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Amanda Butterbaugh Her New York credits include Off-Broadway: Nunsense/Nunsense II (Sister/Amnesia). Regional: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Dames at Sea (Ruby), Peter Pan (Peter), Once Upon a Mattress (Fred), Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide), The House of Blue Leaves (Little Nun), Almost September (Molly), A Christmas Carol (Christmas Past), The Fantasticks (Louisa), and many more. She dedicates her performance to Granzie, Michael, Conor, and Fiona.

Aymee Garcia (Maureen, Snowy, Queenie, Mother Swan, Voice of Old Woman) is honored to be able to share the stage with such a beautiful, talented, and dedicated cast and crew. She is even prouder to be a part of such an irreverent and important tale. Broadway/national tour: Shrek the Musical (Mama Bear, Gingy, and Dragon u/s), Avenue Q (u/s Kate Monster, Mrs. T, and Christmas Eve), Les Misérables (Madame Thénardier). Television: It’s a Big Big World (PBS, Smooch). Film: Striptease (Marcy, cockroach-eating temp). Dedicated to anyone who has ever been bullied. Hold your head up high. Thanks to Matt Pfeiffer for letting me be part of your cool gang for a bit and to Two River Theater Company for such an amazing and unforgettable experience.

Michael Genet made his Two River debut last season in Honk!. Broadway: A Few Good Men, Hamlet, Northeast Local, Lestat. Off-Broadway: A Soldier’s Play,The Colored Museum, Resurrection, Earth and Sky, Seven Guitars, The Oedipus Plays, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Television: Deadline, Ugly Betty, Law & Order, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, All My Children, As the World Turns, New York Undercover, Journey’s End, Law & Order: CSI, One Life to Live. Film: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, She Hate Me, 25th Hour, Booty Call, Let It Be Me,Stranger Among Us, Simple Justice, Presumed Innocent. Writing Credits: Hallelujah (American Playhouse), She Hate Me (w/Spike Lee, Sony Pictures Classics), Talk to Me (FOCUS Features), for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture.

Doug Hara (Cat) is a veteran ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre Company where he has participated in 16 productions since 1991 including Metamorphoses, West, Arabian Nights, Up Against It, The Master and Margarita, Lookingglass Hamlet and The Brothers Karamazov. Previously at Two River: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Our Town, Charlotte’s Web and you’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. Arden Theatre: A Prayer for Owen Meany Something Intangible, Three Penny Opera, Go Dog Go! and Sleeping Beauty. Broadway: The Boys of Winter, Metamorphoses. Off- Broadway: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Lookingglass Alice. Doug has performed with many companies and regional theaters including the Goodman, About Face Theatre, Jellyeye Drum Opera, Huntington, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Alliance, Syracuse Stage, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Joyce Theatre. Doug lives in Lambertville, New Jersey with Kirstin and daughters, Lyra and Harper.

Kenita R. Miller (Ida) Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Xanadu (Erato/Kira Cover), The Color Purple (Celie), Dessa Rose (Dessa), Langston in Harlem (Zora Neale Hurston. Drama Desk nomination and Audelco Award). National Tours/Regional: The Color Purple, The Civil War, Woody Guthrie American Songbook, Ragtime (Sarah), Once On This Island (Ti Moune), Ragtime in Concert in Cardiff, Wales (Sarah). Film/ TV: Liberty City Is Like Paris to Me (Sundance), Sesame Street. www. kenitamiller.com

Paolo Montalban (Ugly) is best known as the Prince in the ABC/Disney TV movie Cinderella opposite Brandy. This past year, he’s played the King of Siam in The King and I in Hawaii, Mike Masaoka in a workshop of the new musical Allegiance, a cast member of the State Farm National Convention in Las Vegas, and a soloist in the Suites by Sondheim concert at Alice Tully Hall. Broadway: Manjiro in Pacific Overtures, Lun Tha (u/s performed) in The King and I. Off-Broadway: Eglamour in Two Gentlemen of Verona (NYSF), The Romance of Magno Rubio. Regional: Flower Drum Song, Duncan Sheik’s Nero, The Boys from Syracuse, The Long Season, Love Inc. TV/Film: Kung Lao in Mortal Kombat: Conquest (INT series), supporting and featured roles in One Life to Live, Law & Order. SVU, Live from Lincoln Center: Camelot, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert, Just Wright, The Great Raid, American Adobo. He’s performed as a guest artist with the San Francisco Symphony and in Lea Salonga’s concert at Carnegie Hall. Gratitude to the creative team and his agents at DGRW and Atlas Talent. Much love to his family, especially Bella and Gabby, and although she’s not a bird…Otter.

Jim Morrow creates puppets for stage, television and film. He’s directed numerous shows for the Theatre, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites; Leo Lionni’s Swimmy, Frederick, Inch by Inch; Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny as well as designed many others. A gifted performer, Jim has toured extensively in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. He serves as director of puppetry for Symphony Nova Scotia’s production of The Nutcracker, and frequently conducts master classes in puppetry in North America and abroad. Jim is Mermaid Theatre’s Artistic Director.

OLIVIA OGUMA (JEANIE) Last appeared at Two River as Penny in Honk! in 2011. Broadway: Mamma Mia!, A Christmas Carol, Les Miserables, Disney’s High School Musical (1st National) . Off-Broadway: Letters of Suresh (Second Stage), Addressless (Rattlestick), Hello From… (Playwrights Realm), Luce (LCT3) Emotional Creature (Signature), The Imaginary Cuckold (Moliere in the Park), BFE (Playwrights Horizons), The Dispute (NAATCO). Regional: Yale Rep, LaJolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland CenterStage, Philadelphia Theater Co, Papermill Playhouse. Film & TV: This is Where I Leave You, Strangers with Candy, Like Father, “Instinct”, “FBI” “Odd Mom Out”, “Younger”,”Law & Order”, “The Good Wife” “The Big C,” “Great News”, “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. Olivia is the co creator/writer/host of DisOrientalism, an Asian American variety show which has a residency at Joe’s Pub. She has solo backpacked through 30 countries and is extremely passionate about Cirque Du Soilel. For my tribe: Mom, Oliver, EJZ, Molly, Luigi and 埼玉県. IG: @olioguma 

Laura Diorio (Downy), an 8th grader in Middletown, played Dina in Life in the Middle (Young Voices) and was part of the voiceover session for A Thousand Clowns, both at Two River. She has studied for the past four years at Count Basie’s Performing Arts Academy and has been seen there in many showcases (including as Glinda the Good Witch), and she performed in the Basie’s Summer of Love concert. She was MC at her school’s Variety Show, and is featured on Joe Piscopo’s upcoming album New Jersey. Laura played the title role of Peter Pan and Gretel in The Sound of Music at her elementary school. She continues to take acting and vocal classes and thanks all of her teachers for their guidance. She thanks her family for their love and encouragement.

Owen Doherty (Billy) is thrilled to be performing in his fourth production at Two River Theater. Owen is 12 years old and attends 7th grade in nearby Rumson. He has been performing since he was five years old in such productions as Oliver!, Guys and Dolls, Aladdin and Peter Pan among many others all over New Jersey. He is an avid piano player and plays clarinet and vibraphone with his school advanced and jazz bands. He loves singing our national anthem for civic events and has performed “America the Beautiful” at the US Open tennis tournament for the past five years. Owen would like to thank his family and friends for always supporting him in his theatrical and musical endeavors

Lulian Sarin (Beaky) is making his theatrical debut in Honk!. He’s in the third grade and is happily engaged in his eight-year-old’s lifestyle. He loves animals as well as humans. A natural performer, Julian put his thoughts into song as soon as he could speak and he’s now learning to play the guitar. Julian has twice attended Two River’s Summer Ensembles program and he is thrilled to be part of the Honk! experience.

Gabriella Scerbo (Fluff), making her Two River debut, is “eggstatic” to be one of Ugly’s siblings. She has appeared in Scrooge, Celebrate Broadway, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Premier Theatre in Asbury Park, and in Annie, Jr. and The Music Man, Jr. for iTheatrics in NYC. A graduate of Red Bank’s Barbizon School, she will be signing with Generation Model Management in NYC following her performance in Honk!. She is a dedicated dancer and enjoys many different classes at NJDC. She thanks her teachers there, especially Ms. Mary for helping her find her voice. Special thanks to Erica Siegel and “Crystal Snowflake” for instilling a love for the performing arts, and her awesome family and friends for all their love and support. (Fluff), making her Two River debut, is “eggstatic” to be one of Ugly’s siblings. She has appeared in Scrooge, Celebrate Broadway, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Premier Theatre in Asbury Park, and in Annie, Jr. and The Music Man, Jr. for iTheatrics in NYC. A graduate of Red Bank’s Barbizon School, she will be signing with

Generation Model Management in NYC following her performance in Honk!. She is a dedicated dancer and enjoys many different classes at NJDC. She thanks her teachers there, especially Ms. Mary for helping her find her voice. Special thanks to Erica Siegel and “Crystal Snowflake” for instilling a love for the performing arts, and her awesome family and friends for all their love and support.

David Malachowski is a touring guitarist, producer, musical director, and journalist living in Woodstock, New York. Tours include: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp, Shania Twain, Savoy Brown, Commander Cody, Garth Hudson, Janie Fricke, British Blues All Stars, Genya Ravan, Gail Ann Dorsey, and David Malachowski & the Woodstock Allstars. Musical theater: Without You (starring Anthony Rapp), Always … Patsy Cline, It Ain’t Nothing But the Blues, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Edges: the Musical, Marvelous Wonderettes, Beehive, Little Shop of Horrors, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Rent. David is thrilled to be back at Two River Theater!

Joshua Samuels has traveled the world playing drums/percussion. Off-Broadway credits include: Altar Boyz, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Peter and I, Top 8: The Musical, Bunked!: A New Musical (FringeNYC, winner best musical 2010). NYMF shows include: Plagued, My Scary Girl (winner best musical 2009). Off-Off-Broadway: Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Circle in the Square), Children of Eden (Astoria Performing Arts Center), John & Jen (45th Street Theatre), Once on This Island (York), The Trouble with Doug (CAP 21 and NAMT production). Regional credits include Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (both Two River); Daniel Mate’s The Longing and the Short of It (under the direction of William Finn, Barrington Stage). Josh also orchestrates and arranges percussion for many prominent composers in NYC.

Rebecca Steinberg, a trumpeter, has an active career as a classical, chamber, and klezmer Musiclan. In NYC, she has performed at the Cell, City Winery, Snapple Theater, and the Producers Club. At the Warner Theatre she performed the Haydn Trumpet Concerto with the Torrington Symphony (CT). She is currently playing with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn and the Amore Opera Company where she is doing a production of Barber of Seville. Last summer she played Merrily We Roll Along with Fire Island Arts Project. Ms. Steinberg is a founding member of the Manhattan Klezmer Band, formed while a student at the Manhattan School of Music. The majority of this group can be heard on the CD Sounds of the Scrolls which can be found at the Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit at the Discovery Museum Times Square.

Frank Vacin, a multiple woodwind specialist, studied music at North Texas State University, University of Colorado at Denver, and The New School for Social Research. Frank’s first experience in the theater came in high school. Since then he has played reeds in countless musicals all over the country and overseas. Fosse, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sweet Charity, Legally Blonde and Fela! are among the shows he has played on Broadway. Currently he subs on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and The Addams Family. Frank enjoyed working here on You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and is delighted to be back at Two River Theater for this production of Honk!.

Joseph Wallace is a double & electric bassist currently living in Brooklyn. Recent theater credits include: Newsies (First National Tour and Feature Film), Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” (New Victory Theater). He can also be seen performing and recording with numerous artists throughout New York City and across the US.

George Stiles (Music) and Anthony Drewe (Book and Lyrics) have also collaborated on Just So, Tutankhamun, Peter Pan, new songs for the Cameron Mackintosh/Disney production of Mary Poppins, and Betty Blue Eyes. They have two other new shows in development, Soapdish and Soho Cinders. Honk! has received almost 5,000 productions and has been seen around the world by over seven million people. Mary Poppins is playing on Broadway, in Amsterdam, is touring the USA and opened last summer in Melbourne to rave reviews. In 2008 Stiles and Drewe celebrated 25 years of writing together with a sell-out concert at Her Majesty’s Theatre, which resulted in a live CD, A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe. Awards include: the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical (Honk!), the Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Production (Honk!), three of the top prizes at the 1996 Musical of the Year Awards for Peter Pan and The Three Musketeers, the 1995 TMA Best Musical Award (Moll Flanders), and the first ever Vivian Ellis Prize (Just So). Stiles & Drewe are founding Board members of Mercury Musical Developments, a charitable organization that nurtures new musical writing.

Matt Pfeiffer (Director) is thrilled to be back at Two River for the holidays. Previous credits here include You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Charlotte’s Web. Matt is a Philly-born actor and director who serves as Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Exile. Recent credits include The Whipping Man (Arden Theatre), Mistakes Were Made (1812 Productions), The Aliens (Theatre Exile), and the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Run, Mourner, Run (Flashpoint Theatre). Other directing credits include Walnut Street Theatre, Delaware Theatre Co, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Brat Productions, Lantern Theatre, and 15 seasons with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Matt is a five-time Barrymore nominee and recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award. Thanks to John and the entire TRTC crew and special thanks to this amazing group of artists. Love to Kim.

Wayne Barker (Music Director) Center Stage: A Little Night Music, The Boys from Syracuse, Caroline, or Change. Westport Country Playhouse: She Loves Me. His symphony pops work has been played by the New York Pops, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago, Minnesota, San Francisco, Baltimore, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh Symphonies, among others. Theater scores include Peter and the Starcatcher (2011 Drama Desk Award), The Great Gatsby (which opened the new Guthrie Theater) and Seattle Rep’s Twelfe Night and The Three Musketeers. La Jolla Playhouse: orchestrations for Mark Bennett’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Wayne performed for five years with Chicago City Limits and, with Harry Prichett and John Cameron Telfer, created the interactive Radio Active Theater (WFMU and WKCR). Also: A Little Curious (HBO Family); The Raymond Scott Orchestrette (CD Pushbutton Parfait); six years on stage with Dame Edna Everage, including Back with a vengeance! on Broadway, for which he wrote the music and co- wrote the lyrics with Barry Humphries; other appearances with Dame Edna include the Metropolitan Opera and the summer residence of the Russian President. Wayne’s songwriting for Edna includes “We’ve Made the Most of Melbourne” (finale of the 2006 Commonwealth Games). “Fifty on the Stage” (sung for Her Majesty the Queen at the 75th Roval Command Variety Performance), and “I’m Forcing Myself to like Michael Feinstein” (on Broadway). For New York Theatre Workshop he is Artistic Associate for New Musicals and Composer-in-Residence. Member of Local 802 and The Dramatists Guild. 

Jenn Rose (Choreographer) is a choreographer and teaching artist based in the Philadelphia area. Regional credits include: Chicago and Aida (Media Theatre), The Flea and the Professor (Arden Theatre), Spelling Bee (Theatre Horizon), and The Irish…and How They Got That Way (Walnut Street). She has worked frequently with the 11th Hour Theatre Co., including on The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Barrymore nomination for Best Choreography, co-pro with Montgomery Theater), Little Shop of Horrors (co-pro with Theatre Horizon), and Avenue X (Barrymore nomination for Best Choreography). Original work: Your AtTENtion Please! (Ruba Club), Untitled Project # 213 (Philadelphia Fringe Festival), Way Up High (Award Show 2009! Philadelphia). From 2007-2009, Jenn served as Artistic Director/choreographer of Loose Screws Contemporary Tap Dance Company. She continues to share her movement with several dance institutions and theater programs throughout the tri-state area. Jenn is grateful to be inspired every day and looks forward to what is yet to come…. www.jenn-rose.net.

David P. Gordon (Scenic Designer) has designed almost 300 productions for theater and opera, including Two River’s productions of The Pavilion, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Charlotte’s Web. Other recent work includes designs for The Public Theater/NYSF, CSC, Theatre for a New Audience, Old Globe, Long Wharf, Huntington, McCarter, Goodspeed, Williamstown, Chicago Shakespeare, Arden, Wilma, Walnut Street, Kennedy Center, Westport, Philadelphia Theatre Co., Lincoln Center, L.A. Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Arizona, Berkshire and Sarasota Operas, and the State New Experimental Theatre in Volgograd, Russia. David has received four Barrymore Awards and the 2003 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Scenic Design, and has been nominated for IRNE, Carbonell and CT Critics Circle Awards. He is a Professor of Set Design at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Olivera Gajic Off-Broadway: God’s Ear, Vineyard; Miss Julie, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (2005); One Million Butterflies, Primary Stages; Williams in Transit, Americans, The Greeks, Edward II, The Juilliard School-drama; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Le Comte Ory, The Juilliard School-opera. Regional: A Dream Play, Peter Pan, Macbeth, Miss Julie, The Father, Ghosts, Candida, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Heartbreak House, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Clybourne Park, Crime and Punishment, Merchant of Venice, Social Creatures, Trinity Rep; Chekhov Lizardbrain, Twelfth Night, Pig Iron; Seagull, Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, Platonov, Lake Lucille. She has also worked with the following companies: Long Wharf, Two River, Riverside Theatre, Playmakers Rep, Theatre Works, American Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Cleveland Play House, California Shakespeare Theater. International: Jedermann, Salzburg Festspiele Austria; USA National Exhibit, Prague Quadrennial 2003 & 2007, Czech Republic. Education: University of CT, Storrs; Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. Awards: 2012 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Pig Iron’s Twelfth Night, TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award-Distinguished Costume Design, Innovative Theatre Awards-Outstanding Costume Design, The Tobin Foundation design grant, NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers.

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew is a lighting and video designer based in NYC. Her designs have been seen across US cities and internationally at Havana, Prague, Lima, and Edinburgh. Jeanette is honored to return to Two River, where she last designed Honk!. Recent: the world premiere of Kamala Sankaram’s Thumbprint with Prototype Festival, Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rogue, Matthew Paul Olmos’ So Go the Ghosts of Mexico Part One (2013 New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominee for Best Lighting Design), Elizabeth Swados and Cecilia Rubino’s From the Fire (winner of the 2011 MTM: UK Musical Theatre Awards for Best New Production), Their Eyes Were Watching God at WNYC with Ruben Santiago-Hudson, The Foundry’s How Much Is Enough, Erik Ehn’s commemorative cycle Soulographie: Our Genocides, Kara Lee Corthron’s AliceGraceAnon, Sheila Callaghan’s Roadkill Confidential (premiere production directed by Kip Fagan), Aya Ogawa’s Oph3lia and Journey to the Ocean (also a collaboration with Adhikaar and produced by The Foundry), The Civilians’ Paris Commune and In The Footprint and Chi-wang Yang’s Ocean Flight as part of the inaugural Live Arts Exchange (LAX) Festival in Los Angeles. Jeanette is also a puppetry artist who devises original works. Her recent production, Are They Edible?, premiered at La MaMa ETC in November 2013 to sold-out houses. Jeanette was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program and is a lecturer with Stony Brook University. www.jeanetteyew.com.

Karin Graybash has created numerous sound designs for regional theater and Off-Broadway, including: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Rep, McCarter, Arena Stage, Portland Stage, TheatreWorks, and the Alliance. Her work has been nominated for the Helen Hayes Awards and she is a recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for her sound design of Polk County at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Karin was the original live sound consultant for the multi-media production Freedom Rising at the National Constitution Center. Many of her soundscapes can be heard at The Franklin Institute’s exhibit entitled Your Brain. Karin also holds the position of Sound Supervisor for the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

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.

Matthew Melchiorre (Production Stage Manager): Two River Theater: debut. Broadway: The Light in the Piazza, Coram Boy, Hamlet, Curtains, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Wicked, The Lion King, All Shook Up, The Frogs. Off-Broadway: White Chocolate, Open Heart, The Architecture of Loss. Primary Stages: A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie and Buffalo Gal, Happy Now?, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment…. Westport Country Playhouse: Twelfth Night or What You Will, Suddenly, Last Summer, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Beyond Therapy, The Diary of Anne Frank, Beckett’s Happy Days, She Loves Me That Championship Season; Tick, Tick, Boom!; Around the World in 80 Days; A Holiday Garland, The Pavillion. Other: Show Boat in Concert (Carnegie Hall).