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BAG! Productions, where he is co- holds her MFA in Acting from Brooklyn
creator and illustrator of The Kinetix, a College and is an instructor of voice and
comic book series featuring high school speech with the Miller Voice Method and
superheroes whose powers derive from at Montclair State University. Thank you
their respective disabilities, which so much to Justus, Marin, and Porter for
recently reached full funding on being my home and my heart.
Kickstarter. Dave is thrilled to be back www.beccalmclarty.com
and working with his dear friends at John Pietrowski
Vivid Stage. (Gemstones Guest Star) is
Scott McGowan is the Director of Arts and
originally from Events at the Madison
Pennsylvania but has Community Arts Center. He
lived in New Jersey and was one of the founding
has been a member of members of Writers
Vivid Stage for over 15 Theatre of New Jersey in
years. While raising a 1986, and the Artistic Director from
family he has worked 1991-2019, where he directed over 30
steadily, garnering two NJ Tony Awards world premiere productions, including
for Best Actor in a Musical awarded by plays by Russel Davis, Richard Dresser,
the Newark Star Ledger. He was also D.W. Gregory, and Tammy Ryan. He
named Best Supporting Actor in a directed the Gospel of John with Ken
Musical from the state of New Jennings at The Sheen Center in NYC
Hampshire in two separate years. In NJ and Yasmine Rana's Lena and Rose at
Scott has appeared at the Bickford, the Barre for the International Human
Centenary, Luna and recently in the Rights Arts Festival. Other regional
titular role of Elling at Catalyst Theatre credits include NJ Rep (Jim Knable’s
Company. Regional credits include Spain, Rich Orloff’s Big Boys, and Lee
Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center, Blessing’s Whores), Shadowland Stages
Cabaret, Parade, Art and many others (John Biguenet’s Rising Water and
including an Indiana Jones doll and the Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third),
Emcee for Holiday Spectacular on Ice. Oldcastle Theatre (Talley’s Folly), and
He has directed or appeared in thirteen Dreamcatcher Rep (Suzanne Bradbeer’s
productions of Forever Plaid. A proud Shakespeare in Vegas). For Fellowship
member of Actors’ Equity Association for the Performing Arts, he directed
where he spent sixteen years on their productions of Acts of the Apostles,
governing body and was a Tony voter. Mark’s Gospel, and Genesis, the latter
Scott is also an extremely proud parent moving to productions at the Fringe
of Shaelyn and Essa. Thanks to Rick and Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and the
Mary who share co-parenting duties. Lamb’s Theatre in New York City. He
Becca Landis McLarty directed two radio plays for the WNYC
(she/her) is thrilled to be Radio Stage Consortium, St. Joe’s Takes
a part of Gone Missing the Radio Stage and The Rehearsal, both
and the newest member of which have aired on National Public
of the Acting Ensemble of Radio. As a writer he has received two
Vivid Stage. Becca has Playwriting Fellowships from the NJ State
performed in NYC and Council on the Arts (in 2012 and 2018)
regionally with companies for his plays Dura Mater (produced at
such as Luna Stage, Broadway's Next Johns Hopkins University) and Polaroids
Hit Musical, Project Y Theatre, Arden Before the Fall, a play about Thomas
Theatre Company, The Theater Project, Merton, and had a poem nominated for a
and Mt. Gretna Theatre. Favorite Roles Pushcart Award. As an actor, he has
include: Viola in Twelfth Night, Mary performed Ernie in Monica Woods’ The
Jane in Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, and Papermaker (Shadowlands Stages),
Muriel in Bible Adventure Park. Becca Raymond in Richard Dresser’s 100 Years