HER NAME MEANS MEMORY

CAST LIST AND BIOS

*Member of Actors Equity

Anne Bates (Hecuba)

Anne Bates appears in the upcoming season of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, played Margaret in Good People at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre and Laura in Paper Dreams of Harry Chin at IRT. Before playing Hecuba in Her Name Means Memory last summer with LRT, she helmed the role of Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at Pioneer Theatre. As a FAB founding member with The Barrow Group in NYC, she writes, directs, and performs new works. She garnered a *CCC nomination for Thousand Pines under Austin Pendleton’s direction at Westport Country Playhouse. Some Off-Broadway credits include Dan Cody’s Yacht at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Effect at Barrow Street Theatre with the National Theatre of London, Tartuffe and The Tempest with the Acting Company, Icebound and Alison’s House at Metropolitan Playhouse, Long Division at Abingdon Theatre where she received a *Best Supporting Nomination. TV: The Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, HBO’s Succession, Equalizer, New Amsterdam, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Law & Order, SVU, God Friended Me, Sneaky Pete, Us & Them, Unforgettable, 30 Rock. Film: Paul Sorvino’s King Lear and The Collective winning the *Audience Choice Award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Most recent gaming Voice Over work: Dragonflight. Anne is a Juilliard Graduate.

Janis Young (Xenia)

Janis was last seen at LRT’s Doll’s House, Part 2 as Annemarie. She’s performed at Williamstown Theatre Festival (Summer & Smoke/Alma) opposite Christopher Walken, Abe Lincoln in Illinois/Mary Todd Lincoln, The Man Who Came To Dinner/Harriot); Dorset Th. Festival (Superior Donuts, Good People; Rest); Hubbard Hall (Long Day's Journey Into Night/Mary Tyrone); Oldcastle Th. Co. (4000 Miles and other plays). Her New York work includes Lincoln Center (Campbells of Boston/Mrs. Campbell); Masque Th.(Don Carlos/Queen); Circle in the Square (Plays forBleecker St., Jose Quintero, dir., Under Milkwood, Bill Ball, dir.); 92nd Street Y (Song of Songs/Shulamite with Theadore Bikel); Phoenix Th. (Midsummer Night’s Dream/Hermia with Rosemary Harris and Richard Easton). Janis was a founding member of ACT/San Francisco (Six Characters../Stepdaughter, King Lear/Cordelia, Devil’s Disciple/Judith, Uncle Vanya/Yelena). Regional work includes Old Globe Th./San Diego; Milwaukee Rep/Milwaukee; Th of the Living Arts/Philadelphia. TV work includes several episodes of NYPD; original 3-year running role of Bernice in Another World;  and CBC Festival:The Dolly Scene/Dolly. Film work includes Loving opposite George Segal and The Boston Strangler. Janis is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon (Apel award for outstanding work), was a Fulbright Scholar (LAMDA/UK) and is a former faculty member of Bennington College.

Monique Vukovic (Andromache)

Monique is NYC based actor.  Theatre: at Living Room Theatre Exit the King and Three Sisters; The Debate Society, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Other Side Productions; The Roundabout, The Vineyard, The Atlantic, Cherry Lane, Tom Noonan’s Paradise Factory Theatre, La Mama, The Tank, and Hartford Stage.  Film/TV:  The Sinner, FBI: Most Wanted, Way Down, We Wanted Children, Barry, Losing Ground, Room 314.   

Valeri Mudek (Cassandra/Helen)

A NYC-based actor who works in theater, film and television, Val appeared LRT’s Constellations last summer and is thrilled to return to this beloved company. She did the World Premiere productions of Tiny Kushner by Tony Kushner at the Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Tricycle Theater in London, as well as the World Premiere of The Carpenter, by Robert Askins (Hand to God) at Houston’s Alley Theatre. Select other theater includes Angels in America (St. Louis Repertory Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.), The Humans (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Hamlet, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), and multiple plays at the Guthrie Theater, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Time Stands Still and Uncle Vanya.  Select TV and Film: The OA (Netflix), Law & Order SVU (NBC), Forever (ABC), The Mysteries of Laura (NBC), Above All Things (Choice Films). 

Oliver Wadsworth (Talthybius)

is thrilled to be back at Living Room Theatre where he has appeared in Constellations and Three Sisters. He has worked extensively throughout the country. He was in the first National tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. OFF BROADWAY: Sideways (Pecadillo Theatre), Endpapers (Variety Arts); Well (The Public Theater); Bread and Roses (New York Theatre Workshop). REGIONAL credits; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Red Maple (BroadwayWorld Berkshires Best Actor Award), Fully Committed (Metroland Best Performance), The Taming of the Shrew, and Take Me Out (Capital Rep); Fall River (Penguin Rep); Peter and the Starcatcher (Pioneer Theatre); Mystery of Irma Vep (Arizona Theatre Company); Misalliance (Old Globe and Seattle Repertory); An Enemy of the People (Long Wharf Theatre); Santaland Diaries, Dracula and Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Santaland Diaries, Velocity of Autumn and A Nantucket Christmas Carol (White Heron Theatre); Peter Pan (Denver Center Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Syracuse Stage); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Fulton Theater); Shipwrecked (AriZoni Award, Actors Theatre of Phoenix); Sherlock Holmes and the Jersey Lily, Noises Off and Murder on the Nile (Dorset Theatre Festival); Stones In His Pockets (Metroland Best Performance, Adirondack Theatre Festival). TV & FILM: “Deliver Us from Evil”, “Ed’s Next Move”, “Dotty Gets Spanked”, “Blacklist”, and “Law and Order SVU”. MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program. www.OliverWadsworth.com

Allen McCullough (Menelaus)

For LRT: Constellations, A Doll’s House Part 2, Three Sisters, Circle Mirror Transformation, Men of Tortuga, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull.   Film & TV; Dead Ringers, FBI Most Wanted, Divorce, Blindspot, Sweetbitter, The Marvelous Mrs Maizel, Vinyl, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Law and Order C.I.  Recent –Our Brother’s Son, Signature NYC - Nixon in Frost/Nixon Palo Alto, Amy & the Orphans- Roundabout, As You Like It, R & J, Folger Theatre; Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Baltimore Center Stage; also- 2nd Stage, Long Wharf, Westport, Williamstown, Pioneer, Irish Rep and others; Broadway tour of Twelve Angry Men. As a Director, Shaw’s Overruled for LRT, The Real Thing, Private Lives, All My Sons and Our Town at Hubbard Hall. With Randolyn Zinn, Allen is co-founder of LRT. allenmcc.com

Susannah MacLeod (Lenci)

Susannah (she/they) is a NYC-based actor. Credits include: Pericles (Target Margin Theater); Aida (Metropolitan Opera); King Lear (Hamlet Isn’t Dead); Richard III, Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co); Twelfth Night (Verdi Square Arts Festival); Both/And: A Quantum Physics Play (Catalyst Collaborative with MIT); Once a Blue Moon, Shahrazad (Double Edge Theatre); and the titular role in Richard III (Emerson Stage). Susannah spent a year training with New York’s SITI Company as a Conservatory Artist, and holds a BA in Acting from Emerson College.

Elizah Hill (Galyna)

Elizah HIll is an alumni of Circle in the Square’s Professional Theatre program, working and living in NYC. She recently appeared in a new Off-Broadway musical entitled Dream on Baranski, and won the Vermont Regional Broadway Award for her role as Hamlet in 2021 with Foul Contending Rebels. Other credits include Nina in The Seagull, Lydia in Pride and Prejudice and Helga in Cabaret. She is also a painter and a musician when not acting on stage and screen. Elizah is thrilled to be back with LRT, telling this story once more. 

Xingrong Chen (Corra)

Xingrong is a graduate of the Circle in the Square Theater School who recently played the Nurse in the Chinese musical Murder Up in the Air at the Hudson Guild Theater. She is extremely grateful to return to Living Room Theatre after playing Siu Jing in LRT’s Three Sisters. Besides acting, she enjoys working as an events singer in NYC.

Randolyn Zinn (Playwright/Director)

New York Theatre Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Georges, BACA Downtown, The Westbank Café, and LRT have produced Randolyn’s plays. As a director she has staged plays by Lorca, Chekhov, Ionesco, Strindberg, and Chuck Mee. Her choreography has served productions at the Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, the NY Philharmonic, Juilliard, on three films coaching Harvey Keitel, and on Broadway for Sunday in the Park with George — a chapter on her work for that musical appears in the book Putting It Together. Her writing has won prizes, including New School's Fiction Prize, several grants, and a travel fellowship to Spain. As an actor she has appeared on Broadway in The Rothschilds, at Long Wharf in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, in Frank, Frank at New Georges, The Soldier’s Tale at Lincoln Center, Portrait of Frida at Williamstown Theatre Festival, To See If I Could See Her at New York Theatre Workshop, in two indie films, and at LRT in Constellations, Nora in A Doll’s House, Part 2, and Masha in Three Sisters. With Allen McCullough, she is the co-founder and co-artistic director of LRT. MFA: The New School. Faculty: Juilliard, Pace University, Circle in the Square. randolynzinn.com

Cynthia Flynt  (Costume Designer)

Cynthia Flynt has designed costumes for over 30 years. Beginning with Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Passion Fish for John Sayles. Awakenings, A League of Their Own, The Preacher’s Wife, and Riding in Cars With Boys for Penny Marshall Most recently she has worked with Astute Films on An Interview With God, Queen Bees and Here Today.  In between the films, there has been work in television, theater and commercials. She also taught Costume Arts at The Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan for 5 years.

Gwarlingo Studio  (Graphic Design)

Gwarlingo Studio is a design firm based in Harrisville, New Hampshire run by Corwin Levi and Michelle Alredge. Nestled in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, Gwarlingo Studio creates contemporary design for clients around the globe from a studio in an old mill building. Projects range from web, print, and book design to writing, illustration, and curation, with a special love for everything local. gwarlingostudio.com