FREDDIE BENNETT 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 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 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 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 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, Surviv- ing the Streets, premiered at the New York International Independent Film and Vid- eo Festival in October. FST debut.