Chita Rivera (Claire Zachanassian) created the role of Claire in the original production of The Visit at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. An accomplished and versatile actress/singer/dancer, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards® as Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Rink) and received seven additional Tony® nominations. She recently starred in the Broadway and touring productions of The Dancer’s Life, a dazzling new musical celebrating her spectacular career, written by Terence McNally and directed by Graciela Daniele. Chita received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, DC in December, 2002, and is the first Hispanic ever chosen to receive this award. She recently starred in the revival of the Broadway musical Nine with Antonio Banderas. She trained as a ballerina (from age 11) before receiving a scholarship to the American School of Ballet from legendary George Balanchine. Chita’s first appearance (age 17) was in the chorus of Call Me Madam. Her electric performance as Anita in the Broadway premiere of West Side Story (1957) brought her stardom, which she repeated in London. Her career is highlighted by starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, Jerry’s Girls and Mr. Wonderful and the original Broadway casts of Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, Seventh Heaven. On tour: Born Yesterday, The Rose Tattoo, Call Me Madam, Threepenny Opera, Sweet Charity, Kiss Me Kate, Zorba, Can-Can with The Rockettes. Her most treasured production is her daughter, singer/dancer/choreographer Lisa Mordente.

George Hearn (Anton Schell) BROADWAY: A Time For Singing, The Changing Room, I Remember Mama, Ah Wilderness, The Diary of Ann Frank, Sweeney Todd, La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award®, Best Actor), Sunset Boulevard (Tony Award®, Best Supporting Actor),  Putting It Together (Tony® nomination), Wicked. TV: Law and Order SVU; The Golden Girls; Sweeney Todd (Emmy Award); Sarah, Plain and Tall. FILM: The Devil’s Own, See you in the Morning, The Vanishing, Flags of our Fathers.

Mark Jacoby (Mayor) BROADWAY: Sweet Charity (Vittorio Vidal, Theatre World Award), Grand Hotel (Baron von Gaigern), The Phantom of the Opera (title role, 3 years), Show Boat (Gaylord Ravenal, Tony®, Outer Critics’ Award nominations), Ragtime (original Father), Man of La Mancha (Padre Perez), Sweeney Todd revival (Judge Turpin). OFF-BROADWAY: Enter the Guardsman (Playwright, Drama Desk nomination). OTHER CREDITS: New York City Opera: The Pirates of Penzance (Major General Stanley); Goodspeed Opera House: On the Twentieth Century (Oscar Jaffe, Connecticut Drama Critics’ Award); Chicago premiere: Nine (Guido Contini, Joseph Jefferson Award).

Bethe B. Austin (Annie) BROADWAY: Sly Fox (with Robert Preston), Onward Victoria, Whoopee, Noises Off (Drama Desk Award), Raggedy Ann (director Pat Birch). OFF-BROADWAY: Gemini the Musical (Lucille), Anne of Green Gables (Marilla); Second Stage: Pastorale; Public Theater: Zero Positive; All in the Timing, Letter to My Love (by Melissa Manchester), Iron Curtain, Olympus On My Mind (Delores). NATIONAL TOURS: The Boyfriend (director Julie Andrews), Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Mrs. Claus). REGIONAL: Edwin Drood (director Rob Marshall), Texas Flyer (Barrymore Award), Always Patsy Cline (director Susan Atkinson). TV: Law and Order: CI, Nurses (Guest Star), Growing Pains (Guest Star). FILM: Our Sons (with Julie Andrews), Serious Money, Surprise (Cannes entry).

Leslie Becker (Ensemble): BROADWAY & NATIONAL TOURS: Nine, Wicked, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Show Boat, Children and Art. OFF-BROADWAY: The Prince and the Pauper, Private Lawrence. LINCOLN CENTER: New York City Ballet. REGIONAL: The King and I; Bat Boy; Baby; Hello, Dolly!; Beauty and the Beast; Radio City Christmas Show; Me and My Girl; Singin' in the Rain; A Chorus Line. AUTHOR: The Organized Actor®, 7 Roles Every Actor Must Play. AWARDS: Drama Logue, Back Stage West, Robbie Award.

D.B. Bonds (Young Anton) BROADWAY/NATIONAL TOURS: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Freddy Benson), The Phantom of the Opera, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Les Misérables. OFF-BROADWAY: Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn, The Last Five Years (original standby). REGIONAL: Weston Playhouse: Urinetown, john and jen; Casa Manana: Godspell; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: The Last Five Years.

Matthew Deming (Louis Perch) NEW YORK: Lincoln Center: My Fair Lady; New York
State Theater: Grendel; NYMTF: Wallenberg. REGIONAL: Trinity Repertory Company:
A Christmas Carol; Huntington Theater Company: James Joyce’s The Dead; Allenberry Playhouse: Bells Are Ringing, Show Boat, Jesus Christ Superstar; Speakeasy Stage Company: Floyd Collins; Ogunquit Playhouse: Joseph and the Amazing.... CHORAL: New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, St. Luke’s Orchestra, New Jersey Philharmonic, Bard Music Festival, BAM: St. Matthew Passion.

Alan H. Green (Benny) BROADWAY: Play On! (Denizen). FIRST NATIONAL TOURS: Smokey Joes Café (Adrian), Swing! (Everett), 25th Annual...Spelling Bee (Mitch). WORKSHOPS: Public: Langston in Harlem; NYC Theater Festival: Caligula; BMI:  Buddy's Tavern. REGIONAL: PaperMill/Pittsburgh C.L.O: Miss Saigon (John); Sacramento Music Circus/Northshore Music Theater: Ragtime (Coalhouse); Baystreet Theater/Sacramento Music Circus: Once on this Island (Agwe); Parker Playhouse: Nefertiti (Hap). TV: 30 Rock (Guest Star), Law and Order S.V.U. (Guest Star), Guiding Light (Recurring). EDUCATION: Rice University, BA, Vocal Performance.

James Harms (Rudi) INTERNATIONAL TOURS: The Fantasticks, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. CHICAGO: Goodman Theater: The Visit (premiere); Marriott Theater: Grovers Corners (premiere); Court Theater: Uncle Vanya; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Hecuba, Richard II, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar. OTHER CHICAGO: La Cage Aux Folles (Joseph Jefferson Award), Hello, Dolly! (Joseph Jefferson Award), Me and My Girl (Joseph Jefferson Award), The Fantasticks (Joseph Jefferson Award), Beauty and the Beast, Sunset Boulevard.

Michael Hayward-Jones (Priest) BROADWAY/NATIONAL TOURS: Les Misérables, The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, On the 20th Century, Me and My Girl, Evita, The King and I, Mame, A Little Night Music, A Christmas Carol. REGIONAL: Asolo Theatre: A Tale of Two Cities; Olney Theatre; Geva Theatre; Pioneer Theatre; Goodspeed Opera House: Singin’ in the Rain, Mirette, Pal Joey; Papermill Playhouse: Oklahoma, Phantom, My Fair Lady, Carousel, The Wizard of Oz.

Howard Kaye (Lenny) BROADWAY: Miss Saigon. OFF-BROADWAY: Little Ham, The Little Prince, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Mamma Mia! (North American Premier). REGIONAL: Actors Theatre of Louisville: Sherlock Holmes, the Final Adventure; Long Wharf: Guys and Dolls (13 person version); Alliance Theatre, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse: My Fair Lady (10 person version); Alabama Shakespeare, Westport Country Playhouse: A Christmas Carol; Centerstage: Two Gentlemen of Verona; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Zorba; Syracuse Stage: Tintypes; Merrimack Rep, Virginia Stage: Intimate Apparel; Fringe Festival: Silence of the Lambs, the Musical. EDUCATION: Juilliard Drama Division.

Doug Kreeger (Evgeny) BROADWAY: Les Misérables (Jean Prouvaire/Marius u/s - Original Revival Cast). OFF-BROADWAY: York Theatre: Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story (Richard Loeb, also Cast Recording). REGIONAL: Old Globe Theatre: The Times They Are ‘A-Changin’ (Coyote Standby, director Twyla Tharp); Barrington Stage: The Human Comedy (Spangler); Arkansas Rep: Children of Eden (Cain/Japheth); Bay Street Theatre: Hair. INTERNATIONAL TOUR: Grease (Danny Zuko), Hair (Berger). NATIONAL TOUR: Peter Pan (Slightly). NEW YORK: NYMF: Yank! (Stu), Fringe: Swimming Upstream (Todd, Outstanding Actor Fringe Award). EDUCATION: BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts; RADA.

Mary Ann Lamb (Young Claire/Dance Captain) BROADWAY: Curtains (Mona Page), Contact, Seussical, Fosse, Chicago, Forum, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Song & Dance, Goodbye Girl, Starlight Express, Carrie. OTHER: City Center: Encores (eight shows);York Theatre: New Girl in Town (Anna); Music Circus: Damn Yankees (Lola). TV: PBS: Working Dancers II (Subject). FILM: Oscar Award-winner Chicago.

Jerry Lanning (Doctor) BROADWAY: Mame, Where’s Charley, My Fair Lady, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector, 1776. OFF-BROADWAY: Isn’t it Romantic, Emerald City, Berlin to Broadway. REGIONAL: Heartbreak  House, Hay Fever, Regina, The Most Happy Fellow, Strictly Dishonorable, Damn Yankees, Camelot, Showboat, 1776.  RECORDINGS: Jerry Lanning Sings, Mame, Berlin to Broadway, History of the Musical, My Fair Lady, (20th Anniversary Production) Greatest Songs from the Musicals, Broadway Super Hits. TV: Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Special Victims Unit, Texas, Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, As The World Turns, Damn Yankees, The Dick Van Dyke Show. CONCERTS: Sail Away (Carnegie Hall); On A Clear Day We Can Sing Forever (with Rita Gardner).

Ryan Lowe (Jacob Chicken) BROADWAY: Chicago. REGIONAL: A Little Night Music,
Candide, A Night In Venice, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 1776,
Barnum, Big River, Sweeny Todd, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors.
OPERA: The Mikado; The Passion of Jonathan Wade; Turandot; Of Mice and Men;Carmen; San Diego Opera: La Bohème.

Brianne Moore (Ensemble) REGIONAL: Jekyll and Hyde (Emma Carew), Big River (Mary Jane Wilkes), Carousel (Julie Jordan), Songs For a New World (Woman 1), Into the Woods (Baker's Wife), Ragtime (Chorine/Ensemble). NEW YORK: Staged readings: Alive at Ten (Kimberly Sharp), The Debbies (Debbie). Soloist at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall with the New York City Master Chorale. AWARDS: Two-time Carol Burnett Award recipient. EDUCATION: BA, Music-Vocal Performance, UCLA.

Christy Morton (Ensemble) NATIONAL TOURS: Cinderella (Queen u/s performed), Dr. Dolittle (Emma u/s performed). OFF and OFF-OFF-BROADWAY: York Theatre: A Fine and Private Place (Laura); NYC Fringe Festival: A Time to be Born (Vicky). REGIONAL: Sacramento Music Circus: Annie (Grace), Anything Goes (Hope); Stages St. Louis: Gypsy (Louise); Fulton Opera House: My Fair Lady (Eliza); Riverside Theatre: Dames at Sea (Mona Kent); North Shore Music Theatre: Little Me (Belle), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Chicago (Mrs. Claus). VOLUNTEER: Member of VocalEase (singing group for seniors in New York area). EDUCATION: BFA, University of Michigan.

Karen Murphy (Matilda) BROADWAY: A Christmas Carol, King David, Titanic, 42nd Street, All Shook Up. OFF-BROADWAY: Showtune: The Music of Jerry Herman, L’Amour, The Merrier!, Zombie Prom, Hysterical Blindness, Forbidden Broadway. TOURS: Les Miserables, The Wizard Of Oz, White Christmas. REGIONAL: Urinetown, Damn Yankees, Grease, Everythings Ducky, Side By Side By Sondheim. RECORDINGS: Torchgoddess, Zombie Prom, Forbidden Broadway (volume 2), I Won’t Dance (with Steve Ross). AWARDS: Bistro Award (NYC debut), Drama Logue (Zombie Prom, Torchgodess). UPCOMING NEW YORK: York Theatre: Vaudeville Man.

Brian O'Brien (Kurt) BROADWAY: The Pirate Queen, Beauty and the Beast, Annie Get Your Gun, Steel Pier. NATIONAL TOURS: Spamalot, Beauty and The Beast, The Will Rogers Follies. NEW YORK THEATRE: Encores!: Bye Bye Birdie; Lincoln Center: Anything Goes; City Center: My Favorite Broadway, the Love Songs. REGIONAL: The Prince Music Theatre: Lady in the Dark; Goodspeed: On the Twentieth Century, The Pajama Game; Paper Mill Playhouse: South Pacific. EDUCATION: Seton Hall University.

Cristen Paige (Ottilie Schell) REGIONAL: Broadway in Chicago: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (director James Lapine); La Jolla Playhouse: Cry Baby; About Face: Loving Repeating (director Frank Galati); Court Theatre: Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest, James Joyce’s The Dead; Goodman: The Visit (director Frank Galati); Marriott Theatre: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Joseph Jefferson nomination, Best Supporting Actress), Charlie Brown, Honk!, Bye Bye Birdie; Drury Lane Oakbrook: Dames at Sea (Joseph Jefferson nomination, Best Supporting Actress), Lucky Stiff; Chicago Shakespeare: Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz; Peninsula Players: Into the Woods, The Taffetas. 

Kevin Reed (Karl Schell) NEW YORK: Broadway Backwards, The Family Fiorelli, ACE (reading), Linda Eder: The Holiday Concert, Sinatra: His Voice His World, His Way, Richard 3, The Winter’s Tale, The Man Who Would Be King, Camino Real.  REGIONAL: The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, St Louis Repertory: ACE; Music Theater Of Connecticut: Edges: A Song Cycle; Pioneer: Evita, Berkshire Theater Festival: Brownstone; Colonial Theater: Damn Yankees; Riverspace: Rocky Horror Show; Helen Hayes: Chess in Concert;Germany: Camino Real. NATIONAL TOUR: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber (with Michael Bolton). ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING: Brownstone. TV: Guiding Light, Third Watch, Club Mariah. EDUCATION: MFA, Columbia University, acting.

Hal Robinson (Police Chief) BROADWAY: Cabaret Grand Hotel, The Musical; Nick & Nora; George Abbott’s Broadway; And A Nightingale Sang; On Your Toes. OFF-BROADWAY:  Old Wicked Songs Personals, Life Is A Dream, Promenade, The Fantasticks. REGIONAL: Arena Stage, The Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Old Globe, Coconut Grove Playhouse. Films: Paulie, The Grail, Planting Melvin. TV: Law & Order, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Practice (Judge Callahan).

Jeremy Webb (Schoolmaster) NEW YORK: Lincoln Center Theatre: Ahrens and Flaherty’s The Glorious Ones (created role, Francesco Andreini, director/choreographer Graciela Daniele). OFF-BROADWAY: Tabletop (Drama Desk Award); DR2 Theatre: BFF; Signature Theatre: The Baltimore Waltz; Three O’Clock in Brooklyn; NYMF: Tom Jones. WORKSHOPS: Dance of the Vampires;Bill Finn’s The Royal Family of Broadway (with Elaine Stritch); MTC: Monica! The Musical. REGIONAL: Old Globe: Misalliance; Long Wharf: Pera Palas; McCarter: Loot; Indiana Repertory: Glass Menagerie, Milwaukee Repertory: Seagull; Theatreworks: Laramie Project; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Blue/Orange. LOCAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Don Juan (title role). OTHER: New York Stage & Film, Hangar, Syracuse Stage, Walnut Street, Cape Playhouse, Westport Playhouse. FILM: Love Walked In. TV: Law & Order (Guest Star), Law & Order Criminal Intent (two episodes), Law & Order SVU, Guiding Light (recurring). CREATOR/DIRECTOR: Kurt Weill Festival: Broadway Dreams (2008, premiere in Dessau, Germany). EDUCATION: North Carolina School of the Arts, Drama School. UPCOMING: Original Cast Recording: The Glorious Ones.