Peter Cowhig.
Willy Loman.
Peter has been acting with Gallery7 for
several years. He has been working as a
real estate agent for 17 years so he knows
Willy Loman's stress rather personally.
Lynne Karey-McKenna
Linda Loman
Lynne acted with me before in the one act
play festival last year in "The Courtyard".
She's really incredible and brings a lot of
passion into her role. The role of Linda
was the only one that had a large turnout
for auditions. Lynne had to beat more than
twenty other women to get it.
The director who casted Lynne had no idea
she had been with Gallery7 before, so she
really got in on her talent.
Richard Toots
Ben Loman
Richard also worked with me last year in
the one act play festival. Most of his
appearances in the play are in flashbacks
or creepy dementias of Will imagining about
his older brother Ben, who is dead, so Ben
is supposed to be hallucination most times.
Paul Cowhig
Biff Loman
Paul plays Willy Loman's troubled son, Biff.
He is also Peter Cowhig's brother and only
a few years younger than Peter.
Jay Danzinger
Happy Loman
Jay plays the womanizing Hap, who blindly
winds up becoming exactly like his father.
In real life Jay is a mortician.
Arne Larsen
Bernard
Arne is a professional singer and dancer
who once had a lead role in "The Pirates of
Penzance". The photo is blurry because Arne
never holds still. He has the metabolism of
a humming bird.
George Hodan
Charlie
George is from Romania, actually he's from
Transylvania and has a lovely accent. Which
was good because nobody with a mid-western
accent can really say the line "Nobody das
blame this man" without it sounding dumb.
Gary Atha
Stanley
Gary also has professional experience in
theatre and has starred in many plays based
on the works of Agatha Christie. We are both
auditioning for Heritage Valley's "You Can't
Take it With You" which he has starred in
before and knows the director.
Rebecca Williams & Sarah Hu
Letta and Miss Forsythe
This was both of these girls first try at
acting. They were so thrilled to play call
girls too. Rebecca on the right also helped
with everyone's hair. Which for the guys
takes about five minutes, and the women
over an hour and a half.
Pat Braun
The "Woman"
Pat took a little bit of ribbing over the
depth of her character's name. However the
members of her church were a little more cruel
about her playing the harlot when word got
around about her pregnancy one lady actually
asked, "Does she even know who the father is?"
Joleen Tateyama
Jenny
Joleen was our "Donut Run" girl. She was
onstage for five minutes so for most of the
first act and some of the second she spent
her time running down to Tim Horton's and
getting us coffee and Timbits.
Joleen was the most vital human being
in the entire production.
Me
Howard Wagner
Yes, I'm cute, but dammit, I feel so much
more comfortable in a catsuit than I do in
a pinstripe. It is just too damn lutherian
for me.