PETER BUDINGER (Kenny) makes a welcomed return to 42nd Street Moon, where he has appeared in six previous shows. Most recently, Peter was in Curtains at the Diablo Theatre Company. A founding member of Dr. Emile’s Theatre Tremendo, Peter has written, directed, produced and acted in original works with his husband, DC Scarpelli. Those pieces include It Came from Beneath the Kilt! (2000 SF Fringe - Best of Fringe) and Where the Sun Don’t Shine (2006 SF Fringe - Best of Fringe).

LUKE CHAPMAN (Sonny Spofford) is making his 42nd Street Moon debut with Very Warm for May. He was last seen as Mark Cohen in Rent (Royal Underground Theatre Company). Luke is a recent University of California, Santa Barbara theatre graduate and a native of the Bay Area Peninsula. He has been seen in various productions with Ray of Light Theater, Broadway by the Bay, and the Diablo Theatre Company (formerly DLOC).

ROBBIE COWAN (Raymond Sibley) is making his fourth appearance at The Moon. A graduate of the Masters of Music program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he has recently been seen as characters ranging from The Cat in the Hat to Linus to Andy Warhol with companies including Diablo Theatre Company, Woodminster Amphitheater, Contemporary Opera of Marin, and more. Most recently, he served as music director for Berkeley Playhouse's production of Singin' in the Rain. A pianist and conductor, Robbie is music director to several children’s music theatre companies, and is also the music director at St. Lawrence O'Toole Church in Oakland.

BILL FAHRNER (Ogdon Quiller) is very happy to be appearing in his 31st musical with 42nd Street Moon. His favorite Moon roles include:  Mack Sennett (Mack & Mabel), King Sapiens Pomposianus (By Jupiter), Charles the Bastard (Goodtime Charley), Huck Haines (Roberta, 1996), Inigo Jolliphant (The Good Companions), Guy Pendleton (Peggy-Ann, 1994 and 2002), King Arthur (Connecticut Yankee, 2002), Sir Galahad (Connecticut Yankee, 1994), and of course, Ogdon Quiller (1995 and 2010!).

SARAH KATHLEEN FARRELL (Liz Spofford) is back at home at 42nd Street Moon, having appeared in this season’s Nice Work if You Can Get It: Ira Gershwin Salon, Jubilee (Prince Peter, et al.), and Call Me Madam (Kitty, Dance Captain). Regional credits include Baby (Lizzie), The Rocky Horror Show (Columbia), and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! with Ray of Light Theatre, as well as The Spitfire Grill (Percy), and Insignificant Others (Margaret). Sarah is a newlywed and a proud, new member of Actors’ Equity Association.

ZACHARY FRANCZAK (Smoothy Watson) grew up 30 minutes north of San Francisco, in Novato, California, where he has been singing and acting since he was in the 5th grade. Zachary recently played Curly in Contra Costa Musical Theatre’s production of Oklahoma! and Tommy in Ray of Light Theatre’s, The Who’s Tommy. This is his first appearance with 42nd Street Moon. www.zacharyfranczak.com.

Chelsea Hollow (Carroll) is making her 42nd Street Moon debut. A recent Graduate of San Francisco State University in Classical Voice Performance, Chelsea has performed opera and musical theater roles including Dorine (Tartuffe/Mechem) and Luisa (The Fantasticks/Schmidt). As a recitalist and concert soloist, she has performed works such as Mozart's “Great Mass in C minor” and Haydn's “Lord Nelson Mass.” Upcoming roles include The Reporter in Chris Whittaker's George Bush: The Last 100 Days with Goat Hall Productions in June 2010. www.chelseahollow.com

MEGAN HOPP (May Graham) is making her 42nd Street Moon debut in Very Warm for May.  She is a graduate of San Francisco State University’s Theatre Arts department, where she appeared in such productions as Vinegar Tom (Alice), and Machinal (Helen Jones).  In her free time she enjoys estate sales, the sun, organizing closets and drawers, and LOST.

MICHELLE IANIRO (Rhetta Hyde) makes a welcomed return to 42nd Street Moon in Very Warm for May. She was seen here last season in Wildcat as Margarita and prior to that in Finian’s Rainbow. She is keeping busy working on numerous projects as a member of Theatre Bay Area and The Boxcar Theatre. www.michelleianiro.com/

ALEXANDRA KAPRIELIAN (Miss Wasserman) National: 25th Anniversary Tour of Nunsense with Sally Struthers. Regional Theatre: Nunsense 1, 2 and 3 (Sister Mary Amnesia) Willows Theatre Company; Plain and Fancy (Katie Yoder), Golden Apple (Helen of Troy), Can- Can (Claudine) and Cabaret Girl (Ada Little) 42nd Street Moon. Regional Concert Series: Jerome Kern Gala with Rebecca Luker, Cole Porter Review with Brent Barrett and sang back-up for Jason Graae. Voice Over: Cassi: Earth Girl on Campus as Cassi. Debut album, Born Too Late due this Spring. She has studied dance with Berle Davis and Jayne Zaban, and Randi Skinner in New York.

ANIL MARGSAHAYM (Johnny Graham) is back for his fifth show with 42nd Street Moon.  Other regional credits include: Our Town, The Clay Cart, The Comedy of Errors, The Music Man, Quixote with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Twelfth Night with New Theatre House; Hooray for What, The Boys from Syracuse, One Touch of Venus, and Minnie's Boys with 42nd Street Moon, and Slow Falling Bird with Crowded Fire.  He was also in the national Broadway Tour of Bombay Dreams.  Anil is a graduate of the University of San Francisco.

MAUREEN McVERRY (Winnie Spofford) is verry pleased to be back performing with 42nd Street Moon. Previous shows with Moon include: Pardon My English, The Student Gypsy, High Spirits and Wildcat. Locally, she has worked onstage at ACT, TheatreWorks, the Aurora, San Jose Rep and Stage, Marin Theatre Company, Marines’ Memorial, and almost every other stage within 50 miles. Outside of the Bay Area, she has worked at The Geffen Playhouse, American Repertory Theatre and a couple of cabaret stages in Los Angeles and New York City.  In private life, she is married and has two teenagers!

JIMMY ROBERTSON (Lowell Pennyfeather McGee) recently played Roscoe Dexter in Berkeley Playhouse’s Singin’ in the Rain. Other roles include Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business… (Solano College Theatre), Linus in Snoopy!!! (Summer Repertory Theatre), and Edgar the Batboy in Bat Boy the Musical (Chico State Theatre). He recently won an ARTY award for his work as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (Fairfield Community Theatre). Jimmy is a recent graduate of Chico State University’s musical theatre program.  He is making his 42nd Street Moon debut.

JEREMY VIK (Will Graham/Alvin) moved to San Francisco five years ago to go to the Clown Conservatory at Circus Center. Since then, he has had the joy of working with many Bay

Area theatre companies including: SF Shakes, Berkeley Playhouse, Virago Theatre Company, and El Gato Theatre Company. He plans go back to school this fall in order to become a professional acrobat and hopes he has time left for juggling and playing his ukulele. Jeremy was in 42nd Street Moon's recent production of Destry Rides Again.

GREG MacKELLAN  (Director)  When Moon presented Very Warm for May in 1995, Greg MacKellan was onstage as “lug in a trick hat” Kenny.  He’s very happy to be revisiting the show, this time as director.   Other Jerome Kern shows Greg has directed include Roberta, Cat and the Fidddle, and the American premiere of The Cabaret Girl.   During his 17 years as Artistic Director of 42nd Street Moon, he has directed more than 50 other musicals, including Do I Hear a Waltz?, Li’l Abner, Minnie’s Boys, Paint Your Wagon, and The Student Gypsy.   Greg was also responsible for the acclaimed six-CD “Shadowland” series of recordings devoted to lesser-known songs by classic American musical theatre songwriters with performers including Judy Kaye, Rebecca Luker, Patricia Morison and lyricist Sheldon Harnick.  Greg provided the revised script for 42nd Street Moon’s 2004 NEA-sponsored restoration of the Harburg/Arlen Hooray for What! Also in 2004, Greg’s award-winning revision of the Cole Porter musical Out of This World was presented to critical acclaimed at the Chichester Festival in England, and has since been produced in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.  He yearly directs the Moon fundraising gala, including “I Remember It Well” with Leslie Caron and “All the Things You Are” with Rebecca Luker.   Greg looks forward to directing Megan Cavanagh in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in the fall.

G. SCOTT LACY (Musical Director) has served as musical director for over 100 productions in California, working with such theater companies as the Tony Award Winning La Jolla Playhouse, the award winning Lamb’s Players Theatre, the Musical Theatre Guild of Los Angeles, Diversionary Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre, 42nd Street Moon, San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego Opera, North Coast Repertory Theatre, the Emmy Award Winning Malashock Dance Company and many others. Mr. Lacy is a successful vocal coach whose clients include Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award winning performers. Also a successful cabaret artist, his shows have been seen in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Diego, Shanghai, and Beijing. 

DAVE DOBRUSKY (Randall Marbury/Musical Director) is celebrating his 14th season with 42nd Street Moon and recently served as musical director for George and Ira Gershwin’s Lady, Be Good!  Other favorite productions include Out of This World, The Student Gypsy, Plain and Fancy, Li’l Abner, Mack and Mabel, Red Hot and Blue!, Minnie’s Boys, Can-Can, Finian’s Rainbow, Paint Your Wagon (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award), By Jupiter, Leave It to Me! (recorded), Dear World, Call Me Madam, and Louisiana Purchase. He has also appeared with Donna McKechnie, Cady Huffman, Nancy Dussault, Andrea McArdle, Marni Nixon, Rebecca Luker and Leslie Caron. Other Bay Area credits include: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Ray of Light), Man of LaMancha (BATCC Award), Putting It Together (San Francisco Playhouse); The Fantasticks (Shakespeare at Stinson); and Passion, Chess (New Conservatory Theatre).

ZACK THOMAS WILDE (Choreographer) is a nephew of the renowned dancers Marion Rice (Denishawn) and Carolyn Brown (Cunningham). After studying dance and drama at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he toured the world with Les Ballets Trockadero. He has shared the stage with Shirley MacLaine, Dick Cavett, Irene Cara, Diana Rigg, Sir Robert Helpman, Joe Namath, Eddie Bracken, and Howard McGillin. He danced principal roles with the Cape Town Ballet, the Nederlands Dance Theater, coached Natalia Makarova and Alessandro Molin in London, and danced and choreographed in New York, Tuscany, and for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.

JOE MADER (Stage Manager) has written on theater and film for a variety of publications, including Salon.com, the San Francisco Weekly, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Hollywood Reporter. He served as managing director and producer for a Worcester, Massachusetts theater company for two years. For 42nd Street Moon, he previously stage managed Peddling Rainbows and Girl Crazy, the company's last two annual fundraising galas, and our first entries in Moon’s Salon Series:  Nice Work If You Can Get It: An Ira Gershwin Salon and I Feel a Song Coming On: The Dorothy Fields Salon.

ELLEN BROOKS (Lighting Designer) has designed countless productions for 42nd Street Moon at the Herbst, Eureka,Alcazar and New Conservatory Theatres - including our recent Alcazar Salons and annual Galas. Currently, she is the Resident Lighting Director at Marin Shakespeare Company.  In 2009 she designed Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and The Importance of Being Ernest at its amphitheatre in Forest Meadows. Her recent work also includes Lucia di Lammermoor for North

Bay Opera, Bittersweet for Lamplighters/Opera West, Once on This Island for Berkeley Playhouse, Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Miracle Worker and Premiere for Ross Valley Players and the World Premiere of Dogsbody at the Yerba Buena Forum.

LOUISE JARMILOWICZ (Costumer) is in her fourth season as costumer for 42ND Street Moon. She has been costuming around San Francisco for many years. Other groups with whom she has worked, designing and constructing costumes, include Crowded Fire, the Thrillpeddlers, Handful Players, the African-American Shakespeare Co., Children's Fairyland, Stage Door Conservatory, The Lamplighters, the Dark Room Theater, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and many other local artists. www.jarmodesigns.com.

SCOTT WILBER (Set Designer) is a painter, sculptor, designer and teacher living in San Francisco. This is Scott’s fifth play for 42nd Street Moon, having previously designed Call Me Madam, Destry Rides Again, Jubilee and Lady, Be Good! He’s very excited to be onboard with the Moon crew again. He was set designer for New Conservatory Theatre’s Theatre District and

has been scenic painter to over a dozen shows at NCTC and Live Oak School productions since 2000. Visit scott@338sf.com/scott  to see more work from him.

KEVIN PONG (Prop Master) returns to 42nd Street Moon after recently designing Lady, Be Good! Other scenic design credits include 42nd Street Moon’s Call Me Madam, Ray of Light’ Baby, Jericho and Use Both Hands at Sleepwalkers Theatre, Twelfth Night at UC Berkeley, The Redwood Book of Luke and Sondheim's Company at BareStage, as well as design partnerships for events with the Mill Valley Film Festival and Pixar Studios.  Beyond stage, Kevin is a furniture buyer for corporate retail.

ERIN MAXWELL (Production Manager) is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre in 2004.  Erin is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Queer Girl Theatre Project.  As a resident artist of AIRspace, she has written and produced works for the National Queer Arts Festival's, the Queer Girl Performance Series and the San Francisco Fringe Festival.  Most recently, Erin portrayed Beebo Brinker in the West Coast Premiere of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles at Brava! Theatre in San Francisco.  

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org.