A Christmas Carol

Twinkle Burke is an actor/writer and is excited to make her McCarter Theatre Center debut. Recent Theatre credits include: Familiar and Botticelli in the Fire (Woolly Mammoth). TV/Film: Furlough, The Other Two (Comedy Central), The Loudest Voice (Showtime), Madam Secretary and Murphy Brown (CBS), and Luke Cage (Netflix). She is a member of Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artist Writers; The Actors Studio Playwrights and Directors Workshop; and Actors & Writers (Hudson Valley).

New York: Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Troilus & Cressida. Regional: Shakespeare Theater Co D.C.: Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet. Baltimore Center Stage: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Training: NYU– Tisch: MFA in Acting. Wesleyan University: BA in Acting.

Billy is thrilled to be back at McCarter for A Christmas Carol. Other regional credits include Trinity Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Pittsburgh CLO, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, American Stage, TUTS, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Theater J and many others. New York credits include appearances at Playwrights Horizons, Irish Rep, Ars Nova, the Drama League, Roundabout Theatre Company, NYTW, Playwrights Realm and many others. He recently appeared as Buddy Holly in a pre-Broadway workshop of the new musical The Wanderer. He is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA program. You can follow him on social media @bfinn11.

Broadway: Indecent, Cabaret, Once, and Rent. She played Sally Bowles in the national tour of Cabaret. She has appeared regionally in Indecent (DCPA), Sherwood (Cleveland Playhouse), The River (TheaterWorks Hartford), A Civil War Christmas (Baltimore Center Stage), Once (Engeman), Striking 12 (TUTS/Queensbury Theatre), Zorro (Alliance), A Christmas Carol (McCarter), Venice (Center Theatre Group/Kansas City Rep), Tarzan (North Shore Music Theater), High School Musical (St. Louis MUNY), Sound of Music and Big River (Syracuse Stage). NYC readings include The Wrong Man, Beau, K-Pop, Zapata, August Rush, Freckleface Strawberry, and Casanova Returns. She also appeared in Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway.

Sharina Martin is delighted to be returning as the most prudent Cratchit. Off Broadway: Round Table (59 E59/Fault Line), The Extinctionist, Showtime Blues, The Talk (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Manhood, Untamed (National Black Theatre), The Beautiful Beautiful Sea Next Door (ArsNova). Regional credits include: Everybody Black (The Humana Festival) Familiar (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co), Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Metamorphoses (Arden Theatre Company), All’s Well that Ends Well, Another Part of the Forest, Major Barbara (American Players Theater), Black Diamond, Fedra (Lookingglass Theatre Co), The Voysey Inheritance (Remy Bumpoo), Macbeth (Lady M, greasyjoan & co.). Other credits: Richard III (Lady Anne, Boomerang Theatre Co), Heartbreaker (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center). Film: Blind, Requited, Nowheresville, Happily After. Television: Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon), The Outs, Redrum (Discovery ID), In Between Men. BTA Award Nomination, Best Actress. Training: Northwestern University, Steppenwolf Theatre, LAByrinth, Esper. sharinamartin.com

McCarter Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Broadway: Indecent. Off-Broadway: Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep); Stunning (Lincoln Center); Indecent (Vineyard); Henry V w/Liev Schrieber (Public Theater); Galileo w/F. Murray Abraham; The Tempest w/Mandy Patinkin, (CSC); Dinner Party (Target Margin); Painted Snake on a Painted Chair (OBIE); McGurk (ERS); Richard Foreman’s Samuel’s Major Problems (Ontological). Regional: Murder On The Orient Express (Ogunquitt Playhouse); Indecent (Ahmanson/Huntington Theater); Sherwood (Cleveland Playhouse); Lempicka (Williamstown Theater Festival); The Bridge of San Luis Rey by David Greenspan (Two River Theater); Seder (Hartford Stage);The School For Wives (Two River Theater); Indecent (Yale Rep/La Jolla Playhouse); Marie Antoinette (ART/Yale Rep); The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cincinnati Playhouse). Film: The Family (Luc Besson). TV: The Venture Brothers.

Jon Norman Schneider is pleased to be returning to A Christmas Carol at McCarter, fresh from his run of Vietgone at The Alley Theatre in Houston. Selected New York credits include the title role in Henry VI 1-3 (NAATCO), Lunch Bunch (Clubbed Thumb), Awake and Sing! (NAATCO/The Public), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature), Durango (The Public), A Map of Virtue (13P), among others. London: Paper Dolls (Tricycle). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance, Barrington Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival, Goodman, Huntington, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Magic, Milwaukee Rep, Mosaic, Old Globe. Film: Bitter Melon, Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy, The Normals, and HBO's Angel Rodriguez. TV: Succession, Jessica Jones, Veep, The Electric Company, 30 Rock, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

McCarter: A Christmas Carol.Broadway: Bright Star (Drama Desk Nomination); La Cage Aux Folles. Nat'l Tour: Bright Star; The Sound of Music. Off-Broadway/New York: February House (The Public); Brigadoon (Irish Rep); The Suitcase Under The Bed (Mint); Unlock’d (Prospect);…Guide To A Successful Marriage (Cherry Lane); Things To Ruin (Second Stage); Little Airplanes Of The Heart (Ensemble Studio Theatre); ReWrite (Urban Stages); NYMF; Fringe NYC. Regional: Berkeley Rep; Kennedy Center; Old Globe; CTG; Pioneer; CenterStage; TUTS; George Street Playhouse; Long Wharf; TheatreWorks- Silicon Valley. TV/Film: The Hunt (upcoming); Homeland; Madam Secretary; The Blacklist; Younger; The Daily Show; Nobody Walks In LA; From Nowhere; Syrup; HairBrained. Training: University of Michigan; RADA.

McCarter main stage debut. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Regional: Richard II, Shakespeare in Love, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice at PA Shakespeare Festival. The Roommate at Florida Studio theatre. A Christmas Story at St. Louis Rep; Rabbit Hole at Theatre Works & Theatre With A View; The Producers, Steel Magnolias, and Patsy Cline at Bristol Riverside. Recent Film and TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Broad City, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Affair, Revolutionary Road, Benim, Seven Seconds, Shirley, and a repeat offender on all the Law and Order series. Jo is also a company member of the legendary Circle Rep now the New Circle Theatre Company in NYC.

Greg Wood was last seen at the McCarter in Skylight directed by Emily Mann. This year marks his 4th season as Ebenezer Scrooge. Other recent credits include: Meteor Shower at the Walnut St Theatre Studio 3, Mornings at Seven and She Loves Me with the Peterborough Players, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for the Walnut St. Theatre, The Bridges of Madison County at the Philadelphia Theatre Co., and Once with the Arden Theatre. He recently finished filming the independent feature film Dark State. Other Film and Television credits include: The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Happening, The Killing of Emmett Young, How to Get Away With Murder, Law & Order, Ed, Hack and Homicide. Visit www.gregwoodactor.com.

Frank X is delighted to be returning to A Christmas Carol at McCarter. Favorite roles have included: Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Seattle Rep), David Gavin in After Ashley (Humana Festival, ATL), Camillo in The Winter’s Tale (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), Misha in Black Russian (Blue Heron Theatre, AUDELCO Award nomination), Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Sterling North in Permanent Collection (both at InterAct Theater), Hector in The History Boys and Dr. Tambourri in Passion (both at the Arden Theatre) and Sam in Master Harold…and the Boys and the title role in King Lear (both at  Lantern Theater). Mr. X received the Barrymore Award for his performance in the InterAct Theater production of Lonely Planet.

Top Row (l-r): Jack Sabatino, Tristan Takacs, Shan Williams II, Andrew James Gordon, Paul Zych.

Row 2 (l-r): Al LaGratta, Anoushka Sharma, Liz Kent, Mitzi Hightower-Teel, Sarah Middough, Preksha Kalavar. Row 3 (l-r): Deonté Griffin-Quick, Daniel McGinley, Chandler Miller, Lauryn Morgan Thomas, Tara Parkman, Amy Blair.

Front row (l-r): Benjamin Piccarillo, Jessica Stanzek, Jamai Brown, Kate Jones, Finn Murray-Campbell, Gloria Schnure, Lillian A. McEwen, Andrea Kristensen, John Owen.

Top Row: Uriah Amacker, Myla Delvalle, Troy Vallery, Syra Bhatt, Emre Celik,
Camille Grove. Front Row: Sam Roman, Isabella Rodriguez, Aria Song,
Alexander Perez, Alicianna Rodriguez, Sanya Bhatt.