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Julie Ballantyne Brown

as Alison Mears, Minister's Wife, Sherry Johns, Juror #5, Mormon Home School Teacher, Newsperson #4

Julie is so proud to be a part of The Laramie Project and to work with such wonderful, creative, people at SCP! She performed onstage last season as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (before the pandemic ended things), Sarah McKay in Laughing Stock, and Penny Sycamore in You Can’t Take It With You at the Players Guild of Dearborn. She is currently the Makeup and Hair Governor at the Guild. She sends much love and praise to God for the opportunity to perform, love and thanks to her husband, Marty, and their three boys for their love and unending patience, and to Allegra, the hedgehog, for the kisses and snuggles. She is an aspiring writer who will most definitely live in London someday.

Ashley Blevins

as Barbara Pitts, Trish Steger, Catherine Connolly, Dr. Cantway

After being part of SCP's 2013 production of The Laramie Project, Ashley is honored to take part in the show again in this new format, as this show remains incredibly special and important. She was last seen on stage in SCP's Avenue Q as a Bad Idea Bear and 2 productions of Heathers (DAG, Spotlight Studio) and has been missing theatre and people!

Paul Bruce, James Kirwan

Bruce (R) as Doug Laws, Doc O'Connor, Rulon Stacey, Harry Woods; Kirwan (L) as Fr. Roger Schmitt, Gov. Gerringer, Murdock Cooper, Jeffrey Lockwood.

Paul Bruce - Paul is probably best known as the composer of the off-Broadway musical, A Perfectly Normal Boy and the Chicago Center for The Performing Arts production of Madame X, The Musical. Paul loves working in both amateur and professional theater as a performer, director, choreographer and set designer. He is thrilled to be in this production with such talented performers and directors.

James M. Kirwan - James loves starting things he never finishes, such as sweeping the kitchen floor and getting dressed. He is probably best known for his roles in such shows as, "I've Lost Something Important Again" and "Seatbelts Aren't Necessary For The First Ten Miles". Most recently, he has done beautiful set painting on such shows as Cinderella and A Christmas Carol, both at the Downriver Actors Guild.