Tyler Michaels King (Michael) is an actor, director, and is the Founding Artistic Director of Trademark Theater. He has worked and played with the Guthrie Theater, The Ordway, Theater Latté Da, Children’s Theater Company, Hennepin Theater Trust, History Theatre, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Illusion Theater, and Artistry, among many others. Tyler is also a founding member of The Bearded Company. Tyler is a McKnight Theater Artist Fellow, holds the 2014 Emerging Artist Ivey Award, the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Performance from the Kennedy Center National ACT Festival, and was named “Artist of the Year” by Minnesota’s City Pages.

Mark Benninghofen (Father Jack) is thrilled to return to the Asolo Rep stage and this wonderful Sarasota audience. Last season he appeared as Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind and Inspector Hubbard in Dial M for Murder. Other national theater credits include: Juno and the Paycock, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Six Degrees of Separation, Born Yesterday, St. Joan, Time Stands Still, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide, Great Expectations, Tyrone and Ralph and The Hot House. TV and film credits include Movie Stars, Frasier, Drew Carey, Chicago Hope, The Public Domain, Wilson and Older Than America. markbenninghofen.com

Gina Costigan (Kate) Broadway: Hangmen, The Ferryman. Off-Broadway: Party Face (NYCC), The Suitcase Under the Bed (The Mint), Crackskull Row (Irish Rep). Regional: The Seedbed (NJ Rep). UK/Ireland: On McQuillan’s Hill (The Finborough), The Valley of the Squinting Windows (Mullingar Arts Centre), An Trial (National Tour), The Risen People (Gaiety). Film/TV: Law & Order, “Kiin”, “My Sailor, My Love”, “Atlanta”, “Harry Wild”, “Halston”, “I Know This Much Is True”, “Vikings”, “Brittany Runs a Marathon”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Fair City”, “Becoming Jane”, “Veronica Guerin.” Dedicated to the brilliant Glenties Drama Group, the wonderful Mac McDermottroe and the best Kate ever played... mum, Maria McDermottroe

Derdriu Ring (Maggie) is a graduate of The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin. Memorable roles include; Slippy Helen/The Cripple of Inishmaan (The Geffen Playhouse), Catherine/A Long Day’s Journey into Night (Hartford Stage), Catherine/Proof (The Cleveland Playhouse), Josie/Moon for the Misbegotten (Great Lakes Theater), Pegeen Mike/The Playboy of the Western (The Irish Rep, NYC), Rosie Redmond/The Plough & The Stars (The Guthrie Theatre), Charlotte/Something Clean (Dobama Theatre). Derdriu has won best actress from The Cleveland Critics Circle & Pittsburgh Post Gazette four times. Television: Law & Order C.I., Hope & Faith. Love to Vince, Rosebud & Henry.

Clare O’Malley (Agnes) is an acclaimed Irish actor, singer, and songwriter, performing worldwide from Ireland’s National Theatre, The Abbey, to Eurovision in Azerbaijan. In New York, she starred Off-Broadway at The Irish Repertory Theatre in The Plough and the Stars, Pumpgirl, The Dead 1904, and Philadelphia, Here I Come!. U.S. highlights include Saint Joan (DTC), Private Lives (Walnut Street), Metamorphoses (The Arden), and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (PTC). Film/TV: Creed, Distemper, Benighted Entries. Her debut single The Collector is streaming now, with her EP set for release in May 2025. Listen on Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube Music.

Maeve Moynihan (Rose) is very grateful to work on this beautiful play! This is her Asolo Repertory Theatre debut. Most recently, she played Ophelia in Hamlet at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She also toured with the first national tour of To Kill a Mockingbird and played Scout Finch. Other regional theaters she’s worked for include The Guthrie Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Park Square Theatre, Red Eye Theater, Theatre Latté Da, The Minnesota Opera, The Children’s Theatre Company, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. Special thanks to her supportive family and fiancé, Mike.

Doireann Mac Mahon (Christina) Asolo Rep Debut. Theatre credits include Corruption (Lincoln Centre Theatre), Ellis Island (Rattlestick Theatre), Peter and the Wolf (Irish National Concert Hall), Angela’s Ashes the Musical (Irish National Tour), and Wrong Turn at Lungfish (Viking Theatre/Civic Theatre, Dublin). Film: Shallow Water. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Collin Kelly-Sordelet (Gerry) First time working at Asolo Rep and thrilled to be a part of this wonderful cast & crew. Broadway credits: Young Gideon/Tom in Sting's The Last Ship, JJ Carney in The Ferryman. Off-Broadway: Second Stage's Somebody's Daughter, The Coast Starlight Film: Wildling, Radium Girls, Escaping Ohio. TV: Blue Bloods, Hulu's The Path.

Understudies

Patrick Vest (u/s Father Jack) is delighted to be working with the wonderful people at Asolo Rep! Patrick received him MFA in acting from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. His regional theatre credits include Henry VIII and Much Ado About Nothing at Utah Shakespeare. Almost Maine, Taking Sides, and Moonlight and Magnolias at The Rubicon. He also played Iago for Nebraska Shakespeare. Aside from acting, Patrick is a fight choreographer and a father of two.

Trent Dahlin (u/s Gerry/Michael) is making his Asolo Rep debut! He has played major roles at top regional theaters, including five seasons at the Utah Shakespeare Festival - Feste (Twelfth Night), Gardiner (Henry VIII), and many more - and three seasons at TheatreSquared - A Christmas Carol (Fred/Young Scrooge). Catch him co-leading his first feature film, Mission Stories (Deseret). He recently played Jerry Lee Lewis (MDQ) and is excited to understudy another iconic pianist in Goodnight, Oscar.

Moriel Behar (u/s Kate/Maggie) Asolo debut and delighted to be here! National tours: Little Women, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Recent regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania/Hippolyta), The Sound of Music (Baroness Elsa Schraeder). Originally from Seattle, Moriel holds her BFA in Drama and Musical Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. When not performing, Moriel runs marathons and drinks a lot of coffee. Thanks to Chondra at FSE, Hannah at Serendipity, Jon at home. morielbehar.com, @momo_behar.

Elle Miller (u/s Agnes) is thrilled to join the Asolo Repertory Theatre in her third year as an MFA student at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Recent credits include Julie in Miss Julie, Olga in Three Sisters, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (FSU/Asolo Conservatory); u/s Henrietta Leavitt in Silent Sky (Asolo Rep); u/s Sword/Ensemble in Three Musketeers (Asolo Rep); Marianne in Constellations (Jacoby Arts, IL). She sends love to her family and wants to thank the Asolo and the Conservatory for the opportunity and support. IG: @elle_movementart

Caitlin Rose (u/s Rose) is an actor & model from Knoxville, TN earning their MFA with the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Previously at Asolo, Caitlin was Don Pedro/Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing and understudied Milady in Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers. Recent credits: Jess in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (Revised) (Again) at Piknik Theatre; and with FSU/Asolo: Romeo in Romeo & Juliet and Julie in Miss Julie. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

Corrie Owens (u/s Chris) is a graduate of Shakespeare & Company’s Month-Long Intensive. She earned her BA in Stage Acting and Theater Education from Hampshire College. Recent credits include Polina Zherebtsova (In the Garden of Z), Malcolm, Witch, and Lady MacDuff (Macbeth), Belle, Caroline, Fred’s Wife (A Christmas Carol) with Theater in the Open, and Geisha Girl (Madama Butterfly) at The Music Hall.

PLAYWRIGHT 

BRAIN FRIEL wrote The Enemy Within (1962); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964); The Loves of Cass Maguire (1966); Lovers (1967); Crystal and Fox (1968); The Mundy Scene (1969); The Gentle Island (1971); The Freedom of the City (1973); Volunteers (1975); Living Quarters (1977); Aristocrats (1979); Faith Healer (1979); Translations (1980); a translation of Three Sisters (1981); The Communication Cord (1982); an adaptation of Turgenev’s Novel Fathers and Sons (1987); Making History (1988); Dancing at Lughnasa (1990); The London Vertigo (1991); an adaptation of A Month in the Country (1992); Wonderful Tennessee (1993); and Molly Sweeney (1994). Dancing at Lughnasa premiered at the Abbey Theatre, transferred to London’s West End, and then went on to Broadway, where it won three 1992 Tony Awards, including Best Play. The play has been performed around the world, including national tours in Ireland, England, and Australia. 

DIRECTOR 

JOE DOWLING has been an actor, director, and teacher for over fifty years.  At age 29, he was appointed the youngest ever artistic director of The Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. In 1987, he founded The Gaiety School of Acting, the first full-time acting training in Ireland.  In New York, he directed the Tony Award nominated Moliere’s Tartuffe and Dion Boucicault’s London Assurance. For Shakespeare in The Park, he directed Othello, with Raul Julia and Christopher Walken. In 1995, He was appointed artistic director and CEO of The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.  He was the driving force behind the relocation of the theatre from its original location to the banks of The Mississippi River in a new three-theatre complex. 

CREATIVE TEAM 

Joe Dowling (Director) has been an actor, director, and teacher for over fifty years.  At age 29, he was appointed the youngest ever artistic director of The Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. In 1987, he founded The Gaiety School of Acting, the first full-time acting training in Ireland.  In New York, he directed the Tony Award nominated Moliere’s Tartuffe and Dion Boucicault’s London Assurance. For Shakespeare in The Park, he directed Othello, with Raul Julia and Christopher Walken. In 1995, He was appointed artistic director and CEO of The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.  He was the driving force behind the relocation of the theatre from its original location to the banks of The Mississippi River in a new three-theatre complex.

Winter (Seo Woo) Jung (Directing Fellow) is a passionate theater director and Fellow Director for this production. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts in Korea and recently completed her master’s in Arts and Entertainment Management at Pace University in New York. Seo has extensive experience directing and stage-managing plays and musicals in both the U.S. and Korea. She has worked on numerous productions in both countries, including serving as assistant director for the musical Make Your Love Come True. Seo also contributed to a TV variety show in New York, showcasing her creativity and dedication to cultural collaboration. She aims to create innovative productions that connect performers and audiences across cultures.

Cat Brindisi (Movement Consultant) From 2013-2017, Cat was a co-founder of 7th House Theater in Minneapolis: a company dedicated to producing new musicals and reimagined stagings of works from the canon. Direction: Once Upon a Time Mattress (Cedar Summerstock), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre) Choreography: Man of La Mancha (Asolo Rep, dir. Peter Rothstein); The Sounds Inside (The Southern, dir. Kate-Sutton Johnson) Select Acting: The Guthrie Theater: Stage Kiss, The Tempest, Into the Woods, The Parchman Hour, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park With George; Theatre Latte Da: Spring Awakening, Aida, … Spelling Bee) Writing: The Daughters: An autobiographical play with music centering around Cat’s journey through alcoholism and the other side of recovery (proudly sober since 7/28/2015), The House at Echo’s End: an original musical for radio theatre developed at Everwood Writer’s Retreat. 

John Lee Beatty (Set Design) Designed well over 100 Broadway plays including Cult of Love, Sweat, Disgraced, The Nance, Venus in Fur, Doubt, Other Desert Cities, Rabbit Hole, Good People, Proof, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Talley’s Folly, Faith Healer (Friel) Fifth of July; major revivals of Plaza Suite, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress; and the musicals Chicago, The Color Purple, After Midnight, and Ain’t Misbehavin”. Equally prolific off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater (the current “Ghosts”) Manhattan Theater Club (currently “We Had a World”) Circle Rep, Shakespeare in Central Park, “Encores!” and major regional theaters. Multiple Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie awards, Theater Hall of Fame

David Covach (Costume Design) David has been in the Asolo Repertory Theatre Costume Shop for 30 years as a manager, designer and technician. David will be designing Dancing at Lughnasa in Asolo Mainstage’s Rep Season. David’s freelance work is often seen at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg, where his most recent production was last summer’s premiere of Doug DeVita’s Fable. Locally, David has worked with Urbanite Theatre and sits on the Creative Council for Venice Theatre. David would like to thank his partner Scott Keys for 40 years of love and support. 

Sinead McKenna (Lighting Design) is a Lighting and Stage designer for Dance, Theatre and Opera, and is delighted to be working at Asolo Rep. She designed set and lights for Gabriel Byrne’s Walking with Ghosts for Landmark (Music Box/ Gaeity/ Apollo theatres); and The Approach, Bedbound, Reunion, Howie the Rookie among others. Other designs include Emma and Faith Healer (Abbey Theatre); The President (Sydney Theatre Company/ Gate Theatre); Fair Maid (RSC); Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse) Parade (Théâtre du Châtelet). Other work staged in the US includes New Electric Ballroom (Druid/ St Annes Warehouse), Heaven (Fishamble), Waiting for Godot (Gare San Lazare) and Improbable Frequency (Rough Magic). She received two Irish Times Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Lighting Design for a Musical.

Peter Morrow (Sound Design/Original Compositions) grew up and started his theatre career in Ireland after completing his MA at Trinity College Dublin. He worked there for 6 years with the company Brokentakers before moving to Minneapolis 12 years ago. There he works throughout the Twin Cities area for theaters including The Guthrie Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Theatre Latté Da, Ten Thousand Things, Pilsbury House & Theatre and Wonderlust Productions. He collaborates with many other theaters, dance companies, and individual artists as a Composer/Sound & Projection Designer, with a focus on community, collaboration and care.  This year he is Threads Dance Company’s Community Partner and has become a company member with Wonderlust Productions. He is delighted to be at Asolo Rep for the first time working on this piece from home.

Michelle Hart (Hair, Wig, Make-up Design) Hart designs for Asolo Repertory Theatre and FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Other credits: Sarasota Ballet; Palm Beach Dramaworks; freeFall Theatre; Urbanite Theatre; Florida Studio Theatre; Wesctoast Black Theatre Troupe; Banyan Theatre; Ruth Eckerd Hall; Venice Theatre; Dorset Theatre, Barrington Stage and Open Stage Theatre. She has also done hair and/or make-up for Joan Rivers, Doris Roberts, Martin Short, Jane Russell, Arlene Dahl, Soledad Villamil, Jane Pauley, Richard Dreyfuss, Castille Langdon, Christopher Higgins, Mary Mara, Heather Robb, Lauren Sweetser, Justin Long, Paul Downs, Douglas Sills and Nia Hills; music videos: “Second Chance” by Shinedown,“Reverse Cowgirl” by T-Pain; film and television: Lady Of The Manor, Paradise, FL. and The Real Stephen Blatt. 

Summer Dawn Wallace (Consent Workshop) Asolo Repertory Theatre favorites include: Knoxville (World Premiere), Silent Sky, Crazy For You, Cabaret, Sweat, The Cake, Sweeney Todd, Gloria, Ragtime, Rhinoceros, Roe, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, The Great Society, Josephine (World Premiere), All The Way, West Side Story, Sotto Voce, Other Desert Cities, The Grapes of Wrath, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Clybourne Park, The Innocents (World Premiere), Twelve Angry Men, Bonnie & Clyde (World Premiere), Doubt, Equus. Other credits include Judith (World Premiere, Urbanite Theatre), Pitmen Painters (American Stage Theatre), The Smuggler (Urbanite Theatre), Studio Six’s production of Plasticine (The Baryshnikov Arts Center), Saturday Night Fever (Royal Caribbean International Cruises), Stone Cold Dead Serious (World Premiere, American Repertory Theatre), and Nocturne (World Premiere, American Repertory Theatre). 

Jacki Singleton (PSM) Previously at Asolo Rep: Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers, Inherit the Wind, Intimate Apparel, Chicken & Biscuits, Our Town, The Great Leap, Terrace Season 2020-21, The Crucible, A Dolls House, Part 2, and Noises Off. American Players Theatre (Spring Green, Wisconsin), 23 seasons, including recent projects Wildfire, Anton’s Shorts, and Love’s Labour’s Lost.  Others: Animal Farm at Milwaukee Repertory & Baltimore Center Stage; Outside Mullingar at Clarence Brown; three seasons at Forward Theater (Madison, WI); seven seasons at Madison Repertory Theatre; and numerous Chicago theaters including the Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, and Next Theatre. Jacki lives in Lisbon, Portugal.

Sarah Nicholson (AEA ASM) is delighted to return to Asolo Rep! At Asolo: Much Ado About Nothing (TYA Tour), Our Town, The Great Leap, Hood. She has spent her last few summers at American Players Theatre; most recently: the world premiere of Michael Hollinger’s The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool and Dancing at Lughnasa. Other credits include: Riverside Theatre, Orlando Family Stage, Orlando Shakes, Forward Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, and Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, as well as work with Disney Live Entertainment. Sarah earned her BFA in Stage Management from the University of Central Florida.