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PAMELA ANDERSON With several projects on the horizon, Pamela Anderson will next be seen on the big screen in a starring role opposite Liam Neeson in Paramount’s upcoming Naked Gun reboot. In theaters August 1st, the film is directed by Akiva Schaffer (“Saturday Night Live”). Later in the year, Anderson will appear in Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning with Riley Keough, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Jamie Bell, Lucas Gage and Tracy Letts. She recently signed on to appear opposite Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi in Kornel Mondruczo’s Place to Be. Pamela Anderson currently stars in the Gia Coppola-directed The Last Showgirl, for which she has been nominated in the Lead Actress category for Golden Globe, SAG and Gotham Awards. The feature premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival, then screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award, the Zurich Film Festival at which Anderson received the Golden Eye Award, the Savannah Film Festival at which Anderson received the Marquee Award, the Miami Film Festival at which Anderson received the Art of Light Acting Award and the Sun Valley Film Festival at which she received the Pioneer Award. IndieWire later bestowed the Performance Award on Anderson at its IndieWire Honors ceremony. For her performance, in Variety Aaron Sorkin wrote how “one scene after another, she keeps astonishing us” and notes Anderson gave “one of the finest performances of this or any year.” The New York Times called Anderson “dazzling” and noted her “ability to be wholly vulnerable onscreen is rare and wonderful.” Deadline and BBC called Anderson “a revelation” and Hollywood Reporter called her “transformative performance” “undeniably affecting.” On February 24th, Anderson’s cooking series “Pamela’s Cooking with Love,” premiered on Canada’s Flavour Network. On the docuseries, Anderson cooks with some of the world’s top chefs from her property on Vancouver Island. Anderson can also be seen in the new season of her popular docuseries “Pamela’s Garden of Eden,” which follows the renovation of her Vancouver Island property, along with the renovation of her sons’, Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Lee, Los Angeles home. In addition to her ongoing film and television work, Anderson works with her sons on Sonsie Skincare, a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand that celebrates balanced living. In 2023, Anderson released her New York Times bestselling memoir "Love, Pamela" and starred in the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary produced by her son Brandon, "Pamela, A Love Story," both of which gave an intimate glimpse into her journey. This past October, Anderson released her first cookbook, “I Love You: Recipes from the Heart,” which also became a New York Times bestseller. Among her other recent acting work, Anderson made her Broadway debut in 2022 as Roxy Hart in Chicago, for which she received critical acclaim across the board and a Playbill Award. Anderson’s starring in the musical served as a moment of reinvention and a new direction in her career. Anderson’s film and television career began with her role as “Lisa” the ‘Tool Time” girl on ABC’s hit series “Home Improvement.” She then joined "Baywatch," which became the most-watched series in the world, with over 1.1 billion viewers weekly. Among other projects, Anderson later starred in the film Barb Wire and the television series "VIP," which she co-created with J.F. Lawton. Anderson was born and raised in Ladysmith, Canada, where she currently resides.

FRANKIE J. ALVAREZ is an actor/writer from Miami, FL. He is best known as the passionate Agustín on HBO’s critically-acclaimed series “Looking” and its companion Looking: The Movie. Film: Untitled Ufo Film 2026 (dir. Steven Spielberg), Rockaway (dir. John J. Budion), Vandal (dir. JD Freixas), The Drummer (dir. Eric Werthman). TV (selected): “The Blacklist”, “Let The Right One In”, “Fantasy Island”, “New Amsterdam”, “L&O: SVU”, “The Brides” (Pilot), “The Good Wife”, “Blindspot”, “Controversy” (Pilot), “Madam Secretary”, “Smash”. NYC: Wet Brain (Playwright’s Horizons & MCC), Othello (workshop, NYTW, dir: Sam Gold), Play On! Shakespeare Festival (CSC), Those Lost Boys: The Ten-Year Reunion (co-creator, Ars Nova). Regional: to the yellow house (La Jolla Playhouse); twenty50 (Denver Theatre Center); Bathing in Moonlight (McCarter Theatre); The Whipping Man (Actors Theatre of Louisville); the titular role in Hamlet: Prince of Cuba/ Hamlet: Príncipe de Cuba (Asolo Rep); Measure for Measure & Julius Caesar (2011 company member, Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Education: BFA, Florida State University; MFA, The Juilliard School. Awards: recipient of Juilliard’s Raul Julia Scholarship for Excellence in Drama. IG: sexytosomeppl

ATO BLANKSON-WOOD most recently starred in the off-Broadway premiere of Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers at TFANA. Prior to this, he played the role of Clifford Bradshaw in Cabaret on Broadway. He is best known for his starring role in Jeremy O. Harris’ critically acclaimed Slave Play, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. He also earned nominations for the Drama League and Lortel Awards for playing ‘Gary,’ a role he originated for the New York Theatre Workshop production. Ato played the titular role of Hamlet in Shakespeare in the Park’s production directed by Kenny Leon. Ato also starred opposite Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel in Long Day’s Journey Into Night for Audible, which reunited him with Slave Play director Robert O’Hara. Ato had his breakout performance in the Public Theatre musical The Total Bent (Drama League and Lucille Lortel Award nomination) which explored the life of a black musical prodigy in a nation on the verge of social upheaval. Ato has also been seen on Broadway in Hair and Lysistrata Jones. Films include Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, Worth opposite Michael Keaton, and Peter Hedge’s The Same Storm. Television includes “The Good Fight,” “She’s Gotta Have It,” and Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us.” Ato is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama.

JUANITA CARDENAS Colombian-born artist Juanita Cardenas (She/ her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her solo work as a performer combines aerial acrobatics and large scale puppetry. She is the artistic director of the absurdist circus theater collective Visceral Abstractions. In addition to directing and creating full length theater pieces, she designs costumes and puppets, and teaches trapeze. In 2024, she and her partner Ryan Shinji Murray were awarded the MAP Fund grant towards the creation of a new show entitled The Void. You can find her work at www.juanitacardenas.com

CINDY DE LA CRUZ is excited to be back at Williamstown where she was last seen in Border of Lights by Guadalis Del Carmen as part of Robert O' Hara's Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: 9 Solo Plays. She is a founding artistic producer of the Obie Award winning Dominican Artists Collective. Selected credits: Ro & The Stardust (Netflix); What Doesn't Float (Apple TV); What In The Actual Fuck (NYTW); The Salvagers (Yale Rep); Kilroy Was Here (Dir. Kevin Smith); The Siblings Play (Rattlestick Theatre); The Niceties (Geva Theatre); Our Town (Olney Theatre Center); Stupid Fucking Bird (Arden Theatre and Urbanite Theater). She is a recent graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. 

ARYA GASTON (she/her) is a Songwriter, Producer, Musical Director, Audio Engineer, Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Actor, Model, DJ & Performer living in Brooklyn, NY. Berklee College of Music Alum. Gaston’s work includes dozens of original songs, hundreds of co-writing & production credits, a cut on a track with Jack Harlow, A National Kayak Commercial & starring in music videos for Dua Lipa and Quinn XCII x Chelsea Cutler. Arya was featured on HBO's The Deuce and in VOGUE for NYC Fashion Week Fall 2019 with Puma x JAHNKOY. Arya has composed music for multiple films, commercials and documentaries including the award winning film about violence against trans women in America - Black As U R. Arya has performed as a multi-instrumentalist, musical director and vocalist with the likes of Garland Jeffreys , Spaceman Patterson, Rachel Grae, ZOYA, Nini Iris, Kat Cunning, SUNDUB, Tor Miller , Spicy Dreams, RenWithTheMane, YellowShoots, WyclefJean, & many more! Arya has composed, produced & mixed music for BBC Entertainment, Feed.fm NYC, Gilead HIV USA, Pulse Music / Nightcap Songs and more. Arya is an active member of Songwrite Club as a songwriter & producer. This collective has created songs for Jack Harlow, Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, Rick Ross & many more. In 2024 Gaston held residencies at UMBRABrooklyn ,Apotheke, DahliaLounge & Scarlet Lounge singing & performing live original music, film score adaptations and jazz/contemporary music. Arya just finished a sold out run as a principal actor in The Trojans musical directed by Steven Gridley at the Cell Theatre 2025 .

GABRIEL GASTON Gabriel graduated from Juilliard in the spring of 2025. While at Juilliard he starred as ‘Orsino’ in Twelfth Night, ‘The Boson’ in Mosquitoes, and ‘Plato’ in Socrates among others. In television, he guest starred on “Unforgettable” (CBS) and “Gone Hollywood”, a pilot for FX written and directed by Ted Griffin. Off Broadway, he performed at Cherry Lane Theater in Morning In America. He is a dual US / Canadian citizen.

ROB KELLOGG is thrilled to make his Williamstown debut. He has played off-Broadway in NAATCO’s Romeo and Juliet, adapted by Hansol Jung for the Play On Shakespeare series. Regionally, he has performed at the Huntington (Triumph of Love), Berkeley Rep + McCarter Theatre (Bulrusher), Northern Stage (Spring Awakening), Two River Theater, and Powerhouse Theater. Feature film projects include The Bride (2025) and indie No Later Light (2025); television credits include “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin”, “Uncoupled”, “FBI” and “Power Book III: Raising Kanan”. Rob received his BFA from Boston University.

VIN KNIGHT is happy to be at Williamstown, having studied with Nikos at Yale many years ago. He is a member of Elevator Repair Service (Obie for Sustained Excellence) and has appeared in the U.S. and internationally in its productions of Gatz; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); The Sound and the Fury; Measure for Measure; Seagull; and Ulysses among others. Other stage credits include The Counterfeit Opera (Little Island), The Music Man (Sharon Playhouse), Our Man in Havana (Portland Stage), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013 Broadway revival), Marie Antoinette (A.R.T. and Yale Rep.) and The Temperamentals (Barrow Group). Film and TV credits include “And Just Like That,” “Inventing Anna,” “Search Party,” “Succession,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “The Blacklist,” “Bull,” “Homeland” and Master.

SMARANDA LUNA is an actress, stand up and writer originally from Romania. She immigrated to the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship after graduating from the National Drama Conservatory in Bucharest. She holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked in theatre, TV and film productions both in Europe and in the States (selected credits include the Romanian short film Trafic/Palme D'Or at Cannes, the feature Closer to the Moon opposite Mark Strong, The Clean House at Zach Theatre Austin). Smaranda was selected as one of Tribeca Film Festival’s Digital Creators To Watch with a dark comedy series she wrote and acted in entitled Patti and Marina. She performs stand up regularly in Europe, the U.S and Canada. Some of her stand up credits include: The Hollywood Improv, The Comedy Store L.A, Sziget Festival Budapest, Top Secret Comedy London, The Dublin Crunch, Comedy Bar Toronto, SXSW, and Just for Laughs Vancouver.

APRIL MATTHIS is an Obie Award-winning actor. Williamstown: Most Happy in Concert. Broadway: Mary Jane, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway: Primary Trust, Toni Stone (Roundabout), Help (The Shed); Fairview, LEAR (Soho Rep); Signature Plays—Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre); IOWA, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons). With Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin/Buckley at Cambridge (FIND Festival Schaubühne; Festival d’Avignon), The Sound & the Fury; Fondly, Collette Richland (NYTW); Measure for Measure (The Public); Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Abrons Art Center); GATZ (McCarter, Perth Festival). TV Credits include: “Elsbeth”, “FBI”, “Life & Beth, “The Blacklist”, “Evil”, “The Good Fight”, “New Amsterdam”. Film: Black Card, Fugitive Dreams, Ramona at Midlife.

BRUCE MCKENZIE Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention Selected Off-Broadway: Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb/Public Theatre); Paris (Atlantic Theatre); 10 Out of 12 (Soho Rep); Shipwreck (Public Theatre); White Noise (Ruhrfestspeile Recklingshausen/Theatre Freiburg/Skirball Center NYU); A Streetcar Named Desire (New York Theatre Workshop); Big Love (BAM Next Wave Festival); Glory of the World (BAMHarvey) Some Favorite Regional Credits: Three Sisters (Yale Rep); Krapp’s Last Tape, Skin (Dallas Theatre Center); Big Love (Goodman Theatre); Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse); Evocation To Visible Appearance, Polaroid Stories, At The Vanishing Point, Our Town, the title role in Hamlet (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Measure For Measure, Othello (California Shakespeare Theatre); Fêtes de la Nuit, Homebody/Kabul (Berkeley Rep) Film: Night Nurse; Your Name Here; Blood, Sand, and Gold; Miss This At Your Peril Television: “Breaking Bad” A co-founder of Baltimore’s short-lived Theatre Collective and of Sledgehammer Theatre in San Diego, performing the work of Mac Wellman (Terminal Hip, 7 Blowjobs), Chuck Mee (War To End War), Erik Ehn (New, Saint Plays), many others. Endgame. Drums in the Night. Hamlet, title role. True West. Played in the bands Maquiladora (hallucinogenic country pop), Buzz or Howl (feedback drenched longform improvisation), and a solo project Peckinpah (ambientdronefolkamericana), releasing records in five countries, touring Europe twice and Japan five times.

EMMA RAMOS Well versed in comedy and drama, Emma Ramos is a bi-lingual Mexican actress and writer. Emma is best known for playing a supporting role in Alessandra Lacorazza's In The Summers, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and screened at Tribeca in the Spotlight Narrative category. She recently wrapped a spanish-language film for Netflix and Gaumont called Odio a Lana Cruz and is just wrapped production on SOULM8TE for Blumhouse. On the theater side, she is best known for her role in Ivo Van Hove's Scenes from a Marriage. She previously starred in New York Theatre Workshop Next Door's off-broadway show, House Plant, to rave reviews and in a re-imagined adaptation The Marriage of Figaro at Little Island. She is set to be in two additional productions at Little Island to be directed by Dustin Wills.

JULIAN SANCHEZ Previous theatre includes Maia Novi’s Invasive Species (Vineyard Theatre & The Tank), Sarah Ruhl’s Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theater; directed by Rebecca Taichman), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre), Jeremy O. Harris’ YELL: a "documentary" of my time here (Carlotta Festival), and Jacob Wasson’s Other People’s Dead Dads (Dixon Place). MFA, Yale School of Drama.

SOCORRO SANTIAGO The Old Globe: Two Sisters And A Piano, Age of Innocence Broadway: The Bacchae (Circle In The Square). Off Broadway: She has performed at The Public Theatre, Delacorte Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, Ma-Yi Theatre, Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, and INTAR among others. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Lucy and the Conquest, Victory Gardens, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie, LongWharf, ACT, Broad Theatre, and The Huntington Theatre (IRNE nomination). Touring Company: Small Mouth Sounds (Director: Rachel Chavkin). TV: “What We Do In The Shadows”, “Chicago PD”, “Blue Bloods”, “Characters”, all the “Law & Orders”, “All My Children” (ALMA award). Films: Netflix- Christmas With You, IGilbert, Vampires vs The Bronx, Devil’s Advocate, All Good Things, Widows (Director- Steve McQueen)

VICKI SHAGHOIAN began teaching in Juilliard’s Dance and Drama Divisions in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Prior to her time at Juilliard, she served as Music and Vocal Director at the Yale Repertory Theatre on American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Black Monk, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Serious Money, and Dance of the Holy Ghosts—A Play on Memory. She was the understudy vocal coach for Metamorphoses on Broadway and received critical acclaim as the Breath and Physicality Coach for The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter at Marin Theatre Company. She also worked on the world premieres of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home and Have You Seen Us? at Long Wharf Theatre. Her affiliations as Music Director include The Public Theater, Joe’s Pub, The Drama League, New York Musical Theater Festival, All Stages, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center-NTI, WP Theatre (Women’s Project), and The Foundry Theatre. Her stage career has spanned from the San Francisco Opera to the Montreux Jazz Festival. Performance credits include Windsor Follies, 365 Plays/365 Days: Week 51, The Cherry Orchard, Song of Pegasus, Jenůfa, Der Rosenkavalier, Das Lied von der Erde, L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Seven Deadly Sins, Un Racconto Fiorentino, Candide, Once Five Years Pass, The Marriage of Figaro, La Cenerentola, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel, Giulio Cesare, Falstaff, Carmen, La Périchole, Albert Herring, Sir John in Love, Alice in Wonderland, Carousel, The King and I, Meet Me in St. Louis, Bye Bye Birdie, A Little Night Music, and The Wild Party. She has also debuted over a dozen libretti with Donald Pippin.

RYAN SHINJI MURRAY (he/ him) is a multi-disciplinary circus artist, appearing for the first time at Williamstown Theater Festival in Camino Real. He has performed around the world with Cirque Éloize's iD and as an original cast member of Cirque du Soleil's Kurios - touring with the show for seven years. He appeared in The Marriage of Figaro at Little Island as Antonio, applying circus skills to opera under the direction of Dustin Wills. Most recently, along with his partner Juanita Cardenas, received the MAP Fund Grant and developed a new work of dance, puppetry, and circus entitled The Void. Based in Brooklyn, he collaborates regularly with several different companies and stages including ABCirque, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, 3AM Theatre, Parallel Exit, and Westchester Circus Arts. He also coaches circus arts at Circus Academy New York. @ryanshinji

HENRY STRAM WTF: The Elephant Man, The Importance of Being Earnest, R Shoman. Broadway: Network, Junk, The Elephant Man, Inherit the Wind, The Crucible, And Titanic. Recent NYC credits include Dave Malloy’s Three Houses (Signature Theater); Liz Swados’ The Beautiful Lady (La Mama); The Headlands (LCT3); Judgment Day, and The Hairy Ape (both at Park Avenue Armory). In two seasons with Barrington Stage Company Henry played Andy in Andy Warhol In Iran and directed Harriet Harris in Mark St. Germain’s Eleanor. Henry is a graduate of Juilliard and a recipient of a 1996 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.

MARLON VARGAS is a Dominican actor from the Bronx, New York. He is thrilled to be making his Williamstown debut alongside many familiar faces. Previous credits include: Titus Andronicus, The Odyssey, Littleboy/Littleman, The Alley, Cleansed, Grand Concourse, Kilelè, and Macbeth. He is a recent graduate from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

JACOB WASSON is a playwright and theatre artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Work: Other People’s Dead Dads, SMUTA, In Praise of Folly. Upcoming commissions for Little Island, Common Era, and The Barn at Lee. jacobwasson.com

DUSTIN WILLS was recently described by the Obie Committee as having an “ability to navigate chaos with precision,” and that about sums it up. Upcoming productions include an unannounced really good musical at Little Island, Jeremy O Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You, and some TOP SECRET unannounced stuff (!!). Recent theatre: Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Production), John J. Caswell Jr.’s Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons/MCC), Kate Tarker’s Montag (Soho Rep), and SIX CHARACTERS by Phillip Howze (LCT3). Recent opera: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro starring Anthony Roth Costanzo (Little Island NYC), Handel’s Alcina, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Stravinsky’s соловей.. Dustin has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, created large-scale puppetry pageants with Creative Action, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a 2023 Obie Award winner, SDCF Callaway Award finalist, Princess Grace Award recipient, a Drama League alum, and a 2015 Williamstown Boris Sagal directing fellow. He teaches in the Directing and Playwriting programs at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

OANA BOTEZ is a Romanian American costume designer for theater, opera, film and dance. She is a Henry Hewes Award recipient, Princess Grace Award recipient, NEA/TCG Career Development Program recipient, Barrymore Award recipient, Henry Hewes Design Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominee. New York: BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/Richard B.FisherCenter, Public Theater, Signature Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Big Apple Circus/Lincoln Center, Classic Stage Company, Soho Rep, PS122, The Kitchen. Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin (Barrington Stage Company); Macbeth (Old Globe); Angels in America (Wilma); Man in a Case (Hartford). Opera: The Comet/Poppea (The Industry LA, Curtis Institute, Philadelphia); Song of Ambassadors (Alice Tully Hall/ Lincoln Center); Carmen (Minneapolis Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Portland Opera); In a Grove (Pittsburgh Opera & Prototype NY); Persona (National Sawdust, REDCAT); A House in Bali (BAM), Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap Opera), Cosi (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Guy & Dolls (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Émigré (NY Philharmonic), Dido and Aeneas (Château de Versailles) Internationally: Bucharest National Theater (Romania), Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistances, The Old Vic, Budapest National Theater, Cluj Hungarian National Theater (Romania), Le Quartz (Brest, France), La Filature (Mulhousse, France), Exit Festival /Maison des Arts Creteil, Tanz im August Festival Hebbel am Ufer – HAU1(Berlin, Germany), Edinburgh International Festival, Singapore Arts Festival. She is teaching at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in the Design Department.

BEV FREMIN Broadway: Oh, Mary! (Lyceum Theatre); Cabaret (Kit Kat Club). Off-Broadway: Liberation (Roundabout); Creditors (Minetta); Covenant (Roundabout Underground); Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm); Export Quality (HERE Arts); pre-existing condition (Connelly Upstairs); Oh, Mary! (Lucille Lortel); SMART (Ensemble Studio Theater); Show/Boat: A River (NYU Skirball). Regional: No Love Songs (Goodspeed); Rent (Paper Mill Playhouse); Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage). BFA: Rutgers MGSA. bevfremin.com.