Badass (or 12 Character in Search of a National Identity), which is being published in the Plays & Playwrights '09 anthology. His playwriting work includes I Don't Know, Instant Gratification, The Tree in the Yard, Branchalanche, Three-Month Freak Out, An Inconvenient Holiday, Vulnerability Assessment, and Hermetic Intervention. Upcoming: Milk and Shelter, Rabbit Island and The Devil in Miss Spelvin. Training: MFA in Acting from University of Virginia and BFA in Acting from UNC-Greensboro. North Carolina School of the Arts. He is also a member of Core Theatre Co. (Associate Artistic Director), Transport Group, Actors' Equity and Dramatists Guild. Please visit www.chrisharcum.com.

Kenneth Lee

A native of Singapore, Kenneth has directed, written and performed both in the United States and internationally. He wrote and directed Papercranes, Life is but a Dream and Suite One: Justice, a short film. Acting credits in Asia: Arsenic and Old Lace, Death of a Salesman, Lovers and Other Strangers, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard. He also appeared in the Asian television sitcom Under one Roof. New York credits include: The Rimers of Eldritch, The Robbers, The Sound of a Voice, Richard III and The Tempest. West Coast credits include: Son of Arlecchino, The Winters’ Tale, Leonce & Lena, The Water Engine. Most recently, he appeared in New Jersey Shakespeare Festival’s production of Pericles directed by Gabrielle Barr and won an Off-Off Broadway Review Award for founding his theatre company Method2Madness. Kenneth made the Dean's List and received his BFA at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He held a triple major in English, Cinema, and Acting, and graduated with high honors. He also trained at the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare Lab in NYC. He recently received his MFA in Acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

James Prendergast

New York Theatre: Productions at Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Directors Company, The Actors Company Theatre, New Georges, Turnip Theatre Company, Harold Clurman Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre.  National Tours: Harvey (with Gig Young); My Daughter, Your Son (with June Allyson). Regional: Old Globe Theatre; Dorset Theatre Festival; Hangar Theatre; Allenberry Playhouse; Shadowland; Self Arts Centerl Public Theatre of Maine; South Jersey Regional Theatre; Centennial Theatre Festival; National Theatre of Washington in Born Yesterday; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; Death of a Salesman; School for Scandal; Edward Albee's Seascape; Mr. Roberts; Inherit the Wind; A Doll's House; The Women in Black; Don't Dress for Dinner; The Immigrant; Ten Little Indians, etc. Film: Moscow on the Hudson; The Purple Rose of Cairo; Quiz Show; Stonewall. Television: As the World Turns (Eric Masterson); Guiding Light (Darryl Hotchkiss); All My Children (Sam Solsky); Prime Time Live; Late Show with David Letterman; Conan O'Brien; Dana Carvey Show; Izzy and Moe. Member - TACT/The Actors Company Theatre in New York City.

John FitzGibbon

John played opposite Loretta Swit in A Passionate Woman at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. He was a founding member of Jean Erdman's Theatre of the Open Eye (OBIE nomination for the lame beggar in W.B. Yeats' Cat and The Moon). In Hawaii, he collaborated with Ms. Erdman on Gauguin in Tahiti and in Athens, Greece with her late husband Joseph Campbell. Regionally, he has performed at the Mark Taper Forum, NY Public Theatre, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, the New Globe Theatre, Barter Theatre, New Repertory Theatre (Best of Boston Award for Jim Tyrone in Moon for the Misbegotten), and The Caldwell Theatre (Carbonell Nomination for Nick in Sight Unseen). He also worked on Broadway with Richard Kiley in The Incomparable Max! Film credits: Exorcist III, Run and No Things But Green Lights. Television: Pearl, The Islander, Equal Justice, several Hawaii 5-O's and all the soaps. At NJ Rep, John appeared in Piaf in Vienna, The Play's the Thing and Immortal Interlude. He also appeared in several staged readings, including A Mislaid Heaven, Winterizing the Summer House, The Dead Boy, Open Window and Immortal Interlude.

Ian August

Ian August has been a company member with NJ Rep since October 2000. Company credits include Tilt Angel (Ollie) (October, 2005), Raft of the Medusa (Tommy), Immortal Interlude and Mike Folie’s Panama (Grannie). He was also fortunate enough to perform as a special guest artist with Christine Lavin in her one woman show, Getting in Touch with My Inner B*tch. New York appearances include The Sound of Waves (Mabou Mines), Glue (The Cherry Lane Alternative Theater), The Book of Job (La MaMa), and Presumed Retarded (Manhattan Theater Source). Additional NJ regional credits include The Compleat Wrks of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Big Bang, The Santaland Diaries (Tri-State Actor's Theater), A Funny Thing...Forum, Pageant, Picasso at the Lapin Agile(Forum Theatre Company), Forever Plaid and Crimes of the Heart (Bickford Theater). In addition to stage acting, Ian is a voice over actor, lyricist and playwright. Two of his ten minute plays were produced at NJ Rep’s Theater Brut in March, 2005: Abraham on the Mount and Le Supermarche or What I Did For Lunch.

Duane Noch

Duane Noch made his NJ Rep debut in The Laramie Project. Regional credits include: The Laramie Project at Hartford TheaterWorks; Light Up the Sky at Two River Theatre Co.; The Last Night of Ballyhoo at The Forum Theater; How I Learned To Drive at Hartford TheaterWorks; Twelfth Night at Virginia Stage Co.; Othello at Great Lakes Theatre Fest.; and A Lie of the Mind at Euclid Theatre. NYC work includes: Taming of the Shrew at Hawk and Handsaw Productions; The Dance Lesson at Joe's Pub; The O. Henry Conspiracy at Metro Playhouse; FUN! at John Houseman Studio Theatre; and Zastrozzi at Primary Stages. Duane has played Oliver Peltz on Law & Order; and has done several commercials. He received his MFA from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Gary Martins

Gary's most recent N.Y. appearance was in The Famous Ghost Monologues, at the Abdingdon Theatre, and prior to that, in Meeting, a finalist for the Samuel French Festival. A long time member of 12 Miles West Theatre Co. in Montclair, he was Dimitri in the New Jersey premiere of The Brothers Karamozov, and part of the award-winning trio in A Complete History of America: Abridged. Other NJ credits include Search and Destroy, All The Rage, A Good Kid, Italian American Reconcilliation, and Four Dogs and a Bone, to name a few. As a director, Gary has helmed everything from musical comedy to the classics, with several hailed on "Best of Season" lists. Gary recently lent his voice to narrate the independent film The Accord.

Patrick McNulty

Patrick McNulty was last seen as Angelo in Measure For Measure for Real Time Theatre. Before his recent move to NYC, he toured nationally with the Off-Broadway one-man show, Fully Committed. He is a founding member of Roadworks Productions in Chicago with whom he has performed in countless productions including Suburbia (Midwest premiere), Was, The Lights (Midwest premiere), Lion in the Streets, and his own one man show about the life and work of E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings;As Is. Other credits include: The Miser (Geva Theatre); The Threepenny Opera, The Misanthrope, and the title role in Pericles (A.C.T.); Tartuffe and The Philadelphia Story (Court Theatre); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wisdom Bridge Theatre).

Douglas Taurel

Douglas Taurel originates from Texas. Performed George in Of Mice and Men (dir. by Pat Diamond) at Urban Stages, Lee & Austin in True West (dir. by Tim Phillips) at the New York Irish Center and Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland where it received a 4 and 5 star reviews. Other credits: The Ring (dir. by Stephen Jobes), Edward Albee’s Workshop (dir. Edward Albee), The New York Shakespeare Project, Abingdon Theater, The Drilling Company, Looking Glass Theater, Naked Angles, Trilogy Theater, The Rope by Plautus (The Strand Theater), The Lost Colony (Wayside Theater N.C. dir. Fred Chappell) New York’s Fringe Festival, New York’s Strawberry Festival (Finalist), Chilean Classic Hechos Consumados (dir. Martin Balmaceda at Northwestern University). Feature films: A Beautiful Mind, Immigration at HBO Latin Films Festival, Help Wanted (voted Cinequest Online Viewers Choice award for 2005) and recently finished filming The Better Born (dir. by Robert Lopuski). TV: Law & Order, Guiding Light, All My Children, PBS, Nickelodeon.

David Volin

The Women of Lockerbie marks David’s fourth appearance with NJ Rep, (not counting Theatre Brut) having last been seen in their critically acclaimed production of Klonsky & Schwartz under the direction of SuzAnne Barabas. Previous NJ Rep credits include The Laramie Project, and Raft of the Medusa. Some of David's other performing credits include Moll at the Walnut Street Theatre, Little Murders and The Underpants with Shadow Lawn Stage, Dirty Blonde with the Women’s Theater Company, Lost in Yonkers with The Theater Project, rogerandtom with Personal Space Theatrics, two productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Tri State Actors Theater and Holmdel Theatre Company, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Art, and On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning, all with Tri-State Actors Theatre. David also has various Film, Commercial, Industrial, and Voice Over credits that round out his body of work. A graduate of New York University, David has also taught the Michael Chekhov Technique in NYC and Chicago.

Burt Brooks

Burt Brooks recently received his BFA in Acting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.  He has also recieved classical training for a full school year at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England.  Since his graduation in May '06 he originated the role of Joe in the world premiere of The Revenants by Scott T. Barsotti at The Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC.  Recent film credits include:  Murder Mysteries (Starring), Degeneration (Supporting), The Emperor of Ice Cream (Supporting), and Cluster (Supporting opp. Corey Feldman).  While at Shakespeare's Globe he appeared in Troilus and Cressida (Achilles) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius).  Rutgers theatrical credits:  the main stage production of Audrey (Sam), Hoops (Mr. Stertz), Spliced Life (Multiple), and A Peace Between War (Multiple).

Robert Fass trained with Uta Hagen. He appeared opposite Theodore Bikel in the hit off-Broadway production of The Gathering at Playhouse 91. Other venues include Soho Rep, Hartford Stage, MCC PlayLab, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Mile Square, the Papp Public, NJ Rep, Premiere Stages, Manhattan Punch Line, Equity Library Theatre, Copacabana, Rainbow Room, and the Toyota Comedy Festival. In 2006, celebrated author Ray Bradbury hand-picked Robert to narrate the audiobook of his new novel, Farewell Summer (the sequel to his beloved classic Dandelion Wine). Robert has co-founded numerous successful comedy groups, including DC's Gross National Product, NYC's Some Assembly Required, and Radio Free Association, his improvised children's radio drama series which aired on NPR. Also a photographer, writer, director and prize-winning playwright, Robert has received several fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Saltonstall Foundation, Caldera, Fundación Valparaíso in Spain and the Julia & David White Colony in Costa Rica. He has received international acclaim for his ongoing photo essay on long-married couples in America, entitled As Long As We Both Shall Live, which was exhibited at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and is touring Europe through 2008. Excerpts can be viewed at http://www.longmarriedcouples.com.

Cary Woodworth

Cary is very proud to be involved with the amazing and potent theatre that comes out of the NJ Rep and excited about the continual growth of his work, especially in past few years. Selected - Off-Broadway/Regional Credits: Dewpoint (Hudson Guild Theatre), An American Family (Women's Project) The Dead Boy (NJ Rep). TV: Third Watch, Mary and Rhoda, Without a Trace. Films: The Money Shot, Red Doors (Winner - Tribeca Film Fest), Keeping the Faith, Almost Famous, Life, Translated, Limbo, Fuel and Rule of Three. Cary was also the first non-Chinese lead in a Mainland Chinese film in China 1949. Cary also writes music, plays and film scripts, and occasionally directs. Check out his website: www.carywoodworth.com and music: www.myspace.com/carywoodworth.

Stephen Carrasco

Regional Credits: Big River (Young Fool) and The Wizard of Oz at Syracuse Stage, eight shows at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse including The Music Man (Marcellus), Crazy For You, Beauty and the Beast, Footloose and Ragtime. B.F.A. Musical Theater Syracuse University. SU Drama credits: The Wild Party (Burrs), Kiss Me Kate (Bill Calhoun), Chicago, and Floyd Collins. Stephen also spent one summer performing at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. Proud member of Actor's Equity.

Scott Kerns

Scott Kerns can currently be seen as Jamie Mclean in George F. Walker’s Filthy Rich at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore where he was last seen as Eugene Marchbanks in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida. Other regional work includes Malcolm in Macbeth directed by Aaron Posner and Teller (of Penn and Teller) at the Two River Theatre Company and the Folger Theatre in Washington DC. Other DC credits include Polaroid Stories, Four, The Death of Meyerhold, and Autobahn at the Studio Theatre Secondstage; shkspr prjct (Helen Hayes Award Nomination) and The Altruists at Catalyst Theatre; The Tempest and Scaramouche at the Washington Shakespeare Company; Alice and The Light of Excalibur at the John F Kennedy Center Family Theater; Merlin and the Cave of Dreams at Imagination Stage; and Ponyboy in a regional tour of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Scott is a teacher and stage combat choreographer, a recipient of three Graduate Fellowships for Acting and Stage Combat from Amherst College, and a member of the Society of American Fight Directors and Actor’s Equity.

Michael Irvin Pollard

Michael Irvin Pollard began his career over twenty years ago as a member of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Professional Actor Training Program. Most recently he appeared in Art for the Women's Theatre Company in Wayne and Driving Miss Daisy at the Pioneer Valley Summer Theatre in Easthampton, MA. At New Jersey Rep Michael was seen in Richard Strand's hit comedy Ten Percent of Molly Snyder as well as the critically acclaimed production of Rich Orloff's Big Boys, which also had a successful run at Playwright's Theatre of Madison. Mr. Pollard has also performed in both Theatre Brut Festivals as well as a number of staged readings. Other New Jersey credits include performances at The Bickford Theatre (Smoke & Mirrors & You know I Can't Hear You when the Water is Running) and the George Street Playhouse (All My Sons & The Sunshine Boys). In New York Michael is best known as a founding member of the improv companies Clockwise from Left and Prov.Duh, performing at various venues including the West Bank Café, the Avalon Theatre and the old Pearl Theatre. Also an accomplished sketch-comedy writer, he has performed original work at The Present Company and Solo Arts Group as a founding member of the company The Terrible Black Crystal of Grief.

Ugo N. Toppo

Ugo N. Toppo has performed since childhood when he was featured on network radio. His bass-baritone voice was and remains well demonstrated in commercials, musicals, night clubs and critically acclaimed spoken recordings of Poe, O'Henry, Ambrose Bierce and others. Mr. Toppo's on-stage credits are diverse, having performed both regionally as well as on and off Broadway. He has been featured in Taming of the Shrew, Rope, The Nutcracker Suite (portraying Herr Drosselmeyer with the American Ballet Company), Bus Stop, Rashomon, The Cave Dwellers, The Silver Whistle and as Nunzio Cristano in Over The River and Through the Woods at the Actors Playhouse in Florida.; his musical roles include Celebration, South Pacific, King and I, Meet Me in St. Louis, Good Friends, Falstaff, and The Guys From Siracusa (the latter three, world premieres).  For eleven years, Mr. Toppo served as artistic director of Rainbow Theatre at the Stamford Center for the Arts in Connecticut where he staged original plays of interest, not to mention numerous traditional and contemporary classics including Awake and Sing, Butley, That Championship Season (nominated in 1994 as Best Play/Best Director by the CT Critics Circle), The Deadly Game (voted one of the Ten Best Plays of 1993 by the CT newspapers), The Price, The Showoff, They Knew What They Wanted, and the world premiere of the new musical, Marilyn and Joe.  In addition, he has directed at the Intar Theatre, Lincoln Center, Circle in the Square, Goodman Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, and ACT, and was Co-founder of Maxwell Anderson Playwrights Series.  Mr. Toppo is delighted to be affiliated with the New Jersey Repertory Company where he has appeared in the play development readings of Hobo Blues and Gerry’s Law as well as the exciting U.S. premiere of Matei Visniec's  Old Clown Wanted.  Lately, he and his wife (actress Linda Meleck) have been touring in A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters and a double bill of Jean Lenox Toddie’s A Little Something for the Ducks and Robert Anderson’s I’m Herbert.  A teacher of humanities and theatre, Mr. Toppo regularly lectures throughout the Northeast and also sits on the Developing Theatre Board at Actors Equity Association.

Charlie Deitz

Charlie joined NJRep in 2001, when he appeared in Raft of the Medusa. Since then he has performed in various staged readings or one-acts. He has also worked as Assistant Stage Manager or Assistant Director in a few productions. (When needed, he's also a pretty good usher). Outside of NJRep, Charlie can be found performing on one of the many local stages in Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties. He usually does five or six shows a year, ranging from Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams to Neil Simon and Agatha Christie. He has also worked in commercial and industrial videos and a few films. In his spare time, he is a volunteer firefighter/EMT.

David Foubert

Hailing from Tacoma Washington, David moved to the east coast to obtain his M.F.A. from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program. His recent credits include: Getas in The Grouch, Leartes in Hamlet, Fedotik in Three Sisters, and Dr. Pinch in The Comedy of Errors on the main stage at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. For NJSF's educational touring group, Shakespeare Live!, Hamlet, MacBeth and Bottom. He has also performed at the Colorado and Oklahoma Shakespeare Festivals and in an American Sign Language version of Twelfth Night at the Amyrillus Theater in Philadelphia.

Brian Linden

Brian has been a member of they New Jersey Repertory Company since 2007 and a member of Actors' Equity Association since 2001. In New York City, he has appeared in Bartleby the Scrivener with the Blue Heron Theatre, Closer and Fortinbras at the Juilliard School, the revival of The Shanghai Gesture with the Peccadillo Theater Company, and in the title role in Julius Caesar at Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. He has been nominated for two New York Innovative Theatre Awards for The Country Wife with HoNkBarK! Productions at the Vital Theatre and for A Night Near the Sun with the Impetuous Theatre Group. Regionally, he has performed at the San Francisco, Idaho, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, in Edward II at the American Conservatory Theatre, and as Salvador Dali in Hysteria and in the title role in The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Burning Coal Theatre Company.

Ryan Boda

Ryan recently arrived home from a month spent in South America shooting the upcoming feature film Rainbow Raani (see www.rainbowraani.com), and in June, he finished shooting a hilarious short called The Mr. President's Pageant. As a theatre performer, Ryan has originated several roles at The Vortex Theatre Co., starred as D'Artagnon in the Wings Theatre's production of The Three Musketeers, and most recently appeared in It's Karate Kid, The Musical! at the Zipper Theatre. Regionally he has appeared in productions at the Carousel Dinner Theatre, Actors Summer Theatre, Columbus Children's Theatre, Muhlenberg Summer Theatre, Quisisana, Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre and Disney Cruise Lines. Favorite roles include: Tony in West Side Story, Lewis in Pippin, Caleb in The Spitfire Grill, Sky in Guys and Dolls, and Andy in Love Letters. Ryan is a proud member of Actor's Equity and the New Jersey Repertory Company. He graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre from The University of Michigan.

Sean Christopher Lewis

OFF BROADWAY: The Rivals; Merchant of Venice (Pearl Theatre) NEW YORK CITY: Klub Ka: The Blues Legend (LaMama ETC ); I Will Make You Orphans (Bowery Poetry Club and TIXE Arts Center); Macbeth (Chashama ) REGIONAL:  Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Fools and Lovers (Saratoga Shakespeare Company ); Julius Caesar (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Toys in the Attic, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Wind in the Willows, Shadow of Greatness (Berkshire Theatre Festival); The Technology Plays (Capital Rep); SantaLand Diaries (City Theatre, Pittsburgh); The Adventures of Nellie Bly (Pittsburgh CLO); Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Cider Mill Playhouse ) TOURING: The Imaginary Invalid (National Theater for the Performing Arts). A playwright, Sean's first play Shatter The Sky will be premiered at the Invictus Theatre in Orlando, Florida in March 2004. He is a graduate of Binghamton University.

Kenny Wade Marshall

Bruce Faulk

Bruce was born and bred in the dirty soil of New York.  Since graduating Carnegie Mellon he has been an actor and writer, appearing onstage as Da Voice in Bring in Da' Noise/Bring in Da' Funk at The Public, Francisco in Hamlet at Roundabout and Wally in A Movie Star. with Signature.  Television credits include: the very evil Proteus, on All My Children, Dr. Pinto on One Life To Live and many national commercials.  He has been a member of Primary Stages New American Writers Group and Playwrights Horizons Writers Group.

Shydel James

Shydel James (SAG) is a graduate of The School for Film and Television in NYC. His theatre credits include, Full Bloom at Dreamcatcher Rep., Fences at Alliance Rep. and Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays: Week 36 at The Public Theatre. He made his NJ Rep debut in Eric Stannard's one act, West of Moon. Shydel's independent film credits include, Lovestruck, Bloody Money and Rap Quest which is currently available on DVD.  He's also starred in the documentary, For Love of Liberty and can be seen in the Jennifer Lopez produced drama, Feel the Noise. Check shydel out at www.shydeljames.com.

Andre Jordan

Andre Jordan is a New Jersey native,and graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Andre has worked on many new works such as Like You Like It with the Gallery Players in Brooklyn, and Toy Story The Musical aboard Disney Cruise Line. Other theatre credits include: Aida, You're a Goodman Charlie Brown, Oklahoma, and Antigone.

Jacob Garrett White

Theatre for a New Audience’s Julius Caesar, NYSF's Cymbeline, The Barrow Group's Pentecost and The Faithful, The Barrow Group and Theatre at St. Mary’s Lobby Hero, HB Playwrights Theater Between Two Worlds Regional Theatre: Old Globe, Goodman Theater and Hal Prince Music Theater's Floyd Collins, New Jersey Rep’s Panama, Color of Flesh and Emil. Tours - The King and I and Babes in Toyland. Film/TV - The Prom Queen, The Bear, Michael Stahl David's Behind the Star Director - Barrow Group and Theatre at St. Mary's Medal of Honor Rag, Axial Theater's Twenty and Junior Co-Artistic Director of Theatre at St. Mary’s. Proud member of NJRep.

Michael E. Lopez

Recent New York credits: All's Well That Ends Well (Lafew,NY Classical Theatre), Hamlet (Polonius, Manhattan Theatre Source), The Tempest (Prospero, Expanded Arts), new plays-Contracts (American Theatre of Actors), Birthday Pie (John Houseman Theatre), Summer Reading Series with the Pearl Theatre. Regional work with Northern Stage (George Hay in Moon Over Buffalo; Father Jack in Dancing at Lughnasa), the Nevada Shakespeare Festival (title role in Richard III), The Magic Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre,and the New Jersey Repertory Company. Two seasons with the International Theatre in Vienna where roles included Serge in Art, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Renfield in Dracula, and Tom/Phyllis/Leslie in Sylvia. TV/Film credits include Law and Order, Nash Bridges, The Rock, Wildflowers and Marci X. Michael holds a degree in History and Theatre from Marquette University, and studied at the HB Studio with Sandy Dennis.

Davis Hall

Davis appeared opposite Salome Jens in Memoir at the New Jersey Rep. Most recently: Amadeus at The Indiana Repertory Theatre, Ten Little Indians at the Dorset Playhouse, New-Found-Land in London, The School for Scandal at the McCarter, Victor/Victoria at the Paper Mill Playhouse, The Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Other roles include Dr. Rank (Nora, Capital Rep); Henry/Aunt Augusta (Travels with My Aunt, NJ Shakespeare Festival); Hercule Poirot (Black Coffee, Dorset Playhouse); Elwood P. Dowd (Harvey, Theatre Virginia); Jane/Lord Edgar (The Mystery of Irma Vep, Syracuse Stage); The Duke (Measure for Measure, Lark Theatre Company); and Charlie (The Foreigner, here & there). His wife, Ingrid Price, is the costume designer for Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Bob Senkewicz

Bob (AFTRA) is an authentic New Jersey product, born and raised.  He studied at Upsala College and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.  He has appeared on the NJ Rep stage in the Theater Brut Sacrifice and the readings of Boxes and Lapse of Reason.  His recent stage credits include The Diary of Anne Frank, The Importance of Being Earnest, Tower of Babble (at the Bank Street Theater), Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Bus Stop and The Passion of Dracula (directed by original playwright Bob Hall).  Bob was recently seen as Ken Uston in the series Breaking Vegas on the History Channel.  He has also recently appeared in several independent film projects, including Looking for Harrison (with John Rhys-Davies), Chasing Erections (playing in several festivals in 2005) the film short FREEMAN (shown in several 2004 festivals).  Other television credits include the cable series Rosebay, NY, HBO's Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm, several commercials and the new CourtTV series Parco PI scheduled to premier in the fall of 2005.  Bob is thrilled to be a part of the NJ Repertory Company.

Walter Brandes

Ben Masur

Ben's appearances at New Jersey Rep include the mainstage production of Lemonade, Negotiations, from My Rifle, My Cowboy, and Me, and the reading of Golem. Ben's New York credits include All The Way Home (Transport Group); 365 Plays in 365 Days (Clubbed Thumb/The Public Theatre); the Drama-Desk nominated Animal Farm (Synapse Productions); The Shooting Stage (by Michael Lewis MacLennan), Slight Alterations (Abingdon Theatre Co.), Impostors (with frequent collaborator, playwright Justin Warner), and productions with Boomerang Productions, The Drilling Company, and Theater 1010, among others. Other regional credits include Metamorphoses (at American Stage Theatre, in St. Petersburg, FL), and a reading of American Whupass, at Montclair’s Luna Stage . Ben also works frequently in commercials, including in a recent HBO spot directed by Sam Mendes.  Ben holds an MFA from Columbia University, and is a proud member of Actor's Equity.

Peter Macklin

Jonathan Cantor

Recent work: The Love Guru, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (Drilling Co.) and Shamraev in The Seagull (Abingdon Theatre Complex). Other NYC appearances include three seasons with the Jean Cocteau Rep, L. Ron Hubbard in Moonchild (NYFringe Festival), Praed in Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Looking Glass Theatre) and a couple of sleazy guys in Worth (Urban Stages). For NJ Rep: Gen. Raoul Raoul Raoul de Raoul in Whores. Seasons with the Colorado, Three Rivers, Boston, and Champlain Shakespeare Festivals. Other regional work: Our Country’s Good (City Theatre, director Marc Masterson), the title role in Uncle Vanya (ELT/Chicago), The Legacy and Far East (New Theatre). Numerous commercials and industrials. He recently directed a production of This Bud Of Love (an adaptation of Romeo And Juliet), at Hofstra University and In Search Of A Goddess at Adelphi University, where he is on the Theatre Faculty.

Zack Calhoon

Zack is an actor and a produced playwright. He graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he had studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and the Classical Studio. NY credits: Ivan in The Commission by Steven Fechter, Lee in True West, Hamlet in Hamlet, Jamie in The Credeaux Canvas, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, and Banquo in Macbeth (Dreamscape Theatre Co.); Variation in the World Premiere of Giant-N-Variation, Dex in the U.S. premiere of Irvine Welsh's (author of Trainspotting ) play, You'll Have Had Your Hole at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival; Prince Hal in Henry IV Part 1 (Boomerang Theater Company); Bill in Suburban Peepshow (Nosedive Productions); Lady Anne in Richard III (Judith Shakespeare Co.); Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Milk Can Theatre Co.); and Chiron in Titus Andronicus (Expanded Arts). Regional credits: Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Proteus in The Two Gentlmen of Verona, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nym in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hubert in King John, Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing (Actors Shakespeare Co.), Prince John in The Lion in Winter (Pentacle Theatre), and Laertes in Fortinbras (Albany Civic Theater). Playwriting credits: Breaking Ranks (New Mummer Group), The Weird Sisters (East 3rd Ensemble), Marlowe, P.I. (Dreamscape) and short film entitled Enough. He is the playwright-in-residence with the East 3rd Ensemble. He is also a theatre blogger: zackcalhoon.blogspot.com. Film Credits: Do No Go Gentle (BBC). Zack is a certified actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and an Eagle Scout.

Marc LeVasseur

Marc is thrilled to be a part of this unique company.  Recent New York Theatre:  Iachimo (New York Classical Theatre), Mark Antony (Aquila Theatre), Demetrius (NYNeo Classical Ensemble), Duke in Two Gents (Lake George Theatre Lab), and Exodus (Connelly Theatre, as part of Fringe Festival). He holds a B.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts.  While there he played Coriolanus, TIm from Distance From Here, and Costard from Love's Labour's Lost.

Stephen Innocenzi

Stephen is very proud to have been in NJ Rep's Theatre Brut Festival, three years running. Recently, he appeared off B'way in David Sard's updated version of Oedipus, The Ballad of Eddie and Jo. Stephen's New York stage credits include the title role in Anton Chekhov's Ivanov at The Mint Theatre, The Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's St. Joan at The West End Theatre, Major Arnold in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides for The Heritage Theatre, Vinnie in Ralph Pape's Warm And Tender Love at The John Houseman Theatre, Dr. Kroll in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm, and Adolph in August Strindberg's Creditors. On television he has co-starred on Law and Order and 100 Centre Street and is very happy to have played the lead in the film Simulacrum, which won best film at the 1997 Sacramento Festival of Film. Stephen also choreographed the Jim Thorpe musical, Warrior, for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and directed an award-winning production of Marie Jones' A Night in November for The Actors' Bridge in Nashville. He is currently the director of the Theatre Arts program for children at Art of Motion in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Stephen also teaches Musical Theatre for special needs children as part of Ridgewood's Sharing the Arts program and an ongoing Theatre workshop for autistic teenagers.

Jeffrey James Keyes

Jeffrey James Keyes is a New York-based writer/actor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He is a founding member of Write Club NYC.  After graduating from Fordham University College at Lincoln Center he has performed in Romeo and Juliet (Allentown Shakespeare), Edward II (Creative Mechanics) A Sunday in Space, Killing Lou, and Sexual Perversions (EST), Bald Diva, The Tempest, and I, Claudius, Live! with Theatre Askew, Julius Caesar with Moonwork, Henry IV Pt. 2 (Prince Hal) at ATA, The Europeans (Leopold I) at the Oval Theatre in London.  He currently studies with Wynn Handeman.

David Shih

David is a New York-based actor and multimedia artist. Recently, he appeared as Capt. Park in the NJ Rep reading of Gravity Falls From Trees. He has worked with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Vital Theatre Company, Yankee Rep. David directed Doors and Windows, an interactive CD-ROM for the Irish rock band The Cranberries. He reads Chips 'n Bytes, a weekly radio show for the visually impaired. He sings tenor in the Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall. David will appear in the upcoming film Saving Face.

Joseph Franchini

Joseph Franchini trained with Stella Adler at NYU and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Most recently appearanced in and directed Lucila's Story in the 2008 NY Fringe Festival. He has appeared in numerous productions with the Waterfront Theatre Ensemble (New Jersey Dramatists) and with Plays For Living. Recent appearances include plays at the Off World Theatre, Midtown Theatre Festival, Turnip One Act Play Series and The Actor's Guild. Joseph is an original member of Quicksilver Radio Theatre which has broadcast productions on WBAI and around the world.

David Friedlander

David is blessed to be asked to be a part of the growing company of the New Jersey Rep. Recent credits include Stones in His Pockets, Amadeus, Romeo and Juliet, Frozen, and Cyrano de Bergerac. David holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA from Yale University. David is proud to be a member of the Actors' Equity Association.

Harlan Tuckman

Harlan (AEA,SAG,AFTRA) is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse and an original member of NJ Rep. He appeared in the mainstage production of Find Me A Voice, as well as the two prior productions of Voice, first as a work-in-progress and then in the New York production at Producers Circle 2 where he was acclaimed by Lawrence Gelder of the New York Times for "....a superior performance in a variety of roles." He also appeared in several staged readings including co-starring with Kelly Bishop in Strangers In The Night and Age of Miracles that subsequently was a finalist in the NYC Samuel French Short Play Festival. Earlier in his career he appeared as a regular in the Mr. Novak series with Burgess Meredith and in the Pre-Broadway production of There Must Be A Pony with Myrna Loy. Thanks to Gabe and SuzAnne for reigniting his theatrical career.

Robert Meksin

Robert is pleased to be a member of the NJ Repertory Company.  Other credits include: Off-Broadway, The Canterville Ghost; Off-Off-Broadway performances including Strindberg NY Festival, Riverside Shakespeare, and Vital Theatre Company; regional theater work including Great Lakes Theatre Festival, The Cleveland Playhouse, Playwrights Theatre of NJ, and The Levin Theater Company; performance workshops with Playwrights Horizons and Ensemble Studio Theatre; numerous performances with Hudson River Classics and the Instant Shakespeare Company; touring nationally with Boston Chamber Repertory; and featured performances in several independent film productions.  Robert also sings with the NYC choral group, The Glass Menagerie.  He received an MFA from Rutgers University, under the teaching of William Esper, and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild.

Christian Pedersen

Originally from West Long Branch, Christian now resides in New York where his theatre credits include: Peace Now! (Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival), Historic Times (78th Street Theatre Lab), Spare (Vital Theatre Company), Lake (Expanded Arts), and The Long Goodbye (NADA 45). Regional: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Bridgeport Free Shakespeare. TV appearances include Chappelle's Show and As The World Turns. Christian is a graduate of The School for Film and TV in New York and the University of Richmond in Virginia.

Brian Anthony Wilson

Brian Anthony Wilson, born and raised in Philadelphia, began his Theater journey at Freedom Theater with classes and small supporting roles in several productions. He further honed his craft at Bushfire Theater with many challenging leading roles, including Boy Willie in Piano Lesson, Herald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come & Gone and Senator Charles Lincoln in Fraternity. Regional Theater credits include Intimate Apparel (George) at Indiana Rep and Syracuse Stage directed by Timothy Douglas, Fences (Lyons) at Arden Theater and Actors Theater of Louisville also directed by Timothy Douglas, Two Trains Running (Hambone) and 12 Angry Men (Juror # 6) at The Cleveland Playhouse, King Hedley II (King Hedley II) at PTC, A Christmas Carol (Christmas Present) at Actors Theater of Louisville and Les Trios Dumas (Alexandre Dumas) at People's Light & Theatre Company. Film/TV credits include: The Postman with Kevin Costner, Keeping The Faith with Ben Stiller and Edward Norton, Animal Factory with Willem DeFoe, Mr. Gibb with Timothy Daly and William Sadler, Hack with David Morse, As The World Turns, Forget Tomorrow, The Sopranos and a recurring role on HBO's The Wire as Homicide Det. Vernon Holley.

Peter Stone

David Lavine

Off Broadway: Counsellor-at-Law with John Rubinstein (Peccadillo Theater Company - Obie Award for Direction, two Lucille Lortel Awards including Outstanding Revival). Other NY credits include: Kiss and Cry (Theater Ten Ten and NY Int’l Fringe Festival); Up for Air (HERE); Pirandello’s Henry IV (Belmont Playhouse); Smugglers Three, The Unconjoined (Kimball Studio); Jhev & Crema’s Surprise Makeover (Chashama); Bambi Levine, Please Shut Up! (La MaMa). Regional: Waiting for Godot, Mystery of Irma Vep, Master Harold ... and the boys, A Life in the Theatre (Fleetwood Stage); Edward II (Walnut Street Theatre, Studio); Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part I (Philadelphia Shakespeare in the Park). Film: The Morning After, Heat Wave, Fakers, Nobody’s Perfect, and Cell Stories directed by Edward Lachman. Numerous readings and workshops at Lincoln Center, 29th Street Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Hudson Stage Company, Abingdon Theatre Company, among others. David is also a playwright and screenwriter, with over 25 New York and regional production credits. 4 Plays by David Lavine is published by Original Works, and monologues from two of his plays are included in Smith and Kraus’s The Ultimate Audition Book. The Columbus Fringe Festival’s production of his Smugglers Three earned The Other Paper’s 2005 Heidi Award for Best Original Short. His feature The Unconjoined earned Quarterfinalist status in Scriptapalooza’s 2004 screenwriting competition.

Demosthenes Chrysan

Demosthenes Chrysan (AEA) has appeared in numerous, contemporary and classical, regional productions for Florida Stage, Arkansas Repertory, Riverside Theatre, Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, as well as the award winning regional premiere of Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul at Trinity Repertory Theatre. Television appearances include One Life to Live and Law & Order: SVU.  Independent film credits include Layla is Bad, and Santa Claus in Baghdad. Fall 2007 Demosthenes will be at the Signature Theatre in New York performing in the new Charles Mee play Queens Boulevard. He can be reached at dchrysan@gmail.com and is represented by Judy Boals, Inc.  info@judyboals.com.

Edward Furs

Tom Cleary

Off-Broadway: Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (American premiere) at Urban Stages; Church, The Public Theater. New York: Revenge and Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Drilling Company; Arcadia and Mad Forest (NYIT Award nom. for Best Ensemble) with QED Productions; Arms and the Man and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Milk Can Theatre Company; Three Sisters, Chocolate Factory; Urinetown (NYIT Award for Best Musical) at Gallery Players; Twelfth Night, Shakespeare on the Hudson. Regional: South Pacific, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina; Tin Pan Alley Rag, Wilma Theater; Purlie (Barrymore Award nom. for Best Supporting) at Freedom Theatre; A Man for all Seasons, Bristol Riverside Theatre. Film/TV:Six Degrees, The Human Giant, Guiding Light, Shot in the Heart, Lebanon, Jersey Girl, Clan McCormack (’08 Cannes Film Festival). www.tom-cleary.com.

Anthony Wills Jr.

Anthony Wills Jr. made his New York debut in his one-man show The Happiness of Schizophrenia, part of the New York International Fringe Festival 2006. Other New York credits include In Circles (Kaliyuga Arts), The Odyssey (Looking Glass), Avenue X (Dreamlight Theater), and Talking to Terrorists (Culture Project). His regional credits include Surflight, Milwaukee Rep, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and First Stage Children's Theatre. Originally from Chicago Anthony performed, choreographed, wrote and directed there for many years. He is a member of American Theatre Company's The Relatives and has appeared in ATC's productions of Catch-22, Working and multiple staged readings and cabaret shows. Other Chicago theatre companies he's had the pleasure of working with include Aboutface, Apple Tree, Bailiwick, Black Ensemble, Clock, Dream Theater, Eta, The House, the Hypocrites, Journeymen, Lifeline, Lookingglass, Mary-Aarchie, National Pastime, Noble Fool, Nomenil, Northlight, Prop, Running with Scissors and Steppenwolf. Dance Companies he's worked with include Illinois Dance Theatre, Irreverance, Dance>Detour, and Annette Hawkins Dance Ensemble.

David Bishins

Off-Broadway: Henry Miller in Anais Nin, One of Her Lives (The Beckett); A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun with Olympia Dukakis (Dodger Stages); Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson-Obie Award best play-(Second Stage); Bad Girls by Joyce Carol Oates (Director’s Co.); The Nest (dir. Moses Kaufman); B oys in the Band (WPA & Lortel); Teibele and Her Demon (JRT); Cacodemon King (En Garde Arts); Tower of Evil (CSC); Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA).Regional: Lee in True West (Vermont Stage Co.); Rag and Bone (dir. Tina Landau), A Month in the Country (Long Wharf) As Bees in Honey Drown (dir. Evan Bergman); Arcadia(Wilma); The Dybbuk (Pittsburgh Public); Reckless (Hartford Stage); Christmas Carol (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville).Film & TV: Sorry, Haters!; The War Within; Tracks; Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS); Law and Order; Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Law and Order: Trail by Jury; Law and Order: SVU, Guiding Light; All My Children; As the World Turns; One Life to Live.  Group18 graduate of The Juilliard School.

Alan Souza

Alan Souza is happy to be back, having directed The Little Hours here, this past summer, as well as appearing onstage in Bookends.  A freelance director, he most recently directed Ears on a Beatle for the Human Race Theatre. His work has also been seen at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Virginia Musical Theatre, and the New Theatre in Kansas City, among others.  Upcoming, Little Women for the Engeman Theatre and Stage and Screen, right here at NJ Rep!  As always, big thanks to Suz, Gabe, and Ron.

Howard Pinhasik

Howard Pinhasik is happy to return to Bookends having done two previous readings including the one here, last summer. Now a NJ resident, Howard's NYC credits include: Little Shop of Horrors, A Doll's Life, Oedipus, Collete Collage, Street Scene, Boy Meets Girl and Frankie (Dir:George Abbott). He has toured with 42nd St, Carousel and King Lear. Regional Credits: Dallas Theater Center, Indiana Rep (Company Member), Syracuse Stage, Merrimack Rep, People's Light and Theater Co, Pennsylvania Centrestage, Delaware Theater Co, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Connecticut Rep, and Triad Stage in such shows as: Be Aggressive, Christmas Carol, Front Page, Man of La Mancha, The Miser, Peter Pan, Diary of Anne Frank, Once In A Lifetime, A Little Night Music, and My Fair Lady. TV: Law and Order, The Job, L&O: Criminal Intent, and Two Emmy Winning TV Movies: Miss Rose White and Angels in America.

Ethan Paulini

New York: Gypsy of the Year (2006, Neil Simon Theatre-BC/EFA), The Sexless Years (Ars Nova, 2006 MAC Award Nomination) Spontaneous Evolution Ensemble (SEE Theatre, Founding Member). National Tours: Cameron Mackintosh's Production of Oliver!, A Christmas Carol Directed by Kevin Del Aguila. Favorite Regional: Forever Plaid, The Full Monty, Urinetown, Kiss of the Spider Woman, tick, tick...BOOM!, Side Show, Lady in the Dark, Durang, Durang, Wonderful Town and A Little Night Music. Ethan created the role of Luke/Lucas in the world premiere of Lance Horne's Back in the Day (Original Cast Recording). He received a 2007 Spirit Award for his performance of the title role in the regional premiere of Andrew Gerle's Richard Rodgers' Award-Winning musical, The Tutor. Ethan has appeared in numerous national commercials, industrials, PSA's, independent films and a short-lived sitcom for NBC. BFA-Acting/Emerson College, proud member Actors Equity.

Mark Konrad

Mark Konrad is very proud to be a member of New Jersey Rep. and  has appeared in numerous off and off-off Broadway productions including Never the Sinner, The Notebook of Trigorin, Henry's Lunchroom, and The Scarlet Whale. Mark's film credits include numerous independent features and short films including A Piece of America, which was an entry in the prestigious Clermont-Ferrond Film Festival. Mark's Television credits include NBC's Emmy winning 30 ROCK.. Mark trained at The Michael Howard Studio, The Circle in the Square Theatre School.and Shakespeare & Co.

Michael Hodge

Michael is excited to be a member of the New Jersey Repertory Company.  He began his career in his hometown of Chicago, and has worked with the best of the best in American and International theatre directors.  These names include Hal Prince, George Wolfe, and Debbie Allen.  Most recently, Michael played Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy for the Northern Stage Company in Vermont.  This production garnered much critical praise has subsequently traveled to Sanibel Island, Florida.  Other favorite roles include: Frozen (Howie), Doubt (Father Flynn), The Gathering (Egon), Walking The Dead (Bobby), Mass Appeal (Fr. Farley), Hedda Gabler (Lovborg), As Is (Saul), Stepping Out (Geoffrey), Communicating Doors (Julian), Crimes of The Heart (Doc), Extremities (Raul), Black Angel (Bob Hawkins), Monster (Creature), and All My Sons (Frank), among many others.  Michael was twice nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award, Chicago’s prestigious theatre award, and he received an After Dark Award from Chicago critics for his performance in Bent.  Michael’s musical theatre credits include Aida, 42nd Street, Little Shop of Horrors, West Side Story, La Cage aux Folles, The Sound of Music, Brigadoon, The Spitfire Grill, and Sweeney Todd, just to name a few.  Original cast albums: The Shaggy Dog and Creation: Once Upon All Time.  Michael’s film credits include The Fugitive, Baby’s Day Out, Richie Rich, and The Negotiator.  In his spare time, Michael is part of Vocal Ease, a non-profit singing organization that provides live entertainment for New York City’s senior citizens at hospitals, nursing homes, senior centers, and residences.  Michael resides in New York City and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Robert Wedig

Robert has performed Off- Broadway for Pan Asian Rep and Emerging Artists Theatre. Regional Theatre includes Biloxi Blues- Fort Salem Theatre, Social Security- Crown Uptown Theatre, Blur in the Rearview- Tri-State Actor's Theatre, Cactus Flower- Pioneer Playhouse: Off-West Theatre includes Memory One at The King's Head Theatre, UK premiere of Hannah and Martin at The Courtyard Theatre, and Salome at Pentameters. Film and Television include the film Come Here Today opposite Rhys Ifans and Rita Tushingham (Official Selection of London International Film Festival) NBC- SAB Miller series Christie, and the upcoming horror Sleeper: A Vampire Film, Recurring under-5 on One Life to Live and Women's Entertainment Television's Three Men and a Chick Flick.

Buzz Roddy

Buzz Roddy lives in The Bronx. He has bowed on stages in 38 of the United States and all over Europe. Some recent highlights: Moon Over Buffalo (co-starring with his wife, the luscious Laurie Dawn) at the Ivoryton Playhouse in CT; Smoke & Mirrors at Cider Mill Playhouse (upstate NY); Gypsy Gateway Playhouse (Long Island); Dracula at the Delaware Theatre Company (guess where) as well as the eponymous tenor in Lend Me A Tenor at Pioneer Valley Theatre (MA). Off-Broadway: Jack Benny!, Derek, The Primary English Class (directed by Tony© award-winner Gerald Gutierrez), the long-running Perfect Crime and the OBIE© award-winning Honesty is the Best Policy. He's also worked Off-Off-Broadway in Flora the Red Menace and Dorian Gray: The Musical, part of the NY Musical Theatre Festival) Film and TV: The Cowboy Way; Quick Change; The Taxman; As The World Turns; Law and Order (in its variety of flavors) and Flight of the Conchords. He is a proud, proud member of Actors' Equity.

Alfred C. Kemp

Alfred C. Kemp is thrilled to join the company of New Jersey Repertory Theatre.  A recent transplant to NYC, Alfred was born and raised in Cambridge, MA and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL with a B.S. in Acting.  Since his graduation, he has worked steadily in the Chicago Area and beyond, including stints at: Chicago Dramatists (St. Colm’s Inch, Voyeurs de Venus), The Goodman Theatre (The Gift Horse, Proof), Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Romeo & Juliet, Richard II), Steppenwolf Theatre (Tale of Two Cities, Take Me Out), American Players Theatre (King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles), Eclipse Theatre (Blues for an Alabama Sky), Theatre Alliance in Washington D.C. (The Bluest Eye).  Most recently Alfred was seen in the 2008 NY Fringe Festival in the 4th Meal Production of From The Inside, Out.  Alfred is the proud recipient of the 2007 Jeff Citation Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his work in Eclipse Theatre’s production of Blues for an Alabama Sky.  Alfred is proud to be a member of the Actors’ Equity Association and AFTRA.  As always, much love to his friends and family for their continued and deep love and encouragement.

Andrew Spieker

New York credits: Shiver Meek and Mute (Prospect Theatre Dark Nights Series), Grave Concerns(Strawberry One-Act Festival). National Tour The Math Show (National Theatre for Arts and Education).  Regional credits: Dirty Blonde, To Kill a Mockingbird, Passion, A Christmas Carol (Civic Theater of Allentown), Run For Your Wife! (Downstairs Cabaret Theatre).  Andrew has also been Production Assistant for Connecticut Free Shakespeare.  He holds a BA in Theatre/Performance from the University of Nebraska-Kearney and has studied with Brian O'Neil and at the New Actors Workshop in NYC. 

Tim Intravia

Tim Intravia is currently a swing in the off broadway hit Tony N Tina's Wedding. He has been a featured stage combat fighter at the Metropolitan Opera's productions of Otello, Carmen and Macbeth, and has appeared in readings for the Abingdon Theatre Company, Reverie Productions and Milkcan Theatre Company. Tim has also appeared as part of Emerging Artists Theatre's one act play festival, toured with the National Theatre in The Barber of Seville and most recently appeared in Still Lives at the Workshop Theater Compnay. Tim is a living statue (www.orangemime.com) and can be seen nightly in Times Square, Rockefeller Center and all over the world standing still and being a robot. He has performed as a statue in St. Petersburg, Russia for Major League Baseball and on the FX show Rescue Me. Tim has done commercials for Staten Island Honda, Connecticut Lotto, Dragonball Z video game and more He is also a stand up comedian and sketch comedy writer. Tim is delighted to be a member of NJ Rep and  a proud AEA member.

Peter J. Crosby

Peter J. Crosby is honored to be a member of New Jersey Rep. He is a member of Actor's Equity and has appeared in numerous musical and dramatic productions in New York and in regional theatres across the country. Most recently, he played Father Flynn in Doubt at the Public Theatre in Lewiston, ME. Other featured roles include Anthony Wilding in Enchanted April and Walker/Ned in Three Days of Rain. Peter has a strong interest in new plays, having originated roles in new works with companies such as New Voices Theatre Ensemble, Target Margin Theater, and the New York Theatre Workshop. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the National Theatre Conservatory.

Don Carter

Don Carter is delighted to join New Jersey Rep.  A member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA, Don earned his MFA in Acting from Rutgers University where he studied with William Esper and Maggie Flanigan.  Don continued his studies with Wynn Handman at the Wynn Handman Studio.  In New York, Don has acted with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Target Margin Theater and is a company member at The Drilling Company.  Don’s regional theatre credits include Beckmann in Outside the Door (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Owen in The Foreigner (Virginia Stage Company), Sergeant Toomey in Biloxi Blues (Public Theatre – Auburn, Maine), and Gabe in Dinner with Friends (Public Theatre – Auburn, Maine).  Don has performed in over twenty Off-Off Broadway productions.  He has acted in two independent films; Hitting the Ground (Living Pictures, Inc.) by Paul Mullin / directed by David P. Moore and Kingdom Come (Rockville Pictures) directed by Shannon Goldman.  Don is also a playwright.  He began writing solo work in 1996 with the New York performance group Rumble in the Red Room.  While studying with Wynn Handman, Don wrote his solo show Finding Pieces and produced the show for the 2004 Midtown Theatre Festival.  Don’s play Coming to the Table was produced by The Drilling Company in 2004 and then published in Plays and Playwrights 2005.  Don also produced and directed a collection of his short plays titled Four for the Office.  His play SAFE was produced by The Drilling Company in 2006.  A complete list of his plays can be found at: http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/carter-don.html  Don lives in New York City.

Frank Mihelich

Frank has worked professionally both regionally and in New York City. He is a graduate of the MFA acting program at Columbia University (04), The American Conservatory Theatre's Summer Training Congress (96), and California Baptist University (98). Frank worked professionally as both an actor and a director in the San Francisco Bay area before moving to NYC in 2001. Frank has worked in film, theatre, and television. He has worked at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Repertory Theatre, and Two Rivers Theatre of New Jersey. Frank is a founding member of Magis Theatre Company. He is also a founding member of Threads Theater Company, which is dedicated to finding the common ground between the Christian faith and the art of theatre. Frank would like to thank his wife Allison for being his best friend.

Matt Golden

Matt Golden is excited to continue his association with Bookends. He has performed on stages both in New York and regionally, and on screens both big and small. He earned his BFA in musical theatre from Syracuse University. For nearly a decade, Matt has been entertaining fans of his beloved New York Mets in his own extremely unique way.

Patrick Shea

Patrick is very pleased to be included in this talented company. He has worked extensively in regional theatre and spent several seasons in our nation's capitol, appearing at  The Kennedy Center, Ford's Theatre (Inherit the Wind starring James Whitmore),  and The Shakespeare Theatre (The Winter's Tale, King Lear, Coriolanus, and King John, all directed by Michael Kahn). He also particpated in a staged reading of Mrs. Bob Crachit's Wild Christmas Binge by Christopher Durang at Arena Stage. His other regional credits include The People's Light and Theatre Company (Holes), Totem Pole Playhouse (A Christmas Carol, Rumors), Mill Mountain Theatre, Cider Mill Playhouse, Monomoy Theatre, and the Alabama and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. He also toured the country as Long John Silver in Treasure Island for Theatreworks/USA.  Patrick is a member of Vermont's Oldcastle Theatre Company as both actor and stage manager.  His appearances there include A Tale of Two Cities (world premiere), Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (as Jacob Marley), Hard Times, Morning's At Seven, K2, Judevine, Terra Nova, and the one-man show, Revolutionary Wizard, Benjamin Franklin (world premiere).

Jim Shankman

Jim’s latest credits include Arthur Stein in the world premiere of Deborah Laufer’s End Days, Carl in the Southeast premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Opus (both at Florida Stage) and Ben Hecht in Moonlight and Magnolias at the Dorset Theatre Festival, where he has played nine roles over the years including Morris Kaden in As Bees In Honey Drown and Alex Gal in Rough Crossing.   As one of the founding members of Coyote Theatre in Westchester County, New York he played Charlie Fox in Speed-The-Plow, Austin in True West and The Man in Laughing Wild.  Jim is also a playwright and novelist with a very recent MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

Joe Gioco

Played Doc in West Side Story for BB Promotion in Dusseldorf, Athens, and at Sadler’s Wells in London in 2008.  Broadway:  Inherit The Wind (with George C. Scott and Charles Durning).  Received critical acclaim as Laz in the Working Theatre’s production of Marty Pottenger’s Abundance at Dance Theatre Workshop.  Originated the role of Gin Rummy in Jean Claude van Itallie’s Fear Itself at Theater for the New City.  Other productions include:  Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry for the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre.  Geography of a Horse Dreamer at Soho Rep, Tartuffe at Capital Rep, The Immigrant and Spittin Image at The Forum Theatre, Salem Justice with Arts Power National Touring Theatre, Curse of the Starving Class and American Buffalo for The Albany Theatre Project, and a national tour of Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play.  Film:  Goodfellas, Joey Breaker, Flodder in Amerika, Order of Redemption.  Married to actress Laralu Smith.

Andrew Cohen

Andrew is excited to be a part of the NJ Rep family. Born and raised in Glencoe, Illinois, Andrew currently resides in New York City. Andrew is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he received his B.A. in Political Science. Following graduation, Andrew relocated to New York to pursue acting and has since graduated from the two-year Meisner program at the William Esper Studio in New York City where he was lucky enough to have studied with Bill Esper. Credits include a handful of independent films and television appearances.

Eon Grey

Born in St. Andrews, Jamaica and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Eon started his career as a model over two decades ago. On the advice of a friend, he ventured to H.B. Studios to take some acting classes, where he studied under Earl Hyman. There, he realized that he had found his true calling. After a time with Earl he joined New Federal Theatre at Henry Street Settlement (A Woody King Junior black theatre workshop) where he acquired further skills under the direction of Lori Carlos, Robbie McAlley and Walter Jones. But, his real training and understanding of his skills and power came during a decade of tutelage under the late, great Hal Dewindt at the American Theatre of Harlem. In 2004 Eon produced and played a leading role in an independent film, The Sensei, which was nominated for best new independent film at the 2004 Pan-African Film Festival in LA. Eon's off Broadway credits include Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, The Colored Museum; The Big Masquerade; Men of Substance (directed by Chet Walker); the part of Agamenon in Hecuba with the Rakka-Thamm Theatre Company; Billie's Blues (Cherry Lane Theatre); many short films (See the Light and Stolen Love by Miki Holliday, Empty Hands by Mahallia, Imperfect Strangers by Saladu which was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival), as well as numerous commercials and voiceovers.