appeared this summer in the Shakespeare Festival’s
Twelfth Night
. He has appeared with the Repertory
Theatre of St. Louis in
Clybourne Park, Steady
Rain, The Invisible Hand, Macbeth, In the Next
Room (or The Vibrator Play),
and many years back,
in
Life of Galileo
and
The Three Musketeers
. Other
St. Louis credits include
The Taming of the Shrew
with Shakespeare Festival, and Upstream Theatre’s
Blood Wedding
. NY theatre credits include
La Bête
(Broadway),
King Lear
(starring Hal Holbrook,
Roundabout Theatre), and work at Classic Stage
Co., NY Theatre Workshop, and The Pearl.
Regionally, he has appeared in numerous shows
at the Old Globe, including Pericles in
Pericles
(directed by Darko Tresnjak) and Mark Antony in
Julius Caesar
(directed by Daniel Sullivan), at the
Alley Theatre as Joe Pitt in
Angels in America
, at
A.C.T. in San Francisco as Brick in
Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof,
as well as appearances at South Coast
Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre
Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Asolo Theatre,
and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Michael trained in
London at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama and appeared with the RSC in
Richard III
starring Antony Sher. TV appearances include
24,
JAG, Six Feet Under, The Shield, King of Queens,
That 70’s Show, Numb3rs, So Notorious, Family
Law,
and
Family Man.
SAMROGERS
(
A-Rab
) Broadway:
West Side Story
(2009 Revival). Off-Broadway:
Silence! The Musical
(Dream Hannibal) Regional:
Carousel
(Goodspeed Opera
House),
Show
Boat
(Lyric Opera of Chicago,
Washington
National
Opera),
Now and Forever,
The Pirates of Penzance,
White
Christmas,
and
Shout!
(Marriott Theatre).
Originally from Portland,
Oregon, Sam received his
training at the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre
and the Juilliard School.
JON RUA
(
Chino
) has starred on Broadway as
Jesus Peña in the new musical
Hands on a Hardbody
and as Sonny in the Tony®
Award-winning
musical
In The Heights
. Additional
theatre credits:
Somewhere
(The Old Globe, Craig Noel
Leading Actor nomination),
Bring It On: The Musical
(world premiere),
Elaborate
Entrance of Chad Deity
(Second Stage, Pulitzer Prize-
nominated),
Damn Yankees
(Encores!),
Pirates!
(Muny). Workshops:
Hands on a Hardbody
(La
Jolla), Sundance Theatre Lab (Banff 2011),
Fly,
Bare, Stardust Ballroom, All Fall Down
(Intar),
Kingdom
(Public Theater), Lincoln Center’s
American Songbook.
TV:
Law & Order
. Film:
Fall to Rise.
Jon has danced for such artists
as Don Omar, Soulja Boy, with commercial
credits including Target, BillBoard, Puma, IBM,
Panasonic and more. As a choreographer, his work
has been seen on the Brooklynettes, CBS, MTV,
Broadway Bares,
Chaos Theory, Nick Blaemire
and The Hustle,
Walla Walla Festival
,
and off-off
Broadway in
Union Square
. Assisted on projects:
Flashdance, Hands on a Hardbody, Fly, Bring It
On: The Musical, In The Heights
, NYCC’s Encores!
The Wiz
, and
Insanity
. Jon has over 9 years of
experience teaching internationally. Currently he’s
on faculty at Broadway Dance Center spreading
his movement, “T.H.E. Grit.”
.
WHITNEY BRANDT
(
Graziella
) is thrilled to
be making her Muny debut. Originally from The
Woodlands, TX, Whitney is now a senior at the
University of Michigan. She recently performed
in
Crazy For You, Sunday in the Park With George
and
Chicago
at University of Michigan. Thanks to
Mom, Dad and Ty. Proud member of AEA.
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