Grand Horizons Cast

Based in Raleigh, NC, Dorothy has been a professional voice and on-camera talent for several decades,appearing in film, television, corporate videos, and educational web series. Her voice has been featured on many radio commercials and she often provides narration for promotional videos. She has appeared on many Triangle stages including Deep Dish Theater, Manbites Dog Theatre, North Carolina Theater, Raleigh Little Theater, StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, Theater in the Park, and University Theater at NC State University. Dorothy’s first collaboration with Honest Pint Theater was as the Voice of the Teacher in Small Mouth Sounds in 2022 and she is honored to join this talented cast and crew on this journey through Grand Horizons.

Kirsten is thrilled to collaborate with Honest Pint. Recent favorite credits include Same Time Next Year (Peak Ensemble Players), A Christmas Story (Cary Players), The Taming (Justice Theatre Project), and Baskerville (Raleigh Little Theatre). Kirsten holds a BA in Dramatic Arts from UNC and an MA in Educational Theatre from NYU. She oversees Applause! Cary Youth Theatre and performing arts programs for the Town of Cary.

Lenore has worked with many Triangle theater companies within the last three decades. She is happy to return to Honest Pint Theatre, where she appeared in The Herd. Some of her other memorable performance experiences include: Into The Woods, Nicholas Nickleby Part 1 & 2, A Little Night Music (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Marjorie Prime, The New Electric Ballroom, Age of Arousal (Manbites Dog Theater); Celebration, The Birthday Party (Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern); Sunday in the Park with George, The Road to Mecca (Burning Coal Theatre Company); Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, Shirley Valentine, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Ghost and Spice Productions). She last appeared in RedBird Theater Company’s inaugural production of A Doll's House, Part 2. For you, Bobbie!!

John previously appeared with Honest Pint as “Father” in The Sum of Us. Favorite roles on other Triangle stages include Nixon in Frost/Nixon, Morrie in Tuesdays With Morrie, Candy in Of Mice and Men, Salter in A Number, Davies in The Caretaker, and Ray in Blackbird. John is co-founder, with Brook North, of South Stream Productions.

Lormarev is grateful to return to performance after several years working as a director/choreographer, educator, and certified intimacy director with Intimacy Directors and Choreographers (IDC). She received her MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. Acting credits include Always Plenty of Light and Darkest Night at the Gnarly Stump (Know Theatre of Cincinnati), The Wiz and Avenue Q (CFRT), and Mr. Burns and Oh! The Humanity (Manbites Dog). Lormarev is also a deviser, playwright, and solo performer; her solo play My Geriatric Uterus won the David C. Herriman Artist's Pick Award at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival - you can find the digital version on Vimeo. Lormarev is currently the Director of the Theatre program at Meredith College, her alma mater, and sends love to CNW for his love and support. Hydrate!

Paul began his career in 1971, originating the role of Kinicki in the premier production ofGrease at Kingston Mines Theater in Chicago. Over the years he has acted on stage in Los Angeles and here in the Triangle area where he moved with his wife, Nancy Lane, and their two small boys in 1990. In addition to theater acting, Paul’s creative endeavors have involved playwriting and producing. His staged plays include Tupelo: to Elvis and the town he left behind, Burnt, Heritage Speaking, and his one-man show, the Devil and Mark Twain. In 2017, Paul co-founded Full Nelson, a writing and producing partnership with Mark Cornell, his long-time collaborator at the ArtsCenter’s Playwrights Roundtable. Their feature film, The Fog, won the Best Actor Award at the North Carolina Film Festival in 2023. Paul currently has in development a new play, Black Joke Fire Rescue, about Irish-immigrant firefighters who get caught up in the draft riots in Civil-War era New York City. He is very excited to be working with Honest Pint again. He played Brian in the 2019 Honest Pint production of The Herd.

Actor/Producer/Writer/Director more or less in that order. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of South Stream Productions for which he has produced and directed or acted in eight critically acclaimed shows (Twelfth Night, this doesn’t end well, Blackbird, Hughie, Time Stands Still, The Caretaker, Seascape, Copenhagen). He has performed as an actor throughout the triangle with many local companies. Some favorite roles include Richard II in Richard II (Sweet Tea), Stuart Ostrow et al in Yellow Face (Theatre Raleigh), Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest (RLT), Freddy/Phillip in Noises Off (TiP), Serge in Art (Mebane Acting Co). Find out more about him and his company at www.southstreamproductions.com.

Thomas is elated to be a part of the company of Grand Horizons in his Honest Pint debut. Some of his favorite Triangle credits include: Hair, Southern Baptist Sissies, Bent, Dog Sees God, The Lion in Winter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Thank you for supporting local theatre!

Kevin is a North Carolina native, and a therapist in Raleigh at a non-profit counseling center. Most recently, he appeared as Inspector Bernard in Theater In the Park’s production of “Harold and Maude”; Frank Strang in NRACT’s production of “Equus”; and as Mister Bennett and Charlotte Lucas Raleigh Little Theatre’s production of “Pride and Prejudice”. Past theater roles include Cleante in “Tartuffe” and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in “Twelfth Night” with The Acting Company, Off-Broadway and National Tour; George Best in “Signals of Distress” with The Flying Machine Theater; Doctor Sugar in “Suddenly Last Summer” at Triad Stage Co.; The Devil, and Captain Mendoza in “Man and Superman”; and Cadmus in “The Bacchae” at the American Repertory Theater. He sends a great big “Thank you!” to his friends for supporting Honest Pint Theater, and sends gratitude and lots of love to his partner Jim for his support, love, and help learning lines.