DOUBT, A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley at Interact Theatre Company

Marc Valera

This role is Marc's third with Interact after "Just Another Birthday in Bedlam" in 2021 and "Tally's Folly" in 2020. He closed "All My Sons" after a seven-month run playing Chris Keller right before the pandemic began. Other favorite recent theater credits include Bernard in "Boeing Boeing," Rudy in "King o’ the Moon," and many roles over ten years in "Snapshots," the annual Susan Komen benefit. Marc has recurred and guest-starred on many television shows including The Good Doctor, CSI, Desperate Housewives, and Melrose Place. He is a proud graduate of Loyola Marymount University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Anne Gee Byrd

ANNE GEE BYRD has performed locally at The Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas, Geffen, Pasadena Playhouse, La Mirada, and the Ensemble in Santa Barbara as well as across the country including ACT in San Francisco, The American Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Great Lakes Theater Festival, Indiana Repertory, The La Jolla Playhouse, The McCarter Theatre, The Old Globe in San Diego, Seattle Repertory, and South Coast Repertory. She is very active in LA waiver theater and is a staunch member of the Antaeus Theatre Company. She has received four Drama Critics Circle Awards and numerous Ovation nominations. Her recent television credits include 911, CSI Los Angeles, How to Get Away with Murder, The Colony, Shameless, Murder in the First, and Rake. "Delighted to be working with Interact, a company I have long admired."

Stacey Farber

STACEY FARBER is best known internationally for her lead role on the groundbreaking Canadian television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. For seven years, Stacey played Ellie Nash who became one of Degrassi’s most prominent and beloved characters at the height of the show’s popularity abroad. Most recently, Stacey starred in the Hallmark movie Butlers In Love and recurred in Netflix’s hit series Virgin River and as a villain in CW’s Superman & Lois. Stacey has also performed in comedic and dramatic TV shows like Grace and Frankie (Netflix), Schitt’s Creek (Pop TV), Diggstown (CBC/BET+), Chicago Justice (NBC), The Brave (NBC), Ryan Hanson Solves Crimes on TV (YouTube Red), Animal Kingdom (TNT), Saving Hope (IonTv / CTV), and UnReal (Lifetime).

Kacie Rogers

Two-time NAACP Award winning actress, Kacie Rogers, received her classical training at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts. You can find Kacie on screen in her leading role in the feature film, "LowLow" available on Paramount+ as well as on Television in upcoming episodes of You, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Grace & Frankie. She has also had the opportunity of working with several prestigious theatre companies in the Los Angeles area including The Robey Theatre Co., Brimmer Street Theatre Co., The Road Theatre Co., Circle X, Theatre40, the Bootleg Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Greenway Court, The Getty Villa, Sacred Fools Theatre Co., The Skylight Theatre, IAMA, Inkwell Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre Company, and Playwrights Arena.

Cate Caplin

CATE CAPLIN has produced, directed, and choreographed over 200 productions and her work has been seen on television, in films, music videos, commercials, and in theatrical venues worldwide from the Paris Opera House to the Broadway Stage. She is a 34-time Regional and International Theatrical Ballroom Dance Champion, a published writer and an acting and dance coach. Cate wrote and directed her first feature film, Mating Dance which played the festival circuit and won an Accolade Award and Best Indie Feature at NYC’s Oniros Film Festival 2021. She has been the recipient of a Garland Award, a Women In Theatre Red Carpet Award, multiple LA Stage Alliance Ovation, Eddon and Scenie Awards and an Award of Excellence from the LA Film Commission for her work as a Writer, Director, Choreographer and Producer. Cate is a Directing member of Actors Studio West, an Associate Member of SDC, and was honored to receive Playwright Arena’s “Lee Melville Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles Theatre Community." She is currently in pre-production to direct her next feature film later this summer and is delighted to be a part of this wonderful series in collaboration with her friends and colleagues at Interact.

Barry Heins

BARRY HEINS (Producer/ ITC Artistic Director) was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Upon graduation from The Juilliard School (BFA, Drama), he toured forty-five states with five plays as a member of The Acting Company, including Michael Langham's production of "Twelfth Night" and Alan Schneider's 25th Anniversary production of "Waiting for Godot." Broadway: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" starring Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, and the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Good" starring Alan Howard. Off-Broadway: "An Enemy of the People" starring Roy Dotrice (Roundabout Theatre), "The Boys Next Door" (Lambs Theatre), "On the Verge" (John Houseman Theatre), "Ten by Tennessee" (Lucille Lortel Theatre), and "Spring Awakening" (NYSF/Public Theatre). Favorite film and TV roles: "Baby Boom," "Fear of a Black Hat," and "Grace and Frankie." Favorite regional theater roles: Ben in "The Sunshine Boys" with Eddie Bracken and Lou Jacobi, and Norman in "And a Nightingale Sang" with John Slattery. Los Angeles: Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" at The Ford Theater (Drama-Logue Best Actor) and Interact's productions of "Other People's Money" (Pico Playhouse) and the West Coast premiere of the Mark Rylance & Louis Jenkins comedy "Nice Fish." In addition to his work as a voiceover actor, Heins has taught voice and speech at the professional actor training programs of NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Playwright's Horizons Theater School, SUNY Purchase College, and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NYC). Heins produced ITC's "The Pulitzer Prize Winners: 10 Plays from 10 Decades" for the Los Angeles Public Library, directing "You Can't Take It With You" and "The Great White Hope." He recently produced and directed ITC's first forays into short films, "Faultless" and "Just Another Birthday in Bedlam," receiving Best Indie Filmmaker at Top Shorts Film Festival and a 2021 Telly Award for Best Remote Production Online.