LOREN BRAY
At Pallas, Loren has been seen as Jenny Hill in Major Barbara and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew. |
JUSTIN CALHOUN
Justin most recently appeared as John in Pallas’s production of The Yellow Wallpaper. |
DAVID DUBOV
DAVID DUBOV, BA Drama, Bennington College, is a seasoned performer with more than 30 years of stage experience. His first role was a solo bit of singing as Count Cascada in The Merry Widow at his all-boys school in Bedford, England and he swore that he would never do that again. But, one thing led to another, and he has now been in more productions than he can count. Highlights include some of the Shakespeare canon (including Lysander and Oberon from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jacques from As you Like It and even Lady Macbeth in Farndale…Macbeth [a spoof of the Scottish play]), Nicky Giblin in The Seafarer by Conor MacPherson and Andrei Prozorov in Afterplay by Brian Friel. He last appeared with Pallas in various roles in The Tragical Mirth of Marriage and Love, 2013 Capital Fringe Festival. He is now especially excited to be working with this wonderful, vibrant company! |
ASHLEY FOUGHTY
Ashley Foughty is a recent DC transplant who has been performing since childhood (favorite places include cities throughout Italy and sunny San Diego), and is very grateful to have played one of her dream roles, Mary Poppins, for The Walt Disney Company. Since relocating, she has enjoyed performing with Imagination Stage, Perchance to Dream DC, Six Flags, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, and of course, Pallas, during their preliminary reading of The Fall of the House of Usher. She also enjoys writing and recording music and teaching voice lessons – find out more and hear some tunes at ashleyfoughty.com. |
KELLY L. GABEL
Kelly (SAG/AEA Eligible) has been teaching people to sing since 2001 in professional productions, schools, and in her home studio (www.kdvocals.com). It is her belief that technique alone does not make the singer. “You can lead a man to the microphone, but you can’t make him sing. Building self-confidence is the first step towards achieving your dreams.” Kelly is also a critically acclaimed Music Director, lending her expertise to various productions including The Last 5 Years, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Ragtime, the Musical. One of her former performers has even landed a role in the National Tour of Shrek the Musical.Kelly has been performing for over 25 years. She’s grateful to have performed in leading roles in a number of great productions including Songs for a New World, the West Coast Premiere of The Many Women of Troy, and Pirates of Penzance. She can also be seen and heard lending her voice to various television and recording projects.
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ELLIS GREER
Ellis Greer is a lifelong resident of Arlington, V.A. where her interest in theatre and singing began as a child. She has studied classical music since the age of nine and continued vocal performance studies through her freshman year of college at Oklahoma City University as a Musical Theatre Major. She is currently a BFA Acting student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and plans a career in film, stage drama, and musical theatre– whichever coast calls her first! Favorite performances have been Miep in The Diary of Anne Frank and Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof. Ellis spent an entire year interning in the Education Department at Signature Theatre and is back there this summer helping to run the Overtures and Stage One musical theatre programs. Spare time is spent enriching her relationship with Netflix, reading, doing culinary experiments in the kitchen, hiking, and killing plants despite her great interest in horticulture and geology. |
JON JON JOHNSON
Jon Jon Johnson is a DC Based Actor, Writer, Poet, Musician, Composer, Fortune Teller, Art Addict, etc. He has worked with many of the DC Area’s fine theatre companies, including 1st Stage, Forum Theatre, Flying V, Pinky Swear Productions, Doorway Arts Ensemble, WSC Avant-Bard, Spooky Action, and many more. He co-founded Avalanche Theatre Company, a fringe-based company, and is also a family member with LiveArtDC. He fancies himself a mystery, but will happily answer questions asked of him. He has aspirations to be a novelist and a playwright, as well as a general artistic jack-of-all trades. |
TIFFANY LABARBERA
Tiffany appeared as Helen of Troy in the west coast premiere of The Many Women of Troy with Pallas Theatre. |
CHELSEA MAYO
Chelsea joined Pallas Theatre Collective after playing the Courtesan in Comedy ofMirrors and Sebastian in The Tempest. Locally, she has also performed with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Annapolis Shakespeare Company, Idly Bent, and The Federal Theatre Project. She holds a B.A. in Theatre from Vanderbilt University and is an Equity Membership Candidate. |
JULIA MORRISSEY
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Julia made her way to the D.C. area in 2009 after many years in New York. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Julia has also studied at the British American Drama Academy in London and T. Schreiber Studios in New York City. Recent roles include Anna in Pallas’s The Tragical Mirth of Marriage and Love, Charlotte in The Real Thing with Silver Spring Stage and Sarah in Brian Friel’s Translations with Rockville Little Theatre. Julia is also a proud board member of the Actor’s Center. |
JOEL OTTENHEIMER
Joel was born and raised in Baltimore, MD and has only recently made his foray into the lovely DC theatre scene. He graduated in 2010 with a BA in English (with a concentration in creative writing) from the University of Delaware, and now spends his time as a professional actor and teaching artist. It was in college where he first found his love for theatre, and the rest, as they say, is history. He was most recently seen with Pallas as Tony Lumpkin in their production of She Stoops to Conquer. Other notable roles include Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Valentine in Two Gents, and Gerry Lejeune in Noises Off!
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LAURA ROCKLYN
Laura Rocklyn holds an MFA in Classical Acting from The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. She is an actress based in the Washington, DC area where she has performed with numerous companies including Pallas Theatre Collective, Round House Theatre, Arena Stage, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and Imagination Stage. She has also toured with Olney Theatre Center’s National Players in The Taming of The Shrew, Dracula, The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing, and she has performed with regional Shakespeare Companies across the country including Kentucky Shakespeare, Richmond Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Valley. She has a strong interest in history and does historic character portrayals around Washington, DC for groups such as The Jane Austen Society of North America and The Daughters of the American Revolution. She holds a Shakespeare Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and a BA in Theatre and English Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont. |
IAN BLACKWELL RODGERS
Ian Blackwell Rogers most recently played the Duke, Panthino, and the Host in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. Also with BSF, he has played Macbeth in Macbeth, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Touchstone in As You Like It, and Leontes in The Winter’s Tale. In Washington, he played Stanley, Tyrrel, and the Lord Mayor of London in Richard III, and Launce, the Duke, and Antonio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with Brave Spirits Theatre. He played Bertie Wooster in What Ho, Jeeves!, and Tom Jones in Tom Jones at Lumina Studio Theatre. He played many characters–Athos, Cardinal Richelieu, the Duke of Buckingham–in a speedy four-actor adaptation of The Three Musketeers written and produced by Bette Cassatt. With Scena Theatre, Ian has played Robert in Public Enemy, the Orator and the Old Man’s understudy in The Chairs, the Prefect in The Plague, and Otakar, Parasite, and an Ant in The Insect Play, along with lots of readings. He also does 19th-century plays in 19th-century style (footlights!) with New Old Theatre.
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RUSSELL SILBER
Russell Silber has appeared in Pallas Theatre Collective’s production of The Fall of the House of Usher (Elistan Usher) and the TableRead performance of code name: CYNTHIA. LOCAL: Rick/Lorraine/Pan in Bat Boy (1st Stage); Sonny Malone in Xanadu (Reston Players); Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, Topper in A Christmas Carol (Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre); CPT. Christopher Robinson in Saving Private Poo (Landless Theatre); Leonard Vole in Witness for the Prosecution (Little Theatre of Alexandria); Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (McLean Community Players); Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, Franz in Sunday in the Park with George (Kensington Arts Theatre); Bobby in A Chorus Line (The Arlington Players); Dido and Aeneas, La Clemenza di Tito (The In Series). EDUCATION: BA James Madison University. Thank you to everyone who has encouraged me, taught me, and showed me support along the way. Always love and thanks to the parentals.
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SHANNON LISTOL WILSON
Shannon recently appeared as Kate in Pallas’s production of The Taming of the Shrew. She is the Artistic Director/Founder of Red Eye Gravy Theatre Company, whose mission is to support social causes through theatre, and a Resident Acting Company member and Teaching Artist for Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. Regional Theatre: REGTC (Romeo & Juliet-Juliet, I Am You-director); CSC (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, Lysistrata); Taffety Punk Theatre Company (Measure for Measure); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Fever/Dream); The Keegan Theatre (Shadow of Honor, Man of La Mancha); Lean & Hungry Theater (Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale); Imagination Stage (The Araboolies of Liberty Street); Synetic Theater (Animal Farm, The Snow Queen, Galactika, Grimm Brothers’ Tales); among others. James Madison University: B.A. in Theatre.
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