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Our "Jest Mysteries"
Actors, (past & present), include...
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Randy Manning
RANDY MANNING is the creator, writer, and producer of "Jest"
Mysteries.
Jest
performs shows across the United States from
California
to New York, and
everywhere north, south, and in between. Randy
also writes and produces his own brand of family-friendly sketch
comedies, has directed,
(and acted), in many theater productions, and
you may even see him on TV, or in print, from time to time.
- MaryBeth Scherr
- MARYBETH
SCHERR has been acting in theatre, film and television for over 20 years.
In
L.A.
she was a company member at The Eclectic Company Theatre where credits
include: Les
Belles Soeurs, A Weekend Near Madison, and
the late night comedy hit, Amibition. Her
television credits include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Strong
Medicine, Clubhouse Port
Charles , Passions and America’s Funniest People.
Films include
Silver
Boxes,
Augie
Max
, Streetballers and the indie
cult favorite A Day Without A Mexican. She recently returned to
her hometown of
St. Louis
where she has performed for Muddy Waters Theatre Co.'s production of Simpatico,
(Night of the Iguana…coming
soon), and HotCity's Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got the Will.
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- Carolyn Wilson
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- Carolyn is a founding member of the
touring comedy improv team Authorized Personnel. She is a current member
of the X-Ray Company at Acme Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles. Her television
and film credits include: Gilmore Girls, Passions, The Practice, Orange
County and the pilots Cup O’ Joe and Postcards From Heaven. She is a
series regular on the pod cast Virgin Falls. You can find out more about
Carolyn at www.thatcarolynwilson.com
- Kimberly Lewis
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- Kimberly
Lewis received an MFA in Acting from California Institute of the
Arts. She has been improvising for 16 years and writing comedy for
over 7 years. She is currently a member of the ACME Players and
Zebra Company, ACME Comedy Theatre’s main sketch and improv companies,
and has won multiple awards for her original character work and writing in
both. She teaches and directs improv at ACME as well, and offers
private coaching.
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- She is
also a member of the award-winning improv troupe, the Liquid Radio
Players, and guests with many other distinguished improv groups in town.
Kimberly has performed with some of the best improvisers around, including
Second City’s David
Razowsky and Shulie Cowan, Saturday
Night Live’s Nora Dunn, Curb
Your Enthusiasm’s Antionette Spolar-Levine, Boston
Legal’s Gary Anthony Williams, The
Soup’s Joel McHale, actor and comic Rick Overton, etc.
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- Not long
ago, Kimberly appeared in the original rock musical The
Possession of Mrs. Jones, directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld (Legally
Blonde 2, Kissing Jessica Stein), which received three Ovation
Award nominations.
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- On
television Kimberly has appeared on PBS’ children’s series Jakers!,
and HBO’s Sketchpad
II, among others. She also appeared in the sketch comedy
pilot Nick &
Gary
vs. The World (with Gary Anthony Williams) and the sitcom pilot Cooking
With Kay, which just premiered in LA’s Dance With Films Festival.
(acmecomedy.com; liquidradioplayers.com; cookingwithkay.com)
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- Andrew Neiman
- ANDREW
NEIMAN is a St. Louis-based actor, theatre educator and
playwright/adapter. His plays have been produced in venues as far-off as
the suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland and as nearby as the
auditoriums/cafeterias of St. Louis area schools. Andrew has worked
extensively for Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, for whom he has
(co-)adapted a number of Shakespeare's plays for young audiences, in
addition to having performed for both the festival's touring and main
stage companies. Andrew has also worked locally with Hot City Theatre,
Muddy Waters, Act Inc., West End Players Guild, St. Louis Shakespeare,
The Non-Prophets, The Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble and Stray Dog
Theatre, for whom he played the titular role in The Elephant Man. An
outstanding theatre educator, Andrew serves as Artistic Director for the
COCA Theatre Company, comprised of a select-group of young (middle and
high school-aged) theatre artists.
- Theresa Masters
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THERESA MASTERS has been acting in theatre, film, television, industrials
and comedy for about twenty years. In addition to working with Jest
Murder Mysteries, she also performs with and writes for the NonProphet
Theatre Company's sketch comedy troupe, the Millitant Propaganda Bingo
Machine. Her past stand-out and critically acclaimed performances
include: "Holga" in Muddy Waters Theatre Company’s
"After the Fall," "Lettice" in "Lettice and Lovage"
with Theatre Unlimited, and "Shannon" in the motion picture
"April is My Religion".
- Ed Reggi
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- ED REGGI was born and raised in the Big Apple
and knew he was a performer from the moment he met Bill Cosby outside the
NBC studios across the street from Reggi’s
Brooklyn
home. He spent his teen days sneaking onto the set of the famed Bill
Cosby Show to learn the ropes from the comic master, Cosby himself.
Reggi pursued Theatre at the
University
of
New York
and later completed his BFA. Ed continued his mastering of comedy at
the historic
Second
City
in
Chicago
. Today Reggi is the Director
of Theatre & Voice at The Center of Contemporary Arts in St. Louis,
Mo.
- Whit Reichert
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- WHIT
REICHERT, (in 30 years of professional acting), has appeared in most of
the professional theatres associated with St. Louis including The
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Muny, The Black Repertory Theatre,
Stages, The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Historyonics Theatre, and
many others.
Whit has also appeared regionally at The Cincinnati Playhouse in
the Park, Cleveland Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Great Plains Theatre
Festival, The Riverside Theatre,
Galveston
Island
Outdoor Musicals, Casa Manana, Little Theatre on the Square and
Lyceum Arrow Rock.
Whit has also done film, television and hundreds of radio and
television commercials.
- Leslie Manning
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- LESLIE MANNING has enjoyed being on
stage and entertaining people one way or another since she was four.
Since coming to St. Louis, Leslie has appeared with MASC,
Characters & Company, Curtains up Theater and various other stage
productions. She also has
been known to write, direct and produce speculative commercials and
advertising campaigns for companies such as Underground Artworx, Doritos
and Gummy Bears. She has worked for Jest Entertainment since its
beginning in 2000 and loves making audiences giggle.
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- Carol Hodson
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- CAROL HODSON has come to
“JEST” with a 20 year love affair with theatre, both in acting
and directing. A few credits include “Annie” (Ms. Hannigan),
“Wizard of OZ” (Wicked Witched of the West), “Harvey” (Veta
Louise), “Moon Over Buffalo” (Charolette) , “Disney High School
Musical” (Ms. Darbus). Carol also appears in television commercials and
film. Carol
is the Artistic Director for Curtain’s Up Theater Co. in
Edwardsville, IL. Other areas of interest include working with the
Standardized Patient program at Washington University School of
Medicine. Carol is very happy to be a part of the “Jest” Team
and Lovin’ Life!
- Carol Rose
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- CAROL ROSE, a
St. Louis
native, recently received her Music Theatre BFA from
Illinois
Wesleyan
University
. Her work in local
St. Louis
theater companies include The Muny, St. Louis Shakespeare, Piwacket
Children’s Theatre, Six Flags Palace Theatre, and the Bravo Theatre
Group. Favorite productions include, Anything Goes, A Chorus Line,
Oliver
, Evita, and The Rocky Horror Show.
Carol
is an Arts For Life A
ward recipient and two-time nominee. Regionally
she has worked at Weathervane Playhouse and Galveston Island Musicals.
After traveling the country singing and dancing, Carol is thrilled to be
home to perform for her favorite people: Her friends and family in
St. Louis
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- Howie Hirshfield
- HOWIE HIRSHFIELD hails from New York
City, where he produced and wrote several off- and off-off-Broadway
productions. Since arriving in St. Louis he has founded and acted in
several Improv troupes, (Madding Crowd, City Improv, The Guys Who
Showed Up, The Arch Rivals), as well as appearing in several films and
local Midwest productions. He is also a professional storyteller, and
is currently producing and acting in The Howard-Brinkley Report, a
comedy news parody revue which will be appearing on radio as well as
the Tower Grove Abbey in St. Louis.
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- Carol Palmer
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- CAROL
PALMER is a well known singer/actress/dancer on numerous stages in the
Des Moines
area. Most recently Carol appeared in the original production of
“Caucus! The Musical”. She has performed in over 40
productions since the early 1980's such as: Cats,
Three Penny Opera, Footloose, Judy's Scary Little Christmas, Seussical the
Musical, Cabaret, Damn Yankees, Crazy for You, Singin in the Rain, Sweeny
Todd, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, Anything Goes and many others.
Carol also performs a one woman 90 minute cabaret act featuring numerous
Broadway Musical numbers which is a definite crowd pleaser. Working
her full time day job as well makes for a busy life along side husband Dan
Chase and their 13 year old daughter Madeline.
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Dan Green
- Director/
Writer/ Performer, Dan
Green
received his MFA in directing from Carnegie
Mellon
University, his BA from Southern Illinois University and is a graduate of The Second
City and The Second City Player’s Workshop in Chicago. Dan
has worked in TV production on several programs including ER, THE SOPRANOS,
PARTY OF FIVE, TIME OF YOUR LIFE, FANTASY
ISLAND, THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR., SHE TV and most recently the Emmy
Award winning show, THE WEST WING.
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Dan
has directed and produced two 35mm films. The first, ENTROPY toured the
country on the festival circuit. His second film, LISTEN, a documentary
about inner city teens avoiding involvement with drugs in alcohol was
marketed as a teaching tool in classrooms throughout the United States.
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As a writer,
Dan
's produced work includes co-writing the film, LISTEN.
He also wrote Canterbury
Air at Los Angeles City College and Brethren Christian High School,
Long Beach, CA; Crew Hours at
Los Angeles City College and An
Elf Chorus Line for 'In The Spotlight Studio' in New Jersey.
He recently directed a reading of his newest script called THE
RULES OF A MUSLIM IN LOVE in Los Angeles. As a casting
Director,
Dan
cast JOHN AND CAROLYN KENNEDY, THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS for National
Geographic Channel. He also cast NIXON IN CHINA, 72’ for Central
Chinese Television (CCTV), Beijing, China.
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- He
has directed over 70 plays and dozens of industrials including The Alchemist, Little Eyolf,
Alcestis
, and No Exit. He was a
board member at the award winning Circle Theatre in Chicago
where he directed Sexual
Perversity in
Chicago, Harold
and Maude
and Sister Mary Ignatius
Explains It All For You. His New York
productions include Waiting Women and
Alicia in Wonder Tierra at New
Dramatists and The Unruly Booby
for Ensemble Studio Theatre. In
Los Angeles, he co-directed Frankie
And Johnny At The Clare De Lune for The Whitefire Theatre, Once Buried, Twice Shy, at The Barnsdale Art Gallery, Voices
in Harmony at The Tiffany and Met Theatre, Loving
at the St. Ambrose Arts Center, Penelope
Plans at Bang Theatre and The HBO Workspace, Merrily,
Merrily for EST, All The Way
and In A Trembling Hand for
Write-Act Theatre Company and December
Imbalance for Magna Carta Theatre. He has founded and directed
several comedy/improvisational groups, including 'Authorized
Personnel', which toured the country.
He was also the producing director for the company Plays On Tape,
where he directed their premiere productions of Thanatos
and The Bug.
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- He
is currently on the acting faculty of The Theatre Academy of LA City
College where he teaches Acting, Improvisation and Orientation to the
Profession. While there, he has directed All
In the Timing, Crew Hours and
Sage. He also
co-directed and produced their Fifth Annual Showcase of Short Plays. He is also the Academic
Advisor for Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School Master of Entertainment
Industry Management program in Los Angeles. For the school, he teaches
Script and Story Analysis
and Creative Producing. Prior
to this appointment,
Dan
was part of the founding faculty of The Entertainment Technology Center
for Carnegie
Mellon University
in Adelaide, Australia
teaching Visual Story Telling and Improvisation.
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Other teaching appointments include being an adjunct lecturer for
the Radio/ TV/ Film program for The University of Texas at Austin LA
Program. He was a returning guest director for the University
of Michigan's Festival of New Work and also acted as the Screenplay Director during
the first four years of the Festival.
He coordinated the Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College Program
from 1992-1994 and taught several classes.
He has also taught at
Wilmington
College, OH; The Body Politic Theatre, Chicago; Warm Springs Indian Reservation, OR; The Pittsburgh Playhouse; The
DuPage Repertory Theatre, Chicago;
Triton
College, Chicago; and Actors Communication Training Lab, LA. For the past three years,
Dan
has been the guest-acting teacher/director for In The Spotlight, a
professional dance school in Wyckoff, New Jersey. He worked as the
internship coordinator on ER and The West Wing. Dan
was the judge for 2004 Inaugural Galesburgh
Film Festival in Galesburgh, Illinois.
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Dan
is a recipient of the West Coast Drama Alumni Clan’s Directing Award,
the Marguerite Carra Memorial Service Award and the Lincoln
Academy’s Laureate Award. He received Carnegie Mellon’s Alumni Service
Award in 1999. In 2005 he
was the keynote speaker for the Freshman Orientation program and
delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon’s 2005 Commencement.
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- Dan Chase
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- DAN CHASE has performed, over the last 35
years, and directed, on many stages around the midwest, including stops in
Rock Island, Illinois; Davenport; Mt. Pleasant; Denison; Eldora;
Winterset; Des Moines; and Urbandale. Although his favorite role is
"whichever one I'm doing right now" including his most recent
turn as Mr. Peachum in "Three Penny Opera" for the Westminster
Fine Arts Series this past fall, Dan's most memorable roles include John
Wilkes Booth in Stephen Sondheim's “Assassins” for the Drama Workshop
and Roat in “Wait Until Dark” at the Des Moines Playhouse.
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- Tiffany LaVoie
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- TIFFANY LAVOIE joins Jest Murder
Mysteries after completing six tours with Kentucky Shakespeare Festival's
Education Outreach Program and performing in Louisville's Central Park
where favorite roles include Portia (Julius Caesar) and Starveling (A
Midsummer Night's Dream). She has toured nationally as Alice of Alice in
Wonderland for Hampstead Stage Company. She has also starred as Beatrice
in Much Ado About Nothing with the Long Island Shakespeare Festival. A
Michigan native, Tiffany holds a BA (Performance) from Western Michigan
University and is an MFA candidate (Performance) at the University of
Louisville.
Michelle Dumoulin
- MICHELE DUMOULIN
is thrilled to be performing with Jest! Her professional credits
include Oleanna, (Carol),
Lily
’s Purple Plastic Purse with
Metro Theater Company, (Cousin Garland), the world premiere of the original piece, Dream
of the Pacific with Opera Theater of St. Louis (Ensemble), as well as
a variety of Improvisational performances with Paper Slip Theater Company.
One of her favorite credits is her recent performance in The Orange
Girls’ “Nothing like a dame” Cabaret, in which she was featured
singing Much More from The
Fantasticks. Other roles include Mayzie La Bird in Seussical,
Polly
in The Boyfriend, Hodel in Fiddler
on the Roof, Frenchy in Grease,
Brigitta in The Sound of Music,
Peppermint Patty in Snoopy, and
Annie
in
Annie
. She was selected to participate in Northwestern University’s National
High School Music Institute as a sophomore in high school and was also
accepted into the Illinois All-State Music Festival for two consecutive
years, ranked as the number one second soprano in her district both years,
from which she was chosen to perform the national anthem at the IHSA
volleyball championship game.
Michele
is currently attending
Brandeis
University
to pursue a major in theater would like to thank her voice teacher, Sheila
Dugan, for all her help.
Kimberly Kalunian
- KIMBERLY KALUNIAN hails from little old
Rhode Island. Kim has been performing professionally since the age of
nine, taking stage as a singer, dancer, actress and improvisor. She has
performed in venues throughout New England and New York. Favorite
credits include dance captain for The Radio Disney Dancers, Ulla u/s and
female swing (The Producers) at Theatre By The Sea, RI and Natalie Haller
in the US High School Premiere of All Shook Up. Kim has also been seen in
the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and live at Carnegie Hall. www.KimberlyKalunian.com
Jenn Miller
JENN MILLER is a recent Theatre graduate
from Huntington University in Indiana. During her studies, she was lucky
enough to see the US of A while touring with both Missoula Children's
Theatre and a Huntington production of Godspell. Born and raised in
Chicago, she is now working at venues such as Navy Pier and Oak Park
Village Players. Roles she is most proud of include Li'l Bit (How I
Learned to Drive), Mrs. Roeder/Madame Curie (Radium Girls), Marmee (Little
Women: The Musical), and Ronnette (Little Shop of Horrors).
Tim Thibodeau
- TIM
THIBODEAU is from Pawtucket, RI and has a Bachelor of Science degree in
Communications, with a focus in Television Production, from Eastern Connecticut
State University.
Tim has been performing for over ten years, becoming a successful improviser
throughout New England. Performing with improv comedy troupes Improv
Jones, Out of the Gutter Comedy, Unexpected Company and others, he has been able
travel to Scotland, Toronto, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia and New York to
entertain crowds. He also spends time instructing improv and is one of the
organizers for the very successful Providence Improv Festival.
Tim has been a finalist for the Catch a New Rising Star Stand Up Comedy competition and
has done work on films such as The Game Plan, and 27 Dresses, a US Golf Open Documentary for
NBC and commercials for Best Buy and Nike.
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- Emily Lewis
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- EMILY LEWIS
hails from Concord, MA, birthplace of the American Revolution and grapes
of a deep purple hue. Starting as a dancer and figure skater, she leaped
into acting at the University of Denver. Her stage credits include Vavara
in Tom Stoppard’s “Coast of
Utopia
: Part One: Voyage”, Phoebe in “As You Like It”, Mother Teresa in
“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters in
“Twilight:
Los Angeles
1992”. Screen credits
include “Lunch”, a pilot episode for television, music videos, the 48
Hour Film Project and “The Peanut Butter and Fluff Show”. She
is currently in production for an untitled independent film. Her favorite
film directors are John Cassavetes and Alfred Hitchcock.
Emily volunteers with Rhode Island’s Black Box Theatre in plays
with developmentally disabled actors.
She’s a playwright and aspiring guitarist learning the songs of
Buddy Holly with hopes of producing a one-woman show - “The Holly Buddy
Story.” She lives in
Providence
,
Rhode Island
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- Jasmine Ready
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- JASMINE D. READY has most recently appeared as Queen Guinevere at the
Connecticut Renaissance Faire. Other Environmental Theatre
projects include four years at King Richard’s Faire and at the New
England Pirate Faire. Stage work includes Lucinda in Into The Woods
(Falmouth Theatre), Titania in an adapted A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
Marie Antoinette (Milford Performing Arts Center). Other credits
include roles with Kaleidoscope Theatre in Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty and
Rumpelstiltskin. She also co-produces and performs with a theatre
company started by her and her husband which offers interactive family
friendly musical entertainment called Faire Stories.
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- Christopher Schultz
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- CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ has performed with Cape Rep Theatre in the role
of Dave in The Full Monty, Swindler in Emperor's New Clothes,
as Francois in Wintertime. He has been a featured performer
at King Richard's Faire in Carver, MA, the New England Pirate Faire in
Gloucester, MA, the Connecticut Renaissance Faire and the Florida
Renaissance Festival. Other roles include Sweeney in Sweeney Todd,
The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, and King Herod in JC
Superstar. He offers tours of the Boston Freedom Trail through
the Freedom Trail Foundation and Ghost Cruises of Boston Harbor through
Pastimes Entertainment. Chris also performs in repertory with the
internationally-recognized Kaleidoscope Children's Theatre in a variety of
roles and venues including the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, Cape Cod Melody
Tent, South Shore Music Circus, and the Hampton Beach Casino. He is
a founding member of Faire Stories, a family-friendly traveling
musical trunk show.
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- Zev Steinberg
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- ZEV STEINBERG is a professional
Actor and Fight Director in Chicago. Zev received his BFA from the
University of Illinois. Chicago credits include: Peter Pan,
Cinderella, and Hansel & Gretel with Emerald City Theatre Co.
as well as Poseidon: An Upside Down Musical with Hell in a
Handbag Productions, along with several staged readings at Theatre
Building Chicago. Zev is finding that talking about himself in the third
person is strange, and Zev hopes this doesn't become a habit.
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- Jeff Newman
- Jeff is thrilled to be working with Jest! After earning
his BFA from Wright State University’s Professional Actor
Training Program in Dayton, OH; Jeff moved back to his home town
of Kansas City, MO to pursue his career as an actor and a
playwright. Jeff has performed professionally in both Ohio and
Missouri in such productions as Lend Me A Tenor, Lazzi Faire,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Musical, Frindle, and
The Shape of Things. He also performed his original One
Person Show: Sirens and Superheroes at Kansas City’s 2010
Fringe Festival.
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Danelle Drury
hails from South
Africa where she studied Musical Theatre and Education.
Danelle has worked widely in the performing arts industry in
South Africa, doing various theater, television, film and
voice-work productions, including the three part TV-drama To
the Ends of the Earth for the BBC. Since moving to the
Kansas City area she has performed in The Last Night of
Ballyhoo, South Pacific, The Vagina Monologues and
with the Stonelion Puppet Theater. She is thrilled to be a
member of Jest Murder Mysteries Team.
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