Pamela Bob
Mae
Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Hand to God. Off-Broadway: Silence!, How To Save The World…, The Extraordinary Ordinary, People Like Us (Talkin’ Broadway Best Actress Award). Regional: Papermill Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Asolo Theatre, Capital Rep, Engeman Theater, Peterborough Players, Barrington Stage Company, Riverside Theater, and North Carolina PAC (Best Actress Award for Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter Story). TV: FBI, Good Ol’ Girls (PBS). Pamela is the writer and creator of the award-winning series Livin’ On a Prairie, an official selection of the Tribeca TV Festival, Holly Web Fest, and Lift-Off Fest. She co-hosts the Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Podcast with original cast members Dean Butler (Almanzo) and Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson). @thePamelaBob.
Joyia D. Bradley
Wilhelmina
is an actor, director, writer, and producer residing in NYC. She is thrilled to be back on stage. Off-Broadway theater credits include Mirrors (New York Theatre Workshop/Parity Productions), Antony and Cleopatra (Columbia Stages, Columbia University), and King John (Judith Shakespeare Company). TV/Film credits include Law & Order: SVU, Evil Lives Here, Sun, Bushwick Jodi, and Five Questions. Joyia thanks her daughter, her little rock star, for her encouragement and love. She also thanks her management team at The Talent Express—Evelyn Francisco, Lorna Rainey, and Anastasia Renee. Follow her on IG, TikTok, and Facebook @joyiadbradley.
Rubén Caballero
Billy
is a versatile actor, director, writer, and photographer, and a recent graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker Acting Studio. He is thrilled to make his Off-Broadway debut in Cracked Open. His stage credits include leading roles in The Waverley Gallery (Daniel), Phoenix (Bruce), Victory Gardens (Larry), and I Must Be Going (Jules). On screen, he has appeared in Hypnotic (Detective Watkins), Law & Order: SVU (Brandon Chestnut), Walker (Dru), and Tangled (Billy). He will next be seen as Detective Kipp in Hierarchy.
Paul Castree
Michael
began his career playing Harvey Johnson in the national tour of Bye Bye Birdie, starring Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking. Most recently on Broadway, Paul originated the role of Sal in Water For Elephants. His Broadway credits include Disaster!, 9 to 5, Young Frankenstein, High Fidelity, All Shook Up, Saturday Night Fever, Footloose, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Grease!. He was the lead vocalist stand-by for Movin’ Out. National Tours include Andy Blankenbuehler’s Joseph…Dreamcoat and 9 to 5. Paul played Jinx in Forever Plaid (Off-Broadway, Los Angeles, Toronto), earning the L.A. Ovation Award and Canada’s Dora Award. New York City Opera: The Most Happy Fella. Television: Nurse Jackie, Caroline in the City. His recordings include nine original cast albums, the Grammy-nominated Dreamgirls and Hair concerts, and Broadway For Orlando’s What The World Needs Now Is Love.
Blaire DiMisa
Edith
is thrilled to make her Off-Broadway debut in Cracked Open. A South Florida native, she is currently a student at St. Andrew’s School. Regional credits include Anastasia (Slow Burn Theatre), The Sound of Music (Lake Worth Playhouse), and Tale of Custard the Dragon (Broward Center for the Performing Arts). Favorite past roles include Matilda, Young Simba, JoJo, and Charlie Bucket. A proud fourth-year member of the National Children’s Chorus, she can be heard on Illumine, recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Endless gratitude to her family for their unwavering support and to Jason Bercy, Craig Holzberg, Amy and Shane Tanner, Rance Wright, and James Schultz. @broadwayblaire.
Madeline Grace Jones
Hope
is a multi-disciplined artist from Desoto, TX. She received her Master’s in Classical Acting from The Old Globe and USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Credits include Henry 6 Play One and Two, Fat Ham, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, and The Age of Innocence at The Old Globe. At the Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program, she played Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona and Lucio in Measure for Measure. Recent TV credits include CBS’s Legends of the Hidden Temple. She earned her B.F.A. in Acting, with a minor in Religion, from Drake University. Regional credits include Sofia in The Color Purple, The Wiz in The Wiz, Margaret in Much Ado, West Side Story, Godspell, and serving as the 2019 Company Assistant Artistic Director at Hope Rep Theatre. She is the founder and artistic director of Grace Productions, LLC. madelinejones.net, @aesthetic_thespian.
Scott Harrison
Rabbi Hill & Others
is delighted to join this fantastic company in bringing Cracked Open to life. NYC performances include David: A New Musical at AMT Theater, The Cradle Will Rock at Theater 2020, and readings/concerts of Lottery of Life (dir. Andrea Andresakis), When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street (dir. Shellen Lubin), Those Musclebound Cowboys of Snake Pit Gulch (dir. Steve Hauck), and Helen (dir. Joe Maloney). Regional favorites include The Good Doctor and Widowers’ Houses (Washington Stage Guild), Fiddler on the Roof (Arena Stage), The Rocky Horror Show (TUTS), Girlstar (Signature Theatre (VA)), Arsenic and Old Lace and On the Sunny Side of the Street (East Lynne Theatre Co.), 1776 and Into the Woods (Toby’s), and City of Angels and Into the Woods (NextStop Theatre). Scott is an AEA member and a UVA/Georgetown Law grad. www.scottharrisonactor.com.
Lisa Pelikan
Lillian
made her stage debut 50 years ago in the 1975 Off-Broadway production of Franz Wedekind’s Spring’s Awakening with The Circle Repertory Company, playing Wendla Bergman. World premieres include Arthur Miller’s The American Clock (Harold Clurman Theater, NYC & Spoleto Festival USA), Jim Leonard’s The Diviners (Circle Rep, NYC), Don Gordon’s Panache (Players Theatre, NYC & Pasadena Playhouse), and the one-woman show Zelda (Theater Geo, LA). Other favorite productions include Craig Lucas’ Blue Window (South Coast Rep & Mayfair Theater, LA), Mark Harelik’s The Immigrant (American Jewish Theatre, NYC), Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom (Rogue Machine Theatre, LA), Twelfth Night (La Jolla Playhouse), and The Glass Menagerie (Colony Theatre, LA). Lisa teaches Film Acting at HB Studio in NYC. www.LisaPelikan.com.
Katherine Reis
Matilde
can be seen recurring on HBO Max’s Gossip Girl. She starred in The Brides opposite Gina Torres and Goran Visnjic, had a season-long arc on TNT’s Claws, and appeared in Law & Order: SVU, Chicago PD, Bull, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Film credits include Taipei, All We Had, and Weiner-Dog.
Bart Shatto
Rich
Bart originated the role of Rich in early NYC readings of Cracked Open. Broadway: War Paint, Les Misérables, Hands on a Hardbody, The Civil War, and Dracula. National Tours: Les Misérables, Cats, The Civil War. Off-Broadway: Superhero (Second Stage), Finnegan’s Farewell. TV: Law & Order, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Murphy Brown (Reboot), Gaspard and Lisa (Disney Jr.). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Papermill Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Ogunquit, Alley Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, North Shore Music Theatre, and Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre. Awards: Best Actor Winner for Chicago Indie Film Awards and New York Arthouse Film Festival, Joseph Jefferson nominee, and Connecticut Critics Circle Winner.
Jenne Vath
Sophia
Upcoming: H.M. Koutoukas’ Medea of The Laundromat (La MaMa ETC/The Lortel Theatre) starring John-Andrew Morrison and Jason Howard. Previous work includes La MaMa ETC, Red Bull Theater, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Theater for the New City, Days of the Giants, The Living Theatre, Metropolitan Playhouse, HERE, Regeneration Theatre, and Luna Stage. Vath is a founding member of the performance group The Experimentals, created by stage director George Ferencz. NYIT and Acker Award Nominee. AEA/SAG-AFTRA member. NYU-TSOA graduate. Thank you, Gail and Barry.
