Bob Brown (The Narrator) was last seen, coaxed out of a brief stint in theatrical retirement, as Avram in
Fiddler on the Roof. He is Southern State Community College's Director of the Center for Business and
Industry. His many theatre performances include his roles as Reverned Parris,
The Crucible; The Narrator
(Original Cast),
Squiggllydickler; Waldgrave, The Nerd; Ensemble, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten
; Ensemble, Working; Sanderson, Harvey; O'Neill, The Moon is Blue; Jules, My Three Angels;
Mayor,
Never Too Late; Chuck, Dear Ruth; Mr. Zero, The Adding Machine; George, Chapter Two;
Lawrence,
Loose Ends; Cletus, Lone Star; Orin, Children of a Lesser God; Rev. Hale, The Crucible;
Shriner,
Light Up the Sky; Barnett, Crimes of the Heart and Paul, Murder at the Howard Johnson's. Bob has
also performed in over twenty productions with Actors' Community Theatre in Hillsboro. He also directed
productions of
Drop Dead! and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at SSCC.
Benjamin Gullett (Playwright, Director, Doctor Edward Squiggllydickler) was most recently seen as
Percy Bysshe Shelley in
Bloody Poetry. Previous to that, he was part of the three-man team in The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
; co-directed and performed in An Evening with David
Ives
; starred in Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye; was John Proctor in The Crucible; performed in the original
production of
Squiggllydickler; was an ensemble actor in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Rick
Steadman,
The Nerd; an ensemble actor in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten; Pseudolus,
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; El Gallo, The Fantasticks; Dr. Spivey, One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest
; Max Prince and director of Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Scrooge, A Christmas Carol; the
voice of Audrey II in
Little Shop of Horrors, and many more! Ben’s next project is an imaginative staging of
Stephen Sondheim’s
Assassins for SSCC Theatre.
Brian Deatley (Mr. Miller) made his most recent comeback to the stage in The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare (Abridged)
. Prior to that we was seen in such roles as Percy in The Miracle Worker;
Jamie,
My Fair Lady; Prince Ling, Happily Never After; Jeff Levine, John Lennon & Me; Boy 3, I Know I
Saw Gypsies
; Harry, When God Comes Over for Breakfast; Don't Burn the Toast; and as Newt in Go Back
to Your Precious Wife and Son
.
Daniel Bragdon (The Salesman) was last seen on stage as Yussel in Fiddler on the Roof. Other past roles
include Lt. Rooney,
Arsenic and Old Lace; Harry, Candy; ensemble, Juvie and The King & I; and Francis
Nurse,
The Crucible. He has worked on the set crews of The Miracle Worker, My Fair Lady, John Lennon
& Me
, The Music Man, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Sound of Music, The King & I, Steel Magnolias,
Squiggllydickler (Original Production), The Crucible, Fiddler on the Roof, The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (Abridged)
and Bloody Poetry. Daniel is an Eagle Scout and assistant scout master for Troop
226, and is a member of the Southern State Singers.
Tyler Bryant (Detective Bill Johnson) is a student at Hillsboro High School. His past performances
include his roles as Hermann VanDaan in
The Diary of Anne Frank, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, Father
Bob Bradley in
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Shane in See You On Monday. In the future, Tyler
hopes to find a career in voice acting for video games and TV shows. :[]
Donald Gehres (Detective Dan Zaks) is a student at Hillsboro High School. He recently worked as stage
manager on
The Diary of Anne Frank and was seen as Fyedka in Fiddler on the Roof. Previously, he has
also worked on lights/sound and set/props crews for productions of
The King and I, Steel Magnolias and
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Donald plans to become an actor, musician, or zoologist.
(LtoR): Courtney Beekman, Brandy Chandler,
Hannah Braden and Honey Smith
Sarah Williams (Stage Manager) has worked as stage manager on such SSCC Theatre productions as
Bloody Poetry, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Theatre ASAP and Fiddler on the
Roof
. At Hillsboro High School she worked as stage manager on productions of The Best Christmas
Pageant Ever
; The King & I and Juvie. She is a SSCC student pursuing a double associate’s degree in Law
Enforcement and Corrections.
Jon Davidson (Music & Sound Design): Mathematician, author, musician and composer, Jon Davidson
joined Southern State Community College  in 1991 as a mathematics professor. Recently he published three
math books used in courses at SSCC and is working on a fourth. He holds a B.S. in applied mathematics
from Florida State University, and an M.S. in mathematics from University of Southern California. As an
active amateur musician, Davidson is a little more at home playing clarinet and sax in orchestra pits. For
SSCC Theatre, he composed the score for the productions of
Bloody Poetry and The Crucible.