Mark H. Dold (Mark) is an NYC-based actor/private coach. In July 2020, Mark had the honor of performing David Cale’s Harry Clarke at Barrington Stage Co., becoming the first Actors’ Equity Association actor to perform in front of a live audience post pandemic-shutdown. Prior, he appeared in the original Broadway company of The Inheritance. Mark has worked in NYC and regional theatres from coast to coast, and guest-starred on network television, web series, and film. He is the recipient of Connecticut Critics Circle and San Diego Critics Awards. In 2018 he was named BroadwayWorld Berkshires Best Actor for The Glass Menagerie at Barrington Stage Co., and in 2020 he was named Performer of The Decade by BroadwayWorld Berkshires for Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking The Code, also at BSC. A graduate of Boston University and The Yale School of Drama, he is an Associate Artist at Barrington Stage Company and a member of The Actors Center. This performance is for my Dad. www.MarkHDold.com IG-@mhdold

David Smilow (Paul) is fortunate to be appearing in his second production of a Mark St. Germain play, having performed in Wednesday’s Child a few seasons back (a lifetime bordering on eternity in COVID-19 terms) at the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota. A relatively recent arrival to acting after a long writing career, he’s taken on roles ranging from Heisenberg in Copenhagen, to Serebriakov in Uncle Vanya, Orgon in Tartuffe, and the besieged college professor, John, in David Mamet’s Oleanna. As a writer, his work earned him multiple Emmy and Writers Guild awards during stints on such venerable (and now departed) shows as One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and As the World Turns. David lives in the Hudson Valley, having survived residency in both Los Angeles and New York City.

Peggy Pharr Wilson (Lynn) is a Barrington Stage Associate Artist, where she has been seen in America V2.1, Gas Light, His Girl Friday, Guys and Dolls, The Crucible, To Kill A Mockingbird, Carousel, Laramie Project: Epilogue, 10x10 Festival (’12–‘21) and in the upcoming Boca. BAT: Doubt (nominated best actress by Broadway World); SHAKES & CO: Leap Year: New York: Six Women with Brain Death (co-author, and performed it also in Chicago, Dallas & Kansas City). Regional: 10 seasons with Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado performing over 50 roles, including Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (best actress Ovation Award Denver Post), Shirley Valentine, Moon for the Misbegotten and 3 Viewings. Several staged readings for BPL. Many regional including: Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre 3, Kansas City Rep, Unicorn, KC Lyric Opera, White River in Vermont and Rose Theatre in Chicago. Married to managing director Tristan Wilson.

Jim Frangione (Director/Dad) is pleased to be Great Barrington Public Theater’s Artistic Director after more than ten years developing new plays with Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Jim directed Anne Undeland’s acclaimed play, Lady Randy, at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre in Lenox; Mamet’s Romance at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater; Private Life at HERE Arts in NY; and An Evening of Shorts by Mamet, Pinter and Silverstein at the ART/Harvard Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Jim’s play Breakwater, the second of his trilogy of Cape Cod plays, received its premiere in 2019 at the Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock (Berkshire Theatre Critic’s Nomination). His play, Flight of the Monarch, premiered at Gloucester Stage Company in 2017. Jim has acted for over 35 years; Off- Broadway in the original production of Oleanna, as well as the National Tour; in many plays with Atlantic Theater Company, on Broadway and at many regional theaters: The Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf, Alley Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville—and most recently in David Mamet’s Prairie Du Chien at Atlantic and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Shakespeare & Company. Films: Joy, Transamerica, Spartan, Heist, State and Main, The Spanish Prisoner, Homicide, Suits, Claire Dolan, and Maryam. Jim is an award-winning audiobook narrator performing over 300 titles, including David Mamet’s Chicago.

Mark St. Germain (Playwright) has written for film, television, and the stage. He is a recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Off Broadway Alliance Award. Mark has written the plays Freud’s Last Session, Camping with Henry and Tom, Forgiving Typhoid Mary, and Becoming Dr. Ruth, the story of Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Other plays include Best of Enemies, Ears on a Beatle, Scott and Hem, Dancing Lessons, Relativity, and Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap. His play Eleanor will open at Barrington Stage in July, 2021, followed by a run at the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota. The Crossing, a musical, will premiere at Barrington Stage in September, 2021. With Randy Courts, he has written the musicals The Gifts of the Magi, Johnny Pye, and Jack’s Holiday (Playwrights Horizons). His musical, Stand by Your Man, The Tammy Wynette Story was created for Nashville’s Ryman Theater. With John Markus he wrote the comedy with music, The Fabulous Lipitones. Mark is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild East and an Associate Artist at the Barrington Stage Company, where a theater is named for him. His book, Walking Evil: How Man’s Best Friend Became My Worst Enemy, will be available in August on Amazon.