Lydia Berger Gray (Velda, Anna, Carol, Bill North, Sherry Local, America, Eddie) is so grateful she gets to share this beautiful play with all of you!  Oak Park Festival Theatre audiences last saw Lydia as Rosaline in Loves Labours Lost, June in Fifth of July and Rosie in one of her favorite productions of all time, Dancing at Lughnasa.  Lydia is an Artistic Associate at First Folio, where her performances include The Amish Project, Love, Loss and What I Wore, Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Vivienne Duckworth in Jeeves Takes A Bow, Gertrude in Jeeves Intervenes,  and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III.  Other Chicago credits include work with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (most recently as Maria in Twelfth Night – Short Shakes! and the 2016 Shakespeare in the Parks), several productions with ShawChicago (favorites being Eliza in Pygmalion, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest,  Louka in Arms and the Man and Epifania in The Millionairess and most recently, Aradine in Heartbreak House), as well as productions with Northlight, Silk Road Rising, and Drury Lane.  Lydia last performed in Chicago as the Princess in Shakespeare Project’s Loves Labours Lost.  Regionally, Lydia worked with Artists’ Ensemble for several seasons (favorites including Collected Stories, Red Herring, and the world premiers of Jeeves Intervenes, Jeeves in Bloom and Jeeves Takes A Bow), and with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks for three tours and Montana Shakespeare in the Schools for two.  Lydia is a proud graduate of the BFA acting program at NIU.  She would like to extend special thanks to Jessica Dickey for writing this beautiful play, to David and Alison at First Folio for the space & love to first produce it in 2016, to Tim for being the catalyst and for the cubs tickets, to Jack for planting the idea, to Jhenai who is an angel and made this a dream come true, to the Board for saying yes, to Mom for everything, to Christian, also for everything, and finally to Melanie, my partner in crime and my sister in life.  This is for you.