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THE CAST

	GRETCHEN BIEBER (Darlene). Broadway/ Nat'l Tour: Hairspray (u/s Amber/ Velma). Regional: High School Musical 1 & 2 (Sharpay) Muny/NCTheatre, Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Of Thee I Sing (Benson), Damn Yankees (u/s Lola), ...Forum (Tintinabula). Many thanks to all at Luedtke, Theatreworks, her family and the Moo team! Proud member of Actor's Equity.
	TODD BUONOPANE (Loretta) Broadway: Grease and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.   Off-Broadway: Henry & Mudge, Don't Quit Your Night Job, and The Butter and Egg Man.  Regional credits include Carousel (Barrington), Happy Days (Goodspeed & Papermill), Gemini the Musical (Prince, Barrymore Nomination) and the 2001 national tour of Godspell.   TV/Film: The recurring role of Jeffrey Weinerslav on “30 Rock,” “Law & Order: CI,” “The Black Donnellys,” and the new film A Kiss For Jed Brown.
	KRISTY CATES (Maddie). Original Broadway Cast of Wicked (Elphaba understudy). Elphaba in the first National Tour and Chicago productions of Wicked. Off Broadway: Jerry Springer the Opera at Carnegie Hall, Boobs! The Music of Ruth Wallis, Princess Ida for NYGASP.  Select Regional: The World Premier of Unbeatable, Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots, St. Louis MUNY, The Eugene O'Neill Conference and the NY Fringe Festival. Professional voice-over artist and vocal coach/teacher. BFA from CCM. Special “thank-moo” to Luedtke, Matt Farnsworth, Cags and JB! www.KristyCates.com
	SARAH KATHERINE GEE (Jenny/Chicken). Off-B’way/NYC Theatre: Awesome 80's Prom, But I'm a Cheerleader. Tours: Mamma Mia! (Lisa); West Side Story, (Euro/Asia - Anybodys); The Grinch, 1st National, Seussical; Beauty and the Beast; 42nd Street, Moscow. Regional: Cats (Sillabub) at the Walnut Street Theatre. All thanks to God, my husband Brian, Will, Bryan, Kimberly Vaughn, MKM,and Avalon Artists.
	DREW McVETY (Farmer Brown). Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, Spamalot, Frozen, Big River (Special Tony Award), Titanic, The Heidi Chronicles. First national tour: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Cabaret. Off-Broadway: Lone Star Love (Houseman), Corpus Christi (MTC; Drama Desk nomination); This Lime Tree Bower (Primary Stages), The Substance of Fire (LCT), others. Television: All the “Law and Orders,” all the New York soaps. The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Lucky husband of actress Nicole Van Giesen. Proud father of Duncan Gray.
	DeMOND B. NASON (Duck) is thrilled to have this opportunity to perform! Off Broadway: Walmartopia (Darin, Alan, Etc) and, the National Tour of Cinderella (Lionel). Regional Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas), HAIR at Seacoast Rep. Film: Julie Taymor's Across The Universe. DeMond can be heard on the cast recording of Walmartopia and was a featured soloist with the Boston Pops. Mr. Nason is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory and a proud member of Actors Equity.
	JASON DULA (Understudy) is sometimes in this show. He has been in some other shows (Google him).  He would like to have been in other things (they were not interested) and would like to be in some other stuff down the road (also wants to be a teacher and live on a real farm someday).  Jason graduated from NC School of the Arts (barely) and is the successful manager of way too many fantasy sports teams (just ask his girlfriend).  Much love to all.
	GWEN HOLLANDER (Understudy) happily rejoins the Theatreworks family, having last appeared as Cam in Cam Jansen .  Favorites include: Broadway Tour of Little Women (Amy, Carbonell Award: Best Supporting Actress), Les Miserables (Eponine), Beauty and the Beast (Belle, Carbonell Nomination), and the premiere of See Rock City and Other Destinations (Barrington Stage). TV: Tom Hanks’ miniseries “From Earth to the Moon,” Nickelodeon’s “Mystery Files of Shelby Woo,” and the webseries “Acting School Academy,” which debuts this fall. www.gwenhollander.com

THE CREATIVE TEAM

BILLY ARONSON (Book). Billy Aronson’s plays have been produced by Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre, awarded a commission from the Magic Theatre and a NYFA grant, and published in Best American Short Plays. His new play First Day of School will be produced this fall by the SF Playhouse and by Philadelphia’s 1812 Productions. His writing for the musical theater includes the original concept/additional lyrics for the Broadway musical Rent, and lyrics for No Dogs Allowed! which will open at the Atlantic Theatre in October. TV writing credits include MTV’s “Beavis & Butt-head”, Cartoon Network’s “Courage the Cowardly Dog”, Nickelodeon’s “Wonder Pets” (head writer first season), and PBS’s “Postcards From Buster” (Emmy nomination). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Lisa Vogel and their children Jake and Anna. www.billyaronson.com

KEVIN DEL AGUILA (Lyrics) is the bookwriter of the hit musical Altar Boyz, which won the NY Outer Critics Circle Award, earned him a 2005 Drama Desk Award nomination, and is currently enjoying the 5th year of its off-Broadway run at New World Stages.  Kevin received the 2007 Heideman Award for his play The Greekest of Tragedies (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and his comedy 6 Story Building  took top prize at the 2002 NY Fringe Festival.  He has written for HBO, NBC and the Nickelodeon series “The Wonder Pets!”  Other musical collaborations with composer Brad Alexander include adaptations of the children’s books Lilly’s Big Day (part of Theatreworks/USA’s musical revue If You Give a Pig a Pancake, directed by Kevin) and the upcoming I Have To Go.   www.delaguila.info

BRAD ALEXANDER (Music) is honored to have written the music for Theatreworks USA’s Just So Stories, Lilly’s Big Day (from If You Give A Pig A Pancake), Click Clack Moo, and the upcoming I Have To Go with Kevin Del Aguila.  He and Adam Mathias won the 2008 Richard Rodgers Award and 2007 Jerry Bock Award for See Rock City & Other Destinations, which premiered at Barrington Stage Company and was recently workshopped with Transport Group Theatre Company.  Brad’s music has been featured on VH1, Lifetime, Showtime and Sony Records.  He is a member of The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, National Academy of Popular Music, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and The Dramatists Guild of America.  www.bradalexander.com

JOHN RANDO (Director). Broadway: Urinetown (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), The Wedding Singer, A Thousand Clowns, Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. City Center Encores!: On the Town, Damn Yankees, Face the Music, Of Thee I Sing, Pajama Game, Do Re Mi and Strike Up the Band. Off- Broadway: The Toxic Avenger, Pig Farm, Bright Ideas, Polish Joke, Mere Mortals, Comedy of Errors. Regional: Alley Theatre, Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, A.C.T., Williamstown, Philadelphia Theatre Co., among many others.

WENDY SEYB (Choreographer). Off- Broadway: The Toxic Avenger, Walmartopia.  Workshop: Cheer! (Richard Frankel Productions). Regional: Harry Connick Jr.’s The Happy Elf, The Toxic Avenger (George Street Playhouse), The World Goes ’Round. New York theatre/dance: Such Good Friends, But I’m a Cheerleader, School Daze a New Dance Comedy, Die Hard the Puppet Musical, DRA Gala hosted by Bill T. Jones, Dance Theater Workshop, HERE, Joyce Soho, Zipper Theatre. Winner of The Golden Nose Award, Big “E” Award and Innovative Theatre Award nominee. www.wendyseyb.com

WES GRANTOM (Associate Director): Thrilled to be making his Theatreworks USA debut, Wes has also worked at Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Alley Theatre, Asolo Rep, George Street Playhouse, The New Harmony Project, Cherry Lane Theatre, Millbrook Playhouse, The Public Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. He is a 2008 Drama League Directing Fellow, a co-founder of Slant Theatre Project, and a graduate of the University of Evansville.

JUSTIN HATCHIMONJI (Music Director/Vocal Arrangements) is excited to be a part of his first Theatreworks production. 2009 credits include: See Rock City and Other Destinations (Brad Alexander/Adam Mathias) – MD, Arrangements (with Brad Alexander), and Orchestrations; The Time Travelers’ Convention (Mike Pettry/Heidi Heilig) – MD; Tokio Confidential (Eric Schorr) – MD. Upcoming: Hell Hath No Fury! (Joe Major) – Original Music; Party Worth Crashing (Kait Kerrigan/Brian Lowdermilk) – Orchestrations (with Brian Lowdermilk).

BEOWULF BORITT (Set Designer). Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock of Ages, The Two and Only. Off- Broadway: More than 50 shows including Romeo and Juliet and Anne of Green Gables for Theatreworks USA; The Last Five Years, Toxic Avenger, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, The Other Side, Sleepwalk With Me, Saint Lucy’s Eyes, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Miss Julie, Public, MTC, 2nd Stage, MCC, New Group, Pearl, American Place, Keen Co. He also designed the 2007 & 2008 Ringling Brothers Circus. Awards: Obie, Audelco, Barrymore, 2 Lortel Noms, 3 Drama Desk Noms.

LORA LaVON (Costume Design). Credits include A Child’s Christmas in Wales for the National Theatre of the Deaf; Pericles at the Culture Project ; King John at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; M. Butterfly and Art at Syracuse Stage; South Pacific and Suddenly Last Summer at Barrington Stage Co.; Lonesome West, Three Days of Rain and Proof at Hartford’s TheatreWorks; Life Is a Dream at Soho Rep; Measure for Measure at Yale Rep; The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky Off-Off Broadway. This is Lora’s third design for Theatreworks USA. Lora earned her B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (1994) and her M.F.A. from the Yale Drama School (1999).

MATTHEW RICHARDS (Lighting Designer). Theatreworks USA: Seussical! NYC: Port Authority, and The Music of Jacob Sterling (The Atlantic Theatre Co.) Len, Asleep in Vinyl (Second Stage). The Drunken City and Pen (Playwrights Horizons), Grace (MCC), Made in Poland (The Play Co.), Ars Nova, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Edge Theatre, The Flea, Katharsis, LAByrinth, Rattlestick. Regional credits include: The Alliance, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Ford’s Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, The Goodman, Huntington Theatre Co., Old Globe, NYSF, Shakespeare Theatre, Skylight Opera Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Wolf Trap Opera and Yale Rep. Graduate: Univ. of Massachusetts and Yale School of Drama.

JEREMY WILSON (Sound Design). Recent credits include: Red Fly/Blue Bottle (HERE Arts Center), Tinder (Maison des Artes Creteil, France), Thomas Bradshaw’s Strom Thurmond is not a Racist/Cleansed (Immediate Theatre Co.), Lisa D’Amour’s Stanley 2006 (HERE), A Heartbeat to Baghdad (The Flea), Leap (Abingdon Theatre Co.), Kafka’s Metamorphosis (Black Moon Theatre Co.) As You Desire Me, The Water Hen (American Repertory Theatre). BUG, The Laramie Project (BTW), Midnight Sun, Collected Stories (Gloucester Stage), The Three Musketeers National Tour (Acting Co.).

CARLY J. PRICE (Production Stage Manager) is excited to be back in NY after spending two weeks in Idaho with the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference (id Theater). For Theatreworks she has stage managed two tours of Henry & Mudge and the mini-tour of Click, Clack, Moo. Recent NY credits include: Juno, No No Nanette, Damn Yankees, On The Town, Fall For Dance Festival (NY City Center), The Boy in the Bathroom (NYMF). BFA: UNC-Greensboro. Proud member AEA. Thanks to Diet Coke.

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