Geof Newton (In The Cage: Puppeteer and Fat Cat)
Geof Newton is no stranger to Cape Cod stages, both on stage and behind the scenes, with recent highlights including Montague D’Ysquith Navarro in the Academy Playhouse’s production of A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder, music composition and sound design for both Cape Cod Community College’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Jim Dalglish’s horrific Dark Tales Told on a Cold Autumn Eve (now available on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music!), and Leo Clark in Chatham Drama Guild’s production of Leading Ladies. Through 2019 and 2020, Geof expanded into TV and film with appearances in AMC’s N0S4A2 as Lloyd the Bartender, in the film Broadcast as Male Parent, and as the Train Conductor in Life On The Rails, an immersive audio-video experience which premiered at the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Chicago. He has worked on several projects with Lee, from inception through workshop through production and enjoys bringing new and seldom-seen works to life.
Karen McPherson (In The Cage: Politician 1)
Rod Owens (In Water Spirits Colloquy): The Horned Lynx)
Rod reports he is pleased to have played in many "pulchritudinous pieces," including Judith Partelow's A Woman's Heart (as well as the musical version by Judith Partelow and Dana McCoy); Lee Roscoe's A Mooncusser's Tale and The Water Spirits' Colloquy; Rob Zapple-directed Treasure Island and The Boxcar Children at Cape Cod Theater Company (HJT); Trial by Jury at Eventide Theatre Company; and Weight of Silence at Cotuit Center for the Arts.
Judith Partelow (In Water Spirits Colloquy: Arethusa, "The Waterer")
Judith Partelow is an actress, director and poet who also had six successful productions of her play A Woman's Heart (2017-2019) on CapeCod, and is now (2022) working on a play in collaboration with others on the impact of racism in our society, thanks to a generous grant from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. Her two poetry chapbooks are: A Woman's Heart and Carry Me Back, A Woman's Life in Poetry. Judith's performance in these works is courtesy of the Screen Actors Guild. Home (judithpartelow.com)
Lee Roscoe (In The Warning: Woman/Earth)
A former Equity actress, Roscoe trained at HB Studio, Circle in the Square, and American Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked backstage at a number of theaters Off-Broadway for a number of years. She later appeared Off-Broadway in the New Pinter Plays, and in the long run of The Kitchen directed by Jack Gelber, starring Rip Torn. The Boston Globe wrote “Roscoe is brilliant” regarding her role in “The Captain’s Doll," Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater.
She was featured in Norman Mailer’s underground films. Check out her eponymous chapter, “Mailer’s Maja and Dark Lady Revealed,” in the recently-released book, The Cinema of Norman Mailer (Bloomsbury Press, publisher.) The British Film Institute’s “Sight and Sound” just gave her chapter a great review and “Shock Cinema” called it “fascinating.”
Olivia Thompson (In Reprieve: Leslie)
Olivia Thompson is a sophomore at Barnstable high school. She has been acting since she was 8. Outside of acting she enjoys fashion design, reading, and writing. Most recently she’s been in Tuck Everlasting as Winnie Foster and Sleeping Beauty: Briar Rose as Briar Rose. She also was a part of Over A Barrel as Minihata, a radio show with Cape Noir, and at Cape Rep Theatre she’s been in the Young Company for two years now. Working on this short play was a great experience, especially during Covid. She was so grateful for the experience, and loved working with some great people. She hopes to continue her acting into her college years, and is so excited to see what she does in her last high school years.
Constance Wilkinson (In The Cage: The Owl; In Reprieve: Grams)
On Cape, Constance appeared as fiery Maria in Lend Me a Tenor at the Chatham Drama Guild. Prior to that, she appeared as fiery Maria in Lend Me a Tenor for Brit-expat-foundedHimalayan Amateurs in Kathmandu, Nepal. Constance appeared at the Yak & Yeti as Andromache Euripides' The Trojan Women, which she also directed. For HAMS, she directed and performed frequently, including playing Miss Y in Strindberg's The Stronger, which she also directed. Prior to moving from Manhattan to Kathmandu, she played The Empress Wu off-off Broadway in Sacco and Vanzetti Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!!! (or, Patrick Henry in Hell), a dark comedy with music which she also wrote. Before that, she co-founded Kuku Ryku Theater Lab, a Grotowski-inspired professional not-for-profit experimental theater company funded in part by the National Endowment on the Arts. With KRTL, she co-created and performed off-off Broadway at spaces such as The Performing Garage and at experimental theater festivals in the US and Europe. Before that, she was in Fales' Predicates company at La MaMa ETC. She acted in grad school, college, high school, grade school, and summer camp, where at 12 she was cast as an old lady who reveals having stabbed a man to death in her youth. Constance's first onstage appearance was in kindergarten, as a daisy.
Cleo Zani (In The Cage: Worker; In Reprieve: Harry Little Horse; In The Warning: Politician 2)
Cleo Zani is a Cape Codder since 1981 (who emigrated to Providence a few years ago), majored in performing arts at Goddard College, and apprenticed with Kenyon Martin's National Mime Theater way back in the day. He has performed on stage & screen in the New England region and, since retiring from his position as Senior Software Engineer for McLane Research in Falmouth, currently pursues his interests in theater and music in and around Cape Cod and Rhode Island. Some of his favorite roles in recent years have included appearing as The Fisherman in Dark Tales, and Aloysius in Hope for the Holidays for Cotuit Center for the Arts’ Black Box Theater, as Lou in Breaking Legs for Ocean State Theater Company, as Charlie ‘the Duck’ Clench in One Man, Two Guvnors, and Ivor in Rough Crossing for Cape Repertory Theater, and as The Miser in The Miser, and Austin Sloper in The Heiress for Eventide Arts.
Tom Wolfson (In Water Spirits Colloquy: Poseidon)
LeVane Harrington (In Reprieve: Bert)