Show Dates/Times:
August 29-30, 2015
Saturday and Sunday at 6:30pm
Doors open at 5:45pm

Location:
Spencer Creek Park
200 Sutters Mill Road
St. Peters, MO

Admission:
Adult: $10 ahead, $12 at door
Child: $5 ahead, $7 at door
Under 3: FREE!

Jay Winkeler (Roger Hood):
Jay Winkeler is practically turning cartwheels in his excitement to be performing in his role as the legendary, one-and-only, cultural icon Roger Hood. Jay began his acting career in high school by performing small roles in Auntie Mame and the student-written skits that made up Senior Follies. His relationship with theater deepened in college and audiences found him performing in 10 different shows, including The Night of January 16th, Cyrano de Bergerac, Plaza Suite, and Spoon River Anthology. More recently, Jay has been doing set painting and construction, backstage crew, and spotlights for the Young People’s Theater at St. Charles Community College. Jay has performed in the Baited Blade shows A Smart Thug’s Guide to Villainy, My Dear Estranged Cousin, and All in a Day’s Work, learning more about stage fighting and various weapons with every show. He has been fencing with Baited Blade for about 7 years. When Jay is not doing theater-related craft, he spends a lot of time and energy as both a Boy and Girl Scout leader. His hobbies include fencing (of course), Ultimate Frisbee, and running all around the streets, trails, and sidewalks of the greater Saint Peters metropolitan area, regardless of the weather (maybe you’ve seen him do so). During the day, Jay is a mild-mannered engineer, quietly writing software… but always ready to put on a costume and save the day should some dramatic speech or performance be needed.

Robert McPherson (The Friar):
Bob was introduced to the stage through the sword (of course). In the late 80s, he took a class in stage combat; his fencing knowledge and understanding very quickly propelled him to a leadership role in the fight-choreography community. His acting experience was mainly acquired with the small fight company formed by his stage combat teacher; he was cast in their many skits almost exclusively as the villain. He went on to become a sought after fight choreographer in the general St. Louis theatrical community, working for the major companies as well as many high school and college productions, providing the fights for Shakespeare plays, Greek tragedy and even many modern works. In this environment, Bob was occasionally cast in a small roll (again, usually as a thug or villain, maybe the occasional unsympathetic cop). He first appeared in the Baited Blade plays with a small role (surprisingly, not a villain) in My Dear Estranged Cousin and is excited to appear as a major character in this year’s play. Bob spends most of his time these days (when he isn’t involved with Baited Blade projects) writing, drawing and rough-housing with his slightly (though lovably) disturbed Boxer, Lily.

Jared Swope (The Sheriff of Notnottingshank):
Jared is excited to appear in his second Baited Blade original play as writer and actor. He played the lovable but less than sophisticated Constable in All in a Day’s Work last year. When not keeping kids in line at school, Jared enjoys reading history and science fiction books, putting together models, playing video games, writing his own RPG for gamers on Space Battles, walking Odin the keeshond, and making his wife, Emily, laugh. He lives with Emily in Saint Louis and has fenced with Baited Blade for about three years.

Michael Knabusch (Prince Shawn):
Michael was “forced” into acting when his 4^th Grade class put on a production of Tom Sawyer, why they cast him as the minister is still a mystery.  This was not, however, such a hardship as it might seem, as he was already involved in role playing games and enjoyed pretending to be different people.  In high school, he got back into the act by working as a set technician and taking various minor roles in such plays as Some Like it Hot, Camelot, and Oedipus Rex.  Michael also branched out into radio, taking on the persona of Mike Mercury the Heavy Metal DJ at the high school broadcast radio station.  He continued his hobbies in college, helping form a role playing club, a medievalist reenactment club, while still working on the radio and helping to build sets for the college theater with short stints on the stage.  It was college that introduced him to the siren song of fencing.  Since moving to Saint Louis from Michigan, he has managed to find a wonderful woman named Claudia that deigned to marry him, been adopted by two cats (one named Meghera, the other Daedalus), and been blessed with a wonderful son named Nicodemus.  He continues to work as a mercenary wordsmith, if you could not tell.

Emily Moore (Lady Lillian):
Emily began acting as a child in her church’s Christmas and Easter productions. In high school, she played small roles in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Charlotte’s Web, The Night Before Christmas, and The Gift of the Magi. She also served as stage chair in If it’s Monday, it Must be Murder. She first forayed into stage fighting for a VBS week-long original comedy performed for hundreds of kids. In it, Emily played a fighting princess and Baited Blade’s own Robert McPherson choreographed and performed in the show. In 2011, Emily choreographed one of the fights showcased at Baited Blade’s Fencing Extravaganza. After that, she became the writer, director, and choreographer of Baited Blade’s original plays in 2012, 2013, and 2014–A Smart Thug’s Guide to Villainy, My Dear Estranged Cousin, and All in a Day’s Work respectively. Her work is always informed by over 12 years of fencing experience. She is excited to write, direct, and choreograph once more for The Adventures of Roger Hood. Most of the time, Emily plays a PhD student in Political Science at Washington University, a fencing instructor at Baited Blade, a wife to Jared Swope, and food/petting machine for her cat, Augustus, and dog, Odin.

Erica Fada (Peasant Woman):
Even though the impending move to college is just around the corner, Erica is thrilled to be in her third Baited Blade performance as the Peasant Woman. Her previous Baited Blade credits include Cecilia in the 2013 production of My Dear Estranged Cousin, and Chief Ravensdale in All in a Day’s Work last year. Ever since middle school, Erica has been active on and behind the stage with roles in The Crazy Quilt Club, Lady Windermere’s Fan, I Remember Mama, and Radium Girls, worked as props head, and even had the opportunity to stage manage her school’s musical, Little Women. Erica has been fencing for about 8 years, and is nearly a second degree black belt in Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do, which she has been training in for over 9 years. Aside from martial arts, Erica enjoys dabbling in digital artwork, has her own small freelance photography business, and is a connoisseur of teas. 

Glen Boggs (Peasant Man):
Glen is first to admit that he is not well practiced at being an actor, but he does admit to greatly enjoying acting in the Baited Blade productions. His previous Baited Blade credits include the drunken sailor in the 2013 production of My Dear Estranged Cousin and in 2014 as Lord Cathcart in All in a Day’s Work. When Glen is not spending time with his children and friends, his time is spent working in a “cubicled forest,” volunteering at local endangered wildlife centers, and of course, fencing.