STEPHEN WALLEM
(
Shrek
) is a SAG Award-
nominated actor best known as Thor on the
Emmy-winning Showtime
series
Nurse Jackie
, now in
its fifth season. He began his
career as a stage actor and
After Dark
Award-winning
cabaret singer in Chicago.
New York credits include
Hazel in the Encores!
production of Rodgers and
Hammerstein’s
Pipe Dream
at New York City Center, and teaming with Edie
Falco for a sold-out run of the original cabaret
The Other Steve and Edie
. National tours:
Forever
Plaid, Into the Woods
, and
Scrooge
starring Richard
Chamberlain. Nearly 2,500 performances as both
Jinx and Sparky in various companies of
Forever
Plaid
including Chicago, Las Vegas, Denver, and
the first national tour. He performed at Ravinia
Festival with Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald and
Michael Cerveris in
A Little Night Music, Passion
,
and
Sunday in the Park with George
. Stephen will
make his Professional opera debut this September
in
Anna Nicole
for New York City Opera. www.
stephenwallem.com
JULIA MURNEY
(
Princess Fiona
) last appeared
on Broadway as Elphaba in
Wicked
after playing
the role on the national
tour for which she received
an Acclaim Award. Other
New York credits include
Lennon
, Andrew Lippa’s
The Wild Party
(Drama
Desk nomination),
Falling
(Drama Desk nomination)
,
The Vagina Monologues, A
Class Act, Saved, Crimes of
the Heart, Queen of the Mist, Closer Than Ever,
and
Time and Again
(Lucille Lortel nomination). She’s
been seen regionally all over the U.S., at Signature,
Williamstown, Reprise! LA, Sacramento Music
Circus, NCT, Lyric, Rubicon and Goodspeed,
to name a few. In concert she has performed at
Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Feinstein’s,
The Kennedy Center, Caramoor, Town Hall and
Birdland, as well as with the Philly, Cincinnati,
and Boston Pops. Among her TV credits are
30
Rock, Sex and the City, Brothers and Sisters, Ed,
NYPD Blue
, all three
Law & Orders
and about
a gazillion voiceovers. A Syracuse University
graduate, her recordings include the original
cast albums of
The Wild Party
and
A Class Act
,
the Grammy-nominated Actor’s Fund Benefit of
Hair
and her first solo album,
I’m Not Waiting,
which is available on Sh-K-Boom records and at
juliamurney.com.
ROB McCLURE
(
Lord Farquaad
) received 2013
Tony, Drama League, Astaire, and Outer Critics
Circle Nominations, and
a Theatre World Award for
his performance as Charlie
Chaplin in
Chaplin The
Musical
on Broadway, a
role he originated at La
Jolla Playhouse (Craig
Noel Award). He charmed
audience and critics alike
with another title role,
leading the cast of
Where’s Charley?
at Encores!. A
two-time Barrymore Award-winner, Rob starred
on Broadway as Princeton/Rod in the Tony
Award winning musical
Avenue Q
. He made his
Broadway debut in the 2002 Broadway revival of
I’m Not Rappaport
alongside Judd Hirsch and Ben
Vereen. Other selected credits include
Avenue Q
(1st national tour, Helen Hayes Nomination),
Amadeus
(Mozart, Walnut Street Theatre),
Little
Shop of Horrors
(Seymour, The Muny),
The Game’s
Afoot
(world premiere by Ken Ludwig, Cleveland
Playhouse),
The Producers
(Carmen Ghia, Walnut
Street Theatre),
The Flea and the Professor
(world-
premiere, Arden Theatre) and
Johnny Baseball
(world premiere, American Repertory Theater).
MICHAEL JAMES SCOTT
(
Donkey
) is
currently playing Dr. Gotswana, a featured role
he created in the Broadway
hit show
The Book of
Mormon
. Other Broadway
credits include
Mamma
Mia!, All Shook Up, The
Pirate Queen, Tarzan, Hair,
and
Elf.
He guest co-starred
on the TV Series
The Carrie
Diaries
. He was associate
choreographer and cast
member of the revival of
Hair
in London’s West
End. Off-Broadway, he was featured in
Here’s to
Joe
opposite Donna McKechnie. He also appeared
in
Jerry Springer: The Opera
at Carnegie Hall, and
was a standby for Ben Vereen in the international
tour of
Fosse
, then given the opportunity of taking
over the role. Regionally he has appeared in
Aida,
Ragtime, South Pacific
, and
Cinderella
, to name a
few. For the past five years, he has sung with the
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