WHO’S WHO

TRICIA PAOLUCCIO* (Dolly Parton)

Born and raised on a beautiful almond farm in Modesto, CA, Tricia Paoluccio had dreams of following in the musical footsteps of her lifelong inspiration, Dolly Parton. Her NY Broadway credits include: Fiddler on the Roof, The Green Bird and A View from the Bridge. A sampling of her varied Off-B’way credits include: Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida directed by Sir Peter Hall with Theatre for a New Audience and the comedy Debbie Does Dallas. Television includes a recurring role on the tv series Saint X, currently streaming on Hulu, Homeland, Bull, Chicago Med, The Affair, L&O, SVU, Blue Bloods and numerous others. Film includes the upcoming Portrait of a Young Man. Tricia (@triciapaoluccio) is also a celebrated visual artist who has elevated the art of pressed flowers into high design. You can learn more about her art and brand on Instagram through @domainoftheflowerings.

MATTHEW RISCH* (Kevin) has most recently been seen in Hulu’s Saint X. Other recurring television credits include Modern Family, How To Get Away with Murder, Bonding, Looking, Switched at Birth, Tales of The City, and Younger, among others. He co-starred in the independent film Test and was featured in Sex and the City 2. His Broadway credits include Joey Evans in the last revival of Pal Joey, Carlos in the original company of Legally Blonde, Trip Wyeth in Other Desert Cities, and he was featured in Chicago the Musical. Other theatre credits include Sky in Barrington Stage’s Guys and Dolls and Zach in Signature Theatre’s A Chorus Line. Love to JR.

BRUCE VILANCH (Book) is delighted to be back working at The Terris Theatre. He was last here as the writer of A Sign of the Times, also directed by Gabriel Barre. Bruce is a multiple Emmy winner, some of them for a couple of the 25 Oscar telecasts he has written. He was a Hollywood Square for six years, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. And, he toured America and played Broadway as Edna Turnblad, Baltimore housewife, in Hairspray. Among his non-Emmy winning TV shows was Dolly, a big Sunday night variety show in the 80s that just didn’t’ make it. Somehow he, and Dolly, survived. And here they come again.

GABRIEL BARRE (Director, Choreographer & Co-Author) is an internationally-acclaimed director who directed Amazing Grace, on Broadway, on National Tour and here at Goodspeed. Gabe also recently directed a new version of Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland, which he is now a co-author of, at the Tuacahn Theatre in St. George, Utah. Off-Broadway credits include the original productions of The Wild

Party (by Andrew Lippa); Summer of ’42; john & jen and Almost, Maine. National Tours include Amazing Grace, Pippin and Cinderella. Regional theater credits include A Sign of the Times at The Delaware Theatre Company and here at Goodspeed, the original productions of Memphis, as well as revivals of Billy Elliot, Sweeney Todd, Finian’s Rainbow and many new musicals at Goodspeed Musicals in CT. Among the many countries he has directed productions in are: China (recent production Sound of the Silk Road), Mexico (Mexican premiere of Billy Elliot), Japan (Japanese co-ed premiere of The Scarlet Pimpernel), Korea (world premiere of the new musical, Tears of Heaven), Germany, and numerous shows in the Czech Republic (including Carmen; Jesus Christ Superstar and the new Czech musical Holmes, The Legend and where he will be directing the Czech premiere of Beetlejuice next year). As an actor, he has been nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical. Gabe is also busy preparing to direct the world premiere of the exciting new musical, Reunion, by Frank Wildhorn and Rinne Groff about the reunion of a fictitious band from the Laurel Canyon era.

EUGENE GWOZDZ (Music Director & Orchestrator) is from Fort Worth, Texas. Eugene is Music Director/Arranger for the American Dance Machine 21. Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator: Chita Rivera Dance Awards; the Jerome Robbins’ Broadway 30th Anniversary Concert at the Guggenheim; Our Guy, CY, with Tony Award winners Randy Graff, Cady Huffman, and Lillias White; The Jerome Robbins Awards honoring Chita Rivera, Harold Prince, and Stephen Sondheim. Broadway: The Full Monty, Oklahoma!. Off-Broadway: Spamilton. National tours: Sunset Boulevard, Swing. Music Director/ Pianist for Anika Noni Rose, Donna McKechnie, Cady Huffman, Will Chase, Mandy Gonzalez, Major Attaway, Rachel York, Anthony Nunziata, and Nicole Vanessa Ortiz. He has worked with many Broadway stars including Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Chita Rivera, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renee Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, Tituss Burgess, Shirley Jones, Betty Buckley, Kelli O’Hara, Norm Lewis, Megan Hilty, Kristin Chenoweth, Laura Benanti, Melissa Errico, Karen Ziemba, LaChanze… to name a few.

ANNA LOUIZOS (Scenic Designer) A 3-time Tony Award nominee, set designs for Broadway include School of Rock (sets and costumes), In the Heights, Avenue Q, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Holiday Inn, Honeymoon in Vegas, Dames at Sea, It Shoulda Been You, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, High Fidelity, Curtains, The Performers, among others. Previous Goodspeed productions: Me and My Girl, Holiday Inn, Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas, Radio Girl, LMNOP. Many productions across the US, internationally and off-Broadway including Roundabout, Second Stage, MTC, Public Theatre, Guthrie, Asolo