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Salome
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Salome Jens has appeared in lead roles on Broadway in Far Country, Night Life, The Disenchanted, Patriot For Me, A Lie of the Mind. Her Off-Broadway credits include Eugene Ionesco's Bald Soprano and Jack or the Submission, Jose Quintero's award winning production of Circle in the Square's The Balcony, as well as Desire Under the Elms and A Moon For the Misbegotten, Shadow of Heroes, Deirdre of the Sorrows, U.S.A., among others. Ms. Jens was a charter member of Elia Kazan's company at Lincoln Center where she starred in After the Fall, Tartuffe, But For Whom Charlie and later under Jules Irving 's direction, Mary Stuart and Ride Across Lake Constance. She played the lead roles in Joe Papp's production of A Winter's Tale, and Anthony and Cleopatra at the Stratford Festival in Connecticut. She has performed both classics and new plays at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, L.A.T.C., and this past season appeared in Chekhov 's The Seagull and Play Strindberg by Dürrematt. Ms. Jens ' numerous television appearances include episodes of L.A. Law, MacGyver, Cagney and Lacey, Gunsmoke, and many more. Her Movie-of-the-Week appearances include From Here to Eternity, Tomorrow's Child, Portrait of A Mistress, The Grace Kelly Story, etc. She was a series regular on Superboy, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Falcon Crest, Melrose Place, and most recently Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Her movie credits include Angel Baby, Seconds, Just Between Friends, Clan of the Cave Bear, and I'm Losing You. Ms. Jens' numerous awards include several L.A.'s Dramalogue Awards and San Francisco Bay Area's Critics Awards for ...About Anne, the Clarence Derwent Award for The Balcony, Straw Hat award for And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little and Chicago Critics Award for A Moon for the Misbegotten. She was also the narrator of The Great War and Shaping of the 20th Century, the acclaimed eight hour mini-series. For the past six years she has been a visiting Associate Professor at U.C.L.A. in the theater department. At NJ Rep, Ms. Jens played the role of Sarah Bernhardt in their critically acclaimed production of Memoir. |
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Legendary star of stage, screen and television, Ms. Palmer has appeared in such films as The Tin Star, Queen Bee, The Long Gray Line, Mister Roberts and as the murderous Mrs. Voorhees in Friday the 13th Parts 1 and 2. Her numerous television appearances include her role as long-time panelist on the popular game show, I've Got a Secret as well as appearances during the golden age of television on Climax, U.S. Steel Hour, Goodyear Television Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theater, Kraft Television Theater, Studio One, Philco Television Playhouse, Playhouse 90 and Lux Video Theater. She also guest starred on Murder She Wrote, Love Boat, Columbo, Just Shoot Me, and had recurring roles on Knots Landing and As the World Turns, among others. In addition, Ms. Palmer starred on Broadway in Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Same Time Next Year, South Pacific, Cactus Flower, to name a few. She also starred in national tours and regional theaters including Idioglossia at George Street Playhouse. |
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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. |
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A veteran member of NJ Rep, Marnie has a wide-ranging career as actor, director, singer, writer, and teacher. Rep audiences have seen her in Till Morning Comes, and last year's comedy, Touch of Rapture. She also directs and acts for the reading series. In the Theatre Brut last year, she directed Thin Air. She has guest-starred in numerous TV series and movies of the week, including E.R, Murder One, Jag and Wonder Years, and worked for two years with Mark Harmon and Marlee Matlin on Reasonable Doubts. She's performed in regional theatres in such diverse roles as Guenevere in Camelot and George in The Killing of Sister George. Much of her work focuses on premieres of new plays. As a writer, she was awarded the Berrilla Kerr Playwrights grant based on her one woman show, Singer. She has presented her poetry in forums on both coasts, and is slated for a reading in Woodstock, NY this spring. She has written articles for the publications Natural History, Modern Maturity, Amica (Italian), Backstage West, and the American Association of Cancer Research. She also directed Steven Wolfson's adaptation of Trojan Women, which was chosen for an international theatre audience at the Getty Museum in LA. She conceived and dramaturged a piece called View from the Hudson which was awarded a Geraldine Dodge Foundation grant for the NJ Randy James Dance Works. Marnie has taught for NYU and USC Graduate Film Schools. At NYU, she directed Three Sisters, and A Piece of My Heart. marniejean@aol.com. |
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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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| Melissa Miller Melissa made her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Tartuffe. She spent a year in the resident company at the Flea Theatre working with Jim Simpson and Len Jenkin. She has done workshops of new plays at the Classic Stage Company, New Georges and the Rattlestick Theatre, as well as readings for the Keen Company and Red Bull Theater. Her regional work includes Macbeth and Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, three seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She made her Television debut as a guest star on NBC's Ed and was seen recently on ABC's All My Children. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College and also spent time abroad at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. |
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Rozie Bacchi
Rozie has appeared in NJ Rep's productions
of Panama and Octet.
She has
appeared in several staged readings with NJ Rep including: Ferris
Wheel,
North Fork, For the Love of Juliet, Naked By the River,Van Choc
Straw, and
An
Evening With Rozie. Some favorite theater credits include Don
Quixote (National Tour), Lobby
Hero (The Barrow Group and Theatre at St.
Mary's),
Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century (NY Premiere at
The Barrow
Group), Naked (E.S.T.), Gray Areas (The Cherry Lane Alternative),
Selma's
Break (All Seasons Theatre Group), Vice
and Virtue (P.S. 122) Warren
Leight's Princess of Babylon (original cast All Season's Theatre
Group).
Film and TV credits include: Summer of Sam,
Girlquake, Errors Freaks and
Oddities, Chips, One Life to Live, Saving Martin Lane (upcoming
with Dylan
Baker), The Method (upcoming with Steven Rendazzo). and several national
commercials. She is a member of Actors Equity, SAG and AFTRA. Please
visit
Rozie's website at roziebacchi.com for
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Susan originated the role of Dee in Charles Gordone’s Pulitzer Prize winning play No Place To Be Somebody presented at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, the Promenade, and on Broadway (Anta Theatre). She was nominated for Best Performance in a Leading Role by the LA Drama Critics for that role. NY credits include Rilke’s Stories of God, directed by Paul Sills, Still/Waiting for Lefty, (Water Theatre Company/Tribeca Playhouse), and Braille Garden by Darrah Cloud (LATEA). Her film credits include Mom in Sex and Violence, an award-winning independent film, and she has been seen and heard in several commercials on radio and television. Susan’s previous work at NJ Rep includes: Main Stage: Sheila Gold in Apostasy, Find Me a Voice by SuzAnne and Gabor Barabas, Thelma in Harry & Thelma in The Woods, and Viginia Weems in Maggie Rose, Theatre Brut: Robin Rice Lichtig’s Bronco Busters (Horse Betty), and Save the Turkey (Mama Turkey), Readings: Against the Rising Sea, The Leak, Apostasy, and, most recently, the musical readings of Don’t Hug Me, and Bookends. She is a graduate of the New Actors Workshop. |
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Dana
Benningfield At NJ Rep, Dana has appeared in Mike Folie's Lemonade (Jane), Gino DiIorio's Winterizing the Summer House (Abbi), Sandra Perlman's, In Search of Red River Dog, (Paulette), Mark Dunn's North Fork (Pidge) and The Laramie Project (multiple roles). She has also appeared off-Broadway and regionally at the John Houseman Theatre, Miranda Theatre, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Expanded Arts, Irish-American Theatre Company, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Studio City Players (Los Angeles), Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, and Shakespeare at Winedale (Austin). Her several film credits consist of roles as wide ranging as a drug addict in the indie film, A Deadly Mix, to the angelic heroine, Corey Ten Boom, in True Angel Stories. Her short film, BUST, directed by Duncan Rogers, marked her professional film debut as writer/producer/actor. It received its premiere at the Vermont International Film Festival in October, 2005. 2005 also marked her debut as a stage director with the world premiere of Vincent Sessa's A Child's Guide to Innocence at the New Jersey Repertory Company. She is currently performing at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, where she is receiving her MFA. She is very pleased to be among such a talented group of people at NJ Rep. www.danabenningfield.com. |
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Doris has performed with various theater companies, among them Circle Players, Mixed Company Productions, and NJ Public Theater. She studied acting with Michael Beckett and Elizabeth Dillon, voice with George Axiltree, at H. B. Studios, and Classical Technique with Judy Magee. She was also a student at ATI in Red Bank. As a Founding Member of StoneGate Artists' Ensemble, she has performed in The Perfect Party, ‘Night Mother, Belles, Beyond Therapy, Jake's Women, and the female version of The Odd Couple. At NJ Rep, Doris has appeared in numerous staged readings including The Chance of a Lifetime, Helen's Most Favorite Day, The Spanish Jade, and in the second stage production of Joe Pintauro's Raft of the Medusa and the mainstage production of Mark Dunn's Octet. |
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Deborah Boily
Debbie's first love is the musical theater. She began her professional career at Williamstown Theater Festival in roles in Threepenny Opera and Juno. Most recent roles have been Mimi Schwinn in William Finn's A New Brain and Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers. She has appeared as Amy in Company, Mary Flynn in Merrily We Roll Along, Woman in Marry Me a Little, and Flora in Flora the Red Menace. Musical review work has included Maltby and Shires' Closer Than Ever and Mercury Theater Project's Late and Lyrical in London. It was in the role of Universal Mother in the play Open Window that Debbie got to know playwright Brad Korbesmeyer who, upon hearing Debbie sing an evening of French songs, decided to write a play with her in mind. Thus was born Piaf in Vienna. Debbie has been working in the Cabaret world for 10 years as well, creating her own one-woman shows in French and in English. Debbie has brought her music to many cities in the U.S. as well as Fringe Festivals in Canada and this past summer Edinburgh, Scotland. While living in Paris, Debbie was a regular at the Hotel Westminster and performed at The Green Room, Pizza on the Park, CentreStage and Jermyn Street Theater in London during her 2 years there. Debbie has recorded several CD's, including A French Collection and The Song Remembers When, which are available at the theater. Debbie's website address is www.deborahboily.com. |
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Carol Todd was most recently seen by NJ Rep audiences as Andrea in the World Premiere of Jack Canfora's Place Setting. Prior, Carol appeared as Josette in Lee Blessing's Whores, a co-production between NJ Rep and Playwright's Theatre of NJ. Other favorite experiences on NJ stages include playing Sadie Thompson in Rain (East Lynne Theatre Company), rock star Melinda Avery in the world premiere of Russell Davis’ The Song of Grendelyn (Playwrights Theatre of NJ), Elsa in The Road to Mecca, Betty in Betty’s Summer Vacation and Isabella Bird in Top Girls (The Theatre Project). In NYC, she was a founding member of the Harbor Theatre, a company dedicated to the development of new American plays, originating the role of Anna in Edmund DeSantis’ Making Peter Pope. Other credits include performances with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Luna Stage, 12 Miles West, the Bickford Theatre, Foundation Theatre, NADA, the NY Fringe Festival and national tours with George Street Playhouse and the Shoestring Players. Carol has been featured on HBO as part of their Actual Jokes series and starred in the independent films The Waiting Room, A Woman in New Bedford and Dead Fish. Carol is also a founding partner of Stir - A Production House and is currently helming the production of her short film screenplay, Showers of Happiness. (www.stirproductions.net). |
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Leslie appeared Off-Broadway in Sid Frank's acclaimed Kosher Franks. Regional credits include the foul-mouthed Dr. Phyllis in Woody Allen's Death Defying Acts; Much Ado About Nothing; Marvin's Room and June Moon. Leslie toured NJ in Driving Miss Daisy, directed by NJ Rep's own Steve Carroll. She was honored as Actress of the Year by the New Jersey Theatre League for her performance in The Gin Game. She has appeared at NJ Rep in staged readings of Elephant Graveyard, Fuscia, Marriage to An Older Woman, My Simple City, The Chance of a Lifetime, The Dead Boy, La Promessa, Les Grandes Dames, Ten Percent in Maple Grove: The Womyn's Stories, Immortal Interlude and Van Choc Straw. Most recently, she played the tipsy aunt in the world premiere of Immortal interlude and the tap-dancing trumpeter in the world premiere of Octet, both on NJ Rep's mainstage. |
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Rachel Evans Originally from New york, Rachel received a BA in Theater and English from Tufts University. Recently she appeared in two Off-broadway shows with the Mirror Repertory Company, as Emily in the NY Times critically acclaimed show Richard and Anne, and as Mrs. Rent in Macrune's Guevara. Other NY credits include: Bridesmaid 2 in Bridal Suite at Manhattan Theatre Source, Sandra in Mittleschmertz at The Gallery Players, and Lucy in Rooftop with the Periwinkle National Theatre. Favorite regional roles include: Woman 1 in The Vagina Monologues (Millbrook Playhouse), Adriana in Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare on the Rocks), Hecuba in Trojan Women (London) and Cath in Here (No Strings Theatre Company). Rachel's one act play, Waiting, had its NY debut in August 2006 at the NDG Reading series and Elevator Up Theatre Company's one act play festival, Summer Shorts. She has studied with Stella Adler Conservatory, British American Drama Academy and various independent NY Acting teachers. She is a teaching artist with the Beacon School and the Women's Project. You can reach her at: rakieny@yahoo.com. |
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Lea Eckert is a graduate from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.F.A. in acting. Her most recent credits include the off-off Broadway productions of Family, Indifference In a House Called Love, and False Gods. She is also a member of the sketch comedy troupe called The Greazy Girls which performs throughout NYC. Other credits include Hattie in James McLure's Laundry and Bourbon, Arsinoe in Molière's The Misanthrope, and Helen in August Strindberg's Motherly Love. She has also performed leading roles in such plays as the Diary of Anne Frank, The Miracle Worker, 'Night Mother, The Bald Soprano, This Property Is Condemned, The Boundary, and Boys Life. |
Alexandra Cremer
Alexandra is pleased to be a member of NJ Rep. Favorite roles include Goneril in King Lear (York Shakespeare Company NYC), Gertrude in Hamlet, Titania in Midsummer Night's Dream (Shenandoah Shakespeare Express VA) and Miss Preen in Man Who Came To Dinner (Pioneer Playhouse KY). Film and Television credits include appearances on Ed, Law And Order, The Science Fiction Channel's FTL Newsfeed and the upcoming Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson. Alexandra also wrote and produced her play Women Who Run With Scissors at the Duplex in NYC. Special thanks friends and family. |
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Alice Connorton
Alice Connorton appeared on Broadway in the National Actor's Theatre revival of Inherit the Wind, and in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as Etalina in Playing for Time. Other roles include Anne in Howard Barker's The Castle and Sister Whiney in Nuns Against Filth. Since joining NJ Rep in 2000, she has performed in numerous readings and The Giant Princess. She can be seen on film as Mrs. Townsend in Whit Stillman's Metropolitan, and has acted on TV in Law and Order. |
Suzanne Ishee Actor, producer, playwright, Suzanne Ishee has appeared as Carlotta in Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera in both the New York and Toronto productions. Other Broadway appearances include Showboat, La Cage aux Folles, and Mame with Angela Lansbury. She played in the national tours of Jerry’s Girls with Jerry Herman and Carol Channing (original soundtrack recording--JAY Records) and the Wizard of Oz as Glinda. Favorite regional credits include Grace in Annie with Harve Presnell, Sarah in Guys and Dolls with Joe Namath, and the lead roles in Lion in Winter, Kiss Me Kate, Steel Magnolias, The King and I, Communicating Doors and the world premieres of the Ray Cooney farce, Tom, Dick and Harry and the opera, 1492 (original soundtrack recording--Bongiovanni.) She played Mistress Squeamish in the Off-Broadway production and American premiere of the musical Lust and made her New York City Opera debut in The Merry Widow which was broadcast on PBS. Miss Ishee is an Emmy and Drama Desk Award winning producer. She created and for eight years produced Broadway’s Easter Bonnet Competition, a benefit which still raises millions of dollars annually for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She is creator of the popular theatrical concert company, Broadway Center Stage (www.broadwaycenterstage.com), for which she has recorded the CDs, Right as the Rain and Broadway Love Stories, and has developed her original chamber musicals, Jack and Jill and America’s Singing Sweethearts. Currently she is developing her new musical, Searching for Spinoza, with award winning composer, Dr. Thomas Conroy in Houston. Suzanne holds degrees from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and The Manhattan School of Music. She lives in New Jersey with her wonderful husband, Michael with whom she has created two extraordinary daughters. |
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Andrea Studley Andrea (AEA) is a member of the Actors Equity Association and has performed in regional theaters throughout the Eastern US. Favorite roles include Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Georgia Shakespeare Festival), Gerte in Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Alliance Studio Theatre), Sunny in The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Hippodrome State Theatre), Rose in A Shayna Maidel (Academy Theatre), Percy in The Spitfire Grill (Horizon Theatre), Nellie in Floyd Collins (Aurora Theatre) and Rivkele in God of Vengeance (7Stages, directed by Joseph Chaikin). She appears on the original cast recording of The Harvey Milk Show, was a member of the original cast of The Left Hand Singing by Barbara Lebow and was voted "Best Newcomer" in Atlanta's Southern Voice. She holds a degree in Musical Theatre from the University of Miami's School of Music and completed a Professional Acting Internship at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Andrea currently sings professionally with an a cappella group and jazz band. In addition, she is co-founder of a new experimental acting company in Monmouth County called Deuce Theatre. Andrea is very proud to be a new member of NJ Rep. |
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Kathleen began her professional acting career 20 years ago in Washington DC at the Back Alley Theatre, playing Ruth in Compulsion - a compelling piece about the Leopold and Loeb trial. Since then she has appeared nationally on stage, in films, on television, and in commercials and industrials. Most recently she was Sister Kay on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Kathleen has guest and co-starred in several other series and soaps, including ED, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide: Life on the Street, Spin City, Loving, and As the World Turns. Her film credits include Autumn in New York, Celebrity, Maze - starring and directed by Rob Morrow, Her Alibi, Tin Men and Pollock - starring and directed by Ed Harris. At New Jersey Repertory Company, Kathleen has appeared in Michael T. Folie's An Unhappy Woman, Mark Dunn's Octet, and the world premiere production of Immortal Interlude. Other regional credits include Merrily We Roll Along and The Cherry Orchard at Arena Stage, Shear Madness at The Kennedy Center, The Diary of Anne Frank and Love and Anger at Roundhouse Theatre, Side by Side by Sondheim and She Loves Me at Off-the-Circle Theatre, Sylvia and An Inspector Calls at Wayside Theatre. Kathleen received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for her work in Horizon's production of A...My name is Alice and worked with Rita Moreno and John Wesley Shipp at Virginia Beach Shakespeare. Kathleen's NYC credits include the world premiere of George F. Walker's Suburban Motel - Problem Child at Rattlestick, Extra Credit with the Circle Rep Outreach Program, and Meg in A Lie of the Mind at the Miranda Theatre. This singer/actress who moves well is also a Reiki practitioner and has worked as a high school teacher and counselor over the past 25 years. She started very, very young. Now, she stays young by being a SAG Book Pal and reading to youngsters at PS 3 in NYC, and thanks the Universe every day for her friends, family and good fortune. |
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Cindy Carver
(AEA, SAG, AFTRA) Cindy played lead roles in new plays for two years with the Greenwich House Theatre Company, including A.K.A. with Michael Zaslow and Farley Grainger and The Marie Antoinette Society with Kim Hunter and Phyllis Newman. She played Cora, Bibi, and Annie in Anatol (directed by Bob Healy) at the Foundation Theatre. She is a member of the New Jersey Rep. Company where she has been in staged readings of new plays including Mark Dunn's Ten Per-cent in Maple Grove. Other roles include Sofia Alexandrovna in Fortune and Misfortune, the Model, Whore, etc, in Fassbinder's Blood on a Cat's Neck, and Renee de Sade in The Comedy of the Marquis de Sade. Cindy has played roles on Guiding Light and As the World Turns and is in Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks with Tracey Ullman. She graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy, has a BA from Tufts University, attended the Banff School of Fine Arts where she played Gertrude Stein in Chamber Music and trained at the Drama Centre, London. |
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Andrea Miskow Andrea Miskow studied at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. New York credits include work with the Pearl Theatre on She Stoops to Conquer and Nathan the Wise, A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Catskill Shakespeare Festival, Julius Caesar at Trinity Players, Henry VIII at Judith Shakespeare, Macbeth at Expanded Arts, Independence with Active Drive Productions, Hello, from Bertha with the East Coast Players, Othello with the Women's Shakespeare Company, and Tortoise Shout at the Tribeca Playhouse. She has also appeared in productions with StageRight Productions and the Irish Arts Center. In San Francisco she appeared in Hard Times, and Caucasian Chalk Circle with the San Francisco Theatre Project and The Killer at the Exit Theatre. She has appeared in two independent films, A More Perfect Union and Sacred, as well as regional and national television commercials. |
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Carla
Cummings
Carla (AFTRA) has written and performed in many sketch comedy and improv groups, most recently writing and performing her one-woman show Sense and Sense Memory at the PIT. She also wrote and performed in Soylent Monday at the Producer’s Club and Sketch Therapy at the Duplex. She has also written for, and performed in, two productions at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and has twice participated in the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. Carla produced and starred in Waiting..., an original comedy which played at The Acting Studio, and can be seen as the lead in the upcoming production of Juno and the Paycock at the New York Irish Center. She also occasionally appears on Saturday Night Live. Her training includes work with the RSC, HB Studio, Lee Strasberg Institute and Weist-Barron. A native New Yorker, Carla has also lived in both Dublin and London. Visit her website at carlacummings.com. |
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Lindy Regan is pleased to have been a member of NJ Rep since it held nothing but a lot of potential, a couple of chairs and its breath. She last appeared here as Dorothea Wesbrook in Eleemosynary and has been an actor, director and narrator for many of the company's staged readings. Favorite regional roles include Maggie and Rose Mundy in Dancing at Lughnasa, Grace Tranfield in The Philanderer, Varya in The Cherry Orchard, Anka in Hunting Cockroaches and Olimpia in The Conduct of Life. After a long career in broadcasting, she is currently directing and reading audio books for the BBC and several major U.S. publishers. She received her training at Brown University. |
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Anne-Marie Cusson Anne-Marie Cusson’s theatrical career enters its second decade. With New York as home for the last nine years, she has traveled throughout the United States as Truvy in Steel Magnolias, toured Germany and works regionally, most recently as Sara Brady in GeVa Theatre’s Inherit The Wind opposite John Hertzler. In New York, she performed off-Broadway at The Mint Theatre opposite Tony Award-winning Richard Easton in J.M. Barrie’s Echoes of the War, featuring Tony Award-winner Frances Sternhagen, appeared in over 100 performances of Arthur Schnitzler’s Far and Wide, re-created her role in Craig Lucas’ one-woman piece Your Call is Important from Circle East to the 92nd Street Y, participated in a workshop of Hal Prince’s Parade and regularly does new play readings. Regional roles include Teacher in Defying Gravity, Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Liz in Present Laughter, Bella in Lost in Yonkers, both Maggie and Kate in separate productions of Dancing at Lughnasa, and Josie Hogan in O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, for which she was nominated for Boston’s Outer Critic’s Award. She will be seen in Robert DeNiro’s upcoming film The Good Shepherd. A native of New Hampshire and proud member of Actors’ Equity. |
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Deborah
Baum, a recent graduate of Hofstra University and the NY School
of Film and Television, is known to NJRep audiences for playing
Cassie in The Good Daughter. Some
of her other favorite roles in and around NY include; Lobby
Hero (Dawn), Buried
Child (Shelly),
Hamlet (Ophelia), Steel Magnolias (Shelby and
Annelle), Noises
Off (Brooke), The Baby Dance (Wanda), King
Lear (Regan), Pride
and Prejudice (Elizabeth), Picnic (Millie) and Moonlight
and Valentino (Lucy). Film/TV; A
Beautiful Mind, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Glory Days, The Sunsetters,
Bound Words and Sex and the City. Look for her as Meg in
Studio Theater's fall production of Crimes
of the Heart. |
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Carrie Edel Isaacman
Carrie is proud to be a member of New Jersey Repertory Company. At New Jersey Rep, she was in The Giant Princess directed by Lenny Bart and readings Ten Percent: The Womyn's Stories, Maggie Rose. For Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey as Jenny Diver in The Beggars Opera and Alice in Henry the Fifth; for New England Shakespeare Company she played Maria and Feste (in rep) in Twelfth Night and played Maria in Twelfth Night for California Shakespeare Festival. In New York: Juliette (u/s) in Exit the King and Chorus (u/s) in Iphigenia in Aulis Pearl Theatre Company, Miranda in The Tempest for Kings County Shakespeare and Marina in Pericles, which won an OOBR award. For Workshop Theatre Company: numerous productions including Chorus / Woman in Iphigenia directed by Elysa Marden and Messiah by Martin Sherman. Please visit her website at www.geocities.com/carrieedel2000. |
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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. |
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Natalie Wilder (AEA/SAG):Natalie was last seen at NJ Rep in American Think Tanks by Isabella Russell-Ides for the 2008 Theatre Brut. Other NJ Rep appearances include Rachel Gold in the world premiere of Apostasy by Gino DiIorio, Diversion in Spain, a co-production between New Jersey Rep and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Underground Rep, The Hard Way by Gino DiIorio, My Yeti Dreams by Lisa Dillman, Coffee Talk by Brian Mori and Life 101 by Robin Rice Lichtig for the Theatre Brut festivals, and staged readings of Swamp Redemption by Kelsie Chance, Electra Orleans by Joe Musso, The Rabbit Lady of Godalming by Brian Mori, Apostasy and the full-length version of The Hard Way, both by Gino DiIorio, and October 1962 by D.W. Gregory . New York credits include: Phaedra in the New York 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 with 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, Babe in Crimes of the Heart, Beth in Dinner With Friends, and Phebe in As You Like It for Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre, and Maggie in The Crimson Thread with Dr. Guffy/Wings Theatre. Natalie is a writer and founding member of New York City’s acclaimed commedia dell' arte troupe, Lick the Spoon, with whom she has appeared as Flaminia, resident spunky ingénue, in several world premieres. She is also a member of Comedy Period!, an all-female sketch comedy group currently enjoying a run at The Zipper in NYC. Her film and television work includes a pilot for a new sketch comedy series, Live In The East: It’s Comedy Tonight! for which she was a performer and writer. Favorite regional credits include Rose in A Shayna Maidel, Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, Echo in Eleemosynary, Maria in El Grande de Coca Cola, and Celia in The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It. Natalie is also a member of Oldcastle Theatre Company in Bennington, VT, where she appeared playing multiple roles in an acclaimed run of a four-person adaptation of Hard Times by Charles Dickens. She returned to Oldcastle last season to make mischief as The Bogle in Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, and she will appear there this fall in a four-person adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities playing multiple roles. Natalie is currently appearing in a world premiere based on the life and works of Dorothy Parker, Those Whistling Lads by Maureen Van Trease, in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in NYC. |
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Liz was last on stage at NJ Rep as Tex in Love and Murder and prior to that as Sharon in The Adjustment, for which she received a NJ Tony Award for Best Actress by The Star Ledger, which accorded her the same honor for The Theatre Project's Pterodactyls (Grace). Also at NJ Rep: Gabriella in Naked By The River as well as many appearances in staged readings and Theatre Brut. She played the title role in NJ Rep's The Girl With The High Rouge, followed by What Exit?'s The Memory of Water (Mary) and 12 Miles West's Italian American Reconciliation (Janice). These three plays in three months earned her an acting Triple Crown from the Star Ledger. Liz can also be seen regularly at Penguin Rep in Stony Point, NY, where she played Michelle in the world premiere of Centennial Casting, five roles in Tour De Farce, and this summer, she'll play the title role in Ten Percent of Molly Snyder. Other NJ credits include The Bickford's Almost Maine (five roles), Communicating Doors (Ruella) and Dead Certain (Elizabeth), The Theatre Project's The Skin of Our Teeth (Mrs. Antrobus) and Music From A Sparkling Planet (Sharon), What Exit?'s Fast Girls (Lucy), and Don't Dress For Dinner (Suzette), and for 12 Miles West, Antonia in The First Light Home, Maggie in Red Herring, and Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov. In NYC, she was pregnant for five years as the Maid of Honor in Tony N' Tina's Wedding. Her considerable skills as a stage fighter were showcased in The Public Theatre's cabaret series. She has written and performed with the Backstage Bistro Award-winning political satire group, Bad Attitudes, in a variety of club venues and television appearances. Other regional theatre credits include Cat on A Hot Tin Roof (Maggie), The Taming of the Shrew (Kate), The Comedy of Errors (Adriana) and Constance Porter (the Tallulah Bankhead role) in the world premiere stage adaptation of Hitchcock's Lifeboat. She is a union advocate and proud member of Actor's Equity, SAG and AFTRA, earning her living in radio and television. Look for Liz on DVD in the recently released National Lampoon's One, Two, Many as Leslie. |
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Marilyn Matarrese
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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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Caroline
Rossi
Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Caroline found herself transported to Dallas, Texas in the 70's due to family reasons. Her career in Dallas kept her quite busy in theater and films. She appeared in many of the Dallas-Fort Worth professional theaters, earning a Leon Rabin nomination (the equivalent of New York's Tonys) for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Aunt March in Little Women. She received Best Supporting Actress award for Come Blow Your Horn and Angels in America, Parts I & II at Stage West. In the latter production she played six roles ranging from a Mormon mother to Ethel Rosenberg to a Jewish rabbi. A few of the many other roles she performed in Big D included Miss Sook in Holiday Memories (Truman Capote's biographical stories), Mrs. Schubert in the year long run of Shear Madness, Abby Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace and Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank. She also has done a number of commercials as well as industrials for major corporations such as Mary Kay and Southland Corporation. A few of her film & TV credits include Killing in a Small Town, As the World Turns, and On the Avenue. Returning to the New York area, she immediately landed a role in New York City playing Bubba in the Sightlines Theatre production of Dreaming Through History, and became a member of New Jersey Repertory where she has done several staged readings. At the Polka Dot Playhouse in Connecticut she appeared as Aida in Over the River and Through the Woods. |
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Corinne Edgerly has performed at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival as Emilia in The Comedy of Errors and Simiche in The Grouch. In rep at The Theater At Monmouth in Maine: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Essie Miller in Ah, Wilderness! and the First Witch in Macbeth. Recent NYC credits include: Leona Green in Kariuki’s Notebook at La MaMa. Old Alice in Islands: An Urban Archipelago at the Blue Heron Arts Center. Lilly in The 50-Minute Children’s Hour in the SUITE Series at Mabou Mines. At HERE Theatre, Mother in Woman Killer by Chiori Miyagawa, one of ten new plays chosen for publication in Plays and Playwrights 2002. Wife in Nest Egg at the Women’s Project Theatre Tandem Acts Festival. She has done voiceovers for major feature films for Warner Bros and an independent feature film directed by Lee Grant. She is proud to be a company member of New Jersey Rep. |
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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. |
Ashton Heyl Ashton Heyl is a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, where she earned a B.F.A. in Acting and a minor in History; she is also a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy. Since graduating, she has appeared in readings of The Nature of the Universe (Bay Street Theatre) and Anhedonia (McCarter Theatre Center). Some favorite credits include Rosalind in As You Like It (directed by Di Trevis of the RSC/RNT), Gretchen in Cut Faust! in Weimar, Germany, and Urinetown, The Musical! (directed by John Carrafa). Ashton’s excited to be part of NJ Rep. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Stephanie is thrilled to join the company of NJ Repertory. She currently lives in NYC where she has worked with White Rabbit Theatre, The Riant Theatre, Nada 45, and The Interart Annex. She has also worked regionally with Shadow Lawn Summer Stage, Points North Theatre of MI, and Delaware Heritage Theatre. Favorite past roles include Maire in Translations, Jacqueline in Don't Dress for Dinner, Lilith in Broadsway and Agnes in I do! I do! Stephanie is a graduate of The University of Vermont and studies with Elizabeth Browning in NYC. |
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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. |
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Anja Lee
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. |
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Karen Case Cook Karen Case Cook is very grateful to be a member of the New Jersey Repertory Company. 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 Theatre Company. Fall 2007, she appeared as Nancy White in East Lynne Theatre Company’s production of You and I. Spring 2007, Karen directed Eric Overmyer's On The Verge for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble (NYC). Karen traveled to Peking University, Beijing China to direct Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has been seen in a national commercial (Slimfast), print (Velcade) and SAG industrials (Prestiq). Karen earned a BA in Bacteriology and previously worked with Medical Research teams in New York and Connecticut. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Robin Marie Thomas Robin Marie
Thomas is a new member of NJ Rep. Her most recent credits
include Jo/Mae West in the Women's
Theater Company's production of Dirty Blonde, and Mavis in The
Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, also
with WTC. She has appeared in numerous Regional Theater productions including
the world premiere of
The War of the Worlds at the Hippodrome State Theater. Regional credits
include Jeanne Poole in The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Miep Gies in The
Diary of Anne Frank (Hippodrome State Theater);
Armande in The Learned Ladies (Porthouse Theater); Sylvia in Sylvia and
Catherine in The Heiress (Stagecrafters); and Marjorie in Extremities,
to name just a few. Robin
is a company member with 12 Miles West. She can also be seen in the movie
If I Should Die and has lent her voice to numerous commercials,
including Five Star Pizza, Home Showcase and Furniture Gallery
and Rock 104. Robin studied the Lessac vocal system with Yanci
Bukavec at the University of Florida, where she also received
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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. |
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Stacie Lee Lents
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 began her acting career in her native Canada at the renowned Shaw Festival where she appeared onstage with Barry Morse and Paxton Whitehead in G.B.S.’s Man and Superman. She has built an extensive résumé in American regional theatre and 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 Otley in Michael Frayn’s superlative farce Noises Off (directed by Christopher Owens). |
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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,
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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. |
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Stephanie Dorian
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 LaRue has relished tackling new roles at New Jersey Rep, in several script-in-hand productions. Other in-state credits include Centenary Stage Company's world premiere of The Poetry of Pizza, by Deborah Brevoort; and The East Lynne Theater Company's The Beast in the Jungle (adapted from Henry James), William Dean Howells' Bride Roses, and Langdon Mitchell's The New York Idea. In New York City, Michèle has worked most recently with Double Helix Theatre Company, New Dramatists, The Lark Theatre Company, and Theatre at St. Clements. She tours nationally with three solo productions-Someone Must Wash the Dishes, a 1912 satire by pro-suffragist Mary Jenney Howe; The Yellow Wallpaper, Warren Kliewer's dramatization of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1890 horror story; and Eve's Diary, adapted from Mark Twain by Gayle Stahlhuth-and a roster of short-story readings. In addition to these performances of American literature from the turn of the previous century, she solos in Places Please, Act One, Warren Kliewer's "poems around and about theatres," a spoken-word production in which she plays 40 roles, An Illinois native, Michèle lives in Secaucus, New Jersey. She is a member of AEA, SAG, and AFTRA; and as a theatre writer and editor, of Drama Desk, an organization of New York drama critics. |
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Susan Barrett Susan Barrett (AEA, SAG, AFTRA) most recently played Frankie in Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune with The Women’s Theatre Co. of NJ. She also appeared in 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 numerous appearances in comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Law & Order Criminal Intent opposite Vincent Donofrio, and Queen Latifah’s new comedy The Perfect Holiday due out this holiday season. She is a student of Wynn Handman of The American Place Theater, NYC. |
| Mara Kassin Mara has appeared in several productions in New York City and regionally. Her favorite roles include Nina in The Seagull, Jessica in This Is Our Youth, and Marla in Specter. She recently wrote, produced, and starred in her first film, Overthrow the Totems. Her other film credits include the lead in independent films such as Sidekick, So Much Staying Alive, and Unfashionably Invited. Mara graduated from New York University with a degree in Dramatic Literature and Journalism. You can reach her at mrs1326@aol.com. |
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Elaine Bromka 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 Georgina Bates has been a member of the HB Ensemble Company since its formation in 2005. Recent roles include: Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (dir. Carol Goodheart), Ida in Skin in Flames at NJ Rep (dir. Suzanne Agins), at HB Playwright’s Theater: A New Year's Resolution (dir. Rochelle Oliver), Miracle on I-84 (dir. Arthur French), Lake Hollywood (dir. Amy Wright). With HB Ensemble: Summerfolk (dir. Austin Pendleton), The Quick Change Room, (dir. Karen Ludwig), The Dancers, New York (dir. Laura Esterman), The Master and Margarita. Recent Films: Defending Buckwheat (John Dunn), Zordon’s Vacation (NYU) , Rate Your Date.Com (Drexel), Chick Flick (NYFA). Currently:Becky in Crustacean Island at 13th Street Rep, Ivy in a reading: The Best of Friends at HB Studio. Soon to be shooting Dakota Rain in NYC and NJ. BA in Theater Performance, Marymount Manhattan College. |
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