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Board of Trustees
Merribel Ayres—Melissa Berkoff—William Colgrove—Philippa Hughes—Cara Pomponio—Gwydion Suilebhan

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First Ten
Philippa Hughes • Sam Fleming • Christine Farley • Anthony Nelson • Cathleen Nelson
Ryan Nelson • Merribel Ayres • Anne Mayerson • One Anonymous • Two Anonymous

       
Lise Bruneau   Lise Bruneau trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Credits include: Merry Wives of Windsor, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Blithe Spirit, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, & Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at Center Stage; The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare Theatre; Les Liaisons Dangereuses & The Angel in Angels in America at ACT in San Francisco. Dybbuk for A Travelling Jewish Theatre; Topographical Eden & the world premiere of Edna O'Brien's Triptych at the Magic. She has also appeared at Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Wilma in Philadelphia.  
       
Kimberly Gilbert   Kimberly Gilbert trained at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting. Her Taffety shows include Bootleg Cymbelline, Cardenio Found, The Skinhead Hamlet, Damaged Goods, Let X, and Then It Faster Rock'd. Kimberly is also a company member with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company where she rocked out in The K of D, Martha Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Helen Hayes Nomination- Lead Actress), Big Death and Little Death, and Cooking With Elvis. Other DC stages that she has melted faces off on have been Round House Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Folger Theatre, Source Theatre, Scena Theatre, and Washington Shakespeare Company. She is a native of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, the Land of 'not-fer-nuthin'.  
       
Marcus Kyd   Marcus Kyd trained at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting in Washington DC & Emerson College in Boston. Credits include Intimations for Saxophone at Arena Stage, One Good Marriage at Metro Stage, Shear Madness & the title role in Cyrano both in the Kennedy Center’s Theater Lab; Walton, The Nitrate Hymnal (WPAS & Anti-social Music); The title role in Pericles and Cassio in Othello at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, The Winter’s Tale at Center Stage. Marcus sang and played guitar for The Most Secret Method. The band released four records & toured extensively through North America and Europe.  
       
Christopher Marino   Christopher Marino trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting, and Bard College, NY. Credits include The Castle, Primary Stages; Titus Andronicus, Soho Rep; Madonna, Village Theatre Company, The Duchess of Malfi, Shakespeare Theatre; The Tempest, Macbeth at Mill Mountain Theatre; Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Baltimore Shakespeare. He has also appeared at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Kansas City Shakespeare Festival, the Actors Shakespeare Company. He is a certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, & former Aritistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival.  
       
Paulina Guerrero   Paulina Guerrero is originally from the Washington DC area. She was co-choreographer for "on your soapbox slipping" a benefit show in the 2007 Capital Fringe Festival. She has danced & toured nationally with companies in New York City & Washington DC including Grove Dance Theatre, chi.cha.co, Beth Soll Dance Company, Michelle Handelman Multi-media, & Lisa Stott. Paulina co-directed Proving Ground Movement–an experimental dance laboratory. They appeared at Joe's Movement Emporium, Dance Space, DCAC, & The Jack Guidone Theater in DC, & HERE arts space & the Brooklyn Dance Exchange in New York.  
       
David Polk   David Polk trained at Virginia Tech where he earned a BA in Theatre Arts. Stage Management credits include Pangea and Let X with Taffety Punk Theatre Company, Camping with Henry and Tom and The Princess and the Pea at Dunwoody Stage Door Players (Atlanta, GA), and The Real Inspector Hound at Virginia Tech’s Summer Stock Theatre (Blacksburg, VA). He is currently the Program Coordinator for the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences program and mentors the student stage managers in Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s theatre program.  
       
Paper Bag as The Ghost of Hamlet's Father   Paper Bag has enjoyed a repertory of challenging roles with the Taffety Punks. Often called our most versatile performer, his portrayals include God in The Devil in his Own Words, Dick Cheney in And Then It Faster Rock'd, Doc X in Let X, and The Ghost of Hamlet's Father in The Skinhead Hamlet.  
 
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