CHARLOTTE AKIN (Irina Vladu/ Grandmother) has appeared at Forum Theatre in dark play or stories for boys and Valparaiso. Past credits include On the Razzle and A Flea In Her Ear with Constellation Theatre; Richard III, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Kafka’s Dick with Washington Shakespeare Company; Metamorphosis with Synetic Theatre; Portia Coughlin with Solus Nua; Getting Out with Journeyman Theatre; The Insect Play and Silent Partners with Scena Theatre; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow with The Studio SecondStage; and Noises Off, Death of a Salesman, A Man For All Seasons, Sideman, Top Girls, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Buried Child with Keegan Theatre. Charlotte is the Literary Consultant for The Keegan Theatre and a voice-over talent with Carlyn Davis Casting.
JOE BRACK (Gabriel/Painter) is thankful to be returning to Forum Theatre after menacingly wandering the stage as Bob the Pizza Boy in bobrauschenbergamerica and flailing about as the twitchy usher, Basil, in Marat/Sade. Other DC credits include The Oresteia (Orestes), The Marriage of Figaro (Figaro), Crazyface (Angel & Old Clown), A Flea in Her Ear (Tournel), Three Sisters (Andrei), The Ramayana (Hanuman), and On The Razzle (Sonders) at Constellation Theatre Company; Peace (DJ David/Havoc) and Mary Stuart (Robert Dudley) at Washington Shakespeare Company; As You Like It (Touchstone) at Virginia Shakespeare Festival; Cat’s Cradle (Franklin) at Longacre Lea; Playing from the Heart and Lyle the Crocodile at Imagination Stage; The Santaland Diaries with City Artistic Partnerships. He will appear next in Theater J’s After the Fall and Tony Kushner’s The Illusion at Forum this spring. To Tonya.
MATT DOUGHERTY (Bogdan/Toma/Driver) is performing with Forum for the first time. Prior to moving to DC, he appeared in Witness for the Prosecution (Myers) and Towards Zero (Neville) at Seton Hall’s Theater-in-the-Round; The Passing Day (with Ray McAnally) at Celtic Theatre Company; and The Shadow (Adolphus), Cathleen Ni Houlihan (Peter), and The King of Friday’s Men (Rory). In DC, he has written plays, read and performed at the Source Festival, and been nominated for a Source Festival supporting actor award. He has appeared in Caryl Churchill’s Hot Fudge at Studio Theatre SecondStage; Playing with Fire at the Washington Shakespeare Company; Benefactors with Wordstage; and in Dublin Carol, Public Enemy, Our Jane, and Romulus the Great at Scena Theatre. He also performed in Nights at St. Januarius at the 2010 DC Fringe Festival. Matt teaches acting and Humanities at the Landon School in Bethesda, where he holds the Thomas W. Dixon Chair in English.
MARK HALPERN (Ianos/Solder) is honored to be making his debut with Forum Theatre, where he will appear as Calisto in Tony Kushner’s The Illusion later this season. Other DC credits include Apollonian Boy 3 in House of Gold and Ensemble in Fever/Dream at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Currently, Mark is developing a new musical loosely based on Dante’s Inferno with No Rules Theatre Company and Co-Writer Aaron Bliden. Mark and Aaron form the band Little Justice and are in the process of completing an “Untitled” concept album that has been two years in the making. Mark would like to send mad love to his family, friends, roommates, and foxy girlfriend, Sarah.
ASHLEY IVEY (Securitate/Priest/Soldier/Boy/Student/Vampire/Man With Sore Throat/ Soldier 2/Grandfather/Old Aunt) is happy to be joining Forum again. He previously appeared as an inmate in Marat/Sade. Most recently, Ashley has been seen in the remount of The Ramayana at Constellation Theatre Company, as well as The Green Bird, On The Razzle, Women Beware Women, Three Sisters, A Flea In Her Ear, Crazyface, The Marriage of Figaro, Temptation, The Oresteia, The Good Woman of Setzuan, and A Dream Play. Ashley has also been seen onstage at The Source Festival, In Series, Catalyst Theatre, Open Circle Theater, Actors Theater Of Washington, and the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Next, he will appear in Folger Theater's The Gaming Table.
JIM JORGENSEN (Mihai/Translator/Dog) was last seen in Angels in Ameria: Parts I and II and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Forum Theatre. His other credits include Night and Day, Royal Hunt of the Sun, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover at Washington Shakespeare Company; Golden Boy, and Buried Child at Keegan Theatre; On the Razzle and The Ramayana at Constellation Theatre Company; Much Ado About Nothing at Folger Theatre; The Last Seder and Born Guilty at Theater J; Flu Season and The Trial at Catalyst Theatre; Life as a Dream and Spinning into Butter at Journeyman Theatre; Writer’s Cramp at Scena Theatre; Boy Gets Girl at Theatre Alliance; Fit to Be Tied and Betrayal at Fountainhead Theatre. He received an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University.
DANA LEVANOVSKY (Lucia/Flowerseller) loves Forum Theatre, where she last appeared in Scorched. Other recent credits include That Face at Studio Theatre, This is Not a Time Bomb at Source Theatre, and Four Dogs and a Bone in the Capital Fringe. She holds a BA in Acting from The George Washington University and is an alumnus of the National Theatre Institute and the Accademia Dell'arte. She can next be seen in After the Fall at Theatre J and The Illusion at Forum Theatre.
ROSE MCCONNELL (Flavia/Rodica/Student Doctor/Grandmother) is a Forum company member; her past Forum shows include Valparaiso and The Memorandum. She was last seen on the DC stage as Oisie in Looking for the Pony at Venus Theatre. Other recent projects include The Tea Party Project with the DC Theatre Collective as part of the Capital Fringe Festival. Other area credits include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at The Studio Theatre; Heartbreak House and Camille (Marguerite u/s) at Round House Theatre; and Lulu Fabulous at Phoenix Theatre DC. TV credits include Vital Scan on The Discovery Channel, Nightline on ABC and The West Wing on NBC. Rose is a graduate of The Catholic University of America and The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory. She is currently exploring movement and body-mind centering at The Movement Laboratory in Takoma Park. Many thanks to Michael and all the Forum family. Love and thanks to her real-life family, Mike and the wee lads.
STEPHANIE ROSWELL (Florina/Student) is honored to be performing with Forum Theatre again, having previously appeared in The Skriker. A company member of Solas Nua, she has appeared in their productions of The Mai, La Corbiere, Scenes from the Big Picture, The Drunkard, Trad¸ Portia Coughlan, Pumpgirl and Swampoodle. The rare times she didn’t perform with an Irish accent include The Visit and The Love of the Nightingale at KDC (London), One for the Road at SCENA Theatre, All’s Well That Ends Well at Washington Shakespeare Company, A Flea in Her Ear at Constellation Theatre Company, Yours, Isabel at the Wattage Festival and Something Past in Front of the Light with Longacre Lea. Stephanie earned her MA at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London.
ALEXANDER STRAIN* (Radu/Securitate) is a Forum Theatre company member. Previous performances include Scorched, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, The Memorandum, Hamletmachine and The Gas Heart with Forum; New Jerusalem and Pangs of the Messiah at Theater J; My Name is Asher Lev and Lord of the Flies at Round House Theatre; In the Heart of America and Bach at Leipzig at Rep Stage; Something Past in Front of the Light at Longacre Lea; and Caligula with Washington Shakespeare Company. He has directed One Flea Spare and Marisol at Forum; Life's a Dream at Journeymen Theater Ensemble; and Peace at Washington Shakespeare Company. He was nominated for a Helen Hayes award for his performance in Pangs of the Messiah and been part of four Helen Hayes ensemble nominations. He is graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts where he studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
DAVID WINKLER (Doctor/Angel/Wayne/Student/Patient/
Soldier/Ghost/ Waiter) is exuberantly happy to be appearing in his second production and second through ninth roles with Forum, where he was last seen as Kabe in One Flea Spare. Recent credits include Volcanic in Origin at the 2011 Source Festival, as well as numerous productions with 1st Stage in Tysons Corner (of which he is a founder and resident artist), including The Glass Menagerie, Holiday, Humble Boy, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Game of Love and Chance, Red Herring, The Violet Hour, and The Suicide. David received his education and training at Northwestern University.
* Member, Actor’s Equity Association
