Beth Leavel was nominated for a 2011 Tony award for her portrayal of Florence Greenberg in the Broadway show Baby It's You, currently playing at the Broadhurst Theatre. She received Tony, Drama Desk, NY Outer Critics Circle and L.A. Drama Critics Awards for her performance as the title character in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other Broadway credits include Emily in Elf, Donna in Mamma Mia!, Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein, Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street, Tess in the original company of Crazy for You, Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War, Ellie in Hal Prince's Show Boat and Anytime Annie (her Broadway debut) in 42nd Street.
Ms. Leavel was also seen in the City Center Encores! production of No, No, Nanette as Lucille. Numerous Off-Broadway, commercials, TV and regional theatre. MFA from UNC-G.
Heather Parcells re-originated the role of Judy Turner in Broadway's Revival of A Chorus Line (Original Revival Cast). Other Broadway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. National Tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Dorothy/ Miss Flannery u/s's), Some Like it Hot (Sweet Sue u/s), Chicago (Velma). Off-Broadway and Other NYC credits include: Meet Me In St. Louis (Esther) and Mademoiselle Modiste (Fifi) for Musicals Tonight!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Television: Guiding Light (Missy), ABC Primetime's The Human Chain, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, The Today Show, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Heather also appeared on Dancing with the Stars with Mario Lopez and opened the 2007 Tony Awards with A Chorus Line. She plays "Aphrodite" in the new hit web series, O-CAST. Heather is also a red-carpet on-camera host for Yahoo.com's "Shine Network." Heather received her BFA from FSU. www.HeatherParcells.com
Zachary James has appeared on Broadway in The Addams Family, Coram Boy and the revival of South Pacific. A winner of the 2009 Lotte Lenya
Competition, he has sung with numerous opera companies including Knoxville Opera and Central City Opera. Regional: The Bucks County Playhouse,
The York Theatre, Theatre By The Sea, Pocono Playhouse, The Kitchen Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse and The Public Theatre. TV: Carl on 30 Rock.
Ballion in The Gift. Founding Director, Metropolis Opera Project.
Benjamin M. Rauhala is a New York-based music director and vocal coach. He has helped write, direct, and produce successful musicals and cabaret shows in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Orlando. He coaches singers who have recently performed on Broadway in The Book of Mormon, A Little Night Music, The Addams Family, La Cage Aux Folles, American Idiot, Mamma Mia, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys, and Hair.
Mary Stout Broadway work includes Me and My Girl, My Favorite Year, Copperfield, A Change in the Heir, and A Christmas Carol. National tours: Nine, Pirates of Penzance, and Beauty and the Beast. TV: Eugenia Bremer on AMC's Emmy and Cable-ACE winning series Remember WENN. Recent regional work: The Night Governess (McCarter) and HONK! (North Shore). Films include Disney's Aladdin and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Recordings: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Jane Eyre (original Broadway cast recording, Sony Classical). Mary was Mrs. Santa in Radio City Christmas Spectacular for 1998 and 1999
Daisy Eagan began her career at the age of two, playing a Bag of Wool in a preschool production of Baa Baa Black Sheep. From there, she went on to become the youngest female ever to win a Tony Award for her performance as Mary Lennox in "The Secret Garden" (Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Award nominations). Her other theater credits include "Les Miserables" (Broadway), "James Joyce's The Dead" (Original Broadway production), "Be Aggressive" (world premiere at La Jolla, Garland Award honorable mention, and regionally at TheaterWorks), "On the Mountain" (world premiere at South Coast Reparatory), "A View from the Bridge" (South Coast Reparatory), "The Wild Party" (The Blank Theater Company. 2006 LA Weekly Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical) and a whole bunch of other plays and musicals.
Her film and T.V. credits include "Losing Isaiah" (Paramount), "Ripe" (Trimark), "Tony n' Tina's Wedding" (Green Street Films), "Without a Trace", "Ghost Whisperer", "Numb3rs" and "The Unit". Daisy is a co-creator, co-writer and performer in "Krystal Park", a soap opera set in a trailer park, pieces of which can be found on YouTube.
After taking 3 years off to finish school and regain her sanity, Daisy has returned to performing, premiering her one-woman show "Still Daisy After All These Years" in 2010 in Los Angeles and in NYC at the Laurie Beechman theater in 2011. Recently, she had the great pleasure of playing Snookie for one night in "Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera" at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. She is currently in rehearsals for "Ghostlight" a new musical in the New York Musical Theater Festival, her first full-length show in NYC in over 8 years. She can also be seen around L.A. in various cabarets and benefit performances.
Daisy became a published writer with her creative non-fiction piece "Red, Grey and Blue" in the online publication Splinter Generation. She is also a frequent contributor to AADA alum, Kurt Bloom's news magazine, Antiochracy. You can find out more and follow Daisy at www.daisyeagan.com.
Cheryl Howard is looking forward this fall to her Off Broadway premiere of her one woman musical play The Sensatinal Josephine Baker that she wrote and will star. Cheryl has toured and performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Broadway credits include: Bebe in Dance a Little Closer; at the American Place Theatre company as Zora Neale Hurston in their production Zora; at the MCC theatre reading of Black and White as Kali; Adele in Golden Motors at the Flea Theatre. Regionally, she has starred as The Witch in Into the Woods; Mazeppa in Gypsy; Pattie Mae in Home, the Musical; LaLa in The Colored Museum; Josephine Baker in Lucky in the Rain; Miss Monisha in Tin Pan Alley Rag; and Muzzie inThoroughly Modern Millie. Cheryl has starred as Deena Jones in Dreamgirls in Berlin, Germany, and as Josephine Baker in Josephine: The Musical, which toured throughout Europe, winning her a Golden Heart Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Best Musical. She has taught musical theatre workshops at the Stages Performing Arts Academy in St. Louis, MO and holds a B.A. in theatre arts from Rutgers University and a Masters degree in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis.
Will Taylor starred on Broadway in the hit revival of A CHORUS LINE (as Bobby). Other Broadway credits include: 42nd STREET, THE PRODUCERS, and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (as Phaedra). Off-Broadway, Will created the role of Ben in the acclaimed, sold-out JASON & BEN at NYMF. He earned an MTIF nomination for his portrayal of Chip in LOVERS at Theater Row. Television: DANCING WITH THE STARS, ROSIE LIVE!, THE 2005 TONY AWARDS. Film: SEX AND THE CITY 2. Will is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon.
Meredith Patterson has established herself as one of Broadway's triple threat ingenue's. Hailed by critics as an actress that is "exquisite, a beguiling delight possessing a refined touch in both physical and verbal humor."As a dancer with "a rare combination of spirit and vulnerability, and a lit-from-within radiance!" And her singing is "exquisite, she is blessed with a rich voice and has a glowing presence that permeates every note she sings, every step she dances and every line she speaks."
SYBIL BRUNCHEON is thrilled and honored to be asked to emcee this wonderful evening for E.A.T. She has entertained (and dumbfounded!) audiences around the world with her talent (and antics!) from the legitimate theatre and film (to county fairs!). She is particularly excited to host any event involving emerging theatre (and acronyms!!!!!!)........by the way....will E.A.T. be serving food later this evening?? She hasn't eaten in days!!!!!
http://sybilbruncheon.com/
- The Edison Hotel
- Weekend in the Catskills
- Zuni Restaurant
- 90 minutes massage
- Dinner Cruise
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Broadway Comedy Club
- Chelsea Piers
- Nintendo Wii & Wii Fit Plus
- Intensive Apartment Cleaning
- Griffou Restaurant
- Keurig Brewer
- Storypeople Prints
- Pink Calyx Gift Certificate
- Greg Olsen Matted Print
- Your True Nature
- Philosophy Body Products
- Food Network Gift Bag
- Emmett O'Lunney's
2 night stay at The Edison Hotel
Weekend at a 6-bedroom / 2-bath house in the Catskills
Brunch for 4 at Zuni Restaurant
90 minutes massage by LMT Keith Halstead
Three-hour dinner cruise for two in the New York harbor
4 passes to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
20 Admission Tickets to the Broadway Comedy Club (must purchase 2 drinks)
4 one-day Gold Passports
Nintendo Wii & Wii Fit Plus
Get up to 6 hours of apartment cleaning
Dinner for 2 at the Griffou Restaurant
Keurig Brewer and K-cups
3 matted storypeople prints
$50 Pink Calyx Gift Certificate
An 8x10 Greg Olsen Matted Print
Your True Nature
Philosophy Body Product Packages
Contains water bottle, electric pepper grinder with batteries, DVD of 30 Minute Meals, 3 disc set of Ace of Cakes, and Good Eats, 2 dishtowels, an apron, wooden teak large salad tongs, 4 cook books.
Gift certificate

