Brian is a Winterlight Productions ensemble regular. Following a career as a clinical psychologist and researcher across both academic and corporate settings, he then ventured into writing and acting. Recent performances include his solo piece, The Man On The Ice, and his one-act, Crossing The Street. Member of Jack Wetherall’s Shakespeare Lab NYC. Heartfelt gratitude to Ellen and Maria, utmost appreciation to Drew, and hats off to our authors and players. To Alma, Stella, and Tilda. To the incomparable Ellen – your vision and presence make us all better.

Susan is an actress (Equity/SAG-AFTRA), playwright (Dramatists Guild), and theater professor. Her play, Where No Woman Has Gone Before, was a semifinalist this summer in the Secret Theatre Act One: One Act Festival. Other one-act plays are: Galway City Visitor (Salmagundi Art Club), Honey, Cassatt & Degas, Waiting For the Train, Final Answer, The Park, & You’ll Be Back (Westchester Collaborative Theater) and Anam Cara (Artistic New Directions Eclectic Festival). Full-length play: Girl In Blue Armchair, (Harvey Theater, NYFA Grant). Recent Acting credits: Barbara (Where No Woman Has Gone Before); Sharon (Galway City Visitor); Beulah in A Landing Called Compromise (Salmagundi Art Club); Athena in Technical Difficulties & Bethany Anne in Thirty Days (New York Theater Festival).

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.

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, and he is currently filming a significant supporting role in an upcoming independent feature. On stage, he recently performed in David Masello’s Ancient Poem at the National Arts Club and Bruce Dalziel’s Technical Difficulties at the NY Theater Festival. David is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, and is Creative Director at 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.

Hank has most recently appeared as Uncle Solly in the first three segments of Vince Gerardi’s epic theatrical opus “Memnoires”, featuring Benny Love. Hank has had the great good fortune to also appear in two other of Donna Baier Stein’s plays, as well as performing in two other of Bruce Dalziel’s plays, one at the N.Y. Theater Festival directed by Ellen Barber, in which he was nominated for best actor. He also was blessed to have appeared in Raphael Badagliacca’s GPS 1 with the late, great Jane Marx 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.

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, 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 currently works bi-coastal.

Julie is an NYC-based actor and sometime writer/director. Very excited to be working for the first time with Winterlight Productions! Recent theatre credits include Twelfth Night (Feste), Sometime Child (Rachel), and J Kaisaar (Anchorwoman). Former Executive Director of the Rogue Ensemble Theater Company, producing, directing, and performing in As You Like It (dir., Adam), Titus Andronicus (Tamora), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), and Romeo & Juliet (producer).

Nicholas was a featured soloist in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber and in Maize and Blue on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre. He enjoys writing, composing and has been brushing up on his Richard III. Some of his favorite roles include the emcee in Cabaret, Danny in Baby, and the Prince in Into the Woods. He is pleased to be a part of another show with Winterlight Productions and to work with Ellen again.

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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.

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

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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; Bev in Spring Cleaning; Ms. Longine in The Stage Manager; Marie in Haven; Dr. Chip in Technical Difficulties; Mrs. Gunmore in Six Passionate Women; female leads in The Good Doctor and as 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) , Spring Thaw (May 2023) and Trade-Offs (February 2024). She is a founding member of Ensemble Studio Theatre; a member of Jack Wetherall’s Shakespeare Lab NYC; and Chair of The Writers Lab 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 (Most recent: Winterlight’s productions of Spring Thaw and Winter Tales; Others include: 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 University; MA New School. She spends her time between NYC and Newport, RI, where she works as a Fine Gardener and an Organic Vegetable Farmer. Much Love to Leo, Avi & Simon.