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Who’s Who

~ Solos Actors ~ length plays include: Black Lives / Blue
Lives [co-written with Bill Mesce, Jr.]
Harry Patrick Christian (The Theater Project), and Urban Rabbit
has acted in many plays Chronicles (Georgia Southern
here at beloved Vivid University). As an actor, Steve has
Stage including This, The appeared at The Guthrie, Cincinnati
Mystery of Irma Vep, Playhouse in the Park and Theater for
Shipwrecked, Fuddy the New City, as well as on TV shows
Meers, Water in My like: Law & Order SVU and 90210.
Hands, Psychodrama, Steve serves as Co-Executive Producer
Pride’s Crossing, and he for a new CBS series, Tracker, which
also directed the plays Motherhood Out premieres after the Super Bowl (and
Loud and Be Here Now. In other Vivid after the WGA writers strike ends).
show performances, Harry has been Education: Yale, the A.R.T. Institute at
seen stranded at the airport in the hit Harvard and the Juilliard playwriting
romantic show, Shooting Star, and program. www.harpercreates.com
over the years he has portrayed a 9- Jason Szamreta made
year old boy with ADHD, a mnemonist, his debut at Vivid Stage as
a firefighter, a fertility doctor, a Luke in the 2011
singing college track coach, an Irish production of Next Fall and
cook, a bisexual green-skinned alien, a joined the company after
one-legged groundskeeper, a tortured performing in the following
lady-of-the-manor, and a schizo with a season's original musical
sock puppet. Harry is also a proud The Neighborhood. He has
member of the Pushcart Players and also appeared in Rx, The
The Theater Project where he recently Most Deserving, Sister
directed A Jersey Cantata and acted in Play, and Things Being What They Are,
5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche. Harry has as well as various improv and holiday
performed in several original off- specials. Last season, he performed in
Broadway productions in NYC, national Vivid’s very first radio play and web
and international touring shows, TV, series, the latter of which is an official
radio, and at many of NJ’s best selection of the 8th annual NYC Web
professional theaters. Harry also Fest.
directed Driving Miss Daisy at The
Summit Playhouse and is a long-time Emaline Williams is an
director at Arizona’s Del E. Webb Ohio born but NJ based
Center and conducts workshops with Equity actor. A member
the Passaic Police Dept Youth Services. of the Vivid Company,
Emaline appeared in the
Steve Harper is excited recent production of Soft
to return in the flesh to Animals. Her theatrical
Vivid Stage where several credits include NYC:
of his plays have been Vampire Cowboys Theater
performed including: Co (Alice in Slasherland,
Things Are (mostly) GEEK!) NJ: Centenary Stage Co (Meteor
Crazy (2023), Many Shower, Turning, The Sunshine Boys,
Happy Returns (2020), Dracula, Hitler’s Tasters), Shakespeare
Special Counsel (2018), Theatre of New Jersey (A Child’s
and Iggie Imagines Marriage (2001). Christmas in Wales), Vivid Stage (Ways
He also contributed lyrics to the to be Happy: a radio play), The Bickford
musical Brink of Life (2002) - book by Theatre (Accomplice), The Growing
Laura Ekstrand, music by Oliver Lake. Stage (Tales from the Garden) &
His collection, A Few Short Plays to Alliance Repertory (Bluff, Trying).
Save the World was published by Emaline holds a BFA in theater
Laughing Panda Press and won the performance from Ohio University.
2023 Independent Press Award. Full www.emalinewilliams.com