Princeton Summer Theater Introduces 2013 Company

Princeton Summer Theater returns for its 45th Season with a strong line-up of four diverse, challenging plays, from Golden Age musical theater to contemporary drama. A full-time company of six actors, all current Princeton students or '13 graduates, fearlessly prepares to tackle this incredible range of roles and styles. PST introduces the remarkable young talents who will take the Hamilton Murray stage this summer.

Maeve Brady is back for her second season in the PST Company. A resident of Cranford, NJ and member of the Princeton class of 2015, she most recently appeared as Old Lady/Blair Daniels in the Lewis Center for the Arts's production of Sunday in the Park with George and as Queen Eilzabeth the First in Elizabeth Rex with Princeton Shakespeare Company. Maeve also took her talents to the international stage last summer, playing Sarah Jane Moore in Sondheim's Assassins at the Edinbourgh Fringe Festival.

Holly Linneman is a '13 graduate of Princeton University, where she received a degree in English with a certificate in Theater. At Princeton, Holly starred in Sunday in the Park With George as Dot. Other roles at Princeton have included Ophelia in Hamlet, Shelley in Bat Boy, Rachel in the world premiere of Andrea Grody's Strange Faces, and Mary Lane in Reefer Madness. She too traveled across the pond to spend a semester at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where she performed in The Country Wife as Mrs. Squeamish and Hamlet as Gertrude.

Pat Rounds, a rising junior at Princeton majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a certificate in Theater, makes his Princeton Summer Theater debut this year. He last appeared in The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio at Princeton. Other recent roles include Sam Byck in Assassins at the Edinbourgh Fringe Festival and ensemble member of the Princeton Triangle Club's Tree's Company, Forest's a Crowd.

Sarah Paton of Basking Ridge returns to PST this year after performing in 2012's Gaslight, Boeing-Boeing, and The American Plan. At Princeton, she starred in Dead Man's Cell Phone, In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, and Daniel Rattner's O Where Are You Going at Princeton University. She graduated from Princeton this year with a degree in Religion and certificate in Theater.

Evan Thompson joins Maeve and Sarah as the third returning PST Company member. He is a rising senior at Princeton concentrating in Philosophy with a certificate in Theater. Previous acting credits include Fred in Kiss Me, Kate, Jamie in The Last Five Years, and Booth in Assassins. Last year, Evan performed as Fredrik in PST's A Little Night Music, Mr. Manningham in Gaslight, and Bernard in Boeing-Boeing.

Brad Wilson from Montgomery, NJ enters his first season as a PST Company Member, having previously appeared as a guest artist in 2010'sMisalliance. He graduated this year with a Theater certificate and a degree in English from Princeton University, where he sang with the Princeton Nassoons, directed Kiss Me, Kate for the Lewis Center for the Arts, and performed as Heisenberg in Copenhagen, as George in Sunday in the Park with George, and as the title role in Hamlet.

Princeton Summer Theater places 2013 Season in the capable hands of these six dynamic performers. For rehearsal photos, quotes, and the latest company news, follow PST_2013 on Twitter, visit the company blog at www.princetonsummertheater.tumblr.com, and join the PST mailing list by emailing princetonsummertheater@gmail.com.

For more information, go to www.princetonsummertheater.org. For tickets, visit www.SmartTix.com or call (877) 238-5596.

Pictured: Princeton Summer Theater's 2013 Company, featuring (from left to right) Pat Rounds, Maeve Brady, Evan Thompson, Sarah Paton, Brad Wilson, and Holly Linneman.