SHOREY WALKER* (Dorothy) Shorey played the role of Aggy Taylor in Harvest with The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan. This past summer Shorey appeared as The Cat in the Hat in Seussical at the Lucile Lortel Theatre. Select NYC credits: Ester Meucci in Fishing with Tony & Joe (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Agrippina in Caligula (NYMTF). Tour credit: Peter in Peter Pan, Tommy and Fiddler on the Roof. Favorite regional credits: Violet Bick in It's a Wonderful Life, Li'l Abner, Goodspeed and Evita at The Helen Hayes Theatre.
JUDSON JONES* (Jack Stillings/Producer) is a founding member of Theatre East and has been working professionally as an actor, director and producer for over a decade. As a producer, he has had the privilege of collaborating Off Broadway with the premiere of Christopher Durang’s The Vietnamization of New Jersey, and the premier of David W. Crawford’s Harvest, which he also co-directed with Benard Cummings. Along with his involvement with Theatre East, he served as Associate Director for Alchemy Theatre Company from 2004 – 2007, and currently serves on the Board of Directors, for Texas Dramatists. He is a founding member of the dirigo group where he served as Co-Producing Artistic Director, and is an active member of First Look Theatre Company, and Hyde Park Theatre Company.
His Off Broadway acting credits include: Frank in Umbrella, Rick Childress in Harvest, Charles Spierling in Haymarket, all with Alchemy Theatre Company; and Sal in Worth at Urban Stages. His other New York credits include Martin in Bayou Radio’s Blah, Blah, Blah; and Mark in The Information She Carried.
While working regionally Judson appeared in over twenty productions. Some of those productions include: The Soldier Dreams (Critics Table Award) and Bleacher Bums (Critics Table Award), both with Subterranean Theatre Company; Art Striped Naked for Hyde Park Theatre; Macbeth (B. Iden Payne Nominee) with The State Theater Company; ASF’s Winter’s Tale; Salvage Vanguard Theatre’s Fugitive Pieces (Critics Table Award); the Mermaid Company production of The Seagull; One Small Step, Oversimplification, both with Bayou Radio; 300 Plays About Vladimir Putin with the Rude Mechanicals; Orange with Refraction Arts; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Austin Playhouse. His credits for the dirigo group include desire (B. Iden Payne Award), Fool for Love, The Gypsy Chain, The Middle of the Night (Critics Table Nominee), and The Mercy Seat. He toured the Southeastern United States with Troup D’Jour performing in Julius Caesar and Henry V.
His film credits include: WWJD, Botticelli's Lonely Man, Fairy Blight, The Messenger, Green Eyes, living, and Yorick. Some of his voice acting credits include Samurai X: The Motion Picture, Dai Guard, Getbackers, Nadia, Zaion, The Princess Blade, Steam Detectives, Gun Crazy, and Soul Hunter.
Judson’s directing credits include: Harvest (Off Broadway) bash with the dirigo group (Critics Table Nomination), S-Man with Scriptworks, and The Elf and Gift for Salvage Vanguard Theatre.
His other producing credits include: The Jinn (Five Critics Table Nominations, Two B. Iden Payne Nominations, and The American Theatre Critics Award) Hedda (B. Iden Payne Nomination and Three Critics Table Nominations), bash (B. Iden Payne Award and Four Critics Table Nominations), Desire (Critics Table Nomination and Four B. Iden Payne Awards), In on It (Two B. Iden Payne Nominations), and Home Free!, all for the dirigo group. www.judsonjones.com
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MORGAN BAKER (Del) Graduated from Villanova University with a Master’s degree in Theater and has been working in theater and film in NYC since early 2000. Recent roles include Rafael Lamas in Harvest (Alchemy Theatre Company), Peter in Lunch Hour (Heiress Productions), Dr. Gahagan in Haymarket (Alchemy Theatre Company), John in Welcome Home Steve (MadAir Productions), Ferenczi in Where Three Roads Meet (Midtown Intl Theatre Fest), George in Barman and Logan in Naked Girls Drinking! (both with Bon Bock Productions). Film credits include Privacy, Leaving New Hope, and Crickett and the Little Girl Power along with an appearance on the CBS series Hack.
EHAD BERISHA (Tom) is currently in the 9th grade at the NYC iSchool and has been involved in several theatre productions at Booker T. Washington and Emily Dickinson School. He has studied acting since he was ten years old at John Robert Powers, NY. In addition, he has won several acting awards at the iPOP LA conference in commercial acting and monologues. Ehad is excited to be making his Theatre Row debut with Theatre East.
BENARD CUMMINGS* (Willard Sprague) His directing credits include: Harvest (Off-Broadway), Flying West, The Three Sisters, Dark of the Moon, Tennessee Williams one-acts at SUNY Purchase; As You Like It and Playing for Time at Stella Adler Conservatory in NYC; Can You Spare Some Social Change: One-Woman show by Deirdre Boddie-Henderson at WOW Cafe in NYC. As an Actor has worked in Regional Theatres across the country including The Goodman Theatre, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage Company, Yale Rep. Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C., Signature Theatre and Working Theatre in NYC, as well as some episodic TV. As a Playwright, his work has been produced in the HumanaFestival of New American Plays, The Women's Tapestry Project in NYC, Twice as Loud Theatre Company in London, England; Theatre Geo and Howard Fine Studios in Los Angeles, Stamford Theatre Works, Jubilee Theatre of Ft. Worth, TX and The E.T.A. Performing Arts Center in Chicago, IL, to name a few. He is a guest lecturer in acting at SUNY Purchase, The Stella Adler Conservatory, Pace University, and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. A native Texan, he is a graduate of Tyler Junior College, Southern Methodist University and the Yale School of Drama.
WILLIAM FRANKE* (Les) has worked with The Jungle Theater, Park Square, and many other theaters in his native Minneapolis, as well as Out to Lunch Theater in Berlin, Germany. Other New York stages he has appeared on include Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Lark Play Development Center and the Drama League. Last year he appeared in the New York International Fringe Festival in Gingham Theatre's For Reasons Unknown (Barrow Street Theatre) and previously with Courthouse Theatre Company's Peas & Carrots; he has also appeared in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in Numerical Productions' Five By Three. TV: All My Children; As The World Turns; Law & Order: SVU; Living In Captivity (pilot). Film: Alone; After You're Gone; Smokers and others. www.williamfranke.com. Member of AEA.
HELEN MERINO* (Janice) Off Broadway: Taboos (Soho Playhouse). Regional Theatre: Present Laughter, Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Vagina Monologues, Bee Luther-Hatchee, Pride's Crossing, My Children My Africa, The Last Night of Ballyhoo (all at Zachary Scott Theatre Center). Hamlet (Austin Shakespeare Festival), As You Like It, Antigone (TheatreWorks Austin), Anton In Show Business (The State Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Logos, (Interact), Sylvia, The Foreigner (Stafford Opera). Film: Fast Food Nation, Cassidy Kids, Gretchen
RICHARD MAWE* (Sam Rogers) Most recently appeared as Rick in the Off Broadway production of Harvest and as Danforth in the Capital Repertory's production of The Crucible where he also appeared in Inherit the Wind, Proof, and You Can't Take It With You. Other regional credits include, All My Sons at the Clarence Brown Theater, Knoxville, Tennessee; the Delaware Theater's production of A Delicate Balance and Glengarry Glen Ross; and the world premiere of Israel Horovitz's 50 Years of Caddying at the Gloucester Stage Company. Mawe also appeared in the Boston premieres of Valley Song at New Repertory Theatre and Molly Sweeney at the Nora Theatre, where he was also seen in Spoon River Anthology and as Willy Loman in the Boston Theatre Award-winning production of Death of a Salesman . King Lear with the Harvard Class of 1999, and at the Lyric Stage in Mornings at Seven. Among the twenty productions he has done in New York are Richard II at the Eleventh Hour Theatre Company, Rush's Dream at the Here Theatre, Made in Heaven at the American Jewish Theatre, Orphans at Julliard's Open Stage, The One Big Shot at Naked Angels and Horton Foote's Habitation of Dragons at the HB Playwrights. Mr. Mawe's film appearances include The Human Stain, Nobody's Fool, Bird, Excessive Force, Conspiracy Theory, Rounders, and Woody Allen's Alice, Small Time Crooks, and Celebrity. Mr. Mawe teaches at HB Studios in New York City, where he also studied with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen.
MATT SAVINS (Glen) Matt is excited to be working with Theatre East in this, his NYC debut. A Dallas native, he last worked with Mrs. Devine on the regional premiere of the two person show, Mary’s Wedding with Rover Dramawerks. His other Dallas regional work includes The Magician’s Nephew and The Secret Garden with The Dallas Children’s Theater, Marvin’s Room with Contemporary Theater of Dallas, as well as Picnic at ICT Mainstage and Coronado with Essential Stage at the HUB, among others. He has appeared in several short films, Saint Zen being an official selection in the first annual AFI Dallas film festival. He has just completed his studies at The Stella Adler School of Acting.
DOUG SHEPPARD* (Lee) Off and Off-Off Broadway credits include Harvest with The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, The Office Murders (with Austin Pendleton), Intermezzo (Lincoln Center), Iphigenia At Aulis (Timespace Theater Co.), Shakespeare Tonight, and The Pit and the Pendulum. His favorite Repertory and Regional roles have been those written by O’Neill, Chekov, Williams, Miller and Mamet. After recent performances in New York City clubs and at The Cabaret Conference at Yale, he is working steadily on his own cabaret show for the spring of 2008. Doug is proud to be a member of Actor’s Equity since 1979.
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VALERIE REDD* (Ainsley) Valerie is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art's postgraduate Classical Acting course. She earned her BA in Theatre Arts from St.Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
UK credits: La Dispute (Owl Farm Theatre @ The Soho Theatre- London/ The Old Red Lion Theatre- London/ Diverse Attractions- Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
NYC credits: Twelfth Night, Sir Patient Fancy, The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret (The Queen's Company)
Regional credits: All My Sons, You Can't Take It With You, The Kentucky Cycle, Playing for Time, Romeo and Juliet, The House, Medea Stories (Mary Moody Northen Theatre), Trash Anthems, Cheater (Shrewd Productions), Elektra (Gobotrick Theatre)
Other notable credits: A Midsummer Nights' Dream (dir. Lucien Douglas), Metamorphoses (dir. Christina J. Moore), Richard III (dir. Matthew Peover/ LAMDA), Women Beware Women (dir. Aaron Mullen/ LAMDA), Marriage a la Mode (dir. Hannah Eidinow/ LAMDA), Julius Caesar (dir. Rodney Cottier/ LAMDA) www.valerieredd.com
* Denotes membership of Actors' Equity Association
Morgan Baker, Del
Ehad Berisha, Tom
Benard Cummings, Willard Sprague
William Franke, Les
Judson Jones, Jack/Producer
Helen Merino, Janice
Richard Mawe, Sam Rogers
Valerie Redd, Ainsley
Matt Savins, Glen
Doug Sheppard, Lee
Shorey Walker, Dorothy
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