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Bernard K. Addison's recent television appearances include Las Vegas, Weeds and 24.  Past television work includes Frasier, JAG, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.  Theatre work includes the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, the Pearl in New York, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Tim Altmeyer is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Florida in Gainesville.  Tim appeared most recently in Hartford in Take Me Out and at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in Stone My Heart. Before that Tim returned to the Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, FL, for Frozen. Back in New York he participated in a reading of Adrienne Kennedy’s adaptation of Madame Bovary at the Signature Theatre, directed by Estelle Parsons.  Tim returned to PlayMakers to play Septimus in Arcadia.  Tim’s UF bio.  http://www.arts.ufl.edu/bio.asp?PID=288.

Carol Anderson-Shores and her husband Jim Shores continue with their company "Acts of Renewal," producing "theatre to delight the soul" for Christian audiences at colleges, churches, and major conferences.  See them at their Web site.

Wendy Barrie-Wilson can be seen as Mrs. Chitwood on The Guiding Light, and worked this year on Law & Order/SVU and in PBS "Novel Reflections," adding to a long list of television credits.  In early 2006 she played Sister Aloysius in the European premiere of Doubt at Vienna's English theatre, and played Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, summer 2007.  Broadway: Our Town, starring Paul Newman; All My Sons, starring Richard Kiley. Wendy's numerous regional credits include the Denver Center, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, the Huntington Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival among many others.  Wendy is an accomplished potter and pottery teacher.  Visit Wendy's Web site to see more.

Josh Blann and Brandon Smith have launched Flying Man Productions, offering "a fresh look at history through theatrical productions that bring history to life."  Check them out at their Web site. 

Greg Oliver Bodine opened his one-man show Poe, Times Two, at Manhattan Theatre Source, as part of the "Straight From The Source" series at Manhattan Theatre Source, July 2007.  His new play, Christmas Thieves: A Small Town Radio Play is available from Playscripts, Inc.  He appeared as Mr. Morland/ Frederick Tinley in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, fall 2006 at Theater Ten Ten in New York, where he also appeared in the critically acclaimed A Month in the Country last year.  Greg's television appearances include speaking roles on Guiding Light, As The World Turns, and Saturday Night Live.

Kevin Butler was featured opposite Frank Langella and Laura Allen in the motion Picture How You Look To Me and returned for a second year for work at the Hartford Stage Company.  When not on stage or screen he holds the position of Dean of Judicial Affairs at Providence College .

Judy Chen appeared in "After People" at Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC, written by PATP alum Fiona Jones.  Judy recently did a reading of Homeland, for Pan-Asian Rep at the Asian Cinevision Film Festival in New York, and booked a substantial print campaign for "Abilify," Bristol Myers Squibb.  Judy also worked with the first annual National Asian American Theatre Festival in New York June 11-24, 2007.  Learn more at the NAATF's Web site .

Bostin Christopher plays the title role in the film OTIS, also starring Daniel Stern and Kevin Pollak.  Bostin was a featured artist for the Last Frontier Theatre Festival summer 2008 in Valdez, Alaska, and a playlab panelist for the Great Plain Theatre Conference in Omaha, NE.  He was seen with a chainsaw and a 12-pack of Bud Lite in a Super Bowl commercial last year, and seen co-hosting the World Heads Up Poker Championship, also in 2007, broadcast on the internet, and co-hosting the "Celebrity Hoopology" poker tournament at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Vegas.  Bostin had a supporting role in M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable.  Television credits include Ed, Law & Order, Wonderland, All My Children, and Guiding Light.  Read all about it at Bostin’ home page.  http://www.bostinchristopher.com/.

Jeffrey Blair Cornell has been a company member with PlayMakers for the past 11 seasons appearing in more than 30 productions, most recently as van Swieten in Amadeus (dir. Joe Haj), Matamore in The Illusion (Joe Haj), Cohen in The Underpants (Gene Saks), LeBret in Cyrano de Bergerac (Joe Haj).  Other regional work: The Birmingham Theatre (Girl Crazy - opposite Lorna Luft), Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theatre and the Caldwell Theatre (2 Best Actor Nominations - Carbonell Awards for Falsettoland and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me). Summer 2006 saw Jeff in Chicago at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago playing the lead in Hard Love, a new play by Israeli playwright, Motti Lerner.

Michael Cumpsty most recently appeared as Jules in the 2008 Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George. Michael portrayed  Richard II and Hamlet at CSC Repertory in New York.  His Broadway credits include The Constant Wife, Democracy, Copenhagen, Enchanted April, 42nd Street, Electra, 1776, Racing Demon, The Heiress, Translations, Timon of Athens (Bayfield Award), and Artist Descending a Staircase. For the Royal Shakespeare Company he starred as Leontes in The Winter’s Tale in Stratford-Upon-Avon. His many television credits include L.A. Law and Star Trek: Voyager; films include The Ice Storm, Fatal Instinct, and State of Grace. 

John Feltch appeared on Broadway in Enchanted April and at the Roundabout in Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle.  He was a company member at the Alley Theatre for 11 seasons playing such roles as Brutus in Julius Caesar (with Vanessa Redgrave), Henry in The Real Thing (Houston Press Best Actor, 2000), and Prior Walter in Angels in America.  John returned to the Alley to play Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, spring 2007.  John's many other theatre credits include work at American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, and the McCarter Theatre.  John returned to PlayMakers to play Edgar in King Lear, Diamond Louie in The Front Page, Versati in The Underpants, the Compte De Guiche Cyrano de Bergerac,  and Emperor Joseph in Amadeus.  John also directed Stones In His Pockets and Crimes of the Heart for PRC.

Julie Fishell has been a resident company member of PlayMakers Repertory Company since 1993 where her many roles include Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Celia in As You Like It, Elmire in Tartuffe, and Nancy in Frozen.  Also a graduate of The Juilliard School, she has performed and studied in New York with The Public Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, Manhattan Class Company, The Acting Company and the A.N.T.A. Touring Company.  Julie’s many regional credits include Inez Kirby in The Death of Papa at Hartford Stage Company (directed by Michael Wilson), and work with Virginia Stage Company and Chautauqua Theatre Company.

Janet Foster is the owner of Janet Foster Casting, where she has cast The Light in the Piazza for Lincoln Center, and on Broadway cast Lennon, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Taking Sides. Off-Broadway Janet has cast Endpapers, True Love, The Dying Gaul, The Maiden’s Prayer, Dream True, Trojan Women, A Love Story, and for Playwrights Horizons, Floyd Collins, The Monogomist, A Cheever Evening, Later Life. Regional credits include the Intiman Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Prince Music Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, American Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival. Film/TV casting: Cosby, Tracy Ullman Takes On New York,  The Deal, Advice From A Caterpillar. Janet has conducted industry workshops for the PATP.

Michael Frederic played Father Flynn in Doubt at the Cleveland Playhouse in March 2008, and in May 2008 he was seen in another production of Doubt at the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, PA. Michael was seen in Night Over Taos, directed by Estelle Parsons for INTAR at Theatre for a New City, Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Plays at the Public Theatre, Thorny Bushes at INTAR, and Vampire University at the Ohio Theatre as part of their Ice Factory Festival, all in NYC. He is a member of INTAR's Actors Collective.

Joseph Haj began his tenure as Producing Artistic Director of PlayMakers Repertory Company July 1, 2006 and has directed The Illusion and Amadeus. Previously for PlayMakers Joe directed Cyrano de Bergerac and Not About Heroes for and assisted Mark Wing-Davey on King Lear. Other directing credits include As You Like It and Metamorphosis for the Clarence Brown Theatre, and The Road That Leads Here for the Humana Festival in Louisville. As an actor Joe has worked with Joanne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart (original member of the SITI Company), Peter Sellars, Robert Woodruff, Garland Wright, Michael Grief, Sir Peter Hall, Jon Jory and others. Recent TV appearances include 24, Without a Trace, Navy NCIS, Crossing Jordan and Charmed. He is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Grant and also the recipient of the 2004/2005 Nation Endowment for the Arts / Theatre Communications Group Career Development Grant for directors.  Joe will direct Pericles to open the 2008-2009 PlayMakers season.

Carrie Heitman appeared in East Village Chronicles at the Metropolitan Playhouse in New York, and in the 2008 NY Fringe Festival in Psalms of a Questionable Nature. Carrie also appeared in Days and Nights: page 121 lines 11 & 12 in the NY Fringe Festival, August 2007.  Carrie was off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Phallacy May-June 2007.  Since returning from South-East Asia where she taught Voice and Speech at HP University in summer 2005, she has also performed with the New York Theatre Workshop, Access Theatre, and the New Acting Company.  

Beth Hylton recently appeared at Pittsburgh's Irish and Classic Theatre playing Amanda in Private Lives and Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, and at the new Gulf Shore Playhouse in Florida for Life X 3.   Beth has worked steadily in the Washington, D.C. area, most recently in And A Nightingale Sang at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre. Other credits include shows at the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Woolly Mammoth, Olney Theatre Center, Folger Theatre, the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Stage, and Ford's Theatre.  Her television credits include One Life to Live, As the World Turns, and All My Children.  Beth returned to North Carolina for Skylight in Raleigh, summer 2008.

Paige Johnston is a partner at Corrigan & Johnston Casting in Charlotte, NC.

Fiona Jones is a proud founding partner at Manhattan Theatre Source, a full-service resource for artists in New York.  Fiona has established herself as a leading voice talent in New York, including work for the NFL, Discovery Channel, MTV and other major clients.  Films include Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and several indie features.  Stage work includes Actors Theatre of Louisville and Chautauqua Repertory Theatre.  Fiona is also the founder & executive producer of the annual Estrogenius Festival, a celebration of women's voices, at Manhattan Theatre Source; her play "After People" will be presented during the 2007 Festival.  Learn more about Fiona here.

David S. Jung has appeared in the feature films Mind the Gap, How You Look to Me, and Takedown.  His numerous television credits include The Shield, The Practice, numerous appearances on Law and Order (original and SVU), and a host of commercials.  Most recently he starred in the documentary, Air Guitar Nation.  See the 4-star review and a picture of David at Reel.com.

Michael Houston King is actor, writer, and producer for The Way Back Home, in which he stars opposite Julie Harris.  The film is being repped by Mark Litwak, who also repped Hustle and Flow and Matador.  Michael's other recent films include Opposite Sex and the City and Written in Blood.  Television credits include Star Trek: Voyager, Hyperion Bay, and Sliders.

Tim Klein has returned home to the Buffalo area for a Visiting Professor position in Acting/Directing at SUNY Fredonia, after five years of acting, directing, and teaching in Chicago. Tim appeared onstage in 2007-08 at Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre Company, Theatre For Youth, and at the late, lamented Studio Arena Theatre.

Dan Krell has established himself as a leading actor in the Pittsburgh theatre scene, working constantly and receiving great praise for his work.  He recently played Cliff in Cabaret at the Pittsburgh Public and appeared in Steven Dietz's Honus & Me at the City Theatre.

Brent Langdon appeared at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in the East Coast premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's Murderers.

Rita Marchelya most recently performed as multiple characters in the ensemble-driven TWO LIVES OF NAPOLEON BEAZLEY with Incumbo Theatre in NYC.  Also NYC: world premiere of WATER AND STONE (role of Sandra, directed by Curt Dempster) at Ensemble Studio Theatre.  Other EST: Julie in Reunion, Vicki in After the Dose, company member Ensemble Lab under the direction of Curt Dempster.  She performed in the staged reading of THE RISE OF DOROTHY HALE with Naked Angels and her television and film credits include the FX comedy Starved, As the World Turns, All My Children  and indies Cracking, Rope, Network Adaptation and Concealed.  Email Rita at  ritam93@gmail.com.

Charlie Flynn-McIver is the Artistic Director of the North Carolina Stage Company in Asheville.  Prior to NCSC, Charlie toured with Judith Light in the National Tour of Wit, and was seen at Syracuse Stage, The Hangar Theatre, Theatre Virginia, Vermont Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and in New York at the Melting Pot and the Lincoln Center Institute.

Jeff Meanza has returned to PlayMakers as company member (Venticello 1 in Amadeus) and as Director of Education and Outreach. Jeff played the title role in Celebrate Good Times (Macbeth) at the West End Theatre in New York in June of 2006. In 2005 Jeff served as assistant director and played Mr. Mister in UC Berkeley's production of The Cradle Will Rock. He followed that by appearing in the Bay Area Premier of Sheila Callaghan's CRUMBLE (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) playing Father/Justin Timberlake/Harrison Ford.

Kathryn Meisle recently starred in the title role in Mrs. Packard written and directed by Emily Mann, at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ.   Recent Broadway credits include A Touch of the Poet, The Constant Wife and Tartuffe, for which she received a Tony Award nomination and the Calloway Award. Other Broadway credits include London Assurance, The Rehearsal and Racing Demon. Kathryn’s many off-Broadway credits include Living Out (Second Stage), Old Money (Lincoln Center Theatre), and Olivia in Twelfth Night, Celia in As You Like It, and Desdemona in Othello for the NY Shakespeare Festival.  Film and television: NYPD Blue, CSI Miami, Without a Trace, The Guardian, Law & Order: SVU, Oz, You’ve Got Mail, and Rosewood.

Brian Meredith can be seen on the History Channel as Captain Baczkowski in Storm on the Horizon. Other recent work in Los Angeles includes the pilots Men of Valor: Doolittle, and Medal of Honor, Airborne. On stage in Los Angeles Brian has appeared in The Godfadda Workout, which is expected to play at Mohegan Sun in November, 2006. He is in rehearsal for The Kitchen Sink, by UNC alum Meghan Gambling. The show will play at the Dorie Theatre in LA in July and early August, 2006, then move to the New York Fringe Festival. 

Harold  Todd (Moeller) used that Ringling training in The Frugal Repast, January and February 2007 at the Abingdon Theatre in New York, playing an ex-clown holding a Picasso painting for ransom.  The New York Times reviewed the show very favorably and featured a photo of Harold.  Harold's play Planet Samovar was selected for the NY Fringe Festival summer 2006.  Harold also acted in the piece.

Hana Moon has booked a guest spot on Kidnapped, and appeared as Agnes in Molière's The School for Wives, and as Luka in Shaw's Arms and the Man at the Pearl Theatre Company in New York, fall 2006. Hana has appeared on Law and Order (CI) and Guiding Light, and in a recurring role on All My Children.  NY theatre credits include the Westside Theatre, Urban Stages, and  Cowboy vs. Samurai at NAATCO. Hana has extensive national and regional commercial credits.  Hana returned to PlayMakers to play Emily in Our Town in 2002.

Connan Morrissey appeared summer 2006 in An Experiment with an Air Pump with the Potomac Theatre Project in Olney, MD, and will follow with Orson's Shadow at the Round House Theatre.  Connan's many credits include the title role in Anna Karenina at the Clarence Brown Theatre, Lady Macbeth at the Avignon-Off Festival, Laura in The Glass Menagerie at the Asolo (Handy Award, Best Supporting Actress), and work at Virginia Stage Company, the Vermont Stage Company, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Capital Rep and the Peterborough Playhouse.  Connan returned to PlayMakers to play Claire in Proof in 2002.

Matthew Patterson and his wife Melissa will appear in Beirut at the Vortex Theatre, in Austin Texas, January 2008.

Nikolas Priest appeared in the 2007 Estrogenius Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source, and on All My Children.

Susanna Rinehart is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Assistant Provost for Liberal Education and University Studies at Virginia Tech University.  

Blake Robison begins his fourth season as Artistic Director of the Round House Theatre near Washington D.C. Prior to that, Blake was Chairman of the Department of Theatre and Artistic Director of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville / Clarence Brown Theatre.  Blake has also served as Artistic Director for the National Shakespeare Company and the Champlain Shakespeare Festival.  He directed Hobson's Choice for PlayMakers Repertory Company in 2003.

Bruce Marshall Romans most recently sold an hour long series to Fox 21 Studios with a working title of Pushed.  Kevin Falls (co-executive producer of The West Wing) is co-executive producer.  Bruce also sold a half-hour comedy to Fox entitled Free Range; the script is being written with an eye to the 2007 season.  Bruce produced the independent film Blackbird for playwright Adam Rapp, who also wrote and directed.  Bruce is working with David Milch (Deadwood) to write an original pilot for HBO.  He wrote, produced, and starred in the 2004 film How You Look To Me, also starring Frank Langella and Laura Allen, and featuring classmates Kevin Butler and David S. Jung. 

Andrew Sellon starred in I Am My Own Wife at the Vermont Stage Company, March and April 2007, returned for Inspecting Carol in November 2007, and then again as Fool in VSC's King Lear, April-May 2008, continuing a rich artistic association with the company.  Andrew tours with his beautiful one-man play about Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Darkly, and in 2006 he was elected President of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.  See more at Andrew's Web site.

Sarah E. Shively is screenwriter, producing director, and actor for Contemplating Emily, a short feature that had its debut at the 2006 Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and was shown in New York in a screening of "Best Lesbian and Alternative Short Films" at the Gay and Lesbian Center in September 2006.  Sarah completed the script while on a residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.  Contemplating Emily has been accepted to the Staten Island Film Festival and will be in the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival, 2007.  

David Shoup served as a Morale, Welfare & Recreation Coordinator for the troops in Iraq.  David is now a featured speaker with Freedom Speakers and Trainers, specializing in Memory Training.

Brandon Smith and Josh Blann have launched Flying Man Productions, offering "a fresh look at history through theatrical productions that bring history to life."  Check them out at their Web site.

Marc Stern played the lead role in a short feature called United We Stand that was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, 2006.  In recent years Marc has made national commercials for American Eagle, Nextel, Hewlett Packard, among many others.  He appeared at the Met Theatre in Hollywood in Hurlyburly and The DaDaists. He is the founder and president of Oenothea Films, Inc.

Estes Tarver has a recurring role as Dr. Meredith on Guiding Light on CBS.  Estes wrote, directed, and starred in the short film, Mr. Moonlight, and appeared in The Twilight of the Golds at the Wing Theatre in New York, December 2007.

Josh Tower's Broadway credits include The Lion King (Simba, also National Tour) and Ragtime.  After stepping away from The Lion King, Josh made a trip back to NC as The Arbiter in North Carolina Theatre's production of Chess in July, 2007.  Josh has also appeared at Playwrights Horizons, the North Shore Music Theatre and the Bay Street Theatre.  

Jason Vail most recently worked on a Japanese TV show called Manhattan Diaries, "a kind of the Sex and the City version for Japan."  He had a recurring role on One Life To Live to add to past roles on Guiding Light and As the World Turns. He also recently completed an independent feature called Liar's Pendulum, which was selected into several film festivals this year "winning a couple awards along the way", and  is cast as one of the  leads in feature independent film called Silent Lucidity that shoots in September. Jason did a long tour with Shenandoah Shakespeare Express (now the American Shakespeare Center)  and worked at the Jean Cocteau Rep in New York.

Karen Walsh made her Broadway debut in March of 2007 in Prelude to a Kiss, directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre.  She returned to the Roundabout fall 2007 in Pygmalion with Claire Danes, Jefferson Mays, and Boyd Gaines, and appear in an episode of Law and Order: SVU as well.  In fall 2006 Karen played Miss Foxhill and understudied Carla Gugino as Catherine at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre in Suddenly Last Summer, directed by Mark Brokaw, starring Blythe Danner.  Karen played Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Ivoryton Playhouse, summer 2006.  Prior to that she was seen in the World Premiere of Ron Paolillo's The Lost Boy, alongside Roberta Maxwell.   

David Whalen will play Doctor Fields on The Guiding Light before heading to Pittsburgh's Irish and Classical Theatre to play Mr. Darcy in Jon Jory's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice November and December 2007.  Dave has been named an associate artist at PICT, where he played in Julius Caesar and Stuff Happens for the 2006-7 season.  He has appeared at the Roundabout Theatre in New York and regionally at South Coast Rep (10 productions), Alley Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, and many others.  He has guest starred on many TV shows, done numerous national and regional commercials, and several films for HBO including 61* directed by Billy Crystal. 

Mike Wiley’s most recent one-man performance piece, DAR HE: The Lynching of Emmett Till, has been named as one of the 10 best productions of 2006 in The Independent, The Raleigh News and Observer, and the Triangle Theatre Review. Mike’s one-man shows on Jackie Robinson, Henry “Box” Brown, and Brown v. Board of Education have been seen from Massachusetts to Georgia. One Noble Journey, about Henry “Box” Brown, played more than 120 performances in and around New York City alone. He also recently appeared in the New York Fringe Festival in The Last Silver Zephyr. Mike Wiley Productions.

Gwen Yao performed in Proof in her native Taipei, Taiwan at the National Theatre and toured with the show to Hong Kong in January, 2007. Gwen is also an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University and was elected Teacher of the Year for 2005, the third year she has been so honored.  She hosted PATP Movement instructor Professor Craig Turner for ten weeks in spring 2007 at NTU.  

Marla Yost is at HERE's American Living Room series in New York, August 2007, in "an interesting piece about the Chechen takeover of the state ball-bearing plant theatre in Moscow in 2002."  Learn more here.