The Report of My Death
Michael Graves (Mark Twain Alternate)
Celebrating 39 years as a professional actor, he is proud to be a member of Actors Equity, SAG and AFTRA. HIGHLIGHTS; Musicals: Zorba (w/Chita Rivera); Man Of La Mancha (w/Lainie Kazan); 1776 (Rutledge); Shenandoah (w/David Canary) ; Unsinkable Molly Brown (co-star). Opera: La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Faust. Off Broadway: Irrevocable Trust, No Man’s Land, Embers, A Doll’s House, Trigorin’s Notebook (Blue Roses Company); Maurizio Pollini (Samuel French Festival); Angels Fall. Films: People I Know (with Al Pacino), Every Little Crook And Nanny (with Lynn Redgrave); HBO pilot The New Americans; The Seer (just completed shooting in Sardinia); A Binding Silence (star); Letting Go (star); Skull And Bones (co-star); Vendetta (The Patriarch); The Infidel (The Bedouin Hermit--co-star). Theatre Highlights: Macbeth (w/James Earl Jones/Public Theatre); Timon Of Athens (Shakespeare Theatre of D.C.); All’s Well That Ends Well (The King of France--Pearl Theatre); A Cry Of Players (w/Anne Bancroft at Lincoln Center); King Lear (w/Lee J. Cobb at Lincoln Center); Othello (w/James Earl Jones/Mark Taper Forum); All The Queen’s Men (w/Elizabeth Ashley); Royal Hunt Of The Sun (National Company w/Morgan Freeman); Dracula (Maine Public Theatre); The Crucible (Rev. Parris--European Tour); King Henry II in A Lion In Winter; The Cherry Orchard (Lopakhin--Cincinnati Playhouse); The Seagull (Dr. Dorn); Major Barbara; A Season Of Ashes. Daytime TV: Professor Pinkham in All My Children. He appears frequently in Love Letters with his wife and acting partner, Jennifer Lee Graves.
Ron Crawford (Mark Twain)
Ron appeared in Steppenwolf's Tony Award-winning production of The Grapes of Wrath on Broadway, in Chicago and London. He will appear alongside Mia Farrow in the film Arthur and the Invisibles, which will be released in January 2007. Other favorite regional theater roles include: A Raisin in the Sun, Valley Song, The Night of the Iguana, Molly Sweeney, Ragtime, and Of Mice and Men. He has also been seen on television on Another World, Law & Order, and as a special guest artist on Spin City and Ed. He has performed his one-man show Adventures of Mark Twain in theaters, college campuses, high schools, grade schools, dinner theaters, and living rooms across the country.
The Prostitute of Reverie Valley
Robert Kya-Hill* (The John)
Robert recently performed in the Fiona Templeton epic, Medead, in New York, Glasgow and London; in East Village Chronicles (Metropolitan Playhouse), as Paul Robeson in Einstein's Secret Letters (Walker Space), as Chuck in Standard of the Breed (Spartan Theatre), Kreon in The Phoenician Women (Synapse Productions, Ohio Theatre). He played the title role Othello on stages in New York, Vermont, Australia, Montreal as well as major roles in other Shakespeare plays. He received an Obie nomination as best actor for his title role performance in Purlie Victorious. Musicals credits include Kumalo in Lost in the Stars, Bloomer Girl (Goodspeed Opera House), Fiorello (NY City Center). Film-credits include Death Wish, Shaft's Big Score, Slaves, Sue, TV-credits include Another World, Eight is Enough, One Life to Live.
Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris (The Prostitute)
Sameerah migrated to NYC three years ago from Madison, WI, where she earned her BA in Theatre and Cultural Anthropology. Most recently, Sameerah played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Sounding Theatre Co.), Gabriella in Three Days Later (Prospect Theatre Company), Jill in Come Back To Me (Cherry Lane Theatre), and Audrey in Haunted (Abingdon Theatre). Other favorite NYC Theatre roles include: Body Work (78th St. Theatre Lab), Fefu and Her Friends (The Culture Project @45 Below), A Black Tale (WOW Caf� Theatre), Descendants of Freedom (HERE Arts Center), Holiday Schmoliday (Manhattan Theatre Source), It�s a Long Way (WOW Caf� Theatre), Alcibiades the Athenian (Producer�s Club). Film roles: Medium Hot (Charles Krezell Productions) and Runaways on St. Mark�s Place (V. Bernard Productions).
*Actor appears courtest of Actors' Equity Association.
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
One of the most significant roles she ever played was that of a sergeant in the Israeli Army. Donna's favorite theatre credits include: Deidre in Nora's Bloke, Susannah in Bedroom Farce, & Molly in Line. She has appeared in several independent films including her first and favorite, Unclean, and is currently filming three more. Donna is a Voice-Over Artist and holds an MA in Drama Therapy from NYU.
Nick Choksi (Elf)
Since graduating from Washington University two years ago he has performed regionally with St. Louis Rep's Children's Theater Company and Chicago's Noble Fool Theater. He last performed in the Cherry Lane Theater's Huck and Holden in April.
Michael De Nola (Doctor)
Michael came to New York in 1996 from his native San Francisco as a professional jazz saxophone player. He then came down with the disease known to medical science as "acting." His symptoms include the supporting role of Mike in Robert Edward's upcoming feature film The Land of the Blind, starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland, the role of Louis in Gregory Orr's Alone, the voice of the lead character John Roberts in the upcoming animated feature The Villain's Face and The Clarinet Player in Cory McAbee's The Ketchup and Mustard Man.
Michelle A. Dingoor (Ah-Mee)
Michelle began acting two years ago when she was asked to play the role of a female inmate in House of D. Although her screen debut was only that of a silhouette in a jail cell, she continued to pursue acting and was cast in the role of Nancy Lee Faulkner in Ayn Rand's Night of January 16th. She did the obligatory extra work in Law & Order: Criminal Intent and SVU before being cast as Nomi, an Iraqi woman, in Live Coverage, which premiered at last year's FringeNYC. Other roles include: Sara, in the NYU film Neighbors, Mother Mary in the independent film The V True Story, and recently Michelle wrote and performed a one-woman show called The Reunion -- an exploration of her high school years in Australia.
Roy Edroso (Rosh)
Roy has performed at the American Theatre for Actors, the Kitchen, St. Mark's Church, Ancienne Belgique (Brussels), Milkweg (Amsterdam), Barfly (London), King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut (Glasgow), and other venues. He last worked with Sherry Kronfeld in Security (Independent Theatre). He lives in Brooklyn.