Abbie Hill (Renee) has been acting ever since she played the Virgin Mary in the Sunday School Christmas pageant. She has performed leading roles in dozens of community and college theatre productions including The Killing of Sister George, Company, Oh Dad Poor Dad, and Empty Space Blues. Abbie is a founding member of Flaming Dykasaurus, Madison’s lesbian improv troupe. With Flaming Dykasaurus, Abbie has appeared at the Chicago Improv Festival, the National Women’s Music Festival, Pridefest and many other Midwest venues. In 1999 the troupe produced a full-length musical comedy, Oblivia, which Abbie wrote and acted in. She has also worked with local radio, television, and video productions.

Mickey Crocker (Eleanor) has acted in theatre and film in New Mexico, San Francisco, and LA. In Santa Fe, she studied with the brilliant Kim Stanley and earned her BA in Theatre with the help of a scholarship from Greer Garson, with whom she appeared in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Mickey also trained at the American Conservatory Theatre. While in the San Francisco Bay area she was cast as one of the astronaut’s wives in The Right Stuff. In LA, Mickey was active as an actress, director, and Board member at FirstStage, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of new material for stage and screen. Since returning to her hometown Madison, she has been seen in Mercury’s Stop Kiss and the benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues at the Barrymore.

Lisa Konoplisky (Lili) hails from Philadelphia, PA. She received her BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and was a Thomas Watson Fellow in Brighton, England. She is currently completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College, where she also taught writing for several years, and is completing her first novel, Original Sin. Lisa was sketch writer for the improve group Without Annette and performed with the group for three years. Lisa worked with Theatre X and American Inside Theatre in Milwaukee after studying acting and voice in Philadelphia and New York. She has served as Assistant Director for the University Theatre production of Stop Kiss, Careless Love, and Hamlet, and directed students this summer in the Madison Creative Arts Program. Her plays have been performed as part of Mercury Theater’s Blitzkrieg and Short Stacks. Lisa also directed The Vagina Monologues at UW-Madison. She played Suzanne in StageQ’s production of The Twilight of the Golds and will be directing Q’s upcoming production of Seven Moves. She would like to thank Stacey and the kids, the “Cougars,” “Streakie’s Gang” and everyone at Fitness Balance.

Heather Stickeler (Mary) is delighted to be working with Stage Q and all these lovely ladies. Madison credits include The Vagina Monologues (Barrymore Theatre), Betty's Summer Vacation (Mercury Players), Jane: Abortion & The Underground (Millenium), As Bees in Honey Drown (Madison Repertory Theatre), Power Lunch (Guerillas in the Midst), The Crucible and Kindertransport (Strollers Theatre). She has also acted with Provincetown Theatre Company, Vassar Experimental Theatre, and Syracuse First Year Players. In 2001, she helped pilot Madison Repertory Theatre's High School Residency Project and currently works at the Rep as public relations manager. "I prefer to hold my desires just out of reach of appetite...I want the keen edge of longing." -Jeanette Winterson