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Adam is an actor currently based in Portland, ME. He can also be heard as “Professor Collins” in Maudlin Anthology’s “The Voicemail Box is Full” & “Joe” in Mind’s Eye Productions’ “Give us Pete”, and “Kylo Ren/Ben Solo” and “Han Solo” in “A Crack in the Force/Reylo Animated” for Gwendy85 Studios, as well as various commercial bumpers on Outside TV. He recently appeared on stage in “The Taming of the Shrew” as “Lucentio”, “Sea Bound” as “Angus”, “The Tempest” as “Prospero” and as an Education Artist with Portland Stage Company’s “Play me a Story” program. He would like to thank Joe & this wonderful ensemble & is excited for you to hear more of this story!

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Angel Flight, Divine Books

Upcoming Broken Arts: The Astronomy Lesson, A Fragile Mind Season 2

Upcoming Broken Arts: Tiny Man on a Ferry

Andrea Myles-Hunkin  has been performing for about 15 years in Maine.  Known for her sense of humor and ability to ad lib, Myles-Hunkin loves stand-up comedy and acting.  Fluent in French, and the daughter of a Brit, Andrea is capable of a variety of accents when needed.  As an actress Myles-Hunkin has excellent stage presence.  She reports, “I’m afraid to take an acting class.  Learning method, movement or classical skills might take away from my spontaneity and joy when I perform.

Upcoming Broken Arts: The Love of the Game

Chris is a Maine based performer

Broken Arts Credits: Divine Books

Upcoming Broken Arts: Eleven Days, The Love of the Game

Christopher Soucy is a theater professional with over 30 years of experience in the industry. He is a co-founder of Odd Lot Improv and the Savannah Shakes Theater Company, and has worked as an actor, puppeteer, writer, director, and filmmaker. In addition to his work in the theater,  Christopher is a cohost of the podcast MOST HAUNTED CITY IN EARTH. Christopher is also an army combat veteran and currently resides in Savannah, Georgia.

The Most Haunted City on Earth – YouTube

Broken Arts Credits: Right as Rain

Upcoming Broken Arts: The Love of the Game, Justin Thyme

Born in the Big Easy, New Orleans, LA, Chuck grew up in Athens, Georgia, blocks from the University of Georgia, which made his multiple degrees (Geography, Climatology, Computer Science) convenient to work through. Chuck was recruited to star as Tom Simson in the cross-town high school’s production of “Outcasts of Poker Flat” and also appeared in the ballet “Coppelia”, being the only guy in a local teen-aged troup. While slow-tracking through the multiple UGA degrees, he worked as a paramedic (and an EMT before Georgia formally certified paramedics) and gained a vastly different sense of his small hometown. After a long career as a software developer providing client-specific solutions to the many data and mapping challenges faced by Electric and Gas Utilities, Chuck resumed his various artistic activities, performing several live/original stories for Athens’ Rabbit Box events, as well as both acting and technical roles in the local Town’n’Gown Theatre.

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, The Mating Habits of Shoreline Birds

Claire is a voice actor from the Boston Metro area and delighted to join the Fragile Mind family. Prior to voice acting you could see Claire on stage in musicals and plays in the Massachusetts area. Past roles include Lily (Secret Garden), Maria (Sound of Music), Ariel (The Tempest), Hope (Urinetown), Gabriella (Boeing, Boeing) and Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra). Claire holds a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance and has been studying voice and speech for over 20 years.

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Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Play in the Rain, Angel Flight

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, Justin Thyme, Seventh Inning Stretch

Cole Hunter Dzubak is a Michigan-based playwright and actor who is also a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. Dzubak graduated in May 2022 from Michigan State University with a BFA in Acting and additional major in Communication. He has had his work produced in six states and has been published through two different organizations. He has had the pleasure of working with organizations including Second Stage Productions, Talking it Out Play Festival, and Rainy Day Artistic Collective. Dzubak has acted and voice acted across Michigan, as well as virtually, having professional credits with Michigan State University, Penny Seats Theatre Company, and Evil Twin Digital. He is the co-creator and co-writer of the mini-series “Counter CULTure,” a horror comedy produced by Evil Twin Digital.

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Play in the Rain, Clouds

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, Eleven Days, Boat Spotters, “The Soon, The Moon, and Salena,” Justin Thyme

Broken Arts Directing Credits: Prewritten and Schism

Upcoming Directing Credits: An Invisible Tan and Backseat Driver

Dana is a Chicago-based actor, voice talent, and playwright. She was awarded Excellence In Playwriting by the Theater Association of NYS 2022 for her play All Out Of Spoons. She was a Finalist Winner in the Hear Me Out Monologue Competition performing her original monologue Sound Mind. She was recently on stage (Chicago) in Sharon Rothstein’s All the Days, (Miranda). She’s recorded dozens of audiobooks on ACX and has been a voice talent with Gather By The Ghostlight, Theatrical Shenanigans, and the Shouting In The Evenings Podcast. Dana is represented by Promote Talent.

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Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Hanging on for Near Life, Ties that Bind

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, The Mating Habits of Shoreline Birds

Broken Arts Directing Credits: Ahavah and For Mr. Cuddles

Upcoming Directing Credits: Boat Spotters and Tiny Man on a Ferry 

Derek is an actor and singer based in Maine, and a Northeastern native but a long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area. In Maine, he has performed in plays (And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, Wait Until Dark, and Sylvia) and musicals (Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Carousel, The Rocky Horror Show, Bright Star, and Reefer Madness), and he continues to perform online with the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco. He trained in theater and voice-over acting at the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, and in music at the Blue Bear School of Music (San Francisco).

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Hanging on for Near Life, Schism

Upcoming Broken Arts: Justin Thyme, Magical Thinking, A Fragile Mind Season 2

Upcoming Directing Credits: That Last Summer

Emma is a high school student at Thornton Academy where she works with incredibly talented arts creators. She has studied voice under the critically acclaimed Jaye Churchill and acting under BAE founder and president, Joe Swenson. In addition, she has performed both professionally and community theater.

Broken Arts Credits: Quarantine 2038, Playground Rules, A Fragile Mind Seasons 1, Clouds

Upcoming Broken Arts: Telling the Bees, A Fragile Mind Season 2.

Gwen first participated in theater in 2002 as a volunteer from the audience. Since then, she has gone on to perform with a number of local theater groups throughout New England, participating in plays, festivals, musicals, murder mystery dinners, feature-length films, and more. A recent highlight has been her foray into writing and performing sketch comedy in Portland, ME. When she’s not on stage, Gwen works for the fire service and spends her free time boxing, building furniture, and planning elaborate photoshoots for her pets.

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Angel Flight

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2

Hannah Lee DeFrates (she/her) is an actress and playwright from New Jersey with a degree in theatre from Lycoming College. Favorite acting credits include JC/Sam in A Fragile Mind (Broken Arts Entertainment), Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show (Blue Moon Theatre), Maria/Marge in Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Lycoming College), and Hilda in Heathens on the Beach (Ritz Theatre Co.). Hannah is stoked to be part of the Broken Arts team and wants to thank Joe and everyone involved!

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, For Mr. Cuddles, Hanging on for Near Life, Divine Books

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, Heatwave, Backseat Driver

Helen is a Maryland-based actor and playwright. Past stage and film roles include groundbreaking Representative Patsy Mink (Letters to Kamala), a nontraditional Witch (Macbeth), time-travelling Monkey (Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery), black widow Biyu (One Last Toast), crazy Dr. Korkwood (Mindful Mayhem), and more. Her voice work began decades ago in China when she recorded English books for students; it happily continues today with the BAE and Theatrical Shenanigans audio drama podcasts. Helen also loves writing and performing in parodies and sketches for Rated S, a comedy group. Outside of theater, she pretends to be sick with various ailments as a standardized patient in order to teach communication and clinical skills to medical students and other healthcare professionals.

Upcoming Broken Arts: That Last Summer 

Helen is a small town girl from Maine living her dream of acting and preforming. Helen stars as Kelli on A Fragile Mind. Her last show with Broken Arts Entertainment was Quarantine 2038 where she stared as Naomi Ruttlege. Helen started out singing and dancing at a young age and then later fell in love with acting/preforming. Helen also has a love for musicals and has preformed as Aunt Spiker in James and the Giant Peach, Florinda in Into the Woods, Grease, Annie Get Your Gun, and High School Musical. Along with acting Helen also is a Producer for A Fragile Mind and was a guest Executive Producer on episode 6 of Quarantine.

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Quarantine 2038, For Mr. Cuddles, Time to Talk

Upcoming Broken Arts: The Astronomy Lesson, A Fragile Mind Season 2

Broken Arts Directing Credits: Clouds, Hanging on for Near Life, A Fragile Mind Season 1

Upcoming Directing Credits: Heatwave, “The Sun, The Moon, and Salena,” A Fragile Mind Season 2.

Ian is a Maine based creator. You can find Ian’s work on the big screen, in your ears, and on stage. A regular participant in time-capped film festivals as a writer, director, and everything in between, you can also see that Ian has quite the presence with all things Broken Arts Entertainment!

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Play in the Rain

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, Justin Thyme, A Serious Scurry of Fluffles

Jack has been involved in theater since he was 11 years old. He has done many plays with the middle and high schools as well as the Belfast Maskers. The Maskers is where he met Joe Swenson 20 years ago. Since then Jack has worked with Joe in a number of projects from plays to improv to a post-apocalyptic Zoom series. Jack joined the Fragile Minds as an assistant director, stepping behind the curtain for the first time. He has enjoyed the challenge of working with the wonderful actors in these amazing shows.

Broken Arts Credits: Quarantine 2038, A Fragile Mind Season 1

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, The Astronomy Lesson, Heatwave

Broken Arts Directing Credits: Angel Flight, Ties that Bind

Upcoming Directing Credits: Seventh Inning Stretch, Desert Island Discs

Jamie Lee is a Chicago based perfomer, writer, composer, and singer. 

Broken Arts Credits: Ties that Bind, For Mr. Cuddles

Upcoming Broken Arts: Magical Thinking, Worth a Try

Jamie has been acting for as long as he can remember (but his memory’s not so great, so maybe that’s not saying much?) and is thrilled to be joining the BAE company. He most recently played Ken Gorman in Neil Simon’s Rumors (in a terrific cast along with BAE’s Jeff Cabral and Gwen Fraser). Previous productions include Da, The Odd Couple, and No Sex Please We’re British. Outside of acting, Jamie lives in Maine and is a retired judge who now helps people resolve their disputes without going to court.

Upcoming Broken Arts: Seventh Inning Stretch

Jamie Lupien Swenson is a Director, Choreographer, Actor, and Singer. She is adding Casting Director and Consultant to her creative efforts as she’s been casting talent in the Maine theater community for over a decade.

Her directing and casting credits included but aren’t limited to Lyric Music Theater’s productions of Mathilda, Spring Awakening, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She has also choreographed shows at Lyric Music Theater for both Children’s workshop and Main Stage shows. She has added voice work to her resume after performing in Prewritten and Schism.

She’s also a baseball mom to two wonderful boys, Bentley and Eli.

Broken Arts Credits: Quarantine 2038, Playground Rules, Prewritten, Schism

Upcoming Broken Arts: Tiny Man on a Ferry

Jason is a husband and father to 4 daughters. He lives in Michigan and loves to spend time with family friends, watching action movies, and exercising. His wife owns the business, First Class Closing, supporting Florida Real Estate agents with the best transaction coordination having over ten years’ experience in the business. This is Jason’s first time acting.

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1

Jeff is excited to perform with Broken Arts Entertainment for the first time and join the talented team bringing A Fragile Mind to life. Recent favorite theater role and productions include Rumors (Lenny Ganz) at Chocolate Church Arts Center (coming up in June 2023), Black Comedy (Harold) at Gaslight Theater, Communicating Doors (Reece) with Actors’ Studio of Newburyport, Jake’s Women (Jake) at Centre Stage Theatre, On Golden Pond (Charlie) at City Theater, and Murder on the Orient Express (Monsieur Bouc) at Lyric Music Theater.
Jeff has studied and performed improv and storytelling at a variety of locations, including Actors’ Studio of Newburyport, The Theater Project, and the Maine Renaissance Faire. When not performing, Jeff is a Director of another kind, at McArthur Library in Biddeford, Maine. Thanks to Joe and the production team for this opportunity.

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Angel Flight, Play in the Rain

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, That Last Summer

Kim Gordon works as an actor, voice artist and theater educator and has appeared in Maine with Good Theater, Snowlion Repertory Theater, Penobscot Theater Company, Polyphonic Theater Company, PortFringe and The Theater Project. She played for 16 seasons at Theater at Monmouth, performing classical theater and roles in the Shakespeare canon. Retired from AEA, she continues to be a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Favorite projects include a scene with Sissy Spacek in “Castle Rock” and voicing an obnoxious bureaucrat for Fred Greenhalgh’s audio
drama “Dark Tome: Undertow.”

Broken Arts Credits: Right as Rain, On Robots and Raindrops, Table 27

Upcoming Broken Arts: Telling the Bees

Leo is a well travelled young man who is eager to dive into the world of entertainment. Leo is a writer and an actor, and by the end of the year hopes to add director and cinematographer to my list of things I can do.

Upcoming Broken Arts: Worth a Try, Boat Spotters

Lily Collins (she/her) is a singer and actor in the Portland, Maine area. Favorite roles include Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice, and Irena Synkova in I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Lily is thrilled and thankful to be a part of the A Fragile Mind Series alongside this incredible cast and crew.

Broken Arts Credits: Quarantine 2038, A Fragile Mind Season 1

Broken Arts Credits: Prewritten, Schism

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Serious Scurry of Fluffles, “The Sun, The Moon, and Salena,” A Fragile Mind Season 2, Justin Thyme

Broken Arts Credits: Quarantine 2038, Ahavah

Upcoming Broken Arts: Eleven Days, The Mating Habits of Shoreline Birds

Nathan is excited to be part of his first BAE podcast series, after lending his voice to several radio dramas with Midcoast Theater Company that were produced during the pandemic, doing some voiceover work with Maine Streaming Media, and providing play by play for some high school sports on Nokomis Warrior Broadcasting. His acting experience includes an independent film (Bluebird) and various student films, local commercials, professional and community theater, and even puppetry with Last Song Studios. He also has credits as director (Moana Jr), vocal music director (Annie Jr, Willy Wonka Jr, Lion King Jr, Seussical Jr, Sweeney Todd (HS version)), fight choreographer (Beauty and the Beast, Little Women the Musical, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Narnia, Alice! a New Musical, Moon Over Buffalo, Newsies, Dracula, etc.), and pit musician (Beauty and the Beast, Shrek the Musical, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown). Nathan lives in Bangor, ME with his wife Holly, daughter Clara, and dog Maggie, and thanks them for their love and support!

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Ahavah, Time to Talk

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, An Invisible Tan, Justin Thyme

Randy began performing on stage in 2011 in the Bangor area. He moved to southern Maine in 2016 and has enjoyed working with various theatre groups. Randy’s first full-length play, Inside Man, will have it’s world premiere at the Schoolhouse Arts Center. Randy was last seen as Mrs. Trunchbull in the Matilda the Musical. Randy is an award winning playwright, director, actor, and all things theater. He is also a regular contributor to Broken Arts Entertainment productions.

Broken Arts Credits: Quarantine 2038, Playground Rules, A Fragile Mind Season 1, On Robots and Raindrops

Upcoming Broken Arts: A Fragile Mind Season 2, Desert Island Discs

Upcoming Broken Arts Directing: Telling the Bees, Worth a Try

Ray is a British/American actor – Ray has performed such roles as, TEVYA, WILLIE LOMAN, FAGIN and BOTTOM. Ray studied theatre at university and was awarded Best Male Musical Performer in a Lead Role by the American College Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. After twenty-five years working in the U.K., Ray returned home to the USA and settled down in Maine. Stage, Film, TV – okay, but this new Virtual Stuff? Oh, well, ‘Old Dogs, New Tricks!!

Broken Arts Credits: A Fragile Mind Season 1, Right as Rain

Upcoming Broken Arts: Desert Island Discs, A Fragile Mind Season 2

Upcoming Broken Arts: The Love of the Game

Richard Sewell, actor and director, co-founded Maine’s 55 year-old classical theater company, The Theater at Monmouth and taught in the theater department at Colby College (Waterville, ME) for 27 years. His award-winning plays have been performed from coast to coast and he is the author of two published novels and a book surveying the earliest roots of Euro-centric theater.

Broken Arts Credits: Table 27

Rosemarie is an Irish actress based in the UK. Her actor training began at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and she continued to perform on stage in plays by Irish playwrights such as Marina Carr and Frank Mc Guinness as well as  touring Northern Ireland in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’. Since moving to the UK, Rosemarie has led career into film and audio performing in audio plays by up and coming playwrights. She is thrilled to be part of this season’s work. 

Upcoming Broken Arts: The Mating Habits of Shoreline Birds

Shelby Parker is a Michigan-based actress with a BA in Theatre & Performance and BFA in Film Production from Oklahoma City University. Originally from Texas, she’s had a blast getting to know the Michigan area working as an educator and performer, most recently as an actor in Neighborhood Theatre Group’s Evening of One-Act Plays by Michigan Playwrights. She is passionate about new works and uplifting others’ voices and perspectives, which is why she’s thrilled to join BAE as a company member! Shelby will be attending Michigan State University as an MFA Acting candidate this fall.

Upcoming Broken Arts: Backseat Driver