Biography:
Jack Herholdt is a founding member of the American Bard Theater Company and current Dramaturg.  His credits both as an actor and Dramaturg include Much Ado About Nothing, Midsumer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure. He also works regularly with The Drilling Company, a member of Emerging Artists Theatre Company in NYC were he appeared in their premier of The Perfectly Normal Family Dinner, Julli Theatre Company and Theatre Askew. His favorite credits include Bianca Leigh's Chick w/ a D*ck for the HOT! Festival, I, Claudius Live for Theatre Askew, and The Vampire Lesbians of Sodom for the ill-fated, but amazing, Voyager Theatre Company.  As a writer Mr. Herholdt’s credits include is solo shows Falling In Love and Other Ridiculous Ideas and the forthcoming Missed Connections. .

Website: BryanLCohen.com

Biography:
One of Bryan L. Cohen’s first acting gigs was in his 4th grade class production of The Sword in the Stone, sharing the limelight with the now famous Brendan Fraser. This was at the American School of the Hague where Bryan spent a good part of his childhood. Back then, Holland had two TV channels which only aired in the evenings. With little to do during the day when not in school, he and his older brother entertained themselves by putting on shows and performing for friends and family. From this, Bryan’s passion for theater emerged.

Although Bryan holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Clarkson University and spent 13 years as an environmental engineer, he has never strayed from perusing his true passion. For more than 20 years, Bryan has been involved with productions as an actor, producer, teacher, and assistant director. Productions include stage, environmental theater, children’s theater, film, radio commercials, public awareness programs, and comedy improv. Bryan has been performing comedy improv professionally since 1988 with New York City’s Mission: Improvable. He received his teacher training certificate in the Michael Chekhov acting technique from MICHA in 2005.

  Website: NatalieHolmes.Net

Biography: Natalie Doyle Holmes holds a BFA in Acting and an MA in Theater Studies from Montclair State University.

Performance credits include productions at The Public Theater, Theater for the New City, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Reading Series at HBO, a Just 4 Girls teen empowerment webisode and Turtle Shell Productions' 8 Minute Madness Festival where she won Best Actor. Natalie’s favorite credit is Harper Pitt in a New Jersey production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.

Natalie somehow manages to live the life of a punk rock tree hugging creative “type a” personality who sings at weddings and cocktail parties.

Biography: Lily Warpinski has a BFA in Acting from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts.  While at Tisch, Lily had the mind-blowing opportunity to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where her already Shakespeare-inclined heart continued to develop a deep-seated love of the aforementioned Bard and other classic playwrights.  She has appeared in several productions in New York City ranging from the cheeky Aramanthe in Jean Anouille's satire Cecile (for which she was nominated for a Planet Connections Theater Festivity award for Best Actress), Maggie the passionate best friend of a rape victim in Equalogy's One Night, to a whole mess of characters in American Bard's production of Measure for Measure last fall.  Her most cherished role is Petruchio from Taming of A Shrew at Rada.

Aside from acting and all things theater, Lily likes to travel, write, garden, and bake (she makes a mean pie, both the pizza kind and the apple kind).

Biography:  
American Bard Theater Company credits: Helicanus/Chorus in Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Dorothy Simple in The Case of the Crushed Petunias, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Friar/Watchmen/Messenger in Much Ado About Nothing and Prospero/Rosencrantz in Witches, Bitches!.Erin is a graduate of Theater Arts at California State University, Fullerton and is currently pursuing a Masters in Liberal Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. Her favorite NYC credits include Lady Macduff in VooDoo Macbeth (Mercia Entertainment), Lady Percy in Henry IV, Part I (American Globe Theater, Historic Reading Series) and Marion in Eleanor Kennedy's Next Train, which earned a Producer's Choice nomination in the 2010 Fifteen Minute Play Festival. She toured nationally with Annie Get Your Gun, internationally with Holland American Cruise Lines and danced in regional productions of Can-Can,Jesus Christ Superstar and Kopit/Yeston's Phantom, to name a few. Erin is an Artistic Associate for Nöel & Company, a member of Actor’s Equity Association, and proudly serves on the American Bard Theater Company Board of Directors.

Website: RossHewitt.Com

Biography: Ross Hewitt was a member of the Ujima Theatre Collective for 6 years where he acted and produced theater that highlighted multiracial themes. With them, he was the Bishop in Genet’s The Blacks; A Clown Show, Captain Taylor in A Soldier’s Play, and Prosecutor/Storekeeper in Everybody’s Ruby and was the Assistant Director for Zooman and the Sign. They also produced Ross’ original play, When October Goes. Ross also contributed to Ujima with stage managing, house managing, ticket sales, advertising direction, grant writing, props design, light hanging, and set construction and decorating.

Ross directed the comedy Trophy Wife for the New Phoenix Theatre. He has appeared as Sir Hugh Evans in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Ligarius in Julius Caesar for Shakespeare in Delaware Park and as Bollingbroke in Richard II as part of the American Globe Theatre’s History Reading Series. Ross has also played the King for Shakespeare Saturdays staged readings of Troilus and Cressida, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and Cymbeline.

Website: CheriWicks.Com

Biography: Cheri Wicks is an actor and half of the WICKSHAW production team in New York City.

Growing up in central Montana where productions were scarce, she learned to round up everyone she could, put some of them on stage, the rest in seats, and then put on a show. After high school, Cheri studied dance in New York and returned to Montana where she was a choreographer and dancer with the Montana State University Dance Company.

Cheri continued honing her production skills as an assistant on the ASMSU (Associated Students of Montana State University) Campus Entertainment-Lively Arts and Lectures. Transferring to the University of Oregon, she continued to perform, work as the performing arts coordinator for the Cultural Forum, and finished her B.A. in English Literature.

In New York, Cheri works in theater, film, and television - her love of performing and producing continues to grow.