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JESSICA HOLT † (Director) is thrilled to make her Aurora Theatre directing debut. Recent projects include Sense & Sensibility (The Cape Playhouse), The Great Leap (Oklahoma City Repertory Theater), Fun Home (River & Rail Theatre), Ironbound, The Code by The Kilbanes (American Conservatory Theatre), Uncovering Downtown by Jessica Holt & Mona Mansour (En Garde Arts), The Thanksgiving Play, Sense and Sensibility, Fun Home, Venus in Fur  (Virginia Stage Company), The Resting Place, Bright Half Life, The Lily's Revenge (Magic Theatre), Speech and Debate (Barrington Stage Company), Rich Girl (Florida Studio Theatre), The Daughters (San Francisco Playhouse), and Ugly Lies the Bone (Alliance Theater). She has developed and directed new work at Cape Cod Theatre Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Berkeley Rep, Rivendell Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Sewanee Writers Conference, among others. MFA in Directing, Yale School of Drama. Proud member: SDC. www.jessicaholt.org

ELIJAH ALEXANDER* (John) is currently filming Season 5 of The Chosen where he plays Atticus Aemilius. He recently wrapped a rep run at The Utah Shakespeare Festival as Timon in Timon of Athens and Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus. He continues to tour with his work The Mitzvah Project, a social-justice themed educational program/one man performance piece. TV/Film - Mr & Mrs Smith, Amazing Love, Awake, Touch, Summerland, JAG, Emily’s Reasons Why Not, and So Notorious. Broadway - Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award Winning Metamorphoses. Royal Shakespeare Company - John Barton’s Tantalus directed by Sir Peter Hall. Regionally - Camp David’ Public/Alley Theatre, Guthrie, Berkeley Rep, NYTW, Yale Rep, ATC, Mark Taper, 5 seasons at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 5 Seasons at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and 3 Seasons at the California Shakespeare Theater, and ACT Theatre in Seattle (Gregory Award for Best Male Performance of the Year in Ayad Ahktar’s The Invisible Hand). He’s a Fox Fellowship Award Winner and a graduate of The Yale School of Drama. www.elijahalexander.net

HERNÁN ANGULO* (Jim) is thrilled to be making his Aurora debut. His regional theater credits include: Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory Theater, and Perseverance Theatre. Hernán is an alum from UC Berkeley and A.C.T.’s MFA program.

CARRIE PAFF* (Emily) is thrilled to return to Aurora where she has previously appeared in The Real Thing, This Is How It Goes, A Delicate Balance, Collapse, Small Tragedy, and Betrayal. Off-Broadway: About Alice (Theatre for a New Audience), Ideation (59E59). Regional: A Distinct Society (TheatreWorks, Pioneer Theatre Company), King Charles III and After the War (A.C.T.), The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, Stage Kiss, and Stupid Fucking Bird (SF Playhouse), Double Indemnity(ACT Seattle), Holmes & Watson and Jekyll & Hyde (Arizona Theatre Company), A Streetcar Named Desire and Tiny Alice (Marin Theatre Company), The Other Place (Magic Theatre), The Big Meal (San Jose Rep), and Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress (Leicester Square Theatre, London). Carrie holds a master's degree from New York University. She can be heard in Pixar’s Finding Dory, The Good Dinosaur, and Lamp Life.

TIM GARCIA (U/S Jim) is a Bay Area based actor. He was most recently seen in Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Los Altos Stage Company. He has performed with New Conservatory Theatre Center, TheatreFIRST, SF Playhouse, Cal Shakes, Theatre Rhinoceros, Custom Made Theatre Company (SFBATCC nomination), Shotgun Players, Brava Theatre Center, Douglas Morrison Theatre, Boxcar Theatre, Z Space Studio, Coastal Repertory, Pacifica Spindrift Players, Left Coast Theatre Company, The Pear Theatre, Perspective Theatre Company, and Foothill & Ohlone Colleges. He studied at San José State University (B.A., Theatre), and also works in arts administration. EMC. tim-garcia.com

JENNIFER MCGEORGE* (U/S Emily) is thrilled to be working with Aurora Theatre Company for the first time. Recent appearances include Mrs. Webb in Our Town (RVP), Phyllis in Aunt Jack (NCTC), Margery in Vinegar Tom (Shotgun Players) and Rosie in Mamma Mia! (Mt. Play Association). She has also worked with Livermore Shakespeare (SPARC), Berkeley Rep, Marin Shakespeare Company, Prospect Theater Company (NYC), McCarter Theatre Education Department and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. Jennifer holds a BFA in Acting from Emerson College.

ROBERT PARSONS* (U/S John) Has been seen at the Aurora in A Bright New Boise, and Private Jokes, Public Places. Other Bay Area Credits include work at ACT, Berkeley Rep, Magic, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, Marin Shakes, SF Shakes, SF Playhouse, Word for Word, Cutting Ball, San Jose Stage, and Shotgun Players. Regional and international credits include work at Ford’s Theatre, CTG Ahmanson, Alley Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, LA Theatreworks, HERE Arts Center, New York Theatre Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Sydney Festival, San Miguel Playhouse, and Teatro Santa Anna. Film: Sunday Errand, Freaky Tales, Fairyland, Interview With Traveler# 582, Freeland, and Prufrock. Founding member of Actors’ Reading Collective (https://www.arcstream.org)