Tom Giordano is thrilled to be making his Whistler debut.  Recent roles include: Robert Chiltern in "An Ideal Husband" (Bad Habit Productions); Edward in "Spike Heels" (Occasional Players); Fletcher in Men of Tortuga (Apollinaire Theatre); Mr. Marks in "Intimate Apparel" (Footlight Club); Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet" (Hovey Players); and Algernon in "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Longwood Players), for which he received the DASH award for Best Actor.  Tom has trained with Shakespeare & Company.

Hannah Husband is thrilled to be reading with Whistler again having most recently given voice to several characters in Whistler's staged reading of The Europeans, by Howard Barker. Before that, she was seen in Shh! with The New Exhibition Room, and also appeared in Whistler in the Dark's FeverFest 2008. Other Boston credits include Actor's Shakespeare Project: Coriolanus (Valeria), and Twelfth Night (Fabian). She spent a year touring with the National Players of the Olney Theatre Center, performing in Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), Othello (Emilia), and The Importance of Being Earnest(Gwendolen).  She holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University, and also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.  

Kelly DuMar is a Boston area playwright, psychodramatist and Playback Theatre artist who enjoys collaborating on a variety of creative theatrical settings.  Selected Play Credits: Winner of the Susan McIntyre Play Festival, Kelly’s full-length play, Weekend at the Dreaming Cloud, had a workshop production at Yellow Taxi, Nashua, NH, 2008, as well as two directed readings with Nora Theatre, Cambridge.  Selections from her one-act children’s play, Rocky & Skye, were produced by the Youth Education on Stage Festival, North Dakota, where it won 2nd place. Kelly can be reached at diarydoor@aol.com, www.diarydoor.typepad.com/stagedoor

Melanie Garber is a Boston-based playwright, director, theatre educator and actor. Melanie studied at Emerson College and received her B.A. in Theatre Education with an emphasis in Acting last year. Additionally, she is a proud member of the Hangar Theatre’s LAB Company 2009. Her autumnal months have been spent acting as child supervisor for Huntington Theatre Company’s productions of August Wilson’s Fences and Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas.

Carissa Halston, co-founder of Aforementioned Productions, toured nationally for her literary performance piece, Portraiture, in September, 2009.  Her novel, A Girl Named Charlie Lester, was honorably mentioned in the 2008 New York Book Festival and she has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  Carissa's plays have been performed in New York and Boston and her prose has been published in the United States and the UK.  She is currently working on a play entitled, The Daughters.

Meron Langsner was one of three writers in the country chosen for the pilot year of the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright Residencies, fulfilling his residency at New Rep.  His plays have been performed around the country and overseas, and recently included by anthologizes published by Applause Theatre Books.  Meron is also active in the Greater Boston Area as a professional fight director.  He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis and an MA in Performance Studies from NYU/Tisch.

Elizabeth Rapoza is a playwright, performer and theater educator. Her play The Amazing Adventures of Pajamazon was a winner in Mae West Fest of Seattle’s search for the “Ultimate Female Protagonist”. She won Boston Public School’s Short Play Development Award in 2006. Her plays have appeared in a variety of venues including SlamBoston. Ms. Rapoza has taught theater courses to children, teens and adults for over twenty years. She is currently a faculty member at Cape Cod Community College.

John O'Brien is pleased to be working with the good folk at Whistler in the Dark.  He is an original company member of Mill 6 and directed their first production, A Coarse Evening, back in 1998. Since then he has directed thirteen other Mill 6 productions including the short-run Tent Meeting and the world premiere of The Trojan Whore written by Sean Michael Welch. He has also appeared in three shows, usually in fleeting cameos most notably (and fleetingly) as Alfred in Café Society. As a playwright his plays have been performed in Boston, New York, Cambridge and Provincetown. He will be producing The T Plays 2010 in June, 2010.  He has worked with many of Boston’s smaller theater companies including Industrial Theater, Rough & Tumble, The Theater Cooperative, Devanaughn Theater and New Broadway Theater. He is a graduate of Fordham University, College at Lincoln Center.

Barlow Adamson directed Mill 6's productions of Underneath the Lintel, Shakespeare's R+J, and marathon entries Clam and Hershel Go to the Market and Counting Rita. With John O'Brien, he co-directed Bunbury: A Serious Play for Trivial People. He has also directed for Suffolk University Performing Arts Office (Reefer Madness), Commonwealth Shakespeare's youth program and Devanaughn's Dragonfly Festival. Barlow is a member of Actors Equity and has performed at many of our local stages including: Speakeasy Stage Company (Reckless, Almost Maine, Fuddy Meers), Lyric Stage Company (Private Lives, Arms and the Man, The Scene), Nora Theatre (On the Verge, The Swan), and the Huntington Theatre Company (Maiden's Prayer, A Month in the Country).