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Zachariah Tkachyk, Ben Rogers/understudy Huck, is making his professional Colorado debut. Zachariah has been seen in High School Musical (Troy Bolton), The Music Man (Harold Hill), West Side Story, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (J. Pierpont Finch), Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig), Legally Blonde the Musical, Ragtime, & Chicago. He has a degree in Musical Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado. Harvy Blanks, Jim, is appearing for the first time at LTAC, but is no stranger to the Colorado area, having been a member of The Denver Center Theatre Company since 1985. There, he performed such diverse works as Banjo in The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Witty Gambler in Three Men and a Horse. At DCTC, he also performed 9 of August Wilson’s 10 play Century Cycle including Fences (Gabe), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Loomis), Jitney (Turnbo) and Two Trains Running (West). Harvy recently received accolades for his radio performances in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and three character roles in August Wilson’s Century Cycle, both performed with the New York Public Radio. Harvy currently splits his time between New York and Colorado. Kathleen Brady, Widow Douglas/Strange Woman/Duke/Aunt Sally, returns to LTAC after playing Mama Lily in Hank Williams: Lost Highway. Kathleen has been a part of the theatre community in Colorado since 1985. As a Resident Company Member of the Denver Center Theatre, she has performed in over 100 productions including musicals, comedies, dramas and the classics, and has garnered many awards over her 40 years as an actress both here and in the Bay Area of San Francisco. She is the voice of the National

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Lia Menaker, Mary Jane, has been seen in regional theaters performing in Fiddler on the Roof (Hodel) and Country Roads: The Songs of John Denver (Annie). She has been seen in NY Fringe Festival’s Goldilocks & The Three Polar Bears (Baby Bear) and National Tours are highlighted by The Mystery of King Tut (Anke) and Wizard of Oz (Dorothy). Lia is also a songwriter and lead female vocalist on Broken Darling’s new self-titled EP. Lia holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Penn State University. Randy Moore, Mark Twain /Uncle Silas/ Robinson, returns to LTAC after playing Pap in Hank Williams: Lost Highway last spring. Randy was a member of the acting company of the Dallas Theater Center from 19611994; among his over 200 roles there, favorites include Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar (Mark Antony), The Tempest (Prospero), Amadeus (Salieri), The Dresser (Norman), Equus (Dysart), and The Texas Trilogy (Col Kincaid). A company member at the Denver Center Theater since 1995, his performances have included You Can’t Take It With You (Grandpa), The Imaginary Invalid (Argan), The Miser (Harpagon), Christmas Carol (Scrooge), and Hamlet (Polonius). Other regional theaters include ACT, The Alley, Old Globe, and Baltimore Center Stage.

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Jerome Gilmer, pianist, is an eight-time Emmy Award winning composer, producer, and pianist from Denver, CO. He has written and produced hundreds of original musical works for film and television. Having grown up on the Gulf Coast, his musical roots run deep in jazz and blues with hints of classical music, country and Gospel. He made his way through college playing for Mardi Gras and society bands along the coast, and earned a bachelor’s degree in jazz performance and a master’s degree in composition from the University of Southern Mississippi. Jerome helped create special musically-coordinated lighting effects for the final scenes in the Steven Spielberg movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. Since settling in Colorado, his music has been heard in markets across the country and internationally. He has created theme packages for the Colorado Rockies and the Denver Nuggets, and his works were prominent in the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan and the Goodwill Games in the US. As a contributor to the OmniMusic Production Music Library, his work has been heard in programs around the world, including the “Late Show with David Letterman” and one of his themes appeared twice in the movie “Borat”.

R&H Theatricals, Licensor, represents the stage performances rights to over 100 musicals by more than 200 writers. These include works by Rodgers & Hammerstein (including Oklahoma!, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music), Rodgers & Hart (Pal Joey, Babes in Arts), and Kern & Hammerstein (Show Boat), as well as musicals by Irving Berlin (Annie Get Your Gun, White Christmas), Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, The Phantom of the Opera), Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins), Kurt Weill (The Threepenny Opera, Lady in the Dark), such perennials as Big River, Once Upon a Mattress, and Footloose, and the longest-running revues in the history of Broadway – Smokey Joe’s Café – and OffBroadway – I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Recently added titles include In the Heights, A Catered Affair, It’s Only Life, [title of show], Love Musik, Face the Music, Reefer Madness, Altar Boyz, Bernarda Alba, Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical, and Bright Lights, Big City. R&H Theatricals is an Imagem company: www.rnh.com.

Hunter Donnelly Renner, Bass, plays saxophone, bass, and clarinet. After growing up in Grand Junction, Hunter now attends the University of Denver as a Jazz and Commercial Music major. He has studied jazz, classical, folk, latin, and other world music with many established teachers on varying instruments from all over the country. Hunter will be graduating from DU this spring, and will stay in Denver where he is currently performing in several groups. Hunter is the bassist for the Boulder-based salsa band Quemando and for the Lamont Jazz Collective and plays saxophone in the Lamont Jazz Orchestra at the University of Denver. Other current projects include the power trio 3 IF BY AIR and the Joey Glassman Quintet. Hunter is also a founding member of the Unscene, a YouTube

Starkey Theatrix, co-producer, is a division of Starkey Productions and is a full service theatrical company serving south Denver. Previous shows include Peter Pan, Bingo… the Musical, Always…Patsy Cline, Little Shop of Horrors at the PACE Center and South Pacific in Concert, Sylvia, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Noises Off, Home for the Holidays (2012 and 2013), and White Christmas at LTAC. Starkey Theatrix also recently coproduced the children’s shows Alexander and the Terrible…Day and Bunnicula with the Lone Tree Arts Center.

COLORADO JAZZ REPERTORY ORCHESTRA

Big Band Blues Monday, May 12 at 7:30pm Saxes:

Art Bouton Peter Sommer James Barry

Peter Olstad Al Hood

Nat Wickham Adam Bartczak

Eric Gunnison - Piano Mike Marlier - Drums

Will Swindler Tom Myer

Trumpets:

Chris Walters Dawn Kramer

Trombones:

Rob Olds Lindsey Gardner

Bijoux Barbosa - Bass Heidi Schmidt - Vocals