WHO’S WHO

BRIANNA ASCIONE (Swing) is absolutely thrilled to be in Gypsy making her Goodspeed debut! Off-Broadway: The Little Match Girl: The Concert (Goose Two/ Ensemble). Regional: Dames At Sea (u/s Ruby & Joan), Carousel (Louise), Grease (Sandy), West Side Story (Anybodys). TV/Film: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Marry Me. Marymount Manhattan College 2022 (BFA Dance). All the love to the entire company, LDC, Marianne Wells, Mom & Dad, family, & friends! @briannajascione

ANTHONY DaSILVA (Swing) National Tours: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. Regional: The Cher Show, Elf (Ogunquit Playhouse); The Wedding Singer, Newsies (The Gateway); A Chorus Line (Weathervane Theatre); Mamma Mia!, Altar Boyz, World Goes ‘Round (Forestburgh Playhouse); Grease, Camelot, Oklahoma!, Sunset Boulevard (Mac-Haydn Theatre). Infinite thanks to Jenn Thompson, Patti Wilcox, The Collective, Family, Friends, and Chaz. @antthology

JENN THOMPSON (Director) is thrilled to return to Goodspeed after directing last summer’s world-premiere Anne of Green Gables on this stage. Other Goodspeed productions include The Music Man (winner of the 2019 Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical), Oklahoma! (nominated for 7 CCC Awards) and Bye Bye Birdie (nominated for 5 CCC Awards). Recent productions include the current National Tour of Annie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid - The Musical at CTC and Chains for Off-Broadway’s celebrated Mint Theatre where her 2016 production of Women Without Men garnered Lortel and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominations for Outstanding Revival as well as 5 Drama Desk Award nominations, including Outstanding Director and Revival. Regional highlights include The Secret Garden (Denver Center Theatre), Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), as well as productions at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Rep, Barrington Stage Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, City Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival and The Rev Theatre Company. Connecticut credits include A Doll’s House, Part 2 and The Call at TheaterWorks Hartford as well as Abundance at Hartford Stage (CCC nomination: Outstanding Director/Revival). Jenn served as a founding member of Connecticut’s award-winning River Rep at the Ivoryton Playhouse, where she appeared in and/or directed over 50 productions, over 19 seasons and as Co-Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s award-winning TACT/The Actors Company Theatre. Jenn is married to actor Stephen Kunken. They live in Brooklyn, NY and Ivoryton, CT with their daughter, Naomi. This one’s for Mama. jennthompsondirector.com

PATRICIA WILCOX (Choreographer) is thrilled to return to Goodspeed after choreographing The Music Man (Connecticut Critics Circle Award) and Bye Bye Birdie (Connecticut Critics Circle nomination). Other credits include: Broadway: Motown the Musical (Astaire Award and NAACP Award/ Choreography), and A Night with Janis Joplin. Off-Broadway/ National Tours: Little Shop of Horrors (NY City Center Encores!), Annie, An Officer and a Gentleman, Children’s Letters to God, Bowfire, Blues in the Night (NAACP Nomination), Seussical. Regional: A Swell Party (Kennedy Center), The Secret Garden (DCPA), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (CTC), Peter and the Starcatcher (Pioneer), Aida and Camelot (NSMT), Jesus Christ Superstar (Sacramento Music), Hair (ATC), Guys and Dolls (Paper Mill), Houston Symphony, Minnesota Pops, Phoenix Symphony. Choreographer for 3 Winter Olympics/Ice Dancing. Guest Artist: Jacob’s Pillow. Pattiwilcox.com

ADAM SOUZA (Music Director) Broadway credits include Wicked, Kinky Boots. National Tours: Wicked (2nd National, original MD/Conductor), Kinky Boots (1st National original MD/ Conductor), Spamalot (1st National, MD/Conductor), The Midtown Men, and Les Misérables. Adam also served as Associate Music Supervisor for the international mountings of Wicked in São Paolo, Brazil (in Portuguese) and Mexico City (in Spanish). His regional credits include Next to Normal (Hartford TheaterWorks), North Shore Music Theatre, and over 20 productions with Goodspeed, including 42nd Street, Cabaret, A Grand Night for Singing, Because of Winn Dixie, The Great American Mousical with Julie Andrews, Snapshots by Stephen Schwartz, George M!, Brigadoon, Very Good Eddie, and Rags. Adam serves as Music Supervisor for Destination Broadway (destinationbroadway.org) and has served on faculty for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee as an Associate Professor of Musical Theatre, of which he is also an alumnus.

ALEXANDER DODGE (Scenic Designer) BROADWAY: Anastasia (Outer Critics Nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Nominations), Present Laughter (Tony Nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. OFF-BROADWAY: The Whisper House: 59E59 Theatres; Harry Clarke: Vineyard / Minetta Lane; Ripcord: MTC; Rapture Blister Burn: Playwrights Horizons; The Understudy: Roundabout; Measure for Pleasure, Paris Commune: Public; Observe the Sons of Ulster (Lortel Award), Chaucer in Rome: LCT. INTERNATIONAL: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Japan / Germany / Austria; All New People: London-West End. OPERA: Samson et Dalila: Metropolitan Opera; The Thirteenth Child: Santa Fe; The Ghosts of Versailles: L.A. Opera; Il trittico: Deutsche Oper Berlin. RECENT: Noir: Alley Theatre; Russian Troll Farm: Geva Theatre. UPCOMING: I Need That: Broadway/American Airlines-Roundabout. MFA: Yale.