Sabrina Bogen (Emily) is so happy to be part of this wonderful show.  Ever since Sabrina saw Beauty and the Beast at age three, she has loved theater. Her off Broadway credits include: American Girl Revue Show, Sunshine, Being Born, The PeopleGarden, in which she also toured, and an equity staged reading of Laughing Matters.  Regional favorites include being Molly and Annie in Annie, Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Marta in The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz, The Frog Prince, S. I. Christmas Spectacular, 101 Dalmatians for MTI/Disney Collection Team and various Benefit Shows as soloist and dancer.  Sabrina has done commercials and film and television work and enjoys runway and print modeling. Thanks to Leah and Meri for giving her this acting opportunity. What a wonderful way to spend part of the summer!  To Anthony... You are the Best. This one's for you.

Leah Bonvissuto (Director) is a two-time member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. With Giant Squid Productions she directed Bertolt Brecht’s A Man’s a Man at Mo Pitkins in FringeNYC. Leah graduated from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama and upon graduation was asked to be a part of the first-ever Stella Adler Studio Directing Track, directing third-year NYU students in Throwing Your Voice and House of Yes. Selected credits include Assassins, A Little Night Music, Sure Thing, Customer Service and Darian Dauchan's Texaco's Last Stand for the Ignite Festival at the Ohio Theater. She has recently directed workshop productions of new plays by Les Hunter, Maria Micheles and Melissa Osborne. www.giantsquidproductions.org/leah.

Allison Colby (Sarah/Samantha) moved to New York from Boston having graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Acting. New York City credits include Cymbeline at Brooklyn Repertory Shakespeare Company, The Happy Journey at St. Jean’s Players, and As You Like It at Queens Shakespeare. In Boston she originated the role of Jane in Heading for Eureka, a new play produced by Centastage at the Boston Center for the Arts.  Allison would like to thank her family and friends as well as this talented group of people.

Cat(herine) Fisher (Costume Designer) has designed and been recognized for her work in several critically acclaimed productions including, A Guy Adrift in the Universe, The Ash Girl, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Atalanta and the Race for the Golden Cure, Wolf!, and Holes. Additionally, she has designed on such shows as The Red Sneaks, The Wiz, Once on This Island, The Brave Little Tailor, Fractured Tales, The Minotaur, Simply Maria, Bottom's Dream, Billy the Kid, many with the Urban Youth Theatre and Henry Street Abrons Arts Center. Numerous Off-and off-off Broadway and Brooklyn productions, including The Kathy and Mo Show, One Big Happy Family, Shakespeare in America, and Zoo Man.  Be My Oswald, a Don Cato film, has received several awards in American Independent Film Festivals, and Best In Venue at the Reel HeArt Festival in Toronto, and a TINNY (better than Cannes, they say) at the International Film Festival in Swansea, Wales, for best American Feature Film.  Cat(herine) was a participant in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab 2007; a teaching artist: Props and Costumes Outta Nowhere; a recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grant....and is delighted to share with old/new pals in SWS.

Maureen Griffin* (Mrs. Phillips/Margaret): Off-Broadway, Maureen starred in the romantic comedy Panache (Players Theatre), and was featured in Give My Regards to Broadway, The Pirates of Penzance, The Student Prince, The Gondoliers, and The Mikado (with Light Opera of Manhattan at Playhouse 91). Off-Off Broadway: Dreams of Friendly Aliens (Abingdon Theatre Co.); Tango Masculino (2002 OOBR Award) and Jane Eyre: The Musical (both at Wings Theatre); The Remarkable Thing About Star Dust (Clurman Theatre), West Side Stories (a spoof)(Theatre Arielle). Other Theatre: Leading roles in Kander & Ebb’s The Act; The Beggar’s Opera (ACTF Best Actress Award nom.); and "Conversations With My Daughter," her original one-woman play with music (Don’t Tell Mama). Film: The Hunt for CM24 (1997 NY Festivals Finalist for Best Film), Franchesca Page (Cannes Closing Night Film), Prague Duet, and Rock the Boat.  TV: "The Sopranos" (Silvio’s Wife in the first season) and "Autopsy 9." Film: The Hunt for CM24 (1997 NY Festivals Finalist for Best Film), Franchesca Page (Cannes Closing Night Film), Prague Duet, and Rock the Boat.

Angus Hepburn* (Mr. Holtzer/Sam) has acted for over forty years in Britain and the US.  Favorite roles: Cyrano, Frederick Treves (The Elephant Man), Pizarro (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), Salieri (Amadeus), Cpt. Bluntchli (Arms and the Man), Tom (Skylight), the Captain (The Father – 2002 OOBR award), Mr Peachum (Threepenny Opera), The Duke (Big River), Thomas Dunne (Steward of Christendom), Henry (The Real Thing), Harpagon (The Miser) and Creon (Antigone).  His Wife, Stephanie and children James and Jennifer are also in theatre, and he is delighted to announce that Jennifer joins the London, West End cast of Les Miz on July 2nd. www.angushepburn.com.

Annalisa Loeffler (Mrs. Winokur/Mrs. Cohen) most recently appeared as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theatre1010, where she has also portrayed Natalya Petrovna in A Month in the Country and Orinthia in The Apple Cart.  Recent musical work includes Sluefoot Sue in Sam Shepard’s one-act musical The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife BAM’s BRIC Studio in Brooklyn.  Regionally she has appeared at the Alabama, Colorado and Texas Shakespeare Festivals in roles including Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Luciana in Comedy of Errors and Desdemona in Othello.  Her voiceover work can be heard on Thirteen/WNET, WLIW and on numerous Scholastic websites including Harry Potter and Clifford The Big Red Dog.  Love and thanks to Trade, Clark and Boo!

Torey Marks (Rachel/Jennie) is thrilled to be part of MITF, performing as Rachel/Jennie in Secrets Women Share! A native New Yorker, Torey has been acting since the age of four. Recent credits include Conspicuous and Circumvention at TheaterRow, You May Not Breathe, The Children's Hour and Red Night Light. Torey is featured in "Over the GW," an independent film that just premiered at the Pioneer Theater in NYC. A recent graduate of The Professional Children's School, Torey will be attending The Hartt School in the fall to get her BFA in acting. She would like to thank everyone who has encouraged her to pursue her dreams: her parents, family, friends, and especially her acting coaches Peggy Lewis and Marni Penning, her manager Charlie, Leah and the whole cast of Secrets Women Share. www.ToreyMarks.com.

Michael Roderick (Associate Producer): Originally from RI, Michael started Small Pond Entertainment 5 years ago after moving to NYC to teach at LaSalle Academy where he currently holds the position of English Dept. Chair and Drama Director. He graduated from Rhode Island College with a BA in Secondary Ed. English and Theatre performance and finished his Master's degree at NYU in Educational Theatre this past summer. Michael has produced 15 shows since he began writing and directing in his undergrad and now produces shows with LaSalle's Drama Club. He just finished a successful run of Edward Allan Baker’s North of Providence at Altered Stages. He also plans on eventually publishing a book about his first year teaching called "Stage Fright", as well as a young adult novel titled "Norin's Quest: Beyond the Gates of Lavender". 

Erin Leigh Schmoyer (Nurse/Lisa/Marta) hails from Mountaintop, PA.  She landed in NYC post graduation from Sarah Lawrence College and The British American Drama Academy.  She is excited to be working with Leah again, after they had briefly worked together in a short piece this May for the Lower East Side Festival at Theatre for the New City, in which Erin Leigh played a militaristic Miss Washington in The Miss Un-America Pageant. Before that, she most recently originated the roles of Ruth in 1918: A House Divided, a new musical also at TNC, and Two in All Fall Down, the premiere production for Theatre Recrudescence, at the Milagro Theatre.  She has also been seen in both original work and classical plays at Theatre 440, The Producers’ Club, The Kraine Theatre and The Theatre Studio, Inc., among others.  Favorite roles include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macon in Abundance and The Housekeeper in Lorca’s Dona Rosita, The Spinster.  Erin Leigh is a current member of the improv company ComedySportz NewYork, performing weekly at the Broadway Comedy Club. (www.comedysportznewyork.com). She sends a big kiss to her ever-supportive family and loving friends. 

Allison R. Smith* (Production Stage Manager/Assistant Director) was the co-creator and co-director for the original play "All Fall Down" this winter.  It was the premier production of Theatre Recrudescence, a new company for which she is an artistic associate.  She's spent time as an assistant director and a stage manager with Jean Cocteau Repertory, Working Man's Clothes, and The Thursday Problem, and others since her arrival in the NYC in '03.   

Daniel Soule (Set Designer): studied Theater and Classics at Dartmouth College.  Recent designs include Once on This Island (Theater Horizon), The Sisters Rosensweig (Actors' Repertory Theater), and A Man's a Man (Giant Squid Productions for FringeNYC).  He also works as a multimedia artist and in 2005 designed the construction of The Theater at Edgewood Studios.

Meri Wallace (Playwright): Plays include Jennie, published in an anthology of short plays for young actors edited by Dr. Roger Ellis and Parachute Jump, which was included in the Brooklyn Plays Festival at the Jam for Bread Café in Brooklyn and the Bridge Theatre in New York. A thirty-minute version of Intimate Encounters, as well as her ten minute play, Emily were both performed in the Intimates Festival at Jam for Bread Café and at Theatre 54 in New York City.  Meri has acted as co-producer of several other theatrical events, including The Park Plays in Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Turtle Tattoo in the 7th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival and Waves and Beaches at Theatre 54 and at the Southampton Cultural Centre. Founder of Dancing on the Moon Productions, Meri is a nonfiction author, columnist, television personality and former psychotherapist. She lives in Amagansett, New York with her husband, Jonathan.

James Whalen (Sound Designer): Recent graduate of SAE : Institute of Technology with study in Sound Engineering and Sound Design. Previously worked with Four Chairs Theatre on "A Guy Adrift in the Universe" and on Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2007.