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 A Virtual Playhouse Reading to Benefit Metropolitan Playhouse and Direct Relief in Ukraine  Streaming December 25-31, 2023
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Elizabeth Ahrens*
(Jacqueline Kennedy) Metropolitan Virtual
Playhouse: The Sea Lady; Hearts; Constancy.
On stage with Metropolitan Playhouse: The
Sea Lady; You and I; Within the Law. The
Queens Company: Taming of the Shrew; Sir
Patient Fancy; As You Like It. Rude
Grooms: The Winter’s Tale; The Changeling;
Romeo & Juliet. A native Kansan, she
received her bachelor’s degree in theater from
the University of Kansas and an MFA in acting
from the Florida State University Asolo
Conservatory. Proud member AEA, SAG-AFTRA.
Sam Kitchin (Nikita
Khrushchev) Broadway: Frozen, Jerry Springer
the Opera (a special event at Carnegie
Hall). Off-Broadway: Frozen (MCC), The
Trip To Bountiful (Signature). Regional: The
Night of the Iguana (Berkshire
Theatre Festival), Oscar and Felix (Seven
Angels Theatre), Don’t Dress for Dinner and
The Garden of Frau Hess (Caldwell Theatre),
Brigadoon, Man of La Mancha and Evita (Actors
Playhouse/Coral Gables), Happy Hour and The
Rainmaker (12 Miles West), Evita (Arkansas
Repertory), Lend Me a Tenor and Captains
Courageous (Cumberland County Playhouse), Greater
Tuna (Florida Playwrights Theater), The
Show-Off and What Happened to Jones
(Metropolitan Playhouse) and many others! Film: Arbitrage,
Splinterheads, The Messenger, Across The
Universe, No Reservations, The Hoax, The Truman
Show, Holy Man. A fair amount of TV along
with many commercials! As a fledgling writer, I
hope to write stories from the past that entertain
today. My first attempt is a four-season episodic
entitled The Refused. The Refused first
three episodes are available to cover/or receive
further information on. My first feature is a
feel-good family sports story entitled The
Trainer and is near completion.
www.samkitchinproductions.com 
Jed Peterson (John F.
Kennedy) Previously at Metropolitan Playhouse: Thunder
Rock; The Man Of The Hour. Created the role
of Harry "the Hat" in the National Tour of CHEERS:
Live On Stage. Other New York credits
include: Jack Worthing and Gwendolyn Fairfax in The
Importance Of Being Earnest (NY Classical
Theatre); The Dark Star From Harlem (La
Mama); Maverick (Cliplight Theater); Deconstruction
(Storm Theatre); Stephen Foster in Hard
Times: An American Musical, featuring the
music of Stephen Foster (The Cell Theatre). Jed
has played the dancer Rudolf Nureyev in three
productions of Nureyev’s Eyes (American
Stage [World Premier], Delaware Theatre Company,
and Blue Barn Theatre). Other Regional credits
include: The 39 Steps (American Stage); Zorro!
(East Lynne Theatre); Sherlock Holmes: The
Final Adventure (Tent Theatre); King
Lear, Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Fiddler On
The Roof, Candida, Room Service (Utah
Shakespeare Festival); A Christmas Carol (McCarter
Theatre). Television appearances include: The
Blacklist, Madam Secretary, Elementary.
Training: Moscow Art Theatre School (First
American Ensemble), Princeton University (B.A.
English, Dramatic Literature), LaGuardia High
School of Performing Arts in New York City. Union
Affiliations: AEA, SAG-AFTRA Jed is a Resident
Artist at The Cell Theatre; and a member of the
Acting Company of Playwrights Gallery.
www.JedQPeterson.com @actor_JED 
Jonathan Allentoff
(Composer) is a nationally acclaimed conductor,
composer, performer, clinician, and educator. His
works and licensed arrangements have been
performed by ensembles across the globe, including
the Pittsburgh, Knoxville, Vermont, Oklahoma,
Salina, and Muncie Symphony Orchestras and the
Sydney Opera House, and he manages his own music
publishing business, Allentoff Music
(www.allentoffmusic.com). He recently conducted
his arrangements at the ASMAC Summer Concert
celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Warner Bros.
at Evergreen Studios in Burbank, CA, and conducted
and performed with the Flight 584 Big Band in
North Hollywood, CA. He has presented workshops at
the Association for Popular Music Education
Conferences at the Detroit Institute of Music
Education, New York University, and the Berklee
College of Music, and he appeared as a conducting
clinician and principal viola for the
NYSSMA/NYASTA Directors’ Orchestra in Albany. He
serves as the founding music director of the
Brockport Symphony and Temple Beth El Orchestras,
music director of the Greece Community Orchestra,
associate conductor and principal arranger of the
Brighton Symphony Orchestra, President of the
Greece Performing Arts Society (GPAS), strings
instructor at Hillel School, and composition
mentor for the Los Angeles Inception Orchestra. He
holds a Master of Arts degree specializing in
Music, Interdisciplinary Arts, Education, and
Technology with Honors from Stony Brook
University’s School of Professional Development,
and he received the Dr. Deborah C. Hecht Award for
his MA thesis, "The Positive Cultural Impact of
Community Orchestras." He holds a Bachelor of
Science, Summa Cum Laude, in Interdisciplinary
Arts and Music from SUNY Brockport. He is an
active member and clinician for APME, ASCAP,
ASMAC, ASTA, CODA, NAfME, and NYSSMA, and he
serves on the Executive Board of NYASTA, ASMAC’s
Event Planning Committee, and the Los Angeles
Inception Orchestra Board of Directors. 
Frank Kuhn (Director)
directed
Leah the Forsaken and The Drunkard for
Metropolitan Playhouse. He also directed a
streamed production of Eugene O’Neill’s short
play, Where the Cross Is Made for
Metropolitan’s Virtual Playhouse. Recently, he
directed Let It Shine: A Visit with Fannie Lou
Hamer for New Stage Theatre in Jackson, MS,
and a pair of Charles Mee’s plays, Two of Mee,
for the Rochester (NY) Fringe Festival. He has
also directed for Sacramento Opera, McCarter
Theatre, OperaDelaware, Princeton Rep, Delaware
Theatre Company, Opera Festival of New Jersey,
Mill Mountain Playhouse, Warehouse Theatre, and
numerous others. His previous collaborations with
playwright Joseph Ryan include two seasons of the
University of Pennsylvania’s Mask & Wig Show
in the 1980s, and an animated children’s feature,
Chubbily Bubbly, written by Ryan and Tom Pilong.
He is a professor of theatre at The College at
Brockport (SUNY) in western New York.
Alex Roe (Video Design) Alex became
Artistic Director of Metropolitan in 2001, and
productions he’s directed include Thunder
Rock, The Poor of New York, Shadow of Heroes, A
Marriage Contract, Indians, O’NEILL
(Unexpected), Alison’s House, Injunction
Granted, Icebound, The Hero, Self, The
Henrietta, The Boss, The House of Mirth (5
NYIT Award nominations), From Rags to Riches,
One-Third of a Nation, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The
Return of Peter Grimm (5 NYIT Award
nominations), The Contrast, Nowadays, Year One
of the Empire, Margaret Fleming, Denial, The
Octoroon, The Scarecrow, Metamora, Arden of
Faversham, Pick Up Ax, Fashion, Bacchus, Dom
Juan, and his own plays Haunted and
Salem (published in 2000 by New York
Theatre Experience). Alex conceived and directed
the original Alphabet City oral history project.
He also conceived the Virtual Playhouse season
during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and
engineered the video graphics for over 80 online
play readings. As an actor, he has appeared here
as Jesse James, Richard Dudgeon, Hugh Mackie, and
Blemie, the dog.