Doc Faust!
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 A local actor living in Portland, ME. He appeared last summer as Silvio in MPAF's production of "A Servant of Two Masters" and is more than pleased to be back. Other shows elsewhere include: Alan, Equus (University of Southern Maine) Simon Bliss, Hay Fever (Good Theater) Shawn Keogh, The Playboy of the Western World (A.I.R.E.) Cripple Billy, The Cripple of Inishmaan (A.I.R.E.) Demitrius, Titus Andronicus (Two Lights Theater) Lysistrata, Lysistrata (USM) Adam The Shape of Things (USM). He spends his spare time, hiking, cycling and working on music and writing. Feel free to ask him how his trip to Ireland went.
| Tavia Gilbert - Margarita |
 A voice, stage and film actor, writer, clown, documentarian, and singer, Tavia earned her BFA in Acting at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts. Seattle credits including Cloud Nine, The Normal Heart, Transformations, King John, Pullman Car Hiawatha, The Long Christmas Dinner, and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other. Most recently she appeared as Poppy in the Portland Stage Company production of Noises Off. Other favorite Maine roles include Viola in Twelfth Night (Stage at Spring Point), part of the ensemble of Marty Pottenger’s Home Land Security, Laura Bush in Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy (Winter Harbor Theater Company), and Glo in Flo & Glo (the Deviant/goods). Tavia and her husband, Percy, own a boutique bicycle shop, Percy Cycles, in Portland, where they live happily with three rambunctious cats. (TaviaGilbert.com)
| Elisabeth Hardcastle - Helena |
 Grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State and received her BA in Theatre Arts from SUNY Buffalo. She moved to Maine after college and has enjoyed working with the Theater Project in Brunswick in such plays as Macbeth, The Servant of Two Masters and Pentecost, as well as with the Theatre at Monmouth in the adapted children’s play The Odyssey. Elisabeth lives with her husband Nate, their dog Benny and their cat Mia in their home in New Gloucester. Her passions include cooking, gardening and silver-smithing.
 A 22 year old, local actor from Portland, ME, and a recent graduate from the University of Southern Maine, with a BA in Theatre. Past roles at USM include: Officer Lockstock, Urinetown: The Musical!, Silvio, Servant of Two Masters, Narrator, Blood Brothers, Oscar Wilde/Giant, The Good, The Bad, and The Wilde, Oberon/Theseus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and AJ McKinney, The Laramie Project. Erik is a singer/songwriter for The Empty Cinema, Grizzly Bear Railroad, and Robber and Thief, also singing in the political parody band The Incumbents. He starred in the local soap opera Criehaven: Island of Secrets, and is currently starring in the Strong Paw Productions film Up Up Down Down which wraps up it’s shooting this fall.
| Randall Tuttle - Sheriff Henry Wagner |
 A longtime member of Acorn’s Naked Shakespeare Ensemble, Randall is appearing in this, his first musical; although he has undertaken other contemporary plays in the past, Moon for the Misbegotten, Our Town, Under Milkwood, and the Dining Room, as well as several years participating in the Maine Short Play festival. Most of his acting has been with the Naked Shakespeare Ensemble. sonnets and soliloquies, once a month at the Wine Bar, in Portland, various Shakespeare characters and scenes performed at the Space Gallery, Portland, as well as a full production of Much Ado About Nothing, Don John and Romeo and Juliet, the Friar. Randall is an avid runner and in the late summer or early fall you might see him hiking Mount Katahdin, again, or the Presidential Peak of New Hampshire.
| Andrew Sawyer – Cornelius Valentine |
 Andrew is a local actor hailing from Greene, Maine. He has worked with several theatre companies in many productions including: Oklahoma!, Little Shop of Horrors, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Community Little Theatre) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Freeport Community Players) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Schoolhouse Arts). He was most recently seen in the University of Southern Maine’s production of Servant of Two Masters in the role of Truffuldino. Andrew is entering his final year at USM with a B.A. in theatre and a philosophy minor. In his spare time he enjoys reading, so if you can recommend any good books he’d love to hear it!
| Andrew Harris – Festival Artistic Director |
British born and now a full time resident of Maine, Andrew is the Executive Director, L/A Arts and in his second year as Artistic Director of the Maine Performing Arts Festival. He has performed on both sides of ‘The Pond’ trained as an Actor/Educator in London, attended the Univ. of London and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, He holds a B.Ed. in Theatre Arts Education and an M.A in Theatre.
Recent professional work includes Mellersh Wilton in The Public Theatre’s production of Enchanted April, Froggy in the Portland Stage Company production of, The Foreigner, John Brewer in the recent History Channel Film Desperate Crossing, the Untold Story of the Mayflower, and James in Pretty in the Face an independent film which is currently doing well at film festivals across the U.S.
In an attempt to fill every waking hour Andrew is an Affiliate Artist at Portland Stage and is currently working on a revival of a medieval theatre company he pioneered in the UK. He is proud to claim he has, ‘done his time’ performing and directing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and been lucky enough to work on The Globe Stage in London and with The Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford-upon-Avon.
| Kate Lyczkowski – Musical Director |
Kate grew up in Millbrook, New York, where she began her piano studies at age 6. She is entering her Junior Year at Bates College, where she is double majoring in French and Music. At Bates, Kate studies with Frank Glazer, the artist in residence. Throughout the year, she accompanies various soloists and choirs, including the Lewiston High School Choirs. She has substituted for organists in both Lewiston and Millbrook. She has spent the last four summers teaching piano at the Summer Sonatina International Piano Camp in Bennington, VT, where she is a Junior Faculty Member. Kate is also a member of the Bates College Choir. She has served as the rehearsal accompanist for The King and I and directed the music for The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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