Who's Who
Production Staff
Cast
Technical Staff
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(Playwright) is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction for children as well as adults. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day , her most famous children's book, was first published in 1972 and has since sold over two million copies. Ms. Viorst received a B.A. in History from Rutgers University, and she is also a graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, where she is a research affiliate. She began her career as a poet and has since completed seven collections of poems for adults. Her first novel for adults, Murdering Mr. Monti , was published in 1994 and her most recent work of non-fiction, Grown-Up Marriage , was published in January 2003 by Simon and Schuster. Her book Necessary Losses , published in 1986, appeared for almost two years on The New York Times best-seller list in hardcover and paperback. Ms. Viorst's children's books include The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest, and the “Alexander” stories: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move and, of course, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Ms. Viorst lectures widely on a variety of topics, ranging from the subjects of loss and control to children's literature. She resides in Washington, DC, with her husband Milton, a political writer. They have three sons, Anthony, Nicholas and Alexander, and six perfect grandchildren.
(Composer) is proud to have worked with Judith on what is now their third show together, having written Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Band Day which premiered at the Kennedy Center, as well as Love and Shrimp , a musical revue base on her best-selling poetry books. His songs have been featured on Captain Kangaroo , and he composed music for many popular family musicals, which toured the country, including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Swiss Family Robinson, Tom Sawyer and The Prince and The Pauper . He adapted and wrote new songs for a contemporary adaptation of Babes In Toyland for producers Fran and Barry Weissler, scored the PBS production of Charley's Aunt starring Charles Grodin, and composed the score to Flavia & The Dream Maker , which opened to critical acclaim in Santa Barbara and is now published by Dramatic Publishing. He is one of the writers of the hit Off-Broadway show Naked Boys Singing and has collaborated on a new musical revue about growing older somewhat reluctantly called Too Old For The Chorus , which enjoyed an eight month sold-out run in Los Angeles and is now being optioned for an Off-Broadway opening. He has written special musical material for many popular television series, such as Friends, The Nanny, Golden Girls and Touched By An Angel.
(Director) directed the world premieres of both this play and Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day . For the Kennedy Center he has also directed Ken Ludwig's and Don Schlitz's musical adaptation of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer , which is also touring nationally this year. This season he will be directing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for the People's Light and Theatre Company in Phildelphia and Jules Feiffer's A Bad Friend for Theatre J in Washington, D.C. Recent credits include The Miracle Worker (Arena Stage), The Impresario/Viva la Mamma (Wolf Trap Opera Company), Heartbreak House (Round House Theatre), The Daughter of the Regiment (Boston Lyric Opera), and The Mad Dancers (co-directed with Liz Lerman at Theatre J). For the Voice of America, he has directed numerous plays for radio broadcast, including All My Sons (starring Julie Harris), Seven Days in May (starring Ed Asner), The Heiress (starring Amy Irving and Chris Noth), and The Best Man (starring Marsha Mason).
(Choreographer) Credits include: A New Brain (2002 Helen Hayes Nominee for Best Musical); The Studio Theatre, Timon of Athens ; The Shakespeare Theatre, Love's Labours Lost, Blood Wedding ; Washington Shakespeare Company, Ruddigore ; Washington Savoyards, Little Shop of Horrors ; The Fredericksburg Theater Company, A Chorus Line, Into The Woods ; Catholic University, Working, On The Town ; Montgomery College. Regional Theatre, Hello Dolly!, Pippin, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, Lil' Abner, No Strings, She Loves Me, Crazy For You, Anything Goes, Carousel, Damn Yankees, Fiorello, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Mack and Mabel, Singing In the Rain . National and International: Mell Tillis 2001, USO, 1996 Olympics, Pepsi Cola, and Coca Cola. Upcoming: A Class Act, Batboy, the Musical ; Studio Theater, Walking the Winds ; Adventure Theatre, Teaching credits: The Washington School of Ballet, The Dance Institute of Washington, The Theatre Lab, and Catholic University.
(Properties Artisan) has served as properties artisan for many Kennedy Center Youth and Family Programs shows. Her credits include such diverse productions as Dreams in the Golden Country; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ; The Snow Queen ; Little Women ; Alice in Wonderland ; The Nightingale ; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and others; many of which have toured nationally. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Northwestern University and free-lances throughout the metro area.
(Sound Designer) recently moved to Washington, DC from Omaha, NE where he received a BA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. For 5 years he was the resident Sound Designer/ Composer for the Omaha Theater Company for Young People. He has designed/ composed for many productions such as the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , Babe the Sheep Pig and Stuart Little . He operates his own recording studio where he produces original music, sound design and web-based multi-media audio for such clients as Discovery Channel, TLC and BBC America.
(Musical Director) is delighted to be working at the Kennedy Center with Youth and Family Programs once again. She has been working the Washington DC area for 9 years as a composer, music director, and performer with the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Imagination Stage, MetroStage, Signature Theatre, the University of Maryland, and American University. She is the recipient of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, the Robert M. Golden Award, the N.E.A. New American Works Grant, and was a 2000 Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Musical Direction of a Resident Play for Studio Theatre's Crack Between the Worlds . Her work has been commissioned and has premiered at the Kennedy Center ( Walking the Winds , The Magic Rainforest ), Olney Theatre Center ( The Fifth Season ), Imagination Stage ( The Magical Piñata and Ferdinand the Bull ). Ms. La Puma received her MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her BA from Stanford University.
(Set Designer) is pleased to return to the Theatre Lab where he designed The Best Christmas Pageant Ever four years ago, and doubly pleased to be working with one of his favorite directors, the ineffable Mr. Olcott. Until very recently the Production Manager and Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer for the Round House Theatre (which remains his artistic home), Mr. Musumeci has decided to try the free-lance waters again (help! hire me!) and spend some vacation time getting his recently renovated home up to snuff. Past designs for Round House and elsewhere include the scenery for Pantomime , Uncle Vanya , One Shoe Off and The Man with a Load of Mischief and the lighting for Criminal Genius , Why We Have a Body , An Almost Holy Picture and the scenery and lighting for The Swan and Nora .
(Stage Manager) most recently stage managed Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka at the Kennedy Center. She has stage managed several shows over the years with Youth and Family Programs, including Dreams in the Golden Country (Theatre Lab and National Touring productions), and The Nightingale (National Tour). Other local credits include Project Y (Production Manager for three seasons), Washington Shakespeare Company, Source, Smallbeer, Wooly Mammoth, and Theatre J. Ms. Paige is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
(Costume Designer) has long been regarded as Washington's busiest costume designer. Her career has spanned twenty-seven years, almost five hundred productions, dozens of theatre and film companies and little sleep. Her work has been seen at The Kennedy Center, the National Theatre, the Folger Theatre and the Smithsonian Institute. She holds resident design positions at the Olney Theatre Center, the Round House Theatre, InterACT Theatre Company, Everyman Theatre, the National Players and Galludet University's Department of Theatre. Rosemary also adjudicates the Maryland State Theatre Scholarship Program. She has designed costumes for national tours of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein and A Few Good Men . Ms. Pardee is a recipient (and seven-time nominee) of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design. She has recently completed working on both The Miracle Worker and The Great White Hope at Arena Stage. For the Kennedy Center's Youth and Family Programs, she has designed The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, The Magic Rainforest, and Into the Woods Junior.
(Lighting Designer) has designed lighting for more than 300 productions at many Washington D.C. area theatres, including The Shakespeare Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, Horizons Theatre, Potomac Theatre Project, The Rep Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, National Players, and Olney Theatre Center. Mr. Wagner has also designed for Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Arden Theatre Company, and several Off-Broadway theatres. He is a six-time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, for which he has been nominated twenty-three times. He is the Resident Lighting Designer for Olney Theatre Center and National Players in addition to being an Artistic Associate at Signature Theatre. Recent designs include: The Gospel According to Fishman at Signature Theatre; Plenty at Potomac Theatre Project; Exit Wounds at The Arden Theatre Company; Problem Child , Snakebit and The Smell of the Kill at Round House Theatre; Collected Stories at Theatre J; and Art , The Rivals and Therese Raquin at Olney Theatre Center. Upcoming designs include: Collected Stories and The Laramie Project at Olney Theatre Center; Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp at Round House Theatre; and James Joyce's The Dead at The Arden Theatre Company. Mr. Wagner is Acting Chair and Associate Professor of Lighting Design in the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland.
(Audrey, Rachel, Samantha, Louise) is thrilled to be apart of the Kennedy Center's Imagination Celebration Tour. Jenna studies Theater and Mass Communications at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. Her most recent productions include Cabaret (Helga) through the Maryland Arts Festival, Last Five Years (Cathy) at Towson University and Uncommon Women and Others (Muffet) also at Towson University. Jenna has attended Signature Theaters Advanced Musical Theater Program, Overtures , at the Kennedy Center and Anne Reinking's Broadway Theater Project . She would like to thank her family and friends for their unconditional love and support and God for His many blessings. Miss you guys!
(Understudy) is very excited to be a kid again! He was last seen as Alexander in the Kennedy Center's 2001 National Tour of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day . Jeremy has also appeared at the Kennedy Center as Yitzy in Dreams In The Golden Country and at the Round House Theater as Matt in The Fantasticks . He is a graduate of the University of Maryland where he performed in many shows including Anything Goes (Billy) and Once On This Island (Daniel). Thanks to his family and friends for their support, and to his beautiful wife Allison for making him laugh and smile every day.
(Understudy) A graduate of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Katie is delighted to be a part of Alexander . A stage veteran, Katie has played a wide variety of roles, from Baby Roo in Winnie-the-Pooh to Marian in The Music Man to Lady Montague (as a single mom) in a modern Romeo and Juliet (with 90-Minute Shakespeare Co. in Washington, D.C.). Recent roles include Isabel in The Pirates of Penzance (Young Victorian Theatre Co.), Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (Adventure Theatre) and a critically-acclaimed turn as the Beggar Woman in the Annapolis Chorale production of Sweeney Todd . In addition to her stage work, Katie is an active member of AFTRA/SAG and has done extensive voiceover and on-camera work. Katie recently made her debut with the Garden State Philharmonic, narrating Peter and the Wolf and Aesop's Fables , and she is currently providing narration for an ongoing project with the Discovery Channel and Prentice-Hall publishers.
(Anthony, Christine, Andrea) is a 2004 BFA graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied acting under the direction of Gerald Freedman, Dean of the School of Drama. He is a Society of American Fight Decorators certified actor/combatant in all weapons and unarmed combat. Roles at NCSA include Ed Bishop in Floyd Collins , Malvolio in Twelfth Night , Reverand Vincent in The Living , Straker in Man and Superman , Mr. Medley in Man of Mode , Leland in Blues for an Alabama Sky and the title role in Tartuffe . During his time at the Kennedy Center Mr. Honeycutt has performed in Mister Roberts (Schlemmer) and as an understudy in Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka . Mr. Honeycutt is proud to be a William R. Kenan, Jr. Performing Arts Fellow here at the Kennedy Center. He is grateful to his family whose support has enabled him to dream without limits.
(Understudy) is delighted to return to another Alexander production after appearing in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art's national tour of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and the world premiere of Alexander, Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move! Sherri is a native of Asheville, NC and an Electrical Engineering graduate of North Carolina State University, where she appeared in such productions as Miss Evers in Miss Evers' Boys, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Flyin' West, The Colored Museum, and Black Medea. Locally, Sherri could be seen in the world premiere of Zora Neal Hurston's Polk County at Arena Stage. In addition to her technical and acting pursuits, Sherri is also the artistic director and co-founder of Washington, DC based Capital Renaissance Theatre Company. She would like to give special thanks to her friends and family for their continued support.
(Alexander) is relatively new to the professional theatre world. At age 15 he performed at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland; as well as the National High School Theatre Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was last seen in the Montgomery College production of Pippin as Pippin. This is Matt's first professional show and he is excited to be sharing this experience with such a talented and friendly cast and crew. Special thanks to Michael Bobbitt, Nick Olcott, and Rob Hakspiel.
(Mom, Mrs. Balwin, Mrs. Oberdorfer) has worked all over the East coast as an actress, director and teacher. Some favorite acting credits include the How I Learned To Drive (Female Greek Chorus), Gypsy (Rose) and The Kathy And Mo Show: Parallel Lives . She has directed Much Ado About Nothing for Ninty-Minute Shakespeare in Washington DC, and several productions of A Christmas Carol . Sandy has taught workshops at many colleges and high schools, including West Chester University, Catholic University and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. This summer she was an Acting Coach for the New York State Summer School of the Arts on the campus of SUNY New Paltz. Sandy was a founding member of Theatricks Inc, a touring Resident Rep company in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area and The Fun Company a family theater which is still based in her hometown of Frederick, Maryland. Last season, Sandy played the Witch in Rapunzel and Mrs. in the world premiere of Junie B. Jones And A Little Monkey Business for the nationally recognized Imagination Stage. Locally, she was last seen as Gymnasia in the Helen Hayes Award nominated, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum at Signature Theater. Most recently Sandy was seen as the Earth Mother in Menopause The Musical . She would like to thank her friends and family for their love and support.
(Nick, Albert, Joanne, Melanie) a native of Nigeria is excited to be making her tour debut. Her theatre and choreography credits include Once On This Island, Into The Woods, Big River, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, A Midsummer Nights Dream, South Pacific and The Wiz. She sends her love and thanks to her Creator, Family and Friends.
(Paul, Swoozie) is honored to be touring the country in his Kennedy Center debut with the “Alexander” tour. Regional credits include “Cinderella” with The Sacramento Theatre Company, “A Class Act” (U/S) with Studio Theatre, The Robber Bridegroom with American Century Theatre, and another children's classic “Miss Nelson Has A Field Day” with Imagination Stage. Other favorite shows include Romeo and Juliet, Cabaret and Wit. Brian is originally from Loomis, California and holds a BA in Spanish from UC Davis. Brian would like to thanks his supportive family.
(Dad, Mr. Friendly, Mr. Rooney, Seymour, Mr. Friendly) is returning for his fifth national tour with the Kennedy Center's Youth and Family Programs' Imagination Celebration, most recently touring both national companies as Stoop Storyteller in the one-actor show Harlem , adapted by Bill Grimmette from the book/poem by Walter Dean Myers, and both companies of Alexander and the Terrible...Bad Day! He also appeared in the world premier of Alexander, Who's Not...Going To Move! at the Kennedy Center. Other credits include: D'Artagnan the Musketeer in Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre); Grant Wiggins in A Lesson Before Dying , Zacharia in Blood Knot , Odysseus/Agamemnon in Hecuba (African Continuum Theatre Co.); Storyteller/King in Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Imagination Stage); Lovborg in Hedda Gabler , Leland in Blues For An Alabama Sky , Billy Cobb in Heathen Valley (Everyman Theatre); Frank in Anna Lucasta (Rep Stage); Producer/Reporter in Life in Refusal (Theater J); Frank Charles in Flyin' West , Cephus Miles in Home , Malcolm X in The Meeting , Luke in The Amen Corner , Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People (Arena Players). He has also appeared on NBC's Homicide and HBO's The Wire as well as providing voice to the video game Unreal II: The Awakening, DC Lotto Radio Ads and LA TheatreWorks/NPR audio productions of A Lesson Before Dying and Bus Stop . Jefferson earned a BA in Sociology/Criminal Justice from Hampton University and is a former Baltimore Police Officer.
(Technical/Sound Director) is thrilled to be joining his first production with The Kennedy Center for the Arts. A graduate of The Ohio State University Department of Theatre with a BA in Technical Production. Michael has spent the past four years working on a range of local, regional, and national productions. Michael also spends his summers in the Adirondacks as the Sound Designer and Assistant Technical Director at Long Lake Camp for the Arts in Long Lake, NY.
(Lighting Director) has been in the lighting field for over ten years. He has worked in DC with companies like Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, The Folger, and the Shakespeare Theatre, as well as working in national companies like City Theatrical and Barbizon Lighting. Most recently, he was the Lighting Designer for the NCTA's (National Council for Traditional Arts) Masters of Mexican Music National Tour. He was also the Lighting Designer for the NEA's National Heritage Awards for 2004. David is happy to be joining the Kennedy Center again on another YFP program, which he was Lighting Director for two other YFP tours, The Nightingale and Dreams in the Golden Country .
(Assistant Technical Director/Wardrobe) is returning to The Kennedy Center for her third tour this spring. She has previously toured with the productions of The Nightingale and Dreams in the Golden Country . Between touring she has worked in the heart of the Rockies for The Montana Repertory Theatre Company and has most recently for the Missoula Children's Theatre. However she is happy to be back at home on the road with The Kennedy Center.
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* Alexander Who's Not... Going to Move is a professional production employing members of Actors' Equity Association
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