To Kill a Mockingbird Cast: Biographies - Cast Photos

Grant Bojarski (Jury Foreman) is pleased to be in his first production at Prime Stage Theater. He has recently performed at South Park Children's Theater and at The Brew House. He has also been featured in several independent movie shorts. Grant is currently a Junior pursuing his B.A. in Musical Theater at Point Park University

Bill Crean (Sheriff Heck Tate) appeared last summer as Father O'Reilly in Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? at South Park Theatre. Bill has performed at numerous area theatres including The Baldwin Players, The Theatre Factory, The Heritage Players, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Veronica's Veil Players and McKeesport Little Theatre. His favorite role is Chet in South Park Theatre's Over the Tavern. Bill also works as a local voice-over talent and has appeared in local and national commercials.

Toniaray DiGiacomo (Mrs. Dubose) Toniaray has been acting in the Pittsburgh and surrounding area for several years. For Prime Stage, she has performed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and Tuck Everlasting.

Shawn Dougherty (Atticus Finch) has performed, directed, stage managed and/or designed in more than 150 productions at various theatres across the country including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dallas Theatre Center, Southwest Repertory Theatre (Santa Fe), Oklahoma Theatre Center and Lone Star Productions (Galveston). Favorite roles include Gloucester in King Lear (with Paul Shelley of the Royal Shakespeare Company as Lear) and Reverend Hale in The Crucible. Shawn received a B.A. in drama from the University of Dallas and an M.F.A. from the University of Oklahoma. For the past 16 years, he has been a professor of drama at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. In 2005, Shawn earned the University's Senior Faculty Award for excellence in teaching. Shawn is the former chairman of the North Central Regional Professional Theatre Auditions and past president of the Ohio Theatre Alliance.

Lynne Franks (Jean Louise Finch) has performed at The Akron Civic Theatre, The Coach House Theater and The Weathervane Playhouse in Ohio. Closer to home, Lynne has performed at Open Stage Theater, Little Lake Theater, The Upstairs Theater, City Theater Partners Project, South Park Theater, The Red Barn and others. Lynne is the recipient of a Donna Award from The Pittsburgh New Works Festival. She loves to work on new theatre projects with readings, workshops and anything to promote the work of playwrights. Some favorite roles include Adelaide Childs Frick in the world premiere of Pandemonium, and Mrs. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth, Lizzie Curry in The Rainmaker, and Nettie Cleary in The Subject Was Roses, Lizzie Borden in Blood Relations, and Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.

Thomas Kurt Fuchel, Sr. (Mr. Gilmer) is pleased to return for a second production with Prime Stage Theatre, having played Judge Hawthorne in The Crucible this past November. He will continue his work with Prime Stage Theatre this year appearing as Mr. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank and as Lazar Schlief in Jack and Rochelle. In the past year, Thomas performed as Henry VIII in Henry and Mom at Open Stage Theatre and as Howard Bevans in Picnic at South Park Theatre. Some past productions in Pittsburgh, New York and elsewhere include Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady and Tartuffe. He majored in musical theatre and dramatic performance at Cincinnati University College Conservatory of Music and has a degree from Heidelberg College in music and theatre.

Jeremy Hois (Jem) is in his second Prime Stage Theatre play following last season's appearance as Asher in The Giver. In 8th grade at Jefferson Middle School in Mt. Lebanon, Jeremy has enjoyed a theater and film career since he was seven. He has appeared on stage locally with Starlight Productions in Macbeth, Gemini Theater in Babes in Toyland, Stage 62 in Hansel and Gretel, Pittsburgh Opera in Faust and Fidelio and Pittsburgh Youth Ballet in The Nutcracker. Chautauqua Institution is his summer home where he has acted with the Chautauqua Theatre Company in Street Scene, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and All My Sons. He works for The Talent Group in commercials, videos, voice-overs and print projects. Jeremy takes acting classes at the Center for Theater Arts and plays the oboe in the Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra.

Neal Huguley, Jr. (Reverend Sykes) is the former principal of Rogers School for the Creative and Performing Arts. He is active in the Pittsburgh area as a solo vocal performer and director of music at Riverview United Presbyterian Church. He was the founder and director of A Gift of Song, a vocal ensemble that specialized in the African American spiritual. Neal appeared in Stop the World I Want to Get Off and has performed with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The Neighborhood Opera Company, The Edgewood Symphony and recently as Mr. Elkin in the Pittsburgh Opera Theater's premiere of Just Above My Head. He has appeared in concert with Soulful Journey and The American Trio. He serves on the boards and advisory councils of several arts-affirming organizations, including Multi Cultural Arts Initiative. He has served as president of the National Association of Negro Musicians of Pittsburgh, Madame Mary Cardwell Dawson Chapter.

Ken Lutz (Bob Ewell) is a retired Pittsburgh Public Schools music teacher. His professional pursuits have included acting with the American Conservatory Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Ken was an announcer on WQED-TV and a conductor of the McKeesport Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Civic Symphony. Ken is active in music and theatre. He plays clarinet in the East Winds Symphonic Band and the Edgewood Symphony Orchestra and most recently appeared in the role of George Spelvin in The Actor's Nightmare with Proudly Presents Productions. Other roles include Weller in Grand Dream Productions' The Gin Game and Charles Thomson in 1776 with Artscape.

Kori Mallon (Mayella Ewell) is a recent graduate of the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University. Recent performances include Hair, WASP, Great Expectations, and Sex in the Steel City. She is grateful to be working with Rich and Prime Stage once again.

Kimberly Mathers (Aunt Stephanie) is excited to be making her Prime Stage Theatre debut. She is a junior acting major at Point Park University. Some of her favorite roles include Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs. Hopkins in My Fair Lady, Abu in Alladin, and Renee B. Zooms/Bernhart in Anne Frank and Me.

Lovell McFadden (Tom Robinson) hails from Baltimore, Maryland. Lovell is pleased to be making his debut with Prime Stage Theatre. He was last seen as Booker T. Washington in the Conservatory's production of Ragtime. Past credits include Friar Tuck in The Somewhat True Tales of Robin Hood for Pittsburgh Playhouse Jr., Trouble/Doctor in In the Blood for Theatre Morgan, The Lion in The Wiz and The Gryphon in Alice in Wonderland for Arena Player's Youtheatre.

Joseph McGranghan (Boo Radley) is honored to make his debut with Prime Stage. Recent credits include The Shaughraun with Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre and The Young Playwrights Festival with City Theatre. He will appear this summer in the Bakerloo Theatre Project's productions of Julius Ceasar and Antigone in Troy, NY. Other favorite roles include Sergius in Arms and the Man and Michael in Dancing at Lughnasa both for Pitt Rep. Joseph has trained at the Middlesex School of Drama in London and holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Pittsburgh.

Lin St. Clair (Judge Taylor) is the middle school mathematics teacher at Community Day School in Squirrel Hill where he also coaches cross country, basketball and softball. Lin is grateful to be making his stage debut with Prime Stage Theatre.

Genna Styles (Calpurnia) is a junior acting major at Point Park University pursing a BFA degree. A Baltimore native, she has worked on many shows with the oldest continually running black theatre in the nation - The Arena Players. Her most recent Pittsburgh credits include Teaspoon in Sarafina! and Young Mahalia in Mahalia Jackson: Standing on Holy Ground at Kuntu Repertory Theatre, for which she received the 2006 Onyx Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. She has also performed with the Young Playwrights' Festival at the City Theatre, and as Kitten in Chicks with Dicks for Bricolage and as soloist in Hair at Point Park. She has also represented the United States in a theatre exchange program with Holland.

Jerry Summers (Mr. Cunningham) attended the Studio Arena Theater School in upstate New York. He recently continued his acting education at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, taking advanced classes on scene study. His Pittsburgh credits include Charlie in Death of a Salesman for Carnegie Mellon's Arthur Miller Festival in 2005, Richard in Moon Over Buffalo, Brophy in Arsenic and Old Lace and Rick in The Foursome at Little Lake Theatre. Jerry was honored by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette with the 'Suburban Lead Actor of the Year for 2006' for his portrayal of Sergeant Merwin J. Toomey in the Little Lake Theatre production of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues. Other credits include Doc in Come Back Little Sheba at McKeesport Little Theatre, Schuppanzigh in Black Comedy at Open Stage Theatre, Mr. Jaggers in Great Expectations and Reverend Samuel Parris in The Crucible with Prime Stage Theatre.

Jonny Summers (Dill) is a fourth grader at Eisenhower Elementary School in Upper Saint Clair where he sings in the school chorus and plays drums for the school band. Jonny's theater experience includes roles as a singing beetle in a musical adaptation of Winnie the Pooh for Gemini Theater and as Randolph in the musical Bye, Bye, Birdie for Bethel Park's Heritage Players. Jonny works in voice-overs for radio commercials and is also a pretty good artist. One of his drawings will appear in the April, 2007 issue of Highlights Magazine. Jonny is happy to be joining his dad, Jerry Summers, on stage for the first time.

Annalise Tolley (Scout) is a fifth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Mt. Lebanon. A student of the Center for Theatre Arts since 2002, she is currently studying acting and voice. Annalise has several commercial credits that include both television and radio and recently performed in Bugsy Malone as part of the Civic Light Opera's 2006 summer program. This is Annalise's first appearance in a Prime Stage production and she is thrilled to be making her debut as Scout.

Deborah H. Wein (Miss Maudie) returns to Prime Stage this season as the Actor in Residence. Her prior appearances with Prime Stage include Irena in I Never Saw Another Butterfly/The Terezin Promise, Chief Elder in last season's production of The Giver and Ann Proctor in The Crucible. Deb studied acting at Syracuse University, which included a semester in London with the former director of the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art. She also studied with acting coach Diane Hostetler. Stage credits include Zelda Fitzgerald in The Crack-Up, Linda in Move Over, Mrs. Markham, Toni in Cactus Flower and Aunt Abby in Arsenic and Old Lace. Deb recently directed a production of The Odd Couple at Stage Right in Fox Chapel. Recent film credits include Accounting for Everything for Blitzfilme in 2005.

Dan Wyse (Bailiff) last appeared as Thomas Putnam in The Crucible for Prime Stage Theatre this season. Favorite Pittsburgh credits include Virgil in Bus Stop for Heritage Players, Christopher Sly in The Taming of the Shrew for Old School House Players, Freddie Day in A Day in the Life of Joe Egg at the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Webb in Our Town for Stage 62, Tom in The Time of Their Lives at Fine Line Theater, and Bro in A Resounding Tinkle for Open Stage Theater. Dan also appeared as a middle school teacher for 35 years with the Pittsburgh Public Schools.

To Kill a Mockingbird Cast: Biographies - Cast Photos