VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE | CAST
NICK BALLARD
Spike
Nick is so excited to be
a part of this amazing
play in this great
city. Originally from
Louisiana, he now lives
in Los Angeles, where it never rains
and doesn’t get below 50 degrees.
Some of his favorite performances
include the Los Angeles premieres of
Dog Sees God (GLAAD Media Award/
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle/LA
Weekly nominations) and Anita Bryant
Died For Your Sins (GLAAD Media
Award nomination), world premieres
of Heavier Than…, John Michael
LaChiusa’s Sukie and Sue, and Sexual
Perversity in Chicago. You can currently
see him in The Weinstein Company’s
film Operation Barn Owl and the Ron
Howard/Brian Grazer-produced film
The Rose Window. TV credits include
recurring roles on Days of Our Lives
and Holliston, also roles on MTV’s
Happyland, Bones, 90210, Clover’s Life
(pilot), CSI:NY and Valentine. He would
like to thank his wife Natalie for her
never-ending support.
CAROL HALSTEAD
Masha
Carol is delighted to
be back in Portland
where she played the
shoe-loving Haley in
Bad Dates, Olivia in
Twelfth Night and Queen Elizabeth
in The Beard of Avon. She appeared
on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s The Best
Man. Off-Broadway: The Duchess of
Malfi, Pericles, Walking Down Broadway,
Easter Candy, The Mask, Alan Ball’s
The Amazing Adventures of Tense
Guy. Recent regional: The Mousetrap
and Clybourne Park (Dorset Theatre
Festival), A Song at Twilight (Portland
Stage Company), Good People (The Old
Globe), August: Osage County (Fulton
Theatre), God of Carnage (Hudson
Stage), The Clean House (Syracuse
Stage), Private Lives (The Kitchen).
Other work: The Shakespeare Theatre
Company, Baltimore’s Center Stage,
Cleveland Play House, Kansas City
Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory
Theatre (West Coast premiere of
Teresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates, Dean
Goodman Choice Award for Best Solo
Performance), and over 20 productions
with Denver Center Theatre Company.
Carol is an ongoing guest artist and
yoga/meditation teacher with The
Chautauqua Theater Company.
Television and film: Law & Order:
Criminal Intent, Jonny Zero, As the
World Turns, All My Children, Towel
Head and The Whipper Snapper. Carol
lives in NYC where she trains as a third
degree black belt in Seido Karate.
EDEN MALYN
Nina
Eden Malyn is thrilled to
be making her Portland
Center Stage debut. Past
theater credits include
workshopping the role
of Donna Ruth for Center Theatre
Group’s Different Words for the Same
Thing, originating the role of Cambria
at Theatre 80 in New York in the new
musical Behind Closed Doors: A 2nd
Class Cabaret, and a handful of parts
at awesome little theaters around Los
Angeles, where she resides. You might
know her as Zanna from season two of
Showtime’s House of Lies, from little
TV spots here and there, from a dozen
or so national commercials, or as Emily
in the cult classic zombie comedy
DeadHeads. Look for her recurring role
as Erin Sikowitz in season three of the
Netflix original, Orange is the New Black
this spring, as well as a starring role in
the new indie feature Maybe Someday.
Eden would like to thank her wonderful
and supportive fiancé, Christopher
Rivas, without whom there isn’t much
point, her amazing manager Avi Simon,
who’s always on her side and never says
NO, and her wonderful mentor Jamison
Jones for his brilliant tutelage, constant
inspiration and encouragement.
SHARONLEE MCLEAN
Sonia
This production marks
Sharonlee’s 23rd here at
PCS. She also completed
her 10th summer
participation in JAW last
summer – as part of the cast of Adam
Bock’s play A Life. Throughout the years
here in Portland, she’s performed at
theaters like Artists Repertory Theatre,
CoHo Productions, Portland Playhouse,
Clackamas Repertory and Portland
Repertory Theatre. Her last feature
film: Extraordinary Measures, playing
Sheri Thompson, Harrison Ford’s
secretary. Her last television series:
guest starring as Mrs. Cox on Leverage.
Drammy Awards: A Question of Mercy
at Artists Repertory Theatre (1999), The
Thugs at Portland Center Stage (2007),
The Receptionist at Portland Center
Stage (2009), Body Awareness at CoHo
Productions (2013). PAMTA Awards:
nomination for Fiddler on the Roof at
Portland Center Stage (2014). Sharonlee
comes to Portland from Hollywood.
In her 30-something years, she did
her share of film, television and stage.
Nominated for a Daytime Emmy for the
role of Annie Degeralamo on the soap
Santa Barbara.
OLIVIA NEGRON
Cassandra
Broadway: Cuba and His
Teddy Bear with Robert
De Niro, Serious Money
(by Caryl Churchill)
with Alec Baldwin.
Off-Broadway: Circle Repertory, La
MaMa, Henry Street Settlement, HB
Studios, TheatreSource and Women’s
Interart. Regional: Canon Theater,
Beverly Hills (The Vagina Monologues
with Nancy Travis, Doris Roberts and
Marcia Wallace), Mark Taper Forum
(Living Out by Lisa Loomer), Atlanta’s
Alliance Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre
Company, South Coast Repertory
(Birds by Lisa Loomer), Coconut Grove
Playhouse, Merrimack Repertory
Theatre and TheatreWorks (The Clean
House). Film: Outliving Emily (2015
release), Everything Relative (Sundance
Film Festival, 1996) and Captivity
(with Elisha Cuthbert).Television:
Devious Maids, Law & Order, Without a
Trace, Law & Order: SVU and The Rock
(series regular). New Media: Patricia
Madrazo in Grand Theft Auto V. Ms.
Negron is the artistic director of Young
Shakespeareans, producers of children’s
Shakespeare festivals.
ANDREW SELLON
Vanya
Andrew most recently
starred as Charlie in a
30th anniversary revival
of The Foreigner at the
Maltz Jupiter Theatre.
Last winter, he performed three
extremely different roles in productions
for Asolo Repertory Company: Jim Casy
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