Show Dates/Times:
August 27-28, 2016
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 (Under 10): $5 ahead, $7 at door
Under 3: FREE!

Jay Winkeler (Professor Mortality):
Jay Winkeler is delighted to be cast as a villain as brilliant as he himself hopes to be someday. Jay began his acting career in high school by brilliantly performing small roles in Auntie Mame and the student-written skits that made up Senior Follies. His relationship with theater became even more brilliant in college, where 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 astoundingly brilliantly at set painting and construction, backstage crew, and spotlight operation for the Young People’s Theater at St. Charles Community College. Jay was rather brilliant in the Baited Blade shows A Smart Thug’s Guide to Villainy, My Dear Estranged Cousin, All in a Day’s Work, and The Adventures of Roger Hood, learning more about stage fighting and various weapons with every show. He has been fencing with Baited Blade for about 8 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 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… and deviously developing brilliant schemes for taking over the world.

Jared Swope (Hemlock Jones):
Jared is excited to appear in his third Baited Blade original play as writer and actor. He played the lovable but less than sophisticated Constable in All in a Day’s Work in 2014 and the greatest orator of our age, The Sheriff of Notnottingshank, in The Adventures of Roger Hood 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 four years.

Max Long (Eileen):
Max has been a performer since she began dancing at 3 years old. She was a dancer for 13 years, a member of Midwest Ballet Theatre, and performed at many locations around the Saint Louis area including The Fabulous Fox Theatre. In 2010, Max discovered Baited Blade. It wasn’t long before an opportunity arose to combine the fun of fighting with the thrill of performing. She was eager to pursue it. From great sticks, to umbrellas, to rapiers, the creative fights have always been an enjoyable experience. This will be Max‘s fourth fight show with Baited Blade and the biggest one to date. When Max isn’t fencing, she’s usually laser welding at her job, making art using a multitude of different mediums, or practicing aerial silks. Max is excited for this year’s performance and always looking for her next challenge.

Robert McPherson (The Boy Doctor):
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 next as not quite a villain but certainly a scallywag in The Adventures of Roger Hood. Bob is thrilled to trip the boards (eh, grass) again with Baited Blade’s new play, Hemlock Jones and the Ray of Eventual Death, completing the circle and playing an actual good guy (Who’d have guessed)! 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.