BIOS

2004 FringeNYC Production

Ken Kleiber (Professor, Shylock, various aliens)

Ken has been entertaining millions since before the Dawn of Time. With his flaming red hair™ and irreverent delivery, Ken has carved himself a very special niche in the extreme nether regions of Show Business.  Ken grew up in Chicago where he headlined cabarets and performed in such shows as CHICAGO, SIGHT UNSEEN and CRAZY FOR YOU.  The results were off-putting to all casual observers, and earned Ken a special place on President Nixon's fabled “Hate-List.”  Currently, Ken can be seen interviewing the stars on the Manhattan cable variety show THAT’S KENTERTAINMENT! airing Thursdays at Midnight, Channels 34/107 and online at www.thatskentertainment.com.

Meara McIntyre (Ginger, Badder, Beedle 1, aliens)
Meara is familiar to audiences as the lead soloist in Riverdance on Broadway as well as in its national tour, and in special appearances on NBC's The Today Show and at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In musical theater and opera, Meara has performed Julie Jordan in Carousel with the Natchez Opera Festival, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof with the Colorado Lyric Theatre and Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella with the McPherson Theatre and Mary Turner in Of Thee I Sing, at the Agassiz Theatre. With the Blackman Theatre, she has performed the roles of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Adele in Die Fledermaus. Other credits include Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Lula in The Flying Dutchman.  She joined forces with Kate Winslet and Nicholas Cage in the Disney animated film A Christmas Carol and has recorded The Legend of Finn McCool. Recently Meara was seen as Anna Howard Shaw in Love According to Luc at the Greenwich Street Theater, NYC.

Stephanie Sine (Mary Ann, Bad, Beedle 2, aliens)
Stephanie has been living in New York now for the past five years with her sugar-daddy, Henry Noodle. She thinks he is such a stud that she has decided to marry him. He just doesn’t know it, yet. Stephanie can also be seen on the television show CYBERCHASE, as the cute tap dance instructor. Prior to being inducted into Noodle-dom, she was in South Florida playing Mickey, the mechanic in MY ONE AND ONLY. Other favorite roles include: Tzeitel in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Gloria in DAMN YANKEES, and Mammy Yokum in LIL’ ABNER. Last year she made her stand-up debut at the New York Comedy Club. She is a Broadway Theatre Project alumn and a graduate of Oklahoma City University. She is a cancer and her favorite color is purple.

Matt Wilson (Henry Noodle)

Beloved by millions of parents, children, and math teachers everywhere for his work on the award winning television show Cyberchase, Matt was last seen on Broadway, helping friends move in at 189th St. His daytime TV debut involved slaughtering Air Supply’s tender ballad, ‘I’m all out of love....’ on One Life to Live. He’s also a clown with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit. Prior theatrical interludes: new works by playwright Dennis Schebetta; Clark Gesner's Animal Fair (NYC Premiere);Cupid and Psyche (NMTN Staged Reading); First Witch, Second Witch, Third Witch: an adaptation of Macbeth (Chashama).  He left Vassar College with a B.A. in Biophysics in 1999, and laughs in the face of death. Ha.  Ha.  HA!

Kirsten Berkman (Associate Producer)
Kirsten is thrilled to be working with Tim on his Fringe debut. Kirsten holds a BA from Northwestern U. and her Masters degree in Educational Theatre from NYU. Previously with The Lark Play Development Center as Dir. of Arts Learning and Community Relations where she worked on educational programming, marketing and producing, she is currently an Associate with the Araca Group, producers of Wicked, Urinetown, The Vagina Monologues, et al.

Lindsay Ericson (Assistant Stage Manager)
Graduated last year from SUNY New Paltz with a BA in theatre. She stage managed The Birth, Adoption and Death of Dorothy Dutchess for the Fringe Festival in the summer of 2003. Since then she has worked on the Broadway shows Nine and Assassins as child wrangler. She currently works for the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Sean Kane (Lighting Designer)
Regional Credits:  Ragtime, The Mousetrap, No Man’s Land, Biloxi Blues, Twelfth Night, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Life in Exodus.  Dance Credits: Sidra Bell Dance Company New York (Shadow & Light), Three Doors, Tord Meeting. Sean holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film.

Marisa LeRette (Costume Designer)
Marisa loves to garden and design but spends most of her time running after her one year old.  She is proud to be part of the Henry Noodle Team.

Allison Leyton-Brown (Musical Director)
Allison Leyton-Brown is a composer for theatre, dance, film, and opera.  Her work has been performed at New York’s The Public Theater, Symphony Space, The Culture Project, La MaMa Etc., HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, St. Marks' Church, and on less traditional stages.  Recent projects include feature film scores for Head Case (dir. M. Wakefield), Dog's Life (dir. J. Knapich), and two short film scores.  Theatre scores include NYC productions of The Laramie Project, and the upcoming Hecuba, starring Kristin Linklater.  Allison regularly collaborates with choreographers on dance scores, and is on the music faculty of the American Dance Festival.  She is thrilled to finally be putting years of musical noodling to good use.

Ray Harold (Technical Supervisor) 

Having received his B.F.A. from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film, he has been working in both New York and Regional theatre since graduation in May ’03.  Other credits include: Love According to Luc (Greenwich St. Theatre), Grapes of Wrath (Westchester P.A.C.), Showman Fabricators (All My Children, Howard Stern), … Just to name a few.  Ray is proud to be working on this production.

Sean Kane (Lighting Designer)

Regional Credits:  Ragtime, The Mousetrap, No Man’s Land, Biloxi Blues, Twelfth Night, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Life in Exodus.  Dance Credits: Sidra Bell Dance Company New York (Shadow & Light), Three Doors, Tord Meeting.  Sean holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film.

Tim McCanna  (Writer: Music, Book & Lyrics)

A native of Kansas City, MO, Tim followed his undergrad experience at TCU in Ft. Worth, TX by singing and playing accordion with the "titanically annoying" rock band SNAP FLOOSIE, then joined a Dallas-based theatre collective where he wrote and performed the first three installments of the HENRY NOODLE adventures. In 1997, he moved to New York to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program where he received an MFA in Dramatic Writing for Musical Theatre. Tim's other writing credits include THE GOLDEN STATE, a musical based on The Octopus by Frank Norris (Book, Lyrics) with music by Mike Shaieb; UNDER MILQUETOAST a musical parody of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (Book, Music, Lyrics); THE CROW AND THE PITCHER, a musical written in gibberish (Book, Lyrics) with music by Matt Marks; and KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN LITTLE, a funky bluegrass musical based on Chicken Little (in progress). By day, Tim is a mild-mannered graphic designer at Roundabout Theatre Company. He lives happily ever after in Queens with his wife, Trudi, and their cat, Autumn.

Kate Scefonas (Stage Manager)

As a recent graduate of Fordham University, she has just begun her real world adventures in stage management.  Past credits include Love According to Luc with the lovely Stephen Tomac and at Fordham, Faustus/Faustus directed by Matthew Maguire,  Zoyka's Apartment directed by Annie Dorsen, The Cuchulain Cycle directed by Sonoko Kawahara, and Electra and Twelfth Night directed by Maura Smith.  She is thrilled to be working on such a fabulous project.  Many thanks to my family for putting up with me moving back home and to Jeffrey for being my Prince.

Ryan Scott (Scenic Designer)

Designs Off-Broadway include: Love According to Luc (Greenwich St. Theater), Madam Alberta (Cherry Lane Studio), Rite of Return (Theater For a New City), Night Ether (Center Stage), HurlyBurly (T. Schreiber Studio).  Regional: West Side Story, Ragtime, Born Yesterday, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Comedy of Errors. Ryan also holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theater Arts and Film.

Wendy Seyb (Choreographer)

Ms. Seyb has been working in dance for over 15 years.  Her experience ranges from choreographing and self-producing in concert dance to choreographing original musicals and commercial industrials.  Her goal, to always tell a great story; her ideal, to make dance narratives commercially viable. 5 Original musicals: Love According to LUC (Greenwich Street Theatre), Trey Parker’s CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL (The Kraine Theatre), Dreams This Way, The Best of Raw Impressions Musical Theatre (TADA! Theatre), THE CARDBOARD MOON and BETSY BLUE (The Looking Glass Theatre). Plays: the Women’s Directors Forum and Juilliard Graduate Directing Program. Concert/Commercial Dance: St. Marks The Remember Project, 2001 Elan Awards, Madison Square Garden KNICKS City Dancers, Pace University, Dancespace, Inc, Merce Cunningham Studios, The Life (the nightclub), Off Center Dance Company at SUNY@ Purchase, The Rainbow Tribe Dance Company (Boston & Philadelphia). Associate Choreographer: FOOTLOOSE (Las Vegas) and fashion shows/industrials for clients such as L’Oreal and Maybelline.  Coming this summer Ms. Seyb will be Co-Producing the next Raw Impressions Dance Theatre at Pier 63 and premiering a piece at The Doris Duke Theatre for the International Dance Festival.

Shannon Slaton (Sound Designer)
Shannon toured as the head sound engineer with Cinderella, Grease, and Jekyll and Hyde.  He designed the tour of Tap Dogs which has toured all over North and South America.  He also designed the national tours of Aeros, Kiss Me Kate, Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk, The Full Monty and the Asian tour of Cabaret.  On Broadway, he has mixed Man of La Mancha, Bombay Dreams, and A Christmas Carol, and he works at John Jay Theater as the house sound engineer.  He lives in Manhattan with his wife Mollie and he is very happy to be working on this show.

Kris Todd (Associate Production Manager)

Kris Todd last assisted on a reading of, " Lenin's Shoes, " with the Lark Play Development Center where she is currently serving as Literary Associate. During the day she works with The Roundabout Theatre Company in the Subscription and Ticketing Departments, where most recently she assisted on the Opening Night of ASSASSINS as well as the Kander and Ebb Gala. This is Kris first time working on a Fringe show and she is happy to be here. In her spare time Kris devotes her time to helping promote awareness of mental illness. kristoddl@aol.com

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The following people have generously given their time, energy and amazing talents to the development process of Henry Noodle :

Joe Brady, Jeff Green, John Herin, Jamie Jackson, Gi-Hieh Lee, Brent Lord, Joan Marcus, Matt Marks, Trudi McCanna, Mollie Melugin, Peter Mills, Chris Peak, Stephen Rader, Andy Roth, Eric Salisbury, Mike Shaieb, Jack Short, Collette Stewart, Alden Terry, Carey VanDriest, Jeffery A. Ward, David Last at The Ensig Group, Mike Velayo at Walnut Printers

Special Thanks to:

Sarah Schlesinger, Karen Henderson, and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program; Rebecca Wilson, James Bedell, Ryan Cunningham, and Judy Bowman

Special, Special Thanks to:
FringeNYC, Elena Holy and the wonderful staff at
The Present Company