MICHAEL BARRETT AUSTIN (Persil Le Noir) makes a welcome return to Moon for his ninth “Uncommon Musical”; his fourth as a Frenchman. Recent shows include Northanger Abbey (Henry Tilney, Pear Avenue), Proof (Hal, Shakespeare's Associates) and Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio, Antioch Classical Theatre Company). Favorite roles include geniuses Groucho Marx (Minnie's Boys) and Albert Einstein (Picasso at the Lapin Agile). He has worked with Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks and San Jose Stage, and directed theater on both coasts. He is a member of Just Theater and Funny But Mean.

ROBERT J. COWAN (Defense, M. Bougne, et al) is making his 42nd Street Moon debut.  Hailing from Anchorage, Alaska, he is a Master's student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Most recently seen in the world premiere of Red Bennett's light opera What They Seem, he has performed opera and musical theater across the West Coast, including roles as Bill (Kiss Me Kate), Lord Tolloller (Iolanthe), Jud (Oklahoma!), and The Cat in the Hat (Seussical).  Robert is also a director of liturgical music, educator, pianist, writer, and vegetarian.

ALISON EWING (Irma La Douce) has performed as Lulu, Sally Bowles, Frauline Kost, and played her violin in the Broadway, 1st National, and the Paris productions of the musical Cabaret.  Regional favorites include: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well at Marin Theatre Company; Emma, Into the Woods, and Harold & Maude at TheatreWorks; The Last Five Years, Proof and Honour at Playhouse West.  Her voice can be heard daily co-hosting XM Radio's Life, Love & Health, as well as on commercials for E-Bay, Grand Mariner, Macy's and The Mechanic's Bank.  This is Ms. Ewing’s first show with 42nd Street Moon.

BILL FAHRNER (Bob Le Hotu) is very proud to be appearing in his 30th musical with 42nd Street Moon!  His favorite Moon roles include:  Mack Sennett (Mack & Mabel), King Sapiens Pomposianus (By Jupiter), Charles the Bastard (Goodtime Charley), Huck Haines (Roberta, 1996), Inigo Jolliphant (The Good Companions), Guy Pendleton (Peggy-Ann), King Arthur (Connecticut Yankee, 2002), Sir Galahad (Connecticut Yankee, 1994), surrealist theater director Ogden Quillar (Very Warm for May), and Rebecca Luker's duet partner for the Jerome Kern tribute, “All The Things You Are."

RUDY GUERRERO (Polyte Le Mou) has previously performed in 42nd Street Moon's productions of Once Upon a Mattress, The Golden Apple, Can-Can, and Gay Divorce (Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Nominee).  Other regional theater credits include performances at Alcazar Theatre, A.C.T. , Berkeley Rep, Connecticut Repertory Theater, Foothill Music Theater, The Magic, Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin Theatre Company, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, TheatreWorks, Willows Theater Company, and Word for Word.  Stage awards include numerous Goodman Choice and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards.  Television credits include Secrets (Emmy Award).  Rudy has a BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory and a MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater.

NICK NAKASHIMA (Frangipane) returns to the 42nd Street Moon stage, having recently helped the company celebrate the great musicals of the 1960s and the works of Charles Strouse in its You’ve Got Possibilities! Gala.  Other Moon credits include The Golden Apple.  Last season, he was seen in TheatreWorks’ production of Emma in the role of Robert Martin; and also appeared in their New Works company of Unlock’d (Barney). He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

KYLE PAYNE (JoJo Les Yeux Sales) is making his 42nd Street Moon debut in Irma La Douce. He recently performed in the San Francisco debut of Oh My Godmother, and is featured on the original cast recording.  He has worked at the California Theatre Center, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Triad Stage, Western Illinois Summer Music Theatre, and the Becky Thatcher Theatre.  Kyle has performed in England, Russia, and was also part of the first American children's theater tour to China.  He is from Jackson Heights, Queens.

STEVE RHYNE (Nestor Le Fripé) has performed with numerous Bay Area theater companies, but has enjoyed a long association with 42nd Street Moon, notably in Out of This World (Mercury), Red Hot and Blue! (Bob), Do I Hear a Waltz? (Eddie), Leave It to Me! (Buck), On a Clear Day… (Warren), and Sitting Pretty (Horace).  Steve’s résumé also includes roles in Into the Woods (Baker), Urinetown (Lockstock), Titanic (Harold Bride), Passion (Giorgio), Taking Sides (Lt. Wills), The Subject Was Roses (Timmy), and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Perry).

DC SCARPELLI (Inspector) is making his 42nd Street Moon debut.  He was last seen as Mr. Snow in Carousel at the Pinole Playhouse. Recent East Bay roles include Kodaly in She Loves Me, the Narrator in Into the Woods and a smattering of politically-incorrect Indians in Little Mary Sunshine.  With his husband, Peter Budinger, he has written, directed, produced and acted in original works under the aegis of Doctor Emile's Theatre Tremendo (tremendo.org).

VICTOR-ALEXANDER TAPIA (Roberto) made his 42nd Street Moon debut this past summer in  the You've Got Possibilities!  fundraising gala. He is currently a sophomore at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  A 2007 graduate from School of the Arts-San Francisco, Victor has been performing since he was 14.  Notable roles include the title role from the musical Jekyll and Hyde, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Munoz in City of Angels, the Wolf in Into the Woods, the Narrator in The Apple Tree, the Narrator in Blood Brothers, and Mike, in American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory original production of Across The Universe: The Music of Lennon and McCartney. 

JUSTIN TORRES (Prosecution, Tax Inspector, et al) has been performing in musical theater around the Bay Area for the past two years with companies such as Hillbarn, TheatreWorks, Willows Theatre Company, and Cabrillo Stage. Favorite roles include Adrian/Michael in Smokey Joe’s Café, Paul in Kiss Me Kate, and The Cat in Honk! He gained the theater bug from Janie Scott’s Company One at San Jose State University, and he hasn’t stopped performing since.  

GREG MACKELLAN (Director) co-founded 42nd Street Moon in 1993.  He loves visiting Europe in person or on the stage, and is delighted to add Paris’ 18th arrondissement to his Moon European forays, which have included London (The Cabaret Girl), Brighton (Gay Divorce), the Cotswolds (The Good Companions), Paris (Can-Can, Dear World, Oh, Captain!), Budapest (I Married an Angel), Venice (Do I Hear a Waltz?), and Brussels (The Cat & the Fiddle).  His other directing credits for Moon have included such well-received shows as The Student Gypsy, Li’l Abner, Minnie’s Boys, and Paint Your Wagon. Via Broadway by the Bay, Greg also visited Salzburg with the Von Trapp Family. His revised script for Cole Porter’s Out of This World was produced to great acclaim from the London critics at the Chichester Festival in 2004, and has also been done in Los Angeles and Seattle, and twice at Moon.   He guided the NEA-sponsored restoration of Arlen and Harburg’s Hooray for What, as well as the Kern Gala with Rebecca Luker, I Remember It Well with Leslie Caron, and this year’s salute to Charles Strouse.  Greg has produced seven CDs of rare theatre music with performers like Craig Bierko, Patricia Morison, Judy Kaye, Paige O’Hara, and Douglas Sills.

DAVE DOBRUSKY (Musical Director) is embarking on his 13th season with 42nd Street Moon.  Favorite productions include Out of This World, The Student Gypsy, Plain and Fancy, Li’l Abner, Mack & Mabel, Red Hot and Blue!, Minnie’sBoys, Can-Can, Finian’s Rainbow, Paint Your Wagon (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award), By Jupiter, Leave It to Me! (recorded), Dear World, Call Me Madam,  and Louisiana Purchase.  He has also appeared with Nancy Dussault, Susan Watson, Andrea McArdle, Marni Nixon, Rebecca Luker and Leslie Caron.  Other Bay Area credits include:  Man of LaMancha (BATCC award), Putting It Together(San Francisco Playhouse); The Fantasticks (Shakespeare at Stinson); In This House, The Boyfriend (Playhouse West); Passion, Chess(New Conservatory Theatre); and youth productions of Titanicand Les Miserables(Musical Theatre Works).

LINDA POSNER (Choreographer) returns to 42nd Street Moon after performing in the company’s recent gala honoring Charles Strouse. Thirty-five years ago she played the role of "Irma," who was her first and favorite leading character. Ms. Posner’s other showbiz credits include:  Hello, Dolly!, Applause, Pippin, Your Own Thing, Dames at Sea, and A Chorus Line. She also appeared in the films Valentino and All That Jazz. More recently, Linda has been teaching, creating theater from dreams, directing, and working as a chaplain.

KRIS VECERE (Stage Manager) is a San Francisco native, and U.C. Berkeley grad, who returns for her eleventh 42nd Street Moon production. Previous Moon shows include: Leave It To Me!, Pipe Dream, Paint Your Wagon, Oh, Captain!, Can-Can, and Hooray For What? Other credits include: Greater Tuna, Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center, Buried Child, A Chorus Line, Camelot, Educating Rita, Little Shop of Horrors, Abyssinia, and Tintypes.

ELLEN BROOKS (Lighting Designer) has designed many productions for 42nd Street Moon over the past 10 years, including: Gay Divorce, Mack & Mabel, Oh, Lady! Lady!!, Red Hot and Blue!, Once Upon a Mattress, Paint Your Wagon, Can-Can, Coco and the Company’s annual Galas atthe Herbst and Alcazar Theatres.  She also designs for Lamplighters/Opera West at the Yerba Buena Novellus Theatre and the Herbst in San Francisco, the Napa Valley Opera House and the Dean Lesher Center in Walnut Creek. In her seventh season with the Marin Shakespeare Company, this summer she designed Amadeus, Winter's Tale and Much Ado About Nothing.

LOUISE JARMILOWICZ (Costumer) is in her third season working as costumer for 42nd Street Moon.  She has been costuming around San Francisco for many years.  Other groups with whom she has worked, designing and constructing costumes, include Crowded Fire, the Handful Players, the African-American Shakespeare Co., Children's Fairyland, Stage Door Conservatory, The Lamplighters, the Dark Room Theater, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and many other local artists. www.jarmodesigns.com

TOM ORR (Production Manager/Set Decorator) landed on the Moon in 2006 and went on to memorable turns in Mack & Mabel, Li'l Abner, Pardon My English, Plain & Fancy, One Touch of Venus and Coco. After working as Production Assistant for the 2007-2008 season, he is excited to take on new duties behind the scenes. An award-winning lyricist best known for the hit parody revue, Dirty Little Showtunes!, Tom recently had a hit solo show, I Feel a Thong Coming On! at the New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC). He has also appeared in: Naked Boys Singing! and Trog! (Theatre Rhinoceros); Whoop-Dee-Doo! and Take Me Out (NCTC); and Shopping! The Musical, among others.