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Dearly Beloved

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CAROLINE ALTMAN* (Nelda Lightfoot/Patsy Price) is happy to make her Willows debut.  Recent credits include Emma in Emma, the Musical (San Francisco), Queen Anne in the musical workshop of The Man in the Iron Mask (New York), and Penelope in The Golden Apple at 42^nd Street Moon.  Locally, she has performed with Cal Shakes, S.F. Opera, Woodminster, Playhouse West, and Oakland Opera Theatre.  Favorites include the title roles in Nymph Errant and Fanny, Hayyah in Ghetto, Jenny in Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, and Fiona in Brigadoon.  She is currently co-artistic director of The Wicked Stage Theatre, and serves as director of education for the S.F. Opera Guild and director of family programming for 42^nd Street Moon.  In addition to being an accomplished director/choreographer, she has composed four musicals for young audiences and received a Shellie award for Contribution to the Performing Arts and a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Best Actress in a Musical (Whispers on the Wind, 2003).

KATIE ANDERSON (Tina Jo Dubberly/Gina Jo Dubberly) is thrilled to join the Willows Theatre again after performing as Poppy in last season's Noises Off.  Some of her recent roles include Ophelia in Hamlet at Calaveras Rep, Rosie Pye in Humble Boy at the Dragon Theatre, and Emily Cratchitt and the Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Twist at City Lights Theatre in San Jose.  She studied acting at Loyola University New Orleans and has a B.A. in English from Nicholls State University in Louisiana.

DIANA BOOS (Twink Futrelle) is very excited to be returning to the Willows. Last year, she appeared in The Odd Couple.  Other Bay Area credits include: A Christmas Carol and The Women (Center Rep), Richard III (Woman’s Will), Playboy of the Western World (Cinnabar Theater), Oklahoma! (N.D.N.U), and Julius Caesar (San Leandro Players).  Regional credits include: The Seagull, A Christmas Carol and Playboy/Western World at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew, and Macbeth at Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival; Orpheus Descending and Sadie and Bib at The Artistic Home (Chicago); Long Day’s Journey Into One-Act and Charlie and the Fiction Factory with Free Associates (Chicago); and Sweet Land of Liberty at Theatre Q (Chicago). She holds a B.F.A. in Theater and has studied in London at the Royal National Theater.  She is a proud member of Theater Bay Area.

DARCY BROWN-MARTIN* (Frankie Futrelle Dubberly) appeared most recently as Helga in M. Butterfly at TheatreWorks. Other Bay Area credits include No Exit (Ines) with Cutting Ball Theatre and Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Grace) with Theatre Q.  In New York, Darcy appeared in Loose Ends and Cowboy in His Underwear at INTAR, The Rain Always Falls at Theater for the New City, and Arms and the Man at the Westside Repertory Theatre.  She originated the role of Meg in Theatreworks USA’s production of Little Women.  She is a graduate of Brown University.

BRIAN LEVY (Wiley Hicks) – graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in dance and drama.  He then spent 12 years dancing professionally in New York City and Minneapolis, working with a wide spectrum of companies, ranging from Nikolais/Louis to Elizabeth Streb/Ringside to Ballet of the Dolls.  Brian is now pursuing his acting career in the Bay Area both in theater and film.  Among other roles, he has been seen as Nils Krogstad in A Doll's House (Collegiate Players), Benjamin Cohen in The Underpants (Actor's Theater), and Catesby in Richard III (Subterranean Shakespeare).  He most recently appeared as Lyle in Farm Boys at New Conservatory Theater and on film in David Janssen's Buyout as Frank.

NIKOLAI LOKTEFF (John Curtis Buntner) is an actor and singer who has been performing in the Bay Area since 1995.  Credits include: Ragnarok, Doom of the Gods (Shotgun Players); As You Like It and The Mission of Jane (Valley Shakespeare Festival); Richard III (Shakespeare at Stinson); Our Town (u/s, Berkeley Rep); She Loves Me (Napa Valley Rep); Hamlet and Cyrano de Bergerac (Marin Shakespeare Festival); Promises, Promises (Pacific Alliance Stage Co.); and The Lion in Winter (Northside Theater Co.).  Nikolai has studied with the Moscow Art Theatre in Cambridge, MA, and Studio ACT in San Francisco.  This is his first appearance with the Willows.

LORRAINE OLSEN (Honey Rae Futrelle) – is happy to return to the Willows stage, where she was last seen in Funny Girl.  Lorraine has subsequently worked at S.F. Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, and Eastenders Repertory.  Favorite roles include Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame (Willows), May in Fool for Love, Linda Rotunda in Savage in Limbo, Joanne in Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Christine in Kissing Christine, and Bella in Lost in Yonkers.  Along with her husband, Val Hendrickson, she co-founded Theatre Valentine and helped to produce and act in 10 shows, including The Person I Once Was, for which they won a Best of Fringe award at the S.F. Fringe Festival.

RYAN TASKER (Justin Waverly) is pleased to be making his Willows debut.  He most recently appeared as Olan in The Forest War with Shotgun Players.  A Southern California native, he has had the good fortune to work with Dragon Productions, the S.F. Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Q, TheatreWorks, and The Western Stage since moving to the Bay Area.  Ryan has trained with the Atlantic Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, and at California State University-Fullerton. 

MARGARET TAYLOR (Geneva Musgrave) – is delighted to appear in her second Jessie Jones play at the Willows.  A San Francisco native, she was first directed by Rich Elliott in a previous century at Ross Valley Players.  She studied theatre at the University of Southern California with John Blankenchip and has appeared in summer repertory at Fallon House Theatre in Columbia, CA, and for two seasons on the Fringe of the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland.  Favorite roles include: Helga Ten Dorp in Deathtrap, Mrs. Boyle in Mousetrap, and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit (Ross Valley Players); Lady Tremurrain in Whodunnit (RVP and Willows); Marguerite in Dearly Departed (Willows); and Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, American Beauty Rose in Pal Joey, and Maggie in The Shadow Box (Festival Theatre USC/USA).

MICHAEL RAY WISELY* (Dub Dubberly) is pleased to return to the Willows for Dearly Beloved.  His other performances with us include: Chet in Over the Tavern, Capt. Smollet in Treasure Island, Sheriff Dodd in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Dillard in Foxfire.  Most recently, he appeared at Aurora Theatre Co. as McCann in The Birthday Party.  Other local credits include: The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Magic Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Center Rep), Fugitive Kind (Marin Theatre Co.), On the 20^th Century (American Musical Theatre), The Tempest (S.F. Shakespeare Festival), and Desire Under the Elms (San Jose Rep), as well as performing for San Jose Stage, Pacific Alliance, Shotgun Players, and others.  Michael Ray has guest-starred in film, television movies, and series and currently has a show (Home Transformations) running on the DIY Network.  When not acting, he also works as an independent producer, director, and writer.  He lives in Richmond with his wife Wendy and daughter Olivia.

Archives

The Secret Garden
Nunsensations!
Woody Guthrie's American Song
The Odd Couple
1776
Noises OFF
Cabaret
Oliver
Deathtrap
2005 John Muir Summer Festival
Over the Tavern
Judgment at Nuremberg
AIDA