BIOGRAPHIES

Scott Stauffer

Sound Designer

Scott’s Maltz Jupiter Theater design credits include Ain’t Misbehavin. On Broadway he has designed sound for productions of: A Free Man of Color, The Rivals, Contact, Marie Christine, Twelfth Night, and Jekyll and Hyde. Off Broadway he has designed productions of: A Minister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Third, Spitfire Grill, Elegies, Hello Again, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Regional credits include: The Argyle Theater, Manhattan School of Music, Merrimack Repertory Theater, the University of Michigan, Denizen Theater, Capitol Rep, Hanger Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival, Engeman Theater, and The Alley Theater. Concerts include Lincoln Center for the Performing Art’s American Songbook (since 1999), Live from Lincoln Center’s Broadway Stars in Concert in 2018 and 2019, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Chita Rivera at Carnegie Hall, and Actors Fund concerts of Hair and On the Twentieth Century, as well as many galas and concerts throughout Lincoln Center. As Sound Engineer, his credits include The Lion King, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Carousel (1994), Once On This Island (1990), and Little Shop of Horrors (1987). Scott is a faculty member of The Manhattan School Of Music.

KEVIN S. FOSTER II

Wig Designer

Kevin is elated to be back at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre! His work was last seen at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in I Hate Hamlet . Regional Credits include Kinky Boots, The Color Purple, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music, and Jersey Boys (Maine State Music Theatre); Chicken and Biscuits, Beehive The 60’s Musical, A Doll’s House Pt. 2, and It’s A Wonderful Life (Virginia Rep); Kinky Boots, and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (The Fulton Theatre). Kevin is a proud member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 87 where he has loved working as local wig and wardrobe hire for National Tours like The Lion King, CATS, Kinky Boots, and Hairspray. When not designing wigs for shows, Kevin loves designing wigs for female impersonators around the world! He has a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Tech. Tiktok and Instagram: @wigsbykevin kevinsfosterii.com

SUZANNE CLEMENT JONES Production Stage Manager

Suzanne is very happy to be returning to Maltz- Jupiter Theatre, where she has stage managed An Inspector Calls, A Doll’s House: Part 2, Brighton Beach Memoirs and I Hate Hamlet. She is also one of the resident stage managers at Palm Beach Dramaworks, where her last productions were The People Downstairs, Intimate Apparel and The Belle of Amherst . Suzanne has an MFA in Design from Northwestern University, is proud to be a member of Actors' Equity Association, and is presently serving as the leader of the South Florida Equity Community.

JYNELLY ROSARIO Assistant Stage Manager

National tours include Hamilton (Angelica, And Peggy, and Philip companies) and Oklahoma! . Jynelly is excited to return to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre after the successful runs of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and I Hate Hamlet. Selected credits include Square Go, Posting Letters to the Moon, and Killing Time (Off-Broadway), Mala (The Old Globe), and numerous regional productions at Florida Studio Theatre, MCC Theater, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Celebrity Cruises; and productions with Broadway Illusions, Inc., The Blackbox Theatre Workshop, and Teatro CeDIn in the island of Puerto Rico where she was born and raised. BFA, University of Puerto Rico. To my family and everyone who has ever believed in my dreams: this is for you! Instagram: @jynellyrosario | Website: jynellyrosario.com

BOB CLINE Casting Director

Bob Cline has been the New York Casting Director for the past eight seasons for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. In New York, Bob works as a director, casting director, and he is a professor at Pace University in Manhattan, where he is a proud faculty member in charge of the Senior B.F.A. Musical Theatre majors. Bob has helped to populate over 70 national tours, hundreds of regional theatre productions, films, TV shows, and commercials.

Andrew Kato

Producing Artistic Director/Chief Executive

Andrew Kato is celebrating his seventeenth season at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre as the Producing Artistic Director/Chief Executive. During his tenure, he has produced over 70 productions and subscriptions have grown to over 8,000 patrons. Overall attendance has grown to nearly 100,000 guests annually, securing the Theatre to be one of the most successful regional theatres in the southeast. Andrew was the Creative Consultant/Coordinating Producer on the Tony Awards® for 13 years. He was a Producing Associate on the Broadway productions of Jelly’s Last Jam, Angels in America and the off-Broadway production of Cryptogram. Andrew conceived and developed several musicals, including: Switch!, Academy, 1001 Nights, Street Songs, Diva Diaries, and Through the Looking Glass. Andrew received the 2012 Council’s Choice Muse Award from the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, the 2013 Silver Palm Award from the South Florida Theatre League for Outstanding Contribution, and the 2019 Richard G. Fallon Award for Excellence in Professional Theatre. Andrew has been honored as a Leader of Distinction by Florida Weekly and one of Palm Beach County’s 100 Most Influential Business Leaders by Palm Beach Illustrated three years in a row. He is a proud graduate of Florida State University and member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers (SDC).

Burt Shevelove

Author

Burt Shevelove was born in Newark, New Jersey, graduated from Brown University and received a Master's degree in theater from Yale. While at Yale, he wrote lyrics for a musical version of Plautus's Mostellaria and later became the resident director for the Yale Dramatic Association. After serving as an ambulance driver in World War II, he began a career as a writer, director and producer for radio and television, working with such stars as Judy Garland, Red Buttons, Jack Paar, Cyril Richard, Nancy Walker and Victor Borge; his work won him Emmy and Peabody Awards. His Broadway career began in 1948 with Small Wonder, a revue for which he wrote material, coproduced and directed. He also directed a revival of Kiss Me Kate (1956), Hallelujah Baby! (1968), No, No, Nanette (1971; he also wrote the book), The Frogs (1974; written with Stephen Sondheim and performed in and around the Yale University pool) and Happy New Year (1980; he also wrote the book). He co-wrote the film, The Wrong Box, with Larry Gelbart. Burt Shevelove died in 1982.

Larry Gelbart

Author

Larry Gelbart, a Chicago-born writer and producer who has achieved success for his work in radio, television, film and theater. He began his professional career in the late 1940s, before reaching the age of twenty, writing for such radio shows as The Eddie Cantor Show," "The Maxwell House Coffee Time with Danny Thomas," "Duffy's Tavern," "Command Performance," "Jack Carter," "The Jack Paar Show," "The Joan Davis Show" and "The Bob Hope Show." By the early 1950s he had begun writing for television, including "The AllStar Revue," "The Red Buttons Show," "Honestly," "Celeste, "The Patrice Munsel Show," "Caesar's Hour" and "The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom"; his television work in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s includes "The Danny Kaye Show," "The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine," the long-running and hugely successful "M*A*S*H," "Barbara Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments," "Roll Out!," and "Karen." After "M*A*S*H" and the award-winning HBO television film, Barbarians at the Gate. In addition to A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, his work for the theater includes the plays My LA (1950), Sly Fox (1976) and Mastergate (1989); and the musicals The Conquering Hero (1960), One, Two, Three, Four, Five (1988) and City of Angels (1989; which won 6, 1990 Tony Awards, including Best Book of a Musical and Best Musical). His film work includes The Notorious Landlady, The Thrill of It All, The Wrong Box (co-written with Burt Shevelove), Not With My Wife, You Don't, The Chastity Belt, A Fine Pair, Oh, God, Movie, Movie, Neighbors, Tootsie and Blame It on Rio."

STEPHEN SONDHEIM Music and Lyrics

Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night (1954), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), The Frogs (1974), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday In The Park With George (1984), Into The Woods (1987), Assassins (1991), Passion (1994) and Road Show (2008) as well as lyrics for West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959) and Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965) and additional lyrics for Candide (1973). Anthologies of his work include Side By Side By Sondheim (1976), Marry Me A Little (1981), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983), Putting It Together (1993/99) and Sondheim On Sondheim (2010). He composed the scores of the films " Stavisky " (1974) and "Reds" (1981) and songs for "Dick Tracy" (1990) and the television production "Evening Primrose" (1966). His collected lyrics with attendant essays have been published in two volumes: "Finishing the Hat" (2010) and "Look, I Made A Hat" (2011). In 2010 Broadway's Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed The Stephen Sondheim Theatre in his honour; in 2019, London's Queens Theatre was also renamed the Sondheim.