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LAUREN KENNEDY (Mary) Broadway: Lady of the Lake in Monty Python's Spamalot, Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close, Side Show as Daisy Hilton, and Les Miserables as Fantine. Also, Cinderella at New York City Opera. London: Trevor Nunn's revival of South Pacific as Nellie Forbush at The Royal National Theatre. Lauren starred opposite Val Kilmer in The Ten Commandments at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Most recently she starred in pre-Broadway tryout of Lone Star Love with The Red Clay Ramblers. Other new works and premieres: Zelda Fitzgerald in Frank Wildhorn's Waiting For The Moon (LENAPE, Barrymore Award Nom. for Best Actress), The Rhythm Club (Signature Theatre, Helen Hayes Nom. for Best Actress), White Christmas, Breakfast At Tiffany's (St. Louis MUNY), Hot Shoe Shuffle (TUTS) and The Last Five Years (Northlight). National Tour: Sunset Boulevard as Betty Schaeffer. Both her new album "Here And Now" and her debut album Lauren Kennedy Songs Of Jason Robert Brown have both received rave reviews and are available on PS Classics. Lauren is most proud of her collaboration with husband Alan Campbell, their daughter Riley. www.laurenkennedy.com

SARAH STILES (Joanne) is currently starring in the Broadway company of Avenue Q as Kate Monster and Lucy. She also appeared in the Broadway and first national touring companies of The 25th Annual Putnam Co. Spelling Bee, and in the national tour of Titanic. She toured with Tommy Tune in the Polynesian production of Dr. Dolittle. Her Off-Broadway credits include Captain Louie (York Theater). Her regional credits include Joanne in Vanities (Theatreworks Palo Alto); Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Estelle in The Full Monty and the Teen Girl in the world premiere of Memphis (Northshore Music Theatre); Crissy in Hair (Theatre Under the Stars); Emengarde in Hello, Dolly! (Kansas City Starlight); Ester in Meet Me in St. Louis (Virginia Music Theatre) and Frenchy in Grease (Papermill Playhouse).

ANNELIESE VAN DER POL (Kathy) made her Broadway debut in 2007 as the final Belle in Beauty and the Beast. She starred for six years and in 100 episodes of the popular Disney Channel show "That's So Raven" as Chelsea Daniels, Raven's best friend. Theatre credits include: Eva Peron in Evita (Buena Park Civic Theatre), Laurey in Oklahoma! (Austin Musical Theatre). Dance roles include Clara in The Nutcracker and the title role of Coppelia (Southern California Dance Theater). Recording credits include "Over It" (Disney Channel original movie "Stuck in the Suburbs"), "Circle of Life" (The Lion King Special Edition DVD), "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (Cinderella Special Edition DVD), "A Day in the Sun" (That's So Raven Too! soundtrack). Anneliese is also featured performing "Candle on the Water" for Walt Disney Records' Disneymania 4.

JACK HEIFNER (Playwright) is best known for his play Vanities, which ran for five years in New York and became one of the longest running and most produced comedies in off-Broadway history. He is also the author of over thirty other plays, including Patio/Porch, Natural Disasters, Running on Empty, Earth To Bucky, Bargains, Jumping for Joy, Boys’ Play, Home Fires, Heartbreak, Comfort and Joy, Dwarf Tossing and China Dolls, which have been produced in New York and theaters around the world. He has also written for television and film.

DAVID KIRSHENBAUM (Music & Lyrics) In addition to the new musical adaptation of Vanities, based on Jack Heifner’s long-running hit play of the same name, David’s other credits include Summer of ’42 (book by Hunter Foster), which ran off-Broadway at the Variety Arts Theatre, and Party Come Here (book by Daniel Goldfarb), seen at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2007. He also wrote the score to the holiday musical Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (book by Myles McDonnell), and is a contributing songwriter for the Disney Channel TV series, “Johnny and the Sprites”. Regional theatres that have produced his work include Goodspeed Musicals (CT), TheatreWorks (CA), Casa Manana (TX), Mill Mountain Theatre (VA), and the Victoria Theatre (OH). Other upcoming projects include Sing Me a Happy Song (a new revue in collaboration with songwriter Georgia Stitt), and an original musical he is writing with Joe DiPietro. David has received grants from the Jonathan Larson Foundation and from the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. His songs have been recorded by such singers as Lauren Kennedy, Alice Ripley and Kate Shindle, and the score of Summer of ’42 was recently released as a double-CD by JAY Records, starring Rachel York. David is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he received a Bachelor of Musical Arts.

JUDITH IVEY (Director) is the recipient of the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for her portrayals in Steaming and Hurlyburly, the Obie Award for her performance in The Moonshot Tape and countless others for her stage and film work. Most recently, she was honored with the Texas Medal of Arts for Theatre. She also recently toured the U.S. in the one-woman show, Irene O'Garden's Women on Fire. Some film credits include Devil’s Advocate, Washington Square, Mystery, Alaska, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Love Hurts, Compromising Positions, What Alice Found, and Flags of Our Fathers. Judith starred in four television series, the most memorable being Designing Women. Some television film credits include The Long Hot Summer, What the Deaf Man Heard (Emmy nom.), Rosered and Half a Dozen Babies. Ms. Ivey’s most recent directing credit is the off-Broadway production of Secrets of a Soccer Mom. Prior to that she directed The Butcher of Baraboo (Second Stage Uptown Series), Fugue (Cherry Lane Theatre), and Southern Comforts (Primary Stages). Judith directed Bad Dates (Northlight Theatre in Chicago and the Laguna Playhouse), the acclaimed Steel Magnolias (Alley Theatre), and More with Yeardley Smith (Union Square Theatre, and the Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles). Other directing credits include Two For The Seesaw (Westport Playhouse), The Go-For-It Guy (Aspen Comedy Festival), and Soccer Moms (Fleetwood Stage). Ms. Ivey is married to Tim Braine, and is the proud mother of Maggie and Tom. Judith has been a member of Actors’ Equity for 33 years, and the SSDC for 4 years.

DAN KNECHTGES (Choreographer) Broadway: Spelling Bee, 110 in the Shade, Xanadu. Regional: Godspell (Paper Mill); The Boys From Syracuse (CenterStage), Vanities (TheatreWorks, CA); The Girl in The Frame (Goodspeed); The Wiz, Cats (Hangar Theatre); Mame, A Funny Thing…(Surflight Theatre); Don Giovanni (Indianapolis Opera); Carousel, West Side Story (Opera Illinois); The Mikado, HMS Pinafore (Blue Hill Troupe). TV/Film: “It’s a Wonderful Night” (Fatboy Slim), Palindromes (Todd Solondz). BFA Musical Theatre, Otterbein College, member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, SSDC. www.danknechtges.com

ANNA LOUIZOS (Set Designer) Broadway: In the Heights, Curtains, High Fidelity , Avenue Q (also Las Vegas, London, National Tour), Steel Magnolias, Golda’s Balcony (also National Tour), Irvin Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, St. Paul, Detroit, London). Off Broadway: In the Heights (37 Arts); Altar Boyz (also National Tour); tick, tick…BOOM! Other NY: Second Stage, Roundabout, Atlantic, Manhattan Theatre Club, MET. Regional: Paper Mill, Old Globe, Goodspeed, Disney Live Winnie the Pooh (world tour). Art direction, film/TV: “Sex and the City” (HBO), The Secret Lives of Dentists.

JOE AULISI (Costumes) Film: Charlie’s Angels and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (Two-time Costume Designers Guild nomination for Best Costume Design), Pink Panther, Die Hard: With a Vengence, Bowfinger, Stepmom, Bernard and Doris, and more. Received an Emmy nomination for Best Costume Design for the miniseries, “Lincoln.”

PAUL MILLER (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Legally Blonde,Freshly Squeezed and Laughing Room Only; as Associate/Assistant: Macbeth, Company, Sweeney Todd, Little Women, Hairspray, The Producers, Life x3,  The Music Man, The Price, Saturday Night Fever, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound of Music, Titanic, An Evening with Jerry Herman and Smokey Joe’s Café. International: West Side Story (La Scala) and Phantom of the Opera (Lisbon). Off-Broadway designs include: Waiting for Godot (50th Anniversary Production), Addicted,Nunsense (revival) and Balancing Act. His many regional theatre credits include shows at: Baystreet Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodspeed (Chester) and Paper Mill Playhouse among others. Paul’s television credits include Camelot(Live from Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic), several specials for Clairol on Broadway (A&E) as well as special events: This American Life, A Celtic Christmas Sojourn, Broadway Under the Stars, The Holiday Spectacular from Bryant Park and live concert performances by Avril Lavigne, Cyndi Lauper, Mary J Blige among others. Paul has been the Lighting Director for the New Year’s Eve Celebration in Times Square for the last 8 years.

TONY MEOLA (Sound Designer) Broadway credits include Wicked, The Ritz, LaughWhore, Man of La Mancha, Sweet Smell of Success, Copenhagen, Kiss Me, Kate, Footloose, The Lion King (Drama Desk Award), The Sound of Music, Juan Darien, A Christmas Carol (Madison Square Garden), Steel Pier, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The King and I, Moon Over Buffalo, Smokey Joe's Café, Guys and Dolls, Five Guys Named Moe, She Loves Me, The Red Shoes and Anything Goes. London includes Wicked, Kiss Me, Kate, The Lion King, Smokey Joe's Café, and Anything Goes. National and international include Wicked, The Lion King, Les Misérables, Mozart, Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame. Off-Broadway includes Shout!, Here Lies Jenny and The Normal Heart. Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College's Department of Theatre Arts.

CARMEL DEAN (Music Director & Vocal Arranger) Born and raised in Perth, Western Australia, Carmel came to the U.S. in 2001 on a Fulbright Scholarship. Most recently she was Musical Director for Chita Rivera at Feinstein's at the Regency, and was the Vocal Arranger/Assoc. Conductor of Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Other Broadway orchestras: A Chorus Line, The Boy from Oz, Gypsy, Cabaret, Les Miserables. Other credits: Belle Epoque (Lincoln Center), …Spelling Bee (Barrington Stage), William Finn’s Elegies (Lincoln Center, Canon Theatre in Los Angeles), Vanities (TheatreWorks Palo Alto), Chicago (Hong Kong) and the 2000 Olympic Games (Sydney, Australia). She received an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU in 2003, and her music can be heard in season two of Disney TV’s “Johnny and the Sprites.”

LYNNE SHANKEL (Orchestrations) Broadway: Cry-Baby, Company (Musical Supervisor), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Associate Conductor). Off Broadway: Altar Boyz, Summer of ’42, The Thing About Men.