Freckleface Strawberry The Musical - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Manhattan Youth Ballet and Manhattan Movement & Arts Center. She conceived the work FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY for the stage. She received her education at NYU’s Tish School of the Arts as well as was mentored by Maestro Zsednyi, principle dancer of the Royal Hungarian Opera Ballet. Ms. Caiola is a member of the Off Broadway League of Theaters and Producers as well as the Screen Actors Guild. She has produced a variety of concerts and benefits over the last 15 years including “Hope for Haiti” and “The Knickerbocker Suite”. MYB’s alumni dance in top world ... read more Gary Kupper graduated from Bronx High School of Science and majored in acting/theater at Boston University. As a singer/songwriter, he released “Shoot for the Moon”, on Polydor Records backed by Van Morrison’s band. Recently released a CD of children’s songs entitled “Songman and the Songland Band”. As a keyboardist he has backed and appeared with many rock and blues legends, including Chuck Berry, whom he has played with for 20 years, appearing all over the world, most recently in Rome and on tour in Russia. His musicals include Consumer Behavior, Fringe Festival NYC 2002 (music/lyrics/co-book); Timmy The Great, (music/co-lyrics, additional ... read more In addition to writing the best-selling "Freckleface Strawberry", Moore is author of the book series which also includes "Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully". A third book is due out in 2011. She currently can be seen starring along with Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right" and will soon be seen in "Shelter", an independent psychological thriller, in which she stars with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Next year she will be seen in Crazy, Stupid, Love opposite Steve Steve Carell. ... read more 25 Broadway shows including: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Therese Raquin (Tony Nomination), Come From Away, Flying Over Sunset, Freestyle Love Supreme, The New One, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Grace. 100 Off- Broadway shows including The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. ... read more NYC: Looking for Billy Haines (Theater Row); 3 Dames Make a Queen (Don't Tell Mama); OPA! (TBG Theatre); Iowa '08 (The Vineyard Theatre). Regional: Pool Boy (Barrington Stage Company); Carousel (Barrington Stage Company); Prayer for My Enemy (Associate Designer) and Skin of Our Teeth (Associate Designer) Intiman Theatre; Orphan Train (Associate Designer) NYSTI. Other Credits: Titus Andronicus (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Traffic in Women (Saint Thomas University). Dance: Sweetland (Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble). ... read more Broadway: Music Man (Michael Kidd); Can Can (Roland Petit); Little Me (Peter Gennaro & Bob Fosse); A Christmas Carol (Susan Stroman); 42nd Street (original co.); The Most Happy Fella (Liza Genarro). Off-Broadway: The Baker's Wife (Lynne Taylor - Corbett). Alan Menken's, Kicks; Radio City, Rockette! Founding Director - Shuffles, tap/musical theater school, NYC. www.shufflestap.com. Gail dedicates her work on FFS to all of her Shuffles kids, past and present! ... read more Regional Directing: 1940s Radio Hour; Forever Plaid; Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged; Camping with Henry and Tom. Broadway: Ciccio in The Most Happy Fella (Booth), appeared on the Tony Awards. Toured the country in Cats (Gus/Growltiger). Off Broadway: Summer of ’42; Enter the Guardsman, Six Wives. An original Radio City New Yorker, Buddy premiered “There are no Girls, Quite Like Show Girls!” by Sammy Cahn. Native Texan, SMU ’79. ... read more Abigail Crutchfield danced with the New York City Ballet and trained at SAB. A 2010 Harvard graduate, she wrote a prize-winning thesis and studied theater with Randy Weiner. Many thanks to her talented parents. ... read more Pamela Edington has worked under almost all AEA agreements. Favorite productions include: Coastal Disturbance; The Weir; Collected Stories (with Ms. Uta Hagen); The Green Heart; Three Mo' Tenors; Limonade Tous les Jours;and most recently, Academy forthe Daegu International Arts Festival. ... read more Credits: Your Welcome America, Movin' Out, Ring of Fire, Evil Dead the Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, Victor/Victoria, City of Angels, Gypsy, Falsettos, The Capeman, The Will Rogers Follies, M. Butterfly, Swing, Minnelli on Minnelli with Liza, Dream, Threepenny Opera with Sting, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Odd Couple, M. Butterfly, Stones in His Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Thousand Clowns. Fitzgerald is president of Sound Associates, Inc. a premier provider of sound and video systems to the theater. ... read more Chris Hajian is a graduate of New York's "Famed" High School for the Performing Arts, and continued at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied classical composition. Chris is an accomplished Film Composer having written scores for indie and studio features. He also has worked extensively in Television as well as Composing for Documentaries. As a Music Producer Chris has worked in the Theatre, Jazz and Pop world. He produced and arranged several tracks for Vocalist, Linda Eder. He has also worked with composer Maury Yeston. ... read more Some of her Laura Heller's shows include Sammy and Me; Xanadu; Legends!; Enchanted April; The Great American Trailer Park Musical; A Jew Grows in Brooklyn; The Joys of Sex; Beau Jest; A Room of One's Own; Sly Fox; Forever Tango; Modern Orthodox; Mr. Goldwyn; Stomp; the L. A. company of Love Letters; Birds of Paradise;The Common Pursuit. Ms. Heller managed the Provincetown Playhouse in Manhattan for three years. Her daughter is the singer Madeline Stern. ... read more Broadway/NYC: [title of show], Dame Edna, Starmites, The Syringa Tree, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera (Associate Designer), Fiddler on the Roof (Topol, Harvey Fierstein), Annie, Stars on Ice. International: Sweet Charity, The Producers, Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph, Caravan, The Syringa Tree. Award-winning themed attractions: Fantasmic!, Finding Nemo, Festival of the Lion King, Playhouse Disney, Voyage of the Little Mermaid (Disney); Shamu Rocks!, Shamu Miracles, Shamu Believe (SeaWorld); IllumiNights, Emerald Beat, Kinetix (Busch Gardens). ... read more Dave Keyes is a veteran of the American roots music scene as a keyboardist, singer and songwriter. He was Associate Conductor for the entire Broadway run of Smokey Joe's Café, and Lennon. The Dave Keyes Band regularly tours internationally and his upcoming CD release entitled "The Healing " will be his 6th CD adn will be available in October 2107. ... read more Gary Kupper graduated from Bronx High School of Science and majored in acting/theater at Boston University. As a singer/songwriter, he released “Shoot for the Moon”, on Polydor Records backed by Van Morrison’s band. Recently released a CD of children’s songs entitled “Songman and the Songland Band”. As a keyboardist he has backed and appeared with many rock and blues legends, including Chuck Berry, whom he has played with for 20 years, appearing all over the world, most recently in Rome and on tour in Russia. His musicals include Consumer Behavior, Fringe Festival NYC 2002 (music/lyrics/co-book); Timmy The Great, (music/co-lyrics, additional ... read more More than 50 Broadway shows including Holiday Inn, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Doctor Zhivago, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun. Television: "The Wiz Live!" (Emmy nomination.) ... read more Broadway: Bridge & Tunnel; The Drowsy Chaperone (1st Nat'l Tour). Off-Broadway: Blind Lemon Blues; Fifty Words; Masked, Shout!: Matt & Ben; Dream A Little Dream; Beau Jest (3 yrs). Hartford Stage, Crossroads, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage. PSM for Pfizer-Brazil Viagra Launch. For Mom, who dedicated her life's work to the "different children." ... read more Karl Mansfield is a musician and music director. Broadway credits include Dracula, La Boheme, Sweet Charity, Coram Boy, Xanadu, Baby It's You, and American Utopia. ... read more Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. ... read more Credits: Canadian premiere of Hello Again (Tarragon Theatre); Something Wonderful (Charlottetown Festival, assistant choreographer); Joseph and the Amazing.... (Fallen Rock Productions); Peter Pantomime (Shuffles, associate choreographer); Godspell Jr (direction/ choreography); Peter Pan Jr (direction/choreography). ... read more MORGAN SMITH-They are a librettist, playwright, producer, and lyricist. Morgan also writes fiction while studying English at New York University. Their short fiction has been published in the US and internationally, winning awards in national contests like the Faulkner Literary Competition. They currently work at The Trans Lab, which has reinvigorated their desire to write diverse stories. They are an alumni of programs at Yale, Juilliard, and Bryn Mawr College. Morgan is the playwright of Ogygia and Oceanborn, both of which premiered Off- Broadway in 2019, making them the youngest playwright to do so. ... read more Off-Broadway: Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Intrigue with Faye; Batboy the musical; The Divine Sister. Regional Theaters: Goodspeed Musicals; Old Globe; Guthrie; Shakespeare Theatre; Ballet Arizona; Alley Theatre; American Players; Children's Theatre Company; Universal Studios Hollywood; Studio Theatre; Goodspeed Musicals; Edinburgh Festival. National Tours: Fame; Godspell; Jesus Christ Superstar. Opera: Portland Opera, Nationale Reisopera (NL), Gotham Chamber Opera, Tiroler Landestheater, Wexford Opera Festival. Awards: Irene Sharaff Young Master 2008, Lucille Lortel Nomination 2001. ... read more