The Favorite at Avery Schreiber Playhouse

Los Angeles Singer/Actress LAURA PHILBIN COYLE plays Shelby. Laura graduated cum laude from the University of Connecticut with a BFA in Acting and a minor in voice. She spent years in London, New York and Los Angeles training and finding steady work Off-Broadway, in local and regional theatre, commercials and doing voice-over work. Last summer she received an “Encore Award” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival for her one-person show, “A Piece of Work”. Laura is also a professional Singer/Songwriter and has composed, recorded and performed a large catalogue of original songs, winning a Billboard songwriting award along the way. She is represented by Abrams Artists Agency and Volition Entertainment.

    Handling the roll of Megan is Television and Stage Actress TRACEY ROONEY. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and UC Cork, Ireland, Tracey’s theatre credits include The Family of Mann, The Miser (national tour), Romeo & Juliet, Piñata (Fringe), Do I Do? (one woman show), NYC premieres of The Same Old Story and True Lines (created by John Crowley) and the Latinx cast The Diary of Anne Frank (producer). TV/film: Office Uprising (actor/executive producer), The Young & the Restless, I’ll be Next Door for Christmas, Jimmy Kimmel, Revenge, Invasion, Veronica Mars, The Bold & the Beautiful, General Hospital, One Life to Live, Port Charles, and Laughing River.  She also voices video games, audiobooks and commercials.

    Popular Television Guest Star, KARL T. WRIGHT is hilarious as Dylan, the adopted brother. Karl started his acting career in Chicago at Players Workshop of Second City and was a member of Live Bait and Raven Theaters as well as being an award-winning radio host/producer on WBEZ. Here in LA, Karl was a member of Theatre Neo and worked at the TV show Extra. Over the years Karl has become a favorite “go-to guy in a suit” on many of your favorite TV shows, The Big Bang Theory, NCIS, Monk, Castle, Jane the Virgin, How to Get Away with Murder and he returns to play Chuck on season 3 of Atypical on Netflix. Karl is repped by Smith & Hervey-Grimes and Upper Management Talent. 

    Rounding out the cast as Shelby’s College Professor Husband Ethan, MICHAEL BOUSON is a graduate of the esteemed Theatre Program at Miami University of Ohio. Multi-hyphenate Bouson has either Written, Designed, Directed, Produced, Acted (or all of the above at the same time) in nearly 80 Professional Productions since spectacularly failing Carnegie Mellon’s acclaimed Pre-College Actor Training Program while still in High School! Also a Realty Television Producer, audiences are probably more familiar with some of the indelible characters he’s been associated with ("Here Comes Honey Boo Boo", "Flipping Out", "Ace of Cakes") than they are with him! (And he’s OK with that!)

    Managing the Merry Mayhem is Director ANN HEARN TOBOLOWSKY. Her recent directing credits include the classic Bus Stop and two world premieres, Forever Bound by Steve Apostolina at Atwater Theatre and at The Road Theatre, Jami Brandli’s Through the Eye of a Needle. Also at the Road Theatre, an Off Road production of Anatomy of a Hug, multiple readings for The Road’s Word series and the New Playwrights Festival productions of Unbound, The Specials, The Gift and The Night We Bombed Lincoln Towing. Previously at Theatre 40: Holy Days, Driving Miss Daisy, Another Part of the Forest. At Malibu Playhouse, Jeffrey Passero’s one man show, Casting Passero.

    Playwright and Producer JOE CORRELL graduated with a BFA in Acting from the University of Connecticut and for several years worked as a professional actor in regional theaters. Joe is the Co-Author (with Michael Bouson) of more than a dozen Professionally Produced Original Musicals and Comedies. Joe currently works as a reality television producer, and you may have seen his work on networks like ABC, TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV, and many others. His most recent plays include “Keep It Light”, “Monday”, “Matterhorn”,  “Armadillo” and “Terminal”. He has also written three screenplays