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Bloods, Gotham, Jessica Jones,       Theatre. Noreen Farley has been seen
     Imitation Girl, The Answer. Love to   at Dreamcatcher Rep in Dead and
     Audrey and Mahyar. www.neimah.info    Buried, The Language Archive, The
                                          Neighborhood, Blood: A Comedy and
                Laura Ekstrand co-        many more. As a member of the
                founded Dreamcatcher
                with Janet Sales in 1994.   ensemble she has also performed in the
                                          improv troupe The Flip Side, A Very
                She has appeared at       Special Holiday Special, and the gala
                Dreamcatcher in The Lucky
                Ones, What Stays; Sister   cabarets. Other shows in the area
                Play; Rapture, Blister    include The Last Romance (Bickford);
                                          100 Saints You Should Know and The
                Burn; Motherhood Out      Champagne Charlie Stakes (Alliance
                Loud; and Shakespeare in
     Vegas, among many others, and is a   Rep); and Why Torture Is Wrong And
                                          Those Who Love Them, Road To Mecca,
     member of The Flip Side improv       and Three Tall Women (The Theater
     comedy troupe. New Jersey Theatre:   Project). At What Exit? Noreen has
     Bickford Theatre, Passage Theater, 12
     Miles West, The Theater Project, Luna   done The Lying Kind and two turns as
                                          the villain in their Christmas pantos.
     Stage, and the Pushcart Players. New   Other credits include regional theater,
     York Theatre: Naked Angels, Ensemble   television commercials, print work,
     Studio Theatre, and New Georges. Film:
     Fat Ass Zombies; Split Ends, High Art   voiceovers and movies.
     and I Shot Andy Warhol. Television:              Julian Gordon is excited
     Hack, Sex And The City, Law & Order,             to try his hand at improv
     and The Guiding Light. As a director:            with Dreamcatcher after
     Dead and Buried, Every Brilliant Thing,          playing Chuck in the last
     The How and the Why, Things Being                mainstage production,
     What They Are, Next Fall, Distracted,            Psychodrama! Recently,
     The Pursuit Of Happiness, Melancholy             he played Macbeth on tour
     Play, Pride’s Crossing, Full Bloom and           with STNJ. He has
                                                      performed Shakespeare in
     many others. Podcast directing: The   Texas, NJ, and Connecticut. He is also a
     Weirdness and Young Ben Franklin for   pianist who has the pleasure of working
     Gen Z Media. As a playwright: What   with actors and musicians everywhere
     Stays (with Jason Szamreta), Whatever   he goes! Thank you to everyone at
     Will Be, The Neighborhood (Book and   Dreamcatcher.
     Lyrics; Music by Joe Zawila), Brink of
     Life (Book; Lyrics by Steve Harper;              Shabazz Green is an
     Music by Oliver Lake) and                        Alumnus of Kean
     Astonishment, How to be Old: A                   University with a B.A. in
     Beginner’s Guide, and At Ninety-Three            Theatre Education. New
     (Adaptations). Laura is a private                York Credits: Bars and
     monologue coach and holds a BA from              Measures (Urban Stages);
     Yale University and an MFA from Sarah            Philosophy for Gangsters
     Lawrence College. Laura is a member of           (Beckett Theatre);
     AEA, SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists                Intruder: The Musical
     Guild. Love and thanks to Joe and    (Hudson Guild). Regional Credits:
     Zachary.                             Oklahoma (Denver Center for the
                                          Performing Arts); Topdog/Underdog,
                 Noreen Farley has done   Sister Act: The Musical (Lake Dillon
                 a number of shows as a   Theatre Company); Hands on a
                 member of                Hardbody (Colorado Springs Fine Arts
                 Dreamcatcher’s ensemble   Center); To Kill a Mockingbird
                 (most recently, String   (Greenbrier Valley Theatre); The Ballad
                 Around My Finger) as well   of Trayvon Martin (New Freedom
                 as improvisation. She has   Theatre); Little Rock (Passage
                 also appeared at Two     Theatre); Humbug (Premiere Stages).
                 River Theatre, The       Film: Romance in the Digital Age.
     Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, The       @shabazzgreen
     Bickford, Alliance Rep, The Theater   www.shabazzgreen.com FEAR NOT!
     Project, What Exit?, and The Women’s
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