(Marlene) is a Core Ensemble member with Remy Bumppo and has performed in 23 productions notably Top Girls (2001), Holiday, A Delicate Balance, The Real Thing, Old Times, Night and Day, Our Class, Great Expectations, and The Father. She is thrilled to join Annabel again in Top Girls after 19 years. Linda has enjoyed working on Caryl Churchill having directed the Chicago Premiere of Skriker for Defiant Theatre, directing Far Away for Carthage College, and performing in Love and Information with Remy Bumppo. She has also worked with A Red Orchid, Chicago Dramatists, Court, Famous Door, Lyric Opera, Mercury, Next, Noble Fool, Northlight, Roadworks, ShawChicago, Steppenwolf, and Theatre at the Center. Linda teaches at Acting Studio Chicago, Remy Bumppo, and is an adjunct at the DePaul Theatre School. She is also a speech consultant for corporate executives. TV/Film credits include Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Prison Break, Early Edition, The Photographist, Haunting Hour, Bruised Orange, Casting About, and Dorkumentary. Linda is represented by Stewart Talent.

KARISSA MURRELL MYERS (Lady Nijo / Win) is thrilled to work with Remy Bumppo for the first time. Chicago credits include Pinocchio, Borealis (House); Gloria, King of the Yees; (Goodman u/s); The Holidays Unwrapped (Erasing the Distance); Farewell My Friend, For One (rediscover theatre). Regional credits include Top Girls (Renaissance Theaterworks). Television credits includes Chicago Med, Chicago PD, The Exorcist, and Electric Dreams. Karissa is a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf and earned an MFA in Performance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a BA in Theatre Arts in Directing and Acting from Boise State University. She is also a member of SAG-AFTRA. She is represented by Big Mouth Talent.

AURORA REAL DE ASUA (Dull Gret / Angie) is stoked to work with Remy Bumppo for the first time. Chicago credits include The Wickhams (Northlight); The Adventures of Augie March (Court); Pipeline (Victory Gardens); The Wolves (Goodman); The Firebirds Take the Field (Rivendell); You On The Moors Now, and Dracula (Hypocrites); and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Metropolis Performing Arts Center). Aurora was recently named one of The Chicago Tribune’s Hot New Faces. She graduated from Northwestern University and is proudly represented by Gray Talent.

AMBER SALLIS (Griselda / Kit) is thrilled to work with Remy Bumppo for the first time. Chicago credits include Mosquitoes, Pomona, Birdland, Earthquakes in London, Zurich, and Hinter (Steep); and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Eclectic Full Contact Theatre). Amber is an Ensemble member at both Steep Theatre and Imagination Theatre where she educates young students about social issues. She was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s Hot New Faces, studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT) in Russia, and is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.

REBECCA SPENCE (Pope Joan / Mrs. Kidd / Joyce) joyfully returns to Remy Bumppo having appeared in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Jeff Nomination) and The Voysey Inheritance. Chicago credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Windy City Playhouse); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mary Page Marlowe, The Crucible, Our Lady of 121st Street, and Pacific (Steppenwolf); Continuity (Goodman); In The Garden (Lookingglass); Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West (TimeLine); This (Theatre Wit); and Dracula (Defiant). Rebecca is the Associate Artistic Director at Rivendell Theatre where she appeared in The Firebirds Take the Field, How the World Began, WRENS, and These Shining Lives (Jeff Nomination). Other credits include Cyrano (Milwaukee Rep). Film include CandyMan, Princess Cyd, Slice, Man of Steel, Fools, Tiger Tail in Blue, One Small Hitch, Contagion, The Dilemma, Public Enemies, Grace is Gone and The Break-Up. Television credits include Utopia (Amazon Prime), Empire (FOX), Easy (Netflix), Boss (STARZ) Crisis (NBC), Chicago Fire (NBC), Betrayal (ABC), The Mob Doctor (FOX), Detroit 1-8-7 (ABC), The Chicago Code (FOX), The Beast (A&E) and Prison Break (FOX). Rebecca is a member of SAG-AFTRA.

VAHISHTA VAFADARI (Waitress / Jeanine / Shona) is excited to work with Remy Bumppo again having appeared in Pygmalion and understudied Love and Information. She was the Dialect Coach for Frankenstein and the Assistant Dialect Coach on Bloomsday, hang, and Great Expectations. Chicago credits include I Know My Own Heart (Pride Films and Plays); Cyrano (BoHo); As You Like It (First Folio); A Wrinkle In Time (Lifeline); A Widow of No Importance (Rasaka); and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oak Park Festival). Vahishta received a Jeff nomination for I Know My Own Heart, got her MFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul, and is represented by Gray Talent Group. www.vahishtavafadari.com