As You Like It Cast

Oliver, Sir Oliver Martext	Ann Brummer	Ann is thrilled to be joining the cast and creative team of IAT's As You Like It! You can catch her in Commedia Beauregard's Fringe show Screwed to the Sticking Place August 5-11. Favorite roles include Edith Fromage in 'dentity Crisis, Lysander in A Misummer Night's Dream, Irene Malloy in Hello Dolly, the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, and the Fertility Goddess in Lysistrata. Ann has enjoyed 2 years of being Associate Director for Prairie Fire Children's Theatre, and is a BFA graduate of the University of Minnesota - Duluth.
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Orlando	Marianna Caldwell	MARIANNA CALDWELL is excited to be making her debut with the It's About Time Theater! She most recently appeared at the Riverside Theatre's Shakespeare Festival in The Tempest. Other credits include Lilly in Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Hamlet, Anton in Show Business, Mickey Mouse is Dead, and Dreaming of Chekhov at the Hangar Theatre, NY, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune, A Lie of the Mind, and Urinetown at the Galvin Fine Arts Center, IA. Other favorite credits inclue The Secret Garden, A Year With Frog and Toad, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Camelot. Marianna will graduate in May 2007 from St. Ambrose University with a BA in Theatre.
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Rosalind	Abby DeSanto	Abby Kay DeSanto grew up in Duluth MN, and is a recent graduate from Viterbo University in Lacrosse, WI having earned a BFA in theatre performance. You may have seen her on the Viterbo stage in productions including: The Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolyn), Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy, Dean Jimmy Dean (Stella May), Great Expectations (Miss Havisham), Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew), and No, No Nanette! (Winnie). Abby is thrilled to be making her debut on the It’s About Time Theater stage.
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Celia	Jalyn Elyse	Jalyn is delighted to be a part of It's About Time Theater's 2nd Season. She began her studies at South Dakota State University where she performed in such plays as Sweeney Todd, Equus, and Tartuffe before moving to Minneapolis to complete her B.A. in Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota. During her time there, she appeared in several experimental productions including As It Is In Heaven and Devilled Eggs and could be seen as a ferocious praying mantis in the Mainstage's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In June, she will train with Kari Margolis in the Catskills, and later in the summer, she will perform with childhood chum and castmate Katie Melby in a Three Sticks orginal, Borderlines. She would like to thank her parents, Leslie and Kathy, and brother Jesse for celebrating her successes as they would their own. She, too, takes pride in each of their achievements.
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Phoebe, Second Exiled Lord	Angelyn Eve Faust	Angelyn Eve Faust graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a BFA degree in Acting and Dance. While there, favorite roles included: Adrianna in The Comedy of Errors, Abigail in The Crucible, Beth in A Lie of the Mind, and Carmen/Kate in the world premiere of Synonymy. She has also appeared in various productions with Highland Summer Theatre, where she will be appearing as Madge in Picnic, The Girl in The Seven Year Itch and Cha-Cha in Grease this summer. Angelyn is very excited to be making her debut with It's About Time Theater.
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Jaques, Le Beau	Tiffany Givens	Tiffany is delighted to be returning to IAT for another all-women Shakespeare, having appeared as Sebastian in last season's Twelfth Night. An inveterate wanderer, Tiffany has spread the following roles across Minnesota, DC, Virginia and Rhode Island: the Inspector in Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Gruschenka in The Brother's Karamazov, Joan in Shaw's Saint Joan, and Nora in A Doll's House. Tiffany received her MFA from Trinity Rep Conservatory.
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Adam, Corin, Hymen	Jane Hammill	This is Jane's first show with IT'S ABOUT TIME THEATER. She has been working in the Twin Cities area for the most part. Performing with Gremlin Theater most recently in HAY FEVER, THE BOYS NEXT DOOR and LEND ME A TENOR. Also appearing in and WONDER OF THE WORLD for Theater in the Round. For Starting Gate Theater in PRELUDE TO A KISS and EQUUS. She has worked for Park Square and The Paul Bunyan Playhouse as well. She will be in the Minneapolis Fringe Fest this year in the ELAINE THOPMSON'S SHOWBIZ SHOWCASE performed at the Mixed Blood Theatre in August. Aside from working on AS YOU LIKE IT, Jane will be working on two independent movies over the summer/fall. And if that is not enough, she works 5 days a week, does commercial work and oh yes, she has her husband Wayne and 2 (grown) children Shannon and Josh to take care of. She would like to thank all involved for supporting her! Thank you!
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Duke Senior, Duke Frederick	Janice Hobbs	Janice appeared as Malvolio in the 2005 IAT production of Twelfth Night. Janice also has appeared with Rochester Repertory, Rochester Civic Theater, Vertigo Theater Factory, Pyramid Theatre Alliance, Midwest Theatre Network, Winona Community Theatre, Winona State University, College of St. Theresa, and the U of M Theatres. Credits: Kate--DANCING AT LUGHNASA, Truvy--STEEL MAGNOLIAS, Juror 8--TWELVE ANGRY MEN, Boo Levy--THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO, Dr. Halbrech--SCOTLAND ROAD, Gertrude--ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD.
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Sylvius, Dennis, First Court Lord	Kari Kelly	Kari is delighted to be a part of IAT’s production of As You Like It. This summer Kari can be seen in Theatre Limina’s Summer Shorts series, as well as in Commedia Beauregard’s MN Fringe Festival production Screwed to the Sticking Place. Kari has worked as an actor, playwright, teacher and director in the great regions of northern MN and is delighted to be a part of the Twin Cities theatre scene. She has had the opportunity to work with Emmigrant Theatre Tallgrass Gothic, Theatre Unbound The Tempest, 24Hr Play Project, Director’s Gym-Women in Shakespeare, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune Circus of Tales. Kari also worked as a performer/collaborator with Live Action Set on the 2005 MN Fringe Festival Hit Please Don’t Blow Up Mr. Boban which was named “Best Experimental Theatre Piece-2005” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her training includes the post-graduate classical acting program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art as well as a B.A. degree in theatre, minor in art history from Bemidji State University. Performance credits at LAMDA include King Lear, War of the Roses, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Country Wife and The Changeling.
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Audrey, Second Court Lord	Jen Rand	Jen is a graduate of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a degree in Theatre Arts. Her local credits include such theaters as The Minnesota Shakespeare Project, Theatre Unbound, Starting Gate Productions, Pigs Eye Theatre, and Ronin Theater Company. Theatrical highlights and favorites include Jessica in The Merchant of Venice (MSP), Cassandra in Troilus & Cressida (T+C, MSP), The Human Show with Margolis Brown (On the Edge), and the Skriker in The Skriker (UMN). Jen is also involved in film and commericial work in and around the Twin Cities.
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Amiens, Charles, William & Jaques de Boys	Teresa Mock	Teresa Mock received her BA in Theatre from the University of Minnesota. Her favorite production to work on at the U of MN was Black Comedy where she appeared as Miss Furnival and had the opportunity to work with Joel Sass and Luverne Seifert. Teresa has also performed Crooked Braid in The Vagina Monologues directed by Binky Wood and in association with MPIRG. Teresa has also written and directed an autobiographical solo performance called Piece Story which was performed at The Varsity Theatre in May 2005. In the fall of 2005 Teresa was the organizer and MC for Cabaret Katrina, a cabaret at Patrick’s Cabaret to benefit Hurricane Katrina relief. Over the past few months she has been touring with The National Theatre for Children. Teresa Mock is very pleased to be working with It’s About Time Theater for the first time.
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Touchstone	Jane Schrantz	Jane says she’s pleased as punch to make her first appearance with It’s About Time Theater. A Minnesota native, she has recently returned after three years in New York where she performed with Nymprovic, a locally produced improv company and played the Duchess of York in Richard II with Life and Death Productions. Other credits include being part of the ensemble cast of The Laramie Project and Mary in A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as well as Catherine Petkoff in Arms in the Man, Monica Reed in Present Laughter and Lizzy Sweeney in Philadelphia Here I Come at Monomoy Theater in Cape Cod. Jane received her MFA in Acting at Ohio University where her favorite roles included Emilia in Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief, Mme Pernelle in Tartuffe, Margaret in Waiting for the Parade, Gogo in Waiting for Godot and the Rabbi & Hannah Pit in Angels in America: Millenium Approaches. She played Mrs. Loopner in Death of a Salesperson with Mystery Café Theater in her previous Minnesota life. Jane says it’s good to be back in the land of “real” winters where she can say ‘you betcha’ and no one raises an eyebrow.