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KATHEL CARLSON (Myra Kesselman) happily returns to the Cape Playhouse after appearing as Miss Poppenguhl

in Moonlight and Magnolias last summer. She is a graduate of AMDA and veteran of stage and TV. A friend dragged

her to her 1st audition in New York on the spur of the moment where, having no music with her (of course) improvised

a chorus of "Swanee" and in a single shot won the roles of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Amy in

Where's Charlie, Agnes in I Do I Do and the heart of her future husband James Brennan all in a single season of stock.

She subsequently has performed the roles of Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress, Ellen Peterson in Bells are Ringing,

Molly in The Unsinkable, Robert Ann in Nunsence, MaMa in George Wolf's production of Paradise and Martha in Virginia

Wolfe. Between 1979 and 1995 she has made over 200 network commercials for everything from Pampers to Dr. Pepper.

Along with her amazing husband of 35 years, Kathel and Jim have raised one perfect son smoothly to adulthood and as of

last St. Patrick's Day they are the proudest of grandparents. Kathel is also an avid gardener and accomplished painter – life

just gets better and better.

DAWN DIDAWICK (Marietta Claypoole) was last seen at the Cape Playhouse in All My Sons. Television credits

include: “Erin Brockovich” with Julia Roberts, “Christmas With The Kranks” with Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis,

“Breakfast Of Champions” with Bruce Willis, “I Shot Andy Warhol”, “Dance With Me”, “The Amateurs” with Jeff Bridges,

“Almost A Woman” (Peabody Award), “JAG”, “Ed”, “Caroline In The City”, “Murder One”. Other theatre credits include

New York, Broadway: All My Sons (Tony Award Best Revival), Off Broadway: Marsha Norman's,Trudy Blue and

Third And Oak, Los Angeles: The Man Who Had All The Luck, Pera Pelas, and Chekov X Four, Regional: Leading roles

in both the classics and new works at The Globe Theatre in San Diego, Longwharf Theatre, Hartford Stage Co, Seattle

Repertory, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis ,the World Premiere of Shiloh Rules at Alabama Shakespeare, Caught In

The Net at the Coconut Grove with the late Tony Randall and several seasons with the Actor's Theatre of Louisville

where she began her life long collaboration with her husband Harry Groener. She is a proud member of the award

winning Antaeus Company of Los Angeles.

HARRY GROENER (Hank Hadley) was last seen at the Cape Playhouse in 2004 in I Do I Do with Diana Canova.

Broadway: Crazy for You (Tony nomination), Oklahoma (Tony and Drama Desk nomination and a Theatre World Award),

Cats (Tony nomination), Harrigan And Hart (Drama Desk nomination), Oh Brother!, Is There Life After High School?,

Sleight Of Hand, Sunday In The Park With George, Imaginary Friends, and in 2006 King Arthur in Spamalot. At Lincoln

Center, Twelve Dreams by James Lapine. Off-Broadway: Picasso At The Lapin Agile by Steve Martin, and If Love Were

All with Twiggy. TV: Over 60 credits include “The Mayor” in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Ralph” in “Dear John”, and

episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “Voyager”, and “Enterprise”, “Medium”, “Bones”, “Las Vegas” and “The

West Wing”. Film: “About Schmidt” with Jack Nicholson, “Road To Perdition” with Tom Hanks, “Amistad”, “Dance

With Me”, “Brubaker” with Robert Redford, “Buddy Boy”, “Manna From Heaven”, “Role Of A Lifetime” with Scott Bakula,

“The Day The World Ended”, and most recently, “Beautiful Loser”, and Independent Film written and directed by John Nolte.

He is an Associate Artist at the Globe Theatre in San Diego. He is also a proud member of the Antaeus Company in Los

Angeles and is happily married to his wife of 28 years, Dawn Didawick.

JOEL HIGGINS (Jack McCullough) On Broadway, Joel was James in Shenandoah (Theatre World Award), Sebastian

in Music Is, Ben in Angel (Drama Desk Award), Curly in Oklahoma and Stone in City Of Angels. He was in the First

National Tour of Grease and has starred in numerous other regional, stock and touring productions including eight

productions (Brigadoon, Showboat, Kiss Me Kate, The Music Man, Guys & Dolls, Three Coins In The Fountain, and

several made-for-television films (“Killing At Hell’s Gate”, “Freshman Year”, “Threesome”, “Laura Lansing Slept Here”,

“Rich Men, Single Women”). Damn Yankees and Side By Side By Sondheim at the Muny Opera of St. Louis as well as

Harvey, The Foreigner, She Loves Me, Showboat, Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, Same Time Next Year, etc. in other venues

around the country. On television he starred or co-starred in four primetime series: “Salvage I” on ABC; “Best Of The

West” on ABC; the long-running “Silver Spoons” on NBC; “Have Faith” on ABC as well as daytime series: “Search For

Tomorrow” on CBS. He has also guest-starred in several series, including “Home Improvement”, “JAG”, “Crossing

Jordan”, “Ed”, etc. and his TV and independent films include: “Killing At Hell’s Gate”; “Freshman Year”; “Threesome”;

“Laura Lansing Slept Here”; “Rich Men, Single Women” and “Dead Canaries”. Joel wrote the lyrics, co-wrote the music

and directed the premiere production of Johnny Guitar, The Musical at the Century Center Theater For The Performing

Arts in New York where it garnered four Drama Desk Award nominations, two Drama League Award nominations, two

Lucille Lortel Award nominations, and won the Outer Critics Circle Award as Best Off-Broadway Musical of the 2003-2004

season. Johnny Guitar, The Musical has had numerous subsequent critically acclaimed productions in locales as diverse

as Boston, Carmel, Coral Gables, Dallas, etc. Joel previously co-wrote (with his writing partner, composer Martin Silvestri)

and starred in The Fields Of Ambrosia, which premiered at The George Street Playhouse before transferring to the Aldwych

Theatre on London’s West End.

DEE HOTY (Tibby McCullough) has received three Tony nominations for her starring roles in Footloose, The Best Little

Whorehouse Goes Public and Will Rogers Follies. Other Broadway: Mamma Mia!, City of Angels, Me and My Girl, Big River,

The Five O'Clock Girl, Shakespeare's Cabaret. Off-Broadway: Personals, Vanities, Forbidden Broadway. Regional: St. Louis

Rep, Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh CLO, Paper Mill, O'Neill Conference, Bay Street, Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Goodspeed,

Ford's. Workshop productions: Dangerous Beauty and Night of the Hunter. Most recent television: “Law & Order: CI”.

Upcoming film: “The Understudy”. Dee has appeared at the Cape Playhouse in The Lion in Winter and Don't Dress for

Dinner. Proud Equity member since 1976. Otterbein College graduate.

EDEN RIEGEL (Spencer McCullough) received a 2005 Daytime Emmy Award for her work as Bianca Montgomery on ABC's

“All My Children”. Eden made her Broadway debut at age seven in Les Misérables and has appeared on NBC's "Law and Order",

"American Dreams" and FOX's "New York Undercover". She can be seen in the film “American Pie”, and can be heard in the

DreamWorks animated feature “Prince of Egypt”. Theater credits include The Will Rogers Follies on Broadway, Nine

Armenians at the Manhattan Theater club, and the world premier of Arthur Laurent's My Good Name at the Bay Street

Theater. Eden is thrilled to be returning to the New England summer theater stage after playing Millie in the Reagle

Players' production of Thoroughly Modern Millie last year.

JAMES BRENNAN (Director) has created productions of Sound Of Music for Pittsburgh CLO, Call Me Madam at the

Goodspeed Opera House, Moonlight and Magnolias, On Your Toes, Noises Off, Don’t Dress For Dinner, and A.R. Gurney’s

The Dining Room at the Cape Playhouse on Cape Cod, and She Loves Me at the Paper Mill Playhouse. This past year he

directed the Off Broadway premiers of Ed Dixon’s musicalization of the ribald 16th century novel Fanny Hill at the York

Theatre, and Richard Corey, based on the A.R. Gurney play of the same name, at The Lion Theatre on 42nd Street. He

has also directed the Paper Mill’s productions of Noises Off, Sound Of Music, and Crazy For You (which was televised on

PBS), as well as a Where’s Charley? in Wichita, a 42nd Street and a Hello Dolly! in Sacramento, C4U’s in Atlanta,

Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Westchester, and Wichita, and She Loves Me’s in Philadelphia and Maine. On the Broadway

stage, he set the revivals of Cole Porter’s Jubilee, and Jerome Kern’s Sally. He has, over the years, in various stock and

dinner theatres, directed and choreographed productions of Chicago, Cabaret, The Merry Widow, The Unsinkable Molly

Brown, Bells Are Ringing, George M, The Apple Tree, Kiss Me Kate, and High Button Shoes among others. This past

autumn, Jim was responsible for the production of A Wonderful Life, by Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo, at the Paper

Mill Playhouse. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in Good News, Rodgers and Hart, So Long 174th Street, I

Love My Wife, Little Me, 42nd Street, Singin’ in the Rain, Me And My Girl, and Crazy For You. He toured America in

No No Nanette, Good News, Me And My Girl, Camelot, and Crazy For You. Jim has performed the role of Elyot Chase

in Noel Coward’s Private Lives at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady in Philadelphia,

Sacramento, Wichita, and Winnipeg, Doolittle in “MFL” at the Portland Center Stage (Oregon) and the Dallas Theatre

Center, Arthur in “Camelot” in San Diego, Sacramento, Philadelphia (Barrymore nomination), and at the Paper Mill

Playhouse, John Adams in “1776” in Sacramento, Rochester, and Philadelphia (Barrymore Award), and The Devil in

“Damn Yankees” ,and Pseudolus in “...Forum” in Sacramento. When he’s been directing for a while,

he misses acting...and vice versa.

DAN MEEKER (Set Designer) Scenery: At the Cape Playhouse, Moonlight & Magnolias, The Rink, The World

Goes Round and Wait Until Dark; Eurydice, University of Rochester; Hello Dolly, Hangar Theatre; Great Googley

Moo, Sage Theater; Behind The Limelight and The Screams of Kitty Genovese, NYMF. Scenery & Lighting: Noodle

Doodle Box, Geva Theatre; Lighting: Bill W. & Dr. Bob, Off Broadway and originally at New Repertory Theatre; Trying

and Auntie & Me, Merrimack Rep; Cyrano De Bergerac, University of Delaware PTTP; Cool Wave New York dance

festival, White Wave Brooklyn; American Landscape, Nai Ni Chen, NJPAC; Upcoming projects include: Lighting for

Vrooommm!, SPF NYC; World Premiere of ssoot, at DTW choreography by Young Soon Kim; Graduate of Ithaca College

and The Yale School of Drama.

GAIL BALDONI (Costume Designer) Prior Cape Playhouse shows include: Noises Off, Pete ‘N Keely and Don’t

Dress for Dinner. Design credits include Wonderful Town for New York City Opera, My Fair Lady for New York

Philharmonic, Off-Broadway shows Jolson & Co, A Majority of One, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, The Subject

was Roses, Rags, Milk and Honey, Home of the Brave, Cinderella, Tall Grass and The Yiddish Trojan Woman.

Gail is an Emmy nominated designer for NBC’s drama “Another World”, has worked for Ringling Bros. Circus and

made Cher’s mermaid costume for the film “Mermaids”. She has also designed the independent film “Boy In A Bathtub”,

many shows for Papermill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera and the Boston Ballet as well as Westchester Broadway Theatre.