Roslyn Ruff  (Portia) An Acting Company Alumnus, Roslyn has appeared Off Broadway as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. A production which also played the 2003 Bonn Biennial Festival and the 2003 Shakespeare Festival of Neuss in Germany; created the role of Roxy in Charles Smith’s adaptation of Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson and played the Widow/ Servant in Taming of the Shrew with The Acting Company national tour and in NYC. Regional theatre credits include Cordelia in King Lear at Yale Repertory Theatre, Ismene in The Oedipus Plays with The Shakespeare Theatre of DC as part of the 2003 Athens Festival in Greece; Evadne, The Good Fairy in A Panto: Sleeping Beauty; Miss Leighton/ Cigarette Girl in Once in A Lifetime and Hester in Suzan Lori-Parks’ In the Blood at the People’s Light and Theatre Co, Snakina/ Popova in Three Farces and a Funeral at the American Repertory Theatre. Television credits: “the Jury” (Fox), “The Sopranos” (HBO) and “All My Children” (ABC). Film credits include the SAG indie film Frat Boy. Ms Ruff holds an MFA from the Moscow Art Theatre/ American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training @ Harvard University. She was awarded the 2003 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play by the Philadelphia Theatre Alliance – Hester, In the Blood. 1999 Buffalo Artvoice Award for Supporting Actress in a Play – Mrs. Jackson, The Amen Corner. Other favorite roles: Madame in The Maids, Rosetta/Prime Minister in Leonce and Lena, Delia in Blues for an Alabama Sky, Evie in Oscar Brown Jr.’s In De Beginnin’, Dutchess in The Water Hen and Delia/Woman/Missie Mae in Spunk.