Katharine appeared on Broadway in Our Town, The Front Page and A Very Rich Woman. She won the Theatre World award for her performance in A Scent of Flowers Off-Broadway in 1969. For several seasons she was a member of New York’s Mirror Repertory Company where she played Mary Stuart (Vivat, Viva Regina!), Gabrielle (The Mad Woman of Chaillot), and Mary L. (The Time of Your Life). In 1987 she performed at New York’s West Bank Cafe and at the Ivoryton Playhouse in her own trilogy, The Hooded Eye. In regional theatres she has played major roles in over fifty productions, including Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Kate (The Taming of the Shrew), Nina (The Seagull), Yelena (Uncle Vanya), Nora (A Doll’s House) and Catherine (Suddenly, Last Summer). On television she was Nabby Adams in the award-winning Adams’ Chronicles. She has appeared in both featured and guest roles in several series and soap operas, including All My Children and One Life to Live. In film she is best known for her role in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Other films include Ethan Frome, Mr. North, The Night We Never Met, Billy Bathgate, The Gardener and Let it Be You. She has performed her one-woman show To Heaven in a Swing, The Last Day in the Life of Louisa May Alcot in New York at the American Place Theatre, York Theatre and Barnard College, as well as in Houston, Amherst, Ivoryton Playhouse, Orchard House in Concord and various other regional theatres. Her play Buddha, was published in Best Short Plays of 1988. Other plays that have been produced include Merlin, The Merry Month of May, Mortal Friends, On the Shadyside, The Right Number and Phone Play. Her newest play, Only Angels, is in development in New York. Her screenplays include Spot, an animated/live action script co-written with Elizabeth Rose, The Heart of the Matter and Acting in Concert, co-written with Anna Littles. At NJ Rep, Katharine starred in Best Kept Secret, a play that she wrote.

Christine Lavin

Singer/songwriter/guitarist/concert artist Christine Lavin has recorded and released 13 solo albums of original material, sings her own and others' songs on three disks of the "Four Bitchin' Babes" (a group she founded, nurtured and performed in during the '90's) and has put together and produced 8 compilations showcasing the works of dozens of singer / songwriters. Christine created, directed, produced, and taught performance courses at the "Martha's Vineyard Singer / Songwriters' Retreat", two month-long events that gathered thirty American songwriters to meet, collaborate, and record new material in September of 1992 and 1993. She has won one NAIRD Award, two New York Music Awards, four ASCAP composer awards, the Kate Wolf Memorial Award and the 2001 Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding New York Singer/Songwriter of the Year. Her songs have been performed in concert by such artists as the Dartmouth Decibelles, the Washington D.C. Gay Men's Chorus, Scottish troubadour Brian NcNeil, and international chanteuse Andrea Marcovicci. In April of 1998 the two-disk tribute project "Big League Babe" was released on the 1800 PRIMECD label (more than two dozen singer / songwriters recorded Christine's songs in secret and surprised her). Her song "Sensitive New Age Guy" is in the long-running Off-Broadway production of A ... My Name Will Always Be Alice, and her science-based song "If We Had No Moon" will be included in an album of all space-related music to be released by the National Space Society later in 2001. Christine performs 120 concerts per year, a career that continues to take her all over the US, Canada and Australia. She now performs wireless, enabling her, she says, "to turn any size concert hall into a living room." She also tells stories, twirls glowing batons on stage, and has most recently incorporated a digital phrase sampler into her live concert, enabling her to create improvised lyrics (and intricate vocal harmonies) on the fly. In her free time Christine writes essays and articles (The Washington Post, The St. Petersburg Times, Delta "Sky" Magazine, The Performing Songwriter Magazine) and was the host and now guest host for the popular "Sunday Breakfast" radio program on WFUV, 90.7, public radio from Fordham University in New York City.

Marnie Andrews

Marnie has a wide-ranging career as actor, director, singer, writer, and teacher.  In recent years, she has starred in several world premieres of new plays.  Recently, she directed three new play premieres for SUNY Albany.  A veteran member of NJ Rep, audiences here have seen her in Till Morning Comes, and last year's comedy, Touch of Rapture. She also directs and acts for the reading series and for Theatre Brut. She guest-starred in numerous TV series and movies of the week, including E.R, Murder One,  Jag and Wonder Years, and had a recurring role on Reasonable Doubts for two years with Mark Harmon and Marlee Matlin. She’s performed in regional theatres over thirty years in such diverse roles as Guenevere in Camelot and George in The Killing of Sister George.  Much of her career, she has premiered in new plays.Marnie directed Steven Wolfson’s Trojan Women, which was chosen for an international theatre audience at the Getty Museum in LA.  She dramaturged View from the Hudson which was awarded a Geraldine Dodge Foundation grant for Randy James Dance Works, a New Jersey company.  In addition to SUNY new works, she directed Three Sisters, A Piece of My Heart for NYU. Her writing was honored with the Berrilla Kerr Playwrighting Award. Marnie taught for NYU, USC Graduate Film School, and SUNY Albany.  Marnie served on the board of the National Repertory Theatre Foundation, which awarded yearly grants for new plays.  She is currently honorary board member and singer with the New York City Master Chorale.

Michele Santore

Born in New Jersey and raised in Middletown, Michele (AEA, AFTRA) is proud to be a member of the New Jersey Repertory Company. Michele went to DePaul University Theatre School in Chicago for her MFA in acting. While in Chicago she appeared as Mrs. Soames in Our Town at The Merle Reskin (Blackstone) Theatre and Fluer Stein in ….And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little at Victory Gardens Theatre. Other favorite roles in Chicago include Lainie in Two Rooms, Mrs. Pascal in House of Yes, Crystal in Clowns and Cotton Candy, Queen Margaret in Henry VI Part III and Don Jon in Much Ado About Nothing. While studying with the University of Moscow Art Theatre School in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University, she appeared as Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard and Madame Mertchukina in A Jubilee. Michele’s TV credits include Saturday Night Live and 100 Centre Street. Her independent film credits include The Losers by MGC Productions, Painter’s Night and Allenhurst Ave. She was recently filmed as Ginger in Casino by European director Antonio Tibaldi at Drexel University. Michele can also be seen as Michaela in the book Through a Faerie Stone: The Secret Life of Faerie by local artist Ed Hicks in collaboration with Dee Stotts. www.mikelemoncasting.com/michelesantore

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Katie Cunningham

Katie Cunningham is very excited to be a part of this wonderful company of actors.  A native of the Atlanta area but now a very proud New Yorker, Katie most recently appeared as Jan in Bedroom Farce at Oldcastle Theatre Company.  A regular at Northern Stage, Katie played Christina Mundy in Dancing at Lughnasa, and Miss Sandwich and other roles in The Elephant Man, and toured with the inspiring and uplifting Project Playwright.  Other regional credits include the US Premiere of A Prayer for Owen Meany at PlayMakers Repertory Company and volunteer work on the inspirational North Carolina Women’s Prison Writing and Performance Project.  Katie also played the title role in the hilarious world premiere of Mary Berry Presents: The Life of Mary Berry at the New York International Fringe Festival.  Other New York City appearances include several showcases and staged readings, including a reading at the American Place Theatre, and performing her cabaret act at Bar at Fives at the Peninsula Hotel.   Katie holds a BA in Dramatic Art and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude); trained with Patrick Sutton at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland; and has studied with Duane Boutte, Jack Doulin, and Karl Kenzler in New York.

Andrea Gallo

Andrea, a native of Madison, NJ, is thrilled to be working in her home state as a member of NJ Rep. She was last seen here in TempOdyssey, as Lois in Tilt Angel and in last year's Theatre Brut (The Neighbors). Regional credits include Italian American Reconciliation, As Bees in Honey Drown, A View From the Bridge, Escape From Happiness, The Sweepers, What Every Woman Knows, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Noises Off, Lettice and Lovage and I'm Not Rappaport.  In New York, Andrea has also appeared in the NYC International Fringe Festival, as a member of the Pillars ensemble, creating new work (with director Terrence Mann) in Hidden Voices at the Minetta Lane Theatre, The Respectful Prostitute at HERE, Ring Round the Moon at Theatre 3, The Winter's Tale at the Village Theatre Co., and several other world premieres, including Strings, starring Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon, Frankie at the Irish Arts Center, The Chaos Theories and Undivulged Crimes with Shotgun Productions, and The Correction. Film work includes the independent films Across Dot Ave., Brooklyn Battery, The Query, and Metronome. She is a frequent narrator of recorded books. Andrea received an M.F.A. from Temple University and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant for study in France. Upcoming: Murderers at Hudson Stage Company.

Natalie Wilder

Natalie (AEA/SAG) will appear in the upcoming reading of Leaf by Chiori Miyagawa on November 10. Previous readings include: Swamp Redemption by Kelsie Chance, Electra Orleans by Joe Musso, The Rabbit Lady of Godalming by Brian Mori, October 1962 by D.W. Gregory, Apostasy and the full-length version of The Hard Way both by Gino DiIorio.  The Hard Way is now entitled Dead Ringer and will appear on the 2009 season schedule.  Mainstage NJ Rep appearances include: Rachel Gold in the world premiere of Apostasy by Gino DiIorio, Diversion in Spain by Jim Knable, a co-production between New Jersey Rep and Playwrights Theatre of NJ, and Underground Rep.  Natalie’s work in the Theatre Brut festivals includes: The Hard Way by Gino DiIorio, My Yeti Dreams by Lisa Dillman, Coffee Talk by Brian Mori, Life 101 by Robin Rice-Lichtig, and American Think Tanks by Isabella Russell-Ides. New York credits include: Woman 3 in Those Whistling Lads, a play based on the life and work of Dorothy Parker by Maureen Van Trease, which made its world premiere in the 2008 Midtown International Fringe Festival, Phaedra in the NY premiere of Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, and Mouth in Samuel Beckett’s Not I for The Chocolate Factory, Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona for The Deptford Players, Lady Anne in Richard III  and Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor for Inwood Shakespeare Festival, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Hypatia in Misalliance, and Lucille in A Flea in Her Ear for Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Beth in Dinner With Friends and Babe in Crimes of the Heart for Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre, and Maggie in The Crimson Thread for Dr. Guffy/Wings Theatre.  Favorite regional credits include Rose in A Shayna Maidel with The Human Race, Celia in The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It with Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Maria in El Grande de Coca Cola with The Civic Theatre of Central Florida, and Janet in The Rocky Horror Show with Playhouse on the Square.  Natalie is also a member of Oldcastle Theatre Company in Bennington, VT, where she has appeared as The Bogle in Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol as well as playing multiple roles in acclaimed runs of four-person adaptations of Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the latter being a world premiere.

Liz Zazzi

Theatre: Off-B’way: Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding, Revenge in the Mob; ‘night Mother at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Love in the Age of Dion at the BIAP; The Vagina Monologues, A Woman of No Importance, Heartbreak House. Cabaret: Solo musical act at Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex, Rose’s Turn. TV: The Sopranos, Law & Order, L&O – Criminal Intent; Conan, SNL. Film: Lbs. (Sundance Award winner), Four Deadly Reasons, The Observer. B.F.A from NYU, graduate of Webber-Douglas Academy of Drama in London.

Kittson O'Neill

Off Broadway: DestiNation America: Stories of the Immigrant Experience (Second Stage), Separate Ceremonies (Director's Forum at The Women's Project), Violent Delights (The Public Theatre). Other New York Credits: The Hunger Waltz (Relentless Theatre Company), The Phoenician Women (Synapse Productions), Edward II (The Queens Company), Macbeth ( Pulse Ensemble), The Winter's Tale (Safe Haven, 2002 OOBR Award), Lear's Daughters (New York Fringe Festival), Jigsaw Nation (Relentless Theatre Co.) , Phenomenon (HERE), Turandot (Belmont Italian-American Playhouse). Regional: World Premieres of Maggie Rose and An Unhappy Woman (The New Jersey Repertory Company), A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Servant of Two Masters (The Northeastern Theatre Ensemble), and the outdoor drama Blue Jacket. Film & TV: USA Up All Night, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol, Ghostlight (Tribeca Film Festival Selection), Ghost Tour & Overtime (Kanbar First Run Film Festival - Winner, Best Ensemble). She recently completed The Shakespeare Lab at The Public Theatre. In another life she was a staff writer and cover model for The Onion. She's crazy for RK.

Kim Carson

Kim Carson is thrilled to be making her NJ Rep debut! Previous credits include: Hedwig and the Angry Inchy (Azuka Theatre Co.), Side by Side by Sondheim (Walnut Street Theatre), Six Characters in Search of an Author (People's Light and Theatre Co.), Winesburg Ohio (Arden Theatre Co.), Fantasticks! (Mum Puppet Theatre - for which she recieved a Barrymore Award nomination), and four seasons with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Angela Della Ventura

Angela has appeared at NJ Rep as the Ancient in Spain, and in the readings of One Night With You, The Riding Club, Any Friend of Percy D’Angelo is a Friend of Mine, Oh Revoir, Mirabeau, The Night I Spent with Elvis and Parting Gestures. Most recently she played Olga in Centenary Stage’s production of The Poetry of Pizza, and appeared at The Theatre Project in Three Tall Women. For Alliance Repertory, she played Joan in The Guys where, as Sarah in Spinning Into Butter, she earned a nomination for Best Actress by The Star-Ledger. Other New Jersey credits include Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa, also for Alliance, the many characters in the 2 woman show Parallel Lives for Dreamcatcher Repertory, Harriet in Isn't it Romantic? for The Forum Theatre, Dracula and several Theatre Cafés for 12 Miles West, Lee in Marvin's Room, for which she received a Bigby Award, Mother Superior in Nunsense, Consuela in El Grande de Coca Cola and Mary Wollstonecraft in Night Spirit. She also performed for several seasons with Pushcart Players theatre for young audiences.

Christine Bruno

Christine (SAG/AFTRA/AEA) is a member of the Actors Studio, a graduate of The Actors Studio M.F.A. program and has worked on both coasts as an actor, director and singer. New York credits include: Sophocles' Elektra (The Actors Studio), Psych (Playwrights Horizons reading), Cowboy Mouth (Circle in the Square Downtown), Child of God (world-premiere musical, Ohio Theatre). Regional credits include: The Glass Menagerie (Fulton Opera House, PA), A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, Summer & Smoke, The Golden Age, Germinal, Spring's Awakening (San Francisco). Film and television credits include: the independent feature Static and ABC's One Life to Live. Christine is thrilled to be a member of the NJ Rep family.

Corinne Colón

Corinne holds a BFA from Boston University's prestigious acting conservatory where she was also the first ever to earn a minor in dance.  She also studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Michael Howard Studios in NYC, and Andrew Magarian Studios in LA while studying dance in NY, LA, and London.  At NJ Rep she has done readings of Open Window, A Night of Elvis One Acts, and Whores by Lee Blessing. Some of her favorite roles include: Julie (Julie Johnson), Olga (Three Sisters), Bonnie (What I Did Last Summer), Bolette (The Lady from the Sea), Calonice (Lysistrata), Marie (On the Razzle), Volumnia (Coriolanus), and Lola (La Duena).

Emely Anne Burns

Emely recently recieved her BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Playwright's Horizons Theatre School, where she was awarded the Fourth Year Student Award for Achievement. Emely is a native of Connecticut where she recently appeared in the ensembles of both A...My Name is Still Alice and Heartbeats. Some of her favorite roles include Carrie in The Great Nebula in Orion, Mrs. Smith in The Bald Soprano and as a member of the ensemble of These Journey's of Hours, a collection of music by David Bucknam, that she helped develop and stage. Emely is also on the board of the MW Theatre Company, based in New York City. She is extremely excited to be one of the newest members of the New Jersey Reperatory Company.

Susan Kerner

Susan Kerner (AEA/SAG) is a graduate of The Actors Studio MFA Program. She has also trained at A.C.T. in San Francisco and The Oxford School of Drama, England. Susan is from the San Francisco Bay Area where she enjoyed roles such as Ilsa in Spring Awakening, Bella in Lost in Yonkers and Sarah in Living Together. Her favorite role to date was playing Claire in Music From Down the Hill at Circle in the Square Downtown. Additional work includes Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Expanded Arts), and multiple roles in NJ Rep's critically acclaimed production of The Laramie Project. Susan was also a part of the Tomorrow's Promise ensemble with NJRep, performing in four of the project's works. Last fall she played various roles in 78th Street Theater Lab's Walking to America which was published this year in Plays and Playwrights 2005. Since her move to NYC Susan has also done work on television, corporate video, and film. Next year she can be seen in the independent features Half Nelson, Marvelous and Stephanie Daley.

Cristin Hubbard

Cristin appeared Off-Broadway in Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill at the Triad Theatre. She appeared at the Goodspeed Opera House in the 35th Anniversary production of The Man of La Mancha where she understudied and performed the role of Aldonza and in A Little Night Music. Her regional credits include The Secret Garden (Rose Lennox), Camelot (Guenevere), Sweeney Todd (Johanna), and Kismet (Marsinah) as well as productions of Swingtime Canteen, She Loves Me, The Most Happy Fella, and Hello Again. She has also performed on a number of demo recordings of new musicals including The Witches of Eastwick, currently running in London's West End. At NJ Rep she appeared in the mainstage musical Immortal Interlude and in the reading of Dorian Grey. Originally from Michigan, she is a graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio.

Corinne Edgerly

Corinne Edgerly is proud to be a company member of New Jersey Rep since 2001.  At NJ Rep, she performed the roles of Olive Allison in The Women of Lockerbie and Carmencita in Lee Blessing’s Whores (the production was subsequently performed at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey).  In New York City, she performed the role of Simone in Fetes de la Nuit at the Ohio Theatre; the production was nominated for a 2010 Drama Desk Award in the category of Unique Theatrical Experience.  Other recent New York City credits include:  Aunt Sadie in All The Way Home (Transport Group received a Special Drama Desk Award); Gongi in Mud Blossom (Walkerspace); Video Mom in Ex-Antwone (P.S. 122); Mrs. Winemiller in Eccentricities of A Nightingale; Marina in Uncle Vanya; Tatiana in Barbarians; Rosita in Camino Real; Leona Green in Kariuki’s Notebook (La Mama); Old Alice in Islands: An Urban Archipelago; Mother in Woman Killer (HERE); Wife in Nest Egg at the Women’s Project Theatre Tandem Acts Festival.  Other regional credits:  Simiche in The Grouch and Emilia in A Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Lil Miller in Kindertransport (Women’s Theatre of NJ); and in rep at The Theatre At Monmouth in Maine as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Essie Miller in Ah, Wilderness! and the First Witch in Macbeth.  She has also done voiceovers for major feature films for Warner Bros and an independent feature film directed by Lee Grant.

Katrina Ferguson

Katrina appeared Off-Broadway in the title role of Carrin Beginning. Other theatre credits include: Hedda/Hedda Gabler; Josie Hogan/A Moon for the Misbegotten; Sara Rosensweig/The Sisters Rosensweig; Gloria Whitmore/Grace and Glory; Belinda Blair/Noises Off; Queen Gertrude/Ophelia Thinks Harder; Mrs Cratchit/A Christmas Carol (European Tour); Rosalind/As You Like It; Bianca/Othello (with Austin Pendleton); Diana/Lend Me a Tenor; Mrs Bigbottom/Inventing Montana; Emma/The Nonpariel, (adapted from Jane Austen’s novel Emma); Mary, Queen of Scots/Schiller’s Mary Stuart; and the U.S premiere of the Australian play Ridge’s Lovers. She has worked regionally at Oldcastle Theatre, VT; The Self Family Arts Center, SC; The Playhouse on the Park, CT; La Comedia, OH; Riverside Stage Co., CT; Centenary Stage Co., NJ and many off-off Broadway theatres. Katrina has also toured the U.S. with the National Shakespeare Company, playing Adriana in Comedy of Errors. She can be seen and heard in several commercials, industrials and voiceovers.

Pamela Bob

Winner of the 2005 Best Actor citation for her performance in People Like Us (NYMF), other New York credits include How To Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes (New World Stages), Cam Jansen (TheaterWorks), The Gay Divorce (Musicals Tonight). Regional favorites include: Wildwood Flowers: the June Carter Cash Story (North Carolina Performing Arts Center), Sisters of Swing (Capital Rep.), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Peterborough Players), Annie, Get Your Gun (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Syncopation by Alan Knee (Asolo Theatre), Keep On the Sunny Side (Barter Theatre), Swingin’ On a Star (Riverside Theatre), Company (Barrington Stage). University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Kristin Johansen

Kristin is delighted to be a new member of New Jersey Rep. Recent credits include The Winter's Tale (Hermione) as an Equity Guest Artist at Corning College (with NJ Rep member John FitzGibbon), Perfect Wedding (Rachel) and Pirates of Penzance (Isabel) at Totem Pole Playhouse, Swingtime Canteen (Katie), On the Town (Ivy), Harvey (Nurse Kelly), and Pumpboys and Dinettes (Rhetta) at the Depot Theatre (Westport, NY), The Best Lil' Whorehouse in Texas (Shy) at the Union County Art Center (Rahway,NJ), and Six Women with Brain Death at the Shadowlands Theatre. Kristin has performed at The Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, FL. The Body Politic Theatre in Chicago, Stamford Center for the Arts in Connecticut, The Darien Dinner Theatre in Connecticut, The Tricycle Theatre in London and many others. She recently played the female lead (Kat Peterson) in the independent film Ghost Dance. In New York City she played the role of Greta Garbo in DUO Theatre's Off Broadway Production of Chez Garbo.

Mikaela Kafka

Mikaela Kafka has recently been working hands-on with the Hudson Exploited Theatre Company on Jane Ho which they are looking to open in New York in the Fall. She just recently played the role of Maggot in Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City with the Garage Theatre Group. New York credits include, Moe Green...at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, Beware the Man Eating Chicken and An Old Fashioned Love Story by Tom Sleigh at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival, Mongolia Is Ours and Meet Me at the Mint Theatre; The Locket, Jews and Jesus and the National tour of Oliver Twist. She originated the role of Joan Collins in Dressing Room Divas which ran in NY, Chicago, and L.A. Regional credits include Angie in Breaking Legs I Hate Hamlet, Arms and the Man, and Top Girls which earned her Actress of the Year in In Pittsburgh's Year in Review. As a director, she recently directed Goose Vows, for NJDramatists, Ampersand a new play by Mark Bazzone and Spitting Daisies, a finalist in the 2003 Samuel French Festival. She is also co-creator and producer with her husband Osborn Focht of A Day at Dante's a new cartoon that can be viewed at www.billZbob.com.

Cailin McDonald

Cailin McDonald's regional appearances include Under Milk Wood (Hartford Stage),  Proof, Blithe Spirit, Sister Mary Ignatius..., The Actor's Nightmare (BoarsHead), Uncommon Women and Others, Still Life (Women's Theatre Company), Charlotte's Web (California Theatre Center, Nat'l. Tour), and Sweeney Todd (GAMV).  New York productions include A Girl's Guide to Chaos (Reel Actors), Flipper's Comeback (Word of Mouth) and Death's Date (MTS).  She can be seen as Caitlin Sabella in Artistic Capitalism's indie feature, Bagel Boy, and as various and sundry townsfolk on One Life to Live and All My Children.  She is very happy to be joining the company of NJ Rep.

Bricken Sparacino

As a member of NJ Rep, Bricken was happy to be a part of Only Me and You (reading ), Grumpy Giant and Underground Rep. Her NYC credits include: Gretta in Medication (FringeNYC), Co-host of  The 10:17 Comedy Night, Bridgeet Lolalolalo in American Treacle (also creator and director), Betty in Trifocal (The Samuel Beckett Theatre), Cressida in Troilus and Cressida (Stage Works), Sarah Siddons in The Actor's Nightmare (Plunder Productions). Regional credits include: Adriana in The Comedy of Errors (Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire), Tybalt and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Fleetwood Stage). Bricken is also a director and worked with The Pearl Theatre Company as assistant director on Richard III. For NJ Rep she directed Swamp Redemption as part of the play reading series and Heaven and Earth part of last year's Theatre Brut. She directed Chris Harcum in his one man show Some Kind of Pink Breakfast for FringeNYC '06 which has been picked up for an extended run. Next up in NYC:  Season 3 of Comedy Period, an all women comedy show in which she will perform and produce.

Anja Lee is pleased to be a new member of NJRep this season. Anja hails from the East Coast, but spent quite a few years in the Midwest studying voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and theatre at Kent State University. She has worked for some fantastic Regional theatres, including the Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and Actors Theater of Louisville to name a few. Here in NYC, Anja was a company member of Irondale Ensemble, a theater company that relies heavily on improv to create new works. She has also appeared in several off-off Broadway plays and staged readings. Favorite roles include Lorraine Hansberry in To Be Young Gifted and Black and Guildenstern in Hamlet. Currently, you can watch Anja on all four of the NYC soap operas, with small recurring roles on All My Children and As the World Turns, and on QVC as a Guest Host.

Karen Case Cook

Karen Case Cook is very grateful to be a New Jersey Repertory Company Member. She is an Actor and Director whose first love is theatre. Karen received a 2004 NJ Theatre Best Actress Nomination (Peter Filichia) for her portrayal of Dr. Vivian Bearing (Wit) produced by Women's Theatre Company of New Jersey and the 2006 Jacoby Outstanding Female Acting Performance Award (Jacob Schaad) for Lavinia (Two Headed) at East Lynne Theater Company. Summer 2008, she portrayed Nancy White in You and I and directed The Guardsman as well as the world premiere of Helpful Hints—all with East Lynne Theater. For Phoenix Theatre Ensemble (NYC), Karen directed Eric Overmyer's On The Verge, the staged reading of The Lifeblood and was the Assistant Director on I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document… Karen traveled to Peking University, Beijing, China where she directed Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. National commercials: (Slimfast and Verizon), Print: (Velcade) and SAG Industrials: (Prestiq). Karen earned a BA in Bacteriology and previously worked with Medical Research teams in New York and Connecticut.

Kimberly Dilts

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin MFA Acting program, Kim is an actor/director/choreographer working in NYC. Recently, Kim worked as the assistant director and female understudy for The Revenger’s Tragedy, with the Red Bull Theater and choreographed War Music, which premiered at FirstWorksProv and will be remounted at the Chicago Humanities Festival in the fall of 2006. Recent professional acting credits include Faust at FirstWorksProv (Mephistopheles), Alice2 at the Sanford Meisner Theatre, and readings at the Pearl Theatre, NYTW and The Directors Company. She has also worked as an actor and choreographer for Austin Shakespeare Festival and as co-creator of House of Sweets, which was produced in the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival. Kim has appeared as a guest star on Law & Order:Criminal Intent.

Betty Hudson

A proud founding member of NJ Rep appeared in the world premiere of In Search Of Red River Dog. Broadway: George M, Butterflies are Free. Off Broadway: The Drunkard (with Barry Manilow) Our Town and Macbeth for The American Globe Theatre, House of Bernarda Alba for Prospect Theatre. Regionally she toured with Mickey Rooney in George M, Chita Rivera in Anything Goes and Alan Alda in Li'l Abner. Films include Object Of My Affection, One Fine Day. Betty appears as Mrs. McGreavy, the bookstore proprietor on the TV series ED. Always love coming home to NJR - thanks Suzanne and Gabe.

Tatiana Gomberg

Tatiana Gomberg is thrilled to be joining New Jersey Repertory Company. She is a resident artist with Rabbit Hole Ensemble with whom she was recently nominated for an NYIT award for Best Featured Actress and Best Ensemble for her work in The Night of Nosferatu (Workshop Theatre NY, WHAT in Cape Cod).  Also with Rabbit Hole: Cricket in Big Thick Rod (NY Fringe Fest) and off- off Broadway in A Rope in the Abyss.  Off-Broadway: she received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Yalova in The Beauty Inside (Culture Project). As a founding member of Giant Squid Productions she has performed in Brecht's A Man's A Man (Fringe NYC) and The Elephant Calf (Jean Cocteau Rep).  Other work includes Hermia in Midsummer Night's Dream and Catherine in Northanger Abbey (Theatre 1010), a national tour of Charlottes Web (Theatreworks USA), and she has also performed with The Living Theatre, Moonwork, TOAST, and HERE Arts Center. See her on camera and online in Aquavit Nirvana. Tatiana is a graduate of NYU's TISCH School of the Arts.

Cortnie Loren Miller

Cortnie Loren Miller is a BFA graduate of Boston University’s distinguished conservatory acting training program, as well as an attendee of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Emerson College. She currently resides in New York City where she is in need of a backyard and a pet dog. Some favorite roles include: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Phoebe in As You Like It, Lady Brute in The Provoked Wife, Bianca in Women Beware Women, Erica in Suburbia, Mary in All the Way Home, Doris in My Mother Said I Never Should, Madame Pace in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Anna in The Chase, Bobbie in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, and many more. In pursuance of a theatrical revolution, Ms. Miller has spent much of her time in NYC premiering and experimenting in new works: The Imported Bridegroom (A Klesmer Musical), Tickets Please (Kef Productions), State of the Art (Samuel French Festival), Knockouts (Access Theatre), Random Violence (Sasquash Theatre Co.), The Underground (42nd Street Workshop), Coming Back Home (Vital Theatre), Under a Tree (Manhattan Playwrights), Wedding Pictures (Vital Theatre), to name a few. Regionally: George M, Royal Palm Dinner Theatre, Heaven and Earth, Negotiations, and A Real Cowboy, NJ Rep’s Theatre Brut. Film Credits include: Last Chance Café (Cheeseman Productions), Narcosis (NYU Thesis Film), Mugging (Emerson College) and commercials. Ms. Miller is a happy member of New Jersey Repertory having appeared in past readings, Wandaleria and Oh Revior, Mirabeu, as well as the loved Theatre Brut Festivals. Come and see her in her upcoming performance as Bernice in Don’t Hug Me co-produced by Shotgun Productions and NJ Repertory Company. To contact, email cortnieloren@hotmail.com.

Off-Broadway: Bread and Butter and Recklessness (Provincetown Playhouse), staged reading of The Stronger with Priscilla Lopez (Provincetown Playhouse) Off-Off Broadway: Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye by Lanford Wilson (Ohio Theatre); Precious Damsels (New Media Repertory Theatre) Regional: Gary Grinkle (Long Wharf Theatre); As Bees in Honey Drown (Hangar Theatre); The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Burgdorff Cultural Center); originated Six Hands by Eric H. Weinberger (Yale University; Center of Contemporary Arts; Montauk Theatre Productions). Yale University/ Yale School of Drama: 'Tis Pity She 's A Whore (Hippolita), Lend Me A Tenor (Maggie), Tartuffe (Elmire), The House of Yes (Jackie-O). Stacie has also acted in readings at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and at New Jersey Repertory Company. She will reprise the one-woman play Six Hands by Eric H. Weinberger at The Luna Stage Company in March.

Libby Hughes

Libby Hughes is grateful to be a member of New Jersey Rep, a company where people are talented, friendly and real. She began her acting career in her native Canada at the renowned Shaw Festival where she appeared onstage with Barry Morse and Paxton Whitehead in Man and Superman. She has built an extensive résumé in American regional theatre and off-off-Broadway. Classical roles include Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest, Maria in Twelfth Night, the Countess in All’s Well That Ends Well and Mrs. Tarleton in Misalliance. Contemporary roles include Mary in William Mastrosimone’s Shivaree (directed by Terence Lamude), Betty in Cloud Nine (directed by Paul Wagar), Amanda in Tennessee Williams’ American classic, The Glass Menagerie, and Dotty Ottley in Michael Frayn’s superlative farce Noises Off (directed by Christopher Owens), and Country Woman in Can Can (written and directed by Romulus Linney).

Sue Berch

Sue Berch is thrilled to be able to join such a talented company of artists as NJ Repertory.  She has been fortunate enough to perform on 3 continents and is happy to be back in the USA.  Favorite roles include Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, Rachel in Reckless (London) and Grumio in The Taming of a Shrew.  In NYC, she does theater, film, television and commercial work as well as role play work for law schools, medical schools and the NYPD.  On stage, Sue has appeared on stilts, with snakes and in short sword and shield fights and loves the challenge of it all. She's even been a Who from Whoville in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.  Sue is a proud member of AEA, SAG and BAE.

Sarah E. Mathews

Sarah E. Mathews most recently performed as the Nurse in TheatreworksUSA's tour of Romeo & Juliet. Other companies she has worked with include EST Youngblood, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Universal Studios, and Mad Cow Theatre. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Stephanie was seen in New Jersey Rep's mainstage productions of Ten Percent of Molly Snyder and Lemonade as well as in several staged readings and Theatre Brut. NY and regional credits include Metropolitan Playhouse; LookingGlass; The Nora Theatre; The Publick Theatre; North Shore Music Theatre; Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Boston Theatre Works. She was seen as Mag and Claire in Stonewall Jackson's House with New Repertory Theatre (Elliot Norton Award, Best Production) and as Julie in Miss Julie with Coyote Theatre. Originally from California, favorite roles there include Bette in in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Marsha, Mae and Melissa in Durang Durang and Full Moon at A.C.T. She's taught with Stages on the Sound, Metropolitan Playhouse and Brandeis University, studied under Anna Deavere Smith and holds an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University.

Michèle LaRue

Michèle's love of older American plays and literature dominates her one-woman touring productions (nearly 300 performances nationally), including her ever-expanding repertoire of Tales Well Told (vintage short stories from the long nineteenth century). She maintains a long relationship with Cape May’s East Lynne Theater Company, currently touring nationally under its aegis with three of her solo productions: The Yellow Wallpaper, Someone Must Wash the Dishes, and Eve’s Diary. Michèle is a member of AEA, SAG, and AFTRA, and as a theatre editor-writer, of Drama Desk. Email: ruedelrue@aol.com; Web: michelelarue.com.

Susan Barrett (AEA, SAG, AFTRA) most recently did Park Your Car in Harvard Yard playing Kathleen Hogan at The Deertrees Theater Festival in Maine. She also appeared as Frankie in Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune with The Women’s Theatre Co. of NJ, as well as Wit for WTC, and The Smell Of The Kill at The Bickford Theater. She was in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Bold Girls at 29th Street Rep in NYC where she is an associate member. Other New York credits include The Angel Project at Lincoln Center Festival directed by Deborah Warner, La Mama, NYC Fringe Festival, All About Evie at Ensemble Studio Theatre Octoberfest, As You Like It at Blue Heron Theater Co. & The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall. Regional credits include String Of  Pearls directed by TONY award winner Trezana Beverley at PlayMakers Repertory Company and a year with Florida’s Asolo State Theater’s Touring Company. She received her MA in Theater at The University of Leeds, UK, where she toured with The Donegal Workshop Theater and performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. TV & Film credits include Diane on 30 ROCK with Tina Fey, numerous appearances in comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Law & Order Criminal Intent opposite Vincent D’Onfrio, and Queen Latifah’s new comedy The Perfect Holiday.. www.susanbarrett.net.

Mara Kassin

Elaine has been a professional actress for over thirty years. Film: Cindy, the mom in Uncle Buck; Without a Trace. TV: E.R., The Sopranos, Providence, Dharma & Greg, Sisters, L.A. Law, Law and Order, Law and Order: Special Victims' Unit, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Stella Lombard on Days of our Lives, the Emmy Award-winning Playing for Time with Vanessa Redgrave and Catch a Rainbow, for which Elaine herself won an Emmy. She has appeared on Broadway (The Rose Tattoo, I'm Not Rappaport, Macbeth) and off-Broadway (Cloud 9 at the Lucille Lortel, the Roundabout's Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson, the world premiere of Michael Weller's Split at Ensemble Studio Theatre and Candide with the National Theatre of the Deaf.) She has played leads at regional theaters across the country, including Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ACT/Seattle, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Shakespeare and Company, McCarter Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and the Folger Theatre Group. Her portrayal of Shirley Valentine at the George Street Playhouse was cited as the 1997 outstanding solo performance in New Jersey by the Star Ledger. Elaine has performed her one-woman show, Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty, across the country. The impetus for that play came from her playing the last eight First Ladies opposite Rich Little in The Presidents on tour and for PBS. She is a member of The Actors Studio and Ensemble Studio Theatre. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, she went on to get her MAT from Smith, and returned as a faculty member, teaching Acting for the Media there. As a guest artist, Elaine has taught Acting for the Camera at more than twenty-five colleges and prep schools across the country.

Georgina Bates

Dina is a proud member of NJ Rep., having performed in several readings and in Gluttony and Sloth at the 2006 Theater Brut Festival. Recent credits include many commercials, Olivia in Twelfth Night at The Summer Theater of New Canaan and Claire Booth Luce in The Rise of Dorothy Hale Off-Broadway. Also in New York: The Error of Their Ways at HERE, Days of Wine and Roses at the Lion Theatre and Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden at The John Houseman Theatre. Additional NYC Theatre includes work with TACT, Synapse Productions, Women's Project and Productions, KEF Productions, First Look Theatre Company and Shotgun Productions. Dina was nominated as best featured actress by The Star Ledger for her portrayal of Patricia in Sight Unseen at Centenary Stage in NJ. Other Regional credits with The American Repertory Theatre, Stonington Opera House, PA Shakespeare, Off World Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare, Boston Center for the Arts, Pirate Playhouse. Film: Loose Ends. Dina is a graduate of ART's Advanced Training Program at Harvard and Allentown College.

Katharine E. Scharhon

Originally from Seattle, Washington, Katherine E. Scharhon has worked in many plays, films, voice-overs, and commercials.  Katherine's stage credits include performing with The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in their production of The Time of Your Life, directed by Tina Landau at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.  Her film credits include playing the dual role of twin teen detectives Chance and Wendy Hale in Guy Maddin's internationally acclaimed feature film, Brand Upon the Brain! with Isabella Rossellini.  Katherine holds a BFA in acting from Cornish College of the Arts.  www.katherinescharhon.com

A graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Kathleen came to New York City as Assistant Director to Brian Murray on A Scent of Flowers, doubling as standby to Katharine Houghton. New York credits include Luisa Baccara and Aelis Mazoyer in Tamara, Countess Aurelia in The Madwoman of Chaillot, Queen Margaret in Richard III, Volumnia in Coriolanus and Sylvia in the U.S. premiere of Jigsaws.  Regionally she has been seen at the Paper Mill Playhouse (An Ideal Husband), Pasadena Playhouse (The Beaux Stratagem), Caldwell Theatre (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), American Heartland Theatre (Lettice & Lovage and Mystery of Irma Vep), Stages St. Louis (The Music Man and High Society), Two River Theatre (Thieves' Carnival), Stamford Theatre Works (Collected Stories and National Pastime), and the Alabama, Orlando and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals. Last season, Kathleen performed at the Dorset Theatre Festival, Music Theatre of Wichita and the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, then directed Port Wine for NJ Rep's Theatre Brut Festival, and The Importance of Being Earnest for the Mimes & Mummers of Fordham University. This spring and summer, she will play Mrs. Warwick in The Unexpected Guest for Indiana Repertory Theatre and Syracuse Stage, and Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music for Opera Cleveland.

Michele Tauber

Daina Schatz

Daina is grateful to be a part of this company! Regional credits include: Comedy of Errors and The King Stag with Yale Repertory Theatre; Kiss Me Kate (Lois), Forum (Gemini Twin) and Anything Goes (Angel Virtue) with Seven Angels Theatre; Company (Amy) at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts; An Ideal Husband (Mrs. Marchmont) with the River Rep at Ivoryton. Other favorites: Cabaret (Sally Bowles) and Swing! (Choreographer). Film/TV Credits include: Friendly's Restaurants, The Sopranos, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Six Degrees, College Road Trip, August Rush and Brotherhood. Daina received a BA from Cornell University and currently teaches swing dancing throughout the northeast. http://dainaschatz.googlepages.com

Gail Winar

Gail recently directed Michael Bettencourt's A Question of Color for NJ Rep's Script-In-Hand New Play Series. Other recent directing work includes projects with Shotgun Productions, Biggs-Rosati, and Spotlight On Productions. As an actress, Gail has toured throughout the US and Europe , performing in works ranging from William Shakespeare to Larry Shue. She is currently a member of the New Jersey Repertory Company, American Globe Theatre, and the Laughingstock Company. In 2003, Gail returned to school earning her MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University in Washington , DC.

Meredith Napolitano is joyful to have stepped into this unique troupe. Recent NY theatre: The Magnificent Cuckold (Cornelia) with East River Commedia at The Connelly Theatre, The House of Bernarda Alba (Martirio) at Manhattan Theatre Source, He Drives Out a Devil (The Girl) for Anne Bogart’s Columbia Director’s Lab and Anton Dudley’s Back to the Fabulous at The Irish Repertory Theatre. Regionally: Paul Mullins’ King John (Blanche) at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Henry V (Katherine) for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s Apprentice Company, Pericles (Marina) with The Hudson Shakespeare Company, and Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Coriolanus (Virgilia) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Pantino) and Quiet Torrential Sound (Monica) all at NYU Tisch School of the Arts from where she holds a B.F.A. She can also been seen in the upcoming independent feature film Calling It Quits.

Sarah Matthay

Maya Lynne Robinson

Maya Lynne Robinson is a native of Cleveland, OH and a graduate of The Ohio University. Some regional theatre credits include: Four, Tommy:The Musical ( Studio Theatre), The Story (African Continuum Theatre Company), A Christmas Carol ( Great Lakes Theatre Festival) and Insurrection: Holding History (Theatre Alliance), for which she received a Helen Hayes nomination. She has performed across the country in two one- woman productions for TheatreworksUSA/ The Theatre Workshop (Echoes of the Past, Voices of Hope) and for National Theatre for Arts and Education in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Donna Marrazzo

Madelyne Ryterband recently appeared in NJ Rep's musical children's theater production, The Grumpy Giant, as Dorinda, the Good Fairy. Other favorite musical roles include Mimi Schwinn in William Finn's A New Brain and Emma Goldman in Assassins (The Phoenix Studio), Ida Strauss in Titanic (Count Basie Theater), Eve in Children of Eden, and MIss Buttercup in HMS Pinafore. She also appeared as Felicia in I Hate Hamlet and as Woman 1 in Is There Life After High School? (Guggenheim Summer Theater), Madelyne was seen Off-Broadway in Feiffer's People (Westbank Cafe). Currently she is featured in a documentary called The Boys of Second Street Park, previewed at the Sundance Film Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival and Philadelphia Film Festival. It will air on Showtime. Madelyne performs her one woman show Connections for fund raising events.

Linda S. Nelson

Uma Incrocci

Uma Incrocci was last seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the new comedy Attack of the Soccer Moms. Regional: Catherine in Proof at Barnstormers Theatre, Celia in As You Like It and the Princess in Love's Labor's Lost at Connecticut Free Shakespeare, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre. New York Stage: Off-Broadway production of Fairytales of the Absurd, 365 Plays/365 Days at the Public Theater, Fringe Festival, Havel Festival, Ionesco Festival, American Globe Theatre. She has appeared on Lipstick Jungle, Chappelle's Show, and in a wide variety of indie projects, including the pilot Living in Captivity which she co-wrote and co-produced. www.umaincrocci.com

Lesley Berkowitz

Lesley is a Philadelphia native. She received her BA in Theatre from Muhlenberg College in 2005. Since graduating she has been working around New York and Philadelphia. She is a member of the Philadelphia based Vagabond Acting Troupe. Some acting credits include: The Boy in By Grimm (Vagabond Acting Troupe), Chicklet in Psycho Beach Party (The Academy Theatre), Donalbain in Macbeth (The Academy Theatre), and as an acting apprentice performed in Thirty Plays in 60 Minutes (Contemporary Stage Company). She has also directed projects in New York and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Amy Jackson

Amy Jackson -Credits include Tovarich (Musicals Tonight!); Georgie in The Full Monty (Cape Rep); the East Coast Premiere of Tibet Through the Red Box (Cape Rep);  Five Women Wearing The Same Dress (Gene Frankel); One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Charlie Pineapple Co); and Lady Macbeth (Hudson Shakespeare). Amy has also appeared as a soloist with The Boston Pops, and performed in concerts in NYC and regionally. BFA Boston Conservatory. To hear vocal clips, please visit: www.myspace.com/amyjojackson.

Natalie Mosco

Guenia Lemos

Guenia Lemos was last seen performing the role of Matilde in both The Goodman Theatre's (Chicago) and The Woolly Mammoth Theatre's (Washington, D.C.) productions of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House. Her New York theatre credits include Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Miriam in Lexy, Maria in The Male Creature, Georgie in Spike Heels, Fernanda/Nonna in The Bubble, and Prudencia in The House of Bernarda Alba. Television credits include Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC), a contract role in As The World Turns (CBS), and a recurring role in One Life To Live (ABC). Film credits include The Night Listener, The Mercy Man, Father Son Holy Ghost, If It Wasn't For The Money, Pretty, Killers, Re Trato, and Cupid. She has also performed numerous plays on the Brazilian stage, including a one woman show called Waltz #6 by the acclaimed Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues. She's honored to be part of New Jersey Repertory Company.

Katie Renn

Katie is thrilled to be a member of the New Jersey Repertory Company, where she was last seen in their staged readings of Wandaleria and Hobo Blue.  She also served as the ASM for the world premiere musical The Little Hours.   Her regional credits include the role of Quincy Quince in the Women's Theater Company production of An American Daughter and has worked on the independent films As Cool As Jennifer and Pumping the Pious.  Katie has also performed in the Women's Theatre Company productions of How I Learned to Drive and the world premiere musical Wilde in Leadville.  Katie is a graduate of Montclair State University, holding a BA in Theatre Studies with a minor in Musical Theatre.  Katie holds an MFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she was seen as Pooty in Reckless, Thyona in Big Love and Timothea in Sea Marks, among others.  She is proud to be part of the amazing community of NJ Rep since 2002.

With NJ Rep: readings of Dix Tableaux and Devil Dog Six. Off Broadway: with Jean Cocteau Repertory: The Maids, The Importance of Being Earnest, Uncle Vanya, The Triumph of Love, Arms and The Man, Intrigue and Love, Doña Rosita the Spinster, among others; with the Mint Theater: Walking Down Broadway. Regional: Sierra Repertory in California (Bell Book and Candle, Picnic), the Depot Theatre in upstate New York (Engaged, Arsenic and Old Lace), TriState Actors Theater in New Jersey (Sylvia, On the Verge), Oldcastle Theater in Vermont (The Magnificent Ambersons, The Man Who Came to Dinner), among others. Her TV and film work include appearances on One Life to Live and Trinity, and several independent films, including The Fisherboy, an official selection of the 2005 Anchorage, Rhode Island, Palm Springs and WHAT? film festivals. Amanda graduated from Dartmouth College, and has worked and trained with members of the Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Ursula was last seen playing the role of Mathilde in Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House at the Cleveland Playhouse. She has performed Off-Broadway in Havana Bourgeois at 59E59; IPO and Between the Legs of God at The Brick; All For Love at Center Stage; and Roadicide at The Living Room Festival at the HERE. Her regional theatre credits include three world premiere plays by Nilo Cruz among them originating the role of Marela in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics at New Theatre; also Walnut Street Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, The Kitchen Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Colony Theatre and The Wheeling Symphony. She also appeared in the film Control Option Escape. Ms. Cataan earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the Prospect Theatre Company in New York City.

Darcie Siciliano graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in Theatre, Architecture and Italian; and studied for two years at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater.  New York and regional credits include Susan Wright, First in Flight (TheatreWorks/USA nat'l tour); Joan of Arc, Joan (Northeastern Theatre); Countess, All's Well That Ends Well (Vineyard Playhouse); Allison, Sorrows and Rejoicings (New Day Rep); Martirio, House of Bernarda Alba (Neighborhood Playhouse) and originating the role of Heidi in many incarnations of Craig Pospisil's Months On End (Bay Street, Century Center, et al). She has appeared in over nine events with Shotgun Productions, including two mainstage shows, The Chaos Theories and Big Kids, both by Alex Dinelaris.  Also:Thalia at Symphony Space, Women's Project, Metropolitan Playhouse, Bridge Theater Co., Juggernaut Theater, Director's Co., TheatreGarden Ltd.  She is a member of the WorkShop Theater Company, and a regular singer in the acclaimed A-Train Plays and Musicals (Peter Jay Sharp Theater and the Kaye Playhouse).  On TV she was victim to Jon Stewart's Soup Nazi in Dave Atell's Pulp Comics and other various student films and industrials.  Her singer/songwriting and rock vocals have made appearances at the Knitting Factory, the Zipper, Southpaw, and Danny's Skylight Room to name a few.  She is proud to be a member of New Jersey Rep.

Jessica Howell

Jessica Howell is honored to be a part of this company. Her New York credits include Edgewise at The Cherry Lane Studio (dir. Lila Neugebauer) and a few readings- Chromophile at New Dramatists (dir. Jade King Carroll) and Girl On The Wing at Manhattan Theatre Source (part of the Estrogenius Festival) (dir. Paul Shoulberg). At Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival she was in In Paris You Will Find Many Baguettes But Only One True Love (dir. Sean Daniels), and Game On (dir. Will MacAdams). She recently completed an acting apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville where she was seen in A Christmas Carol (dir. Sean Daniels), Clean House (dir. Jon Jory), and Hedwig and The Angry Inch (dir. Sean Daniels). Last summer she participated in a series of new radio mystery plays at the International Mystery Writers' Festival (dir. David Ossman) She received her undergrad from The University of Tulsa. She is a diehard Texan. That being said--New York is fantastic!!

Corey Tazmania

Corey Tazmania (AEA) was last seen on the main stage in The Housewives of Mannheim by Alan Brody. Other NJ REP credits: Vincent Sessa's A Child's Guide to Innocence; script in hand series Providence by Cody Daigle and The Tangled Skirt by Steve Braunstein; Theatre Brut 2005; and Pericles (OOBR award) in the studio space. Recent New York credits include The Housewives of Mannheim (59E59), Trish Harnetiaux's Oh, Dear, Sweet, Bitter Olive (Metropolitan Playhouse), Christian Tomaszewski and Joanna Malinowska's Mother Earth Sister Moon (Performa 09), and Jeannette Angell's Flygirls (EstroGenius). Regionally, Corey has worked with Burning Coal, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Magic Theatre, Mill Mountain, and toured nationally with the National Shakespeare Company.

Margo Brooke Pellmar graduated from Circle in the Square Theatre School, after which she performed as Marilyn Monroe, in Myth America with Personal Space Theatrics. She has worked with Stageplays Theatre Company and Shotgun Productions on readings of exciting new plays. She spent this past summer studying at BADA in Oxford. She is working with her manager Donna DeStefano of Siren Song Entertainment and performs monthly with the Off-Broadway company The Vampire Cowboys! She is performing part of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis with the Live Artists Collaborations and is finishing her degree at Sarah Lawrence College while teaching performing arts to her Star Kidz in White Plains, New York. She loves the New Jersey Repertory Company and is proud of her unions SAG and AEA!

NEW YORK THEATRE: Lady in Blue (For Colored Girls, 78th Street Theatre Lab), Bernice (The Conjugality Test, Rattlestick Theatre), Juliet (Romeo & Juliet, American Globe Theatre), Regina (Corduroy, Theatreworks USA) and others. REGIONAL THEATRE: Chorus (Tantalus, Royal Shakespeare Company/Denver Center), Ariel (The Tempest, Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Lady Capulet (Romeo & Juliet, Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Pat Black (Annunciation of Pat Black, Georgia Repertory Theatre), Joan Cobbs (Open the Door, Virginia!, Theatre of the First Amendment), Sally/Maya/Harriet (Sunrise at Monticello, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey), Woman of Canterbury (Murder in the Cathedral) and others. ON-CAMERA: Homicide (NBC), Tantalus: Behind the Mask (PBS), and numerous industrials. TRAINING: University of Virginia, The British American Drama Academy (BADA).

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Prentiss trained with David Downs at Northwestern University, from which she graduated in 2000. She is a member of AEA, having appeared regionally at The Fulton Opera House (Importance of Being Earnest), The Alley Theatre (workshop production of Leading  Ladies), The Cape Playhouse (The Dining Room), and at Playwrights Theatre of NJ (Sunrise at Monticello). Prentiss was also seen Off-Broadway in How To Build A Better Tulip at the Acorn  Theatre.  This past January, she appeared in NJ Rep’s production of Tour de Farce, directed by James Glossman.  She recently completed her first independent film, Hard Four, which stars her brother Ross, who is an NJ Rep company member. As a ballet dancer,  Prentiss has performed with the Palos Verdes  Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, Alvit Ballet Company, and in competition at The Music Center Spotlight  Awards, where she was a finalist.  Upcoming: Miss Caswell in The Mousetrap (Fulton Opera House) and Vivie in Mrs. Warren’s Profession (BoarsHead Theatre).

Margery Shaw is no stranger to New Jersey audiences, having worked for 15 seasons with the old New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, under the direction of Paul Barry, first in Cape May and later in Madison. Prior to that she was a member of the Morris Repertory Company, in Morristown, and more recently she has appeared at the Two River Theatre. Margery is a veteran of over 150 leading roles in regional theatres throughout America, including the Pittsburgh Public, the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, Buffalo Studio Arena, St Louis Repertory Company, Stage/West in Massachusetts, Virginia Stage Company and the old New Orleans Repertory. She is a recipient of the New Jersey Drama Critics Association Best Leading Actress Award, and the Outstanding Performance Achievement Award from Florida's Riverside Theatre Company. In recent years she has done much work at several theatres in her native Western Massachusetts, including the Miniature Theatre of Chester (Miss Helen in The Road To Mecca), The New Century Theatre (Margrethe in Copenhagen, Esty in Mornings at Seven), The Theatre Project (Fonsia in The Gin Game, Linda in Death of a Salesman), PIoneer Valley Summer Theatre (Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, Betty in The Foreigner) and last month, City Stage (Dorothy in Inspecting Carol). She is delighted to join the NJ Rep family.

Regional credits include Getting Out; Play (Beckett); Merry Wives of Windsor; 3 Penny Opera; The Good Doctor; Starting Here, Starting Now; Jacques Brel. She has performed many new plays with: New Georges Theatre Company; Abingdon Theatre Company; Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey; Manhattantheatresource; Samuel French One Act Fests; Circle Rep Lab.; The 42nd Street Workshop; The Workshop Theatre Co.; Nuyoricans Poets Café; new musicals at BMI and ASCAP and The Women’s Project; many independent and grad films. She works with the writers at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (First Look Theatre Company). She won an outstanding performance award with the Turnip Theater One Act Festival. She has written and performed her own 1 woman show Lipstick, Compact and Valium and has performed in many cabarets in New York

Briana has been in 6 plays, over 20 films and countless readings of new work in New York and regionally.  One of her films, Monogamo Sucesivo, opened a film festival in Chile where the films were screened in caves, and later screened  at the Festival de Malaga in Spain.  In addition to being a proud company member of NJ Rep, she also belongs to the  First Look Theatre Company at NYU which works with the playwrighting students on their developing work, and has recently cofounded a film and theatre production company, DecadeApart. Member Actor's Equity.  www.briana.cl.

Regina Dreyer Thomas

Virginia Roncetti began her career in her native Canada, where she played on Toronto and regional Canadian stages in roles such as Jill in The Fox; Calphurnia in Julius Caesar; Vivien in Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii; Miss Hoyden in The Relapse; Della in The Gift of the Magi; and many more. Off-Broadway: A Brush With Georgia O'Keeffe (St. Luke's Theatre). U.S. regional theatre credits include Dotty in Noises Off; Charlotte in Moon Over Buffalo; Mrs. Rogers in The Au Pair Man; Betty in The Foreigner; Bunny in A Murder Is Announced; and Moira in O The Days, all at the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont. In New York City, she is a member of the WorkShop Theater Company, where she has appeared in A Brush With Georgia O'Keeffe (two productions); The Trial of Klaus Barbie; and On The Eve, as well as in one-act festivals and readings. Other Off-Off Broadway credits include Elisa's Skin; Balloon; Hyperactive; Rumors; Ripping It Off; and Moo (American premiere). Television appearances include Exhibit A, for The Learning Channel. Indie film credits include Flower Shop; Clean; and The Search. She has appeared in regional and national Canadian and U.S. commercials. At the WorkShop Theater Company, in association with the Playwrights Guild of Canada, Virginia co-produced the reading series Unknown Country: Five Plays from Canada (2005); and its sequal Unknown Country: More Plays from Canada (2006); and The MacIvor Readings (2007), saluting Canada's celebrated playwright, Daniel MacIvor. Virginia has trained in Canada, in London at L.A.M.D.A., and in NYC with the great Uta Hagen. She is extremely delighted to be a member of NJ Rep.

Kendal Ridgeway

Kendal Ridgeway is proud to be a longtime member of New Jersey Repertory Company. She has appeared in A World I Never Made, Octet, Raft of the Medusa and The Laramie Project at the Rep as well as several staged readings over the years. Other professional theatre credits include A Few Good Men, Noises Off, Dancing At Lugnasa, Prelude To A Kiss, Amadeus and Our Town. She has appeared in over a dozen commercials in the last few years. You may spot her this spring speaking about depression for Bristol Meyers, as a Mom for TV Land or in a Food Network Promo eating cake.

Tracey Silver can be seen on The Sopranos playing the role of Beth Kaplan opposite Jerry Adler (Hesh) in season six. New York Stage: The Wake of Jamey Foster (Cherry Lane Theatre) Serving Salman, Dottie & Fred, The Manager, Bitter Sauce (Connection Theatre Company-Theater 3), Elektra (Actors Studio & Actors Studio Free Theatre), Lysistrata (Anti-War Project-Engleman Theater) War Bonds, Stray Cats (Theatre for the New City), The Girl on the Via Flaminia, Migration (Circle in the Square Downtown), Long Walk to Forever, Scruples (Center Stage) Divorce (The Directors Company-The National Arts Club) Regional: The Rose Tattoo (Actors Theatre of San Francisco), A View From the Bridge (Shelton Theatre), To Be Young Gifted and Black, Scapino (Multi-Ethnic Theatre), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Novato Players). Film: The Interpreter, The Rabbi's Dilemma (Winner of Vermont Film Festival) and Copy Cat. Tracey is a graduate of The Actors Studio MFA program and Co-Artistic Director of Connection Theatre Company-CTC.

Sarah Koestner

Sarah, a native of Bergen County, NJ is delighted to be a part of NJ Rep. Regional credits include: Over the River and Through the Woods and A Month of Sundays with The Public Theatre (ME), The Maids and The Night Reginald Filbert Called It Quits with The Garage Theatre Group, A Christmas Carol at The Tri-State Actors Theatre, and She Stoops to Conquer at Centenary Stage. She has also been seen in the TheatreworksUSA national tour of Curious George. New York credits include: Poker Face, part of The New York International Theatre Festival, A Night of Ken Urban with Theatre 1050, Othello and Imitate the Sun, both for The Willful Company. This spring she will be starring in The Garage Theatre Group's production of One Good Marriage. She earned her MFA at Rutgers University with William Esper and her BFA from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Sarah is a proud member of Actors Equity. www.sarahkoestner.com

Kim Schultz is happy to be back in NYC after working much of 2005 regionally at Commonweal Theatre in scenic Lanesboro, Minnesota performing in Importance of Being Earnest and Scapin. Recently Kim performed in Cupid and Psyche with Themantics Group. Other New York Credits include Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, Genesis Rep, Phil Bosakowski Theatre and Oberon Theatre. Regionally, Kim has performed at The Guthrie Theatre, Theatre de la Jeune Leune, New England Shakespeare, Disney Cruiselines, and has appeared on an HBO Comedy Showcase. Kim also runs an improvisation school, called, Kim Schultz Improv. www.kimschultz.net.

Anna O'Donoghue

Anna O’Donoghue is a 2007 graduate of the Juilliard School, where favorite roles included Nora in A Doll’s House (dir. Mark Nelson), Marie in Living Room in Africa (dir. Carolyn Cantor), and Iphigenia in The Greeks (dir. Brian Mertes.) Since graduation, she has appeared on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll (dir. Trevor Nunn) and off-Broadway in eurydice (Second Stage -- dir. Les Waters.) Other New York theater includes work at 59E59, the 78th St Theater Lab, Bouwerie Lane, Epic Theatre Ensemble, and numerous workshops and readings. Regionally, she co-wrote and performed in Confluence, the inaugural production in the Dowling Studio of the Guthrie Theater. Her work as a playwright has also been produced by Theatre for the Expendable, and she is currently working on a play for the Traffic Company in New Orleans. Thanks to her incredibly supportive parents. And Ida Sawyer.

Elena Aaroz

Elena Araoz's most recent New York acting credits include Amelia in Lorca's House of Bernarda Alba at the Pearl Theatre, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the American Globe Theatre, and Diana in All’s Well that Ends Well with New York Classical Theatre.  Regional credits include Trisha in Rocket Man at Exile Theatre and Shulie in School House Rock Live! at American Stage Festival.  Upcoming, she will be directing the Off-Broadway production of Carl Djerassi’s Phallacy for Red Shift Productions at the Cherry Lane Theatre.  Other directing credits include her adaptation of Christopher Logue's poem War Music with Aurea for the Humanities Festival in Chicago and the 2005 First Works Providence Festival in Rhode Island (playing next to such artists as Rennie Harris puremovement, MoMix and Laurie Anderson).  Aurea has commissioned an adaptation from Ms. Araoz of Goethe's Faust which is already slotted for the 2006 First Works Providence Festival. Recently, Ms. Araoz directed the new play The Power by Li Tong Chen in Beijing, China, the first English language play commercially produced in Beijing.  She directed Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus for Austin Shakespeare Festival in Texas which won a B. Iden Payne Award.  And she directed for the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM the semi-staged concerts of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Verdi’s Falstaff starring Sir Thomas Allen with Maestro Robert Spano.  Ms. Araoz served as Assistant Director on Sir Jonathan Miller's Broadway production of King Lear starring Christopher Plummer which received two Tony nominations.  She was the Associate Director on Dr. Miller's Cosi fan tutte at Seattle Opera with Richard Stilwell and Assistant Director on Miller’s Cosi fan tutte at BAM with Sir Thomas Allen and Helen Donath and at Lincoln Center with Nathan Gunn. She also recently Assistant Directed Miller's staging of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at BAM.  Upcoming, she will Assistant Direct for Bruce Jordan on The Underpants at Geva Theatre.  Ms. Araoz holds her MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin.   She was a finalist for the NEA/TCG 2006-2007 Directing Fellowship, is the 2006-2007 Geva Theatre Directing Fellow and is a Drama League Directing Fellow.

Jane O'Leary

Jane O¹Leary was last seen at NJ Rep in Regularly Scheduled Programming in Theater Brut: The Seven Deadly Sins. Jane has performed her solo shows The Mayor of Henry Street and Touched at the Metropolitan Playhouse . Favorite roles include Maureen in Cider Mill Crimes of the Heart, Of The Heart, Lady in Macbeth and 18 roles in A State of Hope. Films include Welcome to Earth, and Among the Joneses. You can see her as an expert on NYCTV's Secrets of New York. www.janeoleary.biz.

Kristin Mularz

Kristin Mularz is honored to be a member of NJ Rep! She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a B.A. in English Literature. She has been seen acting, singing and dancing in many theatre and musical theatre productions in NJ. Some of her all time favorite roles include: Sylvia in Sylvia, Jenny in Company, Woman 2 in The World Goes Round and Mrs. Gould at the Gould Mansion in Lakewood, NJ. She has studied her craft with The Barrow Group School in NYC in their year intensive program. She continues to take dance classes at American Repertory Ballet. You can see her in several instructional videos at Howcast.com. She currently works as a promotional model to build brand awareness for many different corporations in countless venues in NJ.

Liliane Klein

Lili is pleased to have joined the New Jersey Repertory Acting Company! Her NYC credits include: I Wanna Be Rosie (La Mama, E.T.C.), The Greeks (Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, IMUA!), Narrative Intervention (Here, IMUA!), Do I Hear $5 (St. Clements). Regional Credits: As You Like It (Bridgeport Free Shakespeare), Cyrano de Bergerac (Bridgeport Free Shakespeare), Smokey Joe's Cafe (Ivoryton Playhouse), Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Broadhollow Theatre), Nunsense (Acting Up Theatre Co.). National Tour Credits: Titanic (Candlewood), Scrooge, The Musical (New York Stage Originals), Cyrano De Bergerac (National Theatre of Arts and Ed.), The Little Prince (National Theatre for the Performing Arts), Tikki Tikki Tembo & Friends (StorySalad Prod.). TV & FILM: Kid Fitness (PBS), 3 Corp Monte, The Manchurian Candidate, The Stepford Wives, Shut Up & Sing, Super Ex Girlfriend, The Devil Wears Prada. RECORDING: Stage Stars GYPSY (vocal tracks for Mama Rose). Training: Boston University (BFA). Many thanks to my family and friends for your eternal generosity and support that continues to astonish me with each passing day.

Nannette Deasy

Juliet Kapanjie

Dara Seitzman

Dara Seitzman grew up near Detroit, Michigan and currently resides in Manhattan. Off Broadway: Roses in December (Carolyn) at Urban Stages. Other NYC shows include: Brecht's Man is Man (Leocadia Begbick), The Merchant of Venice (Jessica) and The Pirates of Penzance (Edith) with theatres such as Prospect Theater Co., Revolving Shakespeare Co., and Theater Ten Ten. Regional shows include: Swingtime Canteen (Topeka Abotelli), Jesus Christ Superstar (Mary), Sweet Charity (Nickie), Godspell (Sonia), Cowgirls (Lee), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Suzanne/Countess), and Grease (Cha-Cha) at theatres such as Seven Angels (CT), Performance Network (MI), New Harmony (IN) and Bristol Riverside (PA). AEA Tour: Angel of Memory with the Core Ensemble. University of Michigan - BFA Theatre Performance, BS Biology. Dara records vocals for cast albums, sings with many bands around town, does voice-over work, and is a proud member of Actors' Equity. www.dara.biz

Laura Malone

Laura Malone was most recently seen as Lipa in Vassa Zheleznova off off Broadway, as Iphigeneia in Iphigeneia at Aulis at New York City's Symphony Space, and as June/MD 3 in a staged reading of Carl aka Karl with the Abingdon Theatre Company.  Regional credits include Cymbeline (Imogen), Lysistrata (Kleonike), Murder Begets Murder (Eddie Wanamaker), and Works of Edgar Allen Poe (Madeleine Usher). She is currently studying with William Esper in the two year training program and studies improvisation at the People’s Improv Theatre. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College where she studied English and Theatre. Please visit www.LauraMalone.com for more information.

April Woodall

Erin O'Leary

Erin O’Leary (AEA) returns to New York after a stint in the south, earning her MFA at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  During her time at the Clarence Brown Theatre, Erin worked on Scenes from an Execution (Rivera), Collected Stories (Lisa), and Metamorphoses (Alcyone), Trojan Women (Andromache), and As You Like It (Celia).  She also had the opportunity to train with and perform alongside some of American Theatre’s finest as well as study internationally with artists in Russia, Berlin, Italy and Salzburg.  Prior to Knoxville, Erin lived and worked in NYC where she has recently returned.  Favorite roles there include Savage in Limbo (Linda), Twelfth Night (Maria), and Howard Barker’s Seven Lears (Goneril).  Erin is also a former member of NJ Rep and delighted about rejoining the company.

Shelley McPherson

Marina Re

Marina Re ‘s 29 years as an AEA member have allowed her to perform throughout the USA. This summer she appeared as Mary in the NY bound Our Son's Wedding, at Israel Horowitz’s Gloucester Stage, where she has worked for seven seasons in such shows as The Price, View From The Bridge, North Shore Fish, Marriage Fool, and Fighting Over Beverly. She earned an Irne award nomination this year for her portrayal of the Warden in Holes at the Wheelock Family Theatre, and just completed filming the role of Helen in the remake of the classic film The Women, with Bette Midler, as well as appearing in the new FOX TV series New Amsterdam. NY Theatre includes premieres at The Flea Theatre, Pulse Ensemble, West End Theatre, and The Kraine Theatre. Regional Theatre includes the national tour of Oh Figaro! with the acclaimed National Theatre of the Deaf, five years with Shear Madness, at the Charles Playhouse, and numerous performances at such theatres as Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Two River Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Center Stage, Becton Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Seven Angels Theatre, Public Theatre of Maine, Lyric Stage of Boston, Jewish Theatre of New England, Worcester Foothills, Vineyard Playhouse, Mt. Holyoke Theatre, and Boston Shakespeare Co. She appears in the independent features Uban Relics, Teacakes Or Cannolli and Duck Love, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College.

Tammi Clayton

Tammi (AEA.SAG.AFTRA) appeared in Slave Shack at NJ Rep as well as in several readings. OFF BROADWAY: S/He, The Story (The Public – Original Cast), The Exonerated (The Culture Project), Sam’s Coming (New York Theatre Workshop), Simultaneity (Little Cherry Lane), Faucets of Love, Courage (MCC Theatre), Qualis Vita (Peter Jay Sharp), Holly Down In Heaven (New Georges), Love, Hope and Jane (Rattlestick). REGIONAL: The Story (Long Wharf), The Color of Justice (Theatreworks, USA). FILM/TV: Two Weeks Notice (Warner Bros.), Wrong Room (Wrong Room Prod.), Law & Order (NBC), The Chris Rock Show (HBO), As The World Turns (CBS). VOICEOVER: Scholastic Books. INDUSTRIALS: On-camera principle for Claritin, Astra Zeneca, Tamaflu. TRAINING: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.

Katherine Brecka

Katherine is delighted to be a member of the New Jersey Rep. Her recent credits include playing Boo Levy in the Schoolhouse Theater's production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo as well as a co-starring role in the independent feature God Links which was presented at the Queens Film Festival. She has had principal roles in two NYU grad films this year - one entitled Saveta and the other A Good Night's Sleep. Her TV credits include principal roles on Sex and the City and All My Children. She has performed in several plays in New York City including Metropolitan Theatre's Faith Healer and Tantrum Productions' Escape from Happiness (Nora). She has worked regionally at the Old Globe Theatre (Butley) and the Walnut Street Theatre (Under Milkwood). She is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco.

Jenny Vallancourt

Roya Shanks

In New York , Roya has performed in the original plays Trinity (Abingdon Theatre), Ah, My Dear Anderson (Urban Stages), Maggie and Drey (47 th St. Theater), 1,001 New York Nights (Kraine), and Love and Literature (Columbia), as well as Don Carlos (Prospect Theatre Co.) Favorite regional roles include Eleanor in Lion in Winter (Main St. Theater), Masha in Three Sisters (Yale), Rebecca in Our Town (Old Globe), and Eliza in My Fair Lady (Israel). Roya has also appeared as Jillian Masters on One Life to Live. Roya holds a BA in Theatre from Yale University and is continuing her training with Maggie Flanigan. This year, she will spend this summer at the Texas Shakespeare Festival. For more information, please visit www.royashanks.com.

Tracee Chimo

Ashely Wren Collins

Ashley Wren Collins received her MFA in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and her BA in Theatre Arts and English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated with honors. She has had the pleasure of working with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, as well as directors Robert Woodruff, Scott Zigler, and Scott Schwartz. Ashley recently finished performing to rave reviews as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday at Cape Rep Theatre. She has also been seen as Charity in the world premiere of Some Unfortunate Hour, Princess Diana in the political musical comedy satire Die, Die, Diana, Kim in the movie Silver Night, Coke commercials, Nickelodeon promotions, voice-overs (Optimum On-line, Clearlight Mortgage and ozoneny.org), as a guest host on the 10! show on an NBC network affiliate, and appearances on Sex and the City, All My Children, and As The World Turns. Ashley is also an accomplished choreographer. August 2006 Actor of the Month: www.hyreviews.com/ashleywrencollins.htm

Danielle Quisenberry

2006 New York Innovative Theatre Award Nominee Danielle Quisenberry just completed work on Locomotive for the Woken Glacier Theatre Company and was recognized as an Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role for her work as Maggie. Other NYC work includes Helen in CP Taylor's Good, The Bones of Giants at EST opposite Sir Michael Cullen and Chris Ceraso, Prelude to the First Day at Emerging Artists Theatre Company directed by Sturgis Warner, Neo/Retro Woyzeck at The Cherry Lane, Alice in What’s Left? for The Drilling Company and an appearance in The Joseph Chaikin Workshop as Lady Anne in Richard III. Additional classical work includes many workshops at Columbia University with Williamstown Fellow Kim Weild. Representative roles include Clytemnestra in Agamemnon, the title role in Medea and Christine in Miss Julie. The projects were supervised by Brian Kulick and Anne Bogart. In the regions, she has played Catherine in The Memory of Water, Callie in Stop Kiss and Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. An experienced voice actor, you may hear her voice on your favorite website or audiobook. She continues to perform and teach dancing. She recently partnered with ballroom champion Michael Kerry Richardson on NOVA for PBS and in The Next Wave Series at BAM. She can also be seen as herself in the award winning documentary MadHot Ballroom.  She is a proud graduate of the acting program at the University of Michigan.

Kathy Connolly

Kathy is very excited to be a part of the New Jersey Rep Company. She is a graduate of New York University's TISCH School of the Arts. Some of her favorite roles include Ruby Dames at Sea Theatre by the Sea, Julia Two Gentlemen of Verona The Musical Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Foxy Kenny Roger's Christmas from the Heart Beacon Theatre and national tour and Storyteller Some Story Guild Hall John Drew Theatre, She is also a teaching artist at Two River Theater Company in Red Bank New Jersey.

Eileen Tepper

Eileen Tepper is thrilled to be in this premiere production of Bookends, having performed her role in the reading at NJ Rep. She has performed the role of Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof starring Theodore Bikel, in several national tours and regional productions. Most recently Eileen played the role of Golde at the Fireside Dinner Theatre. Other tours include Les Miserables (Factory Girl) and Starlight Express. Favorite roles include The Narrator (Joseph...Dreamcoat), Edwin (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and Nancy (Oliver). TV: Law & Order: SVU.

Marguerite French

Marguerite French most recently appeared as Trisha in the critically lauded The Chalk Boy with The Management, of which she is a founding member. Other notable roles include Juliet, Antigone, Lucia in Mad Forest (NYIT nomination), Vivian in Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls and Emmy in Jailbait, part of Cherry Lane's 10th Anniversary Mentor Project. Marguerite is also a member of The Savannah Theatre Project, an initiative to promote peace through art, with whom she collaborated on a new work for the Witness Hilton Arts Festival in Hilton, South Africa.

Irene Walsh

Fredi Walker-Browne

Fredi Walker-Browne is a veteran of the Entertainment Industry having achieved success as a Broadway performer, a theatre producer-director, a television actress and model/ spokesperson. Before becoming Mrs. Browne, Fredi Walker, the actress, was blessed with the experience of creating the role of JoAnne Jefferson in the smash hit musical Rent which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as four (4) Antoinette Perry (Tony) Awards, the Obie, the Drama Desk and the Golden Globe Awards for Best Musical of that year.  In her career as an actress, Fredi performed in many hit musicals including:  The Lion King, Once On This Island, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Buddy Holly Story and Ain't Misbehavin’ as well as many television appearances and commercial voice-overs. As a model she has appeared twice in Mode magazine (a fashion magazine dedicated to plus sizes) and as a model/spokesperson for Lane Bryant’s Harlem store opening gala in the fall of 98.  She also performed live jazz for evening wear designer Carmen Marc Valvo in his Spring ‘98 show, wearing a gown designed especially for her by Carmen, to the delight of fashion reviewers, and became the first plus model to appear at NYC’s prestigious 7th On Sixth fashion event.  She was interviewed by 20/20 on the topic of women’s body issues and beauty and she remains a spokesperson on the subject. Fredi has worked her way through the entertainment industry in every possible position including Broadway Dresser and Usher! She found her talents were easily adapted to directing.  Credits include: The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told by Paul Rudnick, When The Chickens Came Home To Roost, by Lawrence Holder and The Judgment Days by Myla Churchill. A screenwriter herself, Mrs. Browne has completed several feature films including The Riverboat Exploit, Blowfish and Joshua's Harp as well as a television series titled All My Baby Phathers. Mrs. Browne chooses to dedicate most of her non-performance/ production time to arts education.  She is a member of the Director’s Program for her alma mater, New York University’s Dramatic Writing Department since 1997 and has mounted several pieces for them including a highly successful multi-media staged screenplay reading for NYU’s first ever screenplay festival.  She joined the faculty of Long Island University in the spring of 1999 to teach the course she designed entitled Professional Skills for Actors and most recently, has conceptualized the arts education facility to be known as AfricaWest.

Rebecca Weiner

Rebecca just appeard as Maggie McCauly in About Face as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.  Other credits include: Oklahoma! (Altanta TOTS), Bookends (New Jersey Rep.), Cats (Hangar Theatre), Music Man & Gigi (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), Lost in Yonkers (Syracuse Stage), Liberty Dance (Ellis Island), Kiss Me, Kate & A Midsummer Night's Dream (Syracuse University). Rebecca is originally from northern Virginia and received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University. www.rebeccaweiner.com.

Robyn Kemp

Robyn is very excited to be joining New Jersey Rep for Bookends. After receiving her BFA in Musical Theatre from the Boston Conservatory, Robyn relocated to make her New York City debut as Miranda in The Tempest. Since, she has played Sheila in Hair with Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore with the Theatre at Monmouth, and she is currently touring with the Connecticut Children’s Theater in Charlotte’s Web and The Velveteen Rabbit. Other favorite roles include Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Julia in The Rivals, Alain in Talking With, and Chava in Fiddler on the Roof. She has also had the honor of soloing with the Boston POPS, Pasadena Symphony, and with the Utah Oratorio Society in the Mormon Tabernacle. Please visit www.RobynKemp.com for more information.

Amie Bermowitz

Jenny McClintock

Jenny McClintock is a native New Yorker who has acted in a wide variety of theater and film productions throughout the metropolitan area. She has appeared at, among others, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Gallery Players, The Metropolitan Playhouse, American Theatre of Actors, The National Arts Club, P.S. 122, The Public Theater as part of the Suzan-Lori Parks 365 Days/365 Plays national festival, and regionally at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. Television and film work includes One Life To Live and NYU and Columbia graduate thesis projects. Jenny trained at William Esper Studio, The Actors Movement Studio and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Further details at www.jennymcclintock.com.

Chantal Jean Pierre

Chantal Jean-Pierre is an accomplished actress and collegiate instructor of Speech at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Most recently she performed several roles to acclaim in Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, as well as the role of Goneril in King Lear at the Folgers Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.  She performed the lead roles in the Orlando Shakespeare Festival’s Antony And Cleopatra and Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation at the People’s Light Theater Company.  She has graced the stages of several reputable regional theaters including Luna Stage (Voice of Good Hope and The Other Side of Newark); NY Theater Workshop (Jazz Wife); Ensemble Studio Theater (Vukani); NJ Shakespeare Festival (The Blue Bird); and Crossroads Theater (Mandela). A lover of classical theater, she has played Gertrude in Hamlet at the American GlobeTheater and Paulina in Winter’s Tale. She has taught at SUNY/Purchase and Montclair State University and she has an MFA in Acting from Rutgers University and a BFA from Florida International University.

MaConnia Chesser

A native Mississipian, MaConnia trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Washington, DC, and has been a professional actor for the past five years.  She will be making her NJ Repertory debut in this season’s And Her Hair Went With Her by Zina Camblin.  Regionally, she has worked with Totem Pole Playhouse, African Continuum Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Venus Theatre, Capital Renaissance, Washington Shakespeare Company, Black Women Playwrights Group, Madcap Players and MuseFire Productions.  Film and television credits include Nothing But the Truth (Rod Lurie, dir.), coffee, cigarettes and tequila (Daniel Williams, dir.), Ghosts of Hamilton Street (Mike Flanagan, dir.) and The Wire (HBO/The Wire Productions).  MaConnia is also a summa cum laude graduate of Alcorn State University with a B.A. in English Literature.

Zina Camblin

Marcia Berry

After many years of performing with the Indiana Shakespeare Festival (Hamlet, Tempest, Romeo and Juliet), Waldron Fine Arts Center (Waiting for Godot, Woycek, Vinegar Tom), Beam's Cabaret, Rochester, NY (A, My Name is Alice, Godspell, Ain't Misbehavin'), Marcia has finally completed her coursework for a PhD in Theatre at Indiana University! She has done some directing (Joe Turner's Come and Gone) and choreography as well (Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Reflect Up?) While working on her dissertation, she has performed in Blues for Mr. Charlie for Turtleshell Productions in Manhattan, and has done some film work. She is finally ready to devote all of her time to theater with NJRep!

Bev Sheehan

Georgette Reilly Timoney

Georgette 's NJ stage appearances include The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at the Bickford Theater, Chapter Two at Shadow Lawn Stage, Fast Girls at American Stage Company, Jesus Christ Superstar at Surflight Summer Theater, and Private Eyes at 12 Miles West. Georgette has acted in 17 productions with the Celtic Theater Company of NJ, including The Weir, Juno and the Paycock, The Palyboy of the Western World, The King of Friday's Men, Sharon's Grave and The Field (for which she received a NJ Tony award nomination from the Star Ledger). Out of state, Georgette played Suzette in Don't Dress for Dinner at the Bristol Valley Theatre in upstate NY. Her work as a voice actress in English language versions of Japanese animation (anime) includes Comic Party, Madara, and Mermaid Forest. Georgette received an Emmy Award nomination (Mid-Atlantic division) for her work as a producer for the PBS TV program Caucus: New Jersey, which airs on WNET/Thirteen and NJN. She is also a producer for the CN-8 TV talk show One-On-One. Along with her husband Bill, Georgette wrote and produced the DVD program KidSmartz for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Washington D.C. Georgette is a New Jersey native, a Monmouth County resident, and a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

Kimberly Fairbanks

Ashley Puckett Gonzales

Ashley Puckett Gonzales is thrilled to be a part of such a beautiful piece and to work with the fab Alan Souza. Favorite roles include: Lily St Regis, Annie National Tour with John Schuck and Annie at Madison Square Garden with Kathie Lee Gifford. Vicki, The Full Monty; The Emcee, Cabaret; Violet, Violet; Dot/Marie, Sunday in the Park with George; Narrator, Joseph...Dreamcoat; Alice, My Favorite Year, Frenchy, Grease and Shy, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Ashley has performed across the country at theatres such as Casa Manana, The Dallas Theatre Center and The Kennedy Center. Her voice can be heard on Cartoon Network as Miss Mitsuya on Kodocha and in various roles on Case Closed. Ashley has also provided voices for Baki the Grappler and Gunslinger Girls.

Brooke Davis

Brooke is an Arizona native whose spent a lifetime being involved in the theatre as an actor, singer, producer, teacher and arts advocate. Ms. Davis will be seen in NJ Rep’s upcoming production of The Little Hours. Regionally: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: Sound of Music; Westport Playhouse, St. Louis; Society Hill Playhouse, Philadelphia; The Lab Theatre, Minneapolis: Menopause the Musical; Arizona Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named Desire, Pirates of Penzance; Arizona Repertory Theatre: Noises Off, The Good Doctor, Anatol, Shooting Stars, The House of Atreus, Quilters, Working, Chicago; Southern Arizona Light Opera Company: Peter Pan, Big River, Guys and Dolls, Jesus Christ Superstar; Centennial Hall Series, Arizona: Sweeney Todd; Green Thursday Project: Anger Box: AKA Theatre: Beyond Therapy. None of this could be without my family….Barry, Sarah & Jake.

Abby Royle

Abby Royle most recently played Annie in the off-Broadway production of Acts of Love at The Kirk on Theater Row. Other off-Broadway: Ma Yi Theater Company's No Foreigners Beyond This Point, which received a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Play in 2006. Other recent theater: As Far As We Know, 2007 Fringe Festival and Fringe Encores, Area of Rescue by Laura Eason with Andhow! Theater Company, Mary Shelley in The Frankenstein Summer. TV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Film: Manna From Heaven, Hal Hartley's No Such Thing. Abby is represented by DDO Artists Agency.

Sara Turrone

Sara Turrone just completed work on Engaging Shaw at NJ Rep, and is currently working under the direction of company member Marc Geller in With the Current at Centerstage NY. She studied at T. Schreiber Studios, and appeared in the comedy one-act festivals Lunch Live and Laugh Riot as a member of Aching Dogs Theater Co. in NY. Also a vocalist, she has studied with Alexis Cole, and appeared in By the Beautiful Sea at the Triad Theater.

Nancy Ringham

Nancy was recently seen in her critically-acclaimed performance in the Off-Broadway hit Secrets Of A Soccer Mom. Broadway audiences will recognize her from Follies (Christine) with Judith Ivey, Blythe Danner and Treat Williams; The Will Rogers Follies (Betty Blake) opposite Mac Davis, Larry Gatlin and Mickey Rooney; The Threepenny Opera (Polly) opposite Sting; and My Fair Lady (Eliza) opposite Rex Harrison. Off-Broadway audiences have also seen Nancy in David Lindsey-Abaire's Fuddy Meers at MTC; Liz Swados' Esther (which also toured Italy); Lenny and the Heartbreakers at NYSF; Trouble In Tahiti (Dinah); and Stuart Ross' Not So New Faces. She has toured in Oklahoma (Ado Annie); Singin' in the Rain (Lina Lamont, which she also recorded with the London Symphony); Guys and Dolls (Adelaide); Cabaret (Sally Bowles) opposite Joel Grey; and My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison. Her regional credits are extensive, having performed in over 30 productions including Paper Moon (Miss Trixie) at The Ford's Theater; Clint Holmes' Comfortable Shoes at The Papermill Playhouse (for which she won Best Actress in a Musical); and shows at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, The Alliance, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Guthrie, The MUNY, Sacramento Music Circus, Pittsburgh CLO, Houston Grand Opera, and London's The Young Vic, among others. Nancy television appearances include The Dave Chappell Show, Comedy Central, David Letterman, One Life To Live, Another World, Citykids and Loving. She also appeared as Delores Garner opposite Jeffery Tambor in the Disney film Heavyweights, and has been in numerous commercials. She was featured in Hey, Look Me Over... A Tribute To Cy Coleman at Lincoln Center, in Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle (with Bernadette Peters) at Carnegie Hall, and has been a guest soloist many times with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and the Florida Pops. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters.

Maria Couch

Maria is very excited to be making her New Jersey Rep. debut. She was most recently seen as Irene Molloy in Hello Dolly at Arkansas Rep. National tours include Maury Yeston's Phantom (Christine), Annie (Star to Be) and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Soprano soloist). Favorite regional credits include Sweeney Todd (Johanna) at Baltimore Center Stage, Side Show (Violet) at The Gorilla Theatre, Jekyll and Hyde (Emma) at Gateway Playhouse, Singin' In The Rain (Lina Lamont) at Merry Go Round Playhouse and Illyria (Olivia) at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

Kate Kenney

Kate is excited to be a part of the New Jersey Rep! She received her BFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, in addition to training for a year at Shakespeare's Globe in London. She originated the role of Sophia Matilda in the world premiere of Don Nigro's play The Mary Celeste, which was produced by the theater company she co-created, Gravity & Glass. She has toured as both an actress and a puppeteer, and has been a magician's assistant on a cruise line. She has most recently returned from the role of Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest at Lost Nation Theater in Vermont.

Wendy Peace

Recent acting credits: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), the world premiere of Deborah Brevoort's The Poetry of Pizza (Pam), Twelfth Night (Olivia), and NJ Rep's Theatre Brut Festival Seven Deadly Sins (La Madia Cycle). She has also appeared on numerous commercials and soaps.

Hannah Wilson

Gemma Fearn

Gemma Fearn, born in Cheshire, England, came to New York City to pursue her dream. She is a graduate of both the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and their elite theatre company. Her favorite roles include Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank and Brutus in an all-female cast of Julius Caesar. Other credits include, Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Cherry in New York's debut of the Australian play, Cosi. A big thank-you goes to her family, as without them she would still be dreaming. Her passion and drive is dedicated to the memory of her grandfather, who is with her always.

Adina Verson

Debra Henri

Debra received her theatre degree from Temple University.  She worked professionally as an actor, assistant director and stage manager with some of the best in the business in Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, Toronto, and London before moving to Los Angeles where she continued to work in many capacities with many theatre companies – Theatre West, Interact, American Renegade, Zeitgeist, TheatrePhantastique, Parson’s Nose, Classical Theatre Lab, et al.  Also in Los Angeles, she was assistant director for the world premiere of Steve Allen’s musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring Harold Gould as Scrooge, and she directed the world premiere of Richard Martin's 50,000 Restraining Orders.  Recent East Coast appearances include The Pub Plays for Stamford Center-for-the-Arts and Hung on a Blonde Ponytail for BckSeet Productions at the Society Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia.  Directing credits in New York include Fuckin' Work by Ian Cohen, The Sea Horse by Edward J. Moore and Tristine Skyler’s The Moonlight Room. Her most recent directing venture was Israel Horovitz’ Park Your Car In Harvard Yard for the Deertrees Theatre Festival in Harrison, Maine.  Films: The Secret Life of Girls and Daybreak.

Sonya Cooke

Lucy York

Lucy, an actor/dancer,  studied acting at the Baltimore School for the Arts and dance at the Peabody Prep.  She went on to graduate with Honors in Economics from Skidmore College. Not long after graduation she was once again immersed in the theatre world--she has performed at venues across Manhattan including the West Side Theatre, the Gene Frankel Theatre and the 45th Street Theatre and she currently studies with Terry Schreiber at his studio. Favorite credits include Betty in The Crucible, a principal dance role in the polish ballet/opers Harnasie and Izza in the new play Pretty Pretty. Lucy also choreographs for her dance company York Dance Works.

Kirsta Peterson

Daniela Mastropietro

Daniela has appeared in The Time of Your Life (Kitty Duval) at The Storm Theatre, Valparaiso (Interviewer 6) at The HB Playwrights Foundation, One Night Dickie Didn't Come Home (Laura) for Primary Stages FreshInk! Series and Turandot: The Rumble for the Ring (Card Girl) at The Bay Street Theatre. She will appear in the film Motion Sickness (Nicole) produced by Dark Current Films coming this spring. Daniela has a BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Buffalo, is a member of the HB Studio Ensemble, has studied with Austin Pendleton, Alec Baldwin, Michael Disher and AADA.

Jessi Gormezano

Jessica Angleskhan

New York credits: As You Like It (Reduxion Theatre Company), Summer and Smoke (Big Sky Theatre Company, Theatre Row), Richard III (Brooklyn Lyceum), Native Speech (Boomerang Theatre Company), Hamlet (Pearl Theatre Company), Dante's Hope (Blackfriars' Guild of America), The Elements (ModernEyes Theatre Company), Taking a Chance on America (Ellis Island), The Rimers of Eldritch (Stella Adler Sudio), and others.  Jessica has also performed with the Dallas Theatre Center, Dallas Children's Theatre, the Festival of Independent Theatre, CorePerformance Manufactory, Shakespeare Dallas, and Hy'Tara Entertaiment in LA.  Appeared in several industrial commercials, short films, TV pilots, and a role on Barney and Friends.  Recently joined the cast of Star Trek: New Voyages, the web series.  Attended the Stella Adler Studio via NYU Tisch.  Proud AEA member.

Sarah Cooney

Alex Bond

Alex Bond is an actress, writer and comedienne.  Most recently she appeared Off-Broadway in Flamingo Court as Marie, Clara, and Chi Chi.  Regional theatre work:  DFW Fringe Festival at the Hub Theatre, Provincetown Theatre, New Harmony Theatre, Depot Theatre, Buffalo Studio Arena, Virginia Stage Company, Theatre Virginia, South Jersey Regional Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre Three. Numerous national commercials. TV credits include:  SNL, All My Children.  Ms. Bond just completed a novel Late Nights With The Boys: confessions of a leather bar chanteuse.  She currently performs readings from the book with David L. Carson; their work has received the Producer’s Pick Award from the 2007 Dallas/Ft. Worth Fringe Festival and the Best Literary Staging from the 2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival.  Ms. Bond is delighted and honored to be part of NJRep’s company. www.alexbond.org

Getchie Argetsinger

Paula Wilson

Paula Wilson is very excited to be a part of the New Jersey Repertory Company. Originally from Maine (though she has lived in nine states and two countries) Paula moved to New York in 2000. She is a graduate of the Walnut Hill School, Pomona College, The New School, & the Alvin Ailey Professional Division. She is also a union production manager, voice over artist, choreographer/director, and an avid tanguera-teaching and dancing Argentine Tango all over the US and Canada. Some of her recent NY theater credits include ME with Inverse Theater Co., Open Door with Loco7/La MaMa, ETC, Mumbo Jumbo with La MaMa, ETC, 9 Steps from St. Anne's Street with New Perspectives Theatre Co., American Family Project with Rising Circle Theater Collective, and Gun Play with theater et al at The Chocolate Factory. Recent regional theater includes As It Is In Heaven with Stonington Opera House in Maine. Paula has played principal roles in a number of independent films including Death of a B-Boy which was featured at The Hollywood Black Film Festival and received Honorable Mention at the Newark Film Festival; Life’s Passing Me By, an AFA New Filmmakers' Series pick and the 1st Place Winner in the Drama/Comedy Feature category at Indie Gathering; and Grass Under Ground presented as part of the New York Film and Television Festival. Paula is the co-founder/director of Stickboy Studios, a production company created in collaboration with Edward Albee Writing Fellow and award-winning designer, Brian Casper. Their first joint production, Sonny-n-Michelle is currently in post-production, and they are currently developing three more projects simultaneously. Visit Paula at www.paulawilson.info for more information about her performance and production work.

Diana Limon

Tracy Podell

Tracy is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Collaborative Arts Project for the 21st Century and the Experimental Theatre Wing. East 3rd Ensemble: Seeing it Clearly, David and Monica. La Mama’s ETC: Callbacks and What Happened to Me.Hampton Playhouse: Into the Woods, Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella. NYU: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Circling Fear and Hotel Sarajevo. She can also be seen in the upcoming feature film, Friends with Benefits.

Jen Plants

Laura Carbonell

Laura's recent credits include: Glorious! (Maria) at the Shadowland Theatre. NYC: The Wrath of Aphrodite (Phaedra), a reimagining of Euripides'  Hippolytus at the TBG Arts Center, GayFest NYC; Twist (Lady Downlow), a new rock musical at the Kraine Theatre; An Acute Triangle (Sophia), a finalist in the Riant Theatre's Strawberry Festival of One-Acts and the web series The Prisoner (Culpepper/Williams LLC). Currently, Laura performs around the tri-state area with New York Dinner Theater. She received her BFA in Theatre from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts & the Stella Adler Conservatory, where favorite roles include: Closer (Anna), Speed-the-Plow (Karen), Madame de Sade (Madame de Montreuil) and The Grand Tarot (The High Priestess).

Saskia de Vries

Alexandra Eitel

Alexandra Eitel, a native New Yorker, has done various plays and films in New York and London. In New York her most recent theater credits are Twilight's Child at Playwright's Horizons's Sam French Festival directed by Richard Masur and The Stronger at The Actors Sutdio. directed by Lee Grant. In London she was seen as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Riverside Theater, directed by Selina Cadell. As for recent film credits, she appears in Whiskey School directed by Pete Masterson with Olympia Dukakis, Laine Kazan and Mary Stuart Masterson. Alexandra's next feature film project is Emily Lazarus, a coming of age story to be shot in NYC this spring. She is a member of The Actors Studio.

Elizabeth Belonzi

Lynne Taylor

Lynne Taylor has been very fortunate to work on both coasts as an actress.  Last year she performed in two plays in Los Angeles playing Gertrude in Hamlet and garnered lovely reviews in a contemporary play called Crazy Eights. Another fun west coast gig was Co-starring on the NBC show Medium.  In New York, her home, she has performed Off-Broadway at one of the Hudson Guild Theatre’s last productions playing multiple roles in the Jean Genet classic, The Balcony.  Many Off-Off Broadway productions since then, highlights include Exchange with Blue Heron Theatre Company and The Love Of The Nightingale which was performed at the Soho Repertory Theatre.  Regionally she has worked at the Schoolhouse Theatre in Croton Falls in a Joyce Carol Oates play called I Stand Before You Naked and got to do French farces, Feydeau’s Wooed And Viewed and Labiche’s A Slap In The Farce, on Long Island at the Arena Players Repertory Theater.  She has also guest starred on Law & Order and had recurring roles on All My Children and Another World.  Two independent films to her credit are Leaving The Garden and Why A Duck?  She’s also enjoyed being the on-camera host of the Hamptons International Film Festival for seven years where she interviewed celebrities for WVVH-TV.

Natalie Neckyfarow

Elizabeth King-Hall

Elizabeth’s recent work includes a season with the Chautauqua Theater Company, where she starred in the premiere of the new play Variations on a Theme, directed by Ethan McSweeney.  She also performed as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and appeared in the Company’s acclaimed production of Death of a Salesman.  Elizabeth earned her BA in drama and English at Colorado College, and then her MFA at the Brown/Trinity Consortium in Providence, RI.  Work onstage at Trinity Repertory Company included A Christmas Carol (Sister-in-Law and Mother Goose).  Other favorite roles include Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew; Emilia in Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief; Gill in The Second Shepherds’ Play; and Claire in the premiere of Anne Marie Healy’s What Once We Felt.  She has also appeared on One Life to Live.  Elizabeth can be reached at lizzie.larson@gmail.com.

Valerie Stack Dodge

Cherise Jefferson

Cherise is an actress, singer, writer and educator who has enjoyed an extensive career in the theatre, radio and television industries.  She has performed regionally, nationally and internationally entertaining audiences over 500,000.  Some of her past stage credits include national tours of  I Have A Dream and Poetry Alive!, Other regional select credits include Crowns,  Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret, A Raisin In The Sun, To Kill A Mockingbird, Blues For An Alabama Sky and many more.  Cherise has originated many roles including her most recent portrayal of Jackie in No Easy Walk (The Rosa Parks Story), a regional tour with Mad River Theatre Works which is now slated for a national tour in 2009.  She also originated the role of Dr. Quinn in the Messages of Empowerment Production of Divine Intervention, which is now a national tour.  Cherise received an Irene Ryan nomination for her portrayal of  Mrs. Christine Linde in Ibesen’s A Doll’s House and is a proud member of arts and civic organizations such as the Baltimore Theatre Alliance, New Jersey Theatre Alliance, NAACP and the National Congress of Black Women.  Cherise holds a nationally accredited degree from Valdosta State University and is an Atlanta, Georgia native.  Cherise says “There is no such thing as failure, unless you quit!”

Natasha Martin

Jessica Philbin

Jessica is honored to be a part of NJ Rep. NY Theatre credits include: Patty in the world premiere of Straight Chasers with the Subterranean Theatre Ensemble, Rachel Baker, Inherit the Wind and Margot Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank both with TEST Theatre Company, Chole Coverly Arcadia (MMC Theatre Co). She has also toured as Charlotte in TheatreWorks USA's production of Charlotte's Web. Jessica's film credits include work as a feature in the short Indie The Good Daughter which premiered at the 2006 Tribecca Film Festival and a principal in Dive, a short that has played in the Los Angeles, New York, and London LGBT Festivals.She holds a BA in acting from Marymount Manhattan College and has studied with the Atlantic Theatre Company. Member of Equity. 

Mary Murphy

Sarah Anderson

Sarah is proud to be a company member at NJRep. Most recent regional credits include Susan Lawrence in Big, the Musical, Little Becky Two Shoes in Urinetown, (Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Grand Lake, CO), Woman II in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, (Rochester, NY). Other favorite roles include Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Jean Brody in The Prime of Miss Jean Brody, the title role in Lysistrata, Guido's Mother in Nine, Martha in A Piece of My Heart. Sarah earned her BFA in Musical Theatre from Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts in St. Louis, MO. Originally from the Chicagoland area, Sarah is a recent transplant and happy to call herself a New Yorker after living and traveling abroad for a year.

Jenelle Sosa

Laralu Smith

Close Ties (original production - dir. Arvin Brown) at the Long Wharf Theatre, Tartuffe at Capital Rep, US tours of My Heart in a Suitcase and Salem Justice for New Jersey’s ArtsPower Nat’l Touring Theatre and five seasons at the Lexington Conservatory Theatre.  Recent appearances in NYC at INTAR in Oscar Colon’s Whisper and at Theatre 54 in Fred Crecca’s Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry.  Also in NYC:  Green Fields at Jewish Rep, Delicious Vaudeville at the Phil Bosakowski Theatre, Carolyn by Toni Press-Coffman at the Collective Actors Theatre, Separate Tables at Morgans’s Grill, Pennies Before the Holidays at Women’s Interart and the Working Theater’s production of Comrades directed by Gabrielle Roth.  Comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O’Brien; commercials, soaps and industrial films.  BA from Ohio State and MA from Northwestern.  Studied with Uta Hagen.  AEA, SAG, AFTRA.

Ylva Weeks

Pheonix Vaughn

Pheonix's first appearance with The New Jersey Repertory Company was with Cupid and Psyche. She recently appeared in Heaven In Your Pocket with the Emerging Artists Theatre at this past years New York Musical Festival. Her prior show experience include A Piece Of My Heart with the Red Fern Theatre Company and The Best Party Ever at the Richmond Shepard Theater. Originally from California, Pheonix has appeared in over a hundred regional musicals and plays with her favorites including Blood Brothers, My Fair Lady, and Little Shop Of Horrors. Los Angeles credits include The People vs. Friar Laurence and originated roles in Fools, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, and Trombone. For more information visit www.pheonixvaughn.com.

Marcy DeGonge-Manfredi

Lauren Singerman

Lauren was recently seen in Little Eagles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. New York credits include Sheila Callaghan’s Ayravana Flies, or A Pretty Dish (world premiere, Vital Theatre Company; Samuel French Short Play Festival winner), Pieces of the Throne (Epic Theatre Ensemble), and Bash (Raw Space).  Regional credits include Adam Bock’s The Drunken City (world premiere, Kitchen Theatre Company) and The Most Happy Fella (Cider Mill Playhouse).  Lauren is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.  MFA: Rutgers University.

Elizabeth Clark

Kate O'Phalen

Kate O’Phalen is a proud recent graduate from Hofstra University’s B.F.A. in Theatre Arts program. She has already worked in theatres across New York, including The Wings Theatre, The Manhattan Repertory Theatre, The American Theatre of Actors, St. Luke’s Theatre and The Gene Frankel Theatre. She was also featured in the first annual Washington D.C. Fringe Festival and her film and television credits include Damages on FX and Amazing Sports Stories on the Fox Sports Network. She is thrilled to be among the newest  NJ Rep company members! www.kateophalen.com

Rahaleh Nassri

Sherise Pruitt

Sherise Pruitt is a Jersey Shore native thesbian, born in Belmar and raised in Neptune. Sherise got her start appearing in numerous plays with the Dunbar Repertory Company under the leadership of Darrel Willis. Sherise went on to study acting at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ before transferring to New York University Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theater Wing where she earned her BFA in Drama. Since then she has appeared at various Off-Broadway Stages such as: The Chashama Theater, Second Stage Theater, and the New Federal Theater. Some of her favorite roles include: Lady in Blue For Colored Girls...by Ntozake Shange, The Flood from The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, and the role of Daughter in Shaking the Mess Outta' Misery by Shay Youngblood. Along with acting, Sherise is also a budding writer; having co-written a dramady entitled: Girls Underground with a group of female friends from NYU. Girls Underground was produced at the YWCA in New York City and proceeds went to helping the young females from the center's afterschool theater program. Sherise also recently had two of her original one-act plays: Sister, Sistah and Going to her Office produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre to sold out crowds! Sherise freelances commerically with a couple of agents in New York City and has successfully booked many regional commericals. She is a proud AFTRA member and has dreams of one day opening up her very own Theater/Film Production Company. Sherise is a true believer: "That with God all things are possible."

Lauren Briggeman

Laura Piquado

Laura is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. New York theatre credits include -- Phoenix Theatre Ensemble: Inez, (No Exit), Mrs. Stockmann (An Enemy of the People), The Painter (The Painting), all female roles (The Sneeze); Pearl Theatre Company: Sally Pratt (u/s, I Have Been Here Before); Manhattan Theatre Source/Estrogenius Festival: Mrs. Wholewig (The Enlightenment of Mrs. Cartwell); Conflict of Interest Theatre Company/Planet Connections Theatre Festival: Thomassina More (War Crimes); Alternate Theatre Company: Valerie (The Way to Begin); Gallery Players: Claire (Poison Party), Lady Penelope/Queen (Runaway Birthday) ; Regional Theatre: Texas Shakespeare Festival: Goneril (King Lear), Luciana (Comedy of Errors), Toinette (The Hypochondriac); Hamptons Shakespeare Festival: Perdita (A Winter’s Tale). This is Laura’s first show with NJ Rep, and she’s grateful beyond words to SuzAnne for the opportunity.