Meet the Cast of Superior Donuts
*YURY TSYKUN (MAX TARASOV)
Being an actor is Yury's deepest love, passion and privilege. Yury graduated from The Theater and Film Studio in Odessa USSR, where he studied The Stanislavski System. He is also a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC. Yury studied the Art of Film, Theatre and TV with world-renowned acting coaches Harold Guskin, Albert Makhtsier, Jenny O'Haver, and Steve Nook. Over the past five years, Yury has performed in over 55 feature and short films as lead, supporting and principal roles. He has also taken part in major TV series, theatrical productions, and commercials. In his recent film Portrait directed by Jose Carrasco, he played two different leading roles, and the film won Grand Prize at the Barcelona International Film Festival. Yury has played opposite Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in the Coen Brothers film Burn After Reading, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. His International experience includes the Bengali-Indian Bollywood movie, Piyalir Password directed by Raj Basu, and the greatly successful Polish movie Ciacho from director Patryk Vega. Yury is absolutely honored, thrilled and delighted to be making his debut with Capital Repertory Theatre.
*LEE ROY ROGERS (OFFICER RANDY)
Capitol Theatre debut, New York: Vivien Leigh in Orson's Shadow, (Drama Desk Nomination Featured Actress, Drama League Ensemble) Barrow Street Theater, When The Rain Stops Falling, u/s Lincoln Center Theater, Children of A Lesser God, Keen Company, 365 Plays/365 Days, The Public/Barrow St. Theater Ensemble. Regional: Circle Mirror Transformation, Kansas City Rep, Orson's Shadow (World Premier), The Man Who Came To Dinner, A Fair Country u/s, all at Steppenwolf, The Price, Writers' Theatre, Copenhagen, Delaware Theater Center, Still Waters, Victory Gardens Theatre. Festivals: Williamstown, Westport Country Playhouse, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, New York International Theatre Festival, Barbican Centre Theater Festival (London) Film: Road to Perdition. TV: Law & Order: CI, Canterbury's Law, The Book of Daniel.
*PHIL MCGLASTON (OFFICER JAMES)
Credits include Hartford Stage: A Street Car Named Desire; Gem of the Ocean(u/s). Off Broadway: The Orphans Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Co.); Home (Melting Pot Theatre Co.); Good People (New Perspective Theatre): Regional; Twelfth Night (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Crumbs From The Table Of Joy (Triad Stage); Spunk (Delaware Theatre Co.); King Lear (American Repertory Theatre); and Fences (New Repertory Theatre). Film: Little Children; Keane; 2B; Sister Blister; Sex And The City: The Movie; and Jumper. Television: Swift Justice, Against The Law, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Another World. M.F.A Mason Gross School Of The Arts, Rutgers University.
ROSEANN CANE (LADY BOYLE)
Roseann Cane has been acting most of her life, on stage, film, and television. Since moving from New York City to Columbia County in 1998, she's performed on local stages in a wide variety of roles, including, most recently: Julius Caesar, Gertrude, Horatio, Juliet, and many others in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Ghent Playhouse, NY); Edna Edison in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Ghent Playhouse, NY); and Hannah in As It is In Heaven; (Spectrum Playhouse, Lee, MA). Roseann will be directing Pack of Lies at the Ghent Playhouse in early 2012.
*GEORGE TYNAN CROWLEY (ARTHUR)
George has played Gabe in Dinner with Friends (Best Actor, Sarasota Theatre Arts Award), Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency, Malcolm in Ten Unknowns, and Ishaq in Two Jews Walk into a War, all at Florida Studio Theatre. He has worked at American Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford CT), the NJ, Princeton, and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, the Studio Theatre in DC, the Asolo, Maine's Public Theatre, and the Wilma in Philadelphia, where he played Wilde in the East Coast premiere of Stoppard's Invention of Love, and in New York at Westbank Café and HERE Arts Center, etc. He's a playwright as well, and two he's written, IRISH and MOST HAPPY: A Story of Anne Boleyn, have been produced in New York. His newest play, SEX WITH THE GODS, will have its first showing at the Leslie Lohman Foundation in the fall. Its companion piece, a participatory workshop about intimacy and touch which he co-created with Mark Bednar, will premiere in November in Danbury. Crowley also tours with his one-actor adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea, directed by Wynn Handman for American Place Theatre's Literature to Life program, and he has taught acting for the CUNY system. MFA in Directing, Yale School of Drama. Inquiries about his plays: tynanla@yahoo.com. This show is dedicated to George Sr.
*BROOKS BRANTLY (FRANCO WICKS)
Brooks is originally from Illinois and is a recent graduate of the University of Connecticut MFA Acting program. His most recent performance was in Minneapolis at the Guthrie Theatre in the devised studio production Macondo. As a resident company member of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre past credits include: The Exonerated (Robert Hayes), Pericles the Prince of Tyre (Antiochus) and Othello (Othello), to name a few. This is Brooks' debut on the Capital Repertory stage and he is honored to be able to work with such great creators and to be a part of the Capital Repertory family. He thanks all his friends and family for their love and unwavering support. It has been an exciting journey.
CORNELIUS GEANEY (KEVIN)
Cornelius is thrilled to be part of such an incredible production for his first experience with Capital Repertory. His credits include The Rainmaker (Jim Curry), The Crucible (John Proctor), Macbeth (Macbeth), Hamlet (Claudius). Love and thanks to Elle, his family, friends and teachers for all their constant support, encouragement and inspiration.
PATRICK WHITE (LUTHER)
Credits include Albany Civic Theatre: Gross Indecency and The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Bristol Valley Theatre's Boeing-Boeing; Confetti Stage: Mrs Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, The Underpants; Curtain Call Theatre: The Miracle Worker, Bill W. and Dr. Bob; Schenectady Civic Playhouse's Rebecca; Theater Barn's The Hollow; and The Seagull at the Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall.
SHAWN R. MORGAN (KIRIL IVAKIN)
Shawn is thrilled to be making his Capital Rep debut. He has previously been seen at Park Playhouse appearing at Franz Liebkind in The Producers and Gaston in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Since then, he has appeared in local productions of The Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy), Ragetime (Father), Drowsy Chaperone (Robert), and Footloose (Rev. Moore). Other favorites included 1776 (Jefferson), and Joseph...(Pharaoh). In addition to his full-time career as a Readjustment Counseling Therapist at the Albany Vet Center, Shawn is an Army Reservist, Photographer, Voice-over Artists, and his most important role of all, husband to Lisa, and father to Lukas and Emma Lee, to whom he is grateful for their love and support of his many endeavors.