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THE CAST

	KELLY FELTHOUS (Ruby). New York credits: Seussical, Urinetown, Bat Boy, Starmites, Cabaret, Goddess Wheel.   Regional credits: lead roles in Singin’ in the Rain, 42nd Street, Dames at Sea, Peter Pan, Li’l Abner, Once Upon a Mattress and many others. Kelly also appeared in the national tour of The Sound of Music and the American premiere of Broadway’s Jane Eyre.  NYU:CAP21. Proud member of AEA.  Thanks to Theatreworks and Larkin, Charns and Mommy for all their love and support!
	LEE MARKHAM (Max) has been performing for over 17 years. He recently completed the eastern tour of Max and Ruby (Max) and currently has radio commercials for Truck Longer playing on Sirius Radio as Dewey. He was recently in the national tour of Sex Signals and in the New York Musical Theater Festival last year in Angels (Dasher). He would like to thank Theatreworks USA, his parents, his friends and Amber for all their support.
	JONATHAN MONK (Gracie/Alien Green Gorilla) is happy to return to the city after playing Posner in the American regional premiere of History Boys at St. Louis Rep. Off-Broadway: Junie B. Jones, Cam Jansen, Like You Like It. Other NYC credits include Millicent Scowlworthy at Theatre Row’s Summer Play Festival and The Red Box at Walkerspace. He is probably best known as Wally the crunching stockboy in a commercial for Kellogg’s cereal. B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon. AEA & SAG member. For Anya and CJS.
	AMELIA MORGAN-ROTHSCHILD (Valerie/Sally Swims-a-Lot, Understudy for Grandma). Off-Broadway: Seussical (Mrs. Mayor/Bird Girl), Lucille Lortel.  Tour:Seussical (original cast). Regional: Sisters of Swing (Patty Andrews), Dames at Sea (Ruby), Hello Dolly (Minnie Fay). B.F.A.: NYU. Thanks to mom, dad and Theatreworks USA!
	KARLA MOSLEY (Louise/Glow-in-the-Dark Eel) graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in drama and a concentration in Community Based Art. She can currently be seen every weekday morning on TLC’s Emmy-nominated children’s show “Hi-5.” Karla just returned from TUTS in Houston where she played Deena Jones in Dreamgirls. Thanks to Theatreworks for all the fun and, always, to her family for their love. www.karlamosley.com. Happy Holidays!
	NANCY SLUSSER (Grandma/Lobster Balladeer). Off-Broadway/national tours: Menopause the Musical, all four roles/dance captain; Warrior; Bonnie and Clyde 2005/2006 NYMF; Kay, Nite Club Confidential; Angel, Best Little Whorehouse...; Lady Jane in Rose Marie.  Jeff Awards: Sweeney Todd; Jesus Christ Superstar. Soundtracks: RoseMarie; Joan; Rasputin. Toured the world with solo cabaret act and performed improv in Japan (in Japanese!).  Numerous commercials, voiceovers and children’s recordings. Proud AEA member since 1989! Love to my husband Louis Tucci.
	REN CASEY (u/s Max, Gracie/Alien Green Gorilla) holds a B.F.A. in theatre from NYU Tisch. Recent credits include roles on “George Lopez” and “Criminal Minds,” and a supporting role in the recent FOX feature film The Comebacks.
	MICHELLE CZEPYHA (u/s Ruby, Louise, Valerie) was recently seen playing Ruby in the national tour of Max & Ruby! Favorite credits: Pinkalicious (Off-Broadway), Alice in Wonderland and Huck Finn (national tours). Michelle holds a B.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Kentucky. Many thanks to my family and Scott for their love. Proud member of AEA.

 

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

CAROL HALL (Music, Lyrics). The first song Carol Hall ever wrote for a child was “Jenny Rebecca,” a gift for a friend who had just had a baby. It was immediately recorded by a young up-and-coming singer named Barbra Streisand. For the next ten years Hall was a mainstay contributor to “Sesame Street,” and was a major contributor to Marlo Thomas’ landmark children’s classic “Free to Be...You and Me” (Emmy and gold album), and to its sequel “Free to Be...A Family.”   She also contributed to Thomas’recent book and Grammy Award-winning CD “Thanks & Giving/All Year Long” and created songs for Disney’s Dumbo II. In 2003 she won the MAC Song of the Year Award for “I Dream in Technicolor”. One of the few theatre people to write both music and lyrics, Carol Hall received two Drama Desk Awards for her score to the popular Broadway hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, aGrammy nomination for the cast album and an ASCAP Most Performed Country Song Award for Dolly Parton’s recording of “Hard Candy Christmas” from the film. Other stage work includes the Off-Broadway musical To Whom It May Concern, individual songs for A...My Name Is Alice, A...My Name is Still Alice and a recently premiered musical, Hats.  Hall has received two Back Stage Bistro awards, MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) Awards and the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award, given for her contribution to American popular song. Besides Streisand, other artists who have performed her songs are Olivia Newton-John, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Ann-Margret, Chita Rivera, RuPaul, Frederica von Stade and Big Bird.

GLEN BERGER (Book). Glen’sGreat Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22 won the 1998 Ovation Award for Best Play as well as the A.S.K. Playwriting Award. His Underneath the Lintel ran Off-Broadway for over 15 months, and the Los Angeles production won the Ovation Award for Best Play. His O Lovely Glowworm won the 2005 Portland Drammy Award for Best Script. He was a recipient of a Children’s Theater Company/New Dramatists Playground commission, as well as a Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation Grant, with which he wrote the musical On Words and Onwards (workshopped at the 2001 A.S.K. Theater Projects Writers Retreat). Mr. Berger has also written the book and lyrics to A Night in the Old Marketplace, a musical that received a National Foundation for Jewish Culture grant and the 2004 Frederick Loewe Award. He was nominated for three Emmys for his workon the PBS children’s series “Arthur” and “Postcards from Buster.” He has also written episodes of WGBH’s “Time Warp Trio” and “Peep,” and is the head writer for “Fetch,” which debuted on PBS in June, 2006.

RANDY WHITE (Director) is the artistic director of Cardinal Stage Company in Bloomington, IN. Directing credits include Amadeus, A Year with Frog and Toad, Our Town (Cardinal Stage), Pygmalion (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), O Lovely Glowworm (Portland Center Stage), Underneath the Lintel and On Words and Onwards (New Musical Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club), Gogol’s The Government Inspector (Fordham University), Kirsten Greenidge’s Proclivities (Guthrie Theatre B.F.A.) and Sans-culottes in the Promised Land (Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville), Carson Kreitzer’s Self Defense (New Georges), Joe Fisher’s Thunderbird (Cherry Lane Theatre), Dan Dietz’s Temp Odyssey (Beckett Theatre), Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Yale Dramatic Association) and Sweeney Todd (Penn), Lyubimov’sThe Dawns Are Quiet Here(Harborfront, Toronto), West Side Story,Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Show Boat, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1776 and Romeo and Juliet. Randy was associate on David Edgar’s Continental Divide (Oregon Shakes, Berkeley Rep, London’s Barbican) and an assistant on Disney’s The Lion King. Randy has directed and/or taught for Fordham, NYU Tisch, The University of Alberta and AMDA. Randy was also a resident director at New Dramatists for two years.

TRACY BERSLEY (Choreographer). New plays (directing): The House on Mango Street (Syracuse Univ.), Tibet:Through the Red Box (HERE Theatre, NYC), Rappaccini’s Daughter (Octopus Ensemble/Jim Henson Festival). Other plays: Macbeth (Syracuse Stage), Antigone (Eidolon Arts, Princeton), The Lord of the Flies (McCarter Theatre First Stage Co.), remount of Daniel Fish’s Twelfth Night (The Juilliard School), Much Ado About Nothing (Arcadia Shakespeare, Philadelphia), Blood Wedding (Provincetown Playhouse, NYU), Alice in Wonderland, Measure for Measure and The Green Bird (Purchase Repertory Theatre), Bacchae (Loft Theatre).  Musicals: Once on this Island (Syracuse Univ.), The Secret Garden (College Light Opera Co., Cape Cod). Choreography: Pericles and The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theater), Romeo & Juliet (Williamstown), St. Joan of the Stockyards (P.S.122), Jane Eyre (The Acting Company), The Civil War and The Giver (Theatreworks USA). M.F.A. in directing, Syracuse University; faculty at Princeton University; Drama League Fellow.

LOUISA THOMPSON (Set Designer)  Credits include the set for the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of [sic] (Obie and Hewes awards) at Soho Repertory Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include Manic Flight Reaction(Playwrights Horizons); Fat Pig,The Distance from Here (MCC Theater);21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com (Play all Day Productions); and The Roaring Girle (The Foundry Theatre Company). M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.  Currently an Associate Professor at Hunter College New York. 

JUNGHYUN GEORGIA LEE (Costume Designer). Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos (Seongnam Arts Center, Korea). New York: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Second Stage, The Juilliard School. Regional: Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Rep, American Players Theatre, Indiana Rep, Center Stage, Syracuse Stage. Training: Yale School of Drama (M.F.A.).

TYLER MICOLEAU(Lighting Designer).   Recent New York credits: The Screwtape Letters (Theatre at St. Clement’s); 1001 (P73); God’s Ear (New Georges); Gutenberg The Musical! (Actors’ Playhouse); A Very Common Procedure( MCC); The Attic (Play Company); Widowers’ Houses (Epic Theatre Center); Return of the Prodigal (Mint Theater).  Regional credits: Trinity Rep, Wilma, Delaware, NJ Shakespeare, Prince Music Theater, Hangar, Syracuse Stage, Portland Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Long Wharf. Awards: Lucille Lortel, Obie (for Bug, Barrow Street Theatre).

ERIC SHIM (Sound Designer)  Theatreworks USA: Seussical; Anne of Green Gables; Henry and Mudge; Great Expectations; If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; Sarah, Plain and Tall; A Christmas Carol; Junie B. Jones; Walk Two Moons;The Summer of The Swans;Romeo and Juliet. Other recent projects include Fuerzabruta (Daryl Roth); Rag and Bone (Ratttlestick); Ghosts and Joe Turner’s Comeand Gone (Juilliard); The Breach (Southern Rep); Los Angeles (Flea); Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons, 2007 Lortel Award nominee).

B.D. WHITE (Technical Coordinator). B.D. has worked in NYC since 1993. Previous credits include Broadway: Frozen. Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company, MCC Theater, The Culture Project, The Working Theater, The Play Company, Womens Project & Productions, New York Stage & Film and the Melting Pot Theatre.

JEFF DAVOLT (Production Stage Manager). Recent Stage Management: Marathon 2007 (EST), Seth’s Broadway 101 (Actors Fund/New World Stages), TW/USA Benefit/Gala (Rainbow Room). Off-Broadway: Lucy (EST), The Star Spangled Girl (Playwrights Horizons), My Wandering Boy (SPF NYC), Terrible Infant (NYFringe), Henry and Mudge and Junie B. Jones (Lortel, TW/USA). Regional opera: The Soldier’s Tale (Boston/Philadelphia), HMS Pinafore (KC Opera). As a Director: Off-Broadway premiere of Suicide-Anyone? (45th Street Theatre), Max and Ruby (national tours), Star Collector (American Playwrights). Graduate: University of Missouri-Columbia. Member: AEA/SMA/SSDC. 

DAVE HAB (Orchestrations) is an award-winning composer and arranger who has been based in New York City for the past 15 years. He has written and arranged music for numerous theatre productions, corporate shows, commercials and record projects.  Other recent Theatreworks projects include orchestrations for The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Anne of Green Gables.

ARIA ARTS CONSULTING/ERIN PAUAHI AUERBACH (Marketing) provides theatrical marketing, fundraising services and business management solutions for performing arts companies and non-profit entities, specializing in organizations that serve children and families. Client roster: Brooklyn Music School, Children’s PressLine, Daryl Roth Productions, Dicapo Opera Theatre, Friends of the Children New York, HC Music, Theatreworks USA. Off-Broadway credits: Celia, A Dolphin up a Tree, Funkey Monkeys, Seussical, Anne of Green Gables.

THE LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE FOUNDATION was created in 1998 by Lucille Lortel. She granted the historic theatre bearing her name to the Foundation to continue her legacy of promoting excellent work long into the future without the economic burdens normally associated with theatre space. The Foundation therefore makes the Lortel Theatre available to not-for-profit organizations at a subsidized cost. Currently, the Lucille Lortel Theatre is home to two resident theatre companies, MCC and Theatreworks USA, and has hosted dozens of other companies. The Lortel is also made

available to community groups for meetings and other events. For the calendar of all upcoming activities, a history of the theatre and more please visit www.lortel.org.