COMPANY MEMBERS

LINDSEY GATES (Artistic Director) founded the Lake George Theater Lab with her husband, Jesse McKinley, in 2005. As an actress, she has appeared on stage, film and television on both coasts. Recent credits include "Far Away" and "I Have Loved Strangers" with San Francisco's Just Theatre, and the off Broadway premiere of "The Legacy Codes" (Pan Asian Rep) in New York/. Other regional credits: Strindberg's "The Pelican," and a children's production of "Peter Rabbit," both at the Hanger, and "The Kitchen Sink Play" and "OTMA" at the 2005 Lake George Theater Lab. In New York, where she received a BFA from New York University, she appeared numerous productions and readings, including one alongside Kevin Kline and Paul Newman at Lincoln Center. Film and television roles include "Strangers with Candy," "Vamps," and "LA Firefighters" and a strange cameo in the Oscar-winning film "Lost in Translation." In 2004, she produced her most glowing creation: her son Jake.

JESSE McKINLEY (Producer/Bus Driver) is a playwright and journalist. In print, Jesse is the San Francisco bureau chief of the New York Times. Prior to his relocation to the West Coast, Jesse was on the culture desk for eight years, covering Broadway and the American theater, pop culture, comedy, and the occasional celebrity meltdown. In the mid-1990s, he covered California as a freelancer for the Times, before joining the City Weekly desk, where he covered the East Village, downtown Manhattan, and all the night life therein. He joined the Times staff in 2000. In his other hat, Jesse is the author of several big long plays, including "Quick Bright Things," "The Body," "Apocrypha," and most recently, "The Theory of Everything." He is currently at work on his first novel, "Trash," which he will likely never finish.

GABRIEL McKINLEY'S (Resident Playwright)plays include The Kitchen Sink Play (Lake GeorgeTheater Lab), Love Sick (NY Fringe), Welcome Home RockRogers (NY Fringe) and Funny. His short play The Graveis a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Mr.McKinley is currently studying playwriting with Christopher Shinn in TheNew School for Drama's masters program.

MICHAEL BARAKIVA (Resident Director) is a half-Armenian/half-Israeli, New York City-based director. In NYC: Save The World: A Superhero Adventure Play by Chris Kipiniak (Roundtable Ensemble), Then written and performed by the MCC Youth Company (Theater Row/Clurman), The Women by Clare Boothe Luce (Atlantic Acting School), psychoPharm by Shawn Nacol (MARS Theatricals, workshop), The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (Roundtable), Fatwa by Anuvab Pal (New York International Fringe Festival), 2B or Not 2B by Jacquelyn Reingold, (HB Playwrights Foundation and Theater), Eject (written and performed by Trevor Oswalt), Defusion and A Free Man In Paris by Brooke Berman (Roundtable), SteakKnife and Through Fred by Stephen Belber (Studio Theater), Animal Shelter by Emily Jenkins (Soho Rep), Bloody Thanksgiving by Brooke Berman (Ohio Theater). Regional: Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama by Heather Whaley, OTMA by Kate Moira Ryan, The Kitchen Sink Play by Gabe McKinley (all at The Lake George Theater Lab), The Exchange by Ursula Rani Sarma (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center), UP by Bridget Carpenter (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Dark Matter by Hugh Bush (Vineyard Playhouse), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn (first workshop, Barrington Stage Company), Welcome To My Rash and Third by Wendy Wasserstein (premieres, Theatre J), Julius Caesar (Hangar Theatre Lab). Educational: The Winter's Tale (University of Utah), Much Ado About Nothing (ACA at the Shakespeare Theater), OTMA by Kate Moira Ryan (Vassar Colllege), Six Characters In Search of An Author (University of Rochester), The Why by Victor Kaufold and Lines In The Sand by Laramie Wilcox (both at Bard College). Michael has directed readings or workshops at the Roundabout Theater, Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theater Workshop, New Dramatists, Ars Nova and the Rattlestick Theater. He was also featured on an episode of MTV's MADE, in which he coached two high school students through the process of writing, directing and producing a play. He is working on his first book, a gay young adult novel tentatively titled The Suburbs Suck. Awards/Affiliations: Resident Director at the Lake George Theater Lab, Phil Killian Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Drama League Summer Fellowship, David Merrick Prize in Drama, Lincoln Center Directors' Lab. Education: Andrew W. Mellon Directing Fellow at The Juilliard School; Vassar College. Upcoming: Burn This by Lanford Wilson at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Shining City by Conor McPherson at Nevada Conservatory Theatre; The Black Monk by Wendy Kesselman with South Ark Stage Company on Theater Row. Proud member of SSDC.

SHOKO KAMBARA (Resident Designer) Recent projects include The Kitchen Sink Play and OTMA (Lake George Theater Lab), NERDS:// A Musical Software Satire (New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2005). Heliantha (PS122), Like You Like It (New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2004). As an assistant designer she has worked with Derek McLane on Lestat, Little Women, I Am My Own Wife, all on Broadway, and The Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center.

ROSEMARY ANDRESS (Director) is delighted to return to the Lake George Theater Lab after directing The Comedy of Errors here in 2007.

New play development and premiere productions are a cornerstone of Rosemary's work, including: The Deep Run by Noemi Martinez-Cress for the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Company, Absolute Flight by Barbara Blumenthal-Erlich for the NYC Fringe Festival, A Wives' Tale by Christina Ham for Arielle Tepper's Summer Play Festival, Ritalin for Two by Joan Jubett and Jerusha Klemperer at Under St. Marks, Up Against the Wind (a Rhapsody Imagined from the Life of Tupac Shakur), by Michael Develle Winn for New York Theater Workshop, Metamorphosis by Michael Develle Winn for PSNBC at HERE, Five new musicals for The A-Train Plays at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Dear Prudence by Susan Hefti for Galanthus Productions at the Rattlestick, and True and Solid Ground by Jim Knable for SoHo Rep.

Other New York productions have included: William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, produced by The Sounding Theater Company in Riverside Park, the American premiere of The John Wayne Principle by Australian writer Tony McNamara for Hair of the Dog at the Ohio Theater, The Tempest for Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, The Taming of the Shrew for Expanded Arts, Leave and Without by Wayne Hellar for Expanded Arts, and Running by Dick Silver at ATA.

For VisionIntoArt (a multidiscipline company which creates themed projects based in new music), Rosemary has staged, and collaborated on the development of: the touring production Democrazy, presented in New York, North Carolina, and Texas, Bloodstains on a Battlefield presented at the Culture Project in New York City, as well as individual pieces in Simulacra, at the Clark Studio in Lincoln Center, and Nocturnal Butterflies at the Juilliard School.

Rosemary has been a Teaching Artist at: Montclair State University where she directed Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, Yale University, where she directed Noises Off , The American Academy of Dramatic Art, where she directed the graduating company in Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels, The University of Missouri Kansas City, where she conducted development workshops for and directed the premiere production of Smoking Kills by Dominic Legett, CCCC in Plano, TX, where she directed The Shape of Things by Neil Labute and Light Up The Sky by Moss Hart, Bard College in Upstate New York, where she directed Much Ado About Nothing, Manhattan Class Company where she directed Finesse by Vera Williams as part of their education program.

Rosemary was the Associate Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theatre Group for three years, where she directed: The World Might Be Uninhabited by Said Syrafizadeh as part of The Cauldron/SF Festival, Twelfth Night at Under St. Marks, and Much Ado About Nothing at the Kraine Theater (the latter two were co-productions with Fang Theater Company); she also produced The Secret Narrative of the Phone Book by Gordon Cox for Horse Trade in January 2005.

Rosemary attended the Andrew W. Mellon graduate directing program at the Juilliard School under Michael Kahn, Joanne Akalaitis, and the late Garland Wright, where her credits included: the world premiere of Pavane by Alexandra Cunningham, The Maids by Jean Genet, The Jewish Wife and The Informer by Bertolt Brecht, and Homefires by John Guare. She was invited back to Juilliard as a Guest Artist to directed the 20th annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, and interdisciplinary gala featuring current students and distinguished alums.

Rosemary is a member of the SSDC, a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, a 2003 Finalist for the NEA/TCG Director's Grant, a Usual Suspect with New York Theater Workshop, and a recipient of the David Merrick Award in theater.

ERICA BECK HEMMINGER (Costume Design/Asst. Scenic Design) BFA in Fine Art, Carnegie Mellon University; MFA in Scenic Design, The Theatre School at DePaul University. Studio Assistant: Derek McLane (Little Women, Pajama Game, Barefoot in the Park, Threepenny Opera), Robert Brill (Assassins, Streetcar). Design resume includes: The Colored Museum, The Selfish Giant and Other Wilde Tales, Waiting for Godot (DePaul); Some Voices (AADA). BFA in Fine Art, Carnegie Mellon University; MFA in Scenic Design, The Theatre School at DePaul University.

CURRENT SEASON

TEDDY ALVARO ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied at the Meisner Extension, the Classical Studio, and the Experimental Theater Wing. Past credits include: Salvatore in The Rose Tattoo, Circle in the Square (Broadway); Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar, Nately/Milo Minderbinder in Catch 22 (Aquila, Nat'l Tour) Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet (Aquila Young Audience Reading); Longaville in Love's Labor's Lost, Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Cloten in Cymbeline (Neoclassical Ensemble); Baz in A Bright Room Called Day, King Peter in Leonce & Lena, and Charlie in The Country Doctor (Collegiate).

ROSEMARY ANDRESS (Director, "Four by Four") New play development is a cornerstone of Rosemary's work, including premiere productions of: The Deep Run by Noemi Martinez-Cress (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater), Absolute Flight by Barbara Blumenthal-Erlich (NYC Fringe), A Wives' Tale by Christina Ham (SPF), Up Against the Wind: A Rhapsody Imagined from the Life of Tupac Shakur, by Michael Winn (New York Theater Workshop), five short musicals for The A-Train Plays, True and Solid Ground by Jim Knable (SoHo Rep), and many others.

She recently directed MLK:20 (Celebrating Dr. King), a multidiscipline project for The Juilliard School. Other multidiscipline projects include: Democrazy (NYC and Tour), and Bloodstains on a Battlefield (presented at the Culture Project), as well as individual pieces in Simulacra and Nocturnal Butterflies, all for VisionIntoArt.

As a Teaching Artist, Rosemary has directed: Machinal by Sophie Treadwell (Montclair State University) Noises Off by Michael Frayn (Yale University), Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels (AADA), Smoking Kills by Dominic Legett (UMKC MFA program ), The Shape of Things by Neil Labute, and Light Up The Sky by Moss Hart (CCCC), Much Ado...(Bard College), and Finesse by Vera Williams (Manhattan Class Company).

Rosemary is a member of: the SSDC, the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, and the NYTW Usual Suspects. She trained under Michael Kahn, JoAnne Akalaitis and Garland Wright at the Juilliard School.

MATT BERGER ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") is an NYC based theater artist working as an actor, writer, and musician. He has composed music for the New York Neo-Classical Ensemble's productions of 12th Night ('08), Cymbeline ('07) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ('07) as well as for numerous short films and stage pieces. He worked as a Baryshnikov Arts Fellow under Joanne Akalaitis ('06) and traveled to Warsaw to participate in the International Theatre Schools Festival ('07). Matt has appeared Off-off Broadway in Tom Thumb the Great (La Mama, '04) and Stone Cold Dead Serious (the Clurman at Theatre Row, '07). He has starred in two short films, Fuzz ('06) and Three Graveyards ('07). Matt is the guitarist and lead songwriter for the NYC band 'the Hey!' (www.myspace.com/thehey). He is a 2006 graduate of NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing.

SHAWNA CATHEY ("Stage Manager, "Two Gentlemen of Verona") is excited to be returning to work with Lake George Theater Lab for a second year. Since her last production with LGTL she has been busy working on projects with Stepping Stones Productions, The Theater Company At Debaun Auditorium in Hoboken, and Bronx Prep Charter School, as well as launching a new project with Aditi Pictures. She is looking forward to a very busy but fun filled year and summer with LTGL.

DREW CORTESE ("Four by Four") New York credits include: 1001 (P73), As You Like It (The Public), Honor and the River (SPF), The Life and Death of Pier Paolo Pasolini (ActFrench Festival), As I Lay Dying (Basement Flat), expat/inferno (FringeNYC), Madama Fortuna (Dixon Place). Regional: Guthrie Theater, Denver Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage & Film, Papermill Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, Clarence Brown Theatre. B.A. Duke University, M.F.A. NYU Graduate Acting Program. Proud volunteer of the 52nd Street Project.

BILLY GRIFFIN ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") is a native of Buffalo, NY and a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied at the Meisner Extension, The Classical Studio and The Experimental Theater Wing. Recent favorite roles include Malvolio in The New York Neo-Classical Ensemble's production of "Twelfth Night," The Puppeteer in an original work, "The Ballad of Thimblebear," and King Richard in The Classical Studio's production of "Richard III." Billy was last seen in The American Theater of Actors' production of "Henry VI, Part I" as the Dauphin, Charles.

DANIEL HEATH (Playwright, "Leo") lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes plays for local theater companies, including Playground, PianoFight, and the Playwright's Center of San Francisco. He is a two-time winner of the Playground Emerging Playwright Award, and a recipient of the Playground Fellowship full-length play commission for 2008-2009. He also writes fiction and essays, and spends his daylight hours as a consultant helping philanthropic organizations use technology to save the world and stuff. He spent his undergraduate years in Ithaca, NY, and is happy to see his work headed back to the neighborhood (more or less).

DALIYA KARNOVSKY ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") holds a B.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied both classical and experimental theatre, and went on to create, produce, and star in Everyone Else is Screaming: A New Musical Work. Daliya recently appeared in New York Neo-Classical Ensemble's Twelfth Night (Maria) and Pericles (Dionyza). This past winter, she assistant-directed the highly acclaimed Edward II off-Broadway with Red Bull Theater. She has also toured with Chamber Theatre Productions and recently appeared off-off-Broadway in MCT's Goodnight, Moon: The Musical. Daliya performs her solo work around the NYC area, and is writing an original musical to be produced this summer.

MARC LEVASSEUR (Antonio/Duke, "Two Gentlemen of Verona") BFA from NYU 2007. This is his first time working with the Lake George Theater Lab. Other parts include: Iachimo (Cymbeline), Antony (Julius Caesar), Coriolanus (Coriolanus) Chaplain, Aarfy (Catch-22), Thurio (Two Gents). He would like to thank all of his friends and family for their love and support. BFA from NYU 2007. This is his first time working with the Lake George Theater Lab. Other parts include: Iachimo (Cymbeline), Antony (Julius Caesar), Coriolanus (Coriolanus) Chaplain, Aarfy (Catch-22), Thurio (Two Gents). He would like to thank all of his friends and family for their love and support.

AARON LOEB (Playwright, "Panopticon")Berkeley, CA playwright Aaron Loeb's full-length play, First Person Shooter, was world premiered in 2007 by SF Playhouse and PlayGround. It won the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critic Circle's award for Best Original Script, 2007 and will be performed by City Lights Theater Company in San Jose and Capital Stage in Sacramento next season. His next play, Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party will be world premiered at SF Playhouse this December. His short plays have been featured in six Best of PlayGround Festivals, the San Francisco Fringe Festival and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival BASH. PlayGround developed and subsequently produced the World Premiere of PANOPTICON in San Francisco in 2008. James A. Kleinmann, Artistic Director

BETH LOPES ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") received her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Recent roles include the Queen in Cymbeline, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Moth in Love's Labor's Lost, all with the New York Neo-Classical Ensemble.

NANCY MAGARILL ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") has spent the last 4 years composing for NYU's Classical Studio productions as well as writing, recording and performing with the Sirius String Quartet and other artists. She has been the past recipient of the ASCAP Emerging Artist Award and currently hosts a monthly performance series "the pARTY" in Brooklyn. The new record, "Down below the Rodeo"; is now available at CDbaby, on iTunes and on Nancy Magarill.com.

MOLLY RHODES (Playwright, "Three Divided into One") is a playwright currently living in San Francisco. Her play Three Divided Into One was originally developed and produced through PlayGround, where Molly has had several short plays developed and produced and received the 2007 PlayGround Fellowship to develop her full length The Singularity of We. Her short plays have also been performed at American Conservatory Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 6 Women Playwriting Festival. Molly's full length For All the Babies' Fathers was a semifinalist at The Playwrights' Center PlayLabs 2008, had staged readings at Magic Theatre and Playwrights Center of San Francisco and will have its world premiere at Brava Theater Center in April 2009. Molly is an artistic associate at Magic Theatre, where she coordinates the literary committee and oversees the development and creation of dramaturgy for Magic's productions. She was also named one of twelve Up & Coming local playwrights by Theatre Bay Area and was part of their inaugural playwrights' showcase. She graduated from Yale University and has studied playwriting at the University of Washington and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

When Molly is not working on plays or in the theatre, she raises money for At The Crossroads, a nonprofit that does counseling-based street outreach to homeless youth in San Francisco. She is also a freelance theatre critic for the San Francisco Weekly.

DANIEL SPECTOR (Director, "Two Gentlemen of Verona") is the Assistant Director of The Classical Studio, an advanced training program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is the Director of Training for the New York Neo-Classical Ensemble and directed their inaugural production of Love's Labor's Lost at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. He has directed or coached on 17 of Shakespeare's plays, written extensively on performance, appeared as a principle demonstrator in the hit fitness video, Ballet Bootcamp II, and once gave a very awkward interview to Men's Health for his tips on applying acting techniques to dating.

STEPHEN STOUT ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") Proteus - For Aquila Theatre Company: Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Yossarian in Catch 22 (US National Tour), Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Off-Broadway, Germany), Romeo, Benedick (Lincoln Center Institute), Comedy of Errors (Germany), Laertes, Hamlet (Skirball Center). Other New York: Navarre in Love's Labours Lost, Posthumus in Cymbeline (New York Neo-Classical Ensemble, Baryshnikov Arts Center). Film: Mystery Team, Checkout (Winner 2006 HBO Comedy Arts Festival Aspen), shorts with The Onion News Network, Montreal Comedy Festival and Derrickcomedy.com. Much love and thanks to his family, Daniel, Lake George Theater Lab, and this wonderful company.

KATHERINE WILKINSON (Associate Producer/Assistant Director, "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Four by Four") is an undergraduate Dramatic Art and Communications Studies major at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was trained in acting and directing at the Walnut Hill boarding school for the Arts in Massachusetts, and has also studied at UCLA, the Walnut Street theatre, Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music, London Drama school, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She spent last summer in San Francisco interning at The Magic Theatre developing new plays and performance. Most recently, Katherine directed the 2008 Vagina Monologues at UNC and starred in such original plays as "Hamlet Story", "The Bell Witch" and "Lethal Theatre". She is overjoyed to work with the Lake George Theatre lab.

PAST CASTS and CREATIVES

DANIEL ABELES ("Comedy of Errors") Daniel is thrilled to be part of this production. Favorite roles include: "George" in Our Town, "Weston" in 5th of July, "Slim" in Of Mice and Men, and "Phil" in the US premier of Falling Petals. He has worked on several films including: Gasoline, directed by Andy Hulse, based on a story by Sam Shepard. Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Atlantic Theater School, Stonestreet Studios. Daniel enjoys music, crosswords, and consuming copious amounts of Tabasco.

LINDSEY ANDERSEN ("Twelfth Night") has been performing professionally in New York for the last four years. Recent projects include Off-Broadway: The Contrast, Richard & Anne, The Master Builder. NYC: Love's Labours Lost, Bury the Dead, Who Will Carry the Word?, The Marriage of Bette & Boo, Hay Fever. Regional: Pericles, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Electra, Charlotte's Web. Film: Four-Eyed Monsters, My Mother's Kitchen, Helpful Hannah, G'hal, 2nd Place = 1st Loser. Lindsey's voice can be heard on computer games, radio spots, and in the new puppet film, Gasso & Mitch. More info at lindseyandersen.com.

JONATHAN BOCK ("Comedy of Errors") recently graduated cum laude from Vassar College with a major in Drama. At Vassar: Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Quills, Fool for Love, and Look Back inAnger. He also spent a semester at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where he played Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare in the Valley in Waterville Valley, NH: Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

EDWARD BOROEVICH ("Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") Edward played the role of Brewster in Austin Pendleton's production of The American Clock at HB Playwrights Foundation. He also appeared in Five By Tenn, a collection of never-before-seen plays by Tennessee Williams, both at Manhattan Theatre Club and for the world premiere at The Kennedy Center. He originated the role of Woodson Bull III in Wendy Wasserstein's Third at Theater J in Washington DC. TV: "All My Children" and "Guiding Light." Edward received his MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy, under the direction of Michael Kahn.

SHAWNA CATHEY (Stage Manager) is a graduate of New York City College of Technology with a degree in Entertainment Technology.

ADAM CERNY ("Comedy of Errors") is a recent graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University with a BFA in theatre arts. Recent roles there include Prior Walter in both parts of Angels in America, Banquo in Macbeth, Jesus in Godspell, and many others. Regional credits include Paul in A Chorus Line (Countryside Theatre) and Wayne Frake in State Fair (Quad City Music Guild). He enjoys all forms of theatre and is very excited to be working with the Lake George Theatre Lab. He currently resides in New York City.

NOSHIR DALAL ("Twelfth Night") New York: "Take Me Out" (Darren Lemming - Gallery Players), "Caligula," starring André De Shields (Incitatus - Classical Theatre of Harlem), "Mother Courage" (Swiss Cheese - Columbia University), and "Rebels 101" (Professor - Rebel Theatre). Regional: "Hamlet" (Hamlet), "Julius Caesar" (Brutus), and "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (Father).

STEPHEN BEL DAVIES ("Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") Credits include: Two episodes of Pet Regressor (Super Deluxe/Turner), City of Dreams (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Marvin's Room (Mountain Playhouse), Boy Meets Girl (Women's Project Productions), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Utah Shakes), The Tempest (Kentucky Shakes), The Greeks, Julius Caesar, God's Ear, Baby Food (The Juilliard School). Upcoming projects include: Williamstown Theatre Festival and a featured spot in a concert at Town Hall on July 23rd. This year he was named the winner of the Pearl Award for outstanding achievement while at Juilliard. He is a proud member of the Actor's Equity Association. Training: The Juilliard School.

GINA FANTOZZI (Production Associate) graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied acting at Cap21 and the Classical Studio. Most recently she appeared in the Columbia Grad film "Gloss Your Lips" as the murderous Katrina and as Dottie the surly waitress in the independent film "The City."

EMILY FINK ("Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama," "Comedy of Errors") Graduated from Vassar College in 2003 with a double major in psychology and theater. Past credits include: Portia (Julius Caesar), Barbara (Sympathetic Magic), Emma (Pterodactyls), Stepdaughter (Six Characters in Search of an Author) and Iago (Othello).

SUZANNA FOX ("Comedy of Errors") Suzanna is a graduate from the performing arts conservatory of Point Park University where, in 2005, she earned her BFA in acting with a minor in music. She has since moved to New York City to further her acting/directing/waitressing career. Favorite credits include Macbeth, Hamlet, Godspell, Sweeny Todd, The Secret Garden, Amish Burlesque, and voicing radio commercials in Baltimore, MD.

RYAN W. GATES (Technical Advisor/ Technical Director) primarily works as a producer and director in film, television, and interactive media. Some of his recent credits include "The Members Project" for American Express, Bank of America's "Freedom Banking" campaign, and "Watch and Whoa" for Ice Breakers Sours which won the 2007 Silver MIXX Award for Super Rich Media. Mr. Gates was the director of many kids TV shows such as the international hit "Gagsters" now airing in America under the title "Kids Behaving Badly." In 2005 he joined The Lake George Theater Lab as the Technical Director for the "Kitchen Sink Play," and again in 2006 for "OTMA" and "Twelfth Night." Currently he is producing a feature documentary, a feature independent film, Ethan Gold's latest music video, and helping out wherever he is needed with the theater lab.

AARON GONZALEZ (Artistic Associate, "Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") is a recent graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts Directing Program, Aaron has worked professionally in NY as a Director, Producer, Stage Manager, P.A., Board Op, Light /Sound/Set and Mask Designer, Assistant Dir., Asst. SM, Light Crew, Run Crew, and Teacher. FOR: Lake George Theatre Lab, Howling Moon Cab Company, Lincoln Center Institute, Roundtable Theatre Ensemble, Oberon Ensemble Theatre, Small Pond Ent., Harmony Ent., Martian Ent., NYMF, Flying Swine, Amas Theatre, Premiere, and the NY Philharmonic on Lonny Price's production of Camelot. All within his first year in NYC. Thank you to Jesse McKinley, and Lindsey Gates for giving him his first job, and always thank you Mom

MICHAEL P. GUAGNO ("Comedy of Errors") Trained at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Fall where he trained at the Atlantic Acting School, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and the Stonestreet Film and Television Acting programs. Most recent credits include appearances at the Cherry Lane and Public Theaters in NYC as well as the Attic's production of Max Frisch's The Firebugs in which he played Biedermann.

KELLY HUTCHINSON ("OTMA") Broadway: "Major Barbara," "Macbeth," with Kelsey Grammar. Off Broadway: "Homebody/Kabul," by Tony Kushner; "Trainspotting," "The Seagull." Regional: Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. TV/Film: "Law & Order: SVU," "Hack," "The Jury," "Strangers with Candy," "Catch Me If You Can," and the upcoming "Slippery Slope."

MARTA KUERSTEN ("Comedy of Errors") Appeared in The Potluck Plays with Milk Can Theatre Company, and also in the world premiere of Bordertown at Manhattan Repertory Theatre.

NEIL MAGNUSON ("Twelfth Night") Neil Magnuson is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts. He is thrilled to be back with the Lake George Theater Lab. He was last seen headed north on 9N with all our beer. He should be considered very employable. Go Chiefs. Seriously, they need to get it done this year.

KIP MARSH (Lighting Designer, "Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") Kip heads the program in design and production at Brooklyn College's Department of Theater. Recent and notable set designs include: Everything will be Different at Soho Rep, Karla by Steve Earle (Lights), Spin Moves and A Wife's Tale at The SPF-2004 and '06, Pericles with Red Bull Theater, Principal lighting designer with Les Ballets Trockadero, Associate Set Designer on Imaginary Friends (Broadway), and Assistant Set Designer on The Contract, National Ballet of Canada.

CHAP MELFORD ("Comedy of Errors") Circle in the Square Theatre School, Westchester Community College. Credits include Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, in which he played Eddie Carbone, and a modern version of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, for which he co-wrote the music and also played Kinesias.

HEIDI NIEDERMEYER ("Twelfth Night") New York Theatre Credits: ACTORS ARE FU@#?NG STUPID, KRAKEN (Push Productions), TEXAS LAWMAN (37 Arts, Reading), UNDERGROUND (Classic Stage Company, Workshop), MEDEA (Looking Glass Theatre), OFFICE SONATA (Impetuous Theatre Co.), THE AUDITION (Wings Theatre), TROJAN WOMEN (HERE Arts Center)

Williamstown Theatre Festival 2007: (non-Equity Leap Frog Company) HELP YOURSELF, THE PROHET MOHAMMED: A MUSICAL!, THURSDAY, GREYLOCK THEATRE PROJECT. Will be returning to perform in WTF Non-Eq Company again this summer.

TV/FILM/WEB: GUIDING LIGHT (U5), THE BEAUTIFUL LIE (MTV Movie Award), PERCEPTION, THE BASEMENT (Columbia Grad), PODOPERA BROOKLYN (Heather), ALAYA HERBAL WATER

STACIE JOI PERLMAN ("Twelfth Night") is thrilled to be back in the Adirondacks! She holds a BA in Theatre from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has worked regionally with Allenberry Playhouse (Jesus Christ Superstar, A Grand Night for Singing), Naples Dinner Theatre (The Who's Tommy, Schoolhouse Rock Live), and in NYC at the WOW Café Theatre, Emerging Artists Theatre, and the Pantheon Theatre. Stacie has also sailed the ocean blue, performing on Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas. Favorite roles include: Lizzie in The Rainmaker, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Maria in Twelfth Night, and Rabbi/Ethel Rosenberg in Angels in America. Stacie is currently seeking representation. SJPerlman8@aol.com

MARIA THAYER ("OTMA") After being born on a bee farm (really) in Boring , Oregon (really) to a family of people allergic to bees (really), Maria studied at the Juilliard School. She was in "Hair" where she was the only one fully dressed during the nude scene and performed in the world premiere of Eve Ensler's "Necessary Targets" where she was the only one nude during a fully dressed curtain call. She did other plays, too, including Nina in "The Seagull." Her television credits include NBC's "Miss Match," CBS's "Big Apple," BBC's "12:21" and "Law and Order." Her film work includes Todd Solondz's "Storytelling," "Hitch," with Will Smith, and "Scratch" for which she won Best Actress at the Columbia Film Festival (presented to her by Chevy Chase, presumably last year's winner). Maria originated the character of Tammi Littlenut on "Strangers with Candy" on Comedy Central, and reprised her role in the current film version of the television show. Film: "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Accepted," "Hitch."

BRYAN TULL ("Comedy of Errors") Trained at the Barrow Group Theater School in New York along with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. In September Bryan will be attending the one-year classical acting program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

GREG STEINBRUNER (Director, "Twelfth Night") has had an active career as an actor in NYC working Off-Broadway, Regionally and Downtown. He is the artistic director of Fifthstreet Theatre Inc for whom he has written and directed four original pieces: Poor Pilgrim's Plenty, Too Rustic!, The How To Be A Red Hot Shakespearean Lover Workshop, and Les Artistes. He teaches Shakespeare at the 78th Street Theatre Lab and will be presenting an original children's musical at 78th Street in the fall. He thanks the excellent people of the Lake George Theatre Lab for their incredible energy and vision, the cast for their hard work, and the community for it's support.

ERIC SUTTON ("Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") Woolly Mammoth (company member): U.S. premiere of Bug (Peter); world premieres of Jump/Cut (Paul) and Recent Tragic Events (Andrew); Big Love. Arena Stage: Of Mice and Men (Whit); The Great White Hope. Studio Theatre: A Class Act (Charlie/Marvin). Folger: Comedy of Errors (Dromios); Hamlet (Osric). Round House Theatre: Wintertime (Jonathan); The Drawer Boy (Miles); Shakespeare, Moses and Joe Papp (Jesse). Theater J: Oh, The Innocents (Josh); Jump/Cut (Paul); The Chosen (Reuven). Project Y: Italian American Reconciliation (Aldo). Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolyn). Eric did NOT attend The Juilliard School.

JENNIFER THOMPSON ("Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") Hangar Theater: Bloodline, The Children of Argos, Julius Caesar (also with Michael Barakiva). NY: Gallathea (HERE), Rockberry: The Last One Man Show (The Brick). NYU/TSOA: Measure for Measure, House of Blue Leaves, Major Barbara. She graduated from NYU in May where she received the Mel Silverman scholarship. Training: Moscow Art Theater School, BA: Yale University, MFA: NYU/TSOA. She has an obsession with medieval history.

KATE VAN STEENHUYSE (Production Associate) is a painter and recent graduate of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

AMY WARD ("OTMA") is a recent graduate of the Juilliard School. She just finished a national tour of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as Hermia, directed by Joe Dowling. At Juilliard, she appeared in "The Listener," a musical by Craig Lucas; "Black Russian," directed Marion McClinton; "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," as Nurse Ratched. Regional credits include Santa Rosa Rep. Film: "Pirate Radio," "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll."

HEATHER WHALEY (Playwright, "Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") was born in West Point, NY and grew up in Tehran, Iran, Paris, France and New York. She graduated from Colby College with a BA in English and Performing Arts. Her first play Social Note opened in the Oak Room of the famed Algonquin Hotel in 1997 to critical acclaim and ran for three years. Since then, she has written for stage, film and television. Gin-Jazz-Love-Drama had its first workshop at The Cherry Lane Theater in New York and subsequently at the Westside Arts and the Stamford Center for the Arts Fringe Festival. Heather resides in New York City with her husband, Frank, and two children.

SEAN-MICHAEL WILKINSON ("Comedy of Errors") Graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in Theatre Performance. Sean-Michael fell in love with Shakespeare during his second year of college and the bond has only grown stronger. He has performed in several classical pieces including A New Way to Please You and A Midsummer Night's Dream and is delighted to be working on Comedy of Errors.

GABRA ZACKMAN ("Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama") Regional credits include: Metamorphoses (FST, Hartford Stage and Missouri Rep); Measure for Pleasure (FST);Taming of the Shrew (Georgia Shakes, Nebraska Shakes); All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Comedy of Errors and Henry V (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stratford, CT). NY credits: On the Verge (John Houseman, Edinburgh), Humbug, Italian-American Reconciliation, Train Story, new plays at Juilliard, Soho Rep, Lincoln Center Studio, and The Harold Clurman. TV: "Law and Order." MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre's Academy in DC.