Raymond McAnally is happy to be returning to perform Mrs. Mannerly with Dale again. His previous Cincinnati credits include the world premiere of his one-man show Size Matters at Ensemble Theatre and The Foreigner at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Other theatre credits of note include the off-Broadway world premiere of God’s Ear, Casa Valentina, and the U.S. regional premiere of One Man, Two Guvnors. Television credits include a supporting role in Black Mirror: San Junipero, the winner of the 2017 Emmy Award for Best TV Movie, and guest starring roles on Better Call Saul, Modern Family, Chicago Fire, Rizzoli & Isles, Law & Order: SVU, Royal Pains, and 30 Rock. His full-length play The Cruelty of Children was a semi-finalist at the O’Neill Center in 2019, among others. Raymond has been a lecturer for Rutgers Arts Online since 2013. He has guest lectured at colleges and conservatories since 2009.

Dale Hodges is very happy to be back in her classroom as Mrs. Mannerly with her favorite student, Ray McAnally, and all the children after a 14-year sabbatical. Her alter-ego, Dale Hodges, is also happy to be back, having last appeared on the Ensemble Theatre’s stage in Grand Horizons, as well as Ripcord, Sex and Education, Other Desert Cities, and 33 Variations. Most recently, Dale performed Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, presented as a staged reading as a part of ETC’s Studio Series. Her regional credits include Jane Marple in Mrs. Christie, (co-production with the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Princess Dragomiroff in Murder on the Orient Express (co-produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre), Vivian Bearing in Wit, the Fool in King Lear, and Mrs. K in The Piano Teacher at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, as well as Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night and Dottie in Noises Off at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. In movies, you can catch sight of her in Emilio Estevez’s The Public or Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind. Dale has been a member of Actors’ Equity since 1974 and has worked both on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres around the country. She was a 2014 Ten Chimneys Fellow and was honored this spring with a star on the P&G Walk of Fame at Playhouse in the Park. Cincinnati has been her home since 1988, and she is very grateful to Lynn, to the dearly departed Ed Stern, and to Blake, Brian, Bridget, and all those who, in local venues, big or small, mainstream or fringe, produce and give us the gift of live theatre. And to all the audiences who love and value it as we do, thank you for continuing to support it as much as you can, and for showing up. We can’t do it without you.

Jeffrey Hatcher is an award-winning writer for stage, screen, and television. Dozens of his plays, original and adaptations, have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in theaters around the world. They include the book for the Broadway musical Never Gonna Dance, Dial M for Murder, A Picasso, Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom), Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, The Good Soldier, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He has written screenplays for the films The Duchess, Casanova, Stage Beauty, and, most recently, Mr. Holmes. He has also written episodes of Columbo and The Mentalist. Mr. Hatcher more recently returned to the stage after a 30-year hiatus, acting in Educating Rita, The Heiress, and his own piece, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Hamlet, a one-man show about adapting, directing, and acting in his 5th-grade school production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. His awards and grants include NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, 2013 IVEY Lifetime Achievement Award, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, Edgerton Grant, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Barrymore Award Best New Play, and L.A. Critics Circle Award Best Adaptation. He is a member and/or alumnus of The Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, and New Dramatists.