Brad Anderson as Officer Ivey, Luther Rosser, Guard
Broadway credits include A Chorus Line (Don Kerr), All Shook Up (Chad), The Boy From Oz (Mark Herron), Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate (Gremio), Fosse. National Tours: Starlight Express, Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis (Rocky), South Pacific at D.C.’s Arena Stage (Lt. Cable – Helen Hayes nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), Aida (Radames) and Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Brad) at Northshore Musicial Theatre, Actor, Lawyer, Indian Chief at Goodspeed Opera House (Red Rock). Film/TV: Whirlwind (Desmond), Ed, All My Children, As the World Turns, General Hospital, Guiding Light and the Tony Awards. This is for discovering one’s true meaning!

Michael Berresse as Governor Slaton, Britt Craig, Mr. Peavy
Michael Berresse was most recently seen scaring the bejeezus out of Russell Crowe as Robert Bingham in State of Play. Broadway: [title of show] (Director/Choreographer), Kiss Me, Kate (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Astaire Award nominations), The Light in the Piazza (Outer Critics Circle nomination), A Chorus Line, Chicago, Damn Yankees, Carousel, Guys & Dolls, The Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm, Fiddler on the Roof, A Wonderful Life (concert). London: Kiss Me, Kate (Olivier nomination). Off-Broadway: [title of show] (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel nomination), Forever Plaid, The Cocoanuts. Encores!: No, No, Nanette, One Touch of Venus, Call Me Madam, Chicago. National Tours: Busker Alley, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof. Regional: The Dybbuk, A Majority of One, Annie, Funny Girl, among others. TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Great Performances, Live from Lincoln Center. Film: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, State of Play.

Will Collyer (official website) as Ensemble
CTG: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Other Los Angeles: Big (West Coast Ensemble), Gulls (Theatre@Boston Court), Unfinished American Highwayscape (Theatre@Boston Court), Town Without Pity (Lyric), Eric Larue (Elephant), Hair (Reprise!) and Once Upon a Mattress (UCLA, directed by Carol Burnett). Regional: Conversations With My Father (TheatreWorks). TV: Melrose Place, Pushing Daisies, NUMB3RS, Las Vegas, Charmed, Jack & Bobby, Judging Amy, CSI: Miami, Christmas Carol (MOW) and Boston Public. He has sung on several film soundtracks, including Earth, Dance Flick and Bad Santa. UCLA, Theatre B.A. Love and thanks to Mom, Dad, Colin, Calvin, Mar and Steven. willcollyer.com.

Charlotte d'Amboise as Mrs. Phagan, Sally Slaton
Charlotte d'Amboise is thrilled to be back in Los Angeles for the first time since 1998 when she won the L.A. Ovation Award and the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award as Best Actress In A Musical for her performance as Roxie Hart in the national tour of Chicago at the Ahmanson Theatre. Most recently, she played Cassie in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She is also featured in the A Chorus Line documentary, Every Little Step. Other leading Broadway roles include Contact, Chicago, Company, Carrie, Damn Yankees (Fred Astaire Award), Jerome Robbins Broadway (Tony nomination), Sweet Charity (Fred Astaire Award), Song & Dance, Can Can and Cats. Other credits include Tonight at 8:30 (Williamstown), Speed-the-Plow (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and On the Town (Goodspeed Opera House). Off-Broadway includes Red Eye, Tennis Game, Prairie Avenue, Dolphin Position and Italian American Reconciliation. TV and Film: Law & Order, One Life to Live (recurring), Neon Jungle, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle and The In Crowd.

Karole Foreman (official website) as Ensemble
Recent Shows: Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie at Sacramento Music Circus, Mary Magdalene in South Bay CLO’s Jesus Christ Superstar, and Hangin’ Out, The Good Body and Norman’s Ark. Other Shows: Josephine Tonight! (Josephine Baker), Jelly’s Last Jam (Anita-Suzi Bass Award) and the Las Vegas premiere of Mamma Mia! (Tanya). Other Theatres: Denver Center, Alliance Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, San Jose Rep AMT of San Jose, Northshore Music Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House and Pasadena Playhouse. TV: Medium, Third Watch, Law & Order, Strong Medicine, The Bold and the Beautiful, Becker and numerous commercials. Awards: Richard Rodgers’ Award, Jonathan Larson Foundation grant, an Edgerton Foundation grant and three NAACP nominations for her musical The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Davis Gaines (official website) as Old Soldier, Judge Roan, Guard
The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera withover 2,000 performances on Broadway, Los Angeles and San Francisco and remains L.A.’s longest-running Phantom. Broadway/National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera (Raoul), Whistle Down the Wind, Camelot (w/Richard Burton), Hello, Dolly! (w/Carol Channing), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (w/Alexis Smith). Off-Broadway: The Death of Von Richthofen as Witnessed from Earth (The Public), One Two Three Four Five (Manhattan Theatre Club), Assassins (Playwrights Horizons), The Boys from Syracuse (Encores), The New Moon (New York City Opera), She Loves Me and Forbidden Broadway. Regional: Side by Side by Sondheim (Pasadena Playhouse), Damn Yankees (George Abbott, dir.), Arsenic and Old Lace (w/Kate Reid), The Rink (w/Lainie Kazan), Two Into One (w/Tony Randall). Other: Sweeney Todd (Reprise, NY Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony). Film: Warlock: The Armageddon. TV: Desperate Housewives, Charmed, Chicago Hope, Veronica’s Closet, Bodies of Evidence and Murder, She Wrote. .

Laura Griffith (official website) as Ensemble
Broadway: South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza, Sweet Smell of Success and Oklahoma! National Tour: The Light in the Piazza at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Kennedy Center (Helen Hayes Award nomination). Europe: West Side Story at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin. Washington, D.C.: Songs for a New World with Jason Robert Brown for the Signature Theatre. Seattle: 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, A Little Night Music and The Rocky Horror Show. Other Regional: Les Misérables at the California Musical Theatre, Camelot and Oklahoma! at the Music Theatre of Wichita, Road to Hollywood at the Goodspeed Opera House and Beauty and the Beast at the Pioneer Theatre. Graduate of Columbia University. LauraGriffith.net.

P.J. Griffith as Officer Starnes, Tom Watson
Recent theatre credits include Sky in Mamma Mia! (first national tour), Cousin Kevin in The Who’s Tommy (Flickerhouse Productions, L.A.), Jan in Setup and Punch (The Blank Theatre Company), Malcolm in Macbeth (Will & Co.), Jared in But I’m a Cheerleader, The Musical (NYMF), Sven/Russell in One Way Ticket to Hell (Strasberg Theatre) and the pre-Broadway workshops of The Flunky and Ataria. Film/TV: Without a Trace, House, September 12th, The Weathered Underground and Days of Our Lives. P.J. has fronted several bands, sharing stages with a strange cornucopia of musicians including Neil Diamond, Biohazard, Lonestar, The Misfits, Deborah Gibson, Jello Biafra and Vanilla Ice. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Curt Hansen as Young Soldier, Frankie Epps, Guard
CTG Debut! Curt is a Wisconsin native, and attended the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. Broadway: Hairspray (Sketch and understudy for Link Larkin). Television: Brand New Day (pilot for Nickelodeon). He would like to thank his New York family, the guys at BRS, and his actual family for their continuous love and support.

Deidrie Henry as Minnie McKnight, Angela
Regional: Ballad of Emmett Till (Goodman Theatre); Yellowman (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Crowns (Intiman Theatre, Prince Music Theatre); As You Like It, Oo-Bla-Dee, Three Sisters, Wit, Hamlet, Seven Guitars, Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Closer (Portland Center Stage); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage – Helen Hayes nomination), Huntington Theatre. Los Angeles: Coming Home, Yellowman (Fountain Theatre – Best Actress Award: Ovation, Backstage Garland, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, NAACP Theatre Award); Small Tragedy (Odyssey Theatre), McReel, Relativity (LA Theatre Works). TV: Three Rivers, Southland, Lie To Me, Brothers & Sisters, The Riches, Shark, NCIS, Commander-in-Chief, Without A Trace and ER.

Christian Hoff (official website) as Hugh Dorsey
Christian Hoff is proud to return to the L.A. stage in Parade after winning a Tony Award for his performance as Tommy DeVito in Broadway’s Jersey Boys as well as Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Entertainment Weekly named him “The Master of Mimicry” for his record-breaking voice-over accomplishments. Recorded Grammy-winning, original cast albums for The Who’s Tommy and Jersey Boys. Screen Credit: Ugly Betty (D.A. Richard Blackman), Law & Order: CI (Federal Prosecutor Thomas Grady), Encino Man, Star Trek IV, Honor Thy Mother, In Love and War, ER, JAG, Party of Five, Millennium, The Commish. Other Theatre: Cohan in George M!, Will Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies, Huck in Big River, Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar and Sky Masterson in Guys & Dolls. Broadway debut was in the Tony Award-winning The Who’s Tommy. Visit www.christianhoff.com for Christian’s recordings and tour dates. He is the national spokesperson for the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson Foundation and proud husband and father of four.

Sarah Jayne Jensen as Ensemble
Sarah Jayne Jensen is honored to be working with Rob Ashford and Jason Robert Brown once again. She was recently seen as Suzanne Von Stroh in Sony Pictures’ Center Stage: Turn it Up with Peter Gallagher. She also appeared as Shelley in New Line Cinema’s Hairspray starring John Travolta, in Columbia Pictures’ Across the Universe, as Anita Grey on ABC’s Pushing Daisies, and Punk’d, produced by Ashton Kutcher. Broadway shows include Gypsy with Bernadette Peters, Wonderful Town with Brooke Shields and Donna Murphy, Oklahoma! with Patrick Wilson and the first national tour of Fosse. Regional: Princesses with Rob Ashford and Urban Cowboy with Jason Robert Brown. Sarah Jayne fell in love with improv, studying and performing at Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City and recently at the UCB here in Los Angeles. Grateful to my parents for their endless guidance and support. For Michael.

T.R. Knight as Leo Frank
Broadway: Noises Off, Tartuffe. Off-Broadway: Boy, Scattergood (Drama Desk nomination), The Hologram Theory, This Lime Tree Bower, Macbeth. Regional: Amadeus; Ah, Wilderness!; Racing Demon; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Philadelphia, Here I Come! (all at the Guthrie Theater). Television: Charlie Lawrence, Grey’s Anatomy (Emmy nomination).

Lisa Livesay (official website) as Monteen
CTG debut! Recent credits: Flick in Violet at MTG Los Angeles, Judas in South Bay CLO Jesus Christ Superstar and Prince Gallant in The Princess & the Black-Eyed Pea at San Diego Rep. Other joints include Simba in Disney’s The Lion King (Broadway and original Gazelle Tour), Ragtime (Broadway and Chicago), John in Miss Saigon, Enjolras in Les Mis, Dreamgirls, Chess, The Bubbly Black Girl…, The Alchemist, Leap of Faith, Langston in Harlem, The Times, Josephine’s Song, As You Like It, Once on This Island, Joseph…, Godspell, Baby, Avenue X, Threepenny Opera, Cymbeline, some of this, a bit of that, some T.V., some film. MFA, UNC Chapel Hill and B.A., Temple University. Proud Equity Member. Live, Love, Laugh!!

Hayley Podschun (official website) as Iola Stover
CTG debut! Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company’s Pal Joey and Sunday in the Park with George, Hairspray and The Sound of Music. National Tour: Hairspray (Penny Pingleton/Tammy). Regional: Sacramento Music Circus’ Hairspray (Penny Pingleton). Film/Soundtrack: Hairspray (Tammy). Thank you to The Gage Group and always Mom and Dad. www.hayleypodschun.com.

Laura Pulver as Lucille Frank
Film: The Special Relationship (written by Peter Morgan), Legacy (Black Camel Productions). TV: Robin Hood (BBC). For the Donmar Warehouse: Parade (Olivier-nominated). London: Everything Must Go! (Soho Theatre), Beau Jeste (UK premiere), Into the Woods (The Royal Opera House), The Last Five Years (UK premiere), Honk! (Royal National Theatre UK tour), Grease (Victoria Palace Theatre), Miss Saigon (national tour), High Society (national tour), A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), The Boy Friend (national tour), Chicago (national tour), 42nd Street (national tour), The Wizard of Oz (Oldham Coliseum Theatre).

Rose Sezniak as Lila, Mary Phagan
Rose Sezniak is elated to be making her L.A. debut as a part of this incredible cast! Rose could last be seen playing the role of SophieSheridan in the national tour of Mamma Mia! She is a graduate of The Catholic University of America’s Rome School of Music, and a proud member of AEA. Thanks and love to her parents, Geoffrey, and all of her incredibly supportive family and friends!

David St. Louis (official website) as Newt Lee, Jim Conley, Riley
Film: At Your Convenience, Trigger Effect, Temptation. T.V.: Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order S.V.U., A Royal Birthday, The Jury, One Life To Live, Homicide Life on the Streets, America’s Most Wanted and The Secret Path. Broadway: Harlem Song, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Regional: The Life (Jaxx Theatricals) Ragtime (PCPA Theatre), Porgy And Bess (Zach Scott Theatre), Raisin (Court Theatre), Once On This Island (Center Stage), From My Hometown (American Heartland Theatre), Me & Mrs. Jones (Prince Musical Theatre), Golden Boy (Long Wharf Theatre), Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre), Candide (Arena Stage), and Bessie’s Blues (Studio Theatre) for which he won a Helen Hayes award for most outstanding supporting actor.

Phoebe Strole as Essie
Phoebe Strole is proud to be part of a revival of this beautiful musical. Film: Hamlet 2, My One and Only. TV: Sorority War (TV movie), 30 Rock, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Rescue Me, Stella. Broadway: Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: Spring Awakening, Mourning Becomes Electra (The New Group). Thank you Dad, Estelle, Genn and Stephanie.

Josh Tower as Ensemble
CTG debut! Recent credits: Flick in Violet at MTG Los Angeles, Judas in South Bay CLO Jesus Christ Superstar and Prince Gallant in The Princess & the Black-Eyed Pea at San Diego Rep. Other joints include Simba in Disney’s The Lion King (Broadway and original Gazelle Tour), Ragtime (Broadway and Chicago), John in Miss Saigon, Enjolras in Les Mis, Dreamgirls, Chess, The Bubbly Black Girl…, The Alchemist, Leap of Faith, Langston in Harlem, The Times, Josephine’s Song, As You Like It, Once on This Island, Joseph…, Godspell, Baby, Avenue X, Threepenny Opera, Cymbeline, some of this, a bit of that, some T.V., some film. MFA, UNC Chapel Hill and B.A., Temple University. Proud Equity Member. Live, Love, Laugh!!

Robert Yacko (official website) as Ensemble
Broadway and National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof (w/ Herschel Bernardi). Off-Broadway: Oh, What A Lovely War!, The Miser. CTG: A Little Night Music (Doolittle Theatre), Undiscovered Country, Wild Oats, Moby Dick Rehearsed (Mark Taper Forum repertory company). Regional: Distracted, Bernstein’s Peter Pan, Splitting Infinity, Sylvia, Can Can (Revised), Five Course Love, The Real Thing, Company (w/Carol Burnett), Into the Woods (w/Leslie Uggams), Fiddler on the Roof (w/ Theodore Bikel), The Grave White Way, The Secret Garden, Chess, Sunday in the Park with George (L.A. premiere), Romance, Romance (West Coast premiere), Lies and Legends, Marry Me a Little. Film: Raising Helen, Life in a Perfect World. TV: The Closer, General Hospital, Picket Fences, Golden Girls, Get A Life.

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