Cast
Terry Donovan Smith
Vladimir
Terry Donovan Smith stage credits include: The Tempest, Art, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Twelfth Night, Hamlet, American Buffalo, Incident at Vichy, Homesteaders, The Dining Room, K-2, The Philadelphia Story, Waiting for Godot. His TV and Film credits include Hunter, Cujo, Jake and the Fat Man, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Dream On, Blacke’s Magic, Delta Fever, Crazy Like a Fox and over 100 regional and national commercials. Terry's directing credits include A View from the Bridge, Rhinoceros, Waiting for Godot, Tartuffe, The Taming of the Shrew, The Twelfth Night, Picnic, The Tempest, The Family of Mann, The Balcony, Trojan Women: A Love Story, Romeo & Juliet, Hot l Baltimore, Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Miser. Terry has presented papers on performance analysis in the U.S., Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Paris, and St. Petersburg, Russia. His publications include essays and book chapters in Modern Drama, The International Journal of the Humanities, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Method Acting Reconsidered. After college, Terry was Artistic Director for the Spring Street Free Theatre, a maximum-security prison theatre company. Terry has a B.F.A in Acting (Virginia Commonwealth University), an M.A. in Theatre (CSU, Northridge), and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington's School of Drama.
Steve Morics
Estragon
Steve Morics is currently Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Redlands. After numerous productions in high school and college, Steve left the stage for 25 years until his son took an acting class from Chris Beach, which has led to collaborations on nearly a dozen shows (including playing trumpet in the pit for two of them). He’s been happy to get math students to theatrical productions, and occasionally, getting theater students to think about math. Steve worked with Chris and Terry on a production of Mamet’s American Buffalo, and is beyond fortunate to work with them on another classic of the stage as they end their academic careers.
Renata Quijada
Pozzo
Renata Quijada is a board-certified music therapist, violinist, singer and actress. Some of her favorite roles include Girl Bad Idea Bear (Avenue Q), Lucy (You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown), Domina (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and DeeDee (Scream Queens). Renata is a member of the Redlands choir, Ensemble XXI and The Harmony Sisters and Their Little Big Band. Her first time collaborating with Chris at the University of Redlands was as the music director for the 2017 production of Spamalot and she has enjoyed providing music direction for several other theatre productions throughout the Inland Empire. Many thanks to this cast and crew for an unforgettable experience and a special thanks to Bob for all of his love and support. Happy Retirement, Chris!
Chad Sweeney
Lucky
Chad Sweeney has published six books of poetry, including Little Million Doors (Nightboat Books, nominated for Pulitzer and National Book Award) and Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James)—as well as two books of translation, from Farsi and Spanish, most recently Pablo Neruda’s The Call to Destroy Nixon. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Poets & Writers and the Academy of American Poets. Chad is a full professor of English/Creative Writing at CSU San Bernardino and lives in Redlands with his partner, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney and their two sons, one dog, three mosquitos and seven blades of grass. This is Chad's first role in theater.
Liam Sweeney
Boy
Liam Sweeney is a 7th grader at The Grove School in Redlands where he has performed in two theater productions, most recently as Prince John in Marian: the True Tale of Robin Hood. An avid music lover, he taught himself to play the guitar, and he now plays electric guitar in The Grove Jazz Band and in the metal band he formed called Oracle. He is a center/right midfielder for the Redlands AYSO Extra soccer team and can play a mean game of ping-pong. He loves the arts, the outdoors, social justice, and making comics. It has been an honor for him to join the Waiting for Godot cast in this very special production.