Cast
Oliver Sean David Demers
Orlando Ari Mack
Duke Frederick Michael Muldoon
Adam/Silvius Sean Coffey
Charles/Amiens Collin Orton
Celia Ariel Francoeur
Rosalind Amy Frey
Le Beau Melinda O’Brien
Duke Senior (July) Derek Tarson
Duke Senior (August) Larry Reina
Jacques Tal Aviezer
Phebe Caitlyn Alico Beckwith
Production Team
Directors Tal Aviezer & Amy Frey
Producer Tal Aviezer
Costume Design Carolyn Fuchs & Amy Frey
Music Director Amy Frey
Dance Choreographer Danielle Aviezer
Intimacy Choreographer Hilary Kelman
Fight Direction New York Combat for Stage and Screen
Fight Director Jared Kirby
Assistant Fight Director Collin Orton
Producers Tal Aviezer, Michael Muldoon, Melinda O’Brien
Production Stage Manager Mikaela Blanchard
Props Head Bret Comstock
Fight Captain Collin Orton
WHO’S WHO
Tal Aviezer (Producer/Co-Director/Jacques) is the Artistic Director of Red Monkey Theater Group (RMTG). Tal appears regularly as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot in an ongoing series of original stage adaptations of classic stories at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and Lyndhurst castle. Other acting credits for RMTG: Uncle Vanya, The Great Gatsby, Richard III, Monster: The Creation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, many others. RMTG/M&M Performing Arts: The Seagull, Hamlet. RMTG directing credits: Uncle Vanya, Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle, Voices & Echoes at Bartow-Pell: Masher, Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Twelfth Night, The Seagull, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, Three Sisters, many others. He has worked as a voice actor and voice director for video games and for numerous local and national radio stations. Tal is a writer for the Wildlife Conservation Society and is a professional Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master (cast-party.com).
Caitlyn Alico Beckwith (Phebe) is very excited to be back at Red Monkey Theater Group for a second time! A recent graduate, Caitlyn received her BFA in Theater Performance from Hofstra University, with a minor in musical theater. Her favorite past credits include: You Can’t Take It With You (Kolenkhov), The Amateurs (Rona), The Yellow Boat (Joy), State Fair (Melissa Frake). Recently, Caitlyn made her Off-Broadway debut in Pop Up! Productions’ Alexandria (Rheann) and is working on her first feature film right now. She thanks RMTG and M&M for this opportunity and sends her love to her friends and family, and especially her dad; from whom she gets her motivation and incredible jawline from. caitlynalicobeckwith.com
Mikaela Blanchard (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with Red Monkey Theater Group again. Mikaela started stage managing in high school for dance competitions while simultaneously helping her mother open her dance studio in CT, of which she is now part-owner. Throughout school, she worked with three different national competitions, two dance studios, and managed various large events and shows. In college, she started working with RMTG as a student intern on Rhinoceros in 2017, and has since worked on several productions with RMTG and others throughout New York City. Most recently, she was the Production Assistant for Humpty Dumpty at the Chain Theatre where she was their CUNY Cultural Corps Rockefeller Fellow for 2024-2025. Mikaela is currently working towards her Masters degree in Arts Administration at Baruch College. You can follow her journeys throughout NYC and life on instagram @mikaela_amelia
Sean Coffey (Adam/Silvius) is an actor based in Westchester, NY. He studied at Fordham University and has performed locally throughout the tristate area. Selected theater credits include: Dear Brutus (Mr. Lob, Alpha NYC Theater Company), Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig, Sherman Playhouse), Hedda Gabler (George Tesman, Red Monkey Theater), The Merchant of Curamo (Consul Benjamin Campbell, NY Theater Festival), Shadow of War (Alfred Harris, Chain Theater) Richard III (Lord Hastings, Red Monkey Theater), Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch, Screwdriver Studios), and Private Lives (Victor Prynne, M&M Productions). He serves as the resident dramaturg for Arachne Theater and has also appeared in their productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Julius Caesar (Octavius), Hamlet (Claudius) and his own solo adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Bret Comstock (Props Head) is so grateful and excited to be rejoining the Red Monkey Theater Group as their head of props for this production. It’s been a wonderful experience working with such a creative, passionate and kind group of theater professionals.
Sean David DeMers (Oliver) is a playwright and actor; this is their first show with RMTG. Some previous roles include Pistol in Henry V, Cornwall in King Lear, Henry IV in A Kingdom Jack’d, Husband in Machinal, Narrator/Mysterious Man in Into The Woods, and George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Sean was featured in two television movies for the History Channel: Conquest of America: Southeast and Witch Hunt. Sean’s first full length play, Faculty Portrait, was published last year by Samuel French.
Ariel Francoeur (Celia) is an actor and director. She appeared with RMTG as the Lady in Macbeth, Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Mrs. Bettencourt in Masher. She earned her MFA in Theater as an Iowa Arts Fellow at The University of Iowa, and her work has been seen throughout New York City, as well as in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and beyond. Her favorite directing credits are her husband’s play Faculty Portrait, a story of healing in the aftermath of gun violence, and meg, jo, beth, amy & louisa, a queer take on Little Women, which toured nationally.. Favorite acting roles include Melanie in Rough Magic and Izzy in Shelter. Check her out on Substack, on Enter Stage Left.
Danielle Aviezer (Dance Choreographer): Danielle has a BFA in Dance from University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has worked with her brother, Tal Aviezer, on many productions for Red Monkey Theater Group and is excited to return for this production. She is the co-founder of Thrive Barre and Fitness in Pelham, NY and currently serves as a lululemon Ambassador. She has been teaching barre for nearly 20 years throughout NYC, Westchester and Greenwich, CT and was trained by instructors from the original Lotte Berk Method. Danielle is a wife and a proud mama of 3.
Amy Frey (Co-director/Rosalind/Music Director/Costume Designer) is an actor, playwright, and occupational therapist. Favorite roles include Hamlet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, A Scandal in Bohemia, meg, jo, beth, amy & louisa, Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry the Eighth and many others. Her plays include Monster, Bluebeard’s Wife, Masher, and On The Eve (winner of the Bare Knuckle Theater Festival) as well as co-writing meg jo beth amy & louisa, (nominated for “Theater Unleashed” award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.) Her adaptations include Jane Austen’s Emma , Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia, Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Education: Columbia University, Muhlenberg College, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Moscow Art Theater (MXAT), and the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.
Hilary Kelman (Intimacy Choreographer) Recent IC work: The Great Gatsby (RMTG), Legend of the Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Christmas Carol: A Queer Fantasia (Tier5 Theatre Co). RMTG acting: Mary Godwin (Monster), Lady Anne (Richard III). Select credits: Every Seven Minutes (Lift-Off New Play Series), Postscript (Samuel French Short Play Festival), Henry IV, Part I (Southwest Shakespeare Co.). Tours: MGR Playhouse/The Rev, Hampstead Stage Company, Buran Theatre Company. Tier5: Catherine of Aragon in Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII (London, Edinburgh Fringe, Hollywood/DC Fringes, SSC), Louisa May Alcott and co-writer of meg jo beth amy & louisa (Center at West Park, Hollywood/DC Fringes, SSC). UK: Spring Storm (Arcola Theatre), Don Juan Comes Back… (Tristan Bates), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe/E15), Phaedra’s Love (Drayton Arms), The Tempest, Sleeping Beauty (E15). Produced/directed/wrote with Tier5. Teaching Artist. MFA Acting, East 15 Acting School (UK) and BA Theatre/French, University of Kansas.
Jared Kirby (Fight Director) has been involved in Combat for Stage & Screen and Western Martial Arts for 30 years. He choreographs off-off-broadway, off-broadway, broadway & teaches across the US and around the world (jaredkirby.com).
Ari Mack (Orlando) is an actor, dance/fight choreographer, and writer. He served as the choreographer for the Ramapo High School Players in Spring Valley, NY, from 2014 to 2021, having been affiliated with the group for 16 years. He was also the choreographer for the Cultural Arts Theatre at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY, and for the Rockland Shakespeare Company (2016–2024). In addition to his choreography work, Ari is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He devotes himself to various forms of writing, including poetry, playwriting, and podcasting. YouTube: @AriumX, @TheAriHour. IG and TikTok: @ari_mack027
Michael Muldoon (Producer, Duke Frederick)
New York Combat for Stage and Screen (Fight Direction): NYCSS has been active in NYC since 1999. Their goal on every production is to excite and captivate an audience with violence that enhances the story being told. Whether on film, tv, or stage, they create safe, realistic, & truthful moments that reveal character. Train in stage combat with classes 5 days a week: nycstagecombat.com
Melinda O’Brien (Producer, Le Beau) is a co-founder of M&M Performing Arts with her husband of 40 years and partner in everything, Michael Muldoon. M&M is the resident theater company of Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown NY where she has performed and directed over the last 13 years. She directed the M&M/RMTG productions of Sherlock Holmes adventures: The Blue Carbuncle, The Speckled Band, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Dying Detective, The Musgrave Ritual, The Dancing Men, The Red-Headed League, The Final Problem and The Brook Street Mysteries at Bartow-Pell and/or Lyndhurst Mansions. Some favorite acting credits: Gertrude in Hamlet, Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Rose in Dancing at Lughnasa, Bella in Lost in Yonkers, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, Karen in Dinner with Friends, Lenny in Crimes of the Heart, Elvira in Blithe Spirit, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Esther in The Price, Elmire in Tartuffe and Mrs. Cheveley in An Ideal Husband.
Collin Orton (Assistant Fight Director) has a BFA in acting from Marymount Manhattan college, and has been working with NYCSS since 2019.
Larry Reina (Duke Senior-August) is happy to be appearing once again with his friends at M&M Performing Arts and Red Monkey Theater Group. Select roles NYC: Henry VI (Winchester) (Atlas Shakespeare Co.); Fool for Love (Old Man) (Arts On Site); The Pause (NY Theater Festival); Richard III (Buckingham), King Lear (title role), Hamlet (Claudius), Three Sisters (Tuzenbakh), Twelfth Night (Malvolio) (RMTG). Regional: The Humans (Elmwood Playhouse, Nyack); Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem (Moriarty) (RMTG, M&M); Parade (White Plains Performing Arts Centre); Midsummer Night’s Queen (Lawn Chair Theatre, Westchester Co.); Blithe Spirit (M&M Productions); Laramie Project (Clocktower, Irvington). More info: https://www.backstage.com/u/
Derek Tarson (Duke Senior-July) began his theatrical path at Nyack High School in 1978. Since then, he has performed in or directed 179 shows. He appeared off-off-Broadway in the leading role of Professor Rath in The Blue Angel in 1998. Favorite acting roles include Joe Keller in All My Sons which he performed in 2023 with Star Royale Theatre and again in 2024 at Iona University, as well as Vanya in Uncle Vanya (for RMTG in 2012), and Torvald in A Doll’s House, Part 2. Favorite plays he’s directed include You Should Be So Lucky and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Derek is a life member and president of Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack and appears in numerous Hudson Valley community theaters. He is the Deputy Director for the Civil Division at the Legal Aid Society of Rockland County, specializing in foreclosure defense for homeowners.