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NICK THOMAS (Playwright | Michael) is an actor, writer and director from Melbourne, Australia. Recently seen in THE SHAKESPEARE RIOTS (Bay Street Theatre).  Acting credits with spit&vigor include MARY’S LITTLE MONSTER, ECTOPLASM, THE WAKE OF DORCAS KELLY, HIT YOUR MARK, DIE BEAUTIFUL and THE BRUTES, he recently made his off-broadway directing debut with BLOOD COUNTESS.   He also writes, produces and directs original online content with his company Blunderbuss. He was a house team performer and teacher  at the Peoples’ Improv Theatre (The PIT).

Nick has been sober for eleven years.

SARA FELLINI (Elizabeth | production design) is an award-winning playwright, director, actress, and skilled artisan. Her first play, HAZARD A LITTLE DEATH, was nominated for six awards at the 2014 NYC Planet Connections Theater Festivity including Best Production of a New Play and Best Lead Actress (Sara Fellini), winning Best New Script. She performed in the monodrama THE OTHER MOZART by Sylvia Milo at The Players Theatre in NYC and toured with the production (winning Cat5 magazine’s Best Theater Production of 2015, “the voice of a crystal bell, Fellini is captivating” –NOLA Defender), and created the role of Maeve Shourd in a site-specific production of IN VESTMENTS, a play of her own writing and winner of two NYIT awards, nominated for Outstanding New Full-Length Script, earning her theater company the Donn Russell grant, and acclaimed by the NYTimes as "wrenching and visually eloquent". She has appeared in another play of her own writing, THE EXECUTION OF MRS. COTTON (called "darkly humorous" and "deliciously ghoulish" by the NYTimes) as part of IRT Theater's 3B Residency. She played Mary Shelley in MARY’S LITTLE MONSTER by Thomas Kee at the mudlark public theatre in NOLA, The Davenport Theatre in NYC as part of the Davenport space grant, and intimately at Torn Page, the historic home of Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. She played baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi in her play NEC SPE / NEC METU at The Tank’s July 2017 DarkFest, at Theater Row as part of United Solo Festival, at the mudlark public theatre in NOLA, and by special invitation at The Glitter Box in Pittsburgh, PA. She played Asia Booth Clarke in THE BRUTES ("irresistibly dramatic, legitimately upsetting" - The NYTimes) by Casey Wimpee at The Flamboyan as part of The 10th Anniversary Planet Connections Festivity, nominated for 8 awards including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Costume Design (both Sara Fellini). That production was invited by the Booth family to perform annually at The Players, Edwin Booth's historic home. During quarantine, she wrote and directed LUNA ECLIPSE, a one-shot livestream film, chosen as one of TIME OUT's Best Online Theater Productions, and she recently made her off-broadway performing and directing debut in THE WAKE OF DORCAS KELLY at The Players Theatre, a play she both wrote and directed, chosen as part of The Observer's Best Summer Theater of 2021. Her company spit&vigor has an ongoing off broadway Artistic Residency at The Players Theatre and as part of that residency she has gone on to write, direct, and perform in ECTOPLASM, (“tenacity ground into every red velvet seat - in other words, I love it” - Vulture), and she starred in BLOOD COUNTESS by Kelleen Conway Blanchard as the blood-hungry Elizabeth Bathory this past January. 

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GEORGE WALSH  (Richard) has been  stage manager and tech director for various spit&vigor productions including Mary’s Little Monster  and Hit Your Mark, Die Beautiful!!!   He has studied improv and acting for many years at New York City's renowned People's Improv Theater, The Magnet Theater, and HB Studios. Some of his roles include the father in The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by John Patrick Shanley and the role of Ian in “The Other Place” by Sharr White. He's performed with groups Blunderbuss, Fairfield of Dreams and FSU and has performed at the NYC Improv Festival, Sketchfest, Solocom, and Fake Church.  He also co-wrote and acted in the web series Return of the Green Dragon. He also teaches  and writes comedy for the Improvisor’s Mindset with Dion Flynn working with Fortune 500 Companies and improv training classes and workshops.  

Liv Vordenberg (Sarah) is a born and raised New Yorker. A theatre kid since the age of eight, they went on to pursue a BFA in Acting from Pace University with a more recent focus in voiceover work. With credits like Samsung, Pepsi Zero Lite, and Squarespace, Liv is thrilled for the chance to break the fourth wall on stage as Mary. Liv is an accomplished Shakespearian actor, a fine baker of cakes, and an avid podcast and audiophile. Catch them on their storytelling podcast, Short Stack Stories, or playing Overcooked at home with their cats. Liv wishes many thanks and much love to their loved ones, and hopes you enjoy the show!

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Jesse Metz (Charlie) is a New York based actor, director, and all around creative. He is thrilled to be making his spit&vigor debut. While Jesse has performed in many different capacities and mediums throughout his career, he feels most at home on the stage. Past credits include The Vandal, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Spring Awakening. When not creating art, Jesse can be found engaging in political activism, cheering for his Detroit sports teams, and grooving along to live music. Jesse invites you all to be bold, be brave, and keep an open mind. Love to all, but mostly to Toothless, his cat.

RANDY ARBUJO (Blake) Randy is an actor, poet and director from Brooklyn New York, and recent graduate from Brooklyn College’s BFA Acting program. At Brooklyn College, he wrote and starred in an original solo show, The Tales of Who, directed by Nikkole Salter. Other Brooklyn College credits include; Derecho, by Noelle Viñas and The Tuesday Club murders, an original play by Lauren Zeftal. He’s also directed Shut the Front Door by Max Sharam as part of HB Studio’s 6/12 Play Reading Festival. He was also in various play readings for the Red Mic Repertory Company; Frost/Nixon, Golden Pond and She Kills Monsters. Recently, he started a new original project where you can find him on Instagram, @whosscript, where he shows his process of self-tapes and collaboration work with other fellow actors. He believes the beauty of life is everyone has a journey and the tragedy however is not every journey is told so, that is why artists are born. 

Azumi Tsutsui (Diana) is from Osaka, Japan. She appeared in advertisements and commercials such as Adobe, Renaissance Hotel, Ritz, and Kiehl's. She played Tranio/Bianca/Hortensio/Tailor in the comedy adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. She enjoyed playing Murderer in Macbeth because she likes stage combat and stage violence. In feature films, she played the role of Interviewer in "The Vanishing of Sidney Hall" and Good Angel in "Apocalypsis." She hosted a Japanese TV show, "Made in NY." Her major voice over works are Google Pixel Help Video, "Mettle Creek" (animation) and "Metanoid" (animation on adult swim https://youtu.be/p0zQ_IHW8ZI) . If anyone asks her what the craziest thing she has done on stage was, she would say it was when she ate paper (edible) in an art installation performance at Swiss Institute.

She is a resident actor of "Hamlet Isn’t Dead". She plays the French horn. She has black belt in Aikido, has been trained in stage combat and fencing, and Japanese sword fighting. http://www.azumitsutsuiactress.com/