Born in Madison, Wisconsin, David knows good cheese. He is also a person. TV and Film credits include Showtime’s “Billions”, and Ethan Hawke’s “Tesla”. On the stage, he performed in David Masello’s Fjords at the National Arts Club and Bruce Dalziel’s Technical Difficulties at the New York Theater Festival. David is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, has a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, and is now Creative Director of the Hoboken, NJ-based production company Vivid Signal Films, now in pre-production for his upcoming film “Easy Target.” Prior to coming to the city, he traveled the country flying through the air on the snowboarding pro circuit, calling the Sierra Nevada of California his home. A fateful knee injury precipitated an encounter with the work of one William Shakespeare, forever shifting his trajectory, and landing him squarely on the boards of the theatrical stage. DavidKubicka.com Instagram: @davidkubicka

Liz is thrilled to be returning to Winterlight Productions for another season. 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 2024), The Producers. Liz is a member of Jack Wetherall’s Shakespeare Lab, NYC, AND Theatre’s Anything Goes! and Winterlight Productions. Heartfelt gratitude to Ellen Barber and Maria Hoffmann. Proud Member of Actor’s Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

Brian is a Winterlight Productions ensemble regular. Off-Off Broadway: Authored and performed solo pieces in The Man On The Ice and in Life Across America with George Lipslinger as well as in the one-act, Crossing The Street; played Anthony The Hitman and Artificial Intelligence in Raphael Badagliacca’s GPS, directed by Gene Santarelli. As part of a Writer’s Read NYC live event, presented his personal essay, Dressing in Time and Place. Along with the Salmagundi Club, recent NYC performance venues have included the Chain Theatre, The National Arts Club, City Winery, Theatre555, and The Producers Club. Member of Jack Wetherall’s Shakespeare Lab NYC and contributor to Anything Goes! writers’ workshop (Artistic New Directions Theatre). Utmost gratitude to Ellen and Maria, special thanks to Drew and Donna, and hats off to all the authors and players. To the incomparable Ellen – your vision and presence make us all better.

Susan is an actress (Equity/SAG-AFTRA), theater professor, and playwright (Dramatists Guild). Her recent one-act plays are: Galway City Visitor; Where No Woman Has Gone Before; Honey, Cassatt & Degas; Waiting For the Train; and Final Answer. Other plays include: Girl In Blue Armchair, (Harvey Theater, NYFA Grant), You’ll Be Back & The Park (Westchester Collaborative Theater). Recent Acting credits: Beulah in A Landing Called Compromise (Salmagundi Art Club); Athena in Technical Difficulties & Thirty Days (New York Theater Festival), Myself in Anam Cara (Artistic New Directions Eclectic Festival) & Harvey (Out of the Box Theater Co.) Susan is thrilled to be working with Ellen Barber again at the beautiful Salmagundi Art Club!

Bruce is a retired finance and technology executive who now divides his time between taking care of family, travel and outdoor adventures, playwriting, ceramic and other visual arts, and non-profit board work.   After retiring in 2012, Bruce completed Drew University’s Doctor of Letters program.  For his creative thesis, he wrote and illustrated a short story collection.

One of those stories took the form of a play, called Girl Scout, which ran in the New York Theater Festival in 2020, and which will be reprised this evening. Since then, Bruce has been writing for theater and developing work through AND Theater’s Anything Goes workshop group.  In 2022 Bruce returned to the New York Theater Festival in June to present Technical Difficulties, for which one of his actors received a Best Male Actor nomination.  Bruce has written and performed various pieces for Winterlight Productions.  He is very grateful to Ellen, Maria, and Brian for these opportunities.

Maille-Rose is a Brooklyn-based actor and model with an adoration of Renaissance plays and new works. Hailing from Virginia, she studied Shakespeare at RADA and has taken the stage most recently in Warrior Princess at the SOOP to NUTS Festival, Dining for One in the Zena Group’s Cafe Plays series, GPS at the Queens Short Play Festival, and Marietta’s Ultimatum at the Salmagundi Club. Awards include Best Actress of the Equity Library Theater’s 2022 season and the Pettway Prize in Drama. Recent film and TV credits: Sarah Todd Astor in American Dynasty (FOX NATION), American: What does it mean to be who we are?, Slay the Night, The Casting Couch on Greenwich Street, and Dark Things.

Deborah is a stage and film actor with German and Italian roots. She is recognized for her work in Oliver Rihs’ feature film Caged Birds and the world premiere of The Life of Vernon Subutex directed by Peter Kastenmüller at the Theatre Neumarkt in Zurich. Deborah is the recipient of numerous awards through her acting. Drawn to America since childhood, she followed her artistic intuition to New York and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since then, Deborah has starred at Theater 80, The Open Eye Theatre, The Secret Theatre, The American Theatre of Actors, the Producer’s Club and the Player’s Theatre, as well as in Mumtaz Hussain’s Virus Bomb at the Baruch Performing Arts Center and Den Of Thieve at the Mary Macarthur Theatre. Deborah’s recent creative endeavors have expanded her remit to include directing. As a wholehearted artist, Deborah explores human nature through her storytelling. She has plans to direct her own works, both stage and screen.

Hank had the great good fortune to appear in another of Donna Baier Stein’s plays last Spring with Winterlight Productions and company. He also performed at the N.Y. Theater Festival in Bruce Dalziel’s Technical Difficulties, directed by Ellen Barber, in which he was nominated for best actor and in Raphael Badagliacca’s GPS 1 at the Queens Short Play Festival, directed by Gene Santarelli. Hank is writing a solo show titled Max Casimir, I Want to Stay. He is grateful to be appearing with the Winterlight family once again.

Jeremy is a Vassar College alumnus from Manhattan. He has studied with Paul Calderon, Karl Bury, and Larry Moss, among others. Jeremy’s various off- and off-off-Broadway 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 Gene in Winterlight’s previously staged reading of Donna Baier Stein’s A Landing Called Compromise; 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 TV and film, he most recently co-starred on FBI: Most Wanted and portrayed John Dean III in the upcoming documentary Watergate’s Secrets: Corruption, Collusion, Conspiracy. Jeremy lives in Harlem with his wife, Tatiana, and their three cats.

Drew is an actor and playwright.  His stage and film career has featured a pillow fight with George C Scott, a kiss from Susan Lucci, a commercial with Luciano Pavarotti, a shared goblet of wine with Brian Dennehey, a handshake with John Lennon, and dance moves with Kevin Bacon.  For more than twenty years he wrote for, acted, and directed with HOFSTRA USA, a theatre company he helped create on Long Island.  His wife, Anne, and both his sons, Andrew and Aidan, are endlessly supportive and everlastingly patient.  His granddaughters, Maggie and Lucy, just laugh.

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 Virginia Quarterly Review, Next Avenue, Saturday Evening Post, New York Quarterly, Washingtonian, as well as several anthologies including newly-released The Art of Touch from University of Georgia Press. An early 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. A second highlight was seeing the incredible actors who presented another story here at the Salmagundi Club – who took my words from two dimensions to full-bodied. Thanks to Ellen, Anything Goes, and everyone involved in this wonderful collaboration. www.donnabaierstein.com

Nicholas has been writing plays and screenplays for more than ten years. It’s a passion he hopes to turn into a career at some point as he has a lot that he wants to say. Theater is different from other mediums because it’s where we go to think more deeply. It’s where we go to connect with the actors in a personal way and walk out reflecting about what we experienced and what it means for us. It should never feel purely entertaining as it needs to keep us on our toes, alive – full of passion. Prospero had it right – “We are such stuff that dreams are made on.” If life is an illusion then theater is where we go to see through most of it.

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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; female lead in The Good Doctor; 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; Norwalk Theatre; 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), Winter Tales (January 2023) and Spring Thaw (May 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 and producer. She has appeared in various New York City-based theater productions, amongst others:  Winterlight’s most recent Spring Thaw and Winter Tales productions; Othello; Macbeth; The (new) Trial; The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; and The Monkey’s Paw by Jon Jory. 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 University; MA New School. She spends her time between NYC and Newport, RI, where she is currently participating in rigorous conservation efforts in Rhode Island State Parks through the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscaping Association and the Department of Labor and Environmental Protection.