Jonathan Contreras (he/they) is an actor, musician, and songwriter currently based in El Paso, TX. Recently onstage with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s 2022 Shakespearience educational tour of Romeo and Juliet. Previously a member of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Conservatory Company in their 2021 production of The Tempest. Select online productions include working with Stages Rep (Sin Muros Latinx Theatre Festival ’21, ‘22) Teatro Chelsea (A-Típico, a new Latinx play festival ’21), and Télatulsa’s virtual production of On The Wings of a Butterfly. 2019: Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s winter production of Macbeth. La Noche De Los Alebrijes, Puerto Vallarta, Jal. Mexico, with One Blue Cat/MundoMilagro/ArtVallarta. La Casa Azul, Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, and Xanadu (Thalia/ensemble) Tex-ARTS, Austin, TX. 2018: with GRSF, Ralph in Shakespeare in Love, and Reynaldo in Alls Well That Ends Well. @jonathan.acontreras

Tarah Flanagan is delighted to be returning to beautiful Winona MN for her 14th season. Favorite GRSF credits include the Poet (an Iliad), Rosalind (As You Like It) and Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) Recent credits: RAMY(Hulu) the world premier of ROOTED at Cincinnati Playhouse, and The YELLOW WALLPAPER (Best Actress Award, Second Line Film Festival) . Tarah is proud to serve as GRSF’s co-Associate Artistic Director and Program Director for Shakespeare of Young Actors.

Mark Mazzarella is an actor, singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in New York, and he is thrilled to be making his debut with Great River Shakespeare Festival! Selected credits include: The Tempest, Cyrano de Bergerac (Guthrie Theater), Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew (Island Stage Left), King John, Much Ado About Nothing (Nebraska Shakespeare), Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe edu.), Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, As You Like It (UMN/Guthrie BFA). @mark.mazzarella

Brittany Proia (she/her) is an NY based actor, producer, director, composer, and educator. She serves as the executive director of the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Laboratory, education coordinator of Shadowland Stages, and Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern NY. This Fall Brittany is producing the world premiere production of BLOOM BLOOM POW at ART/NY's Gural Theatre. This is her 2nd season at GRSF. Recent credits include: The Tempest/Gonzala (GRSF), Julius Caesar/Brutus (Juno’s Swans), Twelfth Night/Viola, Othello/Desdemona, As You Like It/Celia (Nebraska Shakespeare),Titus Andronicus/Lavinia (Frog and Peach Theatre Co.), Meek/Irene (Denizen Theatre- US Premiere). Brittany recently directed Play On! Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet translated by Hansol Jung, and Cymbeline translated by Andrea Thome at SUNY New Paltz. She holds a Bachelor of Music from NYU, and an MFA from FSU/Asolo Conservatory; member of AEA, DG, and Ring of Keys. Love to M,D, & N. @babsproia brittanyproia.com