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 John Biguenet (Playwright) is the acclaimed author of The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories and Oyster, A Novel, among other books, as well as such award-winning plays as The Vulgar Soul and Rising Water. His new play, Night Train, was developed on a Studio Attachment at the National Theatre in London. Shotgun, the winner of a National New Play Network Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award, will have rolling world premieres at Southern Rep Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, and Florida Studio Theatre. His stories have appeared in such magazines as Granta, Esquire, Playboy, Storie (Rome), Story, and Zoetrope and been presented in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway. He has twice been elected president of the American Literary Translators Association. An O. Henry Award winner for his short fiction and a New York Times guest columnist, he is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.
 Richard Hopkins (Artistic Director) Artistic Director of Florida Studio Theatre since 1980, Richard Hopkins has guided the company from a small touring group to a professional regional theatre. Mr. Hopkins began his professional theatre career as a resident actor with Asolo State Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. In 1974 he founded the Palisades Theatre Company in Washington, DC, which subsequently moved to St. Petersburg to become American Stage. He served as its Producing Director from 1974-1980. Additional experiences include: President of the Florida Professional Theatres Association (1983-1985), Panelist for Theatre Program of Florida Arts Council, and Director/Instructor for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus’ Clown College (1981). His many directing credits include: Metamorphoses, The Bully Pulpit, God’s Man in Texas, Hysteria, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 2: Goering at Nuremberg, Six Degrees of Separation, Execution of Justice, Death by Misadventure, Hi-Hat-Hattie, Invictus, Agnes of God, Beyond Therapy, True West, La Ronde, and Betrayal and numerous other plays and Cabaret projects including Sophie Tucker, Inspired Lunacy, and Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, Over the Rainbow.
 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 Bridge & Tunnel, Shirley Valentine, …and L.A. is Burning, 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 Program for FST, and co-developed the award-winning Write A Play program touching the lives of over 55,000 children annually in the US, Scotland, Israel, Russia and China 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.
CAST
 Freddie Bennett (Willie Williams) returns to the FST stage after appearing in this season’s Ruined. He is a 2006 Graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. A South Florida native, he now lives in New York City. Freddie’s latest work includes Casca in The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of Julius Caesar and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The Pulse Ensemble Theatre.
 Robert Kya-Hill (Dexter Godchaux) is excited to be part of this important new play and to be returning to Florida where he previously appeared in Driving Miss Daisy in Vero Beach. A New Yorker, his recent credits there include Union, Axial Theatre; Paul Robeson in Einstein’s Secret Letters; Birdland, The Phoenician Women, The Prostitute of Reverie Valley, Medea in Aia, part of The Medead epic he also performed in Glasgow, London and Governor’s Island. His complete biography, including credits as musician, composer, playwright, director is currently published in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
 Tom Patterson (Eugene Harlan) is excited to be a part of Shotgun, which is his debut at Florida Studio Theatre. New York: Streamers (Parrhesia Theatre Company), Welcome to the Moon (440 Studios), and the world premiere of Through a Naked Lens (Wings Theatre). Regional: Arms and the Man (Electric Theatre Company, PA); Of Mice and Men (Northern Stage, VT). National Tour: The Color of Justice (Theatreworks/USA). AEA Member. BFA: NYU (Tisch/Meisner Award for Acting). He is originally from South Bend, Indiana.
 William Peden (Beau Harlan) Regional: Snow Falling on Cedars (Carl Jr.) Portland Center Stage, Bear Country (Young Bear) Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Take Me Out (Kippy) Capital Rep, Red Light Winter (Davis) Studio Theatre. NY: Ensemble Studio Theatre, Red Bull Theatre Company, Adobe Theatre Company, Storm Theatre Company. TV: Law & Order, Guiding Light, All My Children, As the World Turns. Film: The Jimmy Show, Little Horses. MFA: ACA, The Shakespeare Theatre DC.
 Maya Lynne Robinson (Mattie Godchaux) is a native of Cleveland, OH and a graduate of The Ohio University. Some regional theatre credits include: Four, Tommy: The Musical (Studio Theatre), The Story (African Continuum Theatre Company), A Christmas Carol (Great Lakes Theatre Festival) and Insurrection: Holding History (Theatre Alliance), for which she received a Helen Hayes nomination. She has performed across the country in two one-woman productions for The Theatre Workshop (Echoes of the Past, Voices of Hope) and for National Theatre for Arts and Education in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Off-Broadway, Maya Lynne recently performed in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s River Crosses Rivers, a co-production with New Federal Theatre. Her movie, Surviving the Streets, premiered at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in October. FST debut.
Production Staff
Production Manager...........................................Bruce Price
Company Manager.............................................MaryMartha E. Ford
Production Stage Manager.................................Kelli Karen
Costume Design.................................................Melissa Schlachtmeyer
Lighting Designer...............................................Robert Perry
Scenic Designer.................................................Bob Phillips
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