With: Ted Birke, Marjorie Conn, Jennifer Finger, Laurel Lockhart, Susan Neuffer, Danielle Patsakos. More at www.equitylibrarytheater.info.
Ted Birke’s acting experience includes professional summerstock (Michigan and Upstate New York), New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (chorus roles) and community theatre (Minnesota, Missouri and New York). Enjoyed my return to “the boards” with The Gingerbread Players (Queens) in various character roles and Woodside Players. Acting skills training in BFA program University of Minnesota and in New York City; Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, HB Studios and AADA. Performances always dedicated to my Dad!
Marjorie Conn made her acting debut with the late, great Ethyl Eichelberger as his leading man playing Aegisthus to his Klytemnestra with her lover, the late, incomparable Katy Dierlam as Electra. She was given an award by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for her contributions to theatre in Provincetown. Marjorie is most known for her portrayal of Lizzie Borden (ax murderess) and Lorena Hickok (Eleanor Roosevelt’s lover). These plays are published in LOST LESBIAN LIVES (available on eBay). She founded the Provincetown Fringe Festival in Provincetown, MA in 1994. Currently she is a full time New Yorker residing in Hells Kitchen living with a plethora or rescue animals.
Jennifer Finger is a member of the Instant Shakespeare Company, the Quarantine Theater, and the Equity Library Theater. She has studied with acting teacher John Pallotta. Her roles have included Rosalind (As You Like It), Viola (Twelfth Night), Paulina (The Winter’s Tale), Lady Macduff (Macbeth), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page), the Countess of Roussillon (All’s Well That Ends Well), Alais (The Lion in Winter), Essie Miller (Ah, Wilderness), Eleanor (Happy Endings), Louise (Network), Queen Elizabeth (Richard III), Kitty (The Lying Valet) and Alithea (The Country Wife).
Janice Kirkel is an actor and radio newscaster. She has worked off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse as Melissa in Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in a one-act festival, as well as at the Dramatists Guild, Abingdon Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Fleetwood Stage, several Samuel French one-act festivals and the Stamford Center for the Arts. SAG-AFTRA.
Laurel Lockhart is delighted to make her debut appearance at the ELT winter festival as Wilma Rae. Some favorite past roles are: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (Pantages Theatre), THE BUCK STOPS HERE (Amas Theatre), THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB (West End Playhouse), MORNINGS AT SEVEN (Out of the Box)]. Solo show: TIMES SQUARE TOURIST (The Bank Street Theatre in New York) and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Web Series: Nyx, mysterious goddess of the night, in MYTHOS, Bernice in the recently released film, ROOTH AND B, Memaw in the soon to be released film, I’M NOT NICE. In the world of ZOOM: HALLOWEEN AT GREYMALKIN MANOR and AFTER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL for Waldman Living Room at the Actor’s Fund. AEA-SAG-AFTRA .
Susan Neuffer is thrilled to return to Equity Library Theater. Her sordid past includes late nights singing and playing bass at CBGB’s with original rock bands, and graduate school at Harvard. Susan studied acting at the Michael Howard Studios and The Barrow Group, and most recently appeared as the snooty wife in the short film D’Urn It!, and off-Broadway in Lawrence Dial’s In the Room. She has appeared on IFC’s Onion News Network, and in commercials, independent films, cabaret shows, and musicals. Favorite roles: Julia in Millbrook Playhouse’s Lend Me a Tenor, Lady Markby in An Ideal Husband and crazy Bel in Don Nigro’s Tristan. www.susanneuffer.com.