Sometimes we sit together on the bench in front of the theater.
WE ARE
an ensemble of professional theater artists who operate out of the Harbor Stage in Wellfleet, MA. The six co-founders-- Amanda Collins, Jonathan Fielding, Stacy Fischer, Robert Kropf (Artistic Director), Lewis D. Wheeler, and Brenda Withers-- met while performing for the space's former tenant (WHAT) and have collaborated in various capacities on more than a dozen plays over the past decade. In 2012, the collective banded together to re-invigorate the Harbor's legacy of challenging live performance and return an artist-run operation to the iconic theater. Our inaugural season garnered overwhelming critical praise and successfully rejuvenated the Harbor's artists, core audience, and artistic reputation. The Harbor Stage Company is a 501(c)(3) incorporated non-profit.
OUR MISSION
is to preserve and promote the legacy of challenging live performance on the Outer Cape. Our ensemble of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers doubles as the company's administrators, ensuring an operation that prioritizes the artistic process. We prize innovation and are committed to making our work accessible to the broadest possible community. We do great shows at affordable prices for the right reason.
an ensemble of professional theater artists who operate out of the Harbor Stage in Wellfleet, MA. The six co-founders-- Amanda Collins, Jonathan Fielding, Stacy Fischer, Robert Kropf (Artistic Director), Lewis D. Wheeler, and Brenda Withers-- met while performing for the space's former tenant (WHAT) and have collaborated in various capacities on more than a dozen plays over the past decade. In 2012, the collective banded together to re-invigorate the Harbor's legacy of challenging live performance and return an artist-run operation to the iconic theater. Our inaugural season garnered overwhelming critical praise and successfully rejuvenated the Harbor's artists, core audience, and artistic reputation. The Harbor Stage Company is a 501(c)(3) incorporated non-profit.
OUR MISSION
is to preserve and promote the legacy of challenging live performance on the Outer Cape. Our ensemble of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers doubles as the company's administrators, ensuring an operation that prioritizes the artistic process. We prize innovation and are committed to making our work accessible to the broadest possible community. We do great shows at affordable prices for the right reason.
Amanda Collins
Amanda is a native of Cape Cod. Regional Credits: Church (Harbor Stage); 9 Circles (Publick Theatre Boston); When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable) and An Ideal Husband (American Stage Company), A Behanding in Spokane, The Bald Soprano, Speech and Debate, Colorado (WHAT); The Island of Slaves (Orfeo Group); No Exit (Payomet); Brecht's The Life of Galileo (Underground Railway); The Woman in Black (Gloucester Stage); andJester’s Dead (The Outfit in NY.) Other theaters: Commonwealth Shakespeare, Shakespeare Now, Cape Rep, Centastage. She is a member of Theatre Espresso, an educational theatre group performing for schools across New England on historical issues of social justice. Television: Boston's Finest (ABC Pilot). Amanda received her BA in History and Theatre from Regis College.
Jonathan Fielding
Jonathan is an actor originally from Texas. He has performed on Broadway with Roundabout Theater Company, and in many an audition hall as a monologist. For the inaugural season with the Harbor Stage Company he appeared in Hedda Gabler as Tesman and in Church as Reverend Jose. Also with the Agnes Table, Penguin Rep, the Ohio, Ford's Theatre in DC, The Ivoryton Playhouse, and The Public Theatre of Maine. He regularly performs with Amphibian Stage Productions in Texas where he is also an Artistic Associate. Jonathan created a one person Halloween play called This Lurking Thing that he work-shopped at Dixon Place in 2011. He studied Theater at TCU in Fort Worth and holds an MFA from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Stacy Fischer
Ms. Fischer has been an actor and educator in the Boston area for over ten years. She works with Deana’s Educational Theater and Theatre Espresso in developing and performing comprehensive educational theater programs. New England credits include pieces with The Lyric Stage (Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress), Huntington Theatre, The Nora Theatre Company, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Art Theatre, The Sugan, Stoneham Theater, Boston Playwright’s Theater, Publick Theatre, Village Theater Project, Gloucester Stage, Speakeasy Stage, North Shore Music Theater, and CentaStage. Ms. Fischer graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emerson College.
Robert Kropf
(Artistic Director) Bob is an actor & director who lives in Cambridge. For the Harbor's first production he adapted and directed Hedda Gabler and played Løvborg. He was also seen as Ozzie in Sticks & Bones. Other credits include: The Homecoming, Dead Ringer, Fuddy Meers, Bug, Sexual Perversity In Chicago, On An Average Day & Love Song. He has directed Body Awareness, Jihad Jones, The Storytelling Ability Of A Boy, Uncle Vanya, Waiting For Godot, Bloody Poetry, and Miss Julie. He has worked with the American Repertory Theatre, Yale Summer Cabaret, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, New Repertory Theater, Boston Center for the Arts, and currently - the Central Square Theatre. He is a graduate of the ART Institute at Harvard University.
Alaina Sciascia
Alaina is a stage manager living in New York and is thrilled to be back for the Harbor Stage's second season. Last year she stage managed Hedda Gabler, Church, and Sticks and Bones. Additionally, she has worked with The New Group, FullStop Collective, Category 7, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and is a founding member of Tale Told Productions. She attend the National Theater Institute in Fall '09 and graduated with a BA in History and Theater from Albright College.
Lewis D. Wheeler
Lewis is a Boston-based actor and director. Last season he played Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler and directed Sticks and Bones. Recent credits include Jamie in Long Day’s Journey into Night at New Rep and Walter in Double Indemnity at Stoneham Theatre. Regionally he has worked with American Repertory Theater, Gloucester Stage, Lyric Stage, Huntington Theater, Publick Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., American Stage (FL), WHAT, Payomet Performing Arts Center, Wellesley Summer Theatre, and Vineyard Playhouse. Film and television credits include The Company Men, Gone Baby Gone, Underdog, Laddie in Louisa May Alcott (PBS/American Masters),Brotherhood (Showtime), and the NBC pilot Hatfields & McCoys. Lewis is a company member of Theatre Espresso. He studied theatre and film at Cornell University and received his MFA from the American Film Institute (AFI).
Brenda Withers
Brenda is a writer and actor. Last summer at the Harbor she appeared in Hedda, CHURCH, and Sticks and Bones. She is a founder of Lucid Theater (My Heart Split in Two, The Macguffin?), the co-writer of Matt & Ben (PS 122), and a former fellow of the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. She has worked with companies like Hoi Polloi, the Folger, Hartford Stage, Amphibian Stage Productions, HERE, McCarter, and Square Product Theatre, where her play The Ding Dongs (or What is the Penalty in Portugal?) is being produced this Spring. She studied drama and religion at Dartmouth College.
