The Cast of "Melancholy Play"

Philana Mia has previously worked with Holland Productions in THE HALFWAY HOUSE CLUB. Recent credits include: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISSOCIA (Apollinaire); THE PAIN AND THE ITCH (Company One); THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (Longwood Players); THE HOUSE OF YES, KEELY AND DU (Hovey Players); HERE TO SERVE YOU, JUST SEX/JAZZ HANDS (SLAMBoston/Company One); FAR AWAY, PROJECT: IDENTITY (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Workshop). Film: JET LAG (Dir. Derek Frank). Television: LOUIS BRANDEIS: THE PEOPLE'S ATTORNEY (PBS/Stuart Productions). Education: BA, Emerson College.  
 
Alejandro Simoes has trained at Shakespeare & Company and Southwick Studio and holds a minor in Theatre Arts from Northeastern University. Recent credits include Shh! with New Exhibition Room, How Many Miles to Basra?, with Stoneham Theatre Travesties, Romeo & Juliet, and Misalliance with The Publick Theatre, Titus Andronicus with Actor's Shakespeare Project, Race: The American Obsession with Theatre on Fire,The Taming of the Shrew with Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Polaroid Stories with Tinderbox Stage Co., In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe with Whistler in the Dark, King John at Shakespeare & Company, Tooth and Claw with Zeitgeist Stage, Olly's Prison, and Dido, Queen of Carthage, at American Repertory Theatre.  
 
Kathryn Lynch is thrilled to make her Holland Productions debut. Recent Boston credits include: All My Sons (Understudy) with The Huntington Theatre Company, The Conference Call (Beverly) with Company One, Waiting for Phillip Glass (Spencer) and Terminating... (Dymphna) with Exquisite Corps Theatre Company. Ms. Lynch received her training from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where favorite credits include: The Chairs (Old Woman), Arms and the Man (Raina), The Reincarnation of Jamie Brown (Hughie) and The Trojan Women (Helen).  
 
Kate deLima is delighted to be directed by Bevin again, having shaken it like Beyonce in White People, The Huntington's Bevin-directed entry in 2009’s Boston Theatre Marathon XI. Other recent roles include Ethel in Footlight’s And Then There Were None, Diana in Company’s Lend Me a Tenor, and Gwendolen in Fiddlehead’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Kate also performs in musical theater, most recently at Turtle Lane, where she played the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Trina in Falsettos, Princess Puffer in Drood, and Claudia in Nine. For the Huntington, she appeared in two productions at the Breaking Ground Festival, and understudied the two largest female leads in Falsettos. Other local credits include Dr. Sedgwick in Superman (Loki Arts), Queen Aggravaine in Once Upon a Mattress (Animus), and Magnolia in Showboat (Company). Outside of Boston, Kate has been seen as Rose in Meet Me in St. Louis with Gateway’s National Tour, as Eliza in My Fair Lady and Guenevere in Camelot (both at the Golden Apple, Sarasota), as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof (Skylight Opera, Milwaukee), and as the Featured Vocalist on the cruise ship Saga Rose. Kate is a private tutor to middle and high school students; please visit www.delimatutoring.com.  
 
Michael Moran has a BFA from the Boston University School of Theatre. He is currently touring Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius/Bottom) and Macbeth (Macbeth) with Shakespeare Now! Other professional credits include the world premier of The Listener (Smak) with Crowded Fire Theatre Company in San Franciso, the 2009 Incite Theatre Festival’s Pope Joan (Gerard) at New World Stages in New York and The Huntington Theatre Company’s The Corn is Green (Glyn Thomas). His favorite college credits include: The Birthday Party (Goldberg), Under Milk Wood (The First Voice), The Weavers (Baeker) and Coriolanus (Coriolanus) while abroad at LAMDA.  
 
Jonah Sacks is a cellist and an acoustical consultant. The role of Julian is his first speaking role in a professional theatrical production. He has played in the pit for Longwood Players productions of La Cage aux Folles (directed by Bevin O'Gara) and A New Brain, and has provided sound design for Longwood Players productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Heidi Chronicles, and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and the Salem Theatre Company's No Exit. With improvising musicians Empty House Cooperative, he helped to develop and performed music for the American Repertory Theater's premier production of Rinde Eckert's Highway Ulysses. Jonah's current musical projects include the Steve Walther Orchestra, Empty House Cooperative, and Ginger Ibex. At the Cambridge acoustical consulting firm Acentech, Jonah provides architectural acoustics and noise control design guidance and problem solving to architects, building managers, homeowners, and others.  

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