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  Lauren Spencer

  Georgiana Darcy

  Lauren Spencer is thrilled to return to the gorgeous world of Pemberley after playing Jane Bennet in MTC’s 2016 production of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Lauren has performed with Campo Santo, Crowded Fire, American Conservatory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, San Francisco Playhouse, and San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, among others. As a director, she is passionate about developing new work that champions the joys and complexities of BIPOC women and femmes. Recent credits include: Darren Canady’s Black Butterflies (American Conservatory Theatre/Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Lisa Marie Rollins’ and Susan Ito’s Untold (Brava Theater for Women in the Arts); Noelle Viñas’s Derecho (Playwrights Foundation); and Jordan Remirez Puckett’s To Saints and Stars (Creede Repertory Theatre). She is a company member with the award-winning ensemble Campo Santo, a founding member of The Coalition of Bay Area Black Women Theater Artists, a “Reimagining Political Power” Fellow with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a recipient of CalShakes Luminary Learn Award for her work applying theater arts in the classroom, and an inaugural member of the Calshakes Artist Circle.

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  Emilie Whelan

  Kitty Bennet

  Emilie Whelan moved to California in 2019 after a career in the bayous of New Orleans where she was a major force in arts and development post-Katrina. There she oversaw the development of NHP Foundation’s arts programming, Cripple Creek Theater Company, The Fringe Theater Festival New Orleans, and The DISTILLERY Artist Residency at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans for mid-career performing artists. She is an Associate Artist with Oakland Theater Project and credits with them have included Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Streetcar Named Desire; Mother Courage and her Children; Hamlet; Waiting for Lefty; GROUNDED; The Radicalization of Bradley Manning; Othello. She is the Director of Advancement with West Edge Opera, supporting new opera development. She is also a professor at Contra Costa College having received her BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from UC San Diego. She's a big fan of laughter, impromptu dance parties, and adding more butter to...everything.

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  Laura Odeh

  Elizabeth Darcy (Lizzy)

  Laura Odeh has appeared on Broadway in The Rivals (Lincoln Center Theatre). Favorite Off-Broadway credits include The Aristocrats (Irish Repertory Theatre), A Body of Water (Primary Stages), Gaslight (Irish Repertory Theatre), King Lear (The Public Theater), and Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Irish Repertory Theatre). Regional productions include Hand to God (Berkeley Rep), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Marin Theatre Company), King Lear (Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company of DC), 33 Variations (La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage), and The Cherry Orchard (Yale Rep). Her television and film credits include The Other Woman, Synecdoche, NY, “The Unusuals” and “Guiding Light,” as well as various commercials and industrial videos. She has worked with such directors as Zelda Fichandler, Robert Falls, James Lapine, Mark Lamos, Bill Rauch, Moisés Kaufman, Charlie Kaufman, Don Roos and Meredith McDonough. Laura received her MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at NYU. She is a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity Association.  

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  Madeline Rouverol

  Lydia Wickham, Sarah Darcy

  Madeline Rouverol is overjoyed to return to MTC, having originated the role of Lydia in The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley in 2018. Madeline is a New York-based actor and playwright originally from Santa Rosa, California with a passion for new American plays centering female voices. She has workshopped and performed in new work at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Dramatists Guild, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Marin Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, and San Jose Stage Company. She made her Broadway debut this summer as the playwright’s assistant to Antoinette Nwandu on Pass Over. Madeline has been featured in American Theatre Magazine and is a graduate of the theatre department at the University of Michigan. Her plays include Confirmation (Playwrights Foundation Semi-Finalist, Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program Semi-Finalist), Fire Season, and You’re Not a Mystery to Me. “Love always to B and my friends and family.”

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  Alicia M. P. Nelson

  Mary Bennet, Margaret O'Brien

  Alicia M. P. Nelson is a San Francisco/Bay Area actor, clown, and arts educator. She is also one of the newly appointed Education Coordinators at MTC, and is a member of the Red Ladder Theatre Company where she works to bring arts to at-risk populations. Regional theatre credits include: The National Women’s Theatre Festival (Othello), TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (FROST/NIXON), WAMTheatre (The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial), SF Playhouse (Dance Nation), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (u/s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play), Berkeley Playhouse, Ragged Wing Ensemble, Bay Area Children’s Theatre, Word for Word, Town Hall Theatre, and Cutting Ball Theatre. She has a BFA in Acting from Boston University and is a Theatre Bay Area award winner. www.ampnelson.com 

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  Aidaa Peerzada

  Jane Bingley, Emily Grey

  Aidaa Peerzada is an actor, poet and playwright who grew up between the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland and Lahore, Pakistan. Regional performance credits include: The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, American Players Theatre, Theatre Lila, and Quantum Theatre. She was recently awarded the Theatre Bay Area’s Director’s Residency and is the Artistic Development Director at the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company Workshops of her original plays include: One Googol and One (SFBATCO), Grandma Science (The Greenhouse Theatre Solo Lab), Shining (The Ground and Field Theatre Festival at UC Davis), (The New Roots Theatre Festival with SFBATCO). She is a co-author of the original musical Sunflowered (Northern Sky Theatre). Aidaa studied at the Baltimore School for the Arts and went on to receive her BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.  

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  Zahan F. Mehta

  Henry Grey

  Zahan F. Mehta is an actor and musician from Mumbai, India. A recent graduate of the American Conservatory Theater’s MFA program, he received his BFA from Northeastern University and has trained at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in the NMTI program. He most recently played the Rebel in For The Record’s The BratPack at Feinstein’s at the Nikko. His roles at A.C.T. include Barnaby in The Matchmaker, Maks in Martyna Majok’s Ironbound, and Isaac Babel in Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night. Zahan is also a multi-instrumentalist who plays the guitar, bass, piano, harmonica, and (his first love) the drums.

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  Daniel Duque-Estrada

  Fitzwilliam Darcy (Darcy)

  Daniel Duque-Estrada is thrilled to be back in the Bay and on MTC’s stage for the first time. Other theaters include WP Theater and PlayCo (off-Broadway), as well as two seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center (former Acting Company Member), and Trinity Repertory Company, where he is currently a member of their Acting Company. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep.

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• Adam Magill

  Thomas O'Brien

Creative Team

• Lauren Gunderson

  Playwright

  Lauren M. Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list twice including 2019/20. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Playwright Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and her play The Half-Life of Marie Curie is available on Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is available from Two Lions/Amazon. LaurenGunderson.com

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• Margot Melcon

  Playwright

  Margot Melcon is a theatre artist, administrator, and writer. She was the director of new play development at Marin Theatre Company for seven years, where she dramaturged over thirty productions, including six world premieres, and administered the company’s two annual new play prizes and commissioning program. Margot has developed plays with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Crowded Fire Theater, Shotgun Players, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The New Harmony Project, and The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. She is currently the program executive for promoting culture at the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Margot is a graduate of California State University, Chico.

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* Denotes member of Actors Equity Association
+ Member, United Scenic Artists
^ Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers