Deep Blue Sound

Arnie Burton

John

Broadway: Machinal, Peter and the Starcatcher, The 39 Steps, A Free Man of Color, Amadeus. Off Bway highlights: Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (Lortel nomination, featured actor), Lewiston/Clarkson (Drama Desk nomination, featured actor), The Government Inspector (Callaway Award), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Drama League nomination), The Tempermentals (Drama Desk Award ensemble), The New Yorkers (Encores), The Explorers Club (MTC), Lives of Saints, Mere Mortals (Primary Stages), Timon of Athens, The Winter's Tale, The Jew of Malta, The Merchant of Venice (TFANA), Tail!Spin!, The Last Sunday in June, Fairycakes. International: The Merchant of Venice (RSC). Film: The Greatest Showman, The Invention of Lying, Igby Goes Down, Game 6, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. TV includes: "The Other Two" (recurring season 3), "Evil", "Jessica Jones", "Search Party", "New Murphy Brown", "Elementary", "The Good Fight", "Blacklist", "White Collar", "Flesh & Bone" (recurring), "Blue Bloods", "Frasier", "Law & Order", "L&O Criminal Intent", "Caroline in the City", "Sister Sister". 

Crystal Finn

Mayor Annie

Also for Clubbed Thumb: Three iterations of Plano by Will Arbery, Usus, King Phillip’s Head…, 16 Words or Less, La Brea, Five Genocides. Other NY theater includes world premieres at Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, PlayCo, WP, Fulcrum, The Pool, 59E59, MTC. Crystal made her Broadway debut in Birthday Candles, by Noah Haidle, for which she won a Theatre World Award. TV/Film: “Babes,” “Kinda Pregnant,” “The Tick”. Her own play Find Me Here was produced with Clubbed Thumb last summer for Summerworks and was directed by Caitlin Sullivan. Other plays include her solo show, Becoming Liv Ullmann, The Faire, and Ms. Lily, which was developed with Clubbed Thumb for their Directing Fellowship. Recently, Crystal made her debut as a storyteller performing at “The Moth MainStage” at Sony Hall, and at the McCarter Theater in Princeton.

Jan Leslie Harding

Les

Last seen Off-Broadway in the Deep Blue Sound at Clubbed Thumb and at The Kennedy Center (DC) in Wilderness with En Guard Arts, with whom she also participated in Reza Abdoh’s groundbreaking site-specific play Father was a Peculiar Man set in the Meatpacking District of NY, Wellman’s Strange Feet at the Smithsonian in DC and Crowbar at the New Victory.  Jan Leslie is known for her collaborations with many masters of the Avant-Garde, most notably with Theodora Skipitarus and The Talking Band at La Mama, Richard Foreman at BAM, the Ontological Hysteric, and the Montreal Theatre Festival, and in many productions with Mac Wellman all over the country and abroad. She received an OBIE for her work in Wellman’s Sincerity Forever (BACA Downtown). Jan Leslie has participated in The Helsinki International Theatre Festival, the Whitney Biennial, is a longstanding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a founding member of the Flea.

Mia Katigbak

Joy Mead

NY: Uncle Vanya (Lincoln Center); The Headlands (LCT3); Annie Baker’s Infinite Life (Atlantic/National Theatre, London); Romeo and Juliet, Out of Time, Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only (US premiere), Henry VI (St. Clair Bayfield Award), Awake and Sing! (Obie Award) all with NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company); A Delicate Balance (Transport Group); Ivo van Hove’s Scenes from a Marriage (NYTW); Clubbed Thumb; Public Theater; Soho Rep; New Georges; WP; Ma-Yi; Target Margin. Regional: Two River Theater, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, The Guthrie. TV: “How to Get Away With Murder,” “The Sinner,” “Chicago PD.” Awards:  The Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity at Lincoln Center Theatre, USA Fellowship, TCG’s Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow for Distinguished Achievement, Special Drama Desk Award. Actor-Manager/Co-Founder of NAATCO. Education: BA, Barnard College; MA, Columbia University.

Ryan King

Gary

Most recently appeared in Racecar, Racecar, Racecar (The Hearth) and Open Throat (Little Island). Some favorites: the world premiere of Duncan MacMillan’s Lungs (Studio Theater/Barrington Stage), Plano (Clubbed Thumb), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theater), Dying City (Hartford Stage), Eurydice (Second Stage), 33 Variations (La Jolla Playhouse). As a playwright, he was a member of The Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group. He is also a screenwriter, including the recent films The Tutor on Netflix and Asphalt City, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. He attended the Yale School of Drama

Maryann Plunkett

Ella

Tony, Obie, & Drama Desk Award-winning actress and, this year, she and her husband Jay O. Sanders were jointly awarded a “Special Citation for Lifetime Achievement” by the NY Drama Critics Circle. She has toured Europe, China, and Australia with Richard Nelson’s trilogy The Gabriel Family Plays which first premiered at NY’s Public Theatre and was televised on PBS. Prior to that, she spent five years with Nelson’s tetralogy The Apple Family Plays also at the Public, on tour, and televised on PBS, as well as the most recent of Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck Panorama The Michaels. She is currently starring in the Broadway production of the new musical The Notebook for which she received a 2024 Tony Award nomination for “Best Actress in a Musical.” Other Broadway credits include Agnes of God, Sunday in the Park with George, Me and My Girl (Tony Award), The Crucible, St. Joan, A Man for All Seasons. Off-B’way: Juno & the Paycock and Plough in the Stars (Irish Rep O’Casey Festival), The Lucky Ones (Lortel Award nominee), Aristocrats, Rodney’s Wife, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Shaw, Theater of War. TV/film: ”New Amsterdam,” “Dr Death,” ”Manifest,”  “Chicago Med,” “Bull,” “House of Cards,” “The Knick,” “Om City.”  FILM credits:  Fairhaven, The Family Fang, MAD, Youth in Oregon, Blue Valentine, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood opposite Tom Hanks, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, and Showing Up winner of a 2024 Spirit Award for “Best Ensemble.”  Maryann is a proud member of SAG/Aftra & Actor’s Equity Association.

Armando Riesco

Chris

Played the title character in the Elliot Trilogy, which includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful (Lucille Lortel nomination - outstanding lead actor in a play). He has worked at 2nd Stage, Goodman Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, Hartford Stage, Victory Gardens, Wilma Theater, and others. IG @armandoriesco

Miriam Silverman

Mary

Won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her critically-acclaimed performance as ‘Mavis’ in the Broadway production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, as well as winning the 2023 Drama Desk Award for the same role at BAM. TV/ Film includes Breaking, "Dead Ringers" (Amazon), "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon), "Fleishman is in Trouble" (Hulu), "The Blacklist" (NBC) and "Blue Bloods" (CBS). Upcoming: "Your Friends and Neighbors" (Apple+), "The Night Agent" (Netflix), the independent features Motherland, and Sacrifice. Other Broadway / Theater includes Junk, Anatomy of a Suicide, You Got Older and more. Miriam has previously appeared in the Clubbed Thumb productions of Will Arbery’s Plano and Crystal Finn’s Find Me Here.

Carmen Zillas

Ali

Off-Broadway includes: Epiphany, Fefu and her Friends, Small Mouth Sounds, Scenes from a Marriage, Fuente Ovejuna, Little Women, Chimichangas & Zoloft, Adoration of the Old Woman, 7 Minutes, No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh. Regional: Top Girls, Another Word for Beauty, The Swindlers. Two seasons of Clubbed Thumb Winterworks. TV/Film: Bel Canto, Pimp, several appearances in the Dick Wolf Cinematic Universe. Training: Yale School of Drama.