Emma – Cast & Creative

ANNIE BARBOUR (Jane Fairfax/Mrs. Bates) (She/Her)

is a Denver based actor. At the DCPA: The 39 Steps and Theater of the Mind. Arvada Center: Small Mouth Sounds, The Moors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, The Diary of Anne Frank. Theatreworks: Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure. Regional credits include: We Had a Girl Before You (Greater Boston Stage Company), King John and Romeo and Juliet (Great River Shakespeare Festival), The Verge (9 Satori Theatre). Training: BFA Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts. True West Award recipient, Women of Will.

BEN CHERRY (Understudy)

Broadway: Indecent and Fiddler on the Roof. National tour: Mary Poppins. Select regional: Angels in America, Part 1 and 2 (Repertory Theatre of St Louis) ; Indecent (The Guthrie, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Kansas City Rep, Center Theatre Group); What the Constitution Means to Me, Oslo, Lifespan of a Fact, ASS (Pioneer Theatre Company); The Tempest (Alabama Shakespeare); Ragtime and The Fantasticks – world premiere (Flint Rep); Mothers and Sons (Cincinnati Playhouse); Utah Shakespeare Festival (four seasons); Route 66 (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre). TV: “The Equalizer,” “The Following,” “Smash,” “I Love You…But I Lied.” Training: NCSA. BenCherry.com

BRENT HINKLEY (Mr. Weston/Mr. Woodhouse)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Animal Crackers, Sense and Sensibility, August: Osage County, Hairspray, Shakespeare in Love, It’s Christmas, Carol!, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV and V, Fingersmith. Off Broadway: Embedded, Carnage (Public Theatre). Regional: The Cocoanuts (Guthrie Theatre), Mother Courage (La Jolla Playhouse), My Wandering Boy (South Coast Rep), Noises Off (La Mirada). Actors’ Gang: The Seagull, Woyzeck, 1984, Broadway, Ubu. Film/TV: Silence of the Lambs, Ed Wood, Falling Down, Jacob’s Ladder, Bob Roberts, Say It Isn’t So, Blades of Glory, “Seinfeld,” “X-Files,” “Gilmore Girls,” “West Wing,” “Monk,” “Carnivale,” “Star Trek Voyager,” “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.”

STEPH HOLMBO (Mrs. Elton/Dance Captain) (She/Her)

At the DCPA: Theater of the Mind. Off-Broadway: 8 Million Protagonists (9th Space Theatre), Happenstance (Manhattan Movement Arts Center). Other NY credits: Fool For Love (NYU Grad) and I Stand (Episcopal Actors Guild). Regional credits: Bright Star, Elf the Musical, A Christmas Carol, Million Dollar Quartet (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities); Hundred Days (Aurora Fox Arts Center); Cabaret (Miners Alley Playhouse); A Chorus Line (PACE Center). Film: Soft Liquid Center. Education: BFA, NYU. Instagram: @stephholmbo

CARMAN LACIVITA (George Knightley) (He/Him)

Broadway: Marvin’s Room and Cyrano de Bergerac. Off-Broadway: To My Girls (Second Stage), Sense & Sensibility (Bedlam), Rose Rage (St. Clair Bayfield Award, Jeff Award, Drama League nomination), Red Bull Theater, The Public Theater, The Atlantic, among others. Regional: Kate Hamill’s Emma (The Guthrie) and Pride and Prejudice (Hartford, Syracuse, and Dorset Theatre Companies), Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Two River, George St. Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare, Long Wharf, CATF. TV/FILM: “Blue Bloods” (CBS), “Golden Boy” (CBS), “Royal Pains” (USA), “The Chica Show” (NBC), “Modern Love” (pilot), “Marino’s” (pilot), Cyrano de Bergerac (PBS). MFA Rutgers University. Artistic Associate-Amphibian Stage Productions.

MARLENE MONTES (Miss Bates/Servant)

At the DCPA: Quixote Nuevo. Select Regional: Beauty and the Beast (Arvada Center), Ragtime and Pirates of Penzance (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Sound of Music (North Shore Music Theatre), American Mariachi (Arizona Theatre Company), Water by the Spoonful and In the Heights (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), American Mariachi and She Loves Me (South Coast Rep), Mala (Theatre SilCo), Gypsy and Cabaret (Cygnet Theatre), Alma (The Spot), and In the Heights, The World Goes ‘Round, Legally Blonde, South Pacific, Tommy (Moonlight Stage Productions). BFA, University of Arizona. marlenemontes.com

JOEY PARSONS (Mrs. Weston/Mrs. Bates)

Throughout Joey’s extensive career, she has tackled everything from Shakespeare to original roles in new, experimental works. Select NYC and regional Theatre: Vanity Fair, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stupid F**king Bird (The Pearl Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Syracuse Stage, SALT Award: Best Supporting Actress); God of Carnage (San Jose Rep – Theatre Critic’s Circle Award: Outstanding Principal Actress). Television: “Blacklist,” “FBI,” “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” “Blindspot,” “Divorce,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Trial by Jury,” “Third Watch,” “Deadline.” Film: Before/During/After. Recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. MFA: Yale School of Drama. @joeyparsons13

AMELIA PEDLOW (Emma Woodhouse)

At the DCPA: The 39 Steps, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet. NY: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM); The Metromaniacs, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull); Pride & Prejudice (Primary Stages); The Liar and The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company); You Never Can Tell (Pearl). Regional (selected): Emma and Playing with Fire (Guthrie); Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Arena); Private Lives (St. Louis Rep); Doubt (Studio); Red Velvet (Old Globe); Midsummer and Merchant of Venice (STC); Ether Dome (La Jolla, Hartford Stage, The Huntington); Legacy of Light (Cleveland Playhouse). TV: “The Good Wife,” “Blue Bloods,” “Shades of Blue,” “The Blacklist.” Juilliard BFA.

MARCO ALBERTO ROBINSON (Frank Churchill/Robert Martin)

is a Denver-based actor. At the DCPA: A Little Night Music, The 39 Steps, Rattlesnake Kate, Wild Fire, Xanadu, A Christmas Carol, Goodnight Moon, This is Modern Art, and The Wild Party. Arvada Center: I Do! I Do!. Colorado Shakespeare Festival: Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Cyrano de Bergerac, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King John, and Edward III. Miners Alley Playhouse: Fun Home. Theatre Aspen: The Museum of Broken Relationships. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center: Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Hairspray. Little Theatre of the Rockies: Dogfight, Aida, and The Fantasticks.

LOUIS SALLAN (Mr. Elton/Mrs. Bates)

Regional and New York theatre credits: Emma (The Guthrie), Layalina (The Goodman), Romeo and Juliet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Oslo (Northern Stage), The Invisible Hand (Cleveland Playhouse), The Mecca Tales (The Sheen Center), The Strangest (New York Theatre Workshop), Oklahoma (Arrow Rock Lyceum). TV/Film: “Blue Bloods,” “The Blacklist,” “The Blacklist: Redemption” and “Madam Secretary.” Training: BA, Western Michigan University; MFA, New York University.

SAMANTHA STEINMETZ (Harriet Smith)

Off-Broadway: Kate Hamill’s Sense and Sensibility, The Seagull, Hamlet, Saint Joan (Bedlam); 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Abingdon Theatre Company); The Remarkable Rooming House (La MaMa). Regional: Emma (world premiere, Guthrie Theater), Murder on the Orient Express (world premiere, McCarter Theatre Center and Hartford Stage), Pride and Prejudice (Syracuse Stage). TV: “Chicago P.D.,” “Mindhunter,” “Manifest,” “The Deuce,” “When They See Us,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Blue Bloods,” “Law and Order: SVU.”

EMILY VAN FLEET (Understudy)

At the DCPA: A Christmas Carol and The Wild Party. Most recently, Emily starred in the world premiere of David Nehl’s one-woman musical, The Wind (presented by Stories on Stage), as well as Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Arvada Center. Other Arvada Center credits include 5 seasons in the Black Box Repertory Company and multiple musicals. Additional credits: Indianapolis Symphony’s Yuletide Celebration (8 seasons), Creede Repertory Theatre (7 seasons), Colorado Shakespeare Festival (4 seasons), Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (3 seasons), & Little Theatre of the Rockies (2 seasons). emilyvanfleet.com @emilyvanfleet