Happy is thrilled to be making his debut at The Pasadena Playhouse. Broadway: The Merchant of Venice. Off-Broadway The 27th Man (Public Theatre) The Winters Tale (NYSF Delacorte) Regional: As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre of DC) Inherit The Wind, Richard III, As You Like It. (Old Globe) TV: Mindhunter, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Full Circle, Snowpiercer, Prodigal Son, The Tick, The Blacklist,  The Knick, Quarry, Banshee. Film: The Bikeriders, Maggie Moore(s), Bad Boys For Life, Birdbox, Bright, and the upcoming Lear Rex and The All-Nighter.

Brian Calì is grateful to be returning to the Playhouse for a third show…lucky guy. Broadway: Pretty Woman, Master Class, Paradise Square. LA: Pasadena Playhouse’s Sunday in the Park With George and Inherit the Wind, Hollywood Bowl/LA Phil’s Kinky Boots. TV/Film: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Law & Order: SVU, Blacklist, Fosse/Verdon, Bull, Boardwalk Empire, Manifest. This one’s for the CSBH Famiglia!

Proud and grateful to be telling this beautiful story, while also debuting at this historic venue, alongside some of her closest friends, collaborators, and mentors. It is a joy and privilege to do this work, but to bring something to life with your people is a special kind of honor. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Katie and Al. Broadway: Tammy Faye (OBC) Off Broadway: TEETH National Tours: Hamilton (Eliza, Angelica, And Peggy), Dirty Dancing. Intimacy Associate for Broadway’s Buena Vista Social Club, Purple Rain, and Tartuffe (NYTW). Amanda is also a Human Design and Reiki practitioner, green-thumbed plant mom, and writer. Follow along on Instagram @_amandaclement and Substack @amandaclement.

Sophie Liu David is honored to be making her Playhouse debut after watching shows here growing up! Regional Theatre: Catch Me If You Can, Joseph… Dreamcoat, Cinderella (Marriott Theatre), Cats (Paramount Theatre Aurora), Cinderella (Drury Lane Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (The Lexington Theatre Company). Northwestern University Theatre Alum. Go Cats! Represented by Gray Talent Group. @sophieldavid

City Ballet of San Diego, Anastasia Bway 1st Nat. (Ensemble u/s Odette), American in Paris (Ensemble u/s Lise). TV/Film: The Rookie, Law & Order, FBI Most Wanted, The Gilded Age, American Sports Story, Westworld, & The Marvelous Mrs.Maisel. Big love & gratitude to my family and team at CESD & Vision. xx @kylievictoria2

Michael Scott Harris came to Los Angeles by way of the National Tour of The Phantom of the Opera (Piangi). Off-Broadway: The Mikado (Nanki-Poo), H.M.S. Pinafore (Ralph), The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic), among many others. Recent productions include Inherit the Wind (Bannister) at Pasadena Playhouse, Annie (Warbucks) at Tuacahn, South Pacific (Emile) at Utah Shakespeare, Sunset Blvd (Manfred) Broadway at Music Circus, Ragtime (Father) at Musical Theatre West, Lend Me a Tenor (Tito) at ICT, and The Remarkable Mr. Holmes (Gustav) at Laguna Playhouse. Michael recently spent several years as a professor at  Pepperdine University before leaving to open his professional voice studio.  For more information, check him out on Instagram @michaelscottharris

Jessica Lee Keller is a multifaceted artist—actor, dancer, choreographer, and educator—from Stillwater, Minnesota. An original member of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York, she performed works by many of today’s most visionary choreographers while weaving a rich career across stage, screen, choreography, bodywork, and yoga. Her credits include The Adjustment Bureau, Lucifer, RENT: Live, Palm Royale, The LXD, Code Black, So You Think You Can Dance, and Dancing with the Stars. She is known for playing Struts in Disney’s Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2, where she also served as associate choreographer. Jessica is an original faculty member with Radix Dance Convention and delighted to return to Pasadena Playhouse for her second production.

Moulin Rouge (OBC). Canadian premieres of The Louder We Get under the direction of Lonny Price (Theatre Calgary), Ragtime (Theatre Under the Stars), A Chorus Line, Joseph, Gypsy, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and Singing in the Rain (The MUNY).

Maddie is thrilled to make her Pasadena Playhouse debut! She is a multifaceted performer who has built a career spanning musical theater, contemporary dance, and commercial entertainment. A proud Chapman University BFA graduate, her stage credits include Sweeney Todd (LMT, Directed by Jason Alexander) and work with Secret Cinema, TL Collective, and Los Angeles Jazz Company. She has appeared in projects for the 92Y Future Dance Festival, NOWNESS, and recording artist the Bleachers. Gratitude to her husband, community, family, and Jesus! @maddielacambra 

Pasadena Playhouse debut! NYC: Enemy (Smith Street Stage). TOUR: Rosie Revere, Engineer and Friends (TheaterWorks USA). REGIONAL: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Writers Theatre, Chicago); The Bridges of Madison County, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods (Signature Theatre, DC); The Wolves (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre); The Great American Mousical (Legacy Theatre, CT); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Adventure Theatre, DC); Henry VIII, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew (Valley Shakespeare Festival, CT); Agnes of God, Into the Woods (Madison Lyric Stage, CT). EDUCATION: BFA in Acting, NYU Tisch/Stella Adler Studio. Love and thanks to Mom & Dad, Liv, and Matty. IG: @julialenn0n

BRIAN KIM McCORMICK is a Korean Adoptee storyteller whose work spans theatre, film, and voiceover. He is thrilled to be making his Playhouse debut with this new adaptation. Other LA stages include East West Players, LA Opera, South Coast Repertory, Musical Theatre West, Ammunition, Broken Token, and Antaeus. Regional stages include Asolo Repertory, The Guthrie, Mixed Blood, The Olney, Pan Asian, TheatreSquared, Quantum, Theatre Latté Da, and Theatre Mu. His voiceover work includes numerous English Dubs (Squid Game, Culinary Class Wars), Video Games (Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty), Cartoons (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh), and Audiobooks (Winston Chu versus the Whimsies by Stacey Lee). All my love to Mom, Dad, and my little Yuna. Team @infin8artists / @asian_with_a_camera

Spencer is honored to be making his Pasadena Playhouse debut. Broadway: The Winslow Boy. US/NZ Premiere: The Lord of the Rings. 1st National Tours: Billy Elliot; How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Regional: Buzz, directed by Emmy-winner Carrie Preston (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Cabaret (NJT); Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Newsies, 42nd Street, Camelot, Beautiful (The Muny); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Fulton Theatre); Billy Elliot (Paramount Theater); Hello, Dolly (Marriott Theatre); She Loves Me (The Link Theatre); Film/Netflix: Soul on Fire with William H. Macy. MA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Love and gratitude to the family, Maddy Lee, Mallie, Dylan, and Al for being pure brilliant. 

Betsy has appeared in the original casts of numerous Broadway productions, including Kimberly Akimbo, The King and I (LCT Revival), A Little Night Music (2009 Revival), Les Miserables (2014 Revival), The Little Mermaid, and High Fidelity.  She has worked with some of Broadway’s most influential artists, including Stephen Sondheim, Jeanine Tesori, PigPen Theatre Company, Alan Menken, and has a 20-year history with Michael John LaChiusa, appearing in 6 of his musicals.  Off-Broadway she has originated roles in The Wild Party (City Center Encores), Masquerade (the immersive Phantom of the Opera), First Daughter Suite (The Public), Found (Atlantic Theater), All the World’s A Stage (Keen Company), and Barrow Street Theatre’s production of Sweeney Todd where she was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award.

Gabriel Navarro, a proud AEA member, is thrilled to make his Pasadena Playhouse debut in this re-imagined production of  Brigdadoon. Credits: A Christmas Story (CTG/Ahmanson), R&H’s Cinderella (Prince Topher -MTW), The Light In The Piazza (Fabrizio Naccarelli – MTW),  Brigadoon (Charles Dalrymple – La Mirada), Frozen (King Agnarr -La Mirada), The Prince Of Egypt (Ensemble/Aaron U/S – Tuacahn Amphitheatre), Concert of Love (Aladdin – Tokyo Disney Sea),  42nd St (Billy Lawlor – SDMT), West Side Story (Bernardo – Riverside Fox), Seven Loves (Getty Villa), Austins’s Pride! (The 5th Ave Theatre) Sincerest gratitude to my family, friends, teachers, manager Anthony @infin8Artists, Ryan/RBT Casting, Danny/Pasadena Playhouse & Katie! BFA: USC Fight On! @GabrielNavarroJr  www.GabrielNavarroJr.com

Chuck is thrilled to be making his Pasadena Playhouse debut with Brigadoon, the very show that started his dancing career and musical theater introduction 40 years ago—truly a Full circle moment. Broadway Credits: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Donny Osmond, AIDA and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Many Thanks to Mark Smith at The Savage Agency and Pasadena Playhouse. Follow all things Chuck on Instagram: @csaculla.

Pasadena Playhouse Debut! Broadway National Tours: Anastasia, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Select Regional and New York credits: The Old Globe, Tuacahn Amphitheater, Coachella Valley Repertory, CCAE Theatricals, North Coast Repertory, Cygnet, The Argyle, 5 Star Theatricals, Feinstein’s 54 Below, Moscow Ballet, Hale Center Theatre, Sundance Amphitheater, Moonlight Amphitheater, Las Vegas Opera w/ Metropolitan Opera. Feature film: Kelly in Miracle Valley (in theaters 2022). Huge thank you to the creative team, my family, and Avalon Artists Group! Instagram: ames__smith

Gil Sweeney is delighted to be a part of this wonderful company and show! He is a NYC- based actor with a BA in Musical Theater from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Recent/ Favorite credits include: Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game (New Athenaeum Theatre), Police officer/ Stunt Performer in Akiva (Bergen PAC), Thug in BEING ARIODANTE by Jonathan Dawe, Bus Driver/ Violin in Violet (Chandler Studio Theatre).  He would like to thank his family and friends for their love and support. Hope you enjoy the show!

Donna Vivino made her Broadway debut at age 8 as the original Young Cosette in Les Misérables. Her Broadway and theater credits include Elphaba in Wicked, Grizabella in Cats, Diana in Next to Normal, Heidi in Dear Evan Hansen, Mary in Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis in Los Angeles, for which she received an Ovation Award nomination, and Jersey in Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen. Additional Broadway credits include Hairspray, Saturday Night Fever, and Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. A 2024 Grammy nominee on Sondheim Unplugged, her screen work includes The Sopranos, Law & Order, Ezra, and FBI: Most Wanted. She is the artistic director of Broadway Unlimited—a youth arts company. @donnavivino

Max von Essen is a Tony and Grammy-nominated performer, best known for his acclaimed turn as Henri Baurel in the award-winning adaptation of Gershwin’s An American in Paris. The New York Times hailed it as “a hard-earned, breakthrough performance of great sensitivity and charm” adding that “his tenor is in another class.” He recently starred as Billy Flynn in Broadway’s record-breaking production of Chicago and has also appeared in Anastasia, Evita, the revivals of Les Misérables and Jesus Christ Superstar, Dance of the Vampires, and the final company of the original Les Misérables. He recently made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall and his debut album, Call Me Old Fashioned: The Broadway Standard, is currently available. Television credits feature guest-starring roles on Dexter: Resurrection, Law & Order, Family Guy, The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, Elementary, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife, Royal Pains, Gossip Girl, Sex and the City 2, and the web series Submissions Only.

Most recently appeared at Geffen Playhouse in THE RESERVOIR, and LITTLE SHOP at South Coast Rep. Portrayed Snape in HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD. Worked on Broadway and National Tours, including THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME.  Regional appearances include The Old Globe, La Jolla, Baltimore Center Stage, Guthrie, Denver Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, Rep of St. Louis, Goodspeed, Arizona Theater Co., a long association with Vermont’s Weston Theater, and more. Locally: La Mirada, the Odyssey, LA Theater Works, and HENRY IV with Tom Hanks. TV: NCIS, Mad Men, Brothers and Sisters, Numb3rs, “ER,” four Law & Orders, etc. Film: City Hall, The Divide, and Steven Spielberg’s The BFG. He trained at Central.

(Broadway); Hamilton, Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, Once On This Island, INK. (Off Broadway); Grand Hotel, Rolling Thunder. (Regional); In The Heights, Newsies. Thrilled to be making his Pasadena Playhouse debut. There is nothing richer than the timelessness only love and joy can bring. Grateful to Mom, Dad, the Three Peas, Sheri, and Al for all of the love they’ve gifted over the years.  IG: @daniel.j.yearwood

Tyne Daly has been a member of Actors‘ Equity Association since 1961. She has been privileged to work with the finest playwrights in the English language: Edward Albee, Nora and Delia Ephron, Arthur Laurents, David Lindsay-Abaire, Terrence McNally, Theresa Rebeck and more talented actors than space allows. Daly has three grown daughters and seven grandchildren, 3 Tony nominations (1 win), and 16 Emmy nominations (6 wins). She has performed in Los Angeles, New York and London and is an inductee into The American Theater Hall of Fame. Her acting family members include her mother, father, brother, former husband and their daughter.