BRANDON WARDELL
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Brandon has appeared on Broadway in Good Vibrations, Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, James Joyce's The Dead. His Regional/National tours include: James Joyce's The Dead, Joseph and the Amazing (Joseph), Twelfth Night. NYC Readings/Workshops include: The New Stephen King/John Mellencamp musical Ghost Brothers, Catch Me If You Can, The Rest of the Night, A Man of No Importance, Assassins. Television credits include: Amstel Light Commercials, All My Children, The Guiding Light. He attended NCSA, is a member of Broadway Inspirational Voices, and a Co-founder of Johnny Roscoe Productions. Brandon portrays Axl Rose in the Guns n' Roses Tribute band Nightrain. He was last seen Off-Broadway in Evil Dead The Musical. Visit Brandon at www.myspace.com/brandonseanwardell
NATASHA YVETTE WILLIAMS
The following is used with permission from NaTasha Yvette Williams and www.natashayvettewilliams.net (added March 25, 2007)
NaTasha can currently be seen making her Broadway debut as Sophia in The Color Purple.
NaTasha Yvette Williams began singing at age three in the Tiny-tot choir at her home church Shiloh United Church of Christ in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Even then everyone could see God’s hand upon her. At the tender age of five she decided she would be a singer and a doctor. She wanted to heal people with her voice and her hands. NaTasha graduated from North Carolina A&T State University. She majored in Math and Theater Arts and after graduating magna cum laude, she continued her studies in acting and completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Michigan State University.
NaTasha won the first annual Kraft Foods New Voices of Gospel Talent Search held in New Orleans. Through this contest she has been featured in Essence Magazine several times. She won the grand prize of $25,000 and a coveted audition with Sony Music. She is currently working on her 3rd album. Her gospel music has taken her to Japan, Italy, Canada and the Virgin Islands. NaTasha, who is the daughter of a United Church of Christ minister, has a four octave vocal range. Whether she is singing Gospel music, performing on the stage at the Apollo (4 time Winner), gracing the Broadway Stage, or anywhere in between she will be giving Him honor and Praise.
Prior to the contest NaTasha toured the country in several theatrical plays. One of her favorites was playing the incomparable Mahalia Jackson in The Mahalia Story to audiences around the nation. She has played Grace, the stepsister in the Broadway Series production of Cinderella, starring Eartha Kitt. Cities all across the country saw her share the stage with Cathy Rigby in Suessical the Musical. She has played leading roles and given musical performances in such productions as The Goodbye Girl, Ain't Misbehavin, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors, Godspell, Boesman and Lena. Her television and movie credits include several appearances on One Life to Live, Studio 54, and Trippin.
JENNIFER HOPE WILLS
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Jennifer Hope Wills was born in Baltimore, MD to proud parents William and Sue Wills. She spent the first two years of her life in and out of rehearsal halls, dressing rooms and even a closet or two due to the fact that her parents were active participants in Baltimore Actors' Theatre (BAT). Jennifer made her stage debut before her first birthday with a 102 degree temperature as the baby prince in Rumplestiltskin...what a trooper! Before her second birthday, her parents dropped the bomb when it was discovered that a baby brother was on the way. Lots of things were about to change. Not only would she no longer be the only child, but her parents decided that they had to leave Baltimore. With two children, there was no way that they could support a family on theatrical wages and if one of them would have to leave the theatre...then both of them would have to leave. They decided to move down to the family resort town of Ocean City, MD where there were absolutely no theatrical outlets. That's what they thought anyway...
Jennifer attended Salisbury State University and began her college career as a History Education Major...something perhaps a little more useful was her thinking. Gradually she began taking more music classes than history classes, began taking voice lessons, had joined the college choir and the college theatre club (Sophanes). By the middle of her Sophomre year she officially became a music major. She appeared in the college theatre productions of Grapes of Wrath (Elizabeth Sandry), West Side Story (Maria...yes complete with dark skin and hair) and The Secret Garden (Lily). She also won first place in several state and regional NATS Vocal Competitions. She graduated suma cum laude with a BA in Music Education.
On the encouragement of her teachers, Jennifer's next step was to attend graduate school at prestigious Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. This was her first real move from home. During her two years at IU she performed in many of the mainstage and chamber productions. She quickly graduated with honors with a MM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy and a concentration in Theatre. It wasn't long before Jennifer came full circle with her decision to return to the world of theatre and found herself with two suitcases on a bus to NYC. She was cast in productions from her first two auditions in New York and by the end of that year she had obtained equity status and had been cast in leading roles up and down the east coast. The rest of the story can be seen on this web site.
Jennifer is the new principal Christine in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway as of December 2006. She joined the production mid-April of 2006 and has served as both the alternate for the Broadway production and the principal for the National Tour.
BROADWAY
The Phantom of the Opera Christine (Alt)
Wonderful Town Eileen
The Woman In White Laura Fairlie u/s
Beauty & the Beast Belle u/s
OFF BROADWAY
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Della
REGIONAL
Finian's Rainbow Sharon
Carousel Julie
Grease! Sandy
Camelot Guenevere u/s
Camelot Nimue
Oklahoma! Laurey
Jekyll & Hyde Emma
Phantom (Yeston/Kopit) Christine
The Secret Garden Lily
Noises Off! Brooke/Vicki
Rumors Chris Gorman
The Fantasticks Luisa
Bus Stop Cherie
H.M.S. Pinafore Josephine
READINGS
Leap of Faith Marva
RECORDINGS
Wonderful Town w/ Brooke Shields Eileen
Pirates of Penzance (Demo) Ensemble
Leap of Faith (Demo) Marva
photo credit: Brian Daugherty
photo credit: Paul Kolnik photo credit: Gerry Goodstein
TOMMAR WILSON
The following is used with permission from Tommar Wilson (added March 17, 2007)
Tommar is currently appearing on Broadway in Hairspray.
As a teen, Tommar discovered he had a passion for the performing arts while acting in school and summer stock productions in Topeka, Kansas. After a year studying music education, he realized he would not be happy unless theatre and the performing arts played a major part in his life. He auditioned and was accepted as a Drama Major at Carnegie Mellon University. Four years later he received his BFA and headed to New York City.
Tommar's Broadway credits include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Music Man, Never Gonna Dance, and Lestat. He has appeared in the National Tours of Ragtime and Mamma Mia! Regional credits include Hair (Actor's Theatre of Louisville), West Side Story (Trinity Repertory Theatre), Godspell (The St. Louis MUNY), and Anything Goes (Papermill Playhouse).
Tommar has been proud member of Actor's Equity since 1998. He continues to foster new works as a performer and more recently he has added several hats including director, choreographer and producer.
DARRYL WINSLOW
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Darryl has appeared on Broadway in Avenue Q (Brian u/s) and Off-Broadway in Isabelle & The Pretty-Ugly Spell (Lion Theatre), The Secret Garden & Pippin concerts (Manhattan Center), Far From the Madding Crowd (47th St. Theatre), Raw Impressions Music Theatre Marathon #17 (HERE Arts). His Workshops/Readings include: Have A Nice Life, The Cosmopolitan, Rocket Boys, Iznogoud, POE the Musical. Regional credits include: Joseph with Sheena Easton (NCT), Jekyll & Hyde with Sebastian Bach (NCT), Joseph with Andrea McArdle (Helen Hayes), Assassins (LA Rep), Moby Dick! The Musical (Mass Rep/US Premier), Sweet Charity (Stages St. Louis). Darryl was last seen Off-Broadway in Evil Dead The Musical. Visit Darryl at www.myspace.com/darrylwinslow
BETSY WOLFE
The following is used with permission from Betsy Wolfe (added October 29, 2007)
Betsy's credits include the Broadway Revival of 110 in the Shade starring Audra McDonald at Studio 54. She can also be heard on the 110 cast recording recently released by PS Classics. Other Broadway credits include A Wonderful Life at the Shubert Theatre.
Earlier this year, Betsy played Louise in Ace the Musical at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. She spent 2006 as Rona Lisa Peretti in the San Francisco and Boston companies of The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee. Other credits include Evelyn Nesbitt in Ragtime at the renowned Papermill Playhouse. Betsy made her NY concert debut at Carnegie Hall as a head liner with the Cincinnati Pops and has also been a soloist with Detroit, Indianapolis, Fresno, Omaha, New Haven, and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras.
Betsy received her BFA at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
JASON WOOTEN
The following is used with permission from Jason Wooten (updated January 28, 2007)
Jason Wooten was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from
Shenandoah University with a BFA in Musical Theatre and moved to New
York City shortly after.
He’s worked non-stop ever since at regional
theaters like Goodspeed Opera House, Walnut Street Theatre, The New
York State Theatre Institute, The Mac-Haydn Theatre and Savanah
Onstage. He has worked on numerous workshops and readings including
Bright Lights Big City at New York Theatre Workshop, Tom Sawyer,
Wicked, Dance of the Vampires, Sight, Starmites 2001, and Funny
Business.
He has also played leads in Broadway’s Footloose, Jesus
Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Show Live!, and Dance of the
Vampires. In 2005 he starred in the U.S. premiere of London’s smash
hit, We Will Rock You in Las Vegas. He was last seen in New York
in Twyla Tharp and Bob Dylan’s Broadway show, The Times
They Are A Changin’.
Aside from performing Jason is currently working
as a writer and composer on several projects including the new rock
musical The Existents (www.myspace.com/theexistents) with Rockstar:
INXS’ Ty Taylor, as well as the animated feature film Zarra &
Shirley. For more updates visit:
www.myspace.com/jasonwooten
