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Who’s Who

                  Harry Patrick           Ass Zombies; Split Ends, High Art and I
                  Christian (Gerry) is a   Shot Andy Warhol. Television: Hack,
                  long-time Dreamcatcher   Sex And The City, Law & Order, and
                  Rep Company member      The Guiding Light. As a director: Dead
                  and has acted in many   and Buried, Every Brilliant Thing, The
                  of their most beloved   How and the Why, Things Being What
                  productions including   They Are, Next Fall, Distracted, The
                  Baby, The Mystery Of    Pursuit Of Happiness, Melancholy Play,
                  Irma Vep, Fuddy Meers,   Pride’s Crossing, Full Bloom and many
     This, Pride’s Crossing, Shipwrecked   others. Podcast directing: The
     and, most recently, Psychodrama. He   Weirdness and Young Ben Franklin for
     has performed here in many improv    Gen Z Media. As a playwright: What
     shows and cabarets and directed Be   Stays (with Jason Szamreta), Whatever
     Here Now and Motherhood: Out Loud.   Will Be, The Neighborhood (Book and
     Harry began his theatrical career    Lyrics; Music by Joe Zawila), Brink of
     acting as Huckleberry Finn at Atlanta's   Life (Book; Lyrics by Steve Harper;
     Peachtree Playhouse and he’s         Music by Oliver Lake) and
     performed Off B'way in NYC and at    Astonishment, How to be Old: A
     many of NJ’s best professional       Beginner’s Guide, and At Ninety-Three
     theaters. He has toured around the US   (Adaptations). Laura is a private
     and Europe with the Pushcart Players   monologue coach and holds a BA from
     and he is also a member of The       Yale University and an MFA from Sarah
     Theater Project. In 2010, Harry      Lawrence College. Laura is a member of
     received the NJ Theater Alliance     AEA, SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists
     Applause Award for his artistry and   Guild. Love and thanks to Joe and
     dedication to acting at Dreamcatcher   Zachary.
     Rep and he received another NJTA
     Award in 2018 for his theater arts               Daria M. Sullivan
     education work at Pushcart Players.              (Sorrel) - she/her/hers -
     He's a long-time director at Essex               is a NJ/NYC based actor
     Youth Theater in Montclair and at the            (EMC), director, teaching
     Del E. Webb Center in AZ and Harry               artist, and writer. Theatre
     also works with the Passaic Police               credits include Be Here
     Dept. Youth Service Division. He is a            Now and Continuing the
     proud member of AEA and SAG/                     Conversation (Vivid
                                                      Stage) and Unveiling
     AFTRA.
                                          Liberty (Speranza Theatre Company).
                 Laura Ekstrand (Maria)   She recently voiced AMINATA and
                 co-founded Vivid Stage   CUSTOMER for Cocotazo Media’s audio
                 (then Dreamcatcher       fiction series, Timestorm. Her episodes
                 Repertory Theatre) with   will be released in May (see:
                 Janet Sales in 1994. She   TimestormSeries.com). Directing
                 has appeared at Vivid    credits include I Am The Gooseking by
                 Stage in The Lucky Ones,   Ben Firke (The Tank). Daria wrote a
                 What Stays; Sister Play;   one act play (Somewhere in Between),
                 Rapture, Blister Burn;   which was produced by playwright/
     Motherhood Out Loud; and             author Kathleen George at the
     Shakespeare in Vegas, among many     University of Pittsburgh. Daria is a
     others, and is a member of The Flip   proud member of the NYC based film
     Side improv comedy troupe. New       collective, Burn It Down (BiD); she did
     Jersey Theatre: Bickford Theatre,    sound mixing and art direction for
     Passage Theater, 12 Miles West, The   previous BiD films and will be script
     Theater Project, Luna Stage, and the   supervisor for their next film this
     Pushcart Players. New York Theatre:   spring. She is also looking forward to
     Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio        assistant directing Vivid Stage’s spring
     Theatre, and New Georges. Film: Fat   show: Ways To Be Happy by David Lee
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