ANULA NAVLEKAR is a film and theatre actor from India based in New York. Select Theatre credits include Twelfth Night (TheatreSquared), All the Lonely Women (Rattlestick Theatre). Film & Television credits include Killer Soup (Netflix), Prodigal Son (Fox). MFA Acting; Yale School of Drama ’20.

Michael Hisamoto (he/him/his) is an interdisciplinary theatre artist making his American Stage debut who has worked with The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Trinity Rep, South Coast Repertory, Lyric Stage Company Boston, New Rep, Hope Rep, SpeakEasy Stage, Wheelock Family Theatre, Williamstown Theater Festival, the Kennedy Center, HowlRound/ArtsEmerson, Boston Court Pasadena, The Yale Prize for Drama, Gloucester Stage, CompanyOne, The Watertown Children’s Theatre, Flat Earth Theatre, Fresh Ink Theatre, MIT, Harvard, Boston University, Brown University, Merrimack Rep, East West Players, Central Square Theater, The Boston Playwright’s Theatre, Plays in Place, Ojai Playwright’s Conference, The Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, Palm Beach Dramaworks, and more. A champion of new work, Michael has helped develop hundreds of new plays from first time playwrights to Tony winners and Pulitzer Prize finalists. Michael holds a commission by Central Square Theater to adapt Our Town for the city of Cambridge. Education: Orange County School of the Arts. BFA: Boston University. MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep. AEA. Former Co-Artistic Director of New Repertory Theatre. Board member of Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, former faculty at Boston University, current faculty at Bridgewater State University. michaelhisamoto.com | sevendevils.org

Gerrard Lobo (SAG-AFTRA) is a NYC-based stage, TV, and film actor. He recently played Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Ensemble Shakespeare Company. Gerrard has had Guest Star and recurring roles on various shows for Netflix, Hulu, CBS, NBC, and Comedy Central. Some credits include Master Of None, Orange Is The New Black, and Only Murders In The Building. He is thrilled to be playing Chillingworth in American Stage’s production of The Scarlet Letter. Gerrard would like to thank his fellow cast mates, the entire production team, his lovely wife Alice, and their two cats Sloopy and Mamma Ross. 

@gerrardobo www.gerrardlobo.com

Noa Friedman is incredibly excited to be a part of this cast and production. Recent credits include This Girl Laughs… (American Stage), Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (Jobsite Theater), Puffs (Jobsite Theater), Bad Jews (Sarasota Jewish Theatre), POTUS (Jobsite Theater), The Rocky Horror Show (Jobsite Theater), The Immigrant (Sarasota Jewish Theatre), The Immigrant (Stageworks Theatre), Twelfth Night (Jobsite Theater), All My Sons (Tampa Rep), Dracula (Jobsite Theater), The Crucible (Tampa Rep & ThinkTank), and The Wolves (ThinkTank). Special shoutout to Mom, Dad, Abigail, David, and Emma for all their love and support. @noamichelefriedman @noamichelephotography

Karen Sternberg (Goody Hibbins) is delighted to be part of her first show at American Stage. Previous work includes POTUS and Sense and Sensibility (Nebraska Repertory Theatre); The Book of Will, The Comedy of Errors, and The Tempest (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); A Streetcar Named Desire (Nashville Rep); Elephant Man and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Studio Tenn); Henry V (Nashville Shakespeare Festival); and Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Lake Theatre). In Nashville, she co-led the theatre company Pipeline-Collective, including its Salon program that supported the development of hundreds of new plays. Also for Pipeline, she co-produced and starred in a 12-hour live theatrical broadcast event that nabbed a regional Emmy nomination for technical achievement. An Orlando-based performer, Karen is a proud AEA and SAG-AFTRA member who most loves adventures with her husband and son.

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David Warner recently played Tampa Mayor Julian Lane in Stageworks’ When the Righteous Triumph, which toured to Washington, D.C. for the national conference of the American College of Trial Lawyers and whose audience included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Other credits include George in Courting and Art the Tortoise in Don’t Feed the Animals! for American Stage’s Beyond the Stage series; Claudius in Hamlet (Studio@620); Nurse/Escalus in Romeo & Juliet (Jobsite Theater); the world premiere of Doug DeVita’s Goddess of the Hunt at LAB Theater Project; and St. Petersburg City Theatre’s WWII radio-play adaptation of A Christmas Carol. He is a graduate of Harvard and Villanova and writes about the arts for Creative Loafing.