BIOGRAPHIES

Bucks County Playhouse, Signature Theatre, Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Ogunquit Playhouse, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Fulton Opera House and Westport Country Playhouse. Other design credits include: Gross Indecency (Directed by Moises Kaufman), Broadway Bares (Directed by Jerry Mitchell), Lincoln Center Originals (Directed by Lonny Price). More online at: adamkochassociates.com

Lee Soroko

Fight Director

Lee is delighted to return to the Maltz-Jupiter Theatre, having previously choreographed the violence for I Hate Hamlet, West Side Story, When The Inspector Calls, Newsies, Les Misérables, Kiss Me Kate, Beauty and the Beast, Dial M for Murder and Sleuth. He is a Fight Director, Certified Teacher of Stage Combat and a Theatrical Firearms Instructor with the Society of American Fight Directors who earned his MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Lee is a former National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient for his work in character masks who provides professional fight choreography for theatre, opera companies and universities across America. In South Florida he has worked with the Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Miami New Drama, Zoetic Stage and Slow Burn Theatre. Currently, Lee is the Assistant Professor of Move ment at Florida Atlantic University.

Jennifer Burke

Dialect Coach

Sweet Charity is Jennifer’s fourteenth production serving as dialect coach for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, with West Side Story, Steel Magnolias, An Inspector Calls, Billy Elliot, Fiddler on the Roof, and Lost in Yonkers among her previous credits. Since 2009, Jennifer has been a member of the artistic team at Texas Shakespeare Festival where she has served as voice/ text coach for more than twenty of Shakespeare’s plays as well as many classic plays and musicals. Jennifer is the Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Miami, where she also serves as Professor of Voice and Speech in the BFA theatre training program. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting degree from Brandeis University and is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

Gerard Kelly

Wig Designer

Gerard has designed for Hair on Broadway and on London’s West End. His New York credits include the Public Theater, Mint Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, the Pearl Theater, and the Classic Stage Company. Regional Theatre credits include Theatre

Under the Stars, Westchester Broadway Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Paper

Mill Playhouse, Maine State Music Theatre, Carousel Dinner Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Sierra Repertory Theatre, San Francisco TheatreWorks, Cape Playhouse, Sacramento Music Circus, Westport Country Playhouse, Peterborough Players, Actors’ Playhouse, and George Street Playhouse. Gerard has designed for Shakespeare festivals in New York, Lake Tahoe, New Jersey, Idaho, and San Francisco. Film credits include The Conjuring, Transamerica, Girls Will Be Girls, Notorious, The Ten, The Savages, and The Other Women. Gerard has worked extensively with the B-52s.

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, I Hate Hamlet and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. 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.

RANDALL SWINTON Assistant Stage Manager

Randall was ASM for Jersey Boys and is happy to return on another Maltz Jupiter Theatre production. Favorite ASM credits include Summer Shorts Silver Anniversary 2022 (City Theatre), Drowsy Chaperone (Wick Theatre), The Amparo Experience (Broadway Factor), and A Christmas Story: The Musical (Slow Burn Theatre). Randall is also an actor local to South Florida. He was most recently seen in one in two (Island City Stage) where he was nominated for a Carbonell Award in the category of "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Male Role". He is grateful to be doing what he loves and thankful for his family and friends for their love and support.

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).

Neil Simon

Author

American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (1927-2018) is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific and performed playwrights in theatre history. In addition to Lost In Yonkers, which won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, his plays and musicals include Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, The StarSpangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God's Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, I Ought to be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple (female version), Broadway Bound, Rumors, Jake's Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, London Suite, Proposals, Hotel Suite, The Dinner Party, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Oscar and Felix, and Rose's Dilemma. In addition to the film adaptations he wrote of many of his plays, his screenplay credits include After the Fox, The Out-Of-Towners, The Heartbreak Kid (original 1973 version), Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, Max Dugan Returns, The Slugger's Wife, The Marrying Man and The Odd Couple II Other motion pictures based on stage plays include

Come Blow Your Horn, Sweet Charity and The StarSpangled Girl. For television, Mr. Simon wrote series, teleplays and motion pictures, including The Tallulah Bankhead Show, The Sid Caesar Show, The Phil Silvers Arrow Show, The Phil Silvers Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Trouble with People, ABC's Broadway Bound and Jake’s Women. Books by Neil Simon include Rewrites, A Memoir, The Play Goes On, four omnibus collections of Neil Simon's plays (The Comedy Of Neil Simon, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. II, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. 3, The Collected Plays Of Neil Simon, Vol. 4) and Lost In Yonkers (screenplay).Mr. Simon received more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer. Awards he received include the Pulitzer Prize for Lost In Yonkers, Emmy Awards for The Sid Caesar Show and The Phil Silvers Show, Tony Awards for The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, Lost In Yonkers and a special Tony Award For Overall Contribution To The Theatre. His nominations include Tony Award Nominations for Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers and The Goodbye Girl (musical). Other nominations include a Writers Guild Screen Award for The Odd Couple and The Out-Of-Towners, a Writers Guild Laurel Award, an American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement and a Writers Guild Screen Award Nomination for Barefoot in the Park, as well as an Oscar Nomination for The Odd Couple, an Evening Standard Award, a Sam S. Shubert Foundation Award, Kennedy Center Honors, a UCLA Medal, a Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award and a William Inge Theater Festival Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater.

CY COLEMAN Composor

Cy Coleman (1929–2004) was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx. A child prodigy, Coleman gave piano recitals at Steinway Hall, Town Hall and Carnegie Hall between the ages of six and nine. His educational background included classical training in piano composition and orchestration at New York City’s High School for the Performing Arts and NY College of Music. Despite early success in the classical and jazz genres, Coleman decided to build a career in popular music. He changed his name at age 16 in time to use it on his first composition with lyricist Joe A. McCarthy. The two collaborated on the classics “Why Try to Change Me Now,” “The Riviera” and “I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life.” He also penned “Playboy’s Theme,” which became the signature music of the regular TV shows and specials presented by Playboy. Coleman’s most successful early partnership was with Carolyn Leigh. The pair wrote many pop hits, including “Witchcraft” for Frank Sinatra and “The Best Is Yet To Come,” originally for Tony Bennett. Coleman’s winning streak as a Broadway composer began when the team of Coleman/Leigh collaborated on the musical Wildcat (1960), which marked the Broadway debut of comedienne Lucille Ball. The score included the hit tune “Hey, Look Me Over.” Up next for the two was Little Me, with a book by Neil Simon based on the novel by Patrick Dennis. The show introduced “Real Live Girl” and “I’ve Got Your Number,” which became popular standards. In 1965, Coleman began collaborating with Dorothy Fields. Their first project was the Broadway smash Sweet Charity, again with a book by Neil Simon, and starring Gwen Verdon. The show was a major success and spawned the showstoppers “Big Spender” and “If My Friends Could See Me Now.” The Peggy Lee pop recording of the song “Big Spender” also created additional buzz for the Broadway play after it became a mammoth hit and spent several weeks at the top of the charts in tandem with the play’s Broadway run. Sweet Charity also went on to grace the silver screen in a film starring Shirley MacLaine that was directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. After Sweet Charity, the team of Coleman/Fields worked on the Broadway show Seesaw, which reached Broadway in 1973, and their partnership was cut short by Fields’ death in 1974. Coleman remained prolific throughout the 1970s and ‘80s. He composed the score for I Love My Wife (1977) with lyrics by Michael Stewart, and then On The Twentieth Century (1978) with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 1980, Coleman served as producer and composer for the circus-themed Barnum, which introduced theatergoers to Jim Dale and Glenn Close. Later in the decade, he collaborated on Welcome To The Club (1988) with A.E. Hotchner and City of Angels (1989) with David Zippel, with a book by Larry Gelbart. In the latter, inspired by the hard-boiled detective film noir of the 1930s and ‘40s, he returned to his jazz roots, and the show was a huge critical and commercial success. The 1990s brought two more new hit Cy Coleman musicals to Broadway: The Will Rogers Follies (1991), again with Comden and Green, and The Life (1997) with lyricist Ira Gasman. A hit revival followed in 1999 with Little Me (Roundabout), starring Martin Short. Shortly before his death in 2003, Coleman returned to his jazz roots, re-forming the popular Cy Coleman Trio performing to sold-out audiences throughout New York City. Coleman’s film scores include Father Goose, The Art of Love, Garbo Talks and Family Business. In addition, he composed scores for memorable television specials for Shirley MacLaine, Bob Hope and Peggy Lee. Cy Coleman has received numerous awards, including: 3 Grammy Awards (a total of 13 nominations), 3 Tony Awards (11 nominations), 3 Emmy Awards (5 nominations) an Oscar nomination for Sweet Charity, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, the Johnny Mercer Award, and the Richard Rogers Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Musical Theatre (ASCAP).

DOROTHY FIELDS Lyricist

Dorothy Fields (1904–1974) was an award-winning American librettist and lyricist. The brother and sister team of Herbert and Dorothy Fields was part of a vibrant New York theatrical family that also included their brother, Joseph, a prolific librettist and playwright, and their father, Lew, the famous producer, actor, and director. Together, Herbert and Dorothy Fields wrote the books for eight Broadway musicals, including three with scores by Cole Porter (Something For the Boys starring Ethel Merman, Let's Face It! starring Danny Kaye, and Mexican Hayride); By The Beautiful Sea with music by Arthur Schwartz; Up in Central Park with music by Sigmund Romberg; Arms and the Girl with music by Morton Gould; Redhead with music by Albert Hague; and the classic Annie Get Your Gun with a score by Irving Berlin. In a career spanning more than 45 years, Dorothy Fields wrote the lyrics to such standards as "I Can't Give You Anything But Love,"(a timeless classic featured in the film A League of Their Own), the Academy Awardwinning "The Way You Look Tonight" with music by Jerome Kern, "On The Sunny Side Of The Street," "Exactly Like You," "Don't Blame Me," "I'm In The Mood For Love," "I Won't Dance," "A Fine Romance," "I Feel A Song Coming On," "Lovely To Look At," "I'll Buy You A Star," "Pick Yourself Up," "Remind Me," "Big Spender," "If My Friends Could See Me Now," "Where Am I Going?," "There's Got To Be Something Better Than This," "It's Not Where You Start," "Nobody Does It Like Me," and "Seesaw." In addition to Kern, her great collaborating composers included Harold Arlen, Cy Coleman, Morton Gould, Albert Hague, Burton Lane, Oscar Levant, Jimmy McHugh, Arthur Schwartz (with whom she wrote the score for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Sigmund Romberg and Harry Warren. Her final Broadway scores, written with Coleman, were Sweet Charity and Seesaw. In March 1971 Dorothy Fields became an inaugural inductee of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.