David Mamet's OLEANNA Cast

*Courtesy of Actors Equity Association. A professional journeyman actor and singer for over 40 years, Raymond has performed across the U.S. in plays, musicals, and cabaret acts. Here in Connecticut, he’s performed at Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Stamford’s Palace Theatre and Rich Forum, Westport Country Playhouse, the Norma Terris Theatre (Goodspeed at Chester) and the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at SHU. His professional acting work includes feature films, corporate videos, and voice-overs; and he is an emeritus member of the Theatre Artists’ Workshop. Raymond is co-founder of Falcon Repertory Company, a Small Professional Theatre production company based in Fairfield County. Together with TPNC Stage II, Falcon Rep has presented multiple staged readings, including A LIFE IN THE THEATRE, EDUCATING RITA, and BAKERSFIELD MIST. Raymond lives in Trumbull with his wife, Amy and their Pyrenees pup, Beau Geste.

Olivia Lapine (Carol) appeared STAGE II in Falcon Repertory’s joint productions as Sister Agnes in Agnes of God, Regina in Ibsen’s Ghosts, Ada Lou in Quiet! Three Ladies Laughing; Rootie in Graceland, and The Girl in Kiss Me! She also appeared as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet with Shakespeare on the Green in Stamford. Other performances include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Sweeney Todd, A Fiddler on The Roof, Little Shop of Horrors, Mama Mia, Beauty and The Beast, and Cinderella. Olivia has also worked the lighting crew & construction crews at Curtain Call (she’s the only ‘Juliet’ to build her own balcony). She is a graduate of Tufts University in Theater & Performance, and also in International Affairs.

Betty Betty McCready (Narrator) appeared for STAGE II as Lottie in Quiet! Three Ladies Laughing and in Falcon Repertory’s joint production of Of No Pleasant Side as Sister Agata. She made her Town Players debut in the chorus of Carousel, as a third grader with her parents, in 1973. Other credits include Lydia in All My Sons, Wendy in The Uninvited, Pauline in The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Stella in Follies, and in Chess, Songs of our Season and The Shoemaker and the Elves (with her mom). Locally, she has appeared as Truvy in Steel Magnolias, Yente in A Fiddler on the Roof, and Sarah in Company, as well as in The Foreigner, The Boys Next Door, Beau Jest, Annie, Follies, and Beauty and the Beast, among others.