Christine Pedi  (Performer)  is a Drama Desk nominee for her work in the satirical revue Forbidden Broadway.  She's currently playing the title role in Miss Abigails Guide to Dating Mating and Marriage (performing Saturdays BETWEEN NEWSicals mat & eve shows!). On Broadway she's been in Talk Radio with Liev Schrieber and Little Me with Martin Short.  Fans of HBO’s The Sopranos may recognize her for her pivotal role as Mrs Bobby Baccala. (4 scenes, 5 lines ... dead.  BUT he loved her so much he couldn't defrost her ziti for months!)   Her multi award winning cabaret show Great Dames has played New York, Provincetown, London, South Africa and all over the US and her holiday show There’s No Bizness Like Snow Bizness is an annual December tradition at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. She’s been a featured soloist on the QM2, Avery Fisher Hall, and with symphonies across the coutry. Christine can be heard daily on SiriusXM Radio’s On Broadway  channel 72, 9a-3p ET Mon-Sat playing the music of the stage and screen and interviewing theatre legends. ChristinePedi.com

Michael West (Performer) most recently appeared in Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, at the 47th Street Theatre (original cast recording on DRG). Off-Broadway: Forbidden Broadway (five editions plus national & international tours and symphonic concerts 2,500 plus performances); When Pigs Fly (directed by Mark Waldrop; original cast recording on RCA); Mr. President; Whoop-Dee-Doo; much regional, including Forbidden Vegas, in Sin City.  Named by his native Atlanta's press "The Funniest Man in Atlanta" and by the Vegas press as a "Las Vegas At Its Best Entertainer".  Michael's acclaimed one-man show, Almost Live from the Betty Ford Clinic, is being updated and rewritten as we speak.  www.michaelwest.net. Michael is also a personal trainer.  www.michaelwestfitness.com 

Tommy Walker (Performer) is thrilled to be back and a part of NEWSical once again!

Susan Mosher (performer)
Broadway: Hairspray. Off-Broadway: Suds, Back to Bacharach & David.  TV: “Nurse Jackie,” “Without A Trace,” HBO’s “If These Walls Could Talk 2” w/Vanessa Redgrave,  “Beverly Hills 90210” “Veronica’s Closet,” and a recurring role on Showtime’s “The L Word.” Film includes: “A View From The Top,” “Lost Souls,” “It's Pat”  “The Wedding Planner” and “Bear City 2: the Proposal” Susie is currently hosting the weekly show, “BACKSTAGE” at the new theater hot spot 54 Below.

Emily McNamara (Understudy)

New York credits include: The Awesome 80’s Prom (also co-wrote), My Big Gay Italian Wedding, My First Time, Minimum Wage, The Karaoke Show, and Slut. She was just seen in The Groove Factory at the New York Musical Theater Festival.  Regional favorites include: Little Shop Of Horrors, Fiddler On The Roof, Dreamgirls, Godspell, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and Chicago. You may also know Emily from her various nightclub performances.  She performs regularly at Splash, BarTini UltraLounge, Joe’s Pub, The Laurie Beechman Theater, and at her MAC award nominated show Mostly Sondheim at The Duplex.  More at EmilyMcNamara.com

Ryan Knowles (Understudy) is very happy to be joining the talented cast of NEWSical.  Other off-Broadway credits include: Caligula in Caligula Maximus (La Mama), Nick Bottom in Fools In Love (Manhattan Ensemble Theatre), Prospero in Tempest: The Musical (Cherry Lane).  National Tours: How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (Grandpa Who) in 2011 and 2010OZ: The Musical (Wicked Witch of the Westside).  Regional/NY credits: Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular (The Genie), Assassins (John Wilkes Booth), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (King Humbug).  On TV, Ryan hosted Nickelodeon's daily live program Me:TV, entertaining millions of children (and some adults) nationwide.  He is the author of five plays and musicals, including his multi award-winning one-man show, Dig & Be Dug: The Gospel of Lord Buckley.  

Ed Goldsheider (Musical Director/ Arrangements) was the original music director of Newsical Upstairs at Studio 54, and is happy to be back with it! Other NYC credits: Urinetown (Conductor), Legally Blonde, Wicked, Avenue Q, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Altar Boyz, The Fantasticks, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Tours: Rent, West Side Story, Fame. Regional: numerous productions at Paper Mill Playhouse, North Shore MusicTheatre, Houston Theatre Under The Stars, among others. As writer and composer, three shows in the works: Atlantis, Elinor & Marianne, and Love, Will...!

Mark Waldrop (Director) Directed Bette Midler's Divine Miss Millennium Tour.  Broadway: Bea Arthur, Just Between Friends (2002 Tony Award nomination, Special Theatrical Event.)  Off-Broadway:  Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly, (1997 Drama Desk Award, 1997 Outer Critic's Circle Award, OBIE;) Newsical, Game Show, Pete 'n' Keely, Listen to My Heart, Inventing Avi, My Deah, and Capitol Steps.  Also: Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (City Center Encores;) Hey, Love! The Songs of Mary Rodgers, starring Faith Prince (Rainbow & Stars.)  Regional: Into the Woods (Seattle’s 5th Avenue,) Souvenir (Greenville, SC CentreStage,) Sound of Music, Cinderella and Annie (Maryland’s Olney Theater.)  At New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse: Gypsy starring Betty Buckley, Little Shop, Romeo & Bernadette, and Forum.  He also has directed New York nightclub and cabaret appearances for Sutton Foster, Brooke Shields, Rebecca Luker, and many, many others.

Rick Crom (Creator and Writer) has been providing songs and sketches for topical revues since his first Off Broadway show RSVP in 1982. Since then Oh Fine, The Subject Was Neurosis, Absolutely Rude, Our Life and Times and What In The World have been presented Off Bwy or in Cabaret. He provided material for Aspen's Crystal Palace for 15 years. Past  NEWSical productions garnered him Drama Desk Nominations for Best Lyrics and Best Revue in 2004 and 2010.  He wrote the music and provided songs for the film The Big Gay Musical (2009) and in 2008 won "best music" and " Most Promising New Musical" award from NYMF for his score to Bonnie and Clyde: A Folktale book by Hunter Foster.

J. Jared Janas and Rob Greene (Wig and Hair Design) Recent designs include wigs for All About Me and Next to Normal on Broadway, Twist at the Alliance Theatre, Peter Pan at Paper Mill Playhouse, Meet Me in St. Louis at TUTS, Break of Noon, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Shout!, Smokey Joe’s Café, Speech and Debate, Oroonoko, Ohio State Murders, M. Butterfly, Tea and Sympathy, Accomplices, Dinah Was, Silence! the Musical, Trouble in Paradise, The Supreme Court (PBS Documentary) and The Full Monty (National Tour).  They have also built wigs currently seen in Wicked, The Addams Family, Promises, Promises, and Jersey Boys. (Set/Projection Designer) is thrilled be returning to yet another incarnation of NEWSical, Jason's credits include productions of West Side Story, Don Giovanni, Fiddler on theRoof, Cinderella, 42nd Street and many others.Off-Broadway Jason designed sets and costumes for the 18 month run of the NY premiere of A Stoop On Orchard Street. Jason scenic designed the 2005 and 2009 productions of NEWSical. For 4 summers in a row Jason designed for the Official Summer Theatre of Georgia, Peach State Summer Theatre (PSST!), designing such shows as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Fantasticks,  Gypsy, Cabaret, Big River, The Producers, A Year with Frog and Toad, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. In film his production design work can be seen in The Gay Musical , You Can’t Have it All, and the upcoming Go Go Crazy.  He holds an MFA in Scenic Design from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film, division of Entertainment Design Technology, Purchase College, SUNY. 

Liz Caplan Vocal Studios, LLC (Vocal Supervisor)  Broadway:  Book of Mormon, American Idiot, Rock of Ages,  13(JRB).  Off  Broadway: Once(NYTW), Voca People. Consultant: Dogfight( 2ST), Chaplin, Bring it On, Wicked, Godspell, Next to Normal, In the Heights, Rent.  Corporate: Soul Cycle.  Film: Shame, Les Misèrables. Television: The Colbert Report.  Recording Artists: The Darkness, James Blunt, Natasha Bedingfield, The Donnas, Goo Goo Dolls, Lily Allen, Nick Littlemore, (Empire of the Sun, Pnau),  Chantal Claret (Morningwood), Murray James, Eric Hutchinson.   Lizcaplanvocalstudios.com

 Laura Stanczyk (Casting) Theatre credits include: Broadway: Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism,  The Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Boy, Translationsi Damn Yankees (Encores! Summer Stars), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also West End), Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Urinetown (also National Tour) & Judgement at Nuremberg.   Other theatre credits: Cotton Club Parade (Encores! with Jazz at Lincoln Center), Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (Alliance), Harps & Angels (Center Theatre Group), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Atlantic Theatre Co.)/Druid Theatre Company/National Tour), The Brother Sister Plays (McCarter/Public Theatre), Flight (Off-Broadway), Me Myself & I (McCarter/Playwrights Horizons), She Stoops To Conquer (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Gruesome Playground Injuries (World Premier, Alley Theatre), Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, Ragtime & Broadway Three Generations (Kennedy Center), Golden Age (Philadelphia Theatre Company/Kennedy Center), Don’t Dress for Dinner (Royal George, Chicago), Dirty Dancing (National Tour), The Shawshank Redemption (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin / West End), The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theatre & Pittsburgh Public), Gate/Beckett (Lincoln Center Festival), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Druid Theatre Company, Dublin Theatre Festival), Tryst (Promenade).  She regularly casts for The Alley Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, DC, Ford's Theatre, The McCarter Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Wilma Theatre, The Drury Lane Theatre and has consulted for The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Rough Magic Theatre Company (Dublin), The Gate Theatre (Dublin), The Druid Theatre (Galway), The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Pittsburgh Public Theatre & American Conservatory Theatre.  Upcoming projects include Side Show, The Guardsman at The Kennedy Center, Little Rock on Broadway and Broadway Company of Dirty Dancing.  She was a member of the Senior Artistic Staff of McCarter Theatre Center for five years, and an associate casting director at Binder Casting for seven years where she worked on countless plays and musicals. Upcoming features: There Are No Soulmates, directed by acclaimed Polish film director, Agnieszka Holland.  Other film & television: Book of Kings, dir. Chris Terrio; Once Upon A Mattress (ABC TV).

Project Publicity (Public Relations) is a full-service public relations firm based in New York City, owned and managed by industry veterans Len Evans and Jeff Dorta. With a focus on the new, next, and up-and-coming, the firm provides expert publicity and corporate communications strategy and services to talent (including music artists, media personalities, actors, comedians and writers) as well as to entertainment-related brands and companies.  www.projectpublicity.com.

Ryan Obermeier  (Stage Manager) has been working in the entertainment business for over 10 years. He has performed in numerous productions throughout his career including Icons: Off-Broadway, The National tour of Hairspray and Naked boys Singing. He has also worked as a singer for Norwegian Cruise Line as well as Paramount Parks. He has a true passion for casting and hopes to pursue a further career in that field in the future. He is so happy to be part of this wonderful show with such a talented bunch of actors.

Annette Niemtzow (Associate Producer)  has been producing in New York and in the West End for almost 20 years. Productions which she has supported as producer or investor have earned 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 21 Tony nominations resulting in 5 Awards, and 14 Olivier nominations resulting in 5 Awards.

Adam Weinstock (Associate Producer) is president of Creative Concept Productions. Since it's inception CCP has produced over 100 shows ranging from the 1996 revival of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band, to the critically acclaimed 21 Dog Years Doing Time at Amazon.com at the Cherry Lane Theater. Other Off-Broadway productions include Disappearing Act, The Director, The It Girl, and Big Al. Recently Adam directed Agatha Christies’ And Then There Were None, and The Laramie Project as well as, producing four shows and three readings.  Dubbed Mr. Entertainment by the NY Times, in a featured article in 2002, Mr. Weinstock has produced on both coasts of the USA as well as in London on the West End. Since optioning Place Setting, by Jack Canfora; it has been read in London's West End, by Jon Cryer, and Steven Weber at the Coronet Theater in LA, and produced at New Jersey Repertory.    For more information go to:  www.creativeconceptproductions.com He has recently returned to acting, portraying Mark in ART and currently stars as Manny in The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever, at the Actors Playhouse Off Broadway.

Lisa Reich (Associate Producer) Is thrilled to join the team of NEWSical.  Lisa's life in the theatre began over 30 years ago as a performer, and her resume has since expanded to include directing, teaching, and—most recently—producing. She has formed her own company, Chalant Productions, and is currently on the producing team of Honeymoon In Vegas and Greenwood.

Elyse Pasquale (Producer) is thrilled to be making headlines with NEWSical. Credits include Off-Broadway's Die! Mommie! Die! and the Chicago production of Betty Rules. Elyse is also a producer of independent films, including Blur and The Unidentified.

Tom D’Angora (Producer) A 2010, 2011 and 2012 Drama Desk nominee for Outstanding Revue and a 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award Winner for Best New Musical Off Broadway. NEWSical:We Distort You Decide, NEWSical: Full Spin Ahead, Naked Boys Singing Revival (produced/co-directed); Icons (produced/directed/conceived); Produced and co-conceived the 2005 hit revue A Broadway Diva Christmas. Produced and conceived Back in Pictures; Produced, wrote, and starred in the multi award winning Divas I’ve Done (which played sold out runs Off-Broadway, L.A., Boston, and Provincetown). Served as producer for many fabulous Provincetown shows including, Naked Boys Singing (produced and co-directed), Rue McClanahan, ICONS, Christine Pedi, Mary Bond Davis, and The Kinsey Sicks. Film: Co-Producer The Big Gay Musical, Executive Producer Mangus. Recordings: NEWSIcal: Full Spin ahead! original cast recording. Executive Producer on Ellen Greene In His Eyes and Scream along with Billy (available at the Marc Jacobs store), the internet sensation “Telephone” a Gaga spoof and Sh*T Liza Minnelli Says both Starring Christine Pedi.  Tom owns and operates Flyerboy Theatrical Promotions, one of the most successful On-Site marketing companies in New York theater. theater. Special thanks to Perez Hilton, Mark Sendroff. Cathy Russell and Hillary. Dedicated to The brilliant Kathi Mallec.  BRING BACK ONE LIFE TO LIVE!

Production Stage Manager:____________Ryan Obermeier