Meet the cast of SUMMERLAND by Arlitia Jones

Helen Hayes nominee Carpenter has played a dozen roles for the Washington Stage Guild, most recently as Southern Senator E. W. Higgins in last season’s Alabama Story. Carpenter’s other area roles reveal his special affinity with history-based dramas, from Ford’s Theatre’s 1776 and Road from Appomattox (Lyman Hall and Ulysses S. Grant respectively) to the Baron in Amadeus at Round House Theatre.

Rachel Felstein, who will play the mysterious Mrs. Mumler, just graduated from the Academy for Classical Acting, Previously she did a National Tour of Man of La Mancha as Antonia, has won praise for her performances in The Merry Wives of Windsor as Anne Page (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) and many roles in opera, musical theater as well as classical and contemporary drama.

Lomakin plays Mumler, the photographer. Local audiences have seen him at CSC as Thomas Cromwell in Anne of the Thousand Days and Pierre Laporte in Red Velvet, at Annapolis Shakespeare Theater as Don John in Much Ado about Nothing, and as Shultz in Circle Mirror Transformation at Rep Stage.