Caitlin Diana Doyle (May Green) is making her Field Trip Theatre debut.  Caitlin has performed regionally with the Shakespeare Theatre Company (“An Ideal Husband,” “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”), The Lyric Stage Company of Boston (“Kiss Me, Kate”) and Olney Theatre Center (“Camelot”).  In 2011, she created the role of Marilyn in “Why Pluto Is A Planet” as part of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway play festival. Caitlin holds a BFA in Musical Theater from Emerson College.

Elizabeth Frerking (Julie James) is making her Field Trip Theatre debut.  Elizabeth is a student at The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory where she has studied Principles of Realism, Movement, Voice, and Character and Emotion.  Recent credits include “The Golden Dragon” (Woman over 60 u/s; The Studio Theatre; dir. Serge Seiden).  Elizabeth is a relative newcomer to acting and works as a journalist in the DC area.   As a senior editor at POLITICO, Elizabeth commented on the 2008 presidential campaign and election for a number of television and radio news shows, including “ABC News Now,” CNN, Fox, Canadian Broadcasting, the BBC and “Inside Edition,” among others.  

Steve Isaac (Ted Peterson) is making his Field Trip Theatre debut.  Recent credits include “The Crow” (Artists’ Bloc at Artisphere), “The Continuing Adventures of John Blade” (Apron Theatre Company), and “Insurgent Sonata” (Junesong Arts, Capital Fringe Festival).  Other credits include work with 14th Grade Players (“Frost/Nixon,” “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog,” “Ecce,” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) and Forbidden Planet Productions (“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and “The Fantasticks”).  He holds a BA in International Affairs and Theatre from George Washington University.

 Pomme Koch (David Baker-James) is making his Field Trip Theatre debut.  Pomme recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Theatre Performance where some favorite roles included Sergius in “Arms and the Man,” Richard Roma in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” and Don Pedro in “Much Ado About Nothing.” He recently understudied “The Golden Dragon” at The Studio Theatre and is proud to be a new member of the Washington, D.C. theatre community. Go blue.  

Enrico Nassi (Robert James-Baker) is making his Field Trip Theatre debut.  Enrico is an actor, director and teaching artist based out of Washington D.C.  He is a recent graduate of Oberlin College (‘10) and a Master’s student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.  He is currently the Bob Alexander Community Engagement Fellow at Arena Stage.  He was recently in the Arena Stage Workshop of “Beyond Eden” by Canadian playwright and composer Bruce Ruddell. Enrico also serves as a teaching artist, resident playwright and director for several DC area public schools, community groups and public charter schools through Arena Stage’s Voices of Now, DC Ticket Partnership, and Student Playwrights Project arts integration programs.

Angela Kay Pirko (Jen Parker) is making her Field Trip Theatre debut.  Angela is a graduate of UVA Drama and the Conservatory at Shakespeare in Company.  She has interned with Richmond Shakespeare, the Firehouse Theatre Company, and most recently with The Studio Theatre.  Recent shows include Crazy/Busy, Mapping the Dark, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (Live Arts); As You Like It (Shakespeare & Co); Pericles (24 Hour Shakespeare); and The Quantum Suicide of Sophie Miller (Virginia New Players Festival.)  She also enjoys working as director, technician, and generally anything theatrical.  Thank you to Danielle, Jamila, and Elena for involving me in this project!

Elena Hight (director) is a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she studied Theatre and Philosophy. While at Washington University, she focused on directing and theatre studies, winning the Herbert E. Metz prize for Dramatic Criticism and the Lynn Cooper Harvey Award for research in American Drama. Her recent productions include Monster (Thyrsus - director), The Gem of Akin (Thurtene Council - director), and The Threepenny Opera (Washington University - asst. director/dramaturg). She has also served as a director and producer for Washington University Television (WUTV) programs and WUSTL Live, the premier sketch-comedy show at WashU. She was Vice-President of the Council for the School of Arts and Science and has completed internships at Edison Theatre in St. Louis, Performance Space 122, and the New York International Fringe Festival. She continues to write critically about theatre, art, and all other forms of culture.

Danielle Mohlman (playwright, producer) holds an M.A. in Theatre Studies - Directing & Playwriting from Emerson College (Boston, MA).  Previous playwriting credits include Redwood: a circus drama (Emerson College) and Boys and Their Handwriting (Umbrella Theatre Company).  A cutting from Stopgap was performed in staged reading as part of the Kennedy Center’s 10th Annual Page-to-Stage Festival.  Her first play, Jim and Paul Meet in Dreams, had been produced by Rareworks Theatre Company, was a Rod Parker Award Finalist at Emerson College, and was produced as a BC/EFA benefit at her undergrad, Cal Poly Pomona.  Stopgap was first seen as a staged reading at Emerson College, which she produced in partial fulfillment of her thesis.  Danielle is a member of DC-Area Playwrights.

Jamila Reddy (dramaturg) is an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a BA in Dramatic Art and Sociology.  As an undergraduate, Jamila directed several productions  including the premier of Kind of Blue, an original play by Kuamel Winston Stewart, and Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.  For her contributions to the Department of Dramatic Art at UNC, Jamila received the Richard and Christopher Edward Adler Award for Excellence in Dramatic Art (2010) and the Louise Lamont Award for Excellence (2011).  She received two grants from the Executive Director for the Arts for For Colored Girls… and Kind of Blue.  As a scholar in the Ronald E. McNair post-baccalaureate achievement program, Jamila conducted and presented a study on Black plays in North Carolina’s regional theatres.  She is currently the Artistic Apprentice at The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, where she has served as assistant director and literary assistant on The Habit of Art, The Golden Dragon, and Time Stands Still.