Cast
(in alphabetical order)
Alan Ceppos
Felix
Alan Ceppos made his Broadway debut at age nine in The Three Musketeers and appeared on national TV at 13 in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” His TV credits include “Knots Landing,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Late Show with David Letterman,” “New York Undercover,” and “Law & Order.”
He was recently seen in the acclaimed drama There is A Field and received numerous Best Actor awards for his role in the film That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes. He can currently be seen on TV in “Gravesend” and in films Behind the Line and The Premiere. www.alanceppos.com
Molly Chiffer
Caitlyn
Molly Chiffer is elated to embody this equally spunky and thoughtful young woman.
Favorite credits include: The Glass Menagerie (Laura Wingfield), Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (Mary Debenham), A Christmas Carol Musical (Belle), A Little Night Music (Petra), POTUS… (Stephanie), and her award-winning short film, Kissing Kerouac.
BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California (Fight On!).
Utmost gratitude to Matt, Anne, and this cast of incredibles!
Jordan Lage
Aaron
Jordan Lage is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, having performed in more than two dozen of fellow co-founder David Mamet’s plays on Broadway, off-Broadway & regionally including American Buffalo, Glengarry Glenn Ross, Speed-The-Plow, Oleanna, Race, & The Water Engine.
TV & film work includes: “Your Friends and Neighbors,” “American Horror Stories,” “The Blacklist,” “The Equalizer,” “FBI,” “Dickinson,” “Succession,” “Madam Secretary,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Looming Tower,” “Billions,” “Boardwalk” “Empire,” “Oz,” “Madoff,” Salt, Michael Clayton, World Trade Center, The Believer, The Spanish Prisoner, Homicide, Things Change.
Drama Desk, SAG, Barrymore awards.
Brian Mason
Jason
Brian Mason is an actor and musician who brings his curiosity and love of storytelling to stage and screen.
National tour: The Lonesome Travelers with Peter Yarrow (Narrator/Lead Guitar). Off-Broadway/Regional: The Turkish General’s Wife (Stan, The Actors Studio); The Retreat (Timothy, La Mama); Freefall Frostbite (Steven, 54 Below); West Side Story (Action, North Shore Music Theatre).
Film: Larchmont (Ethan, Independent); Fly High (Donut, Independent). TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Man at Bar, Amazon); “Bae or Bail” (Boyfriend, A&E). Commercials: Hasbro Gaming (national); Anheuser-Busch (national).
He also plays music with several acts at venues throughout the East Coast.
Audrey Heffernan Meyer
Diana
From Silence (National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, dir. Arin Arbus). Broadway workshop of Zorba (Chita Rivera), The Flea Theatre; Romance Language (Ars Nova); Quilt (Playwrights Horizons); This One’s for the Girls! (Playhouse 46 St. Lukes); Grand Hotel (St. Clements); Merrily We Roll Along (APAC). Joe’s Pub, 54 Below solo show.
Regional: Tuning In (Adirondack Theatre); Damn Yankees; Sound of Music (Sharon Playhouse); Tintypes (Barter Theatre); Oklahoma!, Music Man, Guys & Dolls, Fiddler (Bucks County Playhouse).
TV: “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Blacklist,” “Billions,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Blue Bloods,” “Royal Pains,” “Y The Last Man,” “Hear About the Morgans?”
Acting/Vocal: Austin Pendleton, F. Murray Abraham, Chris York, Jane Fujita. BA Theatre-Penn State.
Pamela Shaw
Esther
Film: Bolio (Tony Shalhoub), & Sons (Bill Nighy), Deep Water (Ben Kingsley); Little Miss Sociopath, “Good Guy with a Pun” (series), Indigo Lake (short list AACTA), Salvation Boulevard (Pierce Brosnan), Splinterheads (SXSW), Lucky Stiff.
Stage: Originated Peg in Tennessee Williams’ In Masks Outrageous and Austere (Shirley Knight, Culture Project); A Fable (Rattlestick), Five Plays About Life and Death (Craig Lucas, 59E59 Theaters, Edinburgh Fringe) Scarcity (Obie 2017), A Summer Day (Cherry Lane), The Gig (LA).
Regional: The Hostage (LATC), Laughing Wild\(SF), Liaisons Dangereuses (AU).
Solo: created and performed Naughty with a Band (Edinburgh Fringe, England, Malta, Australia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas).
Lauren Nicole Cippoletti
Understudy for Caitlyn
Lauren Nicole Cippoletti made her Broadway debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 and 2 and appeared in the current one-part version. She was last seen in Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway. Other theatre credits include Heathers: The Musical (New World Stages), Macbeth (Classic Stage Company), Grease (NC Theatre), How Alfo Learned to Love (59E59 Theaters), The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (The Attic Theater Company), The Snow Queen: The Musical (NYMF, Signature Theatre), The Idiot (New Ohio Theatre). Films include Cruise, Emily’s Dead.
MFA, Columbia University; BA, CSU Chico.
She wants to thank her Mom and Dad and Alexandre. She loves them so.
Kate Hampton
Understudy for Diana, Esther
Broadway: Birthday Candles, The Best Man, The Deep Blue Sea.
First National Tour: Spring Awakening.
Off-Broadway: Ibsen’s Ghost (Primary Stages and George Street), The Master Builder (BAM), The Typographer’s Dream (Clubbed Thumb), All My Sons (Roundabout).
Some Regional Favorites: A Doll’s House, Part 2, God of Carnage (Asolo Rep), The Cocktail Hour (Florida Rep), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Neighborhood 3 (Humana).
TV: “Bones,” “Law & Order,” “Sex and the City.”
Training: Brown University, Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Neal Mayer
Understudy for Aaron, Felix
Broadway: Les Misérables.
Tour: Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Off-Broadway: Forbidden Broadway, How to Steal an Election.
Regional: La Jolla, Paper Mill Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodspeed, Ogunquit.
Film: Call Jane, A Wounded Fawn.
TV: “Poker Face,” “Russian Doll,” “The Blacklist,” “The Tonight Show.”
Recording: The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Quinn Nehr
Understudy for Jason
Quinn Nehr is an actor/writer/comedian local to New York.
Film: Room 203, A Look in the Rearview, Timings.
Theatre: Office Party, Sex Tips for Straight Women from A Gay Man (off-Broadway).
He has training in improv through UCB, and Quinn proudly graduated high school minimus cum laude! @Quinn.Nehr
Creative Team
Anne Marilyn Lucas
Playwright
Anne Marilyn Lucas‘ plays include From Silence, Recovery, Party? and Say the Name and have played at Theater for the New City, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Marblehead Little Theatre, House of Seven Gables, and other NY and MA theatres. Recovery was performed in Greece and received three MA Cultural Council grants.
She has written biographical musicals about Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Kander & Ebb, Alan J. Lerner, Cole Porter, Jerome Robbins, and Richard Rodgers.
She graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, studied at London’s Royal College of Music, holds three graduate degrees in theatre, and was a drama professor at Salem State.
A member of the MLT board, on ART’s advisory board, and a proud member of the DGA. www.annemarilynlucas.com
Matt Gehring
Director
Matt Gehring is a theater educator and director. This is his Off-Broadway debut!
He’s directed 100+ comedy shows with artists including Alexis Gay, Chrissy Shackelford, Chloe Troast, Bowen Yang, and Matt Rogers, at venues from the Edinburgh Fringe to Joe’s Pub.
He created the long-running musical show Shiz at Upright Citizens Brigade, where he’s taught and directed for over a decade. At Stagedoor Manor, he directed the pilot youth production of Suffs. Matt founded Ars Nova’s comedy residency and is the Comedy Division Director at Stella Adler. He holds an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he was a Shubert Scholar.