Creative Team

Gary Cadwallader*, Director/Choreographer
Elizabeth Westerman, Music Director
Michael P. Amico, Scenic Designer
Steven Simon, Costume Designer
Annmarie Duggan, Lighting Designer
Jason Hoffman, Sound Designer
Mark Harborth*, Production Stage Manager
Brian Kelley, Technical Director
Jerry Lapidus, Company Manager
Frank Ramirez, Stage Manager
Tippen Davidson, Producer
Julia Davidson Truilo, Associate Producer

Cast

David Pandich - Pinocchio
Jeremy Parrish - Gepetto
Evelyn LaLonde - Blue Fairy
Sean Campos - Signore Volpone
Karen Koscoe - Signora Gatta
Mary Ann Douglas - Gina
Evan Hoffmann - Antonio
Amanda Wansa - Angelina
Adrienne Boyle - Balloon Seller
Carl DuPont - Pizza Maker
Damon Keith - Coachman
Alex Johnson - Candlestick

Tagline

Journey into a magical fairyland as a young marionette springs into life dancing, singing and ready to explore. Witness courage and self-discovery as Pinocchio changes paths to find his way home to become a real live boy.

Michael P. Amico, Scenic Designer
Michael Amico is happy to be designing his first set for Seaside Music Theater. He has designed productions for several South Florida Theaters including Beguiled Again for the Riverside Theater' The King and I, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown for Actor's Playhouse; Sohpie: Last of the Red Hot Mommas and As Thousands Cheer for the Kravis Center; Fully Committed for the Broward Center; La Cage Aux Folles and Ain't Misbehavin' for Stage Door Theatre; and Beguiled Again for Florida Stage. He is a member of United Scenic Artists as both a Scenic Designer and Scenic Artist. As a scenic artist, he has worked on the Broadway productions of Kiss Me Kate and Jackie O. and the national tour of Saturday Night Fever. Michael lives in Deerfield Beach, Florida with his wife Erin and their two amazing children, 3 1/2 year old Dante and 1 1/2 year old Bridget.

Gary Cadwallader*, Director/Choreographer
Gary Cadwallader is an actor, director and Director of Education at Seaside Music Theater. As an actor, Gary most recently played The Cat in Honk!, and Eddie Ryan in Funny Girl at SMT, E. K. Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind at Northern Stage in Vermont and Andy Ladd in Love Letters at the Playhouse by the Beach. Other SMT roles include Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations, Dr, Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace, Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Touchstone in As You Like It, Banjo in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Dvornichek in Rough Crossing and Jeff in Brigadoon, among many others. Recent directing credits include SMT's Dear Edwina, Too Darn Hot: The Songs of Cole Porter at the Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, Tapestry: The Songs of Carol King at Playhouse by the Beach and She Loves Me at DBCC. Other directing credits include Puttin' on the Ritz: The Music of Irving Berlin, and The Apple Tree at the Limelight Theater in St. Augustine, Marivaux's The Triumph of Love and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Orlando's Civic Theater, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Part 1 at the Atlantic Shakespeare Festival and Schoolhouse Rock Live! at SMT. Other credits include many shows at Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theater and Apple Tree Theatre Co., the national tour of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, and fillm role in A League of Their Own and The New Untouchables. "This season is dedicated to my Mother who unfailingly supported me as a theater artist. Thank you."

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.

Jason Hoffman, Sound Designer
Jason Hoffman is beginning his ninth season with SMT, having been involved with numerous shows including favorites Honk!, Miss Saigon, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd and Tommy. Mr. Hoffman can be found on a daily basis at SMT Downtown, working lights and sound for the various groups that perform in the theater. In his off time, he enjoys growing with his 2-year-old daughter Alexandria, a budding technician.

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 Café. 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.

Frank Ramirez, Stage Manager
Frank Ramirez returns to Seaside for thie eighth season this summer. His SMT credits include Dracula, Tommy, Forever Plaid, Romeo and Juliet, The Glass Menagerie, High Spirits, Swingtime Canteen, Five Guys Named Moe, My Way and Miss Saigon. After spending a year touring the country, living in Los Angeles and San Francisco (and taking a trip to Rome, Italy!), Ramirez spent a year here in Florida and plans to return to his hometown of New York City this fall.

Steven Simon, Costume Designer
Steven Simon is happy to be designing again for SMT. Some of his previous designs include Dear Edwina, Master Class, Bedroom Farce and Swingtime Canteen (Seaside Music Theater), Promises, Promises (Stage One), Always... Patsy Cline, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Forever Plaid, Beehive (Cabaret Oldtown) and July: A Tin Can Mystery (Deleware Theater Company). Mr. Simon received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas and has since lent his skills to productions from Oklahoma to Japan. He joins us from Arena Stage for his tenth season with SMT.

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.

Elizabeth Westerman, Music Director
An up and coming young artist, Elizabeth Westerman is studying for her vocal performance degress under the guidance of Dr. Lloyd Linney at Stetson University. She has worked with clinicians such as vocal pedagogists Richard Miller and Joan Boytim. In addition to her vocal skills, she has won many awards as a pianist. As a lyric colturaturo soprano, performance credits include the opera Carmen at Stetson's Opera Scenes 2000 and Rigoletto and Falstaff at Stetson's "An Evening of Verdi" 2001. In Stetson University's fall 2000 production Into the Woods, Westerman delighted audiences as the role of Rapunzel. Recently, the soprano completed the role of the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel. This past year, Westerman won scholarships and recognition from Tristate NATS Competition, the Florida Federation of Music Clubs in their Stephen Foster competition and Stetson's Giffen Scholarship Competition. Westerman is pleased to be working with Seaside for her first season.

*Courtesy of Actors' Equity Association