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THE BAND Royal. Winner of TMA Best Supporting Actress); La Bête (Comedy Theatre and Music Box Theatre New York); Sunday in the Park with George (West End and Menier Chocolate Factory); Secret Rapture (Bristol Old Vic); Richard II (Berkoff Productions); The Dresser and the British Premiere of Into The Woods (West End); Alice (RSC); The Slow Drag (Whitehall Theatre); Broken Glass (Manchester Library Theatre); Company (Donmar and West End); Sugar Hill Blues (Hampstead Theatre). Winner Olivier Award: best supporting actress in a musical. Television includes: Outlander, Ridley Road, Vera, Doctors, Babylon, EastEnders, The Honorable Woman, Emma, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Extras. Film includes: Kativta & Teresa, Disobedience, The Knot, Sweeney Todd. ASHLEY SAMUELS CORD ELAM Previous Young Vic: Fun Home. Other Theatre includes: Hairspray (London Coliseum); Sunset Boulevard (Royal Albert Hall); Taboo: 20th Anniversary (London Palladium); A Killer Party (Streamed Online); Cruel Intentions (Palais du Variété Spiegeltent, Assembly George Square Gardens); Night of the Living Dead – Live (Pleasance Theatre); Motown: The Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre); The Toxic Avenger (Southwark Playhouse); The World Goes Round (Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Olivier Awards (Royal Opera House) Workshops: The Time Travellers Wife (Dominion Studios); The Monster Bride (Crazy Croqs); The Osmonds, Zombies, Pattie Shop Diaries (The Other Palace); Back to the Future: The Musical (American Church); Cult (Southwark Playhouse). Television includes: Sing On!; This Morning. Short film includes: FiveTwoSix. PATRICK VAILL JUD FRY Young Vic and UK debut. US Theatre includes: Oklahoma! (Broadway, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Bard SummerScape; (Drama Desk and Grammy Award Nominations); Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theatre); Peter Pan (Bedlam); Cabaret (National Tour, Roundabout Theatre Company); Edward II (Red Bull); Camelot, Othello, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Richard II, As You Like It, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC); also work with Bay Street Theatre, Capital Rep, and others. Television includes: Dash & Lily. Film includes: Bleecker, Xmas In July, and short films The Lovers and Research. Voice includes: the Audible podcast series Hot White Heist. Education: MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program (Laura Pels Award for Acting); BA from Bard College where he originated the role of Jud in Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! as a student in its first iteration. MARISHA WALLACE ADO ANNIE CARNES Theatre includes: Hairspray (West End); Waitress (West End); Dreamgirls (West End & Broadway); Something Rotten! (Original Broadway Cast); Aladdin (Original Broadway Cast); Sistas! (Off Broadway); The Book of Mormon (National Tour); Aladdin (Toronto); Oklahoma!, One Night with Janis Joplin, RENT, Hair (US Regional). Television includes: Feel Good; Almost Never; Strictly Come Dancing; Dancing on Ice; The Royal British Legion’s Festival of Remembrance; The Royal Variety Show; Good Morning Britain; This Morning; Songs of Praise; Lorraine; The Tony Awards; Good Morning America. Film includes: Jingle Jangle; Aladdin: Live Action Movie; Disney’s Frozen Fever. Recording work includes: Tomorrow (debut album). RICHARD COLLINS BANJO Previous Young Vic: A Winter’s Tale. Other Theatre includes: The Round House (Chalk house Green), The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-Upon-Avon). Recordings include: The Newgrass Cutters (Mowing down the groove); The Mandolinquents, Dance of the Comedians (The Mandolinquents); A Band Like Alice. History: Richard Collins has been a multi instrumentalist for over 20 years. Having played in many different musical genres from Bluegrass to Classical to Rock n Roll. Recently been touring with Jo Brown, The Newgrass Cutters and the Mandolinquents. Also recorded in Nashville and toured the USA playing the Banjo. NICKI DAVENPORT DOUBLE BASS Theatre includes: South Pacific (CFT); Dick Whittington (NT); Les Mis in Concert (Gielgud); Flowers for Mrs Harris (Sheffield Crucible and CFT); Hadestown (NT); Translations (NT); Pinocchio (NT); Twelfth Night (NT); Fiddler on the Roof (CFT); This is My Family (Minerva at CFT). Theatre deputy credits include: Cabaret (Playhouse); Les miserables (Sondheim); Phantom of the Opera (Queens); Aladdin (Price Edward). Orchestras include: BBCCO, RPO, Aurora, LCO, Mozart Players. SHANE FORBES DRUM KIT Shane Forbes is a session musician/composer. He is the co-founder of the multi award-winning group Empirical (MOBO, Urban Music Awards, Parliamentary Jazz Awards, Jazzwise) who tour, perform and record original music in the jazz idiom. The ethos of Empirical is about taking musical risks while keeping interaction as pure and as in the moment as possible. Shane is also an Educator at Middlesex University and Trinity and Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Previous Young Vic: Nina (A story about Nina Simone). Other Theatre includes: Nina (A story about Nina Simone) (Sweden Tour, Edinburgh Fringe, UK Tour); The Legend of Mike Smith (The Albany Theatre, Birmingham Rep); Guys and Dolls (Royal Exchange Theatre); King (Hackney Empire); The American Clock (The Old Vic); Blues in the Night (Kiln Theatre); Guys and Dolls (Crucible Theatre); The Visit (National Theatre); NHS the Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth); A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve Theatre). Television includes: BBC Proms 34 and 57; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans. Film includes: Diana. TOM GREEN MANDOLIN AND ELECTRIC GUITAR Previous Young Vic: The Scottsboro Boys. Other Theatre includes: Carousel (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); As You Like It (National Theatre Public Acts/Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Violet (Charing Cross Theatre); Chicago, Evita (Phoenix Theatre); In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre); The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick Theatre); Cabaret (Savoy Theatre); Blood Brothers, Evita, Cabaret (UK Tour). Deputy Theatre credits include: Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre); Only Fools and Horses (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Royal Opera House); The Prince Of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); Half A Sixpence (Noel Coward Theatre); Whisper House (The Other Palace); RENT (St James Theatre); The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre); Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre); Cabaret (Lyric Theatre). Recordings include: Speakeasy (TAG productions); Em the Musical (Benjamin Till); The Scottsboro Boys (Original Westend cast recording); Broken Strings (TAG productions);Mandolin Swarm (Spitfire Audio). 10 11
CREATIVE TEAM KATHRYN JAMES VIOLIN DAVINA SHUM CELLO RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN II BOOK, MUSIC & LYRICS LYNN RIGGS ORIGINAL BOOK DANIEL FISH DIRECTOR JORDAN FEIN DIRECTOR Theatre includes: South Pacific, This is my Family Flowers for Mrs Harris, Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Bridges of Madison County (Menier Chocolate Factory); Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre); Much Ado / Love’s Labour’s Lost (Chichester Festival Theatre & Haymarket Theatre); Showboat (Sheffield Crucible & Gillian Lynne Theatre); West Side Story (Sadler’s Wells); Love Story (Chichester Festival Theatre & Duchess Theatre). Deputy theatre credits include: The Phantom of the Opera, Cinderella, Moulin Rouge, Pretty Woman, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Last Five Years, The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Motown, Joseph, An American in Paris, Evita, On the Town and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. JP RUGGIERI PEDAL STEEL GUITAR, ELECTRIC/ ACOUSTIC GUITAR Theatre includes: Oklahoma! (Circle In The Square Theatre, Broadway, NYC). JP has toured and/or recorded with such notable acts as: Charlie Hunter, Viktor Krauss (Robert Plant, Bill Frisell), Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers), Jano Rix (The Wood Brothers), The Waterboys, Jools Holland, and David Ford. JP is also a touring singer/songwriter and is set to release his second album later this year. JPRuggieri.com Theatre includes: Spring Awakening (Almeida Theatre). Opera includes: The Silver Lake, Il Seraglio (English Touring Opera); Madame Butterfly (Iford Arts); La Traviata (Devon Opera); Il Trovatore (Winslow Hall Opera). Session and tour work: with ABC, Tony Hadley, Trevor Horn, Max Richter, Becky Hill, Celeste, Kate Simko and London Electronic Orchestra. Orchestra includes: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Heritage Orchestra, Novello Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. After long and highly distinguished careers with other collaborators, Richard Rodgers (Composer, 1902-79) and Oscar Hammerstein II (Librettist/Lyricist, 1895-1960) joined forces in 1943 to create the most successful partnership in American Musical Theatre. Prior to joining forces, Rodgers collaborated with lyricist Lorenz Hart on musical comedies that epitomized wit and sophistication (Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Babes In Arms, and more), while Hammerstein brought new life to operetta and created the classic Show Boat with Jerome Kern. Oklahoma!, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, introduced an integrated form that became known as “the musical play.” Their shows that followed included Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. Collectively, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals have earned Tony, Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Pulitzer, and Olivier Awards. The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization is a Concord Company, www.rnh.com. (1899 -1954). Riggs was born in Claremore, Oklahoma, was the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, originally produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931. Riggs, whose father was once a cowboy and whose mother was part Cherokee, often set his work in the Southwest, vividly depicting life in the Indian territory. He worked on several Hollywood films (The Plainsmen, The Garden of Allah and Sherlock Holmes in Washington) and wrote about 30 plays (Roadside, Russet Mantle and The Cherokee Night). Riggs’ mother died when he was young and he was raised by his aunt and older sister. His beloved characters of Aunt Eller and Laurey were modeled after them. AGNES DE MILLE ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHER De Mille achieved fame both as a dancer and choreographer. Among her masterpieces are Rodeo, in which she danced, Fall River Legend and Three Virgins and a Devil. Miss de Mille changed the face of the American musical theatre with her choreography for Oklahoma!, which enjoyed a hit Broadway revival in 1979, One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Paint Your Wagon and other memorable shows. Miss de Mille directed and choreographed Allegro, The Rape of Lucretia, Out of This World and Come Summer, and she choreographed the film version of Oklahoma!. Daniel Fish is a New York-based director who makes work across the boundaries of theatre, film, and opera. He draws on a broad range of forms and subject matter including plays, film scripts, contemporary fiction, essays and found audio. His 2019 production of Oklahoma! transferred to Broadway from St. Ann’s Warehouse and won the Tony Award for Outstanding Musical Revival. Recent work includes: El Amor Brujo and The Diary 0f One Who Disappeared (Opera National du Rhin); White Noise (Ruhrfestspiele, Theater Freiburg, Skirball NYU); Michael Gordon’s opera, Acquanetta (Prototype Festival/ Bard Summerscape); Don’t Look Back (The Chocolate Factory); Ted Hearne’s The Source (BAM NEXT WAVE, L.A. Opera, San Francisco Opera). His work has been seen at theatres and festivals throughout the US and Europe: The Walker Arts Center, Mass MOCA, Festival TransAmériques, Teatro Nacional D. Maria, Lisbon/Estoril Film Festival, amongst others. He is graduate of Northwestern University’s Department of Performance Studies and the recipient of the 2017 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for the Theater. www.danielfish.net Jordan Fein is a London based Theatre and Opera director. Theatre includes: Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future (Ars Nova Theatre: New York Times Best of 2018 and Lortel award for Outstanding New Musical); Singlet by Erin Markey (The Bushwick Starr); Indecent (Weston Playhouse); A Ride on The Irish Cream (Abrons Arts Center, ART); The Dixon Family Album (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Dracula, Or The Undead (Williamstown Theatre Festival); War Lesbian (Harunalee); Die Tote Stadt (Bard Summerscape); Dialogues of the Carmelites (Opera Philadelphia); The Skin of our Teeth (Bard College); The Rape of Lucretia (Curtis Opera Theater); The Marriage of Figaro (Curtis Opera Theatre). Associate Director and Director of The Prologue for Cabaret (The Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre); Associate Director for Oklahoma! (Bard Summerscape & Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway). jordanfein.net 12 13
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