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THE CAST

	KELLY FELTHOUS (Mayzie) is so excited to be a part of this production. New York credits: Bat Boy, Full Monty, Evita, Cabaret, Starmites: Millennium Edition, Goddess Wheel. Other credits include lead roles in Singing in the Rain, 42nd Street, Dames at Sea, Peter Pan, Li'l Abner, Ruthless, Once Upon a Mattress and many others. Kelly also appeared in the National Tour of The Sound of Music and was privileged to be one of the original cast members of the American Premiere of Broadway's Jane Eyre. Thanks to Theatreworks for this opportunity, and Larkin, Charns, and Mommy for all their love and support! Proud member of AEA.
	BRIAN MICHAEL HOFFMAN (Horton the Elephant) is thrilled to be back in NYC after 2 years on the road with the 30th Anniversary Tour of Annie and 3 years in Japan, singing at Tokyo Disney Sea! He's featured in the upcoming Albert Maysles documentary Lucky Dog and some of his favorite regional/tour credits include: Sweeney Todd (Tobias), Into the Woods (Jack), Grease (Roger), Assassins (Czolgosz), The Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion), You're A Good Man... (Charlie Brown), Big River (Young Fool) and the World Premiere and Original Cast Recording of Syracuse Stage's The Dragonslayers. Love to family and friends! "Hey, Boo!"
	NIKKA GRAFF LANZARONE (Bird Girl #1)  is thrilled to make her TheatreworksUSA debut with Seussical. New York: Beautiful (Emily), Camille (Nanine). Regional: Carnival (Paper Mill Playhouse), Tommy (Bay St. Theatre), Chicago (Fiddlehead Theatre), Nine (Carla, Chance Theatre). Other favorites: Carousel (Louise), Sweet Charity (Nickie). Television: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” BFA from The Boston Conservatory.
	WILLIE LEE-WILLIAMS  (Wickersham #3)  National tour: Miss Saigon. New York/Regional: Tommy (The Hawker), A Day In The Life (Son 2), Aida (Mereb), Jack & Jill (Sean Thompson), Courage (Black Boy) and Showboat. Short Films: Inner Conflict (Dave), Tamara (Tim).  Love to Mom, Dad, family and friends for their endless support. To my brother, Cameron, the one who constantly inspires me.
	EBONY MARSHALL-OLIVER (Sour Kangaroo)  Recent graduate of AMDA. Regional Credits include: Bubblin’ Brown Sugar, The Odyssey, Dreamgirls, Flyin’ West, A Raisin In The Sun, Road Show (Mendie Award Winner), to name a few. Ebony thanks God and her family for their continued support.
	AMELIA MORGAN-ROTHSCHILD (Bird Girl #3/Mrs. Mayor)  Off-Broadway debut! Tour: Seussical (Original cast). Regional: Sisters of Swing (Patty Andrews), Dames at Sea (Ruby), Charlie Brown (Snoopy), Hello Dolly (Minnie Fay). BFA: NYU. Thanks to mom, dad, and TheatreworksUSA!!
	BEN TOSTADO (Wickersham #2)  L.A./NYC: Once On This Island, Hair, Five Guys, Joseph, Guys and Dolls, Birdie, Godspell and Brecht’s Life of Galileo (dir. Moises Kaufman). Television: “Port Charles”, “General Hospital”. Ben is also a Teaching Artist at Tada! Youth Theatre, The Peanut Gallery, and Lucy Moses. Training: Professional Musical Theatre Workshop at Manhattan School of Music with Paul Gemignani, BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. For Christian. www.bentostado.com
	JOSH WALDEN (Wickersham #1/Mr. Mayor; Horton understudy; Associate Choreographer)  Broadway: Mercedes, La Cage aux Folles; Bobby/cover(perf.), A Chorus Line; Thug/Waiter, 42nd St.  Off-Broadway: Dickie, Awesome 80’s Prom; George Stephanopoulos, Monica! The Musical.  National Tour: Nick, Big.  Regional: Waiter, Limonade Tous les Jours, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival; Cousin Kevin, Tommy, Bay Street Theatre; Dick, Dames at Sea, Emelin Theatre; Lyle, Footloose, North Carolina Theatre; Benjamin, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Carousel Dinner Theatre.  Stock: Eddie Ryan, Funny Girl & Bobby Child, Crazy for You, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse.  Readings: York Theatre Company; Manhattan Theatre Club.  Josh holds a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
	SHOREY WALKER (Cat in the Hat)  NYC credits: Totally Electric (The Duplex), Caligula (NYMTF), Bellisima (The York Theatre). Tour & Regional credit: Cat in the Hat in Seussical, Peter in Peter Pan, Sally in The Who’s Tommy, Li’l Abner (Goodspeed Opera House), Evita (Helen Hayes Theatre), Oliver! (Westchester Broadway Theatre), It’s A Wonderful Life (Stamford Center for the Arts).
	MICHAEL WARTELLA (Jojo)  has appeared in many plays with Barrington Stage Company, Shakespeare and Company, and many others. Some roles include: Seymour in Little Shop, Laertes in Hamlet, and Ren McCormick in Footloose. Michael just completed the two-year program with Circle in the Square and is thrilled to be doing Seussical with TheatreworksUSA.
	KAREN WEINBERG (Gertrude McFuzz)  is from Chicago, where she originated the one-woman musical comedy Faker at the Second City Skybox. New York regional theatre credits include The Full Monty, A Match Made in Manhattan and Scotch & Poison. Thanks to everyone at TheatreworksUSA. www.karenweinberg.com
	ELLEN ZOLEZZI (Bird Girl #2)  Born in San Diego CA, Ellen has been performing professionally since the age of 8. She has received her BFA in Musical Theater at The Boston Conservatory, and has enjoyed playing such roles as Polly in Crazy For You, Lola in Damn Yankees, and Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street.
	KENNEN BUTLER (Wickersham understudy)  Past productions include Merrily We Roll Along, Once on This Island (Papa Ge) and Grease (Teen Angel). Kennen was a choreographer for competition team for the organization Impulse as well as an instructor for hip-hop under the same organization. I would like to thank my mother and family for their support.
	MALLORY HAWKS (Bird Girl understudy)  Mallory just completed the TheatreworksUSA Spring Tour of Seussical! Favorite roles include Judy/Ginger in Ruthless!, Lilli/Kate in Kiss Me Kate, Smitty in How to Succeed..., Maggie in The Man Who Came to Dinner and Judy in the NYC New Dramatists workshop of A Wonderful Noise. She is a Co-Artistic Director of Dalliance Theater here in NYC and a proud member of Equity! Thanks to M, D, T, T and M!
	KRISTA KURTZBERG (Cat/Gertrude/Jojo/ Mayzie/Sour Kangaroo understudy)  After just completing an over 5 month tour as Cat in the Hat and dance captain, Krista is happy to be back in NY and to still be a part of this production.  Other favorite credits include: Ruby in Dames at Sea (Emelin), Li'l Abner (Goodspeed), 42nd Street (Moscow cast), Ariel in Footloose (Palace Theater N.H.), and a Silly Girl in Beauty and the Beast (Fireside Theater). Special thanks to Josh Waldon! And thank you God for all your blessings!

 

THE CREATIVE STAFF

LYNN AHRENS (Lyrics and Book). Broadway: Lyrics, Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Score, two Grammy nominations); Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; My Favorite Year (Lincoln Center Theatre); Book and lyrics: Once On This Island (Tony nominations for Best Book, Score and Musical, London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical); Seussical (Grammy nomination); A Christmas Carol (ten years at Madison Square Garden).  Off-Broadway: Lyrics, A Man of No Importance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical); Book and lyrics, Lucky Stiff (Playwrights Horizons); Dessa Rose (LCT); The Glorious Ones (opening this fall at Lincoln Center Theatre). Feature film: Anastasia (Twentieth Century Fox. Two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations); Camp (IFC). Television: Teleplay, A Christmas Carol (Hallmark Entertainment, NBC); Schoolhouse Rock and numerous other shows. (Emmy Award and four Emmy nominations.) Concert: With Voices Raised (Boston Pops); Audra McDonald’s Seven Deadly Sins (contributor). Publications: Tallgrass Literary Anthology, Narrative Magazine, American Theater Magazine, The Kenyon Review (forthcoming). Ms. Ahrens is a member of ASCAP and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, serves on the Dramatists Guild of America Council and co-chairs the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program for emerging writers. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty since 1983.

 

STEPHEN FLAHERTY (Music and Book) wrote the music for Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Grammy nominations); Once On This Island (Tony nomination, London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical); Seussical (Grammy nomination, Drama Desk nomination); Loving Repeating: A Musical Of Gertrude Stein (Chicago’s Jefferson Award, Best New Musical); Lucky Stiff; and three musicals at Lincoln Center Theatre: A Man of No Importance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical, Drama Desk nomination), Dessa Rose (Drama Desk nomination) and My Favorite Year. Additional music on Broadway: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life (original songs) and Neil Simon's Proposals (incidental music). Feature film: Anastasia (two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, gold record). Concert works include With Voices Raised (Boston Pops commission, Carnegie Hall performance), Ragtime Symphonic Suite (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), as well as song commissions from Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. He has enjoyed collaborating with lyricist/librettist Lynn Ahrens for over twenty years. Their latest musical, The Glorious Ones, will be produced this fall at Lincoln Center Theatre. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, where he co-chairs the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program for emerging writers with Ms. Ahrens.

AHRENS and FLAHERTY’s first professional job together was writing The Emperor’s New Clothes for TheatreworksUSA.

MARCIA MILGROM DODGE (Director/Choreographer). is delighted to be working with TheatreworksUSA. Her work has been seen throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and S. Korea. Off-Broadway: Cookin' (Minetta Lane & New Victory); Radio Gals (Houseman); Maltby & Shire's Closer Than Ever (Cherry Lane); Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic (MTC); The Music Man (NYC Opera); William Finn's Romance in Hard Times (The Public).   International & U.S. Regional: Once On This Island, The Who’s Tommy, Hair (Bay Street Theatre); Tell Me On A Sunday starring Alice Ripley (Kennedy Center); Rupert Holmes' Thumbs w/ Kathie Lee Gifford (Cape Playhouse); Goosebumps (Winter Gardens/Blackpool, England); Angel Street w/ David McCallum (Ogunquit Playhouse); Accomplice w/ Richard Kind & Stephanie Zimbalist (Cape Playhouse); Sullivan & Gilbert w/ George Grizzard  (Phoenix Theatre); On the Town (Goodspeed Opera House); Anything Goes (Riverside Theatre, Birmingham Theatre); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Huntington Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild--2 Barrymore Award Nominations.) Broadway: High Society (Associate Choreographer.) Many shows at Sacramento Music Circus. Exciting collaborations with Rupert Holmes, Stephen Sondheim, Des McAnuff, Robert Falls and Joanne Woodward. Her first play, Sherlock Holmes & the West End Horror, written with her husband Tony, premiered at Bay Street Theatre and received an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. They wrote the book for Hats! currently playing in Chicago and their musical Look Homeward Honky Tonk Angel, with songs by Grammy-winner Larry Gatlin, premieres in Dallas in the fall. Television: “Sesame Street” and AMC'S “Remember WENN.” Faculty/Guest Director: NYU, Fordham College, Marymount Manhattan College and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA.) For more, visit www.marciamilgromdodge.com. As always, for Tony & Natasha. 

NARELLE SISSONS (Set Design). Broadway: All My Sons at The Roundabout. Off-Broadway: How I Learned To Drive, original production; Stop Kiss, In the Blood, Kit Marlowe and Julius Caesar, Joseph Papp Public Theatre. Recently in NYC: Classic Stage Company, The Women’s Project, Soho Rep, Primary Stages, Epic Theatre Centre, Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop. Recent International: Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the A Train, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman London and NYC; Mabou Mines Doll House, directed by Lee Breuer, World Tour; Syringa Tree, Vienna and Germany. Awards and nominations: Drama Desk, Helen Hayes, American Theatre Wing and Back Stage West Award. Ms. Sissons is a graduate of Central/St Martin's and The Royal College of Art in London.

TRACY CHRISTENSEN (Costume Design). Recent design projects include the Broadway production of Souvenir at the Lyceum, Meet Me In St. Louis at Irish Rep, Kismet at City Center for Encores!, Lady Day… at The Long Wharf, and Gypsy at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, starring Patti LuPone. Also: Stopping Traffic at The Vineyard, Blue Horizons, the new whale and dolphin show for Sea World in Orlando, Florida, Macbeth at the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Regina at The Kennedy Center, Candide at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic, The Cherry Orchard at the Chautauqua Theater Company, Quartet at Baystreet Theater, and the off-Broadway revue, Jerry Herman’s Showtune. Currently working on the upcoming Broadway musical of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. www.tracychristensen.com.

ERIC SHIM (Sound Design) has designed quite a few shows for TheatreworksUSA here at the Lortel including Anne of Green Gables; Romeo and Juliet; Summer of the Swans; Sarah, Plain and Tall; Walk Two Moons; Junie B. Jones; A Christmas Carol; and Great Expectations. Other recent projects include Major Barbara and Curse of the Starving Class (NYU), Finer Noble Gases (Edinburgh Festival and Bush Theatre), Orange Lemon Egg Canary (P.S.122), Quail (Clubbed Thumb at The Ohio Theatre), cagelove (Rattlestick Theater), Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre), Living Room in Africa (Edge Theatre Co.), Edward II (Juilliard School), Marion Bridge (Urban Stages) and Anna Christie (Arena Stage).

ERIC WRIGHT (Puppet Design). Young Eric's design and construction credits include: Leapfrog Theater's Amadeus, Dan Hurlin's Hiroshima Maiden, Synapse Productions' Animal Farm: the Musical, Red Hat Society's Hats! The Musical, Theater Couture's Carrie and McCarter Theater's Arabian Nights. He has had the good fortune of working with Bart Roccoberton, Basil Twist, Steve Widerman, Martin Robinson, Philip Huber, Preston Foeder, Paul Mesner, Emily DeCola, Michael Shupbach and the incredible faculty and participants of the O'Neill National Puppetry Conference. Quite often he performs as a puppeteer in Theater and Television throughout New York and the United States. He has eaten green eggs and ham.

W. BRENT SAWYER (Music Direction). A native Texan! Off-Broadway: Naked Boys Singing!, Forbidden Broadway, Monica! The Musical. Broadway: Annie Get Your Gun. Regional: the premiere of Titanic, Blood Brothers, tick, tick…BOOM!, the world premiere of Maury Yeston’s In the Beginning at Maine State Music Theatre. TheaterworksUSA: Anne of Green Gables, Seussical, Junie B. Jones, The Swiss FamilyRobinson, Peter Rabbit. He has taught at The Actors Studio Drama School, Marymount Manhattan College, New York University and The American Music and Dramatic Academy. Member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

AMANDA-MAE GOODRIDGE (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to continue with Seussical to its off-Broadway run. She is also happy to return to the Lortel after running spotlight in 2004 for Junie B. Jones. Last summer, she Production Stage Managed both runs of award winning Hermanas for the Fringe Festival. Thank you my loves! BFA; NYU.

B.D. WHITE (Technical Coordinator) 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 and Productions, New York Stage & Film, The Melting Pot Theatre and Elevator Repair Service Theater.

 

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