| NORTH SHORE THEATRE GROUP Biographies *denotes Actors' Equity Association |
| *Jason Vail (Managing Director; John Barrymore in Barrymore's Ghost; recurring roles in Whodunit Mystery Reading Series) made his debut with North Shore Theatre Group in Barrymore's Ghost in May, 2002. Recent New York City theatre credits include: Antonio in Twelfth Night with Quest Theater Ensemble and Cassio in Othello with Neolight Theatre Co. at the Present Company Theatorium. His regional credits include: PlayMakers Repertory Company: The Tempest, As You Like It, Cymbeline, The Nutcracker: A Play, and A Little Night Music. Other theater: The Balcony, Henry IV Parts I and II, Trelawny of the Wells, Bus Stop, Marat/Sade, The Shadow Box, Room Service, LUV, Not Now Darling, Tracers and Mass Appeal. Film: Prevailing Conditions, The Price of Heaven on Showtime. TV: Reccurring U/5 on Guiding Light, Unsolved Mysteries. Jason recieved his M.F.A. in drama from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his B.A. in Drama from Coastal Carolina University. |
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| *Greg Oliver Bodine (Artistic Director; Director: Barrymore's Ghost; Whodunit Mystery Reading Series; Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol) recently returned from doing summer stock at Saint Vincent Theatre in Latrobe, PA where he played Rev. David in his third production of Larry Shue's The Foreigner. For the company, he has directed NSTG's Whodunit Mystery Reading Series and Barrymore's Ghost. Regional and stock acting credits include: Playmakers Repertory Company: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Three Penny Opera, A little Night Music, The Nutcracker: A Play; BoarsHead Theater: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Candida, Potholes; Cortland Repertory Theatre, Magnet Theatre Co., Princeton Repertory Company, Millbrook Playhouse, and Huron Playhouse. New York acting credits include: productions with Manhattan Theatre Source, Lincoln Center Directors� Lab, Columbia M.F.A. Directing Program (Anne Bogart, Advisor), Stageworks, Byzantium Theatreworks, New York Artists Theatre Co., The Moving Circle and The Actors Institute. Training: M.F.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York City. Greg has taught undergraduate acting and stage combat at UNC-Chapel Hill, The Southern New Jersey Academy for the Performing Arts and acted as Fight Director for a production of Othello at The Present Company in NYC. Greg's plays include: A Hollywood Lesson in Physics, Heavy Flora, The Bottom Line and adaptations of The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing, by Thomas Hardy, The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, (published by Playscripts, Inc.) and Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol -- a solo, one-act play, which he performed last December. His current playwriting project is a work-in-progress, titled Laughing Cavalier, a one-man biopic on the life of film legend, Errol Flynn. Professional affiliations include: Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors' Guild, American Federation of Television & Radio Artists and The Dramatists Guild. In late August 2004, Greg will appear in Roll, by Mac Rogers and directed by Jordana Davis at Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC. In December, he will tour his one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at six area libraries on Long Island, including a special performance on at Christ Church Parish Hall in Oyster Bay. |
| Alan Dolderer (Reading Series Coordinator; recurring roles in Whodunit Mystery Reading Series) has spent something more than half his life in the theatre, both regionally and in Manhattan, with scripts both in and out of hand. He has worked without a net in plays such as THE PERFECT PARTY, MARY TUDOR, ENDGAME, PRESENT LAUGHTER, GUILTY CONSCIENCE, MARY STUART, DANGEROUS OBSESSION, THE MOUSETRAP, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, GRANDMA PRAY FOR ME, BREAKING THE CODE, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SHUT YOUR EYES AND THINK OF ENGLAND, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, THE FATHER, MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM, CIPANGO!, MACBETH and many others. In a readers format he has performed in the past with The Shaw Project in plays by GBS and his contemporaries including WHEN WE ARE MARRIED, DANDY DICK, THE MADRAS HOUSE, THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA, TIME TO GO, PRESS CUTTINGS and MAN AND SUPERMAN; he also read the role of Captain Archbold in Greg Bodine�s adaptation of Joseph Conrad�s THE SECRET SHARER. For the past ten years Alan has performed (as well as directed and provided sound effects) with the Cranston & Spade Theatre Company, a group he co-founded, in W-WOW! RADIO, presenting episodes of old-time radio mysteries like The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, The Lives of Harry Lime, Sam Spade, Suspense, Night Beat, Mysterious Traveler, Bulldog Drummond, The Fat Man, Philip Marlowe, Richard Diamond, Dracula, War of the Worlds and A Christmas Carol at Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers in Manhattan. |
| *Michael Frederic (recurring roles in Whodunit Mystery Reading Series) is originally from Lafayette, Louisiana and was trained at the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a member of the PlayMakers Repertory Company there. Past roles include Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, Horatio in Hamlet, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, as well as roles in Gross Indecency, Violet, The Threepenny Opera, As You Like It, A Christmas Carol, and The Tempest. He is happy to be involved in the reading series...and he makes a mean jambalaya. Ethan Ritter Schrott (Detective Hopkins in The Adventure of the Golden Pince Nez: Whodunit Mystery Reading Series) |
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