Daniel Gerroll (John) left University to accept a place at London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has since split his time between London, Los Angeles, and New York. Broadway: Plenty, High Society and Enchanted April. Off-Broadway credits include over 30 productions winning a Theatre World Award, an Outer Critics Circle award, and a Village Voice OBIE for ‘sustained excellence’. Roles include Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Salieri in Amadeus, Bluntschli in Arms and the Man, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest and Henry Higgins in both the play and the musical. He is an associate artist of the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor where he directed eight productions and appeared in as many. He premiered the solo piece Dr Glas last year in Kyiv. On TV he has appeared in many well-known shows such as “Seinfeld”, “Cheers”, “Sisters”, “Ugly Betty”, “Partner Track” and “Blacklist” “Partner Track” and in an upcoming Marvel series.

Carolyn Hennesy (Shirley) is an Emmy-winner with a long list of credits including “True Blood”, “Revenge”, “Cougar Town”, “General Hospital”, “Jessie”, “NCIS”, and “Adam Ruins Every- thing”. Film credits include: “A Snow White Christmas”, “Terminator 3”, “St. Agatha”, “Vanished: Searching For My Sister”. Upcoming: “Second Chances”, “Wineville”, and “Mort In Sherman Oaks”. She voices Mrs. Godfrey in Nickelodeon’s animated series “Big Nate”. She won the Los Angeles Ovation Award as Best Actress/Drama 2017/18 for her work in Master Class. She won her Emmy for “The Bay: The Series”. Most recent Emmy nominations: “Studio City” and “General Hospital”. She penned the successful “Pandora” tween series and the NYTimes bestseller “The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli”. Hennesy’s online podcast, “Animal Magnetism,” highlights global animal advocacy issues. She is an ambassador of The Los Angeles Zoo & American Humane. Training: Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art, London and American Conservatory Theatre. She’s desperate to see the Earth from space... and she flies trapeze.

Sarah Keyes (Mallory) is thrilled to make her GBPT debut. She is a theatre artist, film producer, and educator based in the Berkshires. Recent credits include: 10x10 (u/s Barrington Stage Company); The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA); Sense & Sensibility, Ragtime, Native Son, Life of Galileo, Constellations (PlayMakers Rep); Hair, Little Bunny Foo Foo (Parallel 45); The Mysteries (The Flea); Usual Girls (EST Bloodworks); Horse Girls (Ars Nova Ant Fest); Measure for Measure, Macbeth (Scranton Shakespeare Festival). Film: “In Transit”, “The Bears”, “Tell That to the Winter Sea”, “Good Grief”, “Invisible Girl”. BA Fordham University Lincoln Center; MFA University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Acting). Proud member of AEA.

www.sarahkeyes.com.

Vincent Randazzo (Samuel) Regional: Crime & Punishment (The Old Globe), As You Like It (The Old Globe), Vanity Fair (ACT & STC; Helen Hayes win), A Walk on the Moon (A.C.T.), Hamlet (A.C.T.), A Christmas Carol (A.C.T.), Washed Up on the Potomac (San Francisco Playhouse), Orson Welles/Shylock: A Docu-Fantasy Radio Play (Franklin Stage Company, Montreal Fringe, Toronto Fringe) Savannah (Lanes Coven Theatre) The Stranger Things Experience: NYC (Mycotoo) Film/television: “WeCrashed”, “Law and Order”, and “Law and Order: SVU” Honors: Helen-Hayes-Outstanding Supporting Actor. Education: M.F.A. in Acting from American Conservatory Theatre. B.A. in Theatre from Le Moyne College. @vinnyrand on Instagram.

Matthew Penn (Director) is an Emmy nominated director who has directed and/or produced over 200 hour-long dramatic television dramas including iconic series such as “Law and Order”, “The Sopranos” and “NYPD Blue”. He began his television career at “Law and Order” where he earned an Emmy nomination for directing the show’s 200th episode starring Julia Roberts. Penn has directed at many of the most prominent theaters in the Berkshires: Shakespeare & Co: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike. BTG: The Actors Nightmare, and Sister Mary Ignatius. At Barrington Stage: Judgment Day, Typhoid Mary, and eight 10x10 Festivals. Penn most recently directed the film “The Sweet Taste of Freedom.” Penn directed Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid at New York’s Public Theater starring Glenn Close. Penn was a Co-Artistic director of Berkshire Playwrights Lab for 13 seasons.

Oren Safdie (Playwright) Private Jokes, Public Places was an off Broadway/London hit and The Wall Street Journal named it as one of the top ten new plays of the decade. Other New York/Montreal productions include The Last Word, Gratitude, Unseamly, West Bank, UK, Jews & Jesus, False Solution, The Bilbao Effect and La Compagnie, which he developed into a pilot for CBS. (5 of his productions were NY Times Critic’s Pick.) Oren scripted the films “You Can Thank Me Later”; Israeli film “Bittersweet”; and most recently “The Man who Saved the Internet With a Sunflower”. His latest film, “Lunch Hour”, directed by Larry Guterman, begins shooting in July 2024. Oren has taught Playwriting and Screenwriting at University of Miami, Douglas College, CS Arts, Interlochen Arts Academy and St. Olaf College, and is also the Head of New Play Development at Infinithéâtre in Montreal where he spearheads The-Write- Stuff: a Youth Playwriting Competition.