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Ru thie Baker (Doralee) is include, Off- Broadway: If This Hat Could Talk (Apollo tickled pi nk to be maki ng her Tent theatre Theatre); A Doll's Ufe, EIi::.abeth And Essex (York Theatre debut! Regional: Evita (Eva Peron), Co.); Coletfe College (Theatre at St. Peter's Church); The Sisters of SlVing (Patty Andrews), Into Fantasticks. Regional: The School For Husbands (West the Woods (Cinderella). Ollce Upon a port Country Playhou e); The Bungler (Long Wharf The Mal/ress (Winnifred) alld Ch ildrell of atre); Wonderful Tennessee (McCarter Theatre); Mirelle Eden (Yonah) . Ruth ie ori ginated the role (Goodspeed Opera House); Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story of Signe in the musical "Chu rch Basement Ladies" and (Walnut Street Theatre); My Fair Lady (Cleveland Opera); can be heard on the original cast recording. A native The Grapes Of Wrath (Cleveland Play House); Romeo And of Minne ota, she currentl y li ves in YC with her tall Ju liet (A lley Theatre); Othello, All 's Well That Ends Well English husband and their dog, Crumpet. Thi one's fo r (Shakespeare Festi val of Dallas); A Midsummer s Nights you Mom & Dad! www.ruthiebaker.com Dream , As You U ke It (Hou ton Shake peare Festi val). Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar, Camelor. Jermainc Blackwell. Kansas City nati ve. (S)MS U Graduate. Tent Theatre debut. '---:::10;::--'" Shain Fike. A nati ve of KY, Shai n calls An actor ba ed out of New York City, New York City home and is honored to be a Jermai ne was recently awarded the 201 2 part of the 50,hAll Star Season of Tent The NBC Universal/Peoples Improv Theatre atre. Credits include - Broadway National Di versity Scholarship. Off- Broadway: Tour: Glen Guglia, The Wedding Singer Phantasmagoria. Favorite NYC Credits: the Musical; Cowboy Bob, Footloose; Wes Carnegie Hall ; Matt 's Williams dance rete ll ing of Hightower, Urban COlVboy (PremierIWork Olle FLelV Over the Cuckoos Nest; BroadlVay Bombs; shop). Regional: Billy Flynn , Chicago; Harold Hill , The Bernice Bobs Her Mullet. Selected Stock! Regional Music Mall ; Frank Butler, Annie Get Your Gun; Oberon, credi ts: The Producers; The 25th Anllual Putnam County A Mid Summers Night Dream. Many thanks to Holland & Spelling Bee; A NelV Brain; Jekyll and Hyde; Pippin; Famil y for their continued love and support! A Mid-Summer Night 's Dream; Ollce Upon A Maltress and the World Premiere musical Old Timer (w/Leif Fred Fitzgerald. Fred is thrilled to be Garrett). As a choreographer hi work ha toured the returning fo r a fourth season under the NY Tri -state area, and has been seen at Sesame Place. Tent. A native Mi ssourian , and a 2010 Jermai ne is a resident choreographer for StoryTime By graduate of Mi ssouri State University, Design and fo r the Nationall y Fra nchised children's Fred now ca lls Los Angeles home. He is music program Little Maestro's. With Little Maestro's currently purs uing an MFA in Production he and his work have been featu red on stage at the Nokia Management at the California Institute of Theatre in Times Square and on nationall y syndicated the Arts. Previous Tent Theatre credits include: ShoUl! television programs. Jermaine made his print debut in Th e Mod MusicaL, Oklahoma!, Joseph and the Amazing the pages of Ghost face Kill ah's hip-hop photobook The Teclmicolor Dreamcoat, Altar Boy~, Anything Goes, and World According to Pretty Toney (published by MTV). You 're a Good Man, Charlie BrolVn. Additional credits The photo (taken by celebrity photographer Dave Hill) include: Fairy Queen (Production Manager), Simple has appeared on the Fox Business Channel, Telemundo Magic (Producti on Manager), The Ufe of the Bee (Produc and bookstores across the nation. You can also hear tion Manager), California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, him singing on the educati onal children's album: " It s CA ; To Kill a Mockingbird (Assistant Stage Manager) A Story Time Jam: Vo lume 1". Proud Member of AEA. Actors Co-op, Holl ywood , CA; Camino ReaL( Assistant "Al ways for Mom." Stage Manager) Theatre@Boston Court, Pasadena, CA. "Special thanks to Michael, Heather, Dr. Bob, Chris and .-----:=""'" Milton Paul Blankenship. Milton is Mark for having me bac k for another season. Love and thrilled to return home to Tent Theatre. thanks to all those who have supported and helped me He is a Missouri State Uni versity graduate along the way. You know who you are'" Fred is a proud and has performed in the II "', 13'h , 40"', member of Actors' Equity Association. and now the 50'" season of Tent Theatre. Memorable shows at Tent include Briga- ~ Jane Labanz. Broadway and National doon, di rected by Dr. Leslie Irene Coger, Tour Appearances: " Hope" in Anythillg Jacques Brei Is Alive Alld Well And U ving In Paris - Goes, with both Patti Lupone and Leslie and Scapillo, both directed by Dr. Robert H. Bradley, Uggams, Sand y Duncan and Stefanie Pow- and Godspell, di rected by Dr. Mike McElhaney. Mr. ers' standby as "Anna" in The King and I, Blankenship also performed as a guest artist in Follies "Ginger" in The Best UtfLe Whorehouse in at the Hammons Performing Arts Center. He joins us Texas with Ann-Margret, " Phyllis" in 42"" direcll y from the Off Broadway premier of the musical Street, Th e Sound of Music starring Marie Osmond, and Hereafter in New York City in which he ori ginated the Bye Bye Birdie with Tommy Tune and Anne Reinking. role of Jason Ri chards. Hi s other professional credits Favorite regional roles: Louise in A/lVays, Patsy Cline at Actors' Equity Company Members New Harmony Theatre, Marian in The Music Man Choreography credits include Refit (Best Choreogra in Pittsburgh, Nellie in George M! at Theatre by the phy Nominee for a Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Sea and Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music at Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Company, Taffetas, Cincinnati Playhouse, a musical which also garnered and Great American Trailer Park and at MSU Musi her a Carbonelle nomination years before, for her cal of Musicals, the Musical! Maggie is an Assistant portrayal of "Anne." Television: Kennedy Centers Professor of Performance at MSU. Honors, Sondheim's Ba' Birthday Concert on PBS . Jane holds a Masters Degree in Conducting. Her Doug Nuttelman. Doug considers this CD, entitled Moon Garden which features vintage a great pleasure to be a pan of the 50th chic songs that weave thru the decades, with her Anniversary season of Tent Theatre! petite orchestra of 13 , is avairable for purchase in the A 2000 BFA Musical Theatre Alumni, retail area, with a ponion of the sales benefiting The his first season of Tent was in '97 when Tent Theatre. She composed the title song. Love, as he appeared in The Pajama Game and always, to my Paul. Lucky Stiff. Doug was then seen in the '98, '99 and '00 companie of Tent, as well as return Christopher Lengerich. Christopher ing in '07 for You 're A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Lengerich is honored to be joining the in ' 10 for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Tent Theatre for this historic season! Bee.