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Rush Benson THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: CDT: Newsies, Mamma Mia, Holiday Inn; Ordway: 42nd Street, In The Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, A Chorus Line; Guthrie: The Music Man; Old Log: The Wedding Singer; Collide Theatrical: Dracula, Romeo & Juliet; Park Square: The Rocky Horror Show; Artistry, Company Member of Flying Foot Forum. Choreography: Guthrie, Ordway, SteppingStone Theatre, MN Fringe Festival. Teaching: Guthrie Education Classes. Training: Gustavus Adolphus College. Love to my family and Renee. Proud AEA member. IG/Twitter: @shutuprush

Cat Brindisi-Darrow (Composer/Lyricist/Vocals) THEATER LATTÉ DA: ...Spelling Bee!, Spring Awakening, Aida, Gypsy. THEATER: Alabama Shakespeare: Annie; The Guthrie: My Fair Lady, Stage Kiss, The Parchman Hour, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park, Cocoanuts, Midsummer (understudy); The Ordway: Annie. WORKSHOPS/READINGS: St. Louis Rep: Wind Up Girl by Will Aronson & Sarah Hammond; NAMT 2017 New World Stages: The Passage; NYMF 2019: Intersecting Chords; Mixed Blood: Cloudlands by Adam Gwon. AWARDS/RECOGNITION: 2013 City Pages Best Emerging Actress, 2014 Lavender Magazine Best Musical Supporting Actress for Hello Dolly. CURRENT: Cat is currently writing The Daughters: a musical concept album conceived at and with the support of Everwood Farmstead.

Joe Cruz THEATER LATTÉ DA: Ragtime. THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: Esperanza Rising, Huck Finn, Disney’s High School Musical, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day, Romeo and Juliet, Buccaneers, Shrek the Musical, Last Stop on Market Street, Three Little Birds; Guthrie Theater: The Cocoanuts; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Happiest Song Plays Last; Park Square Theater: The Color Purple.

David Darrow THEATER LATTÉ DA: Into The Woods, Lullaby, C., Our Town, Spring Awakening, Company, Beautiful Thing. THEATER: Off-Broadway: All Is Calm; American Conservatory Theatre: Sweat; Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Twelfth Night; Asolo Repertory Theatre: Ragtime, Sweeney Todd; Florida Repertory Theatre: A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder; The Guthrie Theatre: Sunday In The Park With George, South Pacific, Crimes Of The Heart, Juno And The Paycock, Skiing On Broken Glass, The Parchman Hour; Ten Thousand Things: Romeo And Juliet. Selected original musicals include Jonah And The Whale (7th House Theatre, Stoneham Theatre), The Passage (7th House, NAMT, Village Theatre), Four Measures (current Trademark Theatre commission). TRAINING: Albright College, Actors Theatre of Louisville Acting Apprenticeship.

Francesca Dawis THEATER LATTÉ DA: Once (actor/violinist), Evita, Susannah. THEATER: Theater Mu: peerless, Walleye Kid: The Musical, Filipino Hearts; Children's Theatre Company: Madeline and the Gypsies; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol (actor/violinist). EDUCATION: B.A. Psychology, Stanford University.

Jennifer Grimm THEATER LATTÉ DA: Lost In Boston, A Christmas Carole Petersen, Steerage Song, Custom Cabarets. THEATER: Park Square Theater: Words By; Artistry Theatre: Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Actors Theater of Minnesota: Fairy Tales; Northcoast Repertory Theatre: Words By, Girl Singers of the Hit Parade, Girl Singers of the Hit Parade Christmas. MUSIC/VOICE: NBC, USA, SHOWTIME, TLC, HULU ORIGINAL, CW, FUSION, DC UNIVERSE, NETFLIX, WB. More info: jennifergrimm.com

Renee Guittar THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: Guthrie Theater: Music Man; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Camelot, Grease, Disney's Newsies, Holiday Inn, Mamma Mia; Ordway: A Chorus Line, In The Heights, Ordway Cabaret: Gotta Dance!; Collide Theatrical Dance Company: Romeo and Juliet, Dracula, Zoot Suit Riots, C.L.U., Class of '85, The Belmont Hotel, Lot of Living To Do; TRAINING: B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College.

Sanford Moore THEATER: Children's Theatre: Three Little Birds, Last Stop on Market St., The Wiz; Penumbra Theater: Girl Shakes Loose, Ballad of Emmet Till, I Wish You Love, Black Nativity, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Dinah Was; Guthrie Theater: Parchman Hour, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Disgraced (composer), Choir Boy, Crowns; Ten Thousand Things Theater: Thunder Knocking at the Door; Ordway Theater: Ordway Cabaret, Smokey Joe’s Café, 42nd Street; Park Square Theater: Nina Simone: Four Women; Director/Arranger for vocal jazz group, Moore by Four. Music Director at Kingdom Life Church, Mpls.

Greta Oglesby THEATER LATTÉ DA: Into The Woods. THEATER: Ten Thousand Things Theater: Thunder Knocking on the Door, King Lear, The Furies; Penumbra Theater: The Wiz, Amen Corner, Piano Lesson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Guthrie Theater: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Crucible, Burial at Thebes, Caroline or Change, Sunshine Boys.

Dan Piering THEATER LATTÉ DA: Once, Six Degrees of Separation, Song of Extinction, Next. THEATER: Broadway: A Christmas Carol, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (upcoming); Guthrie Theater: South Pacific; Minnesota History Theatre: Sweetland; Artistry: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Mixed Precipitation: Alcina; The 24 Hour Plays Minneapolis. FILM/TV: Theater People; The Stain. TRAINING: University of Minnesota Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program.

Jon-Michael Reese THEATER LATTÉ DA: To Let Go and Fall, Man of La Mancha; Pillsbury House: Jimmy and Lorraine: A Musing; Penumbra: This Bitter Earth; Two River: Theo; New Ohio: Marry Me a Little; Village Theatre: My Heart is the Drum (Gregory Award: Outstanding Actor); Adirondack Theatre Festival: Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat; Exit Pursued by Bear: King Lear; Lucille Lortel: when last we flew; Cincinnati Playhouse: The Fantasticks; Drury Lane: Hairspray; National Tour: Book of Mormon. BFA: Carnegie Mellon University.