Melissa Friedman
as Margot Moreau
Melissa Friedman is Co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of Epic Theatre Ensemble and has performed in numerous Epic Off-Broadway productions including Hannah and Martin, Macbeth, Born with Teeth, Einstein's Gift, A Hard Heart, and A More Perfect Union. Other Off-Broadway & Regional credits include Degenerate Art, Much Ado About Nothing (Irondale Ensemble), An Ideal Husband (Tennessee Rep), Last Night of Ballyhoo (Fulton Theatre), and Substance of Fire, Macbeth, and Henry IV (Old Globe). Melissa annually directs Epic’s Shakespeare Remix productions for which, on behalf of Epic, she received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. She co-developed Epic’s Citizen Artist curriculum, continues to act as a Lead Teaching Artist in Epic’s partner schools and directs the first year training program for Epic’s youth theatre company – Epic NEXT. MFA Old Globe/USD.
Devin E. Haqq
as NASA Launch Control, BBC Reporter, Neil Armstrong, Photographer, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, President John F. Kennedy, J. Lee Thompson, Army Command, Creon, Walt Disney, Director, Heinrich Himmler, Wiesemann, Pierre, SS Rocket Command
DEVIN E. HAQQ, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, has performed in numerous stage productions around the regional United States and New York City, most recently appearing Off-Broadway in the New York premiere of David Harrower's Knives in Hens at 59E59 Theatres. Other Off-Broadway: Macbeth, Born with Teeth, and Measure for Measure (Epic Theatre Ensemble), Singing Beach (HERE Arts Center), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSX), The Champion (BRIC Arts Media), All God's Chillun' Got Wings (JACK/Civic Ensemble). Regional: As You Like It (The Arden Theatre), Camp Logan (Boston Center for the Arts) Film: The Assassin, Francis of Brooklyn, Ambition's Debt, All The Little Things We Kill, For Entertainment Purposes Only. MFA, University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
