KATHLEEN DEDERIAN (Mrs. Vandemeer et al) has performed in nine Moon productions including Leave It To Me!, A Grand Night for Rodgers, A Connecticut Yankee and most recently portrayed Luce in The Boys from Syracuse.  Shows with other Bay Area companies include Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Germaine), Quilters (Katie/Miss Jesse/Cassie), The All Night Strut (Kitty), The Mikado (Pitti-Sing), Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), and the Lamplighters’ “Champagne Galas.”  Offstage, Ms. Dederian is the Director of Development for the San Francisco Girls Chorus.

CRAIG JESSUP (Bennett) was seen by Bay Area audiences this past summer playing three roles in Broadway By the Bay’s production of Joseph…Dreamcoat.  42nd Street Moon shows include Finian’s Rainbow and The Cabaret Girl.  He will be playing the role of “Sir” in the upcoming Moon production of The Roar of the Greasepaint…the Smell of the Crowd.  He may be best known for his one-man show Craig Jessup Sings Noel Coward, which enjoyed a three-month sold out run at the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill.  The show is recorded on CD and available at www.cdbaby.com.

NINA JOSEPHS (Monique) is thrilled to be making her 42nd Street Moon debut with such a talented cast.  Favorite roles:  Once Upon a Mattress (Lady Larkin), Tintypes (Anna Held), Mikado (Yum-Yum).  Ms. Josephs was a soloist with the Marin Symphony and premiered several roles with Contemporary Opera Marin.  A graduate of the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute and A.C.T.’s Summer Training Congress, she is studying for her Bachelor’s of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  Trained in classical ballet, Nina has danced in numerous concert and theater productions.

GREG LUCAS (Lamplighter/Cartwright) is thrilled to appear in such a fun yet profoundly moving show about our nation's most inspiring landmark. Greg has been performing in the Bay Area for the past three years.  His last local role was the part of Joey in the Bay Area premiere of Zombie Prom at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto.  He holds an Associate Acting degree from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.  He hopes that everyone finds the show as immensely fulfilling as he has felt by being a part of it.

CHRIS MACOMBER (The Countess) returned to singing and discovered musical theater several years ago after a career with the Social Security Administration.  MissLiberty is her fourth show with 42nd Street Moon:  In 2003, she appeared as Madame Roberta in Roberta, and in Fifty Million Frenchmen as Gladys Cooley, for which she won a Dean Goodman Choice Award.  Earlier this year, she was Mrs. McNish in Minnie’s Boys.  She performs regularly with Lamplighters, the “old dame” roles in Yeoman of the Guard, TheMikado, Patience, and more.  Ms. Macomber is also a violinist and a member of The Exeter String Quartet.

JENNIFER MARTIN (Delphine) is thrilled to be making her first appearance with 42nd Street Moon!  She was most recently seen on the Woodminster stage as Ado Annie in Oklahoma!  Other favorite roles include:  Catherine in The Last Five Years, Nanette in No No Nanette, and Peter in Peter Pan.  She received her B.A. in Music from Santa Clara University and most recently completed her Masters in Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied voice with Pamela Fry.  

MARK D. MESSERSMITH (Bartholdi/Mayor) makes his Moon debut immediately after playing Reverend Shannon in Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana at the Pear Avenue Theatre, where he was also Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jack London in Veracruz.  Other favorite roles include Tevye (Fiddler…), Roy Cohn (Angels In America), Henry II (The Lion In Winter), Sir Thomas More (A Man For AllSeasons), Hipockets (Buddy), Walt Whitman (Walt - A Musical Evening), Sipos (SheLoves Me), Joe (Merrily We Roll Along) and Sancho Panza (Man of La Mancha).  Mark is director of The Visual Voice, which describes theater for the visually impaired and works at NASA Ames on the Kepler Project.

CARLY OZARD (Solange) was last seen at 42nd Street Moon as Miss MacBeth in The Cabaret Girl.  She has also been featured in Showboat, On the Town, and Ragtime with Foothill Music Theatre as well as in The Gondoliers and HMS Pinafore with the Lamplighter's.  She was the “Somewhere” Soloist in West Side Story and was a featured nun in The Sound of Music at Broadway By the Bay.  She devotes time to producing benefit concerts for charities and studies voice with Baker Peeples.  Thank you Moonies, for this great opportunity!

LISA PEERS (Maisie) is glad to be back for her twelfth Moon show, and to return to the works of Irving Berlin, having performed the rare Face the Music in days past.  Other credits with the company include Do, Re, Mi,Girl Crazy, Superman, and Out of This World, for which she won one of her two Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards.  With an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater, Lisa is also an occasional cabaret performer who is apt to entertain at the Plush Room with Brandon Adams at her side.

KRISTEN SHARPLEY (Claudette) is delighted to return to 42nd Street Moon after her appearance in last season's The Boys from Syracuse.  This summer she played Hope in Anything Goes at The Western Stage.  She has also performed with Pocket Opera as Belinda in Dido and Aeneas and with the Dayton Opera as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance.  She trained in opera at Rice University and Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.  This holiday season, she looks forward to performing in TheatreWorks'  production of Into the Woods.

BRENDAN SIMON (Pulitzer/Gendarme) is thrilled to be performing with 42nd Street Moon.  Recent credits include: Holes (X-Ray) with FamilyStage at the Orpheum Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing (Friar) with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and the West Coast Regional Premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (Mereb u/s) with the Willows Theatre Company.  Mr. Simon is also an accomplished choreographer and songwriter, and a proud member of Theatre Bay Area.  Thanks to God, family, and Rene.  Keep the arts alive by supporting live theater!

PAUL ZILLER (Newsboy/French Ambassador/Fox) recently donned a cowboy hat and boots as a featured dancer in the Wild, Wild West:  the Northern California Emmy Awards.  Stage credits include Diesel (West Side Story) and Bobby (Cabaret) with Broadway by the Bay; Cinderella’s Prince (Into the Woods), Reuben (Joseph...) and Lamar (Godspell).  He has recorded with the Grace Cathedral and St. Dominic Choirs, and studied performance electives at the University of Cincinnati–Conservatory of Music.  He is honored to be making his debut with 42nd Street Moon... Merci!