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Roger Grunwald will be appearing this coming August as the eponymous n’er do well in Henrik Ibsen’s epic fantasy, Peer Gynt. The Gorilla Rep production, which opens August 6th, will be performed Al fresco at Summit Rock in Central Park. Roger recently appeared in the Off Broadway premiere of Outside Inn at 59E59 Theaters after stints with the production in Pittsburgh, PA and Stuttgart, Germany (where he performed the play in German—with an all German cast). In addition to his stage work, Roger has been a voice actor for many years—in commercials and documentaries. He currently studies with Wynn Handman and received his formal training at LAMDA.

Mac Barrett is a graduate of the New School MFA program with work published in Salt Hill Journal, Black Mountain Review (UK), and The Brooklyn Rail. He teaches fiction at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop.

Karin de la Penha was a professional child actor, and has since worked in the US, France and the UK. In the ‘80s, she quit the business to pursue other interests, returning in the late ‘90s, as the founding Artistic Director of Santa Barbara’s Speaking of Stories (www.SpeakingofStories.org), where she also produced 3 Pantos (www.PantoProductions.com), playing ‘Boy’ in two, and acted in regional theater. Since her move to NYC at the end of ’07, she has sought and, praise be, found work in all the media. Selected credits--THEATER: The Mushroom Pickers (Alloy Th.); Seasons Greetings (Hudson Rep, NYC); Romeo & Juliet (New Perspectives, NYC); Two Gentlemen of Verona (CTL, LA); Ensemble Th.SB--Private Lives ( Winner Independent Award; Dramalogue Hon. Mention); Old Times (Winner Independent Award), Moon Over Buffalo, Communicating Doors. FILM: Lock Out (Lead, post-production); Disappearance (Featured, post-production); Time After Time (Jenny, WB); Red Light in the White House (Lead, Paul Leder Prods). WEB: Lula Jade (recurring) in Velvet Moon Chronicles (www.VelvetMoonChronicles.com). TV: The Onion (Guest Star G4); All My Children (ABC); Eight Is Enough (Guest Star); Starsky & Hutch (Co-Star)

Mark Bobrow is an English professor at Hunter College. An Americanist with a focus on modernist narrative and African-American literature, he is also an Irophile with a longstanding love of all things Joycean and can produce an Irish accent that’s thoroughly convincing to anyone who isn’t actually Irish.