Oldcastle Theatre Cast..

Carlton Carpenter Carleton, a Bennington native, has a had a long, distinguished career on stage, in film and on television. His first Broadway appearance was in 1944 in Bright Boy. Other Broadway shows include: Almanc, Light up the Sky Hotel Paradiso, and Crazy for You. His films include Three Little Words, Two Weeks in Another Town, Fearless Fagan, Father of the Bride, Up Periscope etc. He sold more than ten million copies of the hit Abba Dabba Honeymoon with Debbie Reynolds. Carleton has acted and directed national and international tours and written songs recorded by the likes of Billy Eckstine. He has acted in many Oldcastle productions including On Golden Pond, An American Daughter, Spinning into Butter and directed The Apple Tree.

Sheila Childs Sheila Childs, an Oldcastle stalwart since the 1970s, most recently was in OTC's ON GOLDEN POND.

Shawn Davis Shawn Davis who has shown his versatility with OTC in a musical FOREVER PLAID, dramas, THE GLASS MENAGERIE and ALL MY SONS, and comedies, last season's ALMOST, MAINE.

Christine Decker Chris joined Oldcastle in 1973 and has made more than 25 appearances with the company including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Glass Menagerie, (twice as both Laura and Amanda) Lend Me A Tenor, Wonderful Tennessee, Dancing at Lughnasa, and many others. Christine performs regularly at the Comedy Warehouse at Walt Disney World’s Pleasure Island. She is also a member of the Orlando Theatre Project where she appeared in All my Sons, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Lion in Winter.

Paul Falzone A founding member of Oldcastle, Paul has acted in more than 30 plays with OTC including Inherit the Wind, The Price, A View From the Bridge, The Odd Couple and Postmortem. He has directed several including Dracula and wrote Raising Kane which Oldcastle premiered in 1997 and co-wrote The Yankee Tradition that was performed in a special performance before the Vermont Legislature and on Vermont Public Television. On Broadway he appeared in Macbeth with Nicol Williamsson and off-Broadway in Harvey Feirstein's Torch Song Trilogy. He has been a regular on the TV series As The World Turns and All My Children and has made several appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

Katrina Ferguson Katrina, a native of Australia, has made many Oldcastle appearances including Engaging Shaw which Oldcastle premiered and which she subsequently acted in with New Jersey Rep; A Moon for the Misbegotten, Judevine and Hard Times. She won the 2005 Golden Leaf Award for Best Actress at Dorset Theatre Festival for her portrayal of Eleanor in A Lion in Winter. She has toured Europe five times with A Christmas Carol.

Lisa Gunn Lisa Gunn (Sally), like the rest of the cast, is making her Oldcastle debut in Dangerous Obsession. A native Calfornian, Lisa comes to Oldcastle by way of Philadelphia, New York and Brooklyn. She performed on Broadway in the twentieth anniversary production of ANNIE, as well as in ongoing performances with composer Marvin Hamlisch. Lisa has appeared on stage, in commercials, in television and film. Recently she was seen on AS THE WORLD TURNS, in M. Night Shamalyn’’s THE HAPPENING and in the upcoming feature THE LAST DAYS OF APRIL. She holds an MFA from Temple University.

Betsy Holt Betsy Holt is Audrey, a young native of York who catches Jack's eye. Ms. Holt recently appeared in LAUGH RIOT in New York.

Richard Howe (AEA) Richard is Oldcastle’s Associate Artistic Director. He joined the company in 1975 and has appeard in well over 100 productions. Favorites include Judevine, Greater Tuna, Redwood Curtain, Lend Me a Tenor, Of Mice and Men, I Do! I Do!, Dancing at Lughnasa, A moon for the Misbegotten, Picnic, Chesapeake, Dracula and Eric Peterson’s Civil Union. In 2006 he won Buffalo’s Katherine Cornell Award for his performance in Juno and the Paycock at the Irsich Classical Theatre. He has also appeared at Sierra Rep in California in The Foreigner and She Loves Me, and in the Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall’s production fo Pygmalion in Cambridge, NY. Richard has also designed numerous sets for Oldcastle including All My Sons, The Price, I’m not Rapaport and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Melissa Hurst Melissa has appeared many times with Oldcastle in such plays as On Golden Pond, Picnic, I’m not Rappaport and her own one-woman show Baby Love. She has acted with the Atlantic Theatre Company, Soho Rep, Pittsburgh Playhouse, GEVA, Missouri Rep and appeared in the Obie winning The Houseguests off-Broadway. She made many appearances with Dorset Theatre Festival including Tom Jones, Present Laughter and Of Mice and Men. Her TV work includes Law & Order and the recurring role of Mrs. Chitwood on Guiding Light.

Willy Jones This is Willy’s 20th season with Oldcastle. His many appearances with the company include Judevine, Civil Union, Greater Tuna, Mornings at Seven and Bedroom Farce. He also directs Oldcastle’s Bennington Actors’ Express and hosts a show for children on CAT-TV entitled Tell me a Story. Willy is host of a twice weekly radio program on WBTN.

Philip Lance Philip Lance, who joined Oldcastle in 1976 returns to play Doc, a physician who will not win any awards from the AMA. He most recently played one of the fathers in THE FANTASTICKS with Oldcastle.

Matt Malloy His partner in crime and comedy is played by Matt Malloy (Jack) who was seen in Woody Allen's PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM at the Porchlight Theatre in New Jersey and COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ABRIDDGED in New York.

Paul Mantell Paul Mantell (John) is a 35 year veteran of New York and New jersey stages. He is also an award winning author of books for teens and middle school students, most recently he was co-author of the Tiki and Rond Barber books for Simon and Schuster.

Yvonne Perry This spring, Yvonne was part of two world premieres at Theatre 440 at Proctors, where she appeared in General Desdemona and Battle of the Bands. Other regional theatre credits include Mrs. VanBuren in Intimate Apparel (Capital Rep), Mrs. Kendall in The Elephant Man (Hubbard Hall), Rosemary in Picnic and Sue in All My Sons (Oldcastle Theatre Co.), Eleanor in Reverse Psychology (Northeast Theater), Various Roles in Play By Play and Ten By Ten (StageWorks), Cassie in Inalienable Rights: Denied and Gwenda Vaughn in Agatha Christie’s Ordeal By Innocence (both NYSTI). She has acted in or directed numerous screenplay readings for Movies Without Pictures. Yvonne currently teaches acting at U Albany, and toured with other college professors in last year’s Theatre 88 production of What I Heard About Iraq. Television credits include the five years she portrayed Rosanna Cabot on the CBS soap As The World Turns (Soap Opera Award, 1993) and appearances on Guiding Light, Candid Camera, Silk Stalkings, and the sit-com pilot Dads (ABC/Tri-Star). She is an active freelance commercial actress, and can often be seen on TV as the spokeswoman for Taft Furniture - and heard on the radio as the voice for The Times Union, among many others. Last summer she spent hours in the studio narrating social studies textbooks for Random House, and will happily try to answer any questions you might have about the Ottoman Empire (!) Yvonne holds a BFA in Acting from Adelphi University, and an MA in Theatre History from UAlbany. She has also studied with A.C.T. (San Francisco) and The Royal National (London). She resides in Loudonville, NY with her husband and two daughters. Proud member of Equity, SAG, and AFTRA. Special thanks to my two Ms and my two Js.

Eric Peterson A founding member of Oldcastle, Eric may be the longest serving artistic director in the United States. He has produced more than 200 productions, directed more than 150, acted in scores more. As a playwright he is the author of Civil Union, Ghostwriters Never Die, Angels in the Architecture, Frost Warnings, and Revolutionary Wizard: Ben Franklin. He co-authored The Yankee Tradition with Paul Falzone that was presented on Vermont Public Television and in a special performance before the Vermont Legislature. He has also written children’s plays. He has served as president of the Vermont Arts Councel and received awards from the Council, Vermont Magazine, Southern Vermont College and Bennington Museum. Eric has taught at the high school and college level. He is a member of SSDC, AEA and DGA. He is grateful for his wife Deborah, and the proudest grandfather on earth.

Brenny Rabine Meg, his love interest, is played by newcomer Brenny Rabine who most recently appeared in the Capital Rep production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

Patrick Ellison Shea Patrick has acted with Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre, Totem Pole, Utah Shakespeare, Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre and Ford’s Theatre. He has acted in more than ten plays with Oldcastle including K2, Raising Kane, Mornings at Seven, Hard Times, I’m not Rappaport and Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol.

Bill Tatum Bill has appeared on Broadway (Man of La Mancha), TV (Law & Order), all the major soaps, hosting (On the Water) film (The Thomas Crown Affair) and in with Oldcastle in The Odd Couple, Raising Kane, Wonderful Tennessee, The Magnificent Ambersons, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Dinner Party. He is a member of New York’s Workshop Theater Company.

Dylan Turner Dylan Turner who has acted with both Oldcastle (I'M NOT RAPPAPPORT) and the theatre's touring educational company, the Actor's Express, plays Doc's son, Butch who is engaged to Audrey but finds himself strangely drawn to Stephanie.

Christopher Yates Christopher Yates appeared earlier with the Bickford Theatre in MUSICAL COMEDY MURDERS OF 1940. He was Tom in DINNER WITH MY FRIENDS at the Schoolhouse Theatre, Claudius in HAMLET and Brutus in JULIUS CEASAR with Moonwalk in New York, appeared in JACQUES BREL, THE MIRACLE WORKER and THE MISER at the Olney Theatre Center. He has also acted with La Jolla Playhouse, Barrington Stage, Theatre Virginia, Goodspeed Opera House and The New Jersey Shakespeare Theatre. He appeared off-Broadway in HYSTERICAL BLINDNESSS, FIXING FRANK and ENTER THE GUARDSMAN and has sung and acted in with several national tours including LES MISERABLES, BLOOD BROTHERS, JEKYLL & HYDE and DROOD.

Natalie Wilder Natalie has previously appeared in two Oldcastle Dickens’ shows Hard Times and Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. She lives in NYC and her roles there include Phaedra in the New York premiere of Sarah Kane’s Phaedras Love, Mouth in Samuel Beckett’s Not I, Lady Anne in Richard II, Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Babe in Crimes of the Heart and Beth in Dinner with Friends. She has acted with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, the Civic Theatre of Central Florida and New Jersey Rep where she is a company member and last year originated the role of Rachel in the premiere of Apostasy.