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DI AKTORIN
Jacqueline
Andersen (SADIE) has most recently been seen as Mary in the newly
composed chamber opera, Death of the Hired Man at Goat Hall in
S.F. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Music from CSUH where she studied
opera. Favorite opera roles have included Antonia in Tales of Hoffman,
Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, and Adele in Die Fledermaus.
Focusing primarily on musical theatre lately, she has recently performed
as Amalia in She Loves Me and Jenny in Company, both with
the Masquers Theatre Co., and as Rosabella in The Most Happy
Fella with the Novato Theater Company. She has also played Vi Moore
in Footloose with Contra Costa Civic Theatre, and been in the
Fantasticks as the Featured Dancer. Other shows include Showboat
with The Lamplighters, Oliver with the Willows Theatre, Jekyll
and Hyde with Contra Costa Civic Theatre. She sings with the Opera
Piccola carolers each season and is the long-time soloist at Northbrae
Community Church . Ms. Andersen teaches piano and voice out of her home
in the East Bay where she lives with her three awesome children.
Scott
Alexander Ayres (ARON) played the father in Oasis and
Mr. Bishop in Polyxena in Orbit, part of Cerberus Barking, with No
Nude Men Productions at the Exit Theater. Scott played multiple male
roles in Elvis in Space II: Elvis Rex, part of the 2006 San
Francisco Fringe Festival, at The Exit Theater. Scott’s past roles
include Goldsmith in Old Man in the Cave, part of The Dark Room’s
Twilight Zone- the Plays Festival, Season III. He was Ben Korman in
The New Conservatory Theater Center’s production of Theater
District. He has also been seen as Mike Dillard in Actor’s Ensemble
of Berkeley’s production of Working, the Doctor in Perchance to
Dream, in The Dark Room’s Twilight Zone- the Plays Festival, Season
II, and was an ensemble member in Open Stage Repertory Theatre’s
production of Tomfoolery. Scott is delighted to be a part of
A
Shirtwaist Tale.
Judy
Breakstone (BUBBE) has sung and performed with two Jewish choruses -
Shorashim and the East Bay Jewish Folk Chorus - and often leads services
at her Berkeley synagogue. A Shirtwaist Tale is her first acting
experience, and she's having so much fun she wants to do more. She lives
in Berkeley in an empty nest. She spends much of her days working as a
financial advisor and insurance agent, which provides a fair amount of
drama, but not much opportunity to sing. She wants to thank Judith for
giving her this great opportunity to be a Jewish Bubbe, in anticipation
of the time when her 3 children will be ready for her to play the role
for real.
Sabrina
Brown (ROSE) began her singing career as a child, and managed the
completion of a Master's of Music degree from San Francisco State
University because she still loves to sing after all these years. She
completed her Bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University where she
worked with various groups, from operas to chorales. Previous show
credits include Cinderella, The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury,
Phantom of the Country Opera, and soloist in Handel's Messiah
with the
Humboldt Light Opera Company. And if you did not see her there you may
have caught her in Ferndale Repertory Theater's production of Chaps! But
more recently her studies had her performing in France as a member of SFSU's Chamber Choir, and in her second solo recital last May. She hopes
to been seen for many years to come in the Bay Area and beyond. 
C. Conrad Cady (MORRIS) has played in two
other Judith Offer shows before: He was the lecherous Jack Az in two
separate runs of Casino!, and he played Sylvester, the devil, in
Devil's Due. He is a frequent actor in local community theatres, and
lives in Castro Valley with his wife and two daughters. At his "day
job" he is a Managing Partner at a computer consulting firm. Conrad
is an aficionado of Alexandre Dumas (the author of The Three
Musketeers) and runs the most popular English-language web site on
the subject (http://cadytech.com/).
Katie Carney (Choreographer,
PEARL) is delighted to be working with Judith and
Anniversary Productions for the 4th time. She
appeared, choreographed (twice), and directed (once) Judith's
original Oakland-based musical Casino; and last summer
originated the role of Sydney Devil in Devil's Due at the
Front Street Theater in Danville . Katie's stage career began
in 5th grade, when she played "The Tree" in the school Arbor Day
Festival. She couldn't understand why no one wanted the tree
to dance. Something about "roots." Where's the artistic
freedom?? After college in Baltimore, Katie was a principal
dancer with the Johns Hopkins Dance Companay and created fabulous
roles like "Frog", "Bat", and "SeaHorse." She was bitten by
the theater bug (and leaped into the realm of mammals) with a
movement role as a horse in Equus. She finally became
human when she starred in John Patrick Shanley's Psycopathia
Sexualis and the off-Broadway premiere of David Hare's The
Blue Room. Moving to Los Angeles, Katie's film/TV credits
(any of which you can see if you stop the VCR at EXACTLY the right
moment) include
Homicide: Life on the Street; Terminator 3: Sea
Biscuit; and Sex and the City. Now a happy
northern CA transplant, she has acted/danced/sung frequently with
Fremont's Stage One, and worked behind the scenes with SF's renowned
Brava Theater and A.C.T. She thanks Judith for the 'promotion'
from stalking the underworld to walking the streets of Lower East
Side Manhattan (or is that the same thing??) -- and if anyone knows
the casting director for the new Sex and The City movie,
Katie and her enormous designer shoe collection would appreciate an
introduction. (Check out her blog at
www.tiaratuesday.blogspot.com) Enjoy!
Susan
Cohn (ALVA BELMONT) is new to the formal stage. A estate planning,
business and intellectual property attorney, Susan's prior dramatic
experience includes successful complex litigation and raising two
delightful teenaged boys. Susan dedicates this performance to her
beloved paternal grandmother who stitched at the Triangle Waist Factory
before coming to The Promised Land of California.
Paulette
Eisen (ZLATA) grew up performing Yiddish
songs with her father, and her mother was an ILGWU member. During her
time at Concordia University in Montreal, she appeared in numerous
productions, including her role as Domina in A Funny Thing Happened On
The Way To The Forum, Maisie, in The Boyfriend, and ensemble work in
O
What A Lovely War and America Hurrah. She later performed at the
Whittier Community theater in California. There she was cast as Janet
in Witness For The Prosecution and was part of the ensemble cast for an
original musical called Revue, Revue! Her last role before she was
cast as Zlata in the current production of A Shirtwaist Tale, was as
Golda in the Redondo Beach community Theater’s production of Fiddler On
The Roof. 
Michael
Fallon (CLANCY), actor, singer, and
musician is a Oakland resident, who has done various community theatre
projects in the bay area. Michael has studied with Marcia Kimmel, voice
coaches Helen Dillworth, and Judy Hubbel. Michael has also participated
in the Musical theatre workshops of Jim Orin and Peggy Gorham. This
summer Michael and his wife Beth and two children, Auguste and Olivia,
have taken up the study of the art of Fencing, with Harold Haynes, at
Alameda's Pacific Fencing Club. Michael is a life long student of
history and a member of Oakland's Painters local #3. Michael believes
most people have forgotten and take for granted the struggles and lives
sacrificed, in the labor movement, so that others can have better lives. 
Holli Hoffman (LIFSHA, CLARA LEMLICH, JAIL MATRON)
is very excited to be in her first Yiddish Theater production. She
performed last year as Mrs. Cratchit, in San Ramon Community Theatre's
A Christmas Carol. She also performed last year as a nun and Frau Zeller in
The
Sound of Music at the Douglas Morrison Theatre in Hayward. She
currently works as a Nurse Practitioner and lives in San Ramon with her
husband Michael. She would like to thank her husband and her
children, Timothy, Brittany and Joalien, for being so supportive of her
musical theater endeavors.
Jeremy
Litwin (YITZOCK). Bass/Baritone
Jeremy Litwin is pleased to be a part of this Judith Offer
production. Previous roles include Garvey Preacher in Oakland Opera’s
production of Malcolm X, Usurier in Oakland Opera’s La Belle et la Bete,
Bogdanowitch in Livermore Valley Opera’s production of The Merry Widow, Carrefore in Oakland Opera’s production of
White Darkness, and most
recently participated in Great Moments in American History, an Oakland
Opera Theatre workshop. He has also performed with such prestigious
groups as Festival Opera, Masterworks Chorale, and is currently a member
of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble, under the direction of Lynne
Morrow. Aside from his operatic endeavors, Jeremy is also a
singer/songwriter, and has been performing his original works for over
10 years in the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest.
Mark
O'Neill (O'BRIEN). From community theatre, college plays,
dance performances, along with children's performance and theatre
groups, Mark O'Neill, has done much, except for a musical; and now he
has accomplished that, as well! Mark's theatre skills go from comedic
plays to Shakespeare. Not only in the acting arena, he has also done
sound tech and stage crew on a number of plays. He produced, narrated
and was the talent for a television documentary on the male's role in
birth control responsibility, Things Father Never Told You, which won
one of the earliest of the ACE Award's (Award for Cable-casting
Excellence) for an educational documentary. The first ten years of
Mark's life was in Phoenix, AZ when most of the surrounding areas were
still farm land (he is old!) Then he finished his growing up in San
Francisco (His sixteen year old son might not quite agree on the growing
up part of his life), and has lived primarily in the Bay Area from
Marin, Sonoma, Alameda, Santa Cruz and Contra Costa Counties.
 Randy
Perrin (POLANSKY) is somewhat less self-involved and angry
than his stage persona. His most recent experience in the
footlights was in Temple Sinai’s production of The Megillah
According to the Beatles in which he played King Ahasverus, and
– despite his inclination to the contrary – followed the script
and chose Esther for his wife. Randy has also spent some time in
a coffee shop, singing songs about the more-than-interesting,
modern, political landscape. |
Zach Simon (MAX). This is Zach's second
performance for Anniversary Productions, having played Matt in
Devil's Due at The Village Theatre in Danville last year.
Zach's past roles include Fagin in Oliver and part of the
ensemble cast in Among Friends and Clutter, both at Imagine
Theater for the Performing Arts. Zach also played the title
character in Lindsay Barret's Center Stage cast of Parry Hotter and
the Prisoner of Alcatraz, as well as in Phantom of the Opry,
and he had a key role in the student-written play Imagine with
the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Zach also had lead roles in the
Pine Valley Performing Arts' renditions of Backstage and
Hooray forHollywood.
Meredith
Slater (DVORAH).
A Bay Area native,
Meredith just graduated from UC Berkeley with a double major in Theater
& Dance as well as a minor in Music. Since graduation, she has taken up
various hobbies such as looking for jobs, paying bills, and typing in
third person. Meredith plans to continue performing and attend graduate
school in the near future. She was happy to have been given the
opportunity to be a part of
A
Shirtwaist Tale.
Meredith hopes that the role of Dvorah will be one of many roles in her
future. She gives special thanks to her family and her girlfriend,
Rachel.DI KLEZMORIM
Brandilyn Davidson
(Music Director, Clarinet) a virtuoso clarinetist, holds a Bachelor
of Music Performance degree from The University of North Texas. She is
regarded as a renowned teacher and band clinician in her home state.
Since moving to the Bay Area 2 years ago, Brandilyn has had numerous
engagements performing as a soloist, most recently with the gypsy-klezmer
band Fishtank Ensemble. She currently can be seen performing at
Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco every Friday afternoon.
Brandilyn also has a passion for teaching and manages a privately-run
music studio on Piedmont Avenue, where she trains woodwind students and
coaches small ensembles, including her newly formed jazz clarinet
quartet. In addition to private lessons Brandilyn also co-conducts the
Urkhardt Memorial Concert Band and was just appointed Band Director at
COVA Conservatory, the new music-oriented charter school in the Oakland
hills. Brandilyn is honored to be chosen as the clarinetist and
Musical Director for A Shirtwaist Tale, and looks to Benny Goodman as
her inspiration to fulfill the role of band-leader and performer
simultaneously. 
Pamela
Brawley (Bass Clarinet). Pam began playing clarinet only 5
short years ago and is now one of the community’s most active amateur
musicians. Pam is currently performing with the Walnut Creek Concert
Band, the West County Winds, and the Castro Valley Community Band. She
has also made appearances with the Urkhardt Memorial Concert Band,
Alameda Community Band, and the Alameda School of Music. Pam’s
other interests include photography, videography. participating in a
hand percussion class, directed by Kelly Takunda Orphan, and co-running
an American Sign Language (A.S.L.) social in Berkeley for the Deaf/deaf,
hard-of-hearing, and A.S.L. students. A Shirtwaist Tale is
Pam’s second musical theatre performance. She debuted her bass clarinet
skills in a recent production of Beauty and the Beast, directed
by Kathy Maier. Pam is a former student of Anna-Louise Burdett and is
currently studying jazz performance skills with Donna Viscuso and
clarinet pedagogy with Brandilyn Davidson.
David Olachea (Piano).
David began his piano studies at the age of eight with his father.
His other teachers were Charles Eiferle, James Gardner (now conductor of
the Pro Art Symphony Orchestra) and lastly, Justin Blasdale, a
great friend and mentor with whom David studied most extensively.
David has played solo recitals and performed with other musicians at
various venues in the Bay Area. He has played a number of benefit
recitals including a fund-raiser for the Oakland Opera. He was
presented by Bridges Foundation in a benefit recital for the Diablo area
schools' music departments--a sold out performance. David's 2002
recital at Valley Center for the Performing Arts raised $6,000 for the
Justin Blasdale Memorial Scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music. In addition, David served as music director and
performer at an international film festival at Stanford University.
David has taught piano for over 17 years. He lives in Alameda and
works from his studio in his home.
Shauna Revelli
(Violin). At an early age of 2½, Shauna began her studies on
the violin and piano at the Holy Names College Preparatory Music
Department. Surrounded by the many students in her mother’s studio,
violin became second nature for Shauna. She has participated in a number
of Honors Recitals through Holy Names College Preparatory Music
Department and has taken part in various segments of the East-Bay Music
Festival. She has been an active participant in Berkeley Youth
Orchestra, Oakland Youth Orchestra, Cal-Berkeley Summer Orchestra and
the Holy Names University Symphony Orchestra, where she is currently
concertmistress. Shauna performed in the pit-orchestra in Head-Royce’s
production of Music Man, West Side Story, and Bye Bye
Birdie and Holy Names High School’s production of Jesus Christ
Superstar and was in the very first production of A Shirtwaist
Tale in 1999. Shauna has also been a part of many different chamber
music groups and has kept busy with numerous weddings, parties, and
other gigs in string quartet settings. While attending Saint Mary’s
College, Shauna was the string coach, teaching both violin and cello in
the Lafayette Public Schools. Shauna is currently in the process
of finishing the teaching credential program at Holy Names University
and is currently doing her student teaching at Monroe Elementary School
in San Leandro. Prior to her student teaching, she has kept busy
teaching first grade for two years, bringing both academics and music to
the classroom, which is something she enjoys doing.DI ARBEITEN
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Jon Gourdine (Lighting Designer/Lighting). Jon has worn numerous hats including Director, Choreographer, Stage Manager, Lighting Designer and Playwright. He has done children’s theater in the Bay Area since 2001. After a brief stint as the wrongly accused Tom in To Kill a Mockingbird, he decided to give back to the community and began working with area youth in both the theater and dance worlds. He currently teaches a Modern/Jazz dance class at the Fairfield Community Center and is the director of an upcoming youth production, Legend of Sleepy Hollow which will be performed at the Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts in November. His credits include: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Phantom of the Old Opera House, Charlotte’s Web, The Wizard of Oz, Westside Story, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. |