A Feminine Ending cast and creative team

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the cast
Brooke Bloom*
AMANDA
Brooke is delighted to be making her PCS debut in A Feminine Ending. Recent film appearances include Jake’s Closet, The Brothers Solomon, How I Met My Brother’s Dead Fiancee, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and The Key Man. Recent television guest-starring roles include Carpoolers, ‘Til Death, Wedding Bells, Without a Trace, Everwood, Jack and Bobby and Cold Case. She has a recurring role on CSI: Miami. She is a member of The Antaeus Company. Theater credits include A Month in the Country with The Antaeus Company, Pera Palas at The Theatre @ Boston Court with The Antaeus Company, the premiere of In Vitro written by Paula Christensen, A Servant of Two Masters with Parson’s Nose, Hamlet at South Coast Repertory and the premiere of Robots vs. Zombies by Jason Bernstein.

Michael Borrelli*
JACK
Michael is excited to return to PCS after enjoying his role as Versatti in The Underpants in the Studio this past fall. He just finished a movie called High Street Plumbing, written by Noah Haidle and directed by Doug Schactel. Michael had the good fortune of acting in Noah Haidle’s critically acclaimed play Mr. Marmalade at The Contemporary American Theatre Festival during the summer of 2006. The feature film Superheroes that Michael co-produced and acted in premiered at the Austin Film Festival this year and has recently been selected by the Independent Film Channel (IFC) to be aired as one of its “Best of the Best” picks from the festival. Regional Credits include The Hairy Ape at the La Jolla Playhouse, Proof at The Hangar Theatre, and seven incredible summers with The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Michael studied for three years with Larry Moss at his studio in Los Angeles and is a graduate of The College of Santa Fe in New Mexico.

Sharonlee McLean*
KIM
A Feminine Ending will be Sharonlee’s 11th production at PCS. She has been involved in the JAW Playwrights Festival throughout the years. Her last plays at PCS were The Underpants, Act a Lady, and The Thugs, for which she won the Drammy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. In 1997, she won her first Drammy for A Question of Mercy at Artists Repertory Theatre. Some of her most recent works include Assassins (Sara Jane Moore), The Seagull (Arkadina), Bug (RC), Me, My Guitar & Don Henley (Sunny), The Shadow Box (Beverly), O Lovely Glowworm or Scenes of Great Beauty, Another Fine Mess and Gypsy, to name a few. In addition to stage work, Sharnlee has been in the film and television industry for years. She is most recognized for her series regular role as Annie in the daytime soap Santa Barbara, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy. Born and raised in San Francisco, she attended The American Conservatory Theatre at the young age of 19.

Ken Land*
DAVID
Ken’s Broadway credits include Dewhurst in The Scarlet Pimpernel (all three versions) and Sal Andretti in Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews and Liza Minelli. Off-Broadway he has appeared in: The Gig (Manhattan Theatre Club), Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. in Little Shop of Horrors, The Death of Von Richtofen… (New York Shakespeare Festival). National Tours include: Oscar in Sweet Charity (dir. Bob Fosse),The Scarlet Pimpernil, The Secret Garden, and Evita (dir. Harold Prince). Regional appearances include: Teddy in Pig Farm and Old Max in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe); William in Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex and Sex (Matrix Theatre, LA); Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Goodspeed); Ben Silverman in The Sunshine Boys (Birmingham Theatre); Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (Indiana Rep). Appearances in Film and TV are: Back to You and Me, 44 Minutes: A Shootout in North Hollywood, Cloned, Boston Legal, Six Feet Under, Law & Order, Malcolm in the Middle, Law & Order: SVU, Strong Medicine, Judging Amy, The District, Crossing Jordan, Star Trek: Voyager.

Jedadiah Schultz*
BILLY
Off-Broadway: Bhutan (Cherry Lane Mainstage), Freeze Frame (Young Playwrights Festival XXIV) New York: The Secret Agenda of Trees (Cherry Lane Studio), Dread Awakening (45th St. Theater), Bhutan (Cherry Lane Studio). Regional: Bleeding Kansas (Hangar Theater), Bhutan (New York Stage and Film), The Laramie Project (Artists Repertory Theater, Plan-B Theater), The Beard of Avon (Salt Lake Acting Company), Comedy of Errors (Yale Repertory Theater). Yale School of Drama credits include: Measure for Measure, The Life and Death of King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part I, Orpheus Descending, Against the Wall, Spring Awakening, The Skin of Our Teeth, Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, Willing. Jedadiah is from Laramie, Wyoming and is proud to be a character in The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater. Film: The Laramie Project. Television: Guiding Light, Glutton for Punishment.

*The actors and stage managers in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

the creative team
Playwright Sarah Treem
Sarah’s full-length plays include Empty Sky, Against the Wall, Mirror, Mirror, A Feminine Ending and Human Voices. Against the Wall received a workshop production at The Source Theatre in Washington DC and further development at the new play lab of The Friends of the Italian Opera, Berlin’s premiere English language theatre. Empty Sky was part of South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2006 and won the Reva Shiner Playwrithing award. Mirror, Mirror was developed at Playwrites Horizons. Human Voices was part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2007 Springboard New Play series and received further development at New York Stage and Film. A Feminine Ending has been produced at Playwrights Horizons and South Coast Repertory during the 2007/2008 theater season. Sarah is currently working on new play commissions from Playwrights Horizons and South Coast Repertory. She has taught playwriting at Yale, where she earned her B.A. and M.F.A. She also writes for the HBO drama In Treatment.

Director Timothy Douglas
Mr. Douglas directed the world premiere of August Wilson’s Radio Golf for Yale Repertory Theatre. He recently premiered a new translation/adaptation of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm for Oslo Elsewhere Off-Broadway. Douglas served as associate artistic director for Actors Theatre of Louisville (2001-04), where he staged A.M. Sunday, All My Sons, Art, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Crimes of the Heart, Fences, Jitney, The Lively Lad and The Piano Lesson. He served as a Director in Residence at the Mark Taper Forum (1994-97) under a Mellon Foundation fellowship. Representative directing assignments include productions of Ah, Wilderness, Anna in the Tropics, Assassins, Bocon, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Crowns, The Crucible, The Game of Love and Chance, Gem of the Ocean, In the Blood, Insurrection: Holding History, Intimate Apparel, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, LA: X, A Lesson Before Dying, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Marriage of Figaro, Mules, Pericles, Three Sisters, Raised in Captivity, A Raisin in the Sun, Richard III, Shakespeare’s R&J, Sorrows and Rejoicings, Valley Song and the world premieres of The Last Orbit of Billy Mars and Venice for American Conservatory Theater, ASK Theatre Projects, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, City Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, Downstage (New Zealand), The Guthrie Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Juilliard School, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Portland Center Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Toi Whakaari (New Zealand), Utah Shakespearean Festival and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, among others. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Scenic Designer Tony Cisek
Costume Designer Candice Cain
Lighting Designer Peter Maradudin
Sound Designer Colbert S. Davis IV
Composer Vincent Olivieri
Stage Manager Jamie Hill*
Assistant to the Scenic Designer Hannah Crowell
Assistant to the Lighting Designer Tonya Moake
Casting by Rose Riordan and Joanne Denault