Shine! The Horatio Alger Musical (2010)

Andy‘s credits: New York debut! Previously: Spring Awakening (Hanschen, original touring company, dir. Michael Mayer), Academy at the Daegu International Musical Festival in South Korea (dir. John Carrafa), Big River (Huck, Music Theater of Wichita). Training from the University of Michigan. Thanks to NYMF, the Shine! team, and Harden-Curtis Associates.

Michael is happy to back at NYMF, where he was seen last year as Gentleman Joe Sullivan in Seeing Stars. Other NYMF: John Doe in Meet John Doe.Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities (Gaspard); The Pajama Game (Cyrus; u/s Harry Connick Jr.), Roundabout Theatre Company; The Boy From Oz (Standby for Hugh Jackman); In MyLife (Nick); The Scarlet Pimpernel. NYC Opera’s Candide. National Tours: Les Miserables (Enjolras); The Full Monty (Teddy Slaughter). Other Tours: Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Atlanta TOTS. B.A. U of M.

Meggie has been seen on Broadway in The Apple Tree, Finian's Rainbow, andWicked. She was also the Galinda understudy for the first national tour. Regional favorites include: Penny in Hairspray and Ariel in Footloose (MUNY) and Ruby inDames at Sea (American Heartland Theatre). She has a BFA from CCM and thrilled to be apart of Shine! for NYMF!

William's credits include Broadway: Guys and Dolls, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Seussical, High Society, How To Succeed…, Grand Hotel, Whorehouse Goes Public, Me and My Girl, Amadeus, Chess (in concert). NYC Opera: The Most Happy Fella. National Tours: Phantom, Some Like It Hot, On Your Toes, Grand Hotel, South Pacific, Evita, My One and Only. Television: "One Life To Live", "Another World", "Oz", "The Rosie O’Donnell Show", 1987, 1990, 1995, and 2009 "Tony Awards". Film: Jimmy in Charlie Kaufman’s "Synecdoche, New York". www.williamryall.com

Jimmy is a founding member of the national cult hit The Nuclear Family, as well as TV's "The Extended Family" on the Sundance Film Channel. Theatre includes Mark in White’s Lies w/ Betty Buckley, Sohovik in the Encores’ revival of Damn Yankees w/ Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski, with work at the Kennedy Center, the McCarter, NYTW, The York, The Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, ILLYRIA w/ Prospect and Fully Committed all over. A member of the Dramatist Guild of America, current projects are the interactive Walker In Babylon and a new book for 1930’s Fine And Dandy. Winner, 2005 World Domination Improv Tournament. Loser, 2006.

Stanton's Chicago credits include: Wicked (Ford Center for the Performing Arts);Huck Finn (Steppenwolf); The Wood Demon (Library Theater); Madame X(Chicago Center for the Performing Arts). Regional credits include: Take Flight(McCarter Theatre); The Cherry Orchard, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Comedy of Errors (Georgia Shakespeare); The Last 5 Years (Twin Cities Theater Company). Training: Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota BFA Actor Training Program.

Philip recently appeared opposite Kate Baldwin and Rebecca Luker in the Library of Congress's 75th anniversary concert of the Harold Arlen-Ira Gershwin-Yip Harburg musical Life Begins at 8:40. Philip made his Broadway debut in the world premiere of Alan Menken and Tim Rice’s King David, and has since appeared in dozens of New York concerts, including Encores! and Lyrics & Lyricists. He has released three solo albums: Where Do I Go From You?, which recreated the sounds of the big-band era; Warm Spring Night, which took on eighty years of romantic Broadway song; and the recent When the Wind Blows South, hailed by Playbill as one of the top albums of the year. Philip runs the record label PS Classics, honored with four Grammy nominations, for its cast recordings of Nine: The Musical, Assassins, Grey Gardens and Company; recent releases include the Broadway cast albums of A Little Night Music, Sondheim on Sondheim and La Cage aux Folles.

Tyler is thrilled to be part of this production. Theatre credits include Afterlight(NY Fringe Festival), Tusk! Tusk! reading (Manhattan Theatre Club), and numerousother productions. On television Tyler played the role of Joan Rivers grandson on ZRock.Special thanks to Nancy Carson, Robert Marks and Jen Rudin, and love to his family and friends!

Dan is thrilled to be a part of Shine!. Off-Broadway: With Glee (Prospect Theatre Company) Pinkalicious, The Musical (Bleecker Street Theater), With Glee (’07 NYMF). New York: Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up (The Producers Club), Lit and Messy and Not at all Ashamed, The Golden Apple, andThe Magic Flute (NYU). Regional: Sweeney Todd (Cohoes Music Hall), The Odyssey: An Epic Musical (The Kitchen Theatre).Other credits include Die Fledermaus, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Seussical the Musical and The Merry Widow. Training: BM Ithaca College, MM New York University.

Kathy's credits include Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities, The Music Man (Widow Paroo), The Night of the Tribades. Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance,Indian Blood, Echoes of War, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Dear Liar, The Baccae, Enter A Free Man, The Perry Mission. Old Globe San Diego, Associate Artist: Memoir, The Rivals, Romeo and Juliet, Shirley Valentine,Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Hamlet. TV: “Fraiser”, “Cheers”, “Hill Street Blues”, “General Hospital”, “Trying Times”, “Wonder Works”, and “Scandal in a Small Town”.

Joy's credits incude Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Cyrano, Candide, Christmas Carol, Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Boheme, numerous Encores! Favorite regional: Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett), Gypsy (Rose), Into the Woods (Witch),Annie Get Your Gun (Annie). Recent: Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’ new musical Kristinaat the Royal Albert Hall, London. Opera from Anchorage to Lincoln Center to Spoleto to Tulsa. Joy is a Voice Professor at Kean University in NJ and maintains a private voice studio. Love to my Maxine, who makes it all worthwhile.

Evan is thrilled to return to NYMF in Shine! The Horatio Alger Musical. A graduate of CAP 21, previous credits include: Broadway: Les Miserables; Paul Simon's The Capeman; A Christmas Carol. Nat'l Tour: Beauty and the Beast; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Regional: Nine(Papermill Playhouse). Readings/Workshops: A Musical Fantasia on Piratical Themes; Tully (in no particular order); Radiant Baby; The Other Lincoln. His song cycle, Wherever You Go, There You Are was featured by the New York Theatre Barn on September 27th. Watch www.evanjaynewman.com for updates! Proud member of AEA.

Melissa's credits include New York: Bonnie and Clyde, a Folktale by Hunter Foster and Rick Crom At NYMF, Babes in Arms and Tenderloin at Encores!; Time and Again at Manhattan Theeatre Club and Pacific 1860 at The York. Tv Law & Order: SUV (Guest Star), Lipstick Jungle (Guest Star). National Tour: South Pacific. Cast recordings include Babes in Arms, Tenderloin Encores! Of Encoresand A Richard Rodgers Centennial Celebration. Melissarainanderson.com

Cheo is thrilled to make his NYC debut with NYMF and Shine!. He recently appeared in a reading of Shawn Cody’s The Water Dream at Shetler Studios. Cheo has performed regionally in Boston in Hot Mikado, Cabaret, Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm (New Repertory Theatre); Harriet Jacobs (Underground Railway Theater); Jerry Springer The Opera (SpeakEasy Stage); HONK!(Wheelock Family Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.). He has studied acting at Connecticut College and the British American Drama Academy.

Rachel is pleased to be making her third appearance at NYMF! Her favorite B'way roles: SoupySue in Urinetown, and Rivka/Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof.Other B'way credits: The Baroness in Candide, directed by Hal Prince and Lestat.Rachel's off-B'way credits include Flossie in the Encores production of On The Town, and Mrs. Einsford-Hill in My Fair Lady, with The New York Philharmonic and Binnie Chester in Tip-Toes, at Carnegie Hall. Regional roles: Yente, in Fiddler on The Roof, at The Fulton Opera, Kate Jerome, in Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Emelin Theatre, Morgan LeFey in Camelot, at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Doris, in The Bandwagon, at The Old Globe, and Mother in Enter Laughing, at The York Theatre.

Todd was most recently seen in Take Flight at the McCarter Theater, Ragtime at Portland Center Stage, and in 1776 at the Papermill Playhouse. He made his Broadway debut in Urinetown in 2003 and has toured with Urinetown andVictor/Victoria. New York credits include Encores productions of Of Thee I Singand Face the Music along with workshops of 110 in the Shade with Audra McDonald and Leap of Faith with Raul Esparza. Regional credits include The Full Monty at Pittsburgh CLO, Les Miz at North Shore, and Guys and Dolls at Portland Center Stage. BFA in Music Theater from Elon University and MFA in Music Theater from UNLV. Numerous commercials and voiceovers for HBO, MTV. MTV2, and Nick Jr. Proud member of AEA and SAG.

Jason was last seen as thePhantom in the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera and in the Broadway cast where he understudied both the Phantom and Raoul. Forbidden Broadway: SVU (also cast recording), South Pacific (Carnegie Hall), Pardon My English and The New Moon (City Center Encores!), and the new musicals Lonely Rhymes, Illyria, and The Taxi Cabaret. Degree in biology from Harvard University. Love and thanks to Jordanna and the Mills Family.

Robert is happy to be back at NYMF after appearing in last year's Seeing Stars. Since then, he has been performing in New Jersey at The Growing Stage Theatre and Tri-State Actors Theater. A graduate of the Catholic University of America, his DC credits include The Kennedy Center's Broadway: Three Generations directed by Lonny Price and Signature Theatre'sThe Visitdirected by Frank Galati (part of Signature's Tony Award-winning season).

Jessica is thrilled to be a part of Shine!. She just returned from London's Royal Albert Hall, where she was featured in the new ABBA musical Kristina (also performed and recorded in concert this past September at Carnegie Hall). Other credits include Five Course Love at the Geva Theatre Center, Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical, To Carry On: The Music of Laura Nyro and PUNK at the York Theatre.

came to NYC as a teenager from Louisiana in the mid-1970s to study voice, composition and theatre. He has been fortunate enough to collaborate with several legendary talents, including Michael Smuin, Joe Layton, Wally Harper, Tony Walton, Vivian Matalon and Hal Prince. In 1980 he was paired with lyricist Lee Goldsmith, more than 30 years his senior, to write the score for Shine! a musical about a bootblack. He then composed music for the Carbonell Award-winning Chaplin, written with mentors Goldsmith and Emmy award-winning writer Ernest Kinoy, followed by Quality Street which was developed by Musical Theater Works in the 1990s. Recent projects include Ladykiller with playwright Chuck Blasius and Flying Tigers with playwright William Luce. His latest musical, Abe, premiered in 2009 and is recommended by the President’s Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and published by Samuel French. More at www.rogerandersonmusic.com

enjoyed an early career with National Comics scripting stories for The Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and The Flash. He adapted several projects for the stage, writing book and lyrics. These include Come Back Little Sheba (based on William Inge's play) with music by Clint Ballard, Golddiggers of 1633 (based on School for Wives) with music by Larry Hurwit.  His ground-breaking musical Sextet opened on Broadway in 1974.  Other projects include Quality Street (based on the J. M. Barrie play) Ladykiller (inspired by works of Cornell Woolrich) and Shine! The Horatio Alger Musical. Most recently, he completed book and lyrics for Abe, a large-scale musical based on the life of Abraham Lincoln before he was elected President. Lee, a native New Yorker, currently resides in Miami.

has spent a lifetime in the theatrical jungle as actor, playwright, columnist and critic, agent, librettist, investor and now memoirist. He first acted professionally in 1946 and his last engagement was in 2009. He took a 22 year leave of absence from the stage to become an agent, after a long run on Broadway in support of Claude Rains and on tour with Edward G. Robinson in the prize winning Darkness At Noon. During those 22 years he was an agent representing artists in the musical theatre on Broadway. He left the agency in 1974 at the height of his career to return to the stage. He is the author of Paris is Out! which brightened Broadway in the 1970s, The Whole Ninth Floor which was published in 2009, and the book to this musical. He currently writes the New York Theatre Buzz column for www.dctheatrescene.com. More at www.richardseff.com

is Artistic Director of The Hangar Theatre (Ithaca).  As a director, he staged the star-studded Broadway concerts of "On the Twentieth Century" (Douglas Sills, Marin Mazzie, & Joanne Worley); “Chess” (Josh Groban); and “Funny Girl” (Whoopi Goldberg, Bebe Neuwirth, & Peter Gallagher, among others). Off- Broadway includes “Henry & Mudge" and "Junie B. Jones” (two Lortel Award nominations including Best Musical), and the award-winning “Rhapsody in Seth”.  Other NYC credits include "Two Rooms"; "Broadway Musicals of 1953"; “Babes in Toyland”, and the premiere of the opera "Romulus".  Regional directing credits include "Gypsy" (Karen Mason - St. Louis MUNY); "Man of LaMancha"  (Carbonell Award winner for Best Director & Best Musical); “The Crucible”; "The Piano Lesson"; “The Santaland Diaries” and “Kiss Me, Kate!”.  www.hangartheatre.org

directed & choreographed the hit “Zanna, Don’t”! (Lortel, Callaway, & GLAAD Media Awards). Other NYC shows are: “Junie B. Jones” (Lortel nominations), “Cupid & Psyche”, “Henry & Mudge” (Lortel nomination), and John Patrick Shanley’s “Romantic Poetry” (MTC). Broadway concerts: director of “Hair” (all-star cast, featuring Jennifer Hudson), choreographer of “Funny Girl” (16 Fanny Brices, including Whoopi Goldberg, Bebe Neuwirth, & Jane Krakowski); associate for “Dreamgirls” and “Seth Rudetsky’s Broadway 101”. Lincoln Center: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Babes in Toyland, Anything Goes in Concert (assoc.). Some other credits are: “Barrio Grrrl!” (Helen Hayes nomination, Kennedy Center); the regional premiere of “Rent”;  “Disney’s Aladdin”; Andrew Lippa’s “Asphalt Beach”, “Man of La Mancha”; “The Full Monty”; numerous industrials and nine years as an Artistic Associate for Broadway Bares. www.devanandjanki.com

Conducting credits include Broadway's The Little Mermaid (Associate Musical Director), the First National tour of The Lion King (Associate Musical Director), Wonderland (Conductor, Additional Arrangements) at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and Houston Alley Theatre, and Tony Kushner's Brundibar (Musical Director) at the New Victory Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre.  Greg was the original Keyboard 1 player for the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line and is a frequent pianist with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall.  As an orchestrator, he has provided the orchestrations to the musicals Abe, Shine!, We Tell The Story: The Songs of Flaherty and Ahrens (Cincinnati Conservatory), and Ace (Signature Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse). He also provided additional orchestrations to First You Dream: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Signature Theatre). Greg's concert orchestrations are played by orchestras throughout the US, including the Boston, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Baltimore Pops orchestras. He received his Masters degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. www.greganthonymusic.com

was the Musical Director for the tour of "Mary Poppins" and Associate Conductor on Broadway for "Les Miserables", "Frogs"," Pal Joey", "Phantom of the Opera", and "Into the Woods"; as well as Assistant Conductor for the National tours of "Kiss Me, Kate", and Musical Director/Conductor of "Miss Saigon" and "Aspects of Love". Her keyboard skills have been captured on several Tony and Grammy-nominated cast albums. Her resume reflects venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Studio 54, London's Royal Albert Hall, and Lincoln Center and stars such as Vanessa Williams, Nathan Lane, and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA).

Michael Bottari & Ronald Case created designs for the South African "Hairspray". They were nominated for a Drama Desk, Outer Critics, & American Theatre Wing Awards, and won the Lucille Lortel for Costume Design for "Die Mommie Die". They were nominated for the Drama Desk and won best Set and Costume Design (Dean's List) for "Fanny Hill". They won the Lucille Lortel and were nominated for the Drama Desk for costumes for "Shanghai Moon". For the critically acclaimed feature film of "Die Mommie Die" they won a Sundance and several film awards. Their costumes for Busch are also featured in the documentary "Lady In Questions Is Charles Busch".

Ronald Case and Michael Bottari have been a design team for over 40 years, having designed both sets and costumes for Broadway: "State Fair" (David Merrick's last Broadway show), "Prince Of Central Park", and Marc Shaiman's "Prop 8, The Musical". Off-Broadway: "Little Me", "Carnival!", "Opal", "Man Who Shot Lincoln", etc. National tours: "I Do! I Do!" (Lucie Arnaz), "Camelot" (Richard Harris), "Man Of La Mancha" (John Raitt, Jack Jones) world tour of "My Fair Lady" (Noel Harrison), 25th Anniversary Tour of "The King And I" (Yul Brynner), "Al Jolson, Tonight"(Larry Kert), "A Funny Thing... Forum" (Mickey Rooney), "Showboat" (Shirley Jones) naming a few. Some regional credits include costumes for the now legendary Betty Buckley "Gypsy" (PaperMill), the hit revival of "Dames At Sea" winning numerous awards for their sets, costumes (San Francisco, Goodspeed Opera House), "Cabaret" (Walnut Street Theatre) Barrymore Award for Best Costume Design, and many years at Starlight Musicals (Indianapolis) and Burt Reynolds' Theatre (Carbonell Awards). They have designed clothes for such celebrities as Lorna Luft, Deborah Gibson, Andrea McArdle, Donna McKechnie, Susan Egan, Janis Paige, Nannette Fabray, Van Johnson, John Davidson, Laurence Luckinbill, B.D.Wong, among others. They have designed the last three national tours of "Fiddler On The Roof" with Theo Bikel, two premiere ballets for American Ballet Theatre.

is Artistic Director of Other Side Productions, a NYC nonprofit Off-Off Broadway theatre company devoted to developing and producing original plays and musicals. Past productions include Andrew Reaches the Other Side, Yesterday's News, We Were There, Red & Tan Line, Two Spoons, and this year's Accidentally, Like a Martyr at The Wild Project.

Co-Artistic Director of Other Side Productions with Peter Mercurio.  Also a director and playwright, his produced works include Lonely Too Long (Sanford Meisner Theatre) and We Were There (Bank Street Theatre).  As an actor, he most recently appeared in Accidentally, Like a Martyr, a new play at The Wild Project.

KPM ASSOCIATES has a varied background in public relations, casting and management, including DAME EDNA: THE ROYAL TOUR, Moisés Kaufman and the award-winning GROSS INDENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE and THE LARAMIE PROJECT, Gurney’s SYLVIA and Jon Maran's THE TEMPERAMENTALS.

LAURA STANCZYK CASTING credits include the recent Broadway production of RAGTIME, Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I, IMPRESSIONISM, the US premiere of DIRTY DANCING, Ahrens and Flaherty's THE GLORIOUS ONES at Lincoln Center, DAMN YANKEES at City Center Encores, and the Broadway productions of RADIO GOLF, THE SEAFARER, and CORAM BOY.

Started in 2008 as a partnership between Laura Janik Cronin and Scott Newsome, Brierpatch Productions provides management for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical productions and tours. Current projects include Tales From the Tunnel (Off-Broadway), Enchanted April - the Musical, Wallenberg - the Musical, Get Got - A Rock Musical, a Broadway revival of Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens (spring 2011), and additional productions of Rest, In Pieces (Premiered summer 2009 starring Marcia Wallace).  Previous productions include The Toymaker and Marrying Meg for New York Musical Festival 2009, the new musicals The Frog Kiss, Shine! and Bloodties (2010 NYMF) and Tokio Confidential, and the 2008-2009 run of Glimpses of the Moon at the Algonquin’s Oak Room.