About

This is Lydia’s first foray into directing and she couldn’t be happier. Usually found on the stage, she last appeared with the Raven Players in If I Don’t Make It I Love You.  You may have also seen her get her head cut off as Marie Antoinette in The Revolutionists at 6th Street Playhouse, walk a mile in Spreckles’ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, or have a nervous breakdown in Main Stage West’s Body Awareness, among other productions.  Thank you to all who support all the amazing local theater all around us!

Ashley Kennedy (Ophelia) is excited to make her debut at Cloverdale Performing Arts Center. She most recently played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion. Other favorite roles include Judith (Hay Fever), Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Marcy (Ravenscroft), Abigail Williams (The Crucible), Cecily (The Importance of Being Earnest) and more. 

Jim Frankie Banks is a community actor, who started performing locally since March of 2021, with several zoom performances during the Covid era, and then did his 1st local stage performance in May of 2022 in Santa Rosa, then in July in Healdsburg and now here in Cloverdale. He is in an upcoming stage performance at Spreckels in October.

Nathaniel Eaton is a local teacher, director, playwright and storyteller. For over a decade in New York he was a professional journalist, actor, and co-founding storyteller/host of the Moth Storytelling Series (also NPR). Nathaniel saw his first production of Hamlet (with the unforgettable Mark Rylance) in Cambridge (ART), and he has since played the roles of Laertes in London (RADA), Rosencrantz in Taiwan (American Shakespeare Theater), the Player King in NYC (Off-Broadway), and now finally, the role of Hamlet in beautiful Cloverdale, Ca. Thank you to Lydia Revelos for thinking of me. 

Robert has been in acting in the Bay Area for over 30 years. Some of his favorite CPAC performances are: Lee in True West, Candy in Of Mice and Men and Owen in The Foreigner. Other favorite roles include: Ben in The Normal Heart, Charles in The Clean House, George in All My Sons, Bill Coles in Other People’s Money, Jack/Stephanie in Leading Ladies, Sagot in Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Sam in Lips Together, Teeth Apart. Besides acting, Robert also has directed, staged managed and costumed many North Bay shows.

Christopher Nevin Johnston is a local poet, playwright, actor, director, mental health professional and the newest board member for the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center.  In addition to appearing in numerous plays at CPAC over the years, Johnston also wrote for and directed 2 Old Time Radio Plays and directed the Sam Shepard classic True West.

As always, Johnston would like to thank his family for their support of his artistic ambitions.

Len Improta has been active professionally in Show Biz since age 11. He is a veteran of many musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing, Hair, The Mikako,  etc. Len was seen last year at CPAC’s Swimming in the Shallows, as well as movie feature roles in: Parallel Realms, Bottle Shock and I Almost Got Away with Murder. Len is thrilled to walk across any stage or screen in a professional venue. He hopes he can continue to do both.

Matt Farrell is thrilled to be returning to the CPAC stage. He has been associated with CPAC since 2012, and has been a community theater actor in Sonoma and Marin counties for nearly twenty years. Matt was last seen here as Haynes in The God of Hell in 2021. Other CPAC credits include: Moonlight and Magnolias, Terra Nova, The Night of the Iguana, The Hound of the Baskervilles, How the Other Half Loves, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

"Yave is thrilled to be back at the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center directing one of the pieces for this short play festival. He currently is the operations manager for the Center for Performing Arts for Sonoma State University. He previously was the Managing Artistic Director for the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center (2014-2020), as well as other roles within CPAC: Scenic & Lighting Designer, Technical Director."

Maick Poroj is an Acting major student at Sonoma State University. His most recent and first performances at SSU are Power Lines, A Peak Behind the Curtain (Noah), and In the Heights

(Piragua Guy). He is beyond grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of this festival and to be performing at CPAC for the first time.

Darien Reed is a local actor who has been seen on the CPAC stage in various performances, such as Durang Durang and The Foreigner. A graduate of Cloverdale High School, Darien also performed in the CHS Improv troupe.

Dan Stryker has been appearing on Sonoma County stages since 2015, when he appeared as Oberon in CPAC's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other favorite roles include Sir Toby Belch in the Raven Players' Twelfth Night, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Richard Fiffle in Fuddy Meers, Carlson in Of Mice and Men, and Lenny in Rumors, all with CPAC. Dan first tried his hand at writing for the stage for the Raven Players' Raven 24/7 in 2018 and hasn't stopped since. He briefly considered acting in one of these as well in order to earn the coveted Triple Threat Medal, but subsequently learned that it's not coveted, and in fact is not even a thing at all and is just something he made up entirely in a dream, which explains why it was awarded to him by Willie Nelson and a talking octopus.

Rickie Emilie Farah is a California-born, Peruvian-raised, actress, singer, dancer and teacher. She teaches children and teens acting at the School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education (SPACE) in Ukiah, CA, and she is a member of Hardly Artists Productions, a film production company based in Mendocino County. Hardly Artists Credits: “Thank You, Ten” [Filmed at CPAC!], Dead Stream. SPACE Credits: Matilda the Musical (Mrs. Wormwood). UC San Diego Credits: Trojan Women (Hecuba), Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Armida), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry). Mendocino College Credits: Twelfth Night the Musical (Olivia),  The Servant of Two Masters (Clarice), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia), Wild Fire, Once Upon A Mattress, Museum, Julius Caesar (Portia), Sueño (Estrella), American Idiot, The Cherry Orchard (Anya), Dan Hoyle’s Grow (Tiffany Miller). 

Martin Gilbertson loves theater. So much so that he feels the need to be both on stage and behind the scenes. He’s what we call an “act-o-tech”  Martin is the   Technical Director at 6 the Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, and has been a scenic carpenter and tech theater junkie for many years,  but he likes to try to be on the stage from time to time just see how the other half lives.  You may remember him having played Lenny in of Mice and Men and Edward de Vere in The Beard of Avon here at CPAC 

CPAC is very excited to have Tory Rotlisberger in her stage directorial debut! The CPAC audiences may be familiar with her 1st place entries in our fall fundraisers, "The Dracula Project" and "Project Frankenstein". Tory is no stranger to theatre, have performed in many plays in northern Sonoma county, including many at CPAC!