Mary Fraser (Minna) Mary is thrilled to be performing again with DRC in another Lynne Connor play. Recent productions include Henry IV part 1 with Fenix Theatre Company and Patricia Mullholland's Solitude of Space: Emily Dickinson, the Woman, the Poet. Mary feels so lucky to live, work, and perform in her hometown with a community of artists who knock her socks off! Love and thanks to the whole Sisters team. Thanks to you, dear audience, for supporting local art. Love and cuddles always to Bill and Lillian.


Janice Gardner (Flo) Janice is an actor, intimacy director, voiceover artist and arts administrator. She's performed with DRC (Swimming in the Shallows), Good Theatre (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Death by Design, August: Osage County, Bedroom Farce, Light Up the Sky) and AIRE (Outside Mullingar, Dancing at Lughnasa). She's a Company Member Emeritus at Mad Horse Theatre Company where she performed in over 15 productions, including as Elizabeth in Witch, Harriet in POTUS, Renee Pelagie in Quills, Betty 1 in Collective Rage, Phyllida Spotte-Humme in The Explorers Club and Fabiana Aziza Cunningham in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and served as Mad Horse's Executive Director. In the daylight hours, she works at the USM Department of Theatre in marketing and outreach. Much love to Mark for joyfully partnering with her in this stumble-through of life.


Kim Gordon (Vivvy) (she/her) just finished her second project with Portland Theater Festival, An Enemy of the People, following last year's Deep Blue Sound. Other local appearances: You Can't Take It with You, Significant Other, Love Loss & What I Wore, Mrs. Mannerly at Good Theater; Faust in the Anthropocene, Cherry Orchard in Maine, Mesmerized with Snowlion Repertory Theater; Inherit the Wind, Nina (also by Lynne Conner) at The Theater Project; and shows with Maine Playwrights' Festival, Polyphonic Theater Company, PortFringe, and PSC's Little Festival of the Unexpected. She is delighted to collaborate with Dramatic Rep and an amazing group of women on Seven Sisters.


Dana Legawiec (Shirley)


RHONDA S. MUSAK* (Beverly) has performed her solo show Sound Off: Navigating My Neurodivergent Life nationally and internationally. Recent favorite projects include Outside Mullingar and Once in a Lifetime. NYC credits include the title role in Ondine (named one of the year's best by Gay City News), The Rover, Measure for Measure, and The Good Person of Setzuan. At Milwaukee Rep, she appeared in The School for Wives, Angels in America, and A Christmas Carol, and she has toured nationally. Film & TV credits include I Want to Hear My Voice, Slaphappy, Displaced, and A Good Cop. Rhonda is creator of the Leap with Passion workshop and a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. AEA @ArtNSoulActing


Molly Bryant Roberts (Susanne) is thrilled to be working with DRC and Lynne Conner again. Some of her favorite roles (not to be mistaken with best) include Louise in Always, Patsy Cline, Maria in Twelfth Night, Leslie in Deep Blue Sound, Veronica in God of Carnage, and Ophelia in Hamlet. She is so grateful for this incredible cast and crew, all of whom are outstanding in their own right and spectacular in this piece.


Sally Wood (Eunice) is thrilled to be back with DRC! She enjoys her life as a three-ring circus of professor, fight choreographer, and footstool upholsterer. Since Sally saw Lynne Connor's The Mother, she has been a huge fan and is very excited to work on Seven Sisters.



ABIGAIL KILLEEN (Director) is a theatre artist based in Portland, Maine. As an actor, she has worked Off-Broadway, regionally, and in film and television. Portland Stage: Our Town (Mrs. Gibbs), What the Constitution Means to Me (Heidi), The Clean House (Lane), Babette's Feast (Martine), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Blanche), Love/Sick (Meg/Celia/Sam), and A Christmas Carol twice (Ghosts/Mrs. Cratchit). For PSC's Studio Series she co-produced and performed in the solo show The Amish Project and has participated in numerous Little Fests. Other Portland-based work: The Lion in Winter (Eleanor, Portland Shakespeare Company); Doll's House Part 2 (Nora, Broadway World Best Actress Nomination), The May Queen (Jennifer), Death by Design (Sorel) and Next Fall (Holly), all at Good Theater; The Mother (The Mother Before) and Sofonisba (Sofonisba) at Dramatic Repertory Company, Uncle Vanya (Yelena) and Nina (Helen) at The Theater Project; and Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) with Fenix. New York credits: King Lear (Goneril), The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa) and Everything That Rises Must Converge, all with Compagnia de' Colombari, and the Off-Broadway transfer of PSC's Babette's Feast. Film: shorts, commercials and limited series television, including America's Hidden Stories and Invitation to a Bonfire. Abigail is a Professor of Theater at Bowdoin College.


LYNNE CONNER (Playwright) The Mother was a 2023 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-finalist and a 2018 and 2019 Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwright's Conference Semi-finalist. In 2019 Lynne devised and directed Unsex Me Here, a 45-minute ballet based on four Shakespeare plays commissioned by the Charlotte Ballet's Innovative Works series. Her play about Rachel Carson, In the Garden of Live Flowers (co-written with Attilio Favorini), won the 2002 Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award and an honorable mention prize in the 2002 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award contest and is published by Dramatic Publishing Company. Nina won the Gemini Theater New Play Festival competition and the Smith College New Play Reading Series and was named a finalist in the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Award and the Oglebay Institute Towngate Theatre Playwriting Contest. American Humbug—a political satire based on P.T. Barnum, George W. Bush and the "New American Century" ideology—received a Creative Heights grant award from the Heinz Endowments in 2007 and was produced by the Three Rivers Arts Festival (AEA special contract). In January 2013 Conner was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region I award for Excellence for her original adaptation of Lysistrata at Colby College. She served as the resident playwright for Carnegie Mellon University's Interactive Theatre Company, a professional troupe performing scripts on workplace and campus life issues, for which she received a Pennsylvania Economy League Learning and Development Award and a College and University Professional Association Innovation Award. As the founding director and resident playwright of the Heinz History Center's Stages in History professional theatre company from 1996 to 1999, she wrote over fifty one-act plays, monologues and short scenes and received the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums Award of Merit/Outstanding Museum Programs in May 2000. Lynne's plays and adaptations have been produced and/or presented by: Dramatic Repertory Company (Portland), Charlotte Ballet, Chautauqua Institute, Main Street Theatre (Houston), Theatre-Hikes (Chicago), the Actors’ Guild of Lexington (Kentucky), Gemini Theatre (Pittsburgh), Prime Stage (Pittsburgh), First Flight Theatre Company (New Jersey), Theatre Project (Brunswick, Maine), Carnegie Mellon University, Smith College, William and Mary College, Loyola Marymount, Slippery Rock University, Point Park University and the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre (among others). Lynne chaired the Theatre Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Theatre and Dance Department at Colby College.

Jim Thurston (Scenic Designer) is thrilled to return to the DRC and collaborate with the team to stage the premiere of Seven Sisters. Previously at the DRC he designed scenery for the premiere in of Lynne Connor's The Mother. Jim is the resident designer of the Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance at Colby College where he teaches courses in stage design and archirectural presentation, designs for department productions, and enjoys facilitating community-based work in the performing arts. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts in design for the stage from Northwestern University's School of Communication.

Michelle Handley (Costume Designer) Michelle is glad and grateful to be creating with the lovely folks of Dramatic Repertory Company! She also designs with Theater at Monmouth, University of Maine Orono School of Performing Arts, Portland Stage, Penobscot Theatre Company, and Colby College. She is Costume Shop Manager with Colby College and has coordinated wardrobe for documentary shoots for Smithsonian Channel and Hulu. Michelle hangs her hat in Winthrop and draws her life's greatest delight from kiddos Lydia and Ethan, who fill her world with sunshine. Thanks and love to you, audience friends, for sharing in our art and caring. So glad you are here!

Ashley McBreairty (Lighting Designer)

Peter de Klerk (Sound Designer) is a composer, performer and sound designer who works in a variety of stage and concert contexts. His theatrical work includes composing, musical direction, electronic and live accompaniment and sound design. His work includes productions at Colby College (Metamorphoses, Cuchulain, Lysistrata, Runnals XXX) as well as the for Three Rivers Arts Festival (American Humbug), Pitt Repertory Theatre (In the Garden of Live Flowers) and Heinz History Center (Songs of a Smoky City) His concert work includes numerous compositions in the jazz and modern classical idioms, including a suite for string orchestra which was recorded by Duquesne University's orchestra. Peter's ongoing research is in the area of computer-aided and computer-generated composition and performance, and many of his recent works were created using the programs resulting from this research. Peter is also a performing bassist and a luthier, building guitars, basses and other stringed instruments.

Sara Schuldt (Stage Manager) is glad to be returning to the DRC team for the second time and was most recently the Assistant Stage Manager/House Manager for Fenix Theatre Company's Production of King Henry IV, Part 1. She graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2023 with her BFA in Acting. She is excited for the project and grateful for the opportunities. Sara would like to thank her husband Trevor for all his support.