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Ewan Chung

Ewan Chung is an actor, singer, writer and producer based in Los Angeles. Highlights of his theatre work include Lost: The Musical, David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, and Washer/Dryer.  He is also a member of the Award-winning sketch comedy troupe OPM.

Chung also has an extensive resume of work in film and has appeared on various popular TV shows including "Monday Mornings," "Bones," "Torchwood," "Boston Legal," "Chuck," "Heroes," "How I Met Your Mother," Stephen King's "Desperation," "Las Vegas," and "Sucker Free City."

He’s often writing, singing, speaking Chinese and French, recording audiobooks, and involved in various projects like the sci-fi web series "Shangri-La: Near Extinction," and podcasts like “The White Vault: Imperial” and “Vast Horizon”.

Chung will be playing the role of Will in the upcoming production of Terrence McNally’s Mothers & Sons for MetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia streaming online January 13-17 at MetroStage.org 

Ilona Dulaski and Tom Story

Ilona Dulaski and Tom Story are two of the most respected and celebrated theatre actors in the Washington DC area.

Ilona is an accomplished actor, singer and voice over artist. She has performed in multiple productions at The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Olney Theatre Center and Wayside Theatre among many others. Her portrayal of Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s Master Class at MetroStage garnered rave reviews.

Tom has appeared as an actor in over 70 productions in New York, DC, and in many cities throughout the country. He is an Affiliated Artist at The Shakespeare Theatre Company where he has starred in works by Shakespeare, Noel Coward, Stephen Sondheim, David Ives and others. He has also directed various productions at Baltimore Theatre Festival, Adventure Theatre, Solas Nua and Roundhouse Theatre. Tom is a graduate of Duke University and The Juilliard School and he has been nominated seven times for DC’s Helen Hayes Award. He last appeared at Metro Stage in the one person show “Fully Committed” where he played over 40 characters.

Ilona and Tom will be starring together for the first time as part of MetroStage’s tribute to the late great Terrence McNally in his play Mothers and Sons, streaming online Jan 13-17 at MetroStage.org

Mercedes Herrero

Mercedes Herrero has been a professional actor for over 30 years. She has performed on Broadway in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and her Off-Broadway credits include work at The Public Theatre, Intar, Manhattan Theatre Club and the original production of The Laramie Project at Union Square and BAM. She has also performed in both classical and contemporary plays at many regional theatres across the country.

Many may also recognize her from her extensive TV and Film work in all 4 Law and Orders, 3 seasons of House of Cards, Deception, Arranged and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall.

Mercedes is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA.

Ken Page

Ken Page is a legendary theatre performer beloved by many longtime musical theatre fans. Most will remember him as Old Deuteronomy in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award winning musical Cats, or for his Drama Desk Award winning performance in Ain’t Misbehavin’.  His other Broadway credits include playing the Cowardly Lion in The Wiz and Nicely-Nicely Johnson in the all-black revival of Guys and Dolls for which he received a Theatre World Award.  In London’s West End he also starred in Children of Eden and My One And Only.

Aside from his theatre credits, Page may be best known as the voice of Mr. Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton’s cult classic film, The Nightmare Before Christmas and for his film appearances in Dreamgirls, Torch Song Trilogy and All Dogs Go To Heaven.

Page has performed his one-man concert, Page By Page across the country and the show has been recorded live released by LML Music. Ken can also be heard on various Original Broadway Cast recordings, film soundtracks and compilations.

Rachel Zucker

Rachel Zucker is a professional stage manager whose Broadway credits include: SIX, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Prom, True West, Pretty Woman, Farinelli and the King, and Indecent.

Off-Broadway she has worked at The Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, New York City Center, New York Theater Workshop and Signature Theatre Company.

Regionally she has worked at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC and Roundhouse Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland. 

She holds an MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University.

Blair Russell

Blair Russell is a freelance producer, developer, supporter, and lover of theatre whose experience ranges from fringe festivals to Broadway shows.

His most recent projects include the twelve-time Tony nominated Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris and the critically acclaimed immersive Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd.

At Show Shepherd, he helps writers and producers navigate the development of new work, and he produces live immersive audio dramas as Director of Operations for Resounding.

He currently serves on the board of New York Theatre Barn and The New Harmony Project and he is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Technical Theatre/Stage Management.

Mary Page Nance

Mary Page Nance is a performer, choreographer and teacher having appeared on Broadway in the original casts of Finding Neverland and Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 and around the country with the First National tour of Bright Star.

She most recently helped develop the new musical, Black No More with choreography by Bill T Jones and she continues developing the new musical, Lempicka, directed by Tony Award Winner Rachel Chavkin.

Mary Page has performed in numerous Regional/Off-Broadway productions and has been an integral part in the development of various shows including Soft Power, The Cher Show, and War Paint.

Aside from performing, Mary Page is passionate about arts education and stays busy teaching the world's next generation of theatre performers.

Julio Agustin

Julio Agustin is an accomplished director/choreographer, audition coach, author, and educator. He is a Broadway veteran, having appeared in Kiss of the Spider Woman (starring Chita Rivera), Fosse (with Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen), Steel Pier, Never Gonna Dance, Chicago, Bells are Ringing and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (with Patti Lupone).

Now, as a director/choreographer, he has added a Latinx flair to many of his productions, including a spiced up version of Sweet Charity at the New Harlem Arts Theatre and a Latin inspired Guys & Dolls at Theatre Under The Stars in Houston.  

He is co-author (with Kathleen Potts) of The Professional Actor's Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call and he is the creator of The Transition Workshop, a monthly NYC audition studio. He is currently associate professor and director of Music Theatre at Elon University and has two forthcoming, peer-reviewed articles on radical inclusivity and the absence of Latinx creatives on Broadway

Preston Max Allen

Preston Max Allen is a playwright, composer, and lyricist whose work has been seen at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York Musical Festival, Signature Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, Feinstein's/54 Below, Joe's Pub, Laurie Beechman Theatre, York Theatre and Second City Chicago.

Preston conceived and wrote book, music, and lyrics for We Are The Tigers which won the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation award for Best Lyrics/Composition, Never Better, and The Rage: Carrie 2, An Unauthorized Musical Parody and many others. His play Modern Gentleman was also featured as part of the 2020 PRIDE PLAYS Festival.

Preston is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, graduate of the Second City Chicago Comedy Studies Program, and an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.

Michael Rupert

Michael Rupert is a Tony award winning actor, writer and director. His Broadway credits include On The Town, Legally Blonde The Musical, Ragtime, Falsettos, City of Angels, Mail, Sweet Charity, Shakespeare’s Cabaret, Pippin and The Happy Time.

Off-Broadway and regionally he’s been seen in Putting It Together, Dangerous Beauty, Elegies, A New Brain, Falsettos and The Merchant of Venice.

As a writer/composer he’s written Mail and 3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down. He has also directed productions of Ragtime, Sweet Charity, Sunday in the Park With George, The Crucible, Spring Awakening, Parade and Off-Broadway’s Thrill Me for which he received a Drama Desk nomination.