Mainstage Playbill Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. THE COTTAGE by Sandy Rustin CAST Beau ..................................................................................Greg Balla* Clarke .......................................................................Drew Hirshfield* Marjorie ..........................................................................Tracie Lane* Richard ......................................................................Casey Predovic* Sylvia ..........................................................................Hanley Smith* Dierdre ....................................................................... Anna Stefanic* Scenic Designer Costume Designer Andrea Bechert Abby Parker Lighting Designer Sound Designer Thom Beaulieu Thom Korp Stage Manager Roy Johns* Directed by Jason Cannon Season Underwriters Patricia Kordis, Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Patrick & Mary Mulva, Anne H.S. Nethercott Setting | A quaint, family–owned cottage in the English Countryside, about 90 minutes outside of London. * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES GREG BALLA (Beau) Off CASEY PREDOVIC (Richard) Broadway: Straight, Blue Man Off-Broadway: Orwell In Group, You Can’t Kiss a Movie. America (59E59); Lost and Regional credits include: Miss Found (Lucille Lortel); The Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Man Who Had All the Luck, The (Pioneer Theatre Co.); Only Magistrate (TACT). NYC: All Fall a Kingdom w/ Betty Buckley Down (NYMF), Violent Child (John Drew Theatre at Guild (EST), Happy’s Funeral, Sybil’s Hall); Ether Dome (La Jolla, Hartford, Huntington); Last Show, Dawn, workshop – The Land Where the Into the Woods; By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lyric King is a Child (La MaMa). Regional: Our Town, Letting Stage Co.); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Bad Go (Northern Stage); Just Like Us (Denver Center); Habit Prod.); and Ragtime (Fiddlehead Theatre Co). The Foreigner (Repertory Theatre STL); Adventures Mr. Balla is a graduate of Fordham University Lincoln of Tom Sawyer (Hartford Stage); Fly (ASF); Theory Center. imGregBalla.com. IG:imGregBalla. of Everything (Lake George), Monomoy Theatre DREW HIRSHFIELD (Clarke) 13 seasons. TV: Blue Bloods, Elementary, Person of FST: Cherry Docs, Hand to Interest, Good Wife. BFA, UNCSA. God. Regional credits include HANLEY SMITH (Sylvia) is plays at Magic Theater, thrilled to be making her Huntington Theatre Company, FST debut! Credits include: Geva Theatre Center, The Last Five Years (Syracuse Premiere Stages, American Stage, directed by Jason Conservatory Theater, New Alexander); In the Next Harmony Theatre, Alley Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Room (Gulfshore Playhouse); Cruz, among others. New York credits include new Venus In Fur and Les Mis (The plays with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Collaboration Fulton); Major Barbara (Portland Center Stage); Town, New York Stage & Film, 59E59 Theaters. She Loves Me (Gretna Theatre); and The Glass Broadway National Tour: The Lion King. He teaches Menagerie (Pioneer Theatre). Hanley is also a proud acting at New York Film Academy. He earned his MFA member of the folk trio, A Band Called Honalee. from American Conservatory Theater. hanleysmith.com. @backstagehanley. TRACIE LANE (Marjorie) ANNA STEFANIC (Dierdre) is Juilliard: Pelagiya in Queens, thrilled to be back at FST after Marlene in Top Girls, Dorine performing in Guitar Girls in Tartuffe. Shakespeare: Joan earlier this year! Other favorite la Pucelle in Henry VI Part 1 credits include Once (Mad Cow (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Theatre), I And You (Kitchen Olivia in Twelfth Night Theatre Company), In Praise (Tennessee Shakespeare Co.); Of Elephants (Ancram Opera Rosalind in As You Like It, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, House), The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini (Speakeasy Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well, Portia in Merchant Dollhouse), we are destroyed (New York Theatre of Venice (American Shakespeare Center); Lady Workshop reading), Beneath The Gavel (54 Below), Macbeth in Macbeth, Viola in Twelfth Night (Houston A Marriage Contract (Metropolitan Playhouse). Her Shakespeare Festival). Regional: Mrs. Givings original singer-songwriter album “Warrior” and in In the Next Room (Stages Repertory Theatre); poetry collection “Flytrap” can both be found online. Yelena in Uncle Vanya (Classical Theatre Company). IG:tracielane48. ARTIST PROFILES JASON CANNON (Director) is an Associate Artist several Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards (most at FST, where his responsibilities include directing, recently for Fun Home), a Denver Ovation Award, teaching, New Play Development, and the Acting and international Falstaff Award nomination, and Apprentice Program. Shows directed at FST include: many others. Andrea teaches design for Theatre Marvelous Wonderettes, Hand to God, A Gentleman’s & Film at San Jose State University and is a proud Guide to Love and Murder, Snow White, Peter Pan, member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. A Beary Big Adventure & Other Winning Plays, ABBY PARKER (Costume Designer) returns to Other People’s Money, The Boy Who Liked Pulling Sarasota for her second show, after designing Rich Hair, Constellations, How to Use a Knife, Once, The Girl back in 2017. She calls Atlanta her home and Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Robin Hood, has designed for many theaters there, including Doublewide, Burt & Me, The Dragon vs. the Hiccups, Actor’s Express, Horizon, Georgia Ensemble, Dad’s Gidion’s Knot, Stalking the Bogeyman, Million Garage, Synchronicity, Serenbe Playhouse, and Dollar Quartet, The Velveteen Rabbit, Relativity, My Aurora. She also creates custom ballet costumes Name is Asher Lev, and Butler (which earned Best and works as a costume technician for the Atlanta Director nominations from the Sarasota Herald- Ballet, where she is Company Shoe Manager. Tribune and Creative Loafing). His performance as THOM BEAULIEU (Lighting Designer) is an award- “Ever Montgomery” in Dancing Lessons garnered winning lighting and sound designer. His work “Best Actor of 2015” awards from both Sarasota has been experienced throughout the eastern US Magazine and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is including The Marvelous Wonderettes, Wednesday’s a seven-time Kevin Kline Award nominee (and Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- one-time winner for Outstanding Leading Actor). Time, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, He appears regularly with FST Improv. Proud Unchained Melodies, Always...Patsy Cline, Honor member SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA. jasoncannon.biz Killing, Once, Blue Suede Shoes, Mack the Knife: The ROY JOHNS (Stage Manager) is pleased to be back Bobby Darin Songbook, Native Gardens, and Burt & for another season at FST. He has had an exciting Me (Florida Studio Theatre); The Waltz, The Man Who and varied career both on stage and behind the Shot Liberty Valence, Carrie: the Musical, and The Lord scenes from Tokyo Disneyland to the White House. of the Flies (The Winnipesaukee Playhouse); A Chorus Past credits at FST include: Ethel Waters: His Eye Line, Floyd Collins, Sweet Charity, and Singin’ in the is on the Sparrow, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Rain (Aurora Theatre). He holds a BFA in Drama from Wednesday’s Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, and a in the Night-Time, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and MS in Physics. Murder, Other People’s Mondey, Murder For Two; THOM KORP (Sound Designer) As FST’s Sound Always...Patsy Cline; Honor Killing; Native Gardens; Supervisor, Thom does more than wrangle rogue Once; Doublewide; The Absolute Brightness of microphones. Sound design credits include: Ethel Leonard Pelkey; Burt & Me; Rich Girl; brownsville Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow, The Marvelous song (b-side for tray); Million Dollar Quartet; Wonderettes, Wednesday’s Child, The Curious Incident The God of Isaac; The Roommate; The Fabulous of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Wonder Years: The Lipitones; Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; One Music of the Baby Boomers, Straight White Men, Man, Two Guvnors; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Guitar Girls, Unchained Melodies, A Gentleman’s Chapatti; Hairspray; and Taking Shakespeare. Guide to Love and Murder, Once, A Chorus Line, ANDREA BECHERT (Scenic Designer) has Spamalot, Native Gardens, How to Use a Knife, The designed over 350 productions and numerous Columnist, Talley’s Folley, and The West Side Waltz. world premieres across the country. Her designs Mixing Credits: Next to Normal, Smokey Joe’s Café, have been included in the World Design Expo The World Goes Round, Tango: Buenos Aires, and We and Prague Quadrennial exhibit. Awards include Will Rock You. EXECUTIVE STAFF RICHARD HOPKINS is the Producing Artistic Florida Studio Theatre, and as such, is the Chief Director of Florida Studio Theatre. Mr. Hopkins has Operations Officer. Mrs. Hopkins is responsible for fostered the development of FST’s Mainstage and oversight of FST’s Administration, including the Cabaret productions. His many directing Mainstage Business Office, Development, Marketing, Box credits include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in Office, Front of House, Restaurant, Budgeting, and the Night-Time, Honor Killing, Inspired Lunacy, The maintaining the overall quality of FST’s internal Best of Enemies, Next to Normal, Race, Ruined, The management. Mrs. Hopkins serves on the Board of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Boleros Directors for