The Order Up! Team

The Cast

Mickey Abbate: (Pitzie;New York): Clarence, Richard the III; Malvolio, Twelfth Night; Peter Quince, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Lady Augusta Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest (Regional): Stupid Fucking Bird, Dr. Sorn; Henry VI (2&3), Soldier, Lord Montague, Soothsayer; The Boys in the Band, Emory. He adores the playwright and very grateful to be a part of this company.

Fred Cabral (Stephen) Fred is happy to working again with Deirdre on this worthy project! Regionally, Fred has performed at Pittsburgh Public, Trinity Rep, and Culture Park. In New York City, he has worked at Theater for the New City, HB Studios, West Bank Theater, and many others. Television and film include All My Children, May the Best Man Win,  Turtle Hill Brooklyn, Banned and American Playhouse.

Michael Edmund (Telly): NY Theater: Over 50 plays including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Our Town, How I Learned to Drive, As Bees in Honey Drown, Beyond Therapy, Balm in Gilead, The Bald Soprano, Hay Fever, The Country Girl, Anna Christie, 1776, The Skin of Our Teeth, others. Film: "Turtle Hill Brooklyn" "The Orange Papers" Web Series: "Smart Actress" Monthly Podcast: "Vintage Sand - A Film History".

Joseph Jones (Hef) is ecstatic to be on stage after a long pause due to Covid. Originally, from Belfast, Ireland, Joseph, a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse, is an actor, model and creative ambassador for Irish organizations in New York City. Credits include A Therapy Session with Myself (Dir. Anthony J. Piccione), My Life Among the Serial Killers (Dir. Jacob Patorti), Christ Detained by the DHS (Dir. Anthony P. Pennino), Middletown (Dir. Sean Haggerty), commercials with Barneys New York, Direct Line Insurance with Harvey Keitel and others. When Joseph isn’t acting, he can be seen on the runway in New York, Paris and London or spreading his love of the Irish language (Irish Gaelic). He would like to thank Deirdre and everyone involved for such a rewarding experience. Ní neart go cur le chéile (There is no strength without unity). @josephjonesnyc

Jacob Lineberry (Damion, Paul) is a member of SAG and AEA and is thrilled and super appreciative to be working with such a talented, cool group creatives! He would also like to send a shoutout to Isaac J. Connor! Black Lives Matter

Deirdre MacNamara (Playwright, Daphne, Amy) is so grateful to the cast, crew, her family, the incomparable Maurice Moran, this cast of incredibly talented and super cool actors, and Michael Dervin, for being her love and letting her and her books and pets live in his nice, quiet apartment. She’s done a bunch of stuff, but most importantly, she’s met the best people in the world. This show is dedicated to the loving memory of Thomas and Lois, her dad and mom. They are very, very missed.

MAURICE J. MORAN, Director is thrilled to work with Deirdre MacNamara once again, beginning in 2001 with “Party of Seven” and her one-woman show. He has been a director for educational, community, and professional theatre in the NJ/NY area for 50 years. With an MA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he is a retired high school theatre teacher and Monmouth University adjunct professor. In 2016, he was named Outstanding Theatre Educator by the NJ Governor’s Awards. An avid traveler, he and his wife Pat have visited all 50 states and 11 of Canada’s 13 provinces, as well as Central America and Colombia, South America.

Pete Morris (Hector) has studied improvisation at the Magnet Theater and has performed at venues around New York with his teams Freaky Barber and Young Retirees. He is happy to not be making this up as he goes along.

Maureen O'Boyle (Ani) Recent NY theater includes Gasp!, Uncle Vanya, How I Married Myself and Other Misadventures (Columbia University), Macbeth, The Rimers of Eldritch (Snapped Productions), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Original Binding Productions), Allie’s Appendix (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity), Antigone/Progeny (Extant Arts), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Good Lonely People, The Oath (MTWorks) and Strangers (Dixon Place). All-time favorites include Pentecost (Burning Coal Theatre Company) and The Castle (The Somnambulist Project).

Emily Oliveira (Jenny) is thrilled to be acting in front of live audiences again! Some of her recent credits include: Leanne in ReNaming Shaim at the Broadway Bound Theater Festival, Mary (Something Happens For Joe) and Ruth (Summer’s Soldier) both at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Also, look out for the short film Sparkle, premiering soon, in which Emily plays the titular role. She has also spent some time writing and producing her own work such as her one act play: Lighthouse in Antarctica (with the help of NYU Tisch/ETW). Thank you Mom. BFA: NYU Tisch.

Mike Peros (Perry)  Mike has appeared in many productions on Long Island and in NYC; among his favorites are OUR TOWN, I HATE HAMLET, and as Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL (along with Ms. MacNamara) He is the English Chair at Bishop Loughlin High School and is the author of the first published biographies of actors Jose Ferrer and Dan Duryea. Mike is grateful to Deirdre for thinking of him, and to Barbara for her love and support.

Jere Williams (Cas) after countless on-line readings, recently returned to the stage post-pandemic in THE QUARANTINE at Players Theatre. Prior to the pandemic, he was seen as Karl Lindner in A RAISIN IN THE SUN. He's been on stages all over the city in plays like BEYOND THERAPY, THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES, LEADING LADIES, OUR TOWN, and was David Frost in the first New York revival of FROST/NIXON.

Regina Yeager (Polly) is a New York CIty based actor who recently appeared as Jenny Crestwood in MONA LISA and THE CROSS by KK GORDON (Broadway Bound Theater Festival), and as Mary Shannon Williams in the soon-to-be-released to Audible audio play BLUFF, by Lenore Skomal. In regional theater, Regina recently portrayed Susan B. Anthony in LION OF ANACOSTIA by Greg Giblin with Hudson Valley Conservatory and America’s Readers Theater, Nurse Ratched in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST at Little Theater of Wilkes Barre, Theodora in HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE at Lakeside Players/Silver Birches Dinner Theater, and Belinda in NOISES OFF at the Ritz Theater. A member of SAG/AFTRA, Regina is a Certified Self-Defense RAD instructor and a SUNY New Paltz alum.