Baby Case (2012)

Eugene Barry-Hill (William Allen)

Eugene's credits include: Broadway's The Lion King (Mufasa), Nat'l Tours of Miss Saigon (John) and The Pointer Sisters Aint' Misbehavin'(Andre) and Jesus Christ Superstar starring Carl Anderson.

Regional: Bruce Hornsby's Broadway bound musical SCKBSTRD.

Off-Broadway: The Magdalene, and 2013 Broadway season will be seen in director Jerry Mitchell's Kinky Boots with a score by Cyndi Lauper.

He is associate producer of the original musical A Taste of Chocolate at Midtown International Theatre Festival July '12.

Love to mom and Tim.

www.chocolate-musical.com

Jason Collins (Wilentz)

Broadway National Tour: Annie (Jimmy Johnson/Morgantha/U.S. Rooster).

Off-Broadway: Amas Musical Theatre:Signs Of Life (Kurt); 2nd Generation: Concert Premier of The Wedding Banquetopposite Anthony Rapp (Sean).

Regional: 2010 NYC Fringe: The Morning After/The Night Before (Rob); Village Theatre: Next To Normal, opposite Amy Spanger (Dan). Prospect: The Blue Flower(Sewing Machine Man); Map Quest(Various male roles).

Collins has also recorded numerous Audio Books for BBC AudioBooks America and Blackstone Audio.

Hannah Elless (Adela St. John)

Broadway/National Tours: Godspell (2011);Mamma Mia! (Sophie u/s, Ensemble)

NYC Theater: V-Day (NYMF), The Giver(NAMT), Beautiful Disaster w/Leslie Kritzer (Joe's Pub), Living for Today (Laurie Beechman Theater) Regional Theater:Private Lives, The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Emperor's New Clothes(Chicago Shakespeare Theater); As Bees in Honey Drown (Mason Street Warehouse); Gertrude McFuzz in Gertrude McFuzz(Fontana Performing Arts); Pickles in The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Linda in Blood Brothers (Farmers Alley Theater); Ophelia in Hamlet (Epic Theater); Aricia inPhaedra (Whole Art Theater)

Readings: Constance in The Three Musketeers (All Ears Theatre); Prilla in The Star Child (NYU/Tisch); Linnet Bird inOscar Wilde At His Best (Rodeo Theatre)

Film: The First Move (InterAct Productions); The Lake Effect (Growing Up, LLC)

B.F.A. Western Michigan University

www.Hannah-Elless.com

Tom Riis Farrell (Dr. John F. Condon)

 

Broadway: Amos Hart in Chicago; Coram Boy; Dirty Blonde (also tour: Helen Hayes Award; Joseph Jefferson Award nomination); Wrong Mountain; 1776.

Off-Broadway: Seth Rudetsky's Disaster!, Al Pacino's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (National Actors' Theatre, dir. Simon McBurney), Li'l Abner (Encores!, dir. Christopher Ashley), Mary Rose(Vineyard, dir. Tina Landau) and The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (Vineyard, dir. Bob McGrath).

Regional: Betty's Summer Vacation (Bay Street, dir. Trip Cullman); Circle Mirror Transformation with Sandy Duncan (George Street, dir. Anders Cato); Rag and Bone (Long Wharf, dir. Tina Landau);Once in a Lifetime (Williamstown, dir. Michael Greif).

TV: five "L&O"s, two "Criminal Intents"; "Blue Bloods"; "The Good Wife"; "Ed"; "Spin City"; "NYPD Blue"; "Fringe"; "Brotherhood".

Film: All Good Things, Tell-Tale, The Rebound, Trust the Man, The Stepford Wives, Almost Famous, The Out-of-Towners, The Devil's Advocate, Sleepless in Seattle, Scent of a Woman

Awaiting release: a minuscule part in the next Jason Bourne movie.

 

Michael Thomas Holmes (Winchell )

Appeared in Broadway's Oklahoma! (Ali Hakim), toured with The Producers (with Jason Alexander & Martin Short), played Nathan Detroit in John Rando's acclaimedGuys and Dolls (Barrington Stage) and was recently Clown 2 in THE 39 STEPS(with Howard McGillin) at the George Street Playhouse.

Michael's appeared twice at The Guthrie in Minneapolis, as Autolycus in The Winter's Tale and as John Adams in 1776.

He received his MFA in Acting from UC Irvine, is a member of The Acting Company, has appeared on "Smash" and "Law & Order" and was Stormtrooper Rolf in The Producers.michaelthomasholmes.com

Anika Larsen (Anne Lindbergh/Anna Hauptmann)

 

Most recently did double duty performing in Prospect Theater Company's Myths and Hymns and Seth Rudetsky's Disaster! the Musical. She has appeared on Broadway inAvenue Q, Xanadu, All Shook Up and Rentand Off-Broadway in Avenue Q, Zanna, Don't!, How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes, and Miracle Brothers.

Anika wrote and performed in the musicalShafrika, The White Girl about her childhood growing up with 9 brothers and sisters from different races and countries.

She majored in theater at Yale and is a proud member of Actor's Equity. Anika is a co-founder of Jaradoa Theater, a company that uses theater to serve the community.

 

Matthew G. Myers (Photographer)

BFA from NYU & CAP21.

Recently performed in the first national tour ofHandel"s Messiah Rocks (Tenor at some performances & Baritone standby), the 2 final pre-Broadway readings for Frank Wildhorn'sWonderland, as well as the world premiers ofFairy Tale: A New Musical (Spuire Everett) & Mae (Mr. Mae West).

Other favorite credits include: 4 years on theJesus Christ Superstar National Tour (Simon Zealot, cover Jesus & Judas), The Rocky Horror Show (Frank-N-Furter), Songs for a New World (Man1), Pirates of Penzance(Frederick), Pippin (Leading Player), Grease(Danny Zuko) and Who's Your Baghdaddy(Nelson). www.MatthewGMyers.com

Patricia Noonan (Betty Gow)

Created the role of Elizabeth Bennett in last year's critically acclaimed production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at NYMF.

Other New York credits include Death Takes a Holiday (Sophia/Roundabout Theatre), Signs of Life (Lorelei), Hurricane(NYMF), and Merrily We Roll Along, Where's Charley, and Girl Crazy all at City Center Encores!

Regional credits include: Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), The Secret Garden(Lily), Carousel (Julie Jordan), Little House on the Prairie (original cast/Guthrie Theatre), Sondheim at 80 (Featured Soloist/Kennedy Center), How to Succeed... (Rosemary), Ragtime (Evelyn Nesbit), and Man of La Mancha (Antonia).

Patricia can be heard as Sophia on the original cast album of Death Takes a Holidayand as Meg on the new cast recording of the James Lapine helmed Merrily We Roll Along coming out this summer!

Will Reynolds (Charles Lindbergh/Bruno Hauptmann)

New York: The Illusion by Tony Kushner (Off B'way, Signature Theater), Seth Rudetsky's Disaster! at The Box, A Wonderful Life (George Bailey) at the Engeman.

Tour: Mamma Mia!

Selected regional: Emma (Frank Churchill) and A Room With a View (Cecil Vyse) at The Old Globe, Big River (Huck) at Goodspeed, Ordinary Days (Jason) at the Adirondack Theater Festival.

Film: The Good Shepherd (dir. Robert De Niro.).

As a writer, Mr. Reynolds was honored to be selected by ASCAP for the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, and his musical The Greenwood Tree (text by Shakespeare) was featured in NYMF '09 and the Kennedy Center's "Page-to-Stage" Festival. Carnegie Mellon graduate.

www.willreynoldsonline.com

Melissa van der Schyff (Violet Sharp)

Broadway: Most recently Melissa originated the role of Blanche Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde for which she received both Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. She made her Broadway debut as Mary Jane in the Tony Nominated Deaf West/Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Big River for which she, along with her castmates, received the 2004 Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre.

Selected regional credits include: Blanche in Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse & Asolo Theatres, dir. Jeff Calhoun, San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress); Catherine in Pippin (Deaf West/Center Theatre Group, dir. Jeff Calhoun); Ginny in Post Office (Kirk Douglas Theatre, dir. Mark Brokaw); Virginia/Clara in An Italian Straw Hat (South Coast Rep.); Yelenka in Zhivago (La Jolla Playhouse, dir. Des McAnuff); Kayla inBallad (Theatre Geo, Ovation Nomination); Mary Jane in Big River (Deaf West, Mark Taper Forum & National Tour).

Film, TV and songwriting credits available on IMDB. www.melissavanderschyff.com

Kurt Zischke (Hearst)

Broadway/Off-Broadway/National Tour:Signs of Life, Whistle Down the Wind, Buddy, Broadway, Barbara's Blue Kitchen, a Doll's House Antigone, the Beaux' Strategem, Three Sisters, the Cincinnati Saint, Awoke One, Ulysses in Nighttown.

Regional: A Room with a View, Race, We are Here, Wrecks, Julius Caesar, White People, the Tempest, Sylvia, Eelwax Jesus 3D Music Show, Galileo, The Overwhelming, Emma, Jam & Spice, the Ladies Man, S. Holmes & the W.E. Horror, the Underpants, 1776, My fair Lady, Camelot, Long Day's Journey into Night, Born Yesterday, King Lear, Richard III, Stand by Your Man, Fugitive Kind, Light up thte Sky, Harmony, Company, the Prince & the Pauper, 12th Night, the ThreePenny Opera.

Television & Film: Law & Order: CI "Sound Bodies" (as Rob Miller), All My Children (as Peter Parmenter)

Michael Ogborn (Book, Music & Lyrics)

Michael Ogborn was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, and currently makes his home in New York City. A graduate of DeSales University,he made his Off-Broadway debut in 1993 with the critically acclaimed musical revue Box Office of the Damned, featuring then “new-comer” Kristen Chenoweth. He has worked steadily in the professional theater for the past twenty years composing original musicals, cabaret revues, song cycles and special material. His work has been produced at the Arden Theatre Company, People’s Light & Theater Company, The Wilma Theater, and 1812 Productions in Philadelphia, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC; City Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA; Horizon Theater, Atlanta, GA; Diversionary Theater in San Diego, CA; Theater LaB, Houston, TX and Radio City Music Hall, in New York City. Some career highlights and awards include the World Premier productions of Baby Case and Café Puttanesca at the Arden Theatre Company under the direction of Terry Nolen; creating special material for the legendary Radio City Rockettes, and receiving first prize for piano composition in the Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition. As a “Piano Man”, he received Philadelphia Magazine’s 1992 “Best of Philly” Award for Cabaret Performer, a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award in 1993 for the PBS music video “Soldiers in the Sky” and in 2003, the “Harrington Award” for outstanding creative achievement given by BMI Musical Theater Workshop. In 2002, his musical fantasia Baby Case, won four Barrymore Awards, including  Best Musical.

Jeremy Dobrish (Director)

EREMY DOBRISH (Director) recently helmed JUDAS AND ME (NYMF), SPAIN (MCC) and ELECTION DAY(Second Stage). Regional credits include Barrington Stage, Goodspeed, Hangar, North Shore, NY Stage and Film, O'Neill, Village. For Theatreworks USA he wrote and directed CURIOUS GEORGE and directed PAUL REVERE. Festival credits include Fringe NYC, NYMF, SPF. Jeremy has served as an Artistic Associate at Second Stage, and was the Artistic Director of adobe theatre company for 13 years, for which he has written and/or directed over twenty plays. Jeremy's plays include NOTIONS IN MOTION, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN, BLINK OF AN EYE, SUPERPOWERS, ORPHEUS & EURYDICE (all adobe) and EIGHT DAYS (BACKWARDS) (Vineyard). He lives in Maplewood with his wife Beth and daughters Clea and Quinn. 

Warren Adams (Choreographer)

His work has been presented ay 2econd Stage, South Coast Rep, Teatro du Municipal Sao Paulo, Theatre for a New Audience, The Intiman, The Geffen and The Joyce.

Recent highlights include the Pulitzer Prize winning plays "HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE" and "RUINED". The Opera "MAGDALENA" at the Teatre du Chatelet in Paris, "TOY STORY THE MUSICAL" for Disney and Nora Ephron's film "JULIE AND JULIA".

His upcoming work includes Directing/Choreographing "ENVIRONMENT KIDS" the Musical.

Adams was also apart of the team that launched Hong Kong Disney in 2005. He was the Associate Choreographer for "THE LION KING" and created "THE WORLD DRUMMERS" show. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at NYU and Princeton University in the Theatre Department.

Charlie Fink (Producer)

Charlie Fink the founder and artistic director of the not-for-profit New Musical Development Foundation, which supports the development of new musicals underwriting and producing readings and workshop productions. This summer he is proud to be producing Michael Ogborn's Barrymore award winning Best Musical, "Baby Case", at the New York Musical Festival. Last year, Charlie's production of Marshall Pailet and AD Penedo's new musical "Who's Your Baghdaddy or How I Started the Iraq War" won Best Show in the 2011 DC Capital Fringe Festival. Other new musicals include "F#@king Up Everything" (NYMF 09, DC 11), "Super Claudio Bros." (Best Musical, 2010 DC Fringe) and Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue.