Joe Coe* (Assistant to the Production Manager) OUR SPONSORS ABOUT CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY This is Joe’s third season with Center REP and he couldn’t be happier to be a part of such an amazing Chevron (Season Sponsor) has been the leading Center REP is the resident, professional theatre ENTER ERTORY OMPANY OF ALNUT REEK team of professionals and friends! Joe has had corporate sponsor of Center REP and the Lesher company of the Lesher Center for the Arts. Our C REP C W C the pleasure of working with such companies Center for the Arts for the past nine years. In season consists of eight productions a year – a Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American fact, Chevron has been a partner of the LCA variety of musicals, dramas and comedies, both Conservatory Theatre, Summer Repertory since the beginning, providing funding for classic and contemporary, that continually strive Theatre, Suicide Kings touring production of capital improvements, event sponsorships and to reach new levels of artistic excellence and presents In Spite of Everything, Boston Conservatory, more. Chevron generously supports every professional standards. SpeakEasy Stage Company, and Jose Mateo Center REP show throughout the season, and Ballet Theatre. Joe would like to thank all of his is the primary sponsor for events including Our mission is to celebrate the power of the colleagues here at the LCA for a great season and the Chevron Family Theatre Festival in July. human imagination by producing emotionally for making it such a joy to work here! Chevron has proven itself not just as a generous engaging, intellectually involving, and visually supporter, but also a valued friend of the arts. astonishing live theatre, and through Outreach Alex Logemann (Deck Manager) is celebrating and Education programs, to enrich and advance his 24th show backstage with Center REP. Alex Diablo Regional Arts Association (DRAA) the cultural life of the communities we serve. has been backstage for nine seasons and is (Season Partner) is both the primary fundraising beyond pleased to be continuing wearing all organization of the Lesher Center for the Arts What does it mean to be a producing theatre? black for such an amazing group. Alex has also (LCA) and the City of Walnut Creek’s appointed We hire the finest professional directors, actors crewed shows for Contra Costa Musical Theatre curator for the LCA’s audience outreach. and designers to create our productions at and with Diablo Theatre Company (DLOC). Alex DRAA’s role in the community is all about Center REP. These are not touring productions is a proud member of the Fantasy Forum Actors building partnerships with the focused goal – they’re conceived and developed here, the sets Ensemble. He wishes to express how much fun it of enhancing artistic quality at the LCA and and costumes are built in our shops, and the is to do theatre here in Walnut Creek and is very thankful for our community. Our theatre family providing opportunities for everyone to enjoy actors rehearse in our rehearsal hall. Whether is an overflowing fountain of support and it is the arts. Through partnerships with the LCA the production is a Bay Area premiere or a truly remarkable. Alex is excited to see what the and its producers, individual donors, corporate Shakespearean classic, each is devised to be a one future holds for Center REP and wants you to and foundation sponsors and the City of Walnut of a kind, artistic creation that will be a unique please join him as we ‘celebrate the power of the Creek, DRAA plays a vital role in advancing theatre experience for our audience. human imagination’! the arts for the betterment of the community. Dracula Please visit us online at www.draa.org. What does it mean to be a professional theatre? Scott Denison (Managing Director) has been It means that all our artists and artisans are By John Balderston & Hamilton Deane the General Manager for the Lesher Center for Contra Costa Times (Season Media Sponsor) In career theatre-practitioners. Many of the actors the Arts since it opened 20 years ago and has the East Bay, the largest newspaper of the Bay in this production are members of Actors’ Equity worked for the Arts in this area for 38 years. Scott Area News Group is the Contra Costa Times Association or are Equity Membership candidates; has directed over 150 productions, including and its sister editions, the West County Times, many of our directors and designers are members Lighting Designer Scenic Designer Sound Designer The Wizard of Oz, the musical hit Cinderella and Valley Times, San Ramon Valley Times and of professional unions. All do theatre because it Kurt Landisman Kim A. Tolman Cliff Caruthers Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and for the past 14 East County Times. The Times, was judged the is their profession and their passion. Properties Artisan Costume Designer Wigs seasons Center REP’s A Christmas Carol as well as best newspaper in its circulation category in all Fantasy Forum productions since 1972. Scott the state five times in a six-year period by the We are very proud to have the opportunity to Seren Helday Victoria Livingston-Hall Judy Disbrow has also designed lights for over 250 productions, California Newspaper Publishers Association. produce professional theatre for our community Choreographer Makeup Designer Casting Director including the national touring production of In 2005, it won the prestigious national Freedom in the beautiful Margaret Lesher Theatre. Thank Sylvia. In 1979 he created the Shellie Awards, of Information Award from Associated Press you for your support! Kate Jopson Erik Batz Jennifer Perry which annually honors outstanding performing Managing Editors. And, in 2007, it was honored Stage Manager arts achievement in Contra Costa County. Under by the California Newspaper Publishers Gregg Rehrig* Denison’s guidance the Lesher Center for the Association for its leadership on public records. Center REPertory Company Arts presents over 900 public events each year. Managing Director - Scott Denison He coordinates performing arts activities with THANK YOU TO OUR Artistic Director - Michael Butler over 85 producers and producing organizations. OPENING NIGHT DINNER SPONSORS: Cast Scott created the Chevron Family Theatre Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Production Services Production Festival which hosted over 7,000 guests last year. Oi-C Bowl Production Services Coordinator Production Manager Michael Barrett Austin* Emma Goldin Sam Leichter He is also the Managing Director of the Center Scott’s Seafood Restaurant Toni Kilcoyne Jeff Collister Technical Staff Assistant to the Eugene Brancoveanu Thomas Gorrebeeck Kendra Lee Oberhauser REPertory Company producing professional Doug Alvey Production Manager productions each season; and is the director and ADDITIONAL THANKS TO: John Earls Joe Coe Madeline H.D. Brown Taylor Jones Robert Sicular* co-founder of Fantasy Forum Actors Ensemble, Massimo’s Ristorante Nicole Iannaccone Costumes Walnut Creek Baking Company Mitch Kell Costume Manager Lauren Doucette Kate Jopson Michael Wiles* an adult family performing arts company which Iain McKay Michael A. Berg Waters Moving and Storage Costumers presents programs for the young and young at Associated Services-Alta Water Steve Pino Garrick Schuster Jenine Hillaire heart. Scott will also be directing The Lady with Selix Formal Wear of Pleasant Hill Josh Stouffer Amy Nielson All the Answers for REP and CCMT’s Hairspray in Shannon and Mike Demers Audience Services Erin O’Donoghue Hyatt Summerfield Suites Audience Services Coordinator Technical the Spring. Courtney Egg Technical Director Directed by Michael Butler Ticket Office Staff Joshua Lipps CITY COUNCIL ARTS COMMISSION Caitlin Downing Master Electrician Susan McNulty Rainey, Mayor Suzanne Masella, Elizabeth Fazzio Tirzah Tyler Kish Rajan Chair Karla Kopfhammer Carpenters Cindy Silva Vice Chair Britt Lauer Daniel Casini Robert Simmons Reginald Marshall Sarah Leahy Kourtney McCrary October 22 - November 20, 2010 Gary Skrel Fritz Brunner Hillary Pearsall Jordan Scott Lesher Center for the Arts Carol Fowler Benjamin Potter Cameron Swartzell CITY MANAGER Jacquelyn Smith Brian Strachan Chris Swartzell Usher Coordinator Margaret Lesher Theatre Gary Pokorny Scenic Artist The same Carolyn Orlik Education John Meyer professional DIRECTOR Deck Manager Season Oct 28 - Nov 14, 2010 Education Directors excellence that Arts, Recreation and Kerri Shawn Alex Logemann Sponsor you’ve come to Community Services Jeffrey Draper Production Assistants exprect from Barry Gordon Marketing Kourtney McCrary Season Partner Season Media Sponsor Marketing Director Erin O’Donoghue Center REP. Gabe Marin Mat Severns Special Thanks Marketing Associate Administration *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States Even closer up. to Dr. Carl Hirsch Casi Maggio Assistant to the The Lighting Designer and Scenic Designer are members of United Scenic Artists Union and Connie, Adene and Tom Managing Director Presented in the Gail Pfeifer The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society intimate Knight of Hirsch Vision for Program Center REP is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre and Theatre Bay Area Apr 28 - May 15, 2011 Stage 3 Theatre. Vampire Eyes Linda Nomura CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Madeline H.D. Brown (Lucy in England at LAMDA and is thrilled to be back on CREATIVE TEAM Kim A. Tolman (Scenic Designer) Originally Cliff Caruthers (Sound Designer) is a freelance Westenra) “interviewed” Vlad Tepes this side of the pond baring some fangs at Center from Germany, Kim is an award-winning scenic sound designer and composer based in the San Dracula...... Eugene Brancoveanu for a 7th grade project on Dracula REP. John Balderston (Playwright) (October 22, designer whose work in the past decade has Francisco Bay Area. He has created soundscapes Jonathan Harker ...... Thomas Gorrebeeck and is thus thrilled to be making 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 8, graced stages on both the East and West Coasts. and music for over a hundred productions, Sam Leichter (Butterworth/Russian Lucy Westenra ...... Madeline H.D. Brown her first appearance at Center REP with fangs 1954 Los Angeles, California) was an American Kim is excited to once again work with director including Happy Days for Guthrie Theater, Jesus Captain) is thrilled to be back at Center Mina Murray ...... Kendra Lee Oberhauser on. In the Bay Area she has been lucky to play playwright and screenwriter best known for his Michael Butler at Center REP, where their Moonwalks the Mississippi and Victims of Duty REP, where he last appeared in Witness Dr. Seward ...... Michael Wiles* with Aurora Theatre, Brava! For Women in the horror and fantasy scripts. Balderston began his previous collaboration yielded the stunning for Cutting Ball Theater, The Caucasian Chalk for the Prosecution. Sam has worked with Renfield ...... Michael Barrett Austin* Arts, Golden Thread, Mugwumpin (company career as a journalist. In 1927, he was retained Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is also a noted Circle and November for American Conservatory Marin Shakespeare Company (Antony & Cleopatra, to revise Hamilton Deane’s stage adaptation of Vampire Vixens ...... Emma Goldin member), Playwrights Foundation, Psychopomp commercial designer with projects in the Bay Theater, TRAGEDY: a Tragedy, and Crime and Amadeus), African American Shakespeare Company Dracula for its American production. His 1929 ...... Taylor Jones, Kate Jopson and Circumstance Dance Theatre, SF Playhouse Area and in her native Europe -- recent highlights Punishment for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 9 (Othello), Threshold Theatre Project (Exchange, play Berkeley Square later formed the basis of the Miss Swales ...... Lauren Doucette and Shotgun Players. She is Miss Noir City 8 and include design elements for Kraftwerk, a Circles for Marin Theatre Company, Bug and Dead Footprints in the Applesauce), Delaware Shakespeare musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. His Professor Van Helsing ...... Robert Sicular* you can see her hitchhiking on the Noir City Film building outside Zurich, Switzerland. She is also Man’s Cell Phone for SF Playhouse, The Creature for Butterworth ...... Sam Leichter Festival (Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Dracula subsequently formed the basis of the 1931 Black Box Theater, Anna Bella Eema and Drip for Festival poster. Madeline trained under Theatre film version, leading him into a screenwriting considered a pioneer in the scenic design use Lost) and many others. Sam has also understudied Crowded Fire, and Caroline, or Change, Yellow Face de l’Ange Fou’s artistic directors at Ecole de Mime career. he contributed to Frankenstein, Bride of of the 3D modeling software Google SketchUp, TIME AND PLACE leading roles at Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes and and Auctioning the Ainsley’s for TheatreWorks. Corporeal Dramatique and holds a BFA in Acting Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Dracula’s Daughter. having authored a case study for a book that was Transylvania and England, 1897 Cutting Ball. This spring, Sam will make his Marin He is an artistic associate at Cutting Ball Theater, from the College of Santa Fe. He spent much of his career adapting novels for released in France with U.S. edition due later this Theatre Company debut in Fuddy Meers. year. Current and recent design projects include a company member of Crowded Fire, Resident There will be one 15 minute intermission the screen, including The Prisoner of Zenda and Lauren Doucette (Miss Swales) is a La Boheme for Opera San Jose and Noel Coward’s Sound Designer for TheatreWorks, and Sound Kendra Lee Oberhauser (Mina Gaslight, which earned him his second Academy native East Coaster and graduate of Private Lives at DMT. Design Associate for American Conservatory CAST BIOGRAPHIES Murray) is delighted to return to Award nomination (the first was for 1935’s The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, the Center REP stage where she was Lives of a Bengal Lancer). He also collaborated on www.kimtolmandesign.com Theater. Michael Barrett Austin* (Renfield) MA. She is thrilled to be performing last seen in Noises Off (Poppy) this the 1939 film adaptation of Gone with the Wind. Judy Disbrow (Wig Designer) and her company was last seen in 1001 with Just Theater with Center REP for the first time. She was last past spring. Recent credits include: The Norman His 1932 play Red Planet was filmed as Red Planet Kurt Landisman (Lighting Designer) Local Theatrical Hairgoods have provided wigs for at the Berkeley City Club. Other seen as Maggie the Cat in Boxcar Theater’s Cat on Conquests Trilogy at Shotgun Players, Blastosphere! Mars in 1952. audiences will be familiar with his work through theatrical productions for over 30 years. She has recent credits include The Lieutenant a Hot Tin Roof as part of their summer Tennessee By Aaron Loeb and Geetha Reddy at CentralWorks, past productions designed for Center REP including worked with companies throughout the United of Inishmore at Berkeley Repertory Williams Festival. Other favorite roles include and See How We Are by Jon Tracy at Impact Theatre. Hamilton Deane (Playwright) was born in She Loves Me, Noises Off, All Shook Up, Cabaret, Ain’t Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin. His family lived States including Diablo Theatre Company, CCMT, Theatre, Incorruptible at California Conservatory Albertine (My Life with Albertine), Olivia (Twelfth Other credits include: The Women (Center REP), Misbehavin’, Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), close to the families of both Bram Stoker and La Jolla Playhouse, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Theatre and The Odd Couple (Felix) at The Night) and Buckingham (Richard III). Many thanks Six Degrees of Separation, First Person Shooter (SF A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Mousetrap, How Florence Balcombe (Bram Stoker’s wife). Unable San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, Florida Hapgood Theatre. Michael has also played locally to her amazing fiancé for all his love. Playhouse); Loveplay (TheatreFIRST); Chemical the Other Half Loves, Around the World in 80 Days, to find a scriptwriter to take on the project of Grand Opera, as well as many others. with 42nd Street Moon, BRAVA, TheatreWorks, Imbalance (Precarious Theatre); Force of Nature and Fugitive Kind. His designs have been seen Emma Goldin (Vampire Vixen) is bringing Dracula to the stage, Deane wrote the throughout the Bay Area at many theaters including CalShakes, TheatreFIRST, PLAYground, SF (Playhouse West). play himself in a four-week period while he was thrilled to be a part of the Dracula cast. San Francisco Opera, ACT, Berkeley Rep, San Erik Batz (Makeup Designer) is a performer and Playhouse, Pacific Repertory Theatre, San Jose suffering with a cold. He then contacted Florence She was most recently seen in She Robert Sicular* (Professor Van Jose Rep, Theatreworks, California Shakespeare makeup artist/designer and has performed with Stage, The Playwright’s Foundation and The New Stoker, Bram’s widow, and negotiated a deal for Loves Me, also with Center REP. Other Helsing) A Bay Area native, and a Bay Area theatre companies for over 25 years. Conservatory Theatre. Michael toured Italy with the dramatic rights. Deane re-imagined Dracula Festival, The Magic Theatre, and Marin Theatre recent roles include Claire in On the Town with performer since the tender age of Company. Locally his work has garnered 16 Bay Dracula marks a return to Center REP as Makeup Shakespeare at Stinson, was a member of the as a more urbane and theatrically acceptable Diablo Theatre Company (Bay Area Critic’s Circle three, Robert has appeared in theaters Area Critics Circle Awards, 5 LA Dramalogue Designer, following Cabaret in 2009. His designs Columbine Players in WA and OR, toured the character who could plausibly enter London Award Nomination), Laurey in Oklahoma!, Hope in all across the country. Locally, he has performed Awards and 4 Shellie Awards. Nationally, his work and artistry have been seen in productions by the country with The National Theatre for Children society. It was Deane’s idea that the count should Mountain Play Association, Golden Gate Opera Urinetown, Witch in Macbeth (all at UC Davis), and with the Berkeley Rep, ACT, San Jose Rep, Marin wear a tuxedo and stand-up collar, and a flowing has been seen at many regional opera & ballet and worked for The Shawnee Playhouse. Michael and College of Marin. Credits include: Hansel & Snoopy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Studio Theatre Company, San Francisco Shakespeare cape which concealed Dracula while he slipped companies, including the Los Angeles Opera, has also enjoyed work as a director, propmaster Gretel, Send for Mr. Plim, Jackie O., Guys and Dolls, 301 Productions). This past summer, she performed Festival and the California/Berkeley Shakespeare through a trap-door in the stage floor, giving the Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Tulsa Opera, and dramaturg on both coasts. He is a member at the Napa Valley Opera House in The Best of Gilbert Festival. Other theaters include the Denver impression that he had disappeared. Deane also and Ballet Arizona. His designs have also been Man of La Mancha, The Secret Garden, The Wiz and of Just Theater, performs and writes for the and Sullivan for the opera house’s 130th anniversary Center Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, arranged to have a uniformed nurse available at presented off-Broadway, represented at Circle Cabaret. sketch comedy troupe Funny But Mean, and celebration. Emma is a Walnut Creek native and a Seattle Rep, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, performances to administer smelling salts should Rep, and the Douglas Fairbanks Theatres. Other serves on the SF Playhouse Literary Committee. graduate of the University of California, Davis. Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sacramento Theatre anyone faint. Deane’s play premiered in June designs internationally include world premieres Seren Helday (Properties Artisan) is excited Company, the Colorado, Lake Tahoe, Santa Fe 1924. Despite critics’ misgivings, the audiences of plays by Sam Shepard in Japan, and Singapore, to be working on her third show with Center Eugene Brancoveanu (Dracula) This Thomas Gorrebeeck (Jonathan Shakespeare Festivals, the Shakespeare Theatre in loved it. When the play crossed the Atlantic in as well as the San Francisco Opera in Shanghai, REP. She is the resident props artisan for Marin Theatre Company. She has also done props is the debut for Eugene Brancoveanu Harker) is thrilled to be making his Washington, DC, and for eight years, the Oregon 1927, the role of Dracula was taken by the then- China, and the Moscow Circus in Tokyo, Japan. with Center REP. He was born in Center REP debut! Local credits Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Screen credits unknown Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi. It is the for California Shakespeare Festival and San Francisco Playhouse. She spent one year as Romania, and is a 2003 Tony Awardee include: Much Ado About Nothing include recurring roles on General Hospital and Deane/Balderston interpretation upon which the Victoria Livingston-Hall (Costume Designer) Master Carpenter at New Conservatory Theatre as Marcello in Puccini’s La Boheme on Broadway, (Cal Shakes), The Chosen (TheatreWorks), Dead The Young and the Restless, a starring role in the classic Tod Browning film Dracula (1931) was is pleased to return to Center REP for Dracula. based. Center in San Francisco, building some 30 shows directed by Baz Luhrmann. Eugene has been an Man Walking, First Person Shooter, A Few Good Sci-Fi comedy thriller, Never Die Twice, a featured She just recently designed She Loves Me directed for their season. She was also Technical Director opera singer for 15 years. In 2005-2006, he was Men, Lysistrata (City Lights Theater Company), part in the Bollywood potboiler, Dil Pardesi Ho by Robert Barry Fleming, Noises Off, directed Michael Butler (Director/Artistic Director) is of the Live Theatre Workshop in Tucson, Arizona a Young Artist at San Francisco Opera. He has The Real Thing, Last Night of Ballyhoo (Bus Barn Gaya, and the role of “Dad” in Josh Kornbluth’s by Timothy Near, Witness for the Prosecution, in his fifth season as Artistic Director of Center in addition to working as a designer, performer, sung leading roles all over the world under the Stage), Three Sisters, Playboy of the Western World upcoming Love and Taxes. directed by Artistic Director Michael Butler REP, where he directed Around the World in 80 and manager. baton of conductors such as Donald Runnicles, (The Pear). Mr. Gorrebeeck received his B.A. and Cabaret (Shellie Award) directed by Mindy Michael Wiles* (Dr. Seward) has Days, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Marriage of Marco Armiliato, Nicola Luisotti, Stephen Lord, from New York University and has trained with Cooper. Victoria has a diverse background in appeared previously at Center REP Figaro, How the Other Half Loves, Hank Williams: Gregg Rehrig* (Stage Manager) Back Home Again Patrick Summers, Mark Morash (all SF Opera), Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. design including industrial design, interior as Tom in The Glass Menagerie, and Lost Highway, Nixon’s Nixon, A Midsummer – A John Denver Holiday Concert – Lesher Center Paul Revzen in Arizona, MTT San Franscisco design, scenic and costume design. Costuming Taylor Jones (Vampire Vixen) is excited in eight productions of A Christmas Night’s Dream, Enchanted April, Witness For The and Wheeler Opera House, Aspen CO. Cabaret Symphony, George Manahan NYC Opera. Most has been her focus for the last five years here to be a part of her first play with such Carol. Other stage credits include work with the Prosecution, and A Number, as well as acted in - Co-production w/ American Musical Theatre - recently he sang the role of Gonsalvo in his LA REP’s productions of The Mousetrap and Noises Off. and abroad. Her work in London includes, a wonderful cast. She was recently American Conservatory Theater (Edward 2, A San Jose, 5th Avenue Theatre-Seattle, and Ordway Opera debut in Schreker’s The Stigmatized in the His directing work has also been seen at San Jose The Long Hard Goodbye- film, Olympia at the seen as Mimi in CCMT’s production Christmas Carol), American Musical Theater (Big Center for the Performing Arts – St. Paul, MN. American premiere under James Conlon. July Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Laguna Baron’s Court Theatre, S.N.U.B.- feature film- of Rent. She has also appeared in othe shows River), Aurora Theater Company (The Persians), AMTSJ – On The Twentieth Century, Dreamgirls of 2010 he sang the role of Yeletsky in Tel Aviv Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Angry Badger Pictures, Striklem, The National around the Solano County area, Grease (Sandy), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (The Oresteia, Master (Tour), A Chorus Line, Joseph..., Miss Saigon, and under Keri-Lynn Wilson. Eugene returns to Theatre Company, San Jose Stage, Shakespeare Film and Television School, British Society of Class), California Shakespeare Theater (Romeo and Singin’ in the Rain. Gregg puppeteered Audrey his signature role, Don Giovanni, in a revival of Suessical (Gertrude), Frog and Toad (Bird/Turtle) Santa Cruz, and The Juilliard School, of which he Cinemotographers BSC Test Shoot, Viv Skillset Juliet, As You Like It, Scapin, Edward II), Capital II - AMTSJ’s Little Shop of Horrors, starring Hal Berkeley Opera’s Production at the Livermore and others. She is very happy to be working is a graduate. As an actor, Michael has worked Screen Academy, Midsummer Murders for Virgin Stage Company (Fat Pig, Someone Who’ll Watch Linden, Christiane Noll and Josh Lamon. Actor: with Center REP and gives thanks to her friends, on Broadway and off, in regional theatres, film Media and she assisted at the Holland Park Valley Opera in October 2010 directed by Mark Over Me), Marin Shakespeare Company (King Harold in The Full Monty, Uncle Ernie in The Who’s Streshinksky and conducted by Alexander family, and boyfriend for their support. and television. He is a published songwriter Opera productions of Lakme and La Traviata. Lear, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing), Pacific and the co-writer and composer of numerous Tommy, Thenardier in Les Miserables, Narrator/Dr. Katsman. 2011 will see him perform again with Recent work in the bay area includes A Seagull in Kate Jopson (Vampire Vixen/ Alliance Stage Company (Doubt, Betrayal, All music-theatre pieces, which he has directed and Scott -The Rocky Horror Show and the King in Big the Hamptons for Shotgun Players, The ReOrient MTT and the NY Phil and the Philadelphia Phil Choreographer) most recently appeared My Sons, Wonder of the World), San Francisco performed in NY, LA, and at festivals in India and River - Barn Theatre – Augusta MI. Puppeteer Festival for Golden Thread Productions, Abe in The Tomashefskys and a reprisal of the title role as Jailbird in Threshold Project’s Shakespeare Festival (Pericles, Love’s Labour’s Morocco. In his career as a performer he has also - Kaleidoscope - MGM Grand - Las Vegas. Stage Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party for SF Playhouse in Phillip Glass’ Orphee with ensemble paralelle, production of Terroristka. Other Bay Lost), and Tacoma Actor’s Guild (Twelfth Night). danced with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Manager with American Conservatory Theatre, and the NYFringe Festival, among other shows a role which he premiered in Europe in 2001 in Area credits include Pear Avenue Theater, Woman’s Also a pianist and music director, Michael portrayed the villainous Pierre LeChance on The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and San for Crowded Fire Theatre Co. The Magic Theatre, Salzburg. All my love to my wife Youn and my Will, Diablo Actors Ensemble, Playwrights Center proudly serves as co-director of Center REP’s Guiding Light, and played guitar and harmonica Francisco Symphony. and Theatre Artaud. children Elleanna and Alexander “You are all my of SF and SF Shakes. Since graduating from U.C. Young Rep Musical Theater Conservatory. BFA in many rock, blues, and country western bands reasons.” Saranghae. Berkeley in 2009, she completed an intensive study in Acting, Cornish College of the Arts. at all the notable dives in NYC.