Murder at marblehead cast & crew
CAST
Wes Needham (Marty Crane)
Wes Needham was thrilled to summon the ghost of Marty Crane for another radio play murder mystery. Other artistic endeavors include the plays 11:11, Sordid Little Story, Frat, reWilding Genius and B-Side Studio, to name a few. You've maybe even caught him oh-so briefly keeping the streets safe from riff-raff on NBC's Chicago PD. When not acting, he's writing for Chicago's only late-night talk-show news-alternative, "Good Evening with Pat Whalen". These shows are great, but man, they take a lot of time, which is why he's eternally grateful for the loves of his life, Hannah and Maisie Lou.
Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend (Hester Palmer)
Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend writes plays and raises children. She is an associate member of the St. Sebastian Players Theatre Company and secretary of the board for Arts for All, Inc, a NYC-based nonprofit which brings artistic opportunities to children ages 4-19 who would not otherwise have access to the arts. www.arts-for-all.org
Adam McAleavey (Niles Palmer)
Adam is terribly excited to be involved in another Winchell project. He splits his time between occasional puppet nonsense with the Noah Ginex Puppet Co, and his own podcast Starlight Radio Dreams.
Gwynn V. Fulcher (Rose Palmer)
Gwynn V. Fulcher is a queer writer/performer living in Chicago. She's a staff writer for the award-winning podcast PleasureTown, and an Artistic Associate/Board Member with the Chicago Neo-Futurists. Gwynn has been a featured live essayist around town since 2011, a regular contributor at The Paper Machete, and is a multi-champion of WRITE CLUB Chicago. Gwynn appears as an ensemble player/adventurer on the serial actual-play RPG comedy podcast ShuffleQuest. She has appeared in Voyage Chicago Magazine, been published by Chicago Literati, Video Game Heart, The Skewer and Good Little Girls.
Rence Nemeh (Mr. Baron)
Rence Nemeh is Chicago-based comedian and drag queen. He has performed with The Second City Training Center's house company revue The Dark Side of the Buffoon, summer theatrical Totally Ridiculous, and can be seen in their directing showcase this March. He has performed his original drag music at the 2018 New York International Fringe Festival and will be back in New York performing in the Duke's Got Talent showcase this May. He directs the iO Theatre's musical house team, 1st Beat, and co-produces iO's annual Chicago Musical Improv Festival (CHIMIF). And yet, nothing could prepare him for his 1st ever audio play! He would like to thank Stephen, Adam, and the rest of the cast for making this possible, and would like to state for the record that he was not behind the Murder at Marblehead! Ya gotta' believe him!
Jess DeBacco (Mayor Ackerman)
Jess DeBacco is a Chicago based comedian born and raised in Carson City, NV. She's a graduate of Second City's writing, conservatory and house co. programs and recently understudied the role of Alex Bellisle in Second City's She The People in their UP comedy stage. She can be seen performing stand-up and improvising at various venues around town. Follow her on Instagram @jd_nv for show updates. Jess has never gotten to take part in anything like this and would like to thank Stephen for including her in such a fun, kind and unique project.
Colin Hudson (Mr. Connelly)
Colin hails originally from Clearwater, FL. After moving to Chicago from Florida, he was quickly ensconced in the comedy community and appeared in many things that no one has ever heard of. Colin previously appeared in last year's critically acclaimed Heck with Nuns as Rufus Heckford. He can also do many impressions and can do a very convincing bird chirp.
Xu (Julia Dai)
Xu - pronounced like the footwear of your choice - is a classic tale of tech consultant turned comedian. She currently performs with her improv teams: Stir Friday Night, Ride or Die, 3 Asian Women on Stage at Once, and Moms- an iO Harold Team. She’s studied at iO, Second City, the Annoyance, and Black Box Acting. And has performed around the city including Silk Road Rising and Steppenwolf. Her acting credits include the webseries PRE-EXISTING, and CODE SWITCHED. She is currently represented by Paonessa Talent - and an avid fan of all things murdery and mystery.
Benjamin Vigeant (Police Chief)
BENJAMIN MATTHEW VIGEANT is the co-writer of Phil, a comic about a little boy with big ambitions.
Zack Mast (Announcer)
There are no small roles, and without Zack Mast’s performance as the Announcer, the audience would have no sense of time and place. The whole play would be a mess! If you want more than a few lines from Zack, though, last year he wrote and performed American Carnage: A Solo Staged Reading of Select Screenplays by Stephen K. Bannon, a one-man show starring Steve Bannon himself, which debuted at Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre and appeared in the New York International Fringe Festival. You can see that project at his website, zackmast.com
CREW
Stephen Winchell (co-writer, director)
Stephen Winchell is a writer and cartoonist from Chicago, IL. His work includes the feminist revenge webcomic Natty and the 9-episode baseball audio drama Batman At Bat! And also this!
Nathan D. Paoletta (co-writer)
Nathan D. Paoletta is a game designer and independent publisher who also happens to love 70s mystery crime shows. He has a game based on Columbo and a whole podcast about The Rockford Files, among other projects: check out ndpdesign.com for more
Buck LePard (co-writer)
Buck LePard is a Chicago comedian and writer. As a member of the sketch group Oh Theodora, he has performed at festivals in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles & Boston, and opened for Hannibal Buress, Chelsea Peretti, and James Adomian. Buck is also the Operations Manager of the historic Music Box Theatre. Buck spent 5 months getting Netflix to restore a missing 30 seconds to Frasier Season 11, Episode 12. Buck once saw David Hyde Pierce in a CVS in Saratoga Springs, but decided not to bother him.
Adam Goron (Sound Design)
Adam Goron is an audio engineer/sound designer who's worked on all kinds of stuff, from film to podcasts. Murder At Marblehead is the second audio drama he's done with Marty and Hester; Death Comes To Duke's was the first. Adam lives in Chicago IL, and is currently halfway through season six of Cheers (he hasn't seen it before, but better late than never).
Josh Levine (Music)
Josh Levine is an Actor/Musician that’s called Chicago his home for the past 6 years. Originally moving to Chicago to study improv, Josh fell in love will all the city had to offer. After completing the improv program at IO he continued to split his time between music and acting. Josh is affiliated with the former MCL Theater (MINT) as well as The Second City has done various MD gigs within the theaters and at sea! Josh plays in multiple regularly gigging jazz and funk projects as a keyboardist around the city as well, most notably Lunar Ticks. When he isn’t on keys, Josh performs in his two-person show called BIG FIRE!, which recently made is 4th appearance at the Chicago Improv Festival.