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include NSMT: Kinky Boots (Angel/Asst Choreographer) Theatre By the Sea: Footloose (Lyle/Jeter/ Ren u/s), Cinderella (Ensemble, Topher u/s), Kinky Boots (Angel). PPTOPA: Cabaret (Emcee); Slow Burn Theatre Co: Kinky Boots (Angel), Matilda (Rudolpho); The Wick Theatre: Gypsy (Yonkers); Loxen: In The Heights (Jose); Titusville Playhouse: Legally Blonde (Carlos). Thanks to Mikey, Jack, and all his family and friends for their unconditional love and support always. @pabloperniaa

BERNARD RICHARDS (Swing, Ensemble, Reporter, U/S Callahan, Dad, Winthrop ) Bernie is thrilled and honored to be making his national tour debut. A graduate from KentState University in dance performance, his previous experience includes Carnival Cruise Line and Crystal Cruises. Thanks Momma and Didah for never telling me “No” when it comes to my dreams!

GILL VAUGHN-SPENCER ( Pforzheimer, Violinist, Ensemble, U/S Emmett ) A Small Potato in the Big City! Recently seen in the A Chorus Line 2022 International Tour. Regional: White Christmas and Beauty and the Beast ( NBFT), A Chorus Line (City Springs and Weathervane Theatre). Point Park 2020 and YOU Talent client. Thanks to all for such a wonderful experience! www.gillvs.com || IG:@ gill.rvs

EMMA WILCOX (Delta Nu Sister, Chutney, Ensemble, U/S Enid) is thrilled to be on her first National Tour! BFA in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. Regional: Theatre By the Sea (Million Dollar Quartet, Footloose, Cinderella), A Charlie Brown Christmas (NYC Company). Big thank you to her family, Avalon Artists Group, and Alison Franck Casting! @ emmatwilcox

HEATHER HACH (Book) received 2007 Tony and Drama Desk nominations for her work on Legally Blonde. Graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, School of Journalism. Worked at The New York Times Denver Bureau as a research assistant and Sports and Fitness Publishing in Boulder, Colorado, as a magazine editor. Member of Denver’s Comedy Sports improv comedy troupe. Worked on the TV shows “Caroline in the City” and “Dilbert.” Won Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship in 1999. Film credits include Disney’s Freaky Friday and What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Also wrote the young adult novel “Freaky Monday” with Mary Rodgers. Much love to friends and family, especially Jason, Harper and Drake.

LAURENCE O’KEEFE ( Music and Lyrics) received 2007 Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his work on Legally Blonde. Larry thanks all Blonde producers and creative team. He won the Ed Kleban Award, the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award and a Jonathan Larson award for his music and lyrics. Off-Broadway credits: Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel, Richard Rodgers, Outer Critics’ Circle awards), which has received 100+ productions worldwide; music for Sarah, Plain and Tall , lyrics by Nell Benjamin (touring with TheatreWorksUSA). Co-author with Nell Benjamin of Cam Jansen (Drama Desk nomination) and The Mice. Larry is a product of his education with the Harvard Krokodiloes, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the Harvard Lampoon and the Actors’ Gang, but especially the incomparable Nell Benjamin.

NELL BENJAMIN ( Music and Lyrics ) co-wrote the score to Legally Blonde, the Musical with composer Laurence O’Keefe, which received Tony Award nominations, Drama Desk nominations, and the Olivier and Helpmann Awards for Best Musical. Nell’s play, The Explorers Club , won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding OffBroadway Play, the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. Nell has written book and/ or lyrics for Pirates! (or Gilbert and Sullivan plunder’d) , Sarah, Plain and Tall , Cam Jansen (Drama Desk-nominated), I Want My Hat Back, How I Became A Pirate , The Mice, Life of the Party and Because of Winn Dixie. She is working on musical adaptations or Dave , Gotta Dance , and Mean Girls Television writing includes Unhappily Ever After, Animal Planet’s Whoa! Sunday with Mo Rocca and the new Electric Company

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(MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser, and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. MTI maintains its global headquarters in New York City with additional offices in London (MTI Europe) and Melbourne (MTI Australasia).

JEFFREY B. MOSS (Director) Jeffrey B. Moss is the award-winning director of the critically acclaimed New York and London productions of Bock and Harnick’s new ROTHSCHILD & SONS. Also In New York, he directed the hit musical MAYOR, the Cy Coleman/Neil Simon’s LITTLE ME, BILL BOGGS’ TALK SHOW CONFIDENTIAL and was the director of the New York and Kennedy Center productions of SOME ENCHANTED EVENING, now part of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Library. He has created newly imagined stagings of classic musicals such as GOLDEN BOY, RAGS, THE SPITFIRE GRILL and BRIGADOON and his work also includes the development of new plays and musicals such as BEFORE THE DREAM, PASSIN’ IT ON, THE JAZZ CLUB, MERMAIDS, (based on the MGM film) and Charles Strouse’s REAL MEN. He has staged over 35 national and international tours including GUYS AND DOLLS, HELLO, DOLLY!, MAN OF LA MANCHA, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, PETER PAN, ON THE 20TH CENTURY, THE MUSIC MAN, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, MUSIC OF THE NIGHT, ANNIE, WEST SIDE STORY, 42ND STREET, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, MAME, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, DAMN YANKEES, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and LEGALLY BLONDE. His acclaimed international production of MY FAIR LADY played in the United States,

Singapore and China. Plays directed include MASTER CLASS, ALI, NORMAN, IS THAT YOU?, LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL, A SHAYNA MAIDEL and THE SUNSHINE BOYS. Last season, his new productions of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and SOUTH PACIFIC delighted audiences across America. This season, new projects include DAMN YANKEES and tonight’s new production of LEGALLY BLONDE

BOB RICHARD ( Choreographer ) of the Broadway and tour productions of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christma s! for the past 15 years. Off Broadway he directed and choreographed Inventing Mary Martin: The Revue of a Lifetime (Joseph A. Callaway Award nomination) and The Road to Qatar. He has directed at North Shore Music Theatre, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Theatre By The Sea, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Theatre Under The Stars, and Pioneer Theatre Company. Internationally in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore and Tokyo and London and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. His choreography has received a Footlight Award, Gypsy Rose Lee Award, Ivey Award, Ernie Award, and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. My love to my Rocks Diane and Robert Henry thank you for showing me the beauty of life and love.

RANDEL WRIGHT (Scenic Design) Randel Wright, native Texan, has designed scenery for Singin’ In The Rain (national), Unsinkable Molly Brown (national / Debbie Reynolds), Pal Joey (Joel Grey) (Dixie Carter), The Wiz (Stephanie Mills), I Do, I Do (Sandy Duncan), Batteries Not Included (Jamie Hammerstein co-author & dir.) , Coca Cola Centennial, Dr. Pepper Centennial and Yale University Tercentennial

JOHN BELTRE ( Costume Design Coordination ) John Beltre is excited to be working with Big League Productions again! They are a NYC based Costume Designer for Theatre and Film. They work mostly with new works for both Theatre and Film but some of their recent Theatre credits include: South Pacific (US National Tour 2021), Lizzie the Musical (Stagedoor Manor), Sondheim