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CAST

	ALLISON BLACKWELL BSC: Ragtime (Sarah’s Friend). Broadway: A Night With Janis Joplin (Aretha Franklin), Pretty Woman: The Musical (Violetta), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Lion King. Favorite roles include Fantine in Les Misérables (Dallas Theatre Center), Dotty/Washing Machine in Caroline, or Change, (Theatreworks Palo Alto, *San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award Best Featured Actress) and Mrs. Segstrom in A Little Night Music (Sacramento Music Circus). TV appearances include The View, The Today Show, PBS Live at Lincoln Center and 66th Annual Tony Awards. Guest Artist with such orchestra as the Philly Pops, Boston Pops, Atlanta Symphony, New York Pops and more. M.M from The Boston Conservatory and B.A from Spelman College. allisonblackwell.com
	BRITNEY COLEMAN A native of Ann Arbor, MI, her Broadway credits include the 2020 revival of Company (Bobbie u/s), Tootsie (Suzie, Julie u/s), Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close (Heather, Betty u/s) and Beautiful (Lucille). First National Tour of Beautiful. Favorite regional memories include Guenevere in Camelot (Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theater and Asolo Rep), Cinderella in Into the Woods (TUTS), Grace Farrell in Annie (MUNY), Marian in The Music Man (Asolo Rep) and Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Old Globe). britneycoleman.com
	ALAN H. GREEN Associate Artist. BSC: Holiday Getaway, The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein, American Underground, The Royal Family of Broadway, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Romance in Hard Times. Alan has been on Broadway in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, School of Rock, Sister Act and Play On! He’s been in multiple First National Tours and is heard on several cast albums — most recently Broadway Bounty Hunter by fellow BSC Associate Artist Joe Iconis. He’s been a featured soloist all over the world including Radio City Music Hall, The White House and the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. His TV work includes Almost Family, Murphy Brown, Unforgettable, Peter Pan Live!, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU and many national commercials. Alan has a degree in Vocal Performance from Rice University, is a Deacon at Metro Baptist Church and a board member here at Barrington Stage. IG: @alanhgreen ALANHGREEN.com
	JACOB TISCHLER is an actor, writer and sourdough bread-baker. After four summers touring with Circus Smirkus, Vermont’s internationally acclaimed youth circus, he earned his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Regional Credits include: New London Barn Playhouse (Catch Me If You Can, Forever Plaid), Northern Stage (Hound of the Baskervilles, Mary Poppins), Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre (Grease, dir. Josh Prince), the historic Walnut Street Theatre (Comedy of Tenors, Holiday Inn, Saturday Night Fever), Westchester Broadway Theatre (Saturday Night Fever) and before the world shutdown, Olney Theatre Center (Singin’ in the Rain, Helen Hayes nomination, dir. Marcos Santana). He’s currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California.
	ALYSHA UMPHRESS Associate Artist. BSC: On the Town, Holiday Getaway, The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein, Funked Up Fairytales and countless concerts. Broadway: On the Town; American Idiot (OBC); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Bring it On!. OFF BROADWAY: Scotland, PA; Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Lortel Nominee and Chita Rivera award winner); Make Me a Song (The Music of William Finn). TV: Girls5eva, Bonding, The Climb, Law & Order: SVU, Royal Pains, Nurse Jackie. RECORDINGS: On the Town, Wonderful Town (with the London Symphony Orchestra) American Idiot, Bring it On!, Fugitive Songs and I’ve Been Played: Alysha Umphress Swings Jeff Blumenkrantz. Love to Joby and Diz.

CREATIVES

GEORGE GERSHWIN (Music) was born in Brooklyn on September 26, 1898, and began his musical training when he was 13. At 16, he quit high school to work as a “song plugger” for a music publisher, and soon he was writing songs himself. “Swanee,” as introduced by Al Jolson, brought George his first real fame and led to his writing a succession of 22 musical comedies, most with his older brother, Ira. The Gershwins’ shows include Lady, Be Good!; Oh, Kay!; Strike Up the Band; Girl Crazy; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing. From his early career George had ambitions to compose serious music. These ambitions were realized in some of his masterpieces, among them “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Concerto in F,” “An American in Paris” and “Second Rhapsody.” In the late ‘20s George became fascinated by the DuBose Heyward novel Porgy, recognizing it as a perfect vehicle for opera using jazz and blues idioms. George’s folk opera Porgy and Bess opened in Boston on September 30, 1935, and had its Broadway premiere two weeks later. In 1937 George was at the height of his career. In Hollywood, working on the score of The Goldwyn Follies, he collapsed and on July 11 died of a brain tumor. He was not quite 39 years old.

IRA GERSHWIN (Lyrics), the first songwriter to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, was born in New York City on December 6, 1896. In 1917, The Evening Sun published his first song (“You May Throw All the Rice You Desire but Please, Friends, Throw No Shoes”). Four years later, Ira enjoyed his first major stage success, Two Little Girls in Blue, written with another Broadway newcomer, Vincent Youmans. In 1924, Ira and his brother George created the smash hit Lady, Be Good! and went on to continue their remarkable collaboration through a dozen major stage scores, producing such standards as “Fascinating Rhythm,” “The Man I Love,” “ ‘S Wonderful,” “Embraceable You,” “I Got Rhythm,” “But Not for Me” and others far too numerous to mention. During his long career, Ira also enjoyed productive collaborations with such songwriters as Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Kurt Weill, Burton Lane and Jerome Kern, with whom he created his greatest song hit of any one year, “Long Ago (And Far Away).” Ira Gershwin died on August 17, 1983, in Beverly Hills, California.

JULIANNE BOYD (Director) is the Founder (1995) and Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company (BSC) where she has directed many productions, including the critically acclaimed West Side Story (2018) and the 2017 hit production of Company, starring Aaron Tveit. She also directed the world premieres of Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son, Mark St. Germain’s Dancing Lessons, The Best of Enemies and Dr. Ruth, All the Way and the critically acclaimed revival of Goldman and Sondheim’s Follies.

Boyd conceived and directed the Broadway musical Eubie!, a show based on the music of Eubie Blake which starred Gregory Hines and garnered three Tony nominations. She also co-conceived and directed (with Joan Micklin Silver) the award-winning Off Broadway musical revue A…My Name Is Alice (Outer Critics’ Award) and its sequel A…My Name Is Still Alice.

From 1992 to 1998 Ms. Boyd served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the national labor union representing professional directors and choreographers in the U.S.

JEFFREY L. PAGE (Choreographer) Associate Artist. BSC: Company and Broadway Bounty Hunter (Berkshire Theatre Award). An Emmy Award-nominated director and choreographer, he spearheaded the 2015 and 2018 Tokyo productions of the musical Memphis, which received four Yomiuri Award nominations, including Best Musical. The first African American to be named the Marcus Institute Fellow for Opera Directing at The Juilliard School. Mr. Page won an MTV Video Music Award for his work with Beyoncé, whose creative team has included him for more than 12 years. His work was featured on Beyoncé’s The Formation World Tour, in her historic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival performance, and in two of her HBO specials. Mr. Page was the associate creative director for Mariah Carey’s Sweet, Sweet Fantasy European Tour, and has been a featured choreographer on Fox Television’s So You Think You Can Dance. He currently is the creative director for singer-songwriter Jazmine Sullivan, most recently working with her on the 2020 BET Soul Train Music Awards. Mr. Page was in the original, award-winning Broadway cast of Fela!. He worked alongside Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori to choreograph the hit Broadway musical Violet starring Sutton Foster (Roundabout Theatre Company). In 2016, he established Movin’ Legacy as an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the ethnology and documentation of contemporary and traditional dance from Africa and the African diaspora. Jeffrey holds a MFA degree, with a concentration in Theatre Directing from Columbia University in New York City, and serves as a lecturer at Harvard University and The Juilliard School. Currently, as co-director and choreographer, he is working with Diane Paulus and the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University to mount the Broadway revival of 1776.

DARREN R. COHEN (Musical Director) Associate Artist. BSC: over 20 shows including Mack & Mabel, Follies, Sweeney Todd, The Pirates of Penzance, Ragtime, Company, West Side Story, Into the Woods and The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein. Broadway/Off Broadway: A Chorus Line, Chicago, Fosse, Make Me A Song (orig. cast recording), Zombie Prom (orig. cast recording), Anyone Can Whistle, A…My Name Is Still Alice, Carnival, The Fantasticks, And the World Goes ‘Round, Nunsense, Show Me Where the Good Times Are, Bar Mitzvah Boy. Regional favorites include: Sacramento Music Circus, Center Stage-Baltimore, Studio Theatre (DC), Goodspeed, North Shore Music Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, The MUNY, Kansas City Starlight, Asolo. Author: The Complete Professional Audition (Random House), and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Cohen resides in New York City.  darrenRcohen.com. For AHC and CC.

LEX LIANG (Scenic Designer) NYC/Off Broadway: 50+ productions — recent work includes Antigone, Nine Circles and The Bacchae. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance Theatre, Asolo, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center, Geva Theatre, The Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Woolly Mammoth and others. He is the founder and owner of LDC Design Associates, an experiential event design and production company in NYC. Recent projects include Ubuntu Pathways: Fight for Good, Operation Smile’s 35^th Anniversary Gala, The Tony Awards Gala and BCBG’s 30 Year Retrospective. Member, United Scenic Artists-829. LexLiang.com

SARA JEAN TOSETTI (Costume Designer) Associate Artist. BSC: Gertrude and Claudius, West Side Story, Company, Ragtime, Much Ado About Nothing, American Son, His Girl Friday. Sara is a New York City-based costume designer, originally from Paris, France. Recent designs include Salome (LA Opera); Xerxes, Cato in Utica (Glimmerglass Festival); the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s As One (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Cosi Fan Tutte (Juilliard); Carmen, Orpheus in the Underworld, Rinaldo, Cendrillon (Central City Opera); A Flea in Her Ear (Delaware Rep & Westport Country Playhouse); Manuscript, The Exonerated (Daryl Roth Theatre); The Maids, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull Theater); Into the Woods (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). Associate Design credits include the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Bastille, Ceasar’s Palace in Las Vegas and multiple Broadway shows. She was awarded the Princess Grace Award in Design as well as the Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Award. She earned a BFA and MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, with Outstanding Achievement in Design. SaraJeanTosetti.com

DAVID LANDER (Lighting Designer) Associate Artist. BSC: Harry Clarke, Fall Springs, Gertrude and Claudius, West Side Story. Broadway: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Torch Song with Michael Urie and Mercedes Rhuel, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, The Lyons with Linda Lavin, Master Class with Tyne Daly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams (Drama Desk Award; Tony and Outer Critics Nominations), 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Tony and Outer Critics nominations), I Am My Own Wife (Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations), among others. Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Vineyard Theatre, among others. Regional: Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, among others. International Theatre and Opera: Dublin, Delhi, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, among others.

JOSH MILLICAN (Sound Designer) BSC: Holiday Getaway, Fall Springs, Broadway Bounty Hunter. Recent Credits include — NYC/Regional: The Sound of Music (Asolo Rep): Million Dollar Quartet (Weston Playhouse); Eager to Lose, Charlatan (Ars Nova). International: Waitress, Beautiful (Philippines). As Associate: SiX (Broadway); Head Over Heels (Broadway); The Band’s Visit (Broadway [Tony + Drama Desk Award]); Prince of Broadway (Broadway); An American in Paris (Paris/Broadway/West End/U.S. National Tour/China); Sunday in the Park with George (Broadway); She Loves Me (Broadway); The Bridges of Madison County (Broadway/U.S. National Tour); Big Fish (Broadway). Graduate of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

DAVID D’AGOSTINO (Production Coordinator) BSC: The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein, Holiday Getaway, American Underground. In the past decade, his work has taken him to every continental state and several Canadian provinces, working on a variety of national tours and regional productions. Favorite credits include the revival of Pippin, Finding Neverland, Million Dollar Quartet, Cabaret, The Producers, Memphis: The Musical and Man of La Mancha. David has previously worked with the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival as manager of “The PiTCH!” playwright workshop, working on and facilitating several new plays and musicals. Love to Mom, Dad, and Alex!

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE, Nathan Francis, Rebecca Weiss (Casting) (C.S.A.) Associate Artist. Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 19 years. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On the Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; Tribes; Our Town (Barrow Street); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, St. George, Sesame Street, Hack, Californication, Max Bickford, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, etc. mccorklecasting.com

CHARLIE SIEDENBURG (Berkshire Press Representative) (16^th Season) Associate Artist. Charlie joined the BSC family in 2005 and has represented over 130 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today and American Theatre Magazine. His many PR credits include the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse (1999–2004), George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre, Surflight Theatre and Two River Theater Company. He serves as Press Rep for Wagner College Theatre, The Minty Awards, Ghostlight Productions and In The Wings Productions. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation. Last year he was appointed Director of Alumni Relations for his alma mater, Moore Catholic High School.

THE PRESS ROOM (National Press Representatives) Broadway: Hamilton, The Book of Mormon and upcoming productions of The Brothers Size, Chasing Rainbows, Born for This, Paradise Square and Working Girl: The Musical. Recent Broadway credits: The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Farinelli and the King. Off Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Beyond Babel. Other clients include: Vineyard Theatre, The Wooster Group, Shakespeare’s Globe, Theatre Row, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Hunter Theater Project, NY Classical Theatre, Southern California’s 3-D Theatricals, the award-winning web series “Indoor Boys,” actor/pianist Hershey Felder, Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata for the Shaw Festival, and Miami New Drama’s world premiere musical, A Wonderful World.

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