Ilinca Radulian created a powerful portrayal of the domineering yet fragile head of a brothel that functions as a makeshift otherworldly society, breathing life into a philosophical work with insight and subtlety.

Sara Lytle’s Cleopatra had a palpable sensuality, toeing the line between infatuation and imperiousness to create a gorgeous picture of a royal in love.

Renée Donlon captured the Stepdaughter's inner torment caused by her father’s chance encounter with her stepfather while still maintaining a flair for Pirandello’s poignant absurdism.

Becca Feinberg played a modern, youthful Juliet capable of childlike joy and powerful grief. Compelling throughout, she kept the well-known scenes as fresh as the director’s unusual interpretation.

Van Koo played the four-year-old Lucy whose imaginary friends are a cruel businessman and his abused assistant. Koo’s portrayal was convincingly young with a tragic premature loss of innocence.

Kelly Perron portrayed Becca, the cheated-on fiancée of a pop idol, with an icy strength that cracked to show warmth and fragility as she leaves her fiancé and finds true companionship with her dressmaker Gretchen.