A FEW OF THE ACTORS, DIRECTORS, DESIGNERS and PLAYWRIGHTS
WHO HAVE WORKED WITH ELTC or WHOSE WORK WE HAVE PRODUCED

Robert Aberdeen is a veteran of five Broadway shows: The Passion of Joseph D, the original Fiddler on the Roof, Billy Budd, Royal Hunt of the Sun, and Citizen Thom Paine. Off-Broadway credits include The Seagull, with Joe Namath in the cast, and the Pulitzer Prize winning A Soldier’s Play that also toured, including internationally, to the Edinburgh Festival. Magic and illusion have always fascinated Robert, and he starred in the international tour of The Magic Show and in his own television special Magic Maestro Please. He played Houdini in American Vaudeville at the Alley Theater in Houston. He’s appeared in several films, recently playing Attorney General Bromnell, speaking to President Eisenhower played by Robin Williams, in The Butler. On television, he was in Macbeth, and was a regular on the daytime serial, Love of Life.
For ELTC, Robert performed in The Dictator (2001), Spoon River, The Mouse Trap by William Dean Howells and William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Aberdeen’s magic is seen on the road as one of ELTC’s touring productions, and he has performed at several ELTC fundraisers. He first performed Victorian Magic for East Lynne at The Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, NJ, and continues to perform in this production as well as other “magical” theater pieces around the country.
For ELTC, Robert performed in The Dictator (2001), Spoon River, The Mouse Trap by William Dean Howells and William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Aberdeen’s magic is seen on the road as one of ELTC’s touring productions, and he has performed at several ELTC fundraisers. He first performed Victorian Magic for East Lynne at The Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, NJ, and continues to perform in this production as well as other “magical” theater pieces around the country.

Erika Amato played Marion Froude in ELTC's Biography. Selected theatre credits include: National Tour: Flashdance – The Musical (Miss Wilde). Off-Broadway: Signs Of Life (Berta), The Sphinx Winx (Cleopatra). Off-Off-Bway: Waiting for Lefty (Edna), Triumph Of Love (Hesione). Regional: Into the Woods (Witch – BWW Award Nomination), Backwards In High Heels (Lela Rogers), A Funny Thing…Forum (Domina), Hairspray (Velma), Cinderella (Fairy Godmother), How To Succeed… (Miss Jones), White Christmas (Betty),
Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Bad Fairy - LA Ovation Award Nomination), Anything Goes (Reno – ITL Award Nomination), The Bungler (Hyppolite), Nine (Luisa - OC Weekly Award Nomination), Sunday In The Park with George (Yvonne), The Sound Of Music (Maria - OC Register Best Actress), Macbeth (Witch, Porter). TV/Film credits include Quantum Leap, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Disney’s
Enchanted. Erika has also released 5 albums with her band, Velvet Chain. She is a Vassar College graduate (General Honors and Honors in Drama) and a proud member of AEA. www.erikaamato.com
Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Bad Fairy - LA Ovation Award Nomination), Anything Goes (Reno – ITL Award Nomination), The Bungler (Hyppolite), Nine (Luisa - OC Weekly Award Nomination), Sunday In The Park with George (Yvonne), The Sound Of Music (Maria - OC Register Best Actress), Macbeth (Witch, Porter). TV/Film credits include Quantum Leap, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Disney’s
Enchanted. Erika has also released 5 albums with her band, Velvet Chain. She is a Vassar College graduate (General Honors and Honors in Drama) and a proud member of AEA. www.erikaamato.com

Beckley Andrews, for ELTC, Huckelberry Finn and The First Fifty Years, and choreographed dances for Zorro! and the student production of The Dancing Princesses. A native of rural Glocester, RI, she began entertaining by singing and dancing for the family’s pets. She began formal training and participated in many dance and vocal competitions. Beckley was welcomed into Kaleidoscope Theatre, a professional touring company that produces original fairytale musicals. She went on to earn her BA in Theatre Performance at Rhode Island College and has performed, choreographed and toured throughout the United States, Europe, on the High Seas and on The Great White Way. Some favorite roles include Jenny Lind in Barnum, The Plant in The Little Shop of Horrors, Toadpipe the Gargoyle in the stage adaption of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters and Caroline the dancing cow in the Broadway production of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone. She is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Jared Noah Aronoff played Wint Selby in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! Previously with ELTC, in 205, he worked as a production assistant and intern. Recent theater credits: Our Town, Temple Theaters (dir. Douglas Wager); The Secret Garden (u/s), Arden Theatre Company (dir. Terrance Nolen); Comedy of Errors, REV Theatre Company (dir. Rosey Hay); Godspell, Temple Theaters (dir. Amina Robinson, Dan Dunn); Mime Guy, Philadelphia Young Playwrights (dir. Amy Blumberg, David Ingram); Jared has also been seen in several television shows including The Good Wife (CBS), Mercy (NBC) and How to Make it in America (HBO). As well as performing, Jared loves working as an acting and vocal coach, previously teaching in the greater Philadelphia area. In 2017, he produced, directed and performed in a cabaret in which all proceeds benefited Planned Parenthood. Jared holds a B.A. in Theater from Temple University, concentrating in musical theater and acting. Member AEA.

Paul Battiato played Jonathan Brewster in ELTC's Arsenic and Old Lace. New York: The Broken Heart, Hadrian & Antinous, Brooklyn Owes the Charmer Under Me, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, Kafka’s Quest, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Frankenstein, Serenading Louie, Love's Labor's Lost, Richard III, Feast of Dionysus. Regional: Arsenic and Old Lace, Coriolanus, Diary of Anne Frank, Present Laughter, Midsummer Night's Dream, Man For All Seasons, Lincoln. AEA/SAG-AFTRA www.paulbattiato.com @PaulBattiato.

Kathryn Barnhardt played Henrietta Leavitt in ELTC's NJ premiere of Silent Sky. A few favorite roles elsewhere have been: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (VA), Bianca in Taming of the Shrew (VA), Martha in The Martha War at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC), the White Witch of Narnia at Adventure Theatre (MD), Varya in The Cherry Orchard (NYC), the Princess of France in Love’s Labours Lost (NYC), Gretchen the Mermaid in Outside the Water Closet (Boston), as well as countless in-progress roles as a member of the acting company for the Playwrights Gallery in NYC. Television appearances include: co-starring on Law & Order: SVU; Boardwalk Empire; plus a most unexpected principal role in a Spanish-language commercial for Dunkin Donuts (despite not speaking any Spanish). Sh is a longtime member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

Kyle Bass is the author of the play Possessing Harriet, which ELTC produced in 2022. It was commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association, and premiered at Syracuse Stage in 2018. Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country, a one-man show on James Baldwin, commissioned by Syracuse Stage, has streamed nationally since 2021. Tender Rain will receive its world premiere at Syracuse Stage in May 2023. Kyle wrote the libretto for Libba Cotten: Here This Day, a new opera based on the life of American folk music legend Libba Cotten, commissioned by The Society for New Music. His new play Toliver & Wakeman was commissioned by Franklin Stage Company through a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant. His other full-length plays include Bleecker Street, Baldwin vs. Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers, which has been presented at Cornell University, Colgate University, the University of Delaware, and at Syracuse University, and Separated, a documentary theatre piece about the student military veterans at Syracuse University, which was presented at Syracuse Stage and the Paley Center in New York. With National Medal of Arts recipient Ping Chong, Kyle is the co-author of Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, which premiered at Syracuse Stage and was subsequently produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York. in September 2021 Kyle was announced the theatre’s first-ever resident playwright. Kyle is assistant professor in the Department of Theater at Colgate University, where he previously served as the Burke Endowed Chair for Regional Studies. Previously, Kyle was faculty in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Goddard College from 2006 to 2018, taught playwriting in Syracuse University’s Department of Drama and at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and the 2019/20 the Susan P. Stroman Visiting Playwright at the University of Delaware. A three-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship (for fiction in 1998, for playwriting in 2010; for Screenwriting in 2022), a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and Pushcart Prize nominee, Kyle holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Goddard Colle, is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is represented by The Barbara Hogenson Agency.

Aaron Bell was in ELTC's Rodgers' Romance. Regional: A Single Shard (People’s Light), An Octoroon (Wilma), Hands Up
(Flashpoint), Bitter Homes and Gardens(Bearded Ladies Cabaret), We Are Proud to Present (Philly Fringe), One Minute Play Festival (InterAct), Miz Martha Washington (Flashpoint). Proud AEA and IATSE member.
(Flashpoint), Bitter Homes and Gardens(Bearded Ladies Cabaret), We Are Proud to Present (Philly Fringe), One Minute Play Festival (InterAct), Miz Martha Washington (Flashpoint). Proud AEA and IATSE member.

Jennie Bissell: With East Lynne Theater Company: A Year in the Trenches, Strictly Dishonorable, Within the Law, and The Late Christopher Bean. Other credits include: Mame (Bucks County Playhouse); Hairspray, Spring Awakening, and Tommy (Media Theatre); Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (Mint Theater Company). She received her MFA in Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre/ George Washington University, and holds a BFA from NYU-Tisch. She now lives in Vancouver with her husband, and recently portrayed Ophelia in Hamlet.

Marion T. Brady (Costume Designer) received an AB from Harvard University for Medieval History and Literature in 1967, and an MA in Medieval Studies at University of Toronto in 1968.
While working as an editor, mostly for medical journals, she began working as a seamstress and costume designer. Since 1995, she has designed and built costumes for East Lynne Theater Company, covering the time period of 1778 (Berkeley Square, a time-travel play based on an unfinished novel by Henry James, written by John L. Balderston) through 1968 (On the Sunny Side of the Street: a world premiere musical revue based on the lyrics of Dorothy Fields). Other shows include Rain, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Within the Law, and Silent Sky. In 2010, for her 15 years of costuming for ELTC, the company honored her at the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s annual Curtain Call gala. In 2014, three of Marion’s dresses she designed and built for ELTC’s production of It Pays to Advertise, a comedy first on Broadway in 1914, were part of ELTC’s holiday display at Drumthwacket, the Governor’s Mansion near Princeton. The costumes in the Governor’s Office are pictured here. More information may be found on our web site about this holiday display at Click Here. And the production shots of all of our shows that you see here on this web site? Marion did those, too!
Her work has been praised by reviewers for “The Star-Ledger,” “The Philadelphia Inquirer,” “The Wall Street Journal,” and “The New York Times.”
Other theaters where she has worked include Fairleigh Dickinson University, Montclair Dramatic Club, Union County College Theater Project, The Nutley Little Theatre, and Meadowlands Theater Company. She lives with her husband in Little Falls, NJ.
While working as an editor, mostly for medical journals, she began working as a seamstress and costume designer. Since 1995, she has designed and built costumes for East Lynne Theater Company, covering the time period of 1778 (Berkeley Square, a time-travel play based on an unfinished novel by Henry James, written by John L. Balderston) through 1968 (On the Sunny Side of the Street: a world premiere musical revue based on the lyrics of Dorothy Fields). Other shows include Rain, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Within the Law, and Silent Sky. In 2010, for her 15 years of costuming for ELTC, the company honored her at the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s annual Curtain Call gala. In 2014, three of Marion’s dresses she designed and built for ELTC’s production of It Pays to Advertise, a comedy first on Broadway in 1914, were part of ELTC’s holiday display at Drumthwacket, the Governor’s Mansion near Princeton. The costumes in the Governor’s Office are pictured here. More information may be found on our web site about this holiday display at Click Here. And the production shots of all of our shows that you see here on this web site? Marion did those, too!
Her work has been praised by reviewers for “The Star-Ledger,” “The Philadelphia Inquirer,” “The Wall Street Journal,” and “The New York Times.”
Other theaters where she has worked include Fairleigh Dickinson University, Montclair Dramatic Club, Union County College Theater Project, The Nutley Little Theatre, and Meadowlands Theater Company. She lives with her husband in Little Falls, NJ.

Amanda Brinlee is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, a small business owner, stage manager, and performer. Since receiving her Bachelors of Arts in Acting in 2020, she performed in ELTC’s virtual reading of Something to Vote For; worked backstage and onstage in Vaudeville Variety, Tales in the Backyard and Poe by Candlelight; assistant stage managed Dorothy Parker: A Certain Woman, assistant directed The 2021 Summer Student Workshop’s The Reluctant Dragon, and stage managed Who Am I This Time? (and Other Conundrums of Love and Possessing Harriet in 2022. Recently, she was the storyteller for ELTC for Cape May MAC's Ghosts of Christmas Past Trolley Rides.. When she is not working in theatre, she is running her small business, Amanda Brinlee Designs on Etsy, and raising her daughter. Amanda would like to thank ELTC and Gayle for this continued opportunity, as well as her husband and the rest of her family for their love and support. Member AEA.

Connor J. Burke played Arthur in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! Past favorite roles include Frog in Tall Green Plumber: The Musical, Bobby in Company, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Vealtninc Husz in A Bright Room Called Day, and Mortiz Stiefel in Spring Awakening, all at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA. He is excited for Ah, Wilderness! to be his first theatre production in "the real world" after graduation.

Jan Buttram ELTC produced the NJ premiere of her powerful play Lost on the Natchez Trace. She began her professional theatre career as an actress with the New Orleans Repertory Theatre under the direction of June Havoc. She has since acted Off Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and in regional theatres. Her plays have been produced in New York by the York Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Circle Rep Lab, Lightning Strikes Theatre Co., and Abingdon Theatre Company, which introduced her “comedy with hymns,” Glory Girls. Other plays include Zona, The Ghost of Greenbrier, Private Battles, The Parker Family Circus, Phantom Killer, and Lost on the Natchez Trace. Her plays Captive and The Parker Family Circus are published by Samuel French (The Parker Family Circus was selected by Smith & Kraus for The Best Scenes for Actors of 2001–02). Her play Texas Homos (directed by Tony® award winner Melvin Bernhardt) was presented on Abingdon’s mainstage and is published by Smith and Kraus in Best New Playwrights of 2005. HX Magazine nominated Texas Homos as the “Best Gay Themed Play of the Season." She received commissions to create original scripts for Capital Rep and Greenbrier Valley Theatre. Her play Backwoods won the 1995 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays. Her short plays are published in several anthologies by Heineman Books and included in Smith and Kraus' Best Ten Minute Plays of 2011. A founding member and Artistic Director of Abingdon Theatre Company, a not-for-profit company located in Manhattan dedicated to developing and producing new plays by American playwrights, she led the company from 1994-2017. She is a University of North Texas graduate. Member AEA.

Tom Byrn has performed with ELTC since 2009, including in two solo shows, Will Rogers U.S.A. (2018), and Mr. Lincoln, which was part of ELTC's 2015 and 2016 seasons and toured to Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in PA. Tom was also in ELTC’s Possessing Harriet, Within the Law, He and She, Biography, The Dictator, and the world premiere of The Ransom of Red Chief. In 2018 and 2019, he directed Silent Sky and Summerland for ELTC. Tom has acted at various theaters in the Philadelphia area, including, People's Light & Theatre and the Delaware Theater Company, and at various other theaters in PA, NY, and OH. Currently an Associate Member, for eleven years, Tom was a full-time Ensemble Member of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in Bloomsburg, PA. He is co-editor of the trade paperback Letters to the Editor (Simon & Schuster) and is a member of Actors' Equity and the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. He resides in the Susquehanna River Valley of central PA with his wife and daughter.

Samuel Douglas Clark, for ELTC portrayed Martin in ELTC's two-hander about marriage, The First Fifty Years, several roles in the world premiere adaptation of Huckleberry Finn written by James Rana, and the title role in Dracula. Before moving to New York, Sam worked extensively in Australia on a range of projects including developing and performing in two new Australian works, the verbatim theatre piece, April's Fool by David Burton and the cabaret, Often I Find That I am Naked by Fiona Sprott, both of which toured nationally. NY theater credits: The Club (Australian Made) and Village Voices (Frack Theatre, as producer). Film and TV credits include Forever (ABC), Sea Patrol 3: Red Gold (Nine Network) and Panic (Clearwater Films). He is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, for more info check out www.samueldclark.com.

Sydia Cedeño played Enid Stoner in ELTC's Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Speckled Band. She has graced the stage for forty years, as actress, singer and director, and was co-founder of the Runaway Theater Company in NYC, where she served as Artistic Director as well as performer. Sydia was a reader for the “All Write” Selected Shorts program with Symphony Space for many years, recorded for NPR. She comes directly from the New York Musical Festival with the premier of "Errol and Fidel". She appeared as Abuela with the Gallery Players production of In the Heights. Member of Actors' Equity Association.

Karen Cleighton choreographed ELTC's world premiere On the Sunny Side of the Street. She earned a BFA in Dance Education at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she was on the faculty in the Musical Theater and Dance Departments. She also taught jazz and tap at Temple University in the Musical Theater Program, and is currently teaching at Chartertech High School for The Performing Arts in Somers Point, NJ in the Dance and Musical Theater Programs. Karen's choreography has been seen at several universities, including DeSales University and The University of The Arts, for shows such as Oliver, Crazy For You, A My Name is Alice, Berlin to Broadway, Bat Boy, Nine, and Legally Blonde. Professional work includes Thoroughly Modern Millie (which landed her a Barrymore nomination for Best Choreography in a Musical) and Spelling Bee. In her "spare time," she works at various entertainment companies providing dancers, choreographing, producing shows, and DJ-ing. She is also a certified Zumba and Spin instructor.

Karen Case Cook is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and Stage Directors and Choreographers. With ELTC as an actor: Ruth Draper's Company of Characters, You and I, The Ransom of Red Chief and Two-Headed for which she received The Jacoby Outstanding Acting Award. Other Acting Highlights: Sister Aloysius/Doubt; Mrs. Graves/Enchanted April, Dr. Vivian Bearing/Wit (Women's Theater Company of NJ); Emilia/Othello (Arkansas Rep); Mrs. Malaprop/The Rivals (Jean Cocteau Rep); Edith/Blithe Spirit (Barter Theater). Directing Highlights: The Guardsman, Alice on the Edge and the world premieres of Helpful Hints and Emma Goldman: My Life (ELTC); Tom Jacobson's The Twentieth-Century Way (2011 Philadelphia Premiere and 2012 Global Equality Forum); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Beijing, China); Hot L Baltimore, As You Like It, and The Winter's Tale (Stella Adler Conservatory/NYU); Dad Doesn't Dance (2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Don Juan in Hell, On the Verge, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble NYC); Mass Appeal, Shadows of Poe and Ibsen's Ghosts (Dave McCracken Producer, NYC). Karen earned a BA in Bacteriology and previously worked with Medical Research teams in New York and Connecticut. ELTC nominated Karen for Theatre Communication Group's prestigious Alan Schneider Director Award in 2011.

Suzanne Dawson has played leading roles off-Broadway in: CBS Live, The Last Musical Comedy, The Great American Backstage Musical, and the revival of New Faces of ’52. Her regional credits include Sylvia at Florida Studio Theatre, The Snowball and A Little Night Music at Buffalo Studio Arena, Carnival at The Alliance in Atlanta, and Rumors at Paper Mill Playhouse here in NJ. She toured with Rumors, and opposite Gavin Macleod in Last of the Red Hot Lovers. ELTC shows include: To the Ladies!, Alice on the Edge, The Butter and Egg Man, Berkeley Square, The World of Dorothy Parker, Dulcy, Ruth Draper’s Company of Characters, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Zorro!, and Arsenic and Old Lace. Member AEA.

Lino Del Core played Count Di Ruvo in ELTC's Strictly Dishonorable. Selected credits - Theatre: Taming of the Shrew (Oxford Shakespeare Co.), The Exonerated (Hudson Guild), Comedy of Errors (American Theatre of Actors), Emperor Jones (Harlem Theatre Co.), Ghosts (Hudson Guild). TV/Film: Louie (FX), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), H.O.M.E. (Gashouse Films), Monsters (Veet Productions), Celebrity Ghost Stories (BIO Channel). Webseries: Justice Woman (www.justicewoman.com). He Co-Wrote the film Lalo which won Best Short Film-2009 HBO NYILFF and Best Short Comedy-2009 L. A. Downtown Film Festival. Please visit www.linodelcore.com. Proud Equity member.

Pat Dwyer played Peter Shaw in ELTC's Silent Sky. In New York, he created the roles of Spurius/Remus in Kevin Brewer's adaptation of Shakespeare's Rape Of Lucrece for the NY Shakespeare Exchange and General Haywood Hansell in Douglas Lackey’s Daylight Precision. He's played Hugh for Mother of Invention’s Look Homeward Angel (Dir. Austin Pendleton,) Antonio in Identity Theatre's Tempest and the Ghost/Gravedigger in The Shakespeare Forum’s inaugural production of Hamlet. Other regional theatre roles: Christopher Wren in The Mousetrap at Casa Manana, Drew in Eastern Standard for Theatre 3, Fred in Addison Center Theatre's Christmas Carol and Feste in Twelfth Night for Stage West. On film: The Ghost, Claudius & Player King in the feature Hamlet In The Golden Vale and he made the Marriage Equality documentary, Married and Counting. Member AEA.

Leo Ebanks played Lonnie in ELTC's virtual reading of Black activist Mary P. Burrill's Aftermath (1919) in 2022, directed by Gayle Stahlhuth. Other recent credits: Grown up Who Ensemble in How The Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe), Hud in Hair (The Old Globe), Tonton Julian in Once on This Island (Moonlight Stage Productions), Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (San Diego State University), Billy Nolan in Carrie the Musical (Onstage Playhouse), and Georg in Spring Awakening (Grossmont College). @ItsJust_Leooo on Instagram.

Lelah and Jay Eppenbach, aka The Honeyhawks, were in ELTC's Yuletide Tales. They fill their summers making music professionally throughout the Cape, occasionally darting away to play in The Big City. You may have enjoyed an afternoon or evening sipping wine or orange crushes while listening to their harmonies at the Rusty Nail, Harry's, Nauti Spirits Distillery, Mayer's Tavern, Hawk Haven Vineyard or The Mad Batter. As young newlyweds in California they would while away hours playing and singing, but it wasn't until six years ago that they decided to make it their full time side gig. Both teachers, they spend the majority of their professional hours between September and June in the classroom. Lelah, a Cape May native and Yale graduate, has taught music, drama, English and currently teaches middle school Spanish. Also a director of school theater, she most recently directed a Covid-inspired production of Almost, Maine at Middle Township High School. Jay, a native of Santa Cruz, California and graduate of Cal State Monterey Bay, teaches fourth grade. An avid disc golfer, he enjoys playing the new course at Ockie Wisting, which he co-designed and installed. The Honeyhawks make their home in Cape May with their daughters Maya and Jemma, where they've spent these unusual 2020 months learning to make pasta from scratch and walking their quarantine puppy.

Ann Flanigan played Dr. Strong in ELTC's virtual reading of Something to Vote For by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ann was most recently in an online reading of a new work with TBTB (Theater Breaking Through Barriers) as well as an online reading of The Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolen) with Harlem Shakespeare Festival. Some of her favorite NY & Regional storytelling include The Tempest (Miranda), Much Ado About Nothing (Hero and Beatrice), Lincoln Center Originals, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia), and A Christmas Carol (Christmas Past). As a big proponent of new(er) works, she's worked on the world premiere of Chuck Mee's The Immortals as well as several productions, workshops, and readings of new plays and musicals. Many thanks to Gayle and to everyone who made this possible. Be well and enjoy! 1 Cor 12:7.

Jennifer Flynn played Elaine Harper in ELTC's Arsenic and Old Lace. A native of Avalon, NJ and graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Jennifer has performed off-off broadway in New York and spent time in Los Angeles, where she studied with David Mamet and produced and appeared in several theater, film, and online productions. She currently resides in Cherry Hill, NJ with her husband and two children and is thrilled to return to ELTC. Favorite Credits - New York: Spreading the News (Dir. Karin Coonrod), The Visit (Playwrights Horizons), Romeo and Juliet (Access Theater). Los Angeles: Love at Twenty (Dir. Neil LaBute), Charley’s Aunt (Palisades Theater), Cassandra (Underground Theater).

Osborn Focht: A Year in the Trenches (ELTC); Broadway; Paul Simon’s The Capeman, off-Broadway; The Magdalene, Kristina the Musical at Carnegie and Royal Albert Halls recorded on the Decca label, The Sound of Music (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Music Man (North Shore Music Theater), Sweeney Todd (Center Stage Baltimore), Eleanore; an American Love Story (Ford’s Theater), A Tale of Two Cities, Oklahoma!, and Moby Dick; the Musical (Seaside Music Theater), A Christmas Carol, Oliver!, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, Rounding Third, Tartuffe, and The School for Wives (Centenary Stage Co.) Spring Awakening and Porcelain (The Garage Theater Group), VERNE in the Kaytha Jentis film Bad Parents. Five years as the bass for The Mervtones with Merv Griffin and his orchestra under the direction of Mort Lindsey, Late Show Carolers on Late Show with David Letterman, five seasons with The Opera Company of Philadelphia, several stage and film collaborations with wife Mikaela Kafka.

- Nikki Ferry played Annie Cannon in ELTC's Silent Sky. New York credits: Tangled Up (Reading) for La Mama ETC, Kafka’s Quest at Theater For The New City, Comedy of Errors (Adriana) and Rhinoceros with Inwood Shakespeare Festival, and King Lear (Regan) for Theatre 20/20. Regional credits: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Olivia, Twelfth Night Tour), Stage One Family Theatre, St. Croix Festival Theatre (Amanda, Private Lives), Roxy Regional Theatre (Nora, A Doll’s House) and played Queen Elizabeth 1 in The Lost Colony. She holds an MFA from Wayne State University, is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique, and has trained at the Moscow Art Theatre and SITI Company. Member AEA.

Craig Fols played Davenport in ELTC's The Late Christopher Bean. He is an actor/writer/director who grew up in South Jersey and now divides his time between New York City and Cape May. Notable acting credits include playing Colleen Dewhurst's son right out of drama school, getting his Equity card touring Alaska as a young man with cerebral palsy in David Freeman's drama Creeps, and impersonating a bored yuppie husband in a Dr. Pepper commercial, which premiered on the Super Bowl. He originated the dramatic role of Kenneth Halliwell in Lanie Robertson's Nasty Little Secrets (World Premiere, Walnut Street Theatre; New York Premiere, Primary Stages) and the musical role of The Hero in The Musical of Musicals, which he played for more than 500 performances off-Broadway. You can download him singing on iTunes (Musical of Musicals cast album) or buy his plays on Amazon.com (Buck Simple in The Best American Short Plays 1994-95.) Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Sydney Freihofer played Mildred in Ah, Wilderness!, her first production with ELTC. Sydney is a sophomore at Mainland Regional High School where she was last seen portraying Sister Mary Parrick in Sister Act! She also played Glory in Almost, Maine. She loves doing theatre with The Broadway Theatre of Pitman (Camelot, Man of La Mancha), Bellarine Theatre Company (Legally Blonde), MoorArts (Aida), Off Broad Street Players (Oliver!), as well as many school and community theatre productions.

Dave Geible (Playwright/performer) East Lynne Theater Company has produced two different versions of Dave’s Nothing Matters with a two-character cast. The most recent version was during the pandemic, in which it was filmed. A single-actor version was performed in 2001 in Dave’s home state of Wyoming, with Dave playing Ambrose Bierce himself. Dave has acted in a large number of plays over a large number of years and has finally reached the age, or beyond, of most of the characters he was asked to portray during that time. He was a founding member of the Wyoming Shakespeare Company for fifteen years, playing The Porter in Macbeth, Cardinal Pandolph in King John, and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Tartuffe, in the role in that Moliere play, and King Lear, in that play. In younger years he played Polonius in Hamlet, Brabantio in Othello and The Fool in King Lear. Some non-Shakespearean roles include: Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls, Noah in Two by Two, Thomas Gray in The Boys in Autumn and Dr. McShary in The Cripple of Inishman. He no longer acts but continues to pretend to write.

Ryan Genualdi was in ELTC's world premiere A Year in the Trenches. From Summit, NJ, he's a graduate of Drew University with majors in History and Writing. Recent productions include Not, Now Darling at the Bickford Theatre, Three Sisters, and a staged reading of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them.

Stephanie Garrett played Mary in ELTC's NJ premiere of Jan Buttram's Lost on the Natchez Trace. She also performed in ELTC’s Women and the Vote, Rain, The People of Cape May v. Johan Van Buren, and Christmas in Black and White with Gayle Stahlhuth. She performs regularly for the company’s popular “Tales of the Victorians,” where company members read classic American stories to patrons at local B&Bs and tea shops. Over fifteen years ago, as a volunteer at Historic Cold Spring Village, she became a storyteller, specializing in early 19th Century Cape May County African American History. Stephanie has a BA and MA in Sociology and worked as a Sociologist and Human Resources Manager during her career in Federal Government. Upon early retirement she received the Meritorious Service Award, the highest award given by the Department of Navy to a civilian employee. She is past President of the Greater Cape May Historical Society.

Charles Gilbert (Music Director/Accompanist) for East Lynne Theater company, was music director and accompanist for Rodgers' Romance in 2016, and in 2018, created On the Sunny Side of the Street, a musical revue based on the lyrics of Dorothy Fields. He is an educator, writer, composer and director who has spent nearly forty years making provocative original work for the musical stage and training young artists for professional careers in musical theater. He headed the Musical Theater Program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia from its inception in 1990 until 2008, and served from 2008 to 2013 as Director of the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at UArts. He is a two-time Barrymore Award nominee for his music direction at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia. Other music directing credits include The Three Maries (Prince Theater, premiere production), The Fantasticks (People’s Light and Theater Company), The Middle of Nowhere (Prince Music Theater), Cabaret (Gretna Theater), Forever Plaid (Newmarket Cabaret Theater) and The Dinosaur Musical (Arden Theater, premiere production). Charlie is composer in residence for Enchantment Theater Company, where his most recent work includes My Father's Dragon (national tour) and The Brementown Musicians (Philadelphia area tour). His works for the musical stage include Assassins (1979, source of the idea for the Sondheim musical of the same name) and Gemini the Musical (with Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia 2004, New York 2007), and he was Musical Theater Coordinator for Kevin Smith’s 2002 film Jersey Girl. www.chasgilbert.com

Ken Glickfeld has appeared in NYC with Flux Theater Ensemble, Atlantic Theater Company, American Globe Theatre, Common Ground Stage and Film Co., Peculiar Works, Grace Rep, The Workshop Theater Company, and The Deptford Players, among others. Recent NY credits include Deinde, Can You Hear Their Voices?, Angel Eaters, Two Gentleman of Verona, Blood of the Bear, Uncle Vanya, The Arrangement, Journey’s End, The Bogus Bride, Privileged and Confidential, Mitya’s Ordeal, and Three Christs. Regional Credits include Sherlock’s Last Case, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Speed the Plow, One Shoe Off, Twelfth Night
and Taming of the Shrew. Films: Don’t Drink the Water (Woody Allen, Dir.), The Accountant (Glenn Gers, Dir), Deadline (series), Soldiers In The Shadows and played “God” in Spaceship for IFC. For ELTC, he performed in Within the Law, The New York Idea, The Voice of the City (Jacoby Award for Best Actor), Sherlock Holmes, Rain, Why Marry? and To the Ladies! Member SAG-AFTRA, AEA.
and Taming of the Shrew. Films: Don’t Drink the Water (Woody Allen, Dir.), The Accountant (Glenn Gers, Dir), Deadline (series), Soldiers In The Shadows and played “God” in Spaceship for IFC. For ELTC, he performed in Within the Law, The New York Idea, The Voice of the City (Jacoby Award for Best Actor), Sherlock Holmes, Rain, Why Marry? and To the Ladies! Member SAG-AFTRA, AEA.

Anthony Goss is an actor/writer from Boston, Massachusetts who was in ELTC's virtual reading of Black activist Mary P. Burrill's Aftermath (1919) in 2022, directed by Gayle Stahlhuth. He has 'worked the boards' on various stages throughout New York City, most recently with Woody King's New Federal Theatre Off-Broadway in the World Premiere play Gong Lum's Legacy. He has appeared in TV and films and loves discovering new plays, creating stories and advocating for youth arts. It was a pleasure and privilege to work on Aftermath, this classic African American Drama and with East Lynne Theater. AG2G

Brandon Dion Gregory was born and raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia and currently lives virtually; going wherever the work calls him. He played John in ELTC's virtual reading of Black activist Mary P. Burrill's Aftermath (1919) in 2022, directed by Gayle Stahlhuth. Brandon’s recent stage roles include Thoughts of a Colored Man (Syracuse Stage, Baltimore Center Stage) where Broadway World says, “Brandon Dion Gregory delivers an expressive and heartfelt performance as Passion. His smile lights up the stage.” Before that, “The New York Times” said Brandon is a whole lot of “fun” on stage in the twist on the holiday classic – Christmas Carol in Harlem (Classical Theatre of Harlem.) If you are addicted to your screen, you may have also seen him on BET’s Let the Church Say Amen, Showtime’s Homeland, ABC’s Resurrection, and commercials for Reese’s and Crunch. If your ears are working, you may have heard his voice for Tim Horton’s and Toyota. Brandon has studied and taught acting at Penn State University and is currently an Acting Instructor for the New York Film Academy as well as a private coach. For more about Brandon’s journey, check him out on IMDB and IG: @thebrandongregory

Marie Louise Guinier was in ELTC's virtual reading of Black activist Mary P. Burrill's Aftermath (1919) in 2022, directed by Gayle Stahlhuth. .Although the last two years limited opportunities to perform in person, she appeared several times via Zoom with the Metropolitan Playhouse (Aunt Betsy’s Thanksgiving and Hearts), with the New Federal Theatre and now in Aftermath with East Lynne Theater. In person performances include Eating the Wall Street Journal by Pope.L at MoMA, Messiah at the iconic La MaMa Theatre, Scissoring (INTAR Theatre) and Evensong at APAC (*NY IT nomination for Best Featured Actress) both written by Christina Quintana, On Strivers Row and Self both at the Metropolitan Playhouse and early on in Patience of Nantucket at the Boston Center for the Arts where she received an IRNIE nomination for Best Actress. Film & TV work include Strive with Danny Glover, Confession directed by Dayna Hanson (in post-production) – and on the small screen, HBO’s High Maintenance (including Fingerbutt episode 307) and ABC’s What Would You Do? Grateful to The Most High.

Lauren Gunderson wrote Silent Sky, a NJ Premiere for ELTC. She is the 2nd most produced living playwright in America, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including the Denver Center (The Book of Will), South Coast Rep (Emile, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful, and Her Dog!), The O’Neill Theatre Center, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Geva, and more. Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service (Silent Sky, Bauer), Playscripts (I and You, Exit, Pursued by a Bear, and Toil and Trouble) and Samuel French (Emile). She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member. She is from Atlanta, GA, and lives in San Francisco. LaurenGunderson.com and @LalaTellsAStory. www.laurengunderson.com

Brigid Harrington played Muriel McComber in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! Broadway: Mary Poppins (Jane Banks), The 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year (Mary Poppins, 1st runner up for Best Stage Presentation). Regional: Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Susan Waverly, Walnut Street Theatre), Annie (Annie), Scrooge (Tiny Tim). Can be heard daily on the Disney Channel as the voice of "Koko" in Chuggington. Other TV: FX’s Louie, Discovery ID’s Momsters, A&E’s Bloodwork; featured voice over/singer on Nickelodeon shows; national TV and radio commercials; the feature film Lullaby, and the web series Redheads Anonymous. She was in the workshop of Middle School: A Story of Survival directed by Lonny Price. She originated the role of “Charlotte” in Once ‘Round the Circle by Shanan Estreicher, performed for the recording at Avatar Studios and performed at The Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Work Series. Favorite Performances: Michael Mitnick Concert at Joe’s Pub, Broadway Sessions at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and America’s Got Talent Season 5 with her sister Shannon. Brigid recently completed filming the role of “Julie” for the new movie Benji The Dove which features Eli Tokash and Lynn Cohen. While working on several pilots, she’s searching for a University where she can major in acting. Member Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. For more on Brigid, please visit BrigidHarrington.com or facebook.com/BrigidHarringtonActor or on Twitter @BidHarrington

Joilet F. Harris was in ELTC's world premiere On the Sunny Side of the Street. Recent theater: A Doll’s House (Anna), Gypsy (Mazeppa), Because of Winn Dixie (Gloria), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Miss Jones), A Raisin in the Sun (Lena), Ella (Fitzgerald) in Ella the Musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Nell), Caroline or Change (Caroline – Barrymore Award for Best Actress), Hairspray (Motormouth Maybelle), Tulipomania, Finian’s Rainbow (Lead Sharecropper), Damn Yankees (Doris), Crowns (Mabel & Mother Shaw), It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (Gretha), and many, many more. TV: The Wire (Detective Caroline- 2 seasons), Law & Order SVU, Hack, Philly. Film: The Perfect Witness, Animal Factory, Beloved, Maximum Risk, 12 Monkeys, Rocky V and others. Cabaret Series: “Ella”, “Mahalia, “From Me To You With Love; “Joy” To The World; Love, Joy Peace and a Few Lil-isms; A Knight With A Wilson. To God Be the Glory! Member Actors' Equity Association

Rachel Holt played Belle in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! and Lucy Seward in Dracula. Other theatre Credits: The Alchemist, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (dir. Michael Kahn); The Receptionist & Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven, The Studio Theatre; Da, Olney Theatre Center; Fahrenheit 451, Round House Theatre Company; An Ideal Husband, Walnut Street Theatre; Stick Fly (u/s), Arden Theatre Company; The Sisters of Ellery Hollow, Born Normal, The Capital Fringe Festival; The Empirical Eskimo, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (NYC); Scrambled, Theatre Ariel; Surrender by Rachel Holt, Philly Fringe 2013; Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, Philadelphia Children’s Theatre Company; Once Upon a River, Hedgerow Theatre; Neighbor’s, Vagabond Acting Troupe. Rachel has many commercial, industrial, film and tv credits. B.A. in Theatre from West Chester University and an MFA in Acting from The Catholic University of America. Proud member AEA.

Veronique Hurley (She/Her) co-hosts a comedy podcast called Grumble Goat. @grumblegoatpodcast. Last seen in ELTC’s Who Am I This Time? (and Other Conundrums of Love), The Rainmaker, Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Silent Sky and
Biography. Off Broadway Theatre Credits include: The Tempest, As You Like it, Twelfth Night, Hunting and Gathering (The Glass Eye), and Women are crazy because men are Assholes (Cherry Lane Theatre); Regional Credits Include: Noises Off, To Kill A Mockingbird, Christmas Carol, (The Hartford Stage Company) The Straight Marriage Plays, Moon Over Buffalo (Cape May Stage), Around the World in 80 Days (won best ensemble, Broadwayworld.com). Member Actors' Equity Association.
Biography. Off Broadway Theatre Credits include: The Tempest, As You Like it, Twelfth Night, Hunting and Gathering (The Glass Eye), and Women are crazy because men are Assholes (Cherry Lane Theatre); Regional Credits Include: Noises Off, To Kill A Mockingbird, Christmas Carol, (The Hartford Stage Company) The Straight Marriage Plays, Moon Over Buffalo (Cape May Stage), Around the World in 80 Days (won best ensemble, Broadwayworld.com). Member Actors' Equity Association.

Patrick Hyland appeared in ELTC's Within the Law, and worked for the company backstage and at box office. A former model and talent scout, Patrick worked at FringeArts in Philadelphia during their 2013 season.

Seth James was in ELTC's Within the Law and The Late Christopher Bean. In January of 2015, he journeyed to northern Italy to teach Shakespeare to Italian students and perform Hamlet. NYC credits include Luft Gangster, You Never Can Tell (T Schreiber), Fuente Ovejuna, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Nylon Fusion), Henry V (American Globe) and Hamlet, as well as numerous one-act festivals and short films. Regional: To Kill a Mockingbird, Next Fall (Bristol Valley Theater). BFA, Marymount Manhattan College.

Arlitia Jones (playwright) is a poet and playwright from Anchorage, Alaska, where she is the co-founder of TossPot Productions. She is an alum of Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Playwrights’ Group. Her short play Tornado was chosen for the 38th Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival and as the 2014 National Award Winner Summer Shorts Festival with City Theatre, Miami, Florida. Come to Me Leopards received a workshop production in 2013 at Cyrano’s Theatre. Rush at Everlasting premiered at Perseverance Theatre in 2014. Also in 2014, Jones received an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation. She has enjoyed residencies at Hedgebrook and with Djerassi Resident Artists Program and participated as an emerging playwright in the 2013 Directors Lab at Lincoln Center. Her volume of poetry The Bandsaw Riots won the Dorothy Brunsman Award for Poetry from Bear Star Press, Cohasset, California, in 2001. Along with Michael Evan Haney, Jones co-adapted A Christmas Carol for Perseverance Theatre, which has now produced it for five consecutive years in Anchorage. Summerland received a workshop production from Seattle Rep in the New Play Festival in 2014, and had its world premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in 2017. ELTC produced it in 2019. Member of the Dramatists’ Guild of America.

Gail Kennedy (Costume Designer), came to ELTC's Who Am I This Time? and Possessing Harriet via a circuitous route—from Allegheny College where she supervised the costume shop and designed many Playshop productions, Hecuba to Uncommon Women; to New York City dressing Broadway shows, Wicked, Jersey Boys, Hairspray; designing costumes for an off-off Broadway production of The Duchess, aka Wallace Simpson; to Manhattan College designing Company and Little Shop of Horrors. Most recently backstage at the Met and now happy to be designing at Cape May! Appreciating the wonderful serendipity of her creative paths; sweetest memories to Rue who truly instilled the lifelong lesson “thank you for being a friend.”

David-Michael Kenney “DMK” (Director): For over 40 years he has focused his life on theater and live events. The energy that connects with an audience during a live performance is a unique experience each time. It is a shared sensation never replicated. Creating and presenting performances is his fulfilment. DMK embraced theater while attending Radnor High School with summers spent at the Villanova University Shakespeare Festival. At Temple University he degreed in Theatre Stage Management and Directing. Over the years he has stage managed and directed in Philadelphia, New York and California. He staged cabaret performances for Julie Wilson, Jane Norman (aka Pixanne), Rosie Carlino and Lois Sage. Directed productions ranging from Pirates of Penzance to Always Patsy Cline, and he created Rodgers' Romance. He wrote and produced numerous audience participation Murder Mystery Weekends performed in America, Canada and the Caribbean. DMK is most pleased and fortunate to once again join creative forces with Charles Gilbert. David-Michael is grateful for the love and support of his wife, and his father.

Alexa Kent was in ELTC's virtual reading of Black activist Mary P. Burrill's Aftermath (1919) in 2022, directed by Gayle Stahlhuth. Other recent credits include I Love Christmas Movies with RWS Entertainment and A Simple Vow directed by Zoey Martinson. Alexa has a BFA for Acting in Film/TV/Voice-Overs/Commercials from Pace University and you can find more about her and her training at alexakent.com. Thank you to Gayle for this opportunity!

Holly and Will Knapp were in ELTC's Yuletide Tales in 2020 and Vaudeville Variety in 2022. They have been regular performers in the Cape May and South Jersey area since moving to the area in 2004 and 2003 respectively. After graduating from University of the Arts in 2004, Holly began working as an actress at Elaine's Dinner Theater (bringing Will on board in 2007) and serving as the Artistic Director and Executive Producer starting in 2009, devloping nearly a dozen original shows over the course of her tenure. She made her ELTC debut in the 2015 staged reading of Our American Cousin, and was also featured in Cape May Stage's Moonlight and Magnolias in 2007. Recent credits include Audrey (Little Shop of Horrors), Mrs. Walker (Tommy), Doralee (9 to 5), Regina (Rock of Ages, twice!), Morticia (Addams Family), Fastrada (Pippin), Evelyn Nesbit (Ragtime) and Mrs. Lovett (Sweeny Todd). Currently, Holly is the co-host of the 5-start rated true crime/comedy podcast We Would Be Dead.. Will began playing music professionally with the Off Duty Super Heroes in Philadelphia in the late 90's, and began a solo (and occasional duo) career after moving to South Jersey. Pre-COVID, you could find him playing music out and about around Cape May, Wildwood and Avalon several times a month. Holly and Will live in Del Haven with their two children, Violet and Flynn, three cats and a dog,

Jon Logan Kovach played Starbuck in ELTC's The Rainamker. This Miami University theatre graduate has worked with internationally recognized film-makers (G. Clooney, A. Goddard), and authors (N. Balthazar, R. Jones), subsequently receiving awards as an actor, musician, director, writer, and producer. Jon is an ensemble member of NYC's Upstart Creatures, founder of Wet Paint - New Play Festival, producer of an immersive adaptation of The Wave, and is completing an EP titled "Replacement Parts." Off-Broadway/Off-Off-Broadway: Theatre East, Perry Street, Red Bull, Fault Line, The Tank, 54 Below, Theatre Row, Boomerang. Regional: Bay Street, Guild Hall, Capital Rep., Merrimack Rep., Playhouse in the Park, Human Race, B Street, Hippodrome, Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theatre. Member AEA.

Mat Labotka played several roles in ELTC's Who Am I This Time? (and Other Conundrums of Love) and in Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, and File in The Rainmaker. An alum of Chicago’s Second City Conservatory and Marquette University, Mat is both classically trained and freshly comedic. New York credits include Henry in The King’s Face, Albert in Relativity of Love (Break A Leg), Victor in The Star and The Fire (90 Square Arts). Chicago credits include Metropolis Theatre, Circle Theatre, Second City, iO Chicago, Underground Lounge. Mat also performs in commercials, improv, stand-up comedy, and he co-hosts a comedy podcast called Grumble Goat. @grumblegoatpodcast. . Member Actors' Equity Association. matlabotka.com

Mark Edward Lang Theater and corporate training events have taken him to 35 U.S. states and around the world; including trips to Copenhagen, Malaysia and Tanzania. Recent work includes F. Scott Fitzgerald in his play Zelda & Scott: A Life Affair in Alabama (also ELTC) with his wife Alison J. Murphy. Favorite roles Alfred Lunt in Lunt and Fontanne: The Celestials of Broadway (FringeNYC & Classic Theatre of San Antonio; also playwright), Captain Robert Scott in Terra Nova (Hilton Head Playhouse), The Actor in ELTC’s The Guardsman, seven roles in the Irish comedy Stones in his Pockets (Open Stage of Harrisburg), Welcome Home Marian Anderson (NYC and tour, including Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas); and ELTC’s Who Am I This Time? (and Other Conundrums of Love), The Rainmaker, Ah, Wilderness!, Biography, Zorro!, The Late Christopher Bean, The Poe Mysteries, Dulcy, Butter and Egg Man, Why Marry? and You and I (Best Actor Jacoby Award, 2007). He’s also run theater workshops and is a director, including ELTC’s Anna Christie and Possessing Harriet. Graduate of Vassar College (Kazan Prize). Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Meredith Lark played Mary Turner in ELTC's Within the Law. Most recently Meredith could be seen in Dial M for Murder (New London Barn Playhouse). Some other credits include TV Time (Laurie Beechman Theater), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Les Miserables, Oklahoma!, Legally Blonde (NLBP), Ancestral Voices (Peterborough Players). Meredith spent two years traveling around Central New York bringing theater to children with Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. Graduate of The Ohio State University BA in theater as well as The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. www.MeredithLark.com. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Michèle LaRue, Chicago-born and raised, returned to her ancestors’ New Jersey long ago. Her credits with ELTC include William Dean Howells’ Bride Roses, Susan Glaspell’s Suppressed Desires, and Gayle Stahlhuth’s adaptation of Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle – all directed by her late husband: ELTC's founder and first producing artistic director, Warren Kliewer. She was also in Langdon Mitchell’s The New York Idea, directed by Stahlhuth.
For over 25 years, LaRue has performed throughout the country in one-woman shows. She makes people laugh with her Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire, written by Marie Jenney Howe in 1912, and directed by Kliewer. She makes people gasp in her re-imagined version of The Yellow Wallpaper, adapted and originally directed by Kliewer, based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 horror story. She also portrays the Famous First Lady in Eve's Diary, adapted by Stahlhuth, based on the writings of Mark Twain. AND she's been performing Kliewer's own vibrant poetry about life in the theater, in Places Please, Act One.
LaRue was one of the first to read on porches as part of ELTC's Tales of the Victorians. Now, under her own title, Tales Well Told, she reads works of Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, O. Henry, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other American writers, in various venues nationwide. A popular piece is her Gettysburg: One Woman’s War, three stories from Elsie Singmaster's moving 1913 classic book Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath,
She is a member of the two performers’ unions—Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA—and of multiple literature organizations, As a theater editor-writer, she has collaborated on numerous notable publications.
For over 25 years, LaRue has performed throughout the country in one-woman shows. She makes people laugh with her Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire, written by Marie Jenney Howe in 1912, and directed by Kliewer. She makes people gasp in her re-imagined version of The Yellow Wallpaper, adapted and originally directed by Kliewer, based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 horror story. She also portrays the Famous First Lady in Eve's Diary, adapted by Stahlhuth, based on the writings of Mark Twain. AND she's been performing Kliewer's own vibrant poetry about life in the theater, in Places Please, Act One.
LaRue was one of the first to read on porches as part of ELTC's Tales of the Victorians. Now, under her own title, Tales Well Told, she reads works of Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, O. Henry, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other American writers, in various venues nationwide. A popular piece is her Gettysburg: One Woman’s War, three stories from Elsie Singmaster's moving 1913 classic book Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath,
She is a member of the two performers’ unions—Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA—and of multiple literature organizations, As a theater editor-writer, she has collaborated on numerous notable publications.

Mark Lazar played Nat Miller in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! and multiple roles in Zorro!. He is a 20-year company member with People's Light & Theatre Company, outside Philadelphia. Some favorite productions there: The Matchmaker, Sense and Sensibility, The Foreigner, The Rainmaker, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Born Yesterday, Camping with Henry and Tom, Sherlock Holmes and The Jersey Lily and The Secret of Sherlock. And Mr. Lazar is The Resident Dame for PLTC’s sell-out British Pantomimes, these past 13 Holiday Seasons. He was a 12-season company member of The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, performing the classics and 10 Christmas Carols as Ebenezer Scrooge. He was a resident actor at Charlotte Repertory Theatre: Charlotte Award: Best Actor, Max Prince: Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Best Actor, Wallace: Darwin. Mark is a founding member and 10-year veteran of The Madison Rep, and has performed with most of Wisconsin’s other professional theatres including The Milwaukee Rep, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre, Theatre Tesseract, Next Generation Theatre, Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival. Other Regional credits include Cider Mill Playhouse, Festival Stage of Winston Salem, New American Theatre, and national tours with Great American Children’s Theatre Co. He is the voice of Scrooge for First State Children’s Theatre’s live theatrical broadcasts of A Christmas Carol, heard on Delaware Public Radio. Member AEA

Robert LeMaire recently played Teddy Brewster in ELTC's Arsenic and Old Lace, and was also the show's Assistant Director. He has directed the ELTC Summer Student Workshop for the last three years, and was honored for his work, along with other arts-in-education leaders, at The New Jersey Theatre Alliance gala in 2018. He has performed in several ELTC productions including Ah! Wilderness, Dracula, The Late Christopher Bean, To the Ladies, You and I, The Dictator (2001 & 2010), Sherlock Holmes, Three Miraculous Soldiers, Anna Christie and The Ransom of Red Chief. He’s worked sound effects and performed in ELTC’s radio-style Sherlock Holmes Adventures: The Speckled Band, The Blue Carbuncle, The Norwood Builder and Detectives Holmes and Carter. Robert has directed Ocean City High School Drama Guild productions of Addams Family: A New Musical, Stage Door, Spamalot, Footloose: The Musical and Arsenic and Old Lace. He has been an assistant director for Robin Hood, Legally Blonde: The Musical, A Christmas Carol, The Man Who Came to Dinner and Bye-Bye Birdie. Other performance work includes Vistas of Democracy, a video series in NJ Network Public Television's Educational NJ Legacy Series. You may catch his shoulder in the History Channel's Civil War Terror.

Andrew Lofredo is an Orlando-based performer, writer, and stage manager. In the past, he’s worked as a production assistant for East Lynne’s summer 2019 and 2020 seasons and is thrilled to be returning on stage. Favorite past credits include the Waiter in First Date at Theatre UCF and Hugo in Tuck Everlasting at the Southeastern Summer Theater Institute. He recently graduated from the University of Central Florida with a BFA in Musical Theater.

Matt Baxter Luceno ELTC: Arsenic and Old Lace, A Year in The Trenches, Within the Law, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, It Pays to Advertise. NY Theater includes The Winter’s Tale (dir. Everett Quinton), Chemistry of Love (La MaMa E.T.C.), The Merry Wives of Windsor Terrace (Brave New World Rep), The Island of Doctor Moreau, Hamlet (Piper Theatre), Uranus (Superhero Clubhouse), Scapin (Turtle Shell), and staged readings with Red Bull Theater, La MaMa, and The Actors Studio. Regional: Dancing Lessons (ARC Stages – Next Stage), King Lear w/ Stacy Keach, Ion, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare on the Sound), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Allentown Shakespeare). Television: “Guiding Light”, “Shark Week”. Training: SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory, BFA (President’s Award). Matt is a former Acting Fellow at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Member AEA. MattBaxterLuceno.com

Liz Mattera is a New York based actress who performed in East Lynne Theater Company's Who Am I this Time? (and Other Conundrums of Love). Most recently seen in Overtones (Maggie), some of her past resume highlights include Hamlet (Player Queen), Shivaree (Laura) and directing/producing/writing/performing in Daughters Rising with Daughters of Troy. Proud graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Musical Theatre. For more info, visit lizmattera.com. IG: liz.mattera

J. M. McDonough For ELTC: Judge Dempsey in Strictly Dishonorable, Ambrose Bierce in the world premiere of David Geible’s Nothing Matters, Mr. Rucastle and the Announcer in the radio-style Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Announcer and Dr. Grimesby Roylott in Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Speckled Band, and Rev. Davidson in Rain, directed by Bruce Minnix. Recent work in NYC includes portraying Dr. Tinkey in Augustine Daly’s A Marriage Contract, Senator Langdon in Deep Are the Roots, and various roles in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, at Metropolitan Playhouse. He works on stage, and in television and film in and around New York, and is the voice of a variety of ads, animations and video games. He played Jackie Mason’s foil in the film One Angry Man, had principal roles in television’s Homicide, and was a regular on The Chappelle Show. He received his acting training in New York with Walt Witcover, and with Terry Schreiber at T. Schreiber Studio, as well as in England with actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Member AEA. For more information, see www.martymcdonough.com.

Derrick McQueen has been performing ELTC's Paul Robeson Through His Words and Music, written by Gayle Stahlhuth, since 2006 in Cape May. Other venues where he has performed Robeson include Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, NJ, at the Wildwood Convention Center for an NAACP Fundraising event, The Puffin Foundation in Teaneck, NJ, North Carolina Stage Company in Asheville, and the Newark PAC.
McQueen, due to a Dodge Foundation Grant, was the Playwright in Residence at South Jersey Regional Theatre, where his play I Have Been Said to Possess was produced. He's acted with the New York Theatre Workshop, Mabou Mines, Totem Pole Playhouse, and sung at the Cape May Jazz Festival. The characterizations and concerts that he has created based on historical African-Americans, include the journalist Alfred P. Smith, Congressman George White, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Derrick took part in the NYC's Culture Project's X-Impact on the Gulf production of Voices of the Storm, life stories from the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana from those impacted by hurricane Katrina. Currently he is an Interim Pastor at St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem, having recently received his Ph. D. at Union Theological Seminary in the field of Homiletics and New Testament.
McQueen, due to a Dodge Foundation Grant, was the Playwright in Residence at South Jersey Regional Theatre, where his play I Have Been Said to Possess was produced. He's acted with the New York Theatre Workshop, Mabou Mines, Totem Pole Playhouse, and sung at the Cape May Jazz Festival. The characterizations and concerts that he has created based on historical African-Americans, include the journalist Alfred P. Smith, Congressman George White, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Derrick took part in the NYC's Culture Project's X-Impact on the Gulf production of Voices of the Storm, life stories from the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana from those impacted by hurricane Katrina. Currently he is an Interim Pastor at St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem, having recently received his Ph. D. at Union Theological Seminary in the field of Homiletics and New Testament.

Leon Morgan is a classically trained actor from New York City. He was fortunate enough to study at the William Esper Studio, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, HB Studio and with the Upright Citizen's Brigade. He has also had the pleasure of performing the works of William Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neil, Anton Chekhov and Sam Shepard. Leon’s talent spreads across regional and off-Broadway theater, television, film, as well as some Norwegian commercials. Leon has performed several times with ELTC, including playing O'Hara in Arsenic and Old Lace. Member AEA.

Alison J. Murphy recently performed in Zelda & Scott: A Life Affair at the Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. Also Lunt and Fontanne: The Celestials of Broadway (with her husband Mark Edward Lang) at FringeNYC and the Classic Theater of San Antonio. Also NYC productions of Aurora Leigh, and ELTC’s Why Marry? at the historic Players Club. Past ELTC productions in Cape May include Who Am I This Time? (and Other Conundrums of Love), Ah, Wilderness!, The Late Christopher Bean, The Dictator, The New York Idea, Voice of the City, Four by Four, Why Marry?, You and I, Dulcy and The Guardsman. For Access to Art she was Rosalind in As You Like It and Margaret Roper More in Bound by Truth by Sheila Rinear. She has also worked with American Stage Company and Shakespeare in the Garden, in productions of Extremities, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Film: The Love of My Life. Member AEA. Thanks to Gayle (and Lee) for bringing us together. For Mark, Anna & Max.

Jared Mason Murray was in ELTC's virtual production of Something to Vote For and played Tooker in ELTC's NJ premiere of Summerland. NEW YORK: The Seeing Place Theater: Measure for Measure (Escalus). REGIONAL: The Kennedy Center: Shear Madness (Mikey), Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Richard III (First Murderer), Olney Theatre Center: Red Riding Hood A New Fable (Wolf), Imagination Stage: Rapunzel (Brian/Simon U/S), Impossible Theatre Company: Macbeth (Donalbain), Naked Theatre Company: ClickB@it (Cat), THE Theatre Company: The House of Yes (Marty). FILM: Amazon Prime: King Lear (Burgundy). Jared wants to thank God and his loving wife and family. jaredmasonmurray.com

Tom Naglee was in ELTC's Yuletide Tales in 2020. He is a multi-instrumentalist most known for his fiddling around town in Cape May, NJ. He began violin at 8 years old, studied violin performance and piano technology at Shenandoah Conservatory graduating in 1981. After working in the piano field a few years, he moved home to Cape May where he worked for the Cape May Lewes Ferry. Since retiring in 2011, Tom has stayed busy as a freelance violinist, playing in bands and duos, also recording and editing a radio show , Open Mic The Living Room Sessions on WCFA. You can catch him playing at Congress Hall, Beach Plum Farm, with The Howard Street Ramble at the Chalfonte Hotel, and especially as the sideman for the fabulous Barry Tischler! Barry and Tom play regularly at The Mad Batter and other places, as a duo and as part of an Irish folk group called Whiskey in the Jar.

Elisabeth Ness played Katherine Mumler in Summerland. She is a Yale alum who strives to support fantastic women playwrights, and was honored to perform this exciting new work by Arlitia Jones. Stage: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater, Inwood Shakespeare, Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Shadowland. TV: Bull (CBS), FBI (CBS), Daredevil (Netflix). Film: Like Father (Netflix, with Kelsey Grammer), Cerise (Cannes Select), Tobi (Tribeca), Going Public (SoHo International), En Route (‘Best Lead Actress’ nom). Digital: Redheads Anonymous (‘Best Sitcom Actress’ award), The Misunderstanding (FunnyOrDie). Album: Like You Like It (Broadway Records Original Studio Cast). Thanks to the Summerland team, Pat, Ed, Kevin, G. Ruth, Mom, Dad, David, and beloved family and friends. www.elisabethness.com

Mike Newman: Credits include: A Year in the Trenches and Biography (East Lynne Theater Company);
Accomplice (Bickford Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher and Israel Potter, American Patriot (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Mornings of April and May (Connecticut Free Shakespeare); Henry V and The Three Musketeers (Hudson Warehouse Theater Company); The Groundling (The Theatre Project); and Macbeth (Old Hat Theatre Company). He is a graduate of Tufts University with a BA in Economics.
Accomplice (Bickford Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher and Israel Potter, American Patriot (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Mornings of April and May (Connecticut Free Shakespeare); Henry V and The Three Musketeers (Hudson Warehouse Theater Company); The Groundling (The Theatre Project); and Macbeth (Old Hat Theatre Company). He is a graduate of Tufts University with a BA in Economics.

Sandra Nickel was in ELTC's virtual reading of Something to Vote For. She has worked in theater as an actor and producer for over twenty years. She has performed in several shows for the nonprofit cultural institution, Cape MAC, and is the founding member of Actors Off Stage (AOS), both in Cape May, NJ. The focus of AOS is to work on new scripts by both emerging and seasoned playwrights. Her television commercial repertoire ranges from playing a drunk unfaithful spouse for a private detective firm, to promoting the Litter Free Litter Box, which aired during the Super Bowl on Animal Planet. As for film work, her favorite role was playing Harper Lee in a university student film. Currently, she serves as the Marketing and Advertising Director for Historic Cold Spring Village, another nonprofit cultural institution in Cape May County.

Morgan J. Nichols has been seen in the following ELTC productions: Arsenic and Old Lace, To The Ladies, The Butter and Egg Man and Berkeley Square. Of late in his career he has been focused on building a TV and film career, landing roles in shows like CBS's Blue Bloods and HBO's Vinyl. Most importantly, he would like to say a big thank you to you the audience, for without you, there would be no reason to get up in the morning. Thank you. Member AEA.

Lee O'Connor (1948-2021) portrayed Holmes in ELTC’s William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes, and has portrayed Holmes in most of ELTC's NBC radio-style adventures. He also appeared in ELTC’s The Leach Diaries, The Dictator, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Dick Spindler’s Family Christmas, the staged readings of Henry Sawyer and the Civil War and Our American Cousin, and was a storyteller for ELTC’s “Tales of the Victorians.” Other performing work includes The Odd Couple in Saigon while serving in Vietnam, and traveling throughout the country with his wife, Gayle Stahlhuth, in a two-hander written by Stahlhuth, Not Above A Whisper. Commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery, it was about Dorothea Lynde Dix, who fought for the rights of the indigent mentally ill. Aside from being ELTC’s Technical Director since 1999, he worked at a variety of regional theaters, and his work in NYC included Radio City Music Hall, Irish Rep, Primary Stages, and special events for Dancers Over 40. Member AEA.

Clare O'Malley was in ELTC's Rodgers' Romance. Theater in Philadelphia (and nearby): Hansel and Gretel (Quintessence Theater); Metamorphoses, Threepenny Opera (The Arden Theater); Private Lives (Walnut Street Theater); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Philadelphia Theater Company); The Credeaux Canvas (Theater Horizon); Brian Friel's Lovers (Round Table Theatre). Theater in Ireland/UK: Grease The Musical (Gaiety Theater); James Joyce’s The Dead (The Abbey Theater), The Last Summer (The Gate Theater); The Life & Sort of Death of Eric Argle (Edinburgh Festival); Heroin(e) for Breakfast (Dublin Theater Festival); Monster Clock (Smock Alley). Film/TV: CREED/MGM, EuroVision Song Contest (Baku Azerbaijan). Training: University of the Arts, BFA Musical Theater. www.clareomalley.com

Emma Palzere-Rae played Essie Miller in Ah, Wilderness! at East Lynne Theater Company, where she appeared as Harriet Beecher Stowe in Aunt Hattie’s House in 2000, which continues to be offered for touring through ELTC. Emma’s Be Well Productions also tours her original one-woman plays about Emily Dickinson, Victoria Woodhull and Gilda Radner throughout the country. She has appeared in regional and off-Broadway theaters and in film and television. Favorite roles include Sister Aloysius in Doubt (Emerson Theater Collaborative), Dean Kenny in Spinning into Butter (Newgate), and Maria in Lend Me a Tenor (Centennial Theater Festival). She is the former artistic director of NYC’s Plays for Living, and a former company member of Quicksilver Radio Theater. Emma currently resides in southeastern CT where she co-directs Mystic Seaport’s annual holiday production “Lantern Light Tours." Member Actors' Equity Association.

Jenna Pastuszek, a New York City resident, is originally from Swarthmore, PA. She truly believes "There's no place like home!" and she’s thrilled to be back at East Lynne Theatre Company doing GET HAPPY! A Tribute to Judy Garland, virtually! Other credits include: DINER (Delaware Theatre Company), SIDE SHOW (Media Theatre), BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE (DTC), THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Eagle Theatre), WINTER WONDERETTES (Walnut Street Theatre), CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Eagle Theatre), SOUTH PACIFIC (DTC). Select NYC credits: SMILE (Musicals Tonight!), SINGLE (NYMF), THE INCREDIBLE FOX SISTERS (New Ohio Theatre), JOEY & RON (The Player’s Theatre), DAYS OF RAGE (GR42). Other Regional Theatre: EVITA (Stage Door Theatre, Carbonell Award Nom. Best Actress), SISTER ACT (Lake Dillon Theatre Co.), NEXT THING YOU KNOW (Sharon Playhouse). Co-Founder of Innovative Voice Studio. Graduate of NYU & UVA. Thank YOU for continuing to support the arts! @jenn005 www.JennaP.com

Matthew Lindsay Payne played Jonathan Harker in ELTC's Dracula. Recently, he concluded training with the Moscow Art Theatre's Summer Stanislavsky School. Theater credits: Vanya in Uncle Vanya (MXAT Summer Stanislavsky School), V. in The Mesmeric Revelations of Edgar Allan Poe (Submersive Productions), Franz Kafka in The Trap (Ambassador Theatre Company), Mr Croup in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (Cohesion Theater Company), First Player/Marcellus/Fortinbras in Hamlet (Cohesion Theater Company), Marcel in Thirteen Dead Husbands (Cohesion Theater Company).

Jakob Pender played Tommy in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness! He is an 8th grade student who enjoys theater, baseball, and travel. For three summers, from 2014-2016, he's participated in the wonderful Student Theater Workshop at ELTC. In addition, Jakob has been in a variety of school plays including works by Shakespeare and Mark Twain. He plans to be a veterinarian when he grows up.

Jed Peterson portrayed the title role in ELTC's Zorro! He also created the role of Stephen Foster in the new musical Hard Times by Larry Kirwan, featuring the music of Foster. He trained as an actor at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia and at the High School of Performing Arts in NYC. He made his stage debut in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at the New York City Ballet. He made his international debut in He Who Gets Slapped at the Moscow Art Theatre where he became one of only two Americans to have appeared on the theatre’s Main Stage, with the Russian company. Other credits include: McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Princeton Summer Theater, Marvell Rep, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Tent Theatre, Summer Theater of New Canaan, Prospect Theatre, Studio Six, and Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC. He is a Resident Artist at The Cell Theatre and a member of the acting company of Playwrights Gallery in NYC. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA. www.JedQPeterson.com

Phil Pizzi began his career in broadcasting at WCMC AM/FM in Wildwood, NJ in 1977. He co-hosted Music Plus on the local original cable TV station, featuring bands and interviews with everyone from William Shatner to Weird Al Yankovic. He appeared in The Music Man, Guys & Dolls, and The Odd Couple with the Sea Isle Players. He performed with ELTC in The New York Idea, Why Marry?, It Pays to Advertise, and two Sherlock Holmes' radio-style productions: Adventure of the Copper Beeches and Adventure of the Specked Band . Indie films include The Corner Bar and Bittercress. Phil produces Jersey Cape Fishing, South Jersey's longest running fishing show, distributed on Comcast Cable to over 2 million households throughout the Delaware Valley. In the fall of 2018, he retired as the host of The Morning Show on 98.7-FM The Coast, WCZT, the most listened-to radio station in Cape May County.

Aaron Posner (playwright) grew up in Eugene, Oregon, went to Northwestern University, and has spent most of his life working in professional regional theater. He was the Artistic Director of two LORT theater, and is currently an Associate Professor at American University. He's directed more than 150 productions at major regional theaters across the country including The Arden Theatre, Arena Stage, California Shakespeare Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Folger Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, South Coast Rep, and Two River Theater in NJ.
Posner has written about 20 plays, all (but one) of which are adaptations of short stories, novels, novellas, or plays. His work has received over 400 productions including Off-Broadway (My Name is Asher Lev and Life Sucks). Other plays include Stupid, F*****G Bird (a new look at The Seagull, JQA, The Heal, No Sisters, District Merchants, The Chosen, Sometimes A Great Notion, Cyrano (with Michael Hollinger), A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage (with composer James Sugg), The Gift of Nothing (with composer Andy Mitton), ME…JANE: The Dreams & Adventures of Young Jane Goodall (also with composer Andy Mitton.) He's received six Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, The Outer Circle Critics Award, a Joseph Jefferson Award, an Elliott Norton Award, The Bay Area Theatre Critics Award, The John Gassner Prize, and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award.
Posner has written about 20 plays, all (but one) of which are adaptations of short stories, novels, novellas, or plays. His work has received over 400 productions including Off-Broadway (My Name is Asher Lev and Life Sucks). Other plays include Stupid, F*****G Bird (a new look at The Seagull, JQA, The Heal, No Sisters, District Merchants, The Chosen, Sometimes A Great Notion, Cyrano (with Michael Hollinger), A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage (with composer James Sugg), The Gift of Nothing (with composer Andy Mitton), ME…JANE: The Dreams & Adventures of Young Jane Goodall (also with composer Andy Mitton.) He's received six Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, The Outer Circle Critics Award, a Joseph Jefferson Award, an Elliott Norton Award, The Bay Area Theatre Critics Award, The John Gassner Prize, and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award.

Elisa Pupko was in ELTC's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Zorro! In NYC, she has been seen in The Crucible (Gallery Players), The Children’s Hour (APAC), The Three Sisters (The Seeing Place), Butoh Electra (Fringe NYC - 4th Street Theatre), and various workshops and readings with The Puzzle, Ice Factory Festival, and Sparrow-tree Theatre. Regionally Elisa appeared as the host for The Student’s Live Peter Pan National Tour at The Pantages Theatre, as Liesl in The Sound of Music, and Star-to-Be in Annie. She can also be seen in numerous episodes of College Humor, as a host for About.com, and various commercials and promos. As a native Seattleite, She is a member of AEA. www.elisapupko.com

James Rana East Lynne credits include: A Year in the Trenches (playwright), Dracula, Strictly Dishonorable, Huckleberry Finn (playwright), Zorro! (playwright/performer), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (playwright), The Poe Mysteries (playwright/performer), and Sherlock Holmes’ Adventure of the Norwood Builder. Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, Luna Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Co. (UK), Classical Theatre of Harlem, Actors Shakespeare Co., Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Coney Island USA, Comedysportz, Worth Street Theatre, Shakespeare & Co., Princeton Rep, Globe Neuss and Bonn Biennale (Germany). Film/Television: Swim Little Fish Swim, The War Within, A Girl Like You With A Boy Like Me, The Assassin, Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Fire, Third Watch, One Life To Live, As the World Turns, Conan O’Brien. Radio: Poe: A Celebration (wrote and narrated) for NPR. Stage Adaptations: From The Earth To The Moon (workshop: Tri-State Actors Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Actors Shakespeare Co.).
In 2017, he performed in Off-Broadway's The Government Inspector starring Michael Urie. In the fall of 2017, he began rehearsals for Broadway’s The Band's Visit, and has gone on several times in the role of the Band's Leader, originally performed by Tony Shalhoub, and other roles. When this Tony Award winning show closed on Broadway in April 2018, he began performing in The National Tour.
James received his MFA from Trinity Rep and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists Guild.
In 2017, he performed in Off-Broadway's The Government Inspector starring Michael Urie. In the fall of 2017, he began rehearsals for Broadway’s The Band's Visit, and has gone on several times in the role of the Band's Leader, originally performed by Tony Shalhoub, and other roles. When this Tony Award winning show closed on Broadway in April 2018, he began performing in The National Tour.
James received his MFA from Trinity Rep and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists Guild.

Thomas Raniszewski was in the world premiere of Dying Like Ignacio at the Workshop Theater's Main Stage Theater in New York. East Lynne Theater Company credits include Arsenic and Old Lace. Ah, Wilderness!, Dracula, Strictly Dishonorable, Berkeley Square and It Pays to Advertise. In 2014, he portrayed Tommy in Rachel Handler's 2015 short feature Disabilidates which premiered at the Hollyshorts Film Festival in Hollywood. He received critical acclaim for his role as Warren in the 2011 and ‘12 Philadelphia productions of Tom Jacobson's award-winning psychological drama The Twentieth-Century Way. In May, 2013, he reunited with East Lynne's 2006 cast of Why Marry? for a staged-reading performance in New York City at the prestigious Players Club. Member AEA.

Bob Reader played Mr. Witherspoon in ELTC's Arsenic and Old Lace. He earned degrees from Juniata College, Pittsburgh Western Theological Seminary, Teachers College Columbia U., and Union Theological Seminary. While professor (The College of Insurance, NYC) and minister to small churches, Bob established the Butchers' Guild Theatre Company in Orange County NY, and was its producer and director from 1993 to 2005. Preacher, artist (paper art cards), librettist (Winds of Bethlehem and...) keep him busy. Bob's fan club features Mary, Miles, Jackie, Tori, Julia, Amanda, Jamie, Seamus, Keegan, and pets. Fun includes ELTC, Roundabout, Philadelphia Orchestra and now, re-visiting Arsenic. (first time - high school.)

Tara Reuter played the "Hello Girl" Grace Banker and others in East Lynne Theater Company's A Year in the Trenches and Miss Wells, the maid, in Dracula. Other credits include: Arsenic and Old Lace (The Heights Players), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Valley Shakespeare Festival), Encore! National Tour (Chamber Theatre Productions), A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage), Love, Sex, and the IRS (The Warner Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare on the Sound), Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet (Fairfield Shakespeare Company), A View from the Bridge (Dir. Kevin Gray), The Taming of the Shrew (Dir. Bob Davis). Tara graduated from The Hartt School with a BFA in Actor Training and currently lives in NYC. Member of Actors' Equity Association.

Annemarie Rosano was in East Lynne's On the Sunny Side of the Street! Favorite credits include Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Louise in Gypsy, and Anne in La Cage aux Folles. This career princess has also performed in Walt Disney World and on Disney Cruise Line, and is an original founding member of vintage entertainment group, America's Sweethearts based in New York City. Various national commercials. NYU Steinhardt. @annemarierosano Member Actors' Equity Association

Mary Elizabeth Scallen (known as MB) played Williamina Fleming in ELTC's Silent Sky. She is a proud Equity member, recently celebrated her 27th year in the resident company at People’s Light, just outside Philadelphia. Other Philly-area theaters include the Arden, the Wilma, the Lantern, Act II Playhouse, PlayPenn, Juniper Productions, Bristol Riverside, and Gretna Theatre. Out-of-state theaters include Weston Playhouse (VT), Mill Mountain Theatre (VA), and the former North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Recently, she played Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Arden, Charlotte Hay in Moon Over Buffalo at People’s Light, and Kate Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs at Act II Playhouse. MB acts, teaches acting, text coaches, facilitates professional development programs with corporate and educational institutions, project manages arts initiatives, and writes for nonprofits. She lives in Ardmore, PA with stage manager Tom Shotkin and their shaggy mutt, Brody.

Jeff Sharkey was in ELTC's Arsenic and Old Lace and The Rainmaker. Recent TV/Film credits include roles on the Investigation Discovery Channel's series True Crime with Aphrodite Jonesep, Evil Lives Here, and Scene of the Crime with Tony Harris. He played the Father the film NY84. He appeared in theatrical productions throughout South Jersey including Max in Sound of Music with Margate Players, and has been involved in the Cape May theater scene for the past 10 years. From 2015-2018, he was a company member at Elaine's Dinner Theater, specializing in multiple comedic improvisational roles. He's performed with the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts and Humanities in their productions of Victorian Comedy Murder Mysteries, and for the Sherlock Holmes Weekends. Training: Studio 353/TAPNYC, Weist Barron Ryan and Heery Casting. He honed his early comedic skills by goofing off in school and was voted Class Clown in the 6th grade at Valley View Middle School, Watchung.

Maria Silverman has appeared twice with ELTC: as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean and the Comtesse in It Pays to Advertise. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning revival of A View from the Bridge. She has appeared in over 30 productions, including 15 world premieres. Off-Broadway: Tales from the Tunnel, Beachwood Drive. New York: Rev. George in the Audelco-Award nominated Women in the Pit, Gertie in the NYIT-nominated House of Mirth, Open Rehearsal, Tech Support, Skin.Flesh.Bone., Cool Blues (NFT), Dreamers of the Day, Macbeth, Uncle Vanya, The Contrast, Galileo, S/HE, As You Like It, The Seagull, No Place to Be Somebody (Woodie King, Jr., dir.), Cclit (Atlantic Theater Second Stage), Expressing Willie, Nights at the Circus, Embracing Freedom (Ellis Island). NJ: ANTS (NJ Rep), Shining City (Shadow Lawn), Trio Sonata (Women's Theatre Co.), Darkness to Light (12 Miles West), Camino Real (Arthouse). Regional: Lend Me a Tenor, Tennis in Nablus, Night Train, Trio Sonata, Camino Real,Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Crucible, and Much Ado About Nothing. B.A. in Theatre and Chinese from Yale University; postgraduate training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA.. [email protected]

Evan Smilyk portrayed Richard in ELTC's Ah, Wilderness!, Young Don Diego and other roles in Zorro!, the title role in Huckleberry Finn, and Renfield in Dracula. He was in several plays at West Cape May Elementary School in a program provided by ELTC due to funding from NJ Theatre Alliance’s Stages Festival. Directed by Gayle Stahlhuth, his roles included the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. In the after-school program at the same school, he took on the roles of Hamlet and Lady Macbeth. For five years, Evan participated in ELTC’s Summer Theater Workshop. At Richard M. Teitleman School and Lower Township High School, he played Romeo in Jitterbug Juliette, Charlie Bucket in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and George in The Drowsy Chaperone. He enjoys both soccer and theater, and is attending Drexel University, majoring in environmental engineering. He is an Equity Membership Candidate.

- Jeffrey Smith, a Brooklyn-based actor and musician, made his professional theater debut with East Lynne by playing Jim in The Rainmaker. Past roles include Michael in an award-winning production of The Pillowman and Schmendiman in Picasso at the Lapin Agile while in college, and he has also directed two short student films, including the silent comedy A Walk in the Country. He holds a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and has completed the Summer Training Congress and Shakespeare Intensive at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

Marcia Sofley played several roles in ELTC’s Huckleberry Finn. She has toured with Seussical (Mrs. Mayor), Nuncrackers (Sister Amnesia), They’re Playing Our Song (Sonia u/s with performance) and A Christmas Carol (Belle). Favorite regional credits include Romance/Romance (Josephine/Monica), The Winter Wonderettes (Suzy), Nunsensations (Amnesia), Plain and Fancy (Hilda), Hello, Dolly (Minnie Fay), and Meet Me in St Louis (Esther). As an improviser, she has appeared at Gotham City Improv, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Times Square Comedy Club and was a member of the Improvisation Repertory Theatre Ensemble. Proud member of AEA/SAG-AFTRA. www.marciasofley.com

Gayle Stahlhuth has performed off-Broadway (Manhattan Theatre Club, etc.) in national tours (Cabaret, Fiddler, etc.), regional theater (Gateway Playhouse in Long Island, etc.), television (various soaps, etc.), radio (jingles and Voice of America), and on the Chautauqua Circuit. Since becoming ELTC’s Artistic Director in 1999, she has produced over 100 differerent plays/musicals (some returned for another season), including 21 world premieres and 10 NJ premieres, and directed over half of them. Her adaptations for ELTC include Tales by Twain, that also ran at Surflight Theatre; Spoon River, based on the famous Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, and The Ransom of Red Chief based on O.Henry's classic tale. She’s been awarded commissions from The National Portrait Gallery, the Missouri and Illinois Humanities Councils, and grants from the NJ Humanities Council, the NYS Council on the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts. For several years she was a judge for the Emmy Awards in the field of broadcasting. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, and the League of Professional Women, who honored her in 2016 for her work in theater.

Eric Stephenson was in ELTC's Strictly Dishonorable and Within the Law. Regional: Sunset Boulevard (Fulton Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Winnipesaukee Playhouse), Bitter Sweet (Bard Summerscape), The Last Romance (Seven Angels Theatre), Little Women (Kentucky Repertory Theatre). New York: Miles & Me, Five Points, One Night in New York! (Musical Theatre Factory), Saint Joan (The Secret Theatre), Oliver! (The Gallery Players). Graduate of Muhlenberg College. He thanks his family, friends and Jennie for their support, and Gayle and Lee for having him back!

Emerald Rose Sullivan’s theatre credits include The Mountaintop at Hattiloo Theatre, Riots: B’Hoys Do Macbeth at the Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC, and Pipeline, The Mountaintop, Knock Me A Kiss, The Piano Lesson and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe. Virtually, she performed in ELTC's Aftermath., and live, played Harriet Powell in Possessing Harriet. Her TV/Film credits include: FBI: Most Wanted, Gotham, Baby Ruby and Meaty. Emerald Rose received her BA degree in Acting from Pace University.

Chauncy Thomas played Thomas Le0nard in ELTC's Possessing Harriet. He received B.A.s in Drama and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and currently resides in New York City. New York Theatre: Romeo and Juliet at Lincoln Center Education, Hamlet at RIPT Theater Company. Regional Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun at Bay Street Theatre, Clybourne Park at the St. Louis Rep, Our Town at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Topdog/Underdog at St. Louis Actors’ Studio (St. Louis Circle Award Lead Actor Nominee), As You Like It at Illinois Shakespeare Festival, The Real McCoy at The Black Rep (Kevin Kline Award Supporting Actor Nominee), and Intimate Apparel at New Jewish Theatre (St. Louis Circle Award Supporting Actor Nominee). Upcoming productions include Getting Married and Ben Butler at Peterborough Players in New Hampshire. Television: “Madam Secretary.”

Barry Tischler was in ELTC Yuletide Tales in 2020. He is co-owner of Kaleidoscope and Just for Laughs on the Washington Street Mall. He has been a musician most of his life, singing in honky tonks in West Virginia and western Pennsylvania until he moved to Cape May in 1980. He gave up music for a while but then found it again through the fellowship of some local musicians. He co-produced the "Nashville Comes to Cape May" concert with the East Lynne Theater Company in 2012. He started and hosted Open Mic at the Pilot House. He is co-producer of "Barry's Christmas Opry," which, for eight years, raised money to benefit the West Cape May Community Christmas Parade. Last year he was a featured artist at the Harbor Square Theater's "Country Music Live" show, produced by Marnie Bevan Lengle. Currently, he plays music with fiddle player Tom Naglee, Jr. at the Mad Batter Restaurant on Jackson Street and Five West Pub in North Cape May.

Susan Tischler was commissioned by ELTC to write and perform Helpful Hints based on Putnam's Household Handbook (1916). Directed by Karen Case Cook, it premiered at The Chalfonte and was part of ELTC's Mainstage Season in 2011. She was also in ELTC's Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Speckled Band and The People of Cape May vs. Johan Van Buren, written by Dutch TV personality Judge Frank Visser, produced by ELTC as part of the 400th Anniversary of Cape May’s Founding. From 2017-2019, she performed for SPQR Theatre, also in Cape May, in Calliope Rose, The Wreck of the Spanish Armada, and her own original works, Meet the Locals and Tao of Tisch. She was then selected to perform Tao of Tisch at The Women's Theatre Comedy Showcase in Parsippany, NJ. Other credits include portraying Minnie Pearl and co-producing Barry’s Cape May Opry and Barry’s Christmas Opry, proceeds of the latter go to the West Cape May Christmas Parade. Susan is the co-owner of Kaleidoscope and Just for Laughs on the Washington Street Mall in Cape May, and writes for Exit Zero. Her reminiscence of her father, Fred Brown, a coal miner from Pittsburgh, was included in the late Tim Russert’s book Wisdom of Our Fathers, published in 2006

Joseph Travers was the fight director for ELTC's The Rainmaker, Zorro! and Within the Law. He also served as fight director for the Broadway production of Bronx Bombers, the Off-Broadway premier of The View Upstairs, and the Regional premier of Robin and Clark’s musical adaptation of Treasure Island. Off-Broadway: Primary Stages (While I Yet Live), Playwrights Horizons (Essential Self – Defense, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Blue Door, Chinese Friends), New York Theatre Workshop (Too Much Memory). Regional: Capital Repertory Company (Shakespeare in Love), Fulton Theatre (Treasure Island), Virginia Shakespeare Festival (Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline), New Repertory Theatre (Bakersfield Mist), Wellfleet Harbor Actor Theatre (The Pillowman). Joe was stunt coordinator for the award-winning film The Depths (starring Michael Rispoli) and for Fox-Searchlight’s Lifted. He also served as sword master and stunt coordinator for the upcoming fantasy feature Tower of Silence. Joe holds the rank of Certified Fight Director with both the Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors Canada. Proud member of SDC.

Stephanie Turci portrayed Elizabeth Cady in ELTC's Possessing Harriet. After graduating from Rutgers University, she moved to NYC and began working at regional theaters, such Bay Street Theater (The Great Gatsby) and the State Theater of NJ (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). She also got to play one of her dream roles, Hazel Grace, in the BMI Workshop of The Fault in Our Stars the Musical. She often sings in 54 Below concerts, working with incredible writers such as Rob Rokicki and Joe Iconis. Stephanie has since jumped into more film work. Her first short film, Death by Clichè, which she wrote, directed, and starred in, was a finalist at the Cutting Room International Short Film Festival.

Fred Velde is a native New Yorker and has been part of the New York theater scene for over thirty years. He has been a member of The Harbor Theatre since 1995 and is currently a member of The Workshop Theater. His theatre credits include The Price of Genius on Broadway, Sex by Mae West, Off-Broadway, and Traveling Souls in Moscow as a member of The Phoenix Ensemble. For ELTC, he played Dr. McPhail in Rain, Chris in Anna Christie, Mr. Forbes in Dulcy, Detective Dupin in The Poe Mysteries, and Dr Watson in The Copper Beeches, The Speckled Band, and The Blue Carbuncle. As well as theater, he has appeared in film, soaps, Comedy Central and commercials. He is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Kyle Walton played William H. Mumler in ELTC's NJ premiere of Summerland. Previous credits include Titus Andronicus at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Church and State at Alliance Rep, She Stoops the Conquer at the Clarion Theatre in NYC, the American premiere of Masquerade with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra at St. Ann's Cathedral among others. Kyle is also and audiobook narrator with many titles available on Audible.

John Cameron Weber has performed for ELTC, in The Rainmaker, Biography, Within the Law, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, It Pays To Advertise, The World of Dorothy Parker, He and She, The Dictator, and The Butter and Egg Man. He has appeared in commercials and soaps, various regional theaters and National (Damn Yankees, 1776) and European (West Side Story, Guys and Dolls) tours. His favorite roles? Abel Frake (State Fair), Inspector Hubbard (Dial M for Murder) and the Gangsters in Kiss Me Kate. He also enjoyed sinking on the Titanic several times. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA

Craig Wichman (Adapter) studied with Stella Adler, and has since worked in all media. Off-Broadway: The Flashing Stream, Julius Caesar, The Brady Bunch. Regional: Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes, Twelve Angry Men, Tecumseh! Film: The Devil You Know (Best Actor nominee, Chicago Horror Film Festival), The Adventures of Paul And Marian. TV: One Life To Live, Law & Order. Online: AMC SciFi Dept., Unemployed Philosophers' Guild. Audio: Founder of QUICKSILVER RADIO THEATER (characters including Sherlock Holmes, Scrooge, Brutus, Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula and Abraham Lincoln); The Twilight Zone Radio Series; with Golden Age veterans at the FRIENDS OF OLD TIME RADIO conventions; WWOW Radio; Gotham Radio Players. Most recently, Zoom-ing the new NO EPILOGUE Productions. Author of Standing In The Spirit At Your Elbow, the history of Dickens’ Christmas Carol as radio/audio drama. Soli Deo Gloria. AEA/SAG-AFTRA [email protected]

R. Scott Williams (Melchior Feydak) is pleased to be making his ELTC debut! He is a New York based actor with experience in both musicals and plays, in classical and contemporary works. Recent appearances include The Fantasticks (Cider Mill Playhouse, NY), Witness for the Prosecution (Olney Theatre Center), and She Stoops to Conquer (Hudson Warehouse, NYC). Other NYC appearances include Taming of the Shrew, Three Musketeers, King Lear(twice!), Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Julius Caesar. Scott has appeared in 46 states thanks to two national tours and has given hundreds of performances of Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center in DC. He spent five seasons with Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (Big River, Brigadoon, Bye Bye Birdie, Once Upon a Mattress, A Funny Thing…Forum) and has appeared at numerous regional theaters throughout the country including Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre Co., Globe Playhouse, and Pioneer Theatre Lab. Film/TV appearances include Veep, The Wire, The West Wing, A Modest Suggestion, and John Waters’s Pecker. AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Hillary Wilson: Regional: A Year in the Trenches (world premiere) and Within the Law (East Lynne Theater Co.); South Pacific (The Surflight Theatre); The Fantasticks (Broadway Theatre of Pitman); The Miss Firecracker Contest (South Camden Theatre Co.); Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Carol, Guys & Dolls, Cinderella (Ocean City Theatre Co.). TV/Film: The History Channel, Happy Yummy Chicken starring Taryn Manning. BA, Marymount Manhattan College.

Melissa Zimmerman has performed at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, the Luminato Festival in Toronto, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Studio 54, the D-Lounge, and caroled across the tri-state area with the Manhattan Holiday Carolers. Theatre credits include If You Give A Pig A Pancake (TheatreworksUSA), Kiss Me, Kate (Light Opera Works), The Teapot Scandals (Porchlight Music Theatre) and Shout! The Mod Musical (Downstairs Cabaret Theatre). She has loved developing new musicals through the BMI Workshop and NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. When she’s not performing, she is baking cupcakes with cookies inside (www.ItsACuppie.com). BA: Northwestern University. Proud member of AEA. www.melissazimmerman.net Member Actors' Equity Association