TICKETS
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New plays by Benjamin Benne, Beth Hyland, Melis Aker, and Sofia Alvarez.

WTF’s Fridays@3 reading series is a renowned program for the development and discovery of new work curated by the Festival’s Artistic Programs Manager, Lianna Rada-Hung. Many Festival productions have started as Fridays@3 readings. Spend the afternoon at The Clark Auditorium with a play in development, directed and performed by industry professionals. All readings take place at 3 PM in the Auditorium at the Clark Art Institute (225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267).

Friday, July 12
at the very bottom of a body of water
Written by Benjamin Benne
Directed by Cat Rodríguez

Marina’s life has a circular routine which, when broken by the disappearance of her fishmonger, sets her off on a surreal quest to confront the grief that’s been holding her captive for years.

Friday, July 19
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA
Written by Beth Hyland
Directed by Caitlin Sullivan

A once-celebrated novelist, grappling with writer’s block, confronts the ghosts of her past, threatening to unravel both her sanity and her artistic vision. SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA is the recipient of WTF’s 2024 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award winner and Hyland is WTF’s 2024 Jay Harris Commission recipient.

The July 26 reading of Indigo Dreams has been cancelled due to an illness in the cast. Patrons who bought tickets are being contacted by the Box Office staff.
Friday, July 26
Indigo Dreams
Written by Melis Aker
Directed by Kate Whoriskey

Three carpet-weaving women in Turkey are caught between wanting to salvage their dying industry, and an offer to modernize that could have dangerous consequences.

Friday, August 2
KILL CORP
Written by Sofia Alvarez
Directed by Portia Krieger

A dark comedy about a newly pregnant woman who realizes that the only way to be a working mom in Corporate America is to kill all of her bosses.

Artist Headshots and Bios

at the very bottom of a body of water

Benjamin Benne (Playwright)
Benjamin Benne (he/him) was named part of “LA Vanguardia: The Latino innovators, instigators, and power players breaking through barriers” by the Los Angeles Times. His work has been developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Public, Roundabout, Playwrights Realm, Denver Center, The Old Globe, Two River, New Harmony Project, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, among many others, and his produced plays include Alma (Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, American Blues Theater, ArtsWest Playhouse, Curious Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, The Spot), In His Hands (Mosaic Theater Company), and What / Washed Ashore / Astray (Pillsbury House + Theatre). He has been awarded Ojai Playwrights Conference’s Dr. Kerry English Award, Portland Stage’s Clauder Competition Grand Prize, Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latinx Playwriting Award, the Kennedy Center’s KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, American Blues’ Blue Ink Playwriting Award, and the Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight and Many Voices Fellowships. He is a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer and has been commissioned by South Coast Rep and Seattle Rep. MFA: David Geffen/Yale School of Drama. www.benjaminbenne.com

Cat Rodriguez (Director)
Cat Rodríguez (she/ella) werqs in theater + new media. She wears many wigs: Cat acts, directs, and dramaturgs. A co-foundress of the queer collective Fake Friends, Cat performed in the company’s co-created Off-Broadway production of Circle Jerk, for which she and collaborators won Obie Awards (2022) and that was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama (2021). Cat’s a frequent collaborator of Benjamin Benne, having partnered as director, dramaturg, translator, and producer of his works. As director, she has helmed processes of Benne’s plays at The Public, Playwrights’ Center, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep, Two River, Duke University, &c. Cat lives and labors in english y español, talks with her hands, and also anda con ganas. She names New York, New Orleans, and Nicaragua home. 2022 Latine Fellow, Sundance Institute; 2021 Art of Practice Fellow + Community Leader, Sundance Interdisciplinary Program; 2014 NALAC Leadership Institute Fellow. Fake Friends: 2022 CultureHub Resident Artist; 2022 Mercury Store Resident Artist.

Annie Henk (MARINA)
ANNIE HENK – Off Broadway: World Premieres of Man Cave, Pinkolandia, Lucy Loves Me. Other NY Theatre: To The Bone (Cherry Lane), City of No Illusions, Cute Activist, The Rafa Play (Flea Theater), La Ruta, Enfrascada, Frank Dwyer, Sadly Missed (EST), Hamlet bilingual staging (Classical Theater of Harlem/Folger/The Public), First Gen by Jon Rua, Dennis (Fiasco/Red Bull theatres). Regional: Manning (Portland Stage – World Premiere), Shape (Kitchen Theatre), Bad Dates (Portland Stage), Heather Raffo’s Migration Play Cycle (Kennedy Center). VoiceOver: Mami in “Alma’s Way” (PBSkids). Book narration: Sunstroke, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Finn, Star Bound & Earthbound. Podcasts: Macbeth (PlayOn), The Bleeding Class (Geva Theatre), Jr Space Lords (Kennedy Center). TV: Bull, The Blacklist, Longmire, Red Oaks. Film: Ponyboi – 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Entre Nos, That’s What She Said. Annie is a Member of The Actors Center. Recipient of the Charles Bowden Award (New Dramatists)

Emma Ramos (ROSA LUZ/LULU)
Emma Ramos is a Mexican actress based in NYC. Best known for her role in Ivo Van Hove’s internationally renowned stage play SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, most recently, Emma stars in Alessandra Lacorazza’s IN THE SUMMERS, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Not only is she a stellar actor, but she also just got her first staff writing credit on Nickelodeon’s Dora The Explorer reboot DORA!

Daisuke Tsuji (HIROSHI)
Daisuke recurs in Netflix’s hit series Th Night Agent, from creator Shawn Ryan. He was also a Series Regular in Apple TV’s thriller INVASION, from Simon Kinberg & David Weil, inspired by HG Wells’ War of the Worlds. Prior TV credits include recurring roles in Amazon’s period drama The Man in the High Castle and IFC’s comedy Brockmire. Daisuke voiced a character in David Fincher’s mo-cap animated series Love, Death, and Robots for Netflix. In theatre, he starred on Broadway in Life of Pie (Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League Award Nominee), Lolita Chakrabarti’s critically acclaimed stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel. The play originally ran on London’s West End where it was an Olivier Award winning hit. Daisuke was a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for six seasons. He has performed in theatres around the country, including a contract with the amazing Cirque du Soleil. Daisuke has also been prolific in the world of Video Games, most notably as the lead character in the hit game GHOST OF TSUSHIMA (for which he received a BAFTA Games Award nomination as ‘Best Performer in a Leading Role’). In addition, he has a lead role in Mortal Kombat 1.

Natsuko Hirano (YOKO)
Natsuko Hirano is thrilled to be a part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival! Originally from Fukuoka, Japan. Santa Monica College, CA (Theater, AA), AMDA, NY Grad. Proud member of Actor’s Equity. Her favorite roles include: Victoria (Cats), Eliza (The King and I), Christmas Eve (Avenue Q) Junko (Yukio Mishima’s The Light House, English Premier). Off Broadway: Katsumi (Sayonaya), Jai (The Brother’s Paranormal, World Premier) with Pan Asian Repertory Theatre. Stage Reading: Yasuko ((An Audio Guide For) UnSung Snails and Heros with Manhattan Theatre Club), Rosie O’hara (Yellow Fever with Pan Asian Rep), Natsuko (American Spies and Other Homegrown Fable). She has appeared in various commercial and voice over projects, her most recent project includes Hellmann’s “Mayo Cat ” Superbowl commercial VO. While she continues to pursue her performing career, Natsuko is also a flight attendant of a major airline in the U.S. Huge thanks to my agent, Stefanie and my bf, David for continuous support.

Leah Getz (Stage Directions)
Leah Getz (She/They) is so excited to be back at Williamstown! Past credits include: Williamstown Theatre Festival Chapters of a Floating Life (Stage Directions), 2nd Stage Theater, Chinese Republicans (Stage Directions), Episodic Theatre Project Bardcore (Jess), Fordham Theatre, La Cocina (Helen), and Tartuffe (Elmire). She Received her B.A. in Theatre from Fordham University.IG: @leahhgetz Rep: Candice Mercedes CSP www.leahgetz.com

SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA

Beth Hyland (Playwright)
Beth Hyland is a playwright and screenwriter based in Southern California. Her plays and musicals include SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA, FIRES, OHIO, SEAGULLS, KILLED A MAN (JOKING), GRIPPY SOCK VACATION, ALL-ONE! THE DR. BRONNER’S PLAY, CLEARING, FOR ANNIE, and RED BOWL AT THE JEFFS. Her plays have been produced and developed regionally at Steppenwolf’s LookOut Series, Goodman Theatre’s New Stages, Know Theatre, Provincetown Theatre, B Street Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, and Octagon Theatre Bolton; in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Hearth; and around Chicago at Jackalope Theatre, First Floor Theater, The Story Theatre, Bramble Theatre, Broken Nose Theatre, The Sound in collaboration with Joe Swanberg, and others. Her play FIRES, OHIO was the 2023 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Prize and the Mark Twain Award for Comic Playwriting. She co-founded The Sound, an itinerant Chicago storefront theatre, with artistic director Rebeca Willingham. Her short film CLAMBAKE, directed by Sammy Zeisel, was an official selection of the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and the Santa Monica Film Festival. She is currently a second-year playwriting MFA student at UC San Diego under the mentorship of Naomi Iizuka and Deborah Stein. BA: Kenyon College. Representation: Jamie Kaye-Phillips, Paradigm Talent Agency. www.bethhyland.com

Caitlin Sullivan (Director)
Caitlin Sullivan is a director and theater maker based in New York City. Recent work includes Find Me Here (Crystal Finn/Clubbed Thumb), The Keep Going Songs (The Bengsons/LCT3), The Good John Proctor (Talene Monahon/Bedlam), Nova (Obehi Janice/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Pemberley Productions), United States vs Gupta (Deepali Gupta/JACK in collaboration with New Georges), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (reid tang/Clubbed Thumb), Ohio (The Bengsons/Actors Theatre of Louisville, piece by piece productions), and Sanctuary City (Martyna Majok/NYTW). Caitlin co-founded Seattle’s critically acclaimed Satori Group. As Artistic Director, she created and/or directed seven original works. Born and raised in Boston (Dorchester!), Caitlin is a graduate of Williams College; an alum of the Drama League Directors Project, the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship and the New Georges Jam; and a New Georges Affiliate Artist. www.caitlinesullivan.com

Lennox T. Duong (SALLY)
Lennox T. Duong was born and raised in Fresno, California and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. She’s worked on new plays since the beginning of her career and loves getting to continue collaborating with others on new works and reimagined classics. She’s recently worked on new play developments with La Jolla Playhouse, NAATCO, Faultline Theatre, The Sống Collective, Ensemble Studio Theatre. She played Sean in a new musical, HELLO KITTY MUST DIE, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2024. (Training: The Juilliard School)

Noah Keyishian (THEO)
NYTW debut. Regional: Fiddler on the Roof (Olney Theatre Center); Love All; Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse); Are You There? (44th Humana Festival); A Christmas Carol; Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Film: The Folly of Paris or the Original Snub; Box of Chocolates; Happy Yummy Chicken. Education: M.F.A. UC San Diego

Madeline Wise (SYLVIA)
Select theatre credits include Testmatch (ACT, world premiere); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Two River Theater); Far Away (Sharon Playhouse); Minor Character (Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival; Invisible Dog; Sharon Playhouse); The World My Mama Raised (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks); Cute Activist (Bushwick Starr); Choice (Huntington, IRNE nom for Best Supporting Actress). Television: So Help Me Todd; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Star Trek: Picard; Single Drunk Female; Crashing. Film: Lapsis, Over/Under. Readings and developmental work with Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, New York Theatre Workshop, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, Ars Nova, Playwrights Realm, Drama League, New Group, The Lark, Huntington, and more. Madeline was a co-founder of the award-winning New Saloon Theater Co and is a member of the Actors

Alex Mickiewicz (TED)
BROADWAY: Appropriate (Tony Award, Best Revival), Trouble in Mind (Tony Nomination, Best Revival), True West (u/s), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (u/s), Therese Raquin. OFF-BROADWAY: The Last Match (Roundabout), Drift (New World Stages). REGIONAL THEATRE: Death of a Salesman (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre Company), The Last Match (The Old Globe). WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL: Robin Hood, Becoming Sylvia, Tripolitania. TV: Will Trent, FBI, Chicago PD, High Maintenance, Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam.

Ella Pennington (Stage Directions)
Ella Pennington is an actor and photographer originally from the Bay Area. A recent NYC transplant from Chicago, last year Ella appeared in a reading of Beth Hyland’s Nurse/Juliet with the Kennedy Center. In Chicago, select credits include Beth Hyland’s Seagulls at Steppenwolf LookOut and For Services Rendered at Griffin Theatre for which she was listed as one of the most notable performances of the year in the Chicago Tribune. She has appeared in multiple short films including Clambake which, most recently, was screened in the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. Her photography has been featured in Vogue Online and Cultured Magazine. More information about her work can be found @ellpenn and www.ellapenningtonphotography.com

Indigo Dreams

Melis Aker (Playwright)
Melis Aker is a writer, actor and musician from Turkey, based between London and New York. Named a Woman to Watch by the Broadway Women’s Fund, Melis is the recipient of the Sundance Interdisciplinary Program grant & NY Community Trust/Van Lier Fellowship. She has a series in development with Skybound Entertainment, is the Signature Theatre Company’s LaunchPad resident playwright & Theatre503’s 503Five writer. She has developed work with the Atlantic Theatre Company (Middle East Mixfest), NYTW (2050 fellow), Playing on Air (Scraps and Things starring Carol Kane, featured on NYT), Homebound Project (Fractio Panis starring Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari-Cox), Ars Nova (Play Group), PlayCo, DGF (playwriting fellow), Roundabout, New Group, O’Neill, 24 Hour Plays, Finborough, the Park, and has been named on the Kilroy’s List. Melis is a co-creator of the bilingual musical AZUL (Jonathan Larson grant, NYC Women’s Fund) alongside Jacinta Clusellas & Tatiana Pandiani. She has also worked on the development of a screenplay with Revelations Entertainment headed by Morgan Freeman, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival Maison des Scenaristes, IFP, Orchard Project, and is in post-production for her film “Baba in Graceland.” In 2024, Melis will be developing the musical play Hundred Feet Tall with Benjamin Scheuer and Katy Rudd at the Old Vic, her commissioned play Fish at the Signature Theatre Company, commissioned play Murmurs at Theatre503, and completing her debut novel. She has taught playwriting at the New School & NYU, and prose fiction at King’s College London. Education: King’s College London (PhD), Columbia University (MFA), RADA (Acting). Representation: CAA. www.melisaker.com

Kate Whoriskey (Director)
On Broadway, she directed Clyde’s and the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Sweat, by her frequent collaborator, Lynn Nottage as well as the revival of Miracle Worker. Off Broadway credits include The Apiary at Second Stage, Letters from Max at the Signature, All the Natalie Portmans at MCC, Songs for a New World at Encores Off Center, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive at Second Stage, Ruined at Manhattan Theatre Club (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Aubergine, Fabulation and Inked Baby at Playwrights Horizons among others. She has directed acclaimed productions at theaters across the country including the Goodman (Ruined, Vigils, Heartbreak House, The Rose Tattoo and Drowning Crow), the Geffen, South Coast Rep (Intimate Apparel, The Piano Teacher, Life is a Dream, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone, and The Clean House), Sundance Theatre Lab, Shakespeare Theatre, the American Repertory Theatre, the Huntington, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Arena among others. Her opera direction has been seen at the Chatelet in Paris and Teatro Municipal in Brazil. She has also taught at Princeton, NYU and UC Davis.

Olivia Abiassi (AYSE)
Olivia AbiAssi is a Lebanese-American Actor + Writer based in Brooklyn, by way of San Antonio, Texas. Her TV pilot that she co-wrote/co-starred in had its world premiere at The Tribeca Film Festival in June of 2024. Her work in TV and theater has been featured in Brooklyn Mag, The New York Times, and Variety. Olivia has performed on stages across New York including Ars Nova, NYTW (next door), 59E59, A.R.T. Theatres, and more. She’s currently working on a major motion-capture video game project, acting in commercials, and developing her other television projects (ask her about them!). IG: @justoliviadoingthings.

Delfin Gökhan Meehan (ZEYNEP/SARA)
Delfin Gökhan Meehan received her BFA in Acting from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. Her past credits include The Winter’s Tale at Hartford Stage, and new play workshops at Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, and Lincoln Center LCT3.

Nicole Shalhoub (ZEHRA/LEYLA/INVESTOR 1)
Broadway: China Doll. Off Bway: The Play Co. Intractable Woman, Lincoln Center The Clean House, The Mint The Fifth Column, St. Ann’s Warehouse Hellhouse. Select Regional: Berkeley Rep (US Premiere) Let the Right One In, Arabian Nights The Kirk Douglas CTG Failure: A Love Story, South Coast Rep Five Mile Lake (World premiere), Yale Rep American Night, The Goodman, Hartford Stage, Lookingglass, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival. TV/Film: Recurring on Law & Order: Organized Crime and Evil, Goosebumps, Tulsa King, Blue Bloods, The Good Fight, The Village, Elementary, Seal Team, Bull, Madame Secretary, The Gaffigan Show, New Girl, The Mentalist, Legends, Scandal, The Good Wife, Sex & The City 2, The International, Wetware, Hollywood, Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks. Instagram @nicshal

Nazli Sarpkaya (AZRA/DINA/INVESTOR 2/COORDINATOR)
Nazli is thrilled to be working on Indigo Dreams with this amazing cast and creative team again. Credits include Angry Young Man (Urban Stages & Guild Hall); Field, Awakening (La Mama); Naked Influence (Cap Rep) Heartland and Broken Stones (InterAct Theatre); Ormantik Komedi (First Turkish U.S. Tour). She is the co-creator of VOWS: The Series which has won Best Pilot at DC Independent Film Festival and NYC Webfest, as well as a Best Pilot nomination from SOHO Film Festival. She has been the voice of Mackenzie McGrath in Mission: Rejected, a fiction podcast in its 5th season, currently available on all platforms. You can also hear her as Merve in the Netflix movie Cici; Beyza in Deconstructive Criticism; and Lisa Coney-Smith in We Fix Space Junk podcasts.

Laurynn Starkey (Stage Directions)
Laurynn Starkey (She/Her/Hers) is a native New Yorker and artist currently entering her senior year at the NYU Tisch Drama program. She honed her skills for her initial three years at the Experimental Theatre Wing. Now as she approaches her senior year she will be at the Atlantic Studio for her final year at Tisch Drama. Laurynn is thrilled to be a part of this year’s festival and is inspired by the dedicated work of the cast and crew.

KILL CORP

Sofia Alvarez (Playwright)
Sofia Alvarez is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. Her directorial debut, Along for the Ride was released on Netflix in May 2022. She wrote the screenplays for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and To All the Boys 2: P.S. I Still Love You. In 2018 she was named one of Variety Magazine’s ten screenwriters to watch. Her plays include NYLON (BTP / Theaterlab, 2019), Panelists (Dorset Theater Festival, 2019), Friend Art (Second Stage Uptown, 2016), Between Us Chickens (SCR / EST LA, 2011), and The Fish Bowl (Juilliard, 2010) among others. With composer Daniel Roland Tierney, she wrote a musical adaptation of William Steig’s classic children’s book, Amos & Boris which premiered at South Coast Rep in 2018. She is an alumna of the Ars Nova Playgroup, Primary Stages’ Dorothy Streslin New American Writer’s Group, and the New Georges’ Jam. She is a graduate of Bennington College and The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.

Portia Krieger (Director)
Portia Krieger directs new plays and musicals. Favorite projects include Fia Alvarez’s Friend Art, Olivia Dufault’s The Tomb of King Tot, and Clare Barron’s Baby Screams Miracle. Along with Andrew Butler, she is the creator of Jackson Heights Creatures in Concert, a site-specific documentary musical about the non-human denizens of her NYC neighborhood, performed outdoors during the pandemic. Portia is currently developing a new play with writers Tori Keenan-Zelt and Elinor T Vanderburg called Invasive Species about the ways in which museums frame our conception of the world. Portia has directed and developed work with Clubbed Thumb, 2ST, the O’Neill, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, New York Stage & Film, Rattlestick, Page 73, Ars Nova, the Lark, the Juilliard School, NYMF, and others. She was an O’Neill/NNPN National Director Fellow, a two-time New Georges Audrey Resident, a participant in the Drama League Directors Project, and an Ars Nova Director-in Residence. She is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist, a member of ColtCoeur, and co-founder of the New Georges Jam. Associate Director of Broadway’s Fun Home, Seminar, and Almost Famous. Graduate of Smith College and the National Theater Institute, and a proud alum of the Williamstown Directing Corps.

Helen Cespedes (MARIE)
Helen Cespedes is a New York based actor, writer, and teacher. Acting credits include Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan (dir. Michael Grandage). Off-Broadway: Spain (Second Stage, dir. Tyne Rafaeli), Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA, dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz), Timon of Athens (TFANA, dir. Simon Godwin), Paul Swan is Dead and Gone (Civilians, dir. Steve Cosson), The School For Scandal (Red Bull, dir. Marc Vietor). Selected Regional: Williamstown, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, Two River, Hartford Stage, The Goodman. Selected Film/TV: Law & Order; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Search Party; The Knick. Helen wrote and starred in the short film The Decision, which recently premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival. After graduating magna cum laude from Barnard College with a BA in Comparative Literature, Helen trained at The Juilliard School where she received the John Houseman Prize.

Ronald Peet (PAUL/DOULA)
Ronald Peet is a Bahamian-born marathoner, meditator, and humanist. He’s collaborated on projects with The New Group, The Vineyard, MTC, Second Stage, Soho Rep, MCC, Joe’s Pub, Lincoln Center, Atlantic Theater Co, Roundabout, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, P73, The Playwright’s Realm, Ars Nova, Miami New Drama, Barrington Stage, Williamstown Theater Festival, Two River Theater, The American Shakespeare Center, and more. Upcoming in August: Apple TV’s Bad Monkey. Other TV credits: Partner Track, Dicktown, The Good Fight, Tommy, The I-Land, The Looming Tower, Blindspot, Bull and Girls. Film credits: Problemista, The Land of Owls, First Reformed, and The Meyerowitz Stories. NYU Tisch and Emory University Alum. EST member.

Amelia Alvarez (EMILY/PREGNANT WOMAN #1)
Amelia Alvarez is delighted to be making her debut with the Williamstown Theatre Festival! She is an LA based actor and filmmaker who most recently wrote, produced, and starred in the original web series There’s A Special Place In Hell For Fashion Bloggers. She holds a B.F.A. in Theater from NYU. Her theater credits include The Distance From Here (MCC Theater, Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble), The Sisters Rosensweig and the world premiere of Sonia Flew, both directed by Nicholas Martin (Huntington Theatre Company), and Between Us Chickens (South Coast Rep). TV/Film credits include The Unicorn (CBS), Criminal Minds (CBS), 90210(The CW), Law and Order: SVU (NBC), and Veronica Mars (UPN). Amelia has appeared in over 50 national television commercials. She can be found on social media @amelia__alvarez

Nadine Malouf (KENNEDY/PREGNANT WOMAN #2)
Off-Broadway: The Welkin (Atlantic); Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb/The Public); Montag (Soho Rep [Obie Award]); The Vagrant Trilogy, A Bright Room Called Day (The Public); Dead Are My People (Next Door at NYTW); Intractable Woman, Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company); Queens, The Who & The What (LCT3); Today Is My Birthday, Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73). Regional: Yerma (Huntington); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Old Globe/ACT/Theatre Calgary); Salomé (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Television/Film: “The Penguin”, “High Fidelity,” “High Maintenance,” “The Looming Tower,” American Insurrection, May in the Summer. Lincoln Center Theater’s 2019 Emerging Artist Award.

Dylan Baker (DOCTOR/THE BIG GUY)
Dylan Baker’s Feature Film credits include Happiness (IFP Gotham Award, IFP West Independent Spirit Award Nomination), Dream Scenario, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile; Miss Sloane, Misogynists, Selma, Anchorman 2, Franny, The Humbling, 23 Blast (His Directorial Debut), Secretariat, Revolutionary Road, Hide And Seek, Spiderman II & III, Head Of State, How To Deal, Road To Perdition, Changing Lanes, The Cell, Along Came A Spider, Random Hearts, Requiem For A Dream, Celebrity, Trick ‘R Treat, Simply Irresistible, Disclosure, Planes, Trains, And Automobiles, The Long Walk Home, Delirious, The Hunting Party, Across The Universe, Diminished Capacity, and Most Recently Laroy, Texas. Baker’s television credits include Hunters, Inside Man, Homeland, BBC’s Little Women, Damages, Confirmation, The Americans, The Good Wife (Three Emmy Awards Nominations), The Good Fight, I’m Dying Up Here, From The Earth To The Moon, Murder One, The Pitts, Feds, The Laramie Project, Kings, Political Animals, Ugly Betty, and Burn Notice. Broadway credits include La Bête (Tony And Drama Desk Award Nominations) Eastern Standard (Theater World Award), Mauritius, November, The Audience, The Front Page And God Of Carnage. He appeared Off-Broadway in Not About Heroes (Obie Award), Sea Of Tranquility, Homebody/Kabul, Medea at BAM, and Corruption.

Claire McPartland (Stage Directions)
Claire is thrilled to be a part of KILL CORP at WTF after appearing in the original production at the Warehouse Theatre last year. Originally from Minneapolis, Claire earned a BA in drama from Kenyon College and is now based in NYC. Beyond Kenyon, Claire trained at The British American Dramatic Academy and Fordham University. Off-Broadway/Regional: Escape to Margaritaville (La Comedia Dinner Theatre), Paint Your Wagon (Jackson Hole Playhouse), Radio Man (The Connelly Theater). Film/TV: Don’t Hang Up (Coming Winter 2025). Huge thanks to Fia for bringing her along for the ride. www.clairemcpartland.com

Bianca Mercado-Boller (Stage Manager)
Bianca Mercado-Boller (she/her) is thrilled to return to Fridays@3 after stage managing last seasons. Primarily based in NYC she has worked with Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Vineyard, and The Public. Select credits include This Day Forward (Vineyard Theatre), Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Ensemble Studio Theatre), EST Marathon 2019 and Doubt (Franklin Stage Company), A Christmas Carol and Clyde’s (Syracuse Stage). She has also spent time working as a Covid Safety Office for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Aladdin, The Lion King and KPOP. Education: Juilliard apprenticeship, Syracuse University.

Kate Kilbane (Assistant Stage Manager)
Kate Kilbane is delighted to be a part of WTF this summer. Based in Washington, DC, her previous regional theatre credits include Everyman Theatre: The Chinese Lady, Jump, Sense and Sensibility. Contemporary American Theatre Festival: The Overview Effect, Swing SM 2022 Repertory Season. The Kennedy Center: First You Dream, Follies, The Lisbon Traviata, Ragtime. Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Tempest & The Tempest Free for All. 13 productions at Ford’s Theatre. Additional credits include Joe’s Movement Emporium: Out of the Vineyard. Folger Theatre:Our Verse in Time to Come, Amadeus and Henry IV, Part 1. Imagination Stage: Corduroy, Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth, and Thumbelina. The Kennedy Center, Family Theater: The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Studio Theatre: Translations. Infinity Theatre Company:The Fantasticks, Murder for Two.