2013 Company Bios

Theater at Monmouth Season 44

COMPANY BIOS

Mike Anthony (Equity Actor, 7th Season)Mike is thrilled to be returning to TAM for his seventh season! Some of his favorite shows at TAM have been The Comedy of Errors, Is He Dead?, Taming of the Shrew, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Mystery of Irma Vep and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He’d like to thank his family, and specifically, his mom and dad, who made his life

possible, and then beautiful.

Jim Alexander

Jim Alexander(Technical Director/ 3rd Season)Jim has worked on theatre, dance, and opera productions from Maine to Missouri as production manager for Washington Revels and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis and master electrician at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington Ballet, and Portland Stage Company. He toured nationally and internationally as with

The Flying Karamozovs, Netherlands Dance Theatre, Suzhuo Kunju Opera, National Ballet of China, and Ballet Nacional de Cuba. When not at TAM, Jim is Technical Director at the Public Theatre in Lewiston (and also graduated from UMaine).

Francis Beaumont(Playwright, 1st Season) An English poet and playwright, Beaumont was born in 1585 and collaborated with John Fletcher on tragicomedies The Maides Tragedy, Phylaster, and A King and No King, among others. He married in 1613, and three years later died and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He had achieved a high contemporary

reputation for his non-dramatic poetry, but survives as a dramatist.

Grace Bauer(Actor, 3rd Season)Now living in Gardiner after many years in Vancouver, Grace holds a BA in Theater from UMaine and an MFA from USC. Episodic TV credits include: Masters of Horror, Psych, The 4400, Romeo, Godiva’s. Film and Television Movies: Helen, Dancing with Shadows, Tell Me No Lies, Boot Camp, Sarah’s Room. Stage: For TAM, Blithe Spirit (Madame Arcati), Hamlet

(Gertrude). Other: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Life of Galileo, The Most Massive Woman Wins, The Women, Serpent in the Night Sky. Another favorite: joyful woman swinging from chandelier in along running Canadian lottery commercial.

Grace Bauer

Mike Anthony

Francis Beaumont

Ardarius Blakely(Shop Foreman/Actor/ 3rd Season)Hailing from the depths of Georgia and Furman University’s Class of 2012 this is Ardarius’ 3rd summer with TAM, previously appearing in Of Thee I Sing, King Lear, Henry IV, Part 1 and the 2013 Page to Stage tour. When not in Maine, Ardarius tours to schools and military bases nation-wide in a social outreach

production called Sex Signals with Chicago-based Catharsis Productions. He is very excited to be in Maine for the summer, though less excited about the black flies.

Ardarius Blakely

Adam P. Blais(House Manager/ 2nd Season)Adam is happy to return to TAM where his previous credits include choreographer/Mathew Fulton (Replacement) in Of Thee I Sing. Adam has had the opportunity to work as a director, choreographer, stage manager, performer, and educator throughout New England, most recently as company manager

for the Public Theatre in Lewiston, and assistant stage manager at Shakespeare & Company. He received his BA in Theatre from the University of Maine.

Adam P. Blais

Dan Bilodeau (Resident Set Designer/ 7th Season)Dan’s set designs include, Crime and Punishment (Gamm Theatre), King Lear and The Glass Menagerie (Theater at Monmouth), Proof (Public Theater, Lewiston), and Doubt (Portland Stage Company). Recent work includes Wit (Penobscot Theater Company), and Spring Awakening at the University of Maine. Dan holds an MFA in Design

from Brandeis University, and is an assistant professor of theatre at the University of Maine. Dan would like to thank Beth, Sophie, and Luke for all their love and support.

Dan Bilodeau

Michelle Benoit (Stitcher, 1st Season)Michelle is pleased to return to the TAM costume shop. In 2011, she was the costumer for On the Twentieth Century. She earned an MFA in costume production from the University of Florida in 2007 and has been working at theatres around the country ever since, most recently at Montana Shakespeare in the Parks

and the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. She lives in Florida but grew up in Maine and returns whenever she can.

Michelle Benoit


COMPANY BIOS

Kathleen Brown (Costume Designer/ 1st Season)A costume designer and adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine for the past four years, Kathleen’s designs have appeared in Portland Stage’s Love/Sick, Hidden Tennessee, God of Carnage, Syncopation and Over the Tavern. Other design credits: Public Theatre, Northport Music Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Lyric

Stage Company, and NJ Shakespeare Company. Kathleen holds a BFA in Theatrical Production Design from Ithaca College and lives in Camden with her husband and two teenage sons, whom she’d like to thank for their love, support, and patience.

Kathleen Brown

Tannis Boyajian (Master Carpenter/ 1st Season)From Salem, MA, Tannis graduated from Salem State University in spring 2012 with a BFA in Technical Theatre and since graduating has been working at various schools and theatres throughout the Boston area. She has worked with Summer Theatre at Salem (MA), the New London Barn Playhouse (NH) and the Des Moines

Metro Opera Company (IA). Tannis hopes to return to grad school to pursue a degree in Technical Direction.

Tannis Boyajian

Amy Cain(Stitcher/ 1st Season)Amy is excited to be joining the TAM team in the costume shop for the 2013 season! Originally from New York, she graduated with a BA in Drama from Lee University (TN), then interned in the costume shop of Totem Pole Playhouse (PA) summer 2010, and then Phoenix Theatre (AZ), for their 2010-2011 season.

She is currently working on her MFA in Costume Design at Illinois State University.

Rebekah Bryer (Stage Management Intern/ 1st Season)Beka was born and raised in Bowdoinham, Maine, and has gone to productions at TAM her whole life. She recently graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts with a double major in Theatre and History. While at Wheaton, she stage managed four productions (Romeo and Juliet,

Cloud 9, Cabaret, Rumors) and was an intern last summer at Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls, NY. She is thrilled to work at TAM this summer!

Rebekah Bryer

Amy Cain

Josh Carpenter(Actor/ 1st Season)Josh is thrilled to be making his TAM debut. A company member of Quintessence Theatre Group in Philly, he has acted with Shakespeare Theatre New Jersey, Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC), American Shakespeare Center (VA), GTA Southern Stage (GA), and Playground Theatre (FL). Favorite roles include Iago, Henry V, Richard Hannay

in The 39 Steps, and Zanetto and Tonino in The Venetian Twins. Thanks and love to Ally and my family. www.joshcarpenter.net.

Josh Carpenter

Heather Carey (Costume Designer/ 3rd Season)Heather has designed for Harbor Lights Theater Company, Intimation Productions, UnSung Musicals Co., Spence School for Performing Arts, ArtEffects Theatre, TAM, Brandeis Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Psych Drama Company; she has assisted on productions with Making Books Sing, Queens College,

and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Super Sidekick: The Musical, was voted Best of FringeNYC 2012 in the FringeNYC Encore Series. Heather received her MFA in Costume Design from Brandeis University. www.heatherjcarey.com

Heather Carey

Lynne Chase (Lighting Designer/ 8th Season)Lynne has spent the last year touring the world without ever leaving home. She explored the intricacies of Norwegian pipe mazes for An Enemy of the People. She created searing Middle Eastern suns for The Arabian Nights. In Maine, she has designed dozens of shows right here at TAM in addition to lighting over

50 productions at Penobscot Theatre and Doubt at Portland Stage Company.

Lynne Chase

Mark S. Cartier(Equity Actor/ 17th Season)Mark returns for his 17th season at beautiful Cumston Hall, where he has appeared in more than 50 productions over the years. Since last summer, he has played Mr. Gower in It’s a Wonderful Life at Stoneham Theatre (MA) and Mishkin in Fools at Ocean State Theatre Company (RI). Mark had principal roles in the independent

films Infinitely Polar Bear and Mary Loss of Soul and worked on several other film and TV projects, including an interactive web series. He lives in West Bridgewater, MA with his wife Jane. www.markscertier.net

Mark S. Cartier


COMPANY BIOS

Luke Couzens(Actor/ 1st Season)A New England native, Luke comes to TAM from Chicago, where he has been living, working, and studying for the past six years. Recent credits include Coriolanus (The Hypocrites), The Glass Menagerie (Oak Park Festival Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (First Folio Theatre), Letters Home (Griffin Theatre), Thirty Thousand

One (Pursuit Productions), as well as multiple projects with Redmoon Theater and Collaboraction. Many thanks to friends and family for their continued support.

Luke Couzens

Xi Chen(Lighting Designer/ 4th Season)A full-time resident of Maine, Xi is excited to be spending the summer again in Monmouth. He is also pleased to remain true to his dramatic roots by pursuing a career in the American legal system in the fall. Favorite designs include James and the Giant Peach; Metamorphoses; Camelot; and L’Histoire du Soldat.

Much love to the parents and everyone in the Department of Theater at Colby College.

Xi Chen

Lisa DeHart(Kitchen Manager/ 3rd Season)Lisa is the AEA stage manager at the Public Theatre in Lewiston during the winter. She stage managed two seasons at TAM 1995-1997. Lisa has been a Registered Maine Guide in Wilderness Canoeing since 1993, guiding everywhere from the Rio Grande to the Gaspe. She lives in West Gardiner with husband Jeff and

nine-year-old son Elijah. She loves to cook and is thrilled to be a member of this company.

Lisa DeHart

Hannah Daly(Actor/ 1st Season)Originally from beautiful Portland, ME, Hannah is pursuing a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University. Favorite roles include Martha Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Portland Stage Company), Mary Tilford in The Children’s Hour, Thea in Spring Awakening (Mad Horse Theater Company), and Lucy in

Mr. Marmalade (Syracuse University). This fall she will be studying abroad in London at Shakespeare’s Globe. Many heartfelt thanks to Dawn, Dusty, and, as always, B, L.& N.

Hannah Daly

Joan Didion(Playwright, 1st Season) Born in California in 1934 and a graduate from Berkeley in 1956, Didion wrote her first novel in the early 1960’s. Her narrative nonfiction has earned her the reputation of a highly esteemed chronicler of American culture and politics. In 2005, Didion wrote The Year of Magical Thinking, a National Book Award

winning memoir chronicling her struggle with the dual burdens of the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter Quintana’s grave illness. In 2007, Didion’s adaptation of her novel first appeared on Broadway, directed by David Hare and featuring Vanessa Redgrave.

Joan Didion

Brooke Edwards (Director, Props Master/ 2nd Season)Brooke is an actor, director, and designer who has recently completed an MFA in Directing at Western Illinois University. Previous professional experience includes work at Woolly Mammoth, Studio Theater (D.C.); Metropole Theatre Works (CA); Orange Girls, St. Louis Actor’s Studio, Upstream Theatre,

New Jewish Theatre, St. Louis Shakespeare and HotCity (MO). Brooke is a two-time Kevin Kline Award recipient, has appeared in film and television, and is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA.

Brooke Edwards

Deirdre Dosedlo(Concessions Manager/1st Season)Deirdre is excited to be joining the company at TAM. She is no stranger to the theatre as her father introduced her to TAM a few years ago and has been here every summer since. She has volunteered in many positions but this year she will be kitchen assistant and concessions manager. She looks forward to many more years of service at TAM.Deirdre Dosedlo

Patrick Flick(Director/ 1st Season)Patrick has worked as a producer, director, and actor at theatres across the country including: Orlando Shakespeare, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, San Jose Stage, Florida Studio, Phoenix Theatre, Alliance Theatre, and Riverside Shakespeare in New York. Directing credits include Comedy of Errors, Into the Woods, Twelfth Night, A Little Night

Music, Private Lives, and Kiss Me Kate. A four-time Emmy winning television producer, Patrick is the General Manager of the Shakespeare Theatre Association and serves as the Literary Chair of the National New Play Network.

Patrick Flick


COMPANY BIOSW.S. Gilbert (Playwright, 5th Season) William Schwenck Gilbert was an English humorist and playwright whose dramatic productions include An Old Score; Pygmalion and Galatea; Charity and Sweethearts; Broken Heart; H.M.S. Pinafore; The Sorcerer; The Pirates of Penzance; Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride; Iolanthe; Princess Ida; The Mikado; Ruddigore; Yeoman of the Guard;

The Gondoliers; and Utopia. In most of his comic operas he collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan.

W.S. Gilbert

James Noel Hoban(Equity Actor/ 3rd Season)James is very pleased to return to TAM this season. He appeared last year as Tartuffe in Tartuffe and Worcester in Henry IV, Part 1. Regional credits include productions with the Public Theater, Portland Stage Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Good Theater, Dramatic Repertory Company, Mad Horse

Theatre, and American Renaissance Theatre. James is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and studied at the National Theatre of Great Britain.

James Noel Hoban

Alexander Harvey(Actor/ 1st Season)Alexander trained at Bristol Old Vic and Syracuse University. Recent New York credits include: Long Day’s Journey into Night and Jew of Malta (York Shakespeare Company); Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear (ShakespeareNYC); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Compassion Theater Co.). Regionally he has appeared in: Othello, The Seagull, Antigone, The Venetian

Twins, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V (Quintessence Theatre Group); Doubt, Hip/Shake (Syracuse Stage). www.alexander-harvey.com

Alexander Harvey

Helen Hoepfner(Box Office Manager/ 1st Season)Helen is a recent Maine transplant. She comes to TAM from Missouri where she was the Sales and Service Coordinator for the St. Louis Symphony. She has an MA in Theater History and Dramaturgy from the University of Oklahoma. When she is not in the Box Office she spends her time working on new plays and

reading old ones. Thank you for supporting live theatre! Now, please unwrap your candy and enjoy the show!

Helen Hoepfner

Sara Holden(Costume Intern/ 1st Season)Sara comes to TAM all the way from Moscow, ID where she is a student at the University of Idaho. Her previous professional experience was at the Idaho Repertory Theatre. She is extremely happy to join the company at TAM this summer.

Sara Holden

Simon Kiser(Actor/ 1st Season)A graduate of the UNCSA High School Drama program, a Fellow in Emerson College’s Honors program, and a veteran of the American Shakespeare Center’s Young Company, Virginia-native Simon is thrilled to make his TAM debut. Favorite roles include Dante in The Inferno, Warren in This Is Our Youth,

Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth in Macbeth. www.facebook.com/SimonKiser.

Simon Kiser

Aislinn Kerchaert(Actor/ 1st Season)Born in Boston, MA and raised in West Hartford, CT—Aislinn comes to TAM from Chicago, IL where she received her BFA at DePaul University. Chicago credits include Messenger/Chorus in Oedipus Rex (The Arc Theatre), and Sylvia Plath in Lady Lazarus (Gorilla Tango Theatre). She is devising The Ladies

Empowerment Project, with a fierce female ensemble and The Goodnight Ladies artist collective. Working with TAM is dream come true.

Aislinn Kerchaert

Jonna Klaiber(Resident Costume Designer/6th Season)A Maine native, Jonna grew up attending TAM. She fell in love with theatre here at age six and is thrilled to be returning for her 6th season. Previous costume designs include Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Glass Menagerie, Blithe Spirit, Twelfth Night and The Mikado among others. Jonna designs costumes at the Public

Theatre in Lewiston and teaches Costume Construction at her alma mater, University of Southern Maine. She lives in Auburn with her husband Steve and Cody the Brown Hound.

Jonna Klaiber


COMPANY BIOSStacey Koloski(Set Designer/ 1st Season)Stacey is a Portland-based scenic designer. Recent credits include Big Mouth Thunder Thighs (Portland Stage Company Studio Rep), If We Were Birds (Lorem Ipsum Collective), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Mad Horse Theatre), Topdog/Underdog (Dramatic Repertory Company), The Birthday Party (Acorn

Productions), and The Seafarer (American Irish Repertory Ensemble). Stacey is co-owner of STAGES: The Performing Arts Academy for Kids and a co-founder of PortFringe.

Stacey Koloski

Samantha Lemon(Master Electrician/ 1st Season)Born and raised in Delaware, Samantha got out as fast as she could. Professional experiences includes Trinity Repertory Company, Barter Theatre, Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and Berkshire Theatre Festival. Samantha loves her awesome cat Sahara, to travel the

country, and working in theatre.Samantha Lemon

Elizabeth Lardie(Box Office Assistant/ 1st Season)Elizabeth, a Maine native, has performed with AIRE, Fenix Theatre Company, Theater Project, Dramatic Repertory Company, Snowlion Repertory Company, and Lanyard Theater Company as well as Manhattan Theatre Club in NYC and Sydney Theatre Company in Australia. She was thrilled to perform in TAM’s

Page to Stage tour of The Legend of Finn MacCool. Elizabeth earned a BA from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Elizabeth Lardie

Beth Livengood(Props Intern/ 1st Season)A rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Beth will be receiving her BA in theatre in 2014. Some of her favorite properties credits include Bat Boy: The Musical with the City Arts Center of Greensboro and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at UNCG. Beth is very excited to be joining TAM for the summer.Beth Livengood

Dawn McAndrews(Director/ 4th Season)Dawn has worked as director, producer, and educator at theatres across the country including Shakespeare Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Portland Stage Company, and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis. Directing credits include The Language Archive (Public Theatre), The Mousetrap, Henry

IV, Part 1, Of Thee I Sing (TAM), The Glass Menagerie, Holiday, and Three Days of Rain (1st Stage), Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Antigone, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, as well as adapting and directing A Christmas Carol at Portland Stage Company.

Dawn McAndrews

Jeff Meyers (AEA Stage Manager/ 8th Season)Jeff was in a play once. He played the “Captain” in the Grand Junction, CO, high school production of Carousel. He then turned to stage management. He is very pleased and proud to be a part of the TAM team. He calls New York City home and his recent highlights there include the Off-Broadway productions of Neil Simon’s Marry Me A Little and

Tina Howe’s Painting Churches (Keen Company). His union of choice is AEA, and he dedicates this season to Joan.

Jeff Meyers

Max McAndrews(Lighting Apprentice/ 2nd Season)Born in Maine, Max moved to Washington D.C at two, Missouri at ten, and finally back to Maine two years ago. He is a junior at Mt. Ararat High School, plays violin, and enjoys listening to music. When he was younger, he tried acting in plays but stage fright kept him from making it past the rehearsals. This is his second gig with a professional

theatre and he looks forward to future opportunities.Max McAndrews

Ambien Mitchell (Actor/ 3rd Season)Ambien is a Brooklyn-based storyteller who is overjoyed to return to Monmouth for her third season. TAM credits: Glass Menagerie, Blithe Spirit, and Much Ado About Nothing. Regional: Amadeus (Northern Stage), The Diary of Anne Frank (Triad Stage), The Crucible and two educational tours (NC Shakes).

Ambien lights on plays, readings, and films as well as an amusing assortment of part-time jobs.

Ambien Mitchell


COMPANY BIOSMelissa A. Nathan (AEA Assistant Stage Manager/ 1st Season)Melissa is very excited to be working at TAM. Favorite credits include: SWP (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Educating Rita (Florida Rep), August: Osage County (WPPAC), Lost in Yonkers (Atlantic Stage), Wicked City (Depot Theatre), Victory (PTP/NYC), Bonnie & Clyde (Asolo Repertory Theatre), China: The Whole Enchilada

(FringeNYC), Twelfth Night and The Imaginary Invalid (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre). She is a proud member of AEA and co-secretary of the Stage Managers’ Association.

Melissa A. Nathan

Christina Nugent (Box Office Assistant/ 1st Season)Christina is a recent film and theater graduate from Quinnipiac University. She spent last summer with the Abingdon Theatre Company as a playwright and a script reader. When she’s not writing, or thinking about how she should be writing, she’s probably eating. She is excited about her first official summer with TAM

and encourages you to stop by the box office to say hello! Preferably with cookies.

Christina Nugent

Liz Nelson (Sound Intern/ 1st Season)Liz, originally from Tallahassee, FL, recently graduated from Plymouth State University where she was Head of Audio for the Silver Center for the Arts. Previously, Liz has interned with California Shakespeare Theatre (CA), Taproot Theatre (WA), and Charleston Stage (SC). In the fall she will move to Sarasota to intern with the Florida

Studio Theatre for the 2013-2014 season.Liz Nelson

Frank Omar (Actor/ 8th Season)Frank has appeared in Theater at Monmouth productions of Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, Fantasticks, My Three Angels, The Winter’s Tale, and Of Thee I Sing. He is a resident of Hallowell and a member of Gaslight Theater, where most recently he appeared in Dinner for One, And Then There Were None, and Key for Two. He,

also, organizes and emcees an annual fundraiser for Johnson Hall in Gardiner.

Frank Omar

Amadi Pate(Marketing Intern/ 1st Season)Amadi is excited to be part of Theater at Monmouth this summer. Originally from Texas, Amadi comes to TAM from DePaul University in Chicago, where she is a junior theatre management major. Amadi would like to thank her family and friends for their continued love and support!

Amadi Pate

Davis Robinson(Director, 7th Season)Davis has worked professionally as an actor and director for more than 20 years in film, television, and on stage. For TAM, he has directed Blithe Spirit, A Little Hotel on the Side, and Arsenic and Old Lace. Davis is best known for his work as founder and artistic director of the award-winning Beau Jest Moving Theater, a physical

theatre company. He is the author of The Physical Comedy Handbook, now in its eighth printing.

Davis Robinson

Rebecca Porzig(Stitcher, 1st Season)Rebecca is thrilled to be working with the Theater at Monmouth after graduating from New College of Florida with a B.A. in psychology! Wait, is that right? Yes, a degree in psychology, not in anything that seems like it should be related to making costumes.

Rebecca Porzig

Elizabeth Rocha(Costume Designer/ 1st Season)Elizabeth grew up outside of Augusta and is excited about coming back to work in Maine. She currently lives in Boston where she started as a children’s illustrator before getting involved in theatre. She has worked with the Boston Circus Guild, Behind the Mask Theater, Prometheus Dance Company, Jose Mateo Ballet Theater,

Boston Ballet and 3Past Midnight Films. www.elizabethrochadesign.net

Elizabeth Rocha


COMPANY BIOSWilliam Shakespeare(Playwright, 44th Season)No man’s life has been the subject of more speculation than Shakespeare’s. For all his fame and celebrity, Shakespeare’s personal history remains a mystery. We know a man named William Shakespeare was baptized at Stratford upon Avon on April 26, 1564, and was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford on April 25, 1616.

Tradition holds that he was born three days earlier and that he died on his birthday, April 23, but this is perhaps more myth than fact. Regardless, it is clear that by 1594, Shakespeare was a shareholder, actor, and principle playwright in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, one of the most popular companies in London, and remained so until the end of his career in 1611. In the years since Shakespeare’s death, he has risen from obscurity to the most read, adapted, and translated writer of all time.

William Shakespeare

Matthew Shearer(Lighting Intern/ 1st Season)His first summer at TAM, Matthew is currently a junior at Point Park University studying Technical Theatre with a concentration in Lighting. Last summer he was an electrician apprentice and board operator for a Chekhov festival at the Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre. This past fall he was Deck

Electrician for The Producers, put on by Point Park’s Pittsburgh Playhouse.

Jay Shepherd (Marketing Manager/ 2nd Season)Born and raised in Winter Park, Florida, Jay recently received an MS in Arts Management and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Oregon. Whether it’s on stage or off, she is driven by her passion for theatre, especially Shakespeare, and in supporting engagement in the

arts. Special thanks to AJ, Mom, Kristin, Dawn, and the #thinktank. www.jLshepherd.wordpress.com

Jay Shepherd

Matthew Shearer

Ryan Simpson (Actor/Box Office/ 3rd Season)Ryan is thrilled to return to TAM! He is from the Chicago area and is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University (BFA Music Theatre). TAM credits: Henry IV, Part I, Room Service, James and the Giant Peach, and tours of The Legend of Finn MacCool, The Reluctant Dragon, and The Comedy of Errors.

Ryan is a member of the improvisational comedy troupe, GreenRoom Productions. Special thanks to Dawn, Mom, Dad, Danielle, Jay, AD, and Daniel!

Ryan Simpson

Janis Stevens (Equity Actor/ 12th Season)Favorite TAM roles: Amanda/The Glass Menagerie, Paulina/The Winter’s Tale, Merteuil/Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Amanda/Private Lives. Regional: Maria Callas/Master Class at Sierra Repertory Theatre and at Capital Stage (CA); title role in Becoming Julia Morgan at the Berkeley City Club (Bay Area

Theatre Critics Nominee). 2006 Drama Desk Nominee for her portrayal of Vivien Leigh in Vivien, off-off Broadway. She is an Associate Artist with Capital Stage in Sacramento where she will be returning this Fall to portray Lady Macbeth for the third time in her career! A Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Janis Stevens

Nick Sutton (Actor/ 1st Season)Nick loves entertaining his family and friends with his theatrical stylings and he is very excited to be a part of this company! In 2012 Nick spent his summer vacation at Stages Theater Camp for kids where he participated in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Anna and the King. Other roles include Thomas Mara Jr. in Miracle on 34th

Street and Prince Eric in Little Mermaid (Portland Players).Nick Sutton

Arthur Sullivan (Playwright, 5th Season)Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was an English composer best known for his collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert, including such popular works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Sullivan’s artistic output included 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several

plays, numerous hymns and other church pieces, parlour ballads, carols, and chamber pieces.

Arthur Sullivan

Daniel B. Thompson(Production Manager/ 3rd Season)A Utah native, Daniel returns to TAM from his home in Davis, California. Daniel also works as the Campus Events Coordinator for the Mondavi Center at UC Davis where he coordinates live events for the university as well as performances with organizations and artists like the New York Philharmonic, St. Louis

Symphony, B.B. King, Wayne Shorter, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Buddy Guy.

Daniel B. Thompson


COMPANY BIOSRew Tippin(Resident Sound Designer/ 8th Season)Rew would have stayed where he wrote this bio, a land of sun, sand, surf, and hot tubs, but he preferred to return to this wonderful theatre and produce sound designs for a brilliant season. He’s like that. You know these artist types.

Rew Tippin

Max Waszak(Actor/ 2nd Season)Originally from North Carolina, Max could not be more grateful to return to Monmouth! TAM credits: The Little Prince, Henry IV Part 1, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and two educational tours. Off-Broadway: Henry V, Playing Molière (New York Classical Theatre). Regional: The Little Foxes (Triad Stage), Much Ado About

Nothing, A Thousand Cranes, (NC Shakes). BFA Acting UNC Greensboro.

Max Waszak

Bill Van Horn(Associate Artistic Director, Equity Actor/ 12th Season)Bill has been a fixture at TAM since the 2001 and has directed and acted in numerous productions since then. Bill acts, directs, and writes for the acclaimed Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia. A successful playwright, screenwriter and librettist, Bill’s script and narration for the award-winning

documentary Workshop for Peace appeared on PBS and is seen by thousands of visitors each day at the United Nations.

Bill Van Horn

Brynn White (Wardrobe Supervisor, 2nd Season)Brynn is excited to return for her second season with Theater at Monmouth. A recent graduate of the Texas State Theater Design and Technical program, Brynn now hails from Springfield, MO. She spent the last year cultivating her skills as a seamstress with custom freelancing.

Brynn White

Thornton Wilder(Playwright, 1st Season)Born in Madison, Wisconsin and educated at Yale and Princeton, Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. He was the recipient of a U.S. National Book Award for the

novel The Eighth Day, and of three Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.

Thornton Wilder

Margery Williams(Author, 1st Season)Author of the classic story of how a boy’s love transforms a velveteen rabbit into a real one, Margery Williams Bianco was born on June 22nd, 1881. Mostly home schooled, she came to the United States when she was nine years old. Her first adult novel was published when she was 21, but The Velveteen Rabbit was the first

and best-known of her 30 children’s books.Margery Williams

Sally Wood(Director, 11th Season)Sally is an actor, fight choreographer, teaching artist, and director. She has worked regionally and abroad. At Portland Stage Sally directed Hidden Tennessee and John Cariani’s Love/Sick. Sally was artistic director at Theater at Monmouth for many seasons and is a favorite both on and off stage for TAM audiences.Sally Wood

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