The Importance of Being Earnest

	MIKE AMATO (Algernon Moncrieff) Mike is an actor, comedian and published writer whose credits range from Shakespeare to the New York Comedy Festival. He was in a national tour of Romeo & Juliet, starred in Talk Show (Off-Broadway and in LA), Imminent, Indeed... with Aisling Arts and has had roles on Saturday Night Live. As a comedian, Mike was a finalist in the Andy Kaufman Awards at Caroline's Comedy Club and the grand prize winner of a Paramount Pictures Comedy Video contest. Along with his classical theater background, Mike trained under Gary Austin, the founder and original director of The Groundlings, and at Second City New York .		CHRISTIANE AMOROSIA (Service). Christiane is thrilled to be working with Aisling Arts again and supporting the LIC Irish Arts Center. Favorite theatre credits include a long-term cast member on the new rock musical Genetic Eddy, Cassie in Aisling Arts's Pulitzer Prize nominated play trilogy Force, Polly Peachum in Aisling's Fringe Festival play Imminent Indeed, Helena in Pulse Ensemble Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Michael Chekhov Theatre Company's Happy Hour. Recent on-camera work includes work on the Rachael Ray Show, an online T-Mobile commercial, and featured role in the Gary Busey and David Carradine film "Blizhniy Boy." Teachers: Guildford School of Acting, Kurt Peterson, Larry Moss, Michael Foreman, Hank Stratton, Danny Gurwin.
	R. Patrick Alberty (Reverend Chasauble). Patrick is proud to be back in his third Aisling Show. His previous shows with Aisling include PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and the FORCE Trilogy.  Recently, Patrick could be seen in Radiotheatre NY’s H.G. Wells Science Fiction Festival in WAR OF THE WORLDS and THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU.  Patrick would like to thank his girlfriend and his family for all of their love and support.		LIZ FORST (Miss Prism). Liz is delighted to be part of this production.  Other favorite roles include Vivien in Death Comes to Us All Mary Agnes, Mrs. Bellotti in Hote l Baltimore , Mistress Page in Merry Wives of Windsor, and Jen in The Good Game, at the 2007 Sam French Festival.  Liz is a member of the Workshop Theater and Love Creek Productions.  She can be reached at lizforst@rcn.com.
	LEONA MCEVOY (Cecily). Leona hails from Dublin, Ireland and came over to New York in August 2006 to study acting in the School For Film and Television. Her most significant roles to date are Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Anybodys in an award-winning production of West Side Story and Heather in The Chastitute. Leona loves to sing and has been a member of several choirs, including the Irish Youth Choir, which performed in Ireland and Wales. She currently studies acting with Adam Hill in New York.		Kathryn McMahon (Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax) Katie is honored and excited to be working with Aisling Arts for the first time. Most recently she appeared as Elmire in Tartuffe with The Queens Players and in a handful of short films and industrials. Katie trained at Pomona College, ACT and received her graduate degree from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Some of her favorite roles to date are Ann in Balm in Gilead, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Girl in the West Coast premier of Edward Albee’s The Play about the Baby.
	NATALIE PAUL (Service). Recent roles include Aida in Araberlin with Horizon Theater Rep, Electra in Electra Speaks in collaboration with the Women's Experimental Theater Project, 365 plays/ 365 days with the World Performance Project at Yale, and Gabriela in References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot. Natalie is from Park Slope Brooklyn and is a recent graduate of Yale University.		BEN TRAWICK-SMITH (Jack).  Ben was previously seen at the New York Irish Center as Jerry Devine in Juno & the Paycock.  Other notable New York Credits inlclude Stone by Edward Bond, Tabula Rasa at Emerging Artists, Penetralia at Actors Theatre Workshop, The Trial of God by Elie Wiesel (Abington Theatre), and The Adventures of Nervous-Boy (published alongside Bryn Manion's Convergence in 2007's Plays & Playwrights).  He is a founding member of Stone Soup Theatre Arts.
	CatHERIne Porter (Lady Bracknell). Catherine has appeared Off Broadway with En Garde Arts in Mac Wellman’s award-winning Crowbar, and acted with such Off-Off companies as TOSOS II, Theatre Askew, Flux Theater Ensemble and 78th Street Theatre Lab. She is Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Peculiar Works Project, an OBIE Award-winning performance company with whom she has performed many leading roles and produced more than 80 site-specific plays and large-scale events, featuring work from over 100 artists annually (www.peculiarworks.org). For her day job, Catherine is Development Director for the performance space Dixon Place. She is a member of Actor’s Equity Association, and serves on the boards of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and Concrete Temple.		BRADLEY WELLS (Service). Bradley has appeared in Aisling Arts' Macbeth as Macbeth, Jack in The Force Trilogy, and Clotaldo in Life is a Dream. Other New York credits include Taming of the Shrew (78th Street Theatre Lab), Remuda (Midtown International Theatre Festival), and Hanoch Levine's Murder (PS 122). Bradley attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Much love to Melissa.
	SARAH STEPHENS (Service). Sarah’s recent stage credits include Radiotheatre's HG Wells Festival and 365 Days, 365 Plays with FauxReal-The Public. Aisling credits: FORCE Trilogy, Imminent, Indeed, and FORCE: Convergence. Independent Film: TAG, You're It for Girl With a Gun (SXSW Festival 2008), Kingdom of Ultimate Power for Pilotlight Pictures (2005 L.A. Short Film  Festival). Sarah is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School . Before acting,  she was a reporter and taught English in  Japan . Check out www.sarah-stephens.com , for more on Sarah.		David P.O'Hara (Merriman) David is delighted to be performing with such a fantastic cast and company.He was last seen as Johnny Boyle in Juno and the Paycock at the New York Irish Center. Next up is The Odd and........the Audacious with the Fourth Wall Actors Workshop at the Producers Club.It opens on April 24th.Other favorite credits include the Zoo Story and Anna Christie (NYU-SCPS). David has trained at NYU and T.Schreiber Studio.
	PETER MAGUIRE (Lane). Peter Maguire is originally from Co. Longford Ireland and has resided in New York for over 20 years. Peter is a musician and and singer and this is his fourth stage performance. He has appeared in Big Maggie  and as Canon Pratt in Moll both by John B. Keane. More recently he has starred as Captain Jack Boyle in Sean O Casey's Juno and the Paycock in the New York Irish Center.	Bryn Manion (Director) is a Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright/director and the co-founder Aisling Arts. Her plays include Eleanor, Apocalypse Not Now (I Have a Headache), A Few Hallelujahs, Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum’s Peculiar Penchant for Plosives), and the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence). Her directing credits include The Force Trilogy, Wanderlust, Threshold, Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum’s Peculiar Penchant for Plosives, Don Quixote, A Beggar’s Opera, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Ruth and Me, Eleanor, When the Levee Breaks, and Playboy of the Western World. As an actress, Bryn has appeared with Shakespeare and Company, SITI Company, the KO Festival for Performance, the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, the International Symposium for Performance Art, HERE, Aisling Arts and the New York Irish Center. Her play Convergence was published by NYTE in February 2007, and she directed the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence) for repertory production at New York City’s theater for emerging artists, The Chocolate Factory, in January/February 2007; the play was subsequently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Bryn most recently directed Obie Award-winning Peculiar Works Project’s Off Stage, The Plays of the East Village, and is working on a new play, Private Conversations, and a film adaptation of the Force Trilogy. As a theatre educator, Bryn taught for five years at the Drama Studio, a conservatory for young actors in Springfield, MA. She has also taught workshops and summer programs as the Williston Northamton School, Smith College and was an instructor for the towns of Westfield and Southwick, MA. She developed and taught theatrical outreach for the Massachusetts Cultural Council throughout the state from 1999-2003. She has also created an annual creativity retreat called Work/Dream for adult artists in New York City and was awarded a fellowship by the prestigious White Oak Foundation in 2005. Bryn works in publishing, and lives in Long Island City, NY, with her husband, Sam David, and their two cats, Buddhasaurus Rex and Pachuka.	W endy Remington (Director) is a co-founder of Aisling Arts and has acted and designed extensively with the company. As part of the off-off Broadway community, she has worked as an actor, designer, and writer collaborating with companies including the Obie-award winning Peculiar Works Project and TOSOS II, was a festival adjudicator for the clown, mask and burlesque category of the New York International Fringe Festival, and she was a reviewer for nytheater.com as part of their festival reviewing squad. Wendy graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she studied theater and education. Additionally, she trained in scene study at Michael Howard studios with Deborah Kampmeier and studied Shakespearean acting at the London Academy of Performing Arts. Wendy has a particular interest in physical theater and studied the LeCoq movement and mask technique with David Gaines, clown and commedia dell'arte with Jim Calder, and puppetry with Emily Stork. Wendy is a Project Officer with the Office of Sponsored Programs at NYU, holds a degree in elementary education and has taught children’s theatrical outreach in Everett, Fall River, Holyoke, MA and conflict resolution through theatre in Springfield, MA. She lives in Brooklyn with her fiance, Micah, and daughter, Samirah.