OC - Spank

MILLS ENTERTAINMENT presents

Written by J. S. Blair, I. M. MacIntyre, J. A. Millan, S. A. Moran, C. J. Munch, A.M. Scheffler, I.P. Whalen Starring: GABE BOWLING ALICE MORAN SUZANNE SOLE Scenic Designer DAVID MILLER Choreographers NICOLA PANTIN and PATRICK WHALEN Assistant Stage Manager/ Technical Director JESSE CROUCH

Lighting Designer/ Stage Manager JENNA PLETCHER Prop Design JIM MILLAN Press Representative JOANNA BRUMLEY

Company Manager CORINNE LUNNIN Director of Marketing JUSTIN LEVY Associate Producer SIMONE GIANFRANCESCO

Sound Designer/ Audio Engineer BRIAN “BJ” MARCHINI

Director/Head Writer JIM MILLAN

Producer MICHAEL MILLS

www.spankshow.com

SAT, FEB 23 – SUN, FEB 24, 2013 | Capitol Theater Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody | Overture Center

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CAST (in alphabetical order) HUGH HANSON............................................................................................. Gabe Bowling TASHA WOODE................................................................................................. Alice Moran E.B. JANET...........................................................................................................Suzanne Sole Join us in the lobby after the performance to get your photo taken with the cast of Spank!

WHO’S WHO GABE BOWLING (Hugh Hanson) is so excited to be a part of SPANK!, he’s fit to be tied! Currently residing in Los Angeles, Gabe just finished a super fun run with the Tony-Award winning musical Million Dollar Quartet starring as Carl Perkins. Look for him on the big screen in the soon to be released romantic comedy One Small Hitch in the role of Lance DeLuca. Always the musician, Gabe has toured all over the country with multiple bands including his solo project Gabe vs. The Sad Kids. Gabe would like to thank his Mom, Dad, and Melissa for all of their support. Laters Baby!

ALICE MORAN (Tasha Woode, Writer) is the artistic consultant at The Bad Dog Theatre Company, where she created, produces, and performs in shows like Hungry Hungry Games, Final Frontier, and Throne of Games. Throne of Games received national press attention and was remounted as a part of the Next Stage Festival at Factory Theatre. Also with the Bad Dog, she’s performed in countless shows including Pad Set, Theatresports, and the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated Doctor Whom.

With the Second City’s national touring company, Alice wrote four shows including: Best.Monday.Ever., S#!T My Mayor Says, and Dysfunctional Holiday Revue. Alice loves her family a whole lot. www.alicemoran.com 2

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SUZANNE SOLE (E.B. Janet) is super excited to get Spanked!

Sole’s theatre credits include the role of Dolly Tate in Annie Get Your Gun opposite Patti LuPone at Ravinia, Muriel in the National Tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; and the role of Woman 2 in the Off-Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at American Theatre of Actors. Sole’s television credits include the Vh1 pilot, “The New Partridge Family,” NBC’s “Joey,” the TBS pilot “What News?,” “Stephen’s Life,” a pilot for NBC Studios; “It’s So Over” on the E! Network, Lifetime’s “Strong Medicine,” and “The American Comedy Awards” on Comedy Central. Sole has appeared in a number of independent films, having been seen in such film festivals as The World of Comedy International Film Festival in Toronto, The Guerilla Film Festival in Tribeca, The Los Angeles Film Festival, and The 48 Hour Film Festival in Chicago. She has performed improv, sketch, and stand-up on comedy stages such as The Hollywood Improv, The Friars Club, The Ice House, The HBO Workspace and The Second City, and can be seen in the web series, “Backstage Drama.” Sole has been enjoying success with her “wildly funny” self-created one woman show, The View from the Dumpster; and her self-written album Shine which has been featured in television and film is available on itunes. www.suzannesole.com

WHO’S WHO cont.

JIM MILLAN (Director/Head Writer) is one of Canada’s most versatile stage directors. In the last two years, he has worked with Teller and Todd Robbins to create Play Dead off Broadway and Larry King to create his one person show, Larry King’s Standing Up, as well as Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to create Mythbusters Live. At the Luminato Festival in Toronto, he debuted Banachek’s Alpha Project. He also helped rework Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway and Lucky Guy off-Broadway.

Other shows directed include 3 tours with The Kids in the Hall and over 50 shows with Toronto’s Crow’s Theatre, which he founded.

Some of his favourite Toronto credits include the premieres of High Life, Come Good Rain, Dali, The Chet Baker Project, Unidentified Human Remains, and Serpent Kills.

JON BLAIR (Writer) is the current head writer of Sunday Night Live with The Sketchersons, as well as a performer in the troupe and in several other sketch and standup shows in Toronto. In addition to writing and producing his own sketch work on stage and on video, he has also written for the panel of CMT’s Hit or Miss and several short videos for Intel Canada. Jon was nominated for the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Web Clip in 2011.

IAN MACINTYRE (Writer) has written sketch comedy, TV scripts, and co-written one “risque musical parody of the fastest selling paperback of all time.” You’re about to watch that one. He’s previously written for Cartoon Network’s Grojband, the OMNI TV comedy special Word On The Street, is a member of the sketch group Approximately 3 Peters, is a two-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee (Best Comedic Play), and currently writes and performs every week as part of Sunday Night Live with the Sketchersons. Ian has also performed for

The Second City, The Bad Dog Theatre, and appeared in several commercials and TV shows. Ian is represented by Butler Ruston Bell Talent Associates, Inc. COLIN MUNCH (Assistant Director, Writer) is the Artistic Associate of Bad Dog Theatre and the producer/director of Throne of Games, Hungry Hungry Games, & Final Frontier. His first full-length play, Callaghan! (Sex T-Rex), was nominated for Best Production and Best Comedy at the 2012 Montreal Fringe. He is also a member of the multiple Canadian Comedy Awardnominated sketch troupe, Uncalled For. ANNE MARIE SCHEFFLER (Writer) has been a professional actor for over 17 years and is thrilled to be part of the Spank! family. She has seven critically acclaimed one woman shows, including Situation: NORMA, Not Getting it, and Suddenly Mommy! Her Norma shows took her all over North America where she played to sold out crowds. She writes for television, is an alumna of the National Screen Institute’s Totally Television Program, was honored with a CTV Fellowship and has a TV series in development with Rosie Shuster. www.annemariescheffler.com PATRICK WHALEN (Writer/Assistant Director/Co-Choreographer) first fell in love with the stage in a performance of Cabaret as the EMCEE as well as singing jazz in the Atlantic Jazz Festivals. Stage credits: Roger in Fallen Rock’s RENT, Rocky in the Rocky Horror Show. With his first year working in burlesque, Patrick (Patastrophic Sexapeel) won Best New Male Performer in Strip Search 2010 and performed in Boylesque, Canada’s premier all-male burlesque troupe.

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WHO’S WHO cont.

DAVID MILLER (Scenic Design) Tours: The Cake Boss: Bakin’ with the Boss Tour, The Cake Boss Homemade for the Holidays Tour, Clifford the Big Red Dog™ – Live!, Last Comic Standing Tour, Captains of Deadliest Catch Tour. Awards Shows: The Fox Reality Awards and The Movie Guide Awards for seven straight years; Assistant to Broadway Associate Set Designer, Keith Gonzales, on Jane Eyre on Broadway. Regional: An Infinite Ache at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia; You Can’t Take it With You at the The Lost National Theatre, Montpelier, VT. JENNA PLETCHER (Lighting Designer/Stage Manager) Jenna is elated to be touring with SPANK! She lives in Los Angeles where she freelances as a Lighting Designer and Master Electrician at various theaters around town including The John Anson Ford Amphitheater, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theater, Geffen Playhouse, and Pasadena Playhouse. She moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA where she received a BA in Theater with emphases in Directing, Lighting and Scenic Design.

BRIAN “BJ” MARCHINI (Sound Designer/ Audio Engineer) is a freelance audio engineer from the Hudson Valley region of New York State. While earning a BS in Sound Recording Technology from SUNY Fredonia; Brian was involved in classical editing, studio recording, and live sound reinforcement. Since then he has shared his skills with recording studios, amusement parks; and most recently, touring with Clifford the Big Red Dog™ – Live! and American Family Theater.

CORINNE LUNNIN (Company Manager) is a freelance company manager hailing from south coast MA. She joins Mills Entertainment after closing 4

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a tour as company manager for Cirque Dream Holidaze. Recent credits include Assistant Company Manager for Sesame Street Live!, Company Manager for the Adirondack Theater Festival’s 2007 season, and Production Assistant for Trinity Repertory Company.

JESSE CROUCH (Assistant Stage Manager/Technical Director) Jesse “Smash” Crouch is an Ohio native and is proud to be part of the tour of SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody. He recently finished a small national tour of The 39 Steps where he acted as Technical Director. In the past few years, Jesse has worked in a variety of venues and received his Masters in Technical Direction from SIUC. NICOLA PANTIN (Choreographer) Selected Stratford Shakespeare Festival credits: Henry V, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Liar, Sticks and Stones, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens. Other selected theatre: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (LJP) The Song, Top Gun! The Musical, The Musical of Musicals (TNB) Seussical, Wizard of Oz (YPT) Static (Expect Theatre) The Song (Theaturtle) Little Freedoms, Cabaret (3 Degrees). Her work with Spark/Expect Theatre, Romeo and Juliet Remixed and LKTYP, Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang garnered her Dora Mavor Moore awards for outstanding choreography.

Selected film credits: Mise En Scene (NFB) Bare Knuckle Duet, The Table Dance.

Upcoming: Awake (Expect/Spark for Next Stage) and Little Shop of Horrors (TNB).

JOANNA BRUMLEY (Press Representative) is the Marketing and Publicity Coordinator at Mills Entertainment and, in addition to the SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, has

WHO’S WHO cont. worked on Mills’ exciting and everexpanding roster of shows including Archer Live!, Theresa Caputo Live!, The Cake Boss: Bakin’ with the Boss Tour, Cesar Millan: Dog Whisperer Live!, Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: Two Man Group.

JUSTIN LEVY (Director of Marketing) Justin Levy has been with Mills Entertainment as the Director of Marketing for 3+ years. His twenty years of experience in the entertainment industry includes stints with House of Blues Concerts, SFX Entertainment, Fey Concerts, and Comedy Works Entertainment.

SIMONE GIANFRANCESCO (Associate Producer) works as an Associate Producer with Mills Entertainment. Mills credits include: Archer Live!, Clifford the Big Red Dog™ –

Live!, The Daily Show Live, and Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody, among others. Prior to her work with Mills, Simone worked in Los Angeles and Chicago in theatre production.

Favorite credits include: Universal Studios, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pavement Group and A Red Orchid Theatre.

MICHAEL MILLS (Producer) is President of Mills Entertainment, based in Saratoga Springs, NY. Mills Entertainment is a leading producer of live tours of branded and alternative entertainment. In addition to Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody, current tours include Theresa Caputo Live, Archer Live!, Clifford the Big Red Dog™ – Live!, The Cake Boss: Bakin’ with the Boss Tour, Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood from Whose Line is it Anyway? and Jack Hanna Into the Wild Live. www.millsentertainment.com

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