CASEY FORD ALEXANDER (Guest Artist) is happy to be a part of Urinetown. May 2008 to October 2008, he played Simon and Will in both the World Premiere of COLLEGE The Musical at the Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, FL and Off-Broadway as part of the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival, respectively.  COLLEGE The Musical premiered at Theatre Intime in April 2006.  Notable Theater: World Premiere of Andrew Lippa’s A Little Princess (dir. Susan H. Schulman, TheatreWorks [Silicon Valley]), The Snow Queen (dir. Patricia Birch, Prince Music Theater). First Equity Production: Showboat (1998).  Favorite Roles: Peter in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (dir. Ben Levit, Prince Music Theater), Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet (dir. Jed Peterson, McCarter Theatre), Todd in Swimming Upstream (dir. Marlo Hunter). Opera: La Croisade des Enfants (Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center), Pique Dame (Kennedy Center). TV: Greek (airing Summer 2009), Law & Order, Queens Supreme.  Host: mtvU’s The Freshman, Nick News.  Film: Couples Retreat (Fall 2009).  Member: Actors’ Equity (since age 14), Screen Actors Guild, Princeton Triangle Club, Politics Department.

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HANNAH BARUNDIN (Guest Artist) is a rising senior at Princeton University, where she is pursuing an Engineering degree in Computer Science as well as a certificate in Theater & Dance. In addition to shows with T&D, she has performed with the Princeton Triangle Club, Princeton University Players and Princeton Shakespeare Company. Hannah has traveled all the way from northern New Jersey to join the ranks of PST, and she is excited to be a part of PST!

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SARA ASHLEY BISCHOFF (Company Member) graduated from Princeton in June.  She was a Comparative Literature major with certificates in Creative Writing and Theater & Dance.  Originally from San Diego, she has acted since she was six in regional and community theatre, film and TV, and has directed since high school (for one of her senior theses, she directed both parts of Angels in America).  Next year, she will move to New York to pursue a career as a director.  So much love and thanks to friends, family, and the wonderful PST team.

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LILEANA BLAIN - CRUZ (Guest Artist) is a New York City based director. She recently assistant directed Bartlett Sher on the Broadway revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. This will be her third production at PST, where she directed An Inspector Calls and Bell Book and Candle. Lileana's work has been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre Company, The Goodman, Gala Hispanic Theatre, The African Continuum Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth, and the Atlas Performing Arts Center. She is the Artistic Associate of The Exchange & The Orchard Project, a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and was the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage in Washington DC. She graduated from Princeton in 2006 and will attend the Yale School of Drama for directing in the fall.

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SPENCER CASE (Guest Artist) just graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English.  Originally from Los Angeles, he has performed at Princeton in the Princeton Nassoons, an all male a cappella group, with the Princeton Triangle Club, and the Princeton University Players.

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TYLER CROSBY (Company Member) is a recent graduate of Princeton University where he received a degree in Visual Arts with a certificate in theater. He is back for his second season with PST and could not be more fired up. After this summer, he plans on moving back to his homeland, Long Beach, California, and working hard to become a professional actor. He might have the heart of a starving artist, but his stomach would prefer to eat.

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RYAN CURTIS (Guest Artist) happily returns to the Hamilton Murray Stage having appeared as Bill in The Star last summer.  Ryan has enjoyed a great year in the entertainment industry thus far, on both on stage and film.  He is an alumni of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Acting in New York City under James Brill and a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2007.  Ryan would like to thank all of the members of PST for a great show and his family and friends for all their support.  Enjoy!

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KELVIN DINKINS (Guest Artist) was raised in Atlanta, GA and is interested in performance, playwrighting, and directing.  Kelvin is returning to PST, formerly the Business Manager, but this time on the stage.  Kelvin is a graduating senior from Princeton’s Class of 2009 in the English Department: Track 5 (Theater) and has a Certificate in Theater & Dance.  Kelvin has recently appeared in the T&D production of Othello, Princeton Shakespeare Company’s Merchant of Venice, The Bedbug (voice) and this year’s Princeton Triangle show, Stark Raven Mad.  Other Triangle Credits include: Excess Hollywood, The Impotence of Being Earnest, Heist Almighty!, The Devil Wears Nada, & A Turnpike Runs Through It.  Theater & Dance: Romeo and Juliet & Old Ship of Zion.  PUP: Parade, Myths & Hymns, and, most recently, book writer/director of Orpheus Waking, a new musical. After graduation, Kelvin plans to pursue a career in Producing for the stage and, hopefully, staying bossy in the process.

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SHAWN FENNELL (Artistic Director) is a rising senior at Princeton University, pursuing a degree in Comparative Literature with a Certificate in Theater & Dance. Shawn enjoyed himself thoroughly as a full time company member with PST 2009, and he’s exhilarated by the opportunity to serve as this season’s Artistic Director. At Princeton, he’s found himself working in all aspects of the theater – he’s been a set designer on three shows, a sound designer on two, and a lighting designer on four. He’s written four ten-minute plays as well as a full-length musical, Hey Boy Wonder! The Other Adventures of Ultraman!, which premiered in April 2009. He’s acted in fifteen shows and directed three, and has served on the Theater Intime board as Media Manager, Community Programming Director, and Production Manager.

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JON FEYER (Guest Artist) Jon Feyer is a recent Princeton graduate from San Francisco.

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MITCH FRANK (Assistant Technical Director) is a playwright, technician, and dogwalker based in New York City.  His plays have received readings and productions at theaters in Baltimore, Cleveland, and New York.  He's thrilled to return as PST's assistant technical director, and looks forward to directing the company's third show, No Time For Comedy.

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ALLEN GRIMM (Technical Director) is proud to be working with Princeton Summer Theater for his third season, serving both as Technical Director and principal production designer. Over the last ten years, Allen has worked as a technician for Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage and Theater J, and has designed for countless other regional companies, including Longacre Lea, Studio Second Stage, and Interact Theater Company.

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LAURA HANKIN (Part-Time Company Member) is a rising senior at Princeton University, where she is majoring in psychology with a certificate in the theater program. She is originally from Washington D.C. Last summer, she played Thomasina in PST's production of Arcadia, and she's excited to be back for this year's season!

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PATRICK HARVEY (Company Member) has been extremely grateful to be a part of this excellent company. This is his first summer at PST, and he hopes it won't be his last. A native of Seattle, Washington, Patrick will be a junior at New York University this fall, where he is a drama student at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Previous credits at NYU include Skelly in The Rimers of Eldritch, Marat in Marat/Sade, Harry in Lucky Stiff and Jerry in Samuel Beckett's All That Fall.

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BILLY HEPFINGER (Company Member) is exstatic to be here in Princeton acting for the summer, where he is a rising senior in the Department of Comparative Literature. He has appeared in over a dozen productions at Princeton, including PUP’s Assassins (Booth) and tick…tick…BOOM! (Michael) and Intime’s Boy Gets Girl (Mercer), and he is also a member of the Triange Club and sings with the Princeton Nassoons.

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HARRISON HILL (Guest Artist) hails from Charlottesville, Virginia, and is a theater student at NYU/Tisch. Favorite credits include the world premiere of Rob Ackerman's Icarus of Ohio and A Map of the World directed by Robert Moss.

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COURTNEY ELYSE JONES (Production Stage Manager) hails from Southern California and misses the weather. She is a recent Princeton graduate and majored in Philosophy with a Certificate in Theater & Dance. This year she has stage managed Princeton’s T&D program’s senior thesis productions of Amezidi, The Beat is Sweet, and Othello. She has also stage managed over a dozen mainstage shows produced by Theater Intime and ICI Media. Her love of Theater and her philosophy background have driver her to pursue a career in entertainment law and production. She wants to express her extreme gratitude to the Princeton Summer Theater Company and the greater theater community.

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DOUGLAS LAVANTURE (Publicity Director) is very excited to be a new addition to Princeton Summer Theater. He recently graduated from Princeton University, majoring in English with a Certificate in Theater & Dance and East Asian Studies. In March 2008, he directed his senior thesis production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl on the Berlind stage at the McCarter Theater Center. In the summer of 2008, he was the Artistic Intern at the prestigious Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago. He will spend the next two years teaching English in the small town of Haboro in northern Japan.

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SOPHIE MAEROWITZ (Guest Artist) is a proud Brooklyn native and a third year student at Stella Adler Studio as part of NYU’s Tisch BFA program. She most recently composed music and acted in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses at Adler. She is a member of a new NYC based company, Quarter to 9ine Productions. Off-off Broadway: Caesar and Cleopatra (dir. Kent Paul), Resonance Ensemble’s Staged Reading Series at Theatre Row (dir. Eric Parness), Ruby’s Story at 13th St. Rep (dir. Miles Lott) and readings with Circle East Rep. Sophie is in the process of recording her first album, and is part of the acoustic folk rock group Feste. Check out her solo recording.

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SARAH OUTHWAITE (Publicity Director) graduated from Princeton University this spring with a degree in Comparative Literature and the first double certificate in both Theater and Dance. As a director-choreographer she most recently created Flammentangel Kabarett for the Matthews Acting Studio, and Signal and Noise for the Berlind stage. In the summer of 2008 she assisted and performed with Shakespeare's Wild Sisters and Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center. She has been a board member and graphic designer for the New York based Extant Arts Company, and designed and built the PST2009 website. This autumn she travels to Cambodia to continue creating work and to seek adventure.

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ALEXIS RODDA (Guest Artist) has performed with the Princeton Triangle Club (Stark Raven Mad and A Turnpike Runs Through It). She recently appear as Penelope in the opera The Return of Ulysses with the Princeton Music Department. She also has performed with the Princeton University Players in Sex on Broadway and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Domina). She takes voice lessons at Westminster with Nancy Froysland-Hoerl and is pursuing a certificate in Music Performance for classical voice.

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MAX ROSMARIN (Guest Artist) is a rising junior at Princeton University, majoring in mathematics. This summer, besides his work with Princeton Summer Theater, he is spending a month in South Kingston, R.I., for the start of the Courthouse Theater Company's first full season. His next project will be a role as Hal in Theatre Intime's production of Proof in September.

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ARIEL SIBERT (Part-Time Company Member) is excited to act and get paid for it, for the first time, here at Princeton Summer Theater. Most recently, she appeared as Lenora in God’s Ear at 185 Nassau St. and in board member Sarah Outhwaite’s thesis production, Flammentangel Kabarett, as Blandi. After the summer ends, you can still find Ariel, sophomore at Princeton and a Theatre Intime board member, right here at the Hamilton Murray Theater.

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OLIVIA STOKER (Guest Artist) Princeton Class of 2011, is thrilled to play her dream role with Soupy Sue. She is an Italian Major with certificates in Theater and Jazz Vocal Performance. She spent last semester studying at LAMDA. Previous Princeton shows include Orange Woman, Troy: After and Before, and Flamentangel Kabarett.

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ABIGAIL SPARROW (Guest Artist) is excited to be performing at Princeton Summer Theatre. Currently she is an NYU Drama Major at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. She is the oldest of four sisters. A Chicago native recently relocated to outside Philadelphia, credits include Les Miserables, Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia),  Scrooge: The Musical (National Tour),  Circle of Friends: An American Girl Musical, American Girl Theatre (Chicago), The Sound of Music, Light Opera Works (Chicago), Live B.I.G, United Methodist Communications, and Annie Get Your Gun, Marriott Lincolnshire.

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AARON STRAND (Company Member) is a rising 3rd year at the Stella Adler School of Acting and is returning for his second season at PST. Aaron enjoys various soups and vick's vapo-rub. His hobbies include hunting/gathering. He likes long walks (but not on beaches).

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MAGGIE TOMINEY (Company Manager) is a rising junior at the University of Texas at Austin and will earn a BFA in Theatre Studies. She has worked as a lighting designer on several Department of Theatre and Dance shows and was the Assistant Production Manager of the “Directing the Young Performer Festival.” She is the Production Manager for the Round About Players, a guild on campus aimed at making theatre accessible to all students. She interned with Princeton Summer Theater for the past two seasons. In 2008 she was given the title of Children’s Programming Director and will continue that role this season.

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PETER WALKINGSHAW (Executive Director) is currently a Junior in the History Department at the University, focusing primarily on the study of the Cold War. During the academic year he spends his time acting in various shows, writing for the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and acting as the General Manager of Theatre Intime.

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RACHEN WETINSKY (Guest Artist) a graduate of Princeton High School, is more than pleased that after moving to the big city to become a star, she is now back in Princeton making her professional debut.  Rachel is a rising Junior at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studies at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.  She is exceptionally excited to be a part of Princeton Summer Theatre, doing her what she loves best, and living near her dogs.

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