Equivocation: Meet the Cast

Max Tachis (Shag) - Max is excited to make his debut performance at Dragon Productions, having participated as both a writer and actor in several Monday Night Play Space events in the past. He has been seen most recently in The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano) at City Lights Theater Company, The SantaLand Diaries (David/Crumpet) at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, and The Crucible (John Proctor) at Los Altos Stage Company.

Brad Satterwhite (Sir Robert Cecil/Nate/Thomas Percy) - This is Brad Satterwhite's first production with Dragon. He has most recently played Ethan in The Full Monty at Hillbarn Theatre, Jedidiah Shultz/Aaron McKinney in The Laramie Project at Palo Alto Players, and Dr. Givings in In the Next Room, or, the Vibrator Play at The Pear. When he is not acting, he writes books under his pen name, Hal Emerson.

Paul Rosenfield (Sharpe/Thomas Wintor/ King James) - Equivocation is Paul’s debut to the Dragon’s stage. Still a rookie, his only previous role was in Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, by the Stanford Repertory Theater. He has taken acting classes through the Berkeley Repertory Theater. He holds a master's degree in statistics from Stanford University, and when he is not acting, he is a data scientist for a fast-growing startup in San Carlos.

Michael Weiland (Armin/Robert Catesby/ Sir Edward Coke) - recently performed as Lewis in Pippin at Los Altos Stage Company. Other credits include Jules in Boom! at Minilights, Geeks vs Zombies at the Pear Theatre, and Rocky in Rocky Horror at City Lights Theater Company. Michael is a company member at Play On Words San Jose, a stage reading company for new works by local authors, playwrights, and poets. See Michael perform next at Los Altos Stage Company in The Legend of Georgia McBride.

Paul Stout (Richard/Father Henry Garnet) - Paul Stout is grateful to return to Dragon Theatre for the first time since 2014 when he appeared in three shows (The Birthday Party, Smash, The Other Place). In his 9 years in the Bay Area, he has performed in productions with over 20 theater companies including San Jose Stage and Marin Shakespeare. Paul is a longtime company member at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco and will be directing there in the fall. He is a Chico native with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from California State Chico.

Alika U. Spencer-Koknar (Judith)- Alika is thrilled to return to Dragon’s stage with such a killer cast and crew of Equivocation. She last appeared high in the sky at Dragon in Cirque Exotique Du Monde as the trapeze artist, Boshka and the infamous Magda Goebbels. She graduated from the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in 2006. She also teaches theater to youths in the Bay Area and is honored to be stepping into Meredith Hagedorn’s shoes as Artistic Director of Dragon Productions along with her husband, Max “Bora” Koknar. Her past theatrical credits include; Walt Disney in Walt & Hans are Frigid  with Dragon Productions, Pamela in The 39 Steps and Mina in Dracula with California Theater Center,Hannah in the South Bay premier of Collapseand Evelyn in the Shape of Things with Renegade Theater Experiment, Maureen in The Beauty Queen Of Leenane with Northside Theater, Johnna Monevata In August: Osage County with City Lights Theater Company and Alice Bloomfield in Kinan Valdez’s production of Zoot Suit with El Theatro Campesino.