Oldcastle Theatre Company: “Sheepdog” Aug. 31

RAVIN PATTERSON (Amina) Regional: Shakespeare & Company RED VELVET (Connie), Boise Contemporary Theater: CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Siobhan), HOUSE OF TOMORROW (Jane Jupiter). TV: THE O.A.(Netflix), SPACE AVAILABLE (Amazon Prime). Training: The Acting Studio, New York. Ravin is also a playwright. Her play DINING ON THE TRUCKSIDE OR THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE TURNPIKE GREATS was selected for NJ Play Lab’s 2022 Residency. Insta: @ravinpatterson ravinpatterson.com

MICHAEL PATRICK TRIMM (Ryan) is honored to be in his first experience working with Oldcastle Theatre. Off-Broadway Credits include: Public Theater (JULIUS CAESAR) and The New Wave Theater Co (THE NEW SINCERITY). Regional Theater Credits include: Pittsburgh Public Theater (A FEW GOOD MEN, AMERICAN SON, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE), PICT Classic Theater (AS YOU LIKE IT, A CHRISTMAS CAROL), Kinetic Theater (THE ILLUSTRIOUS INVALID), Kitchen Theatre Co (HAND TO GOD), Hangar Theatre (LITTLE WOMEN), Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (RAGING SKILLET), 4615 Theater Co (DRACULA), and Ithaca Shakespeare Co (HENRY V, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM). Independent Film Credits include: SASHA RECLAIMED, RED WOODS, SUBMIT IT TO FESTIVALS, and I HAD FUN. Michael holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MBA in Business and Entertainment Management from Point Park University. He is a proud union member of Actor’s Equity Association. michaelpatricktrimm.com.

VICTORIA BENKOSKI (Female Voices) is an actor, vocalist, and teacher from Hoosick Falls, NY. A SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music Alumni, Favorite credits include: Medda in NEWSIES (ILST), Maria in TWELFTH NIGHT (Will Kempes Players), and Wicked Stepmother in CINDERELLA (Capital Rep Theatre). Currently, Victoria runs her own music studio, An Octave Above, where she teaches based out of Jacksonville, FL. Victoria also co-hosts the outrageous podcast “Possible Outcomes” via YouTube @possibleoutcomespodcast. Love to her family, Jesus, and Trippy.

ENRIQUE SEGURA (Male Voices) originally from California, Enrique fell in love with theater at the age of sixteen. Since then he’s had the honor of sharing the stage with a variety of artists such as Anthony Newley, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minelli and Elton John. He is a proud former member of the international performing group The Young Americans and The Bilingual Foundation of the Arts. He has also done regional productions of A CHORUS LINE, WEST SIDE STORY, GYPSY and most notably the touring production of CATS, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. Most recently Enrique was in the Broadway production of THE LION KING where he played the role of “Ed” for over 17 years. Enrique is very proud to be a part of Oldcastle and BPAC.

KIRK JACKSON (Director) has been an actor and director on and off Broadway, and regionally, for five decades. Locally, he has worked at Dorset Theatre Festival, Hubbard Hall, and the Living Room Theatre. Last fall he directed a world premiere opera, A DILL PICKLE, in Worcester MA. Last summer he directed A DOLL’S HOUSE: PART 2, twice: in an empty swimming pool in North Bennington, and a 19th c. theater in the Catskills. Before the pandemic he staged STUPID F#*KING BIRD at Hubbard Hall. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and faculty at Bennington College for over twenty years, Kirk is happily married to husband actor/playwright Oliver Wadsworth, and both are grateful for the opportunity to work at Oldcastle Theatre.