Karina Wen (Mercy Lewis) Central Square Theater: debut; Recent credits include Pacific Overtures (Lyric Stage), The Joy Luck Club (The Umbrella Stage Company), Bye Bye Birdie, Guys and Dolls, and A Chorus Line (Priscilla Beach Theatre). Karina spent this past summer as an artistic intern at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Originally from Lexington, she is currently in her final year at Brandeis University, majoring in theater and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

August 2019

Randolph Curtis Rand (Reverend Samuel Parris)  Central Square Theater: debut; Randolph is a theatre artist, working in design, directing, teaching, and performance. He has appeared with many artists throughout the country, and abroad, including: Bedlam, Burning Coal Theatre (NC), Joseph Chaikin, Compagnia de’ Colombari, Elevator Repair Service, Richard Foreman, The Foundry,  Meredith Monk, Not Man Apart (CA) Pig Iron Theatre, The Rude Mechs, The Talking Band, Target- Margin, and The Wooster Group to name a few, and in many institutions like Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Adelaide Festival, Carnegie Hall, The Cockpit (UK), The Duke Ellington School of the Arts, The Public Theatres (New York, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh), The Kitchen, La Mama, Lincoln Center, The Meltdown Festival (UK), Naropa University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Both the Graduate Acting School, and Undergraduate Theatre),  On the Boards, The Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, P.S. 122, UCLA, University of the Arts, The Walker, and The Wexner among many others.

August 2019

Truett Felt (Abigail Williams)  Central Square Theater: debut; Truett is a NYC based actor and singer. New York: Matthew Amendt’s The Comedian’s Tragedy (Access Theater), Victory Train (New York Musical Festival), F8 or Down with Chads (PlayGround). Regional: Beauty and the Beast, Off the Rails (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Bottle Tree (Z Below), The Comedy of Errors (Craterian Theater). Truett is originally from Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a BFA in acting from Southern Oregon University.

August 2019

Caroline Grogan (Mary Warren) Central Square Theater: debut. Caroline  is a born and bred midwestern girl from Dayton Ohio.  A recent graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as both a Drama and Journalism major, Caroline was trained in the  Meisner technique. She is a lead performer for Puppetsburg, a Brooklyn based children’s puppetry company, and is both a teacher and grant writer for the arts nonprofit, Zara Aina. Most recently she was seen in a devised production written by Mona Mansour called Beginning Days of True Jubilation directed by Scott Illingworth, and Chuck Mee’s Jesus at 13th Street Rep. This is her first production with Bedlam. A huge thanks to her  family & friends for putting up with her shenanigans. Caroline-Grogan.com

August 2019

Ryan Quinn* (John Proctor) Central Square Theater:  debut; Off-Broadway: Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage); The Killer, King Lear, Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra (Theater for a New Audience); Dead Dog Park (59E59 Theaters); and Vanity Fair (Pearl Theatre Company). Select Regional: Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (American Repertory Theater) & (Portland Center Stage), Yellowman (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Hamlet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Old Globe Theatre); The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Dorset Theatre Festival); and eight seasons with The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Blindspot, Madam Secretary, The Blacklist: Redemption, Person of Interest, Friends from College, and Ovum. M.F.A:  Yale School of Drama. Ryan is the artistic director of Esperance Theater Company in New York City EsperanceTheaterCompany.org.

August 2019