Neil Simon's The Dinner Party at Lauderdale by the Sea Seaside Players

Brenda Aulbach

Brenda Aulbach (Yvonne Fouchet) is thrilled to appear in the Seaside Players’ first full-length play. She has performed in community and professional theatres for more than 25 years and is one of the directors for the popular Sea Shorts Play Festival held here in Jarvis Hall. Favorite roles include Veta in Harvey (Ti-Ahwaga Players), Suzan in Fulfi llment Center (Lake Worth Playhouse), Romaine in Witness for the Prosecution (C4Arts) and Dinah in The Sweet Delilah Swim Club (Curtain Call Playhouse). Much love to my family. Thanks to you…our audience…for being our guest tonight and for supporting live theatre.

Larry Chidsey

Larry Chidsey (Andre Bouville) is honored to be part of the Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Seaside Players’ first full-length theater production. For the past few years, he has been involved with numerous productions at the Pembroke Pines Theatre of Performing Arts (The Mousetrap, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Few Good Men), ACT of Davie (Sylvia, Fireflies, Romance in D), Main Street Players (RENT, Stage Kiss, Next Fall), and most recently in Casa Valentina at the Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale.

Steve d'Oliveira

Steve d’Oliveira (Claude Pichon) is excited to appear in his second Neil Simon play. His first was as Jack Jerome in the Lake Worth Playhouse’s production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he received an Outstanding Featured Actor award. Thanks to John Hernandez for his insightful direction and my fellow cast members for making rehearsals such a pleasant experience. Steve has produced and acted in two dozen Sea Shorts Play Festival plays in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea since 2016. He thanks his sons, Mike and Sean, and Amanda, Sean’s wife, for their support. He also thanks the Town for supporting the Community Center’s theater arts program. As a budding old playwright, he's produced short plays including Endless Nights, Opening For Carlin, Larry and Title Pending.

Linda Drozdow

Linda Drozdow (Mariette Levieux) is delighted to be sharing the stage with these wonderful and talented actors in this production of The Dinner Party. She is very grateful for John Hernandez’s direction of this play. Linda recently performed in the Curtain Call Playhouse’s productions of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club and The Savannah Sipping Society. Linda and her twin sister, Laura, performed as dancers, as well as produced the artwork for the South Florida Tour of Gotta Dance and Broadway Love Songs with the M & M American Dance Theatre. She appeared in many productions with The J’s Cultural Arts Theatre in North Miami Beach, including her favorites, A Class Act, Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Eric Fields

Eric Fields (Albert Donay) is very excited to be back with the Seaside Players again in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea. His most recent appearance on stage with the Seaside Players was in April 2023 in their Short's Play Festival. Eric has previously performed with Delray Beach Playhouse, Curtain Call Playhouse and the Seaside Players in their semi-annual Sea Shorts Play Festival. HIs favorite on-stage part was that of Colonel Gileweather in Something’s Afoot. He thanks his partner and mom for supporting his theatre endeavors! In addition to acting, Eric also helped design, paint and construct the set for the production and has also done lighting and backstage managing.

Fran Friedman

Fran Friedman (Gabrielle Buonocelli) is thrilled to be a part of the Seaside Players first full-length production. She has acted locally and in her hometown of New York City for more than 25 years. Her favorite roles include Jeri Neal in The Sweet Delilah Swim Club, Ginger in Becky’s New Car and Julia in It’s Only a Play ((Curtain Call Playhouse); Sal in Wrinkles the Musical at Delray Beach Playhouse, and Julie in All Together Now at the Willow Theater with The Playgroup LLC. Fran is also one of the directors as well as an actor for the popular Sea Shorts Play Festival held at Jarvis Hall. Much love to Todd and her family for all their support.

John Hernandez

John Hernandez is thrilled to be directing the Seaside Players’ first full-length play. He has directed several South Florida productions including Becky’s New Car (Curtain Call Playhouse) and Wally’s Café (Down in Front Theater Company). John has appeared on-stage in over 30 productions in south Florida. His favorite roles include Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire), Barney Cashman (Last of the Red-Hot Lovers) and Robert Anderson (I Never Sang for My Father). John hopes this is the first of many quality productions to be brought to the stage by the Seaside Players. John thanks this great cast for making this such an enjoyable experience and you, the audience, for keeping live theater alive!

Jill Brown

Jill Brown is an actress who has been involved in various theatre productions, on stage and backstage, since she was 5-years-old. She is thrilled to work with Director John Hernandez and the talented cast of The Dinner Party, the Seaside Players first full-length play! She is also a cast member in the semi-annual Sea Shorts Play Festival. Thank you to Judy Goldstein and Ruby Hotter for being the best Assistant Stage managers anyone could ask for! Break a leg!