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2006 Conference

June 12 - 24, 2006 at the Alpine Playhouse in McCall Idaho (map)

The 2006 Plays

Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates by Robert Schenkkan - The most famous Advance Team in American History gets a little lost. A tragic/comedy in two centuries by this Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle .

Homespun by Mary Portser - What's wrong with the Johnsons? Why do they behave so strangely? A woman finds out what it takes to join the family unit in this timely comedy of shifting stories and fun with firearms.

Paper Dolls by Timothy Braatz - Inspired by the arrest of his girlfriend Millie at a local protest, Johnny plans to exhibit a politically explosive--and exploding--new sculpture piece in her front yard.  But as Johnny quickly learns, it's one thing to have ideals and another to mess up Millie's lawn.

Plays from the McCall Donnelly High School

Anything & Everything Concerning the unsure Diagnosis of a Dead Girl by Erin Falvey - Three doctors investigate the mysterious death of a famous girl. How did she die? What will they tell the public? More importantly: what does the public want to believe?

I Think We Can Make It, It Can't Be That Hard - by Austin Foudy - An inter-racial relationship shatters when an unexpected pregnancy forces a teenage girl and her boyfriend to make difficult choices.

Pixels by Kali Boroski - As the universe expands, so do our molecules, until we are pixelated out of existence… Honey, the world is ending. Do you know where the kids are?

Untitled by Cassia Hershenow - When Oneyda's boss is late she must chose between taking the last bus home & taking care of Sophie… she chooses both in this revealing play about culture, poverty and the landscape of a new America .

Plays from the Playwrights Intensive

Demolition by Ben Sahl - A dark comedy about fathers, sons, and how hard it is to let go until someone blows you up.

The Tragedy of the Brothers Lafferty by Ben Verschoor - A group of brothers descend into religious fundamentalism, pitting them against their youngest brother's wife, and each other, in this Shakespearean-styled latter-day tragedy.

The Playwrights

TIMOTHY BRAATZ ( Paper Dolls ) is a history professor, specializing in peace studies and Native American history, at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.  His historical publications include Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples.  He is also playwright-in-residence with The Chameleon theater Circle in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which has performed The Devil and the Wedding Dress, Helena Handbasket, New and Nobler Life, Paper Cuts , and other of his plays.  He lives in Laguna Beach, and spends his summers in Bonners Ferry, Idaho .

KALI BORKOSKI (Pixels ) has lived in McCall for thirteen years. She is a stay-at-home espresso drinker, a travel-around conversationalist, a part-time artist and a full-time dreamer. She graduated from McCall-Donnelly High School this June and will be continuing to punish her brain at Reed College in Portland, Oregon .

CASSIA HERSHENOW (Untitled) I've lived in McCall my whole life except for one year spent in Honduras. My family and I lived and worked at an orphanage there, learning the language and the culture. This play is seeded from those experiences. Other than playwriting I enjoy: people watching in airports or malls, eating exotic foods, seeing people step out of their boxes, over hearing people talking about me, Airband, piñatas, babies, cooking and eating, successfully cutting my fingernails without cutting my fingertips and watching boys and girls flirt.

ERIN FALVEY (Anything & Everything Concerning the Unsure Diagnosis of a Dead Girl) likes: writing, drawing, reading, looking at the stars, sushi, hiking, skiing, riding downhill on bicycles, finding shapes in clouds, receiving letters and acting on impulse. Dislikes: uncomfortable, sterile environments, high school, Styrofoam and coffee that's too cold to be good iced coffee and warm to be good warm coffee.

AUSTIN FOUDY (I Think We Can Make It, It Can't Be That Hard) A flatlander from Boise, having moved here three years ago. He is an athlete who wishes his performance in the classroom matched his performance on the playing field. I Think We Can Make It, It Can't Be That Hard is his first play but he loves to write, so there may be more to come. Austin will be attending Albertson College of Idaho in the fall semester and is planning to run collegiate track and major in psychology.

MARY PORTSER (Homespun) After Off- Broadway and regional gigs as an actress and 8 years writing/performing with a comedy group, the Paranoids, Mary moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and, perversely, began to write plays. You Don't Know Me was work shopped at Seven Devils in ‘03, the same year Moira was produced by the Fishamble theater Company in Dublin, Ireland. Mary is the 2004 recipient of the New Voices in American theater Award from the William Inge theater. The Train In My Hotel, No Time For Women and Animal Life have been part of EST West's Winterfests. Miss Martin's Mouth was the winner of the Los Angeles City College One Act Play Festival and was produced there. theater West produced Stopgap and Distress Signals, a series of comic monologues performed by the author. Several of her monologues are included in the Audition Arsenal series, published by Smith and Kraus. Mary lives in Venice, CA with her husband, Christopher Curry, writing plays, her first novel and acting on stage, TV and such movies as: Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, The Italian Job, Daddy Day Care, Human Nature, Passion Fish, In Memorium. She's delighted to be spending her 4th summer in McCall.

BENJAMIN SAHL ( Demolition ) was lucky enough to be part of the first Seven Devils in 2001 with his play Jewels of Denial. In one way or another he has been a part of each one since, playing his favorite role: husband of Conference co-founder Jeni Mahoney. Most recent activity for Jewels: a reading in LA in 2004. Most recent activity for Ben's writing: monologues from The Wet Science published in BEST MONOLOGUES FOR MEN and BEST MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN (both Smith & Kraus). Ben's muse survived a BA at Columbia and an MFA, playwriting, at Indiana .  As middle age sets in, Ben finds himself becoming not only slower, fatter, dimmer and more conservative but also, perhaps in consequence, a lawyer. A 2005 graduate of the UCLA School of Law, he practices commercial litigation & First Amendment law with Latham & Watkins in New York .  Jeni and Ben's second-best co-creation, Throw of the Moon , was produced most recently in Australia . Their first-best co-creation, Noa Virginia Sahl, can currently be seen in New York and points west. Ben is immeasurably proud of what Jeni has achieved with Seven Devils and just thinks she's the coolest person on the planet.

ROBERT SHENKKAN ( Lewis and Clark Reach The Euphrates ) Plays: The Kentucky Cycle (Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Lewis And Clark Reach The Euphrates, By The Waters Of Babylon, Handler, The Marriage Of Miss Hollywood And King Neptune, Final Passages, Heaven On Earth, The Dream Thief, Tachinoki, and Conversations With The Spanish Lady. Film and television include: The Quiet American, the mini-series, Spartacus (USA Network) and the MOW Crazy Horse (TNT). He lives in Seattle with his wife, the author, Maria Headley, and his two children, Sarah and Joshua.

BEN VERSCHOOR ( The Tragedy of the Brothers Lafferty ) a McCall native, has been part of the Seven Devils family for 4 years, having acted in student plays and a sit-down reading, as well as having had one of his own, Pop Will Drink Itself , staged in 2004; he hasn't stopped writing since. He has also acted in a variety of productions. This past year alone he played Polonius & the Gravedigger in Hamlet, Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show, and Lucky the slave in Waiting for Godot. He hopes to someday finish his epic poem, a modern-day re-imagining of Dante's Divine Comedy … with rock stars.

The Directors and Dramaturgs

DAN BONNELL (Director) is currently the Co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio theater-- LA. He was the Artistic Director of Arcade, a workspace for theater and media, from 1995-2001. In LA, Dan's work has also been seen at Pacific Resident theater (his production of Happy End received the Best Revival Award from the LA Drama Critic's Circle this season), the Matrix, the Met, Cornerstone, [Inside] @ The Ford, ASK Theater Projects, Highways, Moving Arts, and the HBO Workspace.  Mr. Bonnell has been honored with the LA Weekly Directing Award, the NAACP Directing Award and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Theater in Los Angeles . He was nominated, in 2003, for Theater Communications Group Alan Schneider Award.  Prior to Los Angeles, Mr. Bonnell was a Resident Director at Circle Rep and directed for notable companies across the country including: Long Wharf, the Asolo, Atlanta's Alliance Theater, Pioneer Theater Company, and the Bronfman Center in Montreal.

ELISE FORIER (Dramaturg & Actor) teaches playwriting at Central Washington University , where she also directs the Youth theater and theater Education programs. Her original plays have been produced all over the country, most recently in Minneapolis and Salt Lake City , but also in New York , Los Angeles , and even Arkansas . She is delighted to be in McCall for a second summer, with all the Devil brethren at the Alpine Playhouse.

JENI MAHONEY ( Artistic Director & Director ) is co-Artistic Director of id theater Company. Formerly she was Associate Director of Mint Theater Company in New York (2002 Drama Desk Award, 2001 OBIE). Jeni's current project is her fourteen-month-old daughter (and new boss) Noa. Her play The Feast of the Flying Cow…And Other Stories of War premiered in October at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia , and The Martyrdom of Washington Booth was presented at New York University 's hotINK Festival in January. Her work has been presented at the National Playwrights Conference (O'Neill Theater Center), The MidWestern New Plays Festival, Lark Theater, Rattlestick Productions and the L.A. theater Center among others. You will find her work in Plays and Playwrights 2001 , Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999 , Best Stage Monologues for Women 1999 , Best Stage Scenes 1999 and Smith & Kraus' Audition Arsenal series of books. Jeni teaches playwriting in the BFA program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

SHEILA McDEVITT (Executive Director & Director/ Actor) a native Idahoan, is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of id theater Company. She has produced, directed and acted in three seasons for id both in McCall and New York City , and produced, directed and acted in the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference for the past five years. She produced and acted in id's inaugural NYC reading series this past summer in conjunction with the Midtown International Theater Festival.  Sheila was co-producer and star performer for Qwirk Productions in NYC for 8 years. She received her MFA from University of Washington 's prestigious Professional Actor Training Program. Directing credits include Manhattan Class Company's "Summer Play Party," featuring plays written by New York City high school students. She also runs workshops in Stage Combat for High School and College students as well as Story Book theater and improvisation workshops for younger children. Acting credits: Off-Broadway - Understudy to Miss Carol Kane in In-Betweens . Regional: New England tour - Dancing at Lughnasa ; Jupiter theater, Jupiter FL - Rumours co-starring Bernie Koppell, Bill Christopher, and Gary Burghoff.

MICHAEL NASSAR (Dramaturg) Recent projects:  The Last Seder by Jen Maisel for the Humana Festival, Nalsey Tinberg's Cakewalk for Manhattan theater Club, David Simpatico's Waiter, Waiter (NY International Fringe Festival, Joe's Pub @ The Public Theater). As Associate Artistic Director of the National Music Theater Conference at the O'Neill Center:  2004 Tony Award winning Best Musical Avenue Q ; Richard Rodgers Award winner, The Tutor ; Maltby/Shire's newest, with Marsha Norman , Take Flight ; David Simpatico and Will Todd's The Screams of Kitty Genovese ; Kirsten Childs' The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin ; Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party among many others. Former crimes against the theater: Management Consultant for New Professional theater in the New 42nd Street redevelopment, General Manager for the Nederlander's off-Broadway run of Dream A Little Dream, co-founder Legacy Repertory Theater, developing over thirty new plays and playwrights. A Fulbright scholar, Michael only recently discovered the joys of Consulting. Current clients include Sundance Channel, Really Useful Group (UK) and Kabosh theater.

AMY SALTZ (Director) has directed classic and contemporary plays throughout the United States  and abroad. Based in New York City , Amy is committed to doing classical work as well as helping to develop new plays and playwrights.  She has worked extensively Off-Broadway as well as at most of the country's major regional theaters. At the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference Amy served on the final selection committee and collaborated on new work with over 35 playwrights including  Seven Devil's own Lee Blessing,  Jeni Mahoney, and Adam Rapp, and Pulitzer Prize-winners John Patrick Shanley and August Wilson. Amy has directed in Russia and has served on theater panels providing major funding and/or awards for the National Endowment on the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, NEA/TCG's Directing Fellows, TCG's Play's In Process, the New York State Council on the Arts and, most recently, The Drama League in NYC . She and her productions have won awards all over the country.  For Television she directed Another World and Search for Tomorrow . She has taught at the Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, Columbia University , Tisch School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts. At Seven Devils Amy directed  Kevin Crowley's The Monkey's Paw , Cusi Cram's Fuente , and Mary Portser's You Don't Know Me . Thanks to Liz Warner, Judy Anderson and everyone else who has welcomed us so warmly into their community. Amy is a member of the Directors' Guild of America & The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She is Head of the Graduate Program in Directing  at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers ' University.  

GAY SMITH (Dramaturg) O'Neill National Playwrights Conference dramaturg ten seasons.  Adaptor/ translator/director of several plays, recently Beaumarchais' Countess Almaviva with opera.  Author of George Sand's theater Career , translated Sand's play Gabriel (both books under author name of Gay Manifold), upcoming Lady Macbeth in the White House and A Harlot's Progress to Brooklyn .  Editor of Plays by Phil Bosakowski. Professor of theater Wesleyan University and Chair of the Department (2006-2008), sponsoring visiting playwright master teachers, with Marsha Norman and Adam Rapp in the past, and Catherine Filloux this coming year. She holds a PhD in theater History and Criticism from UCLA and an MA from University of Hawaii .

The Company

ASHLEY ALLEN (House Manager & Actor) For lack of having anything better to say, “I love long walks on the beach, romance novels and unicorns.” I guess you can say I'm a typical cliché.

JUDY ANDERSON ( Drama Teacher, McCall-Donnelly High School & Actor) was born and raised in Wisconsin where she learned to love the lakes, rivers and the North Woods.  In 1970, she left the University in Madison and moved out West with a group of "back-to-the-landers".  By 1972 she had settled in Idaho where she has raised 6 kids who brought her the hardest lessons and the greatest fun. In the mid-80's she and her family developed a family circus which they've performed off and on for 20-some years. Her dream was always to work with the Bread and Puppet Theater. For the last 10 years she has taught Drama, Humanities & Playwriting. It has been a privilege to work with this community's children; they make her laugh so hard. She's always tried to balance her politics with art and gardening, so nothing gets completely out of hand.

DANETTE BAKER (Actor & Director) New York and Regional credits include: The Cleveland Playhouse, The Monomoy theater, The American Globe theater, The Director's Company, Lincoln Center Library Readings of New Works, Epoch theater Company, Aegean theater Company, Cut ‘N' Paste Productions, Wichita Center for the Arts and Cabaret Oldtown. Danette holds an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University , is a past recipient of the Martha and Foster Harmon Fellowship for Excellence in theater, a 5-time recipient of the Mary Jane Teall theater Award for Outstanding Acting, and is a member of the Association of theater Movement Educators. Danette is a lecturer in theater for Wichita State University 's School of Performing Arts in Wichita , Kansas.

ED BAKER (Production Manager & Actor) Ed earned his MFA Degree in Acting from Ohio University 's Professional Actor Training Program in 1991. He worked regionally at The Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland Actors' theater, The Monomoy theater on Cape Cod , as well as 6 insane years performing in New York with the Cut And Paste Company and Others. In 1998 Ed returned to Wichita with his lovely wife, Danette Baker. Since then he has had the honor of performing in a special benefit production of Last Train To Nibroc for Wichita Summer theater with the most special Guest Star of his life, Danette. Ed recently joined the faculty of Wichita State University School of Performing Arts as an Assistant Professor of Technical theater.

FALLON BROOKING (Actor) was born in New York and still lives in the Big Apple. Theater: Faster by Adam Rapp. Film: Stepford Wives, My Super Ex-Girlfriend. She has done it all and is the age of ten.

SIMON BROOKING (Actor) is co-founder of id theater. He has acted in 2 out of their 3 seasons in Idaho and in New York City , as well as all 5 years with the Conference. Simon has a BA in acting from SUNY/Fredonia and an MFA from the University of Washington 's prestigious Professional Actor Training Program. Simon was born in Edinburgh , Scotland . Broadway - The Judas Kiss with Liam Neeson, Candida with Mary Steenburgen. International - The Hard Man at the Pavilion theater, Glasgow , Scotland . Off-Broadway - Blue Light Theater/Hartford Stage, The Clearing ; The Roundabout Theater, King Lear ; Primary Stages, Don Juan in Chicago (title role); Soho Rep, American Bagpipes ; The Public Theater, Hamlet . Regional- Dancing at Lughnasa , New England tour; The Hostage , Portland Stage; Romeo and Juliet , Theater by the Sea.

ASHLEE CONNER (Intern) is excited to be working with Seven Devils this summer. She attends Central Washington University located in Ellensburg Washington where she is studying to be a Theater Arts Major with a specialization in Lighting Design & Theater Management. Ashlee is going into her third year at Central this fall and looks forward to Stage-managing Blankity-Blank in the winter and Production Stage-managing TheImportance of Being Ernest . She is looking forward to this great experience here at Seven Devils and she hopes everyone enjoys their experience as much as she does.

BERNADINE COCKEY (Assistant Stage Manager) has lived in McCall for the past sixteen years, most of them spent at the Alpine Playhouse.  She has acted, directed, produced, built sets, stage-managed, set lights, scrubbed bathrooms, baked cookies...And for this opportunity, she is eternally grateful.  She also writes plays:  Night Among the Hunters was a bronze medalist in the Writer's Digest Playwriting Competition .  A Little Time In the Fall and Death Comes to Sweet William were past participants in the Seven Devil's Playwrights Conference.

CHRISTOPHER CURRY (Actor & Director) Nine seasons as an actor at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference in Waterford , CT , where he had the great good fortune to work on a play by Ms. Mahoney herself. Appeared in dozens of plays over the years, in NY (Broadway and off-Broadway), Los Angeles, and all over the place in regional theaters. Over the past few years, he has done mainly film and television work, including Dirt, (directed by Nancy Savoca) Crazy, Lenexa , One Mile, and Flags of Our Fathers (directed by Clint Eastwood) --and a recurring part on the t.v. series Huff , and the t.v. pilot Patients (which my lovely wife, Mary, and I starred in together).

MELODY DODGE (Actor) is a local teacher who does most of her acting in front of first graders!

STEPHAN GUEGUEN (Actor) a pretty hip guy – likes snowboarding, skateboarding and hiking out at Little Lake. He's been in several school plays and enjoys acting in Judy's plays.

JARED HALLOCK (Actor) - Holding a degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Idaho, Hallock has shared many stages from jazz combos to funk bands, orchestral work to avante garde. He has created theatrical/musical stage shows, acted in plays and performed with a variety of musical groups. Using a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Hallock works with the community to nurture young artists. One current project is exploring the world of experimental music using both traditional and non-traditional instruments. Some of his compositions include the use of cups, body percussion, spoons, electronic percussion and anything else within reach. Hallock is a founding member of JuxtaPERCUSSION, a theatrical percussion group currently touring the Northwest.

NICK HERSHNOW (Actor) lives in McCall, where it's not generally recognized that he's an idiot savant who speaks exclusively in iambic pentameter.

BROOKE HERZOG (Actor) came to McCall two years ago with Seven Devils, and now calls it home.

M.J. (MYUNG-JIN) KANG (Actor & Mentor) is an actor & playwright, originally from South Korea , raised in Toronto, Canada, but now based in LA. She started writing plays at seventeen years old, placing second in a playwriting competition for highschoolers. Noran Bang: The Yellow Room, her first full length play was produced when she was eighteen at Toronto's prestigious theater Passe Muraille with Cahoots theater Projects. It was re-mounted at Factory Studio theater in association with Cahoots theater Projects in 1998 & nominated for a DORA Mavor Moore Award, Toronto's professional theater's award for best new play. At the age of twenty-one, she was the youngest playwright to be produced on Tarragon theater's prestigious mainstage - Canada's mecca for new plays with Blessings , an autobiographical full-length three character journey of her first visit to Korea since her immigration at the age of two. Since then, she has had a total of seven plays produced and recently completed a first draft of, Corner Store Riots, a play dealing with the L.A. Riots, a first from a Korean perspective, commissioned by L.A.'s Cornerstone theater, all under the age of thirty. As an actor, she was a series regular on C.B.C.'s, Riverdale. She has also been featured in Owning Mahowney, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Book of Eve, opposite Claire Bloom, A&E's Nero Wolf, opposite Timothy Hutton, as well as many other roles on television, film, and theater.

AJ KELLISON (Intern) is a Design and Technical theater major just finishing his freshman year at Wichita State University. AJ has recently worked on WSU's productions of Noises Off and The Tempest. AJ would like to thank is friends and family for all their support.  

PAULA A. MARCHIEL (Managing Director & Stage Manager) is happy to be back for her sixth season of Seven Devils and McCall. She is an active company member of Synaesthetic theater and Secretary of the Board. She is currently the Marketing Associate for theaterworks/USA. Past work includes the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, New York University, Playwrights Horizons theater School, the Really Useful Management Company and Stage Management jobs too numerous to mention. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

PETER O'CONNOR (Actor) theater: Lead role in Ensemble Studio theater's 2006 Youngblood Main Stage show, A Bitter Taste , Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon and Jane . Martin's Keely and Du at Centerstage with Boomerang, Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at Greenwich Street theater, dir. John Pinckard, My Brooklyn at Manhattan theater Source, dr. Mary Kate Burke, J.P. Shanley's Red Coat, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation , Ionesco's Killing Game, Alls Well that Ends Well, Richard II , readings of Sam Marks Bigger Man & Marie Giorda's Bachettes dir. John Gould Rubin & Alyse Rothman (respectively). TV/Film: NBC's Book of Daniel and  Ed NBC 2005 Pilot Bubby Knows Best, Coca-Cola National Short Film Contest Winner Movie theater Hero which played on 15,000 movie screens nationwide, contest judged by Billy Bob Thornton and Mike Ovitz. Member: Partial Comfort Productions,  psyched to be back, thanks Jeni and Sheila. 

DOUGLAS R. PAULSON (Actor) is an actor, singer, writer, musician, composer, and producer. With breedingground productions Douglas recently co-produced the 2005 Spring Fever Festival, while also appearing in their main-stage production of Bunnies, Part One. Douglas worked extensively with Elizabeth Swados on projects including The Beloved Dearly, and Inside/Out, both for Lincoln Center Institute, as well as “The Millennium Lounge” for Playwrights Horizons Theater School, where he's currently an assistant teacher of Voice and Speech. Douglas composed the score for the original musical “Prime Time” and can be seen in the independent feature film “High Life.” www.breedingground.com/whoarted/doug.html

JOEY PIETRE (Actor) was born in Manhattan, raised in Queens, and wanted out of New York as long as can be remembered. He came to McCall in 1975 and has been here ever since. He raised three sons, worked construction and coached football at McCall-Donnelly High School . He has appeared in numerous Alpine Playhouse productions since 1981 thanks to Judy Anderson, his favorites being Lysistrata, The Tempest, and Peter Pan, and two plays by Dario Fo, We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay, and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist. He is currently studying to be a fitness coach and will be certified in the fall of 2006. His dream is to be part of a rural, international community with lots of friends, family and a whole world of things that bring peace, health and joy.

KATHLEEN (KATY) REEVES (Stage Manager) is an Equity stage manager from Houston , TX . She is a graduate of UCSD's MFA program, has worked at The La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, and is about to enter her second season with The Houston Grand Opera. She gives thanks to Tom, her greatest mentor.

TRACY SHAR (Managing Producer & Actor) is happy to be back at Seven Devils in a more familiar position after failing miserably last year as a stage manager. She has worked at many theaters and performing arts organizations as a producer, actor and general manager throughout NYC and regionally, including the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, The Public Theater, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Surflight Theater and the Berkshire Theater Festival. She currently produces live music shows for the Whitney Museum and the Whitney Museum at Altria, and was recently seen as Puck in Fools in Love at BAM and the Manhattan Ensemble Theater as part of the Millennium Talent Group. She holds a BFA in acting from Emerson College and an MFA in acting from California Institute of the Arts, in addition to studying at the Moscow Art Theater and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

KATI SHELDON (Actor) This is Kati's fourth year participating in Seven Devils. She is a senior in college majoring in Music Business, but she still plans on doing musical theater when she graduates. Stop by and visit her this summer in McCall at Common Ground Cafe where she is the venue's new intern! Kati has performed in numerous plays; Bye Bye Birdie (professional singing fan), Playboy of the Western World (Chorus leader, dancer,Pub Soloist), Toad of Toad Hall (Weasel), Antigone (Lead singer in Chorus), Pinocchio (kid, singer), The Snow Queen (the Snow Queen, musical lyricist), Valerie and the Bear (Ginger), You Don't Know Me (Mary, Puritan), Beyond Imagination (Gina), American Midget (Voice of God).

GALEN SHAVER (Actor) is a former circus performer and pirate now employed as a school administrator, and occasionally as a carpenter, here in McCall.

IRENE SHAVER (Actor) I'm Irene. I wish I was in the circus. And I really like my family. Hopefully, someday I'll do something big time, like plant a bunch of flowers or feed a bunch of people.

MOLLY SHAVER (Actor) is a McCall local and a recent graduate of Reed College in Portland , Oregon . She is the spawn of Judy Anderson and Galen Shaver and is the cobra in the family circus. She plans to become a baker in New Mexico when the summer ends. It is her secret wish to grow up to be Latina .

SHANE TAYLOR (Actor) Mr. Taylor earned his M.F.A. at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He recently appeared in Topdog/ Underdog at Luna Stage.  Regional credits include Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theater , Indiana Repertory Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival, Hangar Theater, Actor's Theater of Louisville, and The Lincoln Center Institute.  Mr. Taylor appears next as Robert in the independent feature Sarbane's Oxley .

HAYNES THIGPIN (Actor) Theater: Revengers Tragedy at Red Bull Theater Co., Hamlet at the McCarter theater, Black Monk at Yale Rep, Cymbeline at California Shakespeare Festival, Black Sheep at Barrington Stage, Twelfth Night at the Shakespeare theater, King John at NJ Shakespeare Festival. Film: Blackbird, Dance Till Dawn, Terror Firmer. T.V.: Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order. Haynes is a graduate of Julliard.

NATE THRASH (Actor) grew up in the McCall area and enjoys snowboarding, hiking and hot summers. Nate has acted in various high school plays and is currently receiving a fine education at Portland State University and through life.

JOLYN TABER (Actor)

KERRY WELLIVER (Intern) of Port Orchard, WA is greatly excited to be a part of the Seven Devil's Playwright's Conference this year.  She currently attends Central Washington University in Ellensburg WA as a Design & Tech major of Central theater Ensemble.  Shows she has enjoyed working on at CWU have been Working, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstein, Tartuffe and The Betty Evans One Acts . Other shows she has participated in include: Rhinoceros, Boy Gets Girl, Lysistrata, The Odyssey, and Moby Dick while attending Olympic Community College in Bremerton WA .  She hopes one day to be employed by Cirque du Soliel and likes Jellie Bellies.