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Sarasota Festival of New Plays Since 1983 SARASOTA FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS SINCE 1983 Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. THE WONDER YEARS By Richard Hopkins and Rebecca Hopkins with Arrangements by Jim Prosser CAST ALAYNA GALLO CHRIS ANTHONY GILES MICHAEL GRAY GRIEVE STACEY HARRIS with JIM PROSSER on piano Music Director Costume Designer DARREN SERVER SUSAN ANGERMANN Lighting Designer Sound/Projection Designer Choreographer MICHEAL FOSTER THOMAS KORP DEWAYNE BARRETT Directed by CATHERINE RANDAZZO Season Underwriters Gaele Barthold, Joan & Larry Castellani, The Exchange of Sarasota, Ty & Liza Gardner, Bob & Wendy Grady, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Patrick & Mary Mulva, Anne H.S. Nethercott Co-Producers Tom Wilson & Patrick Crimmings, Jim & Joan Zawacki, SRQ Media The Wonder Years will be performed The taking of photographs and in two acts with one 15-minute the use of recording devices during the intermission. show is strictly prohibited. Florida Studio Theatre is a Constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre. ARTIST PROFILES ALAYNA GALLO is grateful Broadway: The Megile Of Itzik Manger, The Golden to return to FST! She was last Land, Lone Star Love. Regional favorites: Cabaret seen here in Dancing in the (Sally Bowles - Wilde Award, Best Actress in a Street with the Primadonettes. Musical), The Addams Family (Morticia), 42nd Street Her Broadway credits include (Dorothy Brock), Chicago (Velma & Roxie), Damn Tarzan and Jersey Boys. Yankees (Lola), West Side Story (Anita), Bye Bye Birdie Favorite roles include Eva (Rosie). Northwestern University graduate. Peron in Evita, Ellen in Miss stacey-harris.com Saigon, and Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar. She has JIM PROSSER (Piano/ also been a part of the Chicago 1st Nat’l Tour as well Arrangements) This season as the Australian and South African companies of marks Jim’s 25th season Jersey Boys. as resident pianist in FST’s CHRIS ANTHONY GILES is Cabaret, where he has happy to be a part of his first arranged and co-developed FST production! Hailing from many shows including: Guitar Long Island, NY, Chris recently Girls, Unchained Melodies, finished the two-year run of Dancing In The Street, By Gershwin, European Cabaret, Forbidden Broadway creator That’s Life Again, British Invasion, Too Darn Hot, Older Gerard Alessandrini’s Off- Than Dirt, and last season’s Mack the Knife and Blue Broadway musical spoof of Suede Shoes. He has served as Composer/Music Hamilton, SPAMILTON! Other regional credits: The Director for FST’s Education department, writing Full Monty (Broadway Palm); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (CMT numerous scores for children’s shows such as Deck productions); RENT (Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre); the Halls, Androcles and the Lion, RAP-Punzel, The Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Broadway Palm West). National Velveteen Rabbit, and the WRITE A PLAY Elementary Tours: Memphis, Wonderful Town. Other: Disney Tours. Jim is also a Music Director for FST Improv, Cruise Lines and a host of other performances for which he has played many shows including the around the country. TV credits: Boardwalk Empire, improvised musical, When X Meets Y. The Mysteries of Laura, and various commercials for CATHERINE RANDAZZO (Director/Associate Xfinity Wifi and Airfasttickets.com. Artist) is thrilled to work with the talented team of MICHAEL GRAY GRIEVE The Wonder Years. She directed this season’s Guitar BFA in Musical Theatre at Girls and Unchained Melodies, as well as last year’s the Conservatory of Theatre record-breaking Blue Suede Shoes. She also directed Arts at Webster University, FST’s Winter Cabarets Mack the Knife: The Bobby Class of 2017. Disney Cruise Darin Songbook; Piano Men; Gypsies, Tramps, and Line’s Beauty and the Beast Thieves; and Yesterday. In addition to directing FST (Beast). Other Theatre Credits Cabarets, Catherine has been on the development include Grease (Kenickie), The team for Guitar Girls, Mack The Knife, and Piano Glorious Ones (Flaminio Scala), The Drowsy Chaperone Men. Catherine also leads the artistic oversight for (Aldolpho), and 42nd Street (Pat Denning). FST’s Summer Cabaret Sidekick Series. Catherine STACEY HARRIS is delighted calls Sarasota her artistic home. She has appeared to return to FST, where she in plays, musicals, cabarets, new play readings, was featured in Burt and Me, voice overs, commercials, fundraisers, and toured That’s Life, I Love You, You’re in national and international productions. She Perfect, and That’s Life Again. is the recipient and nominee of various awards Broadway: Bells Are Ringing. for education, national arts awards, and local National Tours: Cinderella, performance awards including “Best Actress in a Show Boat, Dreamgirls. O ff Musical” for her performance as Fanny Brice in Funny ARTIST PROFILES Girl. Other favorite performances include Forbidden Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE, the labor union and Broadway, Cats, The Rocky Horror Show, and The Full professional association for theatrical designers, Monty, to name a few. Most recently, she appeared artists, and crafts people. as Eve in FST’s Mainstage production of Rich Girl. She THOMAS KORP (Sound/Projections Designer) was named one of “Sarasota’s Funniest People” for As FST’s Sound Supervisor, Thom does more than her comedic styles seen in Sarasota’s original political wrangle rogue microphones. Sound design credits comedy group, License to Bash, which was a part of include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- FST’s Cabaret Fringe Festival in 1996. As Associate Time, Straight White Men, Guitar Girls, A Gentleman’s Artist, Catherine serves as Literary Manager, In- Guide to Love and Murder, Unchained Melodies, Once, Residence Director, Teaching Artist, and professional A Chorus Line, Spamalot, Native Gardens, How to Use a actor. Catherine is a graduate of Otterbein University Knife, The Columnist, Talley’s Folley, and The West Side in Ohio with a BFA in performance, and she is a proud Waltz. Mixing Credits: Next to Normal, Smokey Joe’s member of Actors’ Equity Association. Café, The World Goes Round, Tango: Buenos Aires, We DARREN SERVER (Music Director) is proud to be Will Rock You. back at FST for his fourth season. Most recently, DEWAYNE BARRETT (Choreographer) is excited Darren music directed and played keyboard for A to be back choreographing at Florida Studio Theatre Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and music after returning from 3 months in Beijing, China. He directed Unchained Melodies. Last season, he was there Directing and Choreographing Oklahoma music directed: Once, Mack the Knife, Blue Suede at the Central Academy of Drama. This is Dewayne’s Shoes and Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits. At the Asolo fourth show at Florida Studio Theatre. Past shows Acting Conservatory, he music directed Oedipus include: Never Marry a Girl with Cold Feet, Laughing and composed music for The Drunken City. Darren Matters Vol. 5 and Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits. is also the resident MD at Totem Pole Playhouse in SARAH DURHAM (Projection Assistance) is a Fayettville, PA. Interesting fact: Darren’s grandfather playwriting intern originally from Campbellsville, is “Curly” Howard of The Three Stooges and his great- Kentucky. Her writing has been published or uncles are Moe and Shemp Howard. This has always produced in five states, and most recently she won been a source of pride and inspiration for him. the Kentucky Theatre Association’s 10-Minute Play SUSAN ANGERMANN (Costume Designer) began Festival. Sarah studied improv and comedy writing designing for Florida Studio Theatre in 1993 for at Chicago’s Second City, and hopes to continue to the WRITE A PLAY production of The Emperor’s New write joy into people’s lives. Sarah co-wrote Deck the Clothes. She has designed for FST’s Mainstage, Halls: Home for the Holidays, which recently played as Stage III, Cabaret, and WRITE A PLAY productions. a part of FST’s Children’s Theatre series. Among recent productions are Straight White Men, REBECCA HOPKINS (Lead Developer) has been Unchained Melodies, Other People’s Money, Murder for actively involved in development of FST’s Cabaret Two, Always...Patsy Cline, Honor Killing, Shakespeare’s productions since her arrival in 1998. In addition Greatest Hits, The Exonerated, Stalking the Bogeyman, to being Lead Developer on The Wonder Years, this Yesterday, Older Than Dirt, Piano Men, Chapatti, Robin season she was also the Lead Developer on Unchained Hood, and Once. Melodies and was part of the development team for MICHEAL FOSTER (Lighting Designer) This Guitar Girls. Previously she was the Lead Developer production marks Micheal’s twenty second with FST. on Blue Suede Shoes, Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves; He is the Lighting Design Professor in the Department Yesterday; American Pie; and Poems, Prayers, and of Theatre and Dance at Missouri State University Promises. She has been the head writer on all five in Springfield, MO, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree Laughing Matters shows. Some of her favorite shows from the University of Alabama, a Master of Fine Arts she helped develop include: Mack the Knife: The degree from Ohio University, and interned at Central Bobby Darin Song Book; The Prima Donnettes; That’s St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, Life; The Wanderers; My One and Only Gershwin; Hot England. Micheal is a proud member of United Scenic and Cole; The British Invasion; The Flip Side; and ARTIST PROFILES Outlaws and Angels. In addition, she is the Founder Spelling Bee, Boleros for the Disenchanted, Permanent and Producer of FST Improv and the Sarasota Improv Collection, and Metamorphoses, among numerous Festival. Mrs. Hopkins serves as Managing Director other plays. Mr. Hopkins led the development of FST’s for Florida Studio Theatre, and as such, is the Chief Cabaret productions of Guitar Girls, Piano Men, The Operations Officer. Mrs. Hopkins is responsible for Prima Donnettes, Too Darn Hot, and By Gershwin.
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