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BIOGRAPHIES

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PIERCE PETER BRANDT (Performer) is happy to be on the 42nd Street Moon stage again after much too long an absence. His last Moon engagements include Fanny (Marius) and Redhead (Tom). Other credits include leading roles in the Broadway productions of Les Misérables and Martin Guerre, as well as the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. Regionally, he has performed with TheatreWorks, The Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, American Musical Theatre San Jose, Olney Theater, and many others. Pierce is also a voice-over actor, concert/cabaret singer, and teacher/ coach. |
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TAMI DAHBURA (Performer) has appeared with 42nd Street Moon in their 2008 Gala tribute to Charles Strouse and in Flora the Red Menace. Off-Broadway: Pajama Game, Forgotten Broadway. National/International Tour: A Chorus Line. Bay Area credits: Tune the Grand Up, The World Goes ‘Round, Heartland, Company, Sunday in the Park with George, Bingo, Songs for a New World, Children of Eden, The Three Musketeers, Gypsy, Children of Eden, Full Monty (AMT San Jose). Sacramento Philharmonic: Gershwin to Sondheim. Oakland East Bay Symphony: Follies in Concert, Showboat in Concert. |
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BILL FAHRNER (Performer) just appeared in his 31st musical with 42nd Street Moon, reprising his role of Ogdon Quiller in Very Warm For May. His other 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, 1994 and 2002), King Arthur (Connecticut Yankee, 2002), and Sir Galahad (Connecticut Yankee, 1994). |
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SARAH KATHLEEN FARRELL (Performer) made her debut appearance with 42nd Street Moon in last year’s Gala, We’re in the Money: Hollywood Sings Away the Depression Blues. She feels tremendously blessed to have appeared in this season’s Call Me Madam (Kitty, Dance Captain), Jubilee (Prince Peter, et. al.), Nice Work if You Can Get It: Ira Gershwin Salon, and most recently, Very Warm for May (Liz Spofford, Dance Captain). Regional credits include Baby (Lizzie), The Spitfire Grill (Percy), The Rocky Horror Show (Columbia), and Insignificant Others (Margaret). |
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ALEXANDRA KAPRIELIAN (Performer) National: 25th Anniversary Tour of Nunsense with Sally Struthers. Regional Theatre: Nunsense 1, 2 and 3 (Sister Mary Amnesia) Willows Theatre Company; Very Warm For May (Miss Wasserman), Plain and Fancy (Katie Yoder), Golden Apple (Helen of Troy), Can- Can (Claudine) and Cabaret Girl (Ada Little) 42nd Street Moon. Regional Concert Series: Jerome Kern Gala with Rebecca Luker, Cole Porter Review with Brent Barrett and sang back-up for Jason Graae. Voice Over: Cassi: Earth Girl on Campus as Cassi. Debut album, Born Too Late due this Spring. She has studied dance with Berle Davis and Jayne Zaban, and Randi Skinner in New York. |
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ANIL MARGSAHAYAM (Performer) was just seen as Johnny Graham in 42nd Street Moon’s production of Very Warm For May. Other regional credits include: Our Town, The Clay Cart, The Comedy of Errors, The Music Man, Quixote with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Twelfth Night with New Theatre House; Hooray for What, The Boys from Syracuse, One Touch of Venus, and Minnie's Boys with 42nd Street Moon, and Slow Falling Bird with Crowded Fire. He was also in the national Broadway Tour of Bombay Dreams. Anil is a graduate of the University of San Francisco. |
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CARLY OZARD (Performer) is thrilled to be part of Kiss the Boys Goodbye! She has been in High Spirits, The Golden Apple, Miss Liberty, The Cabaret Girl and You've Got Possibilities - all with 42nd Street Moon. Mainly a cabaret singer, Carly debuted her first show Bitter and Be Gay at the Octavia Lounge in 2008 followed by Bewitched, Bothered, and Bipolar which made its Rrazz Room debut in 2010. She won the Cabaret Showcase Showdown and was named "Best New Cabaret Performer, 2009." |
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BENJAMIN PITHER (Performer) has appeared in four productions with 42nd Street Moon -- most recently Girl Crazy and Jubilee. In January, he performed in Moon’s Ira Gershwin tribute Nice Work if You Can Get It, starring Donna McKechnie. Favorite Bay Area credits include Bobby Strong in Urinetown (Altarena), Gordon in A New Brain (Custom Made), and Dennis in All Shook Up (Center Rep), for which he received a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award nomination. Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University with Highest Honors. |
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DARLENE POPOVIC (Performer) has appeared in 42nd Street Moon productions such as Minnie's Boys, Out of This World (2000 & 2008 productions) Oh Lady! Lady!, The Golden Apple and Leave It To Me. She has presented her one-woman shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, displaying her versatility in comedy, music and drama. Look for her new Kander & Ebb cabaret presentation at the New Conservatory Theatre in August as well as her performance in the Independent film Back of the House and a new children's series Wackadoodles in Wonderland, which will air in the fall of 2010. Darlene has studied theatre and voice at Indiana University, American Conservatory Theater, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her many awards include Bay Area Golds, Critics Circle and Dean Goodman Choice. |
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STEPHANIE RHOADS (Performer) most recently graced our stage as Madam la Comtesse Diane de Vobrillac in Ben Franklin in Paris. She also includes among her favorite Moon roles: Helen Vance in our smash production of Out of This World, Adriana in Boys From Syracuse, Ninotchka in Silk Stockings, Venus in One Touch of..., Elvira in High Spirits, Thea in Fiorello, and Adeline in Sweet Adeline. She is the recipient of the Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Hello Dolly! with Mountain Play and Out of This World (2000) with 42nd Street Moon, as well as Bay Area Critics Circle Awards. She has appeared with many regional companies including American Musical Theatre of San Jose, TheatreWorks, Broadway By the Bay, Beach Blanket Babylon, Woodminster Musicals, and more. |
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JIMMY ROBERTSON (Performer) was last seen with 42nd Street Moon as Lowell Pennyfeather McGee in our recent production of Very Warm for May. Other roles include Roscoe Dexter in Singin' in the Rain (Berkeley Playhouse), Bud Frump in How to Succeed... (Solano College Theatre), Linus in Snoopy!!! (Summer Repertory Theatre), and Edgar the Batboy in Bat Boy the Musical (Chico State Theatre). Jimmy won an ARTY award for the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (Fairfield Civic Theatre). He is a graduate of Chico State's musical theatre program.
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ANDREW WILLIS-WOODWARD (Performer) is delighted to return to 42nd Street Moon, having last appeared in Jubilee (Prince James) last year, and Ben Franklin In Paris (Temple Franklin, SFBATCC Nomination) before that. Other recent Bay Area credits include: Baby (Danny) at Ray of Light Theatre, The Full Monty (Ethan) at Broadway by the Bay, and Forever Plaid (Francis) at Willows Theatre Company. Andrew will be moving to New York in August to attend the Professional Program in Musical Theater at CAP21. |
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GREG MACKELLAN (Director and Performer) co-founded 42nd Street Moon in 1993. Prior to arriving in San Francisco, his NY and LA credits included producing two early versions of Stephen Schwartz’s The Baker’s Wife, Tintypes, a concert version of Cole Porter’s Jubilee, and a cabaret series at LA’s Gardenia. He also produced seven CDs of rare theatre music with Rebecca Luker, Andrea Marcovicci, Patricia Morison, Judy Kaye, and Douglas Sills among others. His directing credits for 42nd Street Moon have included such well-received shows as The Student Gypsy, High Spirits, Li’l Abner, Minnie’s Boys, Paint Your Wagon, Do I Hear a Waltz?, and several Cole Porter confections including Gay Divorce and Jubilee. Greg’s revised script for 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 produced in Los Angeles and Seattle. He guided the 2004 NEA-sponsored restoration of Arlen and Harburg’s Hooray for What, as well as the June 2004 Kern Gala with Rebecca Luker, 2003’s I Remember It Well with Leslie Caron, and this year’s popular We’re In the Money: Hollywood Sings Away the Depression Blues. |
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DAVE DOBRUSKY (Musical Director) is celebrating his 14th season with 42nd Street Moon and recently served as musical director for our production of Very Warm For May. Other favorite productions include Out of This World, The Student Gypsy, Plain and Fancy, Li’l Abner, Mack and Mabel, Red Hot and Blue!, Minnie’s Boys, 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 Donna McKechnie, Cady Huffman, Nancy Dussault, Andrea McArdle, Marni Nixon, Rebecca Luker and Leslie Caron. Other Bay Area credits include: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Ray of Light), Man of LaMancha (BATCC Award), Putting It Together (San Francisco Playhouse); The Fantasticks (Shakespeare at Stinson); and Passion, Chess (New Conservatory Theatre).
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ELLEN BROOKS (Lighting Designer) has designed countless productions for 42nd Street Moon at the Herbst, Eureka, Alcazar and New Conservatory Theatres - including our recent Alcazar Salons and annual Galas. Currently, she is the Resident Lighting Director at Marin Shakespeare Company. In 2009 she designed Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and The Importance of Being Ernest at its amphitheatre in Forest Meadows. Her recent work also includes Lucia di Lammermoor for North Bay Opera, Bittersweet for Lamplighters/Opera West, Once on This Island for Berkeley Playhouse, Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Miracle Worker and Premiere for Ross Valley Players and the World Premiere of Dogsbody at the Yerba Buena Forum.
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JOE MADER (Stage Manager) has written on theater and film for a variety of publications, including Salon.com, the San Francisco Weekly, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Hollywood Reporter. He served as managing director and producer for a Worcester, Massachusetts theater company for two years. For 42nd Street Moon, he previously stage managed Peddling Rainbows, Girl Crazy, and Very Warm For May, the company's last two annual fundraising galas, and our first entries in Moon’s Salon Series: Nice Work If You Can Get It: An Ira Gershwin Salon and I Feel a Song Coming On: The Dorothy Fields Salon.
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