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Alice Ripley (Norma Desmond) earned critical acclaim and won the Best Actress in a Musical Tony® and Helen Hayes awards for her work as Diana in the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera, Next to Normal.  Ripley received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for her work as conjoined twin Violet Hilton in the cult hit, Side Show.  As part of the original Broadway casts, Ripley created the roles of Mrs. Bateman/Mrs. Wolfe in American Psycho, Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, Molly Ivors in James Joyce's The Dead, Bathsheba in King David, Betty Schaefer in the original Broadway Sunset Boulevard, and the Specialist's Assistant in The Who's Tommy.  Ripley also had a long stay at the Imperial Theatre as Fantine in the original Les Misérables. Alice has just finished starring in the one-woman off-Broadway play Pink Unicorn with Out of the Box Theatrics. Alice can be seen playing Kathleen, Sophia's mother, on the 2017 Netflix half-hour comedy, “#GIRLBOSS.” Other television work includes “Blue Bloods,” “Royal Pains,” “30 Rock,” and “Hee Haw.” She most recently filmed the film 2nd Civil War which will premiere later this year at the TriBeCa film festival. Ripley stars in the award-winning indie musical movie, Sugar!, which played the 2016 festival circuit and recently gained distribution.  Other film work includes Bear with Us, The Way I Remember It (starring Christine Ebersole), Muckland, Sing Along, Isn't It Delicious, and The Adulterer. Ripley is also an accomplished musician and has written and produced her own music.  Recordings include "Daily Practice: Vol 1," "Outtasite," "RIPLEY EP," and "Everything's Fine," as well as numerous Broadway cast and compilation albums
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Nicholas Rodriguez (Joe Gillis) returns to NSMT after playing the Prince in Cinderella (’05) and Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar (’06) Broadway/National Tour: Tarzan, Sound of Music (Captain von Trapp). Off-Broadway: Toxic Avenger, Almost Heaven, Collette Collage, Bajour. Carnegie Hall: Guys and Dolls. Regional: Carousel (Helen Hayes nomination), Mother Courage and Her Children, Oklahoma! (Helen Hayes Award), My Fair Lady (Helen Hayes nomination), Destiny of Desire, Light in the Piazza at Arena Stage, The Ten Commandments at the Kodak Theatre; Paper Mill Playhouse, MUNY, ZACH Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Milwaukee Rep., Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse. Film: Sex in the City II (also featured on the soundtrack). Television: “Tommy,” “Madam Secretary”, Nick Chavez on ABC’s “One Life to Live” (GLAAD Award). His debut album “The First Time...” is available in the lobby and at www.psclassics.com and iTunes. @thenickrod  www.thenickrod.com

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Lizzie Klemperer (Betty Schaefer) proudly returns to NSMT where she was last seen as Eponine in Les Misérables. Lizzie has appeared on Broadway in School of Rock, and Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Bright Star. Other New York credits include A Christmas Story, The Most Happy Fella, and Me and My Girl. She has traveled the US with the first national tours of The Addams Family, and Little House on the Prairie. Favorite regional work includes Lily in The Secret Garden (5th Avenue Theater, TUTS, and Shakespeare Theatre Company), as well as roles at Sacramento Music Circus, Pioneer Theatre Company, and Portland Center Stage. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Syracuse Symphony and the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestras. Proud graduate of the University of Michigan. www.Lizzieklemperer.com
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William Michals (Max von Mayerling) is pleased to return to NSMT after a long hiatus, having appeared as Billy Flynn in Chicago (2002).  Broadway debut as The Beast in Disney’s Beauty And The Beast (and returned to the company to play Gaston); also Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center smash revival South Pacific; Bright Star. Recently created the role of Captain Hook in the acclaimed Leonard Bernstein Centenary production of Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan, directed by Christopher Alden.  Decades of work in top regional, US, and international companies. Title roles: Man of La Mancha, Sweeney Todd, Most Happy Fella, The Music Man, Phantom. Also: Les Misérables (Javert), Kiss Me, Kate! (Fred/Petruchio), The Sound of Music (Captain von Trapp), Camelot (Lancelot), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chauvelin), Scott Schwartz‘s stunning staging of the Menken & Schwartz Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the upcoming tour of Bart Sher’s revival of My Fair Lady. Operatic favorites: Carmen (Escamillo), Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro), Die Zauberflüte (Papageno). Regular solo appearances with leading symphonies of New York, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Colorado, San Francisco, San Diego, Maui, Taipei, Hong Kong – and everywhere in between!  www.WilliamMichals.com
 
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Kevin Massey (Artie Green) is pleased to return to NSMT after playing Fred in the 2005 production of A Christmas Carol. Broadway: Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Monty Navarro u/s), Memphis (Huey u/s), Tarzan (OBC, Tarzan u/s), Deaf West’s Big River (Revival OBC, swing), Antony & Cleopatra (Eros, NYCO at Carnegie Hall). Off-Broadway: Bella: An American Tall Tale (Bonny Johnny/Snaggletooth, Playwrights Horizons). Tours: Gentleman's Guide... (originated Monty Navarro, 1st National), Little House on the Prairie (originated Almanzo Wilder, 1st National, Paper Mill, Guthrie Theater). Europe: Tarzan (Tarzan, Hamburg), Grease! (Doody, tour). Regional: The Rivals, musical (originated Jack Absolute, BRT)  Titanic (Bride, PCLO), The Full Monty (Malcolm, PCLO), Bonnie & Clyde (Ted, Asolo Rep), The Three Musketeers (originated D’Artagnan, Chicago Shakespeare), Pippin (Pippin, Utah Shakes & KC Rep); UNC Morehead-Cain Scholar. Love my Kara, little guy and family @kcmassey1 www.kevinmassey.com
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Neal Mayer (Cecil B. DeMille) returns to NSMT after appearing in the world premiere of Memphis in 2003. Broadway: Les Misérables. National Tour: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, 101 Dalmatians (director, Jerry Zaks).  Off-Broadway: Forbidden Broadway, Mark Felt Superstar, God Shows Up, The Clearing. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Bay Street Theatre, Arena Stage, Goodspeed, Ogunquit Playhouse, Ivoryton Playhouse, Finger Lakes MTF. TV: “Blue Bloods,” “All My Children,” “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” Neal can be heard as St. Aphrodisius on the studio cast recording of Menken & Schwartz’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. www.nealmayer.net
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Robert Saoud (Sheldrake, Police Chief, Jonesy) returns to NSMT after playing Mr. MacAfee in the 2008 production of Bye Bye Birdie, Guildenstern in 2000 production of Hamlet and Andre Cassell in 1999 production of Victor/Victoria.   He was last seen at Greater Boston Stage in Million Dollar Quartet.  He was in the national tour of GROUCHO: A Life in Review playing Chico Marx opposite Gabe Kaplan as Groucho.  Elsewhere in the Boston area he has worked at The Huntington Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The Lyric Stage Company, Speakeasy Stage, Wheelock Family Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, Overture Production and was in the cast of Boston’s longest running show “Shear Madness”.   He has been seen in multitudes of commercials and has appeared in some relatively unknown independent films.  He is a 2000 Fellow of the Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Symposium and has performed numerous cabarets in New York and Boston. He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.
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Brittany Baratz (Joanna, Doctor, Journalist, Writer ) is making her NSMT debut! Theatre credits include: Rose in The Secret Garden (TUTS, 5th Ave, Shakespeare Theatre Company), A Little Night Music (Palm Beach Dramaworks), 1776 (Olney Theatre Center), Man of La Mancha (Inspire Theatre), Knuffle Bunny (Kennedy Center), Alice in Alice Adams (Atlas), Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti (Inscape Orchestra). 2019 Lotte Lenya Competition Semi-finalist. Alumna of University of Maryland, T. Schreiber Acting Conservatory. Special thanks to Kevin & Matthew! Love to EB, BY, & MY. @brittanybaratz www.brittanybaratz.com
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Kyle Braun (Finance Man, Policeman, Salesman, Victor Mature Standby) is excited to be making his NSMT debut!  Kyle has performed, most recently, with Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Derby Dinner Playhouse.  He resides in New York City.  Big thanks to Matthew, Kevin and to all my friends and family for their never-ending love and support!  Enjoy the show!
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Michael Brennan (Salesman, Cameraman, Policeman, Young Writer) couldn't be happier to be making his NSMT debut in Sunset Boulevard. Recent Credits include: Henri Baurel in An American in Paris, Jim Farrell in Titanic (Arizona Broadway Theatre), Captain Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Joe Hardee in Damn Yankees (Mac-Haydn Theatre) and Disney Cruise Line (Magic). Many thanks to Kevin and Matthew for this opportunity. Love to God, his friends, family and Gregg Baker Management for their endless support. Follow him @themichaelbren | michael-brennan.com

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Ashley Chasteen (Harem Girl, Sandy, Jean, Beautician, Assistant to the Director/ Choreographer, Dance Captain) is so happy to return to her NSMT family! A proud Ravenclaw and UGA Alum! NSMT credits: Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, Jekyll & Hyde, and Evita. Other favorite credits: CATS National Tour (Bombalurina), Catch Me if You Can 1st National Tour (Dance Captain/Swing), Marilyn! The New Musical (Vegas), A Chorus Line at the Atlanta Lyric (Cassie), Boy from Oz at Stages St. Louis (Alice), Carousel at the Houston Grand Opera, Pippin and A Christmas Story at TUTS. Ashley shot Greta Gerwig's Little Women this season as a Featured Dancer and the NYC film Hannah and Sonny as the title character. So much love for Kevin, Matthew, and Milton. Thank you for having me on this journey! Love to her family! @ugafan1
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Bobby Conte (John, Salesman, Victor Mature, Undertaker, s/c Cecil B. DeMille) is so excited to be back at NSMT after appearing in A Christmas Carol in 2015 and 2018. Originally from NY, Bobby now calls Louisville, KY his home. Favorite roles: Shrek, Gomez in The Addams Family, Jud Fry in Oklahoma and The Beast in Beauty and the Beast. A huge thank you to Bill, Kevin and Matthew for this incredible opportunity.  So much love to my family in NY and Chicago. And of course to my biggest loves back home; MD, Sebastian and Harvey.
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Christopher deProphetis (Reporter, Choreographer, Salesman, Glenn, DeMille's Asst., u/s Joe Gillis). Tours: South Pacific (1st National), Rent, Miss Saigon. Favorite Regional: Henry Ford in Ragtime (TUTS), Frank Jr in Saturday Night Fever (Riverside), Francis in Forever Plaid (Walnut Street), Cable in South Pacific (Delaware Theatre Co.), Jerry in The Full Monty (Human Race Theatre Co.), Emmett in Legally Blonde (Westchester B’way), and a few productions as Chris in Miss Saigon. TV: Disney’s “Encore” (premiering this fall). Christopher is a graduate of the Guildford School of Acting in England.
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Andrew Giordano (Myron, Manfred, Reporter). Broadway/National/International: 1776 (Rutledge), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Trevor Graydon ), On The 20th Century (Bruce Granit, opposite Alice Ripley) South Pacific (w/ Reba McEntire, Carnegie Hall/PBS),Priscilla Queen of The Desert (Tick), Music of The Night (Raoul/Phantom), Into The Woods (Wolf/Prince), Joseph... (Pharaoh), Sweet Charity (Vittorio), Les Misérables (Javert), Drowsy Chaperone (Aldolpho), Evita (Magaldi), Beauty & The Beast (Gaston), Master Class (w/ Leslie Ugams, Tony), See What I Wanna See (Morito/Husband/CPA), Sunset Boulevard.  www.andrewgiordano.net, @andrewgiordano Thanks, NSMT Sunset creative team!


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Victoria Huston-Elem (Heather, Masseuse, Larissa, Reporter, u/s Norma Desmond) is thrilled to be returning to NSMT after performing in the 2015 production of Sister Act! She was most recently seen as Mrs. Squires in the Goodspeed Opera House’s production of The Music Man. Other favorites include: Finding Neverland (1st National Tour), The Addams Family (1st National Tour), Les Miserables (Lyric OKC), The Circus In Winter (Goodspeed), and Golden Boy Of The Blue Ridge (Prospect, cast album on Spotify/iTunes). Huge thanks to CTG, Kevin, Matthew, PepcidAC, and her incredible parents. www.victoriahustonelem.com
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Eleni Kontos (Harem Girl, Beautician, Jane , s/c Betty Schaefer) is thrilled to be making her NSMT debut! She recently graduated from Rider University in May. Go Broncs! Endless thanks to the casting and creative team, David and everyone at Nicolosi & Co. who made this possible for me. And of course, my incredibly loving and supportive family. Wanna know more about me? www.eleni-kontos.com
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Jesse Michels (Newsreel Crew, Cliff, Salesman, Young Guard, s/c Artie Green) is thrilled to return to North Shore Music Theatre! Previous NSMT credits: Jekyll & Hyde and Mame. Favorite roles: Joseph in Joseph…Dreamcoat (Studio Tenn), Tony in West Side Story, Emmett in Legally Blonde (Arizona Broadway Theatre), Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me, Kate (Virginia Musical Theatre), and Jesse is looking forward to another Holiday season at Radio City Music Hall later this year as a Vocalist in The Christmas Spectacular. A huge thank you to Kevin, Matthew, Milton, and the entire NSMT team for this opportunity, and Gregg Baker Mgmt! www.jessepmichels.com @jesse.michels
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Melissa Shevae Mitchell (Mary, Masseuse, Wardrobe) is so happy to return to NSMT, after last being seen in the '17 production of A Christmas Carol! Some favorite regional credits include Titanic- Kate McGowan, Bridges of Madison County- Ens/Francesca u/s, Miracle on 34th Street- Doris Walker, and Legally Blonde- Ens/Elle u/s. Endless thanks to Kevin and Matthew for the honor to be a part of the magic! And much love to God and her Family! Jer 29:11 IG: @melissashevaem
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Alfie Parker, Jr. (Marino, Salesman, Policeman, Barman, Hog Eye) is excited to join North Shore! Broadway: Disney's Aladdin (ensemble and us/Genie), Chicago (longest running American musical), South Pacific (Lincoln Center revival). Tours: Memphis (first national), Miss Saigon, Evita. Regional: Guys and Dolls, Ragtime, Kiss Me, Kate, The Wiz, HMS Pinafore, Damn Yankees, Barnum, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Swing, Aida, Godspell, Sweet Charity. Pilobolus Dance Company and on file with Cirque Du Soleil. alfieparkerjr.com Instagram: @alfpjr
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Ellen Peterson (Lisa, Reporter, Astrologer, Wardrobe, Waitress)  is thrilled to be back at NSMT where she has most recently been seen in Mame (Mother Burnside), Evita, The Music Man (Mrs. Paroo), Mary Poppins (Mrs. Brill/Bird Woman) and Funny Girl (Mrs. O'Malley). Ellen has also enjoyed working in and around Boston at Theatre By The Sea, Speakeasy Stage Co., The Hanover Theatre, Huntington Theatre Co., Lyric Stage Co., Wheelock Family Theatre, Reagle Music Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Fiddlehead Theatre Co., New Rep and Stoneham Theatre. Ellen has received three IRNE Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress - Mrs. Paroo in NSMT’s The Music Man, Mrs. Brice in Fiddlehead's Funny Girl, and Aunt Eller in Reagle Music Theatre's Oklahoma! 
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Kelsey Schergen (Harem Girl, Dawn, Masseuse) is thrilled to make her NSMT debut! Recently, Kelsey played Ariel in Weathervane Theatre’s The Little Mermaid. Other credits include the national tours of Fame the Musical and The Wizard of Oz. Favorite regional: Cabaret (Theatre Aspen), Black Hole Wedding (NYMF), Chicago (Weathervane), Mamma Mia (Axelrod), Peter Pan (Prather), Jesus Christ Superstar (Arizona Broadway). BFA NYU Tisch. Thanks to her friends, family, and Avalon Artists Group for their endless support! @schergen www.kelseyschergen.com
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Domenic Servidio (Joe Double) is over the moon to be making his North Shore debut. Domenic is fresh off the National Tour of “Friends! The Musical” where he played Joey Tribbiani. Domenic has performed regionally at The Maltz Jupiter theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Gablestage, Totem Pole Playhouse and many others. A massive amount of gratitude to the North Shore creative team as well as his agent APEX Talent. Follow Domenic on Instagram @domdomservidio. Big love to his bisquit.
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Cecilia Snow (Katharine, Danielle, Psychiatrist) is thrilled to be making her North Shore debut! Credits: The Bodyguard (Nicki), Disney on Classic's Hercules (Muse), Ragtime (Sarah), West Side Story (Rosalia/ SW Soloist), Hunchback... (Florika). She'd like to thank Matthew, Kevin, Bill, the cast and crew, her husband, Zackary, and God for this amazing opportunity! www.ceciliasnow.weebly.com
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Chris Stevens (Sammy, Salesman, Newsreel Crew) is thrilled to make his NSMT debut. National Tours: Jersey Boys (Nick Massi), Mamma Mia! (Sky), CATS (Rum Tum Tugger). Regional: Elf (Syracuse Stage), Grease (Engeman Theatre), South Pacific (Walnut Street Theatre), Footloose (Fulton Theatre), Tarzan (WPPAC), CATS (Theatre by the Sea), The Sound of Music (Paper Mill), and 1776 (PSF). NYC: solo shows LIVIN’ THE DREAM, and UNWRITTEN at Feinstein’s/54 Below.  Gratitude to this beautiful cast, our creatives, and my dream team at B.W.A. Endless love to Mom, Dad, Brett, and Jeffrey. Follow: @CJStevens421
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Michael Yeshion (Financial, Reporter, Salesman, u/s Max von Mayerling) returns to NSMT after being seen in Evita. Recent performing credits include Peron in Evita and Saunders in Lend me a Tenor (Resident Theatre Company), Bill Sykes in Oliver! (Forestburgh Playhouse), Major Holmes in The Secret Garden (Cincinnati Playhouse/Baltimore Centerstage), Mother in Kiss of the Spider Woman (Sanford Meisner Theatre), 110 in the Shade (Ford's Theatre). Michael holds a BFA in Acting from SMU. Shout out to my #1 fan, Mumsy, ATB, and the Chappell-Hills. @michaelyeshionphotography
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Janelle Yull (Harem Girl, Anita, Beautician, Hedy Lamarr) is a Boston native and overjoyed to be back at NSMT! Although now based in New York, she made her debut last holiday season in A Christmas Carol. She most recently originated the role of Lucy in the New York debut of new play Sigh No More at New York Theater Festival this past summer. Other recent credits include A Chorus Line (Maggie), Chicago (Liz), Mamma Mia (Ali), The Wild Party (Sally) and various regional and Boston theater. Janelle also filmed Greta Gerwig's Little Women last fall as a Principal Dancer, making her Hollywood screen debut this Christmas, as well as Iris in 2019 film Second Thoughts. Thank you to Kevin and the whole NSMT family, especially her loved ones Mom, Dad, Joe, and Pat. IG: @janelleyull  
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Andrew Lloyd Webber (Composer) is the composer of some of the world’s best known musicals including Cats, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera (which celebrated its 30th anniversary this past year) and Sunset Boulevard. In New York, Sunset Boulevard is running alongside Cats, School of Rock – The Musical, and The Phantom of the Opera, surpassing his previous record of three shows running simultaneously on Broadway. With four musicals running currently on Broadway, he receives the distinction previously held only by Rodgers and Hammerstein. As well as The Phantom Of The Opera and Cats his productions include the groundbreaking Bombay Dreams which introduced the double Oscar winning Bollywood composer AR Rahman to the Western stage. His awards, both as composer and producer, include seven Tonys, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship, the Kennedy Center Honor and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem, his setting of the Latin Requiem mass which contains one of his best known compositions, Pie Jesu. He owns seven London theatres including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the London Palladium. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created an honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997. He is passionate about the importance of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music. In 2016, the Foundation funded a major new national initiative which endowed the American Theatre Wing with a $1.3 million, three-year grant to support theatre education opportunities for underserved young people and public schools across the U.S.
 
Don Black (Book & Lyrics) received two Tony Awards for Best Book and Lyrics of a Musical for his work (with Christopher Hampton) on Sunset Boulevard, which marked his third collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber. They first joined forces to write the song cycle Tell Me on a Sunday, which developed to form the basis of the stage show Song and Dance. They were reunited again for Aspects of Love. Awards include an Oscar for his song ‘Born Free’, five Academy Award nominations, and four Tony nominations. He has written a quintet of James Bond theme songs including : ‘Thunderball’ and ‘Diamonds Are Forever’. Among his many popular songs are two US number ones - ‘Ben’ for Michael Jackson and ‘To Sir With Love’ for Lulu. He was recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
 
Christopher Hampton (Book & Lyrics). Christopher’s plays, musicals and translations have won many awards including four Tonys and three Oliviers. Prizes for his screenplays include an Oscar, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year and awards at the Cannes and Venice film festivals. Plays include Appomattox, The Talking Cure, Tales from Hollywood, The Philanthropist, Savages, Total Eclipse; adaptations from novels Youth Without God (Horváth), Embers (Márai), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos); plus translations of plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Molière, Horváth, Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller. Screenplays include Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement, A Dangerous Method, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed.
 
Kevin P. Hill (Director, Choreographer, Producing Artistic Director). Born and raised in Waltham, Massachusetts, Kevin began his theatrical career as dancer and actor. He appeared in National Touring companies of Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams and Michele Lee, Anything Goes and the International Touring Company of A Chorus Line. New York audiences have seen him in the Off-Broadway production of Party. Regional credits as a performer include: West Side Story, Good News! A Chorus Line, My Fair Lady and Marvin in Falsettoland. Kevin has directed and choreographed over 100 productions across America. He has had the privilege of working with such stars as Marin Mazzie, Joanne Worley, Kathleen Turner, Josh Groban, Jonathan Groff and Tony Award winner, Cady Huffman. In New York, he was the assistant to the director of On the Twentieth Century at the New Amsterdam Theatre and assistant to the choreographer on the revival of Guys and Dolls. He directed and choreographed Jersey Boys, A Christmas Carol, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, Sister Act, and Mamma Mia! here at NSMT, and Mamma Mia!, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Sister Act, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, and Grease at Bill Hanney's Theatre By The Sea in Rhode Island, where he is also Producing Artistic Director. Kevin has been nominated as Best Director/Choreographer for his work on Smokey Joe's Café, Rent, The Full Monty, Chicago, and Edwin Drood, and was awarded the NH Theatre Award for Best Choreography for West Side Story at the Papermill Theatre. Kevin has also been awarded Six Broadway World awards and two Motif awards for his productions of Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins and Young Frankenstein. Future projects include an original danced play called Standing Still. As a Professor of Dance, Kevin has been on faculty at Pennsylvania State University, Kansas State University and most recently The Boston Conservatory of Music. Kevin is a proud member of SDC, AEA and Dance Masters of New England, Chapter 5.
 
Milton Granger (Music Director) returns to North Shore Music Theatre having previously music directed Jersey Boys, A Christmas Carol (’14 – ’18), Hairspray, Jekyll & Hyde, Mame, 42nd Street, Young Frankenstein, The Music Man, West Side Story, Singin’ in the Rain, Mary Poppins, Saturday Night Fever, Anything Goes, Cats and Swing!. As pianist/conductor: Broadway: Mary Poppins, The Woman in White, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cyrano the musical, and Camelot (with Robert Goulet). National Tours: Phantom of the Opera, Big, Sunset Boulevard, Camelot. International: West Side Story. Over 100 regional productions at North Shore Music Theatre, Baltimore CenterStage, Westchester Broadway Theatre and others. Work as composer/lyricist: Two First Prizes in National Opera Association new chamber opera competition; eight chamber operas, performed regularly throughout U.S. and Canada. Several produced musical plays, including Castle Walk (NYMF Next Link Selection), and Peter Rabbit and the Garden of Doom (winner, Actors’ Playhouse competition). miltongranger.com 
 
Kyle Dixon (Scenic Design). Kyle’s scenic artwork may be seen across the United States, from NYC to Las Vegas. Recent scenic designs include: Jersey Boys, Freaky Friday, Oklahoma!, Hairspray! Mamma Mia!, Peter Pan, Mame, 42nd Street, Young Frankenstein, The Music Man, West Side Story (North Shore Music Theatre), Camelot (Westchester Broadway Theatre), The Broadway Classic Music Dance Review (Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Beijing, China), Saturday Night Fever, Newsies, Singin’ in the Rain, Love and Other Fables, Chicago, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mamma Mia! (BroadwayWorld Regional Award), Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Producers, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Music Man, Beehive, Buddy, West Side Story, The Wizard of Oz, Sister Act, and Young Frankenstein (Theatre By The Sea, BroadwayWorld Regional Award), Growing up 70’s starring Barry Williams (Off Broadway), Angelina Ballerina, The Musical (NYC, Toronto, National Tour), Fancy Nancy, the Musical (NYC, National Tour), StinkyKids (Off Broadway Alliance Award), It Shoulda Been You (starring Kim Zimmer) and The Wizard of Oz (Gretna Theatre, BroadwayWorld Regional Award), Xanadu, Doubt, The Secret Garden and The Merchant of Venice (Williams Center for the Arts), and many more. Kyle has designed concert events for Faith Prince, Tommy Tune, Pam Tillis, and the NC Gubernatorial Inauguration Gala (Telly Award). In addition to theatre, he is the designer of NC’s historic Elizabethan Gardens’ Winter Lights, a ten-acre holiday display. www.KyleDixonDesigns.com
 
Anthony Powell (Original Broadway Costume Design) designed costumes for Sunset Boulevard (London, Los Angeles, New York, Canada, Germany, Australia) My Fair Lady (Châtelet, Mariinsky Theatre) and most recently Singin’ in the Rain. Film: winner of three Academy Awards (Travels with my Aunt; Death on the Nile; Tess); costume designs: Papillon, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Indiana Jones, Disney’s 101/102 Dalmatians and Hook. Opera: Rinaldo (London, Germany) Capriccio (Paris) Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La belle Hélène (ENO).
 
Kelly Baker (Additional Costume Design). A graduate of Bridgewater State College, Kelly has been involved with the Costume and Wardrobe department at NSMT since 2010. Previous NSMT Costume Design/Coordinator credits include: Jersey Boys, Freaky Friday, Oklahoma!, Curious George and the Golden Meatball, A Christmas Carol, Hairspray, Jekyll and Hyde, Mamma Mia and Peter Pan. Other companies she has worked for include: The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Concord Academy, New England Conservatory, Greater Boston Stage Company, Odyssey Opera, The Cape Playhouse, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and OIV’s Ouroboros Trilogy. Special Thanks to Kevin for this opportunity, my family and Mark for their unwavering support, and to Kat, Joellen, Amanda, Colleen, Charlie, Hayden, Joey, Rebecca, and Rosemarie for their amazing hard work! Hi Mama!

Jose Santiago (Lighting Design) is happy to return after lighting Jersey Boys, Freaky Friday, Hairspray, Mamma Mia!, Peter Pan, 42nd Street, Evita and Spamalot Past designs include: Saturday Night Fever, Newsies, Singin’ in the Rain, Love and Other Fables, Singin’ in the Rain, Chicago, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mamma Mia!, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and the entire 2016 & 2017 seasons at Theatre By The Sea; Rent, Anything Goes, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Sister Act The Musical, Young Frankenstein, White Christmas (Gateway); Of Mice and Men (Bay Street Theatre); Man of La Mancha, La Cage aux Folles, Mame (The Wick Theatre), Smokey Joe's Cafe (Merry- Go-Round Playhouse). He received his Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design from Florida State University. jsantiagodesign.com
 
Rachel Padula-Shufelt (Wig and Hair Design) is a graduate of Emerson College. Some of her recent costume design credits include Macbeth and Edward II (Actors' Shakespeare Project); Frankenstein (Central Square Theater); Charlotte's Web (American Repertory Theater); S.I.N.S.OFU.S and The Owl Answers (Harvard University); Once, Shakespeare in Love and Men on Boats (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Alice in War and Little Murders (Boston Conservatory at Berklee); Rosenbergs, Lost Tempo, The River Was Whiskey, Mortal Terror, Legally Dead, Absence, Windowmen, Chosen Child, and Reconsidering Hanna(h) (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Ezio (Odyssey Opera); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Doubt, and Uncanny Valley (Stoneham Theatre); and Trad and Crimes of the Heart (Gloucester Stage Company). Shufelt’s received the Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design on Edward II at the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and received a Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design nomination for her work on Windowmen at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
 
Natalie A. Lynch (Production Stage Manager). With NSMT: Jersey Boys, Freaky Friday, Oklahoma!, The 2010 - 2012, 2016 - 2018 Musical Seasons. Other Credits Include: Riverside Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Reagle Music Theatre, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, New Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, STAGES St. Louis, Stoneham Theatre and Maples Repertory Theatre. National Tours: The Magic Tree House: The Musical and A Christmas Carol. Natalie began at NSMT as the SM Intern in 2005 and is thrilled to be back at her theatrical home. She is a graduate of University of New Hampshire and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Special thanks to her parents, her family and friends, and to her fiancé Rachel, for all of the endless love and support.
 
Dakotah Wiley Horan (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be back for the 2019 Season having worked as the Assistant Stage Manager on Jersey Boys, Freaky Friday, Oklahoma!, A Christmas Carol ’16 – ’18, Hairspray, Jekyll & Hyde, Mamma Mia!, Peter Pan, Mame, 42nd Street, Evita, Young Frankenstein, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Music Man, West Side Story, Spamalot and Singin' In The Rain, and as the Production Assistant for Mary Poppins and Funny Girl. Some of her previous Stage Management credits include: Capital Repertory Theatre: Betrayal, Marvelous Wonderettes, Cactus Flower, 33 Variations, Leslie Uggams in Uptown Downtown, Man of La Mancha, and Single Girls Guide. Pendragon Theatre: Clean House, and Twelve Angry Men. She would like to thank her parents for instilling and encouraging her love of theatre, and to her friends and her North Shore family for always supporting her.
 
Robert L. Rucinski (Assistant Music Director). Past NSMT credits include: Jersey Boys, Freaky Friday, Oklahoma!, A Christmas Carol '04-'07 & '10-'18, Hairspray, Jekyll & Hyde, Peter Pan, 42nd Street, School House Rock Live Jr., West Side Story, Singin’ in the Rain '06 & '16, Les Misérables, The Little Mermaid, The King and I, Forever Plaid, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Crazy for You, Cinderella '05-'06, Ain't Misbehavin', Damn Yankees, Camelot, Fame. Robert is thrilled to be returning to NSMT this season. In the past year, he was music director for shows such as The Music Man, Once on This Island, and an award-winning production of Les Misérables at the various high school and university theater programs at which he works. A native of Jersey City, NJ, he now lives in Arlington, MA.
 
Bill Hanney (Owner/Producer) is honored and proud to have been responsible for the re-opening of the nationally renowned North Shore Music Theatre in 2010. He began his career in show business at age 19, leasing and developing movie theaters, including his first multiplex in Quincy, Massachusetts. Before long, he was booking rock shows (Jefferson Starship, Rush) and other types of live entertainment, which eventually led to the presenting and producing of Broadway productions. One such show was an appearance by the legendary mime artist, Marcel Marceau. As president of Broadway Productions, Bill presented national tours such as Annie, Amadeus, Dancin', Peter Pan, The Rocky Horror Show and Mark Twain starring Hal Holbrook, throughout New England including Worcester, Springfield, Portland, Maine and Boston. Aside from his work operating North Shore Music Theatre, one of Bill's crowning achievements was the 2007 purchase and re-opening of Theatre By The Sea, a landmark 500 seat professional summer theatre and restaurant, which has just concluded its thirteenth year of operation in Wakefield, RI (theatrebythesea.com). Throughout his career, Bill has stayed focused on his movie theatre chain having bought, built, owned, operated and sold more than 30 cinemas. His company, Entertainment Cinemas, currently operates seven movie complexes in four states. In 2009, Bill was elected President of the Theatre Owners of New England. Bill's ongoing work with NSMT inspires him to consider acquiring additional performance venues at which he plans to someday share his productions between his theatres. Bill has been named to the North Shore Top 100 by the North Shore Chamber of Commerce. In 2012, he was recognized by both the Beverly Chamber of Commerce and Salem Chamber of Commerce as Business Person of the Year. He is the recipient of the 2015 Leslie S. Ray Hall of Fame Award, presented by the Greater Beverly Chamber of Commerce. Bill is a member of the League of Broadway Producers and was involved with the recent revival of Pippin, as well as developing several new musicals. Bill just launched Cape Live!, a new summer entertainment series at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center in Hyannis.
 
Matthew Chappell (Associate Producer/Casting Director) is honored to continue working with this remarkable creative team as resident Casting Director and Associate Producer for Bill Hanney’s North Shore Music Theatre and resident Casting Director for Theatre By The Sea. An accomplished performer, he is fortunate to have worked all over the world in more than 30 productions, including several shows at NSMT, as lead vocalist in Stephen Schwartz’s Magic To Do for Princess Cruise Lines, and appearances at Feinstein’s/54 Below, The Duplex, Carnegie Hall, and The Metropolitan Room. For many years, Matthew worked as a talent agent, casting associate, and photographer for Heyman Talent Agency, specializing in TV/film, commercials, runway, print and voiceovers. He is a former Associate Producer for Encore International, casting and producing shows for theme parks, cruise ships, and corporate events.
 
Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
 
North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) Since 1955, NSMT has become one of the most attended theatres in New England, with approximately 250,000 patrons annually. With a national and regional reputation for artistic achievement, NSMT has received numerous industry awards including Elliot Norton Awards, IRNE Awards, the Rosetta Le Noire Award from Actors' Equity, and the Moss Hart Award. NSMT produced the World Premiere of Memphis in 2003, the show went on to win four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Under the new ownership of Bill Hanney in 2010, NSMT continues to annually produce a musical subscription series and an annual production of A Christmas Carol along with celebrity concerts, children's programming, and year-round education programs for all ages.


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