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Who's Who in [title of show]
Sandy Duncan Lauren Kennedy (Heidi) Broadway: Lady of the Lake in Monty Python’s Spamalot, Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close, Side Show as Daisy Hilton, and Les Miserables as Fantine. Also, Cinderella at New York City Opera. Off-Broadway: Good Ol’ Girls at The Steinberg Center for The Performing Arts and Vanities at Second Stage. London: Trevor Nunn’s revival of South Pacific as Nellie Forbush. New works and premieres: Vanities (Pasadena Playhouse), The Ten Commandments with Val Kilmer (Kodak Theater, LA) Lone Star Love (Seattle 5th Avenue), Waiting For The Moon (LENAPE) and The Last Five Years (Northlight). National Tour: Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaeffer. Both her new album Here And Now and her debut album Lauren Kennedy: Songs Of Jason Robert Brown are available on PS Classics. She is also the Producing Artistic Director of Hot Summer Nights at The Kennedy.
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Tyler Maynard (Hunter) made his Broadway debut; 2002 in the cast of the musical Mamma Mia! In 2003 and 2004 he appeared in several stage productions, including On the Record, and during that time also worked shooting roles in the films Palindromes, Parents Wanted and Red Doors. In February 2005 Tyler landed a starring role in Altar Boyz, a musical which achieved significant critical acclaim. For his role as Mark, Maynard earned a Drama Desk Award nomination, and won Outstanding Breakthrough Actor at the Theatre World Awards. From August to October 2005, Maynard took a break from performing in Altar Boyz to perform in the shows Miracle Brothers and The Great Big Radio Show! Maynard resumed his performance in Altar Boyz in January 2006. From 2008 to 2009, he played Flotsam in the original Broadway cast of The Little Mermaid. In 2010, he played Chad in the off-Broadway musical The Kid.
Amanda Sykes
Susan Mosher (Susan) Broadway: Hairspray. Off-Broadway: Suds, Back to Bacharach & David. TV: Nurse Jackie, Without A Trace, HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk 2 with Vanessa Redgrave, Veronica’s Closet, and a recurring role on Showtime’s The L Word. Film includes: A View From The Top, The Wedding Planner. Susan recently debuted her critically acclaimed solo show, The Great Daisy Theory in New York City.
Sandie Rosa
Seth Rudetsky (Jeff) was a piano major at Oberlin Conservatory and spent years on Broadway as a pianist/conductor. Musical career highlights: Artistic Producer/conductor for the Actors Fund Dreamgirls concert with Audra MacDonald (None such records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (Ghostlight Records, Grammy nom). TV: Legally Blonde reality show, Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List and the requisite Law & Order. Stage: Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy at The Gallery Players, Sheldon in The Ritz on Broadway and Vernon opposite Sutton Foster in They’re Playing Our Song. Seth is the Broadway host of “Seth’s BigFat Broadway” every afternoon on Sirius/XM radio, has a weekly column for Playbill.com and his newest novel will be published by Random House.

Creative Team
Jesse Vargas (Music Director/Larry) Born and raised here in Central NJ, Jesse has worked internationally as a music director, arranger,and pianist. He is recognized across the countryas music director/arranger for pop singerClay Aiken. His work with Mr. Aiken has spanned from conducting Christmas concerts since 2004, to assembling, arranging, and orchestrating his symphonic tours. Jesse has and continues to work extensively in the musical theatre world as well. Music Direction credits include: Saved (Playwrights Horizons); Xanadu (First National Tour); Bare – A Pop Opera (off-Broadway,Cast Recording); Dreamgirls (Critically acclaimed Philadelphia revival); Hairspray (Cape Playhouse); Bright Lights, Big City; Barry Manilow’s Copacabana; The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Detroit-Assistant); A Chorus Line; Guys & Dolls; A Little Night Music; Little Shop of Horrors; as well as readings of new musicals Sunfish (NAMT);The Daughters; Hurricane (NYMF); and Up In The Air (by Henry Krieger & Bill Russell). Orchestration/Arrangement credits include: Glory Days (also Music Supervisor-Signature Theatre/Broadway); The Ritz (Broadway);Rooms – A Rock Romance (off-Broadway, also Music Supervisor); Peep Show (Planet Hollywood-Las Vegas); Beach; Bright Lights, Big City; The J.A.P. Chronicles; Pippin (Goodspeed/Tour-Dance Arrangements); Junie B. Jones (Theatreworks); Chess (2003 Concert); Hair (2004 Concert); Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway 101; Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Opening (since 2003); and others. Recordings include Clay Aiken; Tried & True; Rooms (off-Broadway Cast Recording), Glory Days - OBC; Dreaming Wide Awake – The Music of Scott Alan; Keys; What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up; Hair (2005 Grammy Nominated Recording); and Bare – The Album

Matt Lenz (Director) Broadway: Hairspray (Associate Director: also for National Tours,
South Africa, Las Vegas, Toronto, Cologne, Germany), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Resident Director: Broadway and Tours) The Yellow Brick Road Not Traveled: WICKED’s 5th Anniversary Celebration, (Director). Off-Broadway: The Irish Curse (SoHo Playhouse and NY Fringe Festival), Fingers and Toes (NYMF ’10), Idaho! (NYMF - Winner of “Best of Fest” 2008 and “Best Director” Awards), Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy. Regional: Hairspray (Paper Mill Playhouse, MUNY), Saint Heaven (a new musical by Martin Casella and Keith Gordon), Scituate by Martin Casella (Stamford Center), Aida (MUNY, Gateway), Beauty and the Beast (MUNY, North Carolina Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre), The Full Monty, (North Carolina Theatre), South Pacific (Casa Manana, NCT) Confidentially, Cole (LA), Dirty Blonde, Love! Valor! Compassion! (Austin). Member SDC. Coming: Catch Me If You Can (Associate Director) – Broadway in Spring 2011.

Jeff Bowen (Music and Lyrics) wrote the music and lyrics for and starred in the Broadway musical [title of show] for which he won an OBIE Award, as well as a GLAAD Media nomination and, along with his cast mates, a Drama League nomination for Distinguished Performance by an Ensemble. He was awarded the Jim Owles Human Rights Award and was named one of the 100 most influential people in Out Magazine. He has written music and lyrics for Villains Tonight! for the Walt Disney Company, the Easter Bonnet competition for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Actors Fund 125th Anniversary Gala, the Vineyard Theatre’s 25th Anniversary Gala, the 53rd Annual Drama Desk Awards, Broadway in South Africa, and Broadway Bares 18: Wonderland. He has composed music for several shows at P.S. 122 including Avant-Garde-A-Rama in Sparklevision, Hello, My Name Is Avant-Garde-A-Rama; Sparklefest 2000 at Dixon Place; The A-Train Plays; and the film Boat Mime. As an actor he has performed works at The O’Neill Center, Manhattan Theatre Source, Ars Nova, the Vineyard Theatre and appeared in the Actors Fund benefit of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the August Wilson. He co-wrote and starred in the web series, the [title of show] show as well as scoring and performing its theme song. He is currently developing a half-hour sitcom for ABC. Jeff is a proud member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Actors Equity Association, the Writers Guild Association, the Dramatists Guild of America, Yale Dramat, and National Audubon Society.

Hunter Bell (Book) earned an OBIE Award, a GLAAD Media nomination, a Drama League nomination, a Jim Owles Human Rights Award, and a 2009 Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical all for [title of show]. Other credits include the book for Silence! The Musical, the book for the 137th edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, Bellobration!, and the book for Villains Tonight! for Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment/Disney Cruise Lines. He has contributed material to numerous benefits and events including the Easter Bonnet and Gypsy of the Year competitions as well as Broadway Bares, all for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. He is also a co-creator of the web series the [title of show] show on titleofshow.com. A finalist in the Warner Brothers Comedy Writers’ Workshop, Hunter has written numerous spec scripts, pilots, and industrial films, and developed new works at the Dramatists Guild, the O’Neill Center, Irish Rep, PS 122, Goodspeed/Chester, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Neighborhood Playhouse, CanStage, and the Manhattan Theatre Source, and is currently in development with ABC television creating a new half-hour sitcom. As an actor, he has performed both on and off-Broadway, at the St. Louis Rep, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, the North Shore Music Theatre, The MUNY, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre, Stages St. Louis, Alliance Theatre, Carnegie Hall, York Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2003, he won the Connecticut Outer Critics Award for Best Actor in a Musical. TV credits include, Guiding Light, Disney’s Out of the Box, and Great Performances on PBS. Film credits include: Goodbye Baby, and Men Who Stare at Goats. Born in Tuscaloosa Alabama, Hunter is a graduate of Woodward Academy, a distinguished alumnus of Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts (where he earned a BFA in Musical Theatre), an honorary inductee to the Yale Dramat, anda proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity, SAG/AFTRA, and the Writers Guildof America.

R. Michael Miller (Scenic Design) Mr. Miller designed the set for this season’s Circle Mirror Transformation. Previous designs at George Street Playhouse have included The Seafarer, Roger Is Dead, The Sunshine Boys, The Value of Names, Inspecting Carol, Lend Me a Tenor, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Proof, The Sisters Rosensweig, Public Ghosts - Private Stories, The Taming of the Shrew, Of Mice and Men, The Mousetrap, Shirley Valentine, The Council of Thirty and Loot. Mr. Miller designed the Broadway, off-Broadway, Los Angeles, and six other regional productions of Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir, directed by Vivian Matalon. He has designed for regional theatres across the country and has a long-term relationship with The Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, MA. He was the American Associate Set Designer for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical Aspects of Love, designed by Maria Bjornson. Mr. Miller has an MFA degree from the University of Washington and is a member of United Scenic Artists. He is currently Head of Design and Production for the Department of Theater Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Michael McDonald (Costume Design), Broadway & London West End: Hair (Tony, Drama Desk and Hewes Award nominations). The Public: Hair (Delacorte Theater). Off-Broadway: The Irish Curse (Soho Rep),Tartuffe (Tribeca Playhouse), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lincoln Center), Measure for Measure (Expanded Arts). Regional: Take Me Out (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Johnny Baseball, (A.R.T.), Dirty Blonde, Omnium Gatherum and Crowns (Zachary Scott Theatre); Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, The Laramie Project, Angels in America (Chatham Playhouse). Broadway Assistant Designer for two Tony Award-winning Best Plays: The Goat and Take Me Out, as well as Arthur Miller’s The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Blood Brothers. Assistant Costume Master for the Public Theater: The Seagull; Mother Courage and Her Children starring Meryl Streep; Radiant Baby; Caroline, or Change; Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson;The Merchant of Venice; Topdog/Underdog; Twelfth Night.

Philip Rosenberg (Lighting Design) The Memorandum (The Actors Company Theatre); I Do! I Do! (Westport Country Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Barrington Stage); Bach at Leipzig (Portland Stage Company); Lisbon Traviata (The Kennedy Center); The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Edward II, Amadeus and Cymbeline (Chicago Shakespeare); Knickerbocker (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Bus Stop and She Loves Me (Huntington Theatre); Shanghai Moon, The Lady in Question (Bay Street Theatre); and Bury the Dead (Illinois State University). Philip has spent much of the last 10 years as an associate lighting designer on Broadway where some of his credits include: A Steady Rain, 9 to 5, Shrek, Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Bombay Dreams, The Graduate, Hairspray, The Crucible, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, On the Town, Triumph of Love.

Walter Trarbach (Sound Design) Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention and Cymbeline. Off-Broadway credits include: The Irish Curse, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Satellites, Farragut North, Sandra Bernhard’s Everything Bad and Beautiful, Almost Maine, I Love You Because, Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Mr. Marmalade. Regional Credits include: Catch Me If You Can (5th Avenue Theater), Storytime Live! (National Tour), Zhivago, Private Fittings, The Third Story (La Jolla Playhouse), and The Three Sisters (Williamstown Theater Festival). Walter is the Associate Sound Designer on Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Assistant Sound Designer for Jersey Boys national tours, and the production sound engineer for the national tours of Mary Poppins and 9 to 5. He is married to photographer Kimberly Witham.

Michael Clark (Projection Design) designs film and video for live events. Credits include last season’s Creating Claire, Jersey Boys (La Jolla and Broadway) Ring of Fire (Broadway and Studio Arena Theater) The Wiz (La Jolla) 700 Sundays (Broadway and La Jolla) Dracula, The Musical (Broadway and La Jolla), The Elephant Man (Broadway), Macbetto and Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera), The Persians, (Shakespeare Theater) Saving Aimee, Allegro, One Red Flower and Hedwig (Signature Theater), The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theater Company) Company, Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Blast 2 (Asia tour) Spider-Man Live (national tour), Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept), Aeros (national tour) and Dinner with Friends (ACT).

Jovon E. Shuck (Production Stage Manager) recently returned from a two and a half year adventure with the cast and crew of the First National Tour of Monty Python’s Spamalot. Other favorite credits include: Noises Off and The Graduate (Broadway), The Irish Curse (off- Broadway), Saint Heaven (SCA Rich Forum), The Seagull (NYSF/Public Theatre), six Christmases with The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, five summers at Gateway Playhouse and six wonderful years with Sheila Marie.

Seth Sikes (Assistant Director) Director of BUNKED! at NYC Fringe (Best Musical 2010). Assistant Director: Anyone Can Whistle at Encores! (Casey Nicholaw, Director), Fat Camp (workshop, directed by Casey Hushion), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert with the New York Philharmonic (Lonny Price, Director), Dissonance at Bay Street Theatre (Lonny Price, Director), and Fingers and Toes at NYMF (Matt Lenz, Director). Young Frankenstein, Minsky’s (Production Assistant). Producing Associate for Sing Out, Louise! Productions (Allegiance, American Idiot). Circle in the Square alum. Performing credits include Fame on 42nd Street Off-Broadway.