STEEL MAGNOLIAS KATE ABBRUZZESE (SHELBY EATENTON-LATCHERIE) Kate is delighted to be making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. In New York, she has workshopped plays such as The Good Ones, As You Like It and Richard II at the acclaimed Public Theater and Unicorn, Tiny Houses, Catch as Catch Can and Love at the New Dramatists Theatre Company. She has performed Off-Broadway with the Gingold Theatrical Group, The Tank Theater, The 52nd Street Project and opposite Christopher Lloyd in Pound. Regionally, she has played leading roles at The Old Globe Theatre Company, the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Chautauqua Theater Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare & Company and more. Kate’s television credits include NCIS: New Orleans and The Blacklist. Her film credits include The Chaperone and Siren. Kate is a two-time winner of the Red Bull Short New Play Festival for her plays Motley Fool and An Evening With the Macbeths, the latter of which she expanded into full-length during her 2021 residency at the Bethany Arts Community. GINA DANIELS (CLAIREE BELCHER) Gina is delighted to make her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. Her Broadway credits include Network and All the Way. She has performed in Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), The White Snake (Wuzhen Theatre Festival) and Angels in America: Parts One and Two (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis) as The Angel. She has appeared in the American Players Theatre, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Arden Theatre Company, TheaterWorks Hartford, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Virginia Theatre, Willamette Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center and Pittsburgh Public Theater. In 10 seasons and over the course of 25 years as a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Gina was in over 30 productions, originated roles in a dozen world premieres and ran Shakespeare’s gamut from Perdita to Portia to Puck. Gina played Representative Sydney Milsap in Studio Theatre’s audio play KINGS, can be heard in the Audible Original Crowded Hours and as Goneril in the Next Chapter King Lear podcast. Her film and television credits include The First Lady, FBI, Manifest, Orange is the New Black, High Maintenance and Lapsis. Visit gina-daniels.com. ANNIE FITZPATRICK (M’LYNN EATENTON) Annie is delighted to return to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park after appearing in Alias Grace (2019), A Prayer for Owen Meany (2016), To Kill a Mockingbird (2016), Pride and Prejudice (2014), Hank Williams: Lost Highway (2012) and seven seasons of A Christmas Carol. She was a founding member of The New Group Theater Company in New York City and toured both nationally and internationally with Murder a La Carte. Regionally, Annie has performed at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Geva Theatre Center, Florida Stage, Florida Studio Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Porthouse Theatre and The Human Race Theatre Company. Film and television credits include Chicago P.D., Army Wives, Those Who Kill, Fun Size, Milk Money, Broken Hearts, The Old Man and The Gun, Dark Waters and the upcoming Netflix film, White Noise.
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