DANE DANDRIDGE CLARK (Carter, Fat Pig) is returning from Michigan to Sarasota to attend his second year at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. Favorite roles include Maximilian in Candide, Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost, Posthumous Leonatus in Cymbeline, and understudying Cleante in The Imaginary Invalid.

KIM CROW* (Mag, The Beauty Queen of Leenane) is delighted to debut with Banyan and proud to be a lifelong, working, theatre professional. Theater credits: Golda’s Balcony (Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta premiere; Florida Studio Theatre); Wit (Florida Repertory; Jacksonville Stage; Beacon Theatre, VA; Orlando Theatre Project); Parallel Lives, The Kathy & Mo Show (Cidermill Playhouse, NY; Gypsy Productions, St. Pete); Fire on the Mountain, Invasion of Privacy, An Inspector Calls (FST); Travels With My Aunt (Gorilla Theatre, Tampa); and Ibsen's Ghosts (Mad Cow Theatre, Orlando), among many others. Recent voiceovers: Banc Montreal, Siemens, Boston Scientific, Office Max, Kennedy Space Center. Recent feature films: Lurleen in Life’s a Drag and Claire in Drowning with Jenna Lamia. Kim is the featured voiceover mentor for VocationVacations.com. She is married to Drew Strouble, America’s premier cat artist.

MARGOT MORELAND* (Helen, Fat Pig) is excited to be revisiting the character of Helen back in Florida after performing Menopause the Musical at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville. Most recently seen in the critically acclaimed Florida production of Les Miserables and the world premiere of Bombshells, she has received the Carbonell award for her performances in Ruthless!, Tomfoolery, Heartbeats and Annie. Other favorites include Midlife: The Crisis Musical, Forum, Gypsy, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, I Love You…Now Change, Shear Madness (all over the country), Dirty Blonde, Closer Than Ever and Watercoolers. Miss Moreland has been adjunct faculty at University of Miami and Rollins College and takes great pride in her position on Council of Actors’ Equity Association.

SAM OSHEROFF* (Tom, Fat Pig) is thrilled to be back with the Banyan and treading the boards of the Cook stage where he last appeared in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory production of The Competition. Favorite roles include Stanley in Broadway Bound and Cecco the Pirate in Peter Pan (Asolo Rep), Morris in The Heiress and Jamie in The Last 5 Years (Peterborough Players), and Uncle Louie in Lost in Yonkers (Pioneer Theatre). Sam holds an M.F.A. from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory and is a proud member of Actors Equity.

JESSICA K. PETERSON* (Maureen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane) is delighted to be back with Banyan where she was last seen as Josie in A Moon For The Misbegotten. Recent credits include Hamlet, American Stage; The Glass Menagerie, Blowing Rock Stage, NC and the inaugural Voices at the River, African-American and Latino playwright-in-residence festival at Arkansas Rep. Other credits include Deathtrap, Maltz-Jupiter Theatre; Frozen and Anna in the Tropics at the Hippodrome Theatre, Gainesville. Favorite credits include Copenhagen, Gorilla Theatre, Tampa; Dinner With Friends and the U.S. premiere of A Prayer For Owen Meany, Playmakers’ Rep, NC; The Music Lesson at both the Dorset Theatre Festival, VT and Florida Stage, where she earned a Carbonell Award for best actress; Hysteria and A Park in Our House, Florida Stage (Carbonell nominations for both); How I Learned to Drive, Caldwell Theatre (Carbonell nomination); Fort Chaffee, Arkansas Rep; and Our Country’s Good, Warehouse Theatre, SC. She is a member of AEA and SAG.

BETHANY WEISE (Jeannie, Fat Pig) is a native of Illinois and a graduate student at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Conservatory credits include Infancy, The Rivers Under the Earth, and 3 Postcards at the Historic Asolo Theatre. Other Conservatory credits include The Tempest and The Imaginary Invalid as part of the Late Night Series. Favorite credits include Circe, The Odyssey; Bridget, Translations; Holly, Anton in Show Business; and Joanne, Company. Bethany has had the privilege of collaborating with Kostas Kastanis of the Greek National Theatre on a production of Oedipus, Chuck Davis of the African-American Dance Ensemble, and the Dell'Arte International Players. This is Bethany’s first season with the Banyan Theater Company.

DERRY WOODHOUSE* (Pato, The Beauty Queen of Leenane) is a native of Limerick, Ireland and has performed on both sides of the Atlantic. Recent credits include The Seafarer at the Speakeasy Theatre (Boston), Elliot Norton Award best ensemble, IRNE nomination best actor; Molly Sweeney (LA); Travesties, Public Theatre; Mojo Mickybo (NY); Stones In His Pockets (Boston, NY, Cincinnati, Europe); The Illusion, IRNE nomination best actor; and Women on the Verge of HRT, Molly Maguire, Freedom of the City, Well of the Saints, Famine, The Lepers of Baile Baiste, Sugan Theatre (Boston). World premieres include The Blowin of Baile Gall and Lepers by Ronan Noone, Ballast by Kathleen Rogers, The Weir at Gloucester Stage. Film credits include Deportation, The Busker and The Departed. Derry is a graduate of The Gaiety School of Acting.

Executive Director

Artistic Director

CAROLE KLEINBERG has directed over 70 plays, including award-winning productions of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Elephant Man. Audiences enjoyed her productions of Little Women and The Good Body at The Players of Sarasota, Nickel and Dimed at the Venice Theater, The Long Weekend and Mixed Emotions at the Island Players, and Crossing Delancey at the Lemon Bay Playhouse. She co-produced the Art Helps/Art Heals benefit for hurricane disaster relief at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center, and conceived and directed Movies that Changed My Life and Uncommon Woman: A Tribute to Wendy Wasserstein with the Women’s Theatre Collaborative.  Formerly, she was the education and outreach director for the Asolo Repertory Theatre, where she managed the Access to the Arts program for students, and co-produced the groundbreaking Kaleidoscope Musical Theatre Workshop. “Up north” Carole was professor of theater at Oakton Community College on Chicago’s north shore.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers