Sebastian Arcelus (”Little G” et al.) is currently on Broadway, playing Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys. Other Broadway credits include Wicked (Fiyero), Rent (Roger) and Good Vibrations (Jan). Sebastian’s also been seen in Wicked (1st national tour), The Full Monty, Caligula, Hamlet: A Rock Opera, Aida, Floyd Collins, and the world premiere of William Finn’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. He was recently featured in Barbara Cook’s Carnegie Hall concert and subsequent recording, No One Is Alone. His voice can also be heard on numerous cartoons, most notably as the voice of Papi on Nickelodeon’s “Go, Diego, Go!” He is a proud graduate of Williams College.

Sammy Buck (Writer) is not the Sammy Buck in the legendary Pineylore story that was the basis of the Charlie Daniels hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Trust us, it comes up on the second page when you Google him. But he did recently wrap two features, Red Hook (screenplay) and Fade to White (co-writer). An alumnus of USC Filmic Writing and the Warner Bros. Comedy Workshop, he’s an Emmy-winning member of the TV Land Awards website writing team. As a lyricist/bookwriter, Sammy’s had three musicals in the New York Musical Theatre Festival: with composer Dan Acquisto, Like You Like It (New Voices Prize, 2nd Runner-Up Audience Prize) and The 7-Year B*tch (Outstanding New Musical, Talkin’ Broadway Summer Festival Citations); as well as the dance piece Common Grounds (composer, Doug Katsaros; Outstanding New Musical honorable mention). Sammy and Dan were Jonathan Larson Dramatists Guild Fellows and traveled to the Cardiff International Musical Theatre Festival, where Like You Like It was a winner of the Global Search for New Musicals. Like You Like It will be produced this fall at The Gallery Players. Member: BMI, The Dramatists Guild, Inc. (sammybuck.com, likeyoulikeit.com)

Jeremy Desmon (Head Writer, Executive Producer) can’t believe he’s fooled so many ridiculously talented people to jump into the deep end with him. Mostly, Jeremy writes musicals, for which he received the 2007 Edward Kleban Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Bookwriting. His shows, The Girl in the Frame and I See London, I See France: The Underwear Musical have been seen in New York and around the country, and the under-five set can catch his work in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and Other Storybooks) now touring with TheatreworksUSA. Currently, he’s adapting Dave Gebroe’s indie horror/romance/comedy cult hit Zombie Honeymoon for the musical stage, writing Curious George Live! (coming to an arena near you) and completing an evening of songs with composer Vadim Feichtner. A graduate of Stanford University (BA) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (MFA), Jeremy is very much in love with his beautiful wife, Hilary.

Linda Gabler (”Bonnie” et al.) is thrilled to be part of such a cool project. Having been the voice of dolls, baby bees and a cherry tomato, she is excited about the challenge of doing the voice of a human character. Currently in Young Frankenstein, Linda’s other B’way credits are The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Bells Are Ringing, Cabaret, Victor/Victoria, Damn Yankees and Carousel. Off-B’way, Linda has done Bingo and Romance in Hard Times. There have been many regional productions that she has enjoyed and some wonderful tours. Hailing from Pittsburgh, Linda is most proud of her marriage to Doug Purcell and their two Pointer dogs, Maggie and Shamus.

Michael Thomas Holmes (”Woody” et al.) appeared in Broadway’s Oklahoma! as Ali Hakim and spent a year with The Producers, both in LA (with Jason Alexander and Martin Short) and on the national tour. Regionally, Michael was featured in Kander & Ebb’s All About Us (Westport Country Playhouse), White Christmas (Boston & St. Paul), All in the Timing (Hangar), Amour (Goodspeed) and spent the summer of ‘07 at The Guthrie as John Adams in 1776. TV & Film credits include “Law & Order” and Stormtrooper Rolf in The Producers movie. Michael received his MFA in acting from UC Irvine, is a member of The Acting Company (00-01), and also works as a graphic designer for theatre in NYC (michaelthomasholmes.com).

Russell Koplin (“Ivanka” et al.) is a native New York City Girl. She has appeared on Broadway as Eponine in Les Miserables and James Joyce’s The Dead. Off-Broadway and Regionally: Grey Gardens (Playwrights Horizons), High Button Shoes (Goodspeed) Showtune: The Words & Music of Jerry Herman (York Theater), Manuscript (dir. Bob Balaban), & The Ruby Sunrise (dir. Oskar Eustis & written by Rinne Groff at the Human Festival & Trinity Repertory). Television & Film: Law & Order, Third Watch, Guiding Light and One Life to Live.

Brent Lord (Audio Producer/Editor) has written a variety of scores for the stage, including Platforms (2007 NYMF dance commission); Go-Go Beach (2006 NYMF, now licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide) with Michael Shaieb, and Ricky Goes Fishing (For Ricky). For TV, he provided original music for the VH1 rockDocs documentary Last Days Of Left Eye (VH1), Latino Beginnings (Logo), and background music for Access Hollywood. For film, he’s composed and produced the scores to Blind Side (dir. John Daschbach, Digidance Film Festival) and Waking Dreams (starring Ben Shenkman). As audio editor, he has contributed to past Broadway Bares and Gypsy of the Year performances. His audio producing work is also heard on the DVD release of Michael Shaieb’s Through A Glass, Darkly and each summer at theme parks around the country. He is co-founder of the music production company FatLab Music with Michael Shaieb and an alum of the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. (fatlabmusic.com, gogobeach.com)

Chris Nelson (Writer) hails from the northern parts of Texas and wears #22 on his jersey. Hobbies include: European fashion, horse drugs, fur and discotecas. At Georgia Tech, he double majored in Lasers and Corporate Malfeasance and triple minored in Sexual Healing, Taxidermy and Felt Studies. He currently resides in Chandra, Mississippi. Love to Scooter and Peg Leg. (chrispagannelson.com)

Cindi Rush Casting (Casting Director) works extensively in New York City. Projects include: The Time of Mendel’s Trouble, Peaceman, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, The Thing About Men, Showtune, I Sing, Urinetown, Say Goodnight Gracie. Regional: Triad Stage; Act II Playhouse; Arena Stage; Goodman; Cape Cod Theatre Project; NOHO Arts Center (including “Pest Control”, “Dorian” and “Ghost and Mrs Muir”); Actors Theatre of Louisville Humanafest. Film: Offspring, Made For Each Other, Home Movie, Jack Ketchum’s: The Girl Next Door, Headspace, Funny Valentine, Master Class. Other: Hats (Denver, New Orleans, Chicago). Casting Society of America Member, Casting Consultant for National Alliance For Musical Theatre and the NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing. (Casting Associate: Michele B. Weiss.)

Lauren Weisman (”Mama Dalton” et al.) is a recent graduate of Northwestern University and has never played a Mama before (or a great grandmother). Lately, she played a sixteen year old on Fox’s “Canterbury’s Law,” danced as a spirit in the off-Broadway production of Shlomo, screamed a lot in the film Made for Each Other and assistant directed the Fringe show Green Eyes. She thinks this project is wonderfully fun! Thanks SO much to all the hilarious and brilliant people involved, Cindi, Rachel and Ellen, Mom, Dad, and Danny.

Victor Wishna (Writer), widely known as New York’s third funniest Amateur Jewish Comedian (a distinction affirmed by The Jewish Week) and described as “not bad” by his mother, has performed stand-up at major comedy clubs around Manhattan. His column of commentary and humor, “Letter from New York” is syndicated nationally in more than a dozen newspapers, and he has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Miami Herald and other major magazines and newspapers. Victor is the author of In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, which won the 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal. A native of Overland Park, Kansas, Victor graduated from Stanford University, where he studied journalism and psychology, and not engineering or medicine.

Guest Stars

Stephen DeRosa (Episode 8: “Cappy/Don Gregory”) has appeared on Broadway as The Baker in the revival of Into the Woods, Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray, and has also been seen in Twentieth Century, Henry IV and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Off-Broadway, he’s performed in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Newyorkers, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Measure for Measure, The IT Girl and Walmartopia. Memorable recordings include Into the Woods and William Finn’s Infinite Joy. Stephen received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Hunter Foster (Episode 9: “Wendell”) has appeared on Broadway as Leo Bloom in The Producers, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Tony nomination), Bobby Strong in Urinetown (Outer Critic nomination), as well as in Les Misérables, Grease (Roger), Footloose and Alan Menken’s King David. Off-Broadway: Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein), Modern Orthodox, Urinetown (Lucie Lortel nomination). Regional: Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center), Party Come Here (Williamstown), Children of Eden (Papermill), Lend Me a Tenor and The Full Monty. National Tours: Cats (Rum Tum Tugger), Martin Guerre, The Producers. Hunter wrote the book to the Off-Broadway musical Summer of ‘42 and the upcoming Bonnie and Clyde and Fearless. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Program (BFA 1992).

Nancy Opel (Episode 11: “Hildegard Swenson, Esq.”) recently appeared in the title role of The Drowsy Chaperone on the First National tour. Previous work includes: Mazeppa and Miss Crachitt in the Patti LuPone/City Center production of Gypsy, My Deah (OBIE Award), Urinetown (Tony Nomination) and Polish Joke (Drama Desk nomination). Other Broadway credits include the Fiddler on the Roof revival (Molina/Fierstein), Triumph of Love, Anything Goes, Sunday in the Park with George, and Evita. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in many plays and musicals, most notably David Ives’ All in the Timing and Mere Mortals.

Brad Oscar (Episode 9: “Doc”) recently completed a run of The Mystery of Irma Vep at Arena Stage in his hometown of Washington, D.C. where he was also seen as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret and Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees. He originated the role of Franz Liebkind in the Broadway production of The Producers and received a 2001 Tony nomination for his performance, and later went on to play the role of Max Bialystock over 1200 times on Broadway, on tour, in London and in the Las Vegas production. Other Broadway and New York credits include Spamalot, the original casts of Jekyll & Hyde and Aspects of Love, Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway, the Encores! Do Re Mi, as well as Santa in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Los Angeles and Branson. He appeared in the films The Producers, Building Girl and Old Days and on television in “Law and Order” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” Brad is a graduate of Boston University and a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

David Rossmer (Episode 7: “Moe Gray”) has appeared on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof and Titanic. Off-Broadway, he’s been seen in Don’t Quit Your Night Job (co-creator), Authorial Intent, Hello Muddah…, Blow Me; I See London, I See France (The Underwear Musical), Shlomo, That’s Life and Spain. TV/Film work includes “SVU,” “As the World Turns,” “The Knights of Prosperity,” “Law & Order,” “Guiding Light,” End of the Line, Robots. In addition, David is singer/songwriter/keyboardist for rock band The Misconceptions. With Dan Lipton, he is the author of JOE!, Notes to MariAnne and The Blonde Streak.