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Jennifer Dunne
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Mary Ann Lamb
Brittany Marcin
Jim Newman
Joe Aaron Reid
Darcie Roberts
Christopher Spaulding
Allison Spratt
Jerome Vivona
David Hyde Pierce (
Lieutenant
Frank Cioffi). Broadway:
Spamalot, The Heidi Chronicles, Beyond Therapy. Off-Broadway: originated roles in Jules Feiffer’s
Elliot Loves,
Harry Kondoleon’s
Zero Positive,
Mark O’Donnell’s
That’s It, Folks!,
Richard Greenberg’s
The Maderati and
The Author’s Voice; Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing at NY Shakespeare Festival; Peter Brook’s production of
The Cherry Orchard at
BAM. Los Angeles: Center Theatre Group – Terrence McNally’s
It’s Only
a Play; Reprise –
The Boys from Syracuse; Geffen
-
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks with
Uta Hagen; Actors’ Gang -
The Guys.
Regional: various plays at the Guthrie, Goodman and Long Wharf Theatres. Film:
Down
with Love,
Full
Frontal, Wet, Hot, American Summer, A Bug’s Life, Treasure Planet,
Osmosis Jones, Wolf, Nixon,
Sleepless in Seattle, Little Man Tate, Crossing Delancey. TV: “The Powers That Be,” “The Outer
Limits,” “Titus,” and “Frasier”.
Debra Monk (
Carmen Bernstein). Broadway:
Chicago, Reckless, Thou
Shalt Not, Ah, Wilderness!, Steel Pier (Tony nomination)
, Company, Picnic (Tony nomination)
, Redwood Curtain (Tony Award)
, Nick &
Nora, Prelude to a Kiss, Pump
Boys and Dinettes (Co-Author,
Tony nomination)
. Off-Broadway:
Show People, The Seagull,
The Time of the Cuckoo (Obie)
,
Death Defying Acts, Three Hotels, Assassins,
Oil City Symphony (Co-author, Drama Desk Award). Regional:
Three Hotels (Helen Hayes Award, Kennedy Center),
Seattle Rep, Old Globe, Yale Rep, Bay Street, ATL, Williamstown. Film:
The
Savages, The Producers, Palindromes, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Center Stage,
Devil’s Advocate,
In &
Out,
Substance of Fire,
Extreme Measures,
Bridges of Madison County,
Jeffrey, Fearless,
Prelude to a Kiss,
Reckless,
Mrs. Winterbourne,
Bed of Roses. Television
: “Frasier,” “The Music Man,” “Eloise,”
“Law & Order,” “Ellen Foster,” “Redwood Curtain,” “Nero Wolfe,” “NYPD Blue”
(Katie Sipowicz, Emmy
Award).
Karen Ziemba (
Georgia Hendricks). Broadway:
Contact (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
Awards),
Never Gonna Dance (Outer
Critics Circle Award, Tony nom.),
Steel Pier (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
noms.),
Chicago,
42nd
Street, A Chorus Line, Crazy For You (Joseph
Jefferson Award, L.A. Drama Critics nom.). Off-Broadway:
And The World Goes
‘Round (Drama Desk
Award),
I Do! I Do! (Drama
Desk nom.). NYC Opera:
110 In The Shade, The Most Happy Fella, Candide. Encores! At City Center:
Bye Bye
Birdie, The Pajama Game, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Allegro. Regional:
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre, D.C./ Hartford
Stage),
Leading Ladies (Ford’s
Theatre, D.C.),
House And Garden (GeVa
Theatre, N.Y.),
The Three Penny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival),
The Opposite of Sex (Magic Theatre, San Francisco). Film and
Television:
The Producers (2005),
“Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: SVU,”
“The Kennedy Center Honors,” “Pedalfoot”; and for PBS, “My Favorite Broadway:
The Leading Ladies,”
“Gershwin at 100” and “Stephen Sondheim: A Celebration at
Carnegie Hall”.
Karen is a proud
member of Actor’s Equity.
Jason Danieley (
Aaron Fox). Broadway:
Candide (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk
nomination),
The Full Monty (also
Old Globe and West End). Encores!:
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Strike Up The
Band, Allegro.
Off-Broadway:
Trojan Women, Dream True, Floyd Collins. Regional:
The Highest Yellow (Helen Hayes Award),
Brigadoon (L.A. Reprise)
, 110 In The Shade (Pasadena - Back Stage West Award)
,
Casino Paradise, Beauty (La
Jolla). Tours:
Phantom of the Opera.
Concerts:
South Pacific (PBS
2006) and
Carousel (both
at Carnegie Hall),
Candide and
Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake (both
at San Francisco Symphony),
Opposite You with wife Marin Mazzie. He’s also a repeat guest artist with
New York, Boston, Philly Pops, San Francisco Symphony, L.A. Phil at the
Hollywood Bowl plus many others. Albums:
Floyd Collins, Candide, The Full
Monty, Stephen Schwartz Album, A Splash of Pops, My Favorite Things, Dream
True, Jule Styne In Hollywood, South Pacific and
Opposite You.
www.MarinandJason.com
John Bolton (
Daryl Grady). Broadway: original companies of
Monty
Python’s Spamalot,
Contact and
Titanic, all three of which won the Tony Award
for Best Musical. Also on Broadway:
How to Succeed… (frequently starring as Finch),
Damn
Yankees (plus the tour
with Jerry Lewis) and concerts of
Dreamgirls,
Funny Girl and
Chess. Off-Broadway:
Five Course Love,
It’s Only Life, many productions with Riverside
Shakespeare Company. Regional: world premieres of
The Opposite of Sex,
Señor Discretion Himself,
Paper Moon. Film:
Eleven,
The Savages. Television: roles on “Law & Order:
Criminal Intent,” “Ed,” “Raven’s World,” “Guiding Light,” “As the World Turns”.
He currently plays District Attorney John Summerhill on ABC’s “All My
Children”. Education: B.A. in Journalism, but he left writing for the theatre
because he wanted something steady.
Michael X. Martin (
Johnny Harmon). Broadway: has performed Don Quixote,
Jud, Javert, Scrooge, Fred/Petrucio, John Dickenson and roles in
King David and
All Shook Up. Off-Broadway:
Bed and Sofa,
Captains Courageous, Jack’s Holiday,
Anyone Can Whistle (Carnegie
Hall). Encores! at City Center:
Kismet,
Bye Bye Birdie,
Pardon My English,
Can-Can,
Do Re Mi. Regional: 15 seasons and 100
productions include work at the Denver Center, American Conservatory Theater,
Cleveland Playhouse, PCPA Theaterfest, California Actors Theatre and the Wilma.
Film and Television:
The Producers,
Peggy Sue Got Married,
“Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”
and “Perry Mason”. Drama-Logue Awards:
All My Sons,
Bus Stop,
Camelot and
All’s Well That Ends Well. Member of Actors’ Equity since 1978.
Michael McCormick (
Oscar
Shapiro). Broadway:
How
the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Pajama Game,
Kiss
Me, Kate (1st Gangster),
1776 (John
Adams), Sam Mendes’
Gypsy,
Kiss of the Spider Woman,
Marie Christine and
La
Bête. Off-Broadway:
A
Man of No Importance (Lincoln
Center),
The Prince and the Pauper,
An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Bouef (Primary Stages),
Mafia on Prozac (EST),
Scapin and
Arturo Ui (CSC),
In a Pig’s Valise (Second Stage),
The Regard of Flight (with Bill Irwin),
Charlotte Sweet,
Tomfoolery and
Coming Attractions (Playwrights Horizons). National Tours:
The
Producers (Franz
Liebkind),
Les Misérables (Thenardier).
Television: the three “Law & Orders,” “Cosby,” “My Favorite Broadway,”
“Candide Concert”. Film:
The Producers,
A Couch in New York,
A Very Serious Person. Member of AEA
since Broadway debut in
Oliver!,
1964.
Noah Racey (
Bobby Pepper). Broadway: starred in
Never Gonna
Dance in the role Fred
Astaire created in the movie
Swing Time!,
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ensemble, Associate Choreographer),
Follies (Young Theo). Regional:
Ford’s Theatre (
Shenandoah,\
directed by Jeff Calhoun), Goodspeed Opera House (Charley in Tony Walton’s
Where’s
Charley?), La Jolla (
Thoroughly
Modern Millie and world
premiere of
Palm Beach),
St. Louis Muny (
Crazy For You, West Side Story), Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre (
Wizard
of Oz,
Hot Shoe
Shuffle). Other New York:
City Center Encores! productions of
Do Re Mi and
Babes In Arms. Resident Choreographer for Broadway By
The Year series at Town Hall and workshops of
Dirty Dancing and Tommy Tune’s
Easter Parade. Other: a Boston Conservatory Graduate,
AEA member, and a product of, and strong proponent for arts funding in public
schools.
Ernie Sabella (
Sidney Bernstein) Broadway: Herman in
Sweet Charity,
Sancho Panza in
Man of La Mancha, Amos Hart in
Chicago, Marcus Lycus in
A Funny Thing
Happened On The Way To The Forum, Code in
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Harry the Horse in
Guys and Dolls,
and
The Robber Bridegroom.
On film, he is widely recognized as the voice of Pumbaa in Disney’s
The Lion
King. Other film credits include
In &
Out (dir. Frank
Oz),
Mouse Hunt (dir. Gore Verbinski),
Quiz Show (dir. Robert Redford),
Roomates (dir. Peter Yates), and
Out Of
Towners (dir. Sam
Weissman). Over 100 television
appearances include “The Practice,” “Seinfeld,” “Mad About You,” “Murphy
Brown,” “Cheers,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Perfect Strangers,” “Newhart,” “A Fine
Romance,” and “Annie”.
Megan Sikora (
Bambi Bernét). Broadway:
Wicked (u/s Glinda/Nessarose),
Dracula (u/s Lucy/Mina),
Wonderful Town,
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ruth),
42nd Street (Lorraine). Other:
A Connecticut
Yankee (Angela) for
Encores!, MTC’s
The Wild Party (Peggy),
Anything Goes (Bonnie)
for California Musical Theatre, four original cast recordings. Education: B.A.
in Dance from Point Park College. Member of Actors’ Equity Association since
1996. Megan is also involved in helping young people with drug or addiction problems and does a lot of voluntary community work.
Nili Bassman (
Arlene
Barucca). Broadway: made
her debut covering the lead in
Never Gonna Dance. Regional: received a 2006 IRNE nomination
for her portrayal of Guenevere in
Camelot (The Shubert, Boston), co-starred as Amy in Goodspeed’s
acclaimed revival of
Where’s Charley? Other Regional/NYC Favorites: Young Phyllis (
Follies - Barrington Stage), Abigail (
The
Crucible - Michael
Rupert, dir.), Jean (
Brigadoon -
Goodspeed), Ginger Rogers (
Ginger -
Marshall Mason, dir., Randy Skinner, chor.), Masha (
The Notebook of Trigorin - Blue Roses),
White
Christmas (Betty u/s -
original company), the Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh CLO, North Shore, Manhattan
Theatre Source, the Blue Heron. Film and Television:
The Christmas Tree (Sally Field, dir), “The Contender”
(UPN). Concerts: include
Broadway by
the Year (Town Hall) and
a solo appearance with Marvin Hamlisch and The Pittsburgh Pops.
Kevin Bernard (
Roy Stetson/Detective
O’Farrell) Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and proud to be back on
Broadway. Feel free to Google
me. Heather and Billie Amber rock.
www.kevinneilbernard.com
Ward Billeisen (
Brick Hawvermale). Broadway:
Fiddler on the Roof (2004 revival, original company).
National Tours
: Chicago, Hello, Dolly!, Radio City Christmas Spectacular and
Three Irish Tenors. Other New York: Encores!
Broadway Bash! 2004
(City Center) and
Stephen Sondheim’s
75th Birthday Celebration for Children and Art. Regional:
Forever Plaid (Frankie),
No, No Nanette (Tom),
West Side Story (Tony),
Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon Peter),
Funny Girl (Production Tenor),
Tommy (Lover/Specialist),
Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph),
Singin’ in the Rain (Production
Tenor
), The Music Man, The Will Rogers Follies and
Secret Garden.
Paula Leggett Chase (
Marjorie Cook). Broadway:
The
Pajama Game; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Kiss Me, Kate; Damn Yankees; Crazy for You;
A Chorus Line.
Also:
Queen of Hearts (Princess Di),
Cabaret (w/Joel Grey),
A
Chorus Line, Dames at Sea (Joan; Garland, Dean B. Goodman Awards).
TV: PBS’ “Carmen Sandiego” (Mediva). Husband: David. Sons: Kyler and Dashiell.
AEA since 1986.
Jennifer Dunne (
Jan Setler). Broadway:
Oklahoma! (u/s Ado Annie),
Chicago (Mona). National Tours:
Chicago (Mona, u/s Roxie),
Annie (Star-to-Be). European Tours:
A Chorus
Line (Judy, u/s Cassie).
Other New York:
Last Dance (N.Y.
workshop),
True Colors (Lincoln
Center Jazz),
DanceBreak (SDCF)
for Kitty McNamee and Peter Pucci. Regional:
A Chorus Line (Walnut Street Theatre),
Oliver! (Bet) at Mill Mountain Theatre,
A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Geminae Twin) at Cherry County Playhouse. Television: “The
Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. Education:
Graduate of NYU Tisch School.
David Eggers (
Swing). Broadway: comes to
Curtains directly from Kathleen Marshall’s Tony
Award-winning revival of
The Pajama Game, in which he danced “Steam Heat” and was Dance Captain.
Recent: last summer, he worked with Ms. Marshall as assistant choreographer for
The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of
Two Gentlemen of
Verona the Musical.
Other Broadway credits:
Wonderful Town,
Thoroughly Modern Millie,
Annie Get Your Gun,
Chicago and
Saturday Night Fever. Original Cast Recordings:
The Pajama
Game,
Wonderful Town,
Thoroughly Modern Millie,
Tenderloin (City Center Encores!) and
Follies (Papermill Playhouse). Other: David is
originally from Indiana, graduated from Northwestern University, and became a
member of Actors’ Equity in 1993.
J. Austin Eyer (
Swing). Broadway:
The Secret Garden (Colin). National Tour:
Evita, and the Boston company of
White
Christmas. Other
Theatre:
The Wild Party (Burrs),
Carousel (Enoch
Snow),
Children of Eden (God)
and Hamlet in
Hamlet.
Other: beginning his career at age 7, he has credits in television, film,
dance, voice and print. As Performer and Choreographer: the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, ‘96 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, NY MF, Disney World and
Universal Studios. Education: BFA from NYU (CAP21) and is a member of the CAP21
Dance Faculty. A proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Matt Farnsworth (
Harv
Fremont). Broadway:
Thoroughly
Modern Millie,
Cats,
Tommy and the Canadian production of
Sunset
Boulevard. Off-Broadway:
Tony Kushner’s
But The Giraffe and
Brundibar (New
Victory),
The Wind in the Willows (New
Victory) and the Drama Desk Award-nominated
The Audience. Other New York Theatre: the workshops
of Disney’s
On the Record,
Marty,
Dr.
Dolittle and
The
Mancini Project.
Regional:
Comedy on the Bridge and
Brundibar (Berkeley
Rep and Yale Rep), Joe Gillis in the Jeff Award nominated
Sunset Boulevard (Marriott Lincolnshire), Captain Walker
in
Tommy (Pittsburgh
CLO), Sky in
Guys and Dolls (Missouri
Rep), Buck in
Betty’s Summer Vacation (Yale Rep), Floyd in
Floyd Collins (Bay Area Critics Circle nomination),
Pete in
Summer of ’42 (Goodspeed)
and two summers at the O’Neill Festival. AEA member.
Patty Goble (
Jessica
Cranshaw/Connie Subbotin).
Broadway: original casts of
The Woman in White,
La Cage aux Folles (revival),
Kiss Me, Kate and
Ragtime. In
The Phantom of the Opera, she has performed the role of Christine
in Toronto and appeared as Carlotta Guidicelli on Broadway, in Toronto and on
the Music Box Tour. National Tours:
Kiss Me, Kate,
Cats (Jellylorum/Griddlebone) and Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s
Music of the Night.
Television: can be seen in the PBS productions of
Candide with the New York Philharmonic, and
South
Pacific at Carnegie
Hall. Recent: performed in the N.Y. City Center Encores! Production
Of Thee
I Sing. Regional:
The
King and I (Anna
opposite Lou Diamond Phillips) and
The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess).
Mary Ann Lamb (
Mona Page). Broadway:
Contact, Seussical,
Fosse, Chicago, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Jerome Robbins’
Broadway, Song and Dance, Goodbye Girl, Starlight Express and
Carrie. Other New York: eight productions with
City Center Encores! series and
New Girl in Town (Anna) at the York Theatre. Regional:
Lola in
Damn Yankees (Music
Circus Theater, Sacramento) and roles at the Long Wharf, Huntington and Seattle
Rep Theatres. Film and Television: highlights include working with Rob Marshall
on the hit film
Chicago and
being the subject of PBS’ documentary “Working Dancers II”.
Brittany Marcin (
Peg Prentice). National Tours:
The Will Rogers Follies and
Dr. Dolittle (Pushmi/Pullyu). International:
Chicago (Hunyak- Macau
International Music Festival). New York: Radio City Rockette. Regional:
West
Side Story (NSMT),
Anything
Goes (Houston TUTS) and
A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Other: former member of Sarasota Ballet. Education: NCSA
graduate.
Jim Newman (
Randy Dexter). Broadway:
Minnelli on Minnelli (cast album), Happy in
Steel Pier (cast album),
Sunset Boulevard,
The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: John Denver in
Almost
Heaven: Songs of John Denver (Promenade)
, George Bush/Osama Bin
Laden in
Newsical! (Studio
54)
, Millard in
On
a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Encores!),
Destry in
Destry Rides Again (York)
as well as
A Good Swift Kick (Variety
Arts) and
Up Against It (NY
SF/Public). First National Tours: Bill Calhoun in
Kiss Me Kate, Josh Baskin in
Big and Levi in
Joseph...Dreamcoat. Regional: Peter in
The Pavilion (Penguin Rep) Jerry Lukowski in
The
Full Monty (Arvada
Center), the Leading Player in
Pippin (Papermill Playhouse), Henry in Kander and Ebb’s
Over and
Over (Signature Theatre)
and
Cole! (Theatre on
the Square, Drama-Logue award for best actor). Film:
Out of Sync. TV: “Hope and Faith,” “All My
Children,” “One Life to Live,” “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” “The Magic of
Music”.
Joe Aaron Reid (
Ronnie Driscoll). New York Theatre:
Kismet (City Center Encores!),
Legally Blonde (Workshop). Regional:
Ragtime (Paper Mill Playhouse),
Camelot (North Shore Music
Theatre),
Beauty and the Beast (Places
des Artes, Montreal/Lyric Theater, Baltimore). Regional Workshops:
Romeo and
Juliet: The Musical (Terrence
Mann, Christopher D’Amboise),
Owl Creek (Jamibeth Margolis). Television: Mandy Moore’s “Drop the
Pilot,” “Guiding Light”. Education: BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College.
Darcie Roberts (
Roberta
Wooster). Broadway:
Aida (Amneris standby),
Dream (Ingenue),
Crazy For
You (Polly, Irene, Tess
standby). National Tours:
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie - Helen Hayes nom.),
Copacabana (Lola),
Busker Alley (Libby),
42nd Street (Peggy - European)
, Aspects Of Love. Other New York:
On A Clear Day… (Muriel) at City Center Encores!
The
Bubbly Black Girl…
(Scarlett) at Playwrights Horizons. Regional:
Evita (Eva),
Funny Girl (Fanny),
Ragtime (Mother),
A Chorus Line (Cassie, Maggie),
Crazy For You (Polly – Barrymore Award nom.),
Cabaret (Sally - Indy Award),
My
Fair Lady (Eliza),
Damn
Yankees (Lola),
42nd
Street (Peggy). Los
Angeles:
Baby (Lizzie
- Drama Logue Award) at Golden Theatre. Television: “All My Children”.
Christopher Spaulding (
Russ
Cochran). Education: a
recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, CAP21. Last seen in
Footloose (Willard) at Chicago’s
Marriott Lincolnshire. New York:
Sweeney Todd (Anthony),
Working (“Mason” singer),
Hotel Sarajevo (Ilija). Commercial print campaign for
Verizon. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Allison Spratt (
swing, u/s Niki).
Broadway/Tours: Rhonda u/s in
Good Vibrations, Sally Bowles in
Cabaret, and Sandy in
Grease! (in German) and Kate in
Jekyll & Hyde. Regional: Ariel in
Footloose (KCS), Millie in
Thoroughly Modern Millie (FRP), Laurey in
Oklahoma (Casa Manana), Jenny Lind in
Barnum (WBT). Originated roles as, Faith in
Plane Crazy (NYMF), Evelyn in
Girl in the Frame (Goodspeed & MTC). TV: Lead actress in the
McCormick Spices National Commercial and
NY-70 (NBC pilot). Allison received a B.F.A. degree in Music Theatre from ELON University in NC. Love to
Curtains team, friends, family & husband, Michael.
Jerome Vivona (
Swing).
Jerome is the Owner/Director of Drama Kids of North Nassau County (
Dramakids.com), for children ages 4-17. He is also the Artistic Director of the Northport Performing Arts Company, Inc. His greatest achievement is his family - All my love to my wife Michelle, daughter Michaela Alys and son Thomas Rome! Broadway/tour:
Seussical, Kiss Me, Kate; Dream; How to Succeed...; Guys and Dolls; Jerome Robbins' Broadway; and
West Side Story. Film:
Everyone Says I Love You, The Stepford Wives. TV: the Tony Awards, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Today Show, David Letterman, The Kennedy Center Honors, and The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Jerome has written, produced, directed and choreographed in NYC, regionally and internationally. Member SSDC & AEA.
www.jeromevivona.com
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