JANE BLASS (Ellie) is very happy to join this cast in the lovely Oak Room. Most recently, Jane appeared as the Wicked Witch of the West in Theater Under the Stars’ production and tour of The Wizard of Oz. She has also appeared Off Broadway in the premiere of Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden, as Mazeppa in the Ravinia (Chicago) production of Gypsy with Patti LuPone and toured as Prudy Pingleton/Female Authority Figure in the Broadway tour of Hairspray. Chicago credits: tours: Scrooge with Richard Chamberlain; Side by Side by Sondheim, touring the Middle-East; and the second national tour of Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife); world premieres: Elizabeth Willard in Winesburg, Ohio (at Steppenwolf) and Winnie in Pulp both with About Face Theatre; Creon in God and Country and Sally in Blissfield at Victory Gardens; and Elaine in Muscle (by James Lapine, William Finn and Ellen Fitzhugh) at Pegasus Players. You may have seen her recently on a commercial for Staples, Jane is also a founding member of the Sweat Girls (www.sweatgirls.org) and a proud member of Actors’ Equity.
 
 
LAURA JORDAN (Coral Hicks) Broadway: In My Life (Samantha); NYC: workshops of Prairie (with Patrick Swayze & Melissa Gilbert) and In My Life; Vrrrooommm!!! (SPF 2007); .22 Caliber Mouth (Ohio Theater); Oedipus for Kids! and Such Good Friends (NYMF 2006/2007). Regionally: Portland Stage, Northshore Music Theater, Hartford Stage, Nashville Repertory, and Wilma Theater. Origins: Saginaw, MI.
 
 
DAREN KELLY (Nelson) has been seen on Broadway in Crazy for You, Woman of the Year, Deathtrap, and South Pacific (NYCO). His Off-Broadway credits include Coward's Long Island Sound for T.A.C.T. Kelly has toured the country in productions of 42nd Street, Footloose, Promises/Promises, and Children. He has been seen in repertory at Yale, Long Wharf, O'Neill Center, South Coast, Kennedy Center, Center Stage, Asolo and Westport. His film and TV credits include Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, M*A*S*H, Kate & Allie, Loving and Love Hurts with Jeff Daniels.
 
 
RUSSEL ARDEN KOPLIN (understudy) is a native New York City girl. She has appeared on Broadway as Eponine in Les Misérables and James Joyce’s The Dead. Off Broadway and regional: Grey Gardens (Playwrights Horizons), Showtune (York Theater), Manuscript (dir. Bob Balaban) and The Ruby Sunrise (dir. Oskar Eustis, written by Rinne Groff—Human Festival and Trinity Repertory), High Button Shoes (Goodspeed) and the title role in Junie B. Jones (Lucille Lortel).
Television and film: Product of 3C, Law & Order, Third Watch, Guiding Light and One Life to Live. Russell can be heard doing the voice of Russian intern Ivanka and various other characters on the satirical political podcast Man of the People (Woody4Mayor.com). Russell is a proud graduate of Northwestern University.
 
 
MATT LUTZ (understudy) Film: Aaron Blair in Disney’s Bringing Down the House, Clay Gephardt in Warner Brothers’ A Walk to Remember, Pete Fleming in indie hit End of the Spear and the upcoming independent feature Port City. TV: Two years as defense attorney Phil Newberry on the Hallmark Channel’s McBride series opposite Emmy winner John Larroquette. Also Las Vegas, Boston Public, Dawson’s Creek and 7th Heaven, among others. Theater: Show Boat and The Most Happy Fella at Utah Festival Opera in Logan, UT; world premiere A Time for Love at Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, CA; Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Welk Theatre in San Diego, CA; Jon in Los Angeles premiere of Tick, Tick … Boom!; and 1776, Into the Woods, Translations and the Los Angeles premiere Tales of Tinseltown, among others, all with Actors Co-op Hollywood. Matt is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild, and is represented commercially and theatrically by Innovative Artists. He is also married to actress and writer Christy Hall. “Love you, Pinkie.” www.mattlutz.com
 
 
GLENN PETERS (Streffy) Off-Broadway: The Turn of the Screw, Murder by Poe, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III (Acorn Theatre), American Dreams: Lost and Found (Lucille Lortel). Other New York Theatre: The Shaughraun (Storm Theatre), Sympathy Jones (Julia Miles Theatre/NYMF), Alice in War (Beckett Theatre/SPF), West Moon Street (Prospect Theater), Murdering Marlowe (Access Theatre), The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Beckett Theatre/NYMF). Regional: I Am My Own Wife (Zachary Scott Theatre), Mere Mortals (Two River Theater). Three year alumnus of The Acting Company.
 
   


Stephen Plunkett (Nick)

Off-Broadway: This Beautiful City (The Vineyard)--in which you can currently see Stephen Tuesday through Sunday through March 15th!--Gone Missing (Barrow Street Theatre), Jump! (Kirk), Realism (Kirk), The Horton Foote Project (78th Street Theatre Lab). Regional: Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Studio, Center Theatre Group, Huntington and The New Harmony Project. TV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Stephen is an associate artist of The Civilians and a graduate of The University of Evansville. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting.
   
   

JESSICA-SNOW WILSON (Susy)

Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Olive Ostrovsky), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey, opposite Joey Fatone), Good Vibrations (Marcella), Forum (Philla ) and Les Miserables (Eponine). City Center Encores!: Hair (Crissy). Off-Broadway: Created the roles of Reese in Wasps in Bed at the Beckett on Theatre Row and Toffee in Zombie Prom (original cast recording), Swimming Upstream (NY Fringe), Nerds (NYMF), Bingo (Allison). Other: Hello, Dolly!, Paper Mill (Minnie Fae); Wizard of Oz (Dorothy); Grease (Sandy); Baby (Lizzie); Anne of Green Gables (Anne). TV: "Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World", "Men Behaving Badly," "Guiding Light," "Conviction."