Covid protocols will be in place per CDC and Actors Equity Association (AEA) guidelines that are posted at the time of the production.
ABOUT TRENT DAWSON (as “Robert Crowe”)
Broadway: The Herbal Bed. Off-Broadway: Maple
and Vine (Playwrights Horizons), A Man for All Seasons, The Memorandum
(Theatre Row). Regional highlights: School for Scandal (McCarter Theatre),
The Homecoming, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Miser, Misalliance (Baltimore
Center Stage), The Pain and the Itch (Zephyr), Beyond Therapy
(Westport Country Playhouse), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (ICT), Pal
Joey (Prince
Music Theatre), and nearly 20 productions of Shakespeare across the country.
Theatre. Film/TV: Men in Black III, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Good
Wife, Homeland, NCIS, Castle, NCIS:LA, General Hospital, As the World
Turns (Three Emmy nominations). Writer/Director/ Producer of short films The
Six, Everywhere, and Fume of Sighs. Director: Oleanna (KCS), Decade by Decade, Perspective,
Love Me, Love My Work, Deanna and Paul, Macbeth (Gallery Players, Brooklyn). Founding
Artistic Director of Katonah Classic Stage. katonahclassicstage.com
ABOUT ALBI
GORN (as “Clarence Darrow”)
Albi Gorn has
been acting for fifty years. He last acted with Axial as Dr. Rank in A Doll’s House. A former Ensemble member, he also
has had several of his plays produced at Axial, including the Westchester
premiere of Back to the Garden. Among the plays he has acted in: Tuesdays
With Morrie, A Man For All Seasons, Talk Radio, You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown, The H.M.S. Pinafore, Oleanna, Speed-the-Plow, Dry Powder, The Cooking
Lesson (written by his wife, Robin Anne Joseph) and his favorite role, that
of Herman in his own one-act, It’s About Forgiveness. He and Robin run
GoJo Clan Productions, a nomadic theater company in Westchester
(gojoclanproductions.com). You can read his plays and listen to his songs at albigorn.com.
Cady McClain is proud to be Axial Theatre’s new Artistic
Director. In 2021 she was recognized by Deadline for
being a history-making three-time Emmy© winner, acting as three unique characters on three different
daytime shows. Cady studied theater directing with legendary artistic director
of Ensemble Studio Theater, Curt Dempster, and studied acting for eight years
with Michael Howard. Her theatrical directorial debut was with Axial Theatre in
Paint Made Flesh by
Axial Founder Howard Meyer, shown at The Cell in NYC. Her film documentary on
female directors, Seeing is Believing:Women Direct, won
multiple awards, including the Audience Award at the SOHO Film Festival and a
Jury Prize at the Newport Beach Film Festival. It was released on regional PBS
stations nationwide and the educational platform Kanopy. She currently plays “Jennifer” on Days
of Our Lives. cadymcclain.com
Axial Theater is
a 23-year-old not-for-profit institution founded by Howard Meyer. It is
dedicated to supporting the professional development of the independent voice
through audience involvement and is commited to presenting challenging and
relevant theatrical experiences. The company and its productions have been
reviewed in The New York Times and are supported by the William T Morris
Foundation and ArtsWestchester among others. axialtheatre.org