Cast & Crew Bios
Bespoke Babies
Catharine Boyd (Eluthia, Bespoke Babies)
Highlights include Manhattan Theater Club and the original WPA. TV: All My Children, Law and Order. Catharine began her career as a ballet dancer in NYC and her motto is "Never Stop Moving!"
Dale Davidson (Jill, Bespoke Babies)
Dale is a member of ARTC as a performer and director. She sings with an a cappella jazz group called Uptown Sound. Favorite acting projects have included work with Manhattan Theatre Source, performing her cabaret show “Drugs, Sex and Rock ‘n Roll” in FringeNYC, singing Yiddish and other vaudeville songs at the New York Historical Society, and creating the character of Ludmilla Schlomokov for Old School Theatre (in two Philadelphia Fringes and at Piccolo Spoleto).
Entrance to Hell
Dave Bobb (Muse, Entrance to Hell; Pharaoh, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
Dave is now primarily a TV and Film actor who last appeared in Life & Beth on Hulu. He is also an on-camera audition self-tape coach and teacher at AMDA who now also teaches at SAG-AFTRA’s NY conservatory. You can check out his reel here and classes at www.davebobb.com/class.
Great Roles for Old Actresses
Carla Brandberg (Astra, Great Roles for Old Actresses)
Carla has appeared in ARTC productions and numerous staged readings of plays in development; recently in ARTC’s 50th Anniversary Staged Reading Series: Joanne/THE NIGHT THE OCEAN MET THE BAY by ARTC member Elisabeth Karlin.
She has appeared in film festivals world-wide as Peg in the short film, Order My Steps by ARTC member Kathryn Grant. Nominated for Best Actress – Catskills International Film Festival; Brightside Film Festival.
Additional Stage includes: Thelma/NIGHT MOTHER; Mother/GETTING OUT (The Seeing Place Theater, NYC); Gertrude/THE SEA HORSE (Deertrees Theatre, ME) directed by ARTC member Debra Henri.
Film and TV: Netflix, ABC, NBC, Amazon: IMDb
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
Terri Campion (Elle, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Writer, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Emmy, Into the Light)
Terri is a New York based Writer/Actor/Educator. Her novel in stories – Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow – was published in April 2024, with Willow River Press. Her work has appeared in Washington Square Review, Inkwell Journal, Meriwether, Smith & Kraus, and Café Lit. An award-winning playwright, her plays have been produced and staged in venues in NYC and New Jersey. She is currently working on a theatrical version of her book.
Andrew R. Heinze (Playwright, Great Roles for Old Actresses)
andrewheinze.com
Kathleen Swan (Belle, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Cast, The Cockroach Dilemma; Elizabeth, Why Me?)
Completing her 13th season as the Producing Artistic Director for ARTC, Kathleen has been at the helm for 12 AEA Showcase productions, 15 Reading Series, 2 International Play Exchanges and 3 full productions on Zoom. As an actress, highlights include co-starring in Dino De Laurentiis' Beyond the Reef, Broadway's Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, and for ARTC: The Boob Tube Plays, To She Who Waits.
Suzanne Toren (Kim, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Betenos, Rainy Days and Nights)
Suzanne has appeared on and off Broadway, and in regional theatres around the U.S.
On Broadway: created a role in Goodbye, Fidel, starring Jane Alexander.
Off-Broadway: created many roles, from Queen of Aragon (The Disputation) to Mama (From Door to Door) to a high-power lawyer (star of Denial).
National tours: worked with such luminaries as Sir Ralph Richardson (Early Days); Richard Kiley (Cervantes); Tammy Grimes, Louis Jourdan (Private Lives).
Regional credits: Paper Mill Playhouse (Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities); Philadelphia Drama Guild (A View from the Bridge); Pennsylvania Stage Company (Brighton Beach Memoirs); Syracuse Stage (The Seagull); Meadowbrook Theatre (The Crucible, Heartbreak House, Tartuffe).
TV: Law and Order.
Suzanne is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning narrator of over 1000 audiobooks for all major publishers and received a “Golden Voice” award, given for “significant contributions to audiobook publishing.”
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Terri Campion (Writer, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Elle, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Emmy, Into the Light) — [see above]
Elowyn Castle (Director, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Child of the Wind)
OFF-BROADWAY: The Norwegians – The Drilling Company; The Understanding – Colleagues' Theatre Company; Happy Birthday Wanda June and Much Ado About Nothing – Equity Library Theatre.
Kallie – ARTC; A Royal Mess, The Importance of being Ernest, Noises Off – ACC; Plaza Suite, Cemetery Club, Play On, Arms And The Man – SNARKS; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello – National Shakespeare Company; Cowboy Mouth at the Dubrovnik Festival in Yugoslavia.
SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA.
Caroline Keegan Savage (Miss Connors, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Cassidy Curtsy, Hollywood Ending)
Caroline Keegan Savage (she/they) is a multi-talented queer performance artist based in NYC. She is a career actor/singer with additional experience directing, devising, and producing theatre & film/TV. BFA: Tisch School of the Arts. Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award at the New Studio on Broadway.
caroline-keegan.com
Hollywood Ending
Caroline Keegan Savage (Cassidy Curtsy, Hollywood Ending) — [see above]
Joe Sutton (Playwright, Hollywood Ending)
Joe’s plays have been produced by New York Theater Workshop, BAM, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, the Cleveland Play House, and the Old Globe, among others. Internationally, Joe’s plays have been produced in Germany, Czechia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and by London’s “Old Vic.” Joe is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Theatre Critics Association’s Best Play Award.
Into the Light
Terri Campion (Emmy, Into the Light) — [see above]
Marc Castle (Playwright and Sol, Into the Light; Ahmed, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
A member of ARTC since 2001, Marc received a 2017 Jerry Kaufman Award Citation for Excellence in Playwriting for his first collection of short plays. He is a director as well as an actor and playwright.
www.marccastle.com
Land of Frogs and Locusts
Dave Bobb (Pharaoh, Land of Frogs and Locusts) — [see above]
Marc Castle (Ahmed, Land of Frogs and Locusts) — [see above]
Pëtra Denison (Meresankh, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
Pëtra is an NYC-based, AEA actor and ARTC member who graduated from Boston University’s Acting program. Her New York theatre credits include Lakeplay (Vib), Cymbeline (Queen/Arvirargus), The Comedy of Errors (Adriana), Fastened to the Moon (Katherine), Seascape with Sharks and Dancer (Tracy) and Antigone (Antigone/Tiresias/Messenger).
www.petradenison.net
Josh Drimmer (Playwright, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
Josh writes comedies with unexpected tragedy and tragedies with sharp laughter.
joshdrimmer.com
Schoharie Creek
Judy Rosenblatt (Sadie, Schoharie Creek)
SAG/Aftra, AEA
Bara Swain (Writer, Schoharie Creek)
Bara Swain's plays have been staged in 300+ venues in 33 states and abroad (Ukraine, England, Ireland, UAE, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia). Her work is anthologized by Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, Oxford U. Press, and Art Age Press. Her prose appears in print and digitally in diverse literary and scholarly magazines.
www.BaraSwain.com
Sunny Summers or: When Dads Die
Ella Dershowitz (Amy, Sunny Summers)
[See full Off-Broadway, regional, and TV/Film credits in original text.]
Steven Haworth (Playwright and Jeff, Sunny Summers; plays Dale, Time and Tony Oliva)
Productions: Fernando, Little Fishes, {Home}, Flight, Time and Tony Oliva, Something Holy in Croatia, Dark Age, The Pain Before – at New Ohio Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Zoo District, Open Fist, Mile Square Theatre, Seoul Players (Korea), Project III Ensemble Theatre, ProEnglish Theatre Company (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Development: Monkey in the Shade, The Other Genius, Blue/Whitney among others at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Soho Think Tank, Echo Theatre Company, Ashland New Play Festival, Ice Factory Festival, Stage Left Leapfest.
Publications: Fernando, Little Fishes, The Other Genius, Flight, Monkey In The Shade (Next Stage Press). Time and Tony Oliva, Four New Years In Japan, and monologues (Smith & Kraus and Applause).
Ian L. Cohen (Playwright, Sunny Summers or: When Dads Die)
Ian Cohen’s full-length plays include BERTRAND PRIEST (Kaufman & Hart Award), LENNY & LOU (Charles MacArthur Award nomination), and others. Works include OLD WOUNDS, HE WHO LAUGHS, VATTAGO, JEFFERSON STREET, GOD’S CREATURES, and LITTLE UNIVERSE.
Debra Henri (Director, Sunny Summers or: When Dads Die)
Debra has been an actor/director member of ARTC since 2001, and is now a licensed mental health therapist serving adults in NYC.
The Cockroach Dilemma
Kathleen Swan — [see above]
Time and Tony Oliva
Steven Haworth — [see above]
Two Wishes
MC Crosby (Playwright, Two Wishes; Introductions/Stage Directions Reader, 6/13)MC Crosby (she/they) is a playwright, director, performer, and choreographer with participatory physical theatre produced in NYC, Scotland, Japan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, and Madagascar. Their socially conscious play Sleeping Soldiers received four stars at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and semi-finalist status for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award. A finalist for the Playwrights’ Center McKnight National Residency, and a Kaufman Playwriting Award citation winner for the immersive yoga play Um…Om.
MC’s plays challenge social norms and address mental health, Queer and gender identity, spirituality, and body image.
Catharine Boyd (Eluthia, Bespoke Babies)
Highlights include Manhattan Theater Club and the original WPA. TV: All My Children, Law and Order. Catharine began her career as a ballet dancer in NYC and her motto is "Never Stop Moving!"
Dale Davidson (Jill, Bespoke Babies)
Dale is a member of ARTC as a performer and director. She sings with an a cappella jazz group called Uptown Sound. Favorite acting projects have included work with Manhattan Theatre Source, performing her cabaret show “Drugs, Sex and Rock ‘n Roll” in FringeNYC, singing Yiddish and other vaudeville songs at the New York Historical Society, and creating the character of Ludmilla Schlomokov for Old School Theatre (in two Philadelphia Fringes and at Piccolo Spoleto).
Entrance to Hell
Dave Bobb (Muse, Entrance to Hell; Pharaoh, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
Dave is now primarily a TV and Film actor who last appeared in Life & Beth on Hulu. He is also an on-camera audition self-tape coach and teacher at AMDA who now also teaches at SAG-AFTRA’s NY conservatory. You can check out his reel here and classes at www.davebobb.com/class.
Great Roles for Old Actresses
Carla Brandberg (Astra, Great Roles for Old Actresses)
Carla has appeared in ARTC productions and numerous staged readings of plays in development; recently in ARTC’s 50th Anniversary Staged Reading Series: Joanne/THE NIGHT THE OCEAN MET THE BAY by ARTC member Elisabeth Karlin.
She has appeared in film festivals world-wide as Peg in the short film, Order My Steps by ARTC member Kathryn Grant. Nominated for Best Actress – Catskills International Film Festival; Brightside Film Festival.
Additional Stage includes: Thelma/NIGHT MOTHER; Mother/GETTING OUT (The Seeing Place Theater, NYC); Gertrude/THE SEA HORSE (Deertrees Theatre, ME) directed by ARTC member Debra Henri.
Film and TV: Netflix, ABC, NBC, Amazon: IMDb
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
Terri Campion (Elle, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Writer, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Emmy, Into the Light)
Terri is a New York based Writer/Actor/Educator. Her novel in stories – Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow – was published in April 2024, with Willow River Press. Her work has appeared in Washington Square Review, Inkwell Journal, Meriwether, Smith & Kraus, and Café Lit. An award-winning playwright, her plays have been produced and staged in venues in NYC and New Jersey. She is currently working on a theatrical version of her book.
Andrew R. Heinze (Playwright, Great Roles for Old Actresses)
andrewheinze.com
Kathleen Swan (Belle, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Cast, The Cockroach Dilemma; Elizabeth, Why Me?)
Completing her 13th season as the Producing Artistic Director for ARTC, Kathleen has been at the helm for 12 AEA Showcase productions, 15 Reading Series, 2 International Play Exchanges and 3 full productions on Zoom. As an actress, highlights include co-starring in Dino De Laurentiis' Beyond the Reef, Broadway's Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, and for ARTC: The Boob Tube Plays, To She Who Waits.
Suzanne Toren (Kim, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Betenos, Rainy Days and Nights)
Suzanne has appeared on and off Broadway, and in regional theatres around the U.S.
On Broadway: created a role in Goodbye, Fidel, starring Jane Alexander.
Off-Broadway: created many roles, from Queen of Aragon (The Disputation) to Mama (From Door to Door) to a high-power lawyer (star of Denial).
National tours: worked with such luminaries as Sir Ralph Richardson (Early Days); Richard Kiley (Cervantes); Tammy Grimes, Louis Jourdan (Private Lives).
Regional credits: Paper Mill Playhouse (Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities); Philadelphia Drama Guild (A View from the Bridge); Pennsylvania Stage Company (Brighton Beach Memoirs); Syracuse Stage (The Seagull); Meadowbrook Theatre (The Crucible, Heartbreak House, Tartuffe).
TV: Law and Order.
Suzanne is a highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning narrator of over 1000 audiobooks for all major publishers and received a “Golden Voice” award, given for “significant contributions to audiobook publishing.”
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Terri Campion (Writer, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Elle, Great Roles for Old Actresses; Emmy, Into the Light) — [see above]
Elowyn Castle (Director, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Child of the Wind)
OFF-BROADWAY: The Norwegians – The Drilling Company; The Understanding – Colleagues' Theatre Company; Happy Birthday Wanda June and Much Ado About Nothing – Equity Library Theatre.
Kallie – ARTC; A Royal Mess, The Importance of being Ernest, Noises Off – ACC; Plaza Suite, Cemetery Club, Play On, Arms And The Man – SNARKS; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello – National Shakespeare Company; Cowboy Mouth at the Dubrovnik Festival in Yugoslavia.
SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA.
Caroline Keegan Savage (Miss Connors, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Cassidy Curtsy, Hollywood Ending)
Caroline Keegan Savage (she/they) is a multi-talented queer performance artist based in NYC. She is a career actor/singer with additional experience directing, devising, and producing theatre & film/TV. BFA: Tisch School of the Arts. Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award at the New Studio on Broadway.
caroline-keegan.com
Hollywood Ending
Caroline Keegan Savage (Cassidy Curtsy, Hollywood Ending) — [see above]
Joe Sutton (Playwright, Hollywood Ending)
Joe’s plays have been produced by New York Theater Workshop, BAM, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, the Cleveland Play House, and the Old Globe, among others. Internationally, Joe’s plays have been produced in Germany, Czechia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and by London’s “Old Vic.” Joe is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Theatre Critics Association’s Best Play Award.
Into the Light
Terri Campion (Emmy, Into the Light) — [see above]
Marc Castle (Playwright and Sol, Into the Light; Ahmed, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
A member of ARTC since 2001, Marc received a 2017 Jerry Kaufman Award Citation for Excellence in Playwriting for his first collection of short plays. He is a director as well as an actor and playwright.
www.marccastle.com
Land of Frogs and Locusts
Dave Bobb (Pharaoh, Land of Frogs and Locusts) — [see above]
Marc Castle (Ahmed, Land of Frogs and Locusts) — [see above]
Pëtra Denison (Meresankh, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
Pëtra is an NYC-based, AEA actor and ARTC member who graduated from Boston University’s Acting program. Her New York theatre credits include Lakeplay (Vib), Cymbeline (Queen/Arvirargus), The Comedy of Errors (Adriana), Fastened to the Moon (Katherine), Seascape with Sharks and Dancer (Tracy) and Antigone (Antigone/Tiresias/Messenger).
www.petradenison.net
Josh Drimmer (Playwright, Land of Frogs and Locusts)
Josh writes comedies with unexpected tragedy and tragedies with sharp laughter.
joshdrimmer.com
Schoharie Creek
Judy Rosenblatt (Sadie, Schoharie Creek)
SAG/Aftra, AEA
Bara Swain (Writer, Schoharie Creek)
Bara Swain's plays have been staged in 300+ venues in 33 states and abroad (Ukraine, England, Ireland, UAE, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia). Her work is anthologized by Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, Oxford U. Press, and Art Age Press. Her prose appears in print and digitally in diverse literary and scholarly magazines.
www.BaraSwain.com
Sunny Summers or: When Dads Die
Ella Dershowitz (Amy, Sunny Summers)
[See full Off-Broadway, regional, and TV/Film credits in original text.]
Steven Haworth (Playwright and Jeff, Sunny Summers; plays Dale, Time and Tony Oliva)
Productions: Fernando, Little Fishes, {Home}, Flight, Time and Tony Oliva, Something Holy in Croatia, Dark Age, The Pain Before – at New Ohio Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Zoo District, Open Fist, Mile Square Theatre, Seoul Players (Korea), Project III Ensemble Theatre, ProEnglish Theatre Company (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Development: Monkey in the Shade, The Other Genius, Blue/Whitney among others at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Soho Think Tank, Echo Theatre Company, Ashland New Play Festival, Ice Factory Festival, Stage Left Leapfest.
Publications: Fernando, Little Fishes, The Other Genius, Flight, Monkey In The Shade (Next Stage Press). Time and Tony Oliva, Four New Years In Japan, and monologues (Smith & Kraus and Applause).
Ian L. Cohen (Playwright, Sunny Summers or: When Dads Die)
Ian Cohen’s full-length plays include BERTRAND PRIEST (Kaufman & Hart Award), LENNY & LOU (Charles MacArthur Award nomination), and others. Works include OLD WOUNDS, HE WHO LAUGHS, VATTAGO, JEFFERSON STREET, GOD’S CREATURES, and LITTLE UNIVERSE.
Debra Henri (Director, Sunny Summers or: When Dads Die)
Debra has been an actor/director member of ARTC since 2001, and is now a licensed mental health therapist serving adults in NYC.
The Cockroach Dilemma
Kathleen Swan — [see above]
Time and Tony Oliva
Steven Haworth — [see above]
Two Wishes
MC Crosby (Playwright, Two Wishes; Introductions/Stage Directions Reader, 6/13)MC Crosby (she/they) is a playwright, director, performer, and choreographer with participatory physical theatre produced in NYC, Scotland, Japan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, and Madagascar. Their socially conscious play Sleeping Soldiers received four stars at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and semi-finalist status for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award. A finalist for the Playwrights’ Center McKnight National Residency, and a Kaufman Playwriting Award citation winner for the immersive yoga play Um…Om.
MC’s plays challenge social norms and address mental health, Queer and gender identity, spirituality, and body image.
