LAURA BRENNAN (Margaret/Conrad/Friar) is a Chicago-based actor who originally hails from Pittsburgh, PA. Regional credits include: Emma: The Musical, As You Like It, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Play That Goes Wrong (Utah Shakespeare Festival); The Mirror Crack’d (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Sweeney Todd, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Music Man, Nell Gwynn (Texas Shakespeare Festival); Darling Grenadine (Marriott Theatre). Laura is a proud BFA Acting graduate of Ithaca College. 

PATRICIA BUCKLEY (Co-Director/Beatrice) is the 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, Irish Rep, MileSquare Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, and the Actors Shakespeare Company. Regionally, she has performed with Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Minnneapolis, San Diego, and Spoleto), 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 Performance Company in tours throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Film and television appearances include Law & Order and Law & Order Special Victims Unit (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.

CAMERON COBANE (Fight Choreographer/Intimacy Coordinator)  is an educator and coordinator who teaches, directs, and advises stunt, fight, and other movement performance throughout the Northeast. Based in Oneonta, NY, Cam can be found instructing and creating at SUNY Oneonta, Proctors Collaborative, The PA Ren Faire, as well as regional theaters and on independent film sets all over New York and New England. He is also a theatrical designer, professional wrestling promoter, and professional wrestler with ten years in-ring experience.

SARA GIACOMINI (Hero/Borachio) is a NY/NJ based actress making her debut with Franklin Stage Company. Her previous Shakespeare credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia) and Twelfth Night (Feste) with Shakespeare in Foundation Park. Other Shakespeare Roles Include: Romeo, Puck, and Viola. Selected Stage Credits: A Christmas Carol (Understudy/Performed as Old Jo) at the McCarter Theatre Center, The Ghost Train (Peggy Murdock) at Centenary Stage Company, Dr. Faustus (Robin) at the Secret Theatre, and The Little Foxes (Alexandra Giddens) with Hudson Theatre Works. Upcoming: Taming of the Shrew (Kate). BA in MT from FDU. www.saragiacomini.com | “Never apologize for your art.”

TARYN GRIMES (Antonia/Verges) is an actress, writer, and producer, who is happy to call Otsego County home. Her performances include the Broadway revival of Take Me Along, as Muriel, and the Emmy-winning miniseries Roanoak: The Lost Colony, as Eleanor Dare. She stepped behind the camera to produce high-profile projects such as the documentary, Killing Me Softly with His Songs (winner of the Music in Media Award for best Special Program, Amazon Prime), Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames (American Masters, PBS), and The Bronx, USA (HBO). Her work also earned her the Silver Screen Award for the writing and production of the CNBC special, Generations of Pride. She is grateful to Franklin Stage for this opportunity, and for their unwavering support of the arts. 

SCOTT HOLDREDGE (Set/Lighting Design/Technical Director) is excited to be back with FSC this summer for this exciting anniversary season. He recently designed Oklahoma! for Cortland Repertory Theatre. His scenic designs for SUNY Cortland have recently included; Cinderella, The Rocky Horror Show, Anything Goes, John Proctor is the Villain, By Any Other Name (a new musical workshop with CreateTheater) Sweet Charity, Love Billy, Cabaret, The Last Five Years (co-production with Cortland Repertory Theatre). He has also designed 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.

OSKAR ISAKSSON-STAHLER (Don John/Dogberry/Messenger) is excited to be working with The Franklin Stage Company. A graduate of the SUNY Oneonta theatre program, Oskar performed in shows such as Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Imaginary Invalid, All in the Timing,The Tempest, Cabaret, and Scapino!. He also attended the Prague Shakespeare Company 2023 summer program, where he appeared in Loves Labours Lost and Measure for Measure. In addition to theatrical work, Oskar has a background in voiceover, with eight years of experience producing and voicing advertisements for radio. 

EVAN JAGELS (Don Pedro/Music Director/Sound Design) is a musical artist, actor, and producer. His original work includes multimedia sound art installation, film production, live scoring, solo work for bass, and storytelling through the intersection of improvised music, history, visual art, nature, technology, and the human experience. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMYS) and his work has received grants from NYSCA, NYFA, and the Queens Council on the Arts. Jagels has acted both in film and on stage and first worked at age 5 in the movie A League of Their Own. He made his debut at Franklin Stage Company during the 2024 season, where he was cast as The Muse in Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s An Iliad. Creating character through sound and gesture, Jagels composed and performed an original score and worked alongside actor Charlie Kevin to examine both our tragic tendency toward war and how we can try to make sense of ourselves through theater. 

CHARLIE KEVIN (Benedick) was last seen at Franklin Stage in An Iliad. He was previously seen in Franklin Stage productions of: Doubt, The Price, Period of Adjustment, Galileo, Measure for Measure, The Trojan Women, Orestes, and The Heretic Mysteries. Broadway(tour): Take Me Out. Off-Bway: Trans Euro Express, Irish Arts Center; Feast of the Flying Cow, Rattlestick; Cavemen, National Black Theatre of Harlem. Regional theatre: Seattle Rep., Old Globe, Dallas Theatre Center, Milwaukee Rep., Denver Center, Portland Stage, Playhouse on the Square, Olney Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Hippodrome, The Caldwell Theatre. Television and Film: The Blacklist; Manifest; Law & Order: Organized Crime, SVU; FBI: Most Wanted; For Life; WuTang: An American Saga; Emergence.

CHRIS NICKERSON (Leonato/Sexton) Chris is excited to be performing for the second time with The Franklin Stage. Chris has a Bachelors Degree in Theatre and has performed with Redhouse Arts Center, The Cider Mill Playhouse, Cortland Repertory Theater, Chenango River Theater, and the Ithaca Shakespeare Company. Presently he is co-director for S.T.A.R. (Southern Tier Actors Read). Some of his favorite roles include Caliban in The Tempest, Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, and Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons. Chris has also directed many productions; the most recent being an immersive production of Romeo and Juliet at The Phelps Mansion in Binghamton. Chris also participated in Her Majesty’s Players at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival; a week long Shakespeare Intensive Workshop.

ALYSSA PERILLO (Stage Manager/Props Mistress) began working at the Franklin Stage as an intern in 2023. She is delighted to be returning for her 4th season working at FSC and her 2nd year as Season Stage Manager. In the off season, Alyssa works as Franklin Stage’s Administrative/Artistic Associate, attends SUNY Oneonta, and co-directs Unatego Central School’s theater program. 

LINDSEY QUAY VOORHEES (Costume Design) Designs include Kimberly Akimbo, Red, An Iliad, Trouble in Mind, Toliver and Wakeman, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Possessing Harriet here at Franklin Stage Company. She has also designed costumes for Hamilton College, Geneseo Dance Ensemble, and Syracuse Drama.  Lindsey 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. You can view her portfolio at Lindseyquay.weebly.com 

EVAN TRUE (Claudio) is thrilled to be onstage at Franklin Stage Company after a long hiatus from acting.  He is a former ensemble member of The Living Theatre and has been working on the production side at FSC since 2021. 

KAREN WHITE (Co-Director)  is a writer, director and actor who has worked in theatres all over the country including Shakespeare & Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Merrimack Rep, Actors Shakespeare Company, Orlando Shakespeare, Powerhouse Theater, Brandeis University, and Emerson College. In the past twenty-five years, she’s recorded more than 400 audiobooks and published a dozen romance titles (pseudonym Karen Grey) while raising her lovely children and following her sound mixer husband hither and yon. Karen is wicked excited to return to creating theater with longtime collaborator Patricia Buckley with whom she survived performing Savage/Love by Sam Shepard at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and co-creating the commedia dell-arte production That’s Amore?.