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KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
GET CAUGHT IN THE WEB

Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Book by Terrence McNally
Based on the novel by Manuel Puig
Directed by Eric Schaeffer
MARCH 11 – APRIL 20, 2008

 

A BREATHTAKING CAST
Meet the cast of Kiss of the Spider Woman! We are excited to introduce three Broadway celebrities and welcome back some of our favorite DC stars for this timeless musical classic.

Will Chase (Valentin) BROADWAY: High Fidelity, Lennon, Aida, The Full Monty, Miss Saigon, Rent. OFF-BROADWAY: Don’t Quit Your Night Job. REGIONAL: TheaterWorks: A Little Princess; Oklahoma Lyric: Oklahoma; St. Louis Muny: The Pajama Game; Chicago Area: Assassins, Electra, Mame, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, Son of Fire, Trask & Fenn (3 Jeff Award nominations). FILM: Shaft, Everyday People. TELEVISION: Canterbury’s Law, Conviction, Law and Order, Third Watch, Queens Supreme, Fling, As The World Turns, All My Children, Guiding Light. EDUCATION: Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Bachelor of Music/Percussion/Conducting).

Natascia Diaz (Spider Woman/Aurora) BROADWAY: (Original Cast): Man of La Mancha (Antonia/Aldonza), Capeman, Seussical. OFF-BROADWAY: Jacques Brel (cast recording); tick, tick…BOOM! (Susan); Sondheim’s Saturday Night; Bright Lights, Big City (Vicky). LOCAL: Kennedy Center: Carnival (Rosalie), A Little Night Music (Petra); Arena Stage: Agamemnon and His Daughters (Elektra); Wolf Trap: West Side Story (Anita). REGIONAL: Papermill: Pippin (Catherine); Studio Arena: Hail Mary!. CONCERT: Library of Congress: Jonathan Larsen. TV: Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Damages, HBO’s Leonardo da Vinci, A Dream of Flight, Oz, Voice of Miss Chiquita Banana. FILM: Tiny Dancer, How to Seduce Difficult Women (Angelica). UPCOMING: Film documentary: Every Little Step; Metro Stage: Rooms. AWARDS: Joseph Jefferson Award, 2006 Kevin Klein Award, Ovation Award nomination.

Hunter Foster (Molina) BROADWAY: Leo Bloom in The Producers, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Tony® nomination), Bobby Strong in Urinetown (Outer Critics nomination), Les Misérables, Grease, Footloose, King David. OFF-BROADWAY: Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein, Modern Orthodox, Urinetown (Lucie Lortel nomination). NATIONAL TOURS: Cats, Martin Guerre, The Producers. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Mister Roberts; Papermill: Children of Eden; Lend Me a Tenor, The Full Monty. OTHER: Wrote the book to the Off-Broadway musical Summer of ’42, and the upcoming Bonnie and Clyde. EDUCATION: University of Michigan, BFA, musical theater.

Danny Binstock (Ensemble) SIGNATURE: My Fair Lady u/s, SSA workshop. NEW YORK: The Last Starfighter (Alex Rogan); REGIONAL: American Musical Theatre Project: The Boy in the Bubble (workshop); Shakespeare Theatre Co.: Titus Andronicus;Maine State Music Theatre:  Follies (Young Ben), Brigadoon;Wagon Wheel Theatre: Oklahoma! (Will Parker); University of Michigan: The Water (World Premiere), The Lover, City of Angels. EDUCATION: BFA, University of Michigan.

Christopher Bloch (Esteban) SIGNATURE: Merrily We Roll Along, Urinetown (Helen Hayes nomination), Twentieth Century, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. LOCAL: Ford’s: State of the Union, Shenandoah, Big River, 1776, Christmas Carol;Arena: Christmas Carol 1941, Damn Yankees, Black No More; Everyman Theatre: Uncle Vanya, Jaques Brel…, Light Up the Sky; Olney: Cinderella, Carousel. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theatre, Kennedy Center, Virginia Stage, ACT (Seattle), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Indiana Rep. NATIONAL TOUR: The Buddy Holly Story. FILM/TV: West Wing (Final Episode), Butler MN, Dakota Conflict, The Great Northfield Raid (PBS), Fast Food Films (FX), WCBDC!, Star Wars audio (Lucas Productions).

Kurt Boehm (Ensemble) SIGNATURE: One Red Flower, Kids From Catholic Cabaret. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: She Loves Me; The Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth; Theatre of the First Amendment: Lift: Icarus and Me, First Light Festival. Toby's: Footloose, Cats, Aida, Mame, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Music at Monica's (Philadelphia): Mardi Gras Cabaret. UPCOMING: Adventure Theatre: Goodnight Moon. EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America, Bachelor of Music, Cum Laude.

Andy Brownstein (Marcos) SIGNATURE: Assassins (2007 Helen Hayes Award), Twentieth Century (u/s).  LOCAL: Folger: The Second Shepherds’ Play; Charter: Short Order Stories; Journeymen (artistic associate): An Experiment with an Air Pump, The Christmas Foundling, Breadhouse; Rorschach: Behold!; Firebelly: To Kill a Mockingbird.  REGIONAL: Maine Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night. UPCOMING: Quotidian: Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Matt Conner (Ensemble) SIGNATURE: Merrily We Roll Along (Scottie), The Witches of Eastwick (Toby), Into the Woods (Steward/Baker U/S), My Fair Lady (Second Cockney), Assassins (John Hinckley, Jr.), Pacific Overtures (Tamate/Lion Dancer), A Funny Thing... Forum (Protean/Hero U/S). COMPOSITIONS: Signature: Nevermore, The Girl from No Man's Land (incidental music), Crossing (Workshop), GMCW: A Carol Christmas. REGIONAL: Open Circle Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas); Olney: West Side Story (Riff), Synetic Theatre: Oscar Wilde's Salome (Page of Herodias); Toby's: Cats (Mungo Jerrie), Jekyll and Hyde (Spider); Actors Theatre of Washington: Naked Boys Singing. EDUCATION: BFA, Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University.

Steven Cupo (Warden) SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, My Fair Lady, Urinetown, Pacific Overtures, Follies, The Christmas Carol Rag, Forum, Grand Hotel, Cabaret (Helen Hayes Award). OFF BROADWAY: Rabboni. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Sweeney Todd (w/ Brian Stokes Mitchell and Christine Baranski); Arena: Damn Yankees, Señor Discretion Himself (world premiere); Ford’s: The Magnificent Yankee (w/ James Whitmore); Source: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Harvey Milk Show (Helen Hayes nomination); Actors’ Theatre of Washington: My Night with Reg; American Century Theatre: Dear World; Everyman Theatre Baltimore: Uncle Vanya, Taking Sides, Light Up the Sky. TOURS: The Fantasticks, Hair, Pippin, Godspell. FILM: Five Lines, Eat Me.

Erin Driscoll (Marta) SIGNATURE: The Witches of Eastwick, Into the Woods, Assassins (Helen Hayes Award, Best Musical), Urinetown (2006 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Actress). REGIONAL: John W. Engeman Theatre, Long Island: Jekyll and Hyde; Olney: Cinderella, Anything Goes; Round House: A Year with Frog and Toad; Kennedy Center: Regina w/ Patti Lupone (Alexandra Cover); Mt. Washington Valley Theatre Co.: Peter Pan (Wendy), Grease (Patty Simcox); Dollywood, TN: Buddy Baxter’s Bandstand USA. TOURS: Theatre IV, OH: Puss n’ Boots, Huck & Tom on the Mighty Mississippi. EDUCATION: BM, James Madison University. AWARDS: 2006 Roger Sturtevant Award.

James Gardiner (Gabriel/Prisoner) SIGNATURE: Glory Days (book writer), Merrily We Roll Along (Tyler, perf. Franklin Shepard u/s), The Witches of Eastwick (Michael Spofford), Saving Aimee, Funny Girl in Concert, Emerging Voices Cabaret. LOCAL: Library of Congress: West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Concert; Woolly Mammoth/UM: The Distance From Here (Darrell); Kennedy Center: Phantom Tollbooth (Voice of the Tollbooth, Mathemagician), The Brand New Kid (Lazlo); Round House: A Prayer for Owen Meany (Buzzy); Studio: Dog Sees God (Beethoven). REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Home Free! (Lawrence), This is a Chair. FILM: Boys (Kellogg). EDUCATION: University of Maryland, BA, Theatre; Overtures 2003, 2004.

LC Harden Jr. (Ensemble) SIGNATURE: My Fair Lady. OFF-BOADWAY: New York Musical Theatre Festival: Petite Rouge. LOCAL: Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth; Takoma Theatre: Ain't Misbehavin'; Restoration Stage: The Truth; Imagination Stage: Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, Seussical; Toby's: Ragtime, Godspell, Cats; Round House Theatre: Fences (u/s), Once on this Island; Ira Aldridge Theatre: Timbuktu!; Lincoln Theatre: Jonkonnu, Where Eagles Fly; Discovery Theater: Black Diamond, Going the Distance; Olney Theatre: Godspell, Eubie!. TRAINING: The Virginia Governor's School for the Arts, Howard University, BFA, Musical Theatre.

Channez McQuay (Molina's Mother) SIGNATURE: Into the Woods (Stepmother), My Fair Lady (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Nevermore (Muddy), Pacific Overtures (Ensemble). LOCAL:Ford's: Meet John Doe (Betty); Studio: The Gifts of the Magi (City Her); 2nd Stage: Reefer Madness (Mae), Oil City Symphony (Ginger); Olney: Jacques Brel..., Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Joy), The Doll Makers Dilemma (Gertrude); Rep Stage: Falsettos (Charlotte); Toby’s: Ragtime (Emma, Helen Hayes nomination), Gypsy (Rose), Funny Girl (Fanny), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Fiddler on the Roof (Golde), Pippin (Berthe),  Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts); Catonsville: Steel Magnolias (Ouiser); Little Theatre: Parade (Fanny).

Stephen Gregory Smith (Ensemble) SIGNATURE: Funny Girl in Concert (Eddie Ryan), Into the Woods (Jack), My Fair Lady, Assassins (Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald), Pacific Overtures, The Highest Yellow (Dr. Barrault), One Red Flower (Billy), Allegro (Charlie), 110 in the Shade (Jimmy, 2004 Helen Hayes Award), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grand Hotel, Gypsy. LOCAL: Metro Stage: tick, tick…BOOM! (Jon), Ford’s Theatre: Meet John Doe (Beany), Arena Stage: Damn Yankees, The KennedyCenter: Regina, Wolf Trap Opera Company: Street Scene (Dick), Olney: The Secret Garden (Dickon), Toby’s: Footloose (Ren), Forever Plaid (Jinx), Joseph…Dreamcoat (Joseph). CABARET: Ebony and Ivory, Ebony and Ivory 2: The Second Coming, The Last Garage Hurrah, Little River Turnpike, Use What You Got.


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Kiss of the Spiderwoman is made possible by the Bernard Family Foundation