A View From The Bridge

RICHARD BAIRD (Eddie Carbone) is an award winning actor, director and producer.  Laguna Playhouse: Noah Curry in The Rainmaker, Watson in Holmes and Watson and director of Tartuffe. Select credits include: 35 productions at North Coast Repertory including An Iliad which he also performed internationally at the KotorArt Festival in Montenegro; The Old Globe; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Arizona Theatre Company; Portland Center Stage; San Diego Repertory Theatre; Kingsmen Shakespeare Theatre; Backyard Renaissance; Southwest Shakespeare Company; Diversionary Theatre; Santa Barbara Theatre Ensemble and many more. Richard is the founding Artistic Director of New Fortune Theatre Company.

LOWELL BYERS (Marco) is thrilled to be making his Laguna Playhouse debut. Favorite theater roles include Pericles, Pericles: Prince of Tyre (Old Globe), Darcy, Pride & Prejudice (Virginia Stage), Trotter, Mousetrap (Alabama Shakespeare), Don John/Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing (Old Globe), Antonio/Sea Captain, Twelfth Night (Old Globe), Angelo, Comedy of Errors (Old Globe), Salvatore, North Shore Fish (Gloucester Stage), Thurio, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Old Globe). Currently recurring as Jed in, “The Chosen,” (CW, Amazon, Disney+). Other TV/Film credits include, “Promised Land,” “Red Dead Redemption,” “Alina,” “Five Senses of Fear,” “Brewsie & Willie.” He has also dubbed numerous roles in TV/Film projects for Netflix and Amazon. In addition to being an actor, Lowell is an accomplished playwright. His original play Luft Gangster ran Off-Broadway at The Sheen Center in New York City and was directed by Austin Pendleton. MFA: Old Globe. LowellByers.com. Love to Rachel and family.

FRANK CORRADO (Alfieri) has worked in the theatre primarily as an actor, but also as director, producer, and playwright, for close to fifty years. Much of that time he resided in Seattle, playing major roles in various venues there, as well as making frequent appearances at theatres across the country. Although his career has spanned the literature from the Greeks to Shakespeare to Molière to Shaw to the moderns and contemporaries, he has enjoyed a special focus on the plays of Harold Pinter. Shortly after the playwright’s death in 2008, he produced a series of readings at A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) in Seattle that over the course of three years and twenty-five evenings presented virtually all of Pinter’s works to an ever-growing and enthusiastic audience. The series culminated in 2012 in a festival at ACT of full productions of a number of the plays. In 2010, largely in recognition of his adventures in Pinterland, he was awarded the William and Eva Fox Foundation Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement by Theatre Communications Group.

STEVE FROEHLICH (Mike/Tony/Second Immigration Officer & Fight Captain) Local Theatre includes: Sweat (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Craig Noel Award Nominee for Outstanding Ensemble; Marjorie Prime (North Coast Repertory Theatre); Bliss…or Emily Post is Dead! (world premiere), Our Lady of Kibeho and Orange Julius (world premiere) at Moxie Theatre; The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio) and Disappearing Act (world premiere) by InnerMission Productions at Diversionary Theatre; Disappearing Act (remount) by InnerMission Productions at the San Diego International Fringe Festival; The Nutcracker (adaptation) at New Village Arts Theatre; Reasons to Be Pretty and Bug at Ion Theatre. Steve trains with world-renowned theater acting coach Larry Moss in Los Angeles. He is also an award-winning film producer, an award-winning film actor and a casting director

COBY ROGERS (Rodolpho) (he/him) is a recent Pepperdine graduate from West Texas. He is thrilled to be making his Laguna Playhouse Debut! Regional: Deathtrap (ICT Longbeach, Clifford Anderson), West Side Story (Tony), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer), Footloose, Cinderella, and Gunfight at the Not-So-Ok Saloon (Hollywood Fringe). He is breaking his way into film one indie short at a time. He was a 2019 Jimmy Awards nominee. Love always to God, family, friends, mentors. Thanks to Ryan & Skyfire Artists! For Sam & Mopsy. @cob.obe

MATTHEW SALAZAR-THOMPSON (Louis/First Immigration Officer) Select acting credits: The Car Plays, The Grift (La Jolla Playhouse); Murder on the Links (The Laguna Playhouse); Spring Awakening (Cygnet Theatre); Murder on the Links, Moon Over Buffalo, The Father, The Spitfire Grill, The Odd Couple, THIS, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Over the Tavern, Dracula, Leading Ladies, A Thousand Clowns, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors (North Coast Rep),Terra Nova (Compass Theatre); Cold Comfort Farm, West Side Story (Lamb’s Players); Yoga Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Moxie Theatre); Now or Later (Diversionary Theatre); Moonlight and Magnolias (Sierra Rep) Much Ado About Nothing (Intrepid Theatre); Henry V (New Fortune Theatre); Beachtown (San Diego Rep [understudy]). TV credits: “C.S.I,” “Veronica Mars,” “Fashion House,” “Cover Me,” “Dharma and Greg,” “Watch Over Me,” “18 Wheels of Justice,” “Fraiser,” “The Invisible Man,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Baywatch.” Proud member: SAG/AFTRA & AEA. Love to Jesse, Sadie and Beckett.

MARGOT WHITE (Beatrice) Favorite credits include: Broadway: Farinelli & the King (Belasco); Love, Love, Love (Roundabout); Constellations (MTC), Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box); Off-Broadway & Regional: The Refugees (Gulfshore Playhouse/World Premiere); Dirty Dancing (International Tour); The Traveling Lady (E.S.T, Dir Horton Foote); Pericles (Red Bull); Unspeakable (Harlem’s Apollo); Sweat (Pioneer Theatre); Talley’s Folly (The McCarter w/ Richard Schiff), Curious Incident.. (CTRep), for which she received the CT Critics Circle Featured Actress Award of Excellence. TV/Film/Podcast: “FBI,” “Bull,” “Unforgettable,” “L&O,” “L&O: Criminal Intent,” “Blue Bloods,” “Limetown,” “Ask for Jane,” and a few other projects where she plays many a grieving widow. In addition to her acting career, she is the founder & creator of Sweets of Adversity, a baking company specializing in creative concessions for special events, along with catering the edible props for shows On and Off-Broadway. More at the sites margotwhite.com & sweetsofadversity.com.

MARIE ZOLEZZI (Catherine) hails from Linden, a tiny farming town in Northern California. She relocated to SoCal after attending the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Marie is a bicoastal actress with shows at the Echo Theatre Company in LA as well as indie films such as “Big Break” and “Blue Nights.” Marie is incredibly grateful to Laguna Playhouse for giving her the privilege to perform Arthur Miller’s words and thanks her Nonni for teaching her what it means to be Italian. Instagram: @marierosezolezzi