Thor Edgell (Mike) An ex-professional baseball player with the Detroit Tigers and a seasoned actor for many years. Thor’s theatre credits include To Kill A Mockingbird, in which he played Atticus Finch and received a Stage Scene LA award, The Rite performed at the Ingemar Bergman Festival in Sweden, Long Days Journey into Night, Arms and the Man, Hamlet, Fool for Love, Twelfth Night, The Country Girl and Bus Stop. His TV and film credits include: HBO movie Five Aces, Body of Proof, Criminal Minds, The Doctor, Seventh Heaven, Angel, Passions, The Practice, Push and Days of Our Lives. Thor has also starred in motion capture video games Battlefield 3 & 4 and internet game Skyrim. Recently seen performing at Civic in Plaza Suite, Native Gardens and the Bryan Harnetiaux Playwrights’ Festival. Thor looks forward to working in the upcoming production of Good People.

Scarlett Hepworth (Jean) started out as a composer/conductor and realized at the age of 40 that she liked being on the stage more than in the pit. She got her first acting gigs in Spokane beginning in 1992, then took it on the road to the San Francisco area in 2004, where she continued to grow and learn as an actor working with many well-known actors and directors. She has made her living since 1993 (30 years!) as a private vocal music instructor. She returned to Spokane last May after a 19-year hiatus and is glad to be “home.” Scarlett has been nominated or received numerous awards, including two for Best Actress for Wit, both in Spokane and in the Bay Area. Thought not a union member, she earned her Actors Equity weeks primarily by understudying at Berkeley Repertory Theater, where she amazingly went on in Mother Courage in the first week of the run. She is also proud of her work as a soundscape creator, notably the underscore for The Laramie Project here at Civic in the early 2000’s, which has been used since in several other productions of the work. Scarlet lives with two cats, Juno the Hutt and Mr. Grey, while refurbishing the Victorian Browne’s Addition home she and her wife, Marilyn Langbehn, bought in 1997. Marilyn remains in California (at a career-capping theater admin job she loves and is good at) until she retires, at which time she will join Scarlett here in the Northwest.

Pam Kingsley (Dottie) A veteran actress, director and playwright with several hundred theatre credits. For Good People, Pam returns to the Firth J Chew Studio Theatre stage as an actress after a 35-year “hiatus!” She was last seen in the Studio in the title role of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You; Mona in Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; and Beverly in The Shadowbox. Pam also directed some half dozen plays in the Studio Theatre: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Vanities, Waiting for the Parade, The Garage Sale (a Bryan Harnetiaux premiere) and the Spokane premiere of the musical Angry Housewives. Recent local directing credits include Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Spokane Shakespeare in the Park), Love, Loss & What I Wore (Actors Buddhio) Constellations (Civic), and Freud’s Last Session (Stage Left). In the last few years, it is Pam’s playwriting that has been featured in the Studio Theatre during the Bryan Harnetiaux Playwrights’ Forum Festivals. Her plays Mother’s Day (2019) and Boxes (2022) each received an “Audience Choice Award.” Pam’s plays have been widely produced throughout the U.S. and in London UK. In 2023, Minister of Sorrow won the Appalachian Playwriting Festival in North Carolina and will open the 2024 season at the Parkway Playhouse in May. An expanded version of the play will premiere next December as part of Stage Left Theater’s 2024 Season. Pam has a BFA and MA in Theatre. Click here for her website.

Deborah Marlowe (Margaret) loves the quest for one’s own complete self to access the roles life – and theatre – present.  Margie is a Willy Loman in South Boston – tragic, heroic, lost, found and hanging on for dear life for her and for her daughter. She’s been a challenge and a heartbreak, a dear one to embody for awhile. She definitely goes in the “favorite roles” pile. Some other favorite Spokane productions include Lifespan of a Fact and Native Gardens at Civic.  And, Admissions at Stage Left. Gratitude expressed to my Director and my cast mates. And, especially, to our audiences! God gives such interesting assignments.

Rhead Shirley (Stevie) is excited for his first show with Civic Theatre! Rhead has performed around the Spokane area with various theatre companies including his work as Dead Body in Wild Dust, Derek in 7 Minutes in Heaven (both with Upstart Players) and Joshua in Corpus Christi (Stage Left).

Rachae Thomas (Kate) is originally from Spokane, WA. She recently relocated to her hometown by way of Los Angeles in 2021. Her TV credits range from recurring to guest appearances on streaming networks like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Shows like How to Get Away with Murder, Hand of God and Casual. Her breakout role was in a  film called Life of a King playing a supporting role to Cuba Gooding Jr. She’s appeared in numerous national commercials throughout her career. As well as starred in critically acclaimed Theatre and Musical Theatre productions all over Los Angeles. She’s also performed her own and other One Woman shows around the country. Rachae’s goal is to break racial boundaries and limitations in roles and in life. Creating relate-able characters and stories that transform and empower the narrative around Women, People of Color and normal ass people everywhere, is her passion. Being “Mommy” is her passion too.