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CAST & CREWSICAL

Joe Peracchio (Director) is Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed TRICKLOCK COMPANY, now theatre in residence at the University of New Mexico. He is the founder of New Mexico’s REVOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL now in its 8th season, and presents the Free Speech Comedy Art Series annually in collaboration with Paul Provenza (The Aristocrats). His play The Glorious & Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid, which he wrote & directed with Tricklock, has completed three international tours to Edinburgh, L.A., Chicago, Krakow, Prague, Belgrade, Cologne, & Calgary. He has served as Assistant Director to Moises Kaufman (Carmen, 2004), and has worked with numerous other playwrights directing, performing, & producing their work including Neil LaBute, Mac Wellman, Michael McClure, & Elana Greenfield. He directed and starred in the hit rock-opera Taking The Jesus Pill in Hollywood in ‘06, which enjoyed a sold-out 5-month run and is being made into a feature film which he will also direct and star in this fall. He directed the world premiere of Idris Goodwin’s Danger Face at Chicago’s Prop Theatre in ‘06 and is reprising the production this fall as part of Chicago’s Rhino Festival. Joe was a writer and lead actor in the PBS/CBS comedy show Fences for two seasons (Gold Medal: NY Festival of Film and TV & nominated twice for Regional Emmy Awards). Recent film & TV credits include The New Prince Valliant pilot (Hearst Entertainment), the lead in SMACK (Method Fest nominee: Best Feature), the lead in A Couple of Days & Nights (2007 release), ABC’s Wildfire, & Into The West directed by Steven Spielberg.

Spencer Green (Librettist/Lyricist) will be running for President in 2008 as a Bull Moose candidate and promises, once and for all, to capture Pancho Villa dead or alive. He (not Villa) has written for In Living Color, AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Duckman, Mad TV, The Fairly Oddparents and Denis Leary’s Merry F#%$in’ Christmas. A number of animated short films that he has co-written, including “Raging Rudolph,” “Davey and Son of Goliath,” and “It’s Jihad Farley Towne” continue to float around helplessly in the phantom zone of YouTube. Along with writing the requisite number of failed TV pilots, Mr. Green has been a contributing editor for 15 years to Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video Guide as well as co-editor of Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia, and managing editor of Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide. He also edited We’ll Never Be Young Again: Remembering the Last Days of John F. Kennedy. Mr. Green has won no awards but can sing all of Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements” and has been successfully cutting and chewing his own food since the age of 28. His favorite non-radioactive isotope is deuterium.

Gary Stockdale (Composer/Lyricist) has composed music for television shows such as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, To Tell the Truth, Good Girls Don’t, and Cowboy U, and in 2004 and 2005, he arranged the opening numbers and music-directed William Shatner for Comedy Central’s Last Laugh. Since 1990, he’s written music for Penn & Teller. Leading the band on their critically-acclaimed variety series Penn & Teller’s Sin City Spectacular, he received his first Emmy nomination for an original musical number, a secular gospel song called “Freedom Dot Com,” sung by Jennifer Holliday. He received his second Emmy nomination for the theme to Showtime’s hit series Penn & Teller: BULLSHIT! Stockdale recently wrote music for the acclaimed documentaries THE ARISTOCRATS, by Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette, and FIRED!, by Annabelle Gurwitch. Besides having been an original member of The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Stockdale is part of the long-running LA band The Jenerators along with Billy Mumy (child star of TV’s Lost in Space, and The Twilight Zone) and Miguel Ferrer (Crossing Jordan). He also appeared as a featured actor and vocal soloist in the cult-classic flop Cop/Rock (as the guilty defendant in the courtroom scene).

Having begun his career writing for the theatre, Stockdale’s delighted to be doing Bukowsical! and honored to work with all of these amazing people. Special thanks go to his wife Danelle, and daughters, Savannah and Fiona. The girls won’t be seeing this show for a few years, but they’ve always been told, “There are no bad words, just words you can use in school, and words you can’t.”

John Mitchell (Producer) John has been a producer and director for more than twenty years, having produced and directed literally hundreds of shows in Northern and Southern California.
John’s first professional experience in theater was as assistant to California Music Theater’s Producing Director in Sacramento. This was followed by a stint as the youngest Box Office Treasurer in the history of Sacramento Theater Company.

His original musical adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” played for more than five years in Northern California. He served as Artistic Director for the Lambda Players (Sacramento), Miracle Productions, Ltd. (Sacramento), and five seasons as Production Stage Manager for Shakespeare in the Park (Sacramento).

Most recently, John worked for three seasons as the Producing Director of Sacred Fools Theater Company in Hollywood, where he was the Executive Producer of the World Premiere of the Penn Jillette and Stephen Banks LA Weekly Award Winning “Love Tapes”.

Alexis T. Miles (Production Stage Manager) Alexis has worked in some aspect of theatre for more than half her life. It is an Addiction, a Passion and her Obsession. She has worked as a PSM at many theatres throughout LA: The Fountain Theatre, The Hudson, The Ford, LATC, The Odyssey, Moving Arts, The Village, to name a few, as well as the world renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Alexis has also written several plays and can add director to her credits as well. She is currently on staff at The Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, her many roles include: the Assistant to the Production Manager, Production Stage Manager, and Technical Theatre Camp Director. She would like to thank Paul Provenza for always knowing what shoes to put on what feet.

Leanne Fonteyn (Choreographer) Leanne moved to Los Angeles almost 12 years ago from her native Northern California where she graduated from Santa Clara University with a B.A. in Theatre and Dance & English. Leanne has been dancing since the age of four, studying jazz, tap, ballet, and modern in Northern California with Fran Atlas-Lara, David Popalisky, Keith Banks, Joe Goode, and Charlie McGowan and in Southern California with Bill Prudich, Terry Best, Eddie Garcia, Frank Williams, and Irene Rubinsky, to name a few. Leanne has also trained in Suzuki/Viewpoints with Burning Wheel/SITI in L.A.
Leanne was a featured performer in Bradford Mays' critically acclaimed production of The Bacchae and has been a proud member of Theatre of NOTE for over nine years. At NOTE Leanne was a member of the Artistic/Management board for over three years and produced and performed in numerous shows.
Leanne choreographed and performed as Fire in Towering Inferno, the musical! in Summer 2001 with Opiate of the Masses productions, thus beginning a long-running and continually amusing relationship with writer/composer Bill Robens and director Kiff Scholl. Leanne then performed in and choreographed Opiate of the Masses production of Poseidon Adventure, the musical! LA Weekly described her dance numbers as “delightful folly” and Leanne received a critic's pick for choreography from Wenzel Jones in LA Weekly's annual LA Weekly Theater awards publication. Leanne then went on to choreograph Bill Robens' LA Weekly award winning and now five-year running annual production of A Mulholland Christmas Carol.

Michael Blaha (Producer) Mike is an entertainment attorney and stage and film producer. His Los Angeles stage credits include "Bloody Poetry" (Beverly Hills Playhouse) "Cinderella" (UCLA Freud Theater), "Byron" (Odyssey Theater), "Just Loretta," (The Complex), "Three,” (2100 Square Feet Theater) and Job: The Hip-Hopera (Stella Adler Theater). Mike has also produced sixteen shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including the Fringe First award winner “runt,” the Perrier Best Newcomer Nominee “Sabotage: In Fine Form” and “This Is So Not About The Simpsons” (starring Harry Shearer). His film credits include "Chi Girl," (Slamdance Grand Jury Prize Winner), "First And Last,” "Interruptions," "According To Occam's Razor," “The Dogwalker,” “Walking The Walk,” and “runt.” Mike is on the Advisory Board of the Academy for New Musical Theatre and the Board of Directors of Filmmakers' Alliance.

David Elzer/DEMAND PR (Marketing/Publicity) represents The Antaeus Theatre Company, Apartment A, Celebration Theatre, Colony Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, Furious Theatre Company, Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, Laguna Playhouse, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Open Fist Theatre Company, REPRISE! Broadway's Best, Rubicon Theatre Company, Theatre Tribe, West Coast Ensemble and West Coast Jewish Theatre.
He is also a theatrical producer with the critically acclaimed and currently playing The Marvelous Wonderettes at the El Portal Forum Theatre and Sister Act: The Musical, Jewtopia Off Broadway, The Laramie Project at the Laguna Playhouse and Catalpa and Shyness is Nice at the Alliance. He is also developing an original musical for Fall, 2007 with Lori Scarlett and David Manning (Sneaux, The Break-Up Notebook: The Lesbian Musical).

Kerry Morrigan (Assistant Stage Manager) Kerry n has spent 13 years as an actor, writer, director, producer and trainer with Tricklock Company – a professional touring theatre ensemble based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kerry is a co-founder of the resident company and throughout the years has served as Producing Director, Associate Artistic Director, and Tour manager. She has also served as artist liaison, co-producer, box office manager, and web master for Tricklock’s acclaimed Revolutions International Theatre Festival which has produced the original work of local, national, and international artists every January since 2001. She recently collaborated with Futur3 of Cologne, Germany, on their acclaimed site specific show CityBeats which is created anew based on the community and environment it is placed in. CityBeats: Albuquerque premiered in the 2007 Revolutions Festival. Kerry’s theatre training includes residencies/classes with Mac Wellman, Double Edge Theatre of Massachusetts, Leonardo Shapiro of NYC’s Shaliko Company, Daniel Stein of Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre, and intensives with Gardzienice Theatre Association of Poland, Anne Bogart and SITI Co., Lee Worley of the Open Theatre, Static Aerial Trapeze with Circus Contraption of Seattle, WA, Techniques of Samaveda Chanting with Samaveda Elders at the Mysteries and Initiations Festival in Krakow, Poland, and voice and song with Mariana Sadovska of the Ukraine. Kerry’s recent and notable roles include May in Shepard’s Fool For Love, Mina in Mac Wellman’s Dracula, Lady Macbett in Ionesco’s Macbett, Jean Harlow in Michael McClure’s The Beard, Bishop in Nicky Silver’s Fat Men in Skirts, Cybil in Silver’s The Altruists, ad C in Sara Kane’s Crave which played in New Mexico as well as at the Prague Quadrennial in 2004. Kerry was honored to be the first American performer to participate in the Masrahid Festival - an Arabic Solo Performance Festival in Acco, Israel, with her original aerial solo show Death’s Door in July of 2004. She also managed and performed in Tricklock’s 2 International tours of The Glorious and Bloodthirsty Billy the Kid…to Chicago, Poland, Belgrade, Germany, Edinburgh, and Los Angeles where it was hailed as Critic’s Choice in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and Backstage West. Kerry is looking forward to her next role with Tricklock Company as Lula in Baraka’s Dutchman which will appear on public transportation in Albuquerque, NM, September of 2007.

Gelareh Khalioun (Costume Designer) Gelareh has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from USC, with an emphasis in costume design. She has studied costume and fashion design in Los Angeles for years and plans to continue her studies. She has designed for the Alliance Repertory Company (Ovation Nominee & ADA Nominee, both in Costume Design), Rubicon Theater, LA Theater Works, International City Theatre, Odyssey Theatre, Edgemar Center for the Arts, 24th Street Theatre, Ivy SubStation, Santa Monica Playhouse, Hudson Guild, Gardner Theatre, The Complex and The Matrix. Gelareh was recently given two honorable mentions by critics from Backstage West for her costume designs in Kafka Thing and The Misanthrope. She would like to send a special thanks to the cast and crew.

Jason Mullen (Lighting Designer) Currently living in San Diego, Jason is a graduate of CalArt's Theatre program. He has designed in both theatre and the special event market for nearly 20 years. This year he was nominated for the L.A. Style Award's Lighting Design of the Year for his work on the Miami Vice Premiere Party. He's thrilled to be a part of the Sacred Angel Fist Circle of
Note Gang's production of "BUKOWSICAL!" and wants to know who invited Peracchio to this party.


Brad Blaisdell	Marc Cardiff	Nadia Ahern	Matthew Garland	Ian Gould	Fleur Phillips	Michael Lanahan	Lauren Rubin	Jennifer Blake	Cason Murphy