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Meet the Cast of People Respect Me Now

ABOUT THE CAST

Meet the great actors who are doing the reading of excerpts from PEOPLE RESPECT ME NOW.

PEOPLE RESPECT ME NOW CAST

Chelsea Thaler........................Narrator

Robert Hamilton.....................Police Officer / Christian

Dulcie Pham............................Arnie

Henry Baratz............................Sam

Noelle Robinson.................... Epilogue

Brittany Timmons....................Deborah/Telephone Operator

HENRY BARATZ appeared in the title role in The Little Prince Washington National Opera, Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre, The Secret Garden at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Carousel at Olney Theatre Center, and in Elmer Gantry at Signature Theatre as the understudy for Young Man. He appeared in several productions with Young Artists of America. He was also a Company Member in Pre-Professional Program Adventure Theatre MTC 2013-2016. He is an Equity Membership Candidate/AGMA Member.

ROBERT HAMILTON has performed and produced plays around the DMV for the past 5 years. His most favorite works in which he has performed include Restoration Stage's The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus, Set It Off the Musical and Momentum Collective's UStreet the Musical. His favorite plays that he has built or designed are Ally Theatre's Rabbit Summer, Gala Hispanic Theatre's In the Heights, Studio Theatre's Remains, and Restoration Stage's Chocolate Covered Ants.

VIVIAN "DULCIE" PHAM will shortly be seen as Keeley Gibson in Billy Elliot at Signature Theatre. She appeared in Annie at Olney Theatre Center, in Ragtime and A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre, The King And I at Olney Theatre Center, South Pacific at Toby’s Dinner Theatre, and as an understudy in Little Dancer at The Kennedy Center.

NOELLE C. ROBINSON has performed in Annie as Annie at Olney Theatre Center, in Hairspray as Lil Inez at Toby’s Dinner Theatre, and in A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre. She received a 2017 Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical for Hairspray.

CHELSEA THALER is an actor, director, and playwright, working in NYC and Washington, D.C. As an actor, Thaler has performed Off-Broadway in NYC at La MaMa ETC. Thaler has performed regionally at Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Source Theater, Synetic Theater, and The Kennedy Center. Film and TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (CBS), Evil Kin (Investigation Discovery). NYC Directing and AD credits include: I Am The Gentry (United Solo Festival, Theatre Row), The Maltese Walter and Easter at the Entrée Gold (Classic Stage Company, Sam French OOB festival, AD, Dir. Stephen Brotebeck), Good & Kissed (The Secret Theatre; Midtown Int’l Theater Festival 2017) and Here Comes Alice (Midtown Int'l Theater Festival 2014). Regional directing and assisting credits include Another Way Home by Anna Ziegler (Theater J, AD), Terminus (Studio Theatre, AD), The Intelligent Homosexuals Guide… (Theater J, 2nd Asst.), The Thrush and the Woodpecker (Source Festival, AD), and I Am The Gentry (Capital Fringe Festival, Pick of the Fringe 2015) Thaler has written over a dozen short plays; Through the Wall, currently running in the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival, is Thaler’s first full-length play. Education and training: SITI Company, Broadway Artists Alliance, Moscow Art Theatre School / Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; B.A. Theatre Performance, American University. Thaler is an associate member of SDC and an Equity Membership Candidate. Thaler is a visual artist and activist, and supporter of common sense gun laws. www.chelseathaler.com

BRITTANY NICOLE TIMMONS, is a native of Washington, DC. She received her BFA in Professional Theatre-Acting from North Carolina A&T State University. AGGIE PRIDE!!! Brittany is a host and panelist on DC's District Knowledge Network millennial based talk show "I Wish You Knew". She has had the pleasure of having a minor role in The Jenkins Brother's, Sundance Film Festival recognized film "Sinners Wanted". Brittany was last seen in "Count Down" at The Strand Theatre Company (Baltimore) and “The Very Last Days of the First Colored Circus" with Restoration Stage (DC).

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