Ink Well Productions presents: INK -- A Tale of Captivity
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Angela Janda as Mary Rowlandson
Angela Janda is an eighteen year veteran of the theater--including six seasons as a company member with Theaterwork in Santa Fe, NM, where she has played roles ranging from Matilde in Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House to Caliban in The Tempest. She received her acting training at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. Ink marks her feature-length film debut.
Alan Tafoya as James Printer
Alan Tafoya is
a Native American actor, singer/songwriter and champion knife fighter.
He is a member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Film credits include principal
roles in MacGruber, Outlaw Justice and Life's Blood.
He co-produced and starred in a knife-fighting documentary Dancing
on the Edge, and has appeared in many television productions including:
Spike Tv’s Deadliest Warrior Series (Apache vs Gladiator),
Special Ops Mission Series, Comanche Moon and Taming
the Wild West. www. alantafoya.com
Wes Studi as King Philip
Wes Studi is the leading native American actor of his generation, with over 60 film and TV credits, including Avatar, Last of the Mohicans, The New World, Comanche Moon, Geronimo, Dances with Wolves, and The Only Good Indian. He was Tony Hillerman's detective Joe Leaphorn in Skinwalkers - part of the PBS American Mystery Series. He is also a musician, sculptor, author, and horse trainer. A Vietnam veteran turned activist, he was arrested at the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. Born in Oklahoma, he is a full-blooded Cherokee, language consultant, and writer of children's books.
Gary Farmer as Alderman
Actor, cultural activist, musician and filmmaker, Gary
Farmer (Cayuga) is a pioneer in First Nations media. He has held leading
roles in Jonathan Wacks' Powwow
Highway,
Chris Eyre’s Smoke
Signals and Jim Jarmusch's Dead
Man. He has won numerous Best Actor awards and directed three
films that have screened at the Sundance
Film Festival. He is the founding director of a highly original urban
Indian radio network, an arts magazine, and a cultural festival. He has
also produced and directed for Canadian television. Recent credits include
the feature films Intervention,
Notre Dame de Grace
and Timekeeper.
Farmer performs on the harmonica with his touring band, The
Troublemakers. He was born in Ohsweken, Ontario, on the Six Nations
Reserve.
Charles Gamble as Joseph Rowlandson
Charles Gamble trained in physical theater at L’Ecole internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France (1998-2000), at the Roy Hart Institute for Voice in Malérargues, France (2004), and at Shakespeare and Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts (2005). In New Mexico, Charles has performed with Theater Grottesco, The Santa Fe Opera, Shakespeare Santa Fe, Moving People Dance, Theaterwork, the National Dance Institute, and Southwest Children’s Theatre. Outside Santa Fe, Charles has developed original work and toured with Angel Exit Theater in Dublin, Ireland, and acted with Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. In Santa Fe, Charles does outreach for the Santa Fe Opera and the Santa Fe Public School’s Theater Education Program, engaging with young performers to create original work.
Jonathan Richards as Hezekiah Usher
Jonathan Richards has appeared in leading roles on the Santa Fe stage for more than twenty years. In film he has worked with Oscar-winners Alan Arkin and Terry Sanders. He is an editorial cartoonist, novelist, journalist, and film critic. He has done film translation in New York and Paris. Website: www.jonrichardsplace.com and www.nickandjake.org
Mario Cabrera as Increase Mather
Mario Cabrera has been a professional actor and director for the last 30 years. Raised in Dallas, Texas, he completed his apprenticeship at Theatre Three in Dallas, and began his professional career at Fort Worth's Shakespeare-in-the-Park's inaugural season in the role of Bottom in Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, a role he has repeated four times. He opened the Main Stage Theatre in Dallas and acted as its Artistic Director for one year. He has appeared in over 200 professional productions as well as directing over 70 others. He has performed at The Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre Three, Dallas Repertory Theatre, Pegasus Theatre, both Fort Worth and Dallas Shakespeare Festivals, Casa Manana and Stage West and nationally at the Denver Center Theatre Company, the Geva Theatre in New York, and the Sacramento Theatre Company, and was an acting company member of Shakespeare in Santa Fe for nine seasons.
Ryan Kochevar as Cotton Mather
Ryan Kochevar is a Santa Fe actor currently moving to the Northwest for theatre and the water.
Daniel Friedman as John Eliot
Daniel Friedman is a Santa Fe actor and a member of TheaterWork's permament company. He has appeared in 26 TheatreWork productions, including King Lear, Waiting for Godot, the Inspector General, Uncle Vanya, The Imaginary Invalid, and Emil's Enemies. While shooting this film, he also played Prospero in The Tempest.
Anpo Cash as Weetamoo
Anpo Cash is an Apache-Blackfoot healer and actress in Taos, New Mexico. She has appeared on stage in The Land and The Vagina Monologues and on television in the History Channel's Cannibals.
David Frankham
David Frankham is a veteran of Hollywood, known for his work in science fiction and horror films. Born in 1926 in Kent, England, he served in India and Malaya in WWII. He was a newsman with the BBC until he moved to California in 1955 to pursue a career in acting. With two decades of major roles, he jointed the original Star Trek television series as the inventor (and destroyer) of the star ship Enterprise. He lives in Santa Fe.