2017 Davis Shakespeare Festival
WONDERFUL TOWN
Book by Fields & Chodorov, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Comden & Green
CAST
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
Gabby Battista: Eileen Sherwood
Previously at the Festival: Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Verges/Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, Ensemble in She Loves Me.
Other Theatres: Antigone, Big Idea Theatre; The Box, Z Space Theater; Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, San Francisco Neo Futurists; Vildskud Teatrefestival, Copenhagen; 36th Street Blues, Greenway Court Theatre; Avenue Q, San Francisco State Mainstage.
Education: Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University.
Gia Battista: Ruth Sherwood
Previously at the Festival: Ella in Bells Are Ringing, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2011), Viola in Twelfth Night (2011), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet(2010), Belovedin The Sonnet Project, Narrator in Nightingale, Amiens in As You Like It, Eurydice in Relapse. Directing credits: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, She Loves Me, Nightingale, Macbeth: The Radio Play, Relapse, Shakespeare (Abridged), The Sonnet Project. Founding Artistic Director.
Other Theatres: Dorine, Tartuffe, Sacramento State Opera Theater; Chorus, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Music Circus; Gallathea, Gallathea, Isabella, Measure for Measure, UC Davis Theater & Dance; Shiela, Hair, Studio 301 Productions; North Coast Repertory Theater.
Education: MM in Vocal Performance, Sacramento State (in progress); BA in English & Drama, UC Davis.
Brian Bohlender: Wreck/Ensemble
Other Theatres: Trevor, Trevor, Antony & Cleopatra, Big Idea Theatre; John Snyder, The Donner Party, Cinderella, The Tempest, Sacramento Theatre Company; Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing, Hungry Moth Players; The Rocky Horror Show, Title of show, Green Valley Theatre; Vanya,Sonia, Masha, and Spike, Main Street theatre works
Education: Sierra College; Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts beginning August 2017.
Kevin Caravalho: Appopolous/Ensemble
Other Theatres: Black Stache, Peter and the Starcatcher, Green Valley Theatre;Prior, Angels in America, Lambda Players;Jamie, Last Five Years, SRT Theater; Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, Seymour, Little Shop of Horrors, Rocklin Community Theater; Shrek, Shrek: The Musical, DMTC;Max, The Producers, Sutter Street Theatre; Dr. Frank, Rocky Horror, Garbeaus Dinner Theater.
Annie Dick: Violet/Ensemble
Other Theatres: B Street’s Fantasy Americana School Tour; Fanny Allan, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Green Valley Theatre Company.
Education: Dramatic Arts at UC Davis; CAP 21 Summer Program.
Tim Gaffaney: Officer Lonigan/Ensemble
Previously at the Festival: Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Dr. Kitchell in Bells Are Ringing, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Bazzard in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Head Waiter in She Loves Me, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing.
Other Theatres: Bunthorne, Patience, St. Andrews G&S Society; Touchstone, The Curate Shakespeare: As You Like It, Foundry Players (Washington, DC); Doc Gibbs, Our Town, Foundry Players; Applegate, Damn Yankees, Davis Musical Theater Company; La Flèche, The Miser, Wayne Wellacre, Inspecting Carole, Ferraillon, A Flea in Her Ear, Woodland Opera House.
Education: Ph.D., Political Science, UCLA.
Kevin Gish: Fletcher/Ensemble
Previously at the Festival: Paris in Romeo & Juliet, Marquis in Cyrano de Bergerac, Barton in Bells Are Ringing.
Other Theatres: Sebastian, The Tempest, Willoughby, Sense and Sensibility, Sacramento Theatre Company;Billy Boy Bill, Urinetown, Slow Burn Theatre; Cockney Quartet/Ensemble, My Fair Lady, Sierra Repertory Theatre.
Samantha Hannum: Ensemble
Other Theatres: Irina, Three Sisters, City Theatre; Peaseblossom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sacramento Shakespeare Festival; Biondello, Taming of the Shrew, Wildflower Women’s Ensemble.
Education: Theatre Arts at Sacramento City College.
Ian Hopps: Frank/Ensemble
Previously at the Festival: Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet, Jeffrey Moss in Bells Are Ringing, Ligniere/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac, Feste in Twelfth Night, Deputy in The Mystery of Edwin Drood,Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Georg Nowack in She Loves Me.
Other Theatres: Stupid F##king Bird, Capital Stage; The Tempest, Sacramento Theatre Company; The 39 Steps, The Rover, Big Idea Theatre; Spoon River, Eclectic Company Theatre; Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness, 99 Stock Productions (2012 NY Fringe Festival); Henry VI pt I & II, Do It Live! Productions; W.S. Gilbert’s Engaged, SFSU Mainstage.
Education: Theatre Arts Performance at San Francisco State University.
Website: www.ianhopps.com
Andrea J. Love: Helen/Ensemble
Other Theatres: Hope, Urinetown, Berkeley Playhouse; Viola/Sebastian, Twelfth Night, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; Sense and Sensibility, Cinderella, Twelfth Night, Sacramento Theatre Company; La Rue’s Return, A Four-Legged Fortune, The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville; Ring of Fire, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Maples Repertory Theatre.
Education: MFA in Acting, University of Alabama; BA in Music Performance & Theory, Agnes Scott College.
Johnny Quesada: Valenti/Ensemble
Previously at the Festival: Francis/Ensemble in Bells Are Ringing, Cuigy/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Other Theatres: Giorgibus, Signor Deluso, Neighbor/Chorus, Darling Corie, Chorus, Mozart! Mozart!, Sacramento State Opera Theater.
Education: BM, Music Education, California State University, Sacramento (In progress).
Sarah Rothaus: Ensemble
Previously at the Festival: Ensemble in Bells Are Ringing, Duenna/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Other Theatres: Cock, Intrepid Theatre Lab; Fantasy Festival 31, B Street Theatre; The Rover, Big Idea Theatre; Adoration of Dora, KOLT Run Creations; Anna Karenina, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Capital Stage Company; Marat/Sade, California Stage; The Trojan Women, Conference of the Birds, Measure for Measure, Adding Machine: a Musical, Aquitania, Willamette University Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Sacramento Shakespeare Festival; Treasure Island, La Pastorela, The Birds, Sacramento Theatre Company.
Education: BA in Theatre from Willamette University, British American Drama Academy, Capital Stage Apprentice Program, and Sacramento Theatre Company Young Professionals Conservatory.
Kyle Stoner: Chick/Ensemble
Previously at the Festival: Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac, Sandor in Bells Are Ringing, James Throttle in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Sebastian in Twelfth Night.
Other theaters: Princeton/Rod, Avenue Q, NCTC; Fabrizio, Light in the Piazza, Altarena Playhouse; J. Pierrepont Finch, How to Succeed, BAM! SF; F-WORD aka Frodo aka Francis, AlterTheater’s world premiere of The Fellowship; Jaques, As You Like It, SF Shakespeare Festival; Jesus, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jack, Into the Woods; Himself/Austin Tichenor sub in the world premiere of the Reduced Shakespeare Co.’s Ultimate Xmas Show (abridged).
Jessica Woehler: Mrs. Wade/Ensemble
Previously at the Festival: Brissaille/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac, Ensemble in Bells Are Ringing.
Other Theatres: Truvy, Steel Magnolias, Martha, The Broken: An Original Play, Dottore, A Servant of Two Masters, Mrs Stockton, Mrs Packard, La Poncia, The House of Bernarda Alba, Martha, The Games Afoot, George Fox University; Mattie Fae, August: Osage County, Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland, Ludwig Maximilian Univeristy (Munich, Germany); Lucetta, The Rover, Big Idea Theatre.
Education: BA in Theatre from George Fox University.
J.R. Yancher: Bob Baker
Previously at the Festival: Inspector Barnes in Bells Are Ringing, Montfleury/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Other Theatres: Clybourne Park, Assassins, Gutenberg! the Musical, The Diary of Anne Frank, Sense and Sensibility, Feeding Time at the Human House, Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Uneditable, Victory Gardens; Taming of the Shrew, Ten Chimneys; Romeo and Juliet, The Real Thing, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Little Women the Musical, Cabaret, Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Christmas Carol, The Sound of Music, PCPA Theaterfest. Bix and Bax’s Box, OG Theater.
Education: BFA in Theater, Cornish College of the Arts; AA in Acting, The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts.