Exit, Pursued by a Bear Cast

Joey Engh (Kyle Carter) is grateful to be performing in his inaugural BCC production. In his 15 years as an actor, he has a multitude of credits in live theatre and film on community theatre and semi-pro circuits in the South and Midwest. Having spent the last few years moving around the country, he is comforted by the familiarly of the stage.

John Pike (Kyle Carter) is a 26-year-old student actor who originally hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He moved to Lee, Massachusetts in August 2017 in order to enroll at the College Internship Program, where he quickly became involved with CIP Berkshire’s Creative Arts Department, which annually holds multiple events each year at The Spectrum Playhouse, located at 20 Franklin Street in Lee. The most notable of these annual events are CIP Berkshire’s musical performances that are shown in early July of every summer. John has played a role in each of the past three live musical productions for The Spectrum Playhouse. These roles have included Captain Albert Lennox in The Secret Garden (2018), Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors (2019), and most recently as Ladislav Sipos in She Loves Me (2022). In addition, John also performed as Shere Khan in a production of The Jungle Book that was produced by The Berkshire Children’s Theatre Group, and was performed at The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield in January 2022. John recently received his Associate’s of Liberal Arts from Berkshire Community College this summer, and is now enrolled in the brand new Technical Theatre Certificate program at BCC, which he is aiming to complete by the end of the Spring 2023 semester, so that he can transfer to an undergraduate theatre studies program either within western New England, or closer to his native home of the Upper South.

Michelle Foley plays Sweetheart. Theatre has always been her passion. She loves to draw and is very excited to play this part in this fall show.

Alyson Behan (Nan) is proud to be performing on the BCC stage. Last year she has played Adelaide Treestump in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in the Night Watch.

Logan Weibrecht (Simon Beaufort) is very excited to join the BCC players in his first production at BCC. Logan currently attends BCC and is studying for his associates degree in Musical Theatre. Some of his favorite roles have been Dentist (Little Shop of Horrors), Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), The Wizard (Wizard of Oz), Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Banquo (Macbeth). He would like to thank his mom and sister for their unparalleled encouragement and support, Ralph Petillo for being such an amazing mentor and teacher, and numerous friends and family helping him to become the actor he is today. He would also like to thank the members of the audience for coming to support local theatre and he hopes you enjoy the show!