Graduate Enemble
Class of 2012
Andrew Gorell:
Andrew is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Andrew appeared in Cleveland Play House’s production of The Life of Galileo this season and portrayed Albert Porter in a staged reading of Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, CPH FusionFest 2011. Gorell was featured in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s Tale, Present Laughter, An Orchard and Cloud 9. Regionally he has been seen in Hamlet, Pericles and The Duchess of Malfi, American Shakespeare Center; Much Ado About Nothing, Oberlin Summer Theater Festival; Noises Off, Milwaukee Rep; Romeo and Juliet, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre; and The Mines of Sulphur and The Good Soldier Schweik, Glimmerglass Opera. Andrew has toured the United States with Richard III (as Richard III) with the American Shakespeare Center and Cyrano de Bergerac (as Cyrano) with the National Theater of Arts and Education. He has acted in Chicago with Bailiwick Rep; New York City with The Ensemble Studio Theatre and Collective Act; and in France with Les Compagnons Balladins. His film work includes Pretty All the Time, screened at the 2012 Cleveland International Film Festival. Andrew has appeared in multiple commercials on radio and television, including the Ohio Lottery and the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinal. Education includes a Bachelor of Arts, University of Minnesota and he is a Chloe Oldenburg scholarship recipient.
Dan Hendrock: Dan just filmed “Big Change,” a commercial for GE which landed him another spot with GE that is still in the works. He also just finished filming a commerical/print shoot for Powerhouse Generators. He was most recently seen at Cleveland Play House in The Winter’s Tale as Polixenes and Young Shepherd and as Lord Chamberlain in The Life of Galileo. He also participated in a staged reading of Silent Sky for CPH Fusion Fest 2011 and performed in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of Present Laughter, An Orchard and Cloud 9. He helped conceive and produce an experimental Michael Chekhov technique production of Dead Man’s Cell Phone where he performed the role of Dwight. Other credits include The Players Theatre, New York; Porthouse Theatre; Cain Park; Beck Center for the Arts; La Commedia Dinner Theatre; Ohio Shakespeare Festival; The Palace Theatre; Huron Playhouse; Shawnee Playhouse; and national tours with Artspower and Periwinkle National Theatre. He has appeared in several original, conceptual projects such as the international premiere of The Secret of the Ceiba Tree, The David Gonzalez Project; Billy Goat Gruff, Fort Tryon Park, N.Y.; and the original staged reading of Cumberland Blues, Carousel Dinner Theatre. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Kent State University.
Eva Gil:
Eva recently appeared as Hermione, as well as Mopsa, in The Winter’s Tale. Other roles in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program’s productions include: Joanna in Present Laughter, Varya in An Orchard, Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9, and Hermia/The Other Woman in Dead Man’s Cell Phone. At Cleveland Play House she appeared in The Life of Galileo, and she understudied as well as played the role of Daria Chase in the world premiere of The Game’s Afoot. Eva recently worked in Chicago with Collaboraction, the side project theatre company, Redtwist Theatre and 5th Floor Productions. She also spent a season at Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the Acting Apprenticeship Company where she performed in A Christmas Carol, Neon Mirage (Humana Festival), The Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiny Baby, among others. Also a passionate producer of new plays, she has co-produced six critically successful productions in New York and Chicago. Commercially, Eva has booked spots with Moen, Sunstar Toothbrush and The Maids.
Kelli Ruttle:
Kelli was recently seen in an acclaimed performance as Uta Hagen in Ten Chimneys at Cleveland Play House. Also at CPH, she appeared in The Life of Galileo and in Bill W. and Dr. Bob as a performing understudy. Other Cleveland credits include Silent Sky and Eyes Forward (CPH FusionFest), Grizzly Mama (Dobama Theatre, VO), and the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s Tale, Present Laughter, An Orchard and Cloud 9. Regional theatre credits include Tartuffe, directed by Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, and the premiere workshop of Guitar, La Jolla Playhouse; Hamlet, Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Stories of the Night Told Over, Hayworth Theatre; As You Like It, La Jolla Stage Company; The Ladies of the Camellias, The Clearing and The Kid from Stratford, Carlsbad Playhouse; and Hay Fever, Onstage Playhouse. She came to the program from Los Angeles where she worked in TV/film, commercials, as well as theatre. Besides her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from San Diego State University, she is a British American Drama Academy alumna and Chloe Oldenberg scholarship recipient.
Kim Krane:
Kim made her way to Cleveland by way of Kalamazoo, Michigan. She recently appeared at Cleveland Play House as Virginia Galilei in The Life of Galileo and in the CPH FusionFest 2011 staged reading of Silent Sky. She also understudied the role of Aggie Wheeler in the world premiere of The Game’s Afoot. In the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, Krane was seen as Maud/Lin in Cloud 9, Anya in The Cherry Orchard, Monica Reed in Present Laughter and most recently Mamillius/Perdita/The Bear in The Winter’s Tale. Krane holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University. While there she worked with hip-hop artist Will Power to conceive and perform in an original show; performed in WMU’s production of Dracula at the Pabst Theatre in 2007; originated the role of Abby in the world premiere of The War Wound; collaborated with Leon Inglsrud of the SITI company on a production of Dr. Faustus; and played Kattrin in Mother Courage. Regional credits include Jean in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, CWRU; Alice in Closer, Knockabout Theatre Company; Ellen in Little Dog Laughed, Whole Art Theatre; and Dorothy in Hotline, Knockabout Theatre Company.
Michael Herbert:
Michael recently appeared in Cleveland Play House’s production of The Life of Galileo and as the understudy for the role of Simon Bright in the immensely successful world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s play The Game’s Afoot. In the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, Herbert has starred as Florizel in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (directed by R.A.D.A.’s Geoff Bullen), Hugo in Present Laughter, Trofimov in An Orchard and Harry/Martin in Cloud 9. Other recent credits include Ferdinand in The Tempest, Menelaus in Iphigenia 2.0, Cyrano de Bergerac, and the title role in Ion. Herbert has also worked at The Space Theatre in London and performed on tour last summer with Student Life, traveling over 11,000 miles in two months. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance from Baylor University.
Yan Tual:
Yan is a French actor born in Paris. He recently appeared in The Life of Galileo and The Game’s Afoot (u/s) at Cleveland Play House as well as in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of The Winter’s Tale, Present Laughter, An Orchard, Mnemonic and Cloud 9. Other credits include A Bright Room Called Day at the University of Minnesota’s Rarig Center; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at LAMDA, London; El Visitante at U. Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid; Sur la Grand’ Route at Maison Louis Jouvet in Montpellier, France; and Retour de Guerre et Bilora directed by Jean-Louis Benoit at Théâtre de Nîmes. Before arriving to the U.S., Tual trained and performed internationally in France, Spain and the U.K. He is very much looking forward to moving to such an exiting city as New York. Upcoming roles include portraying Antoine Fourcroy in The Mystery of Matter: Oxygen for PBS by Emmy Award-winning director Muffie Meyer.
Class of 2014
Bernard Bygott:
recently appeared in Cleveland Play House's production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Bygott created the role of Calandrino in the world premiere opera Decameron at Prince Music Theater. He spent two seasons in residence at American Shakespeare Center, where numerous acting credits include The Comedy of Errors, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. Other appearances include Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Theater For The New City (New York City), The Northern New England Repertory Theatre Company, Quintessence Theatre Group, Storybook Musical Theatre, The Ko Festival of Performance, Mum Puppettheatre, Glimmerglass Opera, International Opera Theater (Italy and U.S.), and The Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center. This summer he joins Ohio Shakespeare Festival as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Christa Hinckley: was raised in Dallas, Texas and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, English, and Linguistics from Dartmouth College. Additional theatre studies include conservatory training at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center’s National Theater Institute and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Since graduation she has worked both on and off-stage in New York City, as well as regionally. Credits include New York Musical Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, and Disney's Theater of the Stars.
Drew Derek: received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2008. Along with a number of acting credits in Buffalo (including the Irish Classical Theatre Company) and New York City, he also performed at the International Theatre Institute in Romania. He has written and directed at Manhattan Repertory Theatre (off-off Broadway).
Michael Feldsher: has performed and taught extensively throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, notably at Ford's Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Shakespeare Library, Rep Stage, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He also studied Shakespearean performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Sarah Kinsey:
is a second-year student in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program where she recently appeared in Steven Adly Guirgis’ In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Prior to coming to Cleveland, Kinsey spent many years working in Chicago in theatre, commercials and voiceover. She spent a year as a member of Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Acting Apprentice Company (2003 – 2004) and received her Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Theatre from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2003.
Stephen Spencer: recently portrayed Skank in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. He was also seen in the recent CPH New Ground Theatre Festival production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favor. Spencer has worked professionally with Triad Stage and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival as well as on tour with North Carolina Theatre for Young People. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2011. This summer Spencer will be joining Chautauqua Theater Company for the summer conservatory program at the Chautauqua Institution.
Therese Anderberg:
recently played Demaris in the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Last summer she performed in So Far from God at Chicago Shakespeare Theater for one industry performance and at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, in an original show. Anderberg received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University in 2011.
TJ Gainley: appeared previously at Cleveland Play House in CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program productions of Present Laughter as Fred, An Orchard as the stranger, and As You Like It as Adam and Silvius. Previous credits, among others, include Tartuffe, Much Ado About Nothing, The Philadelphia Story, and The Cure at Troy, as well as Alcestis at the British American Dramatic Academy in London. An ensemble member at Big Dog Theater in Cleveland Heights, additional training includes improvisation with Second City and Improv Olympic in Chicago. After graduation Gainley spent two years in the Teach for America Program.
