Beth Hylton (Sonia) is thrilled to be appearing at  Gulfshore Playhouse.  Most recently she performed as Amanda in PRIVATE  LIVES at Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre.  Favorite credits  include Josie in MARTHA JOSIE AND THE CHINESE ELVIS at Woolly Mammoth, Helen  in AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG at Everyman Theatre, Lt Ann Girard in the Kennedy  Center revival of MISTER ROBERTS, and Sorel in HAY FEVER and Laura in LOOK  HOMEWARD ANGEL, both at PlayMakers Repertory.  Other regional work  includes Ford's Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Folger Shakespeare Theatre,  Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Theater Alliance as part of the Pangea  Projects.  In New York Beth has performed with Gorilla Rep, Todo Con  Nada, at the Vital Signs New Play Festival, and in many productions with The  Ground Floor Theatre Lab, of which she was a founding member.  GFTL was  proud to win the first ever New York Fringe Festival award for "Best Ensemble"  for their production of LUCKY MAN.  Her television credits include AS THE  WORLD TURNS, ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE.  Training: BFA  Virginia Commonwealth University; MFA UNC-Chapel Hill Professional Actor  Training Program.

Bruce Somerville (Hubert) is a thirty-year veteran of the professional regional theatre circuit around the USA.  He was an original company member of the Guthrie II in Minneapolis. His roles have included Mosca in Johnson’s Volpone at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; Tom in William’s The Glass Menagerie at Cleveland’s Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival; Bluntchli in Shaw’s Arms and the Man at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton N.J.; and George in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at Salt Lake’s Pioneer Theatre. Locally, Bruce has been seen as Henri Trochard in Spewak’s My Three Angels and Richard in Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo at Ft. Myer’s Florida Repertory Theatre. Bruce is a member of Actors’ Equity, SAG, and AFTRA and is also an award winning fine artist. click here for acting resume

Suzanne Lewin has studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles and the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York. Relatively new to Naples, Suzanne was last seen in the Gulfshore Playhouse production of Florida Stories 3. Prior to that most of her work was in New York and Connecticut. Some of her favorite roles were; Sara Goode in Sisters Rosensweig, Charlotte Hayes in Moon Over Buffalo, and Blanche Dailey in Romantic Comedy. Suzanne is very happy to be working with the Gulfshore Playhouse again.

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning critical and popular international successes. Her plays CONVERSATIONS AFTER A BURIAL, which won the prestigious Moliere Award for best author, THE PASSAGE OF WINTER, ART, which won the Tony Award in 1998, THE UNEXPECTED MAN, LIFE X 3 and A SPANISH PLAY have been produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages.

Her new play LE DIEU DU CARNAGE, directed by Jürgen Gosch, opened on December 8, 2006 at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. She translated LA METAMORPHOSE (Stephen Berkoff’s version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis), which was directed by Roman Polanski. Novels include “Hammerklavier,” “Desolation,” “Adam Haberberg,” “Dans la Luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer,” “Nulle Part.” Film: “Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz,” directed by Didier Martiny.