Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest
Brad Makarowski – Is thrilled to be working with Crescent City Stage. In New York, he's a Resident Company member of the TITAN Theatre Co. where he's been seen in: Richard III, King Lear, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Christmas Carol. Off Broadway: The Flea: Design Your Kitchen; Metropolitan Playhouse: Both Your Houses; Resonance Ensemble: R.U.R., Caesar and Cleopatra; Attic Theatre: The Time of Your Life, Moonchildren. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Co., Asolo Rep, Palm Beach Dramaworks, People's Light, Depot Theatre. Film: Ask for Jane, The Heart Outright TV: Happy!, Redrum. MFA: FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Much Love to all during this pandemic. www.BradMakarowski.com
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Founding Company Member of Crescent City Stage, Liz originated the role of Kat in the Off-Broadway World Premiere of Sea of Tranquility (Atlantic Theater Company). Other theatre credits include: The Deception (La Jolla Playhouse / Theatre de la Jeune Lune), LoveSick (59E59Theaters), and The Fox (George Frankel Theatre). Liz has an MFA in Theatre from USCD where she performed in Pericles, Good Breeding, The Love of the Nightingale and Gum. Liz received a BFA with Honors in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and Stella Adler Studio of Acting. While there, she performed in Cymbeline and When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet. Liz has a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther. She has also appeared in the films: Breaking News in Yuba County, Assassination Nation, Out of Blue, Bad Moms, and Award-Winning Short Film Harry Grows Up. Television credits include: NCIS: New Orleans, Army Wives, Mercy. Directing credits include: Grease, An Importance of Being Earnest, Noises Off, I Hate Hamlet, Leading Ladies and All in the Timing. A lifelong singer, Liz was a Victory Belle at The National WWII Museum, while also creating and performing in thematic concerts An Evening in the 70s and Deep Like the Rivers, both in NYC. She has appeared in commercials for Sanderson Farms, SpongeBob SquarePants and in the National Got Milk? Ad Campaign. She is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Liz is also a Certified Enneagram Teacher, and offers individual sessions and workshops as owner of Art of the Enneagram.
Dr. John (Ray) Proctor is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Tulane University, where he teaches Intermediate Acting, Advanced, African American Theatre History, and Theatre for Social Justice. He holds a BA in English from Webster University, an MFA in Acting from West Virginia University, and a Ph. D. in Theatre Research from the University of Wisconsin Madison. This past Summer played Colonel Brandon in the Reno Little Theatre’s production of Sense and Sensibility. He has also played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Organic Theatre/Chicago), Peter in Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs (Madison Repertory Theatre), Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Arizona Repertory Theatre), the title role of Othello in Othello (The Greenbriar), Here in New Orleans he has appeared on the Southern Rep stage in Airline Highway and Father Come Home from the Wars (Southern Rep).
Founding Company Member of Crescent City Stage, Michael has called New Orleans home since 2015, after long stays in both New York City and Los Angeles. Since moving here, Michael has appeared onstage at Le Petit Theatre in A Christmas Carol (2018/19) as Fred and Freud’s Last Session as C.S. Lewis, as well as Darcy in Christmas at Pemberly with Southern Rep and Calisto in The Illusion at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival. Additionally, Michael was the curator of a staged reading series at the New Orleans Shakespeare festival, directing and performing in Othello, Titus Andronicus, and King Lear. As a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association for 22 years and current Central Principal Councilor serving on the AEA National Council, Michael has also performed in over 35 professional productions across the country including these favorites: Tom in Glass Menagerie (Virginia Stage), Christy in Playboy of the Western World (New Jersey Shakespeare and A Noise Within), Lelie in The Bungler (A Noise Within), Konstantin in The Seagull (Portland Center Stage), Macduff in Macbeth and Cassio in Othello (The Old Globe), Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (Dallas Theatre Center), and Morris in The Heiress (South Coast Rep). Michael’s T.V./Film credits include: NCIS: New Orleans, Claws, Person of Interest, All My Children, A Thousand Cuts, A Father’s Revenge, Pants on Fire, In the Flesh, Harmony, Redemption, Unforgivable and the upcoming Tate Taylor film Breaking News in Yuba County. He can also be seen roaming the virtual world of Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto V and has appeared in national campaigns for Volvo, Verizon FiOS, and Old El Paso.
Elizabeth June is a company member of The Robey Theatre Company founded by Ben Guillory and Danny Glover. TV credits include: Criminal Minds, Fresh Off the Boat, As The World Turns and Black-ish where she got to play her hero Harriet Tubman. Theatre credits include: Balm in Gilead, The Colored Museum, Jesus Christ Superstar and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars IG:@elizabethjuneny
John FitzGibbon (Lane, Merriman) received an OBIE Nomination for Yeats' CAT AND THE MOON, a Carbonell Nomination for SIGHT UNSEEN, and a Best of Boston Award for “Jim Tyrone” in MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. He is a resident member of New Jersey Repertory Company where he has been in 12 new plays. Most recently he did two national tours as “St. Peter” in MARTIN LUTHER ON TRIAL with Fellowship for the Performing Arts. He is also an accomplished pianist and composer.
BROOKE ISHIBASHI: originated roles in the world premieres of Cambodian Rock Band (La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory), Takarazuka! (music by Dave Malloy), A Beautiful Day In November... (Women’s Project), Saturnalia (directed by Daniel Fish). Other notable: the critically acclaimed Good Person of Szechwan with Taylor Mac (The Public), Qui Nguyen’s The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G (Ma-Yi), Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower (Ars Nova), All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Developmental:
created new works with Vampire Cowboys, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Thomas Kail, Maltby & Shire, Lear deBessonet, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, BD Wong, Evan Cabnet, May Adrales, Lee Sunday Evans, Lloyd Suh, Kimber Lee, Baayork Lee, Geffen Playhouse, Lincoln Center, NY City Center, La MaMa, Vineyard Theatre, New Georges, Lark Play Development, NAAP, NAATCO, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts, The Foundry. Concerts: Joe’s Pub, Highline Ballroom, City Winery, Stonewall Inn. TV: Series lead in DJ Nash’s People Are Talking (NBC, dir. Pam Fryman). Education: BA in Theatre/Musical Theatre, Marymount Manhattan College; Upright Citizens Brigade. Proud Actors’ Equity Association Western Region Principal Councilor and core member of Fair Wage Onstage. @BrookeIshibashi / FairWageOnstage.org
Jane Nichols is a teacher, director, and actor who has been teaching Clown for 30 years. Her work brings together skills and techniques of Improvisation, Mask, Le Jeu, Physical Comedy, Clown, and Fool. She has studied with Philippe Gaulier and Keith Johnstone, and has taught at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, Harvard University, Brown University, ART, ACT, Stella Adler Conservatory, The Actors Center of NYC, and Shakespeare & Co in Lenox, MA. She is currently Adjunct Faculty at University of Washington. Since moving to Seattle she has directed shows at WET, the Intiman, UW, Cornish School of the Arts, Seattle University, and Seattle Shakespeare Co. Former students can be seen performing at Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group, Ashland Shakespeare Festival, and are featured in leading roles in film and TV.
As an actress, Jane has performed Off-Broadway with En Garde Arts; New Georges; Synapse Productions. Regionally she has performed at Dallas Theatre Center; Portland Stage; Shakespeare & Co; Gloucester Stage Co; Nora Theatre; Lyric Stage; Berkshire Public; Counterpoint Theatre; Cambridge Theatre Co. Her film and TV credits include School Ties; Heights; The Living Room Waltz; Ed; Law & Order SVU; America’s Most Wanted; Connect With English; and Rachel’s Dinner with Olympia Dukakis. She has worked as a voice over artist and has been featured in five national TV commercials.
Founding Company Member of Crescent City Stage, Jana has played the leading role of Mary Griffith in Prayers for Bobby performed by the Astoria Symphonic Choir, Nancy in This Living Hand by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Richard Vetere as part of both The New Group New Works Series and in a staged reading at Cherry Lane, Gina in Little Light Production’s Under Covers, Hester Prynne in The New Globe’s Theatre, Inc.’s The Scarlet Letter at both Playhouse on Park in Hartford, Connecticut and The Gene Frankel Theatre in Manhattan. In addition to playing Hester, Jana is credited with the original adaptation of Hawthorne’s novel alongside her mentor and friend Stuart Vaughan (founding Artistic Director of The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park with Joe Papp). Other highlights include Beatrice in The New Globe Theatre, Inc.’s The Servant of Two Masters at Theatre Three, The Angel Project with Tony Award-winner Deborah Warner (Lincoln Center Festival), Fool for Love (Bleecker Street Theatre), When A Storm Comes (Epic Repertory Theatre Company, DR2), The Informer (Ernie Martin Studio Theatre), Unexpected Tenderness (written & produced by Emmy Award-winner Israel Horovitz), many seasons as a company actor with The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ Imaginary Theatre Company, Trick of Fate (The Players Club), and her New York film debut in The New Guy. She also played leading role in the independent short film “Broken”, directed by David Johnson. In addition to her BA in French and Theatre, she holds an MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University. She has studied at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, Théâtre des Cinquantes in Paris, France, and The Actors Studio. Her work continued beyond the professional stage having served four years as Chair of Performing Arts at the prestigious Spence School among other positions at St. John’s University, The Buckley School, the Birch Wathen Lenox School. In New Orleans, Jana served as the Director of Education at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré. She is a member of all three professional unions (AEA, SAG-AFTRA) and has performed in television commercials, and theatre nationally and internationally.