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Nolan Mecham



Contributing actor



Nolan Mecham, stage, film and voice actor residing in Columbus, Ohio. A transplant from the San Francisco Bay Area, film and stage credits include the lead Everett Sullivan in the film, Neon Sky, (Best actor - Tiburon International Film Festival, 2015), Norbert Garstecki in The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Raymond Blake in Keeping Down With the Joneses. Voice credits include tributes to naturalist John Muir: Coming Home and the Last Oasis. Nolan is ecstatic to be among the amazing players of Faust in Wonderland!



Celia Bressack



Contributing actor, Playwright



Celia Bressack is a New York City based actor, writer, director and producer who has been making theatre since the late 1970's. Her stage credits include Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Sissy in A Piece of My Heart and Evelyn in Tales of the Lost Formicans. Film credits include Lucy in Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy's film, The Gig. She has written and performed monologues in venues all over NYC and is pleased to be part of the FIW gang.



Peter McArthur



Contributing actor



Peter McArthur is a Los Angeles based actor, also formerly of the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. Favorite stage roles include Caliban in The Tempest, Valentine in Arcadia, Horatio in Hamlet and Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer. He received his theatre education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and New York where he was a member of the Advanced Company. He is inspired by his wife Julia and daughter Marlowe.



Sue Trigg



Contributing actor



Sue hails from the UK and began her acting career at the ripe old age of eight where she donned miners garb to play Happy the Dwarf. Sue attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and received an Honors Degree. After a seven-year hiatus due to motherhood, she began acting again in California where she lived for 36 years. Sue is an accomplished actor with over 60 shows to her name. Favorite roles include Dotty Ottley in Noises Off (for which she garnered a Theatre Critics award), Shirley Valentine in the one woman show of the same name, Martha in, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, and Berthe in Boeing Boeing. Sue has directed 20-odd plays, including, Death of a Salesman, voted one of the best plays of the decade by the San Francisco Times. Before moving to Kansas with her husband in 2019, Sue was Artistic Director of the Altarena Playhouse in Alameda, California. Most recently, Sue appeared at Salina Community Theatre as Grandma in Neil Simons', Lost in Yonkers. Sue is honored to be a member of Faust in Wonderland's talented group of actors.



Debra Knox



Playwright



Debra Knox is an award-winning writer, actress, director, musician and voice-over actress. Her script, Orson Welles Ashes won the Golden Palm Award for Best Screenplay at the Beverly Hills Film festival, among many other accolades. She has toured as a writer and musician opening for many top acts and headlining in many American cities.



Virginia Hoffman



Contributing actor



Gin Hoffman is a transplant to the Sunflower State by way of Texas. A lifelong theatre lover, she now trains the voices of the next generation of stage stars at the Center for Theatre Arts, while continuing her own vocal study under operatic baritone and Grammy winner, John Brancy. Gin, whose recent credits include roles in Lost in Yonkers, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and The Game's Afoot, is thrilled to be a member of FIW, learning from and working with these amazing performers!



Joan Lopate



Contributing actor, Playwright



During her 23 year career teaching high school, Joan revived a failing drama program, producing and directing wildly successful plays and musicals. She taught art, English, creative writing and created her school's first film studies courses. Raised in New York, she worked in advertising and film production many years before moving to California where she crewed for countless San Francisco Bay Area community theatre companies. With her husband Nolan Mecham, she recently moved to Columbus, Ohio, just in time to be locked down there.



Bill Chessman



Contributing actor, Sound Engineer, Announcer and Resident Playwright



Bill Chessman is a writer, actor and director who works in audio and live theatre. He has performed, and his plays have been performed, on both sides of the San Francisco Bay, both sides of the North American continent (and in the middle) as well as both sides of the Atlantic ocean.



Kendall Sramek



Contributing actor



Kendall is a student at Harvard University, Division of Continuing Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her concentration is Mathematics while earning a minor in Dramatic Arts. She is a student of scriptwriting. Kendall is an alumnus of College Park High School, where she was involved in the Drama Department and Improvisation Club.



Annie Lesny



Contributing Actor



Annie Lesny is a San Francisco Bay Area actor who has been passionate about the stage since she was born with her name. Her favorite roles include Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Jan in Grease, Narrator in Stardust and Charity in Anything Goes​. Annie is excited to perform with the eccentric and fun players of Faust in Wonderland!



Richie Tavake



Contributing Actor



Richie Tavake is an actor from the San Francisco Bay Area who started onstage at City College of San Francisco’s Diego Rivera Theatre then went to on camera and is now working in voice over. Richard is very excited to be apart of the Faust in Wonderland crew and looking forward to being apart of these great stories. His credits include, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht (2016) - Various Roles. (Anon)ymous by Naomi Iizuka (2017) - Strygal American Night the Ballad of Juan Jose by Richard Montoya (2018) – Juan Jose Various Roles - Someday She (2016) Animal Farm (2022) – Napoleon. Cosmic Dawn – Additional Voices.



Glen "Dutch" Dutcher



Contributing Actor



Glen “Dutch” Dutcher is a film and voice actor, and occasional writer, residing in Fleming Island, Florida, primarily known for roles in the films Evil Angel and The Boys at the Bar. He has had an eclectic professional and educational life that he credits for the ability to become a wide variety of characters. He has traveled extensively all over the United States and the world, residing in Europe and Asia, where he was immersed in many diverse cultures and languages. Now almost completely retired from careers in the military, higher education, and government, he continues to study acting by being a vociferous consumer of film, theater, television, and radio. Dutch is absolutely delighted and honored to be a member of Faust in Wonderland’s group of talented actors and writers.



Joe Murphy



Playwright



Joe Murphy is a writer, director actor and environmental advocate and attorney based in upstate New York. Joe trained in acting at the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio and the Irish Arts Center in New York City. He joined the Yankee Rep Theatre Company in New York as a writer and later became an actor, director and producer with the Company. After training at various community film and video production centers, including Film Video Arts and New York University, Joe has written, produced and directed two feature films and multiple shorts.



Ron Garrison



Producer, Director, Contributing actor, Playwright and Webmaster



Ron Garrison has directed over 40 plays, musicals and operas including Ghosts, The Glass Menagerie, Oedipus Rex, The Music Man, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Scarecrow, Our Town, Pirates of Penzance, Die Fledermaus and The Punch and Judy Show. His acting credits include Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ferraillon in A Flea in Her Ear and Lavoisier in Marat/Sade, among others. Additionally, Ron had many diverse careers in business, education and the legal profession.



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