CAST

	BADIA FARHA (Dawn) is elated to be working on this production of We the People.  A native of New Jersey, Badia received her M.A. from NYU in Music Performance.  Some credits include: Lincoln Center’s A Tribute to Alan Menken, 1st National Broadway tour of Little Shop of Horrors, the International/ National tour of Rent, Things to Ruin, and Rewrite.  Mad love to my family, and everyone who makes this such a fun journey.  www.BadiaFarha.com
	ABE GOLDFARB (Franklin) lives in Brooklyn. He is the co-founder, with Brian Silliman, of the Royal Circus. He trained at  the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and has  worked with such companies as The Pumpkin Pie Show, Jean Cocteau Repertory, elsewhere, The Hudson Valley Shakespeare  Festival and many others. Favorite roles:  Pistol in Henry V, the Frontman in Hostage Song, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera, Jaques in As You Like It. Thanks, Rosebud.
	F. MICHAEL HAYNIE (Adams) is a proud member of the Theatreworks USA family.  Most recently, he performed in Band Geeks! at Goodspeed's Norma Terris theatre.  A graduate of New York University's Tisch program, F Michael makes his Off-Broadway debut.  Thanks to Barbara and Molly for their unending support, to everyone at the MINE, and Ms, D, JP, FF&FA, my boys and my Lovo. BYAHH!
	JAMIE LaVERDIERE (Jefferson) has worked as an actor, director, and choreographer for TWUSA since 1994 including two free summer theatre productions (Gold Rush! and Reading Rainbow) and the Off-Bway run of Cam Jansen at the Lambs Theatre.  Broadway: The Producers, Pirate Queen.  Off-Bway: I Love You, You’re Perfect, This Side of Paradise.  Favorite roles include Sancho (La Mancha), Fairytale Man (Blue Flower), and Puck (Midsummer Night’s Dream).
	COLIN CAMPBELL McADOO (Washington). Off-Broadway credits: The Goddess Wheel, Hart to Hart (Avery Fisher Hall with Robert Goulet). He has worked regionally at The Weston Playhouse, MSMT, The Ogunquit Playhouse, The Media Theatre and The Weathervane Theatre. He also appeared as Woody in Disney's Toy Story -The Musical. He wants to thank The Mine, Theatreworks USA, Gordon, his friends, Mom, Dad and the rest of his family for their support in getting his Founding Fathers on! Love to all and a quick shout to his kid sis, Molly. Much love.
	JUSTIN FLAGG (Male Understudy) studied and worked in Britain before returning to New York three years ago.  New York credits include: The Devil and Tom Walker, The First Lowering and Under the Gaslight (Metropolitan Playhouse).  Regional and Touring: The Butter and Egg Man (East Lynne); Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew (Interlochen Shakes.); Nate the Great and We the People (Theatreworks USA).  Film: Death Defying Acts.  Thanks to B and all who support me.  www.justinflagg.com.
	BRITTANY N. WILLIAMS (Female Understudy) is delighted to be making her Theatreworks USA debut. A Baltimore native, she holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Howard University. Most recently, she was seen in the first national tour of Curious George Live! Her regional work includes Walmartopia (Maia), Frosty the Snowman (Geraldine), Hong Kong Disneyland’s The Festival of the Lion King (Nala), High School Musical: LIVE! (Lead Vocalist) and Mickey Presents Dream Sports Moments (Kerry). Brittany would like to thank her family and friends for their continuous love and support. www.brittanynwilliams.com

WRITERS

ELI BOLIN (Music: “Road to Democracy”) is the music director/composer of the Story Pirates, a nationally-recognized arts education organization that performs songs and sketches adapted from the creative writing of children all over the country.  Musicals with lyricist Sam Forman include off-Broadway's I Sing!; Schmoozy Togetherness for the Williamstown Theatre Festival; and the upcoming Volleygirls.  He is currently writing songs with Kevin Del Aguila for Theatreworks USA's Skippyjon Jones.  Love to Allison.  elibolin.net

KEVIN DEL AGUILA (Lyrics: “King of the Ring”) is bookwriter of the off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz (Outer Critics Award, Lortel and Drama Desk noms.) and lyricist of Click, Clack, Moo (Lortel and Drama Desk noms.). Other works as a writer/lyricist include Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live, and musical versions of the children’s books Lilly’s Big Day, I Have to Go, and Duck for President. Up next: stage adaptations of the book Skippyjon Jones for Theatreworks USA and the film Madagascar for DreamWorks. www.delaguila.info

SAM FORMAN (Lyrics: “Road to Democracy”). Plays and musicals include The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (The Lion Theater, NYC), The Moscows of Nantucket (Theater J, Washington DC), The Grille Room (Cherry Lane, NYC), Krankenhaus Blues (Abingdon Theater, NYC), Quarterlife (Pico Playhouse, LA), Narcissus and Goldstein (Show World, NYC), Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Fringical! (NYMF), The Quiet Game (Hangar Theater, Ithaca NY) and I Sing! (The Maverick Theater, NYC – cast recording available in stores worldwide from Jay Records).

JOE ICONIS (Book; Music & Lyrics: “Dawn’s President Song”) was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards for his work on Bloodsong of Love: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Spaghetti Western, which recently completed its world premiere run at Ars Nova.  Joe is the recipient of the Ed Kleban Award, the Jonathan Larson Award and is a proud alum of the NYU Graduate Musical Theater Program.  He is the author of The Black Suits (book co-written by Robert Maddock), ReWrite, Things To Ruin, and Theatreworks USA's The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks.  The Things to Ruin cast album and the “The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree” album will be out soon on Sh-K-Boom Records.  Joe is greatly inspired by Dunkin Donuts, Robert Altman, Sardi’s, Dolly Parton and the family of artists that he frequently collaborates with.  www.MrJoeIconis.com

TOMMY NEWMAN (Music & Lyrics: “We the People,” “It's My Air Too”). Composer, lyricist and playwright.  Frederick Lowe Award, 2007.  Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center Fellow, 2004. Lois Garren Award, People’s Choice—American College Theatre Festival and the Kennedy Center, 2004. Recent projects “29”, with Gaby Alter (Provincetown Playhouse), Tinyard Hill (Theatreworks—Silicon Valley, Goodspeed, NAMT 2007), The Man Plan and Farewell My Concubine with Gordon Greenberg, and Band Geeks! (Goodspeed 2010, NAMT 2009). BS, Music Education and Business, Troy University.  MFA, Musical Theatre Writing, NYU Tisch.

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER  (Music & Lyrics: “We Got the Power”). Jonathan Larson Grant, music and lyrics for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award, Playwrights Horizons July 2009 starring Jane Krakowski, dir. Michael Greif), Darling, 35mm, Rated RSO (NYMF, Kennedy Center).  Currently developing 35mm with dir. Daisy Prince, and a new musical for Disney.  Dramatists Guild Fellow, Harold Adamson Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing, www.ryanscottoliver.com

ADAM OVERETT (Music & Lyrics: “The First Amendment”). Composer/lyricist/bookwriter of Call It Courage, a musical based on Armstrong Sperry’s book (premiered April 2010 at Zachary Scott Theatre in Austin, TX); “My Sky,” performed by Stephanie J. Block on No More Revivals (CD to be released by Sh-K-Boom); The Firebird; My Life Is A Musical. BMI Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop (Harrington Award).  As an actor, Broadway and national tour credits include Fabrizio u/s in The Light in the Piazza and Neil Kellerman in Dirty Dancing.  B.A., Yale University.  www.adamoverett.com

ERIK WEINER, JORDAN ALLEN-DUTTON (Lyrics: “We in the House”), MARK WEINER (Music: “We in the House”).   Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner are writers and actors for theatre, television, and film. Theatre: The Bomb-itty of Errors (Jeff Award, Best Show at HBO Comedy Festival, Drama Desk/Outer Critics Circle Nominations); Nerds (Barrymore Award). Television: "Robot Chicken" (Two Time Emmy nominated); "Scratch & Burn"; "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO); "Unscripted" (HBO). Film: Untitled Jackie Mason Project. They wrote the song "Master Man" for the Theatreworks USA production of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. They're honored to be a part of We the People, helping children and students understand how important they are in the process of changing government and the world. Mark Weiner (aka Yung Mars) is a musician, producer, and composer based in San Francisco. His music has reached the tops of college charts and he has produced beats for T-Pain as well as several up and coming Bay Area hip-hop acts.

CREATIVE TEAM

GORDON GREENBERG (Director). Band Geeks! (also co-writer; Goodspeed), Disney’s Believe (co-created with Kirsten Childs; Disney Creative Entertainment), Working (adapted w/Stephen Schwartz & Lin Manuel Miranda; Old Globe, Broadway In Chicago), Pirates! or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d (created w/ Nell Benjamin; Huntington, Goodspeed, Paper Mill), the acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well… (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms.), Happy Days (1st national tour, Boyett Theatricals), 1776 (Paper Mill), Citizens Band (Spiegeltent), Baker's Wife (Paper Mill, Goodspeed) and numerous television commercials. Upcoming: Ben Folds Project (The Producing Office), Jacques Brel (West End, London, 2011), Working (Broadway In Chicago, 2011), 33 Variations (Capital Rep), The Man Plan, Farewell My Concubine (China) and several television projects. Education: RADA, Stanford University, NYU Film School. www.gordongreenberg.com

MICHELE LYNCH (Choreographer). Broadway: Everyday Rapture, The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray (Associate Choreographer; also national tour, Toronto, Las Vegas, Germany), The Full Monty (Assistant Choreographer; also national tour, London, Australia) and Urinetown (Assistant Choreographer). Off-Broadway:  Everyday Rapture (Second Stage). National tours: Little House on the Prairie (also Paper Mill, The Guthrie), Happy Days the Musical (also Paper Mill, Goodspeed-Connecticut Critics Circle Award). Other choreography credits include the film CAMP, CFDA Awards, Comedy Central, 13 (Mark Taper Forum; Garland Award), Idaho! (NYMF), Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theater), Pride and Prejudice (Asolo Theater), Leading Ladies (Ford Theater) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (MUNY). Other regional credits include Footloose, Meet Me in St. Louis, Jekyll & Hyde, Side by Side by Sondheim, Beauty and the Beast, South Pacific and Grease.

ADAM KOCH (Scenic Designer). Million Dollar Quartet (Goodman Theatre); Rooms (New World Stages); Loaded (Theatre Row); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Helen Hayes nom.), See What I Wanna See, Title of Show (Signature); Five Course Love, Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd (Geva); Pirates of Penzance; Master Harold… (Portland); Hello, Dolly; Little Shop of Horrors (Paper Mill); Frozen; Side Show; Hello Again; The Secret Garden. Opera: The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro and Die Fledermaus. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon. U.S.A. 829. adamkochdesign.com

LORA LaVON (Costume Designer). has designed five shows for Theatreworks USA, including two previous free summer theater productions: Junie B. Jones and Click, Clack, Moo. Other credits include A Child’s Christmas in Wales (National Theatre of the Deaf); The Time of Your Life, King John (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Lonesome West, Three Days of Rain, Proof (Hartford’s TheaterWorks); Art, M. Butterfly (Syracuse Stage); South Pacific, Suddenly Last Summer (Barrington Stage); Measure for Measure (Yale Repertory). MFA, Yale School of Drama.

JEFF CROITER (Lighting Designer). Recent: Next Fall (Broadway); A Lie of the Mind; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Liar; Ordinary Days; Superman; Band Geeks. Other NY include: Kiki and Herb on Broadway; Actors Fund concerts including Chess, Hair and On the 20th Century; Jerry Springer the Opera; Rufus Wainwright’s Judy Garland Concert; Family Guy Sings; Streamers; Voysey Inheritance; Adrift in Macao; The Internationalist; Drumstruck; Jacques Brel; The Dazzle; Jennifer Muller’s The Works. For Theatreworks USA: Cam Jansen, Junie B Jones, Henry and Mudge.

MICHAEL S. EISENBERG (Sound Designer). Off-B’way: Signs of Life, Our Sinatra. Regional: Carousel, The 25th…Spelling Bee (Barrington Stage Company); The Music Man; The Wizard of Oz; Grease!; Hello, Dolly!; Singin’ in the Rain; Jesus Christ Superstar; Footloose (Kansas City Starlight). Associate and assistant credits include: B’way: 13; Off-B’way: Bloodsong of Love, Vigil, Rooms; Regional: Wonderland (Tampa Bay PAC & Alley Theatre), First Wives Club (Old Globe), Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel (Alliance Theatre).

J. OCONER NAVARRO (Music Director, Arrangements). TWUSA: If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Duck for President. NY: Adding Machine, This One Girl’s Story, Whida Peru: Resurrection Tangle, Lincoln Center Theater, York Theater. Regional: Barrington Stage Company, Hangar Theatre, the Kennedy Center, TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley, Two River Theater Company, Westport Country Playhouse. B’way Music Dep’t: The Apple Tree, Curtains, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal and more. As writer: Jonathan Larson Grant, Margo Lion Award and more. Faculty, MFA: NYU-Tisch. joconernavarro.com

GREG PLISKA (Orchestrations) has orchestrated for TWUSA since 1997, including A Christmas Carol and Henry and Mudge at the Lortel. Orchestrator of the 2010 Drama Desk Awards; nominated for Twelfth Night (Public Theater), music by Hem. Theater compositions: Vigil (DR2), Songs from an Unmade Bed (NYTW), Pericles (Red Bull). Film/TV: “Life” (Discovery), “Hunting the Edge of Space” (Nova/PBS), The Wildest Dream (orch.; Nat’l Geographic). His album, September Songs: Music for Film, is on iTunes and CD Baby. www.gregpliska.com.

CARLY J. PRICE (Production Stage Manager). Theatreworks USA: Henry & Mudge; Click, Clack, Moo; We the People; Fancy Nancy & Other Story Books. NY City Center: Juno; No, No, Nanette; Damn Yankees; On the Town; Fall for Dance Festival. NYMF: The Boy in the Bathroom. Regional: Brother Wolf, The Matchmaker, A Streetcar Named Desire, Das Barbecü (Triad Stage). Bernstein’s Mass at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. BFA from UNC-Greensboro. Proud member AEA. Thanks to Diet Coke.

WES GRANTOM (Associate Director) Recent: K2 (Berkshire Theatre Festival); MINE (Slant Theatre Project); Sci Fi Bandits, a rock opera developed with indie-rock band CHAPPO (Ars Nova); Thujone (Drama League DirectorFest); Click, Clack, Moo (national tours, Theatreworks USA).   Other credits: Roundabout, Williamstown, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Alley, Asolo Rep., Stella Adler Conservatory, Millbrook Playhouse.  We is a co-founder of Slant Theatre Project, a recipient of the Drama League Directing Fellowship, a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab and a graduate of the University of Evansville.

TONY VIERLING (Associate Choreographer). Guthrie: Little House on the Prairie, 1776, She Loves Me, Pirates of Penzance, Merrily We Roll Along, Babes in Arms. Paper Mill: Little House. TUTS: White Christmas. Casa Manana: A Chorus Line. Ordway: Singin’ in the Rain, Music Man, Sound of Music. Minnesota Opera: Street Scene, Show Boat, Mikado. Kentucky Opera: My Fair Lady. Louisiana Opera: Romeo and Juliet. Chanhassen Theatres: 42nd Street, Crazy for You, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, West Side Story. Tours: Little House, A Chorus Line.

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