The Lily’s Revenge

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Carnaval (Shumann), Caesar (Cassius). Regional: Arabian Nights, Central Square Theater; Tom Jones, Pittsburgh Public Theater; two years of productions at City Theater Company, Pittsburgh. Film: This Killing Business (Jim), MV Productions; Dawn of the Dead (Sledgehammer Zombie), Laurel Group.

A.R.T.: Debut. Locally: The Full Monty, 42nd Street, Stoneham Theatre; The Christmas Story, New Repertory Theatre; The Little Pricks, Death of a Saleslady, Cinderella Rocks, Gold Dust Orphans; The Little Mermaid, Wheelock Family Theatre; A Child's Christmas in Wales, Boston Children’s and Boston Playwright’s Theatres; Johnny Guitar, Ruthless!, Speakeasy Stage Company; Shakespeare in Hollywood, Lyric Stage Company; Wedding on the Eiffel Tower, Apollinaire Theatre. Sketch comedy: The Mrs. Potatohead Show, Greetings from Planet Girl, Boston, NY Int’l Fringe, Minnesota Fringe. Film: The Love Letter (Selma). TV: Brotherhood (Showtime); John and Abigail (WGBH). 

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Jomama Jones Radiate, Soho Rep. Regional: The Golden Lasso, Perishable Theatre. Brown University: Lulu (Geschwitz), The Other Shore (Man, ensemble), Peer Gynt (Solveig), Changeling (Jasperino), Accidental Death an Anarchist (Pisani). Jing holds a B.A. in Performance Studies from Brown University. Currently a second-year MFA student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

A.R.T. (with Gold Dust Orphans): The Rocky Horror Show (Brad Majors, Elliott Norton Award nominated performance). Theater: Time of My Life (The Waiters, Elliot Norton Award nominated production), Zeitgeist Stage Co.; Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Hedwig/Tommy Gnosis), Zany Hijinx; Rent (Benny), Winthrop Playmakers; The Fantasticks (El Gallo), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (The Beast), Little Shop of Horrors (Orin Scrivello DDS), The Scarlet Letter (Rev. Dimmesdale), Bye Bye Birdie (Conrad Birdie), Fiddlehead Theatre Co.; All About Christmas Eve (Lloyd), Cleopatra - The Musical (Octavian), Cinderella Rocks (Bruno), Pussy on the House (Polly), Gold Dust Orphans. www.genedante.com

A.R.T.: The Lily’s Revenge (Susan Stewart). A.R.T. Institute: The Boston Abolitionists Project, The Flu Season, The Imaginary Invalid. Regional: Torture Garden (Clara), Pearls of Shanghai: A Cockettes Revival (Wobblin’ Robin Sister), Thrillpeddlers Hypnodrome Theater. Film: Interface (Claire). M.F.A. from the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and B.F.A. University of California, Berkeley. Love to my mother and sister.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Mamma Mia! (Lisa, Sophie U/S). National Tour: Mamma Mia! (Sophie U/S). Las Vegas: Mamma Mia! (Sophie U/S). Television: "The Today Show." Currently a second-year MFA student at the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

Appears Courtesy of Actors' Equity

A.R.T.: Debut. A.R.T./MXAT Institute: The Imaginary Invalid (performed in Moscow, Russia). SF Bay Area credits include work at Shotgun Players, HurLy-BurLy Productions, SF Stageworks, and SF State. Currently a second-year MFA student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

A.R.T.: 119 productions, including R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Myster) OF THE UNIVERSE (R. Buckminster Fuller), Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider), Endgame (Clov), The Seagull (Dorn), Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Birthday Party (Stanley), Highway Ulysses (Ulysses), Uncle Vanya (Vanya), Marat/Sade (Marquis de Sade), Richard II (Richard). Broadway: Jackie: An American Life (23 roles). Off-Broadway: Johan Padan (Johan), Big Time (Ted).  Tours with the Company across the U.S., with residencies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and throughout Europe, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, Japan and Moscow, and has recently been performing Julius Caesar in France. Other: I Am My Own Wife, Boston TheatreWorks; Approaching Moomtaj, New Repertory Theatre; Twelfth Night and The Tempest, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.; London’s Battersea Arts Center; five productions at Houston’s Alley Theatre, including Our Town (Dr. Gibbs, directed by José Quintero); and many theatres throughout the U.S. Awards: 1994 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence, 2000 and 2004 IRNE Awards for Best Actor, 1997 Los Angeles DramaLogue Award (for title role of Shlemiel the First). Television: Julie Taymor’s film Fool’s Fire (PBS American Playhouse), "Unsolved Mysteries," "Del and Alex" (Alex, A&E Network). Film: Mystic River (directed by Clint Eastwood), The Pink Panther II. He is on the faculty of the A.R.T. Institute, teaches acting at Harvard University and Emerson College, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Target Margin, the Women's Project, Blessed Unrest, HERE, SITI Company, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research. Regional: SF Opera, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, foolsFURY, E|MERGE resident artist. International: Teatteri Naamio ja Hoyhen in Finland. TV: Chaos Theory.

Current: Cancer Killing Gemini, First Class Fool - The Rod Stewart Tribute, School for Robots, GeneDante and the Future Starlets, George Woods, Patrick Droney (NYC). Past: The Gold Dust Orphans, Vostok 4, Kate Taylor, John Barleycorn and the Social Drinkers, Taylor Brown, et cetera. Bachelor of Arts, Music Composition, Bates College 2006. Music history and jazz technique, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, 2005. Likes your hat.

Member, Popa Chubby (Provogue Records) for seven years. Performed in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.  Multiple television, radio, and major festival appearances. Released four albums and one DVD. Member, Eve To Adam for 7 years (3for5 Entertainment Group). Performed all over the U.S.A and released three albums. Musician’s Institute of Hollywood, CA Graduate and Instructor.

Kevin Corzett is a Boston area musician and sound engineer recently featured  performing in the Boston Circus Guild's original production THRESHOLD and  Gold Dust Orphans/ OBERON extended run of The Rocky Horror Show. He has been a touring member of national acts Reverend Glasseye  and Brooklyn based World/Inferno Friendship Society as well as many esteemed/award winning Boston based groups such as Ketman, The Self Righteous Brothers, The World's Greatest Sinners, and Walter Sickert & the Army of Toys.  He currently plays baritone sax with Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band.

Aaron Drescher is currently in his last year at Berklee College of Music where he studies performance.  Over the last 3 years Aaron has been a part of Berklee's Musical Theatre Club and Musical Theatre Orchestra, performing in shows such as RENT, Chicago, Ragtime, among others.  Aaron also has done many shows with Park Playhouse in Albany, New York, and this past Summer played for Central Square Theatre's production of Car Talk in Cambridge.  Aaron would like to thank A.R.T. and everyone involved in this production for their love and effort as well as his family for their continuing support!  

A.R.T.: Debut. Artist-in-Residence 2012 (Performance), Headlands Center, CA. NYCFringe: Sextuple Indemnity (Xavier), Barrow Street Theatre; Up Your Rabbit Hole (Queen), P.S.122.  Off-Off-B’Way: Enter Pissarro (Pissarro), Machinal (Husband), Access Theater. Regional: 28 Seeds (Zartosky), BCA/Plaza Theatre.  Film: Day of Youth (Birdo). Co-creates experimental performances with Ara Glenn-Johanson in San Francisco and Boston.

RAQUEL BLAKE returns to the A.R.T. after being seen in Island of Slaves.  One of New England’s premiere female impersonators, you can find "her" weekly in Boston Nightclubs and Cabarets such as Geofferys Cafe, Machine, Jacques Cabaret and Venue. When not all dolled up Raquel is known to "her" family and Husband as Adamm Shanahan-Farrell, a hair and makeup artist.

Sean C. McCarthy (Rainbow Frite) is a well established entertainer in cabaret, off-Broadway, television and independent film. Sean's comedic and bawdy drag  personae, Rainbow Frite, is highly regarded as a live vocal drag artist in Boston, New York City and Provincetown. Locally, Sean is a cast member at Jacques Cabaret and the host of TRIVIA! SUNDAYS at Geoffrey's Cafe in Boston's Back Bay. His Off-Broadway credits include Club World  at NYC's China Club and television/movie credits include independent movies and recent appearances on TLC's Bling it On and The Style Network's Wicked Fit. This is Sean's first production at ART and he is elated to join the cast of The Lily's Revenge. 

A.R.T.: The Lily’s Revenge, Cabaret, Paradise Lost, Endgame, The Seagull, Oliver Twist, Island of Slaves, The Onion Cellar, The Communist Dracula Pageant, Cardenio, Julius Caesar, Amerika, The Miser, Henry IV and V, The Birthday Party, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Dispute, Uncle Vanya, Enrico IV, The Winter’s Tale, The Wild Duck, Buried Child, Tartuffe, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Waiting for Godot. Regional: Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, Lyric Stage Company; Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; The Poets’ Theater; Israeli Stage; Central Square Theater; New Repertory Theater; Hartford Stage.

A.R.T.: As You Like It, Futurity, The Snow Queen. A.R.T. Institute: Tough Titty (Angela), Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories) (Clara 2/Airline Captain). Regional: Ragtime (Harlem Ensemble); Little Shop of Horrors (Chiffon); Children of Eden (Aphra); Once on This Island (Mama Euralie); Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon Zealots). Television: “ER,” “Hot Properties,” “Comedy Central’s Reel Comedy: I Spy.” Teri is a proud member of the SAG-AFTRA and holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.B.A. with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of Phoenix and recently completed her MFA in Acting at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

A.R.T.: Debut.  A.R.T./MXAT Institute: The Imaginary Invalid (performed in Moscow, Russia). Washington DC Regional: The Studio Theatre, Passing Strange (Rev. Jones); Imagination Stage, The Day John Henry Came to School (John Henry); Flashpoint Theatre, Obamanologues (Shalim Weiyllenot).  Founding Member of comedy improv troupe, www.thelodgeimprov.com.

JOHN KUNTZ is a playwright, actors, director, teacher, and solo performer. His plays include the Elliot Norton Award-winners The Hotel Nepenthe, The Salt Girl, Sing Me To Sleep, and Freaks, all of which also won additional awards in Boston and New York.  He is a founding member of The Actors Shakespeare Project and has performed with the A.R.T., Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., and many others.

Henry is a Canadian actor from Ottawa, Ontario. He made his professional stage debut in the musical Blood Brothers at the Gladstone theater. Past credits also include The Imaginary Invalid, Hamlet 2011, Twelfth Night, Under Milk Wood and Impassioned Embraces. Henry is a graduate of The Ottawa Theater School and currently a second-year MFA student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: The Three Sisters (Fedotik), Lost in Yonkers (Jay), Midsummer Nights Dream (Moth/Snug), The Tempest (Stephano). Student: The Imaginary Invalid (Argan), Hamlet (Hamlet), Spring Awakening (All Male Adults), Big Love (Nikos), Henry V (Pistol), Tartuffe (Valere). Film: San Franpsycho (Jack), Bicycle Bride (Homeless Guy).

Ara Glenn-Johanson is an actor, dancer, singer, and choreographer. She has been seen in San Francisco's The Lily’s Revenge at The Magic Theatre, Sitting in a Circle with Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project, the international tour of Mugwumpin’s This Is All I Need, and Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theatre's Heeliomali and Trolley Dances. She sang with The Dodos and the Magik*Magik Orchestra as part of the concert series at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts and SFMOMA.  She has been seen on both coasts and Europe in countless underground performance experiments and improvisations; her original choreography and performance works have been curated in San Francisco at venues including ODC, CounterPULSE, Dance Mission Theatre, The Garage, and SOMArts. Ara was a 2012 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She holds a BFA in Drama (NYU/Tisch - ETW & CAP21) and an MFA in Acting (UCD).

Elbert Joseph is truly blessed to have this wonderful and spectacular ASL team (Thank you, Erin, JO, Alberto, Whitney) and wishes to thank Brenna for trusting me. They were recently DASL for Life of Pi at American Repertory Theater. He can’t wait to come back and do more and, perhaps someday, to come back onstage with A.R.T. Thank you all!

Marisa is currently a second-year MFA student at the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She just completed a three-month residency at the Moscow Art Theater School. Other credits include: The Imaginary Invalid (Toinette) at MXAT School and Man of LaMancha (Antonia/Aldonza US) at Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. Graduated summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa from SUNY Geneseo with B.A. in English and Music Theater. 

A.R.T.: The Donkey Show (DJ Orlando). Regional: The History Boys (Lockwood), Mary’s Wedding (Charlie), As You Like It (Forester/Musician), A Comedy of Errors (Gaoler), Of Mice and Men (Curly) The Baltimore Waltz (Third Man), The Tempest (Ferdinand). New York: Caligula (Caligula); Feeling Like This (Actor). 

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: 42^nd St Moon, Very Warm For May (May), Strike Up The Band (Lindt). Diablo Theatre Company, Annie, The Drowsy Chaperone. Sunnyvale Players, Into the Woods (Little Red). B.A. in theatre, San Francisco State University, Machinal (Helen), Vinegar Tom (Alice). Currently a second-year MFA student at the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. The Imaginary Invalid (Louisan/Fleurant).

A.R.T.: Endlings, The Lily’s Revenge, The Donkey Show. Off-Broadway: OSCAR at The Crown (Oscar Wilde/Creator), The Neon Coven. New York: The Blast, You Are Here; Little Murders (Marjorie Newquist); performances at Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, and The McKittrick Hotel. Regional: The Rocky Horror Show (Dr. Frank-N-Furter); Clubland. Workshops: Ragtime on Ellis Island. Education/Training: BA, Theater Arts & Performance, Harvard University. Co-Founder of queer performance/production company The Neon Coven.

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Williamstown Theater Festival (A Beautiful Something; Civilians Theatre Auxiliary Project; SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN), The New Rep, Boston (Private Lives of Eskimos, Reading). Harvard: Legally Blonde the Musical (Elle Woods); Play it Again, Sam (Linda); Talk Radio; Spring Awakening; Equus; Parade. Currently a junior at Harvard College, studying Psychology and Dramatic Arts.

AMEN IGBINOSUN is graduate of the ART/MXAT Institute of Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.