Jean Mazzei, (director) steps off the stage, and after a 10 year hiatus from directing, she’s back in the chair. While co-founder and artistic director of the Shasta Mountain Playhouse, she directed and produced scores of work, including original plays and adaptations. She has worked in many independent films, developing characters which range from wacky to sublime. Her memorable stage credits include Kate in Taming of the Shrew, multiple personalities in Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Mrs. Domke in Mister, Mister, Amy in Company, Lili in Carnival, Luisa in The Fantastiks. Commercial and industrial credits include Pacific Bell, WebEx, Vocera, Vespa, Safeway, Globalstar, and United Airlines. She can be found gigging around the greater Bay Area with her indie rock band, Flying Venus. She spends her free time writing songs for the band, practicing her guitar, teaching yoga, and making a living. “Being multi-faceted is a blessing and a curse.”  She is always ready to tackle the impossible and is represented by Marla Dell. Jean would like to thank all of her talented, creative actors, and the writer, Jim Strope, for helping her look good.  Jean can be contacted at jean@jeanmazzei.com.

 Linda Ayres-Frederick (Mom) is Artistic Director, Phoenix Arts Association Theatre and actor, director, playwright, & producer: Last favorite roles: Helen in Fugard's Road to Mecca and Becca in Stanley Rutherford's Garden of Blue Chairs. Last directed: her own Economics of Autumn Leaves, in Valdez , Alaska and in the Marin One-Act Festival, and Lee Brady's Designated Normal at the Marsh. Last one-acts written: Dinner with the Undertaker's Son and Cingular Sensation. Last produced: Carpetbagger's Children at the Phoenix Theatre. Next role: Lotte Lenya in Keith Spencer Felton's Loving Lotte Lenya in Marin One Act's; Next performance in her own Sabir to Raina at the Marsh with Z Lab Monday Oct. 17th. Next producing in spring 2006 at the Phoenix the World Premiere of Parisian writer Jennifer Williams' Edge directed by Evren Odcikin. Many thanks to Jean, Jim, fellow cast members, A.L.L. and my own Mom. She appears by permission of AEA. 

Rob Dario (Tom) is crazy about playing in the dark with such talented theatre people and being in his first Fringe Festival. He is a graduate from the Department of Theatre and Dance at CSU Sacramento. He has worked with Shakespeare at Stinson, S.F. Shakespeare Festival, NCTC, CMTC and Bittersauce. He recently appeared in Dave Anselmi's short film Ain't Got Game. He loves his parents and brothers very much.  Nothing is impossible, anything is possible, take the chance every time. You can't always get what you want, sometimes you get what you need. Life is crazy-amazing-everything.

Mark Rachel (Peter) is honored to be involved with Jim Strope's work for the second time. He last played Bud in Jim's "Iron Man" in the 2003 Fringe festival. Mark stays busy with many different Bay Area companies, including company membership with Ripe Theater and Third Rail Power Trip. He also is a founding member of Bare Witness Films (WWW.BareWitness.com), a completely improvised SF film company. Mark is putting the finishing touches on his first film, a completely improvised feature "Crossroads Gallery" that he co-directed with Matthew Gardner. Mark's most recent credits include the role of Dr. Clyde Martin in Ripe Theatre's Cicada and look for him in the role of Finn in the improvised film Last Draft directed by Lee Tsoflias

John Mandarin (Sam) received a BA in Theatre from Illinois State University . Recent roles include Louis Bouriette in The Smallest of All and Hiram Keebler in The Normal Heart with the Lincoln Square Players in Chicago . Later this year, John will be toiling away on his first novel titled Crime and Punishment set in St Petersburg .

Mike Rose (One) studies both film and theater acting under the direction of Linda Lowry. In the Spring of 2005 he starred in the short film Barn Healer and this summer he acted in a supporting role in the feature film Revolution Summer, starring Samuel Child and McKenzie Firgens. This fall he will be starring in Next to the Last Man for the San Francisco Fringe Festival and in two other short films, including a green screen visual effects project. You can contact him at mikerose@madlynxfilms.com.

Matt Kavanaugh (Two, Cop) was born and raised in the Santa Clara Valley and has lived there all his life. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 2002 and has been acting a year and a half. Matt attends acting classes at Foothill College and has appeared in several short films over the past year. In his spare time Matt enjoys working out and playing golf. He also loves to travel as well. His immediate goals with regard to acting are agency representation and/or union membership.

Sandy Rouge (Waitress, Sheila) studied acting in SF with various teachers.  She has played in Five Women and Piece of My Heart and is exceptionally modest. 

Irving Schulman (Bill) actor and poet, born and raised in NYC, has performed in Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire, Shakespeare’s Two Noble Kinsmen, What a Crime Garcia Lorca, Twilight Zone, and Tom Stoppard’s On the Nozzle.  

Jim Strope is a poet, philosopher, and software engineer. He wrote and produced CatchyName’s Something You Might Want and Corned Beef for earlier Fringe Festivals. He has worked with the Playwright’s Lab, the San Francisco Playwright’s Center, Theatre Artists’ Conspiracy, and Will Dunne’s Playwriting Workshop.   Many thanks to Jean Mazzei for her excellent casting, insightful directing and persistent attention to the myriad details of production. jims@sfsalvo.com. 

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