Freckleface The Musical - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Manhattan Youth Ballet and Manhattan Movement & Arts Center. She conceived the work FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY for the stage. She received her education at NYU’s Tish School of the Arts as well as was mentored by Maestro Zsednyi, principle dancer of the Royal Hungarian Opera Ballet. Ms. Caiola is a member of the Off Broadway League of Theaters and Producers as well as the Screen Actors Guild. She has produced a variety of concerts and benefits over the last 15 years including “Hope for Haiti” and “The Knickerbocker Suite”. MYB’s alumni dance in top world ... read more Gary Kupper graduated from Bronx High School of Science and majored in acting/theater at Boston University. As a singer/songwriter, he released “Shoot for the Moon”, on Polydor Records backed by Van Morrison’s band. Recently released a CD of children’s songs entitled “Songman and the Songland Band”. As a keyboardist he has backed and appeared with many rock and blues legends, including Chuck Berry, whom he has played with for 20 years, appearing all over the world, most recently in Rome and on tour in Russia. His musicals include Consumer Behavior, Fringe Festival NYC 2002 (music/lyrics/co-book); Timmy The Great, (music/co-lyrics, additional ... read more In addition to writing the best-selling "Freckleface Strawberry", Moore is author of the book series which also includes "Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully". A third book is due out in 2011. She currently can be seen starring along with Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right" and will soon be seen in "Shelter", an independent psychological thriller, in which she stars with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Next year she will be seen in Crazy, Stupid, Love opposite Steve Steve Carell. ... read more NYC: Looking for Billy Haines (Theater Row); 3 Dames Make a Queen (Don't Tell Mama); OPA! (TBG Theatre); Iowa '08 (The Vineyard Theatre). Regional: Pool Boy (Barrington Stage Company); Carousel (Barrington Stage Company); Prayer for My Enemy (Associate Designer) and Skin of Our Teeth (Associate Designer) Intiman Theatre; Orphan Train (Associate Designer) NYSTI. Other Credits: Titus Andronicus (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Traffic in Women (Saint Thomas University). Dance: Sweetland (Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble). ... read more Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Manhattan Youth Ballet and Manhattan Movement & Arts Center. She conceived the work FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY for the stage. She received her education at NYU’s Tish School of the Arts as well as was mentored by Maestro Zsednyi, principle dancer of the Royal Hungarian Opera Ballet. Ms. Caiola is a member of the Off Broadway League of Theaters and Producers as well as the Screen Actors Guild. She has produced a variety of concerts and benefits over the last 15 years including “Hope for Haiti” and “The Knickerbocker Suite”. MYB’s alumni dance in top world ... read more Regional Directing: 1940s Radio Hour; Forever Plaid; Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged; Camping with Henry and Tom. Broadway: Ciccio in The Most Happy Fella (Booth), appeared on the Tony Awards. Toured the country in Cats (Gus/Growltiger). Off Broadway: Summer of ’42; Enter the Guardsman, Six Wives. An original Radio City New Yorker, Buddy premiered “There are no Girls, Quite Like Show Girls!” by Sammy Cahn. Native Texan, SMU ’79. ... read more Broadway: Music Man (Michael Kidd); Can Can (Roland Petit); Little Me (Peter Gennaro & Bob Fosse); A Christmas Carol (Susan Stroman); 42nd Street (original co.); The Most Happy Fella (Liza Genarro). Off-Broadway: The Baker's Wife (Lynne Taylor - Corbett). Alan Menken's, Kicks; Radio City, Rockette! Founding Director - Shuffles, tap/musical theater school, NYC. www.shufflestap.com. Gail dedicates her work on FFS to all of her Shuffles kids, past and present! ... read more Additional Credits include: The Pretty Trap Acorn Theatre, 2011 Lighting & Sound Designer Hate Mail 45th Street Theatre, 2010 Lighting Designer The People Garden The York Theatre, 2006 Lighting Designer ... read more Pamela Edington has worked under almost all AEA agreements. Favorite productions include: Coastal Disturbance; The Weir; Collected Stories (with Ms. Uta Hagen); The Green Heart; Three Mo' Tenors; Limonade Tous les Jours;and most recently, Academy forthe Daegu International Arts Festival. ... read more Shelby Kaufman, originally from Michigan, has been trained in a variety of dance styles since the age of 5. Now living in New York, she dances as a member of the legendary Brenda Bufalino’s ‘New’ American Tap Dance Orchestra, and world-renowned tap teacher Germaine Salsberg’s company ‘Les Femmes’. She has assisted and frequently guest taught for Salsberg at Broadway Dance Center, The American Tap Dance Foundation, LIU Brooklyn, and CAP 21, and has been a member of the Steps on Broadway, Peridance Capezio Center, Motor City Tap Fest and DC Tap Fest faculties as well. Shelby founded and currently ... read more Over the past 13 years Adam’s 200+ scenic designs for theater and opera have been seen in New York City and across the country. As a creative director and show doctor Adam has overseen and shaped numerous theatrical and nightlife events. A 2009 Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Set Design for Signature Theatre's 'Kiss of the Spiderwoman', a recipient of both the USITT Oren Parker Award for Excellence in Scene Design, and the 2007 Kennedy Center Design Fellowship. Adam is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a credited contributor to the widely used collegiate textbook 'Scene Design and Stage Lighting' by R. Craig ... read more Neal Kowalsky is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). Directing Credits include: SPAMALOT (Mac-Haydn Theatre, Berkshire On Stage Critics Pick, BroadwayWorld Nominated), SOUTH PACIFIC (Mac-Haydn Theatre, BroadwayWorld Nominated), THIEVES (The Public Theater), MY PEOPLE (Dallas, TX and New York), THE GOD-SHAPED HOLE (OC-Centric New Play Festival, CA), SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (Porchlight Productions), A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD (Millbrook Playhouse), AVENUE Q (Stevens Institute) and YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN (St. John’s University). Neal is the former Artistic Director at Papermill Theatre’s Theatre for Young Audiences Program, the Associate Production Director for Shuffles ... read more