Tod Randolph has been a member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, since 1991. Her roles there include Cassandra Speaks (Dorothy Thompson), As You Like It (Jaques), Richard III (Queen Elizabeth), Enchanted April (Rose), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), Vita & Virginia (Virginia), King Lear (Goneril), The Merchant of Venice (Portia), The Fiery Rain (Edith Wharton), Mrs. Klein (Melitta), Virginia (title role), Duet for One (Stephanie), Twelfth Night (Viola), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice). New York and regional: The Libertine (Theatre Row Theatre), Cymbeline (Holderness Group), Xingu and The Inner House (Wharton Salon), in light of Jane (Mixed Company), Blue Moons (Stageworks/Hudson), Beauty Queen of Leenane (Syracuse Stage), Othello (Portland Stage), The Winter’s Tale (Trinity Rep). Film: Infinitely Polar Bear, starring Mark Ruffalo, to be released in 2014.
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Steph Paylor
Steph Paylor is a recent graduate from Westfield State University. She is extremely excited that Absurd Person Singular is her first professional show and is absolutely thrilled to work with such a talented group of people. Her previous stage management credits include An Oresteia, The Deputy, Hamlet, Julius Caesar and The Seagull. Steph would also like to thank her parents for all of the undying love and support they have given her. She truly does not know where she would be without them.
Erika Bailey
Erika Bailey is a professional dialect coach and the head of voice and speech or the MFA Acting program at University of Missouri—Kansas City. As a dialect coach she has worked at the McCarter Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre and regularly for the Kansas City Repertory Theatre where she has coached Cabaret, Syringa Tree, Christmas Carol and Bus Stop among other projects. She also coached the Tony-nominated production of Mary Stuart on Broadway. She received an MFA from Brandeis and an MA in Voice Studies from Central School of Speech and Drama.
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn This year marks Mr. Ayckbourn’s 52nd year as a theatre director and his 54th as a playwright. He has spent his life in theatre, rarely if ever tempted by television or film, which perhaps explains why he continues to be so prolific. To date he has written 77 plays and his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world and has won countless awards. Major successes include: Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval and The Norman Conquests. The National Theatre recently revived his 1980 play Season’s Greetings to great acclaim and the past year alone has seen West End productions of Absent Friends and A Chorus Of Disapproval. In 2009, he retired as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged. Holding the post for 37 years, he still feels that perhaps his greatest achievement was the establishment of this company’s first permanent home when the two auditoria complex fashioned from a former Odeon Cinema opened in 1996. In recent years, he has been inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame, received the 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts and become the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre.
Bill Mootos*
Bill Mootos* he/him (Rick Pepperberg and Howard Towers) is delighted to return in a wonderful new play to Central Square Theater, where he appeared in The Hound of the Baskervilles and Absurd Person Singular. Recent theater credits include Trouble in Mind and The Little Foxes with Lyric Stage Company; Clue with Greater Boston Stage Company; Bud, Not Buddy at Wheelock Family Theatre; Race at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; Mothers and Sons with Shakespeare & Company; Shear Madness at Ivoryton Playhouse; and Baskerville with The Barnstormers Theatre Company. Other credits include productions with Boston Playwrights Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, New Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Gloucester Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, and many others. He has appeared in many feature films, most recently the Oscar-nominated The Holdovers (now on Peacock), Boston Strangler, Don’t Look Up, Castle Rock, Little Women, and Daddy’s Home 2. He is a proud AEA & SAG-AFTRA member, and the recipient of 2 IRNE Awards for best actor. Bill can next be seen in Dial M for Murder at Greater Boston Stage Company.