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Allison Taylor
(Co-Producer)
Allison Taylor is a dramaturg and producer living in New York City. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and currently she is earning an MFA in dramaturgy at Columbia University. Her producing credits include 2008 FringeNYC comedy Tough Guys Don't Shoot Blanks, which she also produced at the Red Room under the title Say Your Prayers, Mug! Her dramaturgical credits include the 2007 WonderLand One-Act Festival at Theatre Row and Ibsen's Ghosts at Columbia University. She writes criticism for nytheatre.com and has written for the most recent Modern Luxury magazine, Manhattan. She has worked with Showtime Networks Inc., Signature Theatre Company, Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Snug Harbor Productions, chashama, and Atlantic Theater Company. Many thanks to Todd and this wonderful cast, and love to Walter.
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Courtney Cook
(Performer)
(Mamie Winters)Courtney is thrilled to be working with Todd, Walter and the gang again! Not having first-hand experience as a girl of vice, she’s intrigued by the research for the role. An Alabama native, Courtney has lived in NYC close to 13 years. Favorite roles/shows include Haley Walker in Theresa Rebeck’s one-woman play Bad Dates and two productions of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. You may occasionally see Courtney asking the tough questions as a reporter on “Guiding Light.” Other work includes some commercial and voiceover. Courtney loves to cook, so if she misses an entrance, most likely it’s due to daydreaming about the big Southern Thanksgiving Dinner she plans to make after the show!
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Emily King Brown
(Performer)
(Florence Kelton)Emily King Brown is thrilled to be returning to the New York stage with The Horse Trade Theatre Group! A graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory, Emily freshly completed the TheatreWorks USA Anne of Green Gables National Tour in the spring and reprised the role of Lucille Frank in Parade for the Barksdale Theatre over the summer. New York credits include the Off-Off Broadway run of the new gospel musical Who Do You Love?, Mozart’s Requiem, Kiss Me Kate, and Amahl and The Night Visitors. Memorable roles include Maria Callas (Master Class), Rusty (Footloose), Grizabella (Cats), Sarah Leeds (Children of a Lesser God), Katherine (Taming of the Shrew), and Dot (Sunday in the Park with George). Emily is tickled pink to be working with such wonderful and dedicated folks. Love to Thom! “Fear not.”
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Jeff Auer
(Performer)
(Duke Craigie)Jeff last performed at this summer's NY International Fringe Festival in Todd Michael's Tough Guys Don't Shoot Blanks. He was also in the cast of Vice Girl Confidential at the 2006 Festival (Fringe Excellence Award - Best Ensemble). He has appeared in independent features, shorts, national commercials and recorded numerous voiceovers for radio and television.
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Jessica Luck
(Performer)
(June Winters, Police Woman)Jessica would like to thank Grayce Productions and this amazing cast! Favorite recent roles include Emily Webb in Our Town at the Gene Frankel Theatre, Rosalie and Billie in What Makes Sammy Run at the West End Theatre, and the title role of The Disembodied Soul at the New York International Fringe Festival. She has performed with the Opera Orchestra of New York, One World Symphony, Jacksonville Lyric Opera, dell’Arte Opera, Bronx Opera, and at the Provincetown and Neighborhood Playhouses. Jessica is a graduate of Yale College and the Professional Musical Theatre Workshop at the Manhattan School of Music. She can be heard on the latest release from Steel+ and performs in the band Joemca and the Poets. She is extremely grateful to her friends and family for their constant inspiration and support.
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Lawrence Lesher
(Performer)
(Lou Braddock)Lawrence Lesher is happy to be back in the Grayce Productions fold with Vice Girl Confidential. His first show with them--which he had a blast doing--was Say Your Prayers, Mug! in the Red Room last year. Since then he's done shows acting and directing in Kentucky and Florida, including one particularly bizarre turn directing singing and dancing nuns in Nunsensations--the seventh Nunsense sequel. Thank you, Walter, for rescuing him from that particularly gruesome fate.
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Matthew F. Garner
(Performer)
(Muggsy Regan, Edgar Baldwin)Matt is proud to working once again with Grayce Productions and this fantastic group of artists. Matt was recently seen bouncing off the walls as Skip Rayburn in Tough Guys Don't Shoot Blanks at the Barrow Street Theater, part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. Other credits include Italian American Reconciliation, Bamboozled and Boy Gets Girl. When time away from performance permits, Matt continues to hone his craft with the excellent faculty of the Atlantic Acting School.
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Thom Brown
(Performer)
(Walter Slade)Thom Brown, III, EMC is privileged to be a part of this esteemed cast and its production of Vice Girl Confidential. A native of Baltimore, MD and a current resident of Astoria, Queens, Thom received training at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA and graduated with a BFA in Music Theatre. Among his favorite roles portrayed during his career are Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods, Edward Rutledge in 1776, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Hugh Dorsey in Parade, and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bravos to cast, crew, and the extraordinary talent of writer, Todd Michael! All love and adoration to my wife, Emily… You’re Aces… in Spades!
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Todd Michael
(Producer)
(writer, producer, Stella Fontaine) Credits include Tough Guys Don’t Shoot Blanks at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, Say Your Prayers, Mug! (The Red Room), Vice Girl Confidential at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival (winner, "Best Ensemble Cast," 2006 FringeNYC Awards), The Greatest B-Movie Ever Told at the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival, Charles Busch's Sleeping Beauty or Coma (The Red Room), Bad Dames Go To Hell!, Poverty Row Double Horror Show, Damaged Dames (Under St. Marks). Todd and Grayce Productions are proud to be a resident company of Horse Trade Theater. Thank you to Walter and all my love to Peter and Mom.
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Walter J. Hoffman
(Director)
Walter is excited to make his New York directorial debut with Vice Girl Confidential. As an actor Walter has crisscrossed the country doing everything from Shakespeare to children’s theater. Walter’s most recent credits have been in a wide variety of independent films: Heterosexuals (dir. Rob McCaskill), Fired Up ( dir. Shon McGoy), Gate of Fallen Angels (dir. Dave Meyers), Eggs Over Easy (dir. Ed Cho), Go Quietly (dir. Ray Soltani), Alley Cats (dir. Chandler Wild), School’s Out (dir. Steve Doucek), and Bob vs. Society (dir. David Pring-Mill). This past summer Walter was seen in the 2008 Fringe Festival production of Tough Guys Don’t Shoot Blanks. Other recent theater credits include: Say Your Prayers Mug! (The Red Room), The Bald Soprano (playing Mr. Martin at the Sanford Meisner Theatre), a fantastic production of Our Town (playing Howie Newsome and Joe Stoddard at the Gene Frankel Theatre, dir. Lance Hewitt), Kryptonite Hearts (Theater for the New City), Danielle Steel Writes Children’s Novels (The Looking Glass Theatre, dir. Erin Winebark). Thanks to Todd for giving me this wonderful opportunity. Thanks to the cast. Kisses for Allison.
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Zach Lombardo
(Performer)
(Narrator, Trigger Martin, Frazier)Zach Lombardo, a Cleveland native, moved to NYC to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His recent work has found him playing Chick Donahue in Tough Guys Don't Shoot Blanks performing at the Barrow St. Theatre for the NYC International Fringe Festival; Colin Bell in EBE Ensemble’s production of Reck at the Kraine Theatre; grilling a mean Kabob with Chef Emeril Lagasse on Planet Green; and a small handful of characters with collegehumor.com. He would like to thank all of those who have supported him through his acting endeavors and dedicates this show to all of them.
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