Meet the Cast
In Alphabetical Order
Meet the Cast
Meet the Cast
Barrett
Regan
Barrett is delightfully dismayed to rejoin her South Stream family for the fifth time. Her past work for South Stream includes Twelfth Night (Olivia), Blackbird (Una), and Time Stands Still (Mandy), as well as others. Barrett has been fortunate enough to perform in over twenty productions during her time in the Triangle and has found her second home in the arts community. Personally and professionally, you can always find her in the midst of many creative endeavors such as writing, acting, creating, and producing. A special thank you to Brook North for giving her the opportunity to poke someone’s eyes out.
Rebecca Bossen
Kent
Rebecca is a Durham-based actor, playwright, theatre educator, and vocal coach. She has worked in venues across the country, such as: Chicago Dramatists, Creede Repertory Theatre, Stage Left, Inkwell Theatre, the DC Source Festival, and the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival. She is delighted to be making her South Stream debut! Other local acting credits include: My Name is Asher Lev (Aggregate); Silent Sky, Pentecost, The Prisoner’s Dilemma, As You Like It, Brigadoon (Burning Coal); Macbeth-The Banquet (SnapPea); Norway, The Changeling, Master Builder, Maccountant (Little Green Pig); Outside Mullingar, The Liar (Deep Dish Theater). Training: Duke University (BA), Northwestern University (MA), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (advanced certificate in voice studies).
Atticus Blum
Ensemble
Atticus Blum (He/Him) is incredibly excited to make his South Stream debut! His most recent work includes assistant directing Julius Caesar, music directing and performing in Touch of the Tism, and playing Pugsley in Addams Family. He would like to thank the Lear cast and crew for making this great tragedy such a fun one. Much love to his family and, of course, to Cedrik, the best bird a boy could ask for.
Seth Blum
Cornwall
Atticus' father is delighted to be appearing with South Stream for the first time. Many thanks to Rebecca for letting him out of the house and to this wonderful cast for helping him catch up. Previous Bardly credits include Iago, Caliban, Richard III, and Hamlet with Bare Theatre. Most recently Seth appeared as Greg in A Kid Like Jake and with Vixen and as Sherlock Holmes in A Sherlock Carol with Cary Players. He is a founding member of The Rude Mechanicals Improv Comedy Troupe, Skittish Sketch Comedy Troupe, and Kurtz & Blum, Attorneys at Law, so if you have been accused of a crime, why not stick around after the show?
Miranda Curtis
Ensemble
Miranda is pleased to be joining South Stream Productions for her second show with the team. You may have seen her last year as Viola in 12th Night. Other credits include Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Abigail Williams, The Crucible, Harriet Smith in Emma. She hopes you enjoy the show.
Emma Droste
Ensemble
Emma Droste is a graduate candidate at NC State University studying genetics. She spends her spare time in her sewing room or stepping into the theatre onstage or backstage. Her most recent productions were Emma, Holmes and Watson, and Twelfth Night. She would like to thank all the wonderful people on the cast and crew for making this production a riot of fun to participate in.
John Honeycutt
Gloucester
Producer
Elizabeth Johnson
Edmund
Elizabeth Johnson (she/her) is thrilled to make her Triangle debut after six years away from the stage while completing her PhD. Past favorite roles include a variety of Renaissance villains and ingenues such as Iago (Othello), Mephistopheles (Doctor Faustus), Perdita (The Winter’s Tale), Miranda (The Tempest), and Portia (The Merchant of Venice) with groups like the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, the Tennessee Stage Company, and Theater Emory. She can be seen next as Ruth Condomine in Blithe Spirit (TheatreFEST 2025). Given the character she's playing in King Lear, she would like to offer this quote: “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating” (Simone Weil). Enjoy the show!
George Labusohr
Albany
Production Fight Choreographer
George Labusohr is a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, where he received his B.F.A in Performing Arts. He is an Actor-Combatant certified by the Society of American Fight Directors and choreographs movement and violence for schools and theatre companies around the Triangle. He is grateful to be back onstage, and excited to work with South Stream Productions for the first time!
Maggie Lea
Goneril
Maggie Lea was drawn to this production by the immense talent and goodness of the people involved. Let's be honest, a lot of her friends are on that stage and she really wanted to hang out with them. Meanwhile, trying to justify villainy takes a lot of time and imagination. It's been an excellent practice, in these wildly challenging times, of finding humanity where there seems to be none, like a flower trying to push through the pavement.
Chloe Oliver
Cordelia & Fool
Credits include: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Firebox Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew (Scrap Paper Shakespeare), Romeo and Juliet (Sweet Tea Shakespeare), Far Away, Iphigenia in Splott, King Charles III, The Greeks, Hair (Burning Coal), The Flick (Bartlett Theatre), Bad Jews (A Big Wig Production), The Mystery of Love and Sex (Honest Pint), Oh! What a Lovely War! (Carrboro ArtsCenter), and All's Well That Ends Well (Triad Stage).
Julie Oliver
King Lear
Julie is a retired middle school band director.
She is afraid of nothing, especially not thunderstorms.
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For South Stream Productions: Twelfth Night, This Doesn’t End Well, Seascape. For Burning Coal Theatre: Paint Me This House Of Love, The Life of Galileo, The Normal Heart, Peter Pan & Wendy (also BorderLight Fringe Festival, Cleveland), The Iron Curtain Trilogy (also The Cockpit Theatre, London), The Heretic.For Theatre Raleigh: Barbecue. For Bulldog Ensemble Theater: The Roommate. For Switchyard Theatre: Fuddy Meers. Also, Mr. Burns (Manbites Dog Theater), The Cripple of Inishmaan, Superior Donuts (Deep Dish Theatre).
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Benjamin Tarlton
Edgar
Benjamin is thrilled to be making his debut with Southstream Productions in King Lear. A Durham native, previous credits include Mark in A Chorus Line (Honest Pint Theatre) Hal in Henry IV: Parts 1&2 (Elsewhere Shakespeare) the Ensemble of Something Rotten! (Raleigh Little Theatre), Jeff Bowen in Title Of Show (TheatreFest), Hanschen in Spring Awakening (Kenan Theatre Company), Officer Lockstock in Urinetown (Kenan Theatre Company), Jack in Into The Woods (McGregor Hall), Lucio in Measure for Measure (Raleigh Little Theatre), James Keller in The Miracle Worker (Seed Art Share,) Paris in Romeo and Juliet (Bare Theatre) and Edward in Henry VI: Parts 1,2&3 (Bare Theatre).
Benjamin graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in theatre and a minor in music. He is also a trained Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors.
After this show, catch Benjamin in Blithe Spirit with NC State’s TheatreFest!
Meet the Crew
In Alphabetical Order
Meet the Crew
Meet the Crew
Maggie Cirnitski
Rehearsal Stage Manager
Maggie is incredibly grateful to the cast and crew of King Lear for welcoming her with open arms
and making these past few months such a joyful and unforgettable experience. She joined the
production a little later in the process, but was immediately met with warmth, laughter, and an
amazing group of people.
Over the years, Maggie has loved being part of several productions, including A Christmas
Carol with HRT and Cinderella with Southern Wake Players in 2024. But King Lear marks a
special first—it’s her debut working behind the scenes instead of on stage. As she heads off to
New York City, she’s thankful to have had this final show in her hometown and hopes it’s just
the beginning of many more adventures in the world of theatre, both onstage and off.
Andy Hayworth
Production Stage Manager
For Burning Coal: Henry V, King Charles III, and
Stuff Happens, The Weir. For Honest Pint: Hamlet, King Lear, The Legend of Georgia McBride.
Todd Houseknecht
Set and Sound Design
Todd has been very active in community theatre in the Raleigh area for 17 years,providing set construction, technical direction, and sound design/engineeringassistance for organizations that include Raleigh Little Theatre, Cary Players, NRACT, Forest Moon, and others. Highlights include Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Spring Awakening, Cinderella, Spamalot, Hedwig, Sweeney Todd, Avenue Q, Sister Act, and many others.
He hopes you enjoy the show!
Brook North
Producer and Director
Brook is an Actor/Producer/Writer/Director more or less in that order based in Raleigh, NC. He co-founded South Stream Productions with John Honeycutt in 2012 and he has produced and either acted or directed in all of their shows. For South Stream he directed Seascape, Blackbird, and this doesn't end well. In addition He has worked with most of the theatre companies in the Raleigh/Durham area including directing All The Way for Justice Theatre Project. Some recent acting roles include Ben in Grand Horizons (Honest Pint), Orsino/Belch in Twelfth Night (South Stream), and Stewart Ostrow et al in Yellow Face (Theatre Raleigh).
Alyssa Petrone
Lighting
Avid crafter, creator, and all-around problem solver, Alyssa has no less than six tricks up her sleeve at any given time. Stage managing, designing lights and props, crew, acting, sword fighting, knitting a scarf--She’s up for any challenge you want to throw at her. Over the past 20 years she has contributed to well over 100 productions, and with this production has completed the Slings and Arrows trilogy. She would like to thank her family and all her friends for their support.
Hayley Philippart
Artistic Consultant
Hayley is a director in the Triangle area.
Local direction credits include EMMA (Sweet Tea Shakespeare) and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (South Stream Productions). She is thrilled to work with South Stream again, and thanks her friends and family, especially her partner Ashlyn, for their support. Thank you to all who are choosing to support the arts - may we all play on.
Jennifer Sanderson
Marketing, Graphic Design Guru /
Front of House Manager
Jennifer proudly describes herself as “theatre-adjacent,” continually discovering just how vital the performing arts are to our community and culture with every production. This marks her sixth collaboration with South Stream Productions, following Twelfth Night, Shelter, Blackbird, This Doesn’t End Well, and Hughie. When she’s not working behind the scenes, Jennifer is an award-winning graphic designer and photographer based in Raleigh. You can explore more of her work at jennsandy.com and matchbook memorabilia foundandphoto.etsy.com
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Thank you everyone in the cast and crew for including me in the process! It's an honor to serve you and the Triangle Theatre community.
Emma Szuba
Costume Design
Emma Szuba (she/her) is a costume designer, director and actor based in Apex, NC. Her most recent costume design credits include the first two seasons of the company she co-founded and runs, Scrap Paper Shakespeare (Arabella, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Prince Hal, Arms and the Man, As You Like It, Julius Caesar), as well as numerous student-produced shows during her time as an undergraduate at Wake Forest University (The Joy of Painting: The Bob Ross Musical, Vito on the Beach, From Foxtrot to Fosse). You can keep up with (most of) her work by following Scrap Paper Shakespeare on Instagram or Facebook. She wants to express so much gratitude to the Lear team, particularly Brook and Jennifer, and much love always to her husband, Ian, and her cat, Calypso.
Devra Thomas
Prop Master
Devra Thomas helps artists of all genres get their work started and in front of an audience once it's done. She is the former Executive Director of Common Ground Theater (Durham) and Managing Director at Deep Dish Theater (Chapel Hill), both RIP. Most recently she produced the sold out, critically acclaimed Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely (StreetSigns Center & Kenan Institute for Ethics). Over the past twenty years, she has produced or supported close to a hundred theatrical works across North Carolina, and currently serves on the Advisory Board to RedBird Theater (Durham). She helps connect readers with North Carolina authors via her work at the North Carolina Literary Review. Devra holds a Masters in Arts Administration from Goucher College.
More info online at www.stubborndev.com.