The City Between Them at The Tank

EIKE ROSS (Aldrich & Douglas) is from Chistochina, Alaska. They have a BA from University of Alaska, Fairbanks, completed Atlantic Acting School's full time conservatory program, and are a founding member and the current artistic director of The Clementine Players. Recent work: Harriet in Woman of God, Buckingham in The Woke Tragedy of Richard III, and The Sheriff in Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical.

FRANK FARRELL (Playwright & Director) directed Rachel Carson Speaks for the Environmental Justice Players this past April and was the adaptor of Declaration, a musical based on the Declaration of Independence at New Jersey’s The Hermitage in August. In August 2025 he directed Little Jewel at the Theatre for the New City in NYC. In 2024 he co-produced and directed Walt Kelly’s Songs of the Pogo as part of the New York City Fringe Festival, produced Hamlet on the Run at the Tank Theater and co-produced and directed Tongs and Bones Shakespeare at the Theater for the New City, he directed Little Women, Poe: An Evening of Mystery and the Macabre and Dickens Presents A Christmas Carol for the Hermitage in New Jersey. Frank produced and directed Shakespeare’s Ladies at Tea and Shakespeare’s Deaths as part of the Little Shakespeare Festival in NYC in 2023. He was an actor in Chicago for 40 years receiving four Joseph Jefferson acting nominations and returned to NYC and New Jersey in 2016. While in Chicago he directed and produced plays for the Free Shakespeare Theatre Company, Temporary Theatre, Shakespeare’s Herd, Steppenwolf Theater, Raven Theatre, Equity Library Theater Chicago, the North Lakeside Players, Citadel Theater, and Theatre-Hikes. Frank has formed eight theatre companies including the Free Shakespeare Theatre Company (Chicago’s first year-round Shakespeare theatre company), Theatre-Hikes, the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company in Grand Haven, Michigan and in 2019 the First Flight Theatre Company. For FFTC he directed and produced 2022’s production of Maxwell Anderson’s play Valley Forge. Frank has published six plays by Anderson from the 1920s: What Price Glory, First Flight, The Buccaneer, Outside Looking In, Gods of the Lightning and Sea-Wife all available at Amazon.com.

BENJAMIN MASTERTON (Sound Design) composed the music for and co-adapted the musical Declaration this past August at the Hermitage in New Jersey. He has composed and arranged music for dozens of productions in Chicago, Florida, New York, and of course, Idaho.  With Frank Farrell Productions, Ben has composed music and designed sound in New Jersey for A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Night of the Living Dead, and musicalized an evening of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.   Frank and Ben also produced the Songs of the Pogo franchise, including the Songs of the Pogo Podcast, the film, and the theatrical stage show in New York City.  Ben is currently composing music for the short film “Callahan’s Hour.” Ben has written over a hundred and ninety songs and currently resides in Gainesville, Florida.