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 "Drew"
- C. Patrick Gendusa – Patrick has
worked professionally as a performer,
instructor, and director in New York, Texas,
New Mexico, Virginia, and Louisiana. He
received his BA in Theatre Arts from St.
Edwards University and his MFA in Acting and
Directing from Texas Tech University.
Currently he is Visiting Assistant Professor
at Loyola University New Orleans. Patick has
been chosen to participate this summer in
prestigious The Actors Center Teacher
Development Program in New York City. The
intensive two-week program will serve as an
introduction to some of the most respected
teachers in the United States and abroad. Gendusa was one of only 14 individuals
chosen to participate from college faculties
around the world. He spends his summers
teaching theatre at the University of
Richmond in Virginia. He was Executive
Administrator of the Saenger Theatre and has
taught at Texas Tech University and at the
Metropolitan Dance Theatre of New Orleans.
He was head of the Department of Theatre at
Holy Cross School and worked for the
Jefferson Parish Gifted and Talented Theatre
Program at East Jefferson High School. While
in Austin, Texas he was vice-president of
the Zilker Summer Musical, the only free
outdoor theatre remaining in the country. He
also toured with and was a founding member
of the Second Youth Theatre Company and the
Kinesis Dance Theatre Company. In New York
he had a cabaret act called Chemistry and
taught musical theatre and acting. Le Petit
Theatre du Vieux Carre audiences will
remember him as Jerry Cohan in George M!,
Gus Sharkey in Leader of the Pack, Sonny
LaTatieri in Grease, Bazzard in The Mystery
of Edwin Drood, and the King in Cinderella.
A few of his favorite roles include:
Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Patrick), Blood
Brothers (Narrator), Into the Woods (Baker),
Cabaret (Emcee), Chicago (Amos), The Mystery
of Edwin Drood (Neville Landless), West Side
Story (Chino), Gross Indecency: The Three
Trials of Oscar Wilde (Edward Clarke), A
Girls Guide to Chaos (Jake), Reckless (Tom),
Beauty and the Beast (Phillip), The Snow
Queen (Kay), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Timothy Ellison), Plaza Suite (Director),
Agnes of God (Director), Bang Bang You’re
Dead (Director), A Girls Guide to Chaos,
(Director), The Laramie Project (Director),
Wait Until Dark (Roat). |
 Narrator,
et al. - Kyle
M. Daigrepont is a New Orleans actor
with most of his experience being on the
stage. At Summer Lyric Theater at Tulane
Kyle has performed in “Lil Abner” (Mayor
Dan’l Dawgmeat), “Candide” (Baroness, Monk,
Police Chief), “Phantom” (Inspector LaDoux)
and “Fiddler on the Roof” (Mendel).
Rivertown Repertory Theater audiences have
enjoyed Kyle’s work in “A Flea in Her Ear”
(Etienne), “A Funny Thin Happened on the Way
to the Forum” (Marcus Lycus), “Thoroughly
Modern Millie” (Bun Foo), Urinetown the
Musical” (Mr. McQueen). “1940’s Radio Hour”
(Johnny Cantone), “Damn Yankee’s” (Sohovick),
“Smoke on the Mountain” (Reverend
Oglethorpe), “Bells Are Ringing” (Dr.
Kitchell), and “Lend Me A Tenor” (Bellhop).
Kyle has also been involved with productions
at Le Petit Theater, Theater Marigny, CAC,
The Beverly Dinner Playhouse and Gallery
Circle Theater. By day Kyle is the owner of
Lakeview Gallery I& Framing of Kenner. |
 Evelyn, et
al. - Monica
R. Harris is a 2007 Graduate of Loyola
University New Orleans with a B.A. in
Theatre Arts. She currently serves as
Assistant Business and Box Office Manager of
her alum theatre department and works
professionally in theatre and film. Her most
recent projects include: Live performance
artist for The New Resonance Chamber
Orchestra’s Rebuilding Appalachian Spring in
the First Annual New Orleans Fringe
Festival, Cripple Creek Theatre’s production
of Arthur Miller and Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy
of the People as Petra Stockmann, Production
Dramaturg, Hair and Makeup Designer, and
Assistant Costumer in Cripple Creek
Theatre’s production of August Strindberg’s
Erik XIV, Assistant Director in Loyola
Theatre’s production of Heather Raffo’s 9
Parts of Desire, a minor supporting role in
Lifetime’s Queen-Sized; live performance
artist for The Haunted Mortuary of Mid-city
as featured in the 2007 Cox Cable
documentary and the Travel Channel.
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 Deborah,
et al - Tracy
Cochran is a Junior at Loyola University
of New Orleans pursuing a BS in Psychology
and a minor in Theatre Arts. She was last
seen on Loyola’s stage in The Laramie
Project. However, she frequently performs
short form and long form improvisation at La
Nuit Theatre in Comedy Sportz and Splatter
House. Also, she attended NOCCA for
playwrighting. She spends her summers
teaching and directing children and teen
theatre at the St. Bernard Academy of
Performing Arts. Her first fully written and
produced play, The Picture Perfect Prepatory
School for Potential Fairy Tale Players, was
put on here with the aid and support of her
closest friend, Arianna Cassar. In the
future, she intends to use theatre and
psychology to help others utilizing a form
of therapy known as Psychodrama and further
developing a bridge between the two fields.
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Bryan, et al. - Rudy
San Miguel
is a Midwestern
transplant who
arrived in New
Orleans three months
before Hurricane
Katrina. He received
a bachelor’s degree
in English-Creative
Writing from
Southern Illinois
University
Carbondale and a
Master’s of Labor
and Industrial
Relations from
University of
Illinois . He is a
recent graduate of
the La Nuit Comedy
Conservatory, New
Orleans , where he
was trained in the
art of long- and
short-form
improvisation and
can be seen there
weekly in Comedy
Sportz. Prior to
performing improv—and
the occasional open-mic
standup—he had
performed in a 70+
cast production of
The Laramie Project
in Illinois and most
recently performed
in a staged reading
of Money in the
Garter as part of
the New Orleans
Fringe Festival.
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Andy Niemann
Roles:
The Laramie Project Denis Shepard,
Marquette Theatre
Baptist Minister,
Moises Kaufman, et al
Excalibur!
Lord Marquette
Theatre
The Respectful
Policeman Lower
Depths
Prostitute
The Sacred Dance
Charlie Lower Depths
Of Yellow Thunder
A Chorus Line
Zach McGehee
Theatre
Funny Girl
Keeney McGehee
Theatre
Pillow Talk Pierrot Blenk
Theatre
Directing:
My Baby’s
Daddies
Le Chat Noir |
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