Meet The Cast of FMG 2.0

Wayward Theatre is very pleased and excited to announce the cast of Freud Meets Girl for November's fallFRINGE series.

Our six talented actors have courteously arranged themselves in alphabetical order. They are:


Blair Bowers (Sophie) is excited to be working on her first post-college graduation show with Wayward Theatre. Other local credits include Rorschach Theatre: Living Dead In Denmark; helping to launch Splashlife: The Millenials. Blair has a BA in Theatre and Dance from James Madison University.

Melissa Hurt (Rebecca) is excited to perform with Wayward Theatre and thrilled to be a part of DC theatre after being away for ten years. She has worked as an actor, director, dramaturg, producer, voice/speech trainer, and makeup artist in Washington DC; Baltimore, MD; Richmond, VA; Dodge City, Kansas; Eugene, Oregon and Sydney, Australia. Melissa teaches performance at the University of Mary Washington.

Aviva Pressman (NORM) is excited to be playing her very first machine in the exciting Fall Fringe Festival! Credits include Rorschach Theatre: Klecksography; Wayside Theatre: Man of La Mancha, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Miracle on 34th Street, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Harvey. Aviva has also worked as a voice over artist, director, and acting teacher.

Michael Saltzman (Oscar) Recent acting credits include First Stage: The Hunchback Variations; Open Drawer Theatre Company: Please Listen; University of Maryland: The Illusion, The Distance From Here; Weekday Players: Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Nu Visions Theatre Company: Breathe; Howard University: Joe Turner Has Come and Gone. Michael is a graduate of the University of Maryland theatre department.

Jason Schlafstein (Roger) was last seen onstage as Hal in Proof at RLT, and in a staged reading for Active Cultures. He is Assistant Director and interim Production Manager for The Odd Couple at Theater J. He will next be Assistant Directing If You Give a Cat a Cupcake: Adventure Theatre and Directing a staged reading for Doorway Arts Ensemble.

Seamus Sullivan (David) Recent credits include: Page to Stage: Sixty-9/11; Active Cultures: Horseplay with the MJTA and the Source Festival: Bunny, Bunny. His writing has appeared as part of Rorschach Theatre's Myth-Appropriation series, Arena Stage's Downstairs series, the Capital Fringe Festival, and Page to Stage. His last year was spent writing fifty short plays about Horatio's adventures after the events of Hamlet.

More to come on the strange and magical rehearsal process for Freud Meets Girl!