My Dinner With André at Boston Center for the Arts

Robert Kropf is a founding member and Artistic Director of the Harbor Stage Company. He wrote and directed Liv At Sea and acted in Northside Hollow at the BCA, as well as Uncle Vanya, On An Average Day, & Waiting For Godot. Harbor credits: Frozen, Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight (also Soho Rep), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Glengarry Glen Ross & The River. Adaptor/director: Betrayal, Buried Child, The Weir, Persona, Miss Julie, The Seagull & Hedda Gabler. He has worked with the American Repertory Theatre, Yale Cabaret, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and the Harvard Playwrights’ Festival. Robert is a graduate of ART Institute at Harvard University.

Jonathan Fielding is a founding member of the Harbor Stage Company. He co-wrote and co-directed Northside Hollow, produced last year at the BCA. He also performed in Miss Julie and The Seagull, produced at Suffolk’s Modern Theatre. Harbor credits: Westminster, Betrayal (co-pro with WHAT), The Ballad of Bobby Botswain, Dindin, Three Sisters, The Kritik, Northside Hollow (co-writer/director), A Doll’s House, Sister Play, Artist Descending a Staircase. Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong, The Seagull, Pygmalion. Regional: Old Globe, Ford’s Theatre, Urbanite Theatre, Katonah Classic Stage, Penguin Rep, Amphibian Stage. TV/Film: NBC “Law and Order: SVU,” “Gotham” and “Boston Strangler”.

Robin Bloodworth- World Premieres: “Nick’s Flamingo Grill”, “Klondike”, (Alliance Theater), “Girl Science” (EST), “My Dinner With Andre”, “The Kritik”, “The Deer and the Antelope” (Harbor Stage), “Under The Radar”, (Payomet) “Hopper’s Ghosts” (Provincetown Playhouse). Selected Regional: “Tiny Beautiful Things”, “Time Stands Still”, “Clybourne Park”, (Suzi Award winners), “Gaslight”, “A Doll’s House”, “Macbeth”, “Of Mice and Men” (National Tour), “Ah, Wilderness!”, “Fiction”, “Art”, “Cloud 9” (20th Anniversary NY Revival), “Much Ado About Nothing” (OOBR winner). TV/Film: Havoc Town, Halt and Catch Fire, Swamp Murders, Necessary Roughness, The Game, House of Payne, The View, In the Heat of the Night, Midnight Edition, Talk Show.

Wallace Shawn is an American playwright, actor, and essayist widely known for thought-provoking, adventurous texts (Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, Marie & Bruce) that raise complex moral questions about societal norms. Heralded by Joe Papp as “one of the most important dramatists of our time”, Shawn’s plays have earned him multiple honors, including Obie Awards, the PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship; his works have been produced at prestigious theaters around the world (Steppenwolf, REDCAT, the Public Theater, Royal Court, the New Group). As an actor, he is beloved for iconic performances in films like The Princess Bride, Shadows and Fog, and particularly My Dinner with André, a piece he co-wrote and starred in with longtime collaborator André Gregory.

André Gregory is an internationally acclaimed theater director, writer, and artist. An original force behind the American off-Broadway and regional theater movements, he is celebrated for his innovative contributions to ensemble-based creation (The Manhattan Project, Alice in Wonderland, The Blacks, Galileo); he led both the Inner-City Cultural Center and the Philadelphia Theater of the Living Arts, and was a co-founder of Seattle Rep. Gregory’s longtime collaboration with Wallace Shawn spans forty years and almost a dozen projects, including seminal productions of Shawn’s plays Our Late Night and The Designated Mourner, and the classic independent films Vanya on 42nd Street and My Dinner with André. He works currently as a visual artist, showing pieces in galleries in New York and Provincetown.

Brenda Withers is a writer, actor, and co-founder of the Harbor Stage Company, where her credits include Northside Hollow, Miss Julie, Dindin, and Artist Descending a Staircase. Her plays (WESTMINSTER, Off Peak, The Kritik), have been developed and produced at places like 59E59, Portland Stage (Clauder Prize, Edgerton New Play Award), Northern Stage, Urbanite Theatre, Two River, the Jungle, and Gloucester Stage (The Ding Dongs). Recent onstage credits include the Guthrie, A.R.T., and McCarter Theatre. Brenda is a member of the Advanced BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and has enjoyed playwriting residencies with New Georges, the Camargo Foundation, and the Huntington.

Stacy Fischer is an actor, educator, and co- founder of Harbor Stage Company where select credits include A Doll’s House, Three Sisters, The Weir, The Thin Place, & The Kritik. She has worked extensively in the Boston Theatre Scene, including work with The Huntington Theatre, Speakeasy Stage, The Lyric Stage, and Nora Theatre Company (Elliot Norton Award, Best Actress). Other BCA producing credits include Uncle Vanya, On an Average Day, Northside Hollow (Harbor Stage) and Liv At Sea. Recently, she co-produced and acted in the film “Dindin” with Harbor Pictures, distributed by Good Deed Entertainment. Stacy is a graduate of Emerson College.

D’Arcy Dersham is delighted to back at the Harbor, where she last appeared as Linda in The Thin Place. Also HSC: Frozen, Buried Child and Three Sisters. Regional work includes roles at Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, Merrimack Rep, Portland Stage Company, WHAT, Theatre Exile, Elemental Theatre Collective, The Vineyard Playhouse, and Bridge Rep of Boston. MFA: Trinity Rep. BA: Oberlin College. She also studied physical theater under Jacques Lecoq at L’École Internationale de Théâtre in Paris, and spent eight years teaching Speech, Phonetics, Verse, and Dialects at the Brown/Trinity MFA Program. www.darcydersham.com.

John R. Malinowski's Harbor credits include: Betrayal (co-pro with WHAT), Liv at Sea, Bread & Butter, The Ballad of Bobby Botswain, Buried Child, Dindin, The Weir, Persona, The River, The Kritik, Miss Julie (also at the Modern Theatre), The Billingsgate Project, Hedda Gabler, and The Seagull (also at the Modern Theatre). East Coast World Premieres: Merrimack Repertory Theater (Oceanside), ART, WHAT, and Central Square Theater. New York: Simon Says (Lynn Redgrave Theater). John has received two Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Design; most recently in 2024 for Angels in America at Central Square Theater. He was an NEA/TCG Design Fellow: 2000-02.

Evan Farley is a carpenter, scenic painter, and set designer based on Cape Cod. He's been a regular collaborator with the Harbor Stage Company for over a decade, working as a technical director, and frequent set designer. His past designs for the Harbor Stage include: Glengarry Glen Ross (2017), The Weir (2018), Buried Child (2022) Frozen (2022), Bread and Butter (2023) My Dinner with Andre (2024) He's excited to help bring the Harbor Stage's unique production of this screen classic to Boston.