CTC actors make ‘Philadelphia’ characters more than caricatures
Dina Lord springs onto the stage in a sailor costume and pointe ballet shoes, and the audience watching The Philadelphia Story erupts in laughter. Though Dina seems 15 years old or younger on stage, the actor behind the girl, Molly Bernard, is entering her third year of graduate school at Yale University.
Bernard and six other conservatory actors take the stage in Chautauqua Theater Company’s The Philadelphia Story, which plays at 4 p.m. today in Bratton Theater and runs through July 8.
While Bernard plays Tracy Lord’s younger sister, Dina Lord, Max Woertendyke, another conservatory actor, who attends The Juilliard School, portrays Lord’s fiancé, George Kittredge.