John Kooi recently completed filming on Labor Day with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin scheduled for release later this year.  Regional theater credits include The Company We Keep (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); A Moon For The Misbegotten, Dinah Was, As You Like It and Betrayal (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Hamlet (The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Romance and Danny Casolaro Died For You (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Take Me Out (Worcester Foothills Theatre Company); The Glass Menagerie and The Woman In Black (Shadowland Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (The Cleveland Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin conducting); Beyond Therapy (Long Beach Playhouse) and Much Ado About Nothing (Pasadena Shakespeare Company).  Among his New York theater credits are Othello (John Montgomery Theatre Company); Twelfth Night (The Actors’ Company Theatre); Bedroom Farce (Odyssey Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Metropolitan Playhouse of New York).  John has a B.A. from St. John’s University (Minnesota) and an M.F.A. from Brandeis University.

Kendall Hodder is making his Nora Theatre Company debut with this production. He is particularly pleased to add the role of Erich Bagge to the list of his portrayals of WWII-era European intellectuals, having recently played Alan Turing in Breaking the Code and Mr. Dussel in The Diary of Anne Frank. Other favorite roles include The Baker in Into the Woods, Young Kipps/Actor in The Woman in Black, and Father Flynn in Doubt. Kendall has appeared in productions with North Shore Music Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, NextDoor Theatre, the Quannapowitt Players, and various other stages in the area. He would like to thank Andy and Mimi for the opportunity to be a part of the Operation Epsilon company.

Owen Doyle performed with The Nora Theatre Company last season as Wilkins in Photograph 51 and previously in The Man Who. Other roles include Frank Lubey in All My Sons (Huntington Theatre), Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric Stage Company), George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, Simon in A Young Lady From Rwanda (Stoneham Theatre), The Old Man in A Christmas Story, Doc in Mister Roberts, Freddy in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (New Repertory Theatre), Tarleton in Misalliance, and the Friar in Romeo and Juliet (Publick Theatre). He has also performed with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Foothills Theatre, and Underground Railway Theater. His training includes work at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris as well as dramaturgy at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.

Ken Baltin CST credits include The Fever Chart and The Loudest Voice (URT); and The Cherry Orchard (The Nora). 2012-13: The Screenwriter’s Daughter (Vineyard Playhouse), The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), and The Sussman Variations (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). Recent credits include Deported/A Dream Play, King of the Jews, and Permanent Whole Life (BPT); Cymbeline (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Gloucester Stage Company); Eurydice (New Rep); Copenhagen (Vineyard Playhouse); and Arms and the Man (Lyric Stage). Other Boston credits: Waiting for Godot, Twelfth Night, American Buffalo, and others (New Rep); Glengarry Glen Ross, Lost in Yonkers, Laughter on the Twenty-Third Floor, and Shakespeare in Hollywood (Lyric Stage); Art, Over the Tavern, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Speed-the-Plow, Oleanna, The Illusion, and others (Merrimack Rep); The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Beau Jest, Yom Kippur at Danang, and others (Jewish Theatre of NE). Ken is on the acting faculty at The Boston Conservatory.

Diego Arciniegas* (Galileo, et al.) is a Colombian-American actor, director, and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts.  Current role with WAM: Galileo et al. WAM Theatre: debut Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: Opera:  El Duende in Maria de Buenos Aires, (Gotham Chamber Opera, NYC).  Theatre:  Charles Babbage in Ada and the Engine, Werner Heisenberg in Operation Epsilon (Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA), Firenzuola et al. in Two Men of Florence, Father di Leo in The Rose Tattoo, and Hunk in Dead End (Huntington Theatre, Boston, MA), Voltaire in Legacy of Light, Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband, Valère in The Miser, Nicky Lancaster in The Vortex, Lady Enid, et al., in The Mystery of Irma Vep, Harry Trench in Widower’s Houses, and Morris Townsend in The Heiress (Lyric Stage Company of Boston), Vanya in Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike (Gloucester Stage Company), Hamlet in Hamlet, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Malvolio in Twelfth Night at The Publick Theatre, Boston. Additional artistic credits: Artistic Director, Publick Theatre Boston (2001 – 2011), Director: Private Lives (Gloucester Stage Company), From Orchids to Octopii (Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA) Creative inspiration: Performance led to directing, which led to teaching, which reminds one constantly of what is essential in performance, and, boy, does one need constant reminding! Membership/Affiliations: Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, American Association of University Professors, Wellesley Organized Academic Workers-UAW, . Selected training:  Williams College, B.A., British and European Studies Group London (B.E.S.G.L.) Awards/proudest achievements: Eliot Norton Award: Mozart in Amadeus (Merrimack Rep), The Skinhead in God’s Country (Merrimack Rep), Eliot Norton Nomination: Thom Pain in Thom Pain, director of White People (New Repertory Theatre) IRNE Award:  Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (New Repertory Theatre), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Publick Theatre Boston), Heisenberg in Operation Epsilon (Ensemble Award – Central Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA) IRNE Nomination: Bernie/Martin in Some Men, (Speakeasy Stage Company, Boston, MA) Final word: Diego has held an academic appointment at Wellesley College since 1996, where he still serves as Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies.  His essay, ‘Retracing Antonio:  In Search of the Merchant of Venice’, was published in Shakespeare’s Sense of Character, On the Page and from the Stage,(2012).