Cast
Ella Dershowitz
(Hannah) Theater: Connected (59E59), Can You Forgive Her? (Vineyard Theatre), Intimacy (New Group), Card and Gift (Clubbed Thumb), The Two Hander (NJ Rep), Joy and Pandemic (Huntington), Sovereignty and Thomas and Sally (Marin Theatre Company), Three Musketeers: 1941 (Project Y), 4,000 Miles and You Will Remember Me (Hudson Stage), Actually (Aurora), The Wolves (Capital Stage), On the Verge (Attic), Visitors and The Screenwriter’s Daughter (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse), A Splintered Soul (Rosalind Productions), The Siegel (City Lights), Twelfth Night (Payomet). TV/Film: Phil Spector (HBO), The Affair (Showtime), Lie to Me (Fox), Knife Fight, Two-Bit Waltz, Pitching Tents. Yale University. Crossword puzzle constructor.
Brett Temple
(Karl) is honored to return to Mrs. Stern after the world premiere at Luna Stage. Some of his previous stage credits include The Valley of the Shadow (WP Theatre) and Henry IV, Part One (Shakespeare’s Globe). TV/Film: Mrs. Fletcher (HBO), Bull (CBS), and the upcoming film When The Moon Was Twice as Big. Graduated from Rutgers, Mason Gross. www.bretttemple.com
Drew Hirshfield
(Erich) is lucky enough to have worked on plays by Bertolt Brecht, Francis Beaumont, Sandy Rustin, Arthur Miller, Kate Hamill, Robert Askins, Jordan Seavey, Lucas Hnath, Anton Chekhov, Steve Martin, Peter Shaffer, Lanford Wilson, Sam Shepard, Oliver Goldsmith, Tom Stoppard, Neil Simon, Steven Sater, Shakespeare, and many others, at theaters and rehearsal rooms large and small across the county. He’s long served on the acting faculty at New York Film Academy. He earned an MFA from American Conservatory Theater.
Rachel Oremland
(Understudy for Hannah) Hailing from Avon, Connecticut with a BFA from NYU Tisch School of Drama, Rachel’s career highlights include playing Sister Mary Leo in Nunsense (Playhouse on Park), Sally Simpson in The Who’s Tommy (Seven Angels Theater), and supporting roles on Gladiator: American Sports Story and Pretty Little Liars: Summer School. Rachel splits her time between NYC and LA, loves everything from Musical Theater to Voiceover to Television/Film and is repped by Malissa Young Management and Firestarter Entertainment. Major thanks to her family and friends for their undying support. @rachoremland
Jay DeYonker
(Understudy for Karl/Erich) An NYU alum, Jay spent five years in Prague as a principal member of the Prague Shakespeare Company. Jay has booked roles on FBI: Most Wanted, American Horror Story, and the recently released The Zombie Wedding from Weekly World News Productions. He wrote, produced, and acted in multiple award-winning films including the musical hit Triple Threat (Best Actor SOHO Film Festival) currently streaming on Peacock.
Creative Team
Jenny Lyn Bader
(Playwright) is the author of plays including Equally Divine (14th St. Y), In Flight (Workshop Theatre), Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage), and None of the Above (New Georges). One-acts include Worldness (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Beta Testing (Symphony Space), and Miss America (NY Int’l Fringe, “Best of Fringe” selection). Audio productions include Communal Table (Broadway Podcast Network) and Tree Confessions (TINATC, w/ Kathleen Chalfant). Her work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Next Stage Press, Smith & Kraus, Vintage, Applause, Plays International & Europe, Lincoln Center Theater Review, and The New York Times, where she was a frequent contributor to the “Week in Review.” A Harvard graduate, she has received the Best Documentary One Woman Show Award (United Solo Fest), Athena Playwriting Fellowship, Edith Oliver Award (O’Neill Center), and Lark Playwriting Fellowship (nominated by Wendy Wasserstein). She belongs to the Dramatists Guild, LPTW, and Honor Roll.
Ari Laura Kreith
(Director) is Artistic Director of Luna Stage, where her directing credits include world premieres of RIFT (Venturous Award), Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, and The Voting Writes Project (NEA Art Works) and the regional premiere of Heartland (Star-Ledger Top 10). As Artistic Director of NYC’s Theatre 167 she conceived/directed The Jackson Heights Trilogy (3 full-length plays collaboratively written by 18 playwrights featuring 37 actors playing 93 roles in 14 languages), and directed the world premieres of Pirira (NYIT Award: Best Production), Singing Beach (HERE), and Mourning Sun (West End Theatre/Kampala, Uganda.) Ari designed immersive commissions for Queens Museum and the NY Transit Museum, and conceived/directed The Ground On Which We Stand, which received the Giles R. Wright Award for Excellence in African American History. BA: Yale University.