C.J. BLANKENSHIP (Jupiter) recently portrayed Georges in 42nd Street Moon’s sold-out run of Coco.  He has also been seen in CATS, Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Dreamgirls among others.  He sang with the San Francisco Opera Chorus in the world premiere opera, Appomattox.  He was a featured dancer in the San Francisco Opera Ballet Corps in Samson and Delilah and The Rake’s Progress.  C.J. has also performed with several other Bay Area companies including San Francisco Taiko Dojo, Na Hula O Moku’aina, Moving Arts Dance, Peninsula Ballet Theatre, and Huckabay McAllister Dance. 

PETER BUDINGER (Mars) makes a welcome return to 42nd Street Moon.  He appeared last fall in One Touch of Venus.  Most recently, Peter was in Something’s Afoot! with the Pinole Community Players.  A founding member of Dr. Emile’s Theatre Tremendo, Peter has written, directed, produced, and acted in original works with his partner in life and onstage, DC Scarpelli. Those pieces include It Came from Beneath the Kilt! (2000 SF Fringe - Best of Fringe) and Where the Sun Don’t Shine (2006 SF Fringe - Best of Fringe).

MICHAEL CASSIDY (Apollo) last appeared with 42nd Street Moon as Willoughby Finch in Oh, Lady! Lady!!  He has appeared with various Bay Area companies including Masquers Playhouse, Mountain Play, Novato Theatre Company and Ray of Light Theatre in productions of Company, Hair, The Seven Year Itch, The Secret Garden and others.  Favorite roles include The Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Charlie in Brigadoon and Lt. Cable in South Pacific. 

MEGAN CAVANAGH (Isadora St. John) is best known for her portrayal of Marla Hooch in A League of Their Own.  Other films include Robin Hood:  Men in Tights, and For Richer or Poorer.  She played Trudy on Home Improvement and currently stars on Exes & Oh’s.  Guest starring roles include Friends, Will & Grace, The West Wing, Just Shoot Me, and ER, to name a few.  She stars in the cartoons Jimmy Neutron:  Boy Genius, Tak & the Power of Juju, and The Mighty B!  Megan has also graced numerous stages and has been a member of Actor’s Equity since 1987.

KRISTIN CLIPPARD (Diana/Leda) has worked as a theater artist across the U.S. for the past eleven years.  She graduated with a BFA in Acting from Wright State University, and has trained with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, the National Theatre Conservatory, the SITI Company, and Shakespeare & Co.  She recently played Josie in Moon for the Misbegotten with Hapgood Theater.  She tours her original one-woman show, Wild Child, nationally.  Kristin works for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and is a member of Theatre Bay Area.

BRANDY COLLAZO (Night) returns for her seventh Moon show, after last appearing in Plain and Fancy as Hilda Miller (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nominee: Best Actress).  She recently portrayed Donna in The Taffetas at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek.  Favorite credits include: Millie, (Shellie Award, Best Actress) Thoroughly Modern Millie (Diablo Light Opera Company); Peter Pan, Peter Pan (DLOC); and Hope Cladwell, Urinetown (Palo Alto Players). Moon shows include Can-Can, Red Hot and Blue!, and Roar of the Greasepaint…  Brandy is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.  

JULIET HELLER (Chloe) was last seen at 42nd Street Moon in The Student Gypsy (Ginger Glockenspiel), One Touch of Venus (Gloria Kramer) and Coco (Colette u/s).  While living overseas, she played the title role in The Country Wife at the Diorama Studio Theatre, London.  Juliet has also performed Off-Off Broadway in A Christmas Carol (Ghost of Christmas Past) with Personal Space Theatrics, as well as in Rock Out! at the New York Fringe Festival. Other regional credits include The Music Man (Marian), The Importance of Being Earnest(Gwendolen), The Rainmaker (Lizzie), Richard III(Buckingham)and Into the Woods (Cinderella).  www.julietheller.com

DYAN McBRIDE (Venus) works as an actor, director, singer and teacher in the Bay Area.  Artistic endeavors include works with 42nd Street Moon, Laguna Playhouse, New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC), Broadway By the Bay, Willows, Napa Rep, Wicked Stage, Mondavi Center, Performance Riverside, Nintendo, Yahoo!, and anywhere there’s a stage, a camera, or a microphone.  Upcoming projects include The Sheep and the RanchHand (SF Frameline Festival) and directing Moon’s Girl Crazy.  She serves on the acting faculty at NCTC, UC Davis, Solano College.  Bachelor’s: California State University at Fullerton, Master’s: UC Davis.

BILL OLSON (Art O’Malley) returns to 42nd Street Moon after portraying Dan in last year's Plain and Fancy, which earned him a Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle Award nomination.  Bill has performed throughout the Bay Area with TheatreWorks, San Jose Stage, Marin Shakespeare Company and most recently Berkeley Playhouse Theatre.  Some of his favorite roles include The Cat in the Hat (Seussical the Musical), Elyot (Private Lives), Jim the Gentleman Caller (The Glass Menagerie), and Milky White (Into the Woods).  He is also a professional juggler, and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

DARLENE POPOVIC (Juno) has appeared in 42nd Street Moon productions such as Oh Lady! Lady!!, The Golden Apple, Minnie's Boys, Out of This World (2000 production)and Leave It To Me.  She has brightened innumerable Bay Area musical theater productions and has presented her one-woman shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, displaying her versatility in comedy, music and drama.  Darlene has studied theatre and voice at Indiana University, American Conservatory Theater, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  Her many awards include Bay Area Golds, Critics Circle and Dean Goodman Choice.

STEPHANIE RHOADS (Helen Vance) includes among her favorite Moon roles: Adriana in Boys From Syracuse, Ninotchka in Silk Stockings, Venus in One Touch of…, Elvira in High Spirits, Thea in Fiorello!, and Adeline in Sweet Adeline.  She is the recipient of Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Hello Dolly! with Mountain Play and Out of This World with 42nd Street Moon, as well as Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards.  She has appeared with many regional companies including American Musical Theatre of San Jose, TheatreWorks, Broadway By the Bay, Beach Blanket Babylon, Woodminster Musicals, and more.  She is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of 42nd Street Moon.

STEVE RHYNE (Mercury) has enjoyed a long association with 42nd Street Moon, most notably in Red Hot and Blue! (Bob), Do I Hear a Waltz? (Eddie), Leave It To Me! (Buck), On a Clear Day... (Warren), Sitting Pretty (Horace), and the inaugural production of Out of This World (Mercury).  More favorites from his résumé include his most recent project, Into the Woods (Baker), Urinetown (Lockstock), Titanic (Harold Bride), Passion (Giorgio), Taking Sides (Lt. Wills), The Subject Was Roses (Timmy), and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Perry).

ANDREW WILLIS-WOODWARD (Bacchus/Harry/Strephon) made his 42nd Street Moon debut in this spring’s production of The Student Gypsy.  Other recent credits include Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank at San Jose Stage, Bill/Lucentio in Kiss Me, Kate at Cabrillo Stage, and Vince in Convenience at the New Conservatory Theatre Center.  He has studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Theater Arts Institute at the American Musical Theater of San Jose, and CAP21 at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.  ng.

GREG MACKELLAN (Director) co-founded 42nd Street Moon in 1993.  He has been a disciple in the Church of Cole Porter since his teens, and is delighted to be directing his tenth Porter musical (others have included Gay Divorce, Nymph Errant, Silk Stockings, Something for the Boys, and Jubilee.)His revised script for Out of This World was produced to great acclaim from the London critics at the Chichester Festival in 2004, and was done in Los Angeles in April of this year.  Other directing credits for Moon include such well-received shows as The Student Gypsy, Li’l Abner, Minnie’s Boys, Paint Your Wagon, and Do I Hear a Waltz?, and he had a good time mixing it up with a gang of Von Trapp kids and several saucy nuns for Broadway by the Bay’s The Sound of Music.   Greg guided the NEA-sponsored restoration of Arlen and Harburg’s Hooray for What, as well as the June 2004 Kern Gala with Rebecca Luker and 2003’s I Remember It Well with Leslie Caron. In addition to the Moon cast albums of Leave It to Me! and Something for the Boys, Greg has produced seven CDs of rare theatre music with performers like Andrea Marcovicci, Patricia Morison, Judy Kaye, Paige O’Hara, Douglas Sills, Ann Morrison, and Jason Graae.

DAVE DOBRUSKY (Musical Director) is enjoying his twelfth season with 42nd Street Moon.  Favorite productions include Oh, Lady! Lady!!, One Touch of Venus, Gay Divorce, Plain and Fancy, Pardon My English, The Golden Apple, Red Hot and Blue!, Minnie’s Boys, Can-Can, Finian’s Rainbow, Paint Your Wagon, By Jupiter, Leave It to Me! (recorded), Dear World, Call Me Madam, Girl Crazy, Jubilee, and Louisiana Purchase.  Other Bay Area credits include:  Man of LaMancha, Putting It Together (San Francisco Playhouse); The Fantasticks (Shakespeare at Stinson); In This House, The Boyfriend, Whispers on the Wind (Playhouse West); Passion, Chess (New Conservatory Theatre); and youth productions of Titanic and Les Miserables (Musical Theatre Works). 

JAYNE ZABAN (Choreographer) began her career with the Atlanta Ballet Company.  As co-owner and Director of Ballet for Dance Arts Center in San Carlos, she has instructed many students who now have professional careers in theater and dance.  She has choreographed for many regional and community theaters throughout the Bay Area including 42nd Street Moon, the Lamplighters, Broadway By the Bay, Aurora Theatre, Diablo Light Opera Company, Contra Costa Musical Theater and Hillbarn Theatre.  Jayne has also staged productions at the Plush Room and Shelton Theaters.  Awards and nominations:  Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Dean Goodman, Garland and Shellie.

DENNIS O’BRIEN (Stage Manager) makes a welcome return to 42nd Street Moon.  His credits include Charlotte’s Web for Laguna Playhouse, King Lear for Marin Shakespeare, As You Like It for Valley Shakespeare Festival, and Suds for Solano College Theatre.  He also served as the Production Stage Manager at Entrée to Murder for two years.

LOUISE JARMILOWICZ (Costumer) is costuming her tenth show for 42nd Street Moon, having just costumed Coco.  Ms. Jarmilowicz has been costuming around San Francisco for many years.  Groups with whom she has worked, designing and constructing costumes, include the Handful Players, the African-American Shakespeare Co., Children's Fairyland, Stage Door Conservatory, The Lamplighters, the Dark Room Theater, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and many other local artists.

ELLEN BROOKS (Lighting Designer) has designed many productions for 42nd Street Moon –including Gay Divorce, Mack & Mabel, Oh, Lady! Lady!!, Red Hot and Blue!, Once Upon a Mattress, Paint Your Wagon, Can-Can and the Company’s annual Galas atthe Herbst and Alcazar Theatres.  For the past eight years she has also designed for Lamplighters Music Theatre at Yerba Buena Center and the Herbst in San Francisco, Napa Valley Opera House, Dean Lesher Center in Walnut Creek and Mountain View Center.  She is the Resident Lighting Director for the Marin Shakespeare Company and will soon be designing Amadeus, The Winter's Tale and Much Ado...  Her most recent work includes Ascension of the Blues, Shadowlands and Once on This Island.

MIKE FIGUEIRA (Set Decorator) is in his fourth season as set decorator at 42nd Street Moon.  Making magic on the Eureka stage involves buying, building, and/or borrowing various chairs, cubes, and crates, as well as creating, recreating (with new paint and fabric), or locating other set pieces.  He also designs and paints the look for the stage floor and proscenium, from solid black to faux hay to garden paths.  Favorite sets include Plain and Fancy, Miss Liberty, and last fall’s Oh, Lady! Lady!!