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	BETSY AIDEM (Lynne/Roberta Cupp) Over the Last 12 Years: MARY ROSE (Vineyard Theatre), STONE COLD DEAD SERIOUS by Adam Rapp (Edge Theater), CELEBRATION and SEA OF TRANQUILITY (Atlantic Theatre Company), CROOKED (WP), THE TRIPLE HAPPINESS (Second Stage), GOOD THING (New Group), BUTTERFLY COLLECTION (Playwrights Horizons), TENDER (SPF), SEVEN (Deauville, London, etc), THE SUGAR SYNDROME and SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (Williamstown), THE SEAGULL, THE CHERRY ORCHARD and PLATANOV (Lake Lucille). Film and Television: “The Good Wife”, “Nurse Jackie”, “Rescue Me”, “Law & Order” (Law & Order, SVU, CI) etc. Winter Passing, County Road K, Margaret, The Oranges. 2007 Obie for Sustained Excellence of Performance.
	CONNOR BARRETT(Stacey Kinsella) previously worked with Adam Rapp on his play FINER NOBLE GASES (Williamstown, Rattlestick, Woolly Mammoth, Edinburgh Fringe- Fringe First Award, & Bush Theatre in London). Other NY and regional theatre credits include KITTY KITTY KITTY (SPF), BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY (Geva), THE CHERRY ORCHARD (McCarter), CAMINO REAL & CHAUCER IN ROME (Williamstown), A LIE OF THE MIND (NYU), THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO (NYU), and THE SERPENT WOMAN (NYU). Television/Film: “Rita Rocks”, “Do Not Disturb”, “Guiding Light”, “The Jury”, Two Classy Ladies. Education: BA, Northwestern University and MFA, NYU Graduate Acting. For JMB, MTB, & BMG.
	SUSAN BLOMMAERT (Edith Dundee) Broadway: GREASE (Brooks Atkinson Theatre). Off-Broadway: MARY ROSE and PHAEDRA (Vineyard Theatre), MEASURE FOR PLEASURE and FUCKING A (The Public Theatre), RECKLESS (Circle Repertory Theatre), BLUE WINDOW and THE GILDED CAGE (The Production Company), LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE (Actors Playhouse) and TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (Ubu Repertory Company). Last seen Regionally in THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING at Weston Playhouse. TV: “The Good Wife”, “Flight Of The Conchords”, “The Sopranos”, “Law & Order(s)”, “X-Files”, “ER”, etc. Film: Happy Tears, Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond, Doubt, United 93, Kinsey, Personal Velocity, Guarding Tess, Pet Sematary, Edward Scissorhands, and the upcoming The Good Heart.
	GUY BOYD (Otto Hurley) Broadway: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Charlie Akin), ROSE. Off-Broadway: Adam Rapp’s AMERICAN SLIGO, ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENSE, STONE COLD DEAD SERIOUS, TRUEBLINKA. Quincy Long’s PEOPLE BE HEARD, THE JOY OF GOING SOMEWHERE DEFINITE, THE LIVELY LADD. Sam Shepard’s THE LATE HENRY MOSS, CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS. Chris Durang’s BETTY’S SUMMER VACATION, THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO, SEX AND LONGING. Anne Marie Healy’s NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A STORM. Wm. Hauptman’s HEAT, DOMINO COURTS, THE DURANGO FLASH. Neena Beeber’s HARD FEELINGS. Film: Henry’s Crime, Taking Chance, The Savages, Walker Payne, Blackbird, Streamers (Golden Lion Award, Venice Film Festival) Ticket To Heaven, Sister Act, Jagged Edge, Body Double and others.
	BILLY CRUDUP (Tobin Falmouth) Broadway: THE COAST OF UTOPIA, THE PILLOWMAN, THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE THREE SISTERS, BUS STOP, ARCADIA. Off Broadway: THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, OEDIPUS. Vineyard Theatre: AMERICA DREAMING. Film: Watchmen, Public Enemies, Dedication, Mission Impossible III, Trust the Man, The Good Shepherd, Stage Beauty, Big Fish, Almost Famous, Jesus’ Son, Sleepers, Everyone Says I Love You, Grind, World Traveler, Charlotte Gray, Princess Mononoke, Hi-Lo Country, Waking the Dead, Inventing the Abbotts, Without Limits, Monument Avenue. Upcoming Film: The Convincer, Eat Pray Love. Education: BA, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; MFA NYU.
	DAVID GREENSPAN (Bruno Binelli/Father Derby) at the Vineyard: Elizabeth Egloff’s PHAEDRA. Other credits: RESCUE ME, THE ROYAL FAMILY, CORALINE, CORNBURY, BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES, THE WAX, SAVED OR DESTROYED, LIPSTICK TRACES. Two performance Obies: one for SOME MEN and Goethe’s FAUST, another for THE BOYS IN THE BAND. His own plays: JACK, THE HOME SHOW PIECES and 2 SAMUEL 11, ETC. (Home), DEAD MOTHER (The Public), SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY (Playwrights Horizons, Obie), THE ARGUMENT (Target Margin, Obie), THE MYOPIA (The Foundry), in collaboration with Stephin Merritt: CORALINE (MCC), Guggenheim, Lortel fellowships, Alpert Award.
	HALLEY WEGRYN GROSS (Kong/Tami Lake/Boy X) Off-Broadway: THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, HURLYBURLY, TRUE LOVE, STEALING SWEETS AND PUNCHING PEOPLE (SPF). Regional: GREAT FALLS (Humana Festival). Film: Across the Universe, The Babysitters, The Missing Person, Lying, Leaving Gussie, Beautiful Kid. TV: “The Good Wife”, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, “Gossip Girl”, “Third Watch”, “The Book of Daniel”, “The Education of Max Bickford”, “As the World Turns”. Halley has just received her MFA from NYU’s Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.
	JESSY HODGES (Cooper/Nurse/Porky Pig Boy) NY Stage: THE GREAT RECESSION at the Flea Theatre, MISERY AND GOOD FORTUNE at HERE Arts, and most recently, a workshop of GILGAMESH’S GAME with New Georges. Jessy is a series regular on the award-winning webseries “Anyone But Me” and can be seen online with sketch comedy group BriTANick. Training: Experimental Theatre Wing at Tisch, NYU.
	PHOEBE STROLE (Vera Dundee) Broadway: SPRING AWAKENING. Off-Broadway: SPRING AWAKENING, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA. Regional: GIRLS I’VE LIKE LIKED (Ars Nova and Comedy Central Stage), A DIFFERENT MOON (Penguin Rep), EVITA (Casa Mañana), SMILE (NYU), SEX AKA WIENERS AND BOOBS (NYU). Film: Hamlet 2, My One and Only. TV: “Mercy”, Sorority Wars, “30 Rock”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Stella”, “Rescue Me”. Thank you Dad, Estelle, Genn & Stephanie.
	ADAM RAPP (Playwright and Director) is an Obie-award-winning playwright and director. He is the author of numerous plays, which include NOCTURNE (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop), FASTER (Rattlestick), ANIMALS & PLANTS (A.R.T.), FINER NOBLE GASES (26th Humana Festival, Rattlestick), STONE COLD DEAD SERIOUS (A.R.T., Edge Theatre), BLACKBIRD (The Bush, London; Edge Theatre), GOMPERS, (Pittsburgh City Theatre), ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENSE (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theatre), AMERICAN SLIGO (Rattlestick), BINGO WITH THE INDIANS (The Flea), KINDNESS (Playwrights Horizons), and RED LIGHT WINTER (Steppenwolf, Scott Rudin Productions at Barrow Street Theatre), which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published seven novels for young adults, including The Buffalo Tree (Front Street Books, 1997), which was struck from the curriculum at Muhlenberg High School in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2005, and Punkzilla (Candlewick Press, 2009), which was recently named a 2010 Michael J. Printz Honor Book. He is also the author of the adult novel, The Year Of Endless Sorrows (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2006), and the graphic novel, Ball-Peen Hammer (First Second Books, 2009). His playwriting honors include The Helen Merrill Award, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, and The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This summer he will direct a workshop production of his new play, WELCOME HOME DEAN CHARBONNEAU, at Seattle Rep.
	VINEYARD THEATRE is a non-profit theatre company dedicated to new work, bold programming and the support of artists. One of America’s preeminent centers for the creation of new plays and musicals, Vineyard Theatre has consistently premiered provocative, groundbreaking works by both new and established writers. From our Broadway successes Avenue Q and [title of show], to two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas — Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Driveand Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women — to such notable projects as Tarell Alvin McCraney’sWig Out!, Nicky Silver’s Pterodactyls, Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, Craig Lucas’ The Dying Gaul, Polly Pen’s GLOBEN MARKET, Christopher Shinn’s Where Do We Live, Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination, Gina Gionfriddo’s After Ashley, the Laura Nyro musicalEli’s Comin’, Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist, Julia Cho’s The Piano Teacher, Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy’sThe Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island and Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear,and recent acclaimed productions of This Beautiful City, and Coleman Domingo’s A BOY AND HIS SOUL — we strive to produce new work that challenges both our audiences and artists. It is our goal to bring a spirit of adventure and risk to the art of making theatre. We’re proud to be the recipient of special Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence.