Granite Orpheus Cast
Bryan Halperin — Orpheus
Bryan Halperin (Orpheus) is a co-founder of Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative at the Colonial Theatre in Laconia (powerhousenh.org) where he produces, directs and leads playwriting workshops. He served as Executive Director of the NH Theatre Awards for three years, and produced and directed its annual Awards Show for five. As co-founder and Executive Director of The Winnipesaukee Playhouse he produced, directed, performed in, or wrote over 100 productions between 2004 and 2014. His play The Hairy Man won the 2019 Pestalozzi Prize at the New Works Festival of the Firehouse Center for the Arts, was a semi-finalist for Premiere Stages Play Festival, and was a finalist at the 2020 JETFest in Michigan. Halperin is the winner of eight NH Theatre Awards as Best Director.
Gina Carballo — Eurydice
Gina Carballo (Eurydice) Is a former President of the NH Theatre Awards Board of Directors and a co-creator of the NH Theatre Alliance that now oversees the annual awards night. As an actor she has worked prolifically including stints with M&M Productions in Nashua, and Theatre Kapow in Derry. Along with five other theatre professionals, Carballo founded the professional theatre company Artists Collective Theatre in 2013. When not gracing New England stages, she is the Senior Associate Director of Admission at Northfield Mount Hermon, where she oversees the admissions and guides prospective students for this dynamic private boarding and day school in Massachusetts.
Yarrow Farnsworth — Hades
Since primary filming for Granite Orpheus ceased Yarrow Farnsworth — who plays our mercurial Hades — has been embracing life as a "solo wanderer who seeks learning opportunities and new adventures." Her career and calling as a first responder keeps her happy and busy. She spends her free time in her "Cottage on the River" which she recently built, pursuing a pastoral, minimalist life with her dogs, kitties and a surrounding, supportive cast of family and friends.
Steve White — Hades’ Consort
Steve White AKA White Crow is retired in the mountains of Idaho, canvasing the landscape and rivers with a quiver full of motorcycles, bicycles, skis and boats. He’s generally in New Hampshire for a few spring and fall months visiting and helping his mother navigate the aging process. His current ride is a brilliant white customized Harley Road Glide bearing the license plate “GYPC.”
Tyler Hagen — Cerebrus
After spending a number of years in front of the camera — including the brief days in which he portrayed a mortal incarnation of Cerebrus, guardian of Hades, for Granite Orpheus — Tyler Hagen decided to step behind it. He gripped for a little while on such local movies as “Confess, Fletch” and was a gaffer on “ASK This Old House.” He has now stepped towards producing, and is currently in early development on his first feature film. He lives in Somerville, and if you look hard enough, you can likely find him performing stand-up exclusively at dive bars.
Andrew Pinard is an accomplished perceptual engineer and stage illusionist in real life and his gifts are on display in his role as The Magus who opens the Underworld to Orpheus. Pinard created the Hatbox Theatre in Concord showcasing local talent in stagecraft and performance art for talented New Englanders alongside his own jaw-dropping “Discovering Magic” shows. Among his many personas is his authentic historical recreation of the prestidigitation of magician Jonathan Harrington (1811-1881).
Andrew Pinard — The Magus
Simon Harling — The Artist
Artist and long-time denizen of the New Hampshire Seacoast, Simon Harling was born in Colchester, England and educated at the London College of Printing. His landscape paintings are displayed in dozens of the finest collections, both corporate and private, in the country. In 2005, Harling set out in an1989 General Motors Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, immortalizing it in select landscapes wherever he went. His vividly idiosyncratic vision is also captured in his independently produced films such as “On the Couch” (2024), “Ocean Boulevard” (2013), “Drawing From LIfe” (2009) and “Under the Hood” (2008).
Kevin Flynn — Hades’ Toady
Kevin Flynn who appears as Hades’ obsequious lackey and as a billigerent Balloonman in Granite Orpheus is the co-founder of Partners In Crime Media and hosts the podcasts "Crime Writers On" and “…These Are Their Stories: The Law & Order Podcast.” He also is the producer of "You Can't Make This Up," a co-production of Netflix and Partners In Crime Media. He’s the author of six nonfiction books of history and true crime. A former broadcast journalist, his awards include a New England Emmy Award, and several Edward R. Murrow awards, N.H. Associated Press awards, Golden Mics. He was selected three times as "Best TV Reporter" by the readers and editors of New Hampshire Magazine
Briana and Naomi Nelson
— Gypsy Girls
Naomi (with guitar) and Briana Nelson who perform as Gypsy Girl buskers on a mission from Hades are talented musical sisters in real life. They not only perform two songs that provide cryptic clues for Orpheus in his search for Eurydice, they composed the music for them, weaving some mysterious lines drawn from Jean Cocteau’s 1950 film “update” of the Orpheus myth into the soundtrack of Granite Orpheus.
Chloe Barcelou — The Seamstress
The task of seeing whether Orpheus measures up to the task ahead of him falls to a subterranean Seamstress, played by Chloe Barcelou. While this is Barcelou’s first film role, she is an accomplished insider to the independent and commercial film industry with dozens of credits as stylist, set designer, property maker and photographer with Shiphouse Productions — a veritable creative company on wheels that she operates with her partner Brandon Batchelder.
Saad Hindal — Al-Fanaan
Saad Hindal was a prominent artist in his native city of Baghdad before the Gulf War and the fall of Saddam Hussein. Since finding a new home for himself and his family in Concord, NH, Hindal has become a familiar face and beloved local figure, known for his whimsical portraits of New Hampshire’s Capitol City and his nostalgic paintings of Old Baghdad sold from his local home gallery Art From Memory. His other artistic residence is in the Egyptian city of Alexandria where his murals and paintings sometimes fill entire buildings. So Hindal’s role as Al-Fanaan, the Concord street artist in Granite Orpheus, is not that far from home for a man who lives and creates in two worlds.
Kae Mason — The Stylist
Kae Mason is Owner, Master Artist and Permanent Cosmetic Artist for Concord’s popular Salon K, making her ideal for her role as the haunted hairdresser of Granite Orpheus. Kae’s approach approach to beauty is unique and always delivered with high energy and complete honesty. Although she is self-taught in her craft, she was voted “best stylist” in New Hampshire and has dozens of devoted fans who rely upon her to help them find and maintain their own personal style statements.
Unknown — Sisyphus
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was confined to the Underworld where he had to push a boulder up an eternal hill, only to have it roll back every night. In the Hades of Granite Orpheus, Sisyphus turns his task into a opportunity to get jacked while pumping iron on an eternal bench press. The bodybuilder who volunteered for this role disappeared before we were able to get his name or deets. If anyone knows who he is or how we can contact him, please contact us.
The Wheeled Wraiths of Hades
When Hades’ Wraiths roll, they rule both the highways of Earth and the lowways of Hell. Motorcycles provide an acoustic and visceral throughline to Granite Orpheus and along with other devoted bikers like Yarrow Farnsworth (Hades) and Steve White (Hades’ Consort) our gang of dark riders includes Maria Burrell, Russell and Lisa Lyman, Kevin and Angel Barton.
Underworld Burlesque
TKTKTK The Burlesque Show literally never ends on Hades TV
Balloon Girls
The Balloon Girls who aren’t much help to Orpheus in his after-hours search for Eurydice are in fact his (well, actor Bryan Halperin’s) real-life kids: Jaydie Halperin (brunette) who is now finishing a Masters in History and Museum Studies at Tufts University and living in the Boston area where she moved upon graduation from Wesleyan University in 2023; and Janney Halperin (blond) who is completing her Junior year at Bates College in Maine and majoring in Environmental Studies.
Roman Farnsworth — Junior Demon
Roman Farnsworth was 11 in 2015 when his scene as a junior Demon (and phone thief) was filmed. Now 21 years old Roman has studied as a residential electrician and has recently moved on to master overhead power, advancing to a career as a Lineman. Currently residing in North Carolina, he hopes to move back to the Northeast in the future. In his free time he enjoys snowboarding, hiking, mountain biking and motorcycles.