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Kamran Alexander - Niles Hunter
Kamran has been acting and studying theatre since the age of 12. He has been performing in the Bay Area for about four
years and hopes to one day move to New York to pursue the theatre arts. His most recent roles: Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar
Named Desire with the Off Broadway West Theatre Company, Aaron Mickenney & Moises Kauffman in The Laramie Project,
and Valerie in Tartuffe.
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Pilar Alvarez - Ruby
Pilar Alvarez has been most recently seen by Bay Area audiences as Janis Joplin in Beehive at
The Palo Alto Players and Aniko/Suleka/Shauva in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Dragon Theatre Productions Theatre Company.
She has acted in various educational tours with The Theatre of All Possibilities and Actor's Express in Atlanta, GA. Pilar
has also performed with Synchronicity Performance Group (Atlanta) and Georgia Ensemble Theatre (Atlanta) and worked as an
educator with Each One Reach One, Southwest Arts Center (Atlanta) and California Shakespeare Theater. She is a graduate
of the Training Artist Institute at The American Musical Theatre of San Jose, the Performance Internship Program at Actor's Express and holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from The College of Santa Fe in
New Mexico.
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Hannah Knapp - Ellen
Hannah Knapp (Ellen) most recently played Rosamunda in
Chemical Imbalance with Precarious Theatre, of which she is a member. She also recently appeared as Joan in Caryl Churchill's Far Away (Naked Masks),
Alais in The Lion in Winter (Act Now) and Ophelia
in Hamlet (Impact Theatre), and performed in three productions with Valley Shakespeare Festival: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena); As You Like It (Celia); and The
Gifts of the Magi (Della). A voiceover artist as well as a theater actor, Hannah holds a BA
in French and Theater Theory & Performance from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
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Haining Luan - Wilson
Hai Ning, runaway puritan from a rotten China, expatriate teacher from a solemn
Catholic school, idealistic dreamer, egoistic poet/wanderer in a tiny spiritual galaxy, perpetual solitary seeking the
unknown, humble monk in lay world of Siddhartha.
quietly disappearing... in time.
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Denise Polt - Violet Macintosh
Denise Polt began her love of theatre by performing in her parents’ living
room at the age of 2. Since that time, and after much training, her love of the theatre has grown to include many favorite
roles as Bunny in Gemini, Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore, Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream, La
Ciesca in Gianni Schicci, Maude in A Coupla White Chicks, Violet Macintosh in Frisco Follies, Guenevere
in Camelot, Dolly in Hello, Dolly!, Eliza in My Fair Lady, and Celia Peachum in Three Penny Opera.
She is thrilled to be stepping back into the "gum shoes" of Vi Macintosh. As with every production, Denise would like to thank
her family and friends for their love and support and to send a special thanks to her mentors Jean Shelton, Luis Oropeza,
Julie Dimas, Joe Graham, Dr. Steven Shapiro, and Charlie Suggs for their artistic inspiration and dedication to the craft.
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Alan Quismorio - Johnny
ALAN QUISMORIO (Johnny), is a company member of Crowded Fire for whom he appeared
in Trevor Allen's 49 Miles, Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City, and Liz Duffy Adams' One Big Lie. Additional
acting credits include A Language of Their Own with the Asian American Theatre Company, The Sweetest Hangover (&
Other STDs) with Brava! For Women in the Arts, and the Shotgun Players' Troilus and Cressida. His directorial
credits include the Jon Sims Center (JSC) premiere and New Conservatory restaging of Harry Cronin's Dooley, Cronin's
Dark Matter at JSC, and Tom Kelly's Significant Others at the New Conservatory. As a producer, he staged Joe
Jennison's A Beautiful Man (Best of Fringe selection; recipient of the Dean Goodman Award) at the 2003 SF Fringe. He
has worked on projects with the Magic Theatre, Oakland Public Theatre, and Word for Word.
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Eleanor Mason Reinholdt - Sydney
Eleanor has been acting, off and on, for various theater companies all
over the Bay Area for over nine years. She's worked with the California Conservatory
Theater, Cassandra's Call, Impact Theatre Company, Emerald Rain Productions, C.A.F.E. Arts, Live Oak
Theater, Thunderbird Theater Company, Palo Alto Players, and many other independent production groups. Recently audiences could have seen Eleanor playing the role of "Satan" (among other characters)
in a modern adaptation of Dante's Inferno called "Club Underground" out in Orinda. She dedicates this
and all of her performances to her husband Richard for his love and constant applause.
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Hal Savage - Lt. Sayer
Hall most recently appeared as Artie in Hurly-Burly, at the Actorıs Theatre of San Francisco, The Constable in Our
Town at the San Francisco Playhouse and Dr. Fist in Pathogen, an indie noir. Hal also co-starred as Lt. John Sayer
in Frisco Follies, his own noir play, at the Phoenix Theatre. Dan Wilson directed Hal in his zany Fringe show, Get
it? Got it? Good at the Exit Theatre. Hal is happily retired from teaching and lives in the city.
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Alexis Wong - Lily Sun
Alexis is thrilled to join the cast, fresh from her stint originating the
role of 'Sarah' (the pregnant, aria singing clown) in Ten Red Hen's 2007 production of, 'The Clown Bible. A founding
company member of TRH. She has also appeared in {their 99- Cent} Miss Saigon (Gigi), 365 Days/365 Plays (Honoria/Tosha)
as well as Falsettoland with Red Dragon Productions (Dr. Charlotte u/s). A native San Franciscan, Alexis graduated
from UC Berkeley in 2001, with a degree in Architecture. Alexis enjoys
writing in her blog, singing back up with local band Six Eye Columbia & remains active with the San Francisco Academy
for the Performing Arts.
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