(DAVE, TERRY, JOHNNY) Adam Kee is an Actor & VO Artist in NYC. He also does Stand Up Comedy and is an active Teaching Artist (Acting, Dialects/Accents, Voice). Adam received his MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio / New School, with additional training from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Adam recently portrayed Bob Cratchit in the Secret Theatre production of A Christmas Carol. Additional NYC Credits include: In the Heat of the Night (Mr. Endicott, 59E59 Theatres), Except Mr. Dickinson (John Dickinson, Arts Committee of 15th Street, NYC), Frankenstein: The Musical & Lili Marlene (St. Luke’s Theatre), Pilo Family Circus (Winston, Godlight Theatre Co). Regional: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Mr. Harding, Playhouse on Park CT), On Golden Pond (Bill Ray, Winnipesaukee Playhouse, directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter/playwright Ernest Thompson), The Glass Menagerie (Tom, Winni Playhouse, *NH Theatre Award Best Actor in a Play), A Streetcar Named Desire (Mitch, M & D Productions, NH); Film: The Garden Left Behind (Thomas, Queens Pictures, starring Ed Asner). He is a Member of the Actors Studio, and is a Member of AEA. Represented by About Artists Agency, NYC.

(CARMEL) ANNALISA CHAMBERLIN is a film and theater actor. She attended the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and was a resident actor at Wallis Knot Theater, and The Cry Havoc Company. Film and TV: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC Universal); Sex, Guaranteed (Amazon Prime); The Locksmith (Amazon Prime); In Defense of Civil Society (Diversity at Cannes). Theater: Between Two Worlds (HERE); Paper (Hudson Guild); Hamlet (Wallis Knot Theatre); Oh My! The Musical (IRT); Daughter of the Waves (NYMF); The F*ck Am I Doing? (NYMF); For Goodness Sake (4th Street Theater at NY Theater Workshop); Boann and the Well of Wisdom (Origin 1st Irish, premiere); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Millbrook Playhouse, PA).

(SALLY,GINA) Barrie Kreinik is an actor, singer, writer, and audiobook narrator based in New York City. Her theatre credits include The Dead, 1904 (Irish Rep), When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout (Fallen Angel Theatre), 39 Steps (Union Square Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (Goodspeed Musicals), and The How and the Why (Trinity Rep). As a singer and songwriter, she has performed at Birdland, 54 Below, The Bitter End, and the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Her debut EP, Unlearning, was released in 2019. She is the Audie Award-winning narrator of over 175 audiobooks and the author of the forthcoming audio drama The Queen of Fourteenth Street, produced by Hachette Audio. She also writes a creative nonfiction blog called Points of View. Barrie holds an MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity Rep and a BA in Theatre and English from Cornell. Find out more at barriekreinik.com. IG: @barriebarriepix.

(JIM) John Charles McLaughlin is a New York based singer and actor. A resident member of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, he performs in NYC and on tour as the tenor Nanki-Poo in their reimagined production of The Mikado. John has premiered a number of roles with the cell theatre in their productions of Crackskull Row (also at Irish Repertory Theatre), Larry Kirwan’s Hard Times, Rady & Bloom’s Peter/Wendy, and Marianne Driscoll’s McGoldrick’s Thread and The Biscuit Club. Other local performances have included a turn as John Lawless in the 50th Anniversary concert of Disney's The Happiest Millionaire at Joe's Pub. TV/Film: FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), The Plot Against America (HBO). Originally from Hammond, IN he is a graduate of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and a member of AEA. www.jcmclaughlin.com ig: @portionctrls here

(THERESA) Broadway: Hangmen. West End: Sound of Music. Off Broadway: Translations, The Shaughraun, Ernest In Love, It’s a Wonderful Life, Burial at Thebes, & A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Irish Rep), Belle of Belfast (Cherry Lane), Mary Broome(The Mint). Regional includes: Shakespeare Theatre Company(DC), Shakespeare Theatre of NJ(5 Seasons), The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Pioneer, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Penguin Rep, St Louis Rep, Theatreworks Silicon Valley. Other UK credits include: Wind in the Willows(National Theatre), La Boheme (Royal Albert Hall), Carmen (English National Opera), Arsenic & Old Lace (Tour), Some Gorgeous Accident (Edinburgh). TV: The Loudest Voice (Showtime), Succession (HBO),

Crimewatch (BBC), College Humor. Film: Low Hanging Fruit, The Incoherents, So Fly Christmas, Tunnel of Love. Videogame: RDR2, Diablo 3. Katie is also a vocal coach, comic songwriter & Intuitive Healer. Training: Royal Academy of Music, Mountview, The Knack, UCB. Website: www.katiefabel.com Instagram @katiefabel

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(LENORA) Maria Deasy is a New York-based actress, singer, writer, and producer. She has performed onstage at The Roundabout, the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the 14Y Theater, and Theatre For The New City, among many others. Her film appearances include Aimy In A Cage starring Crispin Glover, Barry Levinson's Sleepers, and starring roles in the award-winning short films Contact Zone and The Anniversary. Television: 30 Rock; All My Children; As The World Turns; Guiding Light; Late Nite With Conan O’Brien; Law & Order; Momsters; & Onion News Network.

Maria won the Bairbre Dowling Spirit of the Festival Award at Origin Theatre's 2019 1st Irish Festival for her work as a Producer of Derek Murphy's Inside Danny's Box. She also received a Best Actress nomination for that production. At the 2018 Origin 1st Irish Festival, Maria produced and starred in Dyin' For It, also by Derek Murphy, for which she received Best Production and Best Actress nominations.

A graduate of Brown University, she attended the Midsummer In Oxford program through Yale Drama School, and later studied with acclaimed acting teacher Wynn Handman. In 2015, she completed the Commercial Theatre Institute's 14-week program, “Advanced Topics in Producing For The Theatre,” which is jointly overseen by The Broadway League and TDF.

She is the author of Mine, a play about the connection between the coal mining industry and the New York finance world, which she produced at The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in 2017. During the pandemic, she wrote and performed with Italian screenwriter Deborah Belford de Furia in Together Apart, a collection of 10 mini-musicals conceived by Grammy winner Lisa Loeb, with whom Maria also wrote the song “Suspended.” The project raised over $40,000 for The Actors Fund through the Broadway On Demand platform. She produced and performed in Peace And Love In Brooklyn – In Concert at the Irish Arts Center as part of the Origin 1st Irish Festival in January 2023.

Maria was President of Irish American Writers & Artists (www.iamwa.org) from 2019-2023, having served as its Vice President for two years and as a Board member for a decade. In 2021, she was honored with the Irish Echo’s Arts & Culture Award for her effort and spirit in arts-led recovery during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has presented at the Irish Echo’s Big Irish Campfire and Irish Labor Awards, and has hosted both on-line and live St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at the New York Irish Center. In 2023, she was chosen as an Honorary Chair of the Irish Arts and Culture Awards in Buffalo, New York. She represented Irish American Writers & Artists as a delegate to the Global Irish Civic Forum at Dublin Castle in Spring 2023.

Maria is also a Special Projects Manager in the Executive Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, working closely with National Executive Director, Anthony D. Romero.

While her parents harken from beautiful County Mayo, Maria is both a native New Yorker and a Jersey Girl. www.mariadeasy.com

(KIERO) Will is very excited to be joining Peace and Love in Brooklyn! Previously Will has performed in Jane Eyre with Off-Brand Opera here in NY, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder with Lamplighters Music Theatre of San Francisco, Wizard of Oz (Tinman) with Ocean City Theatre Co., and in 18 productions with the College Light Opera Company including: All Shook Up (Dennis), Assassins (John Hinckley Jr.), and She Loves Me (Arpad). Will has worked as the Music Director for Round Barn Theatre in their productions of Ring of Fire and Elf the Musical. He would like to thank his friends, family, and Caitlin for all their love and support!

(ASST. DIRECTOR) For over two decades, Paula has been directing solo and multi-cast audiobooks. Her work has received numerous industry awards, including Grammy and Audiobook of the Year. She is thrilled to be working on Peace and Love in Brooklyn, where she actually resides.

(DIRECTOR) John was delighted to recently perform in his 26th show at Irish Rep, ‘Translations’. Recent favorites include Autumn Royal, Two by Synge, Lady G, Pigeon in the Taj Mahal, The Weir (three runs, including the virtual run in 2020), O’Casey Cycle (2020 Callaway Award) and he was very honored to share the Irish Rep Sustained Excellence Award with Terry Donnelly in 2019. A prominent New York stage actor, John has also performed with Theatre for a New Audience 6 times (most recently in Arin Arbus Winter’s Tale and Trevor Nunn’s Pericles), and many other NYC companies, including Atlantic, Roundabout, Mint, Irish Arts, Pond, La Mama, Coop, Pearl. Most leading American regional theatres. TV includes Boardwalk Empire (recurring), Blacklist, John Adams, The Following, Ray Donovan, SVU, Alpha House, High Maintenance, Nurse Jackie, Lipstick Jungle. Film includes Kelly Reichardt”s First Cow (Time magazine film of the year 2020), Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man (winter 2023), The Lone Ranger, Emerald City, Misty Button, Freedom. John has narrated over 200 audiobooks (Audie winner, SOVA nominee). He has directed two New York Times critics picks (‘Airswimming’ at Irish Rep, ‘When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout’ with Fallen Angel Theatre), several productions at the 1st Irish Festival, including ‘Cell’, Derek Murphy’s ‘Dyin’ for It (Best Director Award, 2019 Festival awards), and The Good Thief (with Sean Gormley) and most recently he directed Aedin Moloney in Yes! At Irish Rep.

(Music Director) Jake is an NYC based pianist and music director. Faculty/staff at Cap21/Molloy University. AMDA NYC. Previously worked with Weston Theater company, La Guardia HS, Neighborhood Playhouse and Norwegian cruise lines.

(WRITER, COMPOSER) Eamon O’Tuama is a singer/songwriter who has recorded 4 solo albums and 2 albums as a member of the popular celtic rock group, The Prodigals. In 2021 Eamon began work on a musical play based on the life of a “roadie”. “Peace and Love in Brooklyn” has evolved into a story of love and loss in an Irish family centered around an estranged Father and son. Eamon was born and raised in Cork city and now lives, with his family, in Astoria, Queens.

(STAGE MANAGER) Lauren Nicole Jackson is an Equity Stage Manager based in New York. Most recently, Lauren was the Production Stage Manager on Smart at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Other credits include Assistant Stage Manager on: Only Gold (MCC Theater) A Kid Like Rishi (Origin Theatre) and What You Are Now (Ensemble Studio Theatre). laurennicolejackson.com

Jake Turski-Piano

Tony Calabro-Guitar

Amanda Ruzza-Bass

Jonathan Berger-Drums