Sarah Allen
is in her third year at Oberlin, studying organ performance in the conservatory and neuroscience in the college. She appears onstage in Ludus Danielis as a disembodied hand, a murderer, and and angel, and toils behind the scenes as costume designer. A nerd from Cheshire, Connecticut, Sarah likes music, cats, and knitting.
Avery Book
is an Oberlin College Alumn, graduating with a B.A. in Environmental Studies in May, 2004. His musical background includes touring about New England, the Southeastern United States, and Eastern Europe with folk singing ensembles Village Harmony and Northern Harmony. Book is currently a member of "Untempered Harmony," a male quartet specializing in Georgian, Corsican, and American Shapenote vocal traditions.
In Ludus Danielis, Book is a Chorister, member of Belshazar's Court, a Noble Seeking Daniel, and 1/3 of the Flesh-Eating Lion Ensemble.
John Austin Clark
, a Louisville, Kentucky native, is a fourth year Music Education (vocal emphasis) major with a minor in Historical Performance at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. He studies harpsichord with Lisa Goode Crawford and choral conducting with Hugh Ferguson Floyd. In Ludus Danielis, he plays Darius.
Walker Evans
, a fourth-year student majoring in composition and creative writing, is from Newville, Pennsylvania. He plays the role of one of the Wise Men and is an onstage instrumentalist in Darius's Court.
Leah Falk
is in her second year at Oberlin, double-majoring in Creative Writing and Linguistics. She is a grudging native of Pittsburgh, PA. She plays a member of both Belshazzar's and Darius's courts and helps to initiate the sword dance. She thanks Mary and all involved for allowing her the opportunity to foster an ever-growing amateur obsession with early music and the Middle Ages.
David Giusti
, a loyal member of Balshazar's and Darius’ courts, is from Springfield, Virginia. He started recorder with his third grade class and then began private lessons, studying in high school with Scott Reiss. He currently studies with Alison Melville at Oberlin, where he is a first-year recorder major. David also enjoys other early instruments, playing some shawm and dulcian, and has taken occasional lessons with Adam Gilbert and Debra Nagy. He built his bagpipe from a kit. David has attended Amherst Early Music Festivals, as well as workshops at Oberlin, the Longy School, and Indiana University, and was the recipient of an Early Music America summer workshop scholarship. In 2003 he was invited to lecture on early music and instruments at the Steiner School in New York City. He has been in community choruses throughout his life, and now sings in the Collegium Musicum at Oberlin. For the past five years David was part of the Washington Revels, and missed being in it this year. In his free time he pursues interests in folk music and tradition and goes contra dancing.
Erin Grady
, a native of Dalton, Massachusetts, is currently a junior at Oberlin College, where she is working toward a B.A. in music history and theory, with a concentration in cognitive sciences and a minor in psychology. She hopes to attend graduate school to attain public school teacher certification, with the goal of one day becoming a high school choral director.
In Ludus Danielis, Grady will be playing the roles of Queen's Attendant and Enemy of Daniel. This will be Grady's second medieval music drama; in 2004, she played the role of the Virtue "Faith" in Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum. Her other early music experience includes her membership in the Collegium Musicum Oberliniense and the presentation of several Renaissance banquets with her high school chamber choir. She has also enjoyed previous drama experiences with Wahconah Regional High School's Apollonian Players. This will be her first time dancing with swords. In her spare time, Grady enjoys singing with Oberlin's a cappella group The Offbeats, knitting, and rooting for the Boston Red Sox.
Madeleine Hogue
is a senior English major from Hillsborough, North Carolina. She is a member of Balshazar's court, and a Noble Seeking Daniel.
Noah Horn
, from Davenport, Iowa, studies organ performance with David Boe at Oberlin College. Immersed in sacred music since childhood by parents currently in Episcopal seminary, Noah often seeks out and enjoys vocal and instrumental early music in his spare time. Like many other cast members, Noah sings with the Collegium Musicum Oberliniense.
In Ludus Danielis, Noah appears in response to King Belshazzar's request for wise men, and joins Maura in expertly advising King Darius.
Joseph K.
, a bank clerk, is arrested one day for mysterious reasons. He is allowed to keep his job and stay home, but feels driven to discover the nature of the charges and establish his innocence. He arrives for his hearing, which is held in a large boisterous room in the backrooms of a shabby apartment building, but he fails find out the nature of the charges. He starts college, and majors in Computer Science and Music Composition at Oberlin. When he returns to the court in the backrooms, it has disappeared. His uncle gets him a lawyer, but Joseph becomes frustrated with the progress of his case and seeks out Titorelli, the magistrates' portrait painter, who explains the three ways he may proceed with his case, all of them undesirable and fairly dire. Joseph meets a priest who tells him the parable "Before the Law" about a man who waits his entire life before a guarded entryway intended just for him without ever going in. A year after his arrest, Joseph is led away by two knife wielding officials who force him to play a lion and wise man in Ludus Danielis.
Jane Leggiero
is a third year music history/theory major. She is interested in early music and jumped at the chance to be involved in this project. She sings in Oberlin's Collegium Musicum, and plays cello and gamba whenever possible. In Ludus Danielis, she is a scary member of Darius' court, and a somewhat less scary attendant to the Queen.
Stephen Lind
, a native of the Bay Area in California, is in his fourth of five years attempting the physically demanding task of organizing degrees in physics and organ performance. He is a Renaissance man, for he sings in Collegium Musicum and directs Oberlin's steel drum band. He is a player, in Ludus Danielis, as a Wise Man and a Summons in Darius' court.
Jason Lindgren
is a senior composition major from Bellevue, Washington and Marshalltown, Iowa. He officially became interested in music after being thrown in to the Bellevue High Jazz Band after their bass player left and not only had to learn to play bass but also had to learn to read music. After that he decided to seriously study music and hasn't stopped performing in bands, plays, musicals and dance shows. This semester he will be performing in Oberlin's Collegium Musicum, Musical Union, ViBE Tap and a Blondie Cover Band, Gentlemen Prefer Blondie. After seeing Ordo Virtutum last year he leaped at the chance to work with a fellow Iowan and composer, Mary Larew, in this production. Next year he plans to spend 4-6 months living in Russia before he comes back and starts looking for a job as a high school band teacher. In this production he plays a noble in both Belshazzar's and Darius' Courts, a Noble Bearing a Vessel, and an Enemy of Daniel.
Rachael Luther
(Queen's Attendant, Angel with Sword), who played the Virtue Discretion in last year's production of Ordo Virtutum, is a sophomore Classics major at Oberlin College. Her family lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Christopher Macklin
(Belshazzar, Lion) graduated from Oberlin in May of 2004 with degrees in Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology, and Chemistry. Although originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in London where he is pursuing Neuroscience and Medieval/Renaissance Vocal Studies under the auspices of Great Britain's Marshall Scholarship. Chris acted as Assistant Director and the Devil in Ms. Larew's production of Ordo Virtutum, is the co-founder of the early music quintet "Uncloistered," and currently directs the vocal jazz choir "Dr. Kat and the Switcherettes" in London and enjoys singing bass in numerous churches and community choirs in the greater London area. When he's not playing with brain cells, that is.
Naomi Morse
(Belshazar's Court, Noble with Vessel, Noble Seeking Daniel) graduated from Oberlin College in December 2003 with a B.A. in Biology. While at Oberlin, she was a soloist and ensemble member of Collegium Musicum and was also a founding member of the early music ensemble Uncloistered. She also played the role of "Humility," Queen of the Virtues, in Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum last January. Since graduating from Oberlin, Naomi has returned to her native Vermont and is enjoying life as a freelance dance musician playing fiddle for Contra dances, English Country dances and other events.
Timothy Rosser
, a junior composition major at Oberlin Conservatory, has performed in other musical theater productions before, but none have boasted the medieval magnificence or Larewian elegance of Ludus Danielis, owing partly to the fact that they were all twentieth century works directed by other people. Some characters that Tim has portrayed in the past include Jesus in Godspell, Courier in 1776, and George Spelving in The Actor's Nightmare. He has studied acting with Paul Moser and Matthew Wright, currently studies composition with Amelia Kaplan, and will continue to study piano with Monique Duphil. He'll continue to study with Ms. Kaplan, too. He might one day study with Mr. Moser or Mr. Wright again. Let's cross our fingers. No amount of studying can dissuade him from singing a cappella with Oberlin's jazzy "Offbeats" or improvising with Oberlin's sassy teen-drama troupe, "Standing in Stillwater." He is also a terrific piano accompanist and needs a summer job. Tim would love to thank his supportive family and sorptive friends for their respective adjectives. You are ALL my knights in shining armor.
Tim appears as a member of Belshazzar's Court and an Angel "Ludus Danielis."
Caitlin Maura Smith
is a second year neuroscience major from Pennsville, New Jersey. In Ludus Danielis, she plays the role of Belshazzar’s Queen, as well as one of two advisors to Darius. In last year’s Ordo Virtutum she played Anima (the Soul). She is a member of the Collegium Musicum Oberliniense and Schola Cantorum. In her spare time, she enjoys studying German and Italian, reading about psycholinguistics, and composing. Her favorite composers at the moment are Machaut, Dufay, Byrd, and Gubaidulina.
Samuel Sytsma
(Daniel), from Farmington, Maine, graduated from Oberlin in 2004 with degrees in voice performance and environmental studies. Pursuing an interest in early music, he is now studying harpsichord and voice at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands. He sings with the Renaissance vocal quintet Uncloistered.
Eric Tillberg
, hailing from Los Angeles, California, is a double degree sophomore at Oberlin and will graduate with majors in Double Bass Performance and Art History. He has performed previously in various orchestras and ensembles such as the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra and Oberlin Baroque Orchestra. In Ludus Danielis, his first performance as a singer, he plays Habakkuk and a member of Belshazzar's Court. He is also interested in viola da gamba and the intersection of culture, aesthetics, and history.
Zoe Weiss
is a native of Ithaca, New York. She is currently a junior in the double degree program at Oberlin College and when she's not playing viola da gamba or Baroque cello, which she studies with Catharina Meints, she majors in Biology. In Ludus Danielis she plays a Queen's Attendant as well as a member of Darius' court who summons Daniel. In last year's production of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum, she was part of the instrumental ensemble playing vielle for which she reconstructed a system of tuning and technique based on historical documents. She is a member of the Collegium Musicum Oberliniense and a founding member of Oberlin's only Renaissance dance band. 
Rose Williams
is a junior college music history and theory major, environmental studies minor from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In Ludus Danielis, she plays a Queen's Attendent. This January she also acted in another Oberlin College production, "Triumph in Terezin" as Karel Frohlich, a famous Czech violinist and survivor of the Holocaust. This is her first singing role in an Oberlin production. She says that learning to sing medieval chant in Latin has been an interesting challenge and that it has been wonderful to work with so many talented and friendly people. She would especially like to thank Mary Larew for being so kind and accomodating throughout the production process.