THE CAST

  • Elaine "Lainie" Fairbanks / Playwright

    (he/him) Jeffrey was born & reared in Honolulu, Hawai'i but has lived in NYC since 1989. He wrote, produced and starred in his one-man multi-character play Aloha Oy! at Abingdon Theater - then turned it into an acclaimed cabaret act performed numerous times in 2022 at Don’t Tell Mama & in 2023 at Pangea. He wrote, produced & starred in an earlier incarnation of Tomorrow We Love at Theater for the New City in 2000. Other NYC stage acting credits include Andy Halliday's Nothing But Trash (as 3 characters, Theater for the New City); Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy (as Arnold, Grove St. Playhouse); Oklahoma! (as Ali Hakim, Gallery Players); and the title role in Irving Berlin's Ragtime Revue (also at Theater for the New City). Jeffrey founded Proud Image Theatre Company and is a member of The Windowpane Theatre Company, The PlayGround Experiment, The Village Playwrights and The Dramatists' Guild. www.jeffreyvause.com

  • Logan McMartin

    (they/them) Phoebe Lloyd graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University school of drama with their acting BFA in May 2023. Their regional credits include Loves Labor’s Lost (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival) and Westphalia: World Premiere (Luna Stage). You can see them on TV in American Sports Story, and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Check out their website phoebelloyd.com. Enjoy the show!

  • Trippy Fairbanks

    (she/her) Sarah is excited to be joining the TWL family in Noble Bay as Trippy! She earned her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has worked in voice over, commercials, film and theater in NYC and across the country. Select credits include: Wake Up, Daisy! (Daisy), Measure for Measure (Juliet), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Nina), and The Music Man (Zaneeta). She would like to thank Steve Hauck and Jeffrey Vause for this opportunity, her husband and family for their love and support, and God from whom all blessings flow.

  • Sid Spellman

    (he/him) Alex Herrera is very grateful to be making his Bennett Theatricals debut! Favorite credits include; Off-Broadway: Pride House (World Premiere), Imbible Day Drinking (Tenor), Side Show (Buddy); NYC: Broadway in Bryant Park; National Tours: Fiddler on the Roof, All Shook Up; Regional: Godspell (Jesus, MTH), Jersey Boys (NCL)(Mason Street), Matilda (Engeman Theater), Light in the Piazza (Fabrizio), Disney Cruise Lines Aladdin the Musical (Aladdin); TV: History Channel Food That Built America (Season 4.) Special shout out to Jeffrey Vause and Steve Hauck for entrusting him with the role of Farley Weathers! Many thanks to them, Emily, cast, and the whole Bennett Theatricals team. Also, much love to his parents and friends for their endless love and support. IG @alexherrera88

  • Farley Weathers

    (he/him) Robert is immensely honored making his full stage NYC production debut in Tomorrow We Love. Previous stage credits include The Odd Couple (Murray), The Mulligan (Bill), Waif T’s Private War (Chobrda), and All’s Well That Ends Well (Paroles). Co-starring in feature films The Impolite Boys (Thom), The Swan Way (Eli), he’s also starred in shorts like Golden Duck (Coach) and the self-produced & directed multi award-winning A Goldfish Contemplates Life (Fly). When not honing his acting and filmmaking craft he works in health care, prepares home cooked gourmet meals and outwits opponents in poker championships. Proud of his New Jersey roots, Robert now calls Manhattan's Upper West Side home. However, he is happiest embodying the global citizen ethos by making meaningful human connections through frequent world travel. Robert would like to thank his spouse, Catherine, for gifting him acting lessons all those years ago, being his most constructive critic, and believing in him from Day 1.

  • Lucille Spellman/Costume Design

    (he/him) Credits include Father John in A Letter to the Bishop (Theater at St. Clements), Paul in Cabfare for the Common Man, Walter in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Sweet and Tart Productions), Larry in In The Schoolyard (Theater for the New City) and Paul in Mother Me Therapy (Cherry Lane Theatre). He danced and sang with soprano Karyn Leavitt at Carnegie Hall in The Age of Romance: Vienna to Broadway. Favorite theatre roles include Father in Ragtime, Amos Hart in Chicago, Luther Billis in South Pacific, and Uncle Max in The Sound of Music.

the CREW

  • Jeffrey Vause

    PLAYWRIGHT/PRODUCER

    (he/him) Besides Tomorrow We Love, Jeffrey has authored the following works, all in various stages of development: Aloha Oy!, The Marriage Equality Plays, Cocktails And Cruellers, Bill, Reservations, Typhoid Murray & Working My Nerves (an early version of Aloha Oy!). Founder of Proud Image Theatre Company and member of The Windowpane Theatre Company, The PlayGround Experiment, The Village Playwrights and The Dramatists Guild. www.jeffreyvause.com

  • Steve Hauck

    DIRECTOR / CO-AUTHOR

    (he/him) Steve Hauck has directed in NYC at Newstages Theater, Dixon Place and Theater for the New City; and regionally at Geva Theater and the Red Barn Playhouse. As an actor he has appeared on Broadway in The Velocity of Autumn and Irena's Vow. Off-Broadway credits include Pay The Writer (Signature Theater), One Arm (The New Group) and The Screwtape Letters (Westside Theater). Film: “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize), “The Eyes,” “Collateral Beauty,” and “Ocean’s Eight.” TV: Dawes on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Judge Bad on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and many others. Steve is featured in the Spike Lee Joints “Oldboy,” “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” and “She’s Gotta Have It.”

  • AUSTIN KU

    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

    (he/him) Austin is a Grammy-nominated new works enthusiast. He was a 2024 directing apprentice with PlayGround(NY), and has since continued to direct new play readings with them. As a Boston Conservatory-trained actor, his stage credits include the International/Broadway Tour of Chinglish; the Off- Broadway productions of Soft Power (Public Theater), Dead Outlaw (standby,

    Audible Theater) and Pacific Overtures starring George Takei (Classic Stage Company); and many acclaimed regional performances (LAStageScene and WISE Awards; Barrymore, BroadwayWorld and IRNE nominations). Film/TV credits include Netflix’s The Bubble and upcoming Kinda Pregnant, “Inventing Anna”, “Bull”, “Shades of Blue” and the streaming pandemic concert Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration. Austin is also an accomplished audiobook narrator and food lover. | Austin-Ku.com | @secretaustinman

  • EVAN FRANK

    SCENIC DESIGN

    (he/him) Evan is thrilled to be working on Tomorrow We Love. He got his start in Chicago where he designed for Black Ensemble Theater, Strawdog Theatre Company, Bohemian Theatre Ensemble and Refuge Theatre Project where he was a company member. Recent work includes the Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s 2022 and 2023 seasons (Wilde Award for Macbeth in ‘23), Poolsides with The Pebble Collective and Pride House with TOSOS where he is the resident scenic designer. Upcoming work includes Romeo and Juliet with Oak Park Festival Theatre and Street Theater with TOSOS. MFA, CMU efrankdesign.com

  • SASHA FINLEY

    LIGHTING DESIGN

    (she/her) Sasha is a New York based lighting designer. Her design credits include Body Language (Governors State University), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (St. Patrick’s Catholic Academy), As You Like It (Carnegie Mellon University), and An Intervention (Eggtooth Productions). She holds a BA in English and Theatre from Smith College and an MFA in Lighting Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She enjoys cats, coffee, and knitting. Follow her work at sashafinley.com.

  • Jimmy Moon

    COSTUME DESIGN

    (he/him) Since 1988, Jimmy has consulted, designed and constructed costumes for Ann Brodie's Carolina Ballet, Workshop Theatre, Town Theatre, Columbia Lyric Opera, Columbia Dance Theatre and PGE Stage Experiments (not to mention 12 consecutive sets of Halloween costumes for his niece and nephew).

  • JAMES HODGES

    HAIR / WIG DESIGN

    (he/him) James is delighted to be designing this incarnation of the show, having designed the previous version. Most recently, James was a hairdresser on the Broadway musical, Some Like It Hot. In addition, he has worked on The Lion King, Jersey Boys, Motown & Phantom of the Opera, to name a few! Other design credits include multiple shows for NCL cruises including Legally Blonde.

  • CAT GILLESPIE

    STAGE MANAGER

    (they/them) Cat is a Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and stage manager. After graduating from AMDA NYC in 2019, they earned a May 2023 BFA at the New School. Their work includes stage-managing The Moonshot Tapes & A Poster of the Cosmos(Deep Flight Productions), Summertime(TNS), The Outside(TNS), The Moors(TNS), and Forever After(The Other Side of Silence) and assistant stage managing Maiden Voyage(Cayenne Douglass) House of Chavis(TOSOS), Rock the Line(TOSOS), Pride House(TOSOS) Sex Work/Sex Play(Emerging Artists Theatre), Anne Being Frank(EAT), and Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo(Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!), as well as playing Marcy in DOG SEES GOD(AMDA), Gabriel in Lot's Wife(TNS), Sarah Smith in r/sarahsmithisdead(TNS), and more. They are honored to be part of the Tomorrow We Love team, and look forward to whatever comes next.