HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING Cast

Meet the Cast of HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING
Meg \| RACHEL LIN Rachel Lin is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. Credits: War of the Worlds (Montana Rep), Caught (St. Louis Rep), Egress (Cleveland Playhouse), and world premieres of: Ajax by A.R. Gurney, Women by Chiara Atik, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love by Mallery Avidon &, Fat Kids on Fire by Bekah Brunstetter. She is an Ensemble Studio Theatre member, and produces a podcast called Upstage Left, featuring conversations with theater makers she admires. BFA, NYU Tisch. TheRachelLin.com.
Craig \| QUINN FRANZEN Quinn Franzen is a Brooklyn-based actor and poet. He is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. NYC Theatre: Threesome (59e59); Diaspora (Gym at Judson); Anna Karenina (Notch). Regional: Nell Gwynn (Folger); Familiar, We Are Proud to Present... (Guthrie); Angels in America, Romeo and Juliet, Dirty Story (Intiman); Familiar, Hound of the Baskervilles (Seattle Rep); Othello, Importance of Being Earnest (Seattle Shakespeare). TV: Billions, The Blacklist, Younger, Grimm. More at: www.quinnfranzen.com.
Jannie \| HELEN COXE Helen Coxe is originally from Philadelphia. She has performed in TV/Film, On, Off, and way off Broadway. Member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre and a founding member of the now defunct rUDE mECHANICALS and ‘The Mighties’ writing group. She holds an MFA from A.C.T. and is a licensed Phlebotomist.
Jan \| BOB JAFFE Bob Jaffe Stage: Ensemble Studio Theatre; Public Theater/UTR; Queens Theater; WHAT; Ars Nova; Berkshire Theatre Festival; the cell; HERE; Theater for a New City; La MaMa E.T.C.; FringeNYC; Trinity Rep; Providence Black Rep; Perishable Theatre. TV: Tonight Show (with Brad Pitt & Jimmy Fallon); Brotherhood; Law & Order: SVU; Time After Time; Sweetbitter. Film: Chappaquiddick; Imagine I’m Beautiful; Crazy Famous; Bite Me; Inez & Doug & Kira. Other: Ensemble Artist at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Agent: U-Shin Kim at UGA Talent.
Gayle \| CATHY CURTAIN Cathy Curtin Film: Upcoming releases WEREWOLVES WITHIN (Tribeca Film Fest 2021); RED PILL (Pan African Film Fest 2021); WORTH (Sundance 2020). Recent: BAD EDUCATION; BLUSH; INSIDE THE RAIN; THE HALF OF IT; FIRST ONE IN. TV: recurring leads on STRANGER THINGS, HOMELAND, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, INSECURE. More TV: TOMMY, THE LOUDEST VOICE, BLACKLIST, MINDHUNTER, BULL, and SURVEILLANCE. Insta//Twitter: #@catecurtin.
Ken \| BOB MUSSETT Bob Mussett, a recent Boston transplant, is excited to join his first production with the UI Department of Theatre Arts. Pandemic Times credits include Winter Panto 2021: The Panto Games (imaginary beasts), The Way North (Gloucester Stage), and assorted readings and short plays. BeforeTimes credits include True West (Hub Theatre), The Nether (Flat Earth Theatre), The 39 Steps (Moonbox Productions), and the ensemble of Sht-Faced Shakespeare* (Magnificent Bastards). Love to Sarah.
Henry \| BRENDAN DALTON Brendan Dalton is an actor/musician/composer from Upper Darby, PA, (BFA, UArts). Theatre: Blue Man Group (NYC, Chicago, Orlando), Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Once Upon a Time in the Berkshires (Williamstown Theatre Festival), This Girl Laughs... (Atlantic Theater Co.) The Place We Built (The Flea), Intuitive Men and Severance (The Tank), B.B.'s Inferno (The PIT). TV: "Dickinson," "Younger," "FBI." He's also the creator of a Tolkien-themed holiday parody album: Christmas in Middle-Earth. www.brendan-dalton.com.
Stage Directions \| NADJA LEONARD-HOOPER Nadja Leonard-Hooper is a playwright and performer who specializes in dark comedies about animals (humans and not humans). She is a very happy member of the OBIE award-winning EST/Youngblood and is a co-founder of the community-based writer’s residency Hot Bread 4 Writers. Her first short film will come out this summer. Her next play is about nuns.

Meet the Cast of HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING

Meg | RACHEL LIN

Rachel Lin is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. Credits: War of the Worlds (Montana Rep), Caught (St. Louis Rep), Egress (Cleveland Playhouse), and world premieres of: Ajax by A.R. Gurney, Women by Chiara Atik, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love by Mallery Avidon &, Fat Kids on Fire by Bekah Brunstetter. She is an Ensemble Studio Theatre member, and produces a podcast called Upstage Left, featuring conversations with theater makers she admires. BFA, NYU Tisch. TheRachelLin.com.

Craig | QUINN FRANZEN

Quinn Franzen is a Brooklyn-based actor and poet. He is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. NYC Theatre: Threesome (59e59); Diaspora (Gym at Judson); Anna Karenina (Notch). Regional: Nell Gwynn (Folger); Familiar, We Are Proud to Present... (Guthrie); Angels in America, Romeo and Juliet, Dirty Story (Intiman); Familiar, Hound of the Baskervilles (Seattle Rep); Othello, Importance of Being Earnest (Seattle Shakespeare). TV: Billions, The Blacklist, Younger, Grimm. More at: www.quinnfranzen.com.

Jannie | HELEN COXE

Helen Coxe is originally from Philadelphia. She has performed in TV/Film, On, Off, and way off Broadway. Member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre and a founding member of the now defunct rUDE mECHANICALS and ‘The Mighties’ writing group. She holds an MFA from A.C.T. and is a licensed Phlebotomist.

Jan | BOB JAFFE

Bob Jaffe Stage: Ensemble Studio Theatre; Public Theater/UTR; Queens Theater; WHAT; Ars Nova; Berkshire Theatre Festival; the cell; HERE; Theater for a New City; La MaMa E.T.C.; FringeNYC; Trinity Rep; Providence Black Rep; Perishable Theatre. TV: Tonight Show (with Brad Pitt & Jimmy Fallon); Brotherhood; Law & Order: SVU; Time After Time; Sweetbitter. Film: Chappaquiddick; Imagine I’m Beautiful; Crazy Famous; Bite Me; Inez & Doug & Kira. Other: Ensemble Artist at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Agent: U-Shin Kim at UGA Talent.

Gayle | CATHY CURTAIN

Cathy Curtin Film: Upcoming releases WEREWOLVES WITHIN (Tribeca Film Fest 2021); RED PILL (Pan African Film Fest 2021); WORTH (Sundance 2020). Recent: BAD EDUCATION; BLUSH; INSIDE THE RAIN; THE HALF OF IT; FIRST ONE IN. TV: recurring leads on STRANGER THINGS, HOMELAND, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, INSECURE. More TV: TOMMY, THE LOUDEST VOICE, BLACKLIST, MINDHUNTER, BULL, and SURVEILLANCE. Insta//Twitter: #@catecurtin.

Ken | BOB MUSSETT

Bob Mussett, a recent Boston transplant, is excited to join his first production with the UI Department of Theatre Arts. Pandemic Times credits include Winter Panto 2021: The Panto Games (imaginary beasts), The Way North (Gloucester Stage), and assorted readings and short plays. BeforeTimes credits include True West (Hub Theatre), The Nether (Flat Earth Theatre), The 39 Steps (Moonbox Productions), and the ensemble of Sh*t-Faced Shakespeare (Magnificent Bastards). Love to Sarah.

Henry | BRENDAN DALTON

Brendan Dalton is an actor/musician/composer from Upper Darby, PA, (BFA, UArts). Theatre: Blue Man Group (NYC, Chicago, Orlando), Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Once Upon a Time in the Berkshires (Williamstown Theatre Festival), This Girl Laughs... (Atlantic Theater Co.) The Place We Built (The Flea), Intuitive Men and Severance (The Tank), B.B.'s Inferno (The PIT). TV: "Dickinson," "Younger," "FBI." He's also the creator of a Tolkien-themed holiday parody album: Christmas in Middle-Earth. www.brendan-dalton.com.

Stage Directions | NADJA LEONARD-HOOPER

Nadja Leonard-Hooper is a playwright and performer who specializes in dark comedies about animals (humans and not humans). She is a very happy member of the OBIE award-winning EST/Youngblood and is a co-founder of the community-based writer’s residency Hot Bread 4 Writers. Her first short film will come out this summer. Her next play is about nuns.