* Members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Jennifer Beth Glick (Jenny Duncan) is thrilled to be working once again with Spiro, Maryann, Bob and Brad. During her four years at Harvard University, Jennifer sang with The Radcliffe Pitches and performed in several Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club Productions including The Secret Garden (Martha), Anything Goes (Hope) and Ruthless! (Tina). Regionally, she has been seen as Sara Crewe in A Little Princess and Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden at The Wheelock Family Theater, Edna Arkins in The Good Times are Killing Me at the SpeakEasy Stage Company, Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank and Ado Annie in Oklahoma! at The Company Theatre, Little Red Ridinghood in Into the Woods at The Worcester Forum Theater and June in Gypsy at The Publick Theater. Jennifer spent the past year playing the roles of Bielke and Grandma Tzeitel in the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof starring Theodore Bikel. Love and thanks to family, Ryan and Jane.

Maryann Zschau (Betty Levine) Maryann is happy to be appearing in Hampton for the first time. Boston credits include performances in No Way To Treat A Lad, My Name Will Always Re Alice, She Loves Me and in the award-winning production of Assassins, all at the Lyric Stage Company and at the Publick Theatre in Gypsy, Nine, Guys & Dolls, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music. Regional appearances include Pirates of Peuzance at Worcester Foothills, Annie Get Your Gun at Bucks County Playhouse/PA, The Who's, Tommy, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and South Pacific at The Seacoast Repertory Theatre/NH, Hello Again with SpeakEasy Stage Company and in A Chorus Line with director Rob Ruggiero. Maryann is a five time IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) nominee for Best Actress and is one of the few actresses that has performed in all three of the Nunsense productions, having completed a 5 month national tour (while pregnant with her daughter!) of Nunsense Jamboree with Georgia Engel and over 1000 performances of Nunsense and Nunsense II in Boston. Maryann sends lots of love to husband Steven Bergman and to their favorite little lady, Emma.

Brad Evans (Jack Chase) is thrilled to be making his ACT ONE debut with Ron Voyage. His regional credits include Anselmo in Man of La Mancha with Foothills Theatre Company, Skeets Miller in Floyd Collins with SpeakEasy Stage Company, Tulsa in Gypsy with the Publick Theatre, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Elvis in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Angel City Five Tenor in City of Angels, and Orin in Little Shop of Horrors. He has also appeared in Mountain Magic, a William Bogner IMAX film. Brad originally hails from Middletown, Ohio and holds a Bachelor of Music in music and theatre from Northwestern University. He sends special thanks to Heidi and Max (the amazing dog). He would like to dedicate this show to his parents for their constant love and support.

Robert Saoud (Bentley Hentley III) is delighted to return to Hampton's favorite theatre this summer with ACT ONE. Audiences for ACT ONE last summer will remember Robert's memorable turns in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and Tom, Phyllis and Leslie in Sylvia. In the early '90's he lived and performed in Portsmouth and was seen as The Baker in Into the Woods, Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol, and Baptista in Kiss Me Kate. He also started his cabaret career here, performing a history of the Gershwins at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre, the Penobscot Theatre, the Lyric Stage of Boston, and the Publick Theatre. He has performed roles ranging from Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls to Caliban in The Tempest. His performance is dedicated to the memory of his mother, who taught him to hear the music.

Spiro Veloudos (Director) is glad to be back on the seacoast with some of his favorite actors. He is the Producing Artistic Director of The Lyric Stage Company of Boston where he has directed several musicals and plays including: No Way to Treat A Lady, the New England Premiere of the 1999 Tony Award winning Side Man, and the World Premiere of The Curse of the Bambino, a light-hearted look at the Boston Red Sox. He has directed over 60 professional productions of which some of his favorites are: Cyrano deBergerac, Guys and Dolls, Much Ado About Nothing, Assassins, Speed-the- Plow and A Little Night Music. He is the recipient of Three Elliot Norton Awards (Boston's major theatre award), the Portsmouth Herald's Spotlight on the Arts Award for his production of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre and was cited as Best of Boston - 1999 by Boston Magazine. A graduate of Emerson College, Spiro has worked as a director, actor and teacher in the Boston area for the last 25 years. His next project is the Boston professional premiere of Steven Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. For more information about Spiro or the Lyric Stage Company visit www.lyricstage.com. He wants to thank Maryann, Bob, Jennifer and Brad for wanting to work with him again and Miss Emma for all of her interesting thoughts.

Fred Frabotta (Music Director) has served as musical director for more than 50 musical theater productions in New England, including Kismet and Candide for the White River Theater Festival; Three Penny Opera for Lost Nation Theatre in Montpelier, Vermont; and Into The Woods, Fiddler Man of La Mancha and Guys & Dolls for Forum Theatre. In September, Fred returns to music direct at King Richard's Faire in Carver. Fred has also appeared in character tenor roles with The Providence Opera Theatre, Summer Opera Theatre (Washington, DC) and the Salisbury Lyric Opera Company. Fred earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at The Catholic University of America.

Christine Goutmann (Stage Manager) has stage managed for The Hangar Theatre and Hangar Theatre Lab in Ithaca, New York, the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., Pirate Playhouse in Sanibel Florida, The Mint Theatre in New York City, Tri-Cities Opera of Binghamton, New York, and Raw Egg Productions of Syracuse. A graduate of Syracuse University in Scenic Design and Stage Management, Christine is a recipient of the American College Theatre Festival Certificate of Merit in Stage Management.

ACT ONE is very grateful to our wonderful student interns Jo Finkle, Angela DiMillo, Ashling Brennan, and Amber Gallagher for their important contributions to this summer's season.