profiles LAUREN BOYD LANE (Hani Mueller) is thrilled to be back at the Alliance. Her Alliance credits include Tall Girls; Courage; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; and Alice Between. Other favorite credits include Singles in Agriculture (Aurora Theatre), Evr’y Tongue Confess (Horizon Theatre) and On the Verge (New School for Drama). TV/film: “Hindsight,” “Gone,” “Halt and Catch Fire,” “Powers,” Office Christmas Party and American Made. M.F.A. in acting from the New School for Drama. Love and thanks to my parents and my late husband, Michael Isaac Lane. AMANDA DRINKALL (Evelyn Kirsch) Alliance debut. Chicago credits: Venus in Fur; Ah,Wilderness; Continuity; Measure for Measure (Goodman Theatre); Mary Page Marlowe (Steppenwolf); King Charles III (Chicago Shakespeare); By the Water, White Guy on the Bus, Funnyman (Northlight); Last Train to Nibroc (Haven Theatre/Jeff Award, best actress); Dutchman (American Blues); Pygmalion (Oak Park Festival); Great Expectations (Strawdog); hamlet is dead. no gravity; The Skriker; Pullman, WA (Red Tape Theatre); and 20 shows with the Back Room Shakespeare Project as a Stakeholder. TV: “Chicago Med,” “Bobby & Iza.” Film: The View From Tall. B.F.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Represented by Gray Talent Group. PARK KRAUSEN (Roberta Bloom) Recent: Midnight Pillow (director) at Theater Emory, performed Beckett in Germany and Norway. National: Lincoln Center, Hartford Stage, About Face, Chicago Dramatists. Associate artist at North Carolina Shakespeare, Georgia Shakespeare and Out of Hand. Former artistic director at Théâtre du Rêve, the only Francophone theater in the United States. Proud member of AEA. Film/TV: MacGyver, Ben Ten: Alien Swarm. B.A. from Emory University, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Paris. www.parkkrausen.com. Thank you for supporting live theater. LEE OSORIO (Martin Bloom) is grateful to be back at the Alliance. Previous Alliance credits: Ugly Lies the Bone, The Temple Bombing. Atlanta credits: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Theatrical Outfit); Abigail/1702 (Aurora); Cabaret, Macbeth (Serenbe); Significant Other (Actor’s Express); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Tavern). Lee has worked in New York, Seattle, St. Louis and Providence. He has an M.F.A. from Brown/Trinity Rep, is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, and a core member of Fair Wage OnStage. www.leeosorio.com
JOHN SKELLEY (Leonard Kirsch) is delighted to make his Alliance debut. New York: Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ..., Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors and Desire (The Acting Company); The Changeling (Red Bull Theatre). Regional: Petrol Station (Kennedy Center), The Glass Menagerie (Denver Center), The Foreigner (Cape Playhouse), Art and a Nightingale Sang (Westport Country Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), An Inspector Calls (Pioneer Theatre) and 15 productions at the Guthrie Theater, including Macbeth and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. TV/film: “Law & Order: SVU,” “Elementary,” Into Temptation. B.F.A., University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater. BLAKE BURGESS (U/S Martin Bloom) is honored to work on his first Alliance production alongside such talented artists. Theater: Spamalot and Young Frankenstein (Atlanta Lyric), Big Fish (Theatrical Outfit), Of Mice And Men (Serenbe Playhouse)and Picnic (Stage Door Players). Upcoming: Theatre Buford’s inaugural production of Damn Yankees and Charles Lightoller in Titanic (Serenbe). Blake has a B.A. in theater from Auburn University, where he helped win a national football championship in 2010. TV/film: “Ozark,” “MacGyver,” Woodlawn, Boy Erased, Paterno. He thanks his friends and family for their love and support. AMELIA FISCHER (U/S Hani Mueller/Roberta Bloom), an Atlantabased actor, director and fight choreographer, is delighted to join this wonderful ensemble for her first Alliance production. Atlanta performance credits: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Theatrical Outfit); Romeo and Juliet (Theater Emory); Dispossessed (Essential Theatre); Pericles, Servant of Two Masters, Robin Hood (Georgia Shakespeare). She has performed with Houston Shakespeare Festival, Classical Theatre Company, Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Virginia Shakespeare Festival. She’s proud to have her M.F.A. from the University of Houston PATP and her B.A. from Coastal Carolina University. She trained with the Gainesville Theatre Alliance. www.AmeliaFischer.com CHRIS HARDING (U/S Leonard Kirsch) couldn’t be happier to make his Alliance debut. He is an Alabama native and has a B.A. in theater from the University of Alabama. Atlanta credits: Julius Caesar, Antigone (Impulse Repertory Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III (Shakespeare on Draught). TV/film: “Behind the Movement.” Thanks to this incredible cast and crew, the Alliance, Actor’s Express and my family for their unwavering support. ALLIANCETHEATRE.ORG 15