Kelli Barrett as Juliet
B’way: The Royal Family. Off-B’way: Rock of Ages (New World Stages). New York: Knickerbocker Holiday (Musicals in Mufti at York Theatre Co.); Arms and the Man, On the Rocks (Gingold Theatrical Group Project Shaw at Players Club). Reading/Workshop: The Last Goodbye (Joe’s Pub); An Officer and a Gentleman (Gordon Frost Productions); Death Takes a Holiday (Roundabout Theatre Co); Piece of My Heart (New York Theatre Workshop); Auctioning the Ainsleys (Naked Angels). Regional: Gypsy (Westchester Broadway Theatre); Ace (Old Globe/Repertory Theatre of St. Louis/Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theater). Film: The Switch, Remember Me, Red Hook, Confessions of a Shopaholic. TV: “Ugly Betty,” “The Good Wife,” “As the World Turns,” “A Haunting in Connecticut.” Education: University of the Arts.

Nick Blaemire as Benvolio
B’way: Cry-Baby (Original Cast); Glory Days (Music and Lyrics). Regional: Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Vineyard Playhouse); Lil’s 90th (Long Wharf Theatre); The Black Suits (Summer Play Festival at Public Theater). Tour: Altar Boyz (1st national). Film: Assassination of a High School President. TV: “Guiding Light,” “Great Books: The Jungle.” Upcoming, Composing music and lyrics for Finding Robert Hutchens, on commission for Broadway Across America. Education: BFA, The University of Michigan.

Celina Carvajal (official website) as Rosaline
B’way: Tarzan; Dracula; 42nd Street; Cats. Off-B’way: The Toxic Avenger, ROOMS - a rock romance (New World Stages); Radiant Baby (Public Theater). New York: Bedbugs!!! (NYMF Award for Outstanding Individual Performances, New York Musical Theatre Festival); Green Eyes (FringeNYC). Film: Sex and the City, The Big Gay Musical, The Graduates. TV: “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods,” “All My Children.” Sang for Pope John Paul II at Candlestick Stadium in 1987. Creator and co-host of a weekly theater podcast “The Broken Leg” available for free on iTunes. Lead singer and front woman of the band “The Deafening” (www.thedeafening.com). celinacarvajal.com

Merle Dandridge (official website) as Lady Capulet
B’way: Spamalot; Tarzan; Rent; Aida; Jesus Christ Superstar. Regional: Atlanta (Geffen Playhouse); Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse); Showtune (Pasadena Playhouse); Kentucky Cycle (Pegasus Players); As You Like It (Patrick O’Malley Theatre). Tour: Rent; Spamalot; Aida; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Smokey Joe’s Café. Film: Nothing But the Truth. TV: “Matadors,” “24,” “The Deep End,” “I’m Paige Wilson,” “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” “Pros and Cons,” “Third Watch,” “NCIS,” “Angel,” “The Edge.” Merle is the voice actress for Alyx Vance in the “Half Life 2” gaming series.

Damon Daunno as Romeo
B’way: Brief Encounter (Roundabout Theatre Co./Studio 54, upcoming). Concert Reading: The Last Goodbye (Joe’s Pub); Music: Highline Ballroom; Joe’s Pub; Canal Room; Adulterated Trappings EP (available on iTunes). Education: BFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Tom Hennes as Paris, Gregory
New York: Bonfire Night (Linhart Theatre); The Accursed Items (Ontological-Hysteric Theater); Missionaries (St. John the Divine); Punk (New York Theatre Barn); Political Subversities (Joe’s Pub); Wounds to the Face (Chashama Theater). Concert Reading: The Last Goodbye (Wild Project/Joe’s Pub/Westside Theatre). Regional: Rent (John W. Engeman Theater). Member of the Brooklyn-based electro music duo Avan Lava (avanlava.com). Education: BFA, New York University.

Max Jenkins (official website) as Prince
Off-B’way: Coney Island Avenue (New York Theatre Workshop); Unnatural Acts (also Co-Writer, Classic Stage Co., upcoming). Reading/Workshop: Wig Out! (Vineyard Theatre); Harvard Project (Classic Stage Co.); The Man in the Ceiling (Disney Theatricals); The Black Crook (Naked Angels); Under Construction (SITI Co.); 06880 (York Theatre Co.). Film: Breaking Upwards, Watching TV with the Red Chinese. Education: BFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Jo Lampert as Mercutio (Dance Captain)
New York: The Daughters (Yale Institute for Music Theatre/Joe’s Pub); The Last Goodbye (Joe’s Pub); Dance Dance Revolution (Les Freres Corbusiers at Ohio Theater); Hamlet (Galapagos Art Space). Concert Reading: The Last Goodbye (Joe’s Pub). Music Video: “Declare Independence” (performed by Bjork). Education: BFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Jesse Lenat as Friar
New York: Fucking A (Public Theater); The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance (Signature Theatre Co./Second Stage Theatre); Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons); Hey Jack Kerouac (Performance Space 122); Rent (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: Current Nobody (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co.); Tallgrass Gothic, 1969 (Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival of New American Plays); Twelfth Night, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Dallas Theater Center); The Rover (Guthrie Theatre); The Spirit of Woody Guthrie (Phila. Area Rep. Co.). International: Wings of Desire (ART/Toneelgroup Amsterdam, Netherlands). Other: Farm Aid Concert 2008 (Comcast Center Mansfield); Farm Aid Concert 2007 Opening Performance with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp (Randall’s Island). Film: Venomous, A Fish in the Bathtub, Sweet Little Lies. TV: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: CI,” “HACK,” “To Hell and Back: The Meatloaf Story,” “Strangers with Candy.” Jesse plays his own music at many venues in and around New York.

Deb Lyons (official website) as Lady Montague
B’way: Smokey Joe’s Café (also DVD & London West End). Off-B’way: They Wrote That? (McGinn Cazale Theatre). Regional: Swing! (Pittsburgh CLO); Ring of Fire (Flat Rock Playhouse); Hairspray (North Shore Music Theatre); Side by Side by Sondheim (Virginia Musical Theatre); Pump Boys and Dinettes (Theatre Under the Stars). Tour: Jekyll & Hyde (national); The Mamas & the Papas (world tour for five years, with the original Papas, John Phillips and Denny Doherty, for the late Mama Cass). Concert: Ottawa National Symphony (National Arts Centre); Broadway Meets Country (Lincoln Center). TV: “Late Show with David Letterman” (with Donna Summer), “Today Show.” deblyonsmusic.com

Grace McLean (official website) as Female Ensemble
2nd Season WTF: The Prophet Muhammad: A Musical; Help Yourself. New York: By Proxy (CAP21); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost (New York Neo-Classical Ensemble); Political Subversities (Culture Project/Joe’s Pub); Twelve Ophelias (Woodshed Collective); Hell House (St. Ann’s Warehouse). Singer for New York-based bands “Lily & James,” “Jay and the Birds,” as well as for Gabriel Kahane and Mary McBride. Debut album from Grace McLean to be released winter 2010. Education: BFA, New York University. gracemclean.com

Michael Park as Lord Capulet
B’way: Smokey Joe’s Café; Little Me; Carousel. Off-B’way: Hello Again (Lincoln Center Theater); The Burnt Part Boys, Violet (Playwrights Horizons); Bloomer Girl, Applause (New York City Center Encores!). Regional: Ellen Universe Joins the Band, Peephole (Geva Theatre Center); Shenandoah (Goodspeed Opera House); Good News (North Shore Music Theatre). TV: “13 Bourbon St.,” “As the World Turns.” Recipient of Daytime Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2010) and three Daytime Emmy Award nominations.

Ashley Robinson as Tybalt
Off-B’way: Meet Me in St. Louis (Irish Rep.). Regional: Shakespeare’s R&J (Hartford TheaterWorks); Giant (Signature Theater); Hair (Prince Music Theater); Wicked (Chicago Co.); The Good War (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Floyd Collins, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Waiting for Godot, Twelfth Night (North Carolina School of the Arts). Film: Fallen Souls, The Accident. TV: “Hate.” Education: BFA, North Carolina School of the Arts.

Chloe Webb as Nurse
Off-B’way: The Raven (St. Ann’s Warehouse); The Waiting Room (Vineyard Theatre); Forbidden Broadway (OBIE Award nomination, original cast). Regional: Bicoastal Woman, The House of Blue Leaves (Pasadena Playhouse); The Vagina Monologues (Canon Theatre); The Model Apartment (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Performance, Los Angeles Theatre Center); Garuda’s Wing (Humana Festival of New American Plays/Geva Theatre Center); Addiction (Mark Taper Forum); Family Album (Improvisational Theater Project); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Boston Shakespeare Co.); Do Black Shoes Reflect (original cast, Forum Theatre). Film: Practical Magic, The Newton Boys, Love Affair, A Dangerous Woman, Queens Logic, Heart Condition, Twins, The Belly of an Architect, Sid and Nancy (National Society of Film Critics, Boston Society of Film Critics, and San Francisco Film Critics Awards for Best Actress). TV: “CSI,” “Medium,” “Two and a Half Men,” “House M.D.,” “Tales of the City,” “China Beach” (Emmy Award nomination). Director: Surfing Thru (Santa Cruz Film Festival Best Short Documentary).

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