Meet the cast & crew of Art!
Jay T. Becker* as Marc
Jay returns to the pasture after a nearly five-year hiatus spent raising a family. He last appeared in 2011’s Circle Mirror Transformation. Part of Mad Cow since its inception, Jay has been involved in more than 30 productions as actor, director, dramaturge, tech, etc. Performance highlights include Under Milkwood, Fully Committed, Assassins, The Cherry Orchard, Talley’s Folly and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Jay has performed in most of Central Florida’s theatres, including Orlando Shakespeare Theater and Orlando Repertory Theatre, and at all three major theme parks. He studied at American Conservatory Theatre. Thank you to Miranda and Bean and most especially Nikki for holding down the fort so Daddy could do a play. Lobe.
Tommy Keesling as Yvan
Tommy has appeared in more than 20 Mad Cow
productions, including Arcadia, Our Town, The Seagull, I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda, She Stoops to Conquer, The Pitmen Painters, August: Osage County, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Enchanted April, Table Manners, The History Boys, and
most recently as Seth Lord in The Philadelphia
Story. He has worked with many other companies in Central Florida, as well as at the Orlando International Fringe Festival. He also has appeared in staged readings with Mad Cow, PlayFest, and Women Playwrights' Initiative.
Thom Mesrobian as Serge
Thom is an actor, writer and producer in the Orlando area. This is his fourth show with Mad Cow, where he played Charley in Death
of a Salesman, Reg in Table Manners, and Paul in You Can't Take It With You. He won Theatre Winter Haven’s 2015 Pierrot Award for best supporting actor for his comic portrayal of Todd, the Scottish hit man, in Unnecessary Farce.
Favorite roles include John Wilkes Booth in Assassins
(Cornerstone Theatre), Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon (Theatre
Winter Haven), and Bialystock in The Producers (Lakeland Community Theatre). Thom works as a theme-park actor during the
day and lives in Lakeland with his wonderful and extremely patient wife
Tonya.
Direction by Mark Edward Smith
Set Design by William Elliott
Lighting Design by Jerry Klein
Sound Design by Robert Carson
Costume Design by Aubrey Hess
Props by Lisa Buck
Stage Management by Karen Stephenson
*Members of Actors' Equity Association