Creative Team

Harry Bryce, Director/Choreographer
Terry Tichenor, Music Director
Lynette Scoles, Scenic Designer
Brian J. O'Keefe, Costume Designer
Annmarie Duggan, Lighting Designer
Richard Lighthall, Sound Designer
Mark Harborth*, Production Stage Manager
Brian Kelley, Technical Director
Jerry Lapidus, Company Manager
Tippen Davidson, Producer
Julia Davidson Truilo, Associate Producer

Cast

Jay Aubrey Jones* - Tonton Julian
Joshua Denning* - Daniel Beauxhomme
Larray Grimes - Armond Beauxhomme
Jaygee Macapugay* - Erzulie
Michael Slater Evariste - Agwe
Angela Birchett - Asaka
Kearran Giovanni - Andrea
Tiffany Howard - Ti Moune
'Lisa' Kamiliah Burnside - Young Ti Moune
Mareeko Finney - Mama Euralie
Jo Michael Kinsey - Papa Ge

Tagline

The season's travel begins on a windswept island in the French Antilles. This eight-time Tony nominee and Olivier Award winner vibrates with a contemporary calypso-flavored score, resonating truly sophisticated primitive art. Directed and choreographed by Harry Bryce, the dynamic director of Five Guys Named Moe, Once on This Island is a happy integration of virtually nonstop song and dance, proving love is always the ultimate survivor.

Harry Bryce, Director/Choreographer
Harry Bryce has for over twenty-five years developed visionary works as a Director, Choreographer, Writer and Arts Educator. Now a permanent resident of Daytona Beach, Bryce was a founding artistic staff member for the Vinnette Carroll Repertory Theatre in Fort Lauderdale during the 80's and received a Carbonell Award nomination for Choreography in 1989. He has led professional dance companied in Richmond, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia, where his original concert ballet Beyond the Canebreaks: Moments in the Life of Harriet Tubman received national and critical acclaim at the National Black Arts Festival. Mr. Bryce founded the Memphis Black Repertory Theatre and served as its Producing Artistic Director. He has produced and director twenty-one productions including Having Our Say, Blues For An Alabama Sky, Shakin the Mess Outta Misery, The Old Settler, Dreamgirls, Once One This Island, Ain't Misbehavin', Spunk, Five Guys Named Moe, and The Black Nativity, garnering seventeen theatre awards with marks of excellence in nearly all categories of performance and design. Mr. Bryce is the recipient of the 2000 Carter G. Woodson Award of Merit for Lifetime Achievements in the Performing Arts. Last summer, Bryce directed the smash his Five Guys Named Moe for SMT and is happy to be returning as the director of this season's Once On This Island.

Tippen Davidson, Producer
Tippen Davidson attended the Julliard School of Music in New York and is an accomplished violist and conductor. Mr. Davidson's SMT conducting and music direction credits include The Telephone/The Medium, Street Scene, H.M.S. Pinafore, La Boheme, Camelot, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Company, Kismet, The Barber of Seville, Iolanthe, Follies, West Side Story, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Rothschilds, The Merry Widow, Of Thee I Sing, The Marriage of Figaro, Patience, A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Fairy Queen, Candide, The Mikado, Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Gondoliers.

Annmarie Duggan, Lighting Designer
Annmarie Duggan is happy to be returning for her seventh summer season. She is proud to have designed more than twenty-five Seaside productions in those years. Other credits inclue Wit for Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont, starring international star Lisa Harrow, the off-Broadway production of Jolson and Company for the York Theatre, the opera The Piper of Hamelin, starring Sesame Street's Bob McGrath at the Manhattan School of Music, New ork and Mujeres Y Hombres for Carlota Santana Spanish Dance at the New Victory Theatre, New York. Her work has been seen in theaters around the country, including Utah Musical Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, Cumberland County Playhouse, Invisible Theatre, Florida Repertory Theater, Little Theatre on the Square, Florida Studio Theatre, Hampton Playhouse, Theatre Winter Haven, Circa 21 Playhouse, Music Theatre North, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre and New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts.

Mark Harborth*, Production Stage Manager
Mark Harborth returns this year for his ninth season at SMT. He has served as an actor (As You Like It), director (High Spirits, Forever Plaid) and Production Stage Manager. Prior to returning to Florida, he recently directed John Patrick Shanley's The Big Funk in New York, as well as an award-winning Noises Off. As a director, he has had over twenty years of experience including working on Broadway and directing off-Broadway, national tours, university theater, dinner theater, stock and regional theater, and numerous off-off-Broadway musicals and plays. As a Production Stage Manager, he has worked regionally at theaters like Tennessee Rep., but loves the time he spends with the people at SMT. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Actors' Equity.

Brian Kelley, Technical Director
This is Brian Kelley's sixth summer working full-time for Seaside Music Theater. Previously he worked as Head Stage Staff for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Legend of the Seas and as 2nd Rigger for Station Casino in Kansas City. Mr. Kelley served as carpenter for the national tours of Joseph, 42nd Street and Smokey Joe's Caf￩. He is the proud owner of Spunky, the three-legged wonder. Mr. Kelley would like to thank all the sweaty people in the shop who make his summer so much easier.

Jerry Lapidus, Company Manager
Jerry Lapidus came to Daytona Beach to become a part of the SMT family after many years working with developing theaters for Actors' Equity Association, the actors' union, in New York. Since then, he and his family (attorney Anita and equestrian Kim) have accumulated three dogs, four horses, a barn cat and a big green pick-up truck and mini-van to carry them all. Although frequently mistaken for Richard Dreyfuss, Lapidus has promised his family not to jeopardize his job by attempting to act for Seaside. Mr. Lapidus has also worked for AMAS Repertory Theatre, Circle Repertory Theatre, the Roundabout Theatre and Long Island's Gateway Playhouse.

Richard Lighthall, Sound Designer
Richard Lighthall was introduced to theater at a very young age and began mixing productions at the age of 12. Mr. Lighthall has assisted in sound system design and installation for numerous theaters and served as an audio consultant for Carnival Cruise Lines. He is a lead production employee at his hometown civic center and is an IATSE Journeyman. Mr. Lighthall currently holds the Audio Engineer position at Middle Tennessee State University.

Brian J. O'Keefe, Costume Designer
Now in his tenth year on staff, Brian O'Keefe continues to manage Seaside's extensive costume division and rental business. Having designed over forty shows here, he considers Gypsy, Hello, Dolly! and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum among his favorites. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, O'Keefe has worked as a skilled patternmaker and designers along the East Coast, and has taught costume construction at UCF in Orlando. Mr. O'Keefe has also designed shows for the Limelight Theater in St. Augustine including, The Apple Tree, Puttin' on the Ritz and Too Darn Hot!

Lynette Scoles, Scenic Designer
Lynette Scoles returns to Seaside after a busy year settling into New York City and exploring the realm of corporate theatre. She currently works as a Design Assistant at Design-Contact in Manhattan and was recently a freelance designer for God's Man in Texas at Cumberland County Playhouse in Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie at Worcester Foothills Theater in Maryland and Three Days of Rain at Northern Stage in Vermont. Her SMT credits include designs for Honk!, Great Expectations, Free To Be You And Me and Ain't Misbehavin'. She also served SMT as Props Master (Winter 2000/01), Assistant Production Manager (Summer 2000), Charge Scenic Artist (1999), Scenic Art Apprentice (Summer 1995) and Stage Op (Summer 1994). She would like to dedicate this work in memory of her beloved grandparents, Merrill and Pearl Scoles.

Terry Tichenor, Music Director
As SMT's "on call" music director and pianist, Terry Tichenor was most recently seen in My Way. While last season's collaboration with Donna Drake on the production of Honk! remains an all-time favorite experience, conducting shows such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hello Dolly!, Crazy For You, 42nd Street, High Spirits and appearing on the Seaside stage as the accompanist, Manny, in Master Class are but a few of his contributions. Terry coaches and accompanies in the voice studios of Jane Christeson and Lloyd Linney at Stetson School of Music. He works privately with the voice studios of Mollie and Robert Rich, as well. His collaborations as a workshop clinician with Associate Producer Julia Truilo has been extremely rewarding to his growth as a musical artist. Terry is a recipient of the Ila B. Murphy Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to SMT. He was most recently recognized by Pi Kappa Lamda at Stetson School of Music for outstanding service to the music school.

Julia Davidson Truilo, Associate Producer
Julia Truilo is a founding member of SMT and has performed here in a host of capacities both onstage and off. Her favorite roles for the company include Ida in last season's Honk!, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as Rosina in Barber of Seville, Anna in King and I, Gina/Harpo in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and Sally in Follies. She also directs for the company, including 1998's highly successful Camelot. Ms. Truilo spends her non-stage time watching the budget as SMT's Associate Producer. Elsewhere she has performed major roles in operas from Monteverdi to Robert Ward, as well as in a host of operettas and musical comedies with such companies as the Santa Fe Opera, the Orlando Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, New York's Bandwagon Theater Company and the Opera Ensemble of New York. She continues to do concert and oratorio work with ensembles around the country.

*Courtesy of Actors' Equity Association