Meet the Artists
Vilma Silva (Sister Aloysius)
Vilma is delighted to return to RTC for Doubt. She previously appeared in RTC’S reading of August: Osage County, and in productions of Circle Mirror Transformation and Mala. She also sits on RTS’s Advisory Council. Most recently, Vilma appeared in Coriolanus with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Other credits include Sense and Sensibility for Great Lakes Theater and Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Old Jo and Scrooge in the McCarter Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol and King Philip of France and Lord Salisbury in King John, an all-female and non-binary production in collaboration with the Upstart Crow Collective and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Vilma has been a company member at OSF for 28 seasons, appearing in over 50 productions. Some of her favorites at OSF include Destiny of Desire, Mojada, The River Bride, Water By The Spoonful, King Lear, Henry VIII, A View From The Bridge, The Taming of the Shrew, Gibraltar, Pericles, Two Sisters and a Piano, The Three Musketeers, and The Magic Fire (OSF/Kennedy Center). Other theaters include Steppenwolf Theatre, TheatreWorks, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dallas Theater Center, American Conservatory Theater, El Teatro Campesino, among others. Vilma represented OSF at Ten Chimneys as the 2011 recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. Vilma dedicates her work to her parents Vilma Perez and Silvio Antonio Silva-Re.
Daniel Molina (Father Flynn)
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Recent credits: Prince Hal/Henry V in The Histories (The Guthrie Theater) A Christmas Carol (The Goodman Theatre), The Liar, Romeo and Juliet (American Players Theatre), Fish in the Dark (Broadway), five seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Film: The Yellow Birds Awards: National Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rainbow Dickerson (Sister James)
Rainbow (she/her) is delighted to be returning to RTC for this incredible production of Doubt, where she was in last season’s reading of August: Osage County. Most recently. Rainbow was seen Off Broadway in Manahatta at The Public Theatre, and on screen in Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix. Rainbow made her producing debut last year with the award winning short film The River, in which she also appeared, and which traveled the international film festival circuit. Other credits include, Broadway: August: Osage County. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, and others. Film: BEANS, This Is Their Land, Horizon, and others. Television: “Gone,” “Chicago Fire,” “Banshee,” and others. Awards: Toronto International Film Festival Rising Star, Vancouver Film Critics Best Supporting Actress, Quebec Cinema Revelation of the Year nomination, ABC Disney Discovers Alumna. Rainbow is currently based in Los Angeles, CA and represented by Liberman Zerman Management.
Gina Daniels (Mrs. Muller)
Broadway: Network, All The Way. Selected other theatre: Park Avenue Armory, Mint Theatre, CSC, New World Stages, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, APT, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep, Indiana Rep, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Portland Center Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Arden Theatre, TheaterWorks, Kansas City Rep, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Geva Theatre, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. In 10 seasons at OSF, Gina appeared in over 30 productions, originated roles in a dozen world premieres and ran Shakespeare’s gamut from Perdita to Portia to Puck. Film/television credits include: Law and Order, Evil, The First Lady, FBI (recurring), Manifest, High Maintenance , Orange Is the New Black, and Lapsis. She can be heard on many an audiobook. www.gina-daniels.com
John Sipes (Director)
John is a director, fight choreographer and movement director. He was a director and the resident movement director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for ten seasons. Prior to his residency at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, John was a director and movement director for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival for twelve seasons, where he also served as the Festival’s Artistic Director for five seasons. John has directed and choreographed productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Clarence Brown Theatre, the Guthrie Theater/Acting Company, the Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, the Berkeley Rep, and L’Usine-C, among others.
John Patrick Shanley (Playwright)
John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx. His plays include Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar (2014 Tony Award® nomination for Best Play), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, Beggars in the House of Plenty, and his newest play Brooklyn Laundry will premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play, Doubt, he received both the 2005 Tony Award® for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In the arena of screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme, with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film of Doubt, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, the Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SEASON SPONSORS
Carol Fellows and Tim Bewley, Carolyn Mandell, Donna Ritchie, Stan Schiffman, and Dick and Elaine Sweet
SHOW SPONSORS
James Auchincloss and Lynne Carmichael
HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO RICHARD HAY