GRACE BARDSLEY Off-Broadway debut with the Spark Theater Festival. Favorite credits include: Hamlet (Rosencrantz) and Moment (Ciara). With Voice Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily Cardew). Grace holds a BFA in acting from Elon University.
JOSH BIERMAN Josh toured with Olney Theatre Center’s National Players where he performed as Sir Toby in Twelfth Night, as Giles Corey in The Crucible, and as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days across 23 states. He has since toured in Ken Ludwig’s ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, was in a reading of Zach Greenberger’s new play, and was in Voice Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest as Jack Worthing.
MEGAN BONES After graduating from Saint Olaf College with a BA in Theatre and Political Science, Megan and fellow graduates began Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. She left the Mini-Apple for the Big-Apple and was cast in the first national tour of The Music Man (Ethel), and the national tour of Crazy For You. For the past eight years she’s been a core member of Dzieci, which seeks to balance performance with works of service. Dzieci’s Fool’s Mass and Makbet were presented throughout the country including at La MaMa, Saint John The Divine, and the Fury Factory in San Francisco. She has worked with Voice Theatre in several shows, including Two Gentleman of Verona (Julia) and Birds on a Wire (Louise Cobb), and Our Country’s Good (Liz Morden/William Faddy) and is grateful to be a part of this talented company again.
HALLIE BREVETTI National Tour: A Bronx Tale (Ensemble, u/s Rosina). NY/Off-Broadway: Candide (Paquette) and Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas! (Mrs. Clancy). Goodspeed: The Drowsy Chaperone (Swing). Berkshire Theatre Group: Oklahoma (Ensemble) and The Who’s Tommy (Ensemble). Arts Emerson: Cafe Variations (Tilly) and Fraulein Maria (Guest Dancer). Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse: The Winter’s Tale (Shepherd), Macbeth (Lady MacDuff), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander). Sierra Repertory Theatre: State Fair (Margy). Woodstock Playhouse: Legally Blonde (Serena) and Chicago (Velma Kelly). Empire Theatre: Annie Get Your Gun (Annie Oakley). Voice Theatre: Summer and Smoke (Mrs. Bassett, angel) and Refugee Stories (actor). She has also toured on cruise ships to the Caribbean, Alaska, and Europe. Hallie’s favorite gig to date has been producer/actor/support angel for Cut It Out, a play about artificial intelligence and the humans behind it, written by her partner, Jonah Lipsky. B.F.A. Musical Theatre, Emerson College. Additionally she teaches yoga and runs an online donation-based yoga community.
JOSEPH BONGIORNO has been acting in and around the Hudson Valley area for over ten years–as Ray Dooley in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Leon Trotsky in All In the Timing, Stevie in Good People and most recently as Stephen Hawking and Jesus with Voice Theatre in End Days at the Byrdcliffe Theater.
LACHLAN BROOKS A native New Yorker, Lachlan has worked with Voice Theatre since 2011, most notably appearing in Our Country’s Good (Mary Brenham/George Johnston) and Brian Freel’s Lovers: Winners (Maggie). Theatre credits include Death of a Saleman (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School 2017), Antony and Cleopatra (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts 2016), Uncle Vanya (PHTS 2015), The Cavern (PHTS 2015) The Typographer’s Dream (PHTS 2014), Something’s Not Right (PHTS 2014). She studied Shakespeare with New Genesis Productions, appearing in over a dozen productions: Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and others. Lachlan appeared in a music video for The Llewelyn Mix, studied at RADA in London, holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a MA from Columbia University.
JESSICA CRANDALL was nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award for her portrayal of Kassandra in Agamemnon at La MaMa. NY theater includes Mama’s Boy (Marina Oswald), the Drama League; The Burial at Thebes (Antigone), La MaMa; Hay Fever, and Birds on a Wire for Voice Theatre; The Ring, Hamm & Clov Stage Co., directed by Ted Mann; Concrete Temple Theatre; HERE; and readings at the Public Theater, the Rattlestick, New Dramatists, etc. Regional credits include Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) and A Christmas Carol (Christmas Past) at Trinity Repertory Company, RI; Measure for Measure (Isabella), Julius Caesar (Portia), Blood Wedding (Bride) and others for the Warehouse Theatre, SC; Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel for the Palace Theatre, NH; and the one-woman play Shanty at Perishable Theatre, RI. Jessica has sung with the New York Choral Society at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. She is currently at work on an original song cycle with composer and Guggenheim Fellow Carman Moore. MFA in acting: Brown/Trinity.
AMY CROSSMAN is an actor and improviser based out of New York City. Her credits include Much Ado About Nothing with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, As You Like It with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and various readings at New York Theatre Workshop and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Training: Drew University, NJ, Upright Citizens Brigade, and ESP.
RAISSA DORFF is thrilled to be a part of The 3 of US! Other favorite credits include Edith Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (Flat Rock Playhouse), The Woman in Venus Flytrap and Ellen in Two Rooms (Active Theater, NYC) , The Actress in Enter the Guardsman (QEII) and Meg in Damn Yankees (Barnstormers Theatre). Film/TV: The Blacklist, Bluebloods, Redrum, My Crazy Love, Transclass, and It’s Complicated. Proud member of AEA.
EME ESQUIVEL is a multi-disciplinary artist and first-generation latiné native of the San Fernando Valley. Their journey as a live performer began in the fall of 2015 and eight years later Eme remains dedicated to developing and honing their craft; be it in readings, workshops, performance art pieces, variety shows, or full-fledged theatrical productions– the desire to tell stories with warmth, humor, integrity, and conviction is the steadfast ‘North Star’ which drives every facet of their artistry. Refugee Stories is their Voice Theatre debut.
RYAN FEYK is a constant theater maker, and has developed scrappy, independent productions since 2005. Over the years, he has helped launch New York based theatre companies like Tin Lily, Golden Shards, Bushwick Shakes, This Is Not a Theatre Co., and Hazard Rep. In 2017, he worked with Brimstone Creek Productions to bring Shakespeare’s As You Like It to the village of Sharon Springs. He will soon be appearing in Trollville, a comedic digital series that explores the dark side of internet culture. Ryan received an MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama.
JOHN GAZZALE With Voice Theatre John has performed in ART (Yvan), All My Sons (George), Our Country’s Good (Robert Sideway/Davey Collins), Birds on a Wire (Shimon), and Hay Fever (Simon); Gallery Players: Company (Peter); Barefoot Theatre Company: Raft of the Medusa (Donald); A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley (Scrooge); Dog Day Afternoon (Leon); Balm in Gilead (Frannie); FringeNYC 09 Encore: Terranova (Hearst); Lobo Theatre: Spring Storm (Arthur – New York Premiere); Member of Barefoot Theatre Company and Voice Theatre. MFA Actors Studio/New School.
IRENE GLEZOS New York and regional theatre credits include: Anna in Shauna Kanter’s Legacy, Joyce/Isabella Bird (Top Girls), Fairouz in Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America (directed by Tony Kushner), Collette in Four Dogs and a Bone, Shirley in Criminal Genius, Sally in A Lie of the Mind (with Suzanne Shepherd), Serafina in The Rose Tattoo, Anna in Ron Elisha’s Two (with Mark Hammer) Bo in Criminal Hearts, Elaine in Jeannie Zusy’s Kicking Inside, Antigone in Antigone (directed by Suzanne Shepherd), Darlene in DT King’s Big Cactus (directed by Victoria Pero), and Nana in her own play The Crossing. Independent films include: Deadly Obsessions, One of a Kind and Skeleton Woman. She can also be seen in Woody Allen’s Celebrity and has appeared on television series including Sex and the City, Third Watch, Law and Order and Wright’s Verdicts.
NANCY OARNEIRE GRAHAM lives in Kingston and has been acting in the Hudson Valley since 2004. Recent stage work includes the world premiere of Casse Noisette at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, The Clean House with Threshold Stage Company in Kittery, Maine, and Voice Theatre’s productions of All My Sons and The Skin of Our Teeth. She curates and performs in Cocoon Theatre’s Soirée in the Parlor series in Poughkeepsie and is a company member of the Paramount Theater Group in Peekskill. BA English literature, Muhlenberg College; MA cinema studies, New York University; ongoing training: Michael Chekhov School, Hudson, NY.
(GRACE) ANGELA HENRY Angela’s stage work includes the Actors Studio, Half Moon Theatre, A Howl of Playwrights, Neighborhood Playhouse (NYC), and the St. James’ Historic Graveyard Tours (Hyde Park, NY). She portrayed Sojourner Truth for New York State Women’s Suffrage celebrations and the Kingston, NY Court House bicentennial. With a speciality in voice acting, Angela can be heard on auditours for Berkshire Botanical Garden, Dutch World Heritage Tours and Historic Huguenot Street; and on audiobooks for authors such as Cornelia E. Davis, K. Heidi Fishman, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Condoleezza Rice, and Linda R. Spitzfaden. Angela has narrated films for the FDR National Historic Site, voiced Toni Morrison in the award-winning Shokram, Toni and narrates A Sculpted Life, which will air on PBS in 2021. Angela is also a popular MC for nonprofit galas. A long-time fan of Voice Theatre, she is thrilled to appear on its virtual stage.
OLIVIA HOWELL has had the pleasure of being a member of the Voice Theatre family for the past few years, since her premiere with them as Gladys in Skin of Our Teeth. Along the way she has enjoyed playing Emily in Our Town and Petra in Enemy of the People. She would like to thank Shauna for keeping her creatively fulfilled during these uncertain times. Big thanks to her hubby, dog, family and all essential workers out there.
JOHN LITTLE Recent credits include: Roundabout Theatre National Tour of Cabaret, Off-Broadway Revival of Shadowlands and Ragtime at Barrington Stage Company Regional Theatre: Yale Rep, Syracuse Stage, Pioneer Theatre, Goodspeed, Pittsburgh Public Theatre and ten seasons at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Off-Broadway: Hamlet, Poetic License, Milk and Honey, and Taming of the Shrew. He toured Europe in Crazy for You, Japan and Korea in Cabaret and America in Scrooge and The Fantasticks. Television work includes Law and Order and Boardwalk Empire. John is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
ROBERT LANGDON LLOYD First joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 and was a founding member of Peter Brook’s company in Paris (C.I.C.T). Theatre in USA: Marat/Sade director Peter Brook (Broadway). Vienna Lusthaus dir Martha Clarke (Public Theater, NYC). A Midsummer Night’s Dream dir Peter Brook (Ahmanson, Los Angeles; Eisenhower, Washington; Geary, San Francisco). Zastrozzi dir Andrei Serban (Public Theatre, NYC). Conference of the Birds dir Peter Brook (La Mama). Ghost on Fire dir Les Waters (Goodman, Chicago). Beckett’s All Strange Away (Beckett Theatre, NYC). May I….? (La Mama, NYC), Aribert Reiman’s Lear dir Jean-Piere Ponnelle (San Francisco Opera). Up Centre Between dir Shauna Kanter (Ko Festival, Mass). Carmen dir Peter Brook (Vivianne Beaumont). Mahabharata dir Peter Brook (BAM) and world tour. Candida dir Lisa Peterson (McCarter). Guantanamo dir Nicolas Kent (Culture Project). St Joan dir Gregory Thompson (Bard Summerscape). A Christmas Carol dir Joel Ferrell (Dallas Theater Center). The Tempest dir Gregory Thompson (Tour) Uncle Vanya dir Erica Schmidt (Bard Summerscape). Othello dir Arin Arbus (Theatre for a New Audience), Measure for Measure dir Arin Arbus (Theatre for a New Audience).
British Television: A Landing on the Sun, The Fragile Heart, Casualty, Heartbeat, Eastenders, A Wing and a Prayer, Moseley, Scarlet Pimpernel, Innocents, Close and True, The Dinosaur Hunters. International Television: Mr Ma and Son (Beijing), Extreme (Berlin). USA Television Law and Order and Law and Order Criminal Intent (NYC) Film: Marat/Sade, Tell Me Lies, King Lear, Galileo, The Committee, Mahabharata.
SEàN MARRINAN Stage: End Days and Our Country’s Good (Voice Theatre), A Number (Clockwork), The Reunion (Pulse), Sedition (Playwrights Theater of NJ), Accomplice, Stones in his Pockets, Erma Vep, Noises Off, Compleat Wrks…(Shadowland Theatre), The Illusion (Hudson/Stageworks). National tour Duffy and the Devil (Shoestring Players), Jungle Book, Frog Prince, Brave Little Tailor (MMSC BAM, Kennedy Center) Film/TV: Rhymes with Bananas (BCDF), Henry and Anthony (Vassar Films, Cannes Select), Ciggies (Vassar Films), 30 Rock (Seasons 3-7). Mr. Marrinan has worked as a teaching artist in New Paltz, Kingston, and in districts across the country. His lives with his family in Rosendale and is a proud member of AEA SAG/AFTRA.
COLLIN McCONNELL Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Malvolio (NYT Critics Pick), Twelfth Night (NYT Critics Pick), all with Classical Theatre of Harlem. Regional: The Lehman Trilogy with The Phoenix Theatre Company (Arizona Premier). Other select NY credits: Henry V, Macbeth, Hamlet (First Maria Ensemble); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Henry IV pt 1and pt 2, Henry V, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Julius Caesar (Adirondack Shakespeare Company); The Tempest, Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet (Accidental Shakespeare Company); The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Toms River Shakespeare Festival); Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc (Gorilla Rep); Pony Up (wr. Mallory Jane Weiss, The New School); The Magic of Mrs. Crowling (wr. Brian Silliman, Royal Circus). And with Voice Theatre, The Thanksgiving Play. BFA Acting, Brooklyn College; BFA Creative Writing, Brooklyn College; MFA Playwrighting, The New School.
KATE McMORRAN is a New York City based actor, singer, and writer. Recently, Kate was seen as Ann Deever in All My Sons with the Voice Theatre. Kate has worked professionally in several regional and New York theaters, favorite roles include: Clytemnestra in Agamemnon, Jeanie in Hair, and Kate Monster in Avenue Q. She also toured the country in the national tour of Are You My Mother? The Musical. Kate studies voice with Matt Farnsworth Vocal Studios and has been playing piano for over ten years. She graduated with a B.A. in Theatre and English from Muhlenberg College, and is currently at work on several writing projects that explore creative ways to be a woman in a predominantly male world.
JOMACK MIRANDA Off-Broadway: Romeo & Juliet (The Curtain), How to Melt Ice (New Perspectives & Boundless Theater Company – Hola Award nom. “Best Supporting Actor”), The One in the Basement (RADD Theater Company), Like Father, Like Salt (Players Theater), Confessions of a Serial Dater (TADA Theater). Film/TV: Yes, No, Goodbye (LA Independent Short Awards–Best LGBTQ Short). Training: The Gaiety School of Acting, The National Theatre School of Ireland.
RON MOREHEAD Throughout his career Ron has performed with some of Broadway’s most esteemed composers including Marvin Hamlisch, David Shire, Jason Robert Brown & Stephen Schwartz and at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall and the White House. He played James Vane in Dorian Gray Off-Broadway, was featured in Dena Hammerstein’s Only Make Believe benefit concert and performed with Tommy Page in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Most recently, Ron played Detective Patterson on Investigation Discovery’s Emmy winning drama A Crime to Remember. He can also be heard on the original cast recordings of Sadie Thompson with Melissa Errico and Ron Raines. He has served as Theatre Chairman on the Board of Directors for the Arts Society of Kingston and is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Crown Productions, a non-profit production company that produces musical and theatrical events to raise money for worthy causes. For Voice Theatre Ron has performed in Our Country’s Good and Season’s Greetings.
JULIET PEARSON Credits include: The Pirates of Penzance with Cape Rep Theatre, Romeo and Juliet with Shakespeare On The Lake, Mason Wright is Not A Mother with Fredonia State University/The Alleyway Theatre and Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play (Alicia) with Voice Theatre. She also recently worked as an Artist in Residence with the New York Stage and Film. She has a BFA in musical Theatre from Fredonia State University.
AUDREY RAPOPORT Theatre credits include her critically-acclaimed one-woman show I AM RAPOPORT; Down South (Rattlestick Theater); They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?; A Charlie Brown Commercial Christmas; Cold Feet; Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; and Jim Farmer’s The Supper Club of Lost Causes at Theatre for the New City. Audrey has been privileged to work with such phenomenal directors as Rick Sparks, Cynthia Szigeti, and Wendy McClellan. She’s thrilled to add Shauna Kanter to that impressive list. Audrey has performed with The Groundlings, Acme Comedy Theatre, and at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. She has performed her own material in numerous shows, including 7 Sins; Va Va Voom!; Funny Stories with James Judd; Pinata; Heroine Addicts; and Girls’ Club. Film and TV: Henry and Anthony; Thirteen Days; Late Last Night; The Accidental Tourist; I Love You To Death; Break A Leg; As The World Turns; Significant Others; According To Jim; Grounded For Life; Prime Time Comedy; Cheers; Bob; Days Of Our Lives; Kwik Witz. Audrey is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schaefer Award; and several DRAMA-LOGUE and LA WEEKLY Drama Awards. As a writer, she has contributed to numerous projects including HISTERIA! for Warner Bros. Animation. She teaches acting and comedy improvisation at School of Visual Arts in NYC.
RACHEL RHODES-DEVEY National Tour: South Pacific (Nellie Forbush), White Christmas. NYC favorites: The Most Happy Fella (City Center Encores!), Carousel (NY Philharmonic, PBS Live from Lincoln Center), and Merrily We Roll Along (APAC – NY Innovative Theatre Nominee for Outstanding Featured Actress). Rachel won the Berkshire Theatre Award for Outstanding Leading Actress for her performance as Mother in Ragtime (Mac-Haydn Theatre). Regional favorites: Goodspeed Musicals, Maine State Music Theatre, Music Theatre Wichita, Arts Center Of Coastal Carolina, John Engeman Theatre. With Voice Theatre: The Thanksgiving Play. Film: Last Vermont Christmas (Hallmark). She holds a BM in Musical Theatre from OCU. She is the co-director of Catskill Mountain Music Together.
LEON SCHWENDENER is an actor based in NYC. Off-Broadway credits include: The Dastardly Thornes V. The Town of Goldhaven (The Brick), Sleeping Beauty (A.R.T./New York Theatres), and Aynnie Rand: The Lil’ Orphan Objectivist (The PIT). He has performed regionally at Shakespeare & Co. in Lennox, MA, as well as with Unto These Hills in Cherokee, NC. With Voice Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest as Algernon Moncrieff and The Thanksgiving Play as Jaxton.
STEPHANIE SEWARD is a NY based actor, voice over actor, and singer. Favorite roles include: Bella in Lost In Yonkers (Sand Lake Center for the Arts), April in The Hot L Baltimore (T. Schreiber Studio), and Terry in Balm in Gilead, (Winner Best Production, NYIT Awards). TV work includes: Law and Order: Organized Crime (NBC), Bodies in the Basement (Investigation Discovery), Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest (Voice Theatre), and a soon-to-be named HBO series! She can also be seen around the Hudson Valley singing with her cover band Fever Dream.
ALI SHINALL Credits include Beulah Binnings in Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending (Stockwell Playhouse, London), Jaques in an open-air production of As You Like It (YAOW Theatre, Windsor), and Cornelia in the debut of a wonderful play called Spitfire Sisters (The Space, London). As a classically trained soprano, Ali also had the opportunity to sing in the late Queen’s private chapel! Select other theatre includes: Love From the Pyramids of Atlanta (True Colors Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (Georgia Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth (Georgia Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kellet Theatre), Amber Brown (National Tour), and Fall (Synchronicity Playhouse). With Voice Theatre she was Nellie Ewell in Summer and Smoke and Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest. Ali has received formal training in Boston, London, and NYC and is particularly passionate about classical theatre.
EVAN SIBLEY Credits include– New York: Backyard/Desert (TTC), Antony and Cleopatra (Bard City at Classic Stage), Intriguing Engagements (NY Fringe), The Orphan of Zhao (Ma-Yi), Ventura and Fit for a King (Primary Stages). Regional: Pride and Prejudice, Snow White, Peter Pan, Far Away (Hangar Theatre), and The Skin of Our Teeth (Voice Theatre). College: Ugly Lies the Bone and Eigengrau. Education: BA Fordham University, London Dramatic Academy, Hangar Lab Co. www.evansibley.com
GRIFFIN STENGER Griffin appeared in ads and on stage at all levels of schooling. He was also selected for study Goodman Theater in Chicago, IL. While at Parsons/New School in NYC, he studied film making and began working in advertising as a Creative Director/Commercial Director. Some 40 years later (not a typo) he returned to the stage in the role of Peter Austin, in Terrance McNally’s It’s Only A Play with the County Players in Wappingers Falls. He has played Ellery Queen and multiple Sherlock Holmes characters in live radio plays at Rosendale Theatre. Additionally he was featured in 3 pieces at the Rosendale Short Play Festival, and multiple readings with Round The Bend Theatre. With Voice Theatre he played Dr. John Buchanan Sr. in Summer and Smoke and Reverend Chasauble in The Importance of Being Earnest.
LEIGH STRIMBECK is an associate member of The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE); was formerly the Artistic Director of the Theatre Institute at Sage (TIS); an artist in residence in the theater program at Russell Sage College; co-founder of WAM Theatre in The Berkshires and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. At TIS she created and directed the devised pieces MIRROR, MIRROR and “I’m Not a Feminist, But….”; adapted, directed and toured The Trojan Women; directed and toured Grounded; directed On the Verge, I Never Saw Another Butterfly and the musicals Spring Awakening and Cabaret. Leigh also wrote a play for the college’s centennial based on 100 years of the school newspaper entitled Yours. At BTE she performed and directed for 10 years, most recently returning to direct The Explorers Club by Nell Benjamin. She has performed and directed at many regional theaters: including WAM, The Rep, Saratoga Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Company, and the Berkshire Playwrights Lab. She has acted in the films UnCivil Liberties, Fighting for Freedom, Little BiPeep, Key Transitions and Lifetime Movie Network’s Off the Rails. Leigh proudly works as a communications coach for the New York State Defender’s Institute Basic Trial Skills Program.
JJ WILKS holds a BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase. NYC Theatre: La Boheme (Metropolitan Opera), The Courtroom (Waterwell). Regional: I and You (Bristol Riverside Theatre), The Book Club Play (Bristol Valley Theatre), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare on the Sound) and Summer and Smoke (Voice Theatre).