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The Diaries by John Strand
March 5 - April 3, 2005
The Cast
Bruce Linser - South Florida credits: Enchanted April (Caldwell Theatre).
National Tour: Big River (Dodger Productions). New York credits: Naked Boys
Singing (Off-Broadway), Saving Anne (BMI Workshop), and Free Fall
(Broadway Theatre Institute) for which he also wrote the book. Regional credits: Violet (Laguna
Playhouse), A Funny Thing... Forum (Saddleback CLO), Buddy (Ordway Music Theatre),
Harriet: The Woman Called Moses (Skylight Opera Theatre), and Forever Plaid
(practically everywhere). Film: "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (New Line Cinema). Voice-over: "The Littlest
Light" (Hallmark animated holiday specials).
Annemaria Rajala is thrilled to return to the stage of New Theatre where she was last seen in A
Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania) and King Lear (Goneril) as well as in Times Like
These (Meta Wolff), for which she received a Carbonell nomination as Best Actress. A native of Finland,
she came to Miami to attend the New World School of the Arts, where she earned a B.F.A in Musical Theatre
Performance. Since graduation she's been working with Actors' Playhouse, Hollywood Playhouse, Giovanni Luquini
Performance Troupe, Miami Light Project, Creative Arts Enterprises, and Artemis Performance Network. Later this
season you can see Annemaria at New Theatre in the Summer of 2005 Shakespeare Project in the roles of Portia in
The Merchant of Venice, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet and the Third Witch in
Macbeth.
Barbara Sloan is no stranger to New Theatre's stage: she has performed leading roles in Mario Diament's
Blind Date and The Book of Ruth, as well as in Michael McKeever's A Town Like
Irving in a cast nominated for a Carbonell Award as Best Ensemble, and in What I Did Last Summer,
Far East, Madame Melville, and Wit. She has performed in other and numerous productions across
South Florida, garnering five Carbonell nominations for her body of work, three for roles at New Theatre, and has
received the audience-chosen New Theatre Bill Hindman Award as Best Actress in a Principal Role for both
Wit and A Town Like Irving. Other favorite plays include Strange Snow, The Real
Thing, and Burn This, all at GableStage and The Disputation (Coconut Grove
Playhouse). Barbara teaches yoga and ballet at the University Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale
since 1985.
Robert Strain (Kurt) last performed at New Theatre in The Shakespeare Project: 2004 as Kent in
King Lear and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. By day, Robert is a starving
college professor who teaches at Florida Memorial College. By night, if he is lucky, he'll get to do a play.
When he's really lucky, he gets to perform at New Theatre. Other New Theatre productions: Electra
(2001) and Tom Walker (2002 Carbonell Nomination for Best Supporting Actor). Robert is thrilled to
be back at New Theatre and would like to thank his wife, Maria, for putting up with him.
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