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Actor Biographies for CutTime Players' production of The Soldier's Tale

Pat McElroy (the Narrator) is a versatile performer. In his acting career he has played Jesus in the award-winning film Divine Mercy-No Escape with Helen Hayes (which also featured Mother Teresa and the Pope); Theodore Roosevelt for the Roosevelt family; George Washington for the Greenfield Village Theatre Company; Richard III for the University of Michigan; Octavius Caesar at the Hilberry Theater; more auto-industry "characters" than you can imagine; a cheerleading teddy-bear for Chevrolet at a Super Bowl; and an evil mutant in a sci-fi martial-arts movie! Meanwhile, as a radio personality in the Detroit area for more than 15 years, McElroy co-hosted Night Flight on WJR, anchored The Great Weekend for eight years, and finished nine years on Detroit's famous classical radio station, WQRS.

Charles McGraw (the Devil) was born and raised in Detroit, and received an M.F.A. Degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His Detroit area credits include performances as Paul Unger in the Fourth Street Theatre's The Country Girl, and Dr. Prentice in What The Butler Saw. Active with the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, he is on their Playreading Committee, played the role of Wingate Whitney in Bitter Friends, and directed their production of A Need for Brussel Sprouts. Charles helped to create the Port Huron Civic Theatre and rounds out his career doing film and video work.

Harry Wetzel (Joe the Soldier) has directed The Witching Hour, Room Service, and So This is London for the Greenfield Village Theatre Company. He was last seen on the museum stage as Bill Page in The Voice of the Turtle. Other directing credits include Not About Heroes at Performance Network and the Michigan premiere of Savage in Limbo at the University of Detroit. As an actor he has appeared at the Attic Theatre in Voice of the Prairie, The Merchant of Venice, The Good Times are Killing Me, Our Country's Good, Hamlet, and Ten November. At the Detroit Repertory Theatre he was in Disability, a Comedy and Other People's Money. While residing in New York, Mr. Wetzel performed with the Riverside Shakespeare Company in Henry IV, Part I, with the Shuttle Theatre in the preternatural Canned Salmon, and in such original off- Broadway productions as What About the Oslo Pact? and Power Play.