Because of Winn Dixie Cast and Creative Team
CAST
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![]() JAY HENDRIX* (Stevie) from South Florida, is excited to be making his Goodspeed debut! Recent favorites include Matilda, Jr. Pilot Production (Bruce Bogtrotter, Broward Center for the Performing Arts), AChristmas Carol (Tiny Tim, BCPA), AND Into the Woods, Jr. (Jack, Performance Project), among others. Thank you to Broadway Artists Alliance for opening so many doors, Tammy Holder for believing in me from the beginning, and Chris York for always being there for me! Special thanks to Goodspeed for this amazing opportunity and to Mom, Dad, and Nancy Carson for all your loving support! www.jayhendrix.com IG: @jayhendrixofficial |
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CREATIVE TEAM
NELL BENJAMIN (Book and Lyrics) Broadway: Mean Girls (Tony Award nomination). Legally Blonde with Laurence O’Keefe (Olivier Award, Tony nomination). Off-Broadway/Regional: The Explorers Club (Outer Critics Circle Best Play); Dave The Musical, Cam Jansen (Drama Desk Nomination); Half Time; Pirates! (or Gilbert and Sullivan plunder’d), Sarah, Plain and Tall; Because of Winn Dixie; The Mice (from 3hree); I Want My Hat Back, How I Became A Pirate, New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve and Young People’s concerts. TV: Unhappily Ever After, Whoa! Sunday with Mo Rocca, The Electric Company, Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Julie’s Greenroom. Upcoming Musicals: Huzzah!, Life of the Party. Grateful recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award and a Jonathan Larson Grant. Most grateful for Larry and Persephone. |
DUNCAN SHEIK (Music) is a Grammy and Tony Award-winning artist who launched his career in 1996 with his Grammy nominated self-titled debut album. Sheik is the composer for the critically acclaimed musical Spring Awakening, which went on to win eight Tony Awards in 2007, including awards for Best Orchestrations and Best Original Score. The album earned Sheik a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. In years since, Sheik has released multiple albums, most recently Legerdemain in 2015. American Psycho, with lyrics and music written by Sheik, premiered in the US on Broadway in 2016 after a sold-out London run. His most recent theater project was Alice By Heart, which premiered in February 2019 at MCC Theatre. His current project Secret Life of Bees premiered in June 2019. Sheik is also the owner of Sneaky Studios in Garrison, NY. |
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JOHN RANDO (Director) Broadway: Gettin’ the Band Back Together, On the Town (Tony nomination), Penn & Teller on Broadway, A Christmas Story, The Wedding Singer, Urinetown (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Awards), A Thousand Clowns, and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Off-Broadway: Jerry Springer – The Opera (New Group), Lives of the Saints (Primary Stages), The Heir Apparent (SDCF Calloway Award – Classic Stage Company), All in the Timing (Primary Stages – Obie Award), Carousel (New York Philharmonic), and The Toxic Avenger, among many others. Regional: Because of Winn Dixie (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); The Sting and The Honeymooners (Paper Mill Playhouse); The Royal Family of Broadway, On the Town and Pirates of Penzance (Barrington Stage); among many others. City Center Encores!: High Button Shoes, The New Yorkers, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Me, It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Face the Music, Damn Yankees, and others. International: Jay Chou’s The Secret and The Jonathan Lee Musical (Beijing, China, and Asian Tours). |
CHRIS BAILEY (Choreographer) Gettin’ The Band Back Together (Broadway), Jerry Springer the Opera (New Group, 2018 Chita Rivera Award nomination), The New Yorkers and 1776 (New York City Center Encores!), The Entertainer with Kenneth Branagh (West End), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), Because of Winn Dixie (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). 2013 Tony Awards opening number “Bigger” (CBS). The Muny: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Production Supervisor), Newsies (St. Louis Theatre Circle Award), The Music Man, Into the Woods, My Fair Lady, Tarzan, West Side Story, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. The 2013, 2014, and 2015 Academy Awards (Assistant Choreographer). Feature films: Cinderella, Ted2, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and Beyond the Sea. |
WILLIAM BERLONI (Animal Director) 2011 Tony Honoree for Excellence in Theatre, 1977 and 2013 Outer Critics Awards, and the 2017 Drama League Award for Unique Contribution to the Theater. Broadway: Annie (1977) to The Ferryman (2018) and 25 shows in between. Credits include hundreds of off-Broadway and regional theatre productions and the current tour of Finding Neverland. Recent television: producer and star of From Wags to Riches with Bill Berloni on Discovery Family, The Village, Mr. Robot, Power, High Maintenance, Billions, Castle Rock, The Sinner, and Sesame Street. Author of Broadway Tails. Goodspeed Technical Apprentice 1975-76. Goodspeed Animal Trainer for Annie, Little Rascals, Annie Warbucks, Annie (20th Anniversary), Anything Goes, and Darling Grenadine. Director of Animal Behavior at the Humane Society of New York. All the animals he trains are rescues from shelters. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and www.theatricalanimals.com |
ADAM SOUZA (Music Director) Broadway: Wicked, Kinky Boots; National Tours: Wicked 2nd National (Original MD/Conductor), Kinky Boots (Original MD/Conductor), Spamalot 1st National (MD/Conductor), The Midtown Men, and Les Misérables. Adam also served as Associate Music Supervisor for the international mountings of Wicked in São Paolo, Brazil, and Mexico City. Regional: Next to Normal Hartford TheaterWorks, North Shore Music Theatre, and over 15 productions at Goodspeed, including The Great American Mousical with Julie Andrews, Snapshots by Stephen Schwartz, Roar of the Greasepaint..., George M!, Brigadoon, Very Good Eddie, Rags, Great Expectations, and The Road to Hollywood. A proud Connecticut native. For my wonderful family, GG, and MOF. Boston Conservatory. |
JASON HART (Music Supervisor/Orchestrations/Vocal Arrangements) was the music director of the Broadway production of American Psycho. Additional collaborations with Duncan Sheik include: The Secret Life of Bees, Alice by Heart, Whisper House, Noir, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and Lover, Beloved (written with and starring Suzanne Vega). Jason has toured extensively as keyboard player for Rufus Wainwright, Antony and the Johnsons, Duncan Sheik, Suzanne Vega, Renaissance and Camel, and leads his own progressive rock project, I and Thou. |
DONYALE WERLE (Scenic Design) is a Brooklyn-based set, installation, and landscape designer. Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Tony nomination), In Transit, and Allegiance. Off-Broadway: MCC, Roundabout, Signature, 6 Encores! Off-Center seasons, (2014 to present), Lincoln Center, Public, Vineyard, New York Theater Workshop, and Ars Nova. Regional: 5th Ave Theater, Geffen, ACT, Writer’s Theatre, La Jolla, Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Denver Center, Two River Theater. Awards: Tony, Obie, Lucille Lortel, Hewes Design Awards. Affiliations: Broadway Green Alliance, USA Local 829. Donyale speaks internationally on sustainable design and is working towards a Certificate of Horticulture from Brooklyn Botanic Garden. |
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EMILY REBHOLZ (Costume Design) Broadway: Frankie and Johnny; Getting the Band Back Together; Indecent; Dear Evan Hansen; Oh, Hello On Broadway; If/Then; Vanya and Sonia Masha and Spike; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Select recent: Nantucket Sleigh Ride (LCT), Jagged Little Pill (A.R.T), The Low Road (The Public Theatre: Henry Hewes Award, Lucille Lortel Nomination), Winter’s Tale (TFNA), Mary Jane (NYTW), Twelfth Night (CSC), Brigadoon (Encores!), The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout), Lucia Di Lammermoor and Don Giovanni (Santa Fe Opera), Orfeo ed Euridice (Opera Theatre of St. Louis). Upcoming: Jagged Little Pill (Broadhurst Theatre). MFA: Yale University. |
JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design) Goodspeed: More than a dozen shows over the last twenty years; recently Cyrano and Holiday Inn. Broadway includes Bandstand, Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten, Disaster, Penn & Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, Mothers and Sons, A Time to Kill, Jekyll and Hyde, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Next Fall, Kiki & Herb. Off-Broadway includes Freestyle Love Supreme; The Other Josh Cohen; Jerry Springer Opera; Tiny Beautiful Things; Cost of Living; Sweet Charity; Head of Passes; Ordinary Days; Last Five Years. Other: Big Apple Circus; Penn & Teller in Las Vegas; Muller Works. Jeff received Tony, Hewes, and Bass Awards and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, Ovation, NAACP, Irne, and Audelco nominations. |
OLIVIA SEBESKY (Projection Design) is a Projection Designer, Art Director, and Motion Graphics Designer for theater, dance, TV, concerts, and special events. She has designed for James Taylor, Hootie and The Blowfish, Aerosmith, Nike, Soho House, Alice and Olivia, and Bloomberg. Selected theater credits include Rap Guide to Consciousness (International Tour); Jerry Springer The Opera, Steve, The Spoils, Sticks and Bones (The New Group); How To Catch A Star, Me…Jane (Kennedy Center); My Paris (Long Wharf Theater), In Your Arms (The Old Globe), Ever After (Paper Mill Playhouse), Vegas Nocturne (Spiegelworld, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas). |
JAY HILTON (Sound Design) is pleased to continue his long association with Goodspeed Musicals. Jay has designed countless other productions at both The Goodspeed and The Terris Theatre in Chester. In addition to being Goodspeed’s Resident Sound Designer, Jay serves as their Audio Supervisor. He and his wife, Goodspeed Producer Donna Lynn Hilton, make their home (and garden) in Hadlyme, Connecticut with Cookie and Macy. |
MARK ADAM RAMPMEYER (Hair & Wig Design) has designed more than 20 productions for Goodspeed Musicals, including 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, and Oklahoma!. As a stylist, he was fortunate enough to be a part of the Broadway productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Sunset Boulevard, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and 42nd Street. Other design credits include Broadway: West Side Story, Lysistrata Jones, The Farnsworth Invention. Off-Broadway: The Toxic Avenger, Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle, and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore with Olympia Dukakis. Regional: The Legend of Georgia McBride and Christmas on the Rocks for TheaterWorks and many productions for Hartford Stage Company. He is the recipient of a 2010 Drama Desk Award for Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theatre Company. Thanks to all for their continued support on this journey. *peep* |
BRADLEY G. SPACHMAN* (Production Stage Manager) originally from Chicago, has enjoyed working at both the Opera House and Terris Theaters for more years and productions than he cares to keep counting (25 and 75+). He gives his heartfelt thanks to the entire Goodspeed family throughout the years, particularly his long-time friends and colleagues: Ed, Michele, Mary, Nancy, Diane, Clay, Troy, Carla, John, Wade, Bill, MOF, Kristan, Jay, and most especially DLCH. Finally, a special thanks to Kim, without whose patience none of this would be possible. |
HEATHER KLEIN* (Assistant Stage Manager) is delighted to return to Goodspeed for her 15th show! Highlights include Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas; Fiddler on the Roof; Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn; Hello, Dolly!. Off-Broadway: Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses, Beautiful Day Without You (Origin Theatre Company). Off-Off-Broadway: Emojiland (NYMF); Cotton Candy & Cocaine, Radiant Baby at Joe’s Pub (Theatre C). Regional: Man of La Mancha, His Girl Friday, Presto Change-o, Pirates of Penzance, Well Intentioned White People (Barrington Stage Company); 2016-2017 Season Resident Ensemble Players; Love Letters (Long Wharf Theatre); Detroit '67 (Hartford Stage); Homebody/Kabul, Arcadia (Yale School of Drama). Education/Training: BA Brandeis University, McCarter Theatre Center Stage Management Internship. |
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage managers in the United States