VERONICA TRAYMORE

(Herself)

Veronica Traymore is still considered one of the greatest actresses who ever performed on the English speaking stage. 

Born Velka Schulze, she started her career as a child touring the country with her sister Rosamund.  She met her first husband, Reginald Traymore, in her first Broadway play, Beyond the Hills, where he rechristened her “Veronica” after the character she played in it. 

It was only a few years later, after the Traymores had some success in London performing in repertory, that she achieved stardom playing ‘Little Minnie’ in Tender Silences on Broadway.  The decades that followed saw her create iconic performances in such plays as The Wild Duck, The Merchant of Venice, Sitting in the Middle With A Hat On, and A Question of Morality, among many others. 

She retired in 1962 after a triumphant run as ‘Miranda’ in Five Feet Below.  She died in 1978, outliving all three of her husbands.   It is fitting that today’s audiences get to rediscover a moment of theatre history and the legend that was Veronica Traymore, in Deadly Stages.

MARC CASTLE*

(Playwright/Veronica Traymore) is an actor, director and playwright.   He received a 2017 Jerry Kaufman Award Citation for Excellence in Playwriting for his first collection of short plays. Productions of his work have been seen at EST, the Neighborhood Playhouse and La Mama, among many others. He was the Literary Manager for Emerging Artists Theatre where he has had eight short plays and his one man show produced.

Other recent works include Mr. Company, (American Globe Theatre; Winner: Audience Favorite Award) book, music and lyrics for Love, Incorporated , (Roper Center in Norfolk VA, Midtown Fest; Winner: Outstanding Production of a Musical) Friends and Relations, (June Havoc Theater) and book and lyrics for Young King Arthur (Vital Theatre Company, Actor’s Playhouse, Florida; Winner: National Children’s Theater Award.)

He started acting professionally at the age of 10, touring in the 1 ^st national company of Camelot and appearing off-Broadway in Plays for Bleecker Street. (Circle in the Square), My Great Dead Sister (The Production Co.) and Romance Language (Playwrights Horizons.) 

Regionally: The Foreigner, Crazy for You and A Lion in Winter. 

Film and TV: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Urbania, and As the World Turns . 

He is a proud member of Emerging Artists Theatre, ARTC, Equity, SAG/AFTRA, ASCAP, the Dramatist Guild, and an alumnus of the BMI Workshop. If you want to know more, check out www.marccastle.com

TOM GALANTICH*

Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, War Paint, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Boeing Boeing, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mamma Mia, The Boys From Syracuse, City of Angels and Into the Woods.

Off Broadway: Rock of Ages, Clinton The Musical, Tail! Spin!, The Preacher and the Shrink, Distracted (Roundabout), Ghosts and Biography (Pearl Theatre), A Doll’s Life and On the 20th Century (The York Theatre).

Film: Julie and Julia, Radium Girls, The Lennon Report, Love After Love

TV: Fosse/Verdon, The plot Against America, WU TANG: An American Saga, Madame Secretary, The Good Fight, Chicago Fire, The Affair, Master of None, House of Cards (Thomas Larkin), Person of Interest, Elementary, Smash, Made in Jersey, Royal Pains, Law and Order (Joe Chapelle), L&O Criminal Intent, Ed, Chappelle’s Show, The Cosby Mysteries, One Life To Live (Mark Casey), All My Children, Another World.

National Tours: Bob Wallace in White Christmas, Bobby in Company, Walter Hobbes in ELF The Musical, and Harker in Dracula.

In addition I have appeared at many regional theatres across the country including The Denver Center, The Old Globe, Michigan Opera, North Carolina Theater, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Drury Lane, and Marriott’s Lincolnshire among others.

I am also a veteran of numerous commercials and voice overs

ROB HANCOCK*

(Graham/Wade)

London: Daddy Long Legs

National Tour: Mamma Mia!

Selected Regional: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Court Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Northlight, Milwaukee Rep, Westport Country Playhouse, Great River Shakes Theatreworks, Arizona Theatre Company, Royal Manitoba Theatre, La Mirada, Skylight Music Theatre

TV/Film: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Royal Pains,! True Blood: Postmortem, Guiding Light, Greenport!(Best!Actor – NYC Independent Film Festival)

Other: Soloist with Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestra Japan, MFO Singapore, Evergreen Symphony, Taipei

DAVID LEEPER

(Anthony Arlo & Others) is a NY/LA bi-coastal, multi-award-winning actor and writer. He has performed his one-actor play “At The Flash” co-written with his husband Sean Chandler in Chicago, Los Angeles, Dublin, Philadelphia, Vermont and New York.

Of his many stage roles, his favorite theater credits include “Secret Identity”, “Oleanna”, “Fifth of July” and “Stupid F*cking Bird.

David is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and The Dramatist Guild. @thatactordavid

DANI MARCUS*

(Phoebe/Connie) was introduced to the stage at age six when she auditioned for a professional production of Show Boat. When asked if she had prepared something to sing, she replied, “Yes, I am going to sing for you, ‘You Are My Sunshine’. Would you like me to do it Operatic, or Country Western?” Inevitably, she sang it for them both ways and somehow, still got the part.

After graduating with a BFA in acting from Emerson College, Dani was hired to play Snow White in San Francisco’s long running Beach Blanket Babylon. Following her tenure at the Blanket, Dani joined Actors Equity and found a passion for developing new works at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley where she created the role of Harriet Smith in the world premiere of Paul Gordon’s Emma.

Emma was made into a feature film and can be viewed on Amazon Prime and streamingmusicals.com. Along with co-creator and director, Tim Werenko, she co-wrote, co- produced, and starred in the award-winning web series Running Lines, now streaming on YouTube.

Though raised in California, Dani is proud to be a New York actor. If it wasn’t official before the Law and Order appearance, it is now.

Great adventures include: touring the country as Miss Barley, et al. in the Tony Award winning musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, playing Chana in Paula Vogel’s Indecent, several Off-Broadway productions with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, and practicing just enough to sing at Carnegie Hall. To date, her poetry has been rejected by the New Yorker at least three times.

http://www.danimarcus.net

ELLEN REILLY*

(Dooney/Barbara/Rita/Others) Actress, improviser, and voiceover performer, Ellen’s Off-Broadway credits include Penny Penniworth, and The Play About the Naked Guy.

Other New York theater: Fifth of July; Sister Cities; Bernadette and the Butcher of Broadway; Tonylust; Peas and Carrots.

TV: The Daily Show; Law & Order; Law & Order SVU; Late Nite with Jimmy Fallon; As the World Turns; Rescue 911.

Web: Onion News Network.

JONAS COHEN*

(Understudy) New York: Strings Attached (Pulse Theater) Duet For Three (Amas Music Theater), 2 shows for NYMF (Best Ensemble Award)

Regional: Northern Stage, Riverside Theater, Walnut Street Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Barrington Stage, Stamford Theatreworks, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, The Hangar Theater, Flat Rock Playhouse, The Arvada, Arkansas Rep, New Harmony Theatre, Capital Repertory Theater, Ivoryton Playhouse, and The Fulton Theater.

TV: The Good Fight, The Equalizer, The Flight Attendant, Mr Robot, The Deuce, Succession, Law & Order SVU, The Tap, Power; Blue Bloods, & All My Children.

Film: The Pixie Fighters; Forgetting Sandy Glass

SARAH ELLIS*

(Understudy) is delighted to be joining the World-Premiere of this thrilling, deadly new show! She an NYC-based actor, concert artist, and producer, with credits spanning across the country in theatre, film, commercial, and symphony work, including the First Nat’l of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

Select regional: The Rev, Riverside Theatre, Stages STL, KC Starlight, Geva Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Arrow Rock Lyceum, Pittsburgh CLO, Northshore MT, Florida Studio, The Gateway, Farmer’s Alley, WV Public, Westchester Bway & The Engeman.

OHLQ Spokesperson. Co-Creator/Producer of award-winning MT SHORTS.

BFA Penn State.

For Daddio. www.meetsarahellis.com @iamsarahellis