Gemini the Musical (2007)

Among Charles Gilbert’s (music & lyrics) credits as a writer and composer is the 1979 musical Assassins, source of the idea for the Stephen Sondheim musical which premiered off-Broadway in 1991 and won seven Tony® Awards when it was recently revived on Broadway. His musical B.G.D.F. was seen in New York in 1983 in a showcase starring Gregg Edelman. His children’s musical A Is For Anything, commissioned by the Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education, was selected as a finalist in the Buxton Quest for New Musicals in 1992. Gilbert was Musical Theater Coordinator for Kevin Smith’s film “Jersey Girl” and has directed and/or music directed productions at the Prince, the Arden, People’s Light, PART, Opera Delaware and the National Music Theater Network. He holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is a former member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Charles Gilbert has headed the Musical Theater Program at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts since its inception in 1990.

Librettist Albert Innaurato’s works for the theatre include Gemini (performed for four years on Broadway), Passione (Playwrights Horizons and Broadway), The Transformation of Benno Blimpie (two off-Broadway productions), Magda and Callas, Coming of Age in Soho (Public Theater), Gus and Al (Playwrights) and Dreading Thekla (Williamstown Theatre Festival). In addition to The Idiots Karamazov, he collaborated with Christopher Durang on I Don’t Normally Like Poetry but Have You Read Trees and Gyp, the Real-Life Story of Mitzi Gaynor, while both were students at Yale University. Innaurato’s film and TV credits include short pieces for PBS, “Subway Stories,” “Verna the USO Girl” (Emmy Award), two screenplays for Bette Midler, and rewriting the book and some of the lyrics of the Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin/Moss Hart musical Lady in the Dark. He adapted Puccini’s opera La Rondine for Lincoln Center Theater and has contributed to The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, New York, Forbes, Newsday, Opera News and the programs of Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He is currently on staff at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Recent projects include 4 productions in Ontario, Canada; L’Histoire de Soldat with Hopeful Monsters at the Boston Symphony; The Velveteen Rabbit with the Enchantment Theatre Company for a National Tour; LITTLE EGYPT in NYMF 2007; and the New York Honors Awards for the National Academy for the Recording Arts and Sciences. Geoff co-founded and Executive Produced the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2004 and 2005, and also co-produced the Unzipped Concert Series in 2005. Cohen has worked as a Vice President for Radio City Entertainment, where he produced and general managed the Menken/Ahrens/Ockrent production of A Christmas Carol and The Wizard of OZ in New York and on tour. Prior to coming to New York, he general manager both the Paper Mill Playhouse and the George Street Playhouse.

Most recently Christine was the Musical Director for the new musical, Count to Ten , at the 14th Street Theatre in NYC. At NYMF last year she was the assistant musical director for Flight of the Lawnchair Man. Other recent credits include: Frankenstein (AMD â€"Casino Rama), Nunsense (AMD â€" Fallsview Casino) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (AMD - National tour) as well as serving s the musical director for many regional and university theatre productions including: A Chorus Line, CATS, Miss Saigon, Once Upon a Mattress, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, A New Brain, Fiddler on the Roof, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Cocoanuts, Honk!, Annie Get Your Gun, and South Pacific, among others. Christine also arranged and conducted a new musical, Caterina’s Son, in Florence, Italy. Ms. Riley received her BM from Ithaca College and MM from Arizona State University. She is excited to be working on both Gemini the Musical and Mud Donahue and Son as part of the 2007 NYMF.

As a director, actor and associate director, Mark has gained national recognition working on and off Broadway, in regional theatres across the country and on network television. Recent musicals include the premiere of Disney’s Aida at North Shore Music Theatre, A Little Night Music, Hello, Dolly!, the southwest premier of the new Irving Berlin musical I Love A Piano (Winner Arizona Theatre Award - Best Director), and The Pajama Game (currently running at the Tri-Arts). Recent plays include: True West, Steve Martin’s play The Underpants, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Complete History of America-Abridged, The Complete Works of Williams Shakespeare-Abridged, Scapin, many projects with Shotgun Productions, and the original productions of Jitter, Big Kids, Heroes and Don’t Ask (Winner: Best Director - 2006 NY Fringe Festival). Mark served as Scott Schwartz’ assistant director Off-Broadway on The Castle, coached Kevin Bacon on his Broadway bow in An Almost Holy Picture, assistant directed The House Of Mirth at the A.C.T. and was awarded SDCF Observerships on both the 2001’s smash Broadway revival of The Women (televised on PBS) and on NBC’s series Will & Grace. Member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, First Look at NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program, Theater Resources Unlimited, FirstStage L.A., served two seasons as a managing director of Tanqueray’s American AIDS Bike Rides - the world’s most-lucrative AIDS fundraiser, and is currently the associate producer of the SSDC’s DanceBreak. Honors graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Visit: www.MarkRobinson.net.

is thrilled to be a part of the creative team on Gemini, the Musical. Her inventive use of props and choreography has been featured Off-Broadway in “Torched”, “Cinematastic”, the legendary “Broadway Bares” and in two NYMF 2006 award winning shows “Have a Nice Life” and “Common Grounds”. On Film and Television, Rhonda’s work has appeared in “Love Bites”, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” “The Young & The Restless,” “General Hospital,” and in commercials for Chrysler, Exxon, Toys ‘R Us and USPS. She is honored to have been chosen for the highly respected SSDC Foundation’s “Dance Break” as one of six up and coming Broadway choreographers and is proud to be the first choreographer to be inducted into the Oklahoma City University Hall of Honor.

is now in her 20th year of continuing supervision as the Associate Scenic Designer for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, which became the longest running show in Broadway history in January 2006. She has worked extensively as Production Designer and Show Design Consultant for Walt Disney World and Radio City Entertainment, and has been responsible for the scenic coordination of multiple versions of Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard and Phantom from Broadway to the U.S. and International tours, as well as Madison Square Garden¹s annual mega-musical version of A Christmas Carol. Her work has been featured in the Macy’s Parade, Off-Broadway and in major venues in the US and Canada. Designs for previous NYMF shows include: The Man Who Would Be King, Frankenstein and Tim and Scrooge.

Recent Lighting Design credits include The Lady in Question at Bay Street Theatre and Cymbeline at Chicago Shakespeare. Other NYMF credits include Emma and The Yellow Wood. Philip has spent much of the last 10 years as an Associate Lighting Designer on Broadway. Associate Credits: The Pirate Queen, The Caine Mutiny Court-Marshall, The Odd Couple, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Bombay Dreams, The Graduate, Man of La Mancha, Hairspray, The Crucible, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horry Picture Show, The Music Man, The Civil War, On the Town, and Triumph of Love.

Stuart Howard, Amy Schechter and Paul Hardt have cast hundreds of shows over the past 25 years in the USA, Canada and Great Britain. Among their favorites are: Broadway: Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Chicago (Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Reinking), Sly Fox (Richard Dreyfuss), Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates, Frank Langella) and the original La Cage Aux Folles. Off-Broadway: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and The Normal Heart. They have just completed casting the Broadway-bound Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Whistle Down The Wind. They enjoyed working on last season's NYMF show Have A Nice Life, which won an award for Best Ensemble Cast.

Broadway: “After The Night and the Music” (Manhattan Theater Club) “Show Boat” (Tony nomination --Best Supporting Actor in a Musical)“Steel Pier”(second Tony nomination--Best Supporting Actor in a Musical.) “Music Man” (Marcellus), “Christmas Carol”), “42nd Street” (directed by Gower Champion),“The Debbie Reynolds Show.” Off-Broadway: “Golf-The Musical” (2004 Drama Desk nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical.) “…and the World Goes ‘Round” (tour, as well), “Game Show.” Regional: “Meet John Doe”, (Goodspeed Opera House, Ford’s Theater DC), Feste in “Illyria.” (N. J. Shakespeare Festival), “Tin Pan Alley Rag” (Barrymore Awardâ€"Best Supporting Actor), “Me and My Girl” (Bill), “Singing in the Rain” (Cosmo), “Hot Mikado” (Koko), and “Damn Yankees” (w/ Tony Randall), Pal Joey (w/ Lena Horne.) On television he has been seen on “Ed”, “The Sopranos” and two episodes of “Law and Order”.

Broadway:“Hairspray”(originated Velma Von Tussle), “Anything Goes” (Theatre World Award), “Sid Ceasar on Broadway”, “De Tour” and “Divine Madness” (with Bette Midler) Off Broadway: “Great American Trailer Park Musical”, “Gemini”, “Light Up the Sky” (Drama Logue Award), “Saving Grace”, “Livin Dolls” (Best Actress Award), “Paper Moon”, “A Flea in Her Ear” (Chicago Shakespeare) Film: “Tin Cup”, “A Perfect World”, “Get Shorty”, “The Insider”, “Beautiful”, “Stella”, “Wicked”, “Best of Times”. TV: “Desperate Housewives”, “The Closer”, “Gypsy” (Mazeppa), Alex Haley’s “Queen”, “The Practice”, Series Regular on Fox’s “The Winner”. Linda Has recorded over a dozen gospel albums with her Grammy Award Winning family “The Harts”.

was most recently seen as Marilla in Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer’s “Anne of Green Gables” at the Lucille Lortel. Broadway: debuted starring opposite Robert Preston in “Sly Fox”, co-starred with Jill Eikenberry in “Onward Victoria” and with Charlie Repole in “Whoopee!”, received a Drama Desk Award for her work in “Noises Off” with Dorothy Louden. She co-starred in “Raggedy Ann” directed by Pat Birch and with Richard Kiley in the pre-Broadway tryout “Guilty Conscience”. Off-Broadway: “Iron Curtain” (Hildret), “Olympus On My Mind” (Delores), “Patorale” (Second Stage), “Zero Positive” (Public Theater), “Letter To My Love” by Melissa Manchester, David Ives’ “All In The Timing”, National Tours: “The Boyfriend” (Directed by Julie Andrews), “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” (Mrs. Claus). Regional Theatre favorites: Larry Gatlin’s “Texas Flyer” (Barrymore Award Best Supporting Actress), …”Edwin Drood” (dir. Rob Marshall), “Always Patsy Cline” (dir. Susan Atkinson). Film: “Our Sons” with Julie Andrews, “Serious Money”, “Surprise” (Cannes entry). TV: “Law and Order: CI”, “Growing Pains” (guest star), “Nurses” (guest star).

is thrilled to making his NYC debut in the New York Musical Theatre Festival doing "Gemini: The Musical." He recently graduated from The Boston Conservatory in May. Regional credits include: Is The Life After High School?, A Chorus Line and many productions at the conservatory. He also recently did the W.B.MASON commercial. He would like to thank is family, friends, teachers, Michael Dansicker, Stuart Howard Casting and the fantastic cast and creative team of Gemini.

hails from Pittsburgh, PA and is so excited to be in her first New York show since graduating from Carnegie Mellon this May. Kirsten has spent her summer singing with the Cincinnati Pops conductor, Erich Kunzel, and playing Maggie in A Chorus Line at the West Virginia Public Theater where other credits include, Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Babette in Beauty and the Beast. Favorite roles at CMU include: Daisy in Side Show, Marie in Hello Again, and Christine in Miss Julie. Kirsten would like to thank Geoff and Mark for the opportunity to be in this amazing company. Thanks to God, love to my family, the guys at BRS, and my love, Matt.

is thrilled to be part of Gemini the Musical. New York: Orange (Center Stage) The New Hopeville Comics (45th Street Theater) Man of La Mancha (St. George Theatre), A Burning (The Chernuchin Theatre). Regional: Assassins, Floyd Collins, and The Misanthrope all at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Jonathan is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors Equity. Jonathan would like to thank the entire creative team of Gemini the Musical, his family, and Paul, Nancy, and Liz at H/H.

is stoked to have been given the opportunity to do Gemini The Musical. New York: Florizel in The Winter's Tale Project for FringeNYC. Favorite roles at MC include John in Bash, Jack in Into the Woods, and George Gibbs in Our Town. A big thanks to mom, dad, Kat, Katie for amazing support, Mark, Stewart Howard Casting, and God for blessings and love beyond my understanding.

a native New Yorker, is a recent graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she studied Theatre and Computer Science. She also spent a year studying theatre in Paris, under Jack Garfein, Francois Roy, and Anna Larretta. Lee played Clarisse in Anna Larretta's Mais Ne Te Promene Pas Donc Tout Nue. Her two theatrical loves are stage management and performance. In last years Fringe Festival, she was the stage manager for Don't Ask, directed by Mark Robinson, and 6x5: Le Bonheur a Besion des Temoins. In the 2004 Fringe Festival, she appeared as Sally in A Chicken and It's Breast. Lee can also be seen in director Terry George's feature film Reservation Road, out this November. Lee is so pleased to be working on Gemini: The Musical, in the company of such talented and fun people.

NYC shows include: The Dew Point (Lion Theater), Troilus and Cressida (Walker Space), Operation Ajax (Blackbird), Sides: The Fear is Real (Culture Project), Shivah/Proper (Wax, Fringe), Dark of the Moon (Chashama), and Rhinoceros (Linhart Theater). Duncan is the resident sound designer for SlightlyAskew and the multimedia collaborative VisionIntoArt. He also production managed a national tour of VH1's Best Week Ever Live.

Albert Innaurato and Charles Gilbert are both members of the faculty at The University of the Arts, the nation’s first and only university dedicated to the visual, performing and communication arts. Its 2,300 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs on its campus in the heart of Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts. Its history as a leader in educating creative individuals spans more than 130 years. The UArts School of Theater Arts, currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, offers professional training programs in acting, musical theater, theater design and technology, and theater management and production.