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 DAVID DEARSTYNE (Howie) is beyond thrilled to be making both his South Florida and GableStage debut with Speech & Debate. Previous roles include: El-Fayoumy in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, CB in Dog Sees God and Henry Etches in Titanic: The Musical. David recently received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Florida/New World School of the Arts. He would like to thank his family for their support and GableStage for employing a starving college grad.
 RYAN DIDATO (Solomon) is extremely excited to be making his professional debut at GableStage! He is a proud recent graduate of the New World School of the Arts BFA acting program. Ryan would like to thank the cast and crew at GablesSage for making this show such an enjoyable experience.
 PATTI GARDNER (Teacher/Reporter) is ALWAYS thrilled to return to GableStage, where she was last seen as Helene Nadler in The New Century and as Meg in the production of Defiance, for which she earned a Carbonell Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Patti has performed on most of the South Florida Stages, and continues to perform throughout the country as the "Soap Star" in Menopause The Musical. Regional credits include: Unreasonable Doubt, Bombshells (Actors' Playhouse); The Elephant Man, Make Me A Song (Mosaic Theatre); The Interview (Women's Theatre Project); The Fourth Wall, The Price, Lips Together Teeth Apart (Carbonell Award) (Palm Beach Dramaworks); The Guys (GableStage); String of Pearls (Florida Stage); The Immigrant, 1776, Damn Yankees (Broward Stagedoor Theatre). Patti considers her finest role is that of wife to Neal (Happy 32nd) and her twin daughters, Dana and Stephanie.
 JACKIE RIVERA (Diwata) is stoked to be making her GableStage debut with Speech & Debate. Previous credits include: Etta Bailey in Going To See The Elephant (Women's Theatre Project), Olivia in 26 Miles and Bianca in Taming of the Shrew (New Theatre). Jackie holds a BFA in Acting from New World School of the Arts. While there, she was lucky enough to have bumped minds with the most amazing theater artists who - with powers combined - birthed The State Theatre Project of which she is a proud company member. She would like to thank her family for their undying support, and Joe, Amy, Mark and everyone at GableStage for just being awesome and always producing exciting, relevant theatre. Also, thank you, yes YOU, for being here and supporting live theatre!
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