Kevin Blake* (The Alien)
Kevin made his debut at the Hippodrome earlier this season as Peachy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and recently played Kenny in Like Totally Weird, and multiple roles in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.  Actors Theatre of Louisville credits include: Kenny in the premiere of Like Totally Weird, Laertes in Hamlet directed by Jon Jory, and Young Ebenezer in A Christmas Carol.  He was also in the original production of Mastrosimone’s Benedict Arnold at Florida Stage.  Other theatre credits include: A Bright Room Called Day, As You Like It, Greater Tuna, Kennedy’s Children, The Seagull, Misalliance, Come Back To The Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and Hedda Gabler.  A great big thanks to mom and dad for everything!
 

GEORGE TYNAN CROWLEY*(Michael)
George played Oscar Wilde in the Florida Studio Theatre production of Gross Indecency this past winter in Sarasota.  He recently completed filming a principal role, as the estranged father of a runaway girl, in Esther Bell’s new movie, Skid Marks.  Other work includes playing Jerry in Pinter’s Betrayal at Maine’s Public Theatre, Oberon at the Centennial Theatre Fest, Changev, the 1500-year-old yogi in Isabelle Anderson’s The Jnaneshwar Play.  He performed in seasons at the New Jersey and Colorado Shakespeare Festival and two seasons at American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT where he played in The Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet and was the assistant to the director, Zoe Caldwell.  In New York, he played Fleet in Richard Caliban’s Famine Plays for the Cucaracha Warehouse Theatre and has toured the country with the Jackie Robinson bio-musical, Play to Win.  He holds an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Theatre.

Cameron Francis* (Sheriff)
Cameron is pleased to be making his third appearance on the Hippodrome stage.  He was last seen as Jimmy in Like Totally Weird and previously as Narrator 1, Shaw, Atkins and others in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.  Other credits include Narrator 3, Parker, Harris and others in Gross Indecency at The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, Macbeth in Macbeth for Longacre Lea Productions at Arena Stage’s Old Vat Theatre, Philip in Really Big Expectations at Axis Theatre in Baltimore, the Master in Jaques and His Master for the Georgetown Theatre Company, Louis in Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches at Arena’s Old Vat Theatre, Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew for Upstart Crow Productions.  He is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and received his MFA in acting from Catholic University.

CAITLIN MILLER* (Priscilla) 
Ms. Miller is a native of Scituate, MA and currently resides in New York City.  She is a graduate of James Madison University in Virgina.  Caitlin currently studies comedy improvisation with New York troupes “Burn Manhattan” and “Upright Citizens Brigade”.  Her credits include Ariadne in Polaroid Stories at the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 21st Humana Festival, Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple at the Gateway Playhouse, and most recently appeared as Wendy in Naiomi Iizuka’s Aloha, Say The Pretty  Girls at the Actors Theatre.  She has also appeared off Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop and The Samuel Beckett Theatre.

Will Sexton (Billy) 
Will recently appeared in the Hippodrome's staged reading of William Mastrosimone's Bang Bang You're Dead.  He is a veteran of  six  productions of A Christmas Carol, and  was seen last summer as Demetrius in the Summer Spectacular production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Other favorite Hippodrome roles include Mowgli in The Jungle Book and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.  He has appeared on the television show Grazing and has also been in several school productions.  His film credits include Ulee’s Gold.
 

Adam Cohen* (Stage Manager) 
 Adam thinks he got infected by the theater bug when his mother attended My Fair Lady on Broadway while pregnant with him.  After getting a BA in Theater from the University of New Orleans, he spent the majority of his 21st year touring with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus as a graduate of their Clown College.  Upon returning to New Orleans,  Adam began working professionally at local theaters on both sides of the curtain.  His experience included all manner of backstage and technical work, onstage performances ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, and a three-week  stint as Lana Turner’s driver.  Cinematically, he has worked on independent films and movies for television, seen most of Fred Astaire’s films several times over, and portrayed the title role in the recently released family video Dr. Dolittles’s Magnificent Adventure.  After having worked all over the Southeast, Adam is very grateful to Mary, Lauren, and the rest of the Hippodrome staff for giving him a “home” in this transient business called show.

MARY HAUSCH (Director) 
A Hippodrome founder, Mary has directed more than 70 and acted in more than 50 productions in her 26 years with the theatre.  She recently wrote and directed An Enchanted Land, a one-woman show about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, which she will be taking to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland this summer. Directorial accomplishments include Gross Indecency:  The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, A Tuna Christmas, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Private Eyes, Three Tall Women, The Mineola Twins, Always ... Patsy Cline, Indiscretions, A Christmas Carol, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Lonely Planet, Broken Glass, Earthly Possessions, Marvin’s Room, Prelude to a Kiss, M. Butterfly, Lettice and Lovage, Other People’s Money, Steel Magnolias, Driving Miss Daisy, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Little Shop of Horrors, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf and True West.  She also directed a PBS teleplay based on David Mamet’s The Duck Variations.  She is a co-founder of H.I.T.T. (Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre) for which she and her colleagues won the Margaret Sanger Award.   Mary has served with the National Endowment for the Arts as a panelist/reviewer, with the Florida Professional Theatre Association as treasurer and with the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs as a panelist/reviewer.  She was the recipient of the Gainesville Sun’s Star Business Award in 1991 and the Sun’s Arts Person of the Year Award in 1993 by The Gainesville Sun.
 

James Morgan (Scenic Designer)
Jim is the Artistic Director of Manhattan’s acclaimed York Theatre Company, where he has spent  25 years creating more than 90 designs, including last season’s No Way to Treat a Lady, for which he received a Drama Desk award nomination, and, currently, The Show Goes On, starring Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.  Broadway credits include Sweeney Todd (York’s revival, Drama Desk nomination); the musical Anna Karenina (American Theatre Wing Design nomination); The Miser, Taking Steps, and Getting Married, to name a few.  He has created designs for National companies including On the 20th Century, The Jukebox, and The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me (also San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston), among others.  Regional theaters designs include Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodspeed Opera House, Chicago Lyric Opera, Asolo, Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse, Coconut GrovePlayhouse, McCarter, and Portland Opera.  Directing credits include Oh Coward!, Falsettoland (Carbonell Award, Best Director and Best Musical), and workshops of Jonathon Courie’s play Jack Hart.  Recent/current projects: Cy Coleman’s new musical Exactly Like You (Goodspeed), Radio Gals (Geva) and No Way to Treat a Lady (Coconut Grove Playhouse).  A Florida native, UF Graduate and recipient of the H.P. Constans Award, he lives in Manhattan.  Jim directed and designed the Hippodrome's 1996 production of Sylvia.  This is his 29th design for the Hippodrome. 

MARILYN WALL-ASSE (Costume Designer) 
Marilyn is a Hippodrome co-founder, Artistic Associate and the Costume Designer-in-Residence. She has designed and built costumes for more than 150 Hippodrome productions.  She is a four time recipient of the Outstanding Young Women in America Award and received the Margaret Sanger Certificate of Appreciation in 1987.  She has twice  received a Governor’s Award as one of Florida’s Outstanding Artists and was the only theatrical artist to be granted that award this year.  Her Hippodrome acting credits include The Madwoman of Chaillot, Cabrona, Bedroom Farce, Robber Bridegroom,  Crimes of the Heart and Season’s Greetings.  Directing credits include Macbeth, Same Time Next Year and Tangled Tales which she also co-authored.  In the film world, Marilyn has designed costumes and makeup for A Flash of Green, Shimmer, Ruby in Paradise, Gathering Evidence, Miami Hustle and the recently released Ulee's Gold with Peter Fonda and Patricia Richardson.  She has served as makeup artist to the famous faces of Phil Donahue, Al Gore and Bill Clinton at their local appearances.  Marilyn recently received her second Emmy nomination for her costume designs for the children’s television show, Salsa.
 
 

Robert P. Robins (Lighting Designer) 
Bob has been Lighting Designer-in-Residence at the Hippodrome for the past 14 years.   During this time, he has designed the lighting for more than 150 productions.  He has also stage managed numerous productions including Hippodrome Mainstage, state and Theatre for Young Audiences tours.  In addition to designing and stage managing, Bob also engineers the soundtracks and sound reinforcement for all Hippodrome productions. He is an Actors’ Equity Association stage manager and a member of IATSE Local 115.   Bob has designed more than 250 productions regionally in the United States, including theater, dance, and industrials.   For the past six years, he has taught at the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.  He spends what time he has away from the theater with his very supportive wife, Jodi, and their two children, Kayla and Evan.
 

Timothy J. Dygert (Production Manager) This is Tim’s sixth season at the Hippodrome as a member of the production team.  Tim started as a carpenter while in college and has held the titles of Master Carpenter, Technical Director, and now, Production Manager.  He designed the set for Private Eyes and has been involved in the creation of over fifty mainstage and touring productions.  Tim has also designed several industrials in and around Gainesville including scenery for Gator Growl, Puttin on the Ritz, and the American Heart Association’s “Five points of Life” ride, as well as the Hippodrome TYA production of  To Be or Not To Be... That is Two Questions.
 

Lorelei Esser (Property Design) 
Lorelei has been designing properties for the Hippodrome since the 1994 production of Earthly Possessions.  She has long been recognized in our community for her accomplishments and contributions as an independent artist.  Her medium, the collection and assemblage of “the stuff of life” can now be experienced in the sets of the Hippodrome’s productions.  Lorelei’s understanding of time periods, cultures, the writer’s intentions, the director’s vision along with her tenacity for detail bring artistry to the craft of properties design.

ROCKY DRAUD (Sound Designer) 
Rocky has designed sound for the Hippodrome for the past 20 years. Since the theatre’s production of Sleuth, he has created innovative sound designs for over 40 productions.   His recent credits include The Mineola Twins, M Butterfly, Private Eyes, Lonely Planet, and Three Tall Women. Rocky has also been seen on stage in the Hippodrome productions of Always…Patsy Cline as the bass player in the Bodacious Bobcats and in the band of Beehive. 

TAMERIN DYGERT (Dramaturg) 
Holds a B.A. in Theatre and English Education from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  As Dramaturg and Literary Manager, Ms. Dygert compiles research materials for the artistic team; contributes to production concepts; serves as features writer/editor of the curriculum guide, Perspectives; and writes articles for Ovation newsletters.  She also assists in Mainstage season selection; negotiates Mainstage production rights; and directs the New Play Reading Series which she founded in 1998.  A native of Maryland, Ms. Dygert has worked at Baltimore’s Center Stage; toured with Shakespeare on Wheels; served as a freelance dramaturg with Baltimore’s Performance Workshop, Inc.; and taught English and Drama at Bais Yaakov School for Girls.  She has taught Hippodrome theatre arts classes and directed Florida Teen Playwright Festival productions and appeared on the Mainstage in The Sisters Rosensweig, A Christmas Carol and Just So Stories.  Ms. Dygert is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), a professional association serving literary managers, dramaturgs and theatre professionals throughout North and South America.

SARA MORSEY (Dialect Coach)
 Sara was last seen on the Mainstage as Frank in Private Eyes.  Other Hippodrome credits include The Glass Menagerie, Three Tall Women, An Enchanted Land, The Lion in Winter, Indiscretions, Broken Glass, All in the Timing, The Illusion, The Sisters Rosenweig and Lost in Yonkers.  Regional credits include five seasons with the American Stage (including the U.S. premiere of Mrs. Klein), six seasons with The New Harmony Theatre, Playhouse on the Square (Memphis Theatre Award, Excellence as a Leading Actress in a Drama for Three Tall Women), Horse Cave Theatre, Kentucky and Indiana Shakespeare Festivals and Kentucky Contemporary Theatre to name a few.  Sara holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of Louisville.  Featured film roles: Cilla in Germantown Films’ Borderlines and Sybil in the soon to be released The First of May with Julie Harris.