Sarasota Actors Workshop - Cast of Season 1 and 2

ACTORS - Season 3 Cast
	Christine Alexander - Season 1, 2 & 3 Christine’s bubbly personality resides daily at Booth Studio, Inc., a commercial photography studio, where she is the Chief Operating Officer. She has performed with Florida Studio Theatre’s Improv Troupe since 2001. Local independent films include, "Life in Minor", "Fat Chance" and "Possessed." Other appearances include the lead and dual role in “Killing Mr. Withers” with the interactive murder mystery dinner theater, Exit Laughing. Sarasota Actors Workshop 2004 & 2005. Christine is the co-creator of anythingarts.com and Producer of Becky's Rejects. She is Associate Producer of Sarasota Actors Workshop and The gg Monologues. Christine is a Sarasota native and thanks her family and especially her husband, Christopher, for their support.
	Tom Aposporos - Season 3 Theatre Odyssey’s Tom Aposporos recently performed the monologue The Grocer in that company’s Ten Minute Play Festival. He appeared as King Midas and other roles in the national award-winning production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, produced by Manatee Players. His recent professional work includes his portrayals of Albert Schweitzer in the multi-media Words of Albert Schweitzer and the Music of Bach and Henry Harry in the two character play Brilliant Traces.
	Annette Breazeale - Season 1, 2 & 3 Annette has enjoyed performing in London, New Orleans and Florida. You may have seen her on stage at the Sarasota Players, Manatee Players or the Backlot. She is proud to be a founding member of Sarasota Actors Workshop, The Women's Theater Collaborative and The Eclectic Theater Company as well as having performed Improv with The Mixed Nuts at Florida Studio Theater. She made her film debut this spring in "About Me". She is the Chief Curator of the JABU Center. "It's all about transformation!"
	Dianne Brin - Season 2 & 3 Dianne, who moved to Sarasota three years ago from the San Francisco Bay Area, earned her B.S. in Speech & English at Ohio State and studied acting at the Herbert Bergoff Studio ,Hunter College & San Francisco. Most recent role was in “Vagina Monologues” at VLT,”Drinking Alone” at Lemon Bay and Manatee Players,” The Split”. She was also in last year’s production of “Peter, Paula, Mary and Mama” for SAW. With a California background in audiobooks, she recently narrated here an audiobook titled “Helen Keller:Story of my Life.” She enjoys performing a variety of staged readings for the community with the Asalo Playreaders Guild. Her background includes voiceovers, commercials and industrial films which she’s continuing to pursue here.
	Alice Cotman - Season 1, 2 & 3 By day, Alice works at Florida Holocaust Museum's Arch Family Holocaust Education Center. Alice's acting career started in Sarasota with the roles of Gert in 'Lost in Yonkers', Grandma Tzeitel in 'Fiddler on the Roof', and the French maid in 'The Boyfriend' at the Players Theater. Her favorite role was as a psychiatrist in "The Burning" by Harold Wolfe at the Manatee Players Theater. She loves her scenes with Sarasota Actor's Workshop 1, 2, & 3 and with Eclectic Theater Company's Got-A-Minute? and working with Jeff Kin, Carole Kleinberg, Amanda Schlacter and all the talented actors. "How amazing to be part of 2 new theater groups!"
	David Coyle - Season 3 Dave sells Z-CoiLs by the seashore. He moved to Sarasota to open ha•bil•i•tate, a retail store where he sells this specialized Pain Relief Footwear™. Prior business background involved computer system development, management, and consulting in the San Francisco Bay area and in Dallas, Texas. Prior to Sarasota, he had taken a thirty-eight year break from the theatre: the acting he did during his Air Force days in Biloxi, Mississippi and at the Joe Jefferson Players in Mobile, Alabama. In January of this year, he reactivated his career and took a playwriting class from Jeffrey Kin at the Asolo Theater. One of those plays was selected for a reading by The Players Theatre’s “The Play’s the Thing” contest. Others of his plays are scheduled to be performed in Sarasota by SAW and the Eclectic Theatre Company.
	Mandy Elmore - Season 2 & 3 A starving actress in New York City, I made my way into the glamorous world of makeup artistry. Among the many avenues taken as an artist, famous faces and magazine spreads are my most treasured work. I’ve had the pleasure of the following roles: Sylvie in The Odd Couple, The Female Version, Maisey in Showboat, Aunt Vera in I Never Saw Another Butterfly, and Jane in Brigadoon. Here in Sarasota, I was in Season 2 of SAW, two roles Apples and Oranges and that fun counting one, and Miss September, (The Sex and the City One) with The gg Monologues. Looking forward to another season of SAW 3. I want to thank my husband, Jimmy, for always being so supportive in my life.
	Dean Glasel - Season 3 Dean has been involved in theatre both as a professional and as an amateur for over fifty years. Originally from Indianapolis, he and his wife, Darlene, along with their two Scotties, Adelaide and Nathan, live on St. Armands and consider life in Sarasota the best. Dean has been fortunate to have played such great roles as Julian in "42nd Street", Nathan in "Guys and Dolls", Tevye in "Fiddler", and Flan in "Six Degrees of Separation". Professionally, Dean is in the restaurant business in North and South Carolina. As an actor & director, Dean feels the emergence of SAW is the piece of the local theatrical picture that Sarasota, with all its professional theatres, has been missing, and he is proud to be a part of it.
	Jay Handelman - Season 3 Jay Handelman made his stage debut as Dopey in an elementary school production of "Snow White," (some might say he was typecast) and he continued to perform throughout high school. He even experienced the "actor’s nightmare" when he forgot why he was on stage during a junior high school production. You might get to witness a repeat performance. He studied with John Ulmer, the late artistic director of the Asolo Theatre Company, who may be credited with any success Jay may have on stage. Otherwise, you can blame his editor, who suggested he write a story about the acting experience for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, where he has been the theater critic since 1986. Jay is a past chairman of the American Theatre Critics Association and past president of its non-profit foundation. He was a 2006 fellow at the 2006 NEA Institute in Theater and Musical Theatre.
	Steve Ivester - Season 3 Steve recently moved back to Sarasota after spending four years in Iowa, Seattle and New York City. Last summer he appeared in the World Premiere of "Shore Points" at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan. (Stage Managed by his amazing, beautiful wife, Karin) He has been seen locally on most area stages, including the Asolo, Florida Studio Theatre, Venice Little Theatre and American Stage. He is very proud and grateful to be working with the talented and committed people you see here today. In his spare time Steve enjoys watching the Boston Red Sox on tv, playing golf, singing very bad karaoke and telemarketing.
	Robert Kantrowitz - Season 3 Robert Kantrowitz is proud to be part of SAW's third season. Robert enjoys being in front of the footlights. He has performed in such great hits as Zorba, Pirates of Penzance, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and West Side Story. Robert wants to thank all his fans for their continued support and encouragement.
	Pamela Karasy - Season 1, 2 & 3 Pam’s dream is to “give the small show a chance to make it big” so she started the online ticket company SRQ Box Office. Also, she makes handmade soap with her company of 7 yrs The Soap Sanctuary (hobby gone mad). She loves to act & perform improv comedy, film and voice-over work. She has been very happy to be part of SAW, Eclectic Theater Company, Women’s Theatre Collaborative, FST’s Improv troupes, The gg Monologues, and has produced and directed Chilly Willies Improv Troupe. Playwriting is a passion of hers. Its all good clean fun!
	Elaine Levin - Season 3 Since arriving in Sarasota three years ago, she has appeared in Murder at Café Noir at The Manatee Riverfront Theatre in Bradenton, This Day and Age, The Gingerbread Lady and Drinking Alone at the Lemon Bay Playhouse in Englewood; The Good Doctors, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, The World of Sholem Aleichem and three times at The Play’s The Thing, at The Players Theater in Sarasota; Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral at the Sarasota Quay and The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild at Venice Little Theatre in Venice. Elaine has studied with some of the top acting, improvisational and soap opera coaches in Los Angeles and with the famous Second City workshop in Chicago. Some of her favorite performances were in Butterflies are Free, Lovers and Other Strangers, Bell, Book and Candle and Same Time, Next Year. Her background also includes commercials, film, television, voice-overs and industrial films. Elaine is delighted to be performing in her first SAW production and hopes to do many more.
	Barry Look - Season 2 & 3 To play, Oh yes to play. Life is filled with harsh realities, which do little more than deaden the soul and keep our heads above water. I seek the simple pleasures that, quiet that dreary sound and set me free. Give everything you have to give and reap the reward of happiness. To live each day with caution for fear of being killed is in itself a death sentence. Throw caution to the wind and open the throttle, you may die tomorrow anyway. Live hard, die young and leave a good looking corpse.
	Julie Look - Season 2 & 3 Julie decided that all work and no play is no fun! Two years ago, she started taking acting classes with Amanda Schlachter and has become completely committed to nurturing her soul with this art form. She has performed in several showcases at the Player’s Theater, narrated a play reading, performed a live scene in conjunction with "Battered, Bruised and Broken" at the Sarasota Film Festival and is currently performing in "I never saw Another Butterfly" at the Player’s Theater. Julie feels honored to be a part of the SAW theater company. She has been excited about this program since seeing its’ first performance last fall. When Julie is not "playing", she and her husband own Golden Refrigerant, refrigerant recyclers, in Sarasota.
	Maclain Looper - Season 3
	Ted Mase - Season 3 Half way through is photography career Ted decided to get involved in another field full of rejection, pain, insecurity, moody people, and ego’s, along with brilliance, passion, talent, pride and creative fun. After a couple years of acting and improve classes at Players and FST, he knew he had found another crazy world to feed his creative soul. Having done a number of plays and improv shows locally, and the time he dreamt he was playing opposite, Hallie Berry in a remake of 9 ½ weeks, Ted is excited to be part of SAW for the first time.
	Michael McNees - Season 1 Michael has performed with the Naples Players where favorite roles included Dillard Nations in "Foxfire" and John Haddock in "Lips Together, Teeth Apart", and with The Players’ Theater of Sarasota as File in "The Rainmaker" and most recently in "Hello Dolly". He would like to credit the teaching of Kate Alexander and Tom Demenkoff at the Florida Studio Theatre.
	Lynn Means - Season 3 Lynn Means began her first 34 years of training for the stage by teaching junior high students. She used her secret identity as Marigold the Clown in magic shows and other events. After retiring from teaching, Lynn has gobbled up chances to learn and practice acting skills. She has performed in , The Good Doctor, show cases, Pillow Talk, The Arkansas Bear, The Glass Menagerie (scene2), Deadwood Dick, South Pacific in Concert, Rockin' Royal Christmas, Sarasota Film Festival Family Fair, Liar's Contest (Folk Art Fest of Venice), Poetry Night, Operation Mad Jackal, and other shows.
	Michael Morris - Season 3 Michael Morris is very proud to be a part of the third season of SAW. Michael recently appeared with Jeff Kin's, Eclectic Theater Company, in Got A Minute? to raise money for breast cancer awareness. Michael is scheduled to appear this November in Neil Simon's Odd Couple directed by Preston Boyd. He can also be seen in A.R. Gurney's Ancestral Voices, directed by Pam Wiley this December.
	Andrzej Mrotek - Season 3 Andrzej Mrotek, started his soon to be career as an actor at the age of two. Sitting behind the stage night after night he saw playing before him something that was not real and yet in many ways was more real then anything he'd ever known. It soon completely took him over dragging him into it's clutches, discovering and finding himself entering roles and characters that only acting would allow him to create. Inevitable he found himself working as an actor on various Movies and TV Shows in Los Angeles, including C.S.I. Las Vegas, 24 and Gilmore Girls. After four years in California pursuing his dream, Andrzej took what was supposed to be a short summer vacation to Florida to visit his family and... well... he's still here. Happy to be apart of SAW this year, Andrzej Mrotek hopes that you enjoy the hard work that has been put into this years production of, SAW.
	Sandra Musicante - Season 1, 2 & 3 Sandra Musicante moved to Florida in 1998 from Westport, Connecticut. She has studied theater in New York, Los Angeles and Sarasota. Sandra is a founding member of SAW (Sarasota Actors Workshop) and has appeared in their productions. Other appearances include: Woman from the Town for the West Coast Black Theater Troupe and the role of Bubbie in Crossing Delancey at the JCC and the premier production of Theatre Odyssey. Sandra and her husband Malcolm were married 35 years in August. They have one son, Ilya, who lives in Denver, Colorado.
	Patti O'berg - Season 3 Not exactly born in a trunk, but my grandmother Yetta was a wardrobe mistress in vaudeville and my aunt was a Las Vegas dancer. At five in a school play I slapped the toy soldier who kissed me. I got a laugh. The rest is history. I majored in theatre in college and I attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Married instead of appearing as Cordelia in LEAR at Mo rep. (My husband, Stuart Barger, has regretted that decision for 42 years!) I started Theatre Works with 5 dear friends. Appeared at TW, FST, Apple, VLT, Island, Sarasota, Manatee Players. Once in a life time thrill. Blanche in STREET CAR NAMED DESIRE.
	Joan O'Dwyer - Season 3 In addition to talking about herself in the third person, Joan O’Dwyer enjoys IMDBing for dead “Match Game” celebs and Wikipediaing for just about anything. A recent triumph was obtaining her MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin at the turn of the century. She lived there with her daughter Whitney; and, in addition to traveling and theatre-going, they had fun watching each other’s naturally curly hair pouff and spoinng in the Irish humidity. For two years thereafter Joan had her own theatre company in Tucson, Arizona -- Wilde Playhouse, eponymous with her second-fave playwright -- before moving to Sarasota in March, 2006. Her best-loved recent roles were Mom in "True West" and several characters from "The Laramie Project."
	Angel Parker - Season 2 & 3 Angel’s daytime career in banking is far removed from the artistic likes of theatre. As much as she enjoys her day job, she tries to keep at least one toe on the stage. Performing arts training includes: Florida Studio Theatre with Chris Friday and Rebecca Langford, Geoffrey Owens’ Shakespeare Lab, The Theatre Lab in D.C, and the University of Delaware. Recently, she’s been performing with FST’s Improv Troupe, and is very excited about her second season with Sarasota Actor’s Workshop.
	Rebecca Prozzo - Season 3 Thanks to the Sarasota County School Board, Rebecca performs daily to a full house of live hostages…eleventh grade English students! Kids clamor at the door to see her passionate interpretations of Whitman, Dickinson and Poe, to participate in the cleansing of poor sentence structure, and to tenderly apply the oh so-misbegotten semicolon! Before her teaching career, Rebecca was a part of Booker High School’s dynamic theatre program and was seen in Merrily We Roll Along, Cabaret, West Side Story, Annie, The Miracle Worker, and other skits, scenes, one acts and such sundries that she can’t even remember them all. Thrilled to be stoking her old love of the stage in SAW Season 3, Rebecca humbly asks that you don’t ask her to write a hall pass for the bathroom!
	Cliff Roles - Season 3 Since moving from Germany to Sarasota four years ago, the native Englishman has performed in Bells are Ringing and The Sound of Music at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, as well as Senator Wingwoah in the record-breaking Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Bratt in How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Manolakas in Zorba, Richard Topcliffe in WillmS and Bill Sykes in Oliver at the Players of Sarasota. He was recently seen offering audiences questionable legal advice as lawyer Simon Gutterman in the Manatee Players' production of Murder at Café Noir. As a founder member of Jeff Kin's Eclectic Theatre Company, he took part in the first Got A Minute? Festival at the Backlot in September. This February he had the pleasure of greeting children of all ages as Ringmaster of Circus Sarasota. His radio show Talk of the Suncoast, which goes out live every weekday from 2 to 3 pm on 1220 AM WIBQ, has also made him a popular Master of Ceremonies around town. And don't forget to catch his column every month in SCENE Magazine! Cliff is proud to be a member of SAW and would like to dedicate his performance to his mum Marjorie.
	Toni Ann Rossi - Season 3 Fairly new to Sarasota Toni moved here from Los Angeles where she gained the majority of her theatrical training. Toni has appeared on “Judging Amy”, the just Emmy® nominated….. “Scrubs”, “Life with Bonnie”, “Days of Our Lives”, etc… Toni has walked more Red Carpets than average LA actor. Having worked for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® she has attended the last 10 consecutive OSCARS®. Originally from Youngstown Ohio she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech & Theater. Now a full-time Sarasota Realtor and part-time actor Toni stated that the theater “rejuvenates her soul”. She has a passion for comedy writing & improvisation and has appeared at the Comedy Store and The Complex in Los Angeles with the hilarious Improv troop “Liquid, Shaken not Stirred”.
	Alan Schwartz - Season 2 & 3 “SAW- How unique! You can feel the energy…the electricity…the vitality…the talent and oh, yes the fun and I love it.” Alan, in Sarasota since 1996 is a professional recruiter by day and is actively pursuing his interest in theatre. Excited about the current opportunities with SAW he continues with his acting development. His training includes classes in advanced scene study with Amanda Schlachter and Devora Millman at the Asolo and Players theatres and Improv with Florida Studio (FST) and more recently, playwrighting with Jeffery Kinn at the Asolo. Alan, was in "The Plays the Thing" at the Players and has appeared in showcases locally in 2006 and the Players and Asolo theatres in 2004 and 2005. In December 2003, Lemon Bay Playhouse- Englewood, FL he performed in, The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder as Cousin Brandon.
	Beau Williams - Season 3
	David Zietz - Season 2 & 3 This is David's second appearance with the Sarasota Actor's Workshop and since last season, he has appeared in a commercial for Handbag Heaven as a handbag angel, as a racist reporter with the West Coast Black Theater Troupe's "Nobody" and is to appear in Theater Odyssey's "Crime of Passion" for the All Saint's Celebration. In addition, he teaches life skills and behavior modification techniques to some very special children at the GAP School/Thinking Center on Clark Road and is also an instructor at the East West College for Natural Medicine.

ACTORS - Company
	Jeffrey C. Anglin - Season 2 With his association with SAW, Mr. Anglin continues his 30-year infatuation with the stage. As a music major at Denison University, he participated in numerous productions, and performed with Kenley Players and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. In the 90’s, he served on the board of DeSoto Little Theater, where he appeared as Mr. Manningham in "Angel Street" and Mike in "Wait Until Dark." Most recently, he appeared (with Amanda Schlachter) in the Player’s Theater production of "Phoenix Park," written and directed by Jack Gilhooley. Mr. Anglin enjoys playing rakes, knaves and inebriates – roles for which he can draw from his considerable life experience.
	Tim Beasley - Season 1 Tim has lived in Sarasota for over eight years and is still waiting for the "nice" Florida weather. After several acting classes in college many years ago, Tim decided pursue other careers and opportunities that could actually pay his bills. He is thankful and extremely excited about to be involved with Sarasota Actors Workshop. Tim works in his spare time as an ER nurse and can also be seen on stage at FST where he is a member of the Improv Troupe.
	John Bohane - Season 1 & 2 After a long career as a business executive, John Bohane came to acting somewhat late in life and he is thoroughly enjoying exploring and developing the craft. He trained under the talented Tom Demenkoff at the Florida Studio Theater and has also worked with Geoffrey Owens who introduced him to the wonders of speaking Shakespeare. He is thrilled to be part of this exciting new theater company and working with such a talented group of actors. He lives with his wife, Linda, on Casey Key, Nokomis, and apart from acting he enjoys writing fiction and poetry and visiting with their seven children and ten grandchildren.
	Kristoff Bruno - Season 1 A native of Australia, Kristoff has studied at both the Australian Institute of Dramatic Arts and the Actors Centre Australia. Since moving to Florida, he has studied at FST under Tom Demenkoff and Kate Alexander. His experience ranges from television to theater and extensive work on feature films. Kristoff is proud to be a part of the Sarasota Actors Workshop and its effort to broaden the local theater scene.
	Estrella Engelhardt - Season 1 & 2 A resident of Sarasota since l983, she has appeared in various productions, including Company, Man of La Mancha, Hot-L Baltimore, El Grande de Coca Cola, Cabaret and Guys and Dolls (as Ms. Adelaide). In addition she's an accomplished International Folk-Dancer, Choreographer and dance teacher.
	Rick Hughes - Season 1 & 2 Acting up and acting out in grade school earned Rick the coveted "wastes time" & "does not work up to potential" honors for a record breaking three years in a row at Sunny Day Kindergarten & Glasgow Elementary. Theater credits: Sam in A Few Good Men, as well as, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Odd Couple and other standards. In recent years Rick has studied improv and acting at Florida Studio Theater, acting with Devora Millman at the Asolo and Shakespeare and scene study with Geoffrey Owens.
	Dana Inouye - Season 2 Born in Israel, and raised in Vancouver, Dana has developed her actor training on both sides of the Atlantic, having studied classical acting at London Academy of Performing Arts, and trained in New York at various studios including T. Schreiber, Stella Adler, Caymichael Patten, and Atlantic Theater Company. Always trying to marry the intellect with the creative spirit, Dana comes from an academic background in Modern Hebrew Literature, and is also a dancer with a stylistic emphasis in hip-hop, street jazz, and video dance. Dana is new to Sarasota and is thrilled to be a part of Sarasota Actors Workshop!
	Michael Krempel - Season 1 Michael is currently a stylist at a local salon and spa and has always had the passion and love for acting. His career began at the age of 11 performing Elvis at the end of his mom and dads bed. After having a child and becoming a single parent he decided to get back to the art of acting. He has trained under Dana from Florida Studio Theater (stage presence), Patrick cherry Workshop (cold reading), Herb Mandell (commercial workshop), and Turnbull Productions (camera techniques). His son is still his main act!
	Margaret McGinnis - Season 1 Peg was formally a medical professional and behavioral therapist. She has studied art at the Ringling School of Art and Design; and acting with Thomas Demenkoff and Chris Friday at the Florida Studio Theatre. She is an ardent devotee of American literature and, together with her husband, is presently co-authoring a set of fourteen short stories entitled "Fourteenth Street". The 2004 appearance with SAW was her acting debut.
	Liz Robertson - Season 1 FST workshops – Fear and Loathing on the Nile, Spreading the Word, Sleeping Girl. She became a member of SAW to join fellow actors in a shared vision of creating a new forward thinking theater company Having a forum like this to create and express outside the box and bring new material to our Sarasota audiences is what it is all about.
	Valerie Sutter - Season 1 When does acting really begin? Eldest sibling, teacher, linguist, single parent, dancer, innocent abroad, world traveler, Valerie has been acting in several roles all her life. She first engaged in amateur theater in Rio de Janeiro; in Sarasota, she studied Monologues under Tom Demenkoff. Seeking a venue for the schizophrenic parts of her life, Valerie finds fascination in creating and recreating the drama of others.
	Daniel Tremblay - Season 1 & 2 Daniel is originally from Quebec city, in the French part of Canada. He moved to California when he was nineteen to pursue a career in acting but quickly realized that in Hollywood people spoke English so, instead he began a career in tourism that took him around the world and taught him English as well. He has been in Sarasota for three years now and has been a member of the FST Improv Troup as well as the proud actor of the SAW. Oh, he also owns GreenEarthHomeCleaning.com.
	Lisa Wartenberg - Season 1 Lisa is currently a first-year student at New College of Florida. She has appeared in several regional productions, including, "The House of Bernarda Alba" (Adela), "Voices 2000" (Ashley), as well as television spots and has competed in numerous events in the Florida State Thespian Conventions (2002-2004). Production credits include, "Bye, Bye Birdie" (Assistant Director), "Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" (Sound Technician), and "Murder in the Air" (Scenic Artist). This is her first Sarasota Actors' Workshop production and is absolutely thrilled to join this talented, dynamic group of fabulous artists.

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