PALIMPSEST
Written By Alix Sobler
Palimpsest is a self-referential, meta-comedy about who gets to tell what story, what it means to create art based on real events, and what we owe each other when it comes to telling the truth.
Ali Rose Dachis*
(Mom/Sheltered)
Broadway: Leopoldstadt. Fish In The Dark. Off-Broadway: Usual Girls, The Wedge Horse, The Awesome 80s Prom. Before moving to New York Ali made an artistic home at The Guthrie Theater, appearing in a dozen shows, including the regional premiere of Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, and Adam Rapp’s one woman show The Edge of Our Bodies. Ali has worked with Fault Line Theatre, Roundabout, The Factory, New Georges, The Old Globe, Frantic Assembly, Backroom Shakespeare, and more. Film: Unicornland, Match Perfect, The Magnificent Eve, The Last Breath. Television: Fatal Encounters. Voice-over artist for Target, Disney, and many PSA’s Training: U of MN/Guthrie Actor Training Program.
Anna Sundberg*
(Alix)
Anna is delighted to join Forestburgh Playhouse for the first time. Anna has workshopped a countless number of new plays at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. She has also done readings/workshops with Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Fiasco Theater. She has performed at the Guthrie Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Great River Shakespeare Festival, GreenHouse Theatre Project, Ten Thousand Things, Jungle Theater, Children's Theatre Company, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and many more. She appears in the FX series "Fargo," the film "I Am Not A Serial Killer" (with Christopher Lloyd), and the latest addition to the popular "V/H/S" horror franchise, "V/H/S/85," directed by Mike P. Nelson. Anna also has experience touring the South Island of New Zealand playing a sheep.
Luis Vega*
(Jason)
LUIS VEGA NYC Theater: Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater Company); Tartuffe (Moliere in the Park); The Gett (Rattlestick Theater); Hindsight (Fault Line); The Underlying Chris (Second Stage); Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic Theater Company); i thought i would die but i didn’t (New Georges/The Tank). Regional Theater: Derecho (La Jolla Playhouse); Laughs in Spanish (Denver Center); Change Agent (Arena Stage); The Humans (Broadway National Tour); Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown); The Underpants (Old Globe); Seize the King (La Jolla Playhouse); As You Like It (Guthrie). Film/TV: “Elsbeth” (CBS), “Blue Bloods” (CBS), “The Good Fight” (Paramount +), “Madam Secretary” (CBS), Another Earth (Fox Searchlight). Training: MFA: UCSD. IG:@sinverguenzaluisvega.
Melissa Mitchem
(Dr. Nash / Davis)
Melissa Mitchem is excited to work at Forestburgh Playhouse, a small dream she’s had since her time at Rider University where she received a BA in Acting. She also has an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. Some of her favorite credits include The Mountaintop (SCAD), Ajax (Cherry Artspace), Everybody (SCAD) and a short independent film called Walk the Plank. She is excited to work with this cast and creative and grateful for the opportunity! You can follow her on Instagram at @miss_mitchem.
Frank Lombardi*
(PSM)
Frank Lombardi (Production Stage Manager): Broadway: A Doll’s House, Betrayal, The Cher Show, Torch Song, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, A Behanding in Spokane, Hamlet (w/Jude Law), Spamalot, Disney’s Tarzan, Hairspray, The Sound of Music, Footloose, Side Show, Steel Pier, The Phantom of the Opera, Hamlet (w/ Ralph Fiennes), Passion, The Red Shoes, The Secret Garden. Off Broadway: Plenty (Public Theatre). Regional: Truman Capote’s A Thanksgiving Visitor & A Christmas Memory (Park Theatre, Hudson, NY), The Lion King (original L.A. Company), Camelot (Westport Country Playhouse, CT), Idaho! (Smith Center, Las Vegas), The Will Rogers Follies (Maltz Jupiter Theatre, FL); World Premieres: Catch Me If You Can (Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, WA) and Randy Newman's Faust (La Jolla Playhouse, CA). He is also the former Head of the Stage Management Program at the University of NC School of the Arts.
Alix Sobler
(Playwright)
Alix Sobler is an award-winning writer and performer from New York City whose plays and solo shows have been produced throughout North America and England. She has degrees in theatre and playwriting from Brown University and Columbia University. She lives in Washington Heights, New York, with her husband, dog, and cat. Find out more at alixsobler.com.
Emily Young
(Director/SDC)
Emily Young is an actor, musician, director, writer and founding company member of the renowned Fiasco Theater in NYC. As a director: The StandIn (workshop Orchard Project with Fiasco), Bartleby (workshop Colorado New Play Festival), The Knight of The Burning Pestle (Co-director, OffBroadway with Fiasco & Red Bull Theater), Spring Awakening (Ohio Northern University), Porch Song & Field & Forest (Co-creator)). As an actor, Broadway: How I Learned to Drive u/s, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Off-Broadway: Pericles, Merrily We Roll Along, The Servant of Two Masters, Into the Woods, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline. Emily has worked regionally at The Old Globe, Menier Chocolate Factory, Folger Theater, McCarter Theater, and others. Film/TV: Living with Yourself (Netflix); The Knick (Cinemax); God of Love (Academy Award Best Short). Education: M.F.A. Brown/Trinity; B.A. Brown University.
Laurel Andersen
(Leah)
Laurel Andersen (DR. NASH/DAVIS — PALIMPSEST) (they/them) is so thrilled to be here! NYC includes: MERE WATERS (SheNYC), SLEEPY HOLLOW (Players Theatre), ROMEO AND JULIET (Match: Lit); and originating roles in THE OTHER OTHER WOMAN, (Turn to Flesh Prod.), ALL ONE FOREST (Barefoot Shakespeare); THE COWARD, THE TRAGICAL HISTORIE OF MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE (The Fled), the new musical LADIES' LADY. Regional includes: INTO THE WOODS (Playhouse on Park); THE RESOLUTE (Wyoming Theatre Festival), two seasons with Adirondack Shakespeare. Upcoming: THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU (Forager Theatre Co). More info: laurelandersen.com. Socials: @laurelmrc
Lou Liberatore*
(Steven)
Broadway: Burn This (TONY, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Award Nominations), As Is. Off-Broadway: Inspired by True Events (Out of the Box Theatrics/Theatre 154), Preparedness (Bushwick Starr/HERE Arts Center), Bruise & Thorn (Pipeline Theatre/A.R.T./NY) Paradise Lost (Theatre Row), God Shows Up (Actors Temple), Daniel’s Husband (Westside Theatre, Primary Stages, Penguin Rep), Orpheus Descending (Bartley/Glezos Productions), A Class Act (New World Stages), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Masterworks Theatre Co.), Pushkin (Sheen Center), Rocket to the Moon (St Clement’s), others. Regional: Angels in America, Pts 1 & 2 (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (Berkeley Rep, Theatre J), 12 Angry Men (Pioneer), The Diary of Anne Frank & That Championship Season (Westport Playhouse), others. London: Burn This. TV: Blindspot, Deception, The Affair, Law & Order, Law & Order, SVU, Sex and the City, Nurse Jackie, others. Film: The Philosophy of Dress (upcoming – w/ Sydney Lemmon, Eric Roberts), Relay (upcoming – w/ Riz Ahmed), Barrio Boy (Apple TV, Peacock, Prime Video), Lesson #4, It’s My Party, Blood from a Stoner, Mary & Louise, Rosen's Son, others. Education: Fordham University (Lincoln Center), William Esper. Member Artist: Ensemble Studio Theatre, (also Board Member), The Actor’s Center, Circle Repertory Company (1985-1996)
Molly O'Brien
(Bree)
Molly is an Irish-Jewish actor born in Boston and based in New York City. She is thrilled to be a part of this year’s festival! Select credits include: St. Vincent’s Project (Rattlestick Theater), Hamlet (Hudson Warehouse), Blithe Spirit (VOICE Theatre), Mackydee (Magic Theatre), The Farm: A Beatbox Opera (TheatreFirst), Much Ado About Nothing & Love’s Labours Lost (Marin Shakespeare Company), Lysistrata (Roxy Regional). BFA: NYU Tisch. Love to those keeping her grounded!
www.mollyobrienonline.com
* Member of Actors Equity Association