MWPbios

Robert Aberdeen (Crofts)

Robert Aberdeen is a veteran of five Broadway shows. The first was Paddy Chayefsky's last show The Passion of Joseph D that was about the Russian Revolution,. His next Broadway show, still set in Russia, was the original Fiddler On The Roof. He played Trigorin in another Russian setting, in Chekov's The Seagull, which he did with Joe Namath, and yet another Russian in Chekov's A Country Scandal. Another Broadway show put him on the high seas in Billy Budd. He finally made it to America in Citizen Thom Paine his last Broadway show. He currently appears in New York City in the long running revue, Cabaret Lulu. Around the country he appears as merlin and in his own show Dangerous llusions, a drug resistance program for school children. As a director, Mr. Aberdeen chose A Cry Of Players the first time he directed at Eckerd College. The last show he directed there was a new piece called Sunday Morning Two Men Cooking. In New York he directed Tall Taxi Tales and Phyllis, Slave Of Poetry about Phyllis Wheatley the first published African American female poet. Other New York directorial credits include: The Deadly Delilah, Big Apple Pips, Hong Kong Transistor, A Private Affair, Butterfingers Angel, Dead Issue, Terror Train, Man Of La Mancha, and Fiddler On The Roof. He ran a theater company in New York called Performers Ensemble Theater. Mr. Aberdeen was a consultant On Jerome Robbin's Broadway, on The Floating Light Bulb at Lincoln Center, The Rise And Rise Of Daniel Rocket at Playwrights Horizons, The Lucky Spot at The Manhattan Theater Club, Buck, and The Seagul at the American Place Theater with the Circle Rep Company, Black Eagles for the Manhattan Theater Club and the Ford Theater in Washington D.C., Cherry Orchard at the John Drew Theater as well as for many commercials and industrials. He appeared in the Pulitzer Prize winning A Soldiers Play around the country, in New York and at the Edinburgh Festival, starred in the international tour of The Magic Show and his own television special Magic Maestro Please, and played Houdini in Anne Bogart's American Vaudeville at the Alley Theater in Houston. Mr. Aberdeen has starred in two films: Saturday Night, And The Terrorist. You may have seen him on television In The Greatest American Hero, The Bloodhound Gang, Macbeth, or as a regular on the long running daytime serial, Love Of Life.

Ross Beschler (Frank)

Ross Beschler studied theater at Columbia University and trained as an actor at William Esper Studios. Some favorite roles: Kaspar in Peter Handke's "Kaspar", Trinculo in "The Tempest", Moon in "The Myth of Moon and Morningstar", Much in "Robin Hood", Melvin in "Sapphire in Red", Boney in "Dirty Laundry", and Harvey in the workshop production of "31 Bond". Ross has also written plays for young audiences that tour the U.S. and England.

Jonathan Cantor (Praed)

After twelve years working around the country, I'm home! New York:

Jean Cocteau Rep (3 seasons): L'AIGLON, PHILOCTETES, CYMBELINE, KING JOHN, among others. Quaigh Theatre, Meat & Potatoes Co. Regional: UNCLE VANYA, HAMLET, STRANGE INTERLUDE, HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, THE LEGACY, FAR EAST, OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD, CANDIDA, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME. Television: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, MILLER'S COURT. Numerous commercials and industrials. Director: Three Rivers Shakespeare, Kohler Center, Attic Ensemble. Theatre Faculty: Adelphi, LIU, University of Miami, Roosevelt University, Central College, and NJ Shakespeare.

George Cavey (Rev. Samuel Gardner)

GEORGE CAVEY, a native of Springfield, Pennsylvania, was most recently seen in New York last March as Brovik in the Century Center's production of Ibsen's THE MASTER BUILDER. He has appeared on Broadway in THREE MEN ON A HORSE directed by George Abbott and starring Sam Levene, Paul Ford and Butterfly McQueen, and in a national tour of HELLO, DOLLY! as Cornelius Hackl and starring Yvonne DeCarlo. He has also appeared in many major regional theatres such as The Actors' Theatre of Louisville, GEVA, The Cincinnati Playhouse, The Barter Theatre, and The Forum Theatre. His many Stock appearances include The Paper Mill Playhouse, The Cape Playhouse, The Olgonquin Playhouse, Elitch Gardens and The North Shore Music Theatre. Out of many roles, his favorites include Adolph Freitag in THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO, Mr. Darling/Captain Hook in PETER PAN, Caesar Rodney in 1776, and as Dr. Watson in both THE DEATH AND LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and SHERLOCK'S LAST CASE. Television appearances include Mr. Connelly in USA Network's STAR WARS TRILOGY, the minister who married Max and Blair on ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and Uncle Ned, the bus driver on the children's special THE WHEELS ON THE BUS. He has also appeared in over fifteen national commercials including Burlington socks, Avis, Puffs Tissues and Sunoco. In addition to acting, he was the Post Enterainment Director for the Department of the Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and taught set and costume design at Emerson College in Boston. He received a BA in Theatre from The University of Delaware and an MA in Theatre from Penn State. He has resided on Manhattan's Upper West Side for over thirty years.

Stephanie Janssen (Vivie)

Stephanie is a recent graduate of NYU's Grad Acting Program. Work in New York includes Keen Company's Museum (understudy), One Summer New York Shook (NYTW Workshop), and Faith Hope & Charity (NY Fringe Festival). Regional Work includes Seven/Eleven, Amadeus (Guthrie), Stanleyand Vampire (Potomac Theatre Project) . At NYU she was seen in Major Barbara (Barbara), A View From the Bridge (Catherine), and Caucasian Chalk Circle (Grusha), among others. Stephanie holds a B.A. from Middlebury College.

Anne Newhall (Mrs Warren)

New York onstage: premieres and classics both on and off Broadway at the Helen Hayes, Circle Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theater, SoHo Playhouse, Primary Stages, Town Hall and elsewhere. Regionally: Denver Center Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Centre Stage and others throughout the states and in Canada. Previous Shaw credits include the leading ladies of OVERRULED, THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE, CANDIDA and, in New York, the Shavian heroine Jennifer Dubedat in the revival of THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Rori Bergman (Assistant Director/Stage Manager)

Rori is a recent graduate of Cornell University, where she studied English and theatre. While at Cornell, she directed numerous projects including The American Century and Generation 9-11, an original student-written "irresponse" to the events of September 11th. She has also interned in the development department at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Meredith Zolty (AD/SM). Directing credits include Alice in Bed, The Bald Soprano, The Striptease, Roger Waters' The Wall, work at Wings Theater, and NJSF lab. Stage management with New Ensemble, Irish Arts Center, We Must Be Idiots, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Most recently, Meredith worked in the marketing department at Second Stage Theatre. She is Managing Artist of Geek Ink, and earned her MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College.

Andy Cohen (Sound Designer/Composer) has written music or designed sound for a variety of off- and off-off-Broadway plays and musicals in

and around the NYC area. His credits include Expiration

Date at Lincoln Center, Glamour at the Ohio Theatre, Cooper Savage with Emerging Artists, One Must Do at La Mama, and several shows at the NYC Fringe Festival (where he is a 2000 "Excellence" Award winner.) Upcoming projects include shows at HERE and at La Mama as well as an original musical about the invention of the screw.

Martin E. Vreeland (Lighting Designer) has designed

numerous productions including; Travesties and Ah,

Wilderness! for PTTP/University of Delaware, Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream for North Shore Music Theatre in Boston, Personals for Ergo Theatre Co in NYC, How to Succeed and Into The Woods for CAP21 in NYC, Crazy For You and State Fair for Tri-Arts in Sharon, CT, Three Musketeers for Wings Theatre in NYC, A Funky Fairytale for Trump Plaza & Casino in Atlantic City, The Ballad of Baby Doe for NJ State Repertory Opera The Secret Garden and Jesus Christ Superstar for Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, Funny Girl Benefit performance for the Actors' Fund in NYC and for the last three years; the BC/EFA Easter Bonnet Competition at the New Amsterdam Theatre in NYC. Last fall he designed the bus & truck tour of Swing, which traveled around the US and Japan. He was the Associate Lighting Designer on the Broadway production of Swing and the assistant on Disney's The Lion King which keeps him busy with it's various tours and additional productions. Martin also assisted on several other Broadway productions including Voices in the Dark, How to Succeed, and Grease. Martin is happy to be designing here at The Looking Glass Theatre and always looks forward to new design opportunities.

Sidney Shannon (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be working

for the Looking Glass Theatre for the first time. Her past

credits have included shows at The Brooklyn Lyceum also

with Julie Balzer, The Boomerang Theatre Company, the

Oberon Theatre, Blue Muse Dance, 3rd Rail Dance, Passion is

Enough Company, The Ephipany Theatre, and others. Sidney is

a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University.

Andrew Ondrejcak (Set Design) studied architecture and

scenic design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He

was a scenic painter at the Williamstown Theatre Festival,

scenic designer of an original work at the Edinburgh Fringe

Festival and, most recently, designer of a series of