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t h e S a n t a M o n i c a A r t s Drama-Logue awards for such productions as The Great Fair and
Hitchcock Presents, You Bet
Your Life with Groucho Marx (all Commission for nine years, The Fools. Favorite credits include the musical comedy Funny, You
favorite projects include the Don’t Look Like A Grandmother, Beauty and the Beast, Picon Pie and
of which can now be seen on
youtube), and The Gift of Love, World Premiere of Rose Leiman Backstreet.
in which she co-starred with Goldemberg’s musical play
Picon Pie, the LA TIMES THE ATTIC ROOM (Sound Design) is a full-service design team
Robert Stack and Lauren Bacall.
During her theatrical career, Recommended Audition! The specializing in multi-media for the intimate stage. More than 200
she has played everything from Musical and Arnold Schulman’s productions include Tea Cup for a Shallow Apocalypse, Because of
Tom Sawyer to Queen Elizabeth Sleeping Ugly. Chris and Evelyn You: the life and loves of Sholom Aleichem, Obi Ndefo's Othello,
I. She received commendations are currently portraying Sholom SCRAPS, Funny, You Don't Look Like A Grandmother, Cinderella,
Aleichem and his wife, Lester McFwap in Owl-Stretching Time, Stains, Junk and Other
from the city, the state and the
federal government for 50 respectively, in the world Necessities of Life, Picon Pie, Pastiche, 40 Years and Counting!,
years of uninterrupted premiere musical Aleichem Next!-living the lie and Jerry Mayer's 2 ACROSS and Dietrich and
theatrical and educational Sholom: The Wit and Wisdom of Chevalier: the musical.
participation. She recently Sholom Aleichem, monthly here
at the Playhouse. GEORGE J VENNES III (Production Stage Manager; Playhouse
directed Jerry Mayer’s 2 Across
at St. Luke’s Theatre Off- Technical Director) received his A.A. from Santa Monica City
Broadway. ASHLEY HAYES (production & College, immediately began working as a theatre professional and
costume design) has been educator, and hasn't been 'without a show' since. George has been
Chris has been acting,
writing, directing and teaching designing and creating Production Stage Manager for the Playhouse for over 200
costumes for more than 25 years productions in the past 20 years. He has been the Technical
for more than 5 decades. Over
a quarter of a million people and has created original designs Director for more than 250 Benefit Events and over three dozen BFF
have been touched by his for more than 400 productions, Binge Fringe Festival of Free Theatre events every year for the past
a w a r d - w i n n i n g for a total of over 5000 ten years. George produced John Pielmeier's Impassioned
characterization of Yiddish costumes. Design credits run the Embraces, for the Playhouse Modern Comedy Series. And although
gamut from fantasy to science it doesn’t appear on his resume, he also took over the role of
humorist Sholom Aleichem. His
directorial and dramaturgical fiction, from medieval to Clarence Wolfman in Barnyard Madness with the Three Little Pigs a
projects include 9 of Jerry futuristic, and include The Great number of years ago.
Fair, La Cage Aux Facheux,
M a y e r ’ s l o n g - r u n n i n g
comedies, Annie Reiner’s Author! Author!, Cinderella, the SANDRA ZEITZEW (Public Relations Director) has been with the
Mirage a Trois, Stephen King operatic spoof Il Fornicaccione Playhouse since 1990. Projects include the English Shakespeare
and Robert B Parker’s RAGE; and The Clown Prince, which Company's LA premiere of God say Amen…Themes from the Wars of
and the LA TIMES Critics’ Pick won a LAWEE award for costume the Roses, Agnes Bernelle's Empress Eugènie and Black Champagne, and
design, and for which she countless ART and Benefit Productions, including such renowned artists as
world premieres of Made Me Melanie Chartoff, Bob Dubac, Debra Ehrhardt, Eddie Frierson, Shelley
Nuclear, Last of the Knotts, designed and hand-crafted over Fisher, Inara George, Stogie Kenyatta, Laraine Newman, Lily Tomlin and
Aspirin & ELEPHANTS and 450 separate costume pieces. Jane Wagner, Melanie Chartoff, Minda Burr and the late Dan Lewks, Kelly
Dying for Laughs. A member of Ashley has also won numerous Carlin, Karen Knotts, and grammy-award winner Harriet Schock.