(Genesis) Derek Jones studied and honed his craft at Wooly Mammoth Theater Company, Studio Theater Acting Conservatory, and Washington Improv Theater.  He has appeared in television pilots for Capitol Gym and Young Adult; short film Birth Right and in a staged reading of David Ives' All in The Timing.   Derek was also a featured troupe member of 4&9 Productions' Filmprov and is a cast member of the upcoming web series Won't Play In Peoria.  A native of Baltimore, MD, Derek has lived in Washington DC since 1997.  Derek is heavily inspired by music, film, and theater as well as his family and tight-knit circle of supportive friends.

(Dr. Jaqueline Cross/Mary) Julie Roundtree (Jacqueline Cross/Mary) is thrilled to be performing in Genesis!  Some of Julie's local credits include: Kadega/Henrietta in Washington Shakespeare Company's Lulu, Ensemble in Factory 449's critically aclaimed and award winning 4.48 Psychosis, Mary Dalton in American Century Theater's Native Son, Ophelia in Maryland Shakespeare Festival's Hamlet, Faery Queen in Old Lore Theater's award winning Fiddler Ghost, and a Fury in Constellation Theatre Company's The Oreistia.  During the weekday, Julie works as a professor in the Communication and Theatre Department at Prince George's Community College.  She has received a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Shorter College, an M.Litt in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance from Mary Baldwin College, and a M.F.A. (Acting emphasis) from Mary Baldwin College.  Julie can next be seen performing in Wandering Souls' Twelfth Night.

(Shep Donovan/Revelation) ANDREW WASSENICH is thrilled to be appearing in Genesis with Unstrung Harpist Productions. As an actor, he has appeared in Big Death and Little Death (Harley) at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Bartley) at Everyman Theatre, Kid Simple (Oliver) at Forum Theatre, Rough for Theatre, II  for Forum Theatre/Solas Nua, Myth Appropriations II at Rorschach Theatre, The BFG at Imagination Stage, Twelfth Night (Fabian) at Franklin Park Performing Arts Center, and Oy! at The Center Company.  Also a director, Andrew was a Kennedy Center/Kenan Fund Director-in-Residence, during which time he assistant directed A Light in The Storm and Dreams In The Golden Country, among others, and directed the Kenan Actors-in-Residence in productions of Either/Or by Dan O'Brien and One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace.  Other directing credits include Belly of The Whale, by Scott Organ at the New York International Fringe Festival, Saturday Night at the USO, for Imagination Stage, Myth Appropriations I and Fries With That? (Suzan Lori Parks' 365) for Rorschach Theatre, and The Girl in the Iron Mask for Georgetown Theatre Company.   Andrew has also been the assistant director for shows at Manhattan Theatre Club, Woolly Mammoth, and Signature Theatre, and has directed numerous workshops and readings for The Kennedy Center,  Woolly Mammoth, The Inkwell, Ganymede Arts and The Writers' Center.  Andrew has been a directing fellow at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, and has served as the Assistant to the Artistic Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey.  He is the former Producing Director of Journeymen Theater Ensemble and a founding member of The Inkwell, Washington's only theatre company devoted solely to new play development.  He has taught acting and playwriting for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, The Stage Door Workshop in Allentown, PA and The Kennedy Center, Imagination Stage and Educational Theatre Company in DC.   As a writer, Andrew is the librettist of four musicals for young actors with composer Dan Shore.  His recently commissioned bi-lingual interactive children's play, El Coquí and Other Tales of Borinquen, is currently in performances with the Allentown Public Theatre in Allentown, PA.  Andrew has studied acting and directing at The National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and the Moscow Art Theatre. He is a graduate of  The University of North Carolina School of the Arts directing program, and holds a BA in Theatre from Drew University.   Andrew's next project following Genesis is to direct Twelfth Night for a wonderful company called Wandering Souls.  Please visit their website at www.wanderingsouls.org.

(Max Wright/Lucifer) Bruce Alan Rauscher began his career in “The Biz” right after high school performing as a magician and producing short film comedies.  In college, he began working with the newly formed theatre company there and hasn’t stopped performing since.  After acting in various productions in the Tri-State area (and a brief stint at the American Film Institute to study film production), he traveled to Pasadena California where he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.   Returning to the D.C. area, Bruce began working with many of the areas theatre companies once again.  Among them; The American Century Theater, Washington Shakespeare Company, Signature Theatre, Source Theatre, etc.  Favorite roles include Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man, Alan Strang in Equus, Martin in Feeding the Moonfish (SETC award for Best Actor), Clark Storey in The Second Man, Alan Turing in Breaking the Code (ACT award for Best Actor), Edgar in King Lear, Gary/Roger in Noises Off, Rev. Hale in The Crucible, Edward III in Edward III and Col. N.P. Chipman in The Andersonville Trial (Helen Hayes nominee for Best Actor).  Bruce has also been honored with a Mary Goldwater Award for acting by The Theater Lobby.  Bruce recently completed a week long run off Broadway performing in The Keegan Theatre's production of Love, Peace and Robbery as part of the 1st Irish Play Festival.

Dave Bobb (The Chaplain of Heaven’s Gate) last appeared as George Talbot the Earl of Shrewsbury in Washington Shakespeare Company’s Mary Stuart.  He also just completed his MFA program with the Shakespeare Theater Company’s Academy for Classical Acting where he played Kent in King Lear and Bilioso in The Malcontent.  Regionally, he has played Baptista in Taming of the Shrew & Gratiano in Othello at the Virginia Shakespeare Festival.  Before beginning his Masters, he was last seen as the Robot in The Robot’s Possesion at Rorschach Theatre’s Myth-Appropriation series and as the Commander in dog & pony dc’s workshop production of Courage.  Other local highlight’s include his two Landless Theatre Company shows: Harry Daugherty in President Harding is a Rock Star, a Washington Post editor’s pick, and Jack the Ripper in Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, a Washington City Paper critic’s pick. At Synetic Theater he played the title role, Napoleon, in Animal Farm & Caiphus in the original production of The Master and Margarita. He performed in the first three years of the Capital Fringe Festival, most notably in the audience award favorite for best experimental as the Stoic in My Way Little Girl. And he has performed three times at the French Embassy for Histrio: A French Theatre as Bartholomeus in Improvisation, Berenger in Rhinoceros & Molloy in Beckett at a Hundred.

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