The Mound Builders

Dan is a native of the Hudson Valley, being raised in Palenville.  He has pursued his acting career in New York City for the past four years  after graduating from  Geneseo with a Bachelors in Political Science .  He has been fortunate enough to travel throughout this country working on great shows with wonderful people. Dan was lucky enough to be introduced to John Sowle in the summer of 2010 during  the Play by Play Festival at Stageworks/Hudson. Since then, Dan has been around the country yet again, performing with the second national tour of The 39 Steps as Richard Hannay. He was able to rest for a few months before gearing up to play a variety of roles ranging from Billy Flynn in Chicago to The Gentleman Caller, Jim O'Connor in The Glass Menagerie, and culminating with a Christmas Panto of Peter Pan in Reno, NV in which he fulfilled a childhood dream of playing Captain Hook, complete with the booing and hissing audience.  Dan would like to thank John for this opportunity and also Laura Margolis who introduced the two of us. Much Love to Larissa and his family. 

Jack, a New Yorker growing up in the heart of the city, began his journey into the arts by painting the walls of the city and living the life of an ambitious cockroach only eventually blossoming into a full time explorer of the human spirit. In between this metamorphosis, Jack enjoyed chasing girls, playing tennis and breaking rules before falling under the spell of Theater. He performed in Diary of Anne Frank in Westport Connecticut, directed by Gerald Freedman, Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi at Stageworks/Hudson, and in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied the classics with Patsy Rodenburg, Janet Suzman and Dinah Stabb. Recent film work includes Yelling to the Sky by Victoria Mahoney, Morgan by Michael Akers, Grand Street by Lex Sidon  and more.  Jack dedicates this show to the people of the sun.

Lauren is an NYC-based actress and Boston native. Credits: The Money Show (HERE Arts Center), Run. Run. Stop. (Theatre Row), Banshee (NY Fringe), Play by Play: Blue Moons (Stageworks/Hudson), King of Ghosts (Philadelphia Fringe), Twelfth Night (Classic Stage Company), Angry Young Women (Theater for the New City), The Tempest (Folkwang Festival, Germany), Big Love (Svetkani Fesival, Czech Republic). M.F.A., Columbia University

Molly Parker-Myers -- Cynthia Howe

Molly is an actor and singer based in the Hudson Valley.  Molly appeared last summer at Stageworks/Hudson in The Divine Sister (Mrs. Levinson/Timothy) and at Shadowland Theatre in The Ladies Man (Marie). Other recent credits include Forbidden Broadway at Stageworks/Hudson, The Language Archive (Mary), Hairspray (Velma),  The Drowsy Chaperone (The Drowsy Chaperone), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Muriel Eubanks) and Falsettos  (Doctor Charlotte). 

Steven Patterson* -- Professor August Howe

Steven has performed in New York City and regionally with such theaters as South Coast Repertory, TheatreWorks, Capital Repertory, Lexington Conservatory Theatre, freeFall Theatre, Chenango River Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, Depot Theatre, Contemporary Opera Marin, and the Oregon, Orlando, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals. A few of his favorite roles have included King Lear, Jean Genet in Beauty, Austin Wiggin in The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, David in Poor Super Man, Zach in A Chorus Line, the Creature in Frankenstein, Ubu in Ubu Rex, and Judi Boswell in How to Pray. Co-Artistic Director of Kaliyuga Arts, he currently resides in Catskill, NY.

Louise Pillai -- D.K. (Delia) Eriksen

Local audiences have seen Louise in a number of area presentations including, most recently, an independent production of Cabaret at Stageworks/Hudson. This past summer she appeared in Play by Play: Shadows and The Divine Sister in Stageworks productions.  She also participated in readings of The Substance of Fire at the Chatham Synagogue, Chapter Two with the Aglet Theater Company in MA and CT and An Ignorant Man at TSL in Hudson.  A member of Play in Progress, she performed in their new play Program at the Hudson Opera House.

Melissa A. Nathan* -- Stage Manager

Melissa is based out of NYC. New York credits include: Amahl and the Night Visitors w/Suzanne Ishee and Larry Marshall (Harbor Lights Theater Co), Victory w/Jan Maxwell (PTP/NYC), Twelfth Night (Sonnet Repertory Theatre), St. Nicholas (Theatre of the Expendable; nominated for 3 NYIT awards), Show Choir! The Musical w/Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Sound Street Productions) and China: The Whole Enchilada (FringeNYC; winner Outstanding Musical). Regional credits include: Lost in Yonkers and Sylvia (Atlantic Stage), Wicked City (Depot Theatre), Bonnie & Clyde w/Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Veronica's Room, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Moonlight & Magnolias (The Theater Barn), Beauty & the Beast (Northern Stage), Twelfth Night, Every Christmas Story Ever Told and The Imaginary Invalid (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre), King Lear and Merchant of Venice (New Theatre). Proud member of Actors Equity and the Stage Managers Association. www.MelissaANathan.com