Belleville

The Cast

Pascale ArmandPASCALE ARMAND (AMINA)

is delighted to return to Yale Rep, where she previously appeared in Danai Gurira's Eclipsed (2010 Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Ensemble) and the world premiere of dance of the holy ghosts by Marcus Gardley. Her other theatre credits include the American premiere of Kwame Kwei-Armah's Let There Be Love (CENTERSTAGE); a six-month tour of Lynn Nottage's play Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre); August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean (Arena Stage); Doubt (Vermont Stage Company); Gee's Bend (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); As You Like It (Hangar Theatre); Blues for an Alabama Sky, Hamlet (Syracuse Stage); Four (Manhattan Theatre Club); Breath, Boom (Playwrights Horizons); The Piano Lesson, Jitney (Actors Theatre of Louisville), as well as productions at La Jolla Playhouse and American Repertory Theatre. TV and film appearances include Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Strangers with Candy, and Kinsey.

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MARIA DIZZIAMARIA DIZZIA (ABBY)

previously appeared at Yale Rep in the title role in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice and Iphigeneia at Aulis. Her New York credits include Cradle and All opposite Greg Keller, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) (2010 Tony Award nomination, Best Performance by a Featured Actress), The Hallway Trilogy, The Drunken City, Eurydice, The Wooden Breeks, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Apparition, Alice the Magnet, Cause for Alarm, and Gone Missing. Regional credits include Not Waving (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (Young Jean Lee's Theater Company); Trouble in Mind (CENTERSTAGE); Blur (Dallas Theater Center); Fêtes de la Nuit (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Unusual Acts of Devotion, Sheridan (La Jolla Playhouse); Proof (Geva Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); and A Midsummer's Night Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Film and television Lola Versus, The Happy Sad, Keep the Lights On, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married, Down the Shore, The Other Woman, A New York Thing, Kiddie Ride, Louie, Fringe, Smith, Law & Order, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.  Maria received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego and is an Associate Artist with The Civilians.

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GREG KELLERGREG KELLER (ZACK)

Credits include Cradle and All opposite Maria Dizzia (Manhattan Theatre Club), 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Ahmanson Theatre), The Seagull with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming (Classic Stage Company), Smudge (Women's Project), and That Pretty Pretty (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). His regional credits include productions at Denver Center, Arena Stage, Florida Stage, and eight plays at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Greg holds an MFA in acting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and was a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School, where he was a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner. His plays have been produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, and Berkshire Theatre Festival. Born and raised in Manhattan, Greg is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company and Partial Comfort Productions. Upcoming: Wit on Broadway with Cynthia Nixon.

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GILBERT OWUORGILBERT OWUOR (ALIOUNE)

has appeared Off-Broadway in The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The First Breeze of Summer (Signature Theatre Company); The Brothers Size and Hamlet (The Public Theater). His regional credits include The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hartford Stage); A Fair Country, The Blue Demon (Huntington Theatre); Mother Courage & Her Children, Pericles (American Repertory Theatre); Miss Julie (Yale Rep); As You Like It, King Lear (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Macbeth, Henry V, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare, Boston); The Brothers Size (The Studio Theatre, Washington, DC); and A Raisin in the Sun (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Gilbert appeared in the film Taharuki and in ABC’s All My Children on television. This fall, Gilbert will star in the film Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You with Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu, and Ellen Burstyn. Gilbert is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where he received the Oliver Thorndike Acting Award.

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