Jean Brookner (Ellen Fine) is thrilled to be working once again with Kate Schlesinger at the Playhouse. She was last seen on this stage as Jacqueline in Don't Dress For Dinner. Both an actor and a composer, she has appeared in numerous productions in New York and New Jersey. Her most recent stage roles include Chick in Crimes of the Heart at the Bickford Theater and Sara in Like Bees to Honey at Luna Stage. Jean is currently resuming her studies at the Juilliard School of Music and wishes to thank Kate for the opportunity to make a musical contribution to this production.

Art Delo (Howard Fine) began acting at Fort Riley, Kansas, in the mid sixties, and so impressed the army brass that he was immediately sent into combat. Returning from Vietnam, he made his Jersey debut at the Halfpenny Playhouse as "The Boy" in The Fantastics and played Prince Charming in Cinderella at the first Papermill Playhouse. No longer a prince, he has gone on to work in stock and dinner theatre from Tampa to Connecticut and with various groups all over North Jersey. He is proud to be the long time president of Jersey City's Attic Ensemble, where his primary functions are sporadic acting assignments and taking out the garbage. This is for his sister Jane.

James Gomez (Don Bowman) was last seen as Ralph in our fall production of Labor Day. Before that he helped with the musical staging for the Playhouse's Kaleidoscope production of Free To Be ... You And Me. Other roles include Lucifer in The Creation of the World and Other Business, Crank in Forty Deuce, and Arnall in Line.

Gus Ibranyi (Daniel Reed) is a recent graduate of the Montclair State University acting program. He was last seen as Richard in The Lion In Winter. He has also played Paul in Barefoot in the Park and Adam in The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. Gus is thrilled to be making his debut with at The Playhouse and looks forward to many more theatrical experiences.

Joan Ludwig (Gladys Green) owes a great deal to eighty-year-old Jewish grandmothers. They have provided her with some wonderful roles in the last half-dozen years: Grandma in Lost in Yonkers (Barn Theatre), Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy (Bickford), and Tessie in Family Wills (Woman's Theatre Company). Other recent favorites include Lotte in Lettice and Lovage, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Ernest, Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid, and Fanny in The Royal Family. Joan received her training at Memphis State University (BA, Theatre), The University of Illinois (MA, Theatre), and The Corner Loft, NYC (Frank Corsaro and Kevin O'Conner). As an educational theatre specialist, Joan designs, directs, and teaches student theatre programs throughout the state. She has designed a student performance course for Playwrights Theatre of NJ, where she also teaches playwriting and acting in the artist-in-residence programs. Professional costume design and construction is also one of her creative involvements.

Kate Schlesinger (Director) has been directing at the Summit Playhouse since 1986, starting with The Diary of Anne Frank. Other shows she has directed at The Playhouse include The Heiress, To Grandmother's House We Go, Prelude To A Kiss, and Don't Dress for Dinner. Kate directed Prelude to a Kiss at 12 Miles West and Guys and Dolls, South Pacific and Joseph and His Technicolor Dream Coat at a girl's camp in Vermont. At the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, Kate directed On Golden Pond and Our Town, for which she was nominated Best Director in New Jersey by the Star Ledger in 1999. Kate is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston and holds a Master of Arts Degree from New York University.

Glory Sims Bowen (Assistant Director) has been the recipient of the Meritorious Achievement Award in Direction from the Kennedy Center A.C.T.F. Recently she has been a stage director for various Manhattan theaters including The Connelly Theater, The Bank St. Theater, H.E.R.E., Lost Tribes Theater Company, Untitled Theater Company #61 and The FHB Theater Company. Several productions Glory directed, as part of The Manhattan Ionesco Festival, received rave reviews in The Village Voice and in the NY Theatre Wire. Other directorial credits include The Glass Menagerie, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Agnes of God, Night Mother, The Mouse Trap, Pippin, Bravo Theater's production of The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Butler Theater #5's production of Ten Little Indians and Westfield's Rainbow Exp.'s production of Joseph and His ... Dream Coat. This summer, Glory will be the Producing Director of Kaleidoscope's Teen One-Act Festival, to be presented here at The Summit Playhouse where she is a current board member. Last season, she appeared as Catherine in the Summit Playhouse's production of The Heiress. She has been a set dresser for plays starring Leslie Nielson, Robert Wagner and Jill St. John. She would like to thank this fabulous cast, crew, Bill, P.T., Betty, and Kate for everything!

P. T. Kizzia (Assistant Producer) is a graduate of Northwestern University's School of Speech. She has Produced many shows and done a little bit of everything backstage and around the Playhouse since 196l. Her jobs on the Board have been Secretary, Membership, President and Historian. She thinks the members are great and is proud of the Playhouse's reputation for high quality theatre.