Ryan Winkles (Nick) previous shows at GBPT: Breakwater; Regional credits include: Joy and Pandemic (Huntington Theatre Company); Universe Rushing Apart (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Mr Fullerton Between the Sheets (Gloucester Stage); Visitors (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse); Pericles (the rig); ROE (WAM Theater) Ryan is also a company member of Shakespeare & Company where credits include As You Like It, The Tempest, Henry V, King Lear, Macbeth, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello, and Richard III. Television: “Time Traveling Bong”(Comedy Central). Film: The Boston Strangler(Hulu), Paper Birds(French Press Films), UFOTOG(Trumbull Studios). Education: BA, FSU; MFA UW- Madison. Proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG. ryanwinkles.com

Alexander Sovronsky (Original Music/Music Director/Performer) - Over the last 15 years, Alexander has worked extensively at all the major theaters in the Berkshires and is thrilled to add Great Barrington Public Theatre to the list. Some career highlights include performing in and co-writing the live music for the Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Kevin Kline), creating the original music/sound for The Public Theatre’s production of Mother Of The Maid (starring Glenn Close), and writing, music directing, & performing an original score for Indecent at Arena Stage, KC Rep, and Baltimore Center Stage. He has also worked extensively in various regional theatres and Off-Broadway. Alexander is based in NYC and enjoys a rich career as both a composer/sound designer and actor/musician/music director.

www.AlexanderSovronsky.com @Alexander.Sovronsky

Wendy Welch (Performer) Stage: R.O.E. with WAM Theater, Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice (Mrs. Bennet), A Little Night Music (Madame Armfeldt), Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (Sonia), Caroline, or Change (Rose Stopnik Gellman), The Light in the Piazza (Margaret Johnson), The Unmentionables (Nancy), Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), The History Boys (Dorothy Lintott), Follies (Sally Durant Plummer), The Matchmaker (Dolly Levi), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Storyteller), The Dining Room (Actress #2), Talking Pictures (Mrs. Jackson), Sexy Laundry (Alice). Film/TV: Emmy nominated documentary Shatter the Silence, Occupy Texas, Murder Made Me Famous, Upstream Color, Sweet Tornado, Deadline Crime. Numerous Commercials and Voiceovers. Education: B.F.A. Acting S.M.U., Apprentice Chelsea Theater Center. Teaching: Adjunct Professor S.M.U., Richland College, Northlake College, Private voice/coaching studio. Awards: DFW Critics Forum (3) Best Actress, Leon Rabin Award Best Supporting Actress. wendywelch.net

Kit Brookman (Playwright) is a writer and director. Recently, Kit’s television pilot UNINVITED GUESTS was selected as a short list finalist for the Studio 21 Pitch Competition. Kit’s play CLOSE premiered at the Landor Space in London in 2018. In 2017 Kit premiered his play THE PLANT with the Ensemble’s Theatre directed by Elsie Edgerton-Till and starring Sandy Gore. THE GREAT FIRE premiered at Belvoir in 2016 and was announced as the winner of the Ensemble Theatre’s inaugural playwriting commission. In 2013, Kit wrote and directed SMALL AND TIRED at Belvoir. The production was nominated for Best New Work, Best Actor, won Best Supporting Actress at Sydney Theatre Awards and nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Helpmann Awards and was shortlisted for 2012 Griffin Award. The play had its US premiere in 2016 in Durham, NC produced by Common Wealth Endeavors. Other plays include A RABBIT FOR KIM JONG-IL, which premiered at Griffin Theatre in 2015 directed by Lee Lewis. He co-wrote NORA, a modern retelling of Ibsen’s A DOLL HOUSE, with Anne-Louise Sarks which premiered at Belvoir in 2014. HEAVEN has had seasons at the Old 505 Theatre, Sydney and La Mama, Melbourne and NIGHT MAYBE premiered at Stuck Pigs Squealing in 2013

Michelle Joyner (Director) Last season at GBPT, Michelle was the director/ dramaturg of THE SHOT by Robin Gerber, starring Sharon Lawrence, which went on to The United Solo Festival (Theater Row, New York) and won Best Production, Best Performance, Audience Favorite and Best design. It had a sold out run at New Jersey Rep in April, with productions lined up thru 2023. Michelle was Assoc. Director (with Tina Packer) on THE WAVERLY GALLERY at Shakespeare and Co. and directed WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID and A CERTAIN AGE at their winter reading series, as well as the past three productions of THE VALENTINE SHOW (with Allyn Burrows). She has directed numerous readings for GBPT and Berkshire Voices as well as many plays on the west coast. This past season she performed an original piece in SHE/HER at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as at PS21 in Chatham. She starred in THE APPROACH last season at Shakespeare and Co. (Nomination: Best Acting Ensemble). Michelle is also an accomplished screen actor with a long career and has written ten studio screenplays. Her first full-length play IODINE will have a reading this year. She has directed a short film ESPECIALLY NOT ROOMMATES and leads The Long Table, a women’s writing group. Member: SAG-AFTRA, AEA, WGA, and DG. She is currently creating THE RAMSDELL PROJECT, a theatrical development space in Great Barrington to open later this year. www.michellejoyner.com