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Leigh Williams

(Delilah Tuck) 

recently appeared in

New York City in The

Life and Death of King

John (Constance) with

NY Shakespeare

Exchange;  Dancing at

Lughnasa (Chris) at

Gallery Players; and

Critical Mass, also with

Heiress. Her regional

credits include

productions with Cleveland Play House, Cider Mill Playhouse, and five seasons at Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival (favorite roles include Olivia, Kate, Ariel, and Hermione).  MFA, Case Western/Cleveland Play House.  Leigh is a proud member of Actors' Equity.

CAST:

Laura Faith (Olivia Tuck) is pleased and honored to be appearing in her 4th Heiress Productions' show.  She played "Carrie" in Lunch Hour, "Paige" in Belles, and "Catherine Rhino" in Critical Mass.  Favorite Boston roles for Laura include "Clara" in Edith Stein and "Miss Stephanie" in To Kill A Mockingbird.  Laura made her television debut in PBS' One On One with Steve Adubato discussing the founding and mission of Heiress Productions. Currently Laura can be seen in NYC performing short form comedic improv with The Red Tie Mafia, as well as in the hilarious sketch show FINE, FUNNY and FEMALE with Stand-up Comedian Lori Sommer.  She holds her BA from Gordon College and attended the British American Drama Academy in London.

Kelly Strandemo (Maya Tuck) is delighted to return to the stage with Heiress Productions after appearing as aspiring ventriloquist “Audrey” in Belles.  Other recent NY credits have included One, Two, Whatever You Do (NY Fringe), Antigone Noir (EST), and Othello (Bouwerie Lane). Favorite Regional credits include “Guenevere” in Camelot, “Lucy” in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and “Eileen” in Moon Over Buffalo. Kelly is one third of the creative team behind the acclaimed web series 30/2010. She is a

Jenna Panther (Phyllis Hofmeyer) is thrilled to be working with Heiress for the first time. She is a mighty proud graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory (NTC).  Favorite roles at the NTC include “Jeanie” in HAIR, “Hamlet” in Hamlet, and “Polly” in The Threepenny Opera. During her time with the Denver Center Theatre Company Jenna appeared in The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and as “Donna Lawson” in the World Premiere of Eventide.  She received a B.S. in

CREATIVES:

Zac Hoogendyk (Director) directing credits include stints with The Gallery Players in NYC and This Bridge Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has previously appeared with  Heiress in Critical Mass. Zac earned his MFA in Acting from Case Western Reserve University and will appear in the Cleveland Play House's production of In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play this spring.

Jacob M. Appel (Playwright) Mr. Appel’s plays include Helen of Sparta (named one of the 10 best regional plays of 2009 by the American Theatre Association), Arborphilia, The Mistress of Wholesome, The Replacement, Woodpecker, and Causa Mortis. They have been performed at venues including Adrienne Theatre (Philadelphia), Detroit Repertory Theatre, Heller Theater (Tulsa), Curtain Players (Columbus), Epilogue Players (Indianapolis), and Intentional Theatre (New London). He is a winner of the Lee Strasburg Institute’s Annual Playwriting Competition and has been a finalist for the Reva Shiner Playwriting Award. Jacob has published short fiction in more than two hundred leading literary journals and his prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Grant. His fiction has been short-listed for the O. Henry Award, the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize on numerous occasions. He also publishes in the field of bioethics and contributes to such publications as the Journal of Clinical Ethics, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. His essays and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Times, The New Haven Register, The Albany Times-Union and many other regional newspapers. Jacob currently practices psychiatry in New York City.

Production Stage Manager - Karen Hashley

Press Representative - Ron Lasko: Spin Cycle

Kevin Brewer (Adaptation) has over twenty years experience as screenwriter and playwright, and is thrilled for his

inaugural collaboration with such a positive mission-driven organization as Heiress Productions. In New York City, Kevin has worked with a number of theater companies including Sonnet Repertory Theatre, BoomerangTheatre Company, Blowout Theater Company, Judith Shakespeare Company, and is the resident playwright for New York Shakespeare Exchange. While earning his BFA from Michigan State University, he won Grand Prize in the Third Annual Undergraduate Playwriting for his play Prism. Other awards of note include: The 2004 Peterson Emerging Playwright Award and the 2004 Metrolina Theatre Association Outstanding College Production for the Catawba College production of his 5-act verse play Island; and the Grand Prize winner of the Riant Theatre 2005 Strawberry One Act Festival with the play Jinx. In addition to his writing, Kevin (MFA / Case University) is also an actor who recently appeared as Cardinal Pandulf in NYSE’s acclaimed The Life and Death of King John, and last year in his solo show The One Man (Two Man (Not Quite)) Hamlet.

Andy Fritsch (Lighting Design) is a freelance lighting designer, assistant, and programmer in New York City. In addition to theater, he also designs for NYC Fashion Week, SAP Sapphire NOW, and other industrial and architectural projects. TOUR: Chita Rivera: The Secret of Life (Chita Productions); NYC: The Most Happy Fella (NYU), Fracturing (Sweeter Theater), The Light In The Piazza (NYU), Natural History (Sweeter Theater), Twin Towers (Planet Connections Festival), Pretty Theft (Flux Theatre Ensemble), The Shirelles 50th Anniversary Concert (Rrazz Entertainment), Laundry and Bourbon/Lonestar (Baruch College), The Pariah (Leo Beak Institute), Sympathetic Division (Sweeter Theater), Getting Out (Baruch College); ALD: Choreographers Festival (R.Evolucion Latina), Sweeney Todd (NYU), Hair (National Tour), It Must Be Him (Off B’way), A Lifetime Burning (Primary Stages), The Burnt Part Boys (Vineyard Theatre), Candide (NYU), Music Man (Summer Theater of New Canaan), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (White Plains Performing Arts Center), The Charm of Preparedness (Baruch College), Warsaw: A New Musical Drama (NYMF).

Ashley Rose Horton (Costume Design) is thrilled to be working with Heiress Productions again after designing last year’s Critical Mass. Other NY credits include Locker 4173b (NY Neo Futurists); The Town of No One, NOIR, The Lady Drug Dealer and the Heist (FringeNYC); Get Bruised II, Better Lucky Than Smart, Violins (Manhattan Theatre Source); The Gift (American Globe Theatre); Lovers (Theatre Row); The Amen Corner (City College); Inner Gardens, Sideman (Brooklyn College); as well as Suicide Inc. (Roundabout, asst.); The Germ Project (New Georges, asst.) as well as work on the web series: 30/2010.

Anthony Mattana (Sound Design and Original Music) is thrilled to be making his Heiress Productions debut with Thirds. He was recently featured in Live Design Magazine as a “Young Designer to Watch for 2012”. Past assistant/design/composition credits include: Rx (Primary Stages), The Nutcracker and I (George Street Playhouse), The Vigil or The Guided Cradle (Brick Theatre) Through the Night (Riverside Theatre) and FINN (Mabou Mines Theatre Company). He is currently serving as audio engineer on Punchdrunk Productions “Sleep No More”. Anthony graduated from Carnegie Mellon University Drama School with a degree in sound design and music composition in May of 2011. www.anthonymattana.com

Dan Giesecke (Props and Set Construction) is pleased to continue his work with Heiress Productions. Dan spent 30 years in furniture and antique restoration. Currently, Dan is an artist's representative with Pulsive Art, offering site-specific as well as stock sculpture for landscape and interior settings at public, corporate, and private locations. www.pulsiveart.com.

E Jenetopulos (Production Manager) works in design and production for dance and theater. As a designer of lights, sets, and

props, E. has worked with Sarah Leonard, David Haan, Panoply Performance Laboratory, the New York Neo-Futurists, Dylan Levers, Kidz Theater, Faustin Linyekula, Maria Helena Pinto, and Jen Rosenblit. As a production and stage manager, E. has worked with jill sigman/thinkdance, Sarah Maxfield, Cori Olinghouse, Kenya (Robinson), Youth Pride Chorus, Concrete Temple, and Aspen Music Festival. E. is a mythology/dance history nerd, prefers the spaces in-between, watches recordings of Joseph Campbell lectures, and dreams about running away with the circus.

Josh Zangen (Scenic Design) Concert/Tours: Kylie Minogue’s Aphrodite-Les Folies and USA 2009, Britney

Spears’ Circus, Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live!. West End: The Hurly Burly Show. Theatre: Absinthe (Caesars Palace – LV,

Spiegelworld), Desir (Spiegelworld – Drama Desk nominated), John Lithgow’s Sunny Side of the Street (New Victory), James

Lapine’s Mrs. Miller Does her Thing (Wyly, Dallas), Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice (NYMF 2011), Lunch Hour (Theatre Row), 2 girls for 5 bucks (ARS Nova), Zombie (Fringe, Theatre Row, short-film). Visual Marketing/Events: Macy’s 2010 award winning Christmas windows “Yes, Virginia”. Industrial Events for companies such as ESPN, HBO, Nascar, History Channel, Nike, I-Robot and CNN.

native of South Carolina, a graduate of California’s Orange County High School of the Arts and holds a BFA from Northern Kentucky University. Kelly is the proud daughter and granddaughter of those who fought the good fight in the battle against cancer. www.kellystrandemo.com

Theatre (yes, it’s a real degree) from the University of Evansville and is a native of Louisville, KY --”home of the most exciting two minutes in sports.” Lately Jenna has been working with Amios Theatre Company, slowly but surely learning to play the mandolin, doing a little yoga, and swinging on the trapeze.

THIRDS photos courtesy of Katherine Miles Jones Photography