Compulsion

The Cast

HANNAH CABELLHANNAH CABELL (miss mermin, mrs. silver)

New York credits include the Broadway revival of A Man for All Seasons (Roundabout Theatre Company), Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club), Jane Eyre (The Acting Company), Millicent Scowlworthy (Summer Play Festival), Gentleman Caller (Clubbed Thumb), Mark Smith (13P), and Uncivil Wars (Pickup Performance Company). Her regional credits include the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Three Sisters (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Lewis Black’s Slight Hitch (New York Stage and Film); the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Sedition, Mary’s Wedding (Westport Country Playhouse); and ten seasons with The Barnstormers Theatre in New Hampshire. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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MANDY PATINKINMANDY PATINKIN (mr. SILVER)

won the Tony Award for his Broadway debut in Evita and was again nominated for Sunday in the Park with George and The Wild Party. He also appeared on Broadway in Trelawny of the ‘Wells,’ The Shadow Box, The Secret Garden, Falsettos, and his solo concerts Dress Casual, Celebrating Sondheim, and Mamaloshen. For the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Mandy appeared in Leave It to Beaver Is Dead; The Knife; The Winter’s Tale; Henry IV, Part I; Rebel Women; Hamlet; and Dress Casual. Other theatre credits include The Split, Savages, Enemy of the People, and most recently The Tempest at Classic Stage Company. Film appearances include The Choking Man, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl, The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: Indian Warrior. Television series include Chicago Hope (Emmy Award), Showtime’s Dead Like Me, and Criminal Minds. His solo albums include Mandy Patinkin, Mandy Patinkin Dress Casual, and on the Nonesuch label: Experiment, Oscar and Steve, Mamaloshen, Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, and Kidults. Mandy continues to tour his concerts Dress Casual, Celebrating Sondheim, Mamaloshen, and An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin.
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STEPHEN BARKER TURNERSTEPHEN BARKER TURNER (mr. thomas, mr. harris, mr. ferris, mr. matzliach)

appeared as Jerry in The Evildoers at Yale Rep in 2008. He has also appeared in The Scene, After Ashley (world premieres, Humana Festival of New American Plays); Hedda Gabler (American Conservatory Theater); All My Sons (Roundabout); Race (Classic Stage Company); A Letter from Ethel Kennedy (MCC Theater); Lips (Primary Stages); Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival); as well as productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, Long Wharf, Intiman Theatre, Magic Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Hartford Stage Company, and New York Stage and Film, among others. His film and television credits include The Scene (upcoming), Human Resources (upcoming), We Pedal Uphill, Satellite, The Warrior Class, The Disappearance of Andy Waxman, Cosmopolitan, Blair Witch 2, Machiavelli Rises, all three Law & Order series, Hack, Sex and the City, Swift Justice, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and All My Children. Mr. Turner is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a Fox Fellow.
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EMILY DeCOLAEMILY DeCOLA (PUPPETEER)

works with puppetry and masks as a designer, director, and performer. As a puppeteer, she has appeared in New York in Hamlet (The Public Theater), regionally in Peter and Wendy and Prelude to a Death in Venice (Mabou Mines), and on television in LazyTown (Nickelodeon). She is a founding member (with Eric Wright) of The Puppet Kitchen: a full-service puppet studio in New York’s East Village.
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LIAM HURLEYLIAM HURLEY (PUPPETEER)

has worked as a puppeteer for eight years in and around New York City. He has performed for thousands of children as part of City Parks Foundation’s Puppets in the Parks touring company and has built several shows for the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park. Liam was a performer in Erik Sanko’s The Fortune Teller at HERE Arts Center and Dartmouth College, as well as Ice Cream for Diablo by Oliver Dalzell. He has played drums for the Off-Broadway production of Reefer Madness and currently tours with singer/songwriter Josh Ritter.
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ERIC WRIGHTERIC WRIGHT (PUPPETEER)

has puppeteered in New York in Powerhouse (New York International Fringe Festival); The Cat Who Went to Heaven (The Culture Project); Disfarmer, Hiroshima Maiden (St. Ann’s Warehouse); La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco, Petrushka (Lincoln Center); and Madama Butterfly (The Metropolitan Opera). His regional credits include Peter and Wendy (Arena Stage) and Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty (Art Basel Miami). His television work includes three seasons on PBS’s SeeMore’s Playhouse as Harry Hippo. www.puppetkitchen.com
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