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Amy Aquino (Sara Goode)
performed at SCR in last season’s The Siegel and in 2007 in Sarah Treem’s A Feminine Ending. Her career began in New York, where she had roles in numerous productions at Playwrights Horizons and Circle Repertory Company; in Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway and, more recently, in Wasserstein’s Third at Lincoln Center and Jonathan Tolins’ Secrets of the Trade at Primary Stages. Her West Coast appearances include Maria in Twelfth Night at San Diego’s Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum’s Living Out and the Geffen Playhouse’s The Underpants by Steve Martin. Aquino’s film career spans Working Girl and Moonstruck through White Oleander and In Good Company to the upcoming Beautiful Boy with Steve Carrell. Before landing her current role as Lt. Billets in Amazon’s hit series, “Bosch,” she was a regular on television’s “Brooklyn Bridge” and “Picket Fences” and made numerous guest appearances including recurring roles in “Glee,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “ER,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Freaks and Geeks,” “Felicity” and SyFy’s “Being Human.” She holds an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, is married to financial advisor Drew McCoy and served 20 years as a national officer of SAG-AFTRA. @aquino_amy
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Matthew Arkin (Mervyn Kant)
previously appeared at SCR in The Siegel, All the Way, The Whale, The Prince of Atlantis and Our Mother’s Brief Affair. His Broadway credits include Losing Louie, The Sunshine Boys and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Dinner with Friends (Drama Desk nomination), Rounding Third, Indian Blood, War in Paramus, You Should Be So Lucky and Moonlight and Magnolias. His regional theatre work includes Surf Report at La Jolla Playhouse, The Scene at Hartford Stage, Sight Unseen at George Street Playhouse, Little Footsteps and Lost in Yonkers at Pennsylvania Stage Company, Around the World in 80 Days at The Cape Playhouse, A Thousand Clowns at American Stage Company, Two Rooms and True West at TheatreWorks and Talley’s Folly at Bay Street Theatre. His film and television credits include Margot at the Wedding, Second Best, Raising Flagg, Death to Smoochy, An Unmarried Woman, The Curse, “Aquarius,” “NCIS,” “Switched at Birth,” “Harry’s Law,” “Medium,” “Rescue Me” (recurring), the “Law & Order” franchise, “Ed,” “Third Watch,” “100 Centre Street” (recurring), “All My Children” (recurring) and “Simple Justice.” Arkin is director of SCR’s Acting Intensive Program and the author of the suspense novel, In the Country of the Blind, available at Amazon. For more information, visit matthewarkin.com.
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Betsy Brandt (Pfeni Rosensweig )
currently stars in the CBS comedy series, “Life in Pieces.” She is also well-known to television audiences for her portrayal of Marie, the sister-in-law of meth-making mastermind Walter White in “Breaking Bad,” the Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe award-winning series. She starred opposite Michael J. Fox in the NBC comedy “The Michael J. Fox Show.” Her numerous other television credits include memorable recurring roles in “Masters of Sex” and “Parenthood.” Brandt’s recent film projects include the Lifetime feature, Flint, about the devastating lead poisoning of the water supply in Flint, Michigan; the title role in festival independent Claire in Motion; and soon-to-be released Quest, with Lou Diamond Phillips and Dash Mihok. She also appeared in the Steven Soderbergh film, Magic Mike, with Channing Tatum. SCR is one of Brandt’s favorite theatrical homes, where she originated roles in two world premieres—award-winner Julia Cho’s The Language Archive and Beth Henley’s Ridiculous Fraud. She portrayed Holly in the West Coast premiere of Geoffrey Nauffts’ Tony Award-nominated Next Fall at the Geffen Playhouse and has starred in numerous productions at the Intiman Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre and Portland Center Stage. Brandt studied theatre with the Moscow Art School and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; she earned her BFA in acting at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Bill Brochtrup (Geoffrey Duncan)
returns to SCR where he was previously in Shakespeare in Love, Noises Off, Taking Steps and The Real Thing. In New York, he appeared in the off-Broadway productions of Jonathan Tolins’ Secrets of the Trade (Primary Stages) and David Marshall Grant’s Snakebit (Century Center), as well as the Fringe-NYC production of John Pollono’s Lost and Found. His Los Angeles theatre credits include productions at Pasadena Playhouse, L.A. Theatre Works, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Fountain Theatre, Evidence Room, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Rogue Machine and Antaeus Theatre Company, where he serves as co-artistic director. He appeared in the films Life as We Know It, He’s Just Not That into You, Ravenous and in the upcoming, Hypnotized. He has been a television series regular on three Steven Bochco cop shows, “Public Morals,” “Total Security” and a 10-year run as cheerful police administrative aide John Irvin on ABC’s Emmy Award-winning “NYPD Blue.” He spent the last five seasons recurring as savvy police psychologist Dr. Joe on TNT’s “Major Crimes.” billbrochtrup.com
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Emily James (Tess Goode)
returns to SCR having previously appeared in Mr. Wolf and Flora & Ulysses. She was in Antigone at A Noise Within, Colony Collapse at The Theatre @ Boston Court, Stage Kiss at Geffen Playhouse, Smoke and We Are Not These Hands at Rogue Machine Theatre and and Husbands and Wives at Ensemble Theatre Company. She is a graduate of Cal State Fullerton with a BFA in acting.
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Riley Neldam (Tom Valiunus)
is making his SCR debut with this production. Neldam recently originated the role of Jason in the world premiere of Stefanie Zadravec’s Colony Collapse at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena. His previous regional theatre collaborations include Intiman Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, 5th Avenue Theatre and Book-it Repertory Theatre.
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Eleanor Reissa (Gorgeous Teitlebaum)
is making her SCR debut. She is an actor, director, playwright and singer. On Broadway, she was in Paula Vogel’s play Indecent and received a Tony Award nomination for directing Those Were the Days, in which she performed and also choreographed. She directed and starred in Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance in Yiddish at La MaMa. Reissa performed in two other Wendy Wasserstein works, Isn’t It Romantic and a little-known musical, Miami. Her directing credits include Cowgirls (off-Broadway and The Old Globe), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Threepenny Opera, Avenue X, as well as Dianna of Dobson’s, Echoes of the War, The Skin Game and Soldier’s Wife at the Mint Theater Company. An anthology of her plays, The Last Survivor and Other Modern Jewish Plays, was recently published and she was commissioned by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene to write and direct the Yiddish translation of Paddy Chayevsky’s The Tenth Man. Reissa is one of the world’s most renowned interpreters of Yiddish music and just returned from a European tour with Frank London and the Klezmer Brass Allstars. She has been selected to helm From Shtetl to Stage for Carnegie Hall in 2019.
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Julian Stone (Nicholas Pym)
s excited to return to SCR, where he appeared in the West Coast premiere of Man from Nebraska, directed by William Friedkin. Nationally, his theatre credits include And a Nightingale Sang (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Treasure Island (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), National Playwright’s Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Dark Shadows (VIA Theater, NYC), Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (Provincetown Playhouse, NYC) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Princeton Rep Company). He has appeared extensively on the screen, guest-starring in many popular television shows including “Suburgatory,” “Maron,” “Castle,” “Columbo,” “Mad About You,” “Baywatch” and “Babylon 5” and was a regular on “General Hospital” (ABC). As a voice actor, he has worked in video game franchises such as “Call of Duty,” “Medal of Honor,” “Titanfall” and “Uncharted” and looped film features including Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rogue One, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road and Phantom Thread. With his writing/producing hat, he currently has television series in development at Gaumont and Constantin Film. He is a member of Equity (U.K.) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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