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Lorne Batman
Lorne Batman is thrilled to be making her URT debut. Recent credits include Helena in A Midsummer NIght’s Dream and Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (New Rep’s CRC), Sarah/Actor 5 in We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… (Company One/ArtsEmerson), and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Arts After Hours). Lorne studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and holds a BFA in acting from Boston University.
Amar Srivastava
Amar Srivastava is originally from Burlington MA. He now lives in NYC. A Disappearing Number is his first appearance in Boston in seven years. NYC: Alphabet City X (Metropolitan Playhouse), A Little Betrayal Among Friends (Airmid Theatre Company), Antony & Cleopatra (Take Wing and Soar Productions), Chaos Theory (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Moose Hall Theatre Company), and Coriolanus (Judith Shakespeare Company). Regional: Speaking In Tongues (ThisWay Productions), Ritu Comes Home (InterAct Theatre), A View From The Bridge (TheatreZone), The Educated (The A&P Plus D Theatre), Hamlet (The Theatre Cooperative), Deathwatch (Will Act For Food), Tooth & Claw (Zeitgeist Stage Company), Olly’s Prison directed by Robert Woodruff (American Repertory Theatre), Homebody/Kabul (Boston Theatre Works), and As You Like It (Sun-Runner Classics).
Seaghan McKay
Seaghan McKay† Selected designs include The Flying Dutchman (Boston Lyric Opera); Gershwin Spectacular: Promenade (The Boston Pops); Educating Rita (The Huntington Theatre Company); Carrie: The Musical, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Make Up Your Mind,” Next To Normal, Nine, Striking 12, [title of show], Jerry Springer: The Opera (SpeakEasy Stage Company); On The Town [IRNE Nomination], Big River (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Memory House (Merrimack Repertory Theater); 27 Tips for Banishing The Blues (Sleeping Weazel); Merrily We Roll Along, Rent (The Boston Conservatory); Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Light Up The Sky (Emerson Stage); 365 Days / 365 Plays, Beyond The Boundaries, Hecuba, and As You Like It (Brandeis Theater Company). He is a member of United Scenic Artists, IATSE Local USA 829. SeaghanMcKay.com.
Elaine Vaan Hogue
Elaine Vaan Hogue is a director, actor, and teacher. Elaine is thrilled to be directing with URT this season. Last spring she co-curated the inaugural Next Rep Festival of new work at New Rep. Regional directing credits include Imagining Madoff (Elliot Norton nominee for Outstanding Production) and The Kite Runner (New Rep); Metamorphosis (Boston Center for American Performance); Walking the Volcano (BCAP/BPT); Crave (The Nora); Thin Air: Tales from a Revolution (Kansas City); Infinity’s House (Majestic Theatre); Fen (New Theatre); The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, The Other Shore, Angels in America, Three Sisters, Pains of Youth, Polaroid Stories, Marisol, The Penelopiad, Execution of Justice, and Lizzie Stranton, and many others (Boston University). As an actor she has most recently performed in The Road to Mecca (BCAP), Creation: Mythic Weavings (Women on Top & Magdalena USA), and When Jennie Goes Marching (Olney Theatre & Spontaneous Celebrations). She is a member of the Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theatre, and is a participant in an international cyber performance group, collaborating in All the Better To See You With (Odin Teatret); MagFest KISS (Amsterdam); and Transhackfeminist UpStage Jam (Eclectic Tech Carnival). Ms. Vaan Hogue serves as Program Head of Theater Arts at Boston University. Spring 2015, she will direct The Amish Project at New Rep. Originally from Los Angeles, she resides in Central Massachusetts.