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Trent Dawson is an actor, director, producer, and writer based in New York. Throughout his career, he has worked most notably on Broadway (The Herbal Bed), Off Broadway (Maple &amp; Vine at Playwrights Horizons, The Memorandum and A Man for All Seasons on Theatre Row) and at regional theatres including Baltimore Center Stage (The Homecoming, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Misalliance), McCarter Theatre (School for Scandal), Westport Country Playhouse (Beyond Therapy), Prince Music Theatre (Pal Joey), Geva (The Miser), as well as countless productions of Shakespeare and other classic and contemporary works at theatres across the country. Trent has also starred in film and television, including Homeland, NCIS, The Good Wife, NCIS: LA, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, General Hospital and Castle. He received three Emmy nominations for his longstanding role as Henry Coleman on As the World Turns. As a director, Trent has helmed numerous play productions throughout NYC, as well as film, including his original short films, The Six and Everywhere, and, most recently, his first feature-length film, Macbeth. <a href=”http://www.trentdawson.com/”>www.trentdawson.com</a>.

Lea is thrilled to return to KCS after playing Carol in Oleanna last season. Regional: 4,000 Miles (Westport Country Playhouse), The Miracle Worker (Judson Theatre), As You Like It, Cyrano de Bergerac, Into the Woods (Texas Shakespeare Festival). Film/TV: “Hawaii Five-0” (CBS), ”FBI” (CBS), “This is the Night” (Blumhouse). Lea was born and raised in Honolulu. Training: Carnegie Mellon. Many thanks to the KCS family and my team. leadimarchi.com

CHRISTA SCOTT-REED is a New York City based director, actor, and producer. Christa has had the delight of directing three KCS productions: A.R. Gurney’s Later Life, starring Thomas Jay Ryan, Carolyn McCormick, Kelly McAndrew, and Matthew Boston; Noel Coward’s Private Lives, starring Brenda Withers and Trent Dawson; and Thom Paine (based on nothing), starring Trent Dawson. Christa’s Off-Broadway directing credits include Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons starring Michael Countryman and Carolyn McCormick, the first New York revival of William Nicholson’s Shadowlands starring Daniel Gerroll, and C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce which was also a 28 city National Tour. The many virtual theatre productions she directed and produced in 2020-2022 collectively received over 150,000 online views. Christa is also a professional actor and has performed in many productions ranging from Broadway to Off-Broadway to regional theatre. Her screen acting credits include roles on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, FBI, The Good Fight, Madam Secretary, The Other Two, Elementary, 30 Rock, Law & Order, and more. Christa serves as Chief Creative Officer for Occasional Drawl Productions, Literary Manager for Fellowship for Performing Arts, and is a part-time faculty member at the School of Drama at The New School. Member: SDC, AEA, and SAG-AFTRA. www.christascottreed.com

BRENDA WITHERS is an actor, playwright, and co-founder of the Harbor Stage Company (Dindin, The River) on Cape Cod. Onstage credits include the Guthrie (Emma), McCarter Theatre (Crimes of the Heart, Midsummer), A.R.T. (Gloria: A Life), Actors Theatre of Louisville (Circle Mirror Transformation, This Random World), Hartford Stage (Abundance), and the Folger (Cyrano). Her plays have been produced at places like Northern Stage, Two River, Portland Stage, Urbanite Theatre, Hudson Stage Company, and Amphibian Stage. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, a Huntington Playwriting Fellow, and a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.

JONATHAN FIELDING is a theater artist who lives in Irvington, NY. He has performed on Broadway <em>(The Play That Goes Wrong, Noises Off, The Seagull)</em> as well as regionally (The Old Globe, Penguin Rep, The Public Theatre of Maine). Jonathan is a founder of the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, MA where he still spends his summers putting on plays. He has also been on Television <em>(Law and Order: SVU, Gotham, Castle Rock),</em> and is currently filming a role on HBO's <em>The Gilded Age</em>. He holds a BFA from Texas Christian University and an MFA from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts. He is very thankful to work with Katonah Classic Stage on this play.

JORDAN LAGE studied acting with playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy from 1981 to 1985 while pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama at New York University.

Before graduating, at Mamet's suggestion, he and fellow classmates co-founded the Atlantic Theater Company now based in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. He has performed in more than a hundred productions with Atlantic on stage and for radio since 1985.

Jordan made his stage debut in 1978. In addition to working extensively in film, television, on stage, and radio for over 40 years, Jordan has appeared in almost 2 dozen of David Mamet's plays and 5 of his films.

Jordan teaches acting, script analysis, sketch comedy writing, does audition coaching, and conducts his Acting the Plays of David Mamet workshop, most recently at the Atlantic Theater School in NYC where he was on faculty for 27 years. His students have included Jessica Alba, Jason Ritter, Simon Helberg, Eloise Mumford, and Vicky Jeudy.

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