The Bikinis Cast and Creative Team

 MEGHAN DUFFY* (Annie) Broadway: Frenchy, Grease (original production). National Tour: Trixie, The Rocky Horror Show; Gooch, Mame starring Juliet Prowse. Off-Broadway: Knowledge, Everyman; Lynnie, The Wonder Years; Helen, Swirl; title role in Georgy, based on the film Georgy Girl. Regional and Guest Artist: Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Survival Guide, Over Here, She Loves Me, Forbidden Planet, Christmas Carol, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Beehive, Little Shop of Horrors, Jacques Brel, Godspell, Dames at Sea (Sarah Siddons Best Actress nomination).  Writer/Producer: her one-person performance pieces What A Wonderful World!, The Meghan Duffy Show, Girls Don’t. Recordings: film soundtracks in London and the US, featured on The Care Bear recordings.  Theatre Facutly: LaGuardia Community College. Founder: The Edge Effect Improv Lab.

REGINA LeVERT* (Barbara) hails from Los Angeles, and is thrilled to make her debut with Goodspeed Musicals! Some of her favorite credits include: Jelly’s Last Jam, Barnum, Working, Othello, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Little Shop of Horrors, Nine, Sisterella, A…My Name is Alice, The World Goes ‘Round, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Once on This Island, the world premiere of Dorian at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts,  and the National Tour of Fame, the Musical, where she can be heard as Ms. Sherman on the original cast recording. “Nothing ever happens if you don’t show up!” For Tony

 RAY RODERICK (Director/Choreographer/Co-Writer) is thrilled to have The Bikinis at Goodspeed, where he also directed Mame, My One And Only,  42nd Street, Singin’ in the Rain,  Hello! My Baby, and Double Trouble. Director/Book Adaptor: Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang National and UK Tours. Associate Director: A Christmas Carol (Madison Square Garden); Broadway revival of The Music Man (also Director of National Tour). Co-writer/Director/Choreographer: Irving Berlin’s I Love A Piano National and Japan Tours. Writer/Director: ‘S Wonderful The New Gershwin Musical.  Off-Broadway/Regional: The Prince and the Pauper, The Ark, Lamour The Merrier, The Story Goes On, A Christmas Survival Guide, I Love New York, Rat Pack Lounge!, Barnum, The Last 5 Years, The Taffetas, Five Course Love, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!.  Founding Artistic Director of Tri-Arts, co-owner of Miracle or 2 Productions (Miracleor2.com). Creative Director, US Open Tennis and Director of “Arthur Ashe Kids Day;” Writer/Director Chun Yi (Beijing, London’s West End, Branson and International Tour); Director Believe, the award-winning SHAMU show (SeaWorld, San Diego).  Assistant Director to Jerry Lewis for the  Broadway-bound new musical The Nutty Professor.

 JASON LYONS (Lighting Design) Goodspeed: Cutman, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. Broadway: Bring It On, The Musical; Rock of Ages; The Threepenny Opera; Barefoot in the Park; Good Vibrations. Recent: So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2011; Fat Camp, The Musical; Toxic Avenger, The Musical (Alley); Medieval Play (Signature); Happy Hour (Atlantic); White Noise (Jeff Award); Broke-ology (LCT); Uncle Vanya (CSC); Clay (LCT). Designs for The Goodman, KC Rep, Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, The New Group. Faculty: Purchase College. jasonlyonsdesign.com.

JAY HILTON (Sound Design) is proud of his long association with Goodspeed, having designed countless productions at the Goodspeed Opera House and Norma Terris Theatre. In addition to his design duties Jay serves as the Lighting & Sound Supervisor for all of Goodspeed’s productions. Jay’s work has been heard on Broadway, National Tours, and at regional theatres from coast to coast. Jay and his wife, Goodspeed’s Line Producer Donna Lynn Hilton, make their home (and garden) in Hadlyme.