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Rayme Cornell (Kanika Weaver) is ecstatic to be making her ATC debut, and is very happy to return to Arizona, as she grew up in Bullhead City. Her favorite roles include originating the character Aunt Cora, in the off-Broadway production of the late John Henry Redwood’s play No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs, which had its world premiere with the Philadelphia Theatre Company, Elmire in Tartuffe and Olivia in Twelfth Night with New York City’s Acting Company and I Stand Before You Naked with Womens’ Expressive Theatre Company. Her most memorable regional theatre credits include Alice Dunbar in Oak and Ivy at the Vineyard Playhouse, Cassandra in Trojan Women, directed by Seret Scott, at The Old Globe, Louise Marie Therese in Las Meninas at Crossroads Theatre, The Greek Chorus in The Greeks at Alley Theatre. Ms. Cornell does a lot of voice-over work, and is heard frequently on television and radio. She is co-founder of the Point of Entry Theatre Company, which focuses on new works and the classics with non-traditional casting as a primary goal. Ms. Cornell has a BA from UNLV and an MFA in Classical Theatre, from the University of Missouri Kansas City in association with the Missouri Repertory Theatre.
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Patti Davis Suarez (Gillian Crane) last appeared at ATC as Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady. Her Broadway credits include Applause, Promises, Promises, and South Pacific at Lincoln Center Theater. Her many Arizona and regional theatre credits include All’s Well That Ends Well (Countess Rossilion), The House of Yes (Mrs. Pascal), The Glass Menagerie (Amanda), Applause (Margo), Othello (Emelia), Mame, Laughing Wild, 1776, Christmas Carol, Steel Magnolias, Galileo, Sisters Rosenswieg, Blithe Spirit, Nickel and Dimed, Menopause - the Musical, Merry Widow, and Madame Butterfly (Cio Cio San). She received four ariZoni awards for her work on the Arizona stage, and has been seen on film and television in Lost Bird (Hallmark Hall of Fame), Beverly Hills 90210, Up Close and Personal, and No Way Back. An award-winning journalist, Ms. Suarez was a prime time TV news anchor in Los Angeles, Oklahoma, and Missouri during the 1980s and early ‘90s.
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Robert Jason Jackson (Sterling North) is happy to make his ATC debut. His favorite roles include Amonasro in Aida at Broadway Palace Theater, Othello at Shake-speare Santa Cruz, Scott Joplin in Tin Pan Alley Rag at The Cleveland Play House and Bolingbroke in Richard II at Mark Taper Forum. On Broadway he appeared in Hedda Gabler at Roundabout Theatre Company and off-Broadway in The Merchant of Venice at The Public Theater, and Bubbly Black Girl at Playwrights Horizons. His many regional credits include Death and the King’s Horseman for The Goodman Theatre and The Greeks at Hartford Stage Company. His own theatre works include Word to the Mutha for Urban Griots at MK’s, In Search of Paul Robeson at the Sun Media Arts Consortium, Hellhound on My Trail, based on the life and music of Robert Johnson, at the Harold Clurman Theater and Dreams and Visions at New York Stages. Mr. Jackson’s new play Happy Birthday Madame Alberta was performed at Cherry Lane Studio Theater in June 2004 and he is now preparing Fredrick Douglass and Me, his one man show, and Mary Don’t You Weep, a musical gospel play based on the life of Mary Magdalene. On TV he has appeared in Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, New York Undercover, and New Jersey Drive.
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Lizan Mitchell (Ella Franklin) is delighted to be making her ATC debut. A veteran of Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theatre, her favorite stage roles include the title role in Medea, Sister Margaret in Amen Corner, Rose in Fences, The Priestess in Yerma, Mrs. Chaney and Dorothy Dandridge in Love Scrawls, the Woman in Purple in For Colored Girls…(the 25th Anniversary production in New York), Dr. Bessie Delany in Having Our Say (national tour and Johannesburg, South Africa) Hecuba in Trojan Women and Lena in A Raisin in the Sun. Ms. Mitchell has won a Helen Hayes Award and a Black Theatre Award for Best Actress and been nominated for Drama Desk, Jeff and Audelco Awards. She can be seen in the feature films The Final Patient and Bellclair Times.
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Lee Moore (Alfred Morris) is delighted to make his ATC debut. A veteran of off-Broadway and regional theatre his recent appearances include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at The Cleveland Play House, City of Light at Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, and The Charity That Began at Home, Welcome to Our City and Alison’s House at the Mint Theater Company in New York City. He has appeared on every daytime television series and played Glenn Taggart on Guiding Light for seven years. He recently appeared as Mr. Bing on Hope and Faith and has written a screenplay that is now in pre-production. Mr. Moore is seen as Rev. Henry Know in the film Worlds Unknown at The New York Historical Society. With his wife, mezzo-soprano Leslie Middlebrook, he wrote and performs in A Victorian Evening of Romance, Poetry and Song.
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Bob Sorenson (Paul Barrow) returns to ATC after his performance as Hamil-ton Beamish in Over the Moon. His previous ATC credits include Fully Committed, Ghosts, Art, The Mystery of Irma Vep, How I Learned to Drive, Scapin, Swinging on a Star, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Noises Off. Actors Theatre of Phoenix acting credits include The Arizona Project, Henry V, Illuminati, Putting It Together, among many others. For Phoenix Theatre: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Annie, Mister Roberts, I Do, I Do, Rumors, and Play it Again Sam, among others. Mr. Sorenson’s directing credits include More Fun Than Bowling, It Had to Be You, The Bug, Rounding Third and The Complete History of America for Actors Theatre of Phoenix; Steel Magnolias for Phoenix Theatre; Personals, Six Women With Brain Death for Theatre League; and Social Security, The Gift Horse, a female version of The Odd Couple and I’m Not Rappaport for Arizona Jewish Theatre Company.
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Special Thanks to ATC’s Full Season Sponsors
I. Michael and Beth Kasser
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