Marriage At Work

Reuven Fine (`roo-vane fine)

a handsome, unmarried Hasid. Trim-bearded, 37, contemplative, serious
(photo: Eric Thal as Ariel in the 1992 film A Stranger Among Us)

Rachel Shoeck ("shek")

a classic Jewish beauty in her mid thirties; vegetarian, free-spirited, strong, and independent, but vulnerable

Rabbi Jacob Brauer

an iconoclast in his fifties; direct and unsentimentaql but fatherly

Shimon (`shih-mone)

a Hasidic bully in Reuven’s synagogue in his late twenties; Reuven’s friend

PHOTO CREDIT: paul prescott / Shutterstock.com

Chaim ("khy-im")

a sweet-natured, naïve, Old World–looking Hasid in his twenties; Reuven’s friend
(photo credit: Mgarten , Williamsburg, NY, 2006; licensed via Creative Commons)

"The Rebbe"

the Hasidim’s scowling chief rabbi, as seen in a portrait hanging in their synagogue

Joel Spiro (`speer-o)

the synagogue's skeptic; an Astronomy professor in his early thirties; keen-witted, insightful, serious

Burt

a photographer employed full-time by Rachel; a cynical, nasty, and devious charmer in his mid thirties to early forties

Wendy Newberger

candid, racy, independent; Rachel's classmate and confidante in Marriage At Work class

Herb Dinowitz

a nebbish in the Marriage At Work class

Ellen Berman

funny, cynical, and quick-tongued; a Marriage At Work student in her mid to upper thirties

Mark Weinstein

a humorless Marriage At Work student 

Alison Frisch

cute, vulnerable; a Marriage At Work student in her early to mid thirties

Seth Jacobs

a bawdy, obnoxious student in Marriage At Work class

Chana Levin

an attractive, thirty-something Orthodox employee of a graphic-arts supply company who appears at the office for one scene in Act 1

ensemble Hasidim

Four to eight synagogue-mates to serve as dancers for Life on the Fringe, The Rebbe Says, and Future Imperfect

ensemble Marriage At Work students

four men, four women, all in their thirties to early forties