Kate Goehring
(Olga/Passport Officer/Professor/Valentina)
Kate's credits include the National Tour of
Angels in America (Harper — LA Pride/Carbonell Awards);
Heartbreak House (Intiman);
Orpheus Descending, Dancing at Lughnasa (Arena);
The Clean House, Tony Kushner’s
Slavs! (Actor's Theatre of Louisville),
How I Learned to Drive (ATC); one-person/seven-character
The Blonde, the Brunette & the Vengeful Redhead (Triad);
Collected Stories (ACT/Footlights Award); and
Saint Joan, The Syringa Tree (KC Repertory). Major roles at Huntington, Goodman, Northlight, Court, Bailiwick (After Dark Award/ Jeff Citation). Film/television: “Moment of Rage” (Chicago Emmy nomination), star/ co-stars for BBC, Comedy Central, “ER,” “Gossip Girl,” and as people messing up on various “Law & Orders.”
Alexandra Henrikson
(Katya)
Alexandra has appeared regionally in
Candida and
Taming of the Shrew (California Shakespeare Theater);
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theater Festival Act One Company);
Hell House ( St. Ann’s Warehouse);
Fly By Night (ArsNova); and Sarah Ruhl’s
Late: A Cowboy Song (Yale Cabaret). She is a founding member of the Good Belly Theater Collective and conceived and devised its first two shows:
Erebus and Terror and
Bones in the Basket. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and her BFA from NYU. www.alexandrahenrikson.com.
Judy Leavell
(Baba Yaga/Auntie Yaroslava)
Judy is happy to return to the Alliance Theatre, having last appeared there as Joanne in Managing Maxine. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1979, Judy has performed in many Atlanta theatres, including Theatre in the Square (On Golden Pond, The Savannah Disputation), Georgia Ensemble Theatre (Tokens of Affection, Steel Magnolias), ART Station (Driving Miss Daisy, The Lady With All the Answers), as well as with the Springer Opera House (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Enchanted April). Yes, that’s her in the tub for Safe Step Walk-In Tubs, and in March, you can see her in the film Butter, starring, Jennifer Garner.
Diany Rodriguez
(Masha)
Alliance: Into the Woods (Little Red); August: Osage County (Johnna); and Middle School: The Musical (Sari). Tours: Dora the Explorer Live! (Dora/Map) and Rent in Asia (Ensemble/ US Mimi). Notable credits: Fame (Carmen), The Cherry Orchard (Anya), Junie B. Jones (Lucille), Pippin (Catherine), Coyote Ugly(Scarlet), Soul Kitchen – off-Bway (Sangita), and Shlomo – off-Bway (Anjia/Ruth). She would like to thank the Alliance for taking a chance on her, and for hopefully continuing to ... please. Look for her this Mother's Day in ABC Family's “Crew 9.” Also, thank you people I love.
Bree Dawn Shannon
(The Other Katya/Nastya)
Bree is honored to be working at the Alliance with this cast and crew in this amazing new play. She hopes that you will enjoy the show as much as she has enjoyed her journey to tonight’s performance. Previous stage credits include Little House Christmas (Ma Ingalls); Come Blow Your Horn (Peggy Evans); and Oklahoma! (Laurey). Look for her opposite Jennifer Lopez in the feature film What to Expect When You’re Expecting due in theaters in May. Many thanks to her Heavenly Father, family and dearest husband Kendal for theirlove
and support.
Sarah Elizabeth Wallis
(Annie)
is thrilled to be making her Alliance Theatre debut! Sarah holds a BFA in performing arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a minor in music and is a graduate of Actor’s Express theatre’s Professional Acting Internship. Other Atlanta credits include: Best Christmas Pageant Ever 2010 & 11 (Beth) at Synchronicity Theatre, Ramona Quimby (Beezus) at Georgia Ensemble, Monsters (Simone/ Mud Woman) and Slasher (Hildy) at Actor’s Express. Thanks to everyone involved for this amazing opportunity, and to my family for their continued love and support!
Alana Cheshire
(US The Other Katya/Nastya/Katya)
Alana is thrilled to be making her debut at the Alliance! An Atlanta native, she graduated from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music with a bachelor's degree in vocal performance and theatre. Most recently seen in the Atlanta Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor as the Love Cursed Bride. Regional credits include Celia in As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice at Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Girleen in The Lonesome West with Cardinal Stage Company, and Sunny Frietag in The Last Night of Ballyhoo at the Brown County Playhouse. Alana would like to thank her family for all of their wonderful support.
Mary Saville
(US Olga/Passport Control Officer/Professor/Valentina/Baba Yaga/Auntie Yaroslava)
Mary is excited to be working with the Alliance Theatre for the first time. Atlanta appearances include Synchronicity, Georgia Ensemble, Aurora, Shakespeare Tavern and many others. Boston credits include History Alive and Alethia. Mary earned her M.A. in theatre education from Emerson College, and teaches young actors all over the city. Thank you for supporting new work.
Annie York
(US Masha/Annie)
Annie was most recently seen onstage in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Aurora Theatre). Other recent work includes Unnecessary Farce (Stage Door Players), Slasher (Actor’s Express) and Women + War(Synchronicity Theatre). Annie is a graduate of Actor’s Express theatre’s Professional Acting Internship and holds a BA in theatre from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She would like to thank her friends and family for their endless love and support, Jody for this incredible opportunity and YOU for supporting live theatre!
Meg Miroshnik
(Playwright)
Other plays include The Droll (Or, a Stage-Play about the END of Theatre) and The Tall Girls, a play about high school girls’ basketball in the 1930s. The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls is the winner of the Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and will be produced at the Moscow Playwright and Director Center in a Russian translation by Maria Kroupnik (directed by Ilya Shagalov). Her work has been produced or developed by Alliance Theatre, South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival, Perishable Theatre, the Kennedy Center, the Lark New Play Development Center, Yale Cabaret, and the Carlotta Festival at Yale. Upcoming projects include an adaptation of the libretto for Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki for Chicago Opera Theater in April 2012 (directed by Mike Donahue) and a commission for a new play for South Coast Repertory. Meg holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where she studied under Paula Vogel.
Eric Rosen
(Director)
Eric is artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, was founding artistic director of Chicago’s About Face Theatre (AFT) (1995-2008), and is a writer, director and producer. Original projects include Venice (KC Rep, CTG, upcoming NYC, Best Musical of 2010, TIME Magazine); Wedding Play (Steppenwolf/AFT, Jeff Nom), Winesburg Ohio (Steppenwolf, AFT — Jeff Award, Arden — Barrymore Award, KC Rep), Clay (AFT, Lookingglass, CTG, KC Rep, LCT3 — Drama Desk Nomination, Jeff Award), and Undone, Whitman and Dream Boy (Jeff Award, also at 7 Stages). Directing credits include Lincoln Center Theatre, KC Rep, CTG, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Lookingglass, Chicago Shakespeare, Hartford Stage, 5th Avenue, Prince, Cincinnati, Melbourne (Australia) and workshops at Sundance, O’Neill, Playwrights Horizons and the Public Theater. He has developed and produced nearly 40 world premieres, including Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner I am My Own Wife and work by Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati, Stephen Flaherty, Moises Kaufman, among others. Ph.D, Northwestern University.
Collete Pollard
(Scenic Designer)
Collete is thrilled to be working with Alliance Theatre on The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls. Collette resides in Chicago where her work has been seen at Steppenwolf Theatre, Writers' Theatre, Goodman Theatre and Court Theatre. Collette received a Joseph Jefferson Award for her design of The Front Page at TimeLine Theatre, as well as a nomination for her design of Broadway Bound at Drury Lane Theatre. She received the Michael Merritt Maggio Emerging Designer Award in 2010. Collette is a full-time scenic design theatre lecturer at Columbia College Chicago and teaches adjunct at Northwestern University. Collette would like to thank Mark for his constant support!
Howell Binkley
(Lighting Designer)
Broadway works include: How To Succeed... starring Daniel Radcliffe (2011 Tony nomination), Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), Guys and Dolls, Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, In The Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (Tony Award Winner), Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination/Dora and Olivier Award Winner) and How To Succeed... starring Matthew Broderick. Six musicals in rep for The Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration. The Joffrey Ballet's Billboards, and designs for more than sixty pieces for Parsons Dance which he co-founded with David Parsons.
Ivan Ingermann
(Costume Designer)
Theatre: Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream, SeaWorld A'lure. Film: Suits, Rules of the Game, Escape to Life, “2x4” (Sundance Winner). Television: National commercials for Pier One Imports, Toyota, Pontiac, BMW, McDonald's and MTV. Awards: Costume Designers Guild Excellence in commercial costume design nomination. Assistant credits: Grease (Willa Kim), The Snow Maiden (Desmond Heeley), Chicago (William Ivey Long), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Night of the Iguana (Susan Hilferty). He is a member of the United Scenic Artist Union Local 829 as well as a faculty member at UGA's Department of Theatre and Film Studies.