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Cast and Director


Performances:

Fridays 8 pm
Saturdays 2 pm & 8 pm
Sundays 2 pm & 7 pm

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Aaron Bliden*
(Stephen Hoffman)

Aaron Bliden* is happy to make his formal 1st Stage debut with Old Wicked Songs after appearing in The Hunchback Variations as Beethoven in the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival.  DC credits include America All Better!!, and Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies (Second City/Woolly); Romeo and Juliet (Folger); Threepenny Opera (Signature); Mockingbird (Kennedy Center); The Illusion (Forum); Rabbit Hole (Olney); and Yentl (Theatre J). Aaron is a founding company member of Pointless Theatre (Minnie the Moocher, Imagination Meltdown Adventure, A Very Pointless Holiday Spectacular, Hugo Ball, The Solar System Show) and Flying V (Become What You Are, William Shakespeare's Star Wars, Bethesda Play-in-a-Day).  


* Actors Equity

 


 

 

Michael Chamberlin
Director

Michael Chamberlin is happy to return to 1st Stage where he previously directed the Helen Hayes Recommended Italian American Reconciliation and Almost, Maine. Other directing credits include Optimism! or Voltaire’s Candide (2 Helen Hayes Nominations, Spooky Action Theater);  Happy-ish (Fordham University at Lincoln Center); Fully Committed (Millbrook Playhouse); Washing Machine (Drama Desk & Hewes American Theater Wing Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design, NY Innovative Theater Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, The Chocolate Factory & Manbites Dog Theater); Porcelain (Helen Hayes Nomination - Outstanding Director; Tsunami Theatre Company); Bat Boy: The Musical (3 Helen Hayes Nominations); A Clockwork Orange, Love’s Fire, Kit Marlowe (Studio Theatre 2ndStage);  Class Action (Imagination Stage); The Glory of Living (Didactic Theatre Company). Assistant Director: The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center Theater); Of  Mice and Men (Westport Country Playhouse); Carnival!Mister Roberts, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The Kennedy Center); Indian Blood (Primary Stages); Glamour (New Works Festival/ Mark Taper Forum); Fences (Round House Theatre); The Matchmaker (Ford’s Theatre); Privates on Parade (Studio Theatre). Member: SDC, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab West.


 

 

 

Philip Hosford 
Professor Mashkan

Philip Hosford is delighted to return to 1st Stage having previously appeared in Blithe Spirit. Other credits include--Much Ado About Nothing and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Richard lll (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); Everything I Do (DC Fringe); The Unmentionables (Guest Performer with College Performing Arts Series); The Ongoing Adventures of John Blade Superhero (Apron Theatre Company); and Frozen (WATCH Awards Nomination, Best Lead Actor, Rockville Little Theatre). Directing credits include She Loves Me (two WATCH Awards Nominations, Best Director, Best Music Director, Damascus Theater Company). His studies include those at Studio Theatre, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, University of Maryland and Washington Improv Theater. In 1995, he founded The Academy of Fine Arts in Gaithersburg, MD where he currently serves on both the acting and piano faculties. 

 

 


 

     

 

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