Meet the Players: An Incident At the Border
Kieran Lynn - The Playwright
Kieran Lynn is an award-winning playwright from the UK. He has had plays produced in theatres across his home country and around the world, including An Incident at the Border at the Trafalgar Studios, Pushing Up Poppies at Theatre 503, Bunnies at the New Diorama Theatre, The Recurring Rise and Fall at the Hampstead Theatre, Breaking the Ice at the Traverse Theatre and The Trap at the Omnibus Theatre. His work has been produced in the USA, Israel, India, Austria, Turkey, Romania and New Zealand. His plays are published by Oberon Books. In addition to writing for the stage, he has had two plays commissioned by BBC Radio 4, including most The Call of the Rewild. He is currently writing the book and lyrics for new musical TREASON.
Katia Holmes - Olivia
Katia Holmes is thrilled to return to the Pier One stage in collaboration with the great and witty legends of Tom Custer and Carolyn Norton by her side. You may have seen her in The Complete Works of Shakespeare last season in a condensed version of Hamlet (performed backwards AND forwards) and as the lively Lydia in Pride and Prejudice. She has trained under Tyson Hewitt at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and Lola Cohen at the Strasberg Institute in New York City. She will return to NYC this fall to complete her BFA in Performance Arts at NYU Tisch. She would like to thank her family, Lola Cohen, the Browns, Tom, and Carolyn. She has enjoyed pondering how Kieran Lynn’s characters wrestle with borders, whether they be imaginary, life-altering, or a pile of sandbags a foot high.
Tom Custer - Director/Arthur
Tom Custer’s hiatus from the stage was interrupted last year in September, when in the forest behind the Pratt Museum, he performed in Pride & Prejudice, appearing as the dastardly roguish George Wickham, and the vaguely inhuman (and perhaps slightly reptilian) Anne de Bourgh. The fresh air of the woods must have aroused a sleeping monster that had laid dormant, and after the slumbering winter months finally awoke! Now he is back with a vengeance and ready to take all of Homer by storm! Bwahahahahaha! Incident at the Border is his directing debut. He will also be appearing in The Night Animals in July, and Beauty and the Beast later this fall, his first foray into musical theater.
Carolyn Norton - Reiver
Carolyn Norton does not enjoy being a cog in a machine. She would much rather participate in tangly, messy, organic systems that produce surprising and beneficial results.
