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Cast and Creative Team
 Y York (Playwright) Y’s third millennium plays include: Eggs (People’s Light and Theatre Company premiere, 2009); …and LA is Burning (New Harmony Project, 2007, Main St. Theatre Houston, 2008 premiere, Timothy Smith Prize from National New Play Network); Getting Near to Baby (2008 People’s Light and Theatre Company; Barrymore Nomination for Outstanding New Play) River Rat and Cat (2006 Childs Play, Arizona premiere; Provincetown Series NYC); Nothing is the Same (TCG-Pew Charitable Trust Grant, 2004 Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices Festival, 2004 premiere); Fork in the Road (Dramatic Publishing commission); The Forgiving Harvest (2004 AT&T: Onstage Award, 2004 Peoples Light and Theatre Company premiere, 2006 AATE Distinguished Play Award); Mask of the Unicorn Warrior (Rockefeller Foundation grant, 2001 Seattle Children’s Theatre premiere); Othello (4-character hip hop adaptation, 2002 premiere); Krisit (ACT Commission, 2001 Primary Stages, NYC premiere); The New Dark Clarity, (2000 ASK Commission); Bleachers in the Sun, (SmashBox Productions; 2008, Broadway Play Publishing); and Framed (SmashBox Productions; 2007, Broadway Play Publishing). Second millennium work is happily still produced in theatres across the country and is available from Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatic Publishing, St. Martin’s Press, Smith and Kraus, or from Carl Mulert at The Gersh Agency. In June, 2006, Y received the Hawaii State Award for Literature; in 2002, the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Award from AATE for her body of work. Y is a proud alumna of New Dramatists, member of the Dramatists Guild, Pen Women Hawaii, Pen National, and still lives with Mark Lutwak to whom all things are dedicated. For current information vist www.yyork.com
 Kate Alexander (Director) Ms. Alexander is the Associate Director of FST. In this capacity, she ministers to the artistic needs of the theatre and its many community and state educational programs. On the FST stages some of the plays she has directed are Pure Confidence, Underneath the Lintel, The Miamians. Wit, Proof, Lobby Hero, Ten Unknowns, The Exonerated, Brooklyn Boy as well as the company developed pieces, the Playmakers and Under Six. Ms. Alexander has created a vast Education and Touring Program for FST including the award-winning Write A Play program touching the lives of over 55,000 children annually in the US, Scotland, Israel, China and Russia and serving as a model for theatres throughout the nation. Ms. Alexander has also pioneered an acting training method for children which serves as the foundation for the FST school, serving 600 children yearly. Ms. Alexander has also been a resident actress with Florida Studio Theatre for the past 20 years. Some of her leading roles were seen in the plays: Golda's Balcony, Master Class, The Play about The Baby, The Goat, Filumena, Three Tall Women and most recently, Edward Albee’s Occupant. Ms. Alexander is the recipient of numerous acting, directing and public service awards. Most recently, Ms. Alexander’s Write a Play program was a feature of the PBS special Kids in the Arts and she co-authored the book Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories.
CAST
 Celeste Ciulla (Sylvia) proudly returns to FST where she has played in: Brooklyn Boy, Bee-Luther-Hatchee, Hysteria and As Bees in Honey Drown. Next, Celeste will be in Coriolanus and Cyrano at The Old Globe where she has played roles including: Gertrude in Hamlet, Mistress Page in Merry Wives, and Tamora in Titus. Other favorites include Lady Macbeth, Slyvana in Beastmaster’s Life and Laura in Tea & Sympathy. Celeste is a Narrator with Recorded Books and a proud member of AEA.
 Susan Greenhill (Haddie) FST: Edward Albee’s Occupant (Director), Southern Comforts, Dinner With Friends, Fiction. Broadway: Crimes of the Heart. Off-Broadway: Primary Stages, Actors Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages. Regional: The Clean House, Cincinnati Playhouse (Acclaim Award); Sideman, Philadelphia Company (Barrymore Award); We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, Long Wharf Theatre; The Glass Menagerie, St. Louis Rep; The Importance of Being Earnest, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Born Yesterday, Indiana Rep; Expectations, Stamford Center (with Eartha Kitt). Television & film: Chapelle Show, Law & Order, Clarissa Explains It All, Loving, Guiding Light, Pecker (directed by John Waters), High Stakes, Noon Blue Apples (Sundance Festival).
 Lelund Durond Thompson (Alvin) Off Broadway: Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Emancipation, Streetlights, and Dreamgirls. Regional: Blue Door, Bloody Blackbeard, A Christmas Carol, Well, A Streetcar Named Desire, Charlotte’s Web, Taming of the Shrew, Five Guys Named Moe, Waiting for Lefty. Lelund was also seen in Hurly Burly, The Real Thing, Bus Stop, The Triumph of Love, and A Midsummer Nights Dream while receiving his MFA from Case/Cleveland Play House Professional Actor Training Program.
Production Staff
Production Manager...........................................Bruce Price
Company Manager.............................................Rob Thomas
Production Stage Manager.................................Kelli Karen*
Costume Design.................................................Marcella Beckwith
Scenic Coordinator............................................Lauren Feldman
Lighting Designer...............................................Bruce Price
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