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Deep Blue Sound

Writen by Abe Koogler

Abe’s plays include Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons), Fulfillment Center (Manhattan Theatre Club, Obie Award,, Kill Floor (Lincoln Center Theater), Aspen Ideas (Studio Theatre), Lisa My Friend (Kitchen Dog), and Blue Skies Process (Goodman Theatre).

Abe has won an Obie Award in Playwriting, the Weissberger Award, the Dramatists Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, and Theater Master’s Standing Ovation Award. He earned graduate degrees in playwriting from UT-Austin and Juilliard. His plays have been directed by Arin Arbus, Morgan Green, Daniel Aukin, Lila Neugebauer, Les Waters, and Will Davis, among others. He also works as a political speechwriter.

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Leslie

Emily Arancio 

Emily Arancio is a NYC-based actor and a recent graduate of USC's MFA Acting program. She can be seen as Zinnia in the 2025 independent film Motherland. She is thrilled to be in Vermont for Haybarn Summer Theatre's production of Deep Blue Sound.

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Winona Weber

Winona Weber is so excited to be a part of GIDA's Deep Blue Sound. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California. Recent credits include Nina in Stupid Fucking Bird, directed by Andrei Belgrader and Dogdick, by Larson Rainier. Winona is a member of Antinomy Theatre Company and can be found developing new work in questionable warehouses throughout greater Los Angeles. When not onstage, she can be found reading, or watching her dog, Lucca, who remains her favorite actor.

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Homeless Gary

Tim Reid

Tim Reid is a writer, performer, and inconstant collaborator. He has been an ensemble member with the Neo-Futurists (Chicago) and Gawdafful National Theater (Los Angeles), among others, and his plays have been presented widely. He is currently a PhD candidate at NYU Performance Studies.

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Mayor Annie

Casey Landman

Casey Landman  is an actor who says ‘y’all’ despite being born and raised in New York. She’s an NYU Tisch alum who truly thrived at a school with no football team, despite making her way to Los Angeles at USC for her MFA. (She did not go to one game. Oops.) She finds talking in the third person bizarre and is addicted to Diet Coke. When she’s not on stage or screen, you can find Casey inhaling reality TV, playing Mahjongg, and wondering if she is actually allergic to penicillin. When she *is* on stage or screen, she’s freaking stoked to be there. She can't WAIT to reprise her role as Mayor Annie. Casey couldn’t have done anything without the support and love of her parents.

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Montserrat Videla Samper 

Montserrat Videla Samper is an actor, director, and theatre maker. She works across a wide variety of performance forms, including text-based theatre, performance art, dance, and film. Her collaborations have taken place in both English and Spanish, as well as nationally and internationally. She’s a recent graduate of USC’s MFA Acting program and is absolutely thrilled to be a part of GIDA’s inaugural artistic ensemble this summer. 

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Ella

Kristina Lear

Kristina was born and raised in Vermont; her parents met in the dining hall on the Goddard campus and worked on productions together in the Haybarn. Kristina’s first artistic home was as an acting member of the Circle Repertory Theater LAB in NYC, often shepherding plays from first reading through production and working with writers such as Paula Vogel, John Bishop. Darrah Cloud, and Lanford Wilson and directors Anne Bogart, Michael Warren Powell, and Jeff Zinn. Kristina co-created the series The System... continue reading full bio.

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Jere Burns

NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. New York Shakespeare Festival. Off-Broadway, Exonerated. Steppenwolf’s Award-Winning True West at The Cherry Lane. Regional Theatre Tyson, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Old Globe in San Diego. ​Jere broke through in Film and Television with the role of ‘Kirk Morris’ in Dear John and cemented his reputation with series regulars on Good Morning Miami, Bob, Something So Right, and Help Me Help You. Most recently, he recurred on FBI, NCIS: LA, and Hulu’s Death and Other Details opposite Mandy Patinkin. Other notable recurring roles include Netflix’s Dead to Me, and CBS’s All Rise. Previous television work includes Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here and AMC’s Breaking Bad opposite Aaron Paul. Additional series regular roles include four seasons on the TBS comedy Angie Tribeca and six seasons as the notorious drug dealer ‘Wynn Duffy’ in FX’s Emmy-winning drama Justified. 

Broadway theatre credits include Elaine May’s After the Night and the Music and Hairspray at the Neil Simon Theatre. 

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Vincent Williams

Vincent R. Williams is excited to join GIDA/HaSTE for this upcoming season. LA credits include: Octopus' Garden (Boston Court Playhouse). Regional credits include: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Romeo and Juliet (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); King Hedley II (International Black Theatre Festival). Television credits include: Empire and Chicago Fire. Vincent is a recipient of the Mable P. Robinson Emerging Artist Award and is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Southern California.

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Joy Meade

Sabina Zúñiga Varela

Sabina Zúñiga Varela considers herself bi-residential between her homeland of New Mexico and her found-land of Los Angeles. In addition to ABQ and LA, as a regional theatre actor she has collected theatre homes in Ashland, Dallas, San Francisco, Portland, New York, and Pasadena.

 

As a part-time faculty member at the School of Dramatic Arts at USC Sabina most recently performed in a production of Craig Lucas’ Blue Window, directed by David Warshofsky, where she got to work alongside the third year graduate students in their thesis production. Other credits include American Crime season 3, Snowfall seasons 3&4, Madame Secretary Season 6 or in the indie film Serpentine Pink. 

 

Outside of the industry circles Sabina holds an MA in Special Education from UNM, is an avid reader, pastel artist, florist, collector of earrings, postcard writer and dog mom to a 62lb Pocket American Bully rescue named Fiesta!

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