May 23, 2018 | News
Find out all about our visit from ‘Pump Boys and Dinettes’ author, composer, and creator Jim Wann and more in Anna Chandlers gracious review for Connect Savannah of Savannah Rep’s latest production of ‘Pump Boys and Dinettes’.
Jenn Bishop is originally from Los Angeles, CA. She is a proud Equity Actor who has been performing since the tender age of 9. She started in children’s theatre where she was mentored by Alex H. Urban who inspired her to pursue a career in the theatre. She soon auditioned and graduated from LA Co. HS for the Arts with a focus in voice, then went on to get her BA in musical theatre from the University of Arizona. And if that wasn’t enough, she moved to London, UK and earned a graduate degree in performance from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Some of her favorite roles played are Ruby (Dames at Sea), Sally (Me and My Girl), Esther (Meet Me in St. Louis) and Narrator (Joseph and the Amazing Colored Dreamcoat). Regional credits include: Musical Theatre West (All Shook Up & Silk Stockings), Glendale Center Theater (My Fair Lady), Moonlight Stage Productions (Les Miserables & West Side Story), Starlight San Diego (Ragtime, Crazy for You, & Hot Mikado), plus many more. Recently she has been pursuing her other passion as a makeup and hair artist after studying at Cinema Makeup School.
Visit her website at www.jenniferbishop.net
From the age of 7 Erik has been interested in ever aspect of theatre, onstage and backstage. He has studied technical theater at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and apprenticed with ZFX Las Vegas. He then became Production Stage Manager and Technical Director for MET2 Theater Company at the age of 22, before moving to NYC a few years later. Work Credits: SAS Productions LLC (Los Angeles), Redondo Beach Civic Light Opera, Musical Theater West, Starlight Bowl, Kentucky Stages. Credits include: Sound Design/engineering – The Sound of Music, Big River, Peter Pan. Stage Manager: Peter Pan, Music Man, A Christmas Carol. Set design: Ripper (off-broadway NYC).
Ryan McCurdy is an award-winning Actor-Musician, Music Director, & Composer based in New York City.
His acting credits include appearances on Broadway stages with Broadway Cares, Off-Broadway, and with theater companies around the US. Recently, he received the 2018 Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role for his work on Greencard Wedding. His long relationship with the musical ONCE includes serving as Music Director and Actor-Musician on the show at Actors’ Playhouse in Miami, FL, and Saint Michael’s Playhouse in Burlington, VT, with two more productions planned for the 2019/2020 season. This love for the show blossomed from his work as a Production Assistant on the original Broadway production.
Ryan’s Music Director and Supervisor credits include work Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club (Important Hats of the Twentieth Century), Second Stage (Friend Art), and Rattlestick Playwrights ({my lingerie play}). His regional credits include Baltimore Center Stage and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. He has worked on multiple occasions with Savannah Rep (Pump Boys and Dinettes, Little Women), in Savannah, GA, where he is also a board member.
As a composer, he has worked in film, television, and theater, most recently scoring Gulfshore Playhouse’s An Iliad and Seanie Sugrue’s film Misty Button. Ryan is a founding member of rock band Bonfire Falls and performs solo as Ryan McCurdy + Arboretum. His previous work has been nominated twice for Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Original Music. He is also a private music teacher in Manhattan and an adjunct Early Childhood faculty member and former curriculum developer for Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
In addition, Ryan is a theatrical consultant and show control designer for museums and attractions across the United States – most recently the American Prohibition Museum in Savannah, GA. He founded and co-produces Front Porch NY, which produces industry readings, free of charge, for playwrights.
Ryan is a twelve-instrument musician and specializes in working with directors and producers to create Actor-Musician opportunities in both new and existing texts, from all creative and administrative angles, and across all types of media.
He is currently under commission by FunikiJam Music, Shakespeare on the Sound, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, and Actors’ Playhouse in Miami, and his acting work can be seen onstage in Pip’s Island in New York.
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