Randy Harrison, David Adkins among favorites to return to the Festival this summer.

Berkshire Theatre Festival Artistic Director Kate Maguire is pleased to welcome back several of BTF’s favorite actors as cast members for the Festival’s 2009 season. Randy Harrison (“Queer as Folk”) will play Oswald in a brand new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Ghosts. David Adkins (BTF’s Waiting for Godot), Colin Lane, and Keira Naughton (BTF’s The Book Club Play) will appear in Faith Healer. Tommy Schrider and James Barry (BTF’s The Caretaker) will return to reprise their roles in this season’s revival of The Einstein Project. Greg Keller (BTF’s A Man for All Seasons) will be featured in the regional premiere of Sick. Stephen DeRosa (BTF’s Waiting for Godot) will play Mel in Neil Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue. As previously announced, David Garrison (“Married . . . with Children”) is Red Barber in the one-man show Red Remembers this fall.

This will mark Randy Harrison's fourth summer with BTF after having previously appeared in Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mrs. Warren's Profession, and last summer's critically acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot. Randy has also appeared as Boq in Wicked on Broadway and A Letter for Ethyl Kennedy at MCC in New York. For Ghosts, Randy will once again be working with director and fellow BTF alum Anders Cato. Anders and dramaturg James Leverett will be creating a brand new adaptation of Ghosts for this summer’s production.

David Adkins, Colin Lane, and Keira Naughton will team up to bring Brian Friel’s powerful character piece, Faith Healer to the Unicorn Theatre, directed by Eric Hill. David is celebrating his 13th season at BTF after wowing critics and audiences with his performance at Vladimir in last summer’s hit production of Waiting for Godot. He was previously seen at BTF in Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Misanthrope, and The Father, among others. In New York he has worked with The Women’s Project, National Actors Theater and Manhattan Theater Club. Faith Healer will mark Colin Lane’s Berkshire Theatre Festival debut. Colin’s previous work includes A Touch of the Poet and Molly Sweeney on Broadway as well as work at The Irish Rep, Arena Stage, American Repertory Theatre, Capital Rep, and Yale Rep. Keira appeared last year as Ana in BTF’s production of The Book Club Play. She has previously appeared on Broadway in The Rivals, Dance of Death, and Three Sisters, as well as regionally at the KennedyCenter and Arena Stage among others..

Tommy Schrider was first seen on BTF stages in the non-equity company of the BTF’s original run of The Einstein Project by Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein. This summer, he will rejoin director Eric Hill in re-creating Einstein, the man who moved this world to a new age. Tommy has also appeared at BTF in A Man for All Seasons, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and in New York at Irish Rep, Classic Stage, and New York Theatre Workshop. For this production, he will once again be paired with James Barry in the role of Werner Heisenberg. James was seen at BTF last summer in The Caretaker opposite Tommy and Jonny Epstein. James has previously been seen at BTF in This is Our Youth, The Who’s Tommy, The Misanthrope, and Amadeus, among other roles.

Greg Keller will take on the part of Jim in this season’s black comedy Sick, written by Zayd Dohrn. Greg has been seen at BTF in A Man for All Seasons, The Glass Menagerie, A Dream Play, and This is Our Youth. He has also been seen on Broadway in Uncle Vanya and The Rainmaker and Off-Broadway at CSC, LincolnCenter, and Roundabout Theatre.

Stephen DeRosa will be taking on the role of Mel Edison in Neil Simon’s comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue, directed by Warner Shook. Stephen also appeared last summer at BTF as Estragon in Waiting for Godot. He has also been seen at the Festival in Love! Valour! Compassion! as well as Lives of the Saints He played Wilbur Turnblad in the Broadway production and first National tour of Hairspray. His other Broadway credits include Twentieth Century, Henry IV, and The Man Who Came to Dinner.

Kate is thrilled to have these enormously talented actors returning to the Festival this summer. "We have really been fortunate to have developed such great relationships with so many truly talented artists. Each of these actors have helped form a wonderful feeling of community with our directors, designers, and staff that, along with our friends, neighbors, and patrons, creates the Berkshire Theatre Festival family. It’s that BTF family that makes this such a special place each year.”