Cast

Bobby Smith

Bobby Smith has appeared on Broadway in Crazy for You, and Off Broadway in Forever Plaid (original cast), Kander and Ebb’s The World Goes ‘Round, and the revival of George Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing. National tours include Brigadoon and The World Goes ‘Round. As an actor and director, he has worked at the Kennedy Center, Old Globe Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Theatre J, Imagination Stage, Barter Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Mill Mountain Theatre, Theatre Virginia, Company of Fools, and Center Stage in Baltimore, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre. Bobby has received nine Helen Hayes nominations for excellence in Washington theatre. He has taught for over 12 years and directed and choreographed for colleges and regional theaters.

Robbie Schaefer

Robbie Schaefer is a musician, songwriter, and playwright devoted to service through the arts. The guitarist and songwriter for the indie folk band Eddie From Ohio has also recorded several solo albums, including 2017′s Sounds Like Home: Songs From the Musical, Light Years.

Robbie is the founder of OneVoice, an international non-profit that unites and empowers youth through music and the creative arts. The organization has completed projects in Tanzania, Nicaragua, India, Greece, and Israel.

Robbie has shared the stage with Jason Mraz, Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban, Keb ‘ Mo, and Emmylou Harris, among others. His first work for musical theater, Light Years, had its world premiere at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in 2018 and is currently in production as a feature film. His newest work for theatre, The Blue Poppy, is a collaboration with Scottish playwright Grace Barnes, and is due for production in 2023. Also, he likes olives. A lot.

Marcy Harriell

Marcy is a singer, actress, dancer and sewist, but strives most of all to be a Good Human. You can find her on the big and small screens in MIB International, Search Party, Manifest, Death Proof, onstage in Broadway’s In The Heights, Lennon, and Rent, on record in Disney’s Moana, in little jazz clubs alongside Ethan Iverson, and on her own technicolor YouTube series, The Handmade Harriells, with her partner in everything, Rob.

Nick Blaemire

Nick Blaemire is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. BROADWAY: Glory Days (music and lyrics), Godspell, Cry-Baby (Original Casts). OFF-BROADWAY: Space Dogs (MCC), Tick Tick Boom! (Keen Co; Drama Desk Nom), Found (Atlantic), Dogfight (2ndStage). TOURS: Falsettos, Altar Boyz. REGIONAL: SpongeBob (Chicago), The Last Goodbye (Williamstown), Bring it On (Alliance), Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Vineyard Playhouse, dir. James Lapine). FILM/TV: “Damsels in Distress” (dir. Whit Stillman), “Dash & Lily” (Netflix), “Fosse/Verdon” (FX), “The Big C” (Showtime), “Crossbones” (NBC), “The Good Wife” (CBS). OTHER WRITING: A Little More Alive (Williamstown, KC Rep, Barrington Stage), Soon (Signature Theatre, Stephen Sondheim Citation), Fallout (with Kyle Jarrow), Edge of the World (with Ethan Slater). Nick has released five albums of original music, all available on Spotify and Apple Music. He is represented by CAA, Artists & Reps and Writ Large.

Dylan Silver

Dylan Silver is an actor, writer-director, TV host and escape room enthusiast. She can be seen starring alongside Greg Finley in DOWNEAST and in FILM FEST with Will Sasso. Silver hosted HGTV’s YOU WISH YOU LIVED HERE and stars in the upcoming animated series WE ARE FAMILY. She is a Women In Film 2022 Director Mentee and currently working on her narrative feature CHAIM’S NOT DEAD. Her documentary, A MIND LIKE STILL WATER, debuted on Amazon’s ‘Top 5 Must Watch’ List. Silver’s series THE DONUT MAN was a Sundance Lab Finalist and her films HYPE MAN: A BREAK BEAT FILM and SOUL SURVIVOR debut this year. A first-generation American, Silver was raised in the U.S. and Middle East. She loves telling vulnerable, heartfelt stories that ignite tons of laughter. She also bowls a strong 73.

Declan Fennell

Declan is a native of the Washington, D.C. area, and is very excited to play the role of Young Robbie in Light Years. His regional musical theater credits include the role of Small Boy in Billy Elliot (Signature Theatre), Tommy Age 4 in The Who’s Tommy (The Kennedy Center), and most recently, as Little Boy/Edgar in Good Counsel Theater’s production of Ragtime. He has also appeared in two TV commercial campaigns for Northrop Realty, and worked as a voice-over artist for multiple Nick, Jr. Paw Patrol projects. Declan has enjoyed training in theater and dance at Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC Academy, and Young Artists of America Conservatory Jr., and voice with Benner Vocal Studio and Badiene Magaziner Vocal Studio. In his spare time, he enjoys biking, soccer, swim team, baseball, learning the piano, and playing Minecraft with his sister.

Susan Rome

Susan’s Film & TV credits include: Fishbowl, My One and Only, A Dirty Shame. Television: The Wire, We Own This City (both HBO), House of Cards (Netflix). Her extensive theatre credits include: Folks at Home, Indecent, After the Revolution, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mud Blue Sky, An Enemy of the People (Baltimore Center Stage); Indecent (Helen Hayes ensemble nomination), The Great Society, All the Way (Arena Stage); The Joy That Carries you, The Diary of Anne Frank (Olney Theatre Center); If I Forget (Helen Hayes nominations), Hand to God (Helen Hayes ensemble nomination) (Studio Theatre); Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes (Signature); Love’s Labor’s Lost (Folger); Edward Albee’s Occupant, Roz and Ray, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Helen Hayes Award), After the Revolution (Helen Hayes nomination), (and many other plays at Theater J);  REGIONAL: Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Indecent, Mark Taper Forum: The Substance of Fire. Many more.