B iographies ( continued )
CHRIS CASWELL (Linda) - is deeply grateful to have performed in front of live people with sketch comedy troupe Stealing From Work, with Vermont Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare: Com- pletely Unbound!, and with Bald Mountain Theater’s Tales From Japan. Pandemic projects included Brave New Classics’ virtual production of Sex, animating the short film & Gretel Hansel, and interviewing artists, pets, and puppets on @interview- minutewpeanut. Chris is elated to be acting withVermont Stage again and for all of you! Past productions include: Curious Inci-
dent, Doublewide, Or,, Time Stands Still, As You Like It, Oliver Twist, Shipwrecked!, Well, and Winter Tales. Chris is a teaching artist with Vermont Young Playwrights and serves as Vice President for the temporarily shuttered black box theater, Off Center for the Dramatic Arts. Thank you for supporting live theater.
GINA STEVENSEN (Hilda) - is an actor, playwright, and recent NYC transplant. She received her BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch and her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. In Burl- ington she has performed as Beatrice/Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (City Hall Park) and“The Front Porch Follies” (BCA grant recipient, Highlight New Year’s Eve). As a playwright, her work has been developed in NYC, London, Florida, Virginia, Ne- vada, and more. She is the 2021 winner of the Kernodle New Play Award, the 2020 winner of the NewWorks Initiative at Good Luck Macbeth Theater, and a 2019 winner of the Columbia@
Roundabout New Play Reading Series. She is the director of Middlebury Acting Company’s American Dreaming: New Play Festival and has been a guest lecturer at Hunter College, NYU Tisch, and the University of Arkansas. www.ginastevensen. com.
LAURA WOLFSEN (Sylvia) - is grateful to be working with the talented cast and crew of Vermont Stage. She starred in in Ver- mont Stage’s production of Relativity and the 2019 The Bake Off of The Foreigner. Laura studied musical theater at Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC where she performed and as- sistant directed The Cherry Orchard. Some of her favorite roles since returning to settle down in VT include Antonia in The Man of LaMancha, Anne in A Little Night Music, Rosa Bud in The Mys- tery of Edwin Drood with The Skinner Barn Theater, Cinderella with Middlebury Town Hall Theater as well as Julie in Some En-
chanted Evening at the Spruce Peak Arts Center. Recently, she has been seen danc- ing with Ergo Dance Company at the Highland Center for the Arts as well as other venues. Laura also enjoys her current studies at NVU as well as playing, hiking and singing with her two amazing little boys.
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