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Hedda Gabler

 

A world premiere translation

Presented by Local Union Theatre Company

 
Translated by
Gerry Bamman &
Irene Berman
 
Directed by
Giacoma Bonello &
Samuel T. Cini
 
Starring
 
Emma Claire Gibson
Liz Gurland*
Morgan Fanning
Ben Natan*
Montgomery Sutton*
Sadithi De Zilva*
Matthew Zimmerman*
 
*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
 
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Cast

Morgan Fanning

Hedda Gabler
Emma Claire Gibson

Thea Elvsted
Liz Gurland*

Juliana Tesman
Ben Natan*

Eilert Løvborg
Montgomery Sutton*

Judge Brack
Sadithi De Zilva*

Berte
Matthew Zimmerman*

Jørgen Tesman

Creative Team

Giacoma Bonello

Director
Samuel T Cini

Director
Morgan Fanning

Producer
Sky Davis

Producer
Tiffany Rexach

Stage Manager
Finn Marie

Costume Designer
Kierney McAllister

Media & Marketing
MaryBeth Rodgers

Fight Direction
Luke Pearlberg

Fight Direction

Meet the Company


Morgan Fanning (Hedda Gabler)

Morgan is an actor and musician hailing from the Chicago burbs. Select theatre credits: Dog Sees God (BkOne Productions), The Crucible (Theatre In The Open), Pericles (7 Stages Shakespeare), One Man Two Guvnors (Good Theatre), Hair, Bat Boy (Seacoast Repertory Theatre). Music Director for Twelfth Night (General Productions). Luther College BA. 

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Emma Claire Gibson (Thea Elvsted)

Emma is a Brooklyn-based actor and Western Massachusetts native. NYC: It's a Free Country (SheNYC), Board of Ed (Wild Project). Regional: Miss Julie (Katonah Classic Stage), Macbeth, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Woods). She loves new plays, old plays, knitting, and playing dress-up for a living. Smith College BA, Brooklyn College MFA in Acting. More at emmaclairegibson.com. 

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Liz Gurland* (Juliana Tesman)

Liz acted from age 9 to 23, earning her MFA at UC Irvine. She went to Fordham Law at night while working as a secretary during the day. Liz then became a mergers & acquisitions attorney at Clifford Chance, went in-house to Siemens Corporation, and then to Panasonic while raising her family. Liz performed and studied acting while working full-time and has now retired from law and is working in theater and film. 

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Ben Natan* (Eilert Løvborg)

Ben is an actor, writer, and activist based in Brooklyn. Select credits include Half World (World Premiere/Ghost Light Theatrical), Rule of Thirds (English Language Premiere/Kit Kairos), Slaughter City (New York Premiere/Small Boat Productions), Talk to Me Like the Rain (NuAnce Theater), and Macbeth (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival). Founder of Small Boat Productions. Received his BA from NYU Gallatin in 2018 and his MBA from NYU Stern in 2025. Go Birds. 

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Montgomery Sutton* (Judge Brack)

Montgoomery is an actor, director, and playwright. Recent roles include King Arthur in Camelot (John W. Engeman Theater), Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare at St. John’s), Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale (Rude Grooms), and the title role in Pericles (Seven Stages Shakespeare Company). Additional work includes: LONDON: Shakespeare’s Globe; OFF-BROADWAY: New York Classical Theatre; REGIONAL: Florida Studio Theater, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Trinity Shakespeare Festival, Casa Manana, Shakespeare Dallas, Second Thought Theatre, Undermain Theatre, Uptown Players, Theater Three. FILM/NEW MEDIA: 1865 (with William Jackson Harper and Reed Birney), Skindiving, Trouble with Women. He has directed for the AT&T Performing Arts Center, Shakespeare Dallas, In Scena! Italian Theater Festival / The Tank, Atlantic Acting School/NYU, Rude Grooms, Gilbert Theatre, Junior Players, Take Ten Festival, and Seven Stages Shakespeare Company. His plays and adaptations include Oedipus, Ruins, Antigone, Broken Water (Gilbert Theatre), Your Colonel (Metropolitan Playhouse), Advent (O’Neill semi-finalist). He serves on faculty for the Atlantic Acting School/NYU. BFA, NYU / Atlantic Acting School; International Actors Fellowship, Shakespeare’s Globe. montgomerysutton.com

 

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Sadithi De Zilva* (Berte)

Sadithi (AEA, Pace University BFA) is so excited to be working on Hedda! Recent credits include the world premiere of Cowboys and East Indians (Denver Center) and Let's Talk About Anything (The Flea Theatre). When she's not acting, she runs the indie film production company "Scrappack Productions" alongside her best friend. She hopes to one day be a dead body on Law and Order (SVU specifically would be super cool). Also, to meet Robert Irwin in real life.

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Matthew Zimmerman* (Jørgen Tesman)

Matthew  is an actor, director, and educator based in Brooklyn. NYC: Extra01dinary Aliens! (JACK), The Cherry Orchard, Cimino’s Defeat (Adult Film), Face Value (Downtown Urban Arts Festival), Arms and the Man (Gingold Theatrical Group). Regional: Shadowland Stages, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Directing: Twelfth Night (w/ General Production Studios). MFA, Brooklyn College. matthew-zimmerman.com

Giacoma Bonello (Director)

Gia is an actor who writes when inspiration strikes her, directs because she's opinionated, and produces only when she "has to" (frequently). Recent productions include: The Illusion of Separation (Theatre DeKalb), Twelfth Night (General Production Studios), Cimino's Defeat (AdultFilm NYC), Hotel Nepenthe, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Manuscript. BFA: NYU TISCH.

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Samuel T Cini (Director)

Sam is an actor, director, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed in and directed various plays, readings, workshops, and classes across New York City that were a lot of fun but are now over. He extends his gratitude to everyone who came out to support this show and hopes they'll keep it in mind for a while. He is also a founding member of Local Union Theatre Company.

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Morgan Fanning (Producer)

Morgan is an actor and musician hailing from the Chicago burbs. Select theatre credits: Dog Sees God (BkOne Productions), The Crucible (Theatre In The Open), Pericles (7 Stages Shakespeare), One Man Two Guvnors (Good Theatre), Hair, Bat Boy (Seacoast Repertory Theatre). Music Director for Twelfth Night (General Productions). Luther College BA. 

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Sky Davis (Producer)

Sky is a writer, editor, reporter, and producer based in Brooklyn. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Monitor, audiochuck’s Crime Junkie, and iHeartRadio’s Paper Ghosts, among others. They are a former producer and Senior Writer on the Pocket FM audio fiction platform, and are the creator of a long-running, critically acclaimed podcast that they are contractually unable to name. They studied fiction and screenwriting at Columbia University. They’re thinking of you.

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Tiffany Rexach (Stage Manager)

Tiff is thrilled to take a seat “behind the table” for Local Union’s inaugural production of Hedda Gabler. Tiff is a Brooklyn-based “Bay Ridignal” and a Boricua multi-hyphenate creative. Credits include: Viola in Twelfth Night, Denise in Savage Savage in Limbo, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (brooklynONE Productions); Josefina “Caged” (written by Mel Nieves); Geraldine Barclay in What the Butler Saw (The Heights Players). Proud brooklynONE ensemble member. ¡No pare, sigue, sigue!   

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Finn Marie (Costume Designer)

Finn Marie is a New York-based actor, humorist, and writer currently exploring her passion for vintage, antiques, and interiors through costuming and set design. She is passionate about connection through storytelling and the creative collaboration that unfolds in making theater and film. Costume Dept. Credits: “Arcade Animals” directed by Anooya Swamy and Vincent Accettola. finnmarie.com

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Kierney McAllister (Media & Marketing)

Kierney is an actor, writer, producer & musician based in New York. She is a classically trained actor and singer, with accolades from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and credits from coast to coast. Most recently, she was working behind the scenes on General Production Studio's Twelfth Night.

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MaryBeth Rodgers (Fight Direction)

MaryBeth is a dancer-actor-combatant based in New York City. Having earned her BFA in Dance at Ailey/Fordham, she worked as a contemporary dancer before discovering stage combat and starting her acting journey in earnest. She has directed Four Swords at the New York Renaissance Faire and has been Assistant Fight Director and Associate Fight Choreographer for numerous productions, including Robin Hood (with Rob Aronowitz), Pillowman and Macbeth (with Luke Pearlberg), and Romeo and Juliet (with Laine Flores). When not throwing punches, she can be found performing at theme parks and immersive theaters, including Sesame Place Philadelphia, Timeless Tales Entertainment, and Petty Love Productions, among others. Website: marybethrodgers.com

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Luke Pearlberg (Fight Direction)

Luke is an NYC-based fight choreographer, action artist, and movement professional for both stage and screen. Previous fight direction credits include: The Pillowman (Heights Players), Sweet Blood (JACK Arts), Macbeth (The American Theater of Actors), Sleepy Hollow (The Players Theater) TurnOver (IRT Theater), Letterhead (New York Theater Festival), Raw (Court Square Theater), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Algonquin Arts Theater). He is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors. Upcoming projects include She Kills Monsters (The Secret Theatre) and The Boys in the Band (Heights Players). Thanks to the cast for their commitment to safety and their joy.

 

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Special Thanks

Sam Rider

Marti Sanchez

Sam Rogers

Katherine Snyder

Bonnie Brooks

Derek Fries

Ian Dudley

Suzanne Macguire

Jon Licurse

Jamie Peyton

Studios 353

Playwrights Downtown

BKone Productions

 
   

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