It is altogether fitting that in a season celebrating thirty five years of producing professional theatre that we produce a show from the most successful playwright to come out of our National Playwrights Symposium.

We take no credit for the success of Kate Hamill but celebrate her work at a time when we are still emerging from the fog of the pandemic.

This feminist and modern take on a familiar literary couple sees them through a new lens that examines gender, revenge porn and the dark web economy. We delight in this writer’s purposeful anachronistic humor using bits of vaudeville and comic devices that can be traced back to the earliest plays of Greece and Rome.

Roy Steinberg, Producing Artistic Director

Cape May Stage salutes our sponsors for this show, The Bedford Inn, Homestead Real Estate, and EsCape May.  Thank you for your support of Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B.

Many thanks to our “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B” producers:

• Jill & Lee Bellarmino
• Brad Bradhering
• Matt Brown & Patti Schul
• Tom & Sue Carroll
• Joan & Jack Dempsey
• Grete & Martyn Greenacre
• Eunice & David King
• Ken & Elaine Kirby
• Jim & Teresa Knipper
• Leslie & Myles Martel
• Lynn Martenstein & Jorg Pawlik
• Jeannie & Jim Testa
• Rose & Chris Traficante
• Marvin & Lee Zektzer

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Leah Schwartz (Sherlock Holmes)

Leah is thrilled to be making her Cape May Stage debut! Recent stage credits: Romeo – Romeo & Juliet (Brooklyn, NY),Fluellen/Westmoreland – Henry V (NYC), Claire – Proof (NYC). BFA Acting graduate, Marymount Manhattan College. Leah is deeply grateful to Roy for his faith in her and to her loved ones for their never ending support.

Alexis Bronkovic (Dr. Joan Watson)

Cape May Stage: Chapter Two (Jenny) Off-Broadway/New York: The Big Broadcast (The Barrow Group Theatre) Tiny Geniuses (Fringe NYC at the Here Arts Center) Regional: Born Yesterday (Billie Dawn), Guthrie Theatre; World Premiere of The Folks at Home (Brittany/Alice), Baltimore Center Stage; Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Elizabeth Bennet), Arizona Theatre Company; Macbeth (Macbeth, et al), Silent Sky, earned Best Actress IRNE nomination (Henrietta Leavitt), Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Elizabeth Bennet), The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Elizabeth Darcy), Merrimack Repertory Theatre; Amadeus (Constanze), Maltz Jupiter Theatre; A Christmas Carol (Belle), Actors Theatre of Louisville; Postwave Spectacular (Allie), Heist (Kate Shapiro), at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Web-series: 2Some, Rainbow Ruthie; TV: Law & Order: SVU (Amberlynn Rollins, NBC), The Girls on the Bus (Missy Monroe, HBO), Uncoupled (Netflix), FBI Most Wanted, Blacklist, Younger, The Affair, Royal Pains, Blue Bloods; Film: Spray Away, Oleander, The Reunion, How to Say Goodbye, Jimmy & Don, Veritaphobia, On Settling Down, Julia. Education: Marymount Manhattan College, Actors Theatre of Louisville Professional Training Company Alum. Other: Thanks to Ian & Tina, and big love to her Rats and Fire Dragon.

Amanda Baxter (Irene Adler/Hudson/Drebber)

Amanda is thrilled to be making her Cape May Stage debut! A New York-based actor and musical theatre performer, Amanda’s Off-Broadway credits include Stupid F**king Bird, And Away We Go, Major Barbara and You Never Can Tell (u/s, Pearl Theater Company). She has also worked regionally, performing as Desdemona in Othello (Southwest Shakespeare Company) and Florence in Chess (White Plains Performing Arts Center), among others. Selected New York credits include Masha in Three Sisters, Masha in The Seagull, and Katherine in The Seagull, and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew.

Most recently, she co-produced and performed the title role in a reading of The Half-Life of Marie Curie at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York. Film work includes the short films Pestle (Official Selection, Long Island International Film Expo) and He Made His Bed. Amanda has trained with the Moscow Art Theatre School and holds a Masters in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While in London, she performed as Hamlet under the direction of Michael Attenborough (CBE), sang for an audience that included LAMDA President Benedict Cumberbatch at the LAMDA Annual Gala, and was invited to perform as a soloist for the Stephen Sondheim Society Cabaret at the Phoenix Artist Club. Thanks to Roy, cast and crew, and the entire CMS community – and to all the loved ones who have been there for the journey.

John Patrick Hayden (Lestrade/Elliott Monk & Others)

Last seen at the Playhouse in Chapter Two is thrilled to be back! Broadway: Tartuffe at the Roundabout Theatre. Regional Credits at the Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Denver Center, Pittsburgh Public, Center Stage, NJ Shakespeare festival, Bucks County Playhouse, and Northern Stage. TV: Recurring Roles in Fleischmann is in Trouble FX, Pretty Little Liars HBO and Daredevil with Marvel on Netflix. TV Guest stars include FBI, Law and Order, Younger, Blue Bloods, Blindspot, and Chicago Fire. As a filmmaker he was awarded a student BAFTAs cholarship for his films while gaining his MFA in directing film from CCNY. Thank you to the KMR agency in NY, and 44 WEST management…and love, to Fire Tiger.

Kate Hamill (playwright) is a playwright and actor based in NYC. For the last three seasons, she has been included on the most-produced playwright list in American Theatre magazine. Her most recent work includes the virtual production of Badass Galboss Power Hour for Primary Stages; Dracula at Classic Stage Company; the New York premiere of Little Women by Primary Stages (commissioned and received its world premiere at Jungle Theater in Minneapolis); and Mansfield Park, which was commissioned by and debuted at Northlight Theatre. This past season, she debuted Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B at KCRep and Emma at Guthrie Theater. She is currently working on an adaptation of The Odyssey which will be produced by Artists Repertory Theatre, as well as several new original plays, including The Piper (2019 O’Neill NPC finalist; PlayPenn selection) and The Prostitute Play (developed at Cygnet Theatre). 

More crew information coming soon!Kate 

Holmes & Watson – Apt 2B Program 2024