2015 Actors
ANNIKA BERGMAN (The Tempest: Gonzala, Interactive Robin Hood: Little Johna, Making Sonnets by Moonlight: Various) Annika is thrilled to be joining this talented group of people at TUTS. Annika received her degree in theater and music performance from Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio as well as being accepted in the 3 year grad program at Stella Adler Studio of Acting in NYC. Past favorite roles include: Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet", Titania in A "Midsummer NIghts Dream", Maureen in "Rent", Miriam Aarons in "The Women", and Leata in "HAIR".
CAMELLA CLARK (The Tempest: Antonia/Trinculo, Interactive Robin Hood: Maid Marian, Making Sonnets by Moonlight: The Dark Lady) Camella is a recent graduate of the Boston Conservatory. Favorite roles include: Laurey in "Oklahoma!", Agnes in "Dancing at Lughnasa", Yum-Yum in "The Mikado", Lucy in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", and Flossie u/s in "On the Town".
PATRICK HARVEY (The Tempest: Ferdinand/Stepano, Interactive Robin Hood: Robin Hood, Making Sonnets by Moonlight: Shakespeare) Off-Broadway: "Christmas Carol: A Radio Play" (Pearl Theatre Company), "Artaud/Artaud" at the (Signature Theatre). Regional: Tom in The "Glass Menagerie" (Princeton Summer Theater). Other credits include Feste in "Twelfth Night", Casca in "Julius Caesar", and the Porter in "Macbeth" (Smith Street Stage). Web Series: 'Workin' It with Laura Benanti.' Patrick holds a BFA from New York University, and trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and RADA.
SHANNON NELSON-MANEY (The Tempest: Miranda) Shannon, captain of her high school crew team and a varsity track athlete, professionally debuted with Young People’s Players "Half-Baked Hamlet" in 2011. She acted in Kid Camp and Main Stage Kid Corp performances since 2010. Honored to win the 2012 Marc Paul Decoteau award, she embraced learning from a professional costumer in New York City and costumed the 2013 Kids Camp performance of "Romeo and What Julie Et" and the 2014 Young People’s Players’ performance of it. True to her love for Shakespeare, Shannon highlighted her years of roles in school performances in "Annie", "Oliver Twist", and "Charlotte’s Web" with the role of Denise / Juliette in "The Curse of the Bard". She performed for Plimoth Plantation’s presentations "A Storied Soiree: Stories that Connect Us" and their "The Tempest, Jr". playing Prospero. After 3 years as a junior member interning with Company B, she is thrilled and grateful this summer to be part of Company B’s "The Tempest".
JULIE REED (The Tempest: Ariel, Interactive Robin Hood: Hepzebah Heckler, Making Sonnets by Moonlight: Queen Elizabeth) Julie is a New York City based actress and teaching artist. Favorite credits include Val (A Chorus Line), Titania/ Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Lucy (Interactive Dracula), Hadass (Yentl), and Catherine Empanger, a naive nun with Tourette's syndrome (Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music). Julie was in the company at Theater Under the Stars for the past two summers, and before that, she worked at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca. She also had the wonderful experience of traveling to Turkey with the International Culture Lab to perform a lead role in the "Honor Games" Festival at Garajistanbul. Most recently, she appeared as Ms. Lyconal in The Drill at Cherry Lane Theatre. Julie is an Equity Membership Candidate. Julie graduated from Cornell University where she majored in Theatre and English.
ALISON WIEN (The Tempest: Queen Alonsa, Interactive Robin Hood: Abbess Tuck/Queen Mean, Making Sonnets by Moonlight: Anne Hathaway) Alison is pleased to be making her TUTS debut this summer season! She recently appeared Off Broadway in "Drunk Shakespeare," and in "Macbeth" with Kenneth Branagh at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. An NYU graduate, she studied at the Atlantic Acting School, Stonestreet Film Studios, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
