I Remember Mama

Barbara Andres feels blessed to recreate her role from the 2014 critically acclaimed Transport Group production of I Remember Mama for which she received a Drama Desk nomina­tion for Outstanding  Lead Actress.  Born-in-a-trunk to the musical comedy team, Masters and Rollins, she began touring with them at three weeks of age.  Her Broadway career started  in the 1969 musical,  Jimmy, followed  by The Bay Friend (Hortense), Rodge : and Hart (Barbara).  Rex (Catherine of Aragon),  On Golden Pond (Chelsea). Doonesbwy (.Joanie Caucus),  Kiss ofthe Spider Woman (Mama Molina), A Delicate Balance (Edna). and Cabaret (Fra lein Schneider). She continued as Fraulein Schneider in the National Tour of Cabaret (the L.A. Ovation and Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for Best Featured Actress), giving her final perfonnances in Tokyo.  Off Broadway she has been featured at The Roundabout,  Lincoln Center,  Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre,  Public Theate , Naked Angels, and Transport Group where she starred as Emily in their innovative production of Our Town, also directed by Jack Cummings III.  Across America from The Guthrie Theater to Arena Stage,from American Repertory Theatre to The Coconut Grove, she has appeared in a wide range of roles from Sister Aloysius in Doubt to Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Other  favorite ladies are:  Linda (Death of a Salesman),  Lubov Ranevskya (Tile Cheny Orchard),  Mama Rose (Gypsy),  Desiree (A Little Night Music), Candida (Candida), Goneril (King Lear), and Joanne (Company). Ms. Andres has guest-starred on all three Law and Orders, as well as Gossip Girls, Damages, Rescue Me, Third Watch, All My Children, As the World Tums and The Sopranos. Her films include What About Bob?, After the Storm, Random Hearts, and Thirteen Conversations About One Thing.  The sometime mother of Glenn Close, Jodie Foster, Annette Bening,  Kate Burton,  John Rubinstein,  Laila  Robins, Howard McGillan,  Grant Shaud,  Roma Downey, and Barbara Barrie,  she is the real-life grandmother of Maddie, Keala, Aubree, Daniel, Annie Rose, Lily, Griffin and Gracie.  She and her husband Andy will soon celebrate their 57 h wedding anniversary.

Alice Cannon Broadway:  James Joyce’s The Dead (Helen Hayes Award), Company (Original Cast),  Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway: Significant Other (Roundabout Theater), I Remember Mama, All the Way Home (Transport Group),  The General from America (Richard Nelson writer/director), Mr. Pim Passes By (Mint Theater Company). Regional: The Road to Mecca (Best Actress Award, Raleigh, NC), 4000 Miles (Hudson Stage), Angels in America (Connecticut Repertory). Film: The Producers, Morris County, Jewish Girls Are Easy (Independent). TV: Difficult People (Hulu).

Selected NY Theater: I Remember Mama (Transport Group/Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Big Love (Signature Theater); Macbeth (Delacorte); Ivanov (LCT/Broadway:  Chasing Manet, The Model Apartment (Primary Stages); Hamlet (Public Theater); Orpheus Descending (Broadway); The Devils (NYTW); Uncle Vanya (Andre Gregory production). Regional: Guthrie, Hartford Stage, A.R.T., Yale Rep, Huntington, Williamstown, Long Wharf, Actors Theater of Louisville, Barrington Stage. Selected Film/TV: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: Munich; The Cobbler; They Came Together; Eagle Eye; Manhattan Murder Mystery; Vanya on 42nd Street; Getting On; Sex and the City (TV/movies); Chicago Med; recurring on The Affair; Damages, Nurse Jackie, and Law & Order. Awards: New Dramatists’ Bowden Award; Fox Fellow; Lilly Award; AEA Richard Seff Award.

Rita Gardner has a long career on and off-Broadway.  She is best known for originating the role of The Girl in the in the longest running musical of all time, The Fantasticks.  Broadway credits: A Family Affair, Ben Franklin In Paris, 1776, Last Of The Red Hot Lovers, The Wedding Singer.  Off-broadway: Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well . . . , Steel Magnolias, Wings.  Other theatrical credits: A. R. Gurney’s The Snowball, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Gingerbread Lady, Side By Side By Sondheim, 4000 Miles, and the national tour of Kiss of the Spiderwoman.  Ms. Gardner appeared in the very successful run of the Transport Group’s production of I Remember Mama, which will be performed again this summer at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ.   Select film credits: The Good Student, Super Heroes, P.s. I Love You (with Hillary Swank), and Tiger Lily Road.  Television work includes roles on 30 Rock, all of the Law & Order series, and the new series on Bravo Odd Mom Out.   Her one woman show – Try To Remember:  A Look Back At Off-Broadway has toured nationally, and the CD is available on Amazon.com.  Her new one woman show Much More: A Songbook Of Tom Jones And Harvey Schmidt will premiere in the fall.

Marjorie Johnson last appeared in Dot at the Vineyard Theater. Broadway: The Little Foxes (Vivian Beaumont Theatre). Off-Broadway: Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theater, Audelco Award for Best Supporting Actress), The House of Bernard Alba (Pearl Theatre Company). Regional: To Kill A Mockingbird (Papermill Playhouse), Fences (Oregon Shakespeare Fest.), Having Our Say (Triad Stage), Skin Of Our Teeth (Delaware Theatre Co., Philadelphia Critics Award nomination), Bloodline (Hangar Theatre), The Old Settler (Buffalo Studio Arena). Off-off Broadway: M: The Mandela Saga (Theatre for the New City, Lead Actress Audelco Award). International: The Pen and The Podium (Edinburgh Festival in Scotland). Film: American Gangster, Boiler Room, Life Breath, Hill And Gully, Fleecing Led Zeppelin. TV: Nurse Jackie, The Affair, The Leftovers, Law & Order, Law & Order: Svu, The 22.

MIA KATIGBAK (NURSE) is the actor-manager and co-founder of the award-winning, New York City based NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Co.), with whom she has acted extensively. Selected NAATCO productions: Out of Time, commissioned by NAATCO; the U.S. premiere of Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only, a remote live production; Henry VI, Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts (St. Clair Bayfield Award); Awake and Sing (Obie Award). Other selected productions: Russian Troll Farm, an online, live-edited play, which received an Obie Special Citation this year; A Delicate Balance (Transport Group); Dear Elizabeth (WP); Ivo van Hove’s Scenes From a Marriage (NYTW); Good Person of Szechwan (Foundry/Public Theater) as well as productions with: LCT3, Soho Rep, Public Theater, New Georges, Foundry, New Group, Ma-Yi, Target Margin, Clubbed Thumb, Bushwick Starr. Regional work: Two River Theater (I Remember Mama); Yale Rep and Long Wharf (CT), the Humana Festival at the Actors Theater in Louisville (KY), Berkeley Rep (CA), and the Guthrie (MN). International: Manila, Philippines and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Television: “How to Get Away With Murder” (ABC), “The Sinner” (USA), “Chicago PD” (NBC), “Mysteries of Laura” (NBC), and “Conviction” (NBC). Awards: USA Fellow (2021); TCG’s 2017 Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow for Distinguished Achievement; Special Drama Desk Award (2019); Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theater; NYIT for Artistic Achievement; Lily Award for Trailblazing; Lucille Lortel and the Lee Reynolds Awards (League of Professional Theatre Women); Actors Equity’s Rosetta LeNoire Award. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MA from Columbia University.

Susan Lehman became a member of the Actors Equity Union in 1961 and has been working in the performing arts ever since.  Her first Broadway show was in 1962 in I Can Get It For You Wholesale as ensemble and understudying Barbra Streisand and Bambi Linn.  Other Broadway work included The Prisoner Of Second Avenue and Show Me Where The Good Times Are.   Susan played Tzeitel in the First National Company of Fiddler on the Roof (was married 410 times).  She played Mrs. McIllehenny in City Center’s Encores! production of 70 Girls 70 … Two Drama Desk nominated best play and best revival, Falling (2012) and Transport Group’s I Remember Mama (2014).  Other off-Broadway productions include Transport Group’s Crossing Brooklyn as Olive, Maude in the musical of Harold and Maude and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Mitty’s Mother-in-Law.    Roles on Soaps: All My Children, Ryan’s Hope and As The World Turns.  A “Gentle Folk” senior dancer in the Disney Film, Enchanted (appeared on 2008 Academy Awards for an ENCHANTED nominated song, That’s How You Know).  Lead/Support roles in over 40 plays and musicals including Fanny in Funny Girl, Babe in Pajama Game, Carrie in Carousel, Marian in The Music Man, Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress, Annie in Annie Get Your Gun, Mammy Yokum in Lil’l Abner, Smitty in How to Succeed, Irma in Irma La Duce, Reno in Anything Goes, Meg in Brigadoon, Jack’s Mum in Into the Woods.  Sang and danced in many Revues and Cabaret all over the USA.  Directed projects in NYC for Circle Rep,  The Women’s Project,  Women’s Interart,  HB Playwrights Foundation,  Captial Rep in Albany,  Allenberry Playhouse in PA.  Trained to direct and directed on All My Children (ABC) and Texas (NBC). Studied directing with Mike Nichols and Herbert Berghof.   Studied acting with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University and Uta Hagen and Austin Pendleton at the HB Studio.  BS in Theater (now Communications) at Northwestern University.    Susan also works professionally as a Broadway usher where she gets paid to see a show and tell people where to go.

Heather Mac Rae is very proud and happy to be part of the Mama family once again, after having appeared in the highly acclaimed Transport Group production of I Remember Mama in 2014. Her Broadway credits include Sheila in Hair (original Broadway production); Abra in Here’s Where I Belong (Broadway debut); Faith in Coastal Disturbances, Dr. Charlotte in Falsettos, the Caterer in A Catered Affair. She appeared as Cookie in the national tour of Rumors, and also in the Falsettos national tour. She played Mary Magdalene in the LA production of Jesus Christ Superstar and appeared in the Miami production of Hair for more than a year. Other theatrical credits: Mary in Merrily We Roll Along (La Jolla Playhouse), Heather in I’m Getting My Act Together… (Kansas City and Geva Theatre). Last year Heather was part of an extraordinary event, Hair Retrospection, at Kansas City Rep. Directed by Eric Rosen, it features six members of the original Broadway production sharing their stories and experiences of being part of this amazing show during such an incredible historical time. Off-Broadway: Falsettoland, Anne of Green Gables, Abie’s Island Rose, Emily, Coastal Disturbances, and The Hot L Baltimore. Regional: Vanities, Children, The Dining Room, Oliver, Sabrina Fair, and A Christmas Carol. Films include: The Namesake, Life with Mikey, A Perfect Couple (directed by Robert Altman), Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (directed by Woody Allen), and Bang the Drum Slowly. TV: The Big C, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Law & Order: SVU, Frasier, One Life to Live, Clarissa Explains It All. Mrs. Mac Rae has appeared in clubs and concerts throughout the country since 1980. She won a MAC and a Bistro Award for her critically acclaimed solo show, Songs for My Father (a tribute to her father, Gordon Mac Rae). Her recordings include: Songs for My Father (Harbinger Records), I Choose Love (LML Music), Falsettoland (DGR); A… My Name Will Always Be Alice (DGR), and I Love New York.

Louise Sorel was in the Transport Group production of I Remember Mama in 2014. She began her career on Broadway in Take Her, She’s Mine starring, Art Carney. She moved between films and theater in London co-starring in The Party’s Over with Oliver Reed and then with Charles Boyer on the WestEnd in Terence Rattigans’ Man and Boy.  She followed with Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sydney Brusteins’ Window, Lorenzo with Alfred Drake and in between was guest starring in Hollywood, her hometown on major television networks.  She studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and has continued to work in the theater through her career.  Recently she spent time as a comedic villainess on both Santa Barbara and Days of Our Lives.  She considers herself a New Yorker even though she grew up in the Hollywood film world.  Her role on the original Star Trek continues to surprise her, as a long time memory for fans. Louise is an inveterate traveler and can’t resist any animal.  Be it large or small. She received 5 Soap Opera Digest Awards, a Los Angeles Dramalogue nomination for The Perfect Ganesh by Terence McNally at the Odyssey Theatre, and a Best Performance nomination for Lovely at the Santa Monica Playhouse.

Dale Soules most recently co-starred with Patti LuPone and Michael Urie in Shows For Days at Lincoln Center Theater.  Her Broadway credits include: Hands On A Hard Body, Grey Gardens, The Crucible, The Magic Show (introducing Stephen Schwartz’s songs Lion Tamer and West End Avenue), Whose Life Is It Anyway? , Dude, and her debut in the groundbreaking Hair.  Her Off-Broadway, Regional, National and International work is extensive including: Posterity, The Water Engine and The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite (Atlantic Theatre Company), 2014’s award-winning Transport Group production of I Remember Mama (all women over 65), Marsha Norman’s Getting Out, Candide (Guthrie), All’s Well That Ends Well (Yale Rep.), ‘Maid (Director’s Lab Lincoln Center Festival).  Her Television work includes; Unforgettable, Law & Order, American Playhouse, Sesame Street, Maurice Sendak’s  Really Rosie.  Her most recent feature film AWOL premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2016.  Awards include two SAG Awards (for her ensemble work on Orange Is The New Black season 2&3 as Freida), and the New Dramatists Charles Bowden Award for her dedication to new work and extraordinary contribution to theatre. www.dalesoules.com