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		photos by Jordana Zeldin
	In April 1936, Kansas is plagued with drought and decay in the wake of The Great Depression. America migrates toward work but one family is rooted to their barren farm, haunted by loss and a once-prosperous life.  As another spring approaches with no sign of renewal they begin to adapt to the inevitable, eroding with their surroundings even as they learn to accept their fate. The Los Angeles Times said of the original production: “Sally Nemeth's Holy Days is a stage poem. It is uncommonly affecting, an elegy for the lost souls in the dying plains who clung to their blighted homesteads like bees to a poisoned hive.”

HOLY DAYS cast and staff:

	Lowell Byers (Will) graduated from Denison University in May of 2008.  At Denison, he was an NCAA All-American Swimmer for four years, as well as appearing in 6 main stage productions, and a one-man show, which he wrote himself.  Since arriving in New York, he has performed in five Off-Off Broadway productions, including Look Afer You, which was part of the 2009 NY Fringe Festival.  Recently, he played a small part in the film, Company Retreat, directed by Campbell Scott.  Lowell has studied with Peter Miner of the Terry Schreiber Studios, and audition and acting coach Ted Sluberski.  www.LowellByers.com “The play largely works thanks to the appealing performances, particularly by Lowell Byers,” (New York Post, Look After You)	photo by Jordana Zeldin
	Heather E. Cunningham (Rosie) was most recently seen as Angel in Retro Productions' When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?  In 2007 Backstage named her as a “Performance to Remember” for her portrayal of Cheryl in Retro’s Still Life.  Additional roles for Retro: The Tender Trap, Mill Fire, What I Did Last Summer, Mrs. California (NYC premiere) and Catholic School Girls.  Performances with local companies include eep!productions, Young Playwrights, New York Theatre Workshop, and Vital Theatre among others.  Her residency at Hedgerow Theatre included appearances in over a dozen productions.   Other favorite credits: Silence, Cole/Noel - "Let's Fall in Love," Cat Among the Pigeons, Macbeth, Unveiling, Comedy 101, Women Who Dare, Evita, Four Dogs and a Bone and the short films Re-Union and Double the Treatment.  She holds a B.F.A. in theater performance from Denison University.  www.heathercunningham.net “Heather E. Cunningham burst with working-class outrage and resentment yet made you care for this lost soul without begging for sympathy…she played off the other two actors, never showily but always eloquently. ” (Backstage Performances to Remember 2007, Still Life)	photo by Jordana Zeldin
	Joe Forbrich* (Gant) Off-Broadway:  Who You See Here, The Barrow Group, Stuff Happens, The Public; Rose Rage, The Duke on 42nd Street; minor gods, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab; A Soldier’s Play, Second Stage. Regional: Workshop of David Henry Hwang’s Yellowface, Stanford University; Rose Rage, Chicago Shakespeare; Morningstar, Wendall Greene, Detail of a Larger Work, Steppenwolf; Blue Surge, Goodman; Carousel, Marriot Lincolnshire; A Streetcar Named Desire, The Manchurian Candidate, Coyote on a Fence, Shattered Globe Theatre Company.  Television: Recurring as Det. Joe Cormack on Law and Order; 30 Rock, The Sopranos, Dirty Sexy Money, The Untouchables, Cupid, Early Edition, To Sir, With Love II, Jonny Zero. Guest Lead in the pilot episode of Bunker Hill, TNT.  Film: The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3, My Own Love Song, Taking Woodstock, West 32nd, Freedomland, The Watcher, Michael Clayton, We Own the Night. Upcoming:  Guest Star on Fox’s new show Past Life.  Co-Founder of the Shattered Globe Theatre Company in Chicago, now in its 20th year of award-winning work.  His performance is dedicated to his stepfather, Charles M. Parry. “Joe Forbrich, who also delivers a strong performance as the Earl of Warwick, is a divertingly funny and forceful Jack Cade.” (The New York Times, TONY Performance to Remember, Rose Rage)	photo by Jordana Zeldin
	Casandera M. J. Lollar (Molly), a native Texan, fell in love with theater at an early age.  She studied at Angelina College in Texas, receiving an A.A. in Theater Arts, and moving on to Brooklyn College for her B.F.A.  This is her thrid production with Retro Productions, and is so thankful to be a part of this company!  Her favorite credits include Lend Me a tenor, Rumors, Oregon, The Seagull, The Tender Trap, and When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? “Although she barely has ten lines, she presents a character so fully realized that she is lighting up the stage.” (theaterscene.net, When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder)	photo by Jordana Zeldin
	Sally Nemeth (playwright), an award winning playwright and screenwriter, is also the author of The Heights, the Depths and Everything in Between, (Knopf), a novel for young adults. Her plays have been produced by theaters throughout the English speaking world. Published plays include Holy Days, Mill Fire, Water Play, and Sally's Shorts. Since beginning her television career writing for the hit NBC TV show Law & Order, she has written for every major television network.  She is the producer of the documentary Long Story Short, which toured film festivals nationwide, earning a number of awards.	photo by Jordana Zeldin

Peter Zinn (director) began his career as an actor in Chicago where he performed with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre and others.  He has also performed with The Milwaukee Rep, The Geffen Theatre, and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.  Earlier this year, he wrote and directed the play, Rumspringa off-Broadway at The Bleecker Street Theatre.  Last year, his one-act play, Waiting to Land, was produced at The HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre.  In addition to writing and directing, Peter also works as a voice over artist and has voiced hundreds of TV and radio commercials as well as narrated TV programs for the Discovery Channel, MTV Networks, and E! Entertainment Television.

“Peter Zinn wrote and directed this engrossing and often funny, well staged piece.” (FOX News, Rumspringa)

Jack and Rebecca Cunningham (set designers). Jack and Beckie's most recent work with Retro was their set design for When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? received glowing reviews.  Their design for Retro Production's Mill Fire was recognized by the Innovative Theatre Awards with a nomination for best scenic design.  Their Retro Production credits also include sets for The Tender Trap, What I Did Last Summer by A.R.Gurney, and Emily Mann’s Still Life.  Rebecca's costumes for Summer also received an IT nomination.  Rebecca is Professor Emerita from Brooklyn College where she spent 38 years and designed costumes for an estimated 60 productions. Rebecca's costume design textbook, The Magic Garment, has just appeared in second edition (March, 2009). Rebecca received the USITT's 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award in Costume Design and Technology.  Jack has designed productions for opera, summer stock, off-off Broadway, and regional theatre.  This past spring they toured Egyptian and Jordanian theatres, opera houses, and antiquities with a study tour sponsored by USITT.

Debra Krajec (costume designer) is very pleased to have the opportunity to work with the very talented artists at Retro Productions, and to colaborate with longtime friend and mentor Rebecca Cunningham.  Deb is an artistic associate professor of performing arts at Marquette University in Milwaukee where she has served as a director as well as a costume designer for the past twenty-five years.  Deb received her M.F.A. from Texas Christian University, and has worked professionally as a costume designer, a director, and an actress.  In Milwaukee, Deb has designed costumes for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, and Next Act Theatre and directed for In Tandem Productions and Playwrights' Studio of Milwaukee.  She is very active in the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, where she is a fellow of the Institute.  She is a member of Actors' Equity Association.

Jusin Sturges (lighting designer, set designer) has lit theater, dance, circus, and spectacle in New York, London, Istanbul, and Vermont.  He is a member of several visionary off-off Broadway theater companies, including The Beggars Group, Discraced Productions, and newFangled theatReR.

Jeanne Travis* (stage manager and sound designer) received her B. A. in theatre and music from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.  Recent sound and stage management credits include Todd Pate's Behind All Lines and Following Annie (Carreon Productions) and The Tender Trap (Retro Productions).

Morgan Lindsay Tachco (publicist). An all-around theatre lady, Morgan is active in off-off Broadway where she is fortunate to work with the most talented of artists.  On stage, she is a company member of The Beggars Group (The Expatriates, Feb. 2009) and The John Montgomery Theatre Company (We Call Her Benny, BITE). By day she freelances as a publicist and producer and works at the Brooklyn Arts Council in Arts in Education.  She is Outreach Manager for the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, and is always happy to spend time at home with the wonderful Justin, Zooey, Oscar and Mary in Brooklyn.  Morgan sends much love to all of her incredibly supportive families, be they urban or (other) coastal, and thanks you for supporting independent theatre. www.morganlindseytachco.com.  

 *Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.  This is an Equity approved showcase. 

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