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Kerrykate Abel
as Mae West
A veteran performer on Buffalo area stages, Kerrykate was the producer of CabaretSeries from 2009-2012, a fellow of the O’Neill Cabaret Symposium (Waterford, CT); has performed across the country in both cabaret and theatre; and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a performance creation concentration from Goddard College. She is also a playwright,writer, activist and educator. You recently may have caught her performance this summer asAutolycus in THE WINTER’S TALE, and last summer as Mistress Overdone in MEASURE FOR MEASURE for Shakespeare In Delaware Park. Recent performances also include A GREAT WILDERNESS (BUA), ROCKY HORROR (Kavinoky) and THE TWELVE DATES OF XMAS(Desiderios). She is proud to have recently directed HOARDING HOPE (of which she is also the playwright) at the Paul Robeson Theatre. Ms. Abel is hoping to produce her long awaited next cabaret, WOMAN OF A CERTAIN RAGE, in 2025. Thank you for supporting live theatre!
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Janey Wagner
as Dr Britten, Floy Cotrell, Cora LV Richmond
Janey Wagner has performed in many school and community theater productions. Her first onstage experience was in the 1972 sixth grade operetta, "Tom Sawyer," in which she played the role of Tom! She has spent most of her life as a caregiver for young and old, an environmental advocate, and a little-of-everything for her family organic foods business and farm. She's enjoyed learning a bit more about Lilydale through this experience.
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Tom Loughlin
as Harry Houdini, Jack Kelly
Tom Loughlin is an utterly competent retiree from SUNY Fredonia, where he taught acting and directing for 29 years. He resides in Dunkirk NY, where he and his wife Ann Marie raised their three children. He hosts the podcast Notes from the Aisle Seat for the 1891 Fredonia Opera House, where he is also a volunteer usher. He enjoys camping, hiking, and wandering around the region's backroads on his Honda CT Trail Rider 125.