A Sherlock Carol

BRENNY CAMPBELL is delighted to be playing at theREP again. Audiences may remember her from “Blithe Spirit” (Ruth), “Other Desert Cities” (Brooke) and many others. Other theater: “Hand to God” with Florida Studio Theatre, (Margery), “August: Osage County” with Arkansas Rep (Ivy Weston), SoHo Playhouse (NYC), Majestic Theater, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Bristol Riverside, among others. TV: “Gotham” (Fox), “The other two” (Max) Film: “Kid Happy.”

DAVID GIRARD is thrilled to be working with this talented cast filled with some of his favorite folks! A Capital Region native based out of historic Troy, N.Y., David has been working as a professional actor, director and theatre educator for over 20 years. He is the Artistic Director of Troy Foundry Theatre, co-devising and directing original works such as “City of Myth: Ilium Sings” and “Where There’s Smoke: Ilium Burns,” as well as directing several works by Samuel Beckett including “Not I” and “Krapp’s Last Tape.” David is also a core adjunct professor at Siena College and is a former Associate Artistic Director for the Saratoga Shakespeare Company. David has worked with Capital Repertory Theatre in several capacities, most recently appearing in this summer’s hit musical, “Beautiful”, and last season’s award-winning production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” David has his MFA in directing from Temple University and is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association. 

YVONNE PERRY is a professional actress, director and educator. She is an Associate Artist here at Capital Repertory Theatre, where she frequently performs, directs and serves on the NEXT ACT! New Play Summit reading committee. This is her 10th mainstage here at theREP. She has also performed with Saratoga Shakespeare, Hubbard Hall, Oldcastle, NYSTI, NYC Fringe, River Valley Rep, Stageworks/Hudson, Theatre 88 and Gulfshore Playhouse. Yvonne originated the role of Rosanna Cabot on “As The World Turns.” (Soap Opera Award, 1993) Other TV:  “Law & Order,” “SVU; Law & Order, CI,” “Ghost:  Power Book II.” “Silk Stalkings,” “Candid Camera,” “All My Children.” Yvonne also keeps busy doing corporate training videos, TV commercials and narration work. Yvonne has taught and directed shows at upstate colleges for over 25 years. (Skidmore, UAlbany, Siena, Union) and is a Consent Forward Artist certified by Intimacy Directors and Choreographers (IDC). BFA: Adelphi University. MA: UAlbany. Member AEA and SAG-AFTRA. www.yvonneperry.com

CHRISTOPHER RYAN is thrilled to return to theREP where he played Will Shakespeare in “Shakespeare in Love.” Theater: “Macbeth” (title role) and “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (Orlando Shakespeare), “Childdeathsong” (BCTR), “Sea Gull” (Adult Film & Theater), “The Chekhov Dreams” (Theater Row), “Cymbeline” (NY Classical), “Picture Ourselves in Latvia” and “Frisky and the Panda Man” (NLTP), “Twelfth Night” (Westport Playhouse), “The Great Gatsby” and “Taming of the Shrew” (Alabama Shakespeare), “Tempest” (Bread Loaf Theater), “Salome” (The Flea) and others. TV/Film: “FBI,” “American Horror Story: NYC,” “The Blacklist,” “Dementia 13,” “Paul & Greg & Amelia,” “A Brooklyn Love Story.” Directing: “Tape,” “Bachelorette,” “Down the Road,” “Common Addiction” (GoodBadGroup).

BELLA VILLANUEVA is ecstatic to be part of “A Sherlock Carol!” Graduate of NYU Tisch’s School of the Arts. Previous credits: “The Monkey King” (Queens Theatre), “A Chorus Line” (International Tour). Thank you to Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill, Stephanie Klapper Casting, Capital Repertory Theater, Lisa Calli and her family for all the love and support! IG: @belnueva

OLIVER WADSWORTH is thrilled to be back at theREP where he has appeared in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Red Maple” (BroadwayWorld Berkshires Best Actor Award), “Fully Committed” (Metroland Best Performance), “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Take Me Out.” He has worked extensively throughout the country. He was in the first National tour of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”  OFF BROADWAY: “Sideways” (Pecadillo Theatre), “Endpapers” (Variety Arts); “Well” (The Public Theater); “Bread and Roses” (New York Theatre Workshop). REGIONAL credits; “Fall River” (Penguin Rep); “Peter and the Starcatcher” (Pioneer Theatre); “Mystery of Irma Vep” (Arizona Theatre Company); “Misalliance” (Old Globe and Seattle Repertory); “An Enemy of the People” (Long Wharf Theatre); “Santaland Diaries,” “Dracula and Christmas Carol” (Actors Theatre of Louisville); “Santaland Diaries,” “Velocity of Autumn” and “A Nantucket Christmas Carol” (White Heron Theatre); “Peter Pan” (Denver Center Theatre); “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Syracuse Stage); “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (Fulton Theater); “Shipwrecked” (AriZoni Award, Actors Theatre of Phoenix); “Sherlock Holmes and the Jersey Lily,” “Noises Off” and “Murder on the Nile” (Dorset Theatre Festival); “Stones In His Pockets” (Metroland Best Performance, Adirondack Theatre Festival). TV & FILM: “Deliver Us from Evil,” “Ed’s Next Move,” “Dotty Gets Spanked,” “Blacklist,” and “Law and Order SVU.” MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program. Upcoming: “The Lehman Trilogy” at theREP.

AVERY WHITTED—Off-Broadway: “Candida” (Gingold Theatrical Group), “Chains” (Mint Theater Company), “Against The Hillside” (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: “Henry IV, Part 1” (Folger Theater), “Jazz” (Baltimore Center Stage), Television: “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Magnum P.I.” Film: “The Vanishing of Sydney Hall” (2017), “In the Tall Grass” (2019). averywhitted.com

Mark Shanahan is the author of the Off-Broadway comedy “The Dingdond,” “A Merry Little Christmas Carol” and is the creator/author of original radio drama for White Heron Theatre and NPR’s “Ghost Light Series.” He is an Edgar Award nominee for his adaptation of “The Chronology Protection Case,” and co-writer of the short screenplay “Kill Me” (Adirondack FilmFest). His directing work has been seen extensively at The Alley Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Irish Rep, White Heron, Florida Rep, George Street, Virginia Stage, Penguin Rep, The Fulton, Arkansas Rep, Theatre Squared, Hudson Stage and many more. As an actor, he appeared on Broadway in “The 39 Steps” and “Philadelphia,” “Here I Come!” Off-Broadway in “Tryst,” “The “”Shaughran,” “Small World,” “Checkers,” “As Bees in Honey Drown” and others and has performed on numerous regional stages. Mark is the curator of the Script-In-Hand and Radio Theatre Series for The Westport Country Playhouse and a faculty member at Fordham University and JWS, teaching courses on Hitchcock, film adaptation and playwriting. A graduate of Brown University (BA) and Fordham (MA). www.mark-shanahan.net

Nora Marlow Smith (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based theater artist and Assistant Professor of Theater Design and Technology at SUNY at Albany. Previous works include: “She Kills Monsters” with theREP, “The Mountaintop” with BTTUNY, “Fiddler on the Roof” with Broadway Camp, “Wake…Sing” and “The Banality of Evil” with MetaPhysed, “Lucky Breaks, Come Here to Me,” and “The Employees “with the Mill Theater, “Fort Huachuca” and “Bloodshot” with SheNYC, “Grand Rounds” at LaMama and many more. Keep your eyes out for more work from Nora this winter with BTTUNY for “Once on This Island” and UA for “Mary Shelley Meets Frankenstein.” @noramarlow

Rob Denton is thrilled to be returning to theREP where he last designed “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors.” Recent Credits: “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,” “The Jerusalem Syndrome” (Off Broadway), “In the Heights,” “Dreamgirls,” “Anything Goes” (The Muny), “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “A Complicated Woman” (Goodspeed Musicals), “Lizzie: The Musical,” “Fun Home” (TheaterWorks), “Baskerville” (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), “Jersey Boys,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Upcoming: Disney’s “Frozen” (Matlz Jupiter Theatre), “Fraggle Rocks Back to the Rock Live” (National Tour). @rdentexdesign

Howard Tsvi Kaplan—For over twenty-six seasons Mr. Kaplan has been the Resident Costume Designer for the Sarasota Opera, where he has designed over 120 productions. His recent endeavors include designing the costumes for “Blithe Spirit “(which he won Best Costume Award in the Berkshire Area Broadway World Awards), for theREP; “My Fair Lady” and “AMidsummer Night’s Dream,” for The Barter Theatre; “Streetcar Named Desire,” “Werther” and “The Consul” for Florida Grand Opera. Design credits include twelve years as the principal designer for Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Clown College; “The Mikado” at Pittsburgh Public Theatre; “Man of La Mancha” for the Olney Theatre for which he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. He was a resident designer for both The Alley Theatre, where he designed the American Premiere of “Hencefoward”—written and directed by Alan Ayckborn—and The Asolo Theatre, where he designed the World Premiere of Horton Footes’ “Talking Pictures.”

John Gromada — theREP: “Fly”. NY: 40+ Broadway productions as composer/sound designer, including “Birthday Candles,” “All My Sons,” “Torch Song,” “The Elephant Man” with Bradley Cooper, “Trip to Bountiful” (Tony nomination), “The Best Man” (Drama Desk Award), “Clybourne Park,” “Rabbit Hole,” “Prelude to a Kiss,” “Proof,” “Twelve Angry Men,” “A Few Good Men.” Off-Bway credits include “Brooklyn Laundry,” “A Sherlock Carol,” “Drinking in America,” “The Cake,” “Old Hats,” “Orphans’ Home Cycle” (Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Award), “Shipwrecked!” (Lucille Lortel Award), “The “Skriker” (Drama Desk Award), “Machinal” (OBIE). Film and television credits include scores for Chazz Palminteri’s “A Bronx Tale” and the Emmy nominated “Trip to Bountiful” with Cicely Tyson. Other awards and honors include an NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, Eddy Awards and grants from the NJ State Council on the Arts and Meet the Composer. Proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and ASCAP. johngromada.net

Michael Dunn — Thank you, Capital Repertory Theatre for having me back for my seventh season designing wigs. It’s a great pleasure working with Howard Kaplan and the costume shop on a “A Sherlock Carol.” I have worked on many shows at many theaters in the area including Mac-Haydn Theater, Cohoes Music Hall, Saratoga Opera, Proctors, The Palace, Park Playhouse and others. I have also worked on two major movies that were filmed in the area: “Resurrection” with Rebecca Hall and “Lost on A Mountain in Maine.” Always a proud member of IATSE Local 14.

Stephanie Klapper is thrilled to continue her long-time collaboration with Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill and Capital Repertory Theatre. SKC’s award-winning work is often seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, on film, television, and streaming platforms. Select recent credits include: “Three Mothers;” “Beautiful;” “Sweat;” “Million Dollar Quartet Christmas” (theREP); “The Night of the Iguana” (Off-Broadway); “Fun Home 10th Anniversary Concert” (Additional Casting, “Joe’s Pub;” “Our Class” (BAM); “Partnership” (Mint Theater); “Dracula;” “Stew;” “Ring of Fire;” “Clyde’s” (Cincinnati Playhouse); “La Cage aux Folles” (Trinity Rep); Philadelphia Orchestra: Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass;” “Candide” (narrated by Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan); “West Side Story.” Select Film/TV: “Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville Anniversary Tour Concert Video;” “Ranked,” the musical/HBO Documentary; “The Standby” (w.Reed Birney); “Netuser” (w. Denis O’Hare); Theresa Rebeck’s “Poor Behavior;” “Alice Jacobs is Dead” (Adrienne Barbeau); “The Feast of the Goat” (Isabella Rossellini). Select tv: “Lazytown.” Audio movie: “ElfQuest.” Stephanie Klapper Casting is an Independent Casting Group, known for their limitless imagination and creativity on a wide range of projects. Stephanie, along with her exceptional team, is dedicated to continuing to expand and champion diversity, equity and inclusion in the business and is passionate about arts education. Stephanie teaches for NYU’s New Studio on Broadway and USC’s dept of Theatre/Musical Theatre and is a guest lecturer at many colleges as universities; participant NYU Tisch Women’s Mentorship Program, Fordham HS for the Arts, Syracuse University’s Tepper Semester, Jimmy Awards preliminary judge. Board Member Casting Society Cares. Co-host of the podcast Someone’s Thunder. For Bob and Florence, always. www.klappercasting.com

Shayne David Cameris originally hailing from the Adirondacks, is a theatre practitioner based in the Capital Region. He’s been on and off stage with some of the area’s leading professional arts organizations. Some credits include: Capital Repertory Theatre – “Beautiful” (2^nd ASM/Understudy), “Three Mothers” (PSM), “What the Constitution Means to Me” (PSM), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (2nd ASM/Mechanical Understudy), “The Wizard of Oz” (1st ASM), “Jersey Boys” (2nd ASM/Bob Crewe), “Fly” (Reynolds), “Blue Sky Boys” (CJ Caldwell); Troy Foundry Theatre – “City of Myth: Ilium Sings,” “Where There’s Smoke: Ilium Burns,” “The Prohibition Project: Ilium Was,” “Catastrophe Carnivale” and “New World Order;” Theatre Institute at Sage – “Diary of Anne Frank” (Mr. Van Daan); Lake George Dinner Theatre – “Buyer and Cellar” (Alex More) and “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (Sir Henry, et. Al); Saratoga Shakespeare Company – “Twelfth Night” (Antonio/ASM), “Henry IV Parts 1 and 2” (Mistress Quickly et. Al), “The Winter’s Tale” (Clown); Theater Voices – “The Birthday Party” (Stanley); Siena College – “Endgame” (Hamm) among others. Shayne is also an Associate Producer with Troy Foundry Theatre and continues to cultivate and develop his own work such as his one-person piece “Antonio; or What I Would.” Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Love to JSC.

Regina Desrosiers is a recent graduate of Russell Sage College’s Musical Theatre performance program. Recent onstage credits include: “Happy Days,” “Junie B. Jones The Musical,” “The Laramie Project” and “Stupid F**king Bird.” Tech and ASM credits include: “Thanksgiving Play,” “Still,” “Misery” and “Thirst” (Dorset Theatre Festival). Stage Manager credits include “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily” and “Benjamin Franklinstein The Musical” (Russell Sage College). She would like to thank her family, Vinny and Kate for their support.

Kate Kern is absolutely thrilled to be the Interim Stage Manager for “A Sherlock Carol.” Kate loves working with Capital Repertory Theatre and has worked as a Stage Manager and Assistant Company Manager for the past few years, working on shows such as “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” “Seared,” “Sweat,” “Million Dollar Quartet Christmas” and “Honky Tonk Angels.” Kate is also a company member of Troy Foundry Theatre, where she has worked as the Stage Manager for shows such as “Illium Burns: Where There’s Smoke” and “City Of Myth: Illium Sings.” She is also proud to have worked with wonderful local companies such as the Black Theatre Troupe, Proctors, and the Theatre Institute At Sage. Kate is a recent graduate from Russell Sage College, majoring in Business Administration and Theatre, where she was the Stage Manager for four years at the Theatre Institute At Sage. Kate loves working with the people at Capital Repertory Theatre and she wants to thank her family, friends, all the wonderful people at Capital Repertory Theatre and NJH for all their support. 

Freddy Ramirez  is an Associate Artist at theREP, Assistant Artistic Director at The Northeast Ballet Company and Director of Dance Programming at Proctors Theatre. A former Broadway performer and In Forward Motion Dance Company member Freddy now calls upstate NY home.

He most recently choreographed “Beautiful”, “Jersey Boys,” “Million Dollar Quartet Christmas,” “The Irish and How They Got That Way,” “Wizard of Oz,” “Full Monty,” “She Loves Me,” “Mamma Mia,” “Camelot,” “A Christmas Story,” “Ring of Fire,” “Gypsy” and “The Secret Garden” at theREP. Other Directing and Choreography credits include “Guys and Dolls,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Damn Yankees,” “Carousel,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Nunsense” for numerous regional and repertory theatres. Freddy has also been the Choreographer for “Fiddler on the Roof,” “All Shook Up,” “Aida,” “Pippin,” “The Prom,” “Les Miserables,” “RENT” and “Into The Woods” at the School of Performing Arts Broadway program at Proctors Theatre. In addition to the musical theatre world Freddy has created choreography for plays including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “Miss Bennet Christmas at Pemberley,” “It’s A Wonderful Life,” the World Premieres of “The Naked Influence” and “Some People Hear Thunder” and for national and international dance companies. His dance works have been performed all throughout Europe and here in the US.

Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill (the REP’s Producing Artistic Director) has directed more than 100 productions and has worked on, off, off-off Broadway and in regional theatres throughout the US. Since 1995, Maggie has served as Producing Artistic Director for theREP where her favorite productions include “Grand View,” “Nora,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Red,” “She Loves Me,” “Outside Mullingar,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “My Fair Lady,” “The Trip to Bountiful,” “Moonlight and Magnolias,” “Metamorphoses,” “Terra Nova,” “Ring of Fire,” “Jersey Boys” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Maggie directed Allan Knee’s “SYNCOPATION” for theREP, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara, CA. In addition to her directing work, Maggie has authored and co-authored plays for theREP’s On-the-Go touring productions for young audiences, including “Sleepy Hollow,” “Pure Poe,” “A Christmas Carol,” “They Built America: The Immigrants Who Built the Erie Canal,” “Alice in Wonderland” (with Margaret Hall), “Friend of a Friend” (with Jill Rafferty) and “Henry H: The Perplexing Case of Henry Hudson” (with Maureen Aumand). Before her tenure at theREP, Maggie served as Producing Director of Urban Stages in NYC and worked on the staff of The Women’s Project and Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC. She has taught acting at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and received a Directors Project Fellowship from the Drama League of New York. She holds an MFA in directing from Columbia University and has served on the Boards of the HB Studio, the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District, the Albany County Convention and Visitors Bureau and is a member of the Forum for Executive Women and Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC. She was honored by the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber’s Women’s Business Council as one of the 100 Women of Excellence, was awarded the “Distinguished Leadership Award,” by the Chamber’s National Association for Community Leadership, is a recipient of the Norman S. Rice Award for Excellence in Arts, Culture and Education and received the Capital Region Chamber’s DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD earlier this year.