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Eric Brooks (Slatko Bogdanovich) Cherry company member. Previous Cherry: The Missing Chapter, The Snow Queen (2018). Many shows at Kitchen Theatre Company. Some favorites: The Price, Talley’s Folly, Peter and the Starcatcher, and the world premiere of Precious Nonsense (also at the Auburn Public Theatre). Other regional credits include A View From the Bridge, The Iceman Cometh, Macbeth (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Comedy of Errors, She Loves Me, Guys & Dolls (Meadow Brook Theatre, Detroit). New York theatre includes Henry V, Richard II (11th Hour Company), Naked Will (PS 122). Several years as Dr. Louis Darnell on the CBS soap Guiding Light.

Helen Clark (Dr. Solveig Reiger) Cherry company member. Previous Cherry: Winter Animals, Rule of Thumb, The Snow Queen (2016 & 2017). Other select regional credits include the World Premiere of Good Children (Iris), Julius Caesar (Portia), Hot L Baltimore (Jacky), A Christmas Carol (Katharine/Fezziwigs Daughter) WRENS (Meg) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Honey), K, Or the Girl With The Plastic Rose/ Storm Trilogy (Mother), and On The Corner (Ensemble). She holds a BFA in Acting from UConn and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.

Lucy Gladstone (Silvana Bogdanovic) is a senior BFA acting major at Ithaca College originally from Dover, MA. Previous credits include Nate in The Kid Thing at Ithaca College, and #14 in The Wolves with On The Verge at the Cherry Arts. www.lucymgladstone.com

Karl Gregory (Raul Klemmer) Recently named “Best Actor” by the Ithaca Times, Karl has appeared in over 45 shows in town since 2002. Kitchen Theatre Company: Every Brilliant Thing, Hand To God, Buyer & Cellar, Peter and the Starcatcher (SALT Award), Gutenberg! The Musical!, Fully Committed (SALT Award), and SantaLand Diaries, among others. Regional: Ever So Humble, The 39 Steps (Hangar Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (SFSTL), The Importance of Being Earnest (Trinity Rep). NYC credits: From White Plains (Fault Line Theatre, GLAAD Media Award), FROGS (Fault Line Theatre), Mother’s Day (FringeNYC Encore Series), BecauseHeCan (Personal Space Theatrics), The Servant of Two Masters (PS122). TV: ALPHA HOUSE, NIGHTCAP. BFA- Syracuse University, MFA- Brown/Trinity Rep. www.karlgregory.com

Benno Ressa (Dr. Ingo Klemmer) Cherry company member. Previous Cherry: The Snow Queen (2018). A Chapman University Bachelor’s of Music graduate who has appeared in classical vocal works and theatrical productions throughout Los Angeles and upstate New York. Benno has performed in Fitz&Startz productions including Adventure in Apt. G#, The Mystery of the Magic Flute, and Emmett & Ella’s Big Apple Escapade. As an apprentice artist with Opera Ithaca, Benno starred as Samuel in Pirates of Penzance, Bully in Bully Pulpit, the Sacristan in Tosca, and Dancaire in Carmen. Other credits include Pete in Precious Nonsense at the Auburn Public Theater, and Will Parker in Triphammer Arts’ Oklahoma.

AJ Sage (Newscaster/Security Guard) AJ is jazzed to be in his first show at The Cherry! He has been busy as an actor, director and playwright in the Ithaca theatre since 2012 and recently became Artistic Director for House of Ithaqua which will debut its first full season in 2019. He is also a frequent collaborator of the Ithaca Shakespeare Company. Favorite roles include Jerry Goss (Bug), Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing) and James Watson (Maize).

David Studwell (Dr. Fabian Klemmer) Cherry company member; Previous Cherry: Storm Country. As an original member of the Cherry Artists’ Collective, David is very pleased to be making his début on the Cherry stage. Recently he appeared as Scrooge in the Hangar’s production of A Christmas Carol. Other representative stage credits: Off-Broadway: Applause! (Bert, City Center’s Encores!). Regional: Sweeney Todd (Sweeney, Ensemble Theatre, Santa Barbara INDY award,) Man of La Mancha (Quixote, PCPA, INDY award,) Fiddler on the Roof
(Tevye, Portland Center Stage, Drammy award,) Red (Rothko, Hangar Theatre), 1776 (Franklin, Engeman Theater), Titanic (Isidor, Westchester, Broadway), As You Like It (Oliver, Goodman Theatre), Falsettos (Mendle, Alliance Theatre.) Much love to Kathleen! davidstudwell.com

Rebekka Kricheldorf (playwright) is based in Berlin. She has written commissioned works for the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich, the Staatstheater Kassel, and for Deutsches Theater Berlin, and been playwright-in-residence at the National Theater
Mannheim and the Theaterhaus Jena, where she also worked as a dramaturg and artistic director. Her plays The Ballad of the Pine Tree Killer, Everyday Life & Ecstasy, and Miss Agnes were all invited to be shown at the Mülheim Theatertage festival. Among other awards, Kricheldorf is the recipient of the Publishers Prize and The Theatre Audience Award in the
Heidelberg Play Competition for Princess Nicoletta, and The Kleist Prize for Warrior Flesh. Her plays have been produced around the world.

Neil Blackadder (translator) has been translating drama and short fiction since 2002 and is the author of Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience. Neil’s translation of The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents by Lukas Bärfuss was produced at the Gate Theatre in London and several US theaters, and published by Nick Hern Books. Subsequently Neil was awarded a Howard Foundation fellowship and a PEN Translation Fund Grant to translate three more plays by Bärfuss. He has had residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and Writers Omi at Ledig House and frequent grants from the Goethe-Institut, the Consulate General of Switzerland and the Austrian Cultural Forum. BA, German and French (University of London, Goldsmiths); MA Comp Lit (UCLA); Ph.D. Comp Lit (Princeton). Professor of Theatre, Knox College.

Samuel Buggeln (director) is the Artistic Director of The Cherry Arts, where over the last few years he has produced, directed, translated, and/or commissioned a number of full productions from Ithaca and international writers. Pre-Cherry Arts, Sam directed over 20 productions at regional theatres; in NYC he has developed new work extensively at the Lark and other venues and is an Artistic Associate at the New Ohio Theatre. Among numerous works directed there are the Drama Desk-nominated Cressida Among the Greeks and Hater, his unconventional translation of Le Misanthrope, which has since been published and produced twice more. His co-translations of Santiago Loza’s plays are slated to be published in two collections in 2019.

Daniel Zimmerman (set) Cherry company member. Previous Cherry: Loza Plays, Geroge Kaplan. Select Off-Broadway: Fashions for Men (Drama Desk nomination; The Mint); After the Blast and Kill Floor (Lincoln Center); Friend Art (Second Stage); Suicide, Incorporated (Roundabout); You Got Older (Page 73 Productions); Be a Good Little Widow (Ars Nova); Other NYC: The Play Company, Clubbed Thumb, Cherry Lane, Colt Coeur, Lesser America,The Pearl. Regional: Arena Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays, NYS&F, Cincinnati Playhouse, Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, Trinity Repertory Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Theatreworks Palo Alto, Portland Stage Company, People’s Light, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Daniel teaches set design at Ithaca College.

Liz Woods (costumes) Cherry company member. Previous Cherry: The Snow Queen (2017 & 2018), George Kaplan. With a background in engineering, costume design, fine art, and rapid prototyping, Liz uses every material and technique possible to help create a wearable story. She has been involved in theatrical productions since 2012 for the Savoyards of Ithaca, Running to Places Theatre Company, Boynton Middle School, Ithaca High School, and the Ithaca Shakespeare Company. In her parallel world, Liz works as a UI/UX designer for arXiv at Cornell University and spends as much time as possible with her two children.

Sasha Oliveau (costumes) is a fibers artist and designer from rural Northern Virginia. She learned to sew from her grandmother at 6 years old, and began teaching others as a young adult. Having graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2018 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Fibers, she plans to continue her education in expressive art therapy.
She works with slow, meditative processes to make one of a kind, abstract expressionistic objects and textiles that create therapeutic environments.

Shane Hennessy (lighting design) is a senior at Ithaca College, studying Theatrical Production Arts with a concentration in design. Recent Ithaca College credits include Scenic and Lighting Design for Ugly Lies The Bone, Scenic Design for Twelfth Night, and Lighting Design for Cabaret.

Aria Sardella (sound) is a Junior at Ithaca College majoring in the BFA Theatre Production Arts. Previous credits include Sound Design for Twelfth Night at Ithaca College, Sound Engineer at Andy’s Summer Playhouse and Sound Engineer for Sense and Sensibility at Ithaca College. She is currently working on Marisol as a sound engineer and Skeleton Crew as the Co-Sound Designer.

Daniel Baruch (special props: cardboard) is an Ithaca-based creator and collaborator who draws upon a diverse and extensive background in music, performance art, storytelling, and mixed media. His work typically defies categorization, blending and blurring multiple mediums and voices. With an interdisciplinary BFA in Visual Arts from the School of Art + Design at Purchase College, his credits include contributions to the International
Theatre Institute, The Early Show on CBS, The Antrim Playhouse, The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, and his parents’ refrigerator.

Lily Gershon (special props: cardboard) also known as LilySilly, is a puppeteer, puppet maker and performer. She creates art using cardboard, paper, and reclaimed fabrics and objects. She is president of the non-profit Lilypad Puppet Theatre which produces a monthly family series at The Cherry and the annual Crankie Cabaret. lilypadpuppettheatre.org

Edith McCrea (special props: fabric) Cherry company member. Edith has worked on The Snow Queen at the Cherry for the past three seasons, as a puppet builder, puppeteer, and (in 2016) assistant stage manager. She performs, writes and directs for Magic Garden Puppets, and is a Board Member of the Central New York Waldorf Puppet Guild and a member of Puppeteers of America. Edith created crankies (storytelling scrolls) for the Crankie Cabarets produced by Lilypad Puppet Theatre at The Cherry in 2017 and 2018. In addition, she has written, directed, and produced several environmentalist music videos, including the award-winning “You’ve Been Fracked!”

Ivy Stevens (stage manager) is a graduate of Ithaca College and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. This is Ivy’s third show at the Cherry Artspace, with two more to come, though the first under the Cherry auspices! You can catch her next SMing for Liberation/The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace with Opera Ithaca in April, and then
making her directing debut on The Maids with House of Ithaqua in June. As always thank you to Ben for his constant love and support.

Amanda Erickson (assistant stage manager) is a student at Ithaca College. Recently she was a Production Assistant for 4.48 Psychosis at the Prototype Festival. Her Ithaca College credits include Experiential Atonement (ASM), Twelfth Night (ASM, Sense and Sensibility (PA), and Angels in America (PA).