In memory of our friend and talented first Guest Artist with TrueNorth, LEO BURMESTER. 

Brad Bellamy Currently: Membership Council, NY's Ensemble Studio Theatre; formerly: Artist-in-residence, Manhattan Punch Line; also many Off-Broadway and Regional venues; TV commercials for AARP, AT&T, FedEx, and others to embarrassing to mention. Having resided in New York City and LA, Brad now lives in Beacon.

David Birn is a set designer with over 100 productions to his credit. He has worked extensively in New York both off- and off-off broadway, and in regional theatre and opera. He is on the faculty of the Vassar College Drama Department, and lives in Cold Spring.

Lynn Hawley  was seen last summer in ”The Heidi Chronicles”  at The Berkshire Theatre Festival and Fall of 2007, worked on an original play based on Sam Shepard’s stories at The Public Theater. She has performed Off-Broadway in New York at such theatres as New York Theatre Workshop, Classic Stage Company, and The Public Theater. Regional credits include appearances at Yale Rep, Center Stage, and New York Stage and film. Film: Hamlet directed by Campbell Scott. Television: Law & Order.  Lynn holds degrees from Middlebury College and NYU Graduate Acting. She lives in Cold Spring with her family.

Michael Heintzman Acting: Off-Broadway: Neddy, Cup of Coffee, EpicProportions, Best Half Foot Forward. Television: ED, Third Watch, Law and Order, Murphy Brown, Quantum Leap. Playwriting: Michael is a four-time finalist at Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Nat'l Ten Minute Play Contest. He co-wrote and acted in SEPARATING THE MAN FROM THE BULL, produced at Minneapolis' Jungle Theatre and Unoficial New York Yale Cabaret Theatre. Other plays include UNDER THE HOOD and THE STORY OF GOD and MAGIC MOMENT. He is the author of the children's adventure book, THE FISHERMAN, published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.  Michael has written, directed and performs as JERRY; a weekly web series at www.exploding-noses.com .

Suzanna Hay Broadway: DANCE OF DEATH with Sir Ian McKellen, A MONTH IN THECOUNTRY, and WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? Off-Broadway: FOOL FOR LOVE directed by Sam Shepard. Regional Theatre: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and CRIMES OF THE HEART among other plays and twenty-one productions with Actors Theatre of Louisville. Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, all the P&G soaps.

Kurt Rhoads lives in Garrison and is known to local audiences as an actor and director with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. He has worked in New York, internationally, and in theatres around the country. He will soon be seen on Broadway in JULIUS CAESAR with Denzel Washington.

Nance Williamson has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in theatres across the country, in television, movies and commercials. Locally, she has acted at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival for seven seasons. She and her husband, Kurt Rhoads, have performed in 48 plays together.   She can be seen in Kevin Kline’s CYRANO through December 2007.