Who-s-who

ROBERT CUCCIOLI (Maurice Chevalier) made his Broadway debut as Inspector Javert in Les Miserables, and, is best known for his critically acclaimed performance as the duel title roles in the Broadway hit Jekyll & Hyde, for which he received a Tony nomination, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards and Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award. Off-Broadway, credits include Temporary Help, Enter The Guardsman, And The World Goes ‘Round (1991 Outer Critics Circle Award), Gigi, The Rothschilds, and he was most recently seen in the acclaimed production of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris. Equally respected for his work in the Classics and Contemporary Plays as well as Musicals, Robert has performed in such notable Regional Theatres as The Guthrie (Antony & Cleopatra), Paper Mill Playhouse (1776, Oklahoma, Lend Me A Tenor, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound Of Music), The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ ( Amadeus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carnival), The Shakespeare Theatre of DC ( Hamlet, Lorenzzaccio 2006 Helen Hayes Award Nomination), the McCarter Theatre and George Street Playhouse ( The Seafarer, A Moon To Dance By with Jane Alexander). Robert just completed a production of Nine at The Westchester Broadway Theatre for which he received critical praise for his performance as Guido Contini. Television: Sliders, Baywatch, The Guiding Light. Film: Woody Allen’s Celebrity, and the independent film The Stranger. He is featured on the original cast recordings of Jekyll & Hyde (Atlantic), And The World Goes ‘Round (RCA Victor), Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (Ghostlight), and The New Picasso (Black Forest Productions). www.robertcuccioli.com.

JODI STEVENS (Marlene Dietrich) Honored to be playing Marlene, Jodi most recently played Claire Strider in UNDER FIRE: THE MUSICAL, based on the hit motion picture for NYMF. Broadway original companies: Urban Cowboy (Pam) Jekyll & Hyde: (Bet/Lucy). Off Broadway and Regional Theatre credits include: Heaven Help Us: A New Rat Pack Musical: Angel (Denver Center and Florida Stage) Harmony: Marlene Dietrich (La Jolla Playhouse) I Can Get it for You Wholesale: Martha Mills (Mufti @ The York) Eliot Ness in Cleveland: Hildy Lincoln, Body Shop: Doris (Westbeth), Antigone: The Musical: Antigone (TADA!), 27 Wagons Full of Cotton: Flora (Intar), Dracula (La Jolla Playhouse), Harmony: Marlene Dietrich (La Jolla Playhouse), Annie: the 20th Anniversary: Lily St. Regis (Goodspeed Opera House), Twelfth Night: Viola (Palm Beach Shakespeare Fest), The 1940's Radio Hour, Me and My Girl, Fen, The imaginary Invalid, Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean. Television: Conviction, Career Horror Stories, Sex and the City, Central Park West, Guiding Light, All My Children and As The World Turns. Film: The Funeral, The Narrow Gate. Vocal Recordings include: Girl Talk (Solo), The Kurt Weill: Centennial, Johnny Mercer's Dream both for The Actor’s Fund, Rodgers and Leonhart (featured guest artist). Jekyll & Hyde (Broadway Cast Album) Her one woman show, A Broad's Way, is now booked at various locations thru 2011.

Jodi is married to Actor/Producer/Director, Scott Bryce, and has a 3 year old son Jackson, who plans to be an elephant doctor when he grows up.

www.jodistevens.com

DONALD CORREN (Eight Fascinating Characters) Donald most recently appeared on Broadway opposite Judy Kaye in Stephen Temperley’s SOUVENIR directed by Vivian Matalon, a production that subsequently toured regional theatres around the country. Also on Broadway, he starred in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy, a performance which earned him both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Drama Critics’ Circle Awards while on tour. Off-Broadway appearances have included the original cast of Jonathan Tolin’s The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night and Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery. Trained at Juilliard, his regional appearances include Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Chico in Animal Crackers at The Arena Stage Company, and John in A Life in the Theatre at The Goodman Theatre. From 1991-99, Donald was Forensic Technician Medill on NBC’s Law & Order, and has appeared on Rescue Me, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. In addition to performing, Donald has written extensively for broadcast and corporate clients, including Martha Stewart’s original weekly television show and first two Christmas specials; and, later, the nightly medals ceremonies for the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Please visit his website: www.donaldcorren.com.

JERRY MAYER (Playwright) grew up in St. Louis, Mo. and has been married forever. After working in the family construction business, Jerry threw caution to the winds and moved to Los Angeles with wife Emily and their three kids, so he could follow his first love, writing. He looks back at that life change with great satisfaction. Before long he was selling scripts to TV shows like “All in the Family,” “M*A*S*H,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Bob Newhart Show,” where he was appointed “Story Editor.” Next, Jerry was kicked upstairs to the job of Executive Producer of NBC hit, “The Facts of Life.” He also was hired to write for icon entertainer Mitzi Gaynor. He wrote Mitzi’s Las Vegas acts and also six of her memorable TV Specials. Jerry’s playwrighting career began when he joined the famed Oliver Hailey Playwright’s Group. His first play, “Almost Perfect,” which Emily produced, was S.R.O. and ran a year and a half at Santa Monica Playhouse, then was published by Samuel French and ran Off Broadway. Since then, Jerry has written a total of eight plays, one of them, a hit musical, “You Haven’t Changed a Bit, and Other Lies,” written with his son, composer Steve Mayer. Jerry Mayer has received Drama Logue awards for comedy playwrighting and his plays have been performed all over the U.S.A., in Canada and in many European countries. www.jerrymayerplays.com

PAMELA HALL (Director) Off-Broadway, Pamela Hall directed the current hit musical Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical, which has been running for over one year at St. Luke’s Theatre. Other Off-Broadway directorial credits include The Rise of Dorothy Hale and Emily Mann’s Annulla, both at St. Luke’s Theatre, Trolls at the Actors Playhouse, Neva Small: Not Quite an Ingenue at Actors Temple Theatre, and the long-running hit, Picon Pie at the DR2 and Lambs Theatres. Ms. Hall directed last season’s National Tour of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical and will again direct the up-coming Off-Broadway production. She is also set to direct Liberace: The Man, The Music and the Memories next season on Broadway. She was nominated for L.A.’s highest theatre honor, the Ovation Award, for her direction of the Los Angeles premiere of The Taffetas. She directed the West Coast premieres of Jeff Daniels’ black comedy, Shoe Man, the Fred Allen bio-play Mr. Allen, Mr. Allen, Maltby and Shire’s Starting Here, Starting Now and the long-running original musical Crazy Words, Crazy Tunes at the Westwood Playhouse. Ms. Hall also directed Hand in Hand: The Un-Musical, the first musical created and performed by the acclaimed Tony-nominated Deaf West Theatre. As an actor, Ms. Hall has played leading roles on Broadway as Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Phil Silvers, Nina in Dear World with Angela Lansbury and Martha Jefferson in 1776 (with William Daniels and Howard DaSilva) and was featured in the all-star Sondheim: A Musical Tribute at the Shubert Theatre. She directed Promenade, the Inaugural production of the LEGACY: THE MUSICALS OF OFF-BROADWAY series, at New World Stages. She had alternated with Madeline Kahn in the original Off-Broadway production of Promenade,

EDMUND GAYNES (Producer) Off-Broadway shows Mr. Gaynes has produced include the current hits Zero Hour, Black Angels Over Tuskegee and Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical, Other Off-Broadway producing credits include The Rise of Dorothy Hale, The Big Voice: God or Merman?, A Brush With Georgia O’Keeffe, Picon Pie, Emily Mann’s Annulla, Trolls, Panache, Chaim’s Love Song, Matty: An Evening with Christy Mathewson, and Bein’ With Behan (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), among others. He also the produced of the National Tour of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical, which is headed for Broadway this season.

He has also appeared as an actor in 13 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows including the Original Cast of Promenade, Edward Albee’s Bartleby and Best Foot Forward, in which he co-starred with Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli and sang “Buckle Down, Winsocki” on the Original Cast album. His TV credits range from Mary Martin’s “Peter Pan” to “Cheers”, “Kojak”, “The Ed Sullivan Show” and two years as “Paul Stewart” on “As the World Turns”. Directors he has worked with include Elia Kazan, Stella Adler, Herb Ross, George Abbott, George Roy Hill, Bobby Lewis, Peter Hunt, George Schaeffer, Robert Moore, Alan Schneider, Joe Layton, Gene Saks, Martin Charnin and Jerome Robbins. Mr. Gaynes currently operates St. Luke’s Theatre, and Actors Temple Theatre and is the artistic director of LEGACY: The Musicals of Off-Broadway.

Ken Lundie (Musical Director/Pianist) most recently was the Co-Creator, Musical Director and Vocal Arranger for the Off-B’way success For Lovers Only as well as Promenade for the new Legacy Series. Ken is audition pianist for hundreds of Broadway auditions each year, was the Musical Supervisor for B’way’s infamous Moose Murders starring Eve Arden, was in the original cast of Crazy For You and the national tour of Joseph and the... Dreamcoat. Musical Direction credits include the acclaimed Lone Star Love, Jimmy Buffett’s Don’t Stop The Carnival, Golf: the musical, A Celebration of the Gershwins starring Rex Reed as well as Barnum, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Full Monty for the Westchester B’way Theatre . Ken toured Europe with Black and Blue, has produced several successful CDs and performs at the new Backstage Cabaret at Dopo Teatro on W. 44th. Mr. Lundie appeared with Dolly Parton in the film Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, with Mae West in Sextette, has been with Radio City Productions since 1999 and was honored to perform at the White House for the Clintons’ 52nd Inaugural Celebration with Carol Channing, Tyne Daly and Lauren Bacall.

Gene Castle (Choreographer) Since moving back to New York last year, Gene directed and choreographed the Off-Broadway production of Babalu-cy! At The Actor’s Temple Theatre, and then did the musical staging both for the Off-Broadway production of Danny and Sylvia, the Danny Kaye Musical, and the National Tour of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical. Upcoming: musical staging for Dietrich & Chevalier: A Musical Love Story at St. Luke’s Theatre and directing a staged reading of the new musical, Too Old for the Chorus. He directed and choreographed On The Town for the San Jose CLO, which won him the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for Best Direction, Choreography and Musical. Other directorial credits include several plays in and around LA. He also wrote, directed and choreographed nine original productions for Dr. Pepper and ten for Princess Cruises. Additional choreographic credits include the Emmy Awards starring Jason Alexander, the feature film Kiss Me Goodbye, starring Sally Field and James Caan, the TV specials Bonnie and the Franklins and the Doc Severinsen Show, Movin’ On, an original Sondheim musical for the Laguna Playhouse, Strike Up the Band at Reprise in L.A., Cinderella at the Long Beach CLO and celebrity tribute shows at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, as well as episodes for TV series and commercials. Gene began his theatrical career as a “newsboy” in the original Broadway production of Gypsy with Ethel Merman and was also featured in the original Broadway productions of Flower Drum Song, High Spirits, Henry, Sweet Henry, and George M! as well as Best Foot Forward Off Broadway with Liza Minnelli. He is married to Jane Actman.

JOSH IACOVELLI (Production Stage Manager/Scenic Designer) Josh is an actor and has also been designing sets and stage managing Off-Broadway productions for the past ten years. He is the in-house Technical Director for the Players Theatre, St. Luke’s Theatre, and the Actors Temple Theatres in NYC . Recent design credits include:The Zero Hour, Cinderella, Black Angels of Tuskeegee, A Christmas Carol, Danny and Sylvia, Lansky, Don’t Leave It All to Your Children, The Rise of Dorothy Hale, Treasure Island, Eightballs, The Selfish Giant, At War, Give‘Em Hell, Harry!”, and Annulla. Josh has a B.A. from Stockton College and an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School University.

MOSS KALE ANASTASI (Casting) Formerly Barry Moss Casting, MKA is Barry Moss, Bob Kale and John Anastasi. Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities, Souvenir starring Tony nominee Judy Kaye, August Wilson’s King Hedley II, Little Women, Crazy For You, Jekyll and Hyde, Titanic, and An Inspector Calls among others. Tours: Best Little Whorehouse starring Ann-Margret, 3 Mo’ Tenors (Off-B’way as well), the Atlanta TOTS/Deaf West Big River (dir., Jeff Calhoun), Atlanta TOTS White Christmas, and 3 Mo’ Divas (PBS and Harlem’s Apollo Theater as well) among others. Feature Films: Blood Simple, Dominick and Eugene, additional New York casting for the recent Adam Sandler feature films I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Don’t Mess with the Zohan among others. Television includes Sesame Street, Cosby Show for 10 years and Cosby Mysteries. Upcoming Gates of Gold (B’way), Housewives of Mannheim (Off-B’way), and The Deep Throat Sex Scandal (Off-B’way) among others.