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FST Closes Summer Season with a Fast-Paced Farce Full of Flings and Fumbles

CAST

Gil Brady* (BERNARD) Previously at FST: The Outsider, Pictures From Home, Shear Madness, The Play That Goes Wrong, and Outside Mullingar, to name a few. Off-Broadway: Sideways (Theatre at St. Clements), Shear Madness (Davenport Theatre), and National Pastime (Playwrights Horizons). National Tours: White Christmas, Annie. Selected Regional: Baskerville (Syracuse Stage); Mamma Mia (Capital Rep -Berkshire Theatre Award Nomination); Sound of Music (Alabama Shakespeare); The Addams Family (Gateway Playhouse). TV: My Sordid Affair... (Lifetime Movie Network), Law and Order: SVU. www.Gil-Brady.com

Katharine McLeod* (JACQUELINE) is delighted to make her FST debut! Favorite regional credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Triad), Pride and Prejudice (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Miracle on South Division St (Geva), God of Carnage (STC) and Inge Snapshots (Outstanding Performance Award, Toronto Fringe.) TV/film: Law and Order, Cancel Me, Morning Smoke. Katharine is currently Chair of Acting at Circle in the Square Theatre School. Proud UC Berkeley and University of Washinton PATP Alum.

Jack Berenholtz* (ROBERT) Off-Broadway: Fuente Ovejuna (Theatre for a New Audience), Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center). Other New York theater: Public Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, The New Group, FringeNYC. Regional theater: O’Neill Theatre Center, Cleveland Playhouse, Gulfshore Playhouse, Chautauqua, Williamstown. TV: Evil (recurring), FBI, The Good Fight, Law & Order SVU, Tommy, The Deuce. Film: The Black Monk, Simchas & Sorrows, Bandito (TriBeca Film Festival). Podcasts: Embrace Everything - Mahler (NPR), What Happened in Skinner. Education: NYU Grad Acting (MFA).

Lily Kren* (SUZANNE) is so happy to be making her FST debut! This year you could have seen Lily at Gulfshore Playhouse in Noises Off and Sweet Charity. Recently she has appeared in the Tony Nominated Broadway Revival of The Who’s Tommy. She performed on the 2024 Tony Awards, Jimmy Fallon and Good Morning America. She has also previously been seen in the National Tour of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. Regionally: The Who's Tommy (The Goodman); Mamma Mia! (Casa Mañana), Beauty and The Beast (The Argyle). Lily is signed with Avalon Artists Group and attended Texas State University for a BFA in Musical Theatre.

Ellen Grace Diehl* (SUZETTE) FST debut! Recent credits: Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood (Maid Marian), Hamlet (Osric) at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page) at Idaho and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. The Tempest (Ariel) at Cleveland Play House. Recently won best actress, singer, and short at NYTheatreFestival for self-written, one woman show: Singin’ in a Rainstorm. MFA: CWRU/CPH. A dancer, choreographer, coach, and vocalist; more at www.ellengracediehl.com and @ellengracediehl on IG. For Bill and Peg. 

Will Harrell* (GEORGE) is an NYC based theatre artist and Alabama native. He's been seen on stage throughout the U.S. and Canada in the National Tours of Spamalot and Oliver! He's worked at The Walnut Street Theater, The Wilma, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival and many more. Favorites include, Benedick, Much Ado; Jaques, As You Like It; Capulet, R&J. Most recently he was seen in Maine at the Theater at Monmouth in A Tuna Christmas.

Creative

DIRECTOR | Nancy Rominger

FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER | Brianna McVaugh

SCENIC DESIGNERS | Axis Studios Design

COSTUME DESIGNER | Kathleen Geldard

LIGHTING DESIGNER | Andrew Gray

SOUND DESIGNER | Nicholas Christensen

AEA STAGE MANAGER | Shira Lebovich*

STAGE MANAGEMENT INTERN | Colbee Dickson

* Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Dorothy's Dictionary Cast Headshots

Cast

Alice M. Gatling* (Dorothy Ross) is excited to return to FST after being seen in Black Pearl Sings!, Brownsville Song (b-side for tray), and Ruined. Other credits include: WBTT in A Raisin in the Sun, Jar the Floor; Alley Theatre: The Mousetrap, Doubt, Our Lady of 121st St., The Exonerated, The Crucible; Arden Theatre: Under the Skin; Interact Theatre: Gidion’s Knot (Barrymore Best Actress); AD Players: Steel Magnolias, Best of Enemies; People’s Light: As You Like It, A Flea in Her Ear; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Hillary and Clinton; Stages: Nickel and Dimed; Main Street Theatre: The Secretary, Caroline or Change, Intimate Apparel; The Ensemble Theatre: Sassy Mamas, No Child…., The Piano Lesson, Fences, Flyin’ West.

Ethan Haberfield* (Lyzander "Zan" Hardt) | NYC-born and dictionary-resistant, Ethan made his Broadway debut as a kid in Mary Poppins and returned last season in the Tony-nominated Prayer for the French Republic. Regional: Oliver (Paper Mill Playhouse), Wrinkle in Time (PlayMakers Rep), To Kill a Mockingbird (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ). Film/TV: Saturday Night Live (NBC), We Have a Ghost (Netflix), Pretty Little Liars (MAX), The Other Two (HBO), Sinister (Blumhouse), The Artist (The Network). BFA: University of Michigan. @ethan.haberfield

Creative

DIRECTOR |  Kate Alexander

SCENIC DESIGN | Axis Studios Design

COSTUME DESIGN | Chelsea Allen

LIGHTING DESIGN | Andrew Gray

SOUND DESIGN | Nicholas Christensen

STAGE MANAGER | Shira Lebovich*

STAGE MANAGEMENT INTERN/FELLOW | Amoreena Tillman

* Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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CAST

Miles Aubrey

Luke McMaster

Louis Tucci

CREATIVE

Line Producer | Catherine Randazzo

Lighting Design | Andrew Gray

Sound Design | Nicholas Christensen

Sound and Lightboard Operator | Matthew Parvin

How Sweet It Is Cast Headshots