Our Stories Cast

Our Stories is a dramatic reading based on the real-life stories of Ivy Street School students

THE ACTORS in order of appearance
Narrator……………………………Lynne Adams
James………………………………R. Alex Davis
Irina…………………………………Caitlin FitzGerald
Understudy to Irina……………Kendall Thompson
Desi……………………………………Daniel Grant
Selena………………………………Madden Rose Foreman

Lynne Adams (Narrator) moved to Boston 10 years ago when she married George Fifeld. After she had been married a few years she and her sister Brooke teamed up with Mark Donadio to produce Made-Up, an award winning, critically acclaimed feature length movie which Lynne wrote and starred in with her sister. Inspired by the creative success of Made-Up, Ms Adams is currently developing a social networking marketplace for movies. She co-founded Green Plays in Lexington, NY and helped develop Common Stage in Woodstock, NY. Her plays include Over Mother's Dead Body, Family Spirits, and Nora: a Nicaraguan Heroine. She wrote and starred in Two Faced, a one woman play. First presented in Woodstock, NY, Two Faced toured the US, ending up in Los Angeles where it enjoyed a five-year run and won several DramaLogue awards and the LA Weekly award for Best Solo Performance. Lynne has also made guest appearances on a number of TV shows including the NBC series Frasier. She is still approached by fans of the long-running daytime drama The Guiding Light, in which she starred as Leslie Bauer for a decade.

R. Alex Davis (James) recently graduated from Bard College with a degree in Playwriting. A native of North Carolina, he has performed the works of Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Brecht, and others in numerous local theaters. Since college he has written two new plays as well as a solo-performance piece called Schizocity, which was recently shown in New York.

Caitlin FitzGerald (Irina) grew up in Maine and has been acting since she was eight. After a short modeling career in New York City, she started acting in film and on TV. Her lead role as Meryl Streep’s daughter in It’s Complicated has won her considerable acclaim. Her other films include: Taking Woodstock, Love Simple, A Jersey Christmas, and appearances on the TV shows How to Make it in America, Mercy, and Law & Order: SVU.

Kendall Thompson (Understudy to Irina) is a musical theatre student at the Boston Conservatory, having moved to Boston from Minnesota. Kendall played Joanne in Rent at the Boston Conservatory, performed in the popular British musical Jerry Springer: The Opera by the SpeakEasy Stage Company, and sang a solo performance with the Boston Pops Bernstein Tribute at Boston Symphony Hall. She starred as Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland performed by the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire. In Minnesota, Kendall trained with the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, starring as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Cinderella in Cinderella at the Minnetonka Theatre. She also sings A Cappella.

Madden Rose Foreman (Selena) is a native of Medellin, Colombia. She spent her formative years in Los Angeles, CA where her family is active in the entertainment industry. She began her training at the young actors space in Hollywood where she studied improvisation and scene study for 5 years. While in L.A. she appeared in the feature film Slappy and the Stinkers, and was featured in the prison reform play Going Down by Donna Robinson. During high school at Eagle Rock School in Colorado she starred as Ida in Honk! and began her passion for social work, particularly working in Guatemala with children. Other performances include numerous a cappella concerts and Quilt, the AIDS project musical at Backstage Studio Productions in New York. A recent Boston arrival, Madden works as a licensed esthetician to subsidize her goal to become a great performer.

Daniel Grant (Desi) is a senior at Hyde Park High School in Boston. Two years ago he carried a gun and his friends were gang members. Now he is a devotee of krumping, an urban dance form that rejects violence and celebrates personal expression. He has performed at the Strand Theatre and in the Martin Luther King Day Parade. He has had acting roles in Raisin in the Sun at Hyde Park High and The Hope of Glory at Jubilee Christian Church in Mattapan. He assists Emmett Folgert in teaching acting at the Dorchester Youth Collaborative in Fields Corner. Daniel wrote an award winning essay on gang violence and was selected to meet with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at a Truth and Reconciliation Conference in Boston last year.