THE CAST OF GRACE UNDER PRESSURE


Tom Bozell (AEA, SAG-AFTRA)(1: Wolfram Weltmeister, 4: Ted, 5: Jack Mahloff, 7: Blow)
XYZ, Balloon Man, The Great Devourer, Hunger Shame, Silo #3 (New Circle Theater Co.); Andrew After Dark (New Group, Scott Elliot, Director); Rapt (The Culture Project); The Wreck Behind Us; The Quick Change Room (Circle East); Craig Lucas’ If Columbus Does Not Figure In Your Travel Plans, Al Fresco (Circle East) And What I Meant Was (Circle East and EST); Ancient Boys (La Mama). Regional: All My Sons, Tartuffe, Sugar, Cabaret, Man of La Mancha. Film: We Pedal Uphill, Magic Hour. Television: Law and Order: CI, The Late Show with David Letterman, NFL Today, As The World Turns, All My Children, Another World. Tom has been seen and heard in hundreds of television and radio commercials.

Roger Casey (AEA, SAG-AFTRA)(Luis Corazon, 6: Auntie Carmen)
Roger Casey is an NY based artist. Recent Theater credits: Dom Juan - Pierrot & Don Alonso - (The Fischer Center), Trojans! - Daris - (Loading Dock Theatre), BrandoCapote – Marlon Brando – (The Tank), Not Knowing – Bob – (3-Legged-Dog), Living the Dream – Tyke Peacock – (52nd St. Project), CasablancaBOX – Humphrey Bogart – (HERE Arts), The Dudleys – Officer Peters – (Loading Dock Theatre), H5: Life after Death – Steffon – (Schomburg Center), You Should Be here – Dexter – (The Amoralists), God is a Verb - Bob/Undergrad – (Hook & Eye Theater), Lunchtime in Heaven - Freddie Gray - (48hrs in Harlem, National Black Theatre), The Return - Adam - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Tyson Vs. Ali - Mike Tyson & Muhammad Ali - (3-Legged Dog & Foxy Films), Coal Run Road - Caleb Cobb - (Kraine Theatre), The Misanthrope - Acaste - (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Twelfth Night – Antonio (STNJ). Recent Film/TV/Combat Credits: Play this at my funeral, New York I'm breaking up with you, Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 3 – (Marvel Operative). Recent Screenwriting Credits: Cry Wolf, Book (Award Recipients). Recent VO work: Tiger Woods, The Unquiet Grave, The Book in room 316.
Dorian DeMichele (AEA, SAG-AFTRA)(2,4: Trudi, 3: Mimi, 7: Mrs. Gravlax)
Dorian has worked in numerous professional settings in film, television, theater and music. Her works have been presented in both the United States and abroad. Her one-woman play Statues From the Fountain in which she wrote and performed over half a dozen characters garnered attention from Joseph Papp and Arthur Cantor, as well as The National Endowment for the Arts.Dorian co-starred as Katherine Heigl’s “ruthless yet seductive” boss, Jacqueline in the independent feature film Side Effects. She also performed as vocalist/additional lyricist in the soundtrack for Alan Rudolph’s The Secret Lives of Dentists, portrayed Viola in Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America and appeared on the CBS series Kate and Allie. A founding member of The Actor’s Gym New York with Bobby Moresco, as both actor and playwright, she also worked with The Second City of Chicago Player’s Workshop with Bob Odenkirk. Among her theater credits are Alice in Alice in Wonderland, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosalind in As You Like It, and originating the role of Paula in The Big Plan 9 – the musical adapted from Ed Wood’s cult film classic Plan Nine From Outer Space.
Luis Carlos de la Lombana (AEA, SAG-AFTRA)(6: Mr. Ramirez, 8: Raimondo & Hector)
Originally from Spain and currently a US Citizen working as an actor and voice-over artist in New York City since 2008. Founder and Executive Director of La Strada Company and member of New Circle TheaterCompany. Also a Multiple Award-winning member of the Spanish National Classical Theater Company. Work in films and TV series include THE BLACKLIST and FBI: MOST WANTED. In Spain he co-starred in the movie “Las Tierras Altas” ("The High Lands") by Carolina del Prado and in numerous TV series.
 Blanca Franck (3: Art Customer, 5: Norma Bates, 6: Rosita, 7: Russian Mother)
Blanca has been finishing her master's degree for the past two years. Now that she's graduated, she's thrilled to return to what she loves, acting! Pre-master’s program, Blanca has performed with the New Circle Theatre Company and has had the pleasure of acting in student films. Through Alice King, Blanca was able to debut in her first voiceover role in Grace Under Pressure. This incredible experience would have never been possible without the encouragement and belief of Alice. Blanca is eternally grateful to have met such a fantastic performer and soul. She would like to thank all her family and friends for their support! Alice King (AEA, SAG-AFTRA)(Grace McMoon)
As a military brat in a large family, Alice found her home in theater wherever she went. Accepted by Juilliard but unable to attend, Alice auditioned and was accepted into the 1977-78 Acting Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. There she honed her craft in many ways (as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a musical version of Titus Andronicus starring Joe Morton) and met many of the people who figured in her life from then on. Moving to New York, she pursued an acting career, becoming a devoted student of Uta Hagen and a staunch member of Circle Rep, the Lion Theatre Company, EST 52nd Street Project, Polaris North, the Open Book Theatre, (proving adept at the genre of Readers’ Theater) and most recently, the New Circle Theater Company.
Her dedication to new works and new writers made her an invaluable part of their creative process. In 2004, she appeared in RECONSTRUCTION at the New International Fringe Festival and reprised her role in that play the next year at the Open Book. She returned to Louisville in 2018 take up a starring role in Boatwright, by Patrick Tovatt, at the Bunbury Theater, where she garnered lavish raves for her work. In the glowing, premature sunset of her career, she showed her stuff in stage, radio, and the new art form of streaming theater. There was nothing she couldn’t do, and no one who worked with her who didn’t love her.
 George Sheffey (AEA, SAG-AFTRA)(Announcer, 2: McWeeney, 3: Leo Fursnyder, 4: Rude Customer, 7: Howard)
Most recently appeared in Law and Order, The Blacklist, Hit and Run (Netflix), Mindhunter (Netflix), The Good Fight, Fosse/Verdon and The Chronicles of Rolling Hills (Podcast). Thank you, Emily, for the opportunity to work with such a wonderful cast and the opportunity to work with Alice one last time. I will always cherish it.
THE CREATIVE TEAM
Emily Duncan (Editor & Podcast Consultant)
Emily Duncan is an electrifying, innovative musician and producer redefining what it means to be an artist in today’s musical landscape. As a flutist, Emily has performed with The Ambient Orchestra, The New Juilliard Ensemble, AXIOM, and the New York Summergarden Series. Highlights for the 2022 season include "Voces: New Music from Latin America," New Muses Project at Merkin Hall, and Nathalie Joachim’s "Ki moun ou ye" in Lincoln Center. Her sound design and audio engineering work has been featured with Outlet Ensemble's "Brilliant Traces", the Here We Go Festival, Michael Shenefelt's "Heloise" at the 2019 Broadway Bound Festival, and PasticheNYC's Persuasion, which was recorded, mixed, and debuted in quarantine. She is also the creator of Gig Crunch, a web app that aims to combat the exploitative hiring practices freelance performers face by allowing them to check and calculate fair service rates. Emily is a graduate of The Juilliard School. To keep up with Emily's projects, please visit https://www.rebelflute.com.
 Emily King (AEA, UFT, BMI)(Author, Singer/Songwriter)
Emily King is an author, translator, editor, actor, director, playwright, lyricist, and civil celebrant, now retired from her health-insured job as a NYC school secretary to return to her theatrical works of decades past. In developing PasticheNYC, she created new ways to recruit first rate performers and great music – and the infinitude of visuals and sound available in new technology – to bring new life to Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, and now her own original musical radio series, Grace Under Pressure, in an age of uncertainty, isolation, and hunger for beauty.
 Atticus Mulkey(Recording Engineer)
Atticus Mulkey (he/him) is a producer, audio engineer, technician and artist. He holds an M.A. in Live Experience and Design from BerkleeNYC, and a Bachelors degree in Violin Performance from The Peabody Institute. He is currently on tour with Porter Robinson as an assistant playback engineer and serves as the Post-Master’s Fellow for Live Experience Design at BerkleeNYC.

Author’s Note:Grace under Pressure began as an Off-Off Broadway project in 1992, originally staged as an 8-part radio play complete with manic sound man, theme song and additional musical interludes played and sung by myself. The part of Grace was written for Alice King and, thirty years later, it became clear that it was time to make it permanent. Now no one else ever needs to play her, as podcasts will last as long as there is WiFi. And Alice will live forever in our hearts.
 Emily King, 1992; photo by Keith Weber.