Born in Madison, Wisconsin, David knows good cheese. He is also a person. Recent TV and Film credits include Showtime’s “Billions”, and Ethan Hawke’s “Tesla”. On the stage, he recently performed in David Masello’s “Now I Call That a Lonely Place” at the National Arts Club. David is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, and is now Creative Director of the Hoboken, NJ-based production company VividSignalFilms.com Prior to coming to the city, he traveled the country on the snowboarding pro circuit, calling the Sierra Nevada of California home. DavidKubicka.com

Bruce is a writer and artist. His first short play, Girl Scout, played in the New York Theater Festival in 2020. Since then, Bruce has been writing for theater including Bailey’s Nursery for Winterlight Productions, and How to Drive in New Jersey for GO SOLO, and Shine On You Crazy Diamond for a later AND Theater’s GO SOLO. In, 2022 Bruce returned to the New York Theater Festival in June to present Technical Difficulties. Bruce also acted and sang in this production. Bruce wrote and performed two pieces, Ye of Little Faith, and Bailey’s Nursery for Winterlight in October 2022, and returned in January of 2023 to act and sing in his play The Stage Manager. Bruce is grateful to the cast, and especially to Ellen, Maria, and Brian for all their work to bring tonight’s readings to life.

Hank is honored to be working with Winterlight Productions and company again, presenting Donna Baier Stein’s and Bruce Dalziel’s work, having had the opportunity to appear in Bruce’s “Technical Difficulties” directed by Ellen Barber, in last summer’s N.Y. Theater Festival (for which he was nominated for best actor). Hank most recently appeared in the Queens Short Play Festival in Raphael Badagliacca’s “GPS”, directed by Gene Santarelli. Hank is writing a solo show, “Max Casimir, I Want to Stay”.

Brian is a NYC-based author, actor, singer and musician. Spring Thaw marks his fifth appearance in a Winterlight Productions show. His recent performances of his authored works include two solo pieces, The Man On The Ice and Life Across America with George Lipslinger, as well as the one-act play, Crossing The Street. Along with the Salmagundi Club, his recent NYC performance venues have included the Chain Theatre and The National Arts Club. Member of Jack Wetherall’s Shakespeare Lab NYC and contributor to the Anything Goes! writers’ workshop (a branch of Artistic New Directions Theatre). Many thanks and much admiration to Donna and Donald for their wonderful writing. Heartfelt gratitude to Ellen and Maria for their leadership, trust, and support. Perpetually delighted and forever amazed by the incomparable Ellen – your presence makes us all better.

Rutanya has 110 credits in film and TV. Among the best known are Best Picture winner The Deer Hunter, Mommie Dearest, Amityville II: The Possession, and The Dark Half. In television, she has guest starred in all of the Law and Order shows, Cold Case, and CSI, among others. In the last few years she has appeared on stage in John Guare’s More Stars Than There Are in Heaven, Sarah Simon’s The Portrait, as well as the revival of Murder at the Howard Johnson’s on Theatre Row. She is currently in post production on her own film, USA: Land of the Mustaches which she wrote, produced, and performed in.

Ms. McKendry is thrilled to be returning to Winterlight for another season. She was last seen performing in ‘Winter Tales’ for Winterlight Productions at The Salmagundi Art Club. Broadway: The Producers. Off-Broadway: Sleep No More. Regional: The Red Dress (New Phoenix Theatre), The Producers (Paper Mill Playhouse), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Paper Mill Playhouse), Boeing-Boeing (Cape May Stage), Mama Mia (The Gateway), Technical Difficulties (NYTF) Film: Cabrini (Spring 2023), The Producers. Liz is a member of Jack Wetherall’s Shakespeare Lab, NYC, AND Theatre’s Anything Goes! and Winterlight Productions. Gratitude to Ellen Barber and Maria Hoffman. Proud Member of Actor’s Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

Jeremy was born in Greenwich Village to noted actors Richard Bright and Rutanya Alda. He is a Vassar College alumnus. He has studied with Paul Calderon, Karl Bury, Larry Moss, Jean-Louis Alexander, Kristof Konrad, Jack Garfein, and Roger Simon, among others. He is fairly fluent in German and has worked in the language with Margarethe von Trotta. Jeremy’s various off-, off-off-Broadway, and regional theatre credits include the lead of George in the New York debut of You Love that I’m Not Your Wife! at the Players Theatre and Hamletmaschine at Poughkeepsie’s Powerhouse Theatre; he has also produced and directed plays at venues such as Theatre Row (“Murder at Howard Johnson’s”), St. Clement’s (“Adjustments”), and the Gene Frankel Theater (“Infectious”). On television, he most recently co-starred on FBI: Most Wanted and on film he will be strongly supporting in the upcoming Back to the Present! Jeremy lives in Harlem with his wife, Tatiana, and their three cats.

Susan is delighted to be performing in Donna Baier Stein’s play, A Landing Called Compromise. Last spring, Susan appeared as Athena (a hologram) in Bruce Daziel’s comedy, Technical Difficulties, at New York Theater Festival. Recent theater credits include: Bethany Anne in Thirty Days at New York Theater Festival 2021; A solo performance of Anam Cara (written by Susan) at Artistic New Directions Eclectic Festival 2020; Nurse Kelly in Harvey at Out of the Box Theater Co., NY 2020; Rose in The Legend at Westchester Collaborative Theater’s Festival of One Acts 2020. She also played the role of Mary Cassatt in Girl In Blue Armchair
(written by Susan) at the Harvey Theater in Katonah. Favorite roles include: Mags in Painting Churches, The Countess in Alls Well That Ends Well, Irina in The Three Sisters, Maggie in After The Fall, Lily in Toys In The Attic. TV Credits include:The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; A Crime To Remember, Steampipe Alley and The Guiding Light. (Equity/ Sag-Aftra).

Silvia is grateful and pleased to join the cast of Marietta’s Ultimatum in her debut with Winterlight Production Company. Silvia is a Stella Adler Studio of Acting NY graduate and performed Off Broadway as Elizabeth Bathory in Sleep No More, Peasant in Black Milk at Classic Stage Company and she can be seen in numerous film and television productions, as well.

Prior to basing himself in New York Jeff spent seven years acting in Hawai’i where he won performance awards as Nugget in EQUUS and as the leading role in THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE. Other Hawai’i highlights include: Orpheus in EURYDICE, Jerry in THE ZOO STORY, and Sky in MAMMA MIA! In New York he recorded Shakespeare’s VENUS & ADONIS as the Narrator and Adonis and recently has acted with The Talking Band and TDF Young Playwrights Group. Selected New York theatre credits: Anthony in A SKATE PLAY, King Ravana in RAMA’AVAN, and Liberty Valance/Jake Dowitt in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE. On television he co-starred on HAWAI’I FIVE-0 and recently filmed the lead role in THEY SHOOT HORSES. Recently portrayed the title role in the American premiere of the farce TOMMY ON TOP in Florida. Instagram: @jeffquackett

Maille has taken the stage most recently in GPS (Queens Short Play Festival), Watch Me (NY Winterfest) and Fear Floor (New Ambassadors Theatre). A Renaissance drama fanatic, she had the joy of studying Shakespeare at RADA and acting in the Frederick Shakespeare Festival. Awards include Best Actress of the Equity Library Theater’s 2022 season and the Pettway Prize in Drama. Recent film and TV credits: American Dynasty (FOX), Slay the Night, The Casting Couch on Greenwich Street, Dark Things, and Fish Don’t Have Maps.

Anne is a NYC-based freelance dramaturg and the Founder of Hamilton Dramaturgy, an international consultancy. She co-authored Dramaturgy: The Basics (Routledge, 2023), a practical guidebook in Routledge’s The Basics series (Walter Byongsok Chon, coauthor). Anne has dramaturged for Andrei Serban, Michael Mayer, Lynn Nottage, NYMF, Niegel Smith, Classic Stage Company, Tina Andrews, Leslie Lee, and Andrew Barrett, among others. She is an award-winning playwright (WHO’S ANDY WARHOL?, THE STACY PLAY – A LOVE SONG – PART I, ANOTHER WHITE SHIRT, MARLY FLORINDA DESCENDS INTO HELL ONE STEP AT A TIME, OFEM, and THE SHOEBOX). Hamilton has been a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, won the Dean’s Prize for Dramaturgy at Columbia University School of the Arts, and holds dual citizenship in the United States and Italy. B.A., Drew University, M.F.A., Columbia University.

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Donna is the author of The Silver Baron’s Wife (PEN/New England Discovery Award), Sympathetic People (Iowa Fiction Award Finalist), Sometimes You Sense the Difference (poetry), Letting Rain Have Its Say (poetry), and Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton (Foreword Reviews Finalist). She was a Founding Editor of Bellevue Literary Review and founded and publishes Tiferet, an interfaith literary journal. She has received a Bread Loaf Scholarship, Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars Fellowship, a New Jersey Council on the Arts grant, and more. Donna’s writing has appeared in journals like Next Avenue, Saturday Evening Post, New York Quarterly, Washingtonian, as well as several anthologies including the forthcoming The Art of Touch from University of Georgia Press. A highlight of Donna’s career was seeing one of her short stories performed by Tony Award winning actress MaryAnn Plunkett at the Playwrights Theatre in Madison, NJ. www.donnabaierstein.com

Rex is a New Zealand playwright. His short comedies have been produced on four continents from New York and London to Sydney and Chennai. He has a Master of Arts (Hons.) in Languages and Literature from the University of Auckland and is currently the secretary of the Playwrights Association of New Zealand and a senior collections librarian at Auckland Libraries. You can see more about his work on his website:
https://www.rexmcgregor.com/

Donald is a playwright, novelist and travel and garden writer. His plays, including Beardsley and the award-winning Oscar & Walt, have been seen on stages in Europe and the U.S. as well as in livestreamed and Zoom productions. His musical TRANSFORMATION: The Christine Jorgensen Show premiered at NYC’s 2023 Fresh Fruit Festival. Donald is the author of seven novels, including The Confessions of Aubrey Beardsley, and a short-story collection, The Gravedigger’s Daughter. He has written dozens of guidebooks to destinations in England, Europe and the Pacific Northwest as well as two guides to the great gardens on the West Coast. www.donaldstevenolson.com.

Ellen starred On Broadway, Off and Off-Off Broadway, and on Regional Stages across this country. Roles include: Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire; Isabella in Measure for Measure; Jocasta in Oedipus; Elizabeth in Richard III; Countess of Auvergne, Duchess of Gloucester, and Queen Elizabeth in the Henry VI’s; Marjorie (created the role) in Extremities; Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Salonge in The Maids; Masha in Three Sisters; Marie in Haven; Dr. Chip in Technical Difficulties; Mrs. Gunmore in Six Passionate Women; and Dianne Cook in Fame, among others. Television credits include roles in numerous prime time episodic series; all Law and Order iterations; HBO Films; PBS American Playhouse; and a leading role in the Peabody Award-winning Judge Horton and The Scottsboro Boys. More than twenty-five Film credits, including starring roles in three Academy-award winning Short and Documentary Films. Directing assignments at: The Los Angeles Theater Center; The Los Angeles Shakespeare Lab; Merrimack Repertory Theater; The Players Club; The National Arts Club; Dixon Place; The Writers Guild; Ensemble Studio Theater; Eclectics and Go Solo Festivals at the Chain Theatre; and The New York Theatre Festival at Latea Theatre, among others. For Winterlight Productions, she has directed: Excerpts . . . In Their Own Words; Landscapes of the Heart . . . A Valentine for Our Times; Source Material . . . Seminal Stories; and, at The Salmagundi Art Club, Landscapes of Experience (October 2022) and Winter Tales (January 2023). She is a founding member of Ensemble Studio Theatre; a member of Jack Wetherall’s Shakespeare Lab NYC; and Chair of Anything Goes Writers’ Workshop for Artistic New Directions Theatre. Love and gratitude to Maria Hoffmann and Brian Zupan. Praise and highest esteem to the authors and players of Winterlight.

For Jake. For Norma and Julius always.

Maria is a stage and film actress & producer. She has appeared in various New York based theater productions (amongst others: Othello, Macbeth, The (New) Trial, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the Monkey’s Paw.) She has appeared on TV and played leading roles in Indie Films. Maria holds a dual citizenship in the USA and Germany, is a graduate of the Stella Adler School of Acting Conservancy program; BFA Tufts