KENNETH BOYS (Actor 2) Broadway, Off-Broadway and National Tours: Great Expectations (with Kathleen Chalfant); Apple Pie (with Robert Guillaume); Sherlock Holmes; Camelot (with Robert Goulet); Raggedy Ann (Pat Birch, Dir.); Twigs (with Rosemary Prinz); Anne of Green Gables; Walk Two Moons; T.N.T.; A New Approach to Human Sacrifice; The Grand Tour (Jewish Rep); Sarah, Plain and Tall (Lortel Theatre); Young Rube; The Madman and the Nun; Roomies (with Jay Thomas); Zero Sum (with Kathy Bates). Regional: Mary Stuart (Pittsburgh Public); Ghosts (with Frankie Faison); The Cherry Orchard (with Keir Dullea); Hamlet (Douglas Campbell, Dir.); Out of Order (with Paxton Whitehead); Blithe Spirit (Bristol Riverside); Around the World in 80 Days (Actor 1). Also Dallas Theatre Center, The O’Neil, West Virginia Public, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and 5 Seasons at Shakespeare on the Sound. Film/TV: All That Jazz, The Fan, The Young Riders (CBS). Kenneth is extremely happy to be here at VSC.
SCOTT DRUMMOND (Actor 3) Around the World in 80 Days is Scott’s VSC debut. Off-Broadway: Hamlet, Theatre for a New Audience. Other New York credits: The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Aquila (Nat’l Tour: Catch-22, Julius Caesar). Regional: Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, O’Neill Center, The Shakespeare Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Creede Repertory Theatre (Denver Critics Circle Nomination, Best Actor). Film: A Magic Helmet. Television: All My Children. M.F.A.: UCSD.
MATTHEW SCHMIDT (Actor 1) most recently worked with Bond Street Theatre in the first ever collaboration between acting groups from the US and Afghanistan to tour a moving piece about Afghanistan to several theaters and festivals on the west coast. He was a member of Noises Off on Broadway and appeared Off-Broadway in The Foreigner with Matthew Broderick. He has also starred in productions with Immigrants Theatre Project, Hartford Theatreworks, Theatre for the New City, and at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen. He has starred in several indie films and has had numerous appearances on NBC, CBS, MTV and Comedy Central. Matthew received his MFA in acting from NYU.
MAUREEN SEBASTIAN (Actor 4) This is Maureen's first production with VSC. Regional credits: Winter's Tale; Midsummer Night's Dream; and Taming of the Shrew at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, as well as Thunder Above, Deeps Below at The O'Neill Center. Off-Broadway: Soul Samurai and Children of Vonderly with Ma-yi Theatre Company, The Red Coat and Both at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour at the Culture Project. She has appeared on the television show Gossip Girl and was the host of Oh! Oxygen Network's Reebok Movie Night. She is also a member of Ma-Yi Theatre Company's Writer's Lab.
MICHAEL SHARON (Actor 5) has traveled to over 40 countries on 5 continents, but is thrilled to be taking his first journey with VSC in Around the World in 80 Days. Most recently, Michael played El Gallo in The Fantasticks at Long Wharf. His work in Shakespeare includes title roles in Macbeth (Los Angeles Theatre Center) and Pericles (Connecticut Rep), Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (Shaw Theatre, London), Marc Antony in Julius Caeser (Portland Stage Co), as well as seasons at the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, DC (Helen Hayes nom, Twelfth Night), and the Utah, Alabama and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals. His contemporary and musical theater credits include NYCity Opera, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St Louis, The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, The Group Theatre, and Goodspeed Opera House. Michael is a graduate of the drama program at the University of Southern California, and received classical training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.
Ensemble
STEPHANIE BUNCH is thrilled to be making her debut at VSC. She will graduate in May with her BFA in Acting from Old Dominion University. She has appeared in Women of Lockerbie, Persephone Wept, The Birds, and Anton in Show Business. She thanks her family and friends for all their support.
CASEY CROSON is pleased to be making his professional debut on stage at VSC. He will graduate in May 2011 with a BFA in Acting from Old Dominion University. He has appeared in Brave New World, I Hate Hamlet and assisted in the production of Dracula. Casey's other talents include stilt walking.
Understudies
ALAN BRINCKS
MATTHEW CABBIL
EMILY OSBORNE
