MICHAEL AUSTIN (Julie “Groucho” Marx) most recently appeared in The Rainmaker (Jim Curry) at The California Conservatory Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio) with The Curtain Theatre, and The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare, Abr. with Shakespeare at Stinson. His additional Bay Area credits include work with TheatreWorks, Pacific Repertory Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Stage, The Bus Barn Stage Company and others. This is Michael’s seventh appearance with 42nd Street Moon; his eighth will be as Dromio of Syracuse in The Boys from Syracuse.

CHRISTA BOGGS (Mrs. Flanagan et al) is thrilled to be making her 42nd Street Moon debut! After studying in New York City at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, she returned to her native California and completed her BA in Theatre Arts in 2004. Through it all she knows she wouldn’t have made it without the support of many special people – so thank you to Mom, Dad, Sharla, and Grandma for always believing! Heidi and family – need I say more? The rest of you should know who you are! Enjoy the show.

AMY LOUISE COLE (Mrs. Krupnik et al) has been performing with 42nd Street Moon since 1998. Favorite roles include Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anna in I Married an Angel, and Dolores in Babes in Arms. Ms. Cole received her degree in Drama from The University of Washington and studied Shakespeare at The Royal Academy of Art in London. She is currently co-writing a play to be produced by El Gato Theatre this summer in San Francisco.

DAVID CURLEY(Al Shean) returns to 42nd Street Moon after playing Breezy in Hooray For What! last November. Since then he has done a number of concerts and staged readings. David has been seen around the Bay Area in shows such as Cabaret, The Goodbye Girl, Memphis, Bat Boy, Ragtime, On the Twentieth Century, and She Loves Me.  This summer, he will be in the world premiere of The Haunting of Winchester at San Jose Rep. An accomplished voiceover and commercial actor, David was also seen on The Discovery Channel in30 Roller Coasters in 24 Hours, which documented his successful attempt at a Guinness World Record.  www.davidcurley.com

DOUGLAS GIORGIS (Herbie “Zeppo” Marx) is happy to return to 42nd Street Moon for his third production. He has performed with numerous Bay Area theater companies including the New Conservatory Theatre and the Willows Theatre. Recently, he has found much joy in touring with educational theater programs. He has also lent his voice to the X-box videogame Psychonauts, which will be released in April. Douglas holds a degree in theatre from St. Mary's College and a certificate in acting from the American Conservatory Theater.

NICK KEALY (Miltie “Gummo” Marx) is pleased to be making his 42nd Street Moon debut. He was last seen in the world premiere of Night of the Hunter at the Willows Theatre Company. Other Willows’ roles include Huck in Big River, Lieutenant Hayes in South Pacific, and Quartet in Babes in Arms. Nick has also portrayed Jack in Into the Woods with the Ray of Light Theater, as well as Felix Lindor in Do black patent...reflect up? and Ritchie in A Chorus Line -- both at CSU Chico. 

RUSS LORENSON (Mr. Hochmeister) is thrilled to return for his second show with 42nd Street Moon, where he was last seen in Finian’s Rainbow. Still relatively new to the Bay Area theater scene, Russ has performed extensively since age seven as an actor, singer, writer, director, and conductor. He has appeared with Starlight Musical Theatre (The Wizard of Oz, Phantom), San Diego Comic Opera (Rose Marie, The Desert Song), Diversionary Theatre (Ten Percent Revue, C’est La Guerre), and toured with the National Theatre for Children. For five years, he was associate conductor of the California Youth Chorale.

CHRISTINE MACOMBER (Mrs. McNish et al) returned to singing and performance several years ago after a career with the Social Security Administration. This marks her third 42nd Street Moon show: In 2003, she appeared as Madame Roberta in Roberta, and as Gladys Cooley in Fifty Million Frenchmen. She performs regularly with the Lamplighters, usually in the “old dame” roles in Yeoman of the Guard, The Mikado, Patience, Iolanthe, and more. She has sung with Pocket Opera, and just completed a run in Mame as Vera with the Santa Rosa Players. Chris is also a violinist and a member of the Exeter String Quartet.

ANIL MARGSAHAYAM (Leo “Chico” Marx) is excited to be returning to 42nd Street Moon. He was most recently seen as Jason in Wit with the Palo Alto Players. Some of his other credits include: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Hooray for What!, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Anything Goes. Anil graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in Psychology.

DARLENE POPOVIC (Minnie Marx) is so pleased to be back for her third 42nd Street Moon production, she’s kvelling. Previous shows were Out of This World and Leave It To Me. She has brightened innumerable Bay Area musical theater productions at TheatreWorks, Broadway by the Bay, and one-woman cabaret shows. Dar has studied at the American Conservatory Theater, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Opera Theatre Arts and Classical Voice at Indiana University. She has received numerous awards – Cabaret Golds, Critics Circles, and Dean Goodman Choice. Her critically acclaimed CD, Love & Laughter, is on sale in the lobby!

KALON THIBODEAUX (Adolph “Harpo” Marx) is ecstatic to be making his San Francisco debut in Minnie's Boys! He recently moved here from New Orleans and has spent the last year touring California and Nevada with Sunnyvale’s California Theatre Center. Kalon has been an actor, teacher, director and stage manager for many theatrical groups over the last 18 years and holds a degree in Drama and Communication from The University of New Orleans. He just returned from the Dixie Theatre in Apalachicola, Florida, where he appeared as Jeff in the southern premiere of Kimberly Akimbo and as The Angel in The Butterfingers Angel.

BRIAN YATES SHARBER (Maxie/E.F. Albee) is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Theatre Bay Area. 42nd Street Moon credits: Hooray For What!, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Finian’s Rainbow, and Funny Face. Off Broadway: Up Jumped Springtime (Lincoln Center/H.E.R.E.). Local favorites include (but certainly aren’t limited to): Memphis, Ragtime, Raisin (TheatreWorks); The Wiz, Dreamgirls (Willows Theatre) and Comedy of Errors (Aurora Theatre). Other Bay Area companies include Marin Theatre Company, Afro Solo Festival and Theatre Rhinoceros - where it all began.

GREG MacKELLAN (Director, Moon Producing Artistic Director), arrived in San Francisco in 1992 for a short stay and still hasn’t gone home to Los Angeles.  He co-founded 42nd Street Moon in 1993, which may explain the delay.  Credits with Moon as a director have included the recent NEA-sponsored restoration of Arlen and Harburg’s Hooray for What, as well as I Married an Angel, Paint Your Wagon, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Cat & the Fiddle, last June’s Kern Gala with Rebecca Luker, and 2003’s I Remember It Well with Leslie Caron. Also in 2003, he survived an onslaught of Von Trapp kids when he ventured south to direct The Sound of Music for Broadway by the Bay.  Last summer Greg hopped over to England, where his revised script for Cole Porter’s Out of This World was produced to great acclaim at the Chichester Festival.   In addition to the Moon cast albums of Leave It to Me! and Something for the Boys, Greg has produced seven CDs of rare theatre music with performers like Andrea Marcovicci, Patricia Morison, Judy Kaye, Douglas Sills and Jason Graae. Greg’s pre-Moon life included projects as an actor, director, and producer too numerous to mention, so he won’t, but the memory does warm the cockles of his heart.

DAVE DOBRUSKY (Musical Director) is celebrating his 30th production with 42nd Street Moon! Some of his favorites include his recent work on Once Upon a Mattress, as well as Paint Your Wagon, By Jupiter, …Bird, Plane, Superman, Dear World, Call MeMadam, Girl Crazy, Jubilee (1997), Louisiana Purchase, Finian’s Rainbow, OhCaptain!, plus the new version of Cole Porter’s Out of This World. Dave was also responsible for the musical direction, arrangements and piano work on the 42nd Street Moon cast album of Leave It To Me and the recent Jerome Kern compilation, The First Rose of Summer. Other Bay Area credits include The Fantasticks (Shakespeare at Stinson); The Boy Friend, Whispers on the Wind (Playhouse West); Violet, Side Show (TheatreWorks); and many other wonderful productions.

TOM SEGAL (Choreographer) just received a Dean Goodman Choice Award for his choreography in 42nd Street Moon’s Once Upon a Mattress, and is delighted to return to have fun playing with one his favorite subjects -- the Marx Brothers! A veteran of many musicals, theatre and dance productions, he has danced, sung, acted, and choreographed locally, nationally, and abroad. He is a frequent choreographer and performer for Pacific Alliance Stage Co. For his work in their production of Guys and Dolls, he was named “Best Choreographer of the 1999/2000 Theatre Season” by the Press Democrat and received a Dean Goodman Choice Award for the same show. He is also currently choreographing New Conservatory Theatre’s upcoming show, Whoop-Dee-Do.

AMY LOUISE COLE (Co-Costumer) has designed costumes, built props, dressed stages and ran set crew at several Bay Area theaters including the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Theatre in the Woods, and Broadway by the Bay. She received her degree in Drama from The University of Washington and completed a properties internship with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. She is honored to be working with 42nd Street Moon.

MIKE FIGUEIRA (Co-Costumer) Having gladly been a performer, production manager, house manager, facilities manager, stage painter, chair re-coverer, light-taker-downer, and general jack-of-all-trades for 42nd Street Moon, Mike is now trying his hand at costuming.  In this case, it's mostly picking things out and hoping they work, trusting the powers that be to say “yay” or “nay.”  Mike looks forward to returning to the stage in The Boys from Syracuse, where, as an actor, he only has to think about himself.

LAURA LUTZ (Stage Manager) is delighted to make her stage management debut in San Francisco with 42nd Street Moon. Her past credits include: Village Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird, Brigadoon, Noises Off!, Joseph. . .Dreamcoat (Assistant Stage Manager); Village Originals: Bonnie andClyde, Diana Moves; ShowTunes!: 110 in The Shade and Anyone Can Whistle; Seattle Opera Association: The Marriage of Figaro (ASM). Laura holds an MFA in Stage Management from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

DAVID LAM (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to working with 42nd Street Moon on this wonderful production. David keeps himself busy by designing lights for companies all over the East Bay, including Act Now at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, Onstage Theatre in Pleasant Hill, and Antioch Rivertown Theatre. He is also currently the resident Lighting Designer at Contra Costa Civic Theatre in El Cerrito, now showing Jekyll and Hyde.