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(she/her) Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Actress. Acting credits include Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen. Off-Broadway: Confederates (Signature Theatre), FairyCakes (The Greenwich House), Little Women (Primary Stages), Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), Hamlet (The Public Theatre), Invisible Thread (Second Stage Theatre), Heathers The Musical (New World Stages), Cabin In The Sky (Encores City Center). Selected Regional: American Prophet (Arena Stage), Paradise Blue (Williamstown), Witness Uganda (ART), Hairspray, Rent (Hollywood Bowl). TV includes: Random Acts of Flyness (HBO), Elementary, Madam Secretary (CBS), ER (NBC), Lie to Me (FOX), and Kevin Can Wait (CBS).

A 3-time Tony Award nominee, Ms. Carmello is thrilled to take on the iconic Stepmother in Bad Cinderella, her 16th Broadway show! Broadway audiences have seen her performances as John Dickinson in the Roundabout revival of 1776, as Mae Tuck in Tuck Everlasting; Mrs. du Maurier in Finding Neverland (Drama Desk nomination); Aimee Semple McPherson in Scandalous (Tony & Drama Desk nominations); Mother Superior in Sister Act; Alice Beineke in The Addams Family (Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nominations); Donna in Mamma Mia!; Gabrielle in Lestat (Tony & Drama Desk nominations); Ms. Pennywise in Urinetown; Kate in Kiss Me, Kate; Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel; Lucille Frank in Parade (Tony nomination & Drama Desk Award); Abigail Adams in 1776 (in the 1997 revival); Cordelia in Falsettos; and as Oolie in City of Angels. Off-Broadway credits include: John and Jen, Das Barbecü, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Hello Again (Obie Award), A Class Act, The Vagina Monologues, Elegies, and Mrs. Lovett in the critically-acclaimed Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre. Her screen credits include Dopesick, Evil, The Deuce, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Good Fight, Madam Secretary, Smash, Law and Order: SVU, Frasier, Ed, Indoor Boys (Indie Series Award) and Remember W.E.N.N. (SAG Award nomination). Ms. Carmello recently toured the U.S. as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! and her concert appearances have taken her across America and Europe, including engagements at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, and Carnegie Hall.

(she/her) Broadway: Beautiful (Lucille), Sondheim. Regional: Shoebox Picnic (Odette), Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Lights Out (Eartha Kitt; Best Actress Nominations, Ovation and Barrymore), Geffen Playhouse and People’s Light; Man of La Mancha (Aldonza, Best Actress Nomination, CT Critics Circle), Westport Country Playhouse; Once on This Island (Erzulie), Actors Theatre of Louisville. TV/Film: Nanny (Sundance Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic); FBI, Raising Kanan, Jigsaw, Pretty Little Liars, Younger, Ridley Jones. Education: BA, Drama, African Studies, Fordham. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) Broadway: Sunset Boulevard (u/s Glenn Close), Wonderful Town, A Class Act. London: Kiss Me, Kate (Olivier Nomination). Tours: Kiss Me, Kate (Hayes Nomination), Doctor Dolittle. Off-Broadway: Lily Dare, Primary Stages; Yank!, York Theater; Fanny Hill (Drama Desk Nomination), Jolson & Co. (Drama Desk Nomination). Television: The Gilded Age, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two, Madam Secretary, Kiss Me Kate CD: Ten Cents A Dance. Nancy is from Needham, MA. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(they/she) Broadway: South Pacific, My Fair Lady, revivals at Lincoln Center; Addams Family, Avenue Q, Les Misérables (first revival original cast). Off-Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, Giant, Sarah, Plain and Tall. They have songs on all streaming platforms under their name (Becca Ayers) and with their band, baby goes bang. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) Tiffani Barbour is thrilled to be making history with this production of 1776. As a Baltimore native, she got her start at the Arena Players Inc. and continued her training at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Theater credits include: Mamma Mia!, North Shore Music Theater; How to Catch Creation, Baltimore Center Stage/Philadelphia Theater Company; Hit the Wall, Barrow Street Theater. TV/Film: The Leftovers, Rabbit, Law and Order. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) Allyson Kaye Daniel is originally from Washington, DC, where her love for music and theatre blossomed at the prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts. She attended Penn State, where she received her BFA in Musical Theatre. Allyson has worked all over the country at regional theatres, in TV/Film, taught elementary through high school music, and performed on several cruise lines and in New York City. She is very pleased to be living the life she’s always wanted! Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) A.R.T.: Once (Tony Award nomination), NYTW, Broadway. Select: John Doyle’s Allegro (Drama Desk nomination); Buzz, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Indecent, Center Theatre Group, Huntington Theatre Company; My Name’s Not Indian Joe, Davenport; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Classic Stage Company; Zorba!, City Center; Rain, Old Globe; 39 Steps, New World Stages. TV: Law & Order: SVU, New Amsterdam, Blue Bloods, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Taxi Brooklyn, Fringe. Writing: The Apple Tree (album), Child(less) (play). Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) Regional: Twelfth Night, Appoggiatura, A Christmas Carol, Denver Center for Performing Arts; The Corpse Washer, Actors Theatre of Louisville; You Can’t Take It With You, Noises Off, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Indiana Repertory Theatre/Syracuse Stage; Hamlet, Indianapolis Shakespeare Co; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Illinois Shakespeare Festival; The Happiest Song Plays Last, Curious Theater Co.; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Guys and Dolls, Creede Repertory Theater. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Broadway: leading roles in War Paint, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Sunday in the Park with George, Les Misérables, Hairspray, The Sweet Smell of Success, Urinetown, Rags, Conversations with My Father, Welcome to the Club, After the Night and the Music. Tour: Finding Neverland, First National. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Daryl Roth Theatre. TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Younger. Education/Training: Yale School of Drama.

(she/her) Broadway: The Last Ship (Mrs. Dees). Broadway National Tours: Les Misérables (Madame Thénardier), Kinky Boots (Trish). Off-Broadway: Miss You Like Hell, The Public Theater. Regional: My Paris, Goodspeed; Hello Dolly, Sacramento Music Circus; Twist, Alliance Theater. TV: Orange is the New Black (C.O. Ginger), The Time Traveler’s Wife (Isabelle), Halston (Pat Ast), Russian Doll (Nurse Reba), New Amsterdam (Inmate Charly Yarborough). Film: BRUISED (Directed by Halle Berry). Actors’ Equity Association member.

Select credits include: Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera (Christine Daaé), 1776 (Martha Jefferson/Dr. Lyman Hall); Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd with the Barrow Street Theatre (Johanna), Assassins with Encores! at the New York City Center; World Premiere: Sousatzka (Young Sousatzka); National Tour: Jekyll and Hyde (Emma Carew). As a concert artist, Eryn has toured internationally and performed across the country with some of the leading symphony orchestras. BM: Oklahoma City University.

(she/her) A.R.T.: O.P.C. Broadway: Lysistrata Jones (Hetaira). Off-Broadway: Lysistrata Jones, Transport Group; Fruit Trilogy, Abingdon Theatre. Regional: V to the Tenth (The Vagina Monologues), Louisiana Superdome; Spring Awakening, Theatre Under The Stars; Seussical, Hairspray, All Shook Up!, MUNY Theatre; Little Women (Marmie), Old Globe Theatre. International: Blind Lemon Blues, Forum Meyrin (Switzerland), Maison des Cultures du Monde (Paris, France). Resident Company Member, Dallas Theater Center. TV/Film: Friday Night Lights (Corrina Williams), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Get On Up!, Miss Juneteenth. Ten Chimneys Lunt Fontanne Fellow. Actors’ Equity Association member..

(she/her) A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3). Other credits: Lemon Girls, La MaMa; Gloria: A Life, McCarter Theatre Center, Daryl Roth Theater; Men on Boats, Baltimore Center Stage; The Oresteia, Shakespeare Theatre Company; Masculinity Max, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Public Theater; Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Signature Theatre; Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1,2 & 3), Mark Taper Forum. Film/TV: New Amsterdam, Daddy, The Sopranos, Law & Order. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) National Tour: Rodger+Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Off- Broadway: Disenchanted (Lortel nomination). Regional: Man of La Mancha, Westport Country Playhouse; Man of La Mancha, freeFall Theatre; 9 to 5, North Carolina Theatre; Wit, American Stage; Finding Nemo: the Musical, Walt Disney World. TV/Film: Going in Style, Frozen Blu-Ray, Welcome to Flatch. Creative consultant: The Choir of Man, Norwegian Creative Studios, Walt Disney World. Podcast host: The Daily Happy, 10K Dollar Day. Education: BA, Political Science, Stetson University; MBA (Leadership Studies), University of South Florida. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) Broadway: FELA! (Production: Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination), Eugene O’Neill Theatre; Spongebob Squarepants (Production: Tony Award), Palace Theatre; Amazing Grace: The Musical, Nederlander Theatre; Violet (Asst. to Choreographer), American Airlines Theatre. West End: FELA!; West Side Story (Anita), Sadler’s Wells. Off-Broadway: Black No More, Signature/The New Group. Tours: FELA! First and Second National, International; West Side Story (Anita), International. Dance: Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/they) Sara Porkalob is an award-winning artist-activist, cultural worker, and creator of the Dragon Cycle, a trilogy of matrilineal musicals about her Filipino American gangster family, with one play for each generation built around a central female protagonist. Dragon Lady premiered at Intiman Theatre and was the recipient of three 2018 Gregory Awards (Outstanding Sound/Music Design, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Outstanding Musical Production). Dragon Mama premiered at the A.R.T., which has commissioned the third play, Dragon Baby.

(pronoun inconclusive) Off-Broadway: Interstate, Theatre Row. Regional: 7 Minutes (English-language premiere), Waterwell; Girlfriend, The Drama League DirectorFest; Interstate, Mixed Blood Theatre (world premiere), development at MCC, NYSAF, NAMT, DGF Fellows Festival, Pride Plays, Playwrights Horizons; The Wolves, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Sushma is a queer South Asian-American artist who graduated with a BFA in musical theatre from Ithaca College. They won “Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role” at NYMF 2018.

(she/her) Brooke Simpson is a powerhouse vocalist who is passionate about music, people, and her culture. Brooke is full-blooded Native American and is a member of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe. Brooke has had the opportunity to work with artists including Miley Cyrus, Sia, Bishop Briggs, and more. She was a top three finalist on NBC’s The Voice and even more recently was a top four finalist on America’s Got Talent! Brooke has released multiple singles including Little Bit Crazy, Stick Like Honey, and her newest release, Haliwa.

(she/her) Salome B. Smith is originally from Birmingham, AL. Salome studied theater at Alabama State University, where she received a BFA and also studied Musical Theater at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she received her MFA. She was last seen in the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors and is so excited to be making her Broadway debut in the revival of 1776!

(they/they) Regional: Other World, Delaware Theatre Company; Lempicka, Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Elementary Spacetime Show, Playwrights Downtown; Falsettos, 11th Hour Theatre Company. Concerts: We Start In Manhattan: A New Queer Musical, The Green Room 42. Education: BFA, Musical Theatre, University of the Arts. Sav is also a musical theatre writer & lyricist, passionate about lifting up queer and trans stories. They are currently developing We Start In Manhattan: A New Queer Musical with their writing (and life) partner, Ariella Serur. Actors’ Equity Association member.

(she/her) Broadway: Fela! (Dance Captain) (Production: Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination, Astaire Award, ACCA Actors Equity Award), Eugene O’Neill Theatre. Off-Broadway: FELA! New Musical, 37 Arts Theatre; CULLUD WATTAH (Associate Movement Director), The Public Theater; LORDES (Choreographer), New Ohio Theatre. Regional: And My Name Ain’t Peaches, Theatre Outlet. Tours: FELA! First and Second National, International. TV: She Gotta Have It (Jubilee Jones). Film: Lifted (Directed by Randall Dottin). Education/Training: The Ailey School; Anthony Abeson; Heidi Marshall. Actors’ Equity Association member.

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