is a member of Naked Angels appearing in Coq Au Vin by Jon Robin Baitz, The Cause by Frank Pugliese, The 'Tres Riches Heures' of the Duke of Berry by Kenneth Lonnergan, Scandinavian Scorpions by Nicole Burdette, and Passion Play by Pippin Parker. Other theatre credits include: Celebration/The Room and The Hothouse at Atlantic, Fuddy Meers and Night and Her Stars at MTC, Ten Unknowns at The Taper, Life and Limb, The Substance of Fire, and Baby Anger at Playwright's Horizons, A View of The Dome at NYTW, Sideman at NYS&F and Brighton Beach Memoirs and Big River on Broadway. Television credits include: "Nurse Jackie," "Three Rivers," "Ghost Whisperer," "ER," "Eli Stone," "Kevin Hill," "Sex and The City," "Will and Grace," "The New Adventures of Old Christine," "Law and Order," and "21 Jump Street." Films: Ishtar, Galaxy Quest, Men In Black, Radio, One True Thing, Just a Kiss, The Neighbor, The Vampire's Assistant and the upcoming Country Road K.
originated the role of "Holly" in the Naked Angels Off-Broadway production of Next Fall. Maddie started her career as a teenager in multiple after school specials and such 80s movies as Seven Minutes in Heaven and Some Kind Of Wonderful. She went on to appear in films including My New Gun, Ford Fairlane, Swingers, PCU, Mr. Wrong, I Think I Do, Mickey Blue Eyes, Maid In Manhattan, Beer League, Ira and Abby, Phoebe In Wonderland, Sunshine Cleaning, and Adam. On TV, Maddie played Laura San Giacomo's best friend in the CBS film "Jenifer" and she was a series regular on both "Mr. President" and "All American Girl." Maddie's many guest spots include "Frasier," "Law and Order," "Tracy Takes On," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Law and Order: SVU," and "Damages" Last year she shot David Milch's HBO pilot "Last of the Ninth." On stage, Maddie has appeared in numerous Off Broadway productions including stints at the Public Theatre, Second Stage, AJT and the Directors Company. She starred in the revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Isn't It Romantic at the Tribeca Playhouse. In the next few months Maddie will be seen in the indie films Please Give and It's Not You, as well as the feature Morning Glory. A phi beta kappa graduate of Barnard College, Maddie lives in Westchester with her husband, director Jace Alexander and their 3 nutty kids-Isabelle Moon, Mac and Finn.
Off-Broadway: Next Fall, The English Channel, Perfect Harmony, BFF, Nerds, Valhalla, Corpus Christi, Flesh & Blood, Shakespeare's R & J. Regional: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Roundhouse Theatre; Rough Crossing, Yale Repertory Theatre; The Cry of The Reed, Huntington Theatre Company; The English Channel, Walsh Theater/Vineyard Playhouse; The Four of Us, The Old Globe; Three Sisters, Enrico Four, Antigone, The Doctor's Dilemma, Loot, Richard II, Idiots Karamazov, Cripple of Inishmaan, American Repertory Theatre; The Seagull, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, California Shakespeare Festival; Spring Forward, Fall Back, Theatre J and Vineyard Playhouse. National Tour: Swiss Family Robinson. International: Three Sisters at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival. Film/TV: Gigantic, Trust the Man, Company Man, Overnight Sensation, "The Good Wife," "Fringe," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "The Beat," "Oz". EDUCATION: B.A. Theater Arts, Brandeis University.
is best-known for his role as "Lord Marcus" on the CW's hit drama "Gossip Girl." Additionally in television, he will next appear in a recurring role on "Rescue Me", and has recently guest-starred on "The Good Wife" and "30 Rock." He has appeared in films such as The Nanny Diaries, Tie A Yellow Ribbon, Sweetland (winner of the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival and Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature) and Skin Deep. Heusinger starred as Lancelot, French Taunter, Knight Who Says Ni, Tim the Enchanter, et al in the national tour of Spamalot. Other theater credits include Fyedka in Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof and The Papermill Playhouse's production of Godspell. He recently participated in workshops of Kyle Jarrow's and Nathan Leigh's Big Money with director Shira Milikowski at Ars Nova, and the title character in Steven Sater's Prometheus Bound for director Diane Paulus. Heusinger is a graduate of The Juilliard School. He grew up in Jacksonville, FL and currently splits his time between New York and Los Angeles.
is an actress and writer living in LA. Her film credits include Flags Of Our Fathers, Thank You For Smoking, About Schmidt, Bobby Jones: Stroke Of Genius, Ice Princess, Hope Floats, Stuart Little, Welcome To Paradise, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Flourish, Time Machine, Lost Souls, Idle Hands, My Fellow Americans. In addition to her starring role in the NBC sitcom "The Torkelsons," Ms. Ray has guest starred on numerous television series including recurring roles on "Worst Week," "Providence," "The Pretender," "Entourage," "Greek," "My Name is Earl," and "The George Lopez Show." In New York, she appeared on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles and numerous Off and Off-Off Broadway shows including Smoke on the Mountain, which Ms. Ray also wrote. Smoke on the Mountain ran Off-Broadway for 14 months and was subsequently the most produced musical in America for the last 18 years. The film of Smoke on the Mountain will have songs written by Dolly Parton.
returned to New York from Los Angeles last summer for the Off Broadway premiere of Next Fall. His last Broadway appearance was in the Lincoln Center production of Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter. Other New York theatre credits include Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winning How I Learned To Drive and The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas, both for the Vineyard Theatre; Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning A Soldier's Play with the Negro Ensemble Company; Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot with Danny Glover at the Roundabout Theatre; as well as many new American plays, most as a long standing member of the Circle Repertory Company, including Lanford Wilson's Burn This. He is also a founding member of the Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles where his many roles include The Homecoming, The Seagull, Endgame and The Tavern, for which he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lead Performance, and he co-starred with Judd Hirsch in the National Tour of the Tony Award winning play Art. His television and film work ranges from his debut many years ago as Robert Kennedy in the mini-series "Blood Feud" to his role as the President of the United States in X2: X-Men United, and he can be seen in the new Barry Levinson HBO film "You Don't Know Jack," as a prosecutor trying to put away the infamous Dr. Kevorkian, portrayed by Al Pacino. He also received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 2009 MethodFest Independent Film Festival for the new film Lunatics, Lovers and Poets. He has appeared in over fifty television shows along the way, from the early days of "Hill Street Blues" to last season's "Brothers and Sisters."
New York: National Actor’s Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, Primary Stages, Aquila Theater Co. Regional: Center Stage, Goodman, Old Globe, Long Warf, ACT (San Francisco), ACT (Seatle), George Street, Huntington, Kennedy Center, Berkshire Theater Festival (fourteen seasons). Television: “Without A Trace,” “Law & Order: SVU,” the soaps, “Blaq Jaq” (pilot), “Trinity” “Chicago Hope,” “Ben Franklin” (PBS).
has appeared in Such Things Only Happen in Books, The 49 Project, Perfect Harmony and Dancing at Lughnasa, among other productions. Television: “Law & Order,” “Guiding Light” and “Level 10.” Film: Notes On Being Young, You Should Have the Body, John Jay and The Funeral. BA History, Princeton University; MFA, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.
Broadway: Phantom of the Opera, Urinetown, The Sound of Music. Off-Broadway: Johnny Guitar; A Class Act; Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. Favorites: King Lear, Trust, Cover of Life, Intimate Apparel, Flight of the Lawnchair Man, Threepenny Opera, Private Lives, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Anna Karenina, The Rivals, Sweeney Todd. TV: “The Wire,” “All My Children.”
has worked as an actor both on and off-Broadway, regionally and extensively in film and television. He has directed short plays by Kenneth Lonergan, Frank Pugliese, David Marshall Grant, Theresa Rebeck and Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as Naked Angels’ critically acclaimed production of Steven Belber’s Tape in New York, Los Angeles and London. He wrote, directed and co-starred in the award-winning short film Baby Steps with Kathy Bates, and co-wrote Jenifer, a movie of the week for CBS. He is currently collaborating with Anthony Barrile and Elton John on a score for Showstopper, a screenplay he co-wrote for Ben Stiller’s production company, Red Hour. In addition to his role as a staff writer on ABC's hit series, “Brothers and Sisters,” he currently serves as Artistic Director of Naked Angels, where he's been a proud member for over twenty-three years.
Off-Broadway: Next Fall (Naked Angels), 10 things to do before I die, Len, Asleep in Vinyl, The Dear Boy (Second Stage), boom (Ars Nova), Masked (Daryl Roth Theatre), Christine Jorgensen Reveals (New World Stages), King of Shadows (Working Theatre), Dark Matters (Rattlestick). Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor, The Saint of Bleecker Street (Central City Opera), Don Giovanni (San Francisco Opera Center). Regional: ACT, Barrington Stage, Geva Theatre, Hartford Stage, Indiana Rep, The Old Globe, People’s Light & Theatre, Portland Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Trinity Rep, Two River Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Yale Rep. MFA: Yale School of Drama. www.wilsonchin.com
Career highlights include Jersey Boys; Proof; The Homecoming; Take Me Out; Stuff Happens; King Lear with Kevin Kline; Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington; The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth; How I Learned to Drive; Dinner With Friends; Sight Unseen; Enchanted April; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Corpus Christi; The Normal Heart; The Substance of Fire; Tintypes; Buried Child; The Mineola Twins (Hewes and Lortel Awards); LCT's Henry IV (Tony nomination), The Most Happy Fella, Cymbeline and The Rivals (Tony Award); as well as Jack O'Brien's Il Triittico for The Metropolitan Opera. He is a graduate and faculty member of the Yale School of Drama.
Recent credits include A Lie of the Mind; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Love Child; Ordinary Days; and The Pee Wee Herman Show. Various other NYC credits: Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; concerts at the New Amsterdam including Chess, Hair and On The 20th Century; Jerry Springer The Opera; Rufus Wainwright’s Judy Concert at Carnegie Hall (London and Paris too); Streamers; The Voysey Inheritance; Adrift in Macao; Things We Want; The Internationalist; Burleigh Grimes; Drumstruck; Jacques Brel; I Love You Because; Almost, Maine; Trumbo; Matt & Ben; Cam Jansen; Miss Witherspoon; Privilege; The Dazzle; Fiction; and Jennifer Muller: The Works.
Broadway: original scores for Dividing the Estate, Prelude to a Kiss, A Bronx Tale, Old Acquaintance, Heartbreak House, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, Proof, Sight Unseen, Retreat From Moscow, Enchanted April, Summer and Smoke, Holiday, A Few Good Men. Other NY: The Orphans Home Cycle; Shipwrecked!…; Streamers; Bach at Leipzig; Small Tragedy; many others. The Public Theater: The Singing Forest, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, Skriker, Machinal, The Swan, others. Regional: more than 200 productions. Television: “The Interrogators.” Awards: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie, Eddy, Drama-Logue, NEA Opera Music Theatre Fellowship, Connecticut Critics Circle. www.johngromada.com
Next Fall (Off-Broadway). Associate choreographer/casting: Lincoln Center's South Pacific (2008 Tony Award, Best Revival). Performer (Broadway/Tours): Ragtime, A Chorus Line, Follies, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Tommy. Casting with Telsey + Company (Broadway): Company, In The Heights, High Fidelity and Rent. Teacher/choreographer: SUNY Geneseo and NYU.
Broadway: The Seafarer, Coram Boy, Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun. National Tours: Dirty Dancing, Chicago (seven companies), South Pacific. Off-Broadway/Regional: 2009 & 2008 New York Stage & Film Seasons (Vassar College); Fault Lines (Artios Award) (Naked Angels); This Isn’t Romance (Soho Theatre, London); The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theatre); Rock Doves, A Tribute to Brian Friel (Irish Arts Center); The Opposite of Sex (Magic Theatre); Flight; In This House (Melting Pot). Member: C.S.A. www.hccasting.com
Responsible for more than 50 Broadway shows. Most recent include Shrek the Musical, Exit The King, You’re Welcome America, Boeing-Boeing. Current shows include A View from the Bridge, God of Carnage, Lend Me a Tenor, All About Me and Fences. In addition, Stuart Thompson has produced 15 Broadway plays. David Turner joined in 2008 after previously serving as a company manager and general manager for a number of productions as well as founding the Adirondack Theatre Festival.
Broadway: Oleanna, You’re Welcome America, A Final Night With George W. Bush, To Be or Not To Be, Mauritius, Doubt and The Goat or Who is Sylvia?. National Tour: Doubt. Off-Broadway: Wit, The Laramie Project, Beckett/Albee as well as productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Public Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Also recently served as production stage manager for the live HBO telecast of Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America.
Broadway: The Royal Family, Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America, To Be or Not to Be, Mauritius, Doubt, Frozen, Enchanted April. National Tour: Doubt. Off-Broadway credits include Doubt, Much Ado About Nothing, Frozen, Scattergood, Flesh and Blood as well as productions at Roundabout, HSC, Market Theater and the live HBO telecast of You’re Welcome America. For B.
Current projects: Present Laughter, Next Fall, The Addams Family, A Little Night Music, God of Carnage and the touring companies of The 39 Steps and Shrek the Musical. Past projects include over 150 Broadway shows and their tours. Aurora is Gene O’Donovan, Ben Heller, Rachel Sherbill, Jarid Sumner, Melissa Mazdra, Amanda Raymond, Graham Forden and Liza Luxenberg.
Is one of the top-selling solo artists of all time, with 35 gold and 25 platinum albums and more than 250 million records sold worldwide. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded Elton multiple Grammys, including the Grammy Legend Award. In the 1990s, Elton collaborated with lyricist Tim Rice on The Lion King, winning him an Academy Award. The Lion King and Aida both awarded Elton with Grammys for Best Musical Show Album. Elton composed the music for Billy Elliot, which was nominated for 15 Tony Awards winning 10 including Best Musical. In 1992, Elton established the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which today is one of the leading nonprofit HIV/AIDS organizations. In 1998, the Queen of England knighted him Sir Elton John, CBE. In 2004, Elton received the Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contributions to American culture and excellence through the performing arts..
After 11 years in advertising, David became a filmmaker in 1995, directing the BAFTA nominated documentary Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras. Backed by the Walt Disney Company he founded film production company Rocket Pictures, producing independent films Women Talking Dirty and It's A Boy/Girl Thing. Rocket Pictures is currently in production with animated feature Gnomeo & Juliet, due for release February 2011. David helped develop the concept of turning Oscar-nominated film Billy Elliot into a musical, working with the film's original production team and civil-partner Elton John to produce the stage musical. He remains involved as Executive Producer of the multiple award-winning productions in London, Australia and Broadway. Rocket Pictures recently produced a second series of critically-acclaimed TV series "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with" featuring artists such as Bono, The Edge and Bruce Springsteen. David is a Contributing Editor for British GQ, a Director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and a Trustee for The Old Vic Theatre.
Two-time Tony Award winner for Hair and The Norman Conquests. Ms. Manocherian has also produced The 39 Steps (winner of two Tonys and a Drama Desk Award), Sunday In The Park With George (Tony-nominated), Cyrano de Bergerac and Butley (with Nathan Lane). She has also been involved with numerous off-Broadway and West End productions. Ms. Manocherian is a proud supporter of Naked Angels and has worked with Geoffrey Nauffts in bringing Next Fall to Broadway. Ms. Manocherian is a Tony voter and member of The Broadway League. Love to A, R and her son Ian.
Co-Owner/Managing Partner of RICHMARK Entertainment and an award-winning Producer. Some credits include: Tony nominee (Play 2009) 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda; Souvenir; The Good Body; Golda’s Balcony; Def Poetry Jam; Steve Tyrell in Concert; Adam Pascal Live!; Jay Johnson: The Two and Only; Ennio; George Gershwin Alone; Irving Berlin’s: I Love A Piano; and more. Mr. Willis is a Tony voter, member of the Broadway League and an alumnus of Brown University.
is currently producing Ace coming to Broadway. Producer: Broadway: [title of show]; London: The Musical of Musicals (the Musical), Side By Side By Sondheim. Off-Broadway: Naked Boys Singing!; Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead; The Women Of Lockerbie; Mike Daisey’s 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.Com. General Management: Altar Boyz (NYC & Tour); Criss Angel: Mindfreak; Love Janis. For more information go to www.tomsmedes.com
has been involved in more than 35 Broadway productions over the past 12 years and produced The Story of My Life. She is a published writer of travel books and articles and a former French teacher. She and her husband live in Connecticut and maintain homes in France.
Tony recipient for Dame Edna. Emmy winner for Sweeney Todd in Concert (PBS). More than a dozen Broadway shows including The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Dirty Blonde, A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Class Act, Butley, Mary Stuart, Equus and more than a dozen off-Broadway shows, including Gross Indecency. Current: Memphis, Looped.
co-produced off-Broadway world premiere of Next Fall. Broadway: originated role of Cousin Kevin in The Who’s Tommy. Leading film roles include Hamburger Hill and Kiss Me Guido. Original screenplay Showstopper, written by Barrile and Geoffrey Nauffts, will be produced by Rocket Pictures and Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films. They’re also writing the lyrics in collaboration with Elton John’s original score for the film. Graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse.
is proud to be making his Broadway producing debut with such a dedicated and talented group of professionals and artists. Michael, previously a finance executive in New York, has supported and invested in theater – both on and off-Broadway – for over a decade. He continues to be an active investor in local companies and is involved with several businesses in entertainment and hospitality.
Broadway: 13, A New Musical; Seagull; Boeing-Boeing; South Pacific; Sunday in the Park With George; 39 Steps; Seafarer; Rock N Roll; Journey’s End; Coast of Utopia; Drowsy Chaperone; History Boys; Monty Python’s Spamalot; Pillowman; Glengarry Glenn Ross; Frogs; Jumpers; Fiddler on the Roof; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?; Topdog/Underdog.
is honored to be a part of the production team of Next Fall. He is proud to have been involved with Tony-nominated 33 Variations (B’way), The Cooking King (Samuel French Festival), Mistaken Identity and Running. As a development consultant, James continues to support emerging artists.
Recently produced/co-wrote critically acclaimed hit comedy Desperate Writers (Edgemar Theatre, LA) Actress/Writer: Jessica Desperate Writers, Jill - Premiere A.R Gurney’s Wayside Motor Inn (Manhattan Theatre Club); originated roles in Chris Durang & Wendy Wasserstein plays (Yale); Sly Fox (National Tour Arthur Penn). Rochelle Saturday Night (Cast Theatre LA) TV/film roles include: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arliss, Seinfeld, Jane Austen Book Club, Rat Race. Screenplays developed- Kate Hudson, Disney, Fox)
Probo has been pleased to be involved with: Broadway: The Norman Conquests (Tony 2009, Best Play Revival). Off-Broadway: Groundswell, 39 Steps. Tour: 39 Steps. Sponsor: Ringling International Arts Festival, 2009. Probo Productions is devoted to promoting excellence and integrity through the performing arts. Proboproductions.com
is currently represented on Broadway by The Addams Family and West Side Story. Other recent productions include Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot, History Boys, Legally Blonde, All My Sons, Thurgood and Inherit The Wind. Mr. Furman co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz and is currently Vice Chairman of Jefferies & Company and chairman of Jefferies Capital Partners, its private equity arm. He is Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Chairman Emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Vice President of the New York City Opera.
is committed to strengthening a community of artists through the development and production of new works: Warren Leight’s Side Man, David Marshall Grant’s Snakebit, Stephen Belber’s Tape and Fault Lines, and the Next Fall premiere. Geoffrey Nauffts, (artistic director), John Alexander (managing director), Andy Donald (associate artistic director), Brittany O'Neill (producer).
Next Fall is Susan’s first Broadway production as executive producer. She is a partner at Levine, Plotkin & Menin, LLP, one of the leading theater and intellectual property law firms in New York. She has served as production counsel on numerous Broadway productions.
SpotCo, owned by Drew Hodges and Jim Edwards, is one of the world’s leading full-service entertainment advertising and branding agencies. SpotCo’s work spans a broad base of categories from theater and live entertainment to cultural institutions, museums, film, television, publishing and music. Clients include Radio City Music Hall, The Guggenheim Museum, The New York Botanical Garden, Cirque du Soleil, The Disney Channel, and many Broadway shows including Chicago, Billy Elliot, Hair, In The Heights and West Side Story. Our Broadway clients represent 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 of 8 “Best Show” category Tony Award® winners of the past 2 seasons, and 72 Tony nominations in 2009 alone.
Formed in 1991 by Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown, who jointly bring more than 40 years experience serving as press representatives on more than 200 productions on and off-Broadway, on national tour and in Europe. A representative collection of Boneau/Bryan Brown’s current, recent and upcoming clients include: The 39 Steps, Dirty Dancing, The First Wives Club, God Of Carnage, Jersey Boys (Broadway, London, Las Vegas, Chicago and the National Tour), Mamma Mia! (NY, National Tours, and numerous international productions), Shrek, Spider-Man, Stomp (New York, Las Vegas, London and the European Tour), The Norman Conquests, Mary Stuart, Burn The Floor, A Little Night Music, and Neil Simons Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound. Pulitzer Prize winners include: Angels in America, Doubt, Proof, Rabbit Hole, Top Dog/Underdog, Wit, and Ruined. Recent film work includes the Broadway outreach for “Mamma Mia!”, “Doubt”, “Dreamgirls”, “Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges”, and “Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. For 16 years, Boneau/Bryan-Brown served as Walt Disney Theatrical Productions’ publicist and public relations strategist launching Disney on Broadway.
is a full-service entertainment marketing and advertising agency representing numerous Broadway shows, national tours, performing arts institutions and experiential entertainment entities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Current clients include: Avenue Q, Mamma Mia!, RENT, Hair, Legally Blonde, Billy Elliot, STOMP, In The Heights, Spring Awakening, August: Osage County, Cirque du Soleil, Feld Entertainment, Million Dollar Quartet (Chicago), Washington National Opera (Washington, D.C.), Reprise Theatre Company (Los Angeles), Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall and Hollywood Bowl, Broadway By The Bay (San Francisco), Music Center (Los Angeles) and Hollywood & Highland Center. www.alliedlive.com.