Andy Mientus as Richard Hunter
Andy‘s credits: New York debut! Previously: Spring Awakening (Hanschen, original touring company, dir. Michael Mayer), Academy at the Daegu International Musical Festival in South Korea (dir. John Carrafa), Big River (Huck, Music Theater of Wichita). Training from the University of Michigan. Thanks to NYMF, the Shine! team, and Harden-Curtis Associates.

Joy Nash (official website) as Higgins
Stanton's 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: Take Flight(McCarter Theatre); 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.

Michael Halling as Luke Gerrish
Michael is happy to back at NYMF, where he was seen last year as Gentleman Joe Sullivan in Seeing Stars. Other NYMF: John Doe in Meet John Doe.Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities (Gaspard); The Pajama Game (Cyrus; u/s Harry Connick Jr.), Roundabout Theatre Company; The Boy From Oz (Standby for Hugh Jackman); In MyLife (Nick); The Scarlet Pimpernel. NYC Opera’s Candide. National Tours: Les Miserables (Enjolras); The Full Monty (Teddy Slaughter). Other Tours: Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Atlanta TOTS. B.A. U of M.

Meggie Cansler as Stacia Jane Hauser
Meggie has been seen on Broadway in The Apple Tree, Finian's Rainbow, andWicked. She was also the Galinda understudy for the first national tour. Regional favorites include: Penny in Hairspray and Ariel in Footloose (MUNY) and Ruby inDames at Sea (American Heartland Theatre). She has a BFA from CCM and thrilled to be apart of Shine! for NYMF!

William Ryall (official website) as Silas Snobden
William's credits include Broadway: Guys and Dolls, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Seussical, High Society, How To Succeed…, Grand Hotel, Whorehouse Goes Public, Me and My Girl, Amadeus, Chess (in concert). NYC Opera: The Most Happy Fella. National Tours: Phantom, Some Like It Hot, On Your Toes, Grand Hotel, South Pacific, Evita, My One and Only. Television: "One Life To Live", "Another World", "Oz", "The Rosie O’Donnell Show", 1987, 1990, 1995, and 2009 "Tony Awards". Film: Jimmy in Charlie Kaufman’s "Synecdoche, New York". www.williamryall.com

Jimmy Ray Bennett as Gideon Chapin
Jimmy is a founding member of the national cult hit The Nuclear Family, as well as TV's "The Extended Family" on the Sundance Film Channel. Theatre includes Mark in White’s Lies w/ Betty Buckley, Sohovik in the Encores’ revival of Damn Yankees w/ Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski, with work at the Kennedy Center, the McCarter, NYTW, The York, The Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, ILLYRIA w/ Prospect and Fully Committed all over. A member of the Dramatist Guild of America, current projects are the interactive Walker In Babylon and a new book for 1930’s Fine And Dandy. Winner, 2005 World Domination Improv Tournament. Loser, 2006.

Philip Chaffin (official website) as Allen Carlisle
Philip recently appeared opposite Kate Baldwin and Rebecca Luker in the Library of Congress's 75th anniversary concert of the Harold Arlen-Ira Gershwin-Yip Harburg musical Life Begins at 8:40. Philip made his Broadway debut in the world premiere of Alan Menken and Tim Rice’s King David, and has since appeared in dozens of New York concerts, including Encores! and Lyrics & Lyricists. He has released three solo albums: Where Do I Go From You?, which recreated the sounds of the big-band era; Warm Spring Night, which took on eighty years of romantic Broadway song; and the recent When the Wind Blows South, hailed by Playbill as one of the top albums of the year. Philip runs the record label PS Classics, honored with four Grammy nominations, for its cast recordings of Nine: The Musical, Assassins, Grey Gardens and Company; recent releases include the Broadway cast albums of A Little Night Music, Sondheim on Sondheim and La Cage aux Folles.

Tyler Merna as Rob Carlisle
Tyler is thrilled to be part of this production. Theatre credits include Afterlight(NY Fringe Festival), Tusk! Tusk! reading (Manhattan Theatre Club), and numerousother productions. On television Tyler played the role of Joan Rivers grandson on ZRock.Special thanks to Nancy Carson, Robert Marks and Jen Rudin, and love to his family and friends!

Dan Lawler as Foswell
Dan is thrilled to be a part of Shine!. Off-Broadway: With Glee (Prospect Theatre Company) Pinkalicious, The Musical (Bleecker Street Theater), With Glee (’07 NYMF). New York: Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up (The Producers Club), Lit and Messy and Not at all Ashamed, The Golden Apple, andThe Magic Flute (NYU). Regional: Sweeney Todd (Cohoes Music Hall), The Odyssey: An Epic Musical (The Kitchen Theatre).Other credits include Die Fledermaus, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Seussical the Musical and The Merry Widow. Training: BM Ithaca College, MM New York University.

Katherine McGrath as Mrs. Mooney
Kathy's credits include Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities, The Music Man (Widow Paroo), The Night of the Tribades. Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance,Indian Blood, Echoes of War, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Dear Liar, The Baccae, Enter A Free Man, The Perry Mission. Old Globe San Diego, Associate Artist: Memoir, The Rivals, Romeo and Juliet, Shirley Valentine,Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Hamlet. TV: “Fraiser”, “Cheers”, “Hill Street Blues”, “General Hospital”, “Trying Times”, “Wonder Works”, and “Scandal in a Small Town”.

Joy Hermalyn as Mrs. McHugh
Joy's credits incude Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Cyrano, Candide, Christmas Carol, Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Boheme, numerous Encores! Favorite regional: Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett), Gypsy (Rose), Into the Woods (Witch),Annie Get Your Gun (Annie). Recent: Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’ new musical Kristinaat the Royal Albert Hall, London. Opera from Anchorage to Lincoln Center to Spoleto to Tulsa. Joy is a Voice Professor at Kean University in NJ and maintains a private voice studio. Love to my Maxine, who makes it all worthwhile.

Evan Jay Newman (official website) as Mickey McGuire
Evan is thrilled to return to NYMF in Shine! The Horatio Alger Musical. A graduate of CAP 21, previous credits include: Broadway: Les Miserables; Paul Simon's The Capeman; A Christmas Carol. Nat'l Tour: Beauty and the Beast; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Regional: Nine(Papermill Playhouse). Readings/Workshops: A Musical Fantasia on Piratical Themes; Tully (in no particular order); Radiant Baby; The Other Lincoln. His song cycle, Wherever You Go, There You Are was featured by the New York Theatre Barn on September 27th. Watch www.evanjaynewman.com for updates! Proud member of AEA.

Melissa Rain Anderson (official website) as Ensemble
Melissa's credits include New York: Bonnie and Clyde, a Folktale by Hunter Foster and Rick Crom At NYMF, Babes in Arms and Tenderloin at Encores!; Time and Again at Manhattan Theeatre Club and Pacific 1860 at The York. Tv Law & Order: SUV (Guest Star), Lipstick Jungle (Guest Star). National Tour: South Pacific. Cast recordings include Babes in Arms, Tenderloin Encores! Of Encoresand A Richard Rodgers Centennial Celebration. Melissarainanderson.com

Cheo Bourne as Ensemble
Cheo is thrilled to make his NYC debut with NYMF and Shine!. He recently appeared in a reading of Shawn Cody’s The Water Dream at Shetler Studios. Cheo has performed regionally in Boston in Hot Mikado, Cabaret, Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm (New Repertory Theatre); Harriet Jacobs (Underground Railway Theater); Jerry Springer The Opera (SpeakEasy Stage); HONK!(Wheelock Family Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.). He has studied acting at Connecticut College and the British American Drama Academy.

Rachel Coloff as Ensemble
Rachel is pleased to be making her third appearance at NYMF! Her favorite B'way roles: SoupySue in Urinetown, and Rivka/Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof.Other B'way credits: The Baroness in Candide, directed by Hal Prince and Lestat.Rachel's off-B'way credits include Flossie in the Encores production of On The Town, and Mrs. Einsford-Hill in My Fair Lady, with The New York Philharmonic and Binnie Chester in Tip-Toes, at Carnegie Hall. Regional roles: Yente, in Fiddler on The Roof, at The Fulton Opera, Kate Jerome, in Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Emelin Theatre, Morgan LeFey in Camelot, at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Doris, in The Bandwagon, at The Old Globe, and Mother in Enter Laughing, at The York Theatre.

Todd A. Horman as Ensemble
Todd was most recently seen in Take Flight at the McCarter Theater, Ragtime at Portland Center Stage, and in 1776 at the Papermill Playhouse. He made his Broadway debut in Urinetown in 2003 and has toured with Urinetown andVictor/Victoria. New York credits include Encores productions of Of Thee I Singand Face the Music along with workshops of 110 in the Shade with Audra McDonald and Leap of Faith with Raul Esparza. Regional credits include The Full Monty at Pittsburgh CLO, Les Miz at North Shore, and Guys and Dolls at Portland Center Stage. BFA in Music Theater from Elon University and MFA in Music Theater from UNLV. Numerous commercials and voiceovers for HBO, MTV. MTV2, and Nick Jr. Proud member of AEA and SAG.

Jason Mills as Ensemble
Jason was last seen as thePhantom in the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera and in the Broadway cast where he understudied both the Phantom and Raoul. Forbidden Broadway: SVU (also cast recording), South Pacific (Carnegie Hall), Pardon My English and The New Moon (City Center Encores!), and the new musicals Lonely Rhymes, Illyria, and The Taxi Cabaret. Degree in biology from Harvard University. Love and thanks to Jordanna and the Mills Family.

Robert Mintz as Ensemble
Robert is happy to be back at NYMF after appearing in last year's Seeing Stars. Since then, he has been performing in New Jersey at The Growing Stage Theatre and Tri-State Actors Theater. A graduate of the Catholic University of America, his DC credits include The Kennedy Center's Broadway: Three Generations directed by Lonny Price and Signature Theatre'sThe Visitdirected by Frank Galati (part of Signature's Tony Award-winning season).

Jessica Vosk as Ensemble
Jessica is thrilled to be a part of Shine!. She just returned from London's Royal Albert Hall, where she was featured in the new ABBA musical Kristina (also performed and recorded in concert this past September at Carnegie Hall). Other credits include Five Course Love at the Geva Theatre Center, Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical, To Carry On: The Music of Laura Nyro and PUNK at the York Theatre.

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