Lenny Daniels (she/her) was introduced to theatre in the 3rd grade by an amazing nun, she’s never stopped being a performing artist. Lenny is thankful to continue my journey, by being cast in this lovely production.  And I continue to share her passion with students from the Aikan Entertainment organization and the McClure school. Films: 12 Monkeys, Cover, Atlantic City Chronicles, OURIKA! Official selection of SUNDANCE film festival - 2023!  Stage: The Gospelers, The Layout, Flower Street, Longtime Since Yesterday, The Great White Hope, For Colored Girls, The Colored Museum, He Held Me Grand, The Crucible, The Voice that would not be Silenced.

Tymothee Harrell (AKA: Tymmé) (he/him) is an up and coming multi-disciplined artist from New Haven, CT. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; Tymothee exhibits powerhouse performance capabilities garnered from over 17+ years of center stage experience. Past credits include: Peacock TV, Youngarts Alumni, Amazon Prime Video, Off-Broadway, New World Symphony (Miami, FL), Apollo Theater, Shubert Theater (New Haven, CT), etc. Connect on Instagram: @ayetymme      

DeAnna Supplee (she/her) is a Philadelphia-born, New York City-trained actress.  A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she has also studied at the British American Drama Academy at the University of Oxford and the Actors Studio Drama School (MFA, Acting).  National Tour: Two Trains Running and The Comedy of Errors (The Acting Company).  NYC Theater: American Rot  (La Mama, dir: Estelle Parsons), The Winter's Tale (NYSX), On Strivers Row (Metropolitan Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSX), The Trojan Women (The Flea Theater), Fires in the Mirror, Laundry & Bourbon, Platanos Y Collard Greens, and Romeo & Juliet. Regional Theater: The Garbologists (Shadowland Stages), B.R.O.K.E.N. code B.I.R.D. switching (Berkshire Theatre Group), The Niceties (Mile Square Theatre), Skeleton Crew (TheatreSquared). International Theater: Look/Alive (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).  TV: “Elsbeth,” “Law and Order: SVU,” "Dexter: Resurrection." @deannasupplee 

Trevor William Fayle (he/they) is very happy to return to Interact! Trevor has appeared on stage in The Cherry Orchard (The Wilma Theater); The Real Thing, Much Ado About Nothing, Lifespan of a Fact, Othello, Hapgood, Photograph 51, Arcadia, and Emma (Lantern Theater Company); The Whale, Sing the Body Electric, Lost Girls (Theatre Exile); The Climb, How to Use a Knife (InterAct Theatre Company). The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged! (Tiny Dynamite). Film credits include Goldfish (an Anthony Lawton production) Bardo (Sowing Season). He also is GM for the D&D actual play podcast CriticalFayleDM & the Goons: The Strahdcast! www.trevorwfayle.com/ www.criticalfayledm.com/ 

Eli Lynn (they/them) a relentlessly queer actor, Intimacy Director, and fight director. Regional credits include Macbeth, The 39 Steps (Lantern Theatre); The Drag (EgoPo Theatre), Peter Panto (Barrymore Nom: Outstanding Lead - People’s Light); Cymbeline, Complete Works (Abridged), Henry IV: Pt 2 (PA Shakespeare Festival); Children of the Sun, Citrus Andronicus (Barrymore Award: Outstanding Ensemble - Philadelphia Artists’ Collective); Fun Home (Barrymore Nom: Outstanding Lead New Light Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (1812 Productions); Twelfth Night, Thrive (American Shakespeare Center); The Three Musketeers (Cleveland Playhouse). They are also an Artistic Associate at Philadelphia Artists’ Collective. Love always to V. Eli-Lynn.com @EverInMotley

Hannah Parke (she/her)is thrilled to be making her InterAct debut! She was on the National Tour of The Lightning Thief as Annabeth. Regionally, she has worked with Arden Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Media Theatre, Candlelight Theatre, Commonwealth Classic Theatre Co., and more. Hannah also wrote and starred in two Fringe musicals, Birth. Sparkle. Death (The Inquirer's 'Five Shows We've Loved' List) and Close Your Legs, Honey. When not onstage, Hannah is a full-time voiceover artist. @thehannahparke on IG for more!

Phaedra Michelle Scott (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter based in New York City. Writer with CBS/Showtime. Her playwriting credits include DIASPORA! (2024 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Play, 2022 Great Plains Theater Conference); PLANTATION BLACK (developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Playwrights Horizons, 2024 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2025 World Premiere InterAct Theater Company, Philadelphia) and GOOD HAIR (Commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant & Ensemble Studio Theater, developed with Pipeline Playlab, published with Theatrical Rights Worldwide). Her podcast work included PLEASURE MACHINE, developed with Colt Coer. Other work include THE PURITANS (commissioned by Sparkhaven Theater Company) and UNITY (commissioned by University of Massachusetts, Amherst); STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY (commissioned by Documentary Arts; world premiere, Delaware Theater Company 2025). Phaedra’s work lies at the intersection between history, fantasy, and science fiction. She is a crocheter, horror enthusiast, and a deep lover of all things obscure. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America. www.phaedrascott.com

Kimille Howard (Director) director, writer, Assistant Stage Director at the Metropolitan Opera, Artistic Director of the Lucille Lortel’s NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship, founder of the Black Diaspora Theatre Collective. Recent directing credits: Confederates (Emerson College), Common Threads: The Music of Damien Geter (Chautauqua Institution), The Oscar Micheaux Project (Prospect Musicals, Village Theatre, NAMT Fest),This Little Light of Mine (Kentucky Opera), The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson (Glimmerglass, Washington National Opera, Opera Carolina, Pittsburgh Opera, North Carolina Opera), Orlando (Theatre Row), Two Corners (Finger Lakes Opera), The 2024 New Works Collective (OTSL), Sanctuary Road (Virginia Opera), Treemonisha (OTSL), Songs in Flight (Sparks and Wiry Cries/Met Live),The Italian Girl (Tulsa Opera), The Adventures of Honey and Leon (NYC Children’s Theatre), American Apollo (DMMO), B.R.O.K.E.N Code B.I.R.D Switching (Berkshire Theatre Group), Quamino’s Map (Chicago Opera Theater), Highway 1, USA (IU Opera), Night Trip (Opera NexGen), L’amant Anonyme (Wolf Trap Opera), Death By Life (White Snake Projects). Her work has also been seen at Playwrights’ Horizons, 59E59, Cherry Lane Theatre, MTC among others. Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud (Assistant Director) Met Opera: Champion, Die Zauberflöte, Porgy And Bess, Tosca (Assistant Stage Director). Fellowships: NYTW 2050 Fellowship, MTC Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship, New York Stage and Film’s inaugural NYSAF NEXUS project. She is a recipient of OPERA America’s 2023 Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize and won Best Direction of a play for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Award. www.kimillehoward.com

Leslie Ann Boyden (Stage Manager) (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based stage manager, having previously worked with Lantern Theater Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Quintessence Theatre Group, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Horizon, The Wilma Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, Simpatico Theatre, Shakespeare in Clark Park, Act II Playhouse, Arden Theatre Company, Millbrook Playhouse, and Hedgerow Theatre. She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a B.A. in Theatre and Drama.

Journee Lutz (Production Assistant) (she/they) has been immersed in theater for about ten years now (yay!) and recently graduated from Temple University with a BA in Theater in 2024, solidifying their love for this work, but especially the work that has yet to be seen! As a BIPOC artist, they’ve found theater to be an outlet for their own bravery and desire to take risks. During her time at Temple, she co-founded a theater organization called Theatre Underground (TUTU) which became a dedicated space for a community of Black theater-makers to come together, devise, create, and thrive. Their organization produced new work for a department-wide festival, lead monthly workshops, as well as fundraised to create a library of African American centered plays for the department! She’s worked within Philly organizations for the past year including Temple Performing Arts Center, Ensemble Arts, First Person Arts, The Strides Collective, AV Club, A Famous Studio, and Shakespeare in Clark Park. Journee can be found dancing, making art with friends new and old, and daydreaming of radical creations. IG: @bajoingo

Annie Zulick (Lighting Assistant) (she/her) is a recent Ursinus College graduate and the current 1812 Productions apprentice. She has been given the opportunity to work with InterAct again by assisting Shannon Zura with projection design. Previous professional credits include A1/sound mixer for 1812 Productions This Is The Week That Is, apprentice/A1/sound mixer for DelShake's Twelfth Night, O Lo Que Quieras, assistant light and projection design for InterAct’s play On My Dean, and assistant sound designer for InterAct’s play The Climb. She also does electrician work in and around the city and acts as the season head electrician at Theatre Exile. She thanks all who support the arts and provide the opportunities to create.

Dahlia Al-Habieli (Scenic Designer) (she/her) Dahlia is an IRNE and Kennedy Center Award-winning designer, and a passionate theatre educator. Recent design credits include: Wilma Theater: The Half-God of Rainfall; InterAct: Moreno; Trinity Rep: La Tempestad, Native Gardens, Sweat; Dallas Theater Center: Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Disney's The Little Mermaid, The Odyssey, In the Heights, Steel Magnolias, Gloria; Virginia Stage Company: Henry V, A Sherlock Carol, A Merry Christmas Carol; Playmakers Rep: Much Ado About Nothing; Rep of St. Louis: House of Joy; Gulfshore Playhouse: The Refugees. She has held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, Albright College, and Wake Forest University. Learn more about her work as an artist and educator at www.eloquentaction.com.

Leigh Paradise (Costume Designer) is a freelance costumer and custom clothier based in southeastern Pennsylvania. She is thrilled to join InterAct in this unusual and exciting production.  Leigh’s custom creations have been seen on many stages in and around Philadelphia and beyond. Her recent costume design credits include: Falsettos, Holy Grail of Memphis, and Intimate Apparel (Arden Theatre Company); A Raisin in the Sun (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); The Thanksgiving Play (Villanova Theatre); Amsterdam (Theatre Ariel); Once Upon a Bridge (Inis Nua); and, A Case for the Existence of God (Theatre Exile). Thanks to Minou for her invaluable help on this project, and as always to my family for their love and patience.  

Audrey Dube (Sound Designer) Credits include The Meeting Tree; Haunted; Morning, Noon, and Night; Downtown Crossing, Vietgone (Company One); Winter People (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Paradise Blue, The Thin Place, Stew (Gloucester Stage Company); Queens, Torch Song, The House of Ramon Iglesia (Moonbox Productions); Toni Stone, Fat Ham, Clyde’s, The Bluest Eye, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington): Trayf, Good (New Rep); Vinegar Tom, Monster, Serious Money, Pentecost (PTP/NYC), Fences (Umbrella Theatre); Simona’s Search (Hartford Stage) The Fortune Teller (Chuang Stage); A Case for the Existence of God, Potus (SpeakEasy Stage) Trouble in Mind (Lyric Stage); A Taste of Honey (Boston Center for American Performance). University: Cymbeline, Pilgrims of the Night (Suffolk University); Orlando (Brandeis University); Antipodes, Love and Information, As You Like It, Sensitive Guys (Northeastern University); Education: MFA in Sound Design (Boston University).

Shannon Zura (Lighting Designer) Shannon is always excited to be back at InterAct where she most recently provided the lighting design for On My Deen. Other recent designs for InterAct include the lighting design for This Bitter Earth, American Fast, and the sound designs for The Climb,  72 Miles to Go…, and Sensitive Guys. In addition to being a professional lighting, sound, and scenic designer, Shannon is Professor, Chair of Theater and Dance, and  Coordinator of Design and Technology at Ursinus College. Credits include designs for InterAct Theatre Co., Arden Theatre Co., Inis Nua, Delaware Theatre Co., Lantern Theater Co., Azuka Theatre, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, Portland Stage Co., Opera Maine, and Stonington Opera House Arts, among others. She collaborated with Christensen Lighting on an award-winning lighting design for the Weiss Energy Hall at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Shannon holds an M.F.A. from Temple University.

Minou Pourshariati (Costume Assistant) (she/her) is an actor and Philly native of Iranian&American descent who occasionally does costume work (thank you, Leigh!). Recent credits include Kate Hamill’s Little Women (regional premiere, Hedgerow Theatre), The Fig Tree, and the Phoenix, and the Desire to Be Reborn (Boston Playwrights Theatre), and The Winter’s Tale and Cymbeline community tours (Delaware Shakespeare). She has also performed locally with Shakespeare in Clark Park, Opera Philadelphia/Obvious Agency, Inis Nua, EgoPo, Revolution Shakespeare, and others, as well as at the National Constitution Center (Living News). Minou trained at the British American Drama Academy (LTP ’13) and is a proud member of the incoming leadership team of Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists. Up next: The Woman Question, People’s Light. minoupourshariati.com

Lindsey Silver (Props Designer) is a nonbinary theater artist who specializes in scenery, props, puppets, and stage management. They deeply enjoy the story-telling aspect of theater and love that their work is able to give further context and story details to an audience. To view more of their work visit lindseysilver.com.

Eli Lynn (fight coordinator) (they/them) is a Barrymore-winning fight director whose work was last seen on the InterAct stage for pay no worship and Man of God. Other recent fight director credits include Great Expectations, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Acting Company, NYC), Peter Panto (People’s Light), The Comeuppance (Wilma/Woolly Mammoth), 2024 and 2023 Season at PA Shakespeare Festival, POTUS (Arden Theatre), Citrus Andronicus (PAC, Barrymore Award; Outstanding Choreography), The Play That Goes Wrong (1812 Productions), Noises Off (DTC). They also choreograph and teach workshops at many regional universities, including UPenn, Princeton, Temple, Rutgers (Camden), Villanova, Rowan, Drexel, and Arcadia. They have studied stage combat for over fifteen years and are a recognized Advanced Actor Combatant with 5 international stage combat organizations, as well as assistant to Broadway Fight Masters Ian Rose and J. David Brimmer. Double bios mean double love to V. Eli-Lynn.com @EverInMotley

Nick Wacksman (Master Electrician) (he/him) is excited to be returning to InterAct Theater Company this season. His past shows with ITC include Moreno, Quixotic Professor Qiu, The Last Yiddish Speaker and The Climb. For the past 3 years, Nick has been studying theatrical lighting design and electrics at Temple University. He enjoys working in educational environments where he can help young adults see the artistic values and expression in theater production.

John Kolbinski (Audio Engingeer) (he/him) Past Sound Design Work: Always…Patsy Cline (Delaware Theatre Co) The Winter Wonderettes (Hampton Arts, The American Theatre); Beautiful, Always…Patsy Cline, Civil War Voices, The Winter Wonderettes, Baskerville, Souvenir, The Gift, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, (Walnut); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in Clark Park); Basic Witches (Robert Hager); Behold Her (FringeArts/Half Key Theatre Co); Mort (New Paradise Laboratories); Every Brilliant Thing (Arden). Sound Supervisor at Arden Theatre Company and Chautauqua Theater Company. Audio Engineer at InterAct Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre and Lantern Theater Company. Sound Systems Designer, InterAct’s Drake Theater. 

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Actors' Equity Association (“Equity"), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.

Equity is governed by its own members through an elected Council, representing principal actors, chorus actors and stage managers living in three regions: Eastern, Central and Western. Members at large participate in Equity’s governance through a system of Regional Boards and committees. Equity has 28 designated Geographically Based Communities, metropolitan areas with a concentration of more than 100 members.