The Three Musketeers Actor Bios
Jim Abele*
Cardinal Richelieu
Broadway: Hedda Gabler, My Thing of Love. Off Broadway: View of the Dome, Edith Stein, The Country
Girl, Any Place But Here. Regional credits include: The Pleasure of His Company, Old Globe, State of the
Union, Ford’s Theatre, The Misanthrope, McCarter Theatre, Arcadia, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The
Hairy Ape, Berkeley Rep, The Tempest, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Three Musketeers, Indiana
Repertory, The Normal Heart, Pittsburgh Public, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Cincinnati Playhouse.
Television: Guest starring and recurring roles on Dexter, Mad Men, Big Love, The West Wing, 24,
Women’s Murder Club, Cold Case, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue, Crossing Jordan, Any Day Now, Judging
Amy, Angel, among others.
Justin Alley
Ensemble
Justin is absolutely delighted to be a part of The Three Musketeers. Justin previously appeared at Seattle
Rep in The Great Gatsby and The King Stag. Over the last few years he has performed with Seattle
Shakespeare Company, ACT Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, Centerstage, Annex Theatre, and the 14/48
festival. He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Drama.
Geoffrey Alm*
Father/Treville/Ensemble
Geoffrey Alm is very pleased to be back onstage at Seattle Rep. Previous roles at Seattle Repertory
Theatre are Mangen, The Shaugraun, Lord of Surrey, Richard III. Other roles include Vinnie, The Odd
Couple at ACT, Father, Hoboken Chicken Emergency at Seattle Children’s Theatre, and featured actor
The Ring Cycle at Seattle Opera. Mr. Alm is locally and nationally known as a fight director, and is a Fight
Master with The Society of American Fight Directors.
Hans Altwies*
Athos
At the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hans has been in The Lady From Dubuque, Misalliance, Romeo and
Juliet, Light up the Sky, The O’Conner Girls, Design For Living, and most recently he was Odysseus in
The Cure at Troy directed by Tina Landau. Some other roles include Macbeth, Iago, Henry V, Mercutio,
Richmond (in Richard III directed by Bart Sher), Costard, Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tybalt,
Demitrius, and Posthumous. He has worked locally at Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT, Intiman, Seattle
Shakespeare Company, Wooden O, Book It, and is Co-Artistic Director of New Century Theatre
Company.
Jeffrey M. Bender
Porthos
Jeffrey Bender is in his first season with Seattle Repertory Theatre. He was recently seen in Mark Lamos’
production of Cymberline at Lincoln Center this past fall. He also performed in last year’s touring
production of Jane Eyre with The Acting Company. He is a company member of the Shakespeare
Theatre of NJ where he has performed such roles as Bob Acres in The Rivals, Ludovico in Life Of
Galileo, Trinculo in The Tempest, Bread in The Blue Bird and most recently as himself in The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Jeff has performed regionally at the Delaware Theatre
Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare on the Sound, Public Theatre of Maine, Michigan
Shakespeare Festival as well as with numerous NYC theater companies.
Cheyenne Casebier*
Milady/Ensemble
Cheyenne Casebier was last seen at the Seattle Rep as Olivia in Twelfe Night and Jordan Baker in The
Great Gatsby. NYC Credits include understudy in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway staring Jessica
Lange, Can’t Let Go (Keen Co.), The Intoxicating Accelerating Death Machine, Chicks With Dicks, and
Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama. Regional credits include Long Wharf, Colorado Shakespeare Festival and the
Guthrie, where she appeared in: The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Othello, Twelfth Night and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. Most recently Cheyenne starred in the short film “Use As Directed” (Best
Short Nomination, 2008 Method Fest) and appeared in the HBO mini series “John Adams” and the NBC
series, “Two and a Half Men”. Ms. Casebier is a Guthrie recipient of an International Artistic Fellowship at
Shakespeare’s Globe, London. She holds a MFA from the Professional Theater Training Program at the
University of Delaware.
Alban Dennis*
King Louis/Buckingham/Ensemble
Alban Dennis is honored to return to the Seattle Repertory Theatre with this production. His previous
credits include Stop Kiss, and The Shaughran here at the Rep, The Diary of Anne Frank and Titus
Andronicus at Intiman Theatre, Handing Down the Names and A Christmas Carol at ACT Theatre,
Pericles and Twelfth Night at Seattle Shakespeare Company, and several productions at the Seattle
Children’s Theatre. Regional credits include productions at The Huntington Theatre in Boston, The Arden
Theatre in Philidelphia and The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He is a 1992 graduate of The
University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program.
Montana von Fliss
Sabine/Ensemble
Montana is thrilled to be making her debut at the Seattle Rep. As a Seattle native, she has dreamed of
playing on this stage since she saw her first production here as a young girl. Seattle credits include
Delaware with local band “Awesome” at Rebar, The Carrolls of Queen Anne at Taproot Theatre, and The
Changeling at Annex Theatre. She has performed internationally in Berlin, Barcelona, and at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Montana is also a director and writer, and has been workshopping her new
solo show Cancer: The Musical! She is a proud member of Washington Ensemble Theatre and the
vaudeville troupe Le Royal Famille DuCaniveaux. She recently received her MFA from the University of
Washington Professional Actor Training Program.
David Goldstein
Ensemble
David has performed with Seattle Children’s Theatre (The Neverending Story), Book-it Repertory Theatre
(Travels with Charley, Giant), Seattle Shakespeare Company (Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew,
Twelfth Night), Strawberry Theater Workshop (Accidental Death of an Anarchist), Wooden O Theatre
(Midsummer Night’s Dream), The Empty Space (Frankenocchio) and others. His voice can be heard in a
number of video games and commercials produced here in Seattle. He is a graduate of Cornish College
of the Arts.
Ellen Karas*
Queen Anne/Ensemble
Ellen Karas was last seen at Seattle Rep as Constance in The Constant Wife. Other credits include The
Pleasure of His Company, Old Globe Theatre; The Heidi Chornicles, The Women, Expecting Isabel,
Lovers and Executioners,The Revenger's Comedies (Helen Hayes Award),Blithe Spirit, The Plough and
the Stars, Misalliance, The School for Wives, Arena Stage; Hilda, The Constant Wife, American
Conservatory Theatre; The State of the Union, Ford's Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius
Caesar , Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; The School for Scandal, Blithe Spirit, The Guthrie Theatre; A
Midsummer Night's Dream, The Rover, Three Sisters, The Goodman Theatre; Travesties, Hyde Park,
The Way of the World, The Huntington Theatre. Off Broadway credits include Hilda and The Foreigner.
Kate Kraay
Ensemble
Kate has performed around Seattle stages for many years. Recent roles include Christy in The Dead
Guy at ArtsWest, Gillian in Daughters of Catastrophe by local playwright SP Miskowski, and Maid Marion
in Robin Hood for Theater Schmeater. She recently completed Memory War Theater Project – Works
created under Compulsion; an intensive collaborative work with director Tikka Sears and ensemble.
Local film Engagement is currently on the global film circuit.
Shawn Law
Rochefort
Shawn Law is thrilled to make his Seattle Repertory Theatre debut. He was recently seen last summer in
Seattle parks performing the title role in Hamlet with Greenstage. A local actor for 10 years now, Shawn
has performed with Empty Space Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Wooden-O, Book-It
Repertory, Taproot Theatre Company, Theater Schmeater, Annex Theatre, Seattle Public Theatre, 14/48:
The World's Quickest Theatre Festival, Re-Bar, Consolidated Works, Harlequin Productions in Olympia,
as well as Theatre Babylon where he received a Seattle Times Footlight Award for Acting in The
Countess. Shawn had the adventure of spending three seasons with Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre
touring the great state of Alaska and Scotland. You may look for Shawn next as Curly in Of Mice and Men
at Seattle Public Theatre.
Michael Rossmy*
Fache/Ensemble
Michael Rossmy was seen on Broadway last season in the Lincoln Center production of Cymbeline.
Other Theatrical credits include: The Pirates of Penzance (The Goodspeed Opera House and Papermill
Theatre), Cyrano De Bergerac (Metropolitan Opera), Corpse! (Cape Playhouse), Life of Galileo, Macbeth,
Richard II, As You Like It, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Television
and Film: The Guiding Light, Law and Order: SVU, and Angels in America. Michael made his debut as a
Broadway Fight Director with this seasons Tale of Two Cities, and has assisted on Tarzan, Lestat, and
Cymbeline. He is also currently a co-instructor of Stage Combat at The Yale School of Drama, and has
guest lectured at The New School for Drama, and The Neighborhood Playhouse.
Ryan Shams*
Aramis
New York: The Salacious Uncle Baldrick (FringeNYC), Michael's House (Chashama Theatre),
Epimenides (Lamb's Theater), In a Park by the Coffee Shop (TSI/Playtime). Regional: Jesus Christ and
Stephen Hawking in End Days (The Vineyard Playhouse), Swiss Cheese in Mother Courage (La Jolla
Playhouse, dir. Lisa Peterson), Moliére: Cabal of Hypocrites (dir. Theatre de la Jeune Lune co-founder
Barbara Berlowitz), Fully Committed (Berkshire Theater Barn). TV: As The World Turns, Law & Order,
CSI:NY. Film: Anything For You, Look Back, Don't Look Back (Best of Festival: New England Film Fest).
Ryan was a three-time member of the USA National Fencing Team (two Junior National Championship
gold medals, eighth place in Junior World Championships) and studied physical theater with Pierre
Byland at The Burlesk Center in Switzerland. He has an MFA in acting (UCSD) and a BA in Comparative
Literature (Columbia University).
Andrew William Smith*
D’Artagnan
Andrew William Smith returns to Seattle Rep after playing Cleante in last season’s Imaginary Invalid.
Selected regional theatre credits includes A Streetcar Named Desire (Arena Stage), Our Town
(Roundhouse Theatre), Paris Commune (La Jolla Playhouse), Fuddy Meers (Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company), Arcadia, Stanley, and Mad Forest (Potomac Theatre Project), The Real Thing (Olney Center
for the Arts), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Washington Shakespeare Company), and The Wikipedia Plays (Ars
Nova, NYC). Film and TV credits include Shooting Script, Death of a Nation, Under-Ground, Law & Order:
Criminal Intent, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, and Guiding Light. He is a proud co-founding
Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company. He received his training at Middlebury College (BA) and
the University of California San Diego (MFA).
Jennifer Sue Johnson*
Constance/Ensemble
Jennifer Sue is pleased to be returning to the Seattle Repertory Theatre where she was last seen as
Clara Eynsford Hill in Pygmalion. Recently she appeared as Elise in The Miser at Seattle Shakespeare
Company, for which she previously performed the roles of Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Desdemona in
Othello, and Viola in Twelfth Night. Jennifer Sue is a longtime company member at Book-It Repertory
Theatre, originating leading roles in The House of the Spirits, Broken for You, Ethan Frome, Pride and
Prejudice, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Her theatrical adaptation of Tom Robbins’s novel Even Cowgirls
Get the Blues is currently on the boards there. She has also performed in many productions at Seattle
Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre, and Tacoma Actors Guild. Jennifer Sue toured the West as Maggie in
Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor with the Montana Repertory Theatre, and is the recipient of two Seattle
Times Footlight Awards.
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and State Managers in the United States