B MAJOR THEATRICALS
John Pinckard, Mark Hartman, Brian J. Nash
Cast and Crew for the Original FringeNYC 2005 Production
PAUL KANDEL (Hannibal Lecter) most recently frightened audiences as the Master of Ceremonies in the off-Broadway production of Shockheaded Peter. Broadway credits include: King Herod in the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, Uncle Ernie in The Who’s Tommy, a role he created at La Jolla Playhouse and for which he received a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a musical, J. Bruce Ismay in the Broadway production of Titanic, and Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol. Other Broadway credits include The Visit with Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin, and Jake Melrose in the pre-Broadway workshop of Jelly’s Last Jam. He appeared as Kabe in One Flea Spare (Obie Award Best Play at NYSF). TV appearances include: “Sally Hemmings: An American Scandal” (CBS miniseries), “The Client,” “Fool’s Fire” (American Playhouse), and “Law and Order.” Other Off-Broadway: Earth and Sky (Second Stage), 20 Fingers, 20 Toes (WPA), Lucky Stiff (Playwrights Horizons), Taming of the Shrew (TNA), Scrambled Feet, Nightclub Cantana, Two Grown Men (Village Gate), Fanny opposite Jose Ferrer (PaperMill Playhouse). Paul can be “seen” as Clopin in Disney’s animated feature Hunchback of Notre Dame, a role he reprised in Hunchback Part Deux.
JENN HARRIS (Clarice) Off Broadway: Modern Orthodox (Lucille Lortel Award, Theatre World Award) NY/Regional – God of Vengeance, The Winter’s Tale, Street Scene, Up Ubu, MY DEAH, The Plank Project, Will You Please Shut Up?, Pains Of Youth, The Dilemma of Drugs, Sex*But. Film: A Plague of Tics (Cannes Film Festival ’03; Best Short Comedy NY Indi. Film Festival). TV: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Guiding Light”. Training: Boston University School for the Arts, L.A.M.D.A., The Second City (Chicago).
LISA HOWARD (Catherine) currently stars in the 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, for which she won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance, on Broadway after appearing the Second Stage and Barrington Stage Company productions. She toured the US in the national company of LES MISERABLES, where she played many performances as “Madame Thernadier”. She has played leading roles regionally at St. Louis MUNY, Olney Theater Center, Human Race Theater and Kansas City Starlight. Lisa has appeared in numerous workshops, readings and cabarets in NYC. She is a graduate of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. For more information and upcoming events visit www.lisahowardnyc.com. Many thanks to Mom, Dad and Matteo for all your love and support.
STEPHEN BIENSKIE (Buffalo Bill) is thrilled and honored to join the team of SILENCE! after being a fan for so long. His credits range from hustling demo tapes to some of the most heroin-infested clubs on the East Coast to cleaning toilets to playing Run Tum Tugger in the final Broadway company of CATS . Other credits include: Spit It Out (w/ Valerie Smaldone and Amy Coleman), Blake in Hazard County , Mr. Fitzpatrick in Tom Jones (world premiere NSMT), Michael in tick...tick...BOOM! (George Street Playhouse '04), Adam in Slut (FringeNYC '03), Shaun in the '04 feature film Dress Rehearsal , Cal in The Fix (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Actor), the Leopard in Just So , Buddy in The Last Session , Jake in Zombie Prom , Franny in Balm in Gilead , and Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing. Stephen has also been a singer/songwriter for several rock bands performing such venues as CBGB's and The Bitter End, and most recently with Joe D'Urso and Stone Caravan on the Harley Davisdson 100th Anniversary Open Road Tour. ILYXO8.
HOWARD KAYE (Crawford) Broadway: Miss Saigon. Off-Broadway: Little Ham and The Little Prince at the John Houseman Theater and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater at The York Theatre Company. Original North American Premier Company of Mamma Mia! Two Gentlemen of Verona at Centerstage. 13-person version of Guys and Dolls at the Long Wharf Theatre. 10-person version of My Fair Lady at The Alliance Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Other regional credits include The Berkshire Theater Festival (Zorba) Syracuse Stage (Tintypes) Pittsburgh Public Theater (Man of La Mancha) The Birmingham Theater ( Oklahoma!) The Ordway ( Wizard of Oz) West Virginia Public Theater (King and I) Television: All My Children. Graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard Drama Division.
HARRY BOUVY (Chilton) just returned from the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, where he performed in the one-man show I Am My Own Wife. Prior to that, he spent 10 months on the road playing Carmen Ghia in The Producers (Helen Hayes nomination). He has worked at theatres all over the country, including Syracuse Stage, Buffalo Studio Arena, Virginia Stage, Pioneer Theatre Company, Hartford TheaterWorks, Weston Playhouse, Madison Rep, Pittsburgh Public and two seasons at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Shows include Angels in America, Snakebit, Last Night of Ballyhoo, Stones in His Pockets, Triumph of Love, Bent, The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Chesapeake and Fully Committed. TV: "Law & Order," "Sex & The City," and "Guiding Light." Harry has an MFA from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota, where he studied with Jose Quintero.
JEFF HILLER (Sgt. Pembry, others) is a comedian and actor most commonly seen at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre performing improv with the house team “Creep” and sketch with Police Chief Rumble (ECNY award - Best Sketch Group). New York Stage credits: Slut, The Awesome 80’s Prom, Kilgore: The Musical, and A Ho Ho Horatio Christmas with SNL’s Horation Sanz. TV: MTV’s “Boiling Points”, VH1’s “A2Z” and “Cheestastic” specials, FX’s “Starved” and the voice of Nano on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” www.hillertime.com
DEIDRE GOODWIN (Ardelia) Film: Chicago (June). Broadway: Chicago (Velma Kelly), Nine (Our Lady of the Spa), Never Gonna Dance (Velma), Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Boys from Syracuse. Concerts: Hugh Jackman in Time, Dreamgirls,
Funny Girl.
JON AND AL KAPLAN (Music & Lyrics; Original Screenplay) Brothers Jon
and Al Kaplan moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to study concert composition
at USC. After surviving three brutal years under the film music-hating
faculty, they finally made it to the film scoring program, where they
studied under industry legends like Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin,
Leonard Rosenman and Christopher Young. While that was fun, it means
absolutely nothing, first because some of those guys aren't legends;
second because there wasn't really any "studying" going on; and third
because every person who does the USC program takes lecture classes
with those composers and lists them on their bio to make themselves
seem impressive.
Jon and Al have since acted as musical directors of the SATURN AWARDS
(for Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy films), written comedy for an unsold
MTV pilot, and scored many short films that no one has ever seen. But
fortunately, their pet project Silence! The Musical has spread like
wildfire through cyberspace and beyond, garnering coverage in
Entertainment Weekly and Maxim, as well as airplay on the Opie &
Anthony radio show.
Jon and Al are currently providing groundbreaking library music for the
NBC reality show Starting Over, and also looking for temp jobs in data
entry and order fulfillment.
HUNTER BELL (Book Adaptation) has written spec scripts, pilots, and industrial films, and was a 2003 finalist in Warner Brother’s Comedy Writers’ Workshop. His play, “Stuck by Epcot,” was featured in the short play series, The Mother Load (manhattan theatre source). His collaborations with composer/lyricist Jeff Bowen include their musical adaptation of the film 9 to 5, as well as the critically acclaimed new musical [title of show] (Belt Theatre/NYMF). He has developed material at the Dramatists Guild, Irish Rep, Goodspeed-at-Chester, MTC, and worked with The New Wondertwins hosting the AvantGardArama series at PS 122. As an actor, he has performed at the St. Louis Rep, Papermill Playhouse, Coconut Grove, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes, Dallas Shakespeare, Alliance Theater, the MUNY, and the Goodspeed Opera House (2003 Connecticut Outer Critics Award). Hunter is a proud graduate of Webster University.
CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Director) received a second Lortel Award and Drama Desk Nom. for his work on ALTAR BOYZ currently playing at Dodger Stages #4. Off Broadway - BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL! (Lortel Award) , tick,tick...BOOM! National Tours - GODSPELL (30th Ann. production), GREASE, t,t...B!. Off West End – t,t…B! with Neil Patrick Harris. As dir./chor., the Broadway concert of HAIR (CD on Ghostlight Records), A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS with new music by Andrew Lippa, and FIONA (Helen Hayes). Recently choreographed the Broadway concert of CHESS with Josh Groban and Adam Pascal, a world tour of WINNIE THE POOH and the PERFECT DAY for Disney Thearicals, the world premiere of TOM JONES (NSMF), and THE BAKER’S WIFE with Alice Ripley (Paper Mill Playhouse). On television, he was a resident choreographer for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show”, “2000 Tony Awards” and “Out Of The Box” for Disney. Industrials- Harley-Davidson’s 100th Anniversary World Tour, Microsoft, McDonalds, Pontiac/GMC, Sprint PCS, Continental Airlines, etc. Other favorites - working with Donna McKechnie on a GYPSY OF THE YEAR opening, ME AND MY GIRL (Goodspeed), O. HENRY’S LOVERS (Goodspeed-at-Chester), and ADRIFT IN MACAO, a new musical by Christopher Durang.
BRIAN J. NASH (Producer/Musical Director) has been music directing and orchestrating since the age of 16. In the past decade, he has music directed over 30 shows, led orchestras for concert, stage, and recordings, orchestrated and arranged for rock bands and theatre pieces, and produced several albums. Favorite recent projects include Brian Lowdermilk’s Red (orchestrations), The Sexless Years (music direction), Songs for a New World (Boston and Chicago), the all-star Pippin concert (additional arrangements), and Stacy Allyn Baker’s debut album, Too Late for Love Songs. Brian has played and produced for singer/songwriter Justin Tranter, and is in extensive demand as a pianist and singer throughout NYC. He holds a Bachelors of Music degree from the Boston Conservatory, and studied record production at Berklee College of Music. For more info, please visit BrianJNash.com.
SCOTT PASK (Set Designer) won the 2005 Tony Award for his set design for The Pillowman. Other Broadway credits include Sweet Charity, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, Take Me Out (Drama Desk nom.), Nine (Outer Critics Circle nom.), Amour (Drama Desk, Hewes nom.), Urinetown (Lortel nom.). UK: The Pillowman, On an Average Day, Tales From Hollywood, Albert Herring. Also: Bash, The Underpants, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Donkey Show, The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards) and Verge (Bessie Award).
JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design) Recent: Drumstruck (Dodger Stages); Privilege (Second Stage); Slag Heap (Cherry Lane); The Baker’s Wife (Paper Mill Playhouse); Lone Star Love; Jai Rodriguez XPosed; Three Mo’ Tenors; and Guru Pitka starring Mike Myers. Some NY favorites include: CHESS, HAIR (Actors Fund concerts on Broadway); Matt & Ben; Cam Jansen; Fighting Words; Barbra’s Wedding; Fiction, The Dazzle (Roundabout); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, (Second Stage); The Works (New Victory), Servicemen (New Group); Tin Type; The Fourth Wall; Rhapsody In Seth; Faster; Freestyle Love Supreme; Passion Play; Ain’t Supposed to Die…; Tallulah Hallelujah starring Tovah Feldshu; The Eros Trilogy starring Betty Buckly; Hesh starring Ethan Hawke, and Trumbo starring Nathan Lane.
SIMON MATTHEWS (Sound Designer) As a Production Sound Engineer Simon’s work has been seen on eleven Broadway productions, including the recent shows Into the Woods, Taboo, Brooklyn, and Altar Boyz.
DAVID KALEY (Costume Designer) is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is the Assistant Costume Shop Supervisor for TheatreworksUSA.. Recent projects include the Off-Broadway productions of Joy and NEWSical (as well as NEWSical in Denver), The Pinter Project (T. Schreiber Studio), and the Princeton University Triangle Club. David is the Resident Costume Designer for the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus and the Costume Coordinator for Broadway Bares.
SUSAN W. LOVELL (Casting Director/Assistant Director) has cast for television, Broadway, Off Broadway and Regional Theatre. Some Broadway and Off Broadway credits include: Casting Assistant-- Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts) and Bells Are Ringing (Plymouth Theatre); Casting Associate-- The Fourth Wall (Primary Stages) and The Last Sunday In June (Century Theatre); Casting Director The Shooting Stage (Culture Project 45) and the Drama Desk-nominated Coyote on a Fence (Urban Stages). She also served as the Casting Coordinator and Assistant Director for ABC’s 2003 & 2004 New York Talent Showcases and as the Casting Associate for UPN’s 2004 pilot season. As a director, Susan directed Profile of a Saint (La MaMa etc.) and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (2004 New York International Fringe Festival) which won Best Overall Production in the Fringe and the 2005 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theatre: Off-Off Broadway.
JOHN PINCKARD (Producer) most recently produced and directed the New York premiere of the long running Chicago hit VERBATIM VERBOTEN, which played to packed houses at Fez until the venue closed. John is currently preparing the show’s Off-Broadway transfer, slated for this fall. Additionally, John is the Artistic Director of Tesseract Theatre, a geographically and artistically diverse collective of artists from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Florida. Their premiere production, the New York premiere of Michael Maclennan’s THE SHOOTING STAGE, which John also directed, ran Off Broadway at The Culture Project this spring to popular and critical acclaim. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Florida, where he also taught before moving to New York.
MARK HARTMAN (Producer) is currently the Associate Conductor of “Avenue Q” on Broadway. Other B’way: “Miss Saigon”, “1776” off-B’way: “After The Ball”, “Greenwillow”, “Finian’s Rainbow” (Drama Desk, Lortel noms-Best Revival), “Avenue Q” (Vineyard), “The Streets of New York”, “The Hostage”, “The Irish...”, “The Fantasticks” Regional/Tour: “The Baker’s Wife” (Goodspeed), “The Streets of New York” (Westport), “The Irish...”, “Carousel” (w/ Susan Dunn), “A Little Night Music” (w/ Derin Altay) Concerts: “Pippin” (Nat’l AIDS Fund/Storm--w/ Rosie O’Donnell and Ben Vereen), “Children of Eden” (Nat’l AIDS Fund/York) Recordings: “NEO” (JAY), “Finian’s Rainbow” (Sh-K-Boom), “Fine and Dandy” (PS Classics), Natalie Douglas “To Nina: Live at Birdland” (WBG), “That’s The Ticket”, “Watch Your Step”, “Look Ma, I’m Dancing” (OCR) Mark is the recipient of two MAC Awards and the Backstage Bistro Award for Musical Direction.
RITCHARD DRUTHER (Production Stage Manager) NY: Broadway: The Women, BeaArthur on Broadway. Off-Broadway: Reefer Madness!,Puppetry of the Penis, Blood Orgy of the Carnival Queens! Workshops: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Flannigan’s Dream. Los Angeles: Reefer Madness!, Berlin Circle, The Gift. Tours: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Lawyers, Lovers and Lunatics, Pupptery of the Penis (US/ Edinburgh). Other: Return to the Forbidden Planet, Starmites, Starmites 2001, Little Shop of Horrors. A special thanks to Christian for having my number handy when Chris needed it. Hey D!
