CAST Drew Hirshfield (Eli) is delighted to make his Syracuse Stage debut having acted in new and old plays at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, Huntington Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, Alley Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, New Harmony Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Marin Shakespeare Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Stage & Film, and many others. He was once even nominated for a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. And he once played a lemur, professionally. He is on the teaching faculty at New York Film Academy. He holds an M.F.A. in acting from American Conservatory Theater.
Lune (Shaker Bridge Theater, NH). Off-Off-Broadway: The Third Policeman (La Mama); Euridice in Orpheus (at HERE, with Taylor Mac). Television: Jessica Jones, Law & Order: SVU, The Other F Word, and the upcoming HBO miniseries: White House Plumbers. Tanisha Jackson (Winter). A native of Columbus, OH, Dr. Tanisha M. Jackson recently arrived in Syracuse, NY, at the beginning of 2019. She is an alumna of The Ohio State University with a doctorate degree in art education, policy, and administration. Dr. Jackson is the executive director of the Community Folk Art Center and a professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University. Outside of her professional role, Tanisha enjoys engaging with people through community-based arts, traveling, and painting on canvas. She is currently writing a manuscript that highlights the work of contemporary Black women artists whose artwork centers on health, wellness, and social justice.
LeeAnne Hutchison (Suzanne) is thrilled to be at Syracuse Stage, sharing this play at this time! Selected credits Off-Broadway: God in God Shows Up; A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Dir. Austin Pendleton); Ellen McLaughlin’s Septimus and Clarissa. Regional: August: Osage County (Directed by Robert Hupp at Arkansas Rep); Clybourne Park (also at Arkansas Rep); Sex With Strangers (at The Kitchen Theater and Geva); Caliban in The Tempest (Saratoga Shakespeare); Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire (with Joe Manganiello at West Virginia Public Theater; Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de
Jason O’Connell (Don) is thrilled to be returning to Syracuse Stage, where he was last seen with his wife Kate Hamill in 2020’s streaming production of Talley’s Folly, and where he had the privilege of performing for Stage’s last in-person audience as Sa-
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