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Matthew Wright (Director) is a professional actor and director who has worked in regional theaters across the country. He has taught acting and voice for the actor at various training programs such as The Ohio State University, Wright State University and Florida Atlantic University where he was the head of actor training for six years. Awards include the 1997 Carbonell Award for Best Actor (the south Florida "Tony"); Who's Who Among American University Teachers; 1995 Distinguished Teacher of The Year Award - Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of California, San Diego. Since joining the Oberlin College faculty in 2002, Mr. Wright has performed in Tony Kushner's The Illusion (The Lunatic), and directed The Oberlin Shorts Festival last spring. At Oberlin College Mr. Wright teaches various courses in scene study and voice and speech for the actor. He most recently appeared in The Fix at The Beck Center for the Arts, directed by Scott Spence.
Richard Haratine (Colonel Vershinin) is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program. He has toured extensively around the United States with the National Shakespeare Company playing the roles of Romeo in Romeo & Juliet and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has also played the roles of Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest and the King of Navarre in Love's Labour's Lost at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.