Currently, Andrew is the Associate Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Theater Festival as well as a local teacher and theatrical director. Prior to working with Great Lakes, he was the artistic associate at The Cleveland Play House. Winner of Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for acting for his portrayal of Will Shakespeare in A Cry of Players, Mr. May was also artistic director of Chicago's Free Shakespeare Company, and a member of Stuart Gordon's Organic Theatre Co. He has performed at numerous theatres across the country including Wisdom Bridge, Studio Arena, Goodman and Victory Gardens, to name a few. This 2007-08 season he will be seen in Arsenic and Old Lace and as Angelo in Measure for Measure during the Festival’s Fall Repertory. After staging A Christmas Carol, he will undertake the role of John Proctor in The Crucible. Andrew’s many stage credits include: Hamlet, Tartuffe, Private Lives, Trudy, Blue Art, Cyrano, The Guardsman, The Infinite Regress of Human Vanity, A Small Family Business, A Dream Play, Seascape, Twelve Angry Men, Force of Nature, The Maiand &The General from America.

JACK HOURIGAN  (as SUZIE AUSTIN) Jack Hourigan, along with Andrea Bain and Christine Diakos, hosts Three Takes, airing weekdays at 8am, 12, 6pm on SLICE NETWORK™. Jack spent nine years hosting for a variety of television networks including national shows How to Boil Water with Chef Tyler Florence on THE FOOD NETWORK, and the DIY NETWORK TV design series Ready as She Grows. Jack has also appeared in The Mothman Prophecies, The Line of Masculinity and the indi hit American Splendor starring Paul Giamatti.

When Jack’s not writing for and appearing in Second City shows, or hosting various television programs in both the
U.S. and Canada, she’s at home with her family. Her son Spencer (11), dog Osgoode (who she considers her “middle child”), and male cat Kathleen (the “baby” of the family) keep her on her toes as mom, mediator, maid, chef, driver, and groomer… whew…

HELEN WELCH

HELEN WELCH (as RACHEL HENDERSON)  is a songwriter, musician, actress and lead vocalist. Helen began her career in theatre performing on Broadway in SMOKY JOE’S CAFE. Other credits include principal roles in HELLO DOLLY, BARNUM, 42nd STREET, OLIVER TWIST, CALAMITY JANE, SHOW BOAT and CAROUSEL. She represented England in the Irish International Song Contest, winning Best Female Vocalist and Best Song. Helen found her niche with some of Britain's leading orchestras including the BBC Big Band and Opus One. Now an Ohio resident, Helen is continuing her singing and acting career. Helen sang with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and performs regularly at Cleveland’s top jazz clubs. In September 2005, she debuted her One Woman Show "FEVER" at the Carousel with the seventeen piece orchestra Dave Banks Big Band to an enthusiastic sellout audience. Due to the success of FEVER Helen has developed four more exciting shows entitled: "Magical Nights with Helen Welch". Helen has just released a new CD entitled "One Dream". Learn more at: www.helenwelch.com

LAUREN DOWDEN (as KAREN) Lauren was recently part of the The Second City - Las Vegas company. Before that, she spent a year in Cleveland working with Second City - Cleveland, where she was part of the ensemble that performed and wrote "Who's Yer Bagdhadi?" and "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Weapons of Mass Destruction". She also spent two years with Boom Chicago in Amsterdam where she performed and wrote two shows with that company of actors. She also toured those shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Lauren's other favorite credits include: The Miracle Worker (Meadowbrook Theater), Crimes of the Heart (Meadowbrook Theater), The Maids (NYC), Cloud (NYC), and Dancing at Lughnasa which toured to the John F. Kennedy Center.

TRACEY FIELD(as TOOTSIE) has recently played Dottie in "THE SWEEPERS" with Ensemble Theatre at the Cleveland Play House. Previously she appeared at The Cleveland Play House in The Next Stage Festival’s production of V-E DAY.  At Dobama Theatre she has performed in THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, MORTALS, MONKEYS & MAYFLIES, KIMBERLY AKIMBO and THE MAI. Other Cleveland roles include Ellen / Mrs. Saunders / Betty in CLOUD 9 (Bad Epitaph), Berthe Morisot in EIGHT IMPRESSIONS OF A LUNATIC (Red Hen Productions) and THE WILD DUCK at The Great Lakes Theatre Festival.

ROBERT HAWKES (as COL. PICKERLING) is well-known to Cleveland area theatre-goers since the early 80's, when he received Special Commendation from the Cleveland Critics' Circle (no longer extant) for his work as Mr Zero in "The Adding Machine" and as Lee in "True West" - both at Dobama Theatre, where he has appeared in more than a dozen productions. His own particular favorite roles, however, have been Frank in "Faith Healer" at Chagrin Falls's River St Playhouse, and Robert in "Betrayal" at the Eldred Company. In 2001, he emerged from a nine-year retirement to direct his son as Vladimir in "Waiting for Godot", playing Pozzo himself.