 WILL TAYLOR (Chip) has appeared on Broadway in A Chorus Line (Bobby), La Cage Aux Folles (Phaedra), The Producers, and 42nd Street. Other New York credits include Jason & Ben (NYMF), The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Actor's Fund), and The Lisbon Traviata (The Center). He will be featured in the blockbuster movie Sex and the City 2. Will is originally from Charlotte, NC and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
 COURTNEY HAMMOND (Jolie) A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Courtney's favorite roles include Sally Bowles (Cabaret, CAP 21), Ariel Moore (Footloose, Orlando Convention Center) and the title role in the Theatreworks national tour of If You Give a Pig a Pancake. A proud member of Actors Equity, Courtney was also the co-host of Shamu TV on the Discovery Chanel/Animal Planet and the co-host and Green Team Captain on the live Nickelodeon game show Splat! where she was lucky enough to get slimed on a daily basis.
These actors are appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association. Approved Equity Showcase.
CHRISTOPHER MASSIMINE (book, lyrics, & music) is an emerging playwright/composer and established Producer. At his 2007 New York University graduation, Christopher was the receipient of the Creative Writing Department Award in addition to having bestowed the honor of Deputy Class Marshall for his leadership in the student government and involvement with multiple student-run arts organizations. While in college, his writing was showcased in several professional readings. Lovers, however, is his first major push in the direction of theatrical artist, though he's already completed a handful of full-length plays and musicals.
He has worked for Roundabout Theatre Company, Charlotte Wilcox Company, Niko Companies, Richards/Climan, The Dramatists Guild of America, The Margaret Cho Show, Personal Space Theatrics, Entertainers' Theatre, The Brook Arts Center, and currently serves as the co-owner of Massimine/Roytman/Presentations, a Commercial Producing entity. In addition to theatre, he has worked in entertainment promotions spearheading the development campaigns of Major Label Artists, worldclass events and nationally televised award shows. Christopher has been blessed to have guidence from such individuals as Jordan Roth, Joel Derfner, Judy Jacksina and Ruben Brache. He holds memberships in the Hudson Union Society, The Dramatists Guild of America, and Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU) as a producer.
CHRISTOPHER M. CZYZ (Director) Recent directorial work on Distracted (Roundabout Theatre Company); Something You Did (Primary Stages); Sabra (Manhattan Theatre Source); Spite; Prayer (NY Fringe Festival). Other directorial work with the Vineyard Theatre, NY Collective, Producer's Club, and Samuel French New Play Festival.
EVAN JAY NEWMAN (Music Director) is a graduate of NYU’s CAP21. Evan spent May 2006 - May 2008 assisting composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa. Music Director: RUNWAY 69 (New Dramatists); LOVERS (workshop); ALIEN! THE! MUSICAL! (reading); LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS; FLOYD COLLINS; COMPANY (NYU) Assistant Music Director: BATTLECRY (Music by Paul Bogaev, directed by Gabriel Barre); NERO (NYSAF 2008); THE KING AND I and HAIRSPRAY (Weston Playhouse); EMERALD MAN (NYMF 2006) Broadway Music Assistance: LEGALLY BLONDE; HIGH FIDELITY. As a performer, previous credits include: Broadway: Les Miserables; Paul Simon's The Capeman; A Christmas Carol Nat'l Tour: Beauty and the Beast; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Regional: Nine (Papermill Playhouse) Readings/Workshops: When Push Comes to Shove; Tully (in no particular order); Radiant Baby; The Other Lincoln.
MASSIMINE/ROYTMAN/PRESENTATIONS (Producer) is a NYC based Commercial producing and theatrical management entity established in 2009 by Christopher Massimine and Elvin Roytman. Combined producing and management experiences span from festivals to regional productions through Off Broadway theatrics with Broadway-bound projects in development. www.massimineroytmanpresentations.com
RUBEN BRACHE (Producer) Following a 25-year career in information technology, media and Internet marketing, Ruben Brache pioneered global theatrical online investment as founder of eBroadwayPlays.com, a community of theatre aficionados that includes commercial and nonprofit theatrical producers, performers, patrons, benefactors, theatre professionals and investors. His producing credits include Little Women (Broadway), Shout! (Off Broadway). His current projects include a new musical for Broadway, targeted for a Broadway opening in the 2011-2012 season, and the opening of London and Shanghai offices for eBroadwayPlays.com
JASON GOLDSTEIN (Associate Producer) developed and produced all of the incarnations of Chuckleball: The Sports Comedy and Parody Musical Revue has been seen Off-Broadway, in Philadelphia and on the road. Jason is currently developing new musicals and promoting a Christmas standard he has written. He holds a Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A) with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and an individualized B.A. in Theatrical Business and Communication with a minor in Music from Rutgers University where he will be teaching a brand new course in musical theater this summer. www.jasongoldstein.net
MATTHEW KAGEN (Associate Producer) has produced, written, directed and performed Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. He is one of three co-founders of Just ASK Productions, an East Village theatre company for which he writes, directs and produces. Matthew has worked at Manhattan Theatre Club in Development, Roundabout Theatre Company in both Business and Archives departments, and will be matriculating at Columbia University in the fall for an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing. Love(rs) include Fern, ever-supportive family and Chris for involving him in the project. www.justaskproductions.com.
THE JACKSINA COMPANY, INC. is a publicity, public relations and marketing company whose expertise is concentrated in the entertainment field with specific attention to the promoting, publicizing and marketing of Broadway shows and films. The company also works in the music industry with occasional forays into the art and publishing worlds. The firm has garnered several awards and award nominations for television and radio campaigns conceived, written and produced in-house. THE JACKSINA COMPANY has been the subject of major stories in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Among the many shows represented by the company are: “The Rocky Horror Show”, "The Bomb-itty of Errors", “The Life”," "Are You Dave Gorman?", "Bobbi Boland", "For Colored Girls", "The Exonerated", "Lady Day", "Lysistrata", "Ministry of Progress", "Uncle Jacques' Symphony", "Rollin' on the T.O.B.A.", “The Will Rogers Follies”, “Grand Hotel”, “Tamara”, “Baby”, “Nine”, “My One And Only”, “Stepping Out”, “Grind”, “The Boys of Winter”, “Slab Boys” (starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Val Kilmer and Jackie Earle Haley), “The Tap Dance Kid” (starring Alfonso Ribiero), "Bye Bye, Birdie" starring Tommy Tune, Ann Reinking and Marc Kudisch), “Cloud Nine”, “True West” (starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise), "Heartland starring Sean Penn", "La Cage aux Folles", "The Three Musketeers", "Almost An Eagle", "Blues In The Night", "Into The Light", “El Grande de Coca-Cola”, “Forty-Deuce”, “A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking” (starring Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan), “Bouncers” , “The Donkey Show”, "Christine Jorgensen Reveals', "Trout Stanley", "The Marriage Bed", "Makeout Session", "Girls", "The Salacious Uncle Baldrick", "Beer For Breakfast", "Marriage Bed", Makeout Session", "One Heart At A Time", "Alex Kariotis & The Rock 'n Roll Orchestra", "All Too Human: An Evening With Clarence Darrow", "Sam Cooke: Forever Mr. Soul", "Southern Gothic Novel", "IDOL: The Musical", “Emilie’s Voltaire” , “Sole Survivors”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, "1966" THE LAUGH FACTORY, CHIPPENDALES. Whether it be a stadium concert, a Broadway event or a gallery opening, the Jacksina Entourage believes in the now highly regarded adage, “If you publicize it, they will come.”
MKA CASTING (Casting) Broadway: Tale of Two Cities, Souvenir, August Wilson's King Hedley II, Little Women, Crazy For You, Jekyll & Hyde, Titanic, and An Inspector Calls among others. Tours: Thommie Walsh's Best Little Whorehouse starring Ann-Margret, 3 Mo’ Tenors (Off-B'way as well), Lone Star Love (Pre-Broadway), the Atlanta TOTS' White Christmas, and 3 Mo’ Divas among others. Feature Films: Blood Simple, Dominick and Eugene, additional New York casting for the recent ADAM SANDLER feature films I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY, DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN among others. Television includes COSBY SHOW for 10 years and COSBY MYSTERIES. They have had the great pleasure of casting projects for both Elizabeth Taylor and Elmo.
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