Who's Who

Broadway/Off-Broadway: Ragtime (2009 Broadway revival); Candide (New York City Opera); Greenwillow (York Theatre). Regional credits include: Once on This Island (Bay Street Theatre & Sacramento Music Circus); The Sound of Music (Paper Mill); Master Class (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Jam and Spice (Westport Country Playhouse); West Side Story (Portland Center Stage); Stormy Weather (Prince Music Theater); Man of La Mancha (John W. Engeman Theater). Ms. Brown has also been involved in a number of readings, including I Married Wyatt Earp (dir. Graciela Daniele); Ripper (New World Stages); and Stand by the River (Theatre at St. Clements & ASCAP presentation).

Jenn Colella has starred on Broadway in High Fidelity and Urban Cowboy (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Leading Actress). Off-Broadway, she played the title role in Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Lily Tomlin, producer). Other Off-Broadway credits include the improvisation show Don’t Quit Your Night Job and Slut. Favorite regional credits: Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (Pittsburgh CLO); Georgie in The Full Monty (Paper Mill, with Elaine Stritch); Peter Pan in Peter Pan (Sondheim PAC); Daisy Hilton in Side Show (Kennedy Center, dir. Lonny Price).TV: All My Children, The Good Wife, Cashmere Mafia, Rescue Me. Film: Lay It Down For Good, Uncertainty (with Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Stand Up Comedy: The Laugh Factory, The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Jenn holds an MFA in acting from UC Irvine.

Michael Cumpsty
George Putnam

McCarter: My Fair Lady; Electra; Coriolanus. Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George; The Constant Wife; Democracy; Copenhagen; Enchanted April; 42nd Street; Electra; 1776; Racing Demon; The Heiress; Translations; La Bete; Timon of Athens; Artist Descending a Staircase. Classic Stage Company: Hamlet (Obie Award); Richard II; Richard III. New York Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night; Timon of Athens; All’s Well That Ends Well; Hamlet; Cymbeline; A Winter’s Tale; King John; Romeo and Juliet. Royal Shakespeare Company: A Winter’s Tale. TV: includes Mercy, Law & Order, L.A. Law. Film: The Ice Storm; Fatal Instinct; Flags of Our Fathers; The Ex; Starting Out in the Evening; The Visitor; Eat, Pray, Love; Wall Street 2. 

Bobby Daye
Ray Page/others

Bobby Daye is proud to have the chance to do a production at McCarter after doing a past reading here of Greensboro: A Requiem. Broadway credits include Shrek The Musical, The Color Purple, The Lion King, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Dreamgirls, and The Wiz. As a songwriter, he penned the theme song to the ABC soap Loving, which was performed by Johnny Mathis, as well as the Shrek holiday song “All I Want 4 Xmas” on Carols for a Cure, Vol. 11. He has appeared on Law & Order and Ed. You can also catch Bobby in numerous television commercials as well as hear his voice on radio voiceovers such as the “husband and wife” series of Lowe’s and Chase.

Claybourne Elder
Charles Lindbergh

Claybourne Elder made his New York debut last season in The Public Theater’s production of Sondheim and Weidman’s Road Show, in which he originated the role of Hollis Bessemer; he can also be heard on the original cast recording. He was also featured at the recent 80th Birthday Celebration Concert for Sondheim at City Center. Recent credits include: Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince in Moises Kaufman’s acclaimed revival of Into the Woods (Kansas City Rep); Buck in the world premiere of Bonnie and Clyde (La Jolla); Tony in West Side Story (Tuacahn Amphitheatre); and developmental workshops of Tennessee Williams’ One Arm (Tectonic Theatre Project, adapted and directed by Moises Kaufman) and Post Office (Center Theatre Group, written by Michael Friedman, directed by Mark Brokaw).

Linda Gabler
Gladys/others/Dance Captain

Broadway: Young Frankenstein (often playing Elizabeth opposite Roger Bart); The Drowsy Chaperone; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Bells Are Ringing; Cabaret (where she frequently enjoyed playing Sally Bowles); Damn Yankees (a production she also toured with, playing Gloria Thorpe opposite Jerry Lewis); Victor/Victoria (starring the incomparable Julie Andrews); and Lincoln Center’s critically acclaimed revival of Carousel. Regionally Linda has flown through Pittsburgh as Peter Pan and played Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors and Ilona in She Loves Me in Philadelphia, to name a few. Linda is a graduate of Point Park University with a BFA in theatre arts.

Marya Grandy
Brenda/others

Broadway: Les Misérables (2006 Revival Original Cast). Off-Broadway: Damn Yankees (Encores!); The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Drama Desk nomination); The Water Coolers (co-author). Regional: Fanny Brice: The Real Funny Girl (world premiere); Gypsy; Beehive; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Honky Tonk Angels; Working; The Water Coolers (Jefferson nomination). TV/Film: Rescue Me, Conviction, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Denis Leary’s Merry F***ing Christmas, Love Streams. Recordings: The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Original Cast Recording); Superwoman (Five Floor Monica); Bodies and Souls (The Manhattan Transfer). Marya received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.

Todd A. Horman
Banker/others

Todd A. Horman was most recently seen in Ragtime (Portland Center Stage) and 1776 (Paper Mill). He made his Broadway debut in Urinetown in 2003 and has toured with Urinetown and Victor/Victoria. Other New York credits include Encores! productions of Of Thee I Sing and Face the Music, along with workshops of 110 in the Shade with Audra McDonald and Leap of Faith with Raúl Esparza. Regional credits include The Full Monty (Pittsburgh CLO), Les Misérables (North Shore), and Guys and Dolls (Portland Center Stage). Training: BFA in music theater from Elon University; MFA in music theater from UNLV. He has done commercials and voiceovers for HBO, MTV, MTV2, and Nick Jr. Proud member of AEA and SAG.

Stanton Nash
Wilbur Wright

Chicago credits include: Wicked (Ford Center for the Performing Arts); Huck Finn (Steppenwolf); The Wood Demon (Library Theater); Madame X (Chicago Center for the Performing Arts). Regional credits include: The Cherry Orchard, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Comedy of Errors (Georgia Shakespeare); The Last 5 Years (Twin Cities Theater Company). Training: Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota BFA Actor Training Program.

Benjamin Schrader
Orville Wright

Broadway: Ragtime; Tom Sawyer in Deaf West’s Big River (also first national tour); Avenue Q (also first national tour). Off-Broadway: Gabe in Next to Normal at New York Musical Theatre Festival and the world premiere of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. Regional credits include Sweeney Todd, 1776, and HAIR at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. Benjamin is also a trained puppeteer whose work has been featured commercially for Coca-Cola and on his own web series Gene’s Time.

Price Waldman
Burke/others

Price Waldman is pleased to return to McCarter after appearing as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol in 2004 and 2005. On Broadway, he has been seen in The Little Mermaid, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Lion King. Off-Broadway: Don Juan, All’s Well That Ends Well (Theater for a New Audience); Laurie Anderson’s Songs, and Stories from Moby Dick (BAM). Sundance Workshops: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Saint-Ex. Encores: On the Town. Regional theater gigs include several shows at Goodspeed, a lot of Shakespeare, the occasional production of A Christmas Carol, and a few new musicals. Film: Across the Universe.

William Youmans
Don Hall/others

Broadway original casts and original cast albums: Wicked, Finian’s Rainbow, The Pirate Queen, Titanic, Big River, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème. Also The Farnsworth Invention and The Little Foxes, with Elizabeth Taylor. Film/TV: Mrs. Soffel (with Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton); Nadine (with Jeff Bridges); Fresh Horses; Compromising Positions; and many TV shows.