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 Michael McKeever (Playwright) His work has been produced Off-Broadway, as well as throughout America, Canada and Europe. Productions of his full-length plays include: Running With Scissors (Florida Stage, National New Play Network Finalist); Open Season (Hollywood Playhouse, Charlotte Rep New Play Festival); The Garden of Hannah List (Hypothetical Theatre Co., NY; Florida Stage); 37 Postcards (Florida Studio Theatre, Kammerspiele, Vienna; Komedie Dresden; Hudson Stage Company, New York; New Theatre)The Velveteen Undertow (Palm Beach Dramaworks); Sexy & Miggs (Key West Theatre Festival/New Theatre); Don't Tell the Tsar (Caldwell Theatre Company); Wait and See (New Theatre); The New Orleans Story (Key West Theatre Festival); and That Sound You Hear (New Theatre; The Fort Lauderdale Players).
Citations and awards include: The South Florida Critics' Association Carbonell Award (The Garden of Hannah List, Best New Work); 3 Curtain Up Awards (Running With Scissors, Sexy & Miggs, Open Season, Best New Work); The Anna Sosenko Assist Trust award; The Hartt School (University of Hartford) New Play Festival Fellowship; and the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. He has been a finalist several times at both the Key West Theatre Festival and the Sarasota Festival of New Plays.
Recent appearances as an actor include: Affluenza, A Town Like Irving (New Theatre); Open Season (Hollywood Playhouse); The Velveteen Undertow (Palm Beach Dramaworks); Sexy & Miggs (KWTF/New Theatre); Black Comedy (Caldwell Theatre); and Love's Fire - Carbonell Nomination (Actors' Project). In addition to being a playwright and actor, he is also an award winning artist and set designer.
He resides in South Florida and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Actors' Equity Association.
 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 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 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: The Goat, Filumena, Agnes of God, Master Class, Three Tall Women, The Play About the Baby, and most recently, Golda’s Balcony. Additionally Ms. Alexander has developed programs for the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the Ringling School of Art and Design. Ms. Alexander has served on the Education Task Force and the Arts Advocacy Committee of the Sarasota Arts Council, the Non-Profit Resource Center and the steering committee for Embracing Our Differences, an international exhibit focused on acceptance. Ms. Alexander is the recipient of numerous acting, directing and public service awards, including FAER, She Knows Where’s She Going Award (Girls, Inc.), The Woman of Light Award (Westcoast Center for Human Development), and the Sarasota County Arts Leadership Award. Currently she has co- authored a book, The Animated Short which will be due out in March.
CAST
 Laquayva Anthony (Adelle) The Miamians marks Laquayva's first production with Florida Studio Theatre. Originally from Bronx, N.Y., She graduated with a B.F.A. Degree in Drama from Mason Gross School of The Arts at Rutgers University. Previous roles have included: "Connie Adler" in The Newlyweds at (The Producers Club in New York), "Mafia" in Reinaldo Povod's La Puta Vida, "Iris" in Lee Blessing's Down The Road, and "Jane" in Fun with(The Rutgers Theatre Company). Laquayva would like to thank the marvelous cast, crew, and staff for this wonderful opportunity, as well as her family for their undying love and support.
 Kenajuan Bentley (Jackson) is pleased to be making his FST debut. Originally from Michigan, Kenajuan received a BA from Western Michigan University and an MFA from the University of Connecticut. A resident of NYC, Kenajuan has been featured in many off Broadway shows. Favorite credits include: NYSF’s production of Well, Theatre For a New Audience’s Production of The Merchant of Venice with F. Murray Abraham, and the Red Bull Theatre Co.’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, newly adapted by Garland Wright.
 Matthew DeCapua (Leo) is thrilled to work with this great cast and crew and return to FST where he appeared in the ‘05/’06 production of Brooklyn Boy. Regional: Dracula (Premiere Stages, starring Lorenzo Lomas), Humbug (Premiere), Fraternity (World Premiere Stamford Theatre Works), The Dining Room (Seven Angels), Flattery will get you (CT Repertory Theatre). New York: New Dramatists, Peccadillo, NY Fringe Festival (as Tom Hanks). Television: Law & Order, As the World Turns. BFA University of Connecticut. Proud Member Actor’s Equity Association.
 Jon Kohler (Isaac) Some of Jon’s more memorable roles include the shotgun wielding Coleman in the SE premiere of The Lonesome West, Boris in the Yiddish theater paean The Fishkin Touch and the vicious prison matron in Women Behind Bars. Jon is happy to be doing his second show at FST and considers himself a genius for figuring out that it’s better to winter in Florida than NY.
 Marina Re (Marta) Regional Theatre: Israel Horowitz's Gloucester Stage(seven seasons); Huntington; Merrimack Rep.; Charles Playhouse; Two River Theatre; National Theatre of the Deaf(US Tour); Connecticut Rep.; Penn State CenterStage; Becton Theatre; Wheelock Theatre( IRNE AWARD nom.); Seven Angels Theatre; Vineyard Playhouse; Maine Public Theatre; Boston Lyric Stage; Foothills Theatre. NY Theatre: HB Playwrights Theatre; Flea Theatre; Kraine; West End Theatre; Pulse Ensemble. Film/TV: The Women (with Bette Midler),Urban Relics, Teacakes or Cannolli, New Amsterdam(FOX),Spencer For Hire(ABC), Millers Court(NBC). She is a magna cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College.
 David Perez-Ribada (Luis) a proud member of AEA, is thrilled to be making his FST debut. A South Florida based, award winning actor, he has been a part of more than 40 productions over his short but exciting professional career. Favorite roles include the world premiere cast of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning Drama Anna in the Tropics; Lefou in Beauty and the Beast; Robby the Stockfish in Urinetown; Vaentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman; Davis in Red Light Winter; Michal in The Pillowman (Carbonell Nom Best Supporting Actor); The Professor in Tracers (Carbonell best Ensemble); and the world premiere cast of another Micheal McKeever play, Suite Surrender. He would like to thank Michael for writing this wonderful, heroic role, his family for their support, and Mercedes for her patience and love while he’s away from home. For more on David go to www.dpribada.com
Production Staff
Production Manager...........................................Bruce Price
Company Manager.............................................Melody Ann Mora
Production Stage Manager.................................Karin J. Ivester
Scenic Designer
................................................Nayna Ramey
Costume Designer..............................................Marcella Beckwith
Lighting Designer...............................................Marty Vreeland
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