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CYNTHIA HANNAH was last seen in The Pope at the Theatre Artists Workshop in Norwalk - a piece she wrote and produced. She has appeared in over 100 commercials, The Guiding Light and All My Children. She also opens the music video "Keeping the Faith" with Billy Joel. Theatre credits include Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she also studied with Uta Hagen in her Master Class. She is member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA, is married to the wonderful Stan Twardy and lives in Wilton.
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TIM REILLY is thrilled to be making his first appearance at the Music Theatre of Connecticut! Tim has spent many years working in regional theatres all over the country. He moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 2005 after spening most of his adult life in Omaha, Nebraska where he earned a BFA in Theatre from Creighton University. Favorite roles include “Terry” in Sideshow, “Brad” in The Rocky Horror Show Live!, “Gaston” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and "The Big Bopper" in Buddy, the Buddy Holly Story. “Go Chiefs, Huskers and Royals!” Tim would like to thank his lovely wife Tara; for all that she does and is! “Love to the kittens.”
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JIM SCHILLING co-founded MTC in 1987 and has served as teaching artist, Artist in Residence, director, general manager, actor, producer and currently as Director of the School of Performing Arts. Acting credits include John Guare's A Day For Surprises, Upper Broadway (Westport Country Playhouse), Hamlet (withTony Roberts), South Pacific (with Jamie Farr) The Fantasticks (Rich Forum) and on MTC's MainStage in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well..., Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, Yours, Anne, It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, and most recently Doubt. Film credits include Bullets Over Broadway, Cadillac Man, Soapdish and as Sean Penn's double in Dead Man Walking. Jim holds a BFA degree in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College and was also trained at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Playwright's Horizons in New York City and Improv Asylum in Boston. Jim, a graduate of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts' AMICI Arts Management Program, continues as a Blue Ribbon Panelist for the Daytime Emmy Awards, and is on the voting committee for the SAG awards, and a member of "Who's Who in the American Theatre" from 1991-present. Jim is a proud member of Actors Equity Association since 1980. Member AEA, SAG, AFTRA. Jim directed MTC's student production of Alice in Wonderland in January at the Westport Country Playhouse and will be directing 13 this spring.
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KATIE SPARER was recently seen at MTC in their production of Doubt. On Broadway Katie stood by for Frances McDormand in the Circle in the Square revival of Awake and Sing! Some of her Off-Broadway credits include A Shayna Maidel at the Westside Arts, The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket at Playwrights’ Horizons, Beside the Seaside at the Hudson Guild. Katie has performed in Regional Theatres across the country including: ACT, Studio Arena, Alley Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Boston Post Road Stage Company, Rich Forum, Playhouse on the Green, Shakespeare on the Sound, Stratford Festival Theatre, Fairfield Theatre Company. Television credits: The Sopranos; Law and Order; American Playhouse; The Bronx is Burning; Candid Camera; and numerous daytime dramas. She just completed an Independent film entitled The Beginner. Katie is a member of the Theatre Artists Workshop and has been seen in numerous presentations there most recently as Anna in And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little. Katie was seen as Buddy in Truman Capote's Holiday Memories this season at the Straykats Theatre Co. and The Fairfield Museum. She teaches at The Regional Center for the Arts in Trumbull. Katie lives in Stratford with her husband Peter Bowe, three children and four dogs.
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KEVIN CONNORS (Director) Professional musical theatre composer and director for over 30 years. Off-Broadway credits include Prime Time Prophet, Jukebox Saturday Night, The Abandoned Loves of Frederick R., Life Anonymous, Lover - The Valentino Musical, Babes Off Broadway(finalist for the Michael Stewart Production Award), Saloon and Suzy Q. Connecticut directing credits include numerous professional productions including The Fantasticks, It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Babes in Toyland, Bah Humbug! (all at Stamford’s Rich Forum); Grand Re-Opening of the Palace Theatre starring Skitch Henderson, Louise Pitre, James Naughton and Joan Rivers; Baby (Polka Dot Playhouse), Christopher Columbus andOperetta in Red, White and Blue (New England Lyric Operetta). Mr. Connors began his career as a performer touring his own act with Bob Hope, Henny Youngman and Johnny Mathis, and his debut CD - The Things We Never Say - was released in October 2000. In 1987 he co-founded Music Theatre of Connecticut with Jim Schilling, and has since directed many of the Equity MTC MainStage productions including Yours, Anne (Connecticut Critics Circle award nominee), It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (2008 Moss Hart Award Winner), A Little Night Music, Edges, john & jen, Doubt, My Way: The Music of Frank Sinatra and The Last 5 Years; as well as writing original music and lyrics for more than 10 children’s musicals. His latest work, Mothers and Sons (with playwright Joe Landry) had its critically-acclaimed World Premiere on the MTC Mainstage in January 2009 and is currently in development for Off-Broadway. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Musical Theatre at The Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford, Guest Teaching Artist in Acting at Sacred Heart University, the University of Bridgeport, and at Musical Theatre Works in NYC. He has created many of MTC’s educational programs including the nationally-recognized College-Bound in the Performing Arts, which he now presents at theatre schools throughout the country. Kevin is a proud member of AEA, ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild. www.kevconnors.com
JOSHUA SCHERR (Lighting Design) Credits include; Kithless in Paradise (Lion), As It Is In Heaven (Cherry Lane), My Way (MTC), Klea Blakhurst; Everything Traffic Will Allow (MTC), Viagara Falls (Little Shubert), Frog Kiss (St. Clements), Picture Incomplete (LaMama), The Power of Birds (Milagros), Mourning in a Funny Hat (York) and The Furies (Currican). Production Management: Absinthe (Caesars Palace LV), Any Given Monday (59E59), Traces (Union Square), Cymbeline (Barrow St), Voca People (West Side), The Judy Show (DR2), S'Wonderful (Tour), The Magic School Bus (Tour), Sphinx Winx (Beckett), My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Barrow St), Between Worlds (NWS), La Barberia (NWS), Frog Kiss (St. Clements), Shine! (St. Clements), The Cocktail Party (Beckett). Technical Director: Unnatural Acts (CSC). Production Stage Manager: The Flying Karamazov Brothers (Minetta Lane). Upcoming: Ballroom Rocks!
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