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Melissa Melissa Barker performed in over 15 productions while a student at Suffolk University. She has most recently worked with imaginary beasts and The National Theatre of Allston. Melissa is thrilled to be a part of this year’s FeverFest.
Hannah Hannah Barth has performed with Lyric Stage, Gloucester Stage, and Shakespeare NOW! She is a certified massage therapist and a graduate of Salem Stage College with a BFA in theatre performance. Hannah will soon be relocating to Paris to study mime and is happy to have FeverFest be her last Boston performance.  Immeasurable thanks to J.

Mike Bash

Mike Bash is a 2007 graduate of Emerson College.  His regional work includes: Tom in Glass Menagerie, Valentine in Arcadia, Dick in Moon Children.  Upcoming: Dracula Communist Pageant w/ ART.  Film: Plastic (Netflix!) T.V: "24".  Special thanks to a TMOT: Steve Yakutis, Aunt Marge, Uncle Paul and Uncle Joe. Mike is very excited to be joining imaginary beasts for the first time with this project.

Santio Santio Cupon Regional and Local Credits: Encore Theater: The Best Little Whore House in Texas; Broadway Palms Dinner Theatre (Arizona): Hello Dolly; Ogunquit Playhouse: Hairspray; Maine State Music Theatre: Hairspray, Grand Hotel, Thoroughly Modern Millie, West Side Story; American Repertory Theatre: Island of Slaves, Romeo and Juliet; Gold Dust Orphans: Whizzin; Walt Disney World Entertainment, Orlando FL. Film Credits: Walt Disney World Productions: The Game Plan.
Phil

Phil Crumrine is a student at the Boston Conservatory studying Musical Theatre. He is originally from Kansas and has had the incredible opportunity to make it to the East Coast and work with some of the most talented folks he's ever known. Thank you Cristi for this opportunity, he's so glad they could share this experience. To Lindsey, here is to the first of many.

Irene

Irene Daly is delighted to be co-Managing Director and a founding member of Mill 6.  She is also quite proud to be a longtime company member of Rough & Tumble and has performed with Queer Soup, Industrial Theatre, Súgán, Theatre Co-op, Merrimack Repertory and Stoneham Theatre. Thank you for coming and enjoy the show!

Renee Renée Rossi Donlon's recent return to Boston after six years in New York was immediately followed by her appearance as Linda in Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam (Milton Players). New York credits include Nora (A Doll’s House), May (Fool for Love), Harper (Angels in America), Sunny (The Cheese Shop), etc. Renée wrote and starred in both the short film Unspoken Sun and the short play Cards (John Drew Theater’s “Naked Stage”).

 

William Donnelly has been Industrial Theatre's resident playwright since 1997. He has worked with Mill 6, Rough & Tumble, and Alarm Clock among others. In 2005, he was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting/New Theatre Works grant. He lives Out West ... near Worcester.

Justin Fournier

Justin Fournier is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach.  His directing credits include his own play, Deus ex Machina, assistant direction for an adaptation of The Stinky Cheese Man at South Coast Reparatory Co. and Dracula at Theatricum Botanicum.  Justin is new to imaginary beasts, but needless to say, he's quite giddy about it.

 
Antoine A. Gagnon is co-Managing Director of Mill 6.  He has previously directed their productions of Match and My Name is Leslie.  He has also worked with Rough & Tumble and Industrial Theatre.
  Theo Goodell Past writing credits: How To Kill a Robot and Three Wise Monkeys (staged reading) with National Theatre of Allston; Linoleum (KC/ACTF region I 10-minute finalist, 2007). Theo holds a B.S. in theatre from Suffolk University. Thank you to Meg, Jen, Nora and the cast.

Tara Henry

Tara Henry is thrilled to be appearing with imaginary beasts!  Tara is originally from California, and still new to Massachusetts.  Highlights of Tara's past shows include: Titus Andronicus as Titus Andronicus, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild as Mildred Wild, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp as Scheherazade and Christmas in the Land of Oz as the Scarecrow. Tara thanks Matthew, Amanda and the cast of Three Sisters.

Jordan Jordan Harrison is an actor, video artist, and projecter (he creates projects) who is ecstatic to be recreating this project with these wonderful people. Jordan has recently worked with Imaginary Beasts, Zeitgeist & Way, Beau Jest, and Caleb Hammond. Jordan thanks Tim Mathien, Conor O'Keefe, and H. ipostupost.com.
Rachael Rachael Hunt's  favorite recent roles include Sorrel Haze in Essential Self-Defense, and Lucy in Mr. Marmalade, a role for which she earned an IRNE nomination for Best Actress. She holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Bard College, where she also studied dance intensively. She is glad to be a part of FeverFest!
Hannah Hannah Husband is thrilled to be joining FeverFest 2008. Regional credits include Twelfth Night (Actor's Shakespeare Project), Othello and The Importance of Being Earnest (Olney Theatre Center's National Players), Robin Hood, Romeo and Juliet, and Henry V (Marin Shakespeare Company). She studied at LAMDA and holds a BFA from Boston University.
Kaitlin

Kaitlin Kerr is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is her first production with Whistler in the Dark Theatre. She holds a BA in Theater Arts and a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Brandeis University, where she most recently produced and directed Hungers—True Experiences of Eating Disorders. Past acting credits include Balm in Gilead, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and The Water Children.

 

John J. King is a Texas-born, NY-educated playwright currently surviving in Boston. He has directed, produced and acted professionally for the past five years. His plays have appeared at the New England Fringe and at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. He recently attended the prestigious Advanced Program at the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in Washington, D.C.

Amanda LaForge Amanda LaForge recently graduated from Ithaca College. Previous credits include stage manager for Hedda Gabler and 4.48 Psychosis at Ithaca College. She was also stage manger for The New Era, a national tour in Cameroon, West Africa, and assistant director for Voice Suspended, a Performing Arts for Social Change project.
Lindsay Lindsey Larson just finished her sophomore year at The Boston Conservatory. Martha's (b)Rainstorm marks her first Boston production that isn't at the Conservatory and she is ecstatic about it!!! Favorite roles include Into The Woods (Jacks Mother), Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett), Les Miserables (Mme. Thenardier). Love to teachers, friends and N114LS.
  A. Nora Long couldn’t be happier to join FeverFest 2008. She grew quite fond of the Whistler folks during All This Flying, All This Tumbling Down for which she translated We All Have the Same Story. Nora is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute of Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University where she dramaturged Olly’s Prison, assisted on The Birthday Party and curated The South African Festival. She currently works for the Suffolk University Theatre Department and greatly appreciates all their help in bringing this piece to fruition.
 

Georgia Lyman is pleased to be producing her first piece for Orfeo Group.  Primarily an actress, she has most recently worked with Lyric Stage, New Rep Theater, Orfeo Group and Speakeasy Stage.  She has taught for Boston University, Suffolk U. and Emerson.  She holds a B.A. from B.U and is a proud core member of Orfeo Group.

Blair Blair Meadows graduated from Suffolk University in 2005 with a degree in Theatre Arts. Past credits include: You Can't Take It With You, The Suicide, Assassins, Conference of the Birds, and Rhinoceros. Thanks to Theo, Heather and the cast.
Amy Meyer Amy Meyer is a 2007 graduate of Connecticut College.  She is thrilled to be working again with imaginary beasts after performing in Under the Overcoat and Impossible Things this spring.  Amy has also appeared in Last Call and Plays by Moonlight with SouthCity Theatre.  College highlights include roles in Smash, Wonder of the World, and Fêtes de la Nuit.
 

Cristi Miles has directed at Berkshire Theatre Festival, where she also taught Suzuki. She has taught with numerous theatres including Stoneham theatre, New Rep, Merrimack Rep, and with The Boston Conservatory. Cristi holds an MFA from Brandeis University and is a proud member of the Orfeo Group and Actors' Equity.

Andy Mitton

Andy Mitton is a native of Boston. He is a playwright, screenwriter, director of theatre and film, singer/songwriter, composer and sound designer who has been contributing to the Southern California arts community for seven years. Andy is the co-President of Points North Films, LLC and Artistic Director of the Sight Unseen Theatre Group.

Information on his first feature film can be found at www.yellowbrickroadthemovie.com.

Beth Elizabeth Pearson is a 2007 graduate of Connecticut College and a proud company member of imaginary beasts, for whom she most recently performed a variety of roles in Impossible Things.  Other peformance highlights include Juliet in Sleepy Lion Theatre's Romeo and Juliet, Truffaldino in Servant to Two Masters, and Sumiko in Charles Mee's Fêtes de la Nuit while at Connecticut College. Also, Joy in Whistler in the Dark's production of Vampire.
Joey Joey Pelletier is the Assisant Artistic Director for Boston Actors Theater. He has been involved with BAT's two previous Summer One Act Festivals as well as last spring's Metamorphoses. He has also worked with Zeitgiest Stage, 11:11 Theater, and Alarm Clock Theater, most notably, the 2006 Elliot Norton Award winner PS. Page Me Later.
 

Risher Reddick is a theatre artist and a teacher. His collaborators include: Actors' Shakespeare Project, American Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Boston Theatre Works, Wellfleet Harbor Actor's Theatre, Belmont Day School, and The Strand Youth Theatre Project. Risher holds a BFA from Boston University and is a founding member of Orfeo Group.

  John Sorice most recently appeared as Queequeg in Mill 6's Coarse Acting Moby Dick.  Previous roles include Oberon/Theseus in Midsummer and Lenny in Of Mice and Men.
 

Aaron Tabor was seen on the Boston scene in Oblivion's Hunger Dreams. Aaron is pleased to debut with Orfeo Group. Film credits include: Angry Bicycle: The Tale of Tom Two-penny, Fighting Libraries, Ladylandman, and Sawyer Rexus an adaptation of Caligula set to Twain's Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huck Finn.

Meg Meg Taintor is the Artistic Director of Whistler in the Dark, for whom she has directed VampireAll This Flying, All This Tumbling Down, The B File, and The Possibilities, and performed in Howard Barker's A Hard Heart, Don't Exaggerate (FeverFest 06), and The Psyche Project (FeverFest 07). For Whistler’s fourth season, Meg will direct the New England premiere of Mary’s Wedding and Euripides’ masterpiece The Bacchae.
Matthew Matthew Woods is a graduate of the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training. He has made his living as an independent theatre artist in the Boston area for the past several years. In 2005 Woods became the Artistic Director of the Iron-Rail Stage Company at Lynn Arts, now called imaginary beasts. Woods also teaches at North Shore Community College, and serves as the college's Performing Arts Coordinator.

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