Kaitlyn Zion (SARAH) is so thrilled to be making their Interact main stage debut! They are a Philadelphia based performer and graduate of the University of the Arts with a BFA in Musical Theater. Past credits include Salsa Lessons (24hr Play festival) We All Fall Down (Theatre Ariel) Into the Woods (Arden Theatre Company) Ronnie The Musical (10th Floor Productions) Plantation Black (Interact Lobstah Lab) and Bitch (Thursday Productions). Much love always to my family, friends and Alex, and a huge thank you to Interact.

After a brief respite for the holidays, Gabriel Elmore (JOHN) is absolutely exhilarated to be returning to the InterAct family for The Last Yiddish Speaker. This play has been an excellent challenge.

With an MFA from Temple University, and a truly reprehensible habit for overwriting his artist biographies, Gabriel has lately also been pursuing analog photography and screenwriting. He enjoys a passion for classical work and its ability to address the problems that face our world today. As a result, he spends his free time exploring the intricacies of lesser known Elizabethan drama.

 Recent work includes Peter in Peter & The Star Catcher (DTC), Charles Lomax & Snobby Price in Major Barbara (Quintessence), Valet in No Exit (Quintessence), Captain in Man of La Mancha (DTC), and Neil in THIS BITTER EARTH (InterAct).

Dan Hodge is proud to be returning to InterAct where he has been seen in Settlements, Dogs of Rwanda, The Three Christs of Manhattan, The Exit Interview, Silverhill and House/Divided.  In the Philadelphia area, Dan has worked with the Walnut Street, Theatre Exile, Delaware Theatre, 1812 Productions, Bristol Riverside, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Curio and Hedgerow Theatre.  A cofounder of the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective he appeared in Changes of Heart, Creditors, Fair Maid of the West, his one-man The Rape of Lucrece, and directed their productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Timon of Athens, and Mary Stuart.  Dan holds his MFA in Acting from the USD/Old Globe, San Diego. 

Stephanie Satie, (Aunt Chava, she/her) is delighted to be onstage at Interact in this powerful play. She is an actor and playwright, and author of last season’s The Last Parade.  Stephanie has performed on and off-Broadway, in regional theatres, and internationally, first, as a dancer, then as an actor in roles ranging from those of Shakespeare to Neil Simon to Ionesco and Berkoff. With grants from the Los Angeles Dept of Cultural Affairs, she created three critically acclaimed solo plays - Refugees, published by Samuel French, Coming to America, and the multiple award-winning Silent Witnesses. On TV she recurred in “The Wonder Years” as Ida Pfeiffer and in “The Practice,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” and many soaps and courtroom dramas. She played another Chava in the National tour of Fiddler on the Roof in Philadelphia in the last century. During the pandemic, she wrote and co-starred in a short film In the Zoom Room, produced by Women in the Arts and Media Coalition. She has endless faith in the power of theatre to enlarge our view of the world.

Deborah Zoe Laufer (Playwright) Deb’s plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva, The Humana Festival, Everyman, Primary Stages, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Deb is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, the Lilly Award, The ATCA Steinberg citation, and grants and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Edgerton Foundation, The National New Play Network, and the Lincoln Center Foundation. Her work has been developed by The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Theatre Lab, PlayPenn, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Missoula Colony, LOCAL Theatre, Asolo Rep, The Baltic Playwrights Conference, and more.

She is a graduate of Juilliard, an alumna of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a member of Honor Roll, and a Dramatists Guild Council member. DEBORAHZOELAUFER.com

Seth Rozin (Director, Producing Artistic Director) co-founded InterAct in 1988 and has directed over 60 productions for InterAct, including Eureka Day, The Great Leap, How to Use a Knife, The Nether, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety, Permanent Collection, It’s All True, Lebensraum, and 6221. He has also directed at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, Blue Heron & 45th Street Theaters in New York, and across the Philadelphia region. Seth is the recipient of two playwriting fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the National New Play Network’s 2007 Smith Prize, a commission from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and two Barrymore Award nominations.

He co-founded Philadelphia Scenic Works (PhiladelphiaScenicWorks.org), a nonprofit scenic fabrication shop, and MusiCoLab (MusiCoLab.org), dedicated to the development of new musical theatre works. Seth has twice served as President of the Board of National New Play Network, as well as Philadelphia Artists Collective, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and New Paradise Laboratories.

Hunter Smith (Stage Manager) is a Philadelphia based Stage Manager, Production Manager, Props Master, and all around theater lover who is from Medford Lakes, New Jersey. Hunter graduated from Rutgers University in 2019 with concentrations in Stage Management and Light Design. Previous stage management credits are from InterAct Theatre, Azuka Theatre, Passage Theatre Company, Three Oaks Opera, Wolf Performing Arts Center, 24 Hour Plays, Philadelphia Artist Collective, South Camden Theater Company, and the Woodstock Playhouse (50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Concert).

Hunter works partly as an Assistant Stage Manager for Opera Philadelphia and as a Freelance Production Manager for Ensemble Arts. When not working in the arts, he works as the Activities Director of Four Seasons Campground in Pilesgrove, New Jersey!

Katherine Fritz (Costume Designer)  Katherine Fritz is a theatre artist and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. Regional credits include work with Delaware Theatre Company, Theatre Exile (Barrymore Award nominee), Arden Theatre, and the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective, where she was an artistic associate and resident designer for six seasons. She has nearly 100 professional design credits to her name in Philadelphia and along the East Coast, including Signature Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and New Paradise Laboratories.

Katherine is also an adjunct faculty member at Temple University, University of the Arts and Montgomery County Community College. She currently works as the Co-Founding Managing Director of  Pennsylvania Theatre Institute, a summer performing arts program for students eight through eighteen.

Eli Lynn (Intimacy Coordinator) is an actor, a Barrymore Nominated fight director, and an IDC-certified Intimacy Director. With InterAct, they have directed Intimacy for American Fast and fights for pay no worship and Man of God, as well as appeared in the world premiere of Sensitive Guys. Other recent Intimacy credits include: Spring Awakening (Arcadia), Camp Siegfried; The Light; Motherf*cker With The Hat (Theatre Exile), Sense & Sensibility; The Tempest (PA Shakespeare Festival), Head Over Heels (Theatre Horizon), The Moors (Rutgers Camden), A Streetcar Named Desire (Arden Theatre), Wine In The Wilderness (PAC). They are also an Artistic Associate at Philadelphia Artists’ Collective. Love always to Vanessa. SDG. www.Eli-Lynn.com

Christopher Colucci (Sound Designer) Recent work: The Lehman Trilogy (Arden Theater); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Walnut Street Theater); Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Tartuffe (Lantern Theater Company); Noises Off (Delaware Theater Company), The Flatlanders (1812 Productions) and Camp Siegfried (Theatre Exile). Next: Children of the Sun (PAC) and The Comedy of Errors (Lantern). 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts; 8 Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Original Music and Sound Design; Independence Fellowship in the Arts (2012, 2019); MA in Philosophy from Western Kentucky University. BA in Philosophy/Theology from Eastern University. You can find him on Soundcloud, YouTube, and Instagram @christopherm_colucci.

Emily Schuman (Props Manager) is a freelance prop designer, actor, and folk singer-songwriter. She is thrilled to be returning to InterAct this season! Her prop design credits span over 25 productions in Philadelphia, working with such companies as 1812 Productions, Applied Mechanics, Orbiter 3, EgoPo Classic Theatre, 11th Hour Theatre Company, National Constitution Center, and Theatre Horizon. Recent credits include: Camp Siegfried and A Case for the Existence of God (Theatre Exile), Being/With (Nichole Canuso Dance Company). Love always to Evan and the kitties. emilyschuman.net

Brayden Stallman (Production Assistant) is a 23-24 Season Apprentice at InterAct Theatre Company. Recent work includes his dance-theatre adaptation of Sheridan le Fanu’s “Carmilla” …even in another time (Director and Playwright), and productions of Tick, Tick… BOOM! (Director) and Medea (Director) at Muhlenberg College, as well as the feature length documentary Ars Mordeni: The Art of Dying. Stallman has worked with FringeArts producing the podcast FringeFiles: An Incomplete Oral History and currently produces the podcast Return to Camp Half-Blood. While working at Interact Stallman also serves as an Administrative Assistant for Starlight’s Youth Theatre in Sunderland, MA. He is a graduate of Muhlenberg College with a BA in Theatre and Media-Communications. You can find more of his work here.

Colin McIlvaine (Scenic Design) is a Philadelphia-based, Barrymore nominated scenic designer named as one of American Theatre Magazine's 20 People to Watch. Recent credits include: School Girls (Arden Theatre Company); One Man, Two Guvnors (Delaware Theatre Company). Colin’s recent associate design credits include: A Christmas Carol (Guthrie Theater); Le Roi Arthus (Bard SummerScape); Pipeline (Lincoln Center). In addition to his freelance career, Colin is adjunct faculty for Villanova University. B.A. University of Maryland; MFA Scenic Design Temple University. www.colinmcilvaine.com

Philadelphia Scenic Works (Scenic Fabrication) are the nation's only independent, non-profit (501c3) scene shop. They work with arts organizations all over the Greater Philadelphia area to build projects that advance their missions. At the same time, they are invested in building a healthy, sustainable workforce, and innovative resource sharing.

Actors' Equity Association (“Equity"), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.

Equity is governed by its own members through an elected Council, representing principal actors, chorus actors and stage managers living in three regions: Eastern, Central and Western. Members at large participate in Equity’s governance through a system of Regional Boards and committees. Equity has 28 designated Geographically Based Communities, metropolitan areas with a concentration of more than 100 members.