MEMBER ACTORS
Polly Adams | Actor
POLLY ADAMS has extensive theater credits including: Broadway, Nina (lead) in Zalmen or The Madness of God (by Elie Wiesel), Gert in Lost in Yonkers (1st National Tour), and leads in numerous Off-Off Broadway and regional plays for over 40 years—most notably at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a founding member. TV credits include numerous featured roles in all three Law and Orders, New York News (w/ Mary Tyler Moore), The Wright Verdicts (w/Tom Conti), Now and Again, Players, The Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow, All My Children, Conan O’Brien and David Letterman. Featured roles in film include People I Know (w/ Al Pacino), The Juror (w/ Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin), New York Crossing (w/ Giancarlo Giannini), Celebrity ( w/ Charlize Theron and Kenneth Branagh, dir/Woody Allen), David and Layla (Judith Fine, lead), and Paul Greengrass’s award-winning United 93 ( Debbie Welsh, Purser.) She played Tilda Swinton’s friend, Mary Woolford, in We Need To Talk About Kevin and can be seen most recently as Owen Wilson’s Mother-in-law in Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way. Recently, seen as Frau Schmidt, in the Fringe Encore production of The Radicalization of Rolfe – which won the Overall Excellence Award of the NY International Fringe Festival.
Mike Brennan | Actor
AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Mike’s a native New Yorker with a B.A. in Theatre from Fordham University. He’s acted in all media, and has also dabbled in directing, producing and stage managing. New York Theatre: Manhattan Theatre Club – Scenes From La Vie de Boheme (Doug Hughes, Director), American Folk Theatre, Veterans Ensemble Theatre Company, Provincetown Playhouse, Manhattan Punchline, Equity Library Theatre. Regional Theatre: South Carolina Theatre Company -Shakespearean Repertory Tour (Brutus, Hamlet, Romeo), Heritage Playhouse (Rhode Island), Melody Top Playhouse (New Jersey). TV: Law & Order, Daytime Dramas, Contract on Cherry Street. Film: Annie, In & Out, First Deadly Sin, All That Jazz, Goodfellas, Raging Bull. Voiceovers: voice of Partnership for a Drug Free America, commercials, corporate videos. Specialties: Accents, cartoon & character voices, dubbing.
Lyndsay Brill | Actor
Theatre: The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Two Gentleman of Verona (The Old Globe), Urgent Care, Dames of Thrones(Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre), The Bear (The Lion Theatre). TV: Happy!, The Deuce, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Gotham. MFA, The Old Globe/University of San Diego. Member of The Actor’s Center.
Marni Klar | Actor
Marnie Klar is a 2019 Bistro Award winner for her Tribute Show, MARNIE KLAR SINGS BOBBIE GENTRY and is a two-time MAC AWARD nominated vocalist. She has been featured as a runway model in New York City and Washington D.C., for such designers as Max Mara & Fernando Sanchez, and has appeared in print layouts for companies such as Tiffany & Co., and numerous magazines including Seventeen, YM & Self. Regional and New York theatre credits include LOVE SONG, Shakespeare’s VENUS & ADONIS, THREE TALL WOMEN, WILD OATS, A LIE OF THE MIND, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, WARNING ADULT CONTENT and FLEET WEEK: THE MUSICAL. She has been performing at Don’t Tell Mama since 2011 and returns with her latest show, MARNIE KLAR SINGS CARLY SIMON in November and December 2022. Marnie is also a recurring performer with Vocal Ease, a nonprofit organization that provides live entertainment for NYC’s senior citizens. For more information: marnieklar.com
Norma Medina | Actor
NORMA MEDINA is best known as an actor and singer and a featured soloist with Sherry Hoffman and the Tucson Pops Symphony. With Borderlands Theater Company she has been seen in past productions such as Electricidad by Luis Alfaro, Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez as well as Latins Anonymous and reoccurring roles in A Tucson Pastorela. Norma has worked with Arizona companies such as Catalina Players, Invisible Theatre, Beowulf Alley Theatre as a well as Arizona Theatre Company. She has also performed with Mixed Blood in Minneapolis, Actors Lab of Scottsdale, The Detroit Institute of Art, Corcoran in Washington, DC, Three Rivers Arts Fest in Pittsburg, Providence College in Rhode Island, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, New York Fringe Festival, Warner International Playwrights Festival in Connecticut, Black Orchid Theater and New Perspectives Theater Company, NYC, Gallery Players in Brooklyn. A graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City she received her MFA in directing and continues her work as a member of the Actors Studio Playwright Directors Workshop and Actors Studio Festival of New Plays.
Carole Monferdini | Actor
Theatre highlights include long runs: in The Club at the Circle-in-the-Square, directed by Tommy Tune (OBIE award); Charles Busch’s record-break-ing hit, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; and playing Diana Vreeland in Mary Louise Wilson’s one-woman show Full Gallop, off-Broadway at the Westside Arts Theatre & in the national tour, among others. On Broadway she stood by for Diana Rigg in the National Theatre of G. Britain’s production of The Misanthrope and appeared with Anne Jackson & Eli Wallach in the national tour of Waltz of the Toreadors. She has appeared in regional theatre in 23 states. Film: Next Stop, Greenwich Village; The Bell Jar; The Brass Ring and Hank Boyd is Dead (currently on Netflix). She is a member of Actors Center & Ninth Floor. She most recently appeared in The Phillie Trilogy in this summer’s Fresh Fruit Festival at the Wild Project. carolemonferdini.com
Suzanne Toren | Actor
SUZANNE TOREN has appeared on and off Broadway, and in regional theatres , in works by well-known playwrights (from Shakespeare and Moliere to Arthur Miller and Neil Simon), as well as new ones. Broadway: Goodbye, Fidel (starring Jane Alexander). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse (Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities), Philadelphia Drama Guild (A View from the Bridge), Pennsylvania Stage Company (Brighton Beach Memoirs), Syracuse Stage (The Seagull). Off-Broadway: Westside Arts (A Shayna Maidel, From Door to Door); Stock: Fiddler on the Roof (Yenta); TV: Law and Order.
Suzanne also often performs in Yiddish----in both readings and full productions, most recently as Linda Loman in the critically acclaimed Yiddish Death of a Salesman.
In addition, she is a multi-award-winning narrator of around 1000 audio books, for all the major publishers. She received a “Golden Voice” award from Audiofile Magazine, for “career achievements and invaluable contributions to the world of audiobooks.”