| DOUG OBERHAMER (Music Director). Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional productions and International tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie (MD), Swing! (MD), Crazy for You (MD), Saturday Night Fever (AMD), Frankenstein (MD) and Little Death (MD, Arr./Orch.). Featured trumpet soloist on the Grammy-nominated recording of Swing!, as well as MCA Records Vanessa Daou Slow to Burn. He was nominated for a Jefferson Award for his work on Swing! in Chicago and won a 2008 Bistro Award for excellence in Musical Direction and Arranging/Orchestrating for Little Death.
KINCAID JONES (Book). With a Masters from Stanford University, Kincaid has combined her love of musical theatre and film into successful careers in both industries. Kincaid began in Hollywood as writer/director Lawrence Kasdan’s AFI directing intern; eventually writing, producing and directing for film and television. Recipient of the Barry Manilow Songwriting Award, Kincaid’s other musicals include Middle School Musical, Got God, and an adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts for the Lyric Theatre in Hollywood. LYNNE TAYLOR-CORBETT (Director/ Choreographer) was nominated for two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk for direction and choreography of Broadway’s Swing!. Film: Footloose, My Blue Heaven and Bewitched. Dance commissions: New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Pacific Northwest Ballet. Broadcasts of her work have been seen on Live from Lincoln Center, Live from the San Francisco Opera House and on UNCTV. She and her work Chiaroscuro were featured in Water Flowing Together, a documentary about Jock Soto of the New York City Ballet shown on PBS. She also directed a multi-million dollar project for Disney in China, currently playing in the largest indoor theatre in Asia. |
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BEOWULF BORITT (Scenic Designer). Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lovemusik, Rock of Ages, The Two and Only. Off-Broadway: The Last Five Years, Toxic Avenger, The Other Side, Animals Out of Paper, Sleepwalk With Me, Saint Lucy’s Eyes, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Chefs’ Theatre, Miss Julie, Public, MTC, 2nd Stage, MCC, New Group, Pearl, American Place, Keen Co. He also designed the 2007 & 2008 Ringling Brothers Circus. Awards: Obie, AUDELCO, Barrymore, 2 Lortel Noms, 3 Drama Desk Noms.
FABIO TOBLINI (Costume Designer). 2008 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. Off-Broadway: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Intrigue with Faye (MCC), Batboy the Musical (Lucille Lortel Award nomination). Tours: Fame, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar. Regional: A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre), The Nutcracker (Ballet Arizona). Opera: Tales of Hoffmann and L’Opera Seria (Nationale Reisopera), Zar und Zimmermann (Tiroler Landestheater), Maria de Buenos Aires, Dido and Aeneas (Gotham Chamber Opera), Macbeth (Portland Opera).
VIVIEN LEONE (Lighting Designer) Vivien is happy to be returning to Huairou for a second time to light Broadway Asia’s production of Real to Reel. Vivien has been an associate lighting designer on Broadway for the last 25 years. Current Credits: Revivals of A Little Night Music and La Cage Aux Follies. Other Credits include: Phantom of the Opera, Fosse and Sunset Boulevard for Andrew Bridge. La Boheme directed by Baz Lurhman, lighting by Nigel Levings. Caroline, or Change and Mambo Kings for Peggy Eisenhauer & Jules Fisher. Little Shop of Horrors for Don Holder. Dirty Dancing in North America for Tim Mitchell. Titanic, Big, and Crazy for You for Paul Gallo, and Broadway Bound for Tharon Musser. Vivien also guest lectures at LDI, The Broadway Lighting Master Class, and various colleges on the topic of recording and preserving lighting design.
JEFF SUGG (Projection Designer) is a New York designer. He co-founded the group Accinosco and has co-designed their critically acclaimed trilogy, The Accidental Trilogy. Projection designs include: 33 Variations (Broadway), The Slugbearers of Kayrol Island (Off-Broadway), and The Thomashefsky Project & Let Them Eat Cake/Of Thee I Sing (San Francisco Symphony). Music lighting design: Natalie Cole and Natalie Merchant. Mr. Sugg received a 2007 Bessie, a 2008 Hewes Award, 2008 Obie, and a 2008 Lortel Award.
MATTHEW HODGES (Props Designer) works as a props designer, artisan, and production manager for all types of projects around New York and beyond. Over the years, he has worked at the Juilliard School, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Westport Country Playhouse, Atlantic Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, City Center Encores, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Festival and countless Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
CHRISTOPHER CRONIN (Sound Design). Broadway designs include Will Ferrell’s Your Welcome America, All About Me, God of Carnage, The Vertical Hour, Faith Healer, Bridge and Tunnel, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Life (x) 3, The Graduate (B’way and Tour), Jackie Mason’s Prune Danish, and Much Ado about Everything. As Associate Designer: Hamlet with Jude Law, Enron, Red, Next Fall, Boeing Boeing, Rock and Roll, Thurgood, Macbeth, Frost/Nixon, Butley, Festen, Primo, The Pillowman, A Streecar Named Desire, Democracy, Jumpers, Retreat from Moscow, Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Def Poetry Jam, Hollywood Arms, and Noises Off. International: Spongebob Squarepants, and The Opera Show.
ROBERT-CHARLES VALLANCE (Wig and Hair Designer). Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Play What I Wrote, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Our Town, Hollywood Arms, The Elephant Man, Dance of Death, Amy’s View, The Blue Room, High Society, Master Class, Blood Brothers, My Fair Lady, Anna Karenina, Meet Me In St. Louis. Tours and Off-Broadway: Cinderella (Broadway Asia), Les Miserables (Dominican Republic), Enter Laughing, Vichy, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Dessa Rose, A Second Hand Memory, Valhalla, Arturo Ui, Love Janis, Blue, Little Fish, A Thing of Darkness, Frame 312, Night Heron. www.broadwaywigs.com.
TOM NAZZIOLA (Orchestrations). Orchestration: Edward MacDowell’s “Woodland Sketches” for the New York Philharmonic, US Open 2005 and 2007 opening ceremonies. Commissions: American Composer’s Forum, Lincoln Center Film Society, NJ Youth Symphony, Museum of the Moving Image and the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. Composition: Dateline NBC, CBS News, MTV, BET and ESPN. He is the musical director and composer for The BQE Project, has recorded on over 50 CDs as a percussionist and/or keyboardist, and is the driving performer behind Disney’s Baby Einstein DVDs/CDs.
JEREMY BENTON (Jack/Tap Choreography/Dance Captain). Broadway: 42nd Street (with Shirley Jones). Film: The Producers. National Tours: 42nd Street. Regional: Kennedy Center’s Mame (with Christine Baranski), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Original Cast Recording). World/American Premieres: An American in Paris, Ace, The Witches of Eastwick, Lone Star Love, Stormy Weather.
ELLEN ZOLEZZI (Jill). BFA in theatre from The Boston Conservatory. Off Broadway & Original cast recording: Seussical (Bird Girl #2), Regional: White Christmas (Judy Haynes), Crazy For You (Polly Baker), Mame (Pegeen Ryan). www.ellenzolezzi.com.
CRAIG BLAKE (Swing). Tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie; Grease!. Regional: White Christmas; 42nd Street; Beauty & the Beast. Craig also teaches tap and jazz at several camps and studios across the US. Love to his amazing family and thanks to the Reel to Real team for this experience.
KELLY LYNN COSME (Swing) has danced with various troupes including the Southern Ballet Theatre and the New Dance Group. She obtained a BA in Theatre from the College of Charleston. Select productions: Annie, On the Town, The Fantasticks, Mame, Oliver, Romeo and Juliet.
JOE GRANDY (Ensemble). Productions include 42nd Street, The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Grease, and Singin’ in the Rain. He obtained a BFA in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University and is excited to be of the European premiere of Reel to Real.
DANIELLE JORDAN (Ensemble) is so thankful to be a part of this production. Regional Credits include; Oklahoma and Kiss Me Kate (PMP), Ragtime and Peter Pan (PTC), White Christmas (Carousel), Hairspray (Cape Playhouse) and The Music Man (1st National Tour).
JOSE LUACES (Benson) was last seen in the US Tour of 101 Dalmatians. He has been with Reel to Real since its inception in China, originating the role of Benson. Other credits: Altar Boyz (Juan), She Loves Me (Arpad), West Side Story (Chino), Kiss Me Kate (Hortensio), Disney’s Aladdin (Aladdin), World Goes Round (Man One), A Lie of the Mind (Frankie). www.JoseLuaces.com
REBECCA PALMER (Ensemble, Jill Understudy) obtained her BFA in Musical Theatre from Fredonia State University and has studied acting with Robert McCaskill and voice with Doug Oberhamer. Select productions: South Pacific; Hello, Dolly!; On The Town.
SHAUN PARRY (Joe, Ensemble) has his BFA in Music and Dance from Brigham Young University. Past shows include The Phantom of the Opera (Broadway), Cats (National Tour), Aida (International Tour), Evita, West Side Story, Oklahoma, The Fantasticks, and Beauty and the Beast.
KIIRA SCHMIDT (Ensemble). B’way: White Christmas (Rita); No No Nannette; Stairway to Paradise. Regional: MAME; Oklahoma!; Dancing in the Dark; A Chorus Line, Showboat, Sweet Charity; West Side Story; White Christmas. Love and light to her friends and family. A special thank you to Jeremy and Lynn!
VANESSA SONON (Bombshell). B’way: 42nd Street and Spamalot. Tours: 42nd Street and Spamalot. Other: Backwards in High Heels; White Christmas; On the Town and Baby. BFA in musical theater from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Thanks to family, her friends and Chris for always supporting her.
JASON SPARKS (Ensemble). Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Les Miserables; Copacabana; Grease; Bye Bye Birdie; The Boy Friend. BFA in Musical Theatre from Penn State. Many thanks to Mom and Dad, Natalie at Clear Talent Group, Stevie, and his new family in NYC.
DOUG STENDER (Cheever). B’way: Pygmalion; Caine Mutiny; Heartbreak House; Noises Off; The Visit; Run For Your Wife; The Changin Room. Off-B’way: The Rivalry; Passion Play; London Suite; Blithe Spirit; The Libertine. TV: “Law & Order.” Graduate of RADA. Former member of RSC.