Actors for Hire in Fresno

Through it all, Cady Mejias was a wonder as Wendla, whose sexual awakening drives the storyline. Perhaps because the stagecraft felt so bare, there was nothing to distract us from the performance itself. Even with the rudimentary set and brash daylight streaming in at the matinee, pretty much overwhelming any attempt at lighting design, Mejias still managed to take me to another place, offering a striking, emotionally raw, vocally powerful portrayal. “I’ve never felt anything,” her character says at one point, and the bleakness with which Mejias made that statement, combined with her character’s place as a girl/woman in a strict 19th century German town, was something I won’t soon forget. She was a standout.