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The Cast
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Amanda Stamm (she/her) as RHEA
Amanda Stamm is an actor and writer living in New York City. She is an alumnus of Atlantic Acting School and a founding member of Bluebird Theatre Company, as well as the Director of Finance. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Outside of performing, Amanda was a competitive Ice Skater for over 15 years and is a United States Figure Skating Gold Medalist. Her plays, Significant Contact & Glass Delusions, have been performed at Vancouver Fringe Festival, The Riverside Theatre, and with Bluebird Theatre Company. She is an emerging playwright at Calliope Creative Foundation. Recent Theater Credits: The Creditors (ATA), A Little Less Than Kind (Bluebird), Electra (ATA), History of Now (Soho Playhouse), Slow Dancing on the Killing Ground (Riverside Theatre), La Sainte Courtisane (ATA), Blue & Gold* (NTF, Nominated for Best Actress ‘22). Film: Camp Joy (Dir. Daylight Supreme). Amanda is a member of SAG-AFTRA.
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Eileen Wolter (she/her) as JO BAKER/DR. SANDRO
A writer and actress whose journey has taken her from a Connecticut childhood shaped by a first-generation Muslim Albanian father and a mother descended from Revolutionary War and Salem Witch Trials history, Eileen returned to acting in 2021 after raising 2 sons and moving cross country thrice. She holds a BA in Art History and Film from Vassar College and has trained with The Atlantic Theatre Company, The Actors Studio and Risa Bramon Garcia at present. She’s worked on multiple sides of the arts and entertainment business and currently lives in New Jersey with her husband, a music executive. She really really really wants a horse when she grows up.
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Clarence Demesier (he/him) as THOMAS BAKER
Clarence Demesier is a Brooklyn-based actor with professional training from Brown University and highly rated New York City drama studios. He has years of experience across theatre and film including Off-Broadway, student and award-winning independent productions in the New York City area that have screened at various film festivals and can be seen on online streaming services Amazon Prime and Tubi.
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Johnny Vorsteg (he/him) as JAMES BAKER
Johnny Vorsteg is from Verona, NJ and grew up performing in operas and musicals with his identical twin brother Thomas Vorsteg. Both brothers appear in Memory, a new movie written and directed by Michel Franco, starring Jessica Chastain and Merritt Wever.
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Carole Real (she/her) as MARIE WUTHRICH
Carole has appeared in plays and immersive theater in New York City, including Anthony Laura’s Shadows at ART/New York, Meny Beriro’s Perfect Night at The Chain, ETNY’s Sorry, Wrong Number at Theater for The New City, and Timothy Haskell’s Nightmare: Gothic at Teatro SEA. She has acted in film and TV and on podcasts, portraying a bossy nun, a controlling mom, a fearful grandma, a death row inmate and voicing an excited Jill Biden. Carole has trained extensively at T. Schreiber Studios and enjoys doing improv at The Magnet and The PIT. Her plays have been published and produced worldwide, adapted, translated and anthologized. She is a member of the WGA, the Dramatists Guild and Ensemble Studio Theater.
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Kyla Hammond (she/her) as EMOLIY/RANGER BETTY
Kyla Hammond is thrilled to be a part of this amazing production! She most recently played the role of Paula in "Serious Adverse Effects" in Baltimore, MD and will be playing The Narrator in a staging of "A Siren's Prayer" on Juneteenth at the South Street Seaport Museum. Thanks and love to my family and friends!
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James Overton (they/them) as RANGER DAVE
James Overton is a New York-based actor, composer, and theatre-maker. James has performed with companies including Bad Quarto Productions, Hamlet Isn’t Dead, and American Gothic Performing Arts Festival. Their recent credits include To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo Radley), The Bacchae(Dionysus), and Much Ado About Nothing, for which their original score was nominated for Best Original Music by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards.
Blending a love for heightened text, devised work, and improvisation, James also composes and music-directs for stage, often collaborating on new works that highlight queer voices and classical adaptations. They hold a BA from Bennington College with a concentration in Drama and Music Composition and recently completed the Atlantic Acting School's Full-Time Conservatory.
DIRECTOR
DAVID H. PARKER (they/them) is a New York City-based director, playwright, producer, and arts leader with over a decade of experience. Their work is rooted in intersectionality, exploring HIV, gender, and the complexities of Black, Queer, and Southern identity. Their artistic and leadership practices center consent, radical care and critical kindness, as well as Dr. Tricia Hersey’s The Nap Ministry.
As Co-Artistic Director of the Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Collective, David has helped steward over $250,000 into Birmingham and other southern communities; collaborated with Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winners; was a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award Finalist for "Fat Ham"; and has been published in Tributaries (2024) by the Alabama Folklife Association. Their interview with André De Shields will appear in SETC Magazine (2025). David holds an MFA from UCLA—and does need a surprising number of naps.

CREW
Meg Dowling - Stage Manager
Gracie Rittenberg - Producer
Amanda Stamm - Playwright
Allen Melton - Prod. Associate
Milena Karpukhina - Marketing/Design
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