PATRICIA BUCKLEY (Debra) is Artistic Director of FSC. Her New York credits include New York Theatre Workshop, Cherry Lane, 59e59, Potomac Theatre Project, New Ohio Theater, Irish Arts Center, MileSquare Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, and the Actors Shakespeare Company. Regionally, she has performed with Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minnneapolis, and at Papermill Playhouse, LaJolla Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, Portland Stage Company (ME), Coconut Grove Playhouse and Portland Center Stage (OR). International credits include Gams On The Lam in tours throughout US, Canada, Mexico and Europe. Film and television appearances include Law & Order (NBC), Death of A President (Film 4/Channel 4), Kabluey (Sony), The Delicious (Fox Searchlight), Anna Is Being Stalked (Sundance Channel), The Outs, and How2MakeMovies@Home.

TARA GIORDANO (Pattie) is delighted to return to Franklin Stage Company after performing in Good People in 2023. Previous acting credits include roles at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Folger Theatre, Lincoln Center Education, Two River Theater, and 15 seasons with Off-Broadway Theatre company PTP/NYC. Tara’s work can also be seen & heard in independent films, national commercials, and over 40 audiobook narrations. She holds a BA in Theatre and English from Middlebury College and an MFA from The Academy for Classical Acting. Ms. Giordano is a Theatre professor and director at American University in Washington, DC, where she currently lives with her husband and 4-year old daughter.

SCOTT HOLDREDGE (Set/Lighting/Sound Design/Technical Director) is excited to be back with FSC this summer for this amazing season. He is very excited to design The Rocky Horror Show this fall as a co-production with Cortland Repertory Theatre.  His scenic designs for SUNY Cortland have recently included; Anything Goes, John Proctor is the Villian, By Any Other Name (an new musical workshop with CreateTheater) Sweet Charity, Love Billy, Cabaret, The Last Five Years (co-production with Cortland Repertory Theatre). He has also worked for, Opera Ithaca, The Hangar,  Cortland Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Opera, Syracuse University, and a few area high school theatres as a set/lighting designer and technical director. Scott’s work has been seen in New York City, Los Angeles, Alaska, and San Diego across the genres of theatre, corporate events, theme parks, haunted houses and film.

VITO LONGO (Buddy) is happy to be back performing with Franklin Stage Co. after appearing in last season’s production of “Trouble in Mind” and in “Good People” in 2023. A freelance actor based in Johnson City, Vito most recently appeared as Eddie in “Hurly Burly” at KNOW Theatre. Other regional credits include “Godspell” (Redhouse Arts Center) “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” (Chenango River Theater) “An Odyssey” (The Hangar Theatre Co.) and “Voices Of Ukraine” (The Cherry Artspace). He would like to thank his acting coach Jeff Tagliaferro and all his friends from acting class for continuing to challenge and support him, as well as his wife Megan for always being his rock. Follow him on instagram @v_toelongo

CHRIS O’CONNOR (Director) appeared as Al Manners in FSC’s 2024 production of Trouble in Mind. He has also directed FSC’s 2023 production Good People, 2022’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, as well as FSC’s 2019 production of Billy Bishop Goes to War. He appeared as Launce in the Soliloquies at Chapel Hall in 2020. As Founding Artistic Director of the New Jersey regional theatre MileSquare Theatre, he received an Award of Excellence from the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. Chris produced 19 seasons for MST, including the Off-Broadway transfer of Erin Mallon’s The Net Will Appear. He directed over 30 plays at MST and has directed at theatres and universities across the country. Recent projects at MST include the direction of the world premiere of Joseph Gallo’s Yuppies Invade My House at Dinnertime as well as performing the solo show Balloonacy. As an actor he has performed Off-Broadway and regionally in such theatres as Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre, The Culture Project, Soho Rep, The Ahmanson, Gloucester Stage, Provisional Theatre of Los Angeles, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Ohio Theatre, The Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and at City Theatre in Pittsburgh. TV credits include Magic City and Burn Notice, and he appears in the indie thriller Depraved. He is an Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts at Molloy College. Chris holds a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MFA from Rutgers University.

ALYSSA PERILLO  (Stage Manager/Props Master) began working at FSC as an intern in 2023 and returned the following year as the Assistant Stage Manager. This year, she is thrilled to be working at FSC as 2025 season Stage Manager. In the off season, Alyssa co-directs the theater program at Unatego Central School, and most recently stage managed Eleemosynary at SUNY Cortland.

LINDSEY QUAY VOORHEES (Costume Design) received her MFA in Costume Design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She is a professor in the theatre department at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY and serves as the resident costume designer. Lindsey is very excited to be returning to Franklin Stage Company for her 5th season!  Her costume designs include Trouble in Mind, An Iliad, Toliver and Wakeman, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Possessing Harriet. Recent projects include costume design for Syracuse Drama’s What the Moon Saw, Hamilton College’s Our Lady of 121st Street, as well as projection and scenery design for Le Moyne College’s The Lightning Thief and Edgar in the Red Room. Favorite costume designs for Le Moyne include Madwoman of Chaillot, The Black Rider, She Kills Monsters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Heathers: The Musical, The Liar, Pericles: Prince of Tyre, and Master and Margarita. You can view her portfolio at Lindseyquay.weebly.com

JAYLIN THOMAS (Jeff) is so grateful to be performing as part of The Franklin Stage Company for the first time. He is a CAP21 BFA/Molloy University Class of ‘25 Alumni. Upcoming, he will be portraying the role of Paul in Kiss Me Kate at The Madison Theatre on Long Island on August 2nd & 3rd. To see more of Jaylin, visit his website at www.jaylinthomas.com or instagram at @imjaylinthomas.

EVAN TRUE (Production & Technical Assitance) spends the colder months as a technical producer and production manager for live events, conferences, festivals and interactive museums. He has worked on the production side with many theater and dance companies including the TEAM, Liz Lerman Dance, and Culture Project and has been a build and strike volunteer at FSC for two seasons. Evan is also an Obie Award winning performer, and has been an ensemble member as well as Tech Director at the Living Theatre and International Wow Company.

HEIDI WEEKS (Kimberly) is excited to be performing for the first time with The Franklin Stage Company. Some of her local credits include The Sound Inside at The Know Theatre in Binghamton, Men on Boats, The Craftsman, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Flying, The Smell of The Kill, Other Desert Cities, Broadway Bound, Other People’s Money, and Crimes of The Heart at The Chenango River Theatre in Greene. Heidi recently reprised her role in the one woman show Slut at The Firehouse Stage. Other local credits include The Importance of being Earnest, and Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike at the Cider Mill Playhouse. She studied acting in NYC where she trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse.  Heidi lived in Toronto for 15 years, working extensively in theatre, and television. She was nominated for a NY Emmy award for her role in The Twilight Zone for WSKG Television.  She is the owner of Mabel D. Orr Fashion Boutique in Downtown Binghamton.

DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in South Boston. He attended Milton Academy and concentrated in theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he graduated in 1992. He was accepted into the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School where he wrote under the tutelage of playwrights Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. Lindsay-Abaire had his first theatrical success with Fuddy Meers, which was workshopped as part of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in 1998 under Artistic Director Lloyd Richards. The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and transferred to the Minetta Lane Theatre on January 27, 2000. He returned to the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2001 with Wonder of the World, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, about a wife who suddenly leaves her husband and hops a bus to Niagara Falls in search of freedom, enlightenment, and the meaning of life. Lindsay-Abaire also wrote Kimberly Akimbo (2000), Dotting and Dashing (1999), Snow Angel (1999) and A Devil Inside (Off-Broadway, 1997). His play Rabbit Hole premiered in 2006 on Broadway with Cynthia Nixon, Tyne Daly, and John Slattery, and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, as well as other Tony awards. He wrote the book for the musical High Fidelity, which ran on Broadway and the book and lyrics for the musical Shrek the Musical which ran on Broadway from November 8, 2008 to January 3, 2010, with Lindsay-Abaire receiving a 2009 Tony Award nomination for Book of a Musical and in the West End in May 2011. The musical ran for 441 performances on Broadway. Good People officially opened on Broadway on March 3, 2011. The play was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award, Best Play and won the 2011 Tony Award. His play Ripcord opened Off-Broadway on October 20, 2015, at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Directed by David Hyde Pierce, the play focuses on two roommates in a retirement home. Among his influences, Lindsay-Abaire said: “I love Chris’s [Durang] work. And I don’t think there’s been a piece written about me that hasn’t mentioned the fact that he and I live in the same world. But I think I’ve also been influenced by John Guare and Tina Howe and older folks like Feydeau and Ionesco and Joe Orton.” Lindsay-Abaire has received commissions from Dance Theater Workshop and the Jerome Foundation. He has received awards from the Berilla Kerr Foundation, the Lincoln Center LeComte du Nuoy Fun, Mixed Blood Theatre, Primary Stages, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival , and the South Carolina Playwrights Festival. Lindsay-Abaire and his wife Christine live in New York.