Christine Cartell (Jean Willow Singer)

CHRISTINE CARTELL is a New York-based actress, writer, producer, host, and VO artist. TV: Law & Order: SVU, FBI, Manifest, Billions, Orange Is the New Black, God Friended Me, Person of Interest, The Blacklist. Film: a bunch of indies you've never seen. Commercials: toothpaste to car insurance. Theatre: not enough, most recently The Winchester Day School Production of The Wizard of Oz. Proud member SAG-AFTRA. Currently studying Strategic Communications at Western Michigan University. Mama to SKC. Love to family, always. www.christinecartell.com @christine.cartell

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Kat Donachie (Melanie Beatrice Singer)

Kat Donachie is a NYC based actress, choreographer, and creative producer. She began her career in classical dance and has found her way to using words on stage. Theater: One..Two.Three (T4TP), The Dining Room (TDCNYC), Almost Maine (TDCNYC) TV: Law and Order SVU, Critically Ashamed. Film: Stuck, Acolyte, Ophiology. As a producer, she seeks to bring stories to life that speak to often under- represented perspectives and aspects of the female and human experience. Thank you to Laurie, Matt, My Family. Brilliant Talent - Posche Models @katdonachie katdonachie.com

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Maya Mills (Dolly Mirabelle Singer)

Maya Mills is a NYC based actor, director and creative, born and raised in San Francisco! Past favorite credits include Homefront (A.C.T), One Way (Fred Ebb Award winner), and Twelfth Night (MCS Theatre). She is drawn to stories that cultivate compassion, frame joy as an act of resistance, and nourish our collective imagination. Maya is a proud grad of Manhattan School of Music. For Doug <3 @mayamillls

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Frances Inés Rodriguez (Suzie Diane Cook)

Frances Inés Rodríguez (They/Them) is “Scene-Stealing” - New York Times, Critics Pick. Credits include Fandango for Butterflies and Coyotes (La Jolla Playhouse), Coriolanus (La Mama), Street Theater (TOSO), FrikiNation (National Queer Theatre.) They studied and trained with Intar’s Unit52 Cohort, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Second City and meisner here at MCS. They are a singer-songwriter and play around the city with their group Son Papalotl. They want everyone to know, they are clearly Beth and need an agent real bad. 

https:instagram.comfrankyandthemomos

Jamie Tincher (Understudy - Jean and Mel)

Jamie Tincher is a NYC based actor, writer, and recovering Floridian. Past theater credits include Twilight of the Golds (Out/Play), Sick (Ted Wold Studio), and a workshop of her original piece The Modern Day Hunter S Thompson (MCS/dir Haley Rice.) Film: Bad Egg (dir. Sayfay Beard/Brittany Porter)

https:instagram.comjamtea

Mellissa Mattos (Understudy - Dolly and Suzie)

Born and raised in Brazil, Mel Mattos is a multi-faceted artist and proud immigrant who has been working as a professional actress, dancer and singer for the past 15 years. Some of her favorite theatre credits include Stupid F*cking Bird (Broadway World Nominated for Best Performance), In The Heights (Regional), SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical (Regional) and Eurydice (Off-Broadway). Every time she’s on stage or onscreen, she dedicates her performance to her familia and community back home.

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Laurie Rose Savage (Writer/Director)
Laurie Rose Savage’s writing contemplates family relationship, behaviors around loss, and themes of avoidance and secrecy. Recent works include the limited narrative podcast THE RAT KING (The Shrill Collective/ dir. Ashley Croce, Chelsea Feltman) and her play SILENT TREATMENT (Haley Rice’s New Works Series / dir. Mahina Bowyer). Her screenplay OFF BROADWAY was a finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest. As Resident Artist and longtime collaborator at MCS, she initiated the MCS Resident Writer Program as a dedicated structure for self-determined studio artists to cultivate original material. Previous stage works include WATCH OUT, BLOODFEATHERS (writer / director), FORMS OF FRACTURE: 4 short works (writer / director), DIFFERENT KINDS OF SHADOWS (writer / director). Writing from Brooklyn, New York—to which this play is, in part, a love letter.