Sarah Ammons, Jess Bauer, Sarah Beals, Susan Blood, Robin Bloodworth, Lucia Brizzi, Marc Carver, Ji-youn Chang, Ken Cheeseman, India Choquette, Moria Sine Clinton, Caitlin Clouthier, Amanda Collins, Ron Daniels, D'Arcy Dersham, Magdalyn Donnelly, Bridget K. Doyle, Mack Exilus, Yussef El Guindi, Stacy Fischer, David Fraioli, Michael Bryan French, Rosy Garner, Susan Gross, Dipika Guha, Mary Fritz, Jennifer Haley, Jocelyn Hambrook, Nita Hardy, Mark Hough, Jesse Jou, Robert Kropf, Maureen Lane, Paula Langton, Tom Leidenfrost, Nathan Leigh, Jordy Lievers, Dan Lombardo, John Malinowski, Krystin Matsumoto, Paul Melendy, Norman Meranus, Anne Miggins, McNeely Myers, Todd Olson, Andy Place, Alex Pollock, Courtney Reardon, Stephen Russell, Stephen Sachs, Jimmy Schatz, Alaina Sciascia, John Shuman, Valerie Stanford, Tom Patrick Stephens, Joseph Travers ,Steven Vessella, Ted Vitale, Victor Warren, Courtney Watson, Richard Watson, Lewis D. Wheeler, Brenda Withers, Jeffrey Withers, David Yadush, Marshall York Jeff Zinn
Sarah Ammons - Costumes Intern
Originally from Washington state, Sarah is pleased to be working with WHAT for the first time this summer. Specializing in costume technology, she is excited to be working on all productions this summer as a dresser and assistant to the designers. After winning the quick change competition at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival region VII and graduating from Central Washington University with a BA in Technical Theatre in 2010 she spent time perfecting her skills making custom jewelry and clothing for the residents of Seattle. Recently she was the makeup designer for Discovery Health TV's special "Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me"
Jess Bauer - Sound Designer
Jess Bauer is truly excited to be returning for the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater 2011 Season. In 2010 she designed sound for Daughter of Venus; Colorado; Cyrano; The Storytelling Ability of a Boy; Dead Ringer; and Promise. Previous designs include Hello, Dolly; Tales from the Tunnel; House of Blue Leaves (associate designer); The Music Man; The Real Thing (associate designer); Musical Comedy Murders of 1940; Cabaret; Trestle at Pope Lick Creek; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She resides in New York City where she can grow every day as a designer, recording engineer and singer.
Sarah Beals - Props Designer, Harbor Stage
Sarah Beals returns for a fifth season designing Props at WHAT. She is uniquely suited to this 'Jill of all trades' position, with a richly varied academic and vocational path. She attended the Program in Artisanry at BU, and the Museum School at Boston's MFA with a concentration in small metal sculpture, and went on to graduate from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in psychology. Along the way she has dabbled in darkroom photography, bonsai, roofing, tai chi, found object assemblage, crisis intervention, therapeutic massage, painting, amateur carpentry & origami. Thanks to the Outer Cape community for generously donating to area swap shops and to the company at WHAT.
Susan Blood - Director of Marketing
Susan Blood has worked in the performing and visual arts for over 20 years. She is a classical music and opera reviewer in print and online and a columnist for The Magazine of Yoga. Her website, Opera Betty, has a companion radio show on WOMR. She has attended theater, opera, ballet and symphony all her life and had a very large (bordering on restraining-order-worthy) crush on WHAT for years before joining the company.
Robin Bloodworth - Actor
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
Robin is delighted to return to WHAT for Boeing Boeing. Last season at WHAT he played Dr. Givings in Sarah Ruhl's, In the Next Room or the vibrator play.Previous roles include: Ethan Frome; Agamemnon; Dracula; Wilmore in The Rover; Joe in The Time of Your Life; Benedik in Much Ado about Nothing (OOBR award winner); Arthur in End Days (Suzi Award Nominee); and Eddie in Fool for Love. He is a resident of Atlanta and a proud member of AEA. Thanks to Jeff Zinn for this opportunity.
Lucia Brizzi - Actor
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
Lucia Brizzi is a Sarah Lawrence graduate whose theater credits include Hungry (Ensemble Studio Theater), Letting Her Go (Provincetown Theater), Laid Plans (Samuel French Festival), Snow White Zombie (Snow White, Manhattan Theater Source), and Room 103, Hotel Chelsea (site-specific). Film/video credits include Rebecca Drysdale, Time Traveling Lesbian (HBO), Hannah Has a Ho Phase, and her self-created comedy series Reel Intuition: Reveiws of Movies I've Never Seen. Lucia recently made her WHAT premiere in Mona Lisa (Lisa). She is thrilled to share her passion for her two great loves, comedy and Italian food, with the WHAT community this summer.
Marc Carver - Actor
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
Marc Carver has previously appeared at WHAT in The Pillowman, Hunter Gatherers, Hazard County, and Private Jokes, Public Places. Other regional theaters at which Marc has appeared include Trinity Repertory Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, and New Repertory Theatre. In New York, Marc has appeared in The Bilbao Effect (world premiere) and Bill W. and Dr. Bob (New World Stages). Marc, who studied at Brown University, Boston University, and Trinity Rep Conservatory, has also been seen and heard in film, television, and radio voiceovers.
Ji-youn Chang - Set Designer
2011 Season - Resident designer: Julie Harris Stage
Stairs to the Roof at A.R.T. Institute (Set & Lights), The Blue Room at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (Set), Durang/Durang in Edinburgh '09/London '10 (Set,Lights & Costumes). New York credits in her recent works include; TheCountry and the Happiness (Set), Ching Chong Chinaman at West End Theatre (Lights), Kafka Project/The Rain Machine (Set & Lights), Lifetime Fairytale (Set & Lights), Bully To You at Soho Rep (Set & Lights) MFA in Design at Yale School of Drama '08. Jiyounchangdesign.com
Ken Cheeseman - Actor
2011 Season: Bakersfield Mist
Ken Cheeseman has most recently been seen on stage in Boston area at the Huntington Theatre- A Civil War Christmas, All My Sons and Prelude to a Kiss. And with Actors' Shakespeare Project as Iago in Othello. Also in the New England area he has performed at American Repertory Theatre, Trinity Rep, North Shore Music Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Gloucester Stage, New Rep, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare and Company, Yale Rep, The Long Wharf Theatre and the Charles Playhouse. In New York he appeared in Scapin and Amphitryon at Classic Stage Company, King Lear at La MaMa ETC. with ASP, Measure for Measure and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Recent film and television appearances include Leaves of Grass with Edward Norton, Shutter Island, Invention of Lying, The Good Wife and numerous episodes of the Law and Order franchise. Ken is an artist in residence and full-time faculty member at Emerson College.
India Choquette - Assistant Stage Manager, Harbor Stage
2011 Season
India Choquette is very happy to be spending the summer at WHAT India currently attends Barnard College in New York City, where she is majoring in theatre with a concentration in performance. She has previously worked as an intern to the stage manager for the NorthEast Shakespeare Ensemble in New Hampshire.
Moria Sine Clinton - Costume Designer
2011 Season
Recent credits include Notes From Underground, (La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre for New Audiences, Yale Repertory Theatre) Down In The Valley (Juilliard School of Music) 99 Ways to F**k a Swan (Playmakers Repertory) Electra In A One-Piece (Wild Project, NYC) Uncle Vanya, Duchess of Malfi, Woyzeck, and Much Ado About Nothing (The Brown Trinity Consortium) Stairs to the Roof (A.R.T. Institute) Grey Gone (Impact Theatre, NYC) Peer Gynt, I Am Superhero (Yale School of Drama) The Underneath, Korean Elektra, Bone Songs, The Do-Over (Yale Cabaret) As Associate to Jane Greenwood on Broadway's House of Blue Leaves, Driving Miss Daisy, Million Dollar Quartet, and Present Laughter. The Public's Alls Well That Ends Well for Shakespeare in the Park. Wuthering Heights (Minnesota Opera) And the world premier of Moby Dick (Dallas Opera, State Opera of South Australia, San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera and Calgary Opera.) She spent eight seasons working at the Santa Fe Opera. Moria is a graduate from the Yale School of Drama. www.moriaclinton.com
Caitlin Clouthier - Actor
2011 Season: The Betrothed
Caitlin is super excited to be making her WHAT debut. Previous credits include: Strange Love in Outer Space (NYC Fringe), The Erotic Diary of Anne Frank (Studio 42), Richard II (Yale Rep), Much Ado About Nothing (Chautaugua Theater Company), among others.... She was on As the World Turns and the web series My Transient Life. Caitlin received her BA from the University of Washington and her MFA from Yale School of Drama.
Amanda Collins - Actor
2011 Season: A Behanding in Spokane; An Ideal Husband
Amanda is thrilled to be back at WHAT. Previous WHAT shows: The Bald Soprano, Speech and Debate, Shortstack, Colorado, and What Then; with WHAT for Kids: The Three Sillies, Robin Hood, and Daisy in Daisy Crockett: Frontiersperson. Recent productions include 9 Circles with Publick Theatre Boston (Elliot Norton nomination, Outstanding Production); The Island of Slaves with Orfeo Group; No Exit at Payomet Performing Arts Center; Brecht's The Life of Galileo with Underground Railway Theater/Central Square Theater; Saroyan's The Time of Your Life with Fort Point Theatre Channel; The Woman in Black at Gloucester Stage; Julius Caesar with Shakespeare Now; and Plays on Tap at Centastage. Last summer Amanda performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in Jester's Dead, a Top Gun/Shakespeare mash-up, created by NY-based company The Outfit. She is a member of Theatre Espresso, performing interactive, historical dramas at schools and courthouses across New England. Television: Boston's Finest (ABC pilot with Goran Visnjic and Katee Sackhoff). A native of Cape Cod, Amanda received her BA in History and Theatre from Regis College.
Ron Daniels - Actor
2011 Season: The Betrothed
Ron Daniels is pleased to be back for his fourth season at WHAT, previously appearing in "Tales of the Lost Formicans" by Constance Congdon; "Reckless" by Craig Lucas; "Baby Dance" by Jane Alexander. Other work includes "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett, The Actor's Quarter, San Diego, CA; "Romanoff and Juliet" by Peter Ustinov, The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA; "Philadelphia Here I Come" by Brian Friel, Chatham Theatre Guild, Chatham, MA; "Tooth of Crime" by Sam Shepard, Orleans Playhouse, Orleans, MA; Composed and performed original score based on "La Traviata" for a production by the Director's Guild, The Actor's Studio, New York, NY; Appeared with Lou Reed, John Cale, and Nico in "**** (Four Stars)" a film by Andy Warhol, shot at The Factory and other locations in New York City.
D'Arcy Dersham - Actor
2011 Season: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom; Body Awareness
A graduate of Trinity Rep Conservatory's M.F.A. Acting program, D'Arcy also holds a B.A. in Dramatic Literature from Oberlin College and studied physical theater under Jacques Lecoq at L'École Internationale de Théâtre in Paris. As an actor, she has worked with Trinity Rep, Elemental, Workhorse, The Gamm, Perishable Theatre, The Vineyard Playhouse, LAByrinth, The Public, American Globe, HERE, Messenger Theater, Brass Tacks, Hubinspoke, and Bread & Puppet Theater. She teaches Speech at the Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. Program, and is a member of Elemental Theatre Collective, a group of actors, playwrights and directors producing original work together since 2004.
Magdalyn Donnelly - Actor
2011 Season: An Ideal Husband
Magdalyn Donnelly is thrilled to be making her Wellfleet debut in An Ideal Husband. She was last seen as Maria in Twelfth Night with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and performed the original play My Name is Ruth with 34 West Theatre Company at the New York International Fringe Festival. Other credits include: Constance in The Three Musketeers, Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Celia in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, and Bianca in Taming of the Shrew with Illinois Shakespeare Festival. She has worked in Philadelphia with the Centre Theatre in Tomato Plant Girl and as the Blue Fairy in the musical version of Pinocchio with Storybook Musical Theatre. She has also performed with the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC in The Second Shepherd's Play. Magdalyn received her MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre's Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University.
Bridget K. Doyle - Master Electrician
2011 Season
Bridget is pleased to be embarking on her fourth season here at WHAT. Previous lighting designs at WHAT include The Bald Soprano, Speech and Debate, Robin Hood, and Dead Ringer, to name a few. Other designs include Buddy, the Buddy Holly Story at HJT, John Brown's Body for Harwich Historical Society, The Last Five Years for Counter Productions, and Wrinkles! The Hot Flash Review with Studio 585. Also an actor, Bridget appeared on the Harbor Stage as Dora in Storytelling Ability of a Boy last season.
Mack Exilus - Actor
2011 Season: A Behanding in Spokane
Mack holds a BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. He recently wrote and co-starred in the lastest S&M digital short "Methrocard" which can be seen on funny or die. His stage credits includes: The Brother Size at the Kitchen Theater; The Tempest; and Much Ado About Nothing with the Bakeroo Theater Company. Off The Realness at the New School for Drama's New Voices 2011 festival. Other credits include: Jesus Hopped The A' Train; Take Me Out at the Gershwin Theatre at Brookyln College. Hair at Theatre Row; 365 Days of Plays at the Public; AmeriKan Trip Tik at the Kraine. He would love to thank his family for their love and support.
Yussef El Guindi - Playwright
2011 Season: Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes
Yussef El Guindi's most recent productions: JIHAD JONES AND THE KALASHNIKOV BABES, produced by Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco. OUR ENEMIES: LIVELY SCENES OF LOVE AND COMBAT, produced by Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago, where it was "Jeff Recommended". Other productions: BACK OF THE THROAT was winner of the 2004 Northwest Playwrights' Competition held by Theater Schmeater. It won L.A. Weekly's Excellence in Playwriting Award for 2006. It was also nominated for the 2006 American Theater Critics Associations Steinberg/ New Play Award, and was voted Best New Play of 2005 by the Seattle Times. It was first staged by San Francisco's Thick Description and Golden Thread Productions; then later presented in various theaters around the country including The Flea Theater in New York. Another play of his, TEN ACROBATS IN AN AMAZING LEAP OF FAITH, staged by Silk Road Theatre Project, won the After Dark Award for Best New Play in Chicago in 2006. His two-related one-acts, ACTS OF DESIRE, were staged by the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. BACK OF THE THROAT, and the two related one-acts, now titled, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE IS SAYEDA'S and KARIMA'S CITY, have been published by Dramatists Play Service. The latter one-acts have also been included in The Best American Short Plays: 2004-2005 to be published by Applause Books in 2008. His play, TEN ACROBATS IN AN AMAZING LEAP OF FAITH, is to be included in Salaam/Peace: An Anthology of Middle-Eastern-American Playwrights, to be published by TCG in 2009. Yussef holds an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and was playwright-in-residence at Duke University.
Stacy Fischer - Actor
2011 Season: Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes
Stacy Fischer's WHAT credits include: Noises Off; The Little Dog Laughed; The Blue Room; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; The Mistakes Madeline Made; Shortstack; Dark Yellow and Public Exposure. A graduate of Emerson College, her other Boston area credits include: My Name is Rachel Corrie (New Repertory Theatre); The Secret Love Life of Ophelia (Nora Theatre Company); Theresa at Home (Village Theatre Project/Boston Playwright's Theatre); Permanent Whole Life (Boston Playwright's Theatre); The Sanctuary Lamp (Sugan Theatre); The Violet Hour (Stoneham Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Twelfth Night; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; The Winter's Tale; and Macbeth (Publick Theatre). A Month in the Country (Huntington Theatre); Life x3 (Gloucester Stage); Our Lady of 121st Street and The Shape of Things (Speakeasy Stage Company); Book of Days (Lyric Stage); Romeo & Juliet (North Shore Music Theatre); and Heart of Jade (CentaStage).
David Fraioli - Actor
2011 Season: Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes
Previous WHAT roles include Ariel in The Pillowman and Mickey in Mojo. New York credits: The Trojan Women, directed by Tina Landau for En Garde Arts; Regional: Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Northern Stage. Other roles include Alan in Equus, Felix in The Odd Couple, Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard and Masha in The Three Sisters.
Michael Bryan French - Actor
2011 Season: Body Awareness
This production marks Michael's return to theater on the east coast after moving back to New York from Los Angeles, where he worked primarily in television and film. His NY theater credits include work on Broadway in, Beloxi Blues, Off-Broadway in productions at, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwright's Horizons, The Vineyard Theater, and productions as a member of The Wooster Group. He was also seen regionally on the main stages of: The Actor's Theater of Louisville, playing Stanley in, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Old Globe of San Diego in, Lost Highway:The Life and Times of Hank Williams, playing Hank, and The Williamstown Theater Festival performing a variety of roles in, Tennesee Williams: A Celebration. On film he's enjoyed supporting roles in: Recount for HBO, Big Fat Liar, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and others. His TV credits include recurring roles on: ER, "24", C.S.I., and, Prison Break, with Guest spots on such shows as, The West Wing, Breaking Bad, Boston Legal, Numbers, Bones, and many, many more. Having lived and worked in Wellfleet back in the early '70s, he's thrilled to be back on it's shores with his wife of 31 years, Virginia, and their German Shepherd, Macy.
Rosy Garner - Production Stage Manager
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
This is Rosy's WHAT Debut. Past credits include South Pacific, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The 39 Steps (Broadway); Hamlet (Lincoln Center Institute), The 39 Steps, Saturn Returns, Angela's Mixtape, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Off- Broadway); Regional: The 39 Steps, Present Laughter, Love's Labours Lost (Huntington Theatre Company); Quartermaine's Terms, Children, The Understudy, Cold Hard Cash, Dissonance, Party Come Here, Caravan Man (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Nutcracker (New York City Ballet), La Sylphide and Seranade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, New Visions (Boston Ballet). Member of Actors Equity Association, alumna of Boston University.
Susan Gross - Actor
2011 Season: Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes
Susan Gross is thrilled to be making her debut with WHAT in Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes. Off-Broadway: The Vietnamization of New Jersey by Christopher Durang (NYC premiere: Theatre Row); Hello, Superstar! A Day in the Life of Edie Sedgwick (staged reading) with Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan. Boston: Cyrano (New Repertory Theatre), Popcorn (Zeitgeist Stage), A Little Night Music (Lyric Stage), Simpatico (Devanaughn Theatre). Other theatres: Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Stoneham Theatre, Molasses Tank Productions. Susan is an actress/playwright in NYC working on her next full-length play: Cleoplastic (a reimagined tale of Cleopatra). Proud member of AEA.
Dipika Guha - Playwright
2011 Season: The Betrothed
Dipika Guha is a graduate of the MFA playwright at the Yale School of Drama where she studied with Paula Vogel. Her play, Passing, will be featured in the 2011 Carlotta Festival of New Plays in New Haven. Her plays have received workshop productions at Brown University, the Yale School of Drama and the Yale Cabaret. She is the recipient of several fellowships including the Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship at Harvard University, the Adele Kellenberg Fellowship at Brown University and the Eugene O'Neill Fellowship at Yale University. She was part of the Young Writer's Workshop at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Mary Fritz - Props Designer, Julie Harris Stage
2011 Season: TBA
Mary Fritz is happy to be back working at WHAT again. She was the property designer for the Harbor stage for seven seasons in the 1990s. Among her favorite productions were Buried Child, Savior of the Universe, Fool for Love, and Heart of Jade. Mary has been designing props on Cape Cod for the last 20 years. She has worked on over 60 productions including Nine Ball, Top Dog Under Dog, By the Bog of Cats, Wit, Jackie An American Life, and Loot. Mary lives in Dennis with her husband Nicholas, daughter Mariette and their 2 dogs.
Jennifer Haley - Playwright
2011 Season: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
Jennifer Haley is a Los Angeles-based playwright whose work has been seen around the country, most recently at the 2011 Sundance Theatre Lab, where she workshopped her play Froggy. Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom was produced at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays in 2008 and has seen continuing productions at Summer Play Festival in NYC and theaters, colleges and high schools nation-wide. The play is published by Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc. Breadcrumbs saw its world premiere at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in July 2010 and was nominated for the ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award.
Jennifer's work has been developed at the p73 Summer Residency at Yale, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Geva Theatre, PlayPenn, Seven Devils Playwright's Conference, hotINK, and the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. Jennifer was awarded a citation for the 2009 American Theatre Critic's Association (ATCA) Francesca Primus Prize, and 2008 fellowships from the MacDowell and Millay artist colonies. She earned an MFA in playwriting at Brown University, where she studied playwriting with Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive), screenwriting with Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary), and won the Weston Award for Drama and the Joelson Prize in Creative Writing.
In 2009 Jennifer founded The Playwrights Union, a network of theater artists in Los Angeles writing for stage, tv and film.
Jocelyn Hambrook - Admin & Box Office Intern
2011 Season Jocelyn is so thrilled to be working at WHAT this summer. She recently graduated from Albright College, in Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Theater and Communications: PR and Advertising. With the desire to go on to a M.A. in Arts Administration, she is enjoying working and learning from this wonderful company. Originally from Connecticut, she could not ask to work in a more wonderful place than Cape Cod.
Nita Hardy - Actor
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
Nita is delighted to re-inhabit "Bertha" at WHAT thanks to Dan Lombardo and Robin Bloodworth. Nita received Atlanta's 2010 Suzi Award for Best Actress in Boeing, Boeing at Aurora Theatre. Also at Aurora, she played Mrs. Halloran in the regional premiere of Harvey Fierstein's A Catered Affair. Recent roles: Lady Boyle in Superior Donuts, Margaret in The Savannah Disputation, and Inga in The Poetry of Pizza. TV/Film: Freedom Song, The Wool Cap, I'll Fly Away, The Gingerbread Man and The Lost Valentine. Nita is playwright for Mystery Cafe Indianapolis and markets her comedy murder mystery scripts online at www.killercomedies.com.
Mark Hough - Managing Director
Mark Hough has been working in the theater for over thirty years as an actor, director and producing executive. Mark is also an acclaimed writer of literary fiction his latest novel, Wilbur is available for representation. Mark has read his work to SRO audiences at the Boot in Norfolk, VA. Mark is a member of the Muse and studies with Tim Farrington. Mark Hough is President of Hough and Associates (www.markhough.org), a full range management, programming, Board development and fund raising consulting business serving not-for-profit organizations and philanthropic foundations. Mark has over 20 years of experience in not-for-profit management and fund development. For more visit markhough.org
Jesse Jou - Director
2011 Season: The Betrothed; Neighborhood3: Requisition of Doom
Jesse Jou (Director) graduated from Yale School of Drama, where his credits include La Ronde, 99 Ways to Fuck a Swan, and the things are against us [les choses sont contre nous]. Other credits include Take on Me: Adoption, Addiction, and a-ha (New York International Fringe Festival); My Mom Across America (The Kitchen Theatre Co., Ithaca, NY); Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen], Mask Ritual: Electra, Flowers and Other Stories, Language of Angels, and Dipika Guha's Passing (Yale Cabaret). At Yale, he was the recipient of the Edgar and Louise Cullman Scholarship. He served as Artistic Director of the 2010 season of the Yale Summer Cabaret and as the Staff Repertory Director for the 2010-2011 tour of the Acting Company.
Robert Kropf - Actor/Director
2011 Season: Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes (Actor/Director); Body Awareness (Director)
With Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater: The Blue Room, Sexual Perversity In Chicago, The Homecoming, On An Average Day, Love Song, Bug, Public Exposure, Closer, Fuddy Meers; among others, Uncle Vanya (Boston Art Theatre), Nobody Dies on Friday, Man & Superman & Easter (American Repertory Theatre). Cyrano & White People (New Repertory Theatre), Romeo & Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), The Seagull (Chicago's Center Theater), War Play & SLAM! (Yale Cabaret), Waiting For Godot, Bloody Poetry, Miss Julie (The Ritual Theatre Company). Directing credits include: Uncle Vanya (and original adaptation), Waiting For Godot, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Bloody Poetry, Miss Julie, Hamlet, The Swan, Slasher! (WHAT staged reading) as well as Weird Fishes at the WHAT Lab. Bob is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University.
Maureen Lane - Production Stage Manager (Julie Harris Stage)
2011 Season: Resident Production Stage Manager - Julie Harris Stage
Maureen is delighted to be back for her second season with WHAT. Previously she stage-managed Danny Casolaro Died for You; In the Next Room or the vibrator play; Born Yesterday and Daughter of Venus. Selected credits with area theaters include: The Huntington Theater Company (Mauritius), The Lyric Stage Company (The Understudy, Broke-ology, Dead Man's Cell Phone; Groundswell), Gloucester Stage Company (Going to St. Ives; The Belle of Amherst; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?), SpeakEasy Stage Company (The Seafarer; The Little Dog Laughed; Fat Pig),Boston Playwrights' Theater, The Vineyard Playhouse and The Sugan Theatre Company. Maureen was the resident PSM with NorthEast Shakespeare Ensemble in New Hampshire for four seasons and has also worked at The Project Arts Centre in Dublin and The Pleasance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Paula Langton - Actor
2011 Season: Bakersfield Mist
Paula was most recently seen in Jon Lipsky's Walking the Volcano at Boston Playwrights' Theatre where she also played Lucy in Howard Zinn's Daughter of Venus. Recent Credits: Doctor Chapman - A Question of Mercy at The Atlantic Theatre with Potomac Theatre Project, Amanda - The Glass Menagerie at The Olney Theatre, Helen - Good, Galactia - Scenes From an Execution with Boston Center for American Performance. Actors' Shakespeare Project: Emilia - Othello, Regan - King Lear, Hermione - The Winter's Tale, Isabella - Measure for Measure. American Repertory Theatre: Trojan Barbie, Donnie Darko. Shakespeare & Company, Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company.
Tom Leidenfrost - Intern
2011 Season
Tom is back for his second season interning with WHAT. He works maintaing both theaters and assisting with any production work. Tom is also an actor and will be in the WHAT 4 Kids show this season (and was in Robin Hood last year). He is studying theater at MCLA. When he is not working you may see him playing his accordion in various places on the Cape. Some productions he did this past year at college are Smoke, Taming of the Shrew, Lysistrata, As You Like It, and Romeo and Juliet.
Nathan Leigh- Sound Designer
2011 Season: TBA
Nathan Leigh's past designs include The Mystery of Irma Vep; Noises Off; The Little Dog Laughed; The Blue Room; Shining City, The Pillowman, Red Light Winter, On An Average Day, Clean House, What Then, and Love Song. As a composer, sound designer, orchestrator, and music director, Nathan has worked with countless theatres across the Northeast including Boston Theatre Works, Speakeasy Stage, The Brown Trinity Consortium, Tufts Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Gloucester Stage, Harwich Junior Theatre, Providence Black Rep, Centastage, Company One, The Village Theatre Project, Foothills Theatre, Sugan Theatre, The Debate Society, Perishable Theatre, and The Berkshire Theatre Festival. His Design for The Debate Society's The Eaten Heart was The Gothamist's 2007 Sound Design of the year.
Jordy Lievers - Actor
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
Jordy is so excited to be making her debut at WHAT in one of her very favorite plays! At the American Repertory Theater: The Donkey Show (Tytania), Alice vs. Wonderland (Queen of Hearts), Cabaret (Helga, IRNE Award, Best Ensemble), and the workshop of the new musical Once, directed by John Tiffany. She has also been seen on stages in California, New York, Alaska, and Russia. BAs, Art History & English Literature, Columbia University; MFA, Acting, ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.
Dan Lombardo - Director/Dramaturg
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
Dan Lombardo (Director) recently directed Opus by Michael Hollinger at American Stage Theatre, and Born Yesterday at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Directing credits include Blithe Spirit at American Stage Theatre, Total Expression for the Boston Theater Marathon, and Zeta by Ilan Stavans and Carlos Morton. Dan is the Director of the WHAT Lab, a new play development program at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, where he has been Dramaturg and Literary Manager since 2005. His work as a dramaturg/research consultant in television and film includes The Irish (a PBS series), The Belle of Amherst (with Claire Bloom for ITV, England), Malice (with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman), Voices and Visions (a 13;part PBS series), The Afterglow (with Burgess Meredith), and several Florentine Films documentaries. Lombardo has appeared in films on PBS and on BBC TV, including Loaded Gun (with Julie Harris), and a BBC film about literary forgery. Dan is the author of ten books, including the new Cape Cod National Seashore: The First 50 Years. Dan and his wife, Karen Banta, split their time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
John Malinowski - Lighting Designer
2011 Season: TBA
John R. Malinowski attended Harvard University as an undergraduate,as well as the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theatre Training where he studied design under Robert Brustein (1989;1990). He designed lighting for several productions at the original Hasty Pudding Theater, including: St. Nicholas (ART/Sugan), Jackie: An American Life (pre;Broadway), and In Twilight: Scenes from Chekhov (ART).
Past productions at WHAT (since 1989) include The Mystery of Irma Vep; Noises Off; The Little Dog Laughed; The Blue Room; Fabuloso; The Pillowman; Buried Child; Cosmologies; Ruby Tuesday; 7 Blowjobs; Simpatico; Oleanna and The Baltimore Waltz. He has designed over 150 productions throughout the country, many world premieres, since 1985. In Boston, he recently designed Angels in America (Parts I and II), the Boston premieres of Caroline, or Change, Take Me Out, Homebody/Kabul and Not About Nightingales. In 1996, he received an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Lighting. He has received 3 IRNE awards (Boston) and a Tennessean Award for his lighting of Cyrano at Tennessee Rep. He was a NEA/TCG Fellow from 2000 ; 2002. He is on the faculty of Suffolk and Northeastern University and is the Guest Artist at Harvard University for Fall 2008.
Krystin Matsumoto - Production Intern
2011 Season
Krystin is incredibly excited to be working at WHAT for their 2011 season. While attending college at UC Berkeley, Krystin became the Production Manager and later Managing Director of the student theatre group BareStage, helped manage UC Choral Ensembles and graduated with a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies and a Music Minor. Immediately after graduation, Krystin returned home to Los Angeles and worked for the Los Angeles Children's Chorus as an Arts Administration Intern. Krystin then moved to Seattle for Seattle Repertory Theatre's Professional Arts Training Program in Production Management and went on to work for a variety of organizations including Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle International Film Festival, On the Boards, Wing-It Productions, and Seattle Musical Theatre. For more visit www.krystinmatsumoto.com.
Paul Melendy - Actor
2011 Season: Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes
Paul Melendy is quite happy to be making his WHAT debut with Jihad Jones. From the Boston area, theater credits include: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Titus Andronicus (Actors' Shakespeare Project); Design for Living (Publick Theatre); Cyrano and Macbeth (New Repertory Theatre); Visiting Mr. Green (Public Theatre of Maine); Take Me Out (Foothills Theatre); Lend Me a Tenor (Salem State Univ.); Almost, Maine (Barnstormers Theatre); A Tale of Two Cities (Wheelock Family Theater); Arcadia (New Century Theatre); and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Now!). Paul received a Best Comedic Performance award from the New England Theatre Conference and a Best Actor award (2005) from the New Hampshire Theater Awards for his work as Adam in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Film: Pink Panther Deux.
Norman Meranus - Casting/Education
2011 Season: Program Coordinator - WHAT's Next Generation
Norman has lived part-time in Wellfleet since 1987 and has been involved with WHAT
since 2003, serving as casting director for several seasons. Otherwise based in New
York, he has cast theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway and regionally since 1998 and is
a member of the Casting Society of America. Currently Norman is pursuing a Masters
degree in Educational Theatre at the City College of New York in order to add
educational activities to his theatre practice.
Anne Miggins - Resident Costume Designer - Julie Harris Stage
2011 Season: Jihad Jones & The Kalashnikov Babes; An Ideal Husband; Bakersfield Mist; Body Awareness
Anne is delighted to be back at WHAT this summer. Last time she costumed Steven Russell's Puss in Boots and built much of Irma Vep. Recently she has been working towards a Masters in Education in San Diego.
McNeely Myers - Actor
2011 Season: Body Awareness
Terrence McNally calls her Cape Cod's answer to Meryl Streep and she is happy to return to the Julie Harris Stage. . . and to call Wellfleet home. Mc was a 10 yrs. 60 show member of Whetstone Theatre Co. (VT)- toured internationally with Sandglass Theater and Metro Theatre Co. -appeared regionally at Mill Mountain Theatre, Lost Nation Theatre and VT Stage to name a few. . . Since washing ashore there 9 years ago: Driving On The Sidewalk, Public Exposure, Bug at WHAT; Hand Of God at Boston Center for the Arts; Winter Wheat at Cape Rep; Master Class at Provincetown Rep ; and Wit , Elephant Man and Anton In Show Business with Counter Productions; the world premier of Kevin Rice's Hopper's Ghosts at Payomet PAC; Different for Provincetown Theatre and 2010 Tennessee Williams Festival. McNeely has also begun writing and performing her own work while on living on Cape. Cod. Her solo show Sunny & The Swami has been featured at Stage Left Studio in New York, Universal Theatre in Provincetown and at the Payomet Tent. She is currently offering an Acting Workshop in Wellfleet. Contact: mcneelymyers@yahoo.com
Todd Olson - Director
2011 Season: An Ideal Husband
Todd is in his eighth season as Producing Artistic Director at American Stage Theatre Company. He has directed over 120 plays, musicals, and operas, including My Way(which he co-created) at the Tony Award-winning Actor's Theatre of Louisville. For American Stage Todd has directed several plays which have been recognized by Creative Loafing with “Best of the Bay” Awards for “Top-10 Productions of the Year” and “Best Director”, including Stones in His Pockets, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Much Ado About Nothing, and Anna in the Tropics. Opera directing credits include Seven Deadly Sins and Barber’s Hand of Bridge (Boston University Opera Institute), The Elixir of Love (Harvard), Carmen (Opera Southwest), and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (Elon College). Assistant Director work includes Vanessa (for Robert Larson at Des Moines Metro Opera), and Tosca (for Marciem Bazell at Opera Southwest). In 1998 Todd enjoyed a two-week observership at Seattle Opera for their Tristan Und Isolde with Ben Heppner and Jane Eaglen, directed by Francesca Zambello. Todd received his MFA from The University of North Carolina, and is a graduate from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard where he took classes with David Mamet, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Robert Scanlan, Robert Woodruff, Anna Deveare Smith, and Robert Brustein, among others. Todd lives in Seminole with his remarkable wife Charlotte, and their constantly surprising and wonderful children Jonas, Corinna, and May.
Andy Place - Actor
2011 Season
Andy is pleased to work with WHAT for the first time. Regional theater credits include Hartford Stage Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Quantum Theatre, The Schoolhouse Theater, five seasons with Saratoga Shakespeare Company, and TheatreWorksUSA. Work in New York includes Fluid Motion Theater and Film, The Kirk Theater at Theatre Row Studios, and Wonderfool Studios Lab at The Gene Frankel Theater. Training: BFA, the Hartt School; Birmingham International Theatre Institute; and movement with Felix Ivanov, which thankfully introduced Andy to Jesse Jou. Proud member of Actor's Equity. For Akira- "Aloha".
Alex Pollock - Actor
2011 Season: A Behanding in Spokane; Body Awareness
ALEX POLLOCK is honored to make his WHAT debut with 2010 Season's Daughter of Venus. Select credits include: JIMMY JR. in Little Black Dress, JAMIE in Daughter of Venus, SOUTHAMPTON in the world premiere of Robert Brustein's Pulitzer Prize;nominated The English Channel, and ALEX in his own play Machine Gun ; Death Rattle. Alex is a founding company member of The National Theatre of Allston for which he has performed in Shouting Theatre in a Crowded Fire, and Waters Rising. In 2005 Alex received a Princess Grace Award for his acting, and in 2003 was awarded a scholarship to the TVI Actor's Studio in New York.
Courtney Reardon - Box Office Manager
2011 Season
Courtney is thrilled to be part of the WHAT family. Courtney is a graduate of Dean College with a B.A. in Dance. She has been involved in theater and dance since childhood. Courtney currently resides in Orleans and can not wait to continue her journey here at WHAT.
Stephen Russell - Writer, Director
2011 Season: The Very Sad Tale of the Late Mr. Stiltskin
Stephen Russell has been the W4K Impresario since the first season in 2002. Other plays for young audiences include Rapunzel, Marion of Sherwood, The Wild Swans, The Colony of the Cats, The Three Sillies, The Very Sad Tale of the Late Mr. Stiltskin, Xenia Hedgehog's Academy of Etiquette for Naughty Boys and Girls and Daisy Crockett, Frontiersperson! He has been a mainstay on the mainstage of WHAT for over 20 years and has also acted with the Huntington Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, Stoneham Theatre and the Lyric Theatre. He can be seen in the feature film The Golden Boys, aka Chatham. He lives and works in Wellfleet and is a proud member of Actors'Equity and the Screen Actors Guild.
Stephen Sachs - Playwright
2011 Season: Bakersfield Mist
STEPHEN SACHS is an award-winning playwright and director, and the Co-Artistic Director of the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. Bakersfield Mist received its world premiere at the Fountain in June to rave reviews, has been extended, and is still running to sold out houses. Future productions include New Jersey Repertory (Long Branch), New Repertory Theatre (Waterford, MA), and productions planned in New York and London. He is also the author of Miss Julie: Freedom Summer (LA Drama Critics Circle Award nomination), Gilgamesh, Open Window (Media Access Award), Central Avenue (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist), Sweet Nothing in my Ear (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist, NEA grant), Mother's Day, The Golden Gate (Best Play Award, Dramalogue), and The Baron in the Trees. He wrote the teleplay for Sweet Nothing in my Ear for Hallmark Hall of Fame which aired on CBS starring Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels. Sachs has been awarded a NEA grant for his new deaf/hearing modern adaptation of Cyrano opening May 2012. He has won many awards as a director, and is noted for his longtime artistic association directing the premieres of new plays by Athol Fugard.
Jimmy Schatz - Intern
2011 Season
Jimmy is thrilled to be making his WHAT debut, working as an intern in the land of Box Office, House Management, and Marketing. A native New Yorker he holds an AA in Musical Theatre and a BA in Arts and Entertainment Management, both from Dean College in Franklin MA. Jimmy thanks the entire WHAT family for their warm welcome and he looks forward to a fantastic season.
Alaina Sciascia - Resident Stage Manager: Harbor Stage
2011 Season: A Behanding In Spokane; Neigborhood 3: Requisition of Doom; The Betrothed; The Ding Dongs or What is the Penalty in Portugal
This is Alaina's third season with WHAT and she is delighted to return as the PSM at the Harbor Stage. Previously she was the ASM at the Harbor and appeared in WHAT for Kids, Puss in Boots. She was a founder of the Children's Theater Initiative where she directed , Wind in the Willows. Alaina graduated from Albright College with a BA in Theater and History and studied at the Eugene O'Neill Center's National Theater Institute.
John Shuman - Actor
2011 Season:
WHAT: Romance. Cape Playhouse: The Best Man, Hairspray. Broadway: La Cage Aux Folles (revival), 13 Rue de l'Amour. Off-Broadway: The Dishwashers ( 59 East 59th), The Fantasticks (revival), An Oak Tree, The Hot l Baltimore, Moonchildren. Regional: Guthrie Theatre (The Royal Family) Portland Center Stage (Cuckoo's Nest), Shakespeare Theatre (The Taming of the Shrew), Yale Rep (The Alchemist), A Contemporary Theatre, Alaska Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Children's Theatre Company (Mr. Popper in Mr. Popper's Penguins), Depot Theatre (The Cripple of Inishmaan), Film: The Naked Man (Ethan Coen, screenplay). TV: Melrose Place, Guiding Light, Love and War, VR-5 (pilot).
John has performed the one-man play Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger at the Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis and recently for the Chester Theatre Company in Western Massachusetts.
Valerie Stanford - Actor
2011 Season: Boeing Boeing
Valerie Stanford is thrilled to be back at WHAT this summer. She appeared as "Annie" in last season's, In The Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl. Cape credits include: The Siegels of Montauk, Copenhagen, The Full Monty and Wonder of the World; as well as directing Wit and Thom Pain: Based on Nothing at the Provincetown Theater. Recent productions: The Little Dog Laughed, Rumors, Run For Your Wife, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Into the Woods, SubUrbia, Miss Julie, Bloody Poetry, The 24 Hour Plays, and Hamlet for Speakeasy, La Mama ETC, The Ohio Theatre, HB Studios, Bailiwick Repertory, The Ontological, and Gablestage. She is a founding member of The Playground Theatre in Miami, and Boston Art Theatre for which she is co-directed On An Average Day last year.
Tom Patrick Stephens - Actor
2011 Season: The Ding Dongs, Or What is the Penalty in Portugal?
WHAT: The Pillowman; Noises Off; The Mystery Of Irma Vep. Atlantic Theater Company: The New York Idea; Parlour Song; The Collection (u/s); Gabriel (u/s). Off-off-Broadway: The Girl In The Park (2010 NY Fringe Festival). Film: The Bourne Legacy; Baby Mama. TV: John Adams; One Life To Live; As The World Turns. Numerous television and radio voiceovers. www.tompatrickstephens.com.
Joseph Travers - Fight Director
2011 Season: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom; The Very Sad Tale of the Late Mr. Stiltskin; The Betrothed; Bakersfield Mist
Joe has been creating fights and action sequences for stage and screen for over 20 years. He is happy to be working on his 5th season at WHAT. His work has been seen Off- Broadway, regionally, and on national and international tour, and he has taught and fight directed across the U.S., in Canada, and in Europe. He teaches stage combat to M.F.A. Acting students at Columbia University and he is the head of the stage combat program at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, NYC. Since 1995, Joe has been the managing director of Swordplay, a New York City based company providing stage combat training to professional actors. He: is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors and Fight Directors, Canada. (www.jt4fights.com)
Steven Vessella - Intern
2011 Season
This is Steven's first season at WHAT and he is very glad to be on the Cape. He holds a BS in Humanities & Arts:Drama/Theatre from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2010), where he was a member of Alpha Psi Omega. Recent directorial credits include The Crucible, Love & Money and The Sandbox. Recent acting credits include Gross Indecency (Wilde), and LaVerriere's adaptation of Brustein's adaptation of Pirandello's 6 Characters in Search of an Author (The Director). He has also been featured as a playwright in New Voices (26+28), the nation's longest continuously running collegiate new and original play festival.
Ted Vitale - Production Manager
2010 Season: Everything
Before joining WHAT, Ted was Production Stage Manager for D. Benjamen Brown Productions at the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City, NJ and Production Manager of the Sid Caesar Theater in Huntington, NY, where he worked with Rene Taylor, Joe Bolongna, Frank Gorshin, Lee Meriweather and Gabe Kaplan among others. He has production managed and or company managed many national tours including Raisin with Peabo Bryson and Jeffrey Osborne and The 20th Anniversary tour of Hair among many others. He is the former General Manager of the Provincetown Repertory Theater where he created a playwrights forum on the future of American Theater with August Wilson, Lanford Wilson, Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally, Wendy Kesselman, A.R. Gurney, John Guare, Christopher Durang And Jon Robin Baitz. He is the former Artistic Director of The Academy of Performing Arts in Orleans, MA. He is also the former instructor of Stagecraft at Cape Cod Community College. As a set designer he has designed shows in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Off Broadway and Broadway where he designed for Michael Moriarty's one man show A Special Providence.
2011 Season: Neighborhood 3
VICTOR WARREN a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University where he majored in acting and directing. Some of his previous work in New England has been playing George Bailey in the Foothill Theatre's award winning production of It's a Wonderful Life. He was in the New England premieres of both Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (ASF) playing Scrooge and Eric Weiss in the acclaimed production of Brooklyn Boy for the SpeakEasy stage company. He has been seen regionally in productions of Around the World in Eighty Days (Stoneham Theatre) Two Gentleman of Verona, Christmas on Mars, Romeo and Juliet, The Foreigner, Twelfth Knight, Knives and Hens (Vineyard Playhouse), The Molly Maguiers (Sugan Theatre), Gypsy, The Complete Works of Will Shakspr Abridged (Payomet), The Country Girl, Bosoms and Neglect, Lipstogether Teeth Apart, and Carousel. Most recently he was seen on Criminal Minds, Without a Trace and Brotherhood and the Feature films Murder101, Tied to a Chair, Dribbles, Back Spot Turn. He is a full member of SSDC and ASFD. He is an award-winning Screenwriter, fight choreographer, and filmmaker. Victor's is theatrically represented by Craig Wyckoff and Assoc. For more info go to: www.victorwarren.com
Courtney Watson - Development Director
Courtney joined WHAT as the new Director of Development after 10 years in arts, environmental, and educational fundraising. Most recently she worked at Capitol Hill Day School in Washington, DC as their Development Director. Prior to that she worked as a part of the major gifts team at Brown University working with New York City/Connecticut and California regions. She is thrilled to be back in her native New England and to work as a part of the dynamic and creative team at WHAT. Please contact Courtney if you have any questions about Development at WHAT and/or are interested in upcoming events or ways to join our fun family of donors and volunteers.
Richard Watson - Actor
2011 Season: An Ideal Husband
Richard last worked with director Todd Olson this past spring as George in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? at American Stage Theatre and is proud to be working again with Todd, making his Wellfleet debut in An Ideal Husband. Richard was born and raised in Wilmington, NC. He lives in New York City. Richard was Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at Sacramento Music Circus and Sherlock in Sherlock Holmes & the West End Horror at the Asolo and Pioneer theaters. He performed recently off-Broadway in Venus Flytrap; and as John Adams in 1776 at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Richard can be seen in PS, I Love You; Law & Order CI; Delocated; Onion Sports Network, has just shot Art=(Love)², and a pilot, Powerless, for FX. He was awarded an MFA from the Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University / Shakespeare Theatre Company. Proud union member of Actors Equity, SAG and AFTRA.
Lewis D. Wheeler - Actor
2011 Season: An Ideal Husband
Last season: Colorado, Danny Casolara Died for You. Previously at WHAT: The Bald Soprano. Last Train to Nibroc, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, What the Butler Saw, What Then. Regional credits: Pinter's No Man's Land (IRNE nominee, Best Supporting Actor) (American Repertory Theatre); No Exit (Garcin) (Payomet Center); Brecht's The Life of Galileo (Underground Railway/Central Square Theater); Playboy of the Western World (Christy)(Wellesley Summer Theatre); Doubt, Ideal Husband (Gloucester Stage Co.); The Importance of Being Earnest, A Number, The Underpants, The Glass Menagerie (Lyric Stage); Arcadia (IRNE nominee, Best Actor), Comedy of Errors, Troilus and Cressida (Publick Theatre); Silence, Cyrano (New Rep); Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.); Butley (Huntington); Julius Caesar, title roles in Hamlet and Macbeth (Shakespeare Now); The Mousetrap (Stoneham); The Weir (TCAN); A Perfect Ganesh (Vineyard Playhouse). Film and television: The Company Men (Oct. 2010), Gone Baby Gone, Pink Panther 2, Underdog, Laddie in Louisa May Alcott (PBS), Brotherhood (Showtime). Lewis studied theatre and film at Cornell University and received his MFA from the American Film Institute (AFI).
Brenda Withers - Playwright, Actor
2011 Season: The Ding Dongs or What is the Penalty in Portugal?
At WHAT: The Bald Soprano; Laughing Wild; Speech And Debate; Colorado; Dead Ringer; Cyrano; Short Stack and The Mistakes Madeline Made. Regional and NY credits include The Less We Talk (Ontological), Pride and Prejudice (Denver Center), Tina Landau's Midsummer (McCarter, Paper Mill), Know Dog (Luna Stages), Twelfth Night (Arizona Theatre Company), Me (The Ohio), Almost Maine (Hudson Stage), and pieces at the US Comedy Arts Festival at Aspen and the Texas Shakespeare Festival. She co;wrote and starred in Matt & Ben (PS122), is a co;founder of Lucid Theatre (My Heart Split in Two, The MacGuffin?), and recently completed a playwriting fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
Jeffrey Withers - Director
2011 Season: The Ding Dongs or What is the Penalty in Portugal?
Jeff Withers is an actor, director, and teacher. In New York he has worked with Lucid Theater, La Mama, UCB, the Brick, and the Public, and appeared on Broadway in the National Theatre's History Boys. Other recent credits include roles at Actors Theater of Louisville, Pittsburgh Public, Milwaukee Shakes, Yale Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and the John Engeman Theater. He did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth, earned a Masters degree from the Yale School of Drama, and teaches acting and games at Fordham, NYU, and the Yale Summer Conservatory for Actors.
David Yadush - Company Manager (May - July)
2011 Season: Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, A Behanding in Spokane, Neighborhood3: Requisition of Doom, An Ideal Husband
David is excited to be working at WHAT this summer as Company Manager and as a House Manager. Raised in rural Pennsylvania he's excited to be living up in beautiful Cape Cod, near the beach where he belongs. David is a recent graduate of Albright College in Reading, PA with a B.A. in Theater and Psychology. It is a pleasure to be working with such a dynamic group of individuals.
Marshall York - Actor
2011 Season: The Ding Dongs or What is the Penalty in Portugal?
WHAT Debut. New York: Perfect Harmony (Off Broadway); the less we talk and Dysphoria (Ontological); Radio Play (PS 122); Me (Ohio Theater); Shakedown Street (NY Fringe); Phenomenon (HERE); Kaspar Hauser, The Great Recession, Girls In Trouble (Flea). Regional: The Memory of Water, Round and Round the Garden, Off the Map, Goodnight Desdemona, Living Together (Depot Theater); Animals Out of Paper, The First Day of School (Amphibian). Improviser at The Peoples Improv Theater.
Jeff Zinn - Director/Artistic Director
2011 Season: A Behanding in Spokane; Body Awareness;
Jeff Zinn was artistic director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater from 1988 until 2011. During that time he produced more than 150 productions and directed more than 50. Under his leadership WHAT was awarded two prestigious Eliot Norton Awards including one in 2001 for "Establishing a Beachhead For Serious Theatre on Cape Cod." Productions he has directed, Beauty Queen of Leenane (starring Julie Harris), Closer by Patrick Marber, and Proof by David Auburn were in the "top ten" named by the Boston Globe. His 2010 productions of Daughter of Venus by Howard Zinn and the world premiere of Danny Casolaro Died for You, by Dominic Orlando, (National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere) received critical acclaim as did his 2011 productions of A Behanding In Spokane by Martin McDonagh and Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs. Bakersfield Mist is a NNPN Rolling World Premiere and co-production with New Repertory Theatre where it will re-mount in February 2012. He has guest directed at the Nora Theatre Company and the New Repertory Theatre, and taught courses in acting, dramaturgy and theater literature at Clark College and Wheaton College. He currently holds the post of Visiting Academic Professional of Drama/Theatre and Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His most recent project is a comprehensive approach to character creation called, "The Existential Actor" chapters of which can be found online at jeffzinn.com He lives in Orleans, Cape Cod, with his wife, Crystal, and their two kids, Georgia and Noah.