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and What I Wore) and the Voyeur Theater (Twilight Zone). In Nyack, she joined other local
actors for two readings with the Phoenix Theater Ensemble and performed in an immersive
theater experience as part of Domestic Violence Awareness month at the Hopper House.
Some of her favorite roles at the Elmwood Playhouse include POTUS (Stephanie), Lifespan of
a Fact (Emily), Our Town (Stage Manager), The Play That Goes Wrong (Annie), Little Foxes
(Birdie), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Sonia), Enchanted April (Lotty), Harvey
(Veta Louise), The Real Inspector Hound (Mrs. Drudge), and Spring Awakening.
ANTONIO EDWARDS SUAREZ (John Proctor)
Antonio Edwards Suarez is an award-winning writer, award nominated
actor. Broadway: American Buffalo, Chaucer in Rome. Off-Broadway:
Drinks with Dead Poets, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Resistible Rise
of Arturo Ui, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Trial (Phoenix
Theatre Ensemble); This One Girl’s Story (New York Musical Theatre
Festival); Points of Departure (INTAR); Richard III (National Black
Theatre); Food Acts (Lions Theatre); The Hamlet Project (Mac Wellman Theater); Waiting
for Godot (Chashama). His regional/International credits include: Antonio’s Song/I Was
Dreaming of a Son at The Goodman Theater- Chicago (Jeff Award nominated);
Milwaukee Repertory Theater; and Contemporary American Theater Festival-West Virginia);
Leandro in the international tour of The King Stag; The Night is a Child (Milwaukee Rep); A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Julius Caesar
(Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Havana is Waiting (Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park); Spinning into Butter (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Idiots Karamazov (American
Repertory Theater). Television: NBC, CBS, USA Network, HBO. For over twenty years, at
various colleges/universities and studios, he has been directing and teaching/coaching
actors. He’s a certi昀椀ed Lucid Body teacher and currently teaches Acting at The Freeman
Studio in NYC.
ELI WASSERTZUG (Mary Warren)
Eli Wassertzug is an NYC-based actor and singer originally from the
DC area with a BA in Drama from Vassar College. They are a resident
artist with The Firebird Project, a member of the Artists Advisory
Committee for Notch Theatre Company, and a summer teaching
artist for Traveling Players Ensemble; they have also recently
appeared in the city as part of the 2025 cohort of The 24 Hour Plays
Nationals. When not on stage or screen, you can 昀椀nd them agonizing over how to come
across both immaculately professional and down-to-earth relatable in their bio, or tuning
out the world with a sci-昀椀/fantasy novel (recommendations welcome!). Eli aims to create
inclusive, collaborative, and spectacular art that challenges entrenched systems of power,
especially gender.
