Kristine Nielsen's Broadway credits include Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening, The GreenBird, Jackie, and The Iceman Cometh (1986). Off-Broadway credits include A Lovely Sundayfor Creve Coeur; Taylor Mac’s Hir; How I Spent Last Summer; Omnium Gatherum; Our Leading Lady; The Killer; Dog Opera (Obie Award); and Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them; Miss Witherspoon; and Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie). Nielsen has worked regionally all over the country, including at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Folger Theatre (D.C.), and most recently at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in Durang’s Turning Off the Morning News. Television: Happyish, Elementary, Political Animals, NBC’s The Sound of Music Live, Amazon’s Z: The Beginning of Everything. Film: Trouble, Morning Glory, The Savages, Small Time Crooks. Nielsen is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama.

Maxine Linehan made her professional acting debut at 17 in The Irish Operatic Repertory Company’s The Sound of Music. Theatre highlights include: Ireland; Mag in Brian Friel’s Lovers, Nunsense and Nunsense 2, Man of La Mancha. UK; Polly in Crazy for You, Nancy in Oliver!, Maria in The Sound of Music. USA; Emma in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s one-woman musical Tell Me On A Sunday (NY), First national tour of Lincoln Centre’s South Pacific, Brontë (off-Broadway), The Mushroom Pickers (American premiere off-Broadway). Maxine is also a touring solo concert artist and has interpreted the songbooks of such varied artists as U2 and Petula Clark, as well as the American, Broadway, and holiday songbooks, and has recorded two live and two studio albums. Maxine is a Barrister by training. She studied law at The University of London and The Inns of Court School of Law. She is a proud voting member of The Recording Academy, Actors’ Equity Association, and Screen Actors’ Guild. Maxine is honoured to be making her Dorset Theatre Festival debut! maxinelinehan.com

Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty is an Irish actor and graduating student of The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin. There, he has worked with many leading Irish directors such as Tom Creed on Punk Rock by Simon Stephens; Oonagh Murphy in The Visit by Friederich Dürrenmatt; Annie Ryan on the devised Commedia dell'Arte work The Last Resort; Conall Morrisson on The Plough and The Stars by Sean O'Casey; and Davey Kelleher on Absolute Hell. Previous to his training at The Lir, Eimhin was in a production of The Valley of the Squinting Windows directed by Micheal Scott. As a dual citizen, he is honoured to be making his American professional debut on the Dorset Theatre Festival stage.

David Mason's previous Dorset credits include: THIRST, TABLE MANNERS and the world premiere of DIG by Theresa Rebeck. Off-Broadway: Theresa Rebeck's DIG, and SEARED directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel (MCC); TRICK OR TREAT (59E59). Other NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre, Civilian Studios, Primary Stages, Present Company, NativeAliens, Red Fern Theatre, Circle East. Selected regional credits include: the world premiere of THE NEST by Theresa Rebeck at Denver Center; CHAPTER TWO directed by Marsha Mason at Arizona Theatre Co.; numerous productions at Cape Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, TheatreSquared, Northern Stage, Weston Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, New Century Theatre, Public Theater, Opera House Arts. TV: The Blacklist, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Leftovers, House of Cards, Law & Order: SVU, All My Children. #beanartshero #blacklivesmatter