BUCKET LIST THEATRE Presents

SILENCE! THE MUSICAL

Music & Lyrics by Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan Book by Hunter Bell

Adapted from the screenplay “Silence! The Musical”

by Jon & Al Kaplan

Original Off-Broadway Direction, Choreography and Stage Direction by Christopher Gattelli

Originally produced Off-Broadway in New York City

by Victoria Lang, Rich Affannato, Donna Trinkoff

SILENCE! The Musical is produced by special arrangement with the Playwright and Theater Mogul, 240 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036

JESSE MERLIN* AMANDA CONLON* NICK DOTHÉE*

JEFF LAGRECA TYLER MARCUM PHILIP MCBRIDE

COURTNEY BRUCE* BRIAN DYER* JESSE GAVIN*

SILENCE! THE MUSICAL

KEVIN MICHAEL MORAN* JULIE OUELLETTE MICHAEL C. SILVA

PETER FLANIGAN NICK FORAN BETSY PAULL-RICK* SHARI BARRETT

SUZANNE SLADE PATRICK PIZZOLORUSSO* EDGAR CARDOSO

SILENCE! THE MUSICAL

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association. This production is being produced under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Association Los Angeles Self-Produced Project Code.

THE CAST

Jesse Merlin* (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) Dr. Hill: Re-Animator: The Musical (200 performances: Vegas Smith Center, Edinburgh Fringe, NYMF, Steve Allen, Hayworth, cast album, Ovation nominee), Hannibal Cover/Swing: Silence! The Musical (Original LA Cast), The President: The Beastly Bombing (Steve Allen, NYMF, Opera aan het Ij- Amsterdam), Troll King: Peer Gynt (SF Symphony), Old Priest: Exorcistic! (Hollywood Fringe), Oscar Wilde: Carved in Stone (Theater Asylum), Captain Corcoran: USS Pinafore (CCTC), Buckingham: Richard III (Eclectic), Sketches from the National Lampoon (Hayworth). Voices of Impact Man: Mega Man 11, F.A.N.G: Street Fighter V. Film/TV: Beyond the Gates, All The Creatures Were Stirring, 12 Deadly Days, Dream Corp LLC, Hellsing Ultimate, FDR: American Badass!, Helen Keller Vs Nightwolves, Jackass 3D/3.5. Opera: 50 productions, four-year Opera San José Artist Residency, Long Beach Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Las Vegas, Pocket Lyrique (Paris), 7 seasons touring with G&S repertory Opera A La Carte. Profiled by NPR as “Mr. Horror Musicals,” 2013. jessemerlin.com Amanda Conlon* (Clarice Starling) has been seen in Bucket List Theatre’s [title of show], Pageant Play, All in the Timing, as well as Missmatch, a musical parody Amanda wrote based on her real life experiences with online dating. Missmatch premiered at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe, was named a Better Lemons Must-See Musical and won the Encore Producers' Award. NYC credits include POPart: The Musical, Lift, A…My Name Will Always Be Alice, Little By Little, Red and Slim Have Issues. Regional credits include The Nerd, Dames at Sea, They’re Playing Our Song, The Rocky Horror Show, Honky Tonk Angels, George M! Amanda will be seen as Melanie in the upcoming feature comedy McDick on Amazon. She’s also appeared in Christmas Trade, The Middle, the viral YouTube sensation Naptime! and her web-series Orphan Brown. Amanda is a member of Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills. amandaconlon.com Nick Dothée* (Buffalo Bill) SILENCE! marks Nick’s official LA Theater debut after performing in NYC for ten years. He previously starred in Babes in Arms with Darren Criss. Other regional credits include Tony in West Side Story, Jinx in Forever Plaid, Hugo in Bye Bye Birdie, Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Nick has been published in OUT magazine and created a successful podcast, Dirty 30 Something, that iTunes named new and noteworthy. His original music can be heard on Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music. Nick is currently in the advanced core track at the Groundlings. Courtney Bruce* (Ardelia, Lamb) is excited to be making her debut performance with the Bucket List Theatre. Some of her recent credits include her work at Sierra Repertory Theatre in Sister Act (Deloris), Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre in The Wizard of Oz (Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West),The Rockwell Table & Stage in UMPO Clueless (Murray / Ms Stoeger / Robber) and The Barn Theatre in Rent (Joanne). She would like to thank her husband Brian, for all of his continued support and encouragement. @courtneybruce2000

Brian Dyer* (Crawford) theatre credits include Actor's Nightmare (Impro Theatre), The Baker's Wife (Actor's Co-op), Invincible: The Ballad of Billie Jean, Cyrano, Broadway at the Bowl (LA Opera), Trouble in Tahiti, and Stargods. Brian has performed at the Odyssey Theatre in Gungy Dan, Bashville and Somethin's Rockin' in Denmark. Film and TV credits include Death Tunnel, The Young and The Restless, The Test, Pro-Choice, State of Mind, Lamborghini Dreams and Raising the Bar. Jesse Gavin* (Stone Rockbrockmanrock, Lamb) hails from Upstate New York where he attended SUNY Geneseo. Theater credits include Henry IV: Part One (Antaeus), Macbeth (Loft Theater Ensember), Twelth Night (Southstreet Seaport), As You Like It (Actors Theater of NJ) and Lend Me a Tenor (Shadowland Theatre Co). TV credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Law & Order: SVU, Rescue Me and Hope & Faith. Regular improve performer at UCB with Mess Hall team Dino Mite, indie team BROseGold, and musical teams Now 165 and Hot Lake. Two live albums on Spotify and regular content on YouTube channel TheJesseGavinShow. Trained at William Esper Studio. jessegavin.com Jeff LaGreca (Bimmel, Lamb) has written several musicals including Minimum Wage which ran Off Broadway after a highly successful and award-winning run at the New York Fringe Festival as well as runs at the Watertower Theatre in Dallas and the St. Ambrose Festival in Montreal. Regional theatre credits include Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, West Side Story, Waiting for Lefty, Up on the Roof. TV/Film credits include This is Ben, Girls Night Out, Felicia & The Great Quebec, May the Force Be With You, Double Take (pilot for AMC), and with Upright Citizen's Brigade on Comedy Central. Jeff plays in two rockbands and is a seasoned improviser and sketch comedian, having performed with several groups at Upright Citizen's Brigade, The PIT, and Gotham City Improv. Tyler Marcum (Dream Lecter, Lamb) is super pumped to put the lotion all over his skin before he gets the hose again. A Florida State University graduate and recent NYC transplant, Tyler has appeared in Altar Boyz (tour), All Shook Up (Virginia Musical Theatre), The Full Monty (Arts Center of Carolina), and Violet (The Gallery Players). Film and TV includes SNL Digital Shorts with Nicki Minaj, promo spots for Logo TV, and debuted his apartment design skills on HGTV's "Small Space, Big Style". All the love to Michael and Franklin the pup! Philip McBride (Papa Starling, Lamb) is beyond thrilled to be back for more fun times with friends at Bucket List Theatre and to be part of the LA theater scene after other ventures within the theatre world have taken him from Texas to New York to California and all the states in between. When not performing, Philip uses his spare time to pursue his other passion as an arranger and orchestrator for his music publishing company, Pikakee Music. Recent credits include Bucket List Theatre’s [title of show], It's Only Life (LA Scenie Award), Sister Act, Xanadu, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Big Fish, All Shook Up and Mary Poppins. For Dad and Aunt Phyllis – who have the best seats in the house.

Kevin Michael Moran* (Dr. Chilton) was last seen at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in an autobiographical play Because of You. Prior to that he was seen at the Actors Co-op in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Other productions include, First Vows (Public Theatre), The Doctor of in Spite of Himself (Apple Corps Theatre), Snake Can with Gregory Harrison and Jane Kazcemerk (Odyssey Theatre), Spinning into Butter (Long Beach Studio Theatre), A Little Night Music (Westchester Playhouse), Jekyll & Hyde (Met Theatre), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Burbank Grove Theatre), A Christmas Memory (Sierra Madre Playhouse) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (National Tour). His credits also include All My Children, Spirit Town, Unforeseen and the Pasadena and NoHo Film Festival award winning short, Have a Little Faith. Kevin currently studies at the The Antaeus Theatre and with Gary Imhoff. He has studied with Sandy Dennis and Uta Hagen at The Herbert Berghof Studio in NY. kevinmichaelmoran.com Julie Ouellette (Catherine, Lamb) Film/TV: Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday (Netflix), Shameless (Showtime), Famous in Love (FreeForm), Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything (Disney XD) and Here and Now (HBO). Theater: Little Mermaid and Legally Blonde (Cupcake Studios), Seussical (Arizona Theater Company) among others. Fight Choreography: The Outsiders and Red Badge of Courage (La Mirada Theater) as well as short films Waitlisted and Awful Pretty. Directing: Orange Is The New Musical (World Premiere, LATC). Education: American Musical & Dramatic Academy, BFA Musical Theater. Julie works in marketing for Pasadena Playhouse. Online: officialjulieo.com Michael C. Silva (Miggs, Lamb) is an actor, improviser and voice over artist. Currently improvising with Captains of Industry every 2nd Friday of the month at Acme NOHO Theater. Recent Stage: Ronny in Hopping on Down the Bunny Trail at the Eclectic Theater, Harold Gorringe in Morgan Wixson's production of Black Comedy, as well as John Smith in Morgan Wixson's Run For Your Wife, and the follow-up sequel Caught in the Net. Performed Off-Broadway with Emerging Artists and TOSOS. Moving Arts Theater Car Plays and One Act festivals. Multiple years in multiple roles in multiple noir inspired plays of Punk Monkey's Play Noir annual one act festival. Recent filmography: Like Company, The Lost One, Tender, At the Maple Grove, Speak No Evil. TV: Pre-Production: The Web Series, CONAN, Carbon Dating, CHUCK, Monk, Mind of Mencia, Chappelle's Show, Late Night with Conan O' Brien. Suzanne Slade (Senator Martin, Lamb) has been a SAG-AFTRA performer since age 3, later finding her love for theatre. Favorite roles include: Maureen in RENT (Int’l/Nat’l tour), Piercy in Minimum Wage (Off-Broadway), Maggie in A Chorus Line (BCP), The Witch in Into the Woods (MMT). Suzanne is also a choreographer and loves to teach children. A lover of music, Suzanne plays the guitar, bass, ukulele, piano and violin. She has played in numerous bands, most recently the nerd band extravaganza, H2Awesome! and the Game of Thrones themed band, Daenerys and the Targaryens. She also plays bass in the L.A.-based band, The Damed. Suzanne can be seen at UCB, where she continues her improv training as well as anywhere geeky with her amazing husband, comedian and writer, Jeff LaGreca.

Patrick Pizzolorusso* (Crawford u/s) Bucket List: Missmatch, Pageant Play, All in the Timing. Film: The Last Cyclist. Off-Broadway: Wait Until Dark; Talk Radio (Chain Theatre); The Last Cyclist (West End Theatre); Romeo And Juliet; Macbeth (American Globe); Madame Tellier's Establishment (Theater for the New City); Welcome to Eternity (NY Fringe 2011); Getting Even with Shakespeare (Player’s Theater). Thanks to Gina! patrickpizzolorusso.com

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Amanda Conlon (Director, Choreographer, Production Design) is the resident director and choreographer for Bucket List Theatre, credits include [title of show], All in the Timing (Stage Raw “Top Ten” and “Recommended”), Pageant Play, and Missmatch (winner of the Hollywood Fringe Encore Producers Award and named a Better Lemons Must-See Musical). Conlon curated and directed all three installments of Bucket List’s recent hit cabaret series Bucket List Cabaret. NYC directing credits include A…My Name Will Always Be Alice, Little By Little, Red and Slim Have Issues. Choreography credits include Merrily We Roll Along, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Boys From Syracuse. Edgar Cardoso (Musical Director) Originally from Portugal, Edgar has trained classically in Aveiro (Portugal), Stuttgart (Germany) and London (UK). As musical director and band pianist, he helped develop new musical works in London including No One in the World, Spend Spend Spend, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Scale of Half a Mile, and Peter Pan Pantomime. He composed the musical Spectrum which had a successful run at the 2016 Camden Fringe. Since moving to the US, Edgar has performed in Bye Bye Birdie, Footloose, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Glendale Centre Theatre), The Music Man (Palos Verdes Norris Theatre) and musical directed Sex Anyone (2017 Hollywood Fringe), Two Gentlemen of Verona (ArTES Magnet) and an epic run of [title of show] with the fabulous Bucket List Theatre. He has performed in 20 countries over 4 continents as a concert pianist and has won over 50 international competitions. He released a solo album in 2015 with works by Claude Debussy, under Spanish recording label KNS Classical. Edgar has worked at Azusa Pacific University in Music and Theatre and recently ended a national tour including Million Dollar Quartet (NC), Sweeney Todd (HI), Hair (PA) and Chicago (Moonlight Vista, CA). Peter Flanigan (Producer) has served as producer for Bucket List's All in the Timing (Stage Raw "Top Ten" and "Recommended"), Pageant Play, [title of show] and Missmatch which premiered at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe (Better Lemons Must-See Musical and winner of the Encore Producers' Award). Nick Foran (Lighting Designer) Originally from Australia, Nick is an actor, comedian, musician and the resident theater designer at the Stella Adler school; his list of production designs is evergrowing, having most recently directed the lighting for acclaimed magician Justin Willman's sold out run at The Roosevelt Hotel. He works around LA as a stage manager and designer, working with directors such as Broadway legend Robert Allan Ackerman as well

as touring with the Second City company. This is his third show he has designed for Bucket List Theatre after All In The Timing and [title of show]. Betsy Paull-Rick* (Production Stage Manager) a recent transplant from Las Vegas, Betsy is a former member of the Detroit Dance Collective and originally from Michigan. She has toured the US and Canada with such shows as The Phantom of the Opera, Anything Goes, The Addams Family, The Color Purple and Dirty Dancing to name a few. Favorite onstage roles include Judy in A Chorus Line, Jeanne in Hair and Tiny Tim in Scrooge. She has also directed and/or choreographed productions of A New Brain, Hair, Forever Plaid, Applause and The Sound of Music, in various regional theatres. Betsy is thrilled to work with this talented cast and crew here at Bucket List Theatre. Shari Barrett (Publicist) is a Los Angeles native and graduate of Cal State Northridge. She has been active in the theater world since the age of six – acting, singing and dancing her way across the boards all over town. After teaching in local secondary schools, working in marketing for several studios, writing, directing, producing and performing in productions for several non-profit theaters, Shari now dedicates her time and focuses her skills as an Independent Publicist for production companies and as a Theater Reviewer for Broadway World, the Culver City News, and Better Lemons. Shari has received recognition from the City of Los Angeles for “her dedication of heart and hand to the needs of friends, neighbors and fellow members of society for her devotion of service to the people of Los Angeles,” and is honored and thrilled to “get the word out” about the great productions by Bucket List Theatre. Founded by Artistic Director Amanda Conlon, Bucket List Theatre burst onto the Los Angeles theatre scene in 2016. Bucket List’s productions have been named Stage Raw "Top Ten" & "Recommended", Better Lemons "Must-See" and have received the Hollywood Fringe "Encore! Producers' Award". Bucket List recently launched a new cabaret series, Bucket List Cabaret, which Broadway World proclaimed “explosively entertaining”. Bucket List Cabaret will return to Three Clubs and other Los Angeles venues in 2019. Bucket List is a proud member of LA Stage Alliance.

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