Helen Hy-Yuen Swanson, she/her (The Angel) is excited to be back at CST with Bedlam for Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika after last spring’s Millennium Approaches. Select credits include: Black Super Hero Magic Mama (Company One/American Repertory Theatre); Dance Nation (theatre KAPOW); Hindsight 2020 (Those Women Productions); Yellow Face (O.W.I. Bureau of Theatre); The Draft (Hibernian Hall; ArtsImpulse Award Best Ensemble Winner); As You Like (Shakespeare’s Globe/Royal Conservatoire); The Witch of Edmonton, Three Sisters, and Blackout (Royal Conservatoire). Helen is an actor and violinist with an MA in Acting from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, a Shakespeare’s Globe Residency, and training at the Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Boston. AEA-EMC/SAG-AFTRA-E. @thehelenswanson. HelenSwanson.com

Zach Fike Hodges*, he/they (Louis Ironson) Zach returns to CST after opening Part One: Millennium Approaches last spring. This summer, he was featured in the world premiere of Jonathan Larson’s RENT in Concert alongside the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. International: The Censor (Hannah Khalil/London); non tutti i ladri vengono per nuocere (Dario Fo/Rome); Three Sisters (devised, Moscow) Off Broadway: Public Enemy (Pearl Theatre Co.); Paradiso: Chapter 1 Regional:Riddle of the Trilobites (CollaborationTown/Flint Rep); Twelfth Night, world premieres of The Book of Will and Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival) NYC: Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Acting Company); Leonce and Lena, Electra (Two Headed Rep); #SERIALS (The Flea) Film: A Fine Line. Zach’s one-person adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening premiered off-Broadway as part of the United Solo Festival in 2016. Readings and workshops with Playwrights’ Center, Clubbed Thumb, National Black Theatre, New Georges, The Fire This Time Festival, The New Wild, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The Brick, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Directing credits include Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Chinatown Soup), {POE} Concept Album with The Culprits, and assistant to Eliza Baldi on John Christopher Jones’ Three Sisters. In addition to his work as an actor, Zach is a passionate teaching artist on staff at New York Theatre Workshop and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. He chairs the Drama Department of the Academy summer program at The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, where he also teaches acting. Training: MA Acting – Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BA – Fordham Theatre Program/Moscow Art Theatre School. Love to my beautiful family and friends, and a very special thank you to Tony Kushner for your words and for prophesying my playing this role a decade ago. For OPD + sdh ZFHodges.com  @zfike

Kari Buckley*  (Harper Pitt) is delighted to return to Central Square after making her CST/Bedlam debut in Part 1 of this astonishing play. Most recently, Kari played Mimi in the New England premiere of Is Edward Snowden Single? with Bardo Theatre Company at The Players’ Ring. Other favorite roles include Callie in Stop Kiss, Nora in A Doll’s House, and Mandy in Time Stands Still. Kari is also in a Lifetime movie if you’re into that sort of thing! A million thanks to Eric for including her on this journey, the sweeties and her mom for the never ending support. Proud graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse. IG: @misskaribuckley