Dan Donohue* (Michael) returns to SCR, where he last appeared as Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guvnors. On Broadway and on the national tour, he played Scar in The Lion King. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he appeared in more than 30 productions playing such roles as Richard III, Iago, Prince Hal, Henry V and Hamlet. His work has also been seen at Yale Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and many others. Film and television work includes Magazine Dreams, “High Potential,” “Government Cheese,” and recurring roles in “Wonder Man,” “For All Mankind,” “Longmire,” “Damnation,” “Strange Angel,” and “The Last Tycoon.” He is an inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.
Melinda Page Hamilton* (Veronica) Her theatre credits include Rear Window (Hartford Stage), Cornelia, Bell, Book And Candle and All My Sons (The Old Globe); The Royal Family (Ahmanson Theater, Arena Stage); To Fool The Eye (Guthrie Theater); Cyrano (Cleveland Play House); The Seagull (George Street Playhouse) and numerous productions at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre. Television credits include series regular roles on “The Peripheral” (Amazon Studios), “Messiah” (Netflix), “Damnation” (FX) and recurring roles on “Mrs. America” (FX), “Devious Maids” (ABC), “Desperate Housewives” (ABC), “Mad Men” (AMC), “How to Get Away With Murder” (CBS ) and many others. Her film credits include Sleeping Dogs Lie, for which she was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor; M.O.M. and God Bless America. She received her MFA from NYU. She is delighted to be making her SCR debut 33 years after her father, Frank Hamilton, appeared in the original production of Prelude to a Kiss here in 1988.
Derek Manson* (Alan and Michael Understudy) returns to SCR after appearing in last season’s Little Shop of Horrors (Orin). Past SCR credits include Snow White (Four), Tiger Style! (Russ), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Snoopy) and the 2022 and 2023 Pacific Playwrights Festivals. Recent credits include Musical Theatre West’s Into the Woods (The Baker), and Disney’s Frozen with McCoy Rigby Entertainment in La Mirada. Last fall he was seen in Inkwell Theater’s world premiere play Paper Walls on the Broadwater Main Stage in Hollywood. Los Angeles stage credits include The Bicycle Men, Neil Simon’s Musical Fools, The Gary Plays, Room Service, The 39 Steps, Life Expectancy, The Brat Pack, Love Actually in Concert, Sunny Afternoon, King Dick, 1984, The Bewildered Herd, Making Paradise and Second City This Week. Television and and voice over credits include “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “The Last Tycoon,” “UnREAL,” and SNL’s “Best of TV Funhouse.”
Kim Martin-Cotten* (Annette) is a producer, director, actor and educator. From Fall of 2021 to Summer of 2025 she held the positions of SCR’s Associate Artistic Director and Co-director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Before joining SCR she held the positions of Artistic Producer and Associate Director of New Works for Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Prior to that, as the founding Artistic Producer of Off-Broadway company Hang A Tale, she was producing in New York from 2014 through 2019, developing new work and reimagining classics. As an actor, she has performed regionally across the country, and in New York, she has been seen both off and on Broadway. Her latest work as an actor was covering both Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney in the rotating roles of Regina and Birdie for the Broadway production of The Little Foxes. She also performed in Merchant of Venice as Portia opposite Al Pacino on Broadway in Lily Rabe’s absence. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance as Josie in Moon for the Misbegotten at Pearl Theatre. She has also taught acting at Yale School of Drama. As a director, she recently directed The Old Man and The Old Moon at Outside SCR, and co-directed Million Dollar Quartet. Other directing projects include The Dumbwaiter, Cabaret, Death of A Salesman, Proof and The Taming of the Shrew. She also served as Project Assistant to Anna Deavere Smith on her initial production of House Arrest: First Edition at Arena Stage.
Brian Vaughn* (Alan) returns to SCR after playing Georg in She Loves Me. He recently finished touring the country in the Tony Award Winning Best Musical Revival of Parade and before that in the Broadway first national tour of Beetlejuice. Recent credits include Sweet Smell of Success at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Claudius in Hamlet at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Vaughn appeared in more than 60 productions in over 25 years at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and 13 years as a Resident Company Member at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Regional credits include Arizona Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Northlight Theatre, PCPA, Skylight Music Theatre. Favorite roles include Hamlet, Henry V, Cyrano de Bergerac, Iago in Othello, The Poet in An Iliad, Charlie in Stones in his Pockets, Javert in Les Misérables, Harold Hill in The Music Man and Mozart in Amadeus. brianvaughnofficial.com / @brianvaughn11
Paige Lindsey White* (Annette and Veronica Understudy) appeared at SCR previously in Abundance and Kings. Other favorite credits include Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Pasadena Playhouse); Pericles, Polonius and Malvolio (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Sierra Repertory Theatre); Other Desert Cities (Arizona Theatre Company and Indiana Repertory Theatre); At Home at the Zoo (The Wallis); Titania/Hippolyta in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Disney Concert Hall); Fallen Angels and Hamlet (Ensemble Theatre Company); Rapture Blister Burn (San Diego Repertory Theatre); Trying and Ghost-Writer (International City Theatre); The Children, RII and With Love and a Major Organ (Boston Court Pasadena); Walking the Tightrope (24th Street Theatre) and the international tour of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (The Actors’ Gang). On television, she appeared in “Shameless,” “American Woman,” “Corporate,” “Days of Our Lives” and “TV Funhouse.” She is the winner of a LA Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Lead Performance. paigelindseywhite.com
