ANITA HOLLANDER (Mrs. Brayne, Screamer)

Ms. Hollander has performed throughout Europe and America at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the New York Shakespeare Festival, London's Half Moon Theatre, and The White House. Her orignial one-woman musical, Still Standing, has been produced off-Broadway, on CD, and at theaters across the country. A 1997 Helen Hayes Award nominee, Ms. Hollander has been featured on BBC/London's From the Edge, narrated the PBS series "People in Motion" and has appeared as Rita on As the World Turns. She is proud to have originated the title role of the 1998 award-winning Gretty Good Time.

RODNEY D. HUSSEY (Mr. Pencil, The Big Bleeper)

Mr. Hussey has appeared in Pippin, Man of La Mancha, The Gospel at Colonus, One Mo' Time and Once on This Island, all with the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Other D.C. credits include Gallaudet University's Model School for Secondary Development productions of Tabloids and The Wiz under the direction of Tim McCarty. Staged readings include Black Like Coffee for Arena Stage and Take a Giant Step for African Continuum Theatre. Kennedy Center productions include Bells Are Ringing with Faith Prince, Purlie with Stephanie Mills, Soul Possessed under the direction of Debbie Allen and starring Patti LaBelle, and as a soloist with Washington Preforming Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel Choir. Mr. Hussey's other regional credits include Sweeney Todd, Signature Theater, Virginia; Big River, Akron, Ohio; and Bigo Long and his Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings, New Jersey. Among his television credits are appearances on Homocide, The District, and a featured commercial spot for the Washington Wizards.

PAUL IACONO (Mark Brayne)

Some of Paul's favorite credits include: Sail Away at Carnegie Hall, A Christmas Carol, Oliver, MAME, The Wizard of Oz, Will Rogers Follies and Children of Eden. A Rosie O' Donnell regular, Paul is proud of his work with The National Leukemia Society where he serves as National Patient Ambassador.

KENNEDY KANAGWA (Mark Brayne)

Mr. Kanagwa attends the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, where he performs with two a cappella groups: The Madrigals and The Magnificient 7. Previous theatrical experience includes off-Broadway as Jason in Falsettoland at the Vineyard Theatre and two seasons with the Broadway musical A Christmas Carol, as Jonathon and young Scrooge. Mr. Kanagwa performs as a singer and dancer with Young Americans of Washington.

DOUG KATSAROS (Composer)
Homepage: http://www.dougkatsaros.com/

Doug was the orchestrator for The Rocky Horror Show which recently played on Broadway. He also conducted and arranged Broadway's Footloose for the entire two year run, both in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He orchestrated Cy Coleman's Welcome to the Club, and did the vocal and dance arrangements for Mr. Coleman's Broadway hit The Life. He also starred as Berger in Broadway's revival of Hair and worked as Gower Champion's dance arranger for Rockabye Hamlet. Off-Broadway, Doug composed A...My Name is Alice, (which he also orchestrated), Elizabeth & Essex (which starred Parsons), Just So, Hal Prince's Diamonds and he re-orchestrated the revival of Pippin. His Music Minus One, written with Tony Award winner George Furth, has been performed by Judith Ivey, Andrea McArdle, Sally Mays and Leslie Uggams. He composed and directed Abie's Island Rose both off Broadway and on tour.

In the realm of film and television, Doug orchestrated and conducted If Lucy Fell, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Elle McPherson. He wrote and conducted the score to Me and the Mob which starred Sandra Bullock. He also wrote the score to the science fiction classic, Star Crystal and his score for White Lies just won an international short film festival award. He wrote the theme and scores for Mancuso FBI, The Jim Henson Hour, and The Big Band Gone Bad, Emmy nominated score for the animated hit, The Tick, soon to be a live action series. He was Elayne Boosler's Musical Director for her SHOWTIME special, and conducted Great Performances on PBS with Peter, Paul & Mary. He was the on-camera Musical Directer for VH1's Stand Up Spotlight, and was the feature of a documentary on TV Nation, as he wrote a "3 note jingle" for comedian Steven Wright. He wrote the network themes for NBC, CBS and TNT. He was also Barry Manilow's big band pianist on the Larry King Show, and has appeared as a guest star on Oprah because he is the guy who wrote "BY MENNEN".

Currently, Doug is working on a new musical adaptation of Great Expectations with Tony Awards winner Pat Birch, Guardian Angel (based on the Hunchback of Notre Dame), with Tony Award winner Mark Bramble. His opera of Moby Dick has been presented around the country and is soon to be the subject of a documentary for the BBC. He also wrote a season of music for the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, arranged for and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at London's Royal Festival Hall with David Byrne and Sinead O'Connor, and wrote the opening montage for the 2001 Tony Awards broadcast on PBS.

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DEBBIE WICKS LA PUMA(Musical Director) is a composer, music director, and performer in the Washington, D.C., area. Her musical works include Walking the Winds (commissioned and premiered at the Kennedy Center), The Fifth Season (NEA New Works Grany, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award winner, premiered at Olney Theatre, Onley, Maryland), One Bad Apple (Arena Stage) and Perdita, a Mexican folk musical based on Shakespeare's Winters Tale (Theatreworks, Palo Alto, California).