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BRIAN D. COATS (Speed) is happy to return to Geva Theatre Center where he was seen in Fences and A Raisin in the Sun. New York theatre includes The Death of Bessie Smith at New Brooklyn Theater, La Ruta

at Working Theater, On the Levee at Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Two Gentlemen of Verona at The Public/ Delacorte, Puddn’head Wilson for The Acting Company, The Bereaved and And Miles to Go for Partial Comfort Productions, Woza Albert! at Lincoln Center Institute and Myrna in Transit for Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional theatre credits include Invisible Man for Huntington Theatre Company and Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. (Helen Hayes Award, Shared), Clybourne Park at the Caldwell Theatre Co., The Amen Corner at Rhynsburger Theatre/ MU, Distant Fires at People’s Light & Theatre Company (Barrymore Award, Shared). Film/TV credits include Friendship!, For Flow (HBO), “Law & Order,” "Law & Order: SVU,” “JAG,” “Big Lake,” "How to Make it in America," “Blue Bloods,” “The Sopranos", Alternate Sides (Golden Egg Film Festival/ Tribeca Cinemas- Best Supporting Actor) and a recurring role on “Boardwalk Empire.”

JENNIfER CODY (Gwendolyn) is thrilled to finally return to her hometown. Broadway credits include A Christmas Story; Shrek; Pajama Game; Taboo; Urinetown the Musical; No, No Nanette (encores); Best

Little Whorehouse in Texas (Actor’s Fund); Seussical the Musical; Grease; Beauty and the Beast and Cats. Ms. Cody has spent the last few years lending her voice to movie and TV characters and commercials. She won the Annie Award (the voice-over Oscar for Best

Actor in an Animated Motion Picture Feature Film) for creating the voice of Charlotte La Boeuff in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. She is the voice of Darcy in Nickelodeon’s “Winx Club” and Lucy in “Robot and Monster.” Off-Broadway, she created original roles in The Wild Party (MTC), Charles Bush’s Judith of Bethulia and Henry and Mudge. TV/FILM credits include Lucky Stiff, Khumba, “Blue Bloods,” “Unforgettable,” “Winx Club,” “Robot and Monster,” “American Dad,” “Phineas and Ferb,” “Law & Order,” “Gravity Falls,” “The Daily Show” and “Late Night with David Letterman.”

DREW HIRSHfIELD (Vinnie) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in The Odd Couple. Regional credits include plays with Premiere Stages, American Conservatory Theater, The Wilma Theater, Berkeley Rep, Huntington Theatre

Co, The Alley Theatre, Two River Theater Co, Magic Theatre, Marin, California, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals. New York credits include EST, 59E59, Collaboration Town, and New York Stage & Film. TV/Film credits include Gosling and “Blue Bloods.” He is a teaching artist with New York Film Academy, Premiere Stages, and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and a member of The___Space (thespacespace.org). He received his M.F.A. from A.C.T.

ERIN LINDSEY KROM (Cecily Pigeon) is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful comedy. Various credits include Private Lives at the Everyman Theatre, Our Town at the Pittsburgh Public, Cabaret at Playhouse on Park, It Could

Be Any One of Us at Totem Pole Playhouse, Rhinoceros for Dog & Pony Show, Side Show for The Secret Theatre, Peter Pan at Tuacahn

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Amphitheatre, A Musical Christmas Carol at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, A Woman of No Importance at Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre and The Visit at Pittsburgh Repertory Company. Thanks to all for this opportunity and love to those I love! www.erinlindseykrom.com

MICHAEL McGRATH (Oscar Madison) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in The Odd Couple. He was last seen on Broadway where he created the role of Cookie McGee in the Gershwin musical, Nice Work If

You Can Get It, for which he received the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. Other Broadway credits include: Born Yesterday, Memphis, Is He Dead?, Spamalot (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Wonderful Town, Little Me, Swinging On a Star (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk nomination), The Goodbye Girl and My Favorite Year. Encores concert series include, Follies, The Boys From Syracuse and DuBarry Was a Lady. He has appeared Off-Broadway in The Cocoanuts, The Butter and Egg Man, Game Show and Forbidden Broadway to name a few. On television he was sidekick to Martin Short on The Martin Short Show. Films include, Ira and Abby, The Interpreter, and Changing Lanes. Mr. McGrath is currently attached to the upcoming Broadway musical The Honeymooners as Ralph Kramden, spring of 2015.

PATRICK NOONAN (Murray) is happy to be returning to Geva Theatre Center as Murray in The Odd Couple. Other Geva performances include Almost, Maine; On Golden Pond (Charlie); and Our Town (Howie). He was last

seen as King Arthur in Spamalot at Florida Studio Theatre. Mr. Noonan also starred in several FST MainStage productions including Jewtopia, The Mystery of Irma Vep, and Edward Albee's Occupant. A proud veteran of the longest running play in America, Mr. Noonan has starred in over 2,000 performances of Shear Madness and will enjoy another stint this fall in Milwaukee, where he was born and raised a cheesehead. TV/Film credits include “30 Rock,” several “Law & Orders,” “The Black Donnelly's,” “Life On Mars,” “Hope and Faith,” The Princess Diaries and Choose. Love to his fiancée Leah.

NOAH RACEY (Felix Ungar) is honored to make his Geva Theatre Center debut in this wonderful play with this amazing cast. Mr. Racey is an award-winning, New York based performer, writer, director,

choreographer and educator. Broadway: Curtains, Never Gonna Dance, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Follies. Off-Broadway credits include Earnest in Love at the Irish Rep and Syncopation at York Theatre. Workshops include Yank directed by David Cromer; Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes; and Cirque du Soleil directed by David Shiner. Regional credits include The Music Man at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre; Rounding Third at Riverside Theatre and Greater Tuna at Theatre By The Sea. Mr. Racey conceived, wrote, choreographed - and starred in - the 2013 world premiere of Noah Racey’s: Pulse at Asolo Repertory Theatre, directed by Jeff Calhoun. His staging will be seen on Broadway next season in It Shoulda Been You (Starring Tyne Daly, directed by David Hyde Pierce). Film/TV credits include “Person of Interest,” “Boardwalk Empire” and “Are We There Yet?” He is a product of – and strong proponent for – arts funding in public schools.

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ROBERT RUTLAND (Roy) was most recently seen at Geva in A Midsummer Night's Dream; also You Can't Take It With You, Amadeus, Pride And Prejudice, To Kill A Mockingbird, Inherit The Wind, John Bull’s Other

Island, Women Who Steal and more. Mr. Rutland served seven years as Education Director and Actor-in-Residence at Buffalo’s Studio Arena Theatre, where he performed in How I Learned To Drive, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, City of Light, The Mystery of Irma Vep, While We Were Bowling and more. He lives in Buffalo, performing there with The Road Less Traveled and Kavinoky Theatres, Shakespeare in Delaware Park and, most recently, in The Irish Classical Theatre's production of The Little Foxes. Proud member of Actors’ Equity since 1975.

NEIL SIMON (Playwright) has been represented on Broadway by Come Blow Your Horn; Little Me; Barefoot in the Park; The Odd Couple; Sweet Charity; The Star-Spangled 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 (1985 Tony Award); the female version of The Odd Couple; Broadway Bound; Rumors; Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize; Tony Award); Jake’s Women; The Goodbye Girl; Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Proposals; The Dinner Party and 45 Seconds from Broadway. London Suite was produced Off-Broadway. His films include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, The Heartbreak Kid, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Murder by Death, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, Chapter Two, Seems Like Old Times, Only

When I Laugh, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Max Dugan Returns, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers.

JOHN MILLER-STEPHANY (Director), born and raised in Rochester, is Associate Artistic Director of The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Mr. Miller-Stephany has directed fifteen acclaimed Guthrie productions: Born Yesterday, Roman Holiday, Charley’s Aunt, God of Carnage, A Streetcar Named Desire, When We Are Married, Jane Eyre, 1776, The Constant Wife, She Loves Me, The Night of the Iguana, Wintertime, Merrily We Roll Along, To Fool the Eye and Sweeney Todd. Jane Eyre and 1776 are two of the highest grossing productions in the history of the Guthrie. He has also directed for The Acting Company in NYC; The MUNY in St. Louis; and The History Theater and Mixed Blood Theatre in the Twin Cities. Before joining the Guthrie’s staff, Mr. Miller-Stephany worked for The Shubert Organization and was Associate Producer of The Acting Company. He was Associate Producer of the 1995 Broadway revival of The School for Scandal and is a graduate of Bishop Kearney High School and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Thanks to Mark C., Matt R., Andrew C. and Teddy C. This one is for the Miller clan.

JOHN COYNE (Scenic Designer) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut with The Odd Couple. Regional credits include Charley's Aunt at the Guthrie Theater, Macbeth at the Shakespeare Theatre, Rough Crossing at the Old Globe Theatre, You Never Can Tell and First Lady at Yale Rep, CenterStage, 3 Tall Women at Dallas Theater Center, Hamlet at the Public Theatre, Boston Commonwealth Shakespeare; Triad Stage; California Shakespeare Festival; Juilliard; Bard College; Goodspeed Musicals; TheaterWorks Hartford; Barrington Stage; Sante Fe Stages. Opera credits include Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci and Simon Boccanegra at San Diego Opera;

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Die Meistersingers von Nürnburg, Arshak II, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Albert Herring and Calisto at San Francisco Opera; Die Fledermaus for Washington Opera; Merola Opera; Western Opera Theatre and the Opera Festival of New Jersey. Mr. Coyne trained at Yale School of Drama and is the Director of Scenic Design, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

PAMELA SCOfIELD (Costume Designer) most recently designed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, You Can’t Take It With You, Company, and The Music Man for Geva Theatre Center but her work includes dozens of other Geva productions, going back to 1981. Among her Off-Broadway credits are Almost, Maine; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; and The Summer of ’42. She designed the National Tour and Madison Square Garden productions of Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and has designed several editions of the Grammy Awards. Regional theatre credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory, Pittsburgh Public, Asolo Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Boston’s Huntington Theatre, Utah’s Pioneer Theatre Company, and many musicals, new and old, for Goodspeed Opera and Northshore Music Theatre. Most recently she designed The Taming Of The Shrew and 27, a new play by Edward Morgan base on a Faulkner novella, for The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Scofield has been on the faculty of Colby College and CUNY’s Queens College. She is a collaborator with and designer for dramatic dancer Joan Evans, with whom she shares several awards, including an NEA grant and Edinburgh’s Fringe First Award.

MATT REINERT (Lighting Designer) has served as Director of Production at Geva Theatre Center since 2007 where his lighting design credits include Venus in Fur, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Superior Donuts and The House in Hydesville. Design

credits include The Home Place, Jane Eyre, Boats on a River, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Freezing Paradise, The Constant Wife, A Body of Water, As You Like It, The Sex Habits of American Women, Death of a Salesman, Three Sisters, Boston Marriage, Othello, Good Boys, All My Sons, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Side Man, Twelfth Night, Misalliance, Sweeney Todd, Gross Indecency and Simpatico at the Guthrie Theater where he was Resident Lighting Department Supervisor from 1994 – 2007; Death of a Salesman at the Dublin Theatre Festival and national tours of Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other credits include designs for more than fifteen productions, many in the Humana Festival of New American Plays and Flying Solo Festivals at the Actors Theatre of Louisville where he was Lighting Department Supervisor for more than 100 productions; History Theatre; Florida Stage; Missouri Repertory Theatre; Pepsico Summerfaire; Kentucky Shakespeare Festival; Glimmerglass Opera; Chautauqua Opera; Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre; Purdue University/Indiana Public Television; University of Minnesota; Western Michigan University; University of Missouri, Kansas City; Iowa State University. Mr. Reinert holds an M.F.A. from the University of Missouri, Kansas City; and his B.A. from Iowa State University.

DAN ROACH (Sound Designer) has, since 1988, worked on sound for numerous productions at Geva Theatre Center, NTID’s Theatre for the Deaf, SUNY Brockport, and Keuka College. Most recent productions at Geva include Stranded on Earth, Last Gas;The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs; Freud’s Last Session; You Can’t Take It With You; Perfect Wedding; On Golden Pond; Over the Tavern; Almost, Maine; Dracula; the Shape of Evil with PUSH Physical Theatre; Evie’s Waltz; Dial M for Murder; The Underpants; Nine Parts of Desire; Doubt; and A Christmas Story. He studied sound at Berklee College of Music in Boston and has been applying that knowledge

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to theatre over the past 26 years. He currently works full time for Hillside Family of Agencies as their Web Administrator and is grateful for their flexibility in providing time to pursue his love of theatre and sound design. He is a resident of Brighton where he lives with his beautiful wife Jing.

JENNI WERNER (Literary Director/Resident Dramaturg) is in her third season at Geva Theatre Center. Geva dramaturgy credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Superior Donuts, You Can’t Take It With You, Freud’s Last Session, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Clybourne Park and Informed Consent. Previously, she served as the Director of Programming at Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the non-profit theatre field. From 2005-2011, Ms. Werner produced TCG’s annual National Conference, curating the content and organizing the logistics for the largest national gathering of professionals in the non-profit theatre field. For six years, she was adjunct instructor in the Program in Educational Theatre at New York University, and is now an adjunct instructor at SUNY Geneseo. Ms. Werner has an M.F.A. in dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a B.A. in theatre and history from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. She and Sean Daniels co-author Geva’s blog, at gevajournal.wordpress.com.

JENN LYONS (Stage Manager) is a Rochester native happy to be back home and working at Geva. National Tours include Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella (starring Eartha Kitt), Showboat and The Who’s Tommy. New York credits include work at Roundabout Theatre and Circle Repertory Theater as well as the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid.

fRANK CAVALLO (Assistant Stage Manager) has stage managed dozens of productions for Geva since first joining the

company after it moved into the (then) newly renovated Richard Pine Theatre. Earlier this season Mr. Cavallo stage managed Last Gas and The 39 Steps. Previous productions include Superior Donuts, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Anything Goes, The Glass Menagerie, 5 Guys Named Moe, Below The Belt, A Raisin In The Sun, Dancing At Lughnasa, Jitney, Vigil and several world premieres for the Reflections New Plays Festival. He has also stage managed at several other regional theatres, has been the production manager for the Rochester Childrens’ Theatre at Nazareth College and has toured for Poetry In Motion with Ms. Salome Jens’ one woman show …About Anne, featuring the poetry of Anne Sexton.

JENNY DANIELS (Assistant Stage Manager) is very excited to be returning to Geva Theatre Center for her sixth season and her second season as an AEA ASM. After studying at SUNY Brockport, Ms. Daniels was very grateful to be able to work at Glimmerglass Opera’s Stage Operations department for their 2006 and 2007 seasons. Some favorite past credits at Geva include A Christmas Carol, The Music Man, Over the Tavern, Almost Maine, A Christmas Story, and Sweeney Todd.

ELISSA MYERS CASTING, Paul fouquet, CSA a Rochester native, is honored to be recognized as a Geva Affiliate Artist. This marks the 15th year of Myers’ and Fouquet’s collaboration with Geva Theatre Center. Broadway casting credits include seven shows, including the Tony-nominated Having Our Say and 25 Off-Broadway Shows. Regional casting includes Denver Center, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Magic Theatre. Film/TV credits include the upcoming PBS movie Souls on Fire, to air in 2013; three "Movies of the Week" (with Tyne Daly, Claire Danes, Christopher Reeve, Ed Asner and Daniel J. Travanti); five pilots and two PBS specials by Wendy Wasserstein and

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Terrance McNally (with Bernadette Peters, Nathan Lane, Blythe Danner, Spike Lee and Paul Sorvino); the Peabody Award-Winning mini-series "Liberty,” as well as the Emmy Award-Winning mini-series “Benjamin Franklin,” and “John & Abigail Adams;” and the mini-series “God In America,” “The People v. Leo Frank,” “Dolley Madison” and “Louisa May Alcott.” The office has so far received 15 nominations and has won three Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting.

MARK CUDDY (Artistic Director) is in his 19th season as Artistic Director of Geva Theatre Center. He has led Geva through a renaissance of artistic and institutional growth with a diverse repertory, topflight artists, wide-reaching educational programs and a commitment to new play development. Mr. Cuddy is a founding member and Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Rochester Fringe Festival, and serves on the Board of Directors of the only national service organization for non-profit theatres, Theatre Communications Group. As a director, Mr. Cuddy is known for his productions of musicals, contemporary comedies and premieres: recent Geva productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, You Can’t Take It With You, A Christmas Carol (which he also adapted), Superior Donuts and Company. Among his many other Geva credits are The Music Man, Sweeney Todd, Fences, Five Course Love, A Christmas Story, and Pride and Prejudice (co-adaptor), and the world premieres of Convenience (musical) by Gregg Coffin, Theophilus North by Matthew Burnett from Thornton Wilder (also at Arena Stage), Splitting Infinity by Jamie Pachino, Famous Orpheus by Oyamo (choreography by Garth Fagan), House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn (East Coast premiere), and That Was Then (American premiere). Mr. Cuddy has also served as Artistic Director of Sacramento

Theatre Company, Producing Director of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and on the directing staff of the Denver Center Theatre Company. He has served on the review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Mr. Cuddy recently received the 2013 Arts Award for Performing Artist by the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. He received his B.A. in Theatre/Honors from the University of Massachusetts where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He resides in Rochester with his wife, theatre and visual artist Christina Selian, who teaches sewing crafts to children in their Highland Park home. Their older son, Maximilian, is in the Teach for America program in Philadelphia. Their younger son, Augustus, graduated from the School of the Arts in June, and is studying acting at Fordham University in Lincoln Center.

TOM PARRISH (Executive Director) is responsible for providing institutional leadership for the organization, including audience and donor development and financial management. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation and is a member of Rochester Rotary. He is also actively involved with the League of Resident Theatres, the management association of America’s top-tier professional regional theatres, and has served on multiple negotiating committees. Mr. Parrish was recently named to the Rochester Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” for 2013. Before joining Geva Theatre Center in 2011, he served for five seasons as Executive Director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he eliminated the company’s accumulated deficit, stimulated audience growth and donor development, and operated the company in the black every year. In 2007, he was named one of the Lowell Sun’s “25 Most Fascinating People” after producing

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MRT’s first Off-Broadway production, and in 2010, he was designated one of the Merrimack Valley’s “40 Under 40.” Prior to MRT, Mr. Parrish served as Associate Managing Director and General Manager of San Diego Repertory Theatre, where he received an NAACP Theatre Award for Best Producer. In 2006, he was named to San Diego Metropolitan Magazine’s “40 Under 40.” Born in Buffalo, with much of his family still living in Western New York, Mr. Parrish has worked in various capacities at Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, The Cleveland Play House, Meadow Brook Theatre, Dobama Theater and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He received both

a M.B.A. and M.A. in Arts Administration from Southern Methodist University, a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Economics from Case Western Reserve University, and attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He lives in downtown Rochester.