Joshua Roberts* (Tallman)recent credits include Mark Rucker’s As You Like It for A.C.T. Also at A.C.T.:A Christmas Carol; The Full
Monty; Once in a Lifetime; Fool for Love; Romeo &
Juliet; Hotel Paradiso; A Month in the Country; Almost, Maine. S.R.T. (Santa Rosa):Barefoot in the Park, The Wedding Singer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. CalShakes: Pericles (1997), Richard III (1998). In New York: The Brig (The
Living Theatre, dir. Judith Malina, Obie award: Ensemble Performance), Camino Real (Brooklyn
on Foot), Wikipedia Brown and the Case
of the Mysterious Development (Zebra Crossing).
He holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.
Lyndsy Kail* (Lilly) previous
credits include The Underpants (CenterRep),
Buried Child (San Jose Stage), Circle Mirror Transformation, Searching for Eden, and Bob (B Street Theatre) The Importance of Being Earnest and The Owl and the Pussycat (Sacramento Theater Company), Taming of the Shrew, Eurydice, (Napa Valley), and The California
Shakespeare Theater and Hamlet with
SF Shakes. Lyndsy holds a BA in Classics
from UC Berkeley studied and dramatic studies with L. Peter Callender.
Michael Barrett Austin* (Porter Price) Michael is very happy to have been a part of MPDG since its first reading. Most
recently, Michael was in Bloody
Bloody Andrew Jackson at the
San Francisco Playhouse and Vaudeville and Life Could Be A Dream at The Willows Theatre. Before that,
appeared inThe Internationalist with
Just Theater, the workshop of Octavio Solis’ new play Sunset with The Magic Theatre, and the world
premiere ofImaginary Love at
The Hapgood Theatre. Other recent theatre credits include scenes from Romeo and Juliet at Festival Del Sole with San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Dracula at Center Repertory Theatre, Narnia at Berkeley Playhouse, The Grapes of Wrath with TheatreFIRST and The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Michael
has also played locally with 42nd Street
Moon, BRAVA, TheatreWorks, CalShakes, Marin Theatre Company, PlayGround,
Pacific Repertory Theatre, The Carmel Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Stage and
PlayGround, among others. Elsewhere, Michael toured
Italy with Shakespeare at Stinson, was a member of the Columbine Players in WA
and OR, toured the country with The National Theatre for Children and worked
for The Shawnee Playhouse. Michael earned his theatre degree from Whitman
College, and has also enjoyed work as a director, propmaster and dramaturg on
both coasts. He is a member of Just Theater, performs and writes for the sketch
comedy troupe Funny But Mean, serves on the SF Playhouse Literary Committee and
loves a woman named Emily.www.michaelbarrettaustin.com
Lucas Hatton (Rick) was
recently in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at The SF Playhouse. In the Bay Area,
he has performed with Livermore Shakespeare, Chaucer Theater, Throckmorton and
Word for Word. Chicago credits include Steppenwolf Theater, The Hypocrites,
Neo-Futurists, Dog & Pony, Lifeline, Mary-arrchie and The Gift, as well as
Geva Theater in Rochester, NY. For three years, Lucas served as Artistic
Director of Barrel of Monkeys- an arts education company working with
underserved children in Chicago Public Schools. He holds a BS in Theatre from
Northwestern University and attended the School at Steppenwolf in Chicago.
Liz Anderson* (Jackie/Co-Producer) is
an actor, writer, director, producer, arts educator and consultant. Her credits
include: Trauma (NBC); the West Coast premiere of Project:
Lohan; the upcoming web series SanFranLand; commercials for
General Electric, US Cellular, PG&E, and Google Chrome’s 2012 April Fools
Day Video. She served as an Artistic Company member at BRAVA! For Women in the
Arts, and as an artist-in-residence for many California schools, including the
San Francisco Academy of Arts and Sciences. She created the Shakespeare for
Literacy Program through L.A.’s Best for use in LAUSD and has received grants
from the California Arts Council and the Miranda Lux foundation in recognition
of her work using art as a pedagogical catalyst. A graduate of the NYU
Tisch theater program, Anderson received the NYU-Stonestreet Award for
excellence in acting and producing. She is a four time California State
Arts Scholar in Theater & Creative Writing and is a 2012 Kevin Spacey
Foundation Emerging Artist. Anderson has trained with Stonestreet Studios, the
Atlantic Theater Company in NY, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London
and is a Semester At Sea alumna. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, and AEA.
Katie May (Playwright/Co-Producer))
is a playwright, Comedy Writer, and performer. Her plays include Black
Sheep Gospel (Great Plains Theater Conference), A History of
Freaks (finalist for the David Mark Cohen Award in Playwriting),
and Manic Pixie Dream Girl (SF PlayGround fellowship
commission), among others. Her short play Rapunzel’s Etymology of Zero (Best
of Playground Fesival, Short + Sweet Sydney) was published in the Best of
PlayGround Anthology, 2011. She is the recipient of fellowships from the
Virginia Piper Writing Center and the National University of Singapore, a grant from the Society for Women in Film, and an
E-merging Writers Award from San Francisco Playground. Upcoming projects
include the play, Abominable or the Misappropriation of Beverly Onion
by Forces Beyond Her Control (SF PlayGround alumni commission) and the
web series Liz/Kat with Liz Anderson. May holds an MFA in
Playwriting from Arizona State University. www.katiemayplaywright.com
Jon Tracy (Director, Set Design, Lighting Design) works as a director,
playwright, designer, and educator throughout the Bay Area and beyond. He works
with such companies as Shotgun Players (company member; directed The Farm, The Salt Plays Pt. 1: In the
Wound, The Salt Plays Pt. 2: Of the Earth and is commissioned to write and
direct Hoodlum, a new opera based on
Robin Hood), SF Playhouse (directed Man
of La Mancha, Bug, Slasher, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Aaron Loeb’s
award winning First Person Shooter,
as well as being recently commissioned to write All of the Above, an adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc), Magic
Theatre (directed Any Given Day and
the upcoming Terminus), American
Conservatory Theater (directed their MFA students in The Diviners and the upcoming
The Rainmaker), Darkroom
Productions (Founder and former Artistic Director; directed and designed
productions of Macbeth, subUrbia, King Lear, Marisol, Some Devil
Whisper, his movement adaptation of Titus
Andronicus,and The Good News,
which he also wrote), Willows Theatre (West Coast premiere of Evil Dead: The Musical), Impact Theatre
(wrote and directed See How We Are
and the upcoming VS.), Aurora Theatre
(developed Ron Campbell’s Sinker and
directed The Elaborate Entrance of Chad
Deity), Marin Theatre Company (developed A. Zell Williams’ Blood/Money and directing their upcoming
production of It's a Wonderful Life),
TheatreFIRST (directed Grapes of Wrath),
Sonoma County Repertory (directed Nixon’s
Nixon, Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter,
Macbeth as well as adapting Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol), New Conservatory Theatre (Bay Area Critics
Circle Nomination for Fight Choreography of R
& J), Missouri St. Theatre (writer and director of the award winning Chatterbox: The Anne Frank Project),
Solano Repertory Company (directed subUrbia,
Speed-the-Plow, and Midsummer Night’s
Dream), Traveling Lantern Theatre Company (former Artistic Director), and the
San Francisco, Marin, Carmel, Napa, Sebastopol, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare
Festivals. Further, Jon is an Affiliate Artist with The Foothill Theatre
Company (developed and directed Gary Wright’s Evermore) and Alter Theatre Ensemble (developed and directed Robert
Ernst’s Catherine’s Care), a Company
Member and Resident Director for PlayGround (developed Geetha Reddy’s The Safe House among others), an
Associate Artist at The Berkeley Playhouse (directed The BFG, The Wizard of Oz, Narnia, Pirates of Penzance, the
upcoming Guys and Dolls, and the
writer/director of Born and Raised as
well as core instructor for their youth programs) and an Affiliate Artist with
Marin Shakespeare Company. A graduate of Solano College Theatre’s Actor
Training Program, he is also the recipient of the Kennedy Center Meritorious
Achievement Award, 15 North Bay Arty Awards, a Sacramento Elly Award, a Bay
Area Critics’ Circle Award and is a grant recipient from Theatre Bay Area and
the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a proud member of SDC, the union for
stage directors and choreographers. jontracy.com
Rob Dario (Artwork) is a freelance artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His clients
include Peet's Coffee, Hipline Dance Fitness, AlterTheater, Arclight Repertory
Theatre, Asian American Theater Company, Catchy Name Productions, Custom Made
Theatre Company, Darkroom Arts, SF Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare
Festival, Up Next, Cracked Light Productions (Ireland) as well as fellow
artists, musicians, private commissions, and diverse businesses from around the
US and the world. Influences include comic books of the 1970s and 80s
(especially Marvel and DC), movies and cartoons (Star Wars and imported Japanese manga), and his cousin Ricky
Stangl. Rob received his BA from California State University at Sacramento,
studying acting and directing. A native of San Francisco, he has worked at many
Bay Area theaters as an actor including Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, the
Asian American Theatre Company, the Custom Made Theatre Company, the SF
Shakespeare, Napa Valley Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare at Stinson,
Darkroom Arts (Vallejo), the Pear Avenue Theatre, the New Conservatory Theatre
Center, Impact Theatre, Berkeley Playhouse, among others. Favorite productions
have been Trainspotting (Johnny
Swan), Hamlet (Horatio), Three Sisters (Tuzenbakh),
and A Midsummer's Night Dream (Oberon).
Working on educational tours, Rob has travelled to nearly 200 schools and
community centers throughout California, performing Shakespeare, and advocating
tolerance and anti-bullying. He has also appeared in television, commercials,
music videos, short films, advertising, and print.