COMPANY AUSTIN ARCHER has been seen on SLAC's stage in the last five seasons of SATURDAY'S VOYEUR as Nephi Jensen and other characters, including the Cat in DR. SEUSS' THE CAT IN THE HAT, as Duck in CLICK, CLACK MOO: COWS THAT TYPE, as Sharktooth in HOW I BECAME A PIRATE, as James Monroe in BLOODY, BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, and as Haemon in TOO MUCH MEMORY. At Pioneer Theatre Company in A FEW GOOD MEN (Louden Downey), THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (Leaf Coneybear), PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (Prentiss), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, and the ROCKY HORROR SHOW (ensemble). He has also been seen performing with Utah Repertory Theatre, Good Company Theatre, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, The Ziegfeld Theatre, and Darkhorse Company Theatre. COLLEEN BAUM is from Salt Lake City and is happy to be back at Salt Lake Acting Company. She was last seen in COURSE 86B IN THE CATALOGUE, END DAYS, RABBIT HOLE, SEX STING, KIMBERLY AKIMBO, GO DOG GO, SATURDAY’S VOYEUR, THE WATER PROJECT, and CABBIES, COWBOYS AND THE TREE OF THE WEEPING VIRGIN. At Pioneer Theatre Company in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, OUR TOWN, THE HEIRESS, LOST IN YONKERS and YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU. At Plan-B Theatre Company in CHRISTMAS WITH MISFITS, THE LARAMIE PROJECT, ANIMAL FARM, WAR OF THE WORLDS, SLAM, AND SPIRIT, ALWAYS PATSY CLINE, GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA (GOOD MORNING JULIET) and BLOOD BROTHERS. Colleen is a proud member of Actors Equity. DANIEL BEECHER attended the actor training program at the U of U. He has most recently been seen locally in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY with Utah Rep and Silver Summit, and at the Grand Theater in NOISES OFF, OUR TOWN, and DEATH OF A SALESMAN. Other local credits include COURSE 86 B IN THE CATALOGUE, THE CARETAKER, and AN EMPTY PLATE IN THE CAFE DU GRAND BOEUF at Salt Lake Acting Company, PETER PAN, MACBETH, KING LEAR, and ROSENCRANZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at Pioneer Theatre Company, and many others. CHARLOTTE BOYE-CHRISTENSEN, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark received her early training at London Contemporary Dance School and at the Laban Centre in London and completed her MFA Degree at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Charlotte has been commissioned to create new works for: Ballet West, Milwaukee Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Danish Dance Theatre, Compania Danza Contemporanea Ccu in Mexico, Verb Ballets in Cleveland, Ballet de Camaguey in Cuba, The Arts Fissions Dance Company in Singapore, Tisch School of the Arts' Second Avenue Dance Company in NYC (Three commissions), London Contemporary Dance School's Edge Dance Company, and Utah Symphony and Opera. In 2013 she formed NOW-ID. She has choreographed at the Universities of Texas-Austin, TCU, Princeton, Rutgers, Utah, Southern Mississippi, at The National School for Contemporary Dance in Denmark, The Kuopio and Oulu Conservatories in Finland, Arnheim Academy and European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands, The Royal Danish Ballet School, University of the Americas in Mexico, and at the Bellas Artes International Choreography Competition in Mexico City. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and grants from the Theatre and Arts Councils in Denmark, Germany, Mexico and Singapore, a grant from the Toyota Foundation and three from the Augustinus Foundation in Denmark amongst others, as well as a recipient of the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreographic Excellence and locally in Utah - five "Artys" for "Best choreography". TONI BYRD is both actor and director. She was lucky enough to participate in the playwrights’ lab at Sundance during the 1980's. Her acting credits include productions at the Grand Theatre, SLAC, PMT and Theatre Works West. She has directed productions at the Grand Theatre, the Egyptian Theatre in Park City and SLAC. Her film credits include Touched By An Angel, a variety of made for TV films and A Life Less Ordinary directed by Danny Boyle. Toni is the co-founder of the EttaGrace Black Theatre. KATHLEEN CAHILL’s awards include the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwriting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, two Edgerton Foundation Awards and a Drama League Award. Her play CHARM was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her play THE PERSIAN QUARTER was nominated for a Steinberg Award. Her produced musicals and operas include FRIENDSHIP OF THE SEA, DAKOTA SKY; an opera, CLARA, two opera/cabarets, A TALE OF TWO CITIES: PARIS AND BERLIN IN THE TWENTIES, and the comedy, FATAL SONG. She also wrote the lyrics for David Zabriskie’s Requiem. Her most recent production is the musical PERDIDA, THE WINTER’S TALE in Mexico. Her other produced plays include the comedy, COURSE 86B IN THE CATALOGUE (Salt Lake Acting Company), THE STILL TIME (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago), WOMEN WHO LOVE SCIENCE TOO MUCH (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio), JOY FOREVER (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts), CHARM (National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare; Taffety Punk, Washinging D.C. and others), THE PERSIAN QUARTER (Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep.) and a one-act, THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES (Fusion Theatre, Albuquerque). She wrote the screenplay for the independent feature, Downtown Express. She is Playwright-in-Residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company. TONY CAMPISI is extremely pleased to be working with SLAC for the first time, especially in this venue of developing new plays. His Broadway experience includes PVT. WARS, THE NERD, and the Tony Award -winning "AWAKE AND SING!". Off-Broadway work, among others, are "FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE", “IF MEMORY SERVES", "BLOOD AND GIFTS", and "OLD MONEY". He has performed in regional theatres all across the country. His work in helping to develop new plays includes several summers at the Sundance Playwrights Lab with David Kranes, a number of summers at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and performances at New York Stage and Film. TV credits include "Blue Bloods", all the various incarnations of "Law & Order", "Ally McBeal" and others. Film work- “A Home of Our Own" -shot in Utah, “Dad" - a short, "Green Plaid Shirt", "Cruzando", and "Tyson" ( HBO) and others. Known for her work on the highly successful CBC/ABC series, Being Erica and ABC series Happy Town, NICOLE CARDONI is a strong comedic and dramatic actor who loves creating new, emotionally challenging roles. Recent stage works include her leading role in the world premiere of Edward Allan Baker's newest play SONNY UNDER THE ASSUMPTION, as well as her off- Broadway debut in the ensemble dark comedy TANGO by the late, Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek. Future acting projects include Nicole's involvement in Hannah Rittner's newest play THREE WOMEN FAIL TO MOURN THE APOCALYPSE premiering in Toronto summer 2015. CYNTHIA FLEMING has been in the world of dance and theatre professionally for over 36 years, during which time she performed in the Broadway, national and International companies with A CHORUS LINE. In 1978 as a U of U Theatre student, her performing relationship with SLAC began. Since 1995 she has worn many hats at SLAC, including Choreographer, Director, Box Office Manager and Director of Audience Services. She conceived and created the position of Director of Communication and Audience Development and assembled the communication team to generate a renewed energy and excitement about the theatre before taking on her current position as Executive Producer. Cynthia remains a working artist in the theatre and has choreographed SATURDAY’S VOYEUR for 16 years and directed the musical for five years. She has choreographed many SLAC productions including THE PERSIAN QUARTER; GO, DOG. GO!; BAT BOY THE MUSICAL; AND WATER LILIES from CABBIES; COWBOYS; and THE TREE OF THE WEEPING VIRGIN. Cynthia is proud to serve SLAC and its mission to develop and produce vital new work. APRIL FOSSEN was last seen at SLAC in the NPSS reading of BULL SHARK ATTACK. She has also appeared locally in NOTHING PERSONAL, SUFFRAGE, MESA VERDE, SHE WAS MY BROTHER, and MIASMA (Plan-B Theatre Company); AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Silver Summit/Utah Rep); THE RIGHTEOUS AND VERY REAL HOUSEWIVES OF UTAH COUNTY (Alligator Press Productions); THREE DAYS OF RAIN, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, and ROMEO AND JULIET (Pinnacle Acting Company); and RINGS (The Grand Theatre). Regional credits include work with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the California Shakespeare Festival. April holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts from UC Berkeley. MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Utah. Her dramaturgical credits include: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Pioneer Theatre Company; CLEARNING BOMBS and NOTHING PERSONAL at Plan-B Theatre; the Classical Theatre Company’s UNCLE VANYA, ANTIGONE, CANDIDA, GHOSTS, TARTUFFE, and SHYLOCK, THE JEW OF VENICE; productions of WAITING FOR GODOT, IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, SEVEN GUITARS, THE MOUNTAINTOP, HOME, and PORGY AND BESS at the Court Theatre; THE CLEAN HOUSE at CATCO; COMEDY OF ERRORS, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM; and FENCES at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; 10 PERFECT and THE CURIOUS WALK OF THE SALAMANDER as part of the Madison Repertory Theatre’s New Play Festival; and A THOUSAND WORDS as part of the 2008 WI Wrights New Play Festival. Genuine, irreverent, universal, ridiculous and original, BILL HARLEY is a two-time Grammy® award-winning artist who uses song and story to paint a vibrant and hilarious picture of growing up, schooling and family life. Recipient of the lifetime achievement award from RI Council for the Humanities “for building community; promoting our common humanity; and encouraging lifelong learning, exploring and growing”, Bill tours nationwide as an author, performing artist and keynote speaker.