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	BRIAN D’ARCY JAMES (Shrek). Broadway: The Apple Tree, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Sweet Smell of Success (Tony® & Drama Desk nominations), Titanic, Carousel, Blood Brothers, Les Misérables (national tour). Off-Broadway: Next to Normal (Second Stage), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Atlantic), The Pavilion (Rattlestick), Flight (Melting Pot), The Good Thief (Keen Company; Obie Award; Backstage Garland Award; L.A. Weekly Award; Drama Desk Outer Critics nominations), City Center Encores! Pardon My English, The Wild Party (MTC, Drama Desk nomination), Ancestral Voices (LCT), Public Enemy (Irish Arts), Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons), Irving Berlin's White Christmas (SF, LA, Boston). Film and TV: the upcoming Ghost Town; Enchanted; “Cashmere Mafia;” “Rescue Me;” “The Education of Max Bickford;” Neurotica; Exiled; Sax and Violins. Numerous cast recordings and concert appearances. BS, Theater: Northwestern University. Board Member: Keen Company. www.briandjames.com

	SUTTON FOSTER (Princess Fiona). Broadway: Inga in Young Frankenstein, Janet Van De Graaf in The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony® and Drama Desk Award nominations, L.A. Ovation Award), Jo in Little Women (2005 Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Awards), Eponine in Les Misérables, the 20th anniversary of Annie, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Grease. Other New York: performed concerts at Carnegie Hall (NY Pops), Lincoln Center (American Songbook series), Town Hall, Joe’s Pub; Actors’ Fund benefit performances of Funny Girl and Chess. TV: Disney Channel’s “Johnny and the Sprites,” HBO’s “The Flight of the Conchords.” Proud Equity member.

	CHESTER GREGORY II (Donkey) is an award winning singer/songwriter/performer. He is currently playing the role of Dupree in Broadway’s Cry-Baby at the Marquis Theatre. He was also seen on Broadway as Terk in Disney’s Tarzan and as Seaweed in the Broadway hit, Hairspray. Other credits include The Jackie Wilson Story (Jeff, AUDELCO, BTAA and Black Excellence Awards). Other credits include the 2007 film, Hairspray and performing for Michael Jackson. Chester has a BFA from Columbia Chicago. He is proud to debut his album, In Search of High Love. For more information, visit www.ChesterGregory.com and www.MySpace.com/ChesterGregory

	CHRISTOPHER SIEBER (Lord Farquaad) received a Tony Award® nomination for his work in Spamalot and later opened the show in London. Other Broadway: Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into The Woods, Beauty & The Beast, Triumph of Love, and A Christmas Carol. Also, New York City Opera production of Cinderella. Off-Broadway: Avow, The Boys in the Band, and Pal Joey. Regional: Randy Newman’s Faust, Paper Moon at Paper Mill, Company, and The Boys From Syracuse at Reprise!. TV: “Pushing Daisies,” “Johnny and the Sprites,” “It’s All Relative,” “Two of a Kind,” “Sex & The City,” “Ed,” “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” and “Another World.” Mr. Sieber has not appeared on “Law & Order.”

	JOHN TARTAGLIA (Pinocchio) is executive producer and star of Disney Channel's “Johnny and the Sprites” (now airing worldwide). Tartaglia earned a Tony Award® nomination for his performance in the Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical, Avenue Q, for which he originated the roles of Princeton and Rod. Tartaglia was most recently seen on Broadway starring as Lumiere in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. A 10-year veteran of “Sesame Street,” Tartaglia is one of the youngest puppeteers ever to perform on the show, starting at the age of 16. In addition to his work on “Sesame Street,” he also starred in Sesame Workshop's innovative English as a Foreign Language project, “Sesame English,” which currently airs worldwide. Tartaglia has also appeared on Disney Channel's “Bear in the Big Blue House” and “JoJo's Circus” and Discovery Channel's “Animal Jam.” He is a past host of the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts.

	KECIA LEWIS-EVANS (The Dragon) was most recently seen on Broadway as Trix in The Drowsy Chaperone (original cast recording). Broadway: Once on This Island (original cast recording), Ain’t Misbehavin’, Big River, The Gospel at Colonus, Dreamgirls (dir. Michael Bennett). Off-B’way: Dessa Rose (Lincoln Center/NY Drama Desk nominee), From the Mississippi Delta (Circle in the Square), Once on This Island. Regional: Polk County (McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Rep/Bay Area Theater Critics Award), Smokey Joe’s Café (Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities), Dreamgirls (CLOSBC/2000, Ovation Award winner), South Pacific (CLOSBC), Raisin (ICT, Long Beach/L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award nominee), The King and I (Sacramento Music Circus). TV: Guest-starring roles on “Crossing Jordan,” “Kate Brasher,” “Law & Order,” “The Hughleys.”


	DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE (Book & Lyrics) was most recently awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Rabbit Hole, whichpremiered on Broadway last season at MTC’s Biltmore Theater. The play also received five Tony Award nominations, including Best Play, and the Spirit of America Award. His other plays include Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and A Devil Inside, among others. In addition to his work in theater, David wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Newline feature Inkheart, and is currently at work on screen adaptations of his plays Rabbit Hole for 20th Century Fox, starring Nicole Kidman, and Kimberly Akimbo for DreamWorks. David is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School, as well as a proud member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild and the WGA.

	JEANINE TESORI (Music) has written three Tony-nominated scores for Broadway; Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan), and Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner). The production of Caroline or Change at the National Theater in London received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Her first off-Broadway musical, Violet, written with Brian Crawley, received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1997. She has been the recipient of many other honors including Drama Desk and Obie awards, and was cited by ASCAP as being the first woman composer to have “two new musicals running concurrently on Broadway.” She composed the music for The New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of Brecht’s Mother Courage, as translated by Tony Kushner, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. She has written songs for the movie Shrek The Third. Her film scores include Nights in Rodanthe, Winds of Change, Show Business, and Wrestling With Angels. She has composed songs for Disney DVD releases Mulan II, Lilo and Stitch II, and Little Mermaid III. She has produced sixty CD's for Silver-Burdett Ginn’s Making Music and the original cast albums for Twelfth Night, Violet, and Caroline, or Change. Ms. Tesori, a graduate of Barnard College, lives in Manhattan with her husband, Michael Rafter, and daughter, Siena.

	JASON MOORE (Director). Upcoming: The Jerry Springer Opera at Carnegie Hall. Broadway: Steel Magnolias, Avenue Q. Off-Broadway: Speech and Debate (Roundabout), Avenue Q, Guardians, The Crumple Zone. Regional: Vices (Mixed Blood Theatre, Minnesota), Opening Day (Powerhouse Theatre, Los Angeles). Associate directing: Les Misérables (Broadway, National Tour), Ragtime (Vancouver). Writer: The Floatplane Notebooks (Charlotte Repertory Theatre). TV: episodes of “Dawson's Creek,” “Everwood,” “One Tree Hill,” and “Brothers and Sisters.” Jason has a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.

	TIM HATLEY (Set & Costume Design). Winner of the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Spamalot. Winner of 2002 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Private Lives on Broadway. Winner of the 2002 Olivier Award for Humble Boy and Private Lives in the West End and a 1997 Olivier Award for Stanley at the Royal National Theatre. Broadway credits: Private Lives, Vincent in Brixton, The Crucible, Stanley. Film credits: StageBeauty (Costume Designer), Closer (Production Designer) and Notes on a Scandal (Production & Costume designer). Previous theatre work includes working with Theatre de Complicite, Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera and London’s West End. Graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art, London.

	HUGH VANSTONE (Lighting) has designed lighting for plays, musicals and operas in London, New York and around the world. He has received three Olivier Awards for his work in London, most recently for Pacific Overtures (Donmar). New York credits: Spamalot (for which his lighting was TONY nominated); Bombay Dreams (Broadway); Life(x) 3 (Circle in the Square); Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night and Hamlet (BAM); The Graduate (Plymouth); Follies (Belasco); Blast! (Broadway); The Unexpected Man (Promenade); The Blue Room (Cort); Closer (Music Box); Art (Royale). Plans for 2008 include the new Yazmina Reza play The God of Carnage and Peter Gill's Small Change in London and Boeing Boeing on Broadway and in Australia.

	JOSH PRINCE (Choreography). Upcoming: Camelot at Lincoln Center. Previous New York and regional choreography credits include: The Jerry Springer Opera at Carnegie Hall (dir. by Jason Moore), Emerald Man (NYMF); Barnum (LA); Cabaret; Guys and Dolls; One Way Ticket To Hell (LA); The Full Monty; La Boheme; Singin' In The Rain. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in Little Me and Saturday Night Fever. In addition to two Broadway by the Year performances at Town Hall, three City Center Encores! and one New York City Opera production, Josh is a proud alumnus of Forbidden Broadway. Off-Broadway: I Can Get It For You Wholesale, George M., So Long 174th St., In The Wings. He has toured in Cats and starred as "Carmen Ghia" in The Producers in Los Angeles. Film/TV: A Cinderella Story and Law and Order: SVU.

DREAMWORKS THEATRICALS (Producer). Established in 2007 by DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NYSE: DWA) to produce stage productions based on DreamWorks Animation's existing and upcoming projects as well as other original and adapted works for the stage. Bill Damaschke, President of DreamWorks Theatricals and Co-President of Production for Feature Animation for DreamWorks Animation, oversees creative production and development for the studio and is currently involved with the production of the Company's upcoming film slate, including Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon and Madagascar 2. He joined DreamWorks Animation at its inception in 1995 and has worked on virtually all of DreamWorks Animation's feature productions.

NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Established in 2003 by Sam Mendes and Caro Newling following their tenure at the Donmar Warehouse 1992 – 2002 under an umbrella first-look deal with DreamWorks SKG, Neal Street Productions produces film and theatre. Theatre productions: world premieres of stage version of Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother by Samuel Adamson at the Old Vic Theatre starring Diana Rigg; David Hare’s The Vertical Hour on Broadway with Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy, directed by Sam Mendes; The Hound of the Baskervilles with Peepolykus at the Duchess Theatre. Also West End transfers of Sondheim and Lapine’s five-time Olivier Award winning production of Sunday in the Park with George from the Menier Chocolate Factory (opens 21 Feb 08 at Studio 54 with Roundabout Theatre) and Schiller’s Mary Stuart from the Donmar Warehouse to Apollo Theatre. NSP’s theatre slate since 2003 : world premiere of Owen McCafferty’s new version of JP Miller’s Days of Wine and Roses premiered at the Donmar Warehouse; UK premieres of Nilo Cruz’ Pulitzer prize-winning Anna in the Tropics at Hampstead Theatre and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers at Birmingham Rep and the West End. Projects ongoing include: The Bridge Project, a three year initiative with The Brooklyn Academy in NYC and the Old Vic Theatre in London in which NSP will creatively produce six plays with a transatlantic company led by Mendes. Also new stage version of Melchior Lengel’s To Be or Not to Be, world premiere of The House of Special Purpose by Heidi Thomas (author of BBC series Cranford). Film slate, produced in concert with NSP co-director, Pippa Harris, includes Mendes’ film, Jarhead, for Universal Pictures; Starter for Ten, in association with Playtone for HBO Film/BBC, Stuart: A Life Backwards in association with HBO Film/BBC, Things we Lost in the Fire for DreamWorks starring Benicio Del Torro and Halle Berry. Also Mendes’ third movie for DreamWorks, Revolutionary Road, based on the Richard Yates novel starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio. www.nealstreetproductions.com

THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE is Seattle’s premier musical theater. In 1980, the non-profit 5th Avenue Theatre began producing and presenting top-quality live musical theater for the cultural enrichment of the Northwest community. The 5th Avenue Theatre maintains a subscription audience of nearly 24,000 and an annual attendance of more than 287,000. It ranks among the nation’s largest and most respected musical theater companies. The Theatre is committed to encouraging the next generation of theatergoers through its Educational Outreach Program which includes: The Adventure Musical Theatre Touring Company, The 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre Awards, the Student Matinee Program and Spotlight Nights. Unique in its Chinese-inspired design, the exquisite theater opened in 1926 as a venue for vaudeville and film. Today, under the leadership of Managing Director Marilynn Sheldon and Producing Artistic Director David Armstrong, The 5th Avenue Theatre continues to achieve the highest standards in all aspects of artistic endeavors and facility operations, while preserving its artistic, architectural and historic legacy. Visit www.5thavenue.org.