Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike - June 15 - June 30, 2023
Crescent City Stage
Who's Who
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Doug Spearman
as Vanya
decided to make New Orleans home right before the Pandemic. Since then he’s been looking for an opportunity to get up on stage in his adopted home town. He’s very pleased to be part of CCS’s third production. Doug’s passion for acting started at age 6 when he got to play the 3rd shepherd from the left in the Ridgecrest Elementary School Christmas Play. Of course, he wanted to be the Tin Soldier, but Karl Artist got that. Freaking Karl Artist.... Doug majored in Theater Performance and Directing and Television Production and Directing at Indiana University. Over the forty plus years of his career, some of Doug’s favorite roles include Bernie in Screen Test: Take One. Lance Corporal Dawson in A Few Good Men, John the Baptist in Solome, Michael in The Ice Pick, Raucious in The Hollow Lands, and the god Dionysus in The Bacchae. On TV, Doug is probably best known for playing Professor Chance Counter on the groundbreaking LGBT series from LOGO TV, Noah’s Arc.
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Jana Mestecky*
as Sonia
recently directed Cry It Out for CCS. She has appeared on stage at The New Group, Cherry Lane, The Mint, Gene Frankel Theatre, Lincoln Center, Ernie Martin Studio Theatre, DR2, Astoria Symphonic Choir, Playhouse on Park, Shakespeare and Co (Paris), The Players Club, Little Light Productions, and Bleecker Street Theatre. She was also a resident member of The New Globe Theatre and Rep Theatre of St. Louis’ Imaginary Theatre Company. Nationally, she has performed in film, TV, and commercials. With a BA in French & Theatre and an MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School, Jana trained at The American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco) Théâtre des Cinquantes (Paris) and The Actors Studio (NYC). Faculty appointments include Chair of Fine Arts at Ben Franklin, NOCCA, Loyola University, Le Petit, Southeastern LA Univ, Spence School (Chair), St. John’s Univ., BWL, and The Buckley School. She is a proud member of the professional unions AEA and SAG-AFTRA.
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