Apollinaire Theatre Company

	JOHN KUNTZ (Vanya) is an actor, playwright and solo performer. He is a founding company member of The Actors Shakespeare Project, where he appeared in the world premiere of his play The Hotel Nepenthe (Elliot Norton Awards for Best New Play & Best Ensemble), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens, The Tempest, King John, Titus Andronicus, The Winters Tale, Measure for Measure, 12th Night, All's Well That Ends Well, and the title role in Richard III. NY credits include The Bad Seed (Ohio Theatre), Jump/Rope (which he also wrote) with Square Peg Productions at Urban Stages, and his one-person shows Starfuckers (Ohio Theatre and NY Fringe) and Freaks! (Solo Arts Group). Recent Boston credits include Copenhagen and The Communist Dracula Pageant (ART); Salvador Dali in Hysteria, Aston in The Caretaker, 20 roles in How I Got That Story and multiple roles in Mere Mortals all with The Nora Theatre Company; Janet and Frick in After School Special (which he also wrote) and the title role in Mr. Marmalade (Company One); numerous productions of The SantaLand Diaries (IRNE Award Best Solo Performance); Katurian in the New England premiere of The Pillowman, Estragon in Waiting for Godot, the title role in Scapin, Austin in True West and the Emcee in Cabaret (New Repertory Theatre); Jane/Lord Edgar in The Mystery of Irma Vep, Carl in The Baltimore Waltz, Nathan Leopold in Never the Sinner, and 40 roles in Fully Committed (The Lyric Stage); Voice #1 in Betty's Summer Vacation (The Huntington Theatre Company) and three seasons with Commonwealth Shakespeare, appearing in Henry V (Fluellen), 12th Night (Sir Andrew) and Hamlet (Guildenstern/Osric). Film: The Red Right Hand (Roger), Anathema (Neil; Best Actor Award - Festival Du Cinema du Bruxelles). John is the author of 14 full-length plays, including The Salt Girl, The Superheroine Monologues (co-written with Rick Park), Sing Me to Sleep, Freaks, Starfuckers, After School Special, My Life with the Kringle Kult, Miss Price, The Hotel Nepenthe, Glitterati, Emerald City, Jasper Lake, Jump/Rope and Actorz with a Z. He received both an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award for his solo show Starfuckers and both Sing Me To Sleep and Freaks! received Elliot Norton Awards for "Outstanding Fringe Production". He was an inaugural Playwrighting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and a Fellow at the O'Neill Center 2007. His play Jasper Lake received both the Michael Kanin and Paula Vogel National Playwrighting Awards, with productions at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC) and the New York Fringe Festival. His solo show, The Salt Girl, won the 2010 Elliot Norton Award for "Best New Play". He teaches at Suffolk University, Concord Academy, and is on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory.
	KEVIN FENNESSY (Telegin) is pleased to make his Apollinaire debut in a return to acting after a 17 year hiatus. Since training at the Boston Conservatory of Music and at York University/Toronto, he has been an actor, award-winning theater director (Boston Magazine Best Theatrical Director 1995, citing THE GRAPES OF WRATH at Open Door Theater and EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES with Raven Theatrical), and casting director for film/tv/commercials (From 1998- 2002, his company Kevin Fennessy Casting was one of the top casting companies in town, until a fire destroyed the offices and equipment. KFCasting's credits included the local and/or extras casting for such features as THE PERFECT STORM, LIFT, ME MYSELF AND IRENE, SHALLOW HAL, STUCK ON YOU, THIRTEEN DAYS, OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE, MONA LISA SMILE and WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?). In 1982, he made he directed the Boston premiere of BOY MEETS BOY. As Artistic Director of Raven Theatrical (1994-1998), he directed the Boston premieres of Charles Busch's VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM, SLEEPING BEAUTY or COMA, and PSYCHO BEACH PARTY, as well as Albee's THE ZOO STORY with John Kuntz as Jerry. In 1997, Raven Theatrical won the Elliot Norton Award for Best Fringe Theater, as presenters of a double bill of John Kuntz's FREAKS! and Paula Plum's PLUM PUDDING. He began his post-academia acting career at the Boston Arts Group Theater ion July 14,1976, in MAYDAY, by Michael Wikes and Andy Golov in which he received a review ("the young and earnest cast") from Elliot Norton, followed by work with Maxine Klein's Little Flags Theater , touring from '76-'77, and the People's Theater of Cambridge, where he played Bobbie Bat in Mrozek's VATZLAV. Some other acting credits include Arnold Wiggins in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (The Theater of Newburyport), Rio Rita in THE HOSTAGE and Young Scrooge/Nephew Fred/etc. in A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Merrimack Repertory Theater), Jerry Devine in JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK and Ragnar Brovik in THE MASTER BUILDER (Lyric Stage), many shows for three summers with Tufts Arena Summer Theater (among them BORN YESTERDAY opposite Bobbie Steinbach) and many summers with the late great Open Door Theater of Boston (including Petruchio in TAMING OF THE SHREW, Sancho in MAN OF LA MANCHA and The Wigmaker in RASHOMON). His last "scripted role" was in 1994, when he played The Narrator in HOLIDAY MEMORIES, an adaptation of two Truman Capote stories, at the New Repertory Theater, then located in Newton. Last summer he began the road to performing again by joining the Ensemble of "The Miseries of the World" in the ART's premiere of Tod Machover's DEATH AND THE POWERS: THE ROBOTS' OPERA, directed by Diane Paulus and choreographed by Karole Armitage, at the Cutler Majestic. He dedicates his work on UNCLE VANYA to the memory of his Mother, Georgia Ravanis Fennessy (1/21/29-10/25/11), who inspired and encouraged everything he did.
	ERIN EVA BUTCHER (Sonya) returns to Apollinaire Theatre following her appearance in Slasher. She holds a BA in Theatre from Baldwin-Wallace College, and is an Alumni of the 2010 Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company. Regional Credits: Shakespeare & Company (Lucetta/ Host/ Outlaw- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Amiens- As You Like It, Ensemble- Everymanactor) Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Cinderella’s Mother- Into the Woods, Beatrice/ Dancer- The Mystery of Edwin Drood) Great Lakes Theatre Festival (Lady in Waiting- Twelfth Night, u/s Elaine- Arsenic and Old Lace, u/s Marianna/Juliet- Measure for Measure).
	ANN MARIE SHEA (Maria) has appeared at Stoneham Theatre (My Fair Lady, A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, And Then There Were None, A Prayer for Owen Meany ). Shakespearean roles for Worcester’s Redfeather Theatre include Maria, in Twelfth Night, Queen Margaret in Richard III, and Prospero in The Tempest. Other roles include Cass in The Loves of Cass McGuire (Pilgrim Soul), Ann Kron (understudy) in Well (Huntington Theatre), Mrs. Kilbride in By the Bog of Cats (Devanaughn Theatre), Margaret in Red Oak (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at Worcester State College (where she is professor emerita). Dean of the College of Fellows of New England Theatre Conference, she is also a director and a playwright, currently touring her one-woman show, Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins. Her plays have been staged by Redfeather, Newburyport Center for the Arts, Shakespeare & Co., and Turtle Lane Theatre. She is a member of Dramatists Guild.
	BILL SALEM (Serebriakov) is performing for the first time with Apollinaire. In Boston he has worked with Zeitgeist Stage Company in Stuff Happens, Spring Awakening, Public Fears in Private Places, Faragut North and Enron. He has also performed with ART, Huntington Theatre Company, Publick Theatre, Mill6, Shakespeare NOW, Opera Boston among others. Some favorite roles include "Queen" in Williams' Not about Nightingales (Boston Theatre Works, 2001 Elliot Norton Award), Dr. Rank in Ibsen's A Doll's House (Small World Big Sky) and Juror Number 11 in Twelve Angry Men (StanleyB Repertory Theater). Some regional credits include American Living Festival in NYC, Paper Mill Playhouse in NJ, Asolo Opera Company in Florida and Los Angeles Opera. He has reached that point in life where being retired from being a full-time librarian he now can be a part-time kennel keeper at an animal hospital.
	MARISSA RAE ROBERTS (Elena) is an actor, director, and creator. She recently premiered, Before The Fame, a musical based on the life and music of Lady Gaga, which she wrote and directed. This past year in Boston, Marissa co-founded toUch performance art, where she serves as the co-artistic director. After being selected to perform in the 2011 Together Festival, toUch will be bringing their hit show, AcousticaElectronica to Club Oberon in January and February of 2012! Marissa is in her second year of study at The Boston Conservatory for her Master in Musical Theater. She is a native of Syracuse, New York where she attended Le Moyne College and received a BA in Theater Arts. Marissa's favorite roles include Sarah Bagley in Factory Girls, Holly Seabe in Anton in Show Business, and Consuela in West Side Story, and her current role as Disco Girl in The Donkey Show at The American Repertory Theater.
	ANN CARPENTER (Nanny) is thrilled to be back on stage at Apollinaire Theatre. Past shows at Apollinaire include The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, Top Girls, Grapes of Wrath, and The Real Inspector Hound to name a few. Ann was also part of the Anger Box ensemble which traveled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Elsewhere Ann was most recently seen in Blackadder 2 at Theatreonfire. She was also part of the IRNE nominated ensembles of Working and The Importance of Being Ernest for which she won a DASH award for Best Supporting Actres .
	RONALD NELSON LACEY (Astrov) is happy to be making his first appearance with the Apollinaire Theatre. He has appeared in various productions in the Boston area, most recently as Jerry in Nemasket River Productions' presentation of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. Other recent credits include Father Flynn in Doubt, Humphrey in The Lady's Not For Burning, Doctor Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Claudius in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.He directed A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Anarchist Society of Shakespeareans, a group he founded in Cambridge, last summer. The A.S.S. will return to Cambridge in February with Measure for Measure, which he will also direct.
	MIKE HANDELMAN (Worker) is ecstatic to be making his debut with Apollinaire Theatre Company. Recent credits include Mr. Webb in Our Town (Riverside Theatre Works), Nazeer in Suburbia (Blank Page Theatre), Versati in The Underpants (Flat Earth Theatre), Giles in The Mousetrap (Zero Point Theatre), the ensemble of Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead (The Footlight Club) and Elbow in Measure for Measure (Hyperion Shakespeare Company). This past spring he played The Student in Speakeasy Stage Company's workshop production of The Blue Room directed by Paula Plum and featured in American Theatre Magazine. This summer he made his New York City debut at The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival as Finn in The Muse by local playwright Cassie Seinuk. This April you can see him in theatres in the feature film Crooked Arrows, starring Brandon Routh. He is a graduate of Harvard University (Extension School).