CAST & CREW BIOS
Greta Boeringer Theater: ESP Romeo and Juliet 2021, Shakespeare on the Spot (Improv) Romeo and Juliet 2024, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company 2016-2024 (8 shows), Baltimore Shakespeare Company 2020-2023 (4 shows), Film: Tzabar 2020, People Pleaser 2024, M.F.A. Classical Acting, George Washington University 2019. Dedicated to Bet Aviv and all my Rabbis.
Zach Campion (Dialect Coach) is a freelance voice, speech, and dialect coach that has coached over 60 productions at DC theatres including Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, and many others. He has taught at the Studio Acting Conservatory for the last 10 years and currently coordinates the selection process for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's scholarship programs. voicecoachdc.com
Stephen Craig is a Physical Comedian, Clown, Actor, Deviser, Director, Designer, and Stage Technician. He studied Physical Theatre at Coastal Carolina University and the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy. He's a former Clown of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, who still spends time teaching circus arts and performing circus locally. Currently Stephen is the Assistant Technical Manager at Weinberg Center for the Arts & New Spire Arts in Frederick. Stephen is also a Company Member of the Maryland Ensemble Theatre where he has many performance and technical credits for the Main Stage, Fun Company, and MET Comedy Night programs.
Maureen Farrington is a versatile, DC-based reed player. See her live and hear her originals with the Wild Anacostias zydeco band. Maureen plays tenor sax in pop band Professor Goldstein and the Adjuncts, and you can hear their new album in February, with their newest single on YouTube and Spotify now.
Dave Gamble has worked at a number of Washington and Baltimore theaters: Silver Spring Stage, Chesapeake Shakespeare, Peter's Alley, We Happy Few, Molotov Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Fells Point Corner Theatre and Vagabond Players, to name a few.
This is Ari Jacobson’s third show with ESP, after Civil War Christmas (John Wilkes Booth etc.) and Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins (Hershel). DMV credits include Shear Madness (Mike Thomas; The Kennedy Center), and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (Gregor Samsa; Woolly Mammoth, Prague Fringe Festival). Other credits include Hershele Ostropolyer (National Yiddish Theatre, NYC), South Pacific (Reagle Music Theatre, MA), a tour with the American Shakespeare Center, and performing as a solo guitarist on Carnival Cruise Lines. Hear Ari’s original music at www.arijacobson.com! He would like to thank, for the 30th consecutive time, his parents... and for the 1st consecutive time, his Anupama.
Dan Jacoby did his first show in 1968. Since then, he has acted, directed, designed, produced – basically almost everything there is to do in theatre. Thanks to Christine and everyone in the company for being so welcoming, so talented, and so much fun to work and play with.
Rikki Howie Lacewell ( choreographer) is excited to work again with ESP Theater and to add movement to such a monumental piece. Thanks to the cast and crew for being welcoming and authentic to my creative whims. May the show move all who see. www.confidencetheatrics.com
Christine Mosere, (Director) began her directing career in NYC – working at LaMaMa, BAM!, and Playwrights Horizons. She was a founding member of the Lucille Lortel award-winning “Peccadillo Theatre.” She moved to Frederick in 2016, fell in love with this city, and founded ESPtheatre. She is thrilled to be able to bring Paula Vogel’s beautiful show to life.
Eric O’Neal minored in Theatre in college, performing multiple times alongside his wife, Maureen. A former L&D nurse, Eric is now a practitioner at an OB/GYN office in Hagerstown. He will have had two short stories published by December, and is working to get his play on the stage in the coming year. Eric fell into this role by happenstance, but is immensely excited to be back on stage.
Maureen O’Neal is honored to have been given the chance to play so many important characters and to costume "Indecent" as well. She filled the designs with her signature handmade crocheted pieces and purposeful historic details to convey the richness of every character and their journeys through time. This beautiful play was a unique opportunity to explore her husband's culture, her own Queer experience, and to share her love of history.You may remember her as both costumer and Puck in ESP's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Edwin Drood in Other Voices Theatre's "The Mystery of Edwin Drood.As always, her performance is dedicated to Jaime, Billy, Norm, Mama, and Teresa, her greatest supporters who are no longer watching from the audience. This play is for them, and especially for the "6 million [who] have left the theater" and the Queer leaders and activists that paved the way for this show to be performed. She offers the most sincere thank you for coming to share this celebratory and emotional experience at a time when we need it most.
Gillian Shelly World Premieres: Audrey Cefaly’s Maytag Virgin (Lizzy); Richard Byrne’s Nero/Pseudo (Chrysis); Dizzy Miss Lizzy’s The Brontës (Gypsy). Frederick Shakespeare Festival: Timon of Athens (Timon); Comedy of Errors (Adriana); Romeo and Juliet (Nurse); Hamlet (Gertrude); Richard II (York); Merry Wives (Mistress Page). Credits include: The Awakening (Edna – ESP theatre); Private Lives (Sybil – Olney Theatre); A Man of No Importance (Lily - Bay Theatre); Shear Madness (Barbara - Kennedy Center); The Bridges of Madison County (Marge – Red Branch). Gillian was Helen on the original concept album of Night of the Living Dead (The Musical). Upcoming: Maytag Virgin (Ardeo Theatre), and the DC area workshop of God Help Them if We Wake Up (Co-Playwright/Director with Ann Mahoney). AEA. Co-Artistic Director: Ardeo Theatre www.ArdeoTheatre.org
Kayla Swain is a recent graduate of Hood College, looking to pursue a professional career in the performing arts. This is her 6th production with ESP Theatre. Over the summer you may have seen her as Hermia in the company’s latest production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is honored to be your Stage Manager for this evening’s performance, and she hopes you enjoy the show.
Spiff Wiegand (accordion, baritone ukulele) is a recording engineer (Double Digit Studio), writer, songwriter, and creator of audio theater company The Spiffemol Industries Radio Hour. He was born with 2 thumbs on his right hand and plays over 20 instruments. Jimmy Fallon and Brad Pitt have lip-synced to his yodeling, and he played accordion on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Spiff has music directed and acted in NYC and regionally for 25 years
Cindy Zhang is a musician active in the DMV, performing violin in community orchestras, chamber ensembles, and as a solo artist. She previously played in pit orchestras as part of Capital Fringe and is very excited for the chance to perform as the on-stage violinist in “Indecent.”