Camelot

Roxanne Bergman has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Madison Square Garden amongst other major venues with organizations such as the Metropolitan Opera, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The New York Pops and with artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Renee Fleming, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, and others. She has performed as concertmaster for Whitney Houston, Kristin Chenoweth, performance artist Bjork, Michael Amante (@ Lincoln Center), Smokey Robinson, and performed/toured with Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, Tony Bennett, Bernadette Peters, P. Diddy and others. Broadway show performances include: Les Miserables, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty and the Beast, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Gypsy, Phantom of the Opera and others. Recordings for television, film, radio, compact disc: Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA, Columbia, DreamWorks, HBO, PBS and others.

Alan Brady performed at Two River Theater in their successful run of Camelot last year, as well as The Music Man at Two River and NJPAC. Other recent projects include a well-reviewed run at 54 Below in NYC with Emily Bergl and an upcoming performance at the legendary Deer Head Inn with the Derwyn Holder Ensemble, as well as performing with Don Rickles at the Bergen PAC. He is also a frequent performer with the Garden State Philharmonic, Westfield Symphony (NJ Festival Orchestra), and the NE PA Symphony Orchestra; recently played with the Verismo Opera Company (La Boheme); and has played on many shows at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn. He has performed with legendary performers such as Ray Charles, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, Bob Hope, Joan Rivers, and many others.

Leo Huppert earned his B.M. in Studio Music & Jazz and M.M. in Jazz Bass Performance from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Broadway: Violet, Radio City Christmas Spectacular 2011/2012, Jersey Boys 1st & 2nd Nat’l Tours, In the Heights, Cinderella, Sister Act, Annie and others. Off-Broadway: Tommy Tune: White Tie & Tails, Once Around the City. Cabaret: performances with Sutton Foster, Joshua Henry @ Joe’s Pub, Andrea Marcovicci, Leslie Uggams, 92nd St. Y Lyrics & Lyricists. Rock/Pop: David Clayton-Thomas and Blood, Sweat & Tears, Eileen Ivers, Bobby Caldwell’s Blue Condition Big Band. Soundtracks: HBO, ESPN, PBS.

Simon Hutchings Originally from London, UK, Simon Hutchings now resides in New York City. Before his recent relocation to The Big Apple, he spent several years as one of the most in-demand woodwind performers in Florida, where he regularly performed with visiting entertainers and touring Broadway musicals including Marie Osmond, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Chicago, Wicked, and Spamalot. Simon has enjoyed a diverse career to date, having performed with groups such as the Phoenix Symphony, USAF Falconaires, and Naples Philharmonic. He is also an accomplished chamber musician, having performed for six years with the Joseph Wytko Saxophone Quartet, and being a founding member of both the Areté Woodwind Doubling Quartet and the Helios Saxophone Quartet. He currently subs on the Broadway shows The Book of Mormon and The Lion King, and recently completed a run of the new Disney show Freaky Friday at Cleveland Play House. Simon has held positions on the adjunct faculty at Bethune-Cookman University, where he taught saxophone and chamber music, and Daytona State College, where he taught saxophone, clarinet, and chamber music. He is featured in Alfred Music Publishing’s new Sound Innovations band method series, where he presents a DVD masterclass to accompany both the clarinet and alto saxophone books.

Vivian Israel grew up in Manhattan and at age 21 became principal cellist and Musical Advisor with the Haifa Symphony in Israel, where she remained for six years. Since 1983 she has been a member of the Long Island Philharmonic, where she shares the principal cello seat and is a leader of the children’s educational outreach program. She has also been an active member of the Broadway musical scene with such greats as Les Miserables, Carousel, Ragtime, The Boy from Oz with Hugh Jackman, La Cage aux Folles, Gypsy, and West Side Story. She performs regularly with varied chamber groups in New York and has appeared with such great musical stars as Luther Vandross on a six-week tour of the United States, Ray Charles at Carnegie Hall, Diana Ross in Concert, Stevie Nicks at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, and Art Garfunkel in his Animals’ Christmas Special composition. She recorded a nine-track CD with her ethnic folk jazz band, Skylight.

Dan McMillan is happy to be back in Red Bank after being part of Two River’s production of Camelot. A Monmouth County native (Freehold), he studied at Mannes College of Music, BM, MM. Orchestras include the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Princeton Symphony, and Long Island Philharmonic. Broadway: West Side Story (2009 revival), A Chorus Line (2006 revival), The Boy from Oz with Hugh Jackman. He was Associate Producer and drummer for Silence! The Musical. On screen: Music and Lyrics with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Recordings include the Grammy-winning West Side Story revival cast, Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden, and Douglas J. Cohen’s No Way to Treat a Lady. He proudly plays Pearl Drums, Paiste Cymbals and Yamaha Concert Percussion. Faculty Member, Guitar Center Studios, East Brunswick. Member of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians.

Marshall Sealy has performed extensively in a broad range of genres, styles and venues, including classical, Broadway and pit orchestras. He has worked with Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Opera Company of Boston, Les Miserables Brass Band, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and Evita (national tour). He has been a soloist with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Plovdiv Symphony (Bulgaria) and United States Air Force Band, and has performed with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra and Orchestra Filarmonica de Jalisco (Mexico), and with Lester Bowie, Ray Charles, and Paquito D’Rivera. He has appeared with the live television orchestras of the Essence Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Whitney Houston HBO Special. He has recorded with Les Miserables Brass Band, Anthony Braxton, J.J. Johnson, Max Roach, Taj Mahal, Michael Jackson, Jay-Z and Isaac Hayes (1999 film Shaft). Marshall has recently completed his new solo horn album, “Horn Song.”

Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) and Frederick Loewe (1901-1988) wrote some of the most enduring classics of the American musical theater. Born in New York City, Alan Jay Lerner was a Harvard-educated writer who had collaborated with writers such as Leonard Bernstein while in college. Unable to serve in World War II due to a boxing injury that blinded him in one eye, he instead wrote scripts for radio plays. In 1942, he was introduced to an Austrian composer named Frederick Loewe while at the Lamb’s Club, a theatrical hangout in New York City. Loewe, a former piano prodigy in his native Berlin, was looking for a writing partner with whom he could achieve his dream of writing Broadway shows. Lerner and Loewe teamed up, and together they wrote many musicals including Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), Gigi (1958), and Camelot (1960), Lerner writing the books and lyrics, Loewe the music. After Camelot Loewe retired and Lerner went on to collaborate with a series of different composers including Burton Lane, with whom he wrote On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). With this exception, none of Lerner’s later collaborations were as successful as the musicals he wrote with Frederick Loewe. In 1973, Lerner coaxed Loewe out of retirement to write a musical film adaptation of the Antoine de Saint-Exupory novel The Little Prince.

David Lee most recently directed Can-Can at Paper Mill Playhouse and Noel Coward’s Present Laughter at Two River Theater. He has directed productions of Light Up the Sky, Do I Hear a Waltz?, 110 in the Shade, Diva, Can-Can (Ovation Award—Best Director), Camelot, and Art (Pasadena Playhouse); the world premiere of How I Fell in Love (Williamstown Theatre Festival); On the 20th Century, Assassins, Company, A New Brain, Applause, Working, Forum, Zorba (Ovation nominee—Best Director), Elegies, Two By Two, and Gigi (Reprise). In 2007 he directed the acclaimed production of South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl with Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell. He is currently writing a musical based on the life of the silent-movie star William Haines called Wisecracker. David is also a nine-time Emmy Award-winning director, writer, and producer for television. He is the co-creator of Wings and Frasier, for which he also wrote, produced, and directed; he served as writer/producer for Cheers and directed multiple episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. In addition to 19 Emmy nominations, he is the recipient of the Directors Guild Award, Golden Globe, Producers Guild Award, GLAAD Media Award, British Comedy Award, Television Critics Association Award (three times), the Humanitas Prize (twice), and the Peabody Award.

Mark Esposito has choreographed for theater, television, commercials, and videos. His work has been seen at Pasadena Playhouse (Camelot), the Hollywood Bowl (South Pacific with Reba McEntire), the Reprise Series in Los Angeles (Applause), La Mirada Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Sacramento Music Circus, Universal Studios, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Music Theatre of Wichita, North Shore Music Theatre (Massachusetts), Bass Hall and Casa Manana (Texas), Blowing Rock Stage Company (North Carolina), Ogunquit Playhouse (Maine), Globus Theatre Company in Russia and the York Theatre Company and Signature Theatre in New York. Mark has served as Associate director and choreographer for The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show and as chorographer for Yuletide Celebration starring Sandi Patti with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Mark has performed in over 16 Broadway and National Tours including The Music Man; West Side Story; Brigadoon; Pippin; A Chorus Line; Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; Cats; Guys and Dolls; Damn Yankees; Marilyn, An American Fable; and The American Dance Machine among others. Mark has been on faculty at University of Michigan and has guest taught or choreographed at New York University, UCLA, University of Arizona , Point Park College in PA and at AMDA in Los Angeles.

Steve Orich received a Tony nomination for his Orchestrations for Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Snoopy, Personals, A Good Swift Kick, Potholes, NYC Street Show. National Tours: Annie, Godspell, A Class Act. Regional: Musical Director and/or Orchestrator at Paper Mill Playhouse (Can-Can), Pasadena Playhouse (Do I Hear a Waltz?, A Class Act, 110 in the Shade, Plaid Tidings, Can-Can), Geffen Playhouse (Paint Your Wagon), Mark Taper Forum (The Great American Songbook), Hollywood Bowl (Bernstein’s Mass), La Jolla Playhouse (Jersey Boys), TheatreWorks (Snapshots, A Christmas Memory), Asolo Rep (Pulse), Goodman Theatre (Turn of the Century), Goodspeed Opera House (You Never Know, Both Barrels, Snapshots), Dorset Theatre Festival (You Never Know), Northlight Theatre (Snapshots) and Pioneer Theatre (Paint Your Wagon). As a composer, he has written music for numerous television series, specials, and documentaries including the ACE Award-winning Mo’ Funny (HBO), All About Bette Davis (TNT), Bob Hope…Laughing with the Presidents (NBC), and the award-winning documentary Jackie Onassis: An Intimate Portrait (PBS/Lifetime). He has orchestrated and/or conducted albums for singers like Helen Reddy, Petula Clark, Debbie Gravitte, Judy Kaye and Deborah Gibson, as well as the Grammy-winning cast album for Jersey Boys. His orchestrations have been performed by the National Symphony, Boston Pops, BBC Orchestra, and at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the White House and around the world.

Scott Bradley Debut with Two River Theater. Recent openings: A Walk in the Woods at the Clurman on Theatre Row, Days Like Today by Laura Eason and Alan Schmuckler (Writers Theatre in Chicago), The Grapes of Wrath (Asolo Rep), The Servant of Two Masters (Delaware Rep), Sense and Sensibility (Milwaukee Rep). Currently designing Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Fest). Notable productions: world premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s A Great Wilderness (Seattle Rep), Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci by Mary Zimmerman, both Lucille Lortel nominations (Second Stage), Silk written and directed by Mary Zimmerman (Goodman Theatre, Joseph Jefferson Award), Incident at Vichy (Samuel Beckett Theatre), premieres of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design), and Seven Guitars at the Goodman and on Broadway (Tony nomination and Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design).

Tilly Grimes is a European stage designer currently working between London, Paris, and New York. Awards include the Balsamo Grand for Emerging Immigrant Artists, the Irish Arts Design Award, and Irish Times Theatre Award. American theater: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Westport Country Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, Boston Lyric Opera, La MaMa, Shakespeare on the Sound, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, New World Stages, HERE Arts Center, New Georges, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Juilliard School, and the Curtis Institute. She previously designed Two River’s productions of As You Like It, Present Laughter and Henry V and is delighted to be back at “team two river.” Tilly is also co-artistic director of London/Parisian Theatre Company ‘SavageCharm’ and teaching artist at Brown University. She received her MFA from NYU Tisch.

Michael Gilliam Broadway: Bonnie and Clyde, Brooklyn, Big River, Stand-Up Tragedy. The West End: Gershwin Alone. Off-Broadway: The Best Is Yet to Come, Striking 12, Blue, End of the World Party, Zooman and the Sign, Menopause: The Musical. National Tours: Looped, Peter Pan, Brooklyn, Guys and Dolls, Big River. His work has been seen in many of the country’s regional theaters including Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, The Globe Theatres, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory, Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Prince Music Theater, Denver Center, Arizona Theatre Company, and Paper Mill Playhouse. Among his awards are Los Angeles Ovation Awards, Dramalogue Awards, Garland Awards, San Diego Critics’ Circle Awards and the 1999 Career Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.

Acme Sound Partners has designed sound for over 30 Broadway shows since 2000 including: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2012 revival, Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Merchant of Venice (Drama Desk nomination), Fences (2010 revival, Tony nomination), Ragtime (2009 revival, Drama Desk Award), Bye Bye Birdie (2009 revival), Hair (2009 revival, Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006 revival), Drowsy Chaperone (Drama Desk nomination), Monty Python’s Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fiddler on the Roof (2004 revival) and Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme (Drama Desk Award, Ovation Award). Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard and Sten Severson.

J. Steven White is pleased to return to Two River (where he previously fight directed Lives of Reason, Guadalupe in the Guest Room, Camelot, As You Like It, and On Borrowed Time) and to be working again with his former colleagues from productions at The Public Theater, where his fight work has been seen in 22 shows including Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, King Lear, A Language of Their Own, and Cymbeline with Liev Schreiber and Michael C. Hall, whom Mr. White trained at NYU Graduate Acting. Broadway includes The Pillowman, Bombay Dreams, Uncle Vanya, A View from the Bridge, Golden Child, The Lion in Winter with Laurence Fishburne, All My Sons, as well as Shogun: The Musical (Assistant Director). His fights have been seen on the stages of every major New York theater including MTC, CSC, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, and the Irish Repertory Theatre. He has worked at McCarter on six productions including The Convert. He is the fencing master for the Tulsa Ballet where he staged the fencing sequences in Edwaard Liang’s production of Romeo and Juliet.​ Mr. White spent 11 seasons at American Conservatory Theater, where he began his teaching career 44 years ago. He is on the faculties of the Stella Adler Studio and the Graduate Acting Program at NYU-Tisch. He wants to go on record that he is in love with Red Bank and the Jersey Shore.

Adam Caldwell works with Cindy Tolan. Broadway: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Betrayal, Cinderella, The Performers, Lysistrata Jones, Relatively Speaking, That Championship Season, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, Avenue Q, and Xanadu. Previous productions with Vineyard Theatre, Bay Street, Dallas Theater Center, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, and Lincoln Center Theater. Film: This Is Where I Leave you, The Place Beyond the Pines, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Winter’s Tale, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Blue Valentine, Another Happy Day, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Letters to Juliet, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Starting Out in the Evening, Death of a President, The Darjeeling Limited. Upcoming films: Katie Says Goodbye, Breakable You. Television: Odd Mom Out, Deadbeat, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords, Fringe, The Return of Jezebel James, and multiple HBO pilots. Member of CSA.

Samantha Flint Two River Theater: Debut. Broadway: Venus in Fur (Manhattan Theatre Club). Off Broadway: HIM (Primary Stages); Measure for Measure, JUMP, In the Wake, The Winter’s Tale, The Brother/Sister Plays (The Public Theater). Regional: June Moon, The Visit (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Somewhere (Hartford Stage); The Winter’s Tale, Herringbone, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Twelfth Night, The Brother/Sister Plays (McCarter Theatre Center); The Playboy of the Western World (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Avenue Q, Next to Normal (Adirondack Theatre Festival); Barefoot in the Park (Bucks County Playhouse). Education: The Theatre School at DePaul University.