Sierra Boggess as Sharon
SIERRA BOGGESS is thrilled to be making her MTC debut with Master Class. She comes directly from London's West End where she starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies. For her performance as ‘Christine Daae,’ Sierra received a 2011 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. Sierra was last seen on Broadway starring as the title character in Disney's The Little Mermaid (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations and Broadway.com award for Favorite Breakthrough Performance) and in the City Center Encores! production of Music in the Air. She starred as 'Christine Daae' in the Las Vegas production of Phantom of the Opera and has been seen regionally as Binky in Princesses (world premiere, Goodspeed and 5th Avenue Theater), and in the national tours of Les Miserables and West Side Story. Concert appearances include The BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series: The Lyrics of David Zippel, New York Pops at Lincoln Center and Broadway by the Year at Town Hall. Sierra’s television appearances include “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “The View,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” and “The 62nd Annual Tony Awards.” She also appeared in People Magazine and on the cover of USA Weekend alongside Megan Mullaly and Mario Lopez. Recordings include the Symphonic Recording of Love Never Dies and the Original Cast Album for The Little Mermaid. She holds a BFA from Milikin University.

Clinton Brandhagen (official website) as Stagehand
The Kennedy Center: Master Class, Mister Roberts, Shear Madness, Color Me Dark, A Light in the Storm. Everyman Theatre: All My Sons, Shipwrecked!, Two Rooms, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Cherry Orchard, Doubt, A Parable, And a Nightingale Sang. Theatre J: Photograph 51. Charter Theatre: Love and Whiskey. Folger Theatre: School for Scandal, The Comedy of Errors. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Stunning. Arena Stage: Christmas Carol, 1941, Anna Christie. Round House Theatre: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Orson’s Shadow. Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas. Olney Theatre Center: Democracy, The Foreigner, Anna Karenina. Potomac Theatre Project: An Experiment with an Air Pump, Piaf. The Shakespeare Theatre: Romeo and Juliet. Washington Shakespeare Company: Ionesco's Macbett, Love’s Labour’s Lost. American Shakespeare Center: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Much Ado about Nothing, The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Clinton is a member of Everyman Theatre’s Resident Acting Company.

Jeremy Cohen (official website) as Manny
JEREMY COHEN is honored to make his Broadway debut in MTC’s production of Master Class. Jeremy first joined the Master Class team last spring when the play was presented as part of the Kennedy Center’s Nights at the Opera series celebrating playwright Terrence McNally. Other recent credits include Avenue X at the Alliance Theatre (Suzi Bass Award – Best Ensemble) and Roundabout Theatre Company’s workshop of Yank! under the direction of David Cromer. As an actor and musician, Jeremy has also worked with Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Marriott Theatre, La MaMa Theatre and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Jeremy composed the music for The Bowery Boys, which premiered at the Marriott Theatre and received several Jeff award nominations including “Best New Musical.” The Bowery Boys was also recently featured at the 2010 NAMT Festival in New York City. Jeremy is a proud graduate of Northwestern University.

Tyne Daly as Maria Callas
Television Series: “Judging Amy” Emmy and Golden Globe winner for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a drama; “Christy” Emmy winner for Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama; “Cagney and Lacey” Emmy winner for Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama; Total of 16 Emmy Award nominations.

Television Movies: “Georgia O’Keefe” (with Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen); “The Perfect Mother”; “Bye, Bye, Birdie (with Jason Alexander); “Kids Like There”; The Entertainer” (starring Jack Lemmon and Ray Bolger); “Larry” (with Fred Forrest); “The Man Who Could Talk to Kids” (with Peter Boyle); “Intimate Strangers” (Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama,)

Television Episodic Guest Starring (Partial List): “The Nanny”; “Columbo”; “Magnum P.I.”; “Medical Center” (starring James Daly/Maureen Stapleton); “Streets of San Francisco” (with Michael Douglas); “Wings” (Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, starred Tim Daly); “The Rookie” (4 episodes); “The Mod Squad” (2 episodes)

Feature Motion Pictures: Zoot Suit, Telefon, The Enforcer (starring Clint Eastwood); John and Mary (with Dustin Hoffman); Play It As It Lays (with Tuesday Weld)

Theatre: Broadway: Master Class – Upcoming 2011 Manhattan Theatre Club (Kennedy Center, 2010); Gypsy (Revival -Mama Rose) Tony Award Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award and Outer Circle Critics’ Award; The Seagull (Mme. Arkadina); Rabbit Hole (Nominated - Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play). Off-Broadway and Regional: Ashes, The Three Sisters, and Gethesmane, The Mark Taper Forum; Me Myself and I (Edward Albee) World Premiere McCarter Theatre, Princeton; Call Me Madam – City Center Encores; Come Back, Little Sheba – LA Theatre Center; Agammenon – The Getty Villa, Malibu; Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, Long Beach Civic Opera,

Cabaret: Feinstein’s, Regency Hotel NY; Upcoming: Concert with Michael Feinstein, Palm Desert, CA,

Recordings: On the Town, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas with The London Symphony; “The World According To Mr. Rogers” (Grammy Nomination); Call Me Madam; Anything Goes, for the BBC; Gypsy, Broadway Revival.

Alexandra Silber (official website) as Sophie
ALEXANDRA SILBER was a part of the Kennedy Center’s Terrence McNally Celebration, starring opposite Tyne Daly in Master Class. She most recently completed a West End run, UK National Tour and a stint at Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles portraying ‘Julie Jordan’ in Carousel (TMA Award – Best Actress). She made her West End and professional acting debut in 2005 playing ‘Laura Fairlie’ in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White, followed by her portrayal of ‘Hodel’ in The Sheffield Crucible’s celebrated production of Fiddler on the Roof as well as its subsequent West End transfer. Regionally she has performed in The Balkans are Not Dead, godeatgod, San Diego (all for Tron Theatre, Glasgow). Film and Television work include 1408 and “Law & Order.” She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. www.alexandrasilber.net

Garrett Sorenson as Tony
American tenor Garrett Sorenson has been praised as an artist of unique promise, drawing critical interest for a rich lyric voice of beauty and power. Of his recent portrayal of Lensky in Yevygeny Onegin, Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote, “The poet Lensky(‘s)…aria is one of Tchaikovsky's greatest inspirations, and the young American tenor Garrett Sorenson delivered it with beautiful, warm tone and heartfelt emotion…his lyric tenor voice is the real deal, and his musical and dramatic instincts are strong and true.”

Sorenson has appeared on the most important operatic stages around the world. At the Metropolitan Opera he has been heard as ‘Froh’ in Wagner’s Das Rheingold, ‘Cassio’ in Otello at the Metropolitan Opera, ‘Da-Ud’ in Die Agyptische Helena, ‘Alfred’ in Die Fledermaus, ‘Scaramuccio’ in Ariadne auf Naxos, ‘Arturo’ in Lucia di Lammermoor, ‘Shepherd’ in Tristan und Isolde, ‘The Young Man’ in Die Frau ohne Schatten, and ‘The Youth’ in Moses und Aaron also under Levine. His debut there was in the role of ‘Itulbo’ in Il Pirata opposite Renée Fleming. He is a graduate of their Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and has performed leading roles with the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, West Australian Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera Colorado, Kentucky Opera, New Orleans Opera, the Gotham Chamber Opera, and many more.

Sorenson’s symphonic appearances include engagements with the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Pacific Symphony, and the Houston Symphony.

Among his honors and awards, Sorenson was the winner of the Opera Birmingham Young Singer Contest and the Sorantin Young Artist Award. He was also a finalist in the Loren L. Zachary Society Contest for Young Opera Singers and The Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition’s Southwest Region and was named a winner at the George London Foundation Competition and a Sara Tucker Study Grant Winner. This was followed by a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University, and he resides in Kentucky with his wife Elizabeth Batton and his sons.

Brian Calì as (u/s Stagehand, Anthony Candolino)
Broadway debut. Regional: Master Class, Mass (Kennedy Center). Opera: The Merry Widow (Los Angeles Opera), Manon (Placido Domingo, conductor; Los Angeles Opera), La Boheme (IVAI). Concert: Die Zauberflote, excerpts (Los Angeles Philharmonic), BM, the Catholic University of America; MM, UCLA; Los Angeles Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program; Sarasota Opera YAP; IVAI. Much love and endless thanks to his parents. Mille grazie, Jane.

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