Karen Olivo ("Anita" in West Side Story)
Karen Olivo created the role of Vanessa in the Tony Award winning musical production of In The Heights both on and off Broadway. Other Broadway credits: RENT and Brooklyn. TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Conviction. FILM: Adrift in Manhattan, Sibling, The New Twenty, and Two Lovers. Karen would like to thank Brian Liebman, Cory Richman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Core Four plus one, and her husband, singer/songwriter, Matt Caplan.
Martha Plimpton ("Gladys Bumps" in Pal Joey)
Martha Plimpton recently received Tony and Drama League nominations for her work in MTC's acclaimed revival of Top Girls. Other Broadway: Cymbeline, The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards, Tony nomination), Shining City, 16 Wounded. Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hurlyburly, The False Servant, Flesh & Blood, Boston Marriage, Hobson's Choice (Obie award), suburbia, Pericles. Regional: Uncle Vanya, Sisters Rosensweig, Heidi Chronicles (Seattle Rep), Absolution (dir.), The Glass Menagerie, The Libertine (Steppenwolf), Hedda Gabler, Playboy of the Western World, (Steppenwolf, Long Wharf). Member of Steppenwolf Theater Company ensemble. She has appeared in over 35 films and was nominated for an Emmy award for her appearance on "Law & Order: SVU."
Carole Shelley ("Grandma" in Billy Elliot)
Broadway: Wicked, Cabaret, Show Boat, The Odd Couple (NY debut), The Miser, Stepping Out (Tony nom.), Noises Off, The Elephant Man (Tony Award, Best Actress), Hay Fever, The Norman Conquests (LADCC Award), Absurd Person Singular (Tony nom.), Loot. Nat'l tours: Broadway Bound, The Royal Family, Noises Off. Off-B'way: The Film Society, London Suite, The Destiny of Me, Richard II (NYSF), Later Life (Drama Desk nom.), Cabaret Verboten, What the Butler Saw, Little Murders, Twelve Dreams (Obie), Tartuffe. Starred in Lettice and Lovage (West End). TV/films: "Frasier," "Gabby," "Coconut Downs," "The Cosby Show," "The Odd Couple," Road to Wellville, Devlin, The Super, Quiz Show, Aunt Clara in Bewitched. Disney animated: Hercules, The Aristocats, Robin Hood.
