The Gospel According to Tammy Faye - Cast & Crew
Ensemble:
Julie Foldesi *(Mama): Broadway: Little Women (Jo u/s and perf.), The Full Monty. Currently playing Mary in A Wonderful Life in Northport, Long Island. Julie is singer/songwriter as well, and has a pop/bluegrass album to be released February 2008. Check out www.juliefoldesi.com.
Erika Foss (Tammy Faye La Valley) is thrilled to be a part of this process. She recently graduated with her BFA in musical theatre from the University of Michigan. Erika would like to thank her family and Pete. For Grandpa Bill.
James T. Lane* (Nurse/Angel), a native of Philadelphia. Broadway debut: A Chorus Line (Original Revival Cast) as Richie Walters. Off-Broadway: Fame the Musical (Ensemble), The Boys in the Band ( Bernard ). National and European Tours of Fame (Tyrone ) and the national of Cinderella with Eartha Kitt. Looking forward in life and grateful for all of it.
Ken Land* (Pat Robertson) NY - The Scarlet Pimpernel, Victor/Victoria, Little Shop of Horrors, The Gig, The Death of Von Richthofen...Tours: Sweet Charity, Pimpernel, Evita, The Secret Garden, Little Shop. Regional: Old Globe, Goodspeed, Indiana Rep, Matrix, & others. Film/TV: “Boston Legal”, “Six Feet Under”, “Star Trek: Voyager”, “Judging Amy”, “The District”, “Crossing Jordan”, “Law & Order”, “Malcolm in the Middle” and others.
Sally Mayes* (Tammy Faye Messner) Broadway: Welcome to the Club (Theatre World and Outer Critics circle nomination), She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Urban Cowboy (Drama Desk nomination), Steel Magnolias. Off-Broadway: Closer Than Ever (Outer Critics Circle nomination), and Das Barbecue, Pete N'Keely (Drama Desk nomination). National Tour: Dirty Blonde. Film/Television: City Hall, Bye Bye Birdie, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, “Sex and the City”, and “The Job”. www.sallymayes.net
Heather Parcells* (Jessica Hahn) is currently playing Judy Turner in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. Other Bway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. National Tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Dorothy u/s, Miss Flannery u/s); Some Like It Hot (Sweet Sue u/s); Chicago (Velma Kelly). NYC: ...Grinch Stole Chirstmas workshop; Mademoiselle Modiste (Fifi Modiste); Meet Me in St. Louis (Esther Smith) both for Musicals Tonight! T.V.: “ABC Primetime”, “The Human Chain”, “Guiding Light” (Missy), “Good Morning America” (Carols For a Cure), “Sex and The City”; “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”. Love to Paul. www.HeatherParcells.com
Erin Leigh Peck* (Tammy Faye Bakker) Broadway: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Laurie); Grease! (u/s Marty, Frenchy, Patty, Rizzo); Dance of the Vampires (Zsa-Zsa). Off-Broadway: I Love You, You’re Perfect… TV: “Law and Order SVU”, “As the World Turns”, “Guiding Light”, “One Life to Live”, “Don’t Ask” (Fox Pilot), Lots and Lots of Commercials. Favorite Role: Normal (Polly) at the Transport Group. Other: Wife to Josh, Mommy to Mia, Human to Margie and Annie. Watch for Erin’s new play Mother of Mine. www.ErinLeighPeck.com and www.MotherofMinethePlay.com.
Dale Radunz* (Reverend Jerry Falwell) Dale is delighted to be a part of The Gospel According to Tammy Faye and never in a million years did he think he would play The Reverend Jerry Falwell. He has been acting professionally for some thirty years now in New York, on National tours and Regional theaters across the country. Favorite roles include Jussac in Can-Can, Pap Finn in Big River and Sam Silver in Barry Manilow's Copacabana. And while he feels the healing power of the Lord here today, just remember, Freddy fell down!
Tom Stuart* (Jim Bakker) A Christmas Carol at MSG, Dames at Sea (w/Kristin Chenoweth), Party, and The Fantasticks. Cover for Donny Osmond in Joseph…, originated Jonathan in Wildhorn’s Dracula and Dorian in Dorian (w/ Sutton Foster). Tom is a member of the BMI Writers Workshop. His musical Kids in America will be presented in NYC this spring.
William Youmans* (Roe Messner) Broadway original casts (and cast recordings): Wicked, Pirate Queen, Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme, The Farnsworth Invention, Titanic, Big River, The Little Foxes (w. Elizabeth Taylor.) Off Broadway: The Orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center), Brundibar/Giraffe (by Tony Kushner), The Widow Claire (Horton Foote), Flux, Henry V (NY Shakes. Fest.) Lots of film and TV.
* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States.
Production Team
Mindy Cooper (Director/Choreographer) Directing and Choreographing credits: Broadway-Dracula: The Musical, Wrong Mountain. Off-Broadway- Five Course Love. National Tour-Titanic. Regionally- Fiddler on the Roof (Nevada Conservatory Theater), Urinetown (Artist in Residence, UCDavis), The New Bozena (Hudson Theater, LA), Heart & Soul (St. Petersburg Russia), Fair Liberty’s Call, Chicago, The Secret Annex, Titanic, Jesus Christ Superstar, Five Course Love (Sacramento Theater Company), and Music in the Night, A Tribute to Jerome Kern for the Broadway Cabaret Series at Town Hall. She has also choreographed numerous benefits, commercials and industrials, as well as “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”.
Seth Farber (Musical Director) Pianist/conductor of “Hairspray” and “Smokey Joe’s Café” on Broadway. Seth has released a critically acclaimed solo piano CD and is a Grammy nominated pianist and producer.
JT Buck (Music and Lyrics) is Artistic Director of Home: For the Arts, a grassroots theatre company in residence at First Grace UCC in Akron, OH. His work as a director, music director, composer and lyricist has been seen/heard on stages around the country. Buck is working toward his MFA in Directing from the University of Houston, where he studied with Tony-winning producer Stuart Ostrow and Pulitzer-winner Lanford Wilson. He is grateful in extremis to Jesse, Mindy, Fernando and Seth for taking these feathers and building a bird. And thank you, TF.
Fernando Dovalina (Book) Dramatists Guild member, is a former Houston Chronicle editor. He has studied playwriting with Sam Havens at Rice University and with Edward Albee and Stuart Ostrow at the University of Houston. His produced plays include "The Man in the Trunk" and "American Homefront" (both Unhinged Productions, Houston). His drama, “Meskins/Cycle of Life, Love and Death,” is a national finalist in the Nuestras Voces competition sponsored by MetLife Foundation and received a reading Dec. 11 at Repertorio Espanol, New York (www.repertorio.org). Dovalina runs the Driscoll Street Salon Theatre, a play-reading project to develop plays by Houston playwrights.
Mei Ling Acevedo* (Stage Manager) Dutchman (Dir. Bill Duke), Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans (The Players Theatre), Madame Bovary (Dir. Elizabeth Falk), Big Times (Dir. Leigh Silverman), My Father’s Son (NY Fringe Festival 05’), Five Bottles in a Six Pack (Cherry Lane Theatre), U.S./Mexico Word Exchange (Lark Play Development Center), Mentor Project 07’ (Cherry Lane Theatre).
Joe Bowerman (Associate Director/ Choreographer) Recent Broadway: Associate choreographer/ASM/Dance Captain, Little Women. ASM/Dance Captain, Urinetown. Associate Choreographer, Laughing Room Only. Associate Choreographer/ASM/Dance Captain, Sound of Music. Associate Choreographer, Stratford Festival of Canada productions of South Pacific, My One and Only, King and I, Guys and Dolls, and Camelot.
Erin Badillo (Assistant Stage Manager) Erin is a first year Stage Management MFA candidate at Columbia. New York: Belfast Rosary, Three Sisters, ThingsezIsee'm Dance/Theatre; UC Davis: Urinetown, Share Dance/Theatre, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Main Stage Dance/Theatre Festival; Regional: Richard III (Women's Will, San Francisco)
Dave Clemmons Casting (Casting Director) is Dave Clemmons C.S.A., Joy Dewing, Bekah Nutt and Robin Steinthal. Broadway: Ring of Fire, In My Life, The Boy From Oz, Dracula, The Civil War, Brooklyn; National and International tours include: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, A Year With Frog and Toad, Movin’ Out, 42nd Street, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Producers, Dr. Dolittle, Evita, West Side Story, Millie, Cats, Fosse, Jekyll & Hyde, Chicago, Joseph, Saturday Night Fever. Off-Broadway: How to Save the World, Mimi Le Duck, Altar Boyz, Bare, Bat Boy, The Ark, Bingo, Fanny Hill, Cpt. Louie, Zanna Dont!, 2000 revival of Godspell. Regional: Arizona Broadway Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Ford's Theatre, NSMT, Marriott Lincolnshire, Goodspeed, Village Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO.
Jesse Merz (Producer) is an artistic director (Longview Stageworks, CGRep, CGST), producer (200+ shows), actor (off-Broadway, regional theatre, films, tours), director (50+ shows), writer and university instructor (UC Davis, Western Oregon University). Proud member of AEA since 1997, plus AFTRA, Dramatists, SSDC, and VASTA. BFA from NYU/Tisch, MAT from George Fox, MFA from UC Davis (June 2008). A ginormous thanks to everybody who has brought this show to life, including my awesome family. www.JesseMerz.com
Lisa Dozier (Producer) Recent NYC Credits: The Piper, Look What A Wonder Jesus Has Done, Surface to Air, The Polish Play, Character, Warrior, Behind the Limelight, Hot and Sweet, Ibsen + Fosse 2006 at 59E59: Rosmersholm & deathvariations, Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A, The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde. Previously, she worked at MTC, New 42, ART and NYSAF.
Herzog Law Group (Legal Counsel), Jonathan C. Herzog, Esq., has represented numerous shows for more than 15 years on and off Broadway. Jonathan has produced shows on and off Broadway, including Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair (Broadway and Road Tour). Jonathan is also a Tony voter and an advisory board member of the American Theatre Wing. Jonathan can be contacted at jonathan@herzoglawgroup.com, 212.732.3030.
Melissa Stanley (Intern) is a senior theatre major at Western Oregon University. She plans to go to grad school in the fall to get her MAT or MFA. She hopes to further her career in theatre either as a dramaturg or a theatre professor. She is currently dramaturging an original adaptation of The Three Musketeers.
Alec Wilson (Intern) is an acting student in Western Oregon University’s BFA program. He has also worked with various theatres around Oregon including La Resistance Theatre and Salem Repertory Theatre. After he finishes his degree he plans to pursue an MFA in acting.
Columbia Gorge Repertory Theatre (www.CGRep.com) is a bi-coastal production company & producing organization of the Columbia Gorge School of Theatre (www.CGST.com). Productions include Suburban Dreams, The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton, and over 200 other shows, mostly in the Northwest. CGRep has produced shows in NYC at the INTAR Theatre, Producer's Club II Theatre, and Musical Theatre Works. CGRep has produced projects with such artists as Tony-Winner Daisy Eagan, Broadway's Leslie Goddard, TJ Meyers and Aaron Ramey; TV's Carla Borelli, Constantine Maroulis & Angel Carter; producer Lisa Dozier; director/choreographer Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj; and film actor Philippe Brenninkmeyer. CGRep was established in 1997 and its artistic director is Jesse Merz.
Special Thanks:
Christina Prints, Natural Herb Cough Drops - Courtesy of Ricola USA, Inc., Kary Haddad, Penny Ayn Maas, Morgan Powell, the Theatre Faculty at Western Oregon University, Columbia Gorge School of Theatre, Home: For the Arts at First Grace UCC, Laurel Merz, Barry D. Browning, David Grenke, Actors’ Equity Association, Society of Stage Directors and Choreogrphers, Bobby Van Linden, Carl Kelsch, the Families & Friends of the cast & crew, Jay Bakker, Roe Messner, and Tammy Faye LaValley Bakker Messner.
Rehearsed at The Creative Center at Manhattan Theatre Club & Chelsea Studios.
Gospel Musical, LLC. 503-781-8600, TammyFayeMusical@gmail.com, www.TammyFayeMusical.com
SSDC - The Director-Choreographer is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.