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Valerie de Jose* (Prioress) Has been seen in Los Angeles as Mme. Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard. Locally she has performed in Miss Julie (San Jose Repertory theatre) and in the West Coast premiere of
Beast on the Moon (Eureka Theatre). She has also performed with El Teatro Campesino, Denver Center Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, Second City, and the Shakespeare Rep of Chicago. Her TV credits include Kate and Allie, As the World Turns, and
All My Children. Her films include The Secret War of the Outsiders, Tony Maroni's 65 & Still Alive, Film Noir and a co-starring role as Sister Victoria in the award winning film, The Novice.
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Ron Evans *(Host, January)(Host), a long time Alaskan, now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, has won some 25 Best of the North Advertising Federation of Alaska awards for radio, television and film work. His voice can also be heard on several Sony Entertainment CD-ROMS. Primarily a stage actor, Ron worked extensively with the Alaska Repertory Theatre, the Alaska Light Opera Theatre, and the Anchoarge Opera Company before moving to California. In California he has performed with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Aurora Theatre, and TheatreWorks, to mention but a few. Ron has also been a guest artist with both the Anchorage and Honolulu Symphony Orchestras, has been a presenter/narrator for the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and served as the Executive Director of the Alaska State Council on the Arts. "Ron Evans ...is a joy to watch. Imagine John Cleese in 20 years." (Karen D'Souza, The Oakland Tribune).
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Jerrilee Geist (child) attends Dixie Elementary School in the second grade. She enjoys acting, soccer and music. She has performed with Geoffrey Chaucer and company in the roles of Prince Mauritius in The Lawyer's Tale as well as Griselda's child in The Clerk's Tale. She has been performing since she was three and hopes to continue in the performing arts acting and modeling.
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Robert Hamm (Franklin) has been seen in Playhouse West’s production of Nora, and worked with a variety of theatres , including the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, The Willows, Subterranean Shakespeare, Shakespeare at the Beach, and Marin Shakespeare. He has appeared as Duke Solinus in The Comedy of Errors for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Favorite roles have included Rosencrantz, Salieri, Dromio of Syracuse, El Gallo, and John in Oleanna, which he played opposite his now wife, Christine. His directing credits include Lend Me A Tenor at Chanticleers and Twelfth Night for Subterranean Shakespeare. In his spare time, he is a playwright and a chess master.
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Jane Hammett* (Dyer), soprano, has performed a variety of roles in opera, operetta and musical theatre, from Mozart's Despina to Lloyd-Webber's Carlotta. For nearly four years she performed across the U.S. and in San Francisco with two national companies of The Phantom of the Opera (directed by Harold Prince). The Bay Area theatrical community has recognized her outstanding performances with two Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards and a Drama-Logue Award for appearances with San Francisco's international-award-winning Lamplighters, for whom she performed the comic heroines in nearly the entire Gilbert & Sullivan canon, plus Eliza in My Fair Lady, Lisa in Countess Maritza, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and numerous Annual Gala characters. She is featured on their premiere CD, "A Song to Sing, O!" She has also appeared at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco at Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music and at Oakland's Woodminster Amphitheatre as Nimue in Camelot. She has performed frequently for West Bay Opera and Pocket Opera, appearing in such roles as Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw), Jenny in Kurt Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Adina (L'Elisir d'amore), Rosina (Barber of Seville), Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Eurydice (Orpheus in the Underworld), and Anna in The Merry Widow. Other favorite roles include Cunegonde (Candide), Marian Paroo (The Music Man), and Rosabella (The Most Happy Fella). Her first solo CD, "Home, A Healing Journey," with
pianist Daniel Lockert, was released in October of 2000.
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Sharon Huff (Dyer) has been acting and directing in the Bay Area for 12 years, most recently appearing as Mrs.
Grose in The Turn of the Screw for the Chameleon Theatre. As an actor and director for Theatre Forte she was Dona
Elvira in Don Juan and the goddess Athena (twice!) in The Odyssey and Period Piece, and directed Henry V and Isabella’s Fortune.
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Steven Klum
(Nun's Priest)
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Eric Ladd
(Squire)
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Terry Lamb* (Sir Knight) has performed with many theatres in the Bay Area including San Jose Stage, Aurora, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Marin, Chamber, Magic, One Act, TheatreWorks, Berkeley Jewish, Black Repertory, Tour de Force, Eureka and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. And he recently starred in the film The Beautiful Illusion. When he is not acting, Terry produces informational videos through his company Videosyncracy and is a public presentation consultant to the Zellerbach Family Fund.
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Craig Mason* (Pardoner) is continuing his spiritual pilgrimage by moving to the Bay Area from Manhattan, where he appeared with Richard Chamberlain in the Broadway revival of The Sound of Music, playing Uncle Max. He was also on Broadway with two other Richards (Burton and Harris) in Camelot, which toured to San Francisco. He has worked here in The Pope and the Witch at ACT, and was FDR in Annie and Babcock in Mame at American Musical Theatre. Other favorite roles include Honore in Gigi, Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar, Higgins in My Fair Lady, and social-activist Harry Emerson Fosdick in his one-person show Dangerous Preaching. Many thanks to Becky, John and Geoffrey.
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Alexandra Mathew (Weaver) has been working in the Bay Area for the last five years with such companies as Marin
Shakespeare Company, the SF Shakespeare Festival, Crowded Fire, and California Theatre Center. Favorite roles include Ophelia in Hamlet (Dean Goodman
Choice Award), Josie in Neil Simon's Proposals, Katherine in Henry V
(Dean Goodman Choice Award), She also played Rosalind in Moon Over Buffalo with
Spokane Interplayers Ensemble. In London, after training at the Drama Studio, Alexandra performed in the original musical Father's House, Her favorite
role was Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible,which was also part of a showcase at the Criterion Theatre. Alexandra also works frequently in independent
films, industrials, and voice-over.
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