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Cast of Widows

Josh Alexander*

New York credits include Elaine May's Taller Than A Dwarf on Broadway, Tintypes at the McGinn Cazale. Regional credits: The Shakespeare Theatre, Indiana Rep., Shakespeare Santa Cruz , NY Stage & Film, New York Theatre Workshop/Dartmouth Residency. Television: One Life To Live, All My Children, Law & Order, The Wrong Coast , Hey Joel. Recent Film: Backseat, My Best Friend's Girl, Made for Each Other, Goyband and Under New Management. Training: Vassar College and BADA in London .

Mark Alhadeff*

NYC: Nikita in The Power Of Darkness by Tolstoy (Mint Theater), Penn in Rearviewmirror (Reverie), Len in The Bigger Man (Partial Comfort), Rum & Vodka (Ohio Theater), Bobby in Pagans (Abingdon). Regional: Young Housman in the East Coast Premiere of The Invention Of Love (Wilma) (Barrymore award nomination), Mary Zimmerman's The Odyssey (Seattle Rep, McCarter) and Secret In The Wings (Berkeley Rep.), and others. TV: Law & Order, Monday Night Mayhem (TNT.)

Veronica Cruz*

NY theatre: Night by Philip Gerson (Fringe), Acts of Mercy by Michael John Garces (Rattlestick Theatre), Abandonment (Sanford Meisner Theatre), Us (HERE), The Secret History of the L.E.S (En Garde Arts). Regional: Sonia Flew (CATF), Anna in the Tropics ( Pittsburgh Public), Diosa (NY Stage & Film), Cascarones (O’Neill), Black Coffee (Dorset Theatre Festival). TV: Third Watch, Law & Order, recurring roles on One Life To Live and Guiding Light. Film: Spider-Man, A Gun For Jennifer.

Sam Dingman

Sam Dingman is thrilled to be a part of Widows.  A founding member of the Stolen Chair Theatre Company, he appeared in their last two productions, Kill Me Like You Mean It and Kinderspiel.  Other New York credits include Hugging the Shoulder and Pennybacker.  He will appear in the upcoming feature film Friends (With Benefits), and is a co-founder of www.audienceoftwo.com.  He holds a BA in Theater from Swarthmore College , and studies at Studio Dante.

Sarah Nina Hayon*

Recent: LAByrinth's Barn Series in Knives and Other Sharp Objects. Recent stage credits: Night Over Taos (INTAR dir. Estelle Parsons) ; Crazy Little Thing (dir. Brian Roff). Rearviewmirror (Reverie, dir. Carl Forsman, 2007 Drama Desk Nomination.) Film & TV: James Cameron's AVATAR (with Sigourney Weaver & Giovanni Ribsi) & Law and Order. Sarah is a co-creator of the playwriting development series: The 24Seven Lab (www.24sevenlab.com) Member of Partial Comfort Productions, The Fire Department, and Equity.

Mercedes Herrero*

New York credits include:  Night Over Taos, The House of Bernarda Alba (Intar), , Comic Potential (MTC), O Jerusalem (Flea),  Henry V, Richard III (The Public), The Laramie Project ( Union Square ), Another Part of the House (CSC). Regional: Geva, Arena Stage, A.R.T, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Rep, Yale Rep, San Jose Rep, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse. Film and TV: all the Law and Orders, Asylum Seekers, Arranged, The Favor, The Tao of Steve. M.F.A Yale.

Guiesseppe Jones*

Guiesseppe has performed in regional theaters across the country including A.C.T in San Francisco, Indiana Rep., The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, The Weston Playhouse, et. al. Some NYC theater highlights include; The Basement for the Drama League DirectorFest, and the Pulitzer prize finalist : Bulrusher at Urban Stages off Broadway. Guiesseppe and his wife Kathryn are founders of Synchronis.tv which produced the first scripted Live web series, "35", which premiered this fall on the internet.

Ana Cruz Kayne

New York Theater: Three Sisters (Irina), On Religion/Grace (Ruth), The Tempest (Ariel), Stop Kiss (Callie), others. Film: Uncertainty. B.A. from Barnard College . Sincere thanks to Laurie Smith, Tim Edwards, family, 5 exceptional women, and 1 special man.

Ephraim Lopez

Ephraim Lopez is happy to be working with Reverie Productions.  Some recent credits include: Thunder Above, Deeps Below (2G), Something Stupid (NYU), and a national Heineken Commercial.  Selected Theater, Film and TV: Life is a Dream (Culture Project), Danger of Bleeding Brown (Lark), The Angel Project (Lincoln Center Festival), Three Latin Girls (Bowery Poetry Club), Polaroid Stories (Azuka Theatre), The Jungle Book (Arden Theatre), The Colored Museum (Penn State), Floaters (Internet Series), Aviones (Independent.)

Melissa Miller*

Broadway: Tartuffe (Roundabout); Dirty Dancing (workshop).  Recent: Private Lives of Eskimos (Committee Theatre); Regrets Only (Premiere Stages); West Moon Street (Prospect Theatre, dir. Davis McCallum), Charles Mee's Mail Order Bride (Beckett Theatre), Mark Smith (13P, dir. Ken Rus Schmoll.) Other: Flea Theatre, New Georges, New Group, Classic Stage, Rattlestick, Keen Company, Red Bull. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NJ Rep.  Television: Ed, All My Children. Vassar College (Phi Beta Kappa), RADA (Certificate).

Sean has appeared in numerous National and Cable TV Commercials. TV credits: Law and Order - SVU and Criminal Intent, Jonny Zero, 30 Rock, Finky's Kitchen and Child Aladdin at  Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Films include The Toe Tactic, Twisted Fortune, Paper Tigers, Pretty To Think So and Popsicle Sticks. Theater Credits include The Happy Prince, Watch Of The Rhine, Very Merry Unauthorized Children Scientology Pageant, Stellyy, Dances At The Yard and The Fun Factory.

Theater: The Leopard & the Fox (Alter Ego), Topsy Turvy Mouse ( Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Betrothed (Ohio Theater), The Suitcase Trilogy (Ma-Yi), Sari Yams ( Greenwich Street Theater), Queen of the Remote Control (Mixed Blood, Minneapolis ), Life, Love and EBITDA (The Public/New Works Now), Tamburlaine/Hexachlorophene (Target Margin Lab).  Film: Straight Down Flatbush (dir. Sam Gold), The Stoop , Quarter Life Crisis, Fillum Star, and Ghostlight (Tribeca Film Festival).  Artistic/Casting Fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop (2005-07)

Most recently James played Dukes Senior and Frederick for poortoom’s all-male As You Like It at HERE.  Regional: A Christmas Carol (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Cymbeline, Travels With My Aunt (Old Globe Theatre), Boy (La Jolla Playhouse), Travesties/Earnest (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Falsettos (Apple Tree Theatre, Chicago), How To Succeed . . . (Sacramento Theatre Company), Laughter on the 23^rd Floor (San Jose Repertory Theatre and Cleveland Playhouse.) Thirteen seasons at the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre.

Anca Suiu has worked and toured Europe with The Great Jones Repertory of La Mama E.T.C. in Andrei Serban's Fragments of a Greek Trilogy, Ellen Stewart's Seven against Thebes, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Other shows in New York : Iphigeneia at Aulis, As You Like It, The Doctor in Spite of Himself. She has trained at AMDA and the Lee Strasberg Institute.

New York :  King Lear (dir. James Lapine, Public Theatre); Beauty of the Father (dir. Michael Greif, Manhattan Theatre Club); Winter's Tale (dir. Barry Edelstein, CSC).  Regional: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play (dir. Mark Wing-Davey, Goodman), King Lear (dir. Robert Falls , Goodman), Our Town (dir. Bartlett Sher, Intiman Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Peter Dubois, Cal Shakes). Film/TV: Third Watch (NBC), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC), One Life to Live (ABC). NYU's Graduate Acting Program.

Ching Valdes-Aran is an actor, director, playwright and painter. Broadway: The Wild Party, Shakespeare On Broadway (Lady Macbeth, Lady Capulet, Duke Senior; Belasco Theatre).  Major roles: The House Of Bernarda Alba (NAATCO); Mother Courage (Ma-Yi Theatre); Medea (Pan Asian Rep.); Empress Of China (Cincinnati Playhouse); Philoktetes (Shatterhand Co., Berliner Fiestpiele); Clytemnestra (Iphigenia At Aulis, Yale Rep.); Olan (The Good Earth, Bristol Riverside); Imelda Marcos (Dogeaters, Public Theatre/La Jolla Playhouse). Other theatre: Macbeth/Julius Caesar (Delacorte Theater); Homebody/Kabul (NYTW); Oedipus (Wilma Theatre), La Mama E.T.C., Mabou Mines, HERE, The Foundry, DiverseCity, Immigrant Theater, Womens' Project, Arena Stage, A.C.T., Edinburgh Festival, London International Festival, Amore Theater (Greece). Film/TV:  “Across The Universe,” “Sex & The City” (upcoming); Law & Order CI, Rescue Me, etc. Directing: La Mama, Penumbra Theatre, Immigrant Theatre, Ma-Yi, Terre de Scene. Awards:  OBIE (Flip-Zoids, Ma-Yi); Spencer Cherashore Award, Charles Bowden Award, Asian Cultural Council Writing Fellow, MAP Rockefeller Grantee, and a FOX Fellow.

Audrey Lynn Weston (Yanina): Recent New York credits include Rag and Bone (Rattlestick), Rearviewmirror (59E59), The Wikipedia Plays (Ars Nova), Johnny Applef?%ker (The Ohio), The Chrome Warrior (Chashama), Bloody Mary (CSV, NY IT Award nomination). Other New York : The Flea Theater, Culture Project, INTAR, HERE, Counts Media, GAle GAtes, et al., and E.S.T. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guild Hall, Bay Street Theatre. Film: Hal Hartley's The Girl From Monday, Evan Cabnet's Fools' Errand. Artistic Associate of The Bushwick Hotel.

Yan Xi is delighted to be joining the cast of Widows.  She was made in China and has been doing mainly TV and Film since she arrived in NYC three years ago. She has appeared on TV in The Wire and The Return of Jezebel James, feature films include Interview and Public Interest, as well as many commercials.  She’s excited to return to the stage in this exciting production with an amazing cast and crew.

* Appears courtesy of Actor's Equity Association