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Billy Van Zandt Billy
Jane Milmore Ruth
Glenn Jones Pal
John Gregorio Lionel Drippinwithit
Ken Jennings Max The Thug
Brewster Thickwad III
Newsboy/Maitre d'
Jim Fitzpatrick Vendor, Dowager, Butler, Priest,
Old Janitor, Old Bearded Worker,
Enemy Soldier #2
Understudy: Sarge
Ed Carlo Lovstruck Man, Worker, Fruitcake Man,
Cop Prisoner, Soldier, Painter
Understudy: Pal
Art Neill Sarge, Mover
James Darrah Drunk, Fat Lady, Worker, Cop, Prisoner,
Singing Waiter, Soldier, Baker
Understudy: Billy
Megan Byrne Lovestruck Girl, Busty Button, Girl, Cop,
Prisoner, Max's Dame, Old Bearded Worker,
Enemy, Solder #1, Bridesmaid, Recruiter
Ellie Mooney Understudy: Ruth
Understudy: Roles of Megan Byrne
Ian Gonzalez Understudy
Robert Ross Parker Understudy
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Billy Van Zandt (Billy)
has starred in over three hundred plays, films and TV shows, including A Wake in Providence ­ opening this summer. Favorite experience: performing with Lucille Ball. Favorite role: Daddy. Favorite wife: Adrienne Barbeau. Author of "Get in the Car, Jane" ­ coming to a bookstore near you. This one's for Ma.

Jane Milmore (Ruth)
Has been in over fifty theatrical productions. She has starred in numerous television movies and series including recurring roles with Jamie Lee Curtis in "Anything But Love" and Valerie Bertinelli in "Sydney" and the film "A Wake in Providence". Favorite roles are sister, daughter and Richard's girl.

Glenn Jones (Billy's Pal)
Thrilled to be back in New York, he thanks the Lord for life, family, friends and the work he loves. He has appeared in over 15 BVZ/JM productions, including The Pennies, A Night at the Nutcracker, Drop Dead and Merrily We Dance and Sing and is excited to be returning to the stage with Billy and Jane in Silent Laughter. He has also appeared in over 100 productions in the East Coast's top regional theatres, and is a familiar face with the Celtic Theatre Company, most recently starring in Cafflin Johnny, Professor Tim and The Iron Harp.

John Gregorio (Lionel Drippinwithit)
John Gregorio is warm through the points of his mustache to be working with all these top-notch comedians. He is a co-founder of The Nuclear Family: an improvisational theatre company started in 2001 currently performing Off-Broadway and soon to be a television show for the Sundance channel : The Extended Family. Much love and thanks to Nukefam, Oil-Can, Whiplash (along with our other slippery peers) and Stephanie.

Ken Jennings (Brewster Thickwad III, Max the Thug, Maitre D', Newsboy)
Broadway-Urinetown, Sweeney Todd (Drama Desk Award, Theatre World Award), Side Show, London Assurance, Present Laughter, All God's Chillun' Got Wings, Grand Hotel, Mayor. TV- "Ed," "Hack," "Third Watch," "Law and Order," "All My Children," "One Life to Live," "General Hospital." He has many other Off-Broadway and Regional theatre credits.

Jim Fitzpatrick (Vendor, Butler, Dowager, Priest, Ensemble)
No stranger to multiple personalities, Fitz did ten roles in "Catch 22," nine in "T-Bone 'n' Weasel," but only two in the first national tour of "State Fair." Also seen in commercials, movies and shows like "Ed" and "Law and Order." Love to wife, Marty Davey and budding star/son, Seamus.

Ed Carlo (Man with Fruitcake, Ensemble)
Off B'way: The Normal Heart (Mickey); Tour: Pageant (Miss Great Plains): Regional; Created roles in four VZM productions including Infidelities (Chip), A Night at the Nutcracker (Eddie), and The Pennies (Eddie). Also The Grand Tour (Jacobowski), The Rink (Dino), and Crossroads Theatre¹s Black Eagles (Lt. Dave Whitman).

ART NEILL (Sarge)
Art is happy to be joining Billy and Jane again, as always. Past experiences have netted him a Mobster, a Terrorist, a Rube, a Rock & Roll Star, and a dance belt. Credits; Pirates..Penzance NYSF, Regional leads: Damn Yankees, King & I, Sweeney Todd, Camelot and The Sound of Music. Peace.

James Darrah (Drunk, Singing Waiter, Fat Lady, Ensemble, Standby for Billy Van Zant). Some Broadway and Off-Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; archy and mehitabel; Once Around the City; Billion Dollar Baby; Dearly Departed; Street Scenes; Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know (Original Cast); Bells Are Ringing; Boobs! The Musical. Some Tours: …Forum; RBB&B Circus, 42nd Street; Some Like it Hot; Promises, Promises. Lots of Regionals, Stocks, Concerts, TV. For Marian.

Megan Byrne (Max the Thug's Girl, Ensemble)
Off-Broadway: The Voice of the Turtle (Keen Co.). Regional: Pioneer Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Kennedy Center. Film: Fighting Irish. TV: "Law & Order" (recurring role), "Ed". MFA, University of California, Irvine. BA, Middlebury College.

Ellie Mooney (Understudy)
NYC credits inlude Eliza Poe in Nights Of Annabell Lee at the Samford Meisner Theatre, Shake That Thing! (Principal Girl), Columbia Artists Theatrical. Regional: Eileen in I Love A Piano (Original Cast), Denver Center; Bat Boy (Shelley) and Songs For A New World (Woman 2) both for Stage One Productions, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! (Barrymore nomination), Act II Playhouse. Television: Chat Zone, HBO. Love and thanks to Mom, Chris and Ryan.

Ian Gonzalez (Understudy)
Ian Gonzalez is excited to be making his first Off ­Broadway appearance in Silent Laughter. He has performed Off-Off-Broadway in The Mistress of the Inn and The Seagull, and Regionally in Little Shop of Horrors, Macbeth, 1776, Merrily We Dance and Sing and many others. He is a graduate of New York University and sends thanks to his parents for their love and support.

ROBERT ROSS PARKER (Understudy)
Recent credits include assistant director, Roulette for Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he is also a young director in residence, and Vampire Cowboy Trilogy which he co-created with Qui Nguyen.

RALPH RINGSTEAD (Organist). At seven he knew his calling was the organ. By seventeen he was performing on the 3/17 Wurlitzer, and by eighteen he made his New York concert debut on the 4/18 Moller pipe organ. He was organist and Director of Cultural Affairs at Saint John the Baptist Cathedral, a former resident organist at Boonton's Darress Theater, and produced the grand re-opening jazz/dance show at Dovers Baker Theatre. Ralph has performed on many of the great theatre pipe organs around the United States and has provided original musical scores for over one hundred silent films.

BILLY VAN ZANDT & JANE MILMORE (Playwrights). Theatre: A Night at the Nutcracker; Love, Sex and the I.R.S.; The Pennies; Drop Dead!; Merrily We Dance and Sing; Confessions of a Dirty Blonde; What the Bellhop Saw; Suitehearts; Lie, Cheat and Genuflect; A Little Quickie; Till Death Do Us Part; Having a Wonderful Time; Wish You Were Her; Bathroom Humor; The Senator Wore Pantyhose; What the Rabbi Saw; Playing Doctor; Infidelities; Do Not Disturb. Television: "Newhart"; "Yes, Dear"; "I Love Lucy": The Very First Show (Emmy Award nomination); "Martin" (People's Choice Award, NAACP Image Award); "The Hughleys" (Prism Award, NAACP Image Award); "Anything But Love"; "Bless This House." Created "Daddy Dearest" for Don Rickles and Richard Lewis. Developed "Suddenly Susan" for Brooke Shields. Film: A Wake in Providence. www.vanzandtmilmore.com

ROBERT ROSS PARKER (Associate Director). Recent credits include assistant director, Roulette for Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he is also a young director in residence, and Vampire Cowboy Trilogy which he co-created with Qui Nguyen.

DANA KENN (Scenic Design). Over the past 20 years, Dana has been working extensively as a Production Designer for Walt Disney World and as an Associate Designer on Broadway including: Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard, and Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol. Recent designs in the NY area: The Prince and the Pauper at the Lamb's, A Christmas Survival Guide, I Love NY, Ambassador Satch, The Man Who Would Be King, Fiona, Swango, Threads, The Music Man and Fashion.

CYNTHIA NORDSTRUM (Costune Design) is making her Off-Broadway debut with Silent Laughter. Her designs have been seen in over fourteen productions at Walt Disney World including "Tarzan Rocks," plus filmings and premiere events. Currently she is designing for a new show at the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas. She has assisted on; Dance of the Vampires, The Boy from Oz, ABT's Artemis, and the RBB&B Circus.

RICHARD WINKLER (Lighting Designer) has designed for Broadway, Off-Broadway, concerts, opera, dance, and regional theatre. In New York, he recently designed Israel Horowitz's Unexpected Tenderness, Nicol Williamson's one-man show Jack! A Night on the Town with John Barrymore, and A Knight Out starring Sir Ian McKellen. He has designed for major U. S. opera companies in Houston, Miami, San Diego, and Dallas. Over 50 national tours include Fame, Evita, A Chorus Line , Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, A Funny Thing Happened . . . , On the Twentieth Century, South Pacific. His designs for recent European productions include Sophisticated Ladies (Moscow and Tokyo), Jazz Legs, A Walk on the Weil Side with Helen Schneider (Berlin), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Hamburg) and the new musical drama JFK (Dublin).

RUPPERT BOHLE (Projections)

THOM SCHILLING (Production Stage Manager). Stage management credits include Broadway and national tours: Les Misérables, Five Guys Named Moe, Fosse, The American Dance Machine, Lambchop on Broadway. International tours: Miss Saigon (Manila), Grease (Brazil), The Magic Flute (Berlin), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Prague). Off-Broadway: Prince & the Pauper, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Gorey Details. Thom is a partner of LTM Entertainment whose future producing projects include Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Boarder Radio and The G-String Murders.

JASON SUTTON (Assistant Stage Manager) has recently finished working on A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden. Other recent credits include The Prince and the Pauper; I Love You, You¹re Perfect, Now Change; and Bat Boy: The Musical.

NJNG PRODUCTIONS (General Management) is Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Lawrence Anderson and Greg Schaffert. General Management credits include Hank Williams: Lost Highway and The Prince and the Pauper. Nancy Gibbs has been a Producer, General Manager, and Company Manager on and off-Broadway for 25 years. General Management credits include, More, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, De La Guarda, Over the River and Through the Woods, Visiting Mr. Green, and Smoke on the Mountain at The Lamb's Theatre. With EGS Management, her general management credits include Wicked, Man of La Mancha, The Graduate, The Search for Signs 2000, The Vagina Monologues, Street of Dreams, and Lifegame. Producing credits include Bat Boy The Musical at the Union Square Theatre, The Big Bang at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, and Fully Committed at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

THE LAMB'S THEATRE (Producer) is the oldest theatrical club in America. Built in 1904 by famed architect Stanford White, the tavern downstairs is said to be where composer Frederick Lowe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner first met, where Mark Twain wrote his first play, and Richard Rodgers was heard writing material for a new musical with the working title Away We Go! ­ later to be changed to Oklahoma! The Lamb's Club was sold to the Manhattan Church of the Nazarene in the mid-1970s as a mission in Times Square, and in 1978 The Lamb's Theatre Company was born with the amazingly successful "Broadway for Kids" series. In 1981, the renovated third-floor theatre opened with Harry Chapin's musical Cotton Patch Gospel and was called "The Gem of Times Square." A run of more than 50 productions followed including Tina Howe's Painting;Breakfast with Les and Bess; Snoopy!; St. Mark's Gospel; Godspell ('89 Revival); The Old Lady's Guide to Survival; The Boys Next Door; Beau Jest; Avner the Eccentric; and Garrison Keillor's American Radio Show. The Lamb's Theatre Company opened The Lamb¹s Little Theatre on the first floor in 1984 and produced The Gifts of the Magi; Porches; Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit; Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller; Opal; Horton Foote's The Roads to Home; Smoke on the Mountain; and john and jen. In 2002, The Lamb's Theatre Company reopened its doors with the new musical adventure The Prince and the Pauper. With these shows and many, many more, The Lamb's Theatre has pursued its commitment to producing new works which reflect hope, explore issues that touch us all, and work to make a difference in the world we share.

 
 
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