HE/HIM | David is a 40-year stage veteran as an actor, playwright, and director. His most recent credits include Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (also directed by the amazing Sarah Murphy), here at Fort Salem, and at  Bennington Theater as Harry Heywood in It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play. Before moving to Vermont in 2023, he enjoyed a long theater career in the Washington DC area, California, and England. He is also the Co-Artistic Director at Bennington Theater. Training: Bennington College, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Many thanks and much love to the other David for everything!

HE/HIM | Matt is honored to be a part of yet another Fort Salem Theatre production. Most recently he appeared on this stage in his dream role as Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone. The role of Grover’s Corners doctor is special to Matt, as he previously played him as a high school junior. His late uncle played Doc Gibbs in his high school production as well, and Matt is pleased to be playing him again as an adult. Past favorite roles include Linus in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, King Sextimus in Once Upon a Mattress, and Moon in The Real Inspector Hound. Matt would like to thank his family and friends for their unending support, and Anna for her constant love and honest feedback. Matt dedicates this performance to his late Uncle Joe, wherever he may be, everywhere or nowhere, Doc Gibbs is back in Grover’s Corners.

SHE/HER | Sarah is thrilled to return to Fort Salem Theater after directing 2023’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and appearing in 2022's Pride and Prejudice (Mrs. Bennet). Since November 2021, Sarah has served as the Library Director at Greenwich Free Library, helping to provide literature, entertainment, and vast resources to the community. Sarah is co-director of Tiny Box Theater with whom she has participated as dramaturg, story collaborator, voice artist, performer, and tiny box operator in New York City and on the road in Massachusetts, Toronto, and at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Sarah has directed Romeo & Juliet, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, and As You Like It at the Browning School in Manhattan, where she also wrote and directed several very short plays for very young actors. As a performer, Sarah has appeared nearby with Bakerloo Theatre Project in Round Lake and Troy (Beatrice in Much Ado; Viola in Twelfth Night, Varya in The Cherry Orchard, Lady Macbeth and a witch concurrently in the Scottish play), and not too far away at the theater at Bread Loaf in Ripton, VT (Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida). Sarah has also worked as a school librarian and teacher of literature and theater. 

Julie is thrilled to return to the stage in her Fort Salem Theater debut! Previous shows include Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider), You Can’t Take It With You (Penny), and The Children’s Hour (Agatha), as well Bye, Bye Birdie and Kiss Me, Kate (Ensemble). She has studied voice with Norma Saran, and acting and dance at the Five Towns Academy. When she is not performing, Julie is an author, an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, and a Bible scholar who holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament (Yale University). Visit her website at juliefaithparker.com.

HE/HIM | Bill is delighted to be with Mari and Julie on stage—and in life (shout out to son, Graham, the only family member not in the cast)! Bill’s theater credits include The Zoo Story (Jerry) and Androcles and the Lion (Lion). He was co-star of the award-winning cable TV program, “The Reverend and the Rabbi: Faith and Eggs at the Diner.” An ordained Presbyterian minister, Bill has held positions as university chaplain, seminary dean, and pastor. He is currently pastor with the beloved congregation in our town, Hebron United Presbyterian Church.

Clyde recently moved to the area from Vermont, and previously performed with the Rutland Youth Theatre in Newsies (Morris Delancey), Tales from Japan, and Alice In Wonderland (ensemble).  He recently was an assistant cameraman in the short film ’The Veteran’ by Susan Plumb, shot in Vermont.  He is an amateur photographer, and has studied Ballet and tap dance, as well as circus arts.  He plays alto saxophone.

SHE/HER/HERS | Mari is an alumna of the New York State Summer School for the Arts School of Theater, the British American Drama Academy, and Bard College where she received a B.A. majoring in Theater and won the Donald Parker Award for Excellence in Theater Performance.

Her one-woman show Bipolar Badass won the Bounce Emerging Artist Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It premiered at the Asheville Fringe Festival and headlined the Bounce Festival in Belfast, Ireland. She has performed Bipolar Badass at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) NYC and Off-Broadway twice at Theatre Row and the Soho Playhouse, selling out all three performances. Bipolar Badass also won the award for Best Autobiographical One-Woman Show at the United Solo Festival, the world’s largest solo theatre festival.

Mari has been featured on the BBC, NPR, and WNYC. She is a comedian and has performed stand-up in NYC at venues including the Broadway Comedy Club and the West End Comedy Club. Mari has also acted in several independent films and commercials. Previous theater credits include: Grease (Marty), The Bakkhai (The Messenger), Kassandra (Kassandra), Urinetown (Tiny Tom), Wizard of Oz (Dorothy).

Michael hails from Cambridge, New York.  He is delighted to be making his Fort Salem Theater debut in Our Town, a play he has loved and treasured since fifth grade (thanks, Mrs. Baldwin!).  He recently appeared as Sebastian in the Hubbard Hall production of Twelfth Night, and sings tenor in the Battenkill Chorale.  After years donning kitchen whites and wielding a Global, peppered with episodes of preposterous interdimensional travel, Michael has settled into his biggest role yet as father to an olive-gobbling one-year-old.  When not working, cooking, acting, or singing, Michael can be found spinning in circles or occasionally reading Ch 80 of the Tao Te Ching while sipping a mug of hot cocoa.

HE/HIM | Liam is home schooled and started dancing at the age of three. He is classically trained in ballet, along with tap, jazz, and modern. Liam has performed with the Albany Berkshire Ballet for their Nutcracker holiday tours (Fritz), Liam then discovered musicals and added that to his love of the stage. Liam has appeared in Orange Star Smasharoo (Lil'Corky), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Charlie), Pippin (Theo/Ensemble), Mamma Mia! (Ensemble), Chicago (Amos/Ensemble), Legally Blonde (Kyle/Ensemble), Footloose (Uncle Wes/Ensemble), The Sound Of Music (Herr Zeller/Ensemble), Gypsy (Farmboy/Angie). He made his FST debut in Footloose (Ensemble), The Pirates of Penzance (Pirate/Police), The Rocky Horror Show (Phantom/Rehearsal Brad), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Francis Flute), Mary Poppins (Neleus/Ensemble), and The Drowsy Chaperone (Gangster #1). When not on the stage, Liam is a self-taught yoyo trick master.

Vincent is 18 years old and attended the International school of Düsseldorf in Germany. Where he completed the IB diploma program in higher level theater. Vincent recently played Hyde 3 and Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Dorset playhouse and did background work on the upcoming Daren Aronofsky movie “Caught Stealing.”

SHE/HER | Emily is beyond excited to be back on the Fort Salem Theater stage! Some of her favorite FST moments include playing Lucy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Ilse in Spring Awakening, Lucy in Bright Star, Jan in Grease, and performing in There’s (Still) No Business Like Snow Business. This past year, Emily has been soaking up all the magic NYC has to offer, studying with the amazing teams at Ryan Scott Oliver and Lindsay Mendez’s Actor Therapy and The Barrow Group. She is a proud University at Albany grad, where she majored in Theatre and minored in Fine Arts. Emily is endlessly grateful for the love and support of her family and friends. IG: @emilykjenkins

He/Him | Tom is very excited to be making his debut at Fort Salem Theater. Audiences usually find Tom treading the boards at The Dorset Playhouse in Dorset, VT where he has performed for the past 15 years. Favorite roles include Guys and Dolls (Nathan Detroit), Oliver (Fagin), Casa Valentina (Charlotte), Kiss Me Kate (Gangster 1), I Am My Own Wife (Charlotte), and The Fantasticks (Bellomy) for which he won a BroadwayWorld.com Award. Tom is a former member of Actor's Equity and spent many years doing regional theatre across the country. He has performed at Florida Rep, Oldcastle Theatre, The Cape Playhouse among others. Finally, Tom wishes to express his sincere gratitude to the entire cast and crew of Our Town and to his husband of 30 years, Paul Michael Brinker.

SHE/HER | Neeley attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.  There she worked and honed her skills as a black and white fine art photographer.  Neeley’s desire to participate in theatrics led her to the Fort Salem Theater.  Here she performed her first role ever in the Spring of 2023 as Lulu Warnicker in Footloose. It seems the acting bug has really bitten, stumbling and bumbling along in the Ensemble of The Drowsy Chaperone. 

Neeley is quite excited to be a part of the talented cast of  Our Town, and she certainly hopes you enjoy the show

Donna Orlyk spent her early formative years in the Finger Lakes, attending school in Watkins Glen NY, where she appeared in Lil Abner (Daisy Mae) in 1966. Ms. Donna Jo Whiting met her husband at SUNY NewPaltz in an art class, worked in a costume shop at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and  found Salem in 1980, where they raised a family of four right here, and consider this community to be OUR TOWN. Always creative in some way, Donna has been part of the artistic team, working along side the set designer for a number of Fort Salem Theater productions. 

SHE/HER | Courtnie is a Washington County native who trained at The Institute for American Musical Theater in New York City after graduating from Greenwich High School. While in NYC, she was the hair designer on Hudson Classical Theater’s productions of Pride and Prejudice (Lydia Bennet) and Sense and Sensibility (Charlotte Palmer). Recent credits include Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch) with Hubbard Hall, Songs for a New World (Woman 2) at SLOC, and Bright Star (Alice Murphy), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peter Quince), Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), and The Drowsy Chaperone (Janet van de Graaff) all at Fort Salem Theater. Courtnie also originated the role of Kayla Charter in Solstice: A New Musical last May with Company of Curiosities. 

Courtnie has served on the production teams of numerous shows including The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Stage Manager) with iTheatre Saratoga and Spring Awakening (Stage Manager/Hair Designer), Footloose (Director), Corn! (Lighting Designer), Pirates of Penzance (Stage Manager/Lighting Designer), Agnes of God (Stage Manager), and Godspell (Director/Lighting Designer) at Fort Salem. courtnieharrington.com

HE/HIM | Charles/Chuck is a well-rounded artist with experience in creative writing, HDR photography, graphic design and 3D rendering, improvisational piano, original song composition and scenic design for theater. While attending Southern Vermont College 2001-2005 (bachelor’s in liberal arts) he worked summers at Old Castle Theater in Bennington, VT (2000 to 2005) where he learned, by observation, the creative nuances of set design as he worked as a stagehand. Charles is currently the Resident Scenic Designer and an Artistic Associate for Fort Salem Theater where, in October 2021, he debuted a design for The Diary of Anne Frank. In the 2022 season, he went on to design: Little Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias, Pride and Prejudice, Grease, The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition, Bright Star, I Love You Because, Spring Awakening, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Footloose,  The Little Mermaid Jr., The Pirates of Penzance, The Rocky Horror Slow, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Into the Woods, Beethoven, Godspell, Mary Poppins, and The Drowsy Chaperone, along with designing Grant’s Ghost for Hubbard Hall on the side. Charles has also directed Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus in 2004 at his then-former High School, and The Glass Menagerie at Southern Vermont College in 2009.

Prior to his work at Fort Salem Theater, Charles has over eight years of set design experience, artistic/stage directing, assistant directing and serving as a theatrical creative-solutions consultant (for a local high school drama club). Shows he has designed there include: The Diary of Anne Frank (2007), Once Upon a Mattress, Rumors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, Twelve Angry Jurors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, And Then There Were None, The Sound of Music, Noises Off, Shrek the Musical, and ended his run there with The Mousetrap (2015).

After taking some time away from theatrical design Charles feels truly thankful and honored to reignite his passion for design at Fort Salem Theater and is very honored to have helped design Grant’s Ghost for Hubbard Hall’s current presentation.

HE/HIM | Kyle has three decades of creating award-winning theatre under his belt, working as a producer, director, choreographer, designer, and performer. His work has been seen all across the US, from Cape Cod, to Boston, Arizona and Dallas, to New York and has been recognized by the AriZoni Awards of Excellence, BroadwayWorld Awards, Column Awards, Annie Award, MET Awards, and MHSDG Awards, among others. in June 2023, was named one of the Top 10 New York State LGBTQ+ Leaders by I ❤️ NY.

Best known for creating larger-than-life musicals, some of Kyle’s credits include Hairspray, Next to Normal, Evita, White Christmas, I Love You Because, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Man of No Importance, West Side Story, Footloose, Into the Woods, RENT, The Rink, The Boyfriend, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Little Shop of Horrors, A Chorus Line, Chicago, Grease, La Cage aux Folles, The World Goes ‘Round, Cabaret, Pirates of Penzance, My Favorite Year, Annie, and Fame.

At Fort Salem Theater, he has directed and choreographed Salem Under The Stars, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Next to Normal, There’s No Business Like Snow Business, Grease, The Pirates of Penzance, Agnes of God, and Mary Poppins and has designed costumes for FST’s Pride & Prejudice , Grease, and Bright Star. He recently made his FST onstage debut in The Rocky Horror Show, and played Gangster #2 in The Drowsy Chaperone.