CHRISTA BOGGS (Bathing Beauty) is happy to be back home in the Bay Area and be in her second show with 42nd Street Moon!  Thankful to be onstage again (not to mention actually using her B.A. in Theatre!!!), there are many people out there who have helped make it possible... you know who you are and why you are important so I'll leave it at that!  This one is for all the "Artists of Life!"

FIONA CHEUNG (Bathing Beauty/Dance Captain) is proud to join the long list of performers working with 42nd Street Moon!  She is also excited to return to musical theater after her experience as dance captain for Sierra Repertory Theater's Cats.  A modern and Latin dancer, performer, and choreographer, Fiona received her training at UC Berkeley, Alvin Ailey, and the Martha Graham School.  She travels to New York twice a year to teach and perform with artist collaborative Bocanada.  Fiona also loves film acting, and has recently been in four shorts as well as the feature film, Silent Alarm. 

AMY LOUISE COLE (Lottie Ames) 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 a co-founder of El Gato Del Diablo Theatre Company and will be directing their upcoming production this summer.

MOLLY ANNE COOGAN (Bathing Beauty) is happy to be returning to 42nd Street Moon after performing in The Roar of the Greasepaint…  Favorite past roles include Kate/Kiss Me Kate, Sooze/Suburbia, Jessica/This Is Our Youth, and Audrey/Little Shop of Horrors.  A recent graduate of Bates College, she spent a semester of her junior year studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and completed a year-long undergraduate honors acting thesis on Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters.

BILL FAHRNER (Mack Sennett) has appeared with 42nd Street Moon since the company's first season in 1993, playing heroes and villains, clowns and kings.  He remembers most fondly his adventures as Sapiens Pomposianus, King of the Amazons (By Jupiter), Charles the Bastard (Goodtime Charley), Huck Haines (Roberta, 1996), Inigo Jolliphant (The Good Companions), Guy Pendleton (Peggy-Ann), King Arthur (Connecticut Yankee, 2002), Sir Galahad (Connecticut Yankee, 1994), and of course, crazy surrealist theater director Ogden Quillar (Very Warm for May).

MICHAEL PATRICK GAFFNEY (William Desmond Taylor) just finished a successful run of Driving Miss Daisy at San Leandro’s California Conservatory Theatre in the role of Boolie.  He was last seen on the boards of the Eureka Theatre as the gum chewing Fingers in Red Hot and Blue!   Other 42nd Street Moon shows include:  The Cabaret Girl, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Hooray for What!, Minnie’s Boys and Gaff’s personal favorite, Finian’s Rainbow.  Look for him at Moon next season when he’ll be playing General Bullmoose in Li’l Abner.

CINDY GOLDFIELD (Mabel Normand) A two-time Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and the Dean Goodman Choice Award recipient, Miss Goldfield is pleased to returning to 42nd Street Moon where last year she had the pleasure of directing and choreographing The Roar of the Greasepaint (Dean Goodman Choice Award).  Other Moon credits include: Dot/Sweet Adeline, Pat/Peggy-Ann, directing and/or choreographing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Finian’s Rainbow, and As Thousands Cheer.  Regional credits: American Conservatory Theater, Center REP, TheatreWorks, Willows Theatre, Playhouse West, Broadway By the Bay, and Marin Theatre Company.  Miss Goldfield also enjoys a successful voice-over career and the cabaret collaboration of Goldfield and Koldewyn with the inimitable Scrumbly Koldewyn. 

MARY KALITA (Bathing Beauty) is thrilled to be making her Bay Area debut with 42nd Street Moon in Mack & Mabel.  Mary is a quirky Midwestern girl who is happily finding her niche here on the West Coast.  Her past credits include Christmas Carol, Proof, No, No, Nanette, Twelfth Night, How to Succeed..., Grease, James and the Giant Peach, and Will Rogers Follies.   She holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Millikin University in Illinois.

SEAN PATRICK MURTAGH (Fatty Arbuckle) is a UC Irvine graduate in Drama, who is thrilled to be joining the 42nd Street Moon Family.  Leaving the Bay Area for college allowed Sean to train with an amazing faculty and appreciate San Francisco even more.  Credits include HAIR, Victor/Victoria, Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, and more.  A musical theater aficionado, Sean strives to perfect his craft as a performer, and eventually produce his own works. “Thanks to my parents, family, friends, and Teddi Lightfoot.”

TOM ORR (Freddy) is an award-winning lyricist, playwright and performer, best known for his cult parody hit, Dirty Little Showtunes! (1997 Bay Area Critics Circle Award), that played locally at The Cable Car, Theatre Rhinoceros and New Conservatory Theatre (plus runs in Seattle, Chicago and Houston, too).  His talents have also been on display as The Perky Little Porn Star in the San Francisco and Provincetown versions of Naked Boys Singing! and most recently, in Simply Sondheim: A 75th Birthday Salute, which he co-directed.

SUNG MIN PARK (Andy) was last seen in Alternative Theatre Ensemble's Drop for which he had to do 20 million push ups (!!) and is thrilled to be involved in a show which is easier on his frail body.  Sung is also happy to be making his debut at 42nd Street Moon.  Some of his favorite recent credits include Miss Saigon (Thuy), Falsettoland (Whizzer), and A Chorus Line (Bobby).  Special thanks to my beautiful friends, everyone at San Francisco Academy for the Performing Arts (SFAPA), and Mr. Foley.

BENJAMIN PITHER (Baumann) is thrilled to be making his San Francisco theatrical debut in Mack & Mabel.  Past favorite productions include The Fantasticks (Matt), How I Learned to Drive (Male Greek Chorus), Oliver! (The Artful Dodger), and The Prince and the Pauper (Prince Edward).  Mr. Pither earned a B.A. cum laude with highest honors in Theater Arts from Brandeis University.  He would like to thank Bruce Williams and Donald Currie for the inspiration, and Joseph Greaves for the love and support.

STEVE RHYNE (Frank) has performed with 42nd Street Moon since 1997, most recently opposite Klea Blackhurst in Red Hot and Blue!  More favorite “Moon” credits include Do I Hear a Waltz? (Eddie), Nymph Errant (Alexei/Ben), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Warren), Out of This World (Mercury), Roberta (Huck), and Leave It To Me! (Buck).  Steve’s varied Bay Area résumé also includes Titanic (Harold Bride), Passion (Giorgio), Taking Sides (Lt. Wills), The Subject Was Roses (Timmy), and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Perry).

KALON THIBODEAUX (Kessel) made his San Francisco debut last year as Harpo Marx in 42nd Street Moon's wildly successful production of Minnie's Boys, for which he recently received a Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Award nomination!  Since then, he has been very active in Bay Area theater, most recently as Andrew Rally in California Conservatory Theatre's production of I Hate Hamlet.  He holds a B.A. in Drama and Communication from the University of New Orleans and is co-author of the original children’s musical:  The Princess Who Couldn’t Cry.