COMPANY B1OS

CYRILLA BAER (Mrs. Zero) A transplanted southerner, Cyrilla Baer has been featured with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and is a multiple Carbonell Award nominated actress. Regional roles include Dr. Charlotte in Falsettos, Miss Thorn, Miss Block and Lita Encore in Ruthless!, directed by creators Joel Paley & Marvin Laird (she was the first actress to play all 3 roles in one performance), Sr. Amnesia in Nunsense 1, 2 & Jamboree, the last directed by Nunsense creator Dan Goggin, and Cleo in The Most Happy Fella. She co-starred in the NY Independent Film Festival Winner Raging Hormones, hosted a radio show on WTMI Classical FM, has voiced hundreds of commercials, industrials and science films, and trains and wrangles animals for photos and films.

JOEL HATCH (Mr. Zero) Joel was last seen Off Broadway in Annie Warbucks at the Variety Arts. Production contracts include Showboat, Ragtime, and Beauty and the Beast. In Chicago, House and Garden, Pericles, and Oedipus Complex (The Goodman Theatre), Cymbeline and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Another Part of the Forest, Our Town, Benefactors, Rough Crossing, and Misalliance (Writers Theatre). He appeared in the film While You Were Sleeping and "Prison Break" on Fox. He is married to the gorgeous actress Carol Kuykendall.

AMY WARREN (Daisy) Off Broadway: Steppenwolf Theatre's When the Messenger is Hot at 59 E. 59th Street. Regional: Rabbit Hole, Heartbreak House, and Trojan Women (The Goodman Theatre). "Pulp" (About Face Theatre) (for which she also wrote the music), The Adding Machine: A Chamber Musical (Next Theatre). Inherit the Wind (Northlight Theatre), and Second City's Fatty Arbuckle's Spectacular Musical Review & Melancholy Play (Piven Theatre). At The Steppenwolf Theatre: Mother Courage and Her Children, Ten% of Molly Snyder, The House of Lily, The Weir, Whispering City, and The Glass Menagerie and has worked with Curious Theatre Branch and Theatre OObleck. Amy sings with Cooler by the Lake and appears on several Aluminum Group releases. She sang the role of Mary Magdalene in All Rock Jesus Christ Superstar, and is writing music for Paris by Night to be produced at Trinity Rep this spring.

JOE FARRELL (Shrdlu) Broadway National Tours: Legends! (starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans), Little Shop of Horrors, Titanic. Off-Broadway: The Pajama Game (Encores!). Regional: Amour (Goodspeed), A Little Night Music (South Coast Rep, Goodspeed), King of Hearts (Goodspeed), The Pajama Game (MUNY). TV: Host of TLC's Trading Spaces: Family. B.A., Yale University. Thanks to family, friends and agents at BRS. Love to wife, Taylor Farrell.

JEFF STILL (Boss/Fixer/Charles) OFF-BROADWAY: Orson's Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre). LONDON: Bug (Gate Theatre). REGIONAL: Lombardi: The Only Thing (Madison Rep); Amadeus (Cardinal Stage). CHICAGO: A Clockwork Orange, Wolf Lullaby, Orson's Shadow, Mother Courage, The Dresser, Sonia Flew (Steppenwolf). FILM/TV: Law & Order: CI, To Sir With Love II, and the upcoming The Express.

ADINAH ALEXANDER (Mrs. Two) Broadway: Original cast of The Wedding Singer, Wicked, Urban Cowboy and Parade. National Tours: Parade and the World Premiere of Whistle Down The Wind, both directed by Harold Prince. Off-Broadway: Janis Joplin in Love Janis, The No-Frills Revue by Martin Charnin, Ruthless. Regional: Golde in Fiddler On The Roof (Fulton Opera House). Madame Thenardier in Les Miserable (The Pioneer Theatre), Emma Goldman in Ragtime (dir. Stafford Arima), Mama Rose/Mazeppa in Gypsy (Sundance), Rosalie in Carnival. Hannigan in Annie. Plays include Dirty Blonde (dir. Lorreta Greco), The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe by Lily Tomlin, Danny And The Deep Blue Sea, All In The Timing and Eleemosynary.

NIFFER CLARKE (Mrs. One) Off-Broadway/Regional credits include: She Loves Me (Amalia), Tintypes (Anna Held), Street Scene (Rose), Honk! (Ida), Patience (Patience). Film/Voiceover credits include: Disney's Meet the Robinsons, Coraline, NPR's All Things Considered. Recordings and performances with groups as diverse as They Might Be Giants to the London Symphony Orchestra. Proud AEA member.

ROGER E. DEWITT (Mr. Two) Broadway: The Woman in White; Bloomer Girl. National Tours: Phantom of the Opera (André); Jekyll and Hyde; world premier production of 3HREE (dir. By Hal Prince). Other fun credits: Ragtime; I and Albert; Music Man; The Jetsons; The Snorks; Law and Order; Rescue Me; etc. Interesting fact: Roger's mother was the original and only voice of Wilma and Pebbles Flintstone for 40 years. www.rogerdewitt.com

DANIEL MARCUS (Mr. One) Broadway and original cast albums: The Pirates of Penzance, 1776 and Urinetown in which he created the role of Officer Barrel. Additional Broadway credits include The Woman in White and A Christmas Carol. Daniel has for 27 years been a proud member of Actor's Equity which he joined in utero. For my brother Bill.

RANDY BLAIR (Understudy) Off-Broadway/New York: The Yellow Wood, The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun, Behind the Limelight. Regional: Oliver!, Side Show, Ragtime. Film/TV: Afterwards, Across the Universe, Strangers with Candy. Training: NYU/CAP21. Thanks to Krasner, Ben, and the Other Baldwins. www.therandyshow.com

ARIELA MORGENSTERN (Understudy) is making her off-Broadway debut in The Adding Machine. Regional: Threepenny Opera, Vanities, Bingo!, I love you...Now Change. She is also one of the founding members of the award-winning San Francisco-based theatre company, Rococo Risqué, and was a professional opera singer on the west coast before moving to NY last May. www.arielamorgenstern.com

DAVID CROMER (Director) New York; Orson's Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre). Regional; Orson's Shadow (Steppenwolf, Williamstown, Alley, Westport), The Clean House (Alley). The Grapes of Wrath (Ford's Theatre). Chicago: Adding Machine (Next Theatre), Come Back Little Sheba (Shattered Globe), The Cider House Rules and Suburban Motel (both co-directed with Marc Grapey at Famous Door). Journey's End and Translations (Seanachai), The Price and Booth (Writers Theatre), Angels in America (Journeymen), MOJO and The Hot L Baltimore (Mary-Arrchie), The Sirens of Titan, On the Bum, Lydie Breeze, Spring Awakening and Women & Water (Big Game) among others. He was nominated for the Joseph Calloway Award for his direction of Orson's Shadow in New York and his work in Chicago has garnered a total of 16 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including 3 for Outstanding Direction and Production (The Cider House Rules, The Price and Angels in America). He has the pleasure of teaching acting and directing at Columbia College Chicago.

JOSH SCHMIDT (Composer/Co-Librettist) is a Milwaukee-based composer/sound designer. His work has been featured at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Writers Theatre In Glencoe, Next Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and Seanachai Theatre Company (Chicago); Alley Theatre (Houston) Kennedy Center and Ford's Theatre (Washington DC); Public Theatre (associate design), Builders Association (associate design), Jean Cocteau Rep, and Genesius Theatre Guild (NYC); Bard College (NY); South Coast Repertory (CA); American Players Theatre (Spring Green); Madison Rep and UW-Madison (Madison) Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, Bialystock and Bloom, Next Act Theatre, Theatre X, In Tandem, Wild Space Dance Company, and UW-Milwaukee Theatre and Dance (Milwaukee). He is a recipient of the 2003-2005 NEA/TCG Career Development Program Award and was named one of nine emerging designers in Entertainment/Design Magazine in 2004. He has received 4 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations and two Awards for his composition/sound design work in Chicago.

JASON LOEWITH (Co-Librettist) is a Jeff and After Dark award-winning producer, director and writer. As Artistic Director of Chicago's Next Theatre Company since 2002, he has directed the area premieres of plays by John Patrick Shanley, Christopher Durang, Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel, and many others. Prior to the Next, he spent two years as Artistic Administrator at Chicago's Court Theatre, and five years as General Manager/Dramaturg at off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company. He serves on Advisory Boards for New York's Red Bull Theatre and Synapse Productions, and Philadelphia's Flashpoint Theater. Other directing credits include his own play Bert Brecht Before the House Un-American Activities Committee for HERE, the New York International Fringe Festival, and workshops of his own adaptations at CSC. A contributor to both local and national magazines, Jason is putting the finishing touches on The Director's Voice, a series of interviews with American directors, to be published by Theatre Communications Group in early 2008.

TAKESHI KATA (Set Design) Off-Broadway: Doris to Darlene (Playwrights), Orson's Shadow (Barrow St.); Gone Missing (Civilians); Birth and After Birth, Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic); A Small Melodramatic Story (LAByrinth); The Attic (Play Co.); Pullman Car Hiawatha (Keen Co.) Regional: Alley, American Players Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Geffen Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Old Globe, Williamstown, Yale Rep.

KEITH PARHAM (Lighting Design): New York credits: Crime and Punishment (Writers' Theatre), The Sunset Limited (Steppenwolf Theatre), Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre), and Rules for Good Manners in the Modern World (TUTA Theatre). He is also company member of TUTA Theatre, where recent credits include It's Only the End of the World, Tracks, Huddersfield, Still Life in Color, and Birds. He has also designed numerous shows with The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Next Theatre Company(Associate Artist), Timeline Theatre (Associate Artist), Writers' Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago Opera Theatre, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, European Repertory Theatre, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble and Theatre Wit.

KRISTINE KNANISHU (Costume Design) is thrilled to be working again with David Cromer after having designed the The Adding Machine in Chicago. Costume design credits include I Just Stopped by to See the Man, The Dazzle, and Uncle Vanya (Steppenwolf Theatre); Antony and Cleopatra (American Players Theatre); Waiting to be Invited (Victory Gardens Theatre) and Her Name Was Danger (Lookingglass Theatre); Closetland, Waving Goodbye (Naked Eye). Other Theatre Credits include work at About Face, Famous Door, Roadworks, Northlight Theatre, American Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, New York Performance Works, The Odyssey in LA, and the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, Scotland. Kristine taught Drawing and Costume Design as an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University. Kristine is the recipient of two After Dark Awards and a Joseph Jefferson nomination.

TONY SMOLENSKI IV (Sound Design) Broadway: Cymbeliene. Off-Broadway: Dutchman, Mimi Le Duck, Emergence-See, Satellites, Everything Bad & Beautiful, Measure For Pleasure, I Love You Because, Indoor/Outdoor, Almost Maine, Mr. Marmalade. Regional: The Lady In Question, The Night Season (Bay Street Theater.) Tony is a Graduate of SUNY New Paltz.

MICHELE SPADARO (Property Design) Theatre: Orson's Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre/Planetearth Partners and Scott Morfee, producers), Chekhov's Rifle (Greenwich Street Theatre), The Egg Nog Talking (Cherry Lane Theatre), Uncle Bob (Abingdon Theatre) and Sweet Eros (Mary's Space). Film: The Prophecy, Rubin and Ed, Blow, Plan 10 from Outer Space, The Lipstick Camera, It's My Party, Drive, Mad Dog Coll, Hit the Dutchman and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Television: The Secret Lives of Men (ABC), Turn Ben Stein On (Comedy Central), The John Larroquette Show (NBC), The Ben Stiller Show (Fox), Pearl (CBS), Cousin Skeeter (Nickelodeon), Saturday Night Special (Fox) and The Jenny McCarthy Show (MTV).

PETER FLAHERTY (Video Design) is a video artist and director whose work has been seen in theatres, galleries, and museums internationally. THEATRE COLLABORATORS: The Builders Association, Complicite, Francois Girard, Chen Shi-Zheng, Basil Twist, Bang on a Can. VIDEO ART: ICA Philadelphia, MIT Media Lab, home of Agnes Gund (President Emerita of MOMA). www.thefourthefive.org

J. OCONER NAVARRO (Musical Director): B'way/NYC (in music department): The Apple Tree, Curtains, Mary Poppins; Art/Song/Dance (Joyce), The Flamingo Kid (Workshop), Look What a Wonder Jesus Has Done (NYMF); Regional: Travels With My Discontent (Barrington Stage Company), The Burnt Part Boys (TheatreWorks Palo Alto), Everybody Loves A Winner: A Tribute to John Kander (Westport Country Playhouse). As writer: 2007 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant, 2005 Paulette Goddard Award. Currently penning Awakening (2006 Margo Lion Award) with Joel B. New. Member: ASCAP, Local 802 AFM, The Dramatists Guild. MFA, NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program 2006; BS, Vanderbilt University 2004. Love and thanks to family and friends worldwide. www.joconernavarro.com

ANDY BOROSON (Piano/Assistant Musical Director) was music director for Gone Missing by The Civilians at the Barrow Street Theatre. Other shows with the Civilians include [I AM] Nobody's Lunch, and Paris Commune. Andy is also a composer. Thanks to Beth.

TIMOTHY SPLAIN (Synthesizer/Assistant to the Composer) played synthesizer for the Next Theatre production of The Adding Machine and is thrilled to be playing the show in New York. Recent Chicago credits include Altar Boyz (Drury Lane Water Tower), Hats (Royal George Theatre), Forever Plaid (Steel Beam Theatre), and the touring company of Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree. He attended the University of Chicago where he received the Menn Foundation prize for musical composition, and is an avid performer of new music. Thanks to Josh for this tremendous opportunity.

BRAD "GORILLA" CARBONE (Percussion) is native to New York City. He is honored to be playing for Adding Machine tonight.

RICHARD A. HODGE (Production Stage Manager) His credits include BUG, Red Light Winter, Orson's Shadow, and An Oak Tree (Barrow St. Theatre) Killer Joe, Underneath The Lintel, and Carnival Knowledge (The Soho Playhouse). Cobb (The Lucille Lortel), Sakina's Restaurant (The American Place Theatre), The Devil's Music, Two Pianos Four Hands (Penguin Rep.), On House, and Century City (The WPA Theatre), First Love, and Angel Street (Queens Theatre In The Park), Chinese Art of Placement (78th St. Lab), Girl Blog From Iraq: Baghdad Burning (Six Figures Theatre Co.), The Nightshade Family (SPF) and The Screams Of Kitty Genoveese (NYMF). He is the Staff Supervising Stage Manager at Lehman College, and Production Supervisor for Six Figures Theatre Co. TYKAMAT

KATE MCDONIEL (Assistant Stage Manager): National Tour: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Regional: Trinity Rep, True Colors Theatre Company, and over 40 productions for the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, including world premieres of The Color Purple and Rebecca Gilman's adaptation of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

JESSICA REDISH (Assistant Director/Movement Director) is an NY-based director/choreographer. NY: Maccabeat, Oedipus for Kids, Family Fiorelli (NYMF); Moving Forward, Looking Back (Laurie Beechman). Regional: And the World Goes 'Round (ari"Zoni" nomination for choreography). Northwestern University graduate. www.JessicaRedish.com

MCCORKLE CASTING, LTD.; PAT MCCORKLE, C.S.A (Casting Director): The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Amadeus, A Doll's House, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers. Off-Broadway: Almost Maine, Killer Joe, Mrs. Klein. Film: Secret Window, Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties. Television: 3lbs., Barbershop, Chappelle's Show.

TWO STEP PRODUCTIONS (General Management) operated by Cris Buchner and Kate Mott, provides General Management and Company Management for a variety of Off and Off-Off-Broadway productions, festivals, and special events. Recent productions include: Gone Missing, The/King/Operetta (Barrow Street Theatre); The Globesity Festival (Theater for the New City). Additionally, Cris and Kate have Managed No Child…, Orsons's Shadow, Eat the Taste, BUG (Barrow Street Theatre); Finer Noble Gases, Girl Blog From Iraq, (I Am) Nobody's Lunch, The Acrobat, Two Men Talking (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy (East 13th St. Theater).

AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Management) This season's shows: The Country Girl, Boeing Boeing, Shrek, Jerry Springer the opera, The 39 Steps, Is He Dead, Rock 'n' Roll, A Bronx Tale, Spamalot (NY, tour, London, Las Vegas, Australia). Aurora is Gene O'Donovan, Ben Heller, Bethany Weinstein, John Horsman, Melissa Mazdra, Asia Evans.

ELIRAN MURPHY GROUP (Advertising) Established in 1991, the Eliran Murphy Group is a full-service marketing and advertising company specializing in arts and entertainment. Helmed by Barbara Eliran, CEO, and Ann Murphy, President/Creative Director, the agency's clients include New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, WNET/Thirteen, and numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.

SCOTT MORFEE (Producer): Since October 2003 Scott Morfee has operated the 200-seat Barrow Street Theatre (BST) with partner Tom Wirtshafter. As producer: Gone Missing by the Civilians (June 2007- January 2008), No Child… by Nilaja Sun (2006-07), both at BST. At Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2006: Two Men Talking by Murray Nossel & Paul Browde at Assembly Rooms, Finer Noble Gases by Adam Rapp at the Bongo Club, and Girl Blog from Iraq: Baghdad Burning adapted by Kim Kefgen & Loren Noveck from Riverbend's internet diary/blog at Pleasance Courtyard. Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton (2005 at BST); BUG by Tracy Letts, and Eat the Taste by Greg Kotis (2004-05 at BST). Ongoing shows include TJ & Dave, and BST Jazz Theatre, featuring renowned Argentine composers and musicians. BST also co-presented or hosted An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch (UK), Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp, Floating by Hoipolloi (UK), The/King/Operetta by Waterwell, TraumNovela by Juan Borona & Cris Buchner, and Roadhouse by Timothy Haskell. Scott also produced Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger (2001-03, Soho Playhouse), and Tracy Letts' Killer Joe in Chicago (2000), and in New York (1998-99 at the Soho Playhouse).

TOM WIRTSHAFTER (Producer) was a producer of Two Men Talking, Girl Blog From Iraq: Baghdad Burning, and Finer Noble Gases at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2006. He was a producer of No Child… by Nilaja Sun, Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton, BUG by Tracy Letts, and Eat the Taste by Greg Kotis at the Barrow Street Theatre, Sara Jones-Bridge and Tunnel at the Culture Project and on Broadway (Tony Winner 2005), White Chocolate at the Century Center for Performing Arts, Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger at the Soho Playhouse, and Stars in Your Eyes by Chip Meyrelles at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Tom is on the board of The Culture Project, The Town Hall Foundation and chashama, Inc. He is also on the Board of American Portfolios Financial Services, a Long Island based brokerage firm. Tom lives in New York with his son, Benjamin.

MARGARET COTTER (Producer) is President of Liberty Theaters, Inc, which owns and operates the Off-Broadway theatres: New York's Orpheum, Union Square and Minetta Lane as well as the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Producing credits include All Shook Up (Broadway), Forbidden Broadway: SVU(Chicago), I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Chicago, San Francisco), Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (Off Broadway), Lypsinka! (Off Broadway), The Flying Karamazov Brothers' Catch! (Chicago) and Love, Janis (Chicago).

NEXT THEATRE COMPANY of Evanston, IL, has entertained and inspired audiences for 27 years with award-winning world and Chicago-area premieres, winning over 35 Joseph Jefferson Awards along the way. Dedicated to socially provocative, artistically adventurous work, Next Theatre has produced world premieres by Tracy Letts, Tom Szentgyorgi, and Kira Obolensky, among others; the company's major Midwest premieres include A Number, The Laramie Project, Frozen, The Normal Heart, and the Chicago-area professional debuts of Suzan-Lori Parks and Dael Orlandersmith.

MINETTA LANE THEATRE, 18 Minetta Lane, between MacDougal Street and Sixth Avenue in the heart of Greenwich Village today is one of the older Off Broadway houses known for its intimate space while seating 399 patrons. Opening in 1984, the Theatre has housed productions which have included Balm in Gilead, Other Peoples Money, Marvin's Room, Eric Bogosian, Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Jeffrey, Cowgirls, The Last Five Years, Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.