Outside Mullingar at The Skylight Theatre

Michael Kirby

LA Theatre: Bent, What the Butler Saw, School of Night, The Goat (Mark Taper Forum),Tickled Pink (Laguna Playhouse), A Tale of Charles Dickens, Dracula (LA Theatre Works) Nora, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Henry IV, Chekhov x 4, (Antaeus) Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival), Spite for Spite, Don Juan (Andak Stage Company) Other Theatre: Off Broadway: Othello, Richard III (Epic Theatre) The American Plan, Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello (Old Globe), The Glass Menagerie (Syracuse Stage), Leading Ladies (Barnstormers Theatre). Film: Brown Paper Bag, Weekend at Jesus’, Hell’s Heart, Connected, Passing Normal, Chase The Slut, Benevolence. Michael has narrated over 75 audiobooks and has an MFA from The Old Globe/ USD. More information at: michaelkirbyactor. com and kirbynarrator.com.

Liza Seneca

Since The 6th Act’s inception, Liza has performed in the World Premieres of Sukkot and The $5 Shakespeare Company (both written by Matthew Leavitt), An Evening of Betrayal (which she also adapted), countless readings, and co-directed Sonnets From Suburbia. She is a member of The Antaeus Company where she was just seen as Viola in Twelfth Night (alongside Kitty Swink, directed by Armin Shimerman) as well as The Caucasian Chalk Circle (LADCC Nominee, Lead Performance), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Cloud 9 (LADCC Award, Ensemble). Other notable stage work includes Ameryka at the Kirk Douglas, Macbeth at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Romeo & Juliet at Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, The Boomerang Effect (also by Matthew Leavitt) at the Odyssey, and the L.A. and NYC premieres of Pulp Shakespeare. Her television credits include a recurring role on The Following among others. She is a prolific voice actor and can be heard in countless episodes of television, films, video games, and audio books. Some favorite voice credits include Ted Lasso, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Ready Player One, and Finding Dory.

Armin Shimerman

Armin Shimerman is a highly regarded actor best known to television audiences as Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or as Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has appeared on Broadway: Lincoln Center’s Three Penny Opera, Circle-in-the-Square’s St. Joan, Richard Rodgers’ I Remember Mama, and George Abbott’s Broadway. Selected Regional Theatre – San Diego Repertory Theater: where as the blind Irishman in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, he received San Diego Critics Circle Award for best actor; San Diego Old Globe: Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor; in Henry V at the American Shakespeare Festival; in Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse at the Indiana Repertory Theatre; at the Guthrie Theatre: Three Penny Opera, Camille, Wild Oats and Fool in King Lear; at the Utah Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet (nominated for a Broadway World award for Polonius), Macbeth, and The Price. Selected Los Angeles Theatre – Discord and Hughie at the Geffen Theatre, Birthday Party at the Matrix Theater (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Nom. Lead Performance); Macbeth and Three Days in the Country at the Antaeus Theater, and Richard II at the Mark Taper Forum. As a Shakespeare professor, he has taught at Antaeus in Glendale, as an associate professor at the University of Southern California (USC), and at Theatricum Botanicum. Additionally, for Antaeus, he has co-directed The Crucible (Broadway World nomination), Measure for Measure, and recently, Twelfth Night, with both Liza and Kitty. TV: 80 different Guest Star roles, including Stargate, Boston Legal, Beauty and the Beast, Brooklyn Bridge,Timeless, and countless cartoons. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his performance in the web series, Red Bird. In addition, he has penned a Sci-Fi trilogy, The Merchant Prince (Simon & Schuster), and a period mystery trilogy, Illyria (Jumpmaster Press). As a voice-over artist, his work with the ensembles for Maltese Falcon and Zorro was nominated for Grammy awards. In the field of interactive games, he has voiced over two dozen iconic characters, notably Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet and Clank franchise, Joe Chill in Arkham’s Shadow, as well as Andrew Ryan in the Bioshock series.

Kitty Swink

L.A. Theatre: Antaeus: Twelfth Night, Cripple of Inishmaan, MacBeth, Curse of Oedipus, Picnic, Autumn Garden, Tonight at 8:30 and is a former Artistic Director. Other L.A. Theatre: Dangerous Corner and Boldgirls (Matrix Theatre), Ladyhouse Blues (Andak Theatre) Ah, Wilderness! (A Noise Within), Juno and the Paycock (Odyssey Theatre) and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Tiffany Theatre). She has done regional theatre around the country. On television has appeared as a wide range of doctors, lawyers, judges and space aliens on shows like Monk, Leverage, The Fosters, Law and Order: L.A., The Riches, Harry’s Law, JAG, Babylon 5, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, etc. and recurred on South of Nowhere, For the People, Nikki and Nora. She has done independent features. And she is a 2024 recipient of the Ralph Morgan Award from SAG-AFTRA for Extraordinary Service in the Cause of Actors.