Cast
Melissa Gilbert
Helen
Melissa Gilbert is an Emmy winning, Golden Globe nominated actor, director, producer, and NY Times Best Selling author. As a producer her recent film Guest Artist, written by and starring Jeff Daniels premiered in 2019 at The Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
As an actress Melissa’s career began at the age of 2 appearing in commercials and guest spots. Melissa achieved iconic status by the age of 19 after a 10-year run on the television classic Little House On The Prairie ( Golden Globe Nomination). She has starred in over fifty television movies and feature films including The Miracle Worker (Emmy Nomination), The Diary of Anne Frank and Splendor in the Grass. Her television series credits include Little House on the Prairie (Golden Globe Nomination, 2 Young Artist Awards), Sweet Justice, Stand By Your Man and Secrets and Lies for ABC. Her company, Halfpint Productions, produced several films including The Miracle Worker (Emmy Award).
Melissa made her stage debut in 1979 as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. A member of the legendary Actor’s Studio, Melissa’s other professional theater credits include Laura in Glass Menagerie, Elma Duckworth in Bus Stop, Melissa Gardner in Love Letters, and Rose White, a role she created, in A Shayna Maidel, (Outer Critic’s Circle Award and Theater World Award). In 2008 Melissa also created the role of Ma in the Guthrie Theater’s presentation of Little House on the Prairie:The Musical, and toured north America the following year. In 2014 Melissa played M’Lynn in a production of Steel Magnolias at the Totem Pole Playhouse. Melissa’s off Broadway credits include If Only: A Love Story at the Cherry Lane, The Dead, 1904 with the Irish Repertory Company and My Brilliant Divorce at the New Ohio Theater. In 2020 Melissa starred in the premiere of the critically acclaimed play When Harry Met Rehab at the Greenhouse theater center in Chicago. In 2025 she will join the cast of the hit Hallmark Channel series, When Calls the Heart as the character, Georgie McGill.
As an author Melissa has penned four best-selling books; "Prairie Tale: A Memoir" (New York Times Best Seller) "Daisy and Josephine", a children’s book, "My Prairie Cookbook" and "Back To the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered."
Mark Moses
Mark
Mark Moses acted in 25 theater productions, 40 films, over 300 television episodes. Broadway: Slab Boys. Off B’way: Love’s Labor’s Lost at The Public, Burleigh Grimes at the New World Theatre, the American premiere of Our Country’s Good at the Mark Taper Forum, and four seasons at The Old Globe Theater. Films: Academy Award winners Platoon, Born of the Fourth of July, and Letters from Iwo Jima. Other films, Bombshell, Mapplethorpe, Cesar Chavez, Swing Vote, The Doors, Deep Impact, Someone to Watch Over Me. Mark won three SAG ensemble awards, Emmy award winning television shows: Duck Philips in Mad Men, Paul Young in Desperate Housewives, and Dennis Boyd in Homeland. Other shows include So Help Me Todd, Alaska Daily, Deputy, Berlin Station, The Killing, The Last Ship, Manhattan, Salvation, Key and Peele.
TV Films – HBO's The Tracker, Rough RIders, and Gettysburg. Mark supports St. Jude's Hospital for Children and is married to actress/writer, Annie LaRussa.
Kate Goehring
Helen Standby
NY work includes The Inheritance on Broadway (Stephen Daldry, director); Angels in America’s first national tour (Michael Mayer); NY Classical’s Importance of Being Earnest, and PS-122’s Carrie.Select regional work spans the Goodman, Intiman, ACT, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Arizona Theatre Co., and the Huntington. Work in world premieres includes Tony Kushner’s SLAVS!; Emily Mann’s The Cherry Orchard adaptation a the McCarter; and the Alliance’s Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls.Film/TV work includes bad behavior on various Law & Orders, John Logan’s Moment of Rage; starring in the BBC’s March in Windy City; and work on American Sports Story, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, ER, and The New Amsterdam. Recognitions: Best Performance by an Actor (2023 NY Shorts International Film Fest), and After Dark, LA Pride, Leon Rabin, Carbonell, and Footlights Awards, as well as a Jeff Citation, and a Broadway World/Raleigh Award. www.kategoehring.com
Tom Galantich
Mark Standby
Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, Funny Girl, War Paint, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Boeing Boeing, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mamma Mia, The Boys From Syracuse, City of Angels and Into the Woods.
Off Broadway: Deadly Stages, Rock of Ages, Clinton The Musical, Tail! Spin!, The Preacher and the Shrink, Distracted (Roundabout), Ghosts and Biography (Pearl Theatre), A Doll’s Life and On the 20th Century (The York Theatre).
Film: Julie and Julia, Radium Girls, The Lennon Report, Love After Love
TV: FBI:Most Wanted, Blue Bloods, WeCrashed, The First Lady, Fosse/Verdon, The Plot Against America, WU TANG: An American Saga, Madame Secretary, The Good Fight, Chicago Fire, The Affair, Master of None, House of Cards (Thomas Larkin), Person of Interest, Elementary, Smash, Made in Jersey, Royal Pains, Law and Order (Joe Chapelle), L&O Criminal Intent, Ed, Chappelle’s Show, The Cosby Mysteries, et al.