MICHAEL CASSARA (Director) develops new musicals. As a Director, recent credits include The Songs of Kerrigan and Lowdermilk: Live at Opia (starring Michael Arden, Alison Fraser, Mandy Gonzalez, and Kate Shindle) and Sounds Like Heaven: The Nicholas Levin Songbook (starring Michael Hunsaker and Christianne Tisdale). As a Casting Director, recent NY projects include Joy (off-Broadway), Barnstormer (by Douglas J. Cohen and Cheryl Davis, dir. Jerry Dixon), Insomnia, 6 Women With Brain Death, The View From Here, Bingo City (starring Anita Gillette), Project Footlight: Wrong Number, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (starring Celia Keenan-Bolger), and The Woman Upstairs (the last three of which are by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk.) A native Clevelander, Michael holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Otterbein College. More at http://www.michaelcassara.net.

DENNIS HOLLAND (Jack)(Jack). Broadway/National Tour: The Music Man, Peter Pan. Off-Broadway: Frankenstein, Meet John Doe, Snatched!, Houdini, One Night At Tickles, Parlour Songs, Pursuit of Persephone. TV: “One Life To Live” (Detective John Wolfe). Film: Falling In Love, Ragtime. Love to Polly, Anabel, Claire and Will.

MARY JO MCCONNELL (Melinda) National Tour: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts); The Phantom of the Opera. Off-Broadway: Menopause, the Musical (Soap Star - original cast); Hysterical Blindness. Numerous regional productions. TV: One Life to Live. Film: Homecoming. M.F.A. in acting from American Conservatory Theater. Her longest running engagement to date is three years with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the role of Captain.

AMY MONTGOMERY (Suzie) is thrilled to make her NY debut with Bump in the Road. Regional: A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep), Fall Festival of the Future (Madison Rep), Comfortable Shoes (World Premiere-Royal George Theater, Chicago), As You Like It , Romeo & Juliet, The School for Scandal, Henry IV pts. I & II and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), as well as work with Irish Repertory/Splinter Group and the Journeymen. Amy earned an MFA from the Theatre School at DePaul and also studied at LAMDA and the College of Santa Fe.

MARY MOSSBERG (Woman) comes from California but is now a full fledged New Yorker. New York: Chess, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Caligula (last year's NYMF Best in Show) and Prospect Theatre's The Flood. Regional: The Baker's Wife at Paper Mill Playhouse, Children of Eden at Flat Rock Playhouse and Nunsense at TN Rep. Thanks to Michael.

BRIAN MUNN (Man)Recent: Dorian Gray: The Musical, and Stephen Weiner: Songs of Love and Aggravation for NYMF. Other New York: Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Director's Co), Cedarwood Avenue (Vital Theater), Raw Impressions, The Chaos Theories, various readings/workshops/recordings. Former resident actor with The Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis (2003 regional Tony).

MELANIE VAUGHAN (Heather) has just returned from Montreal where she played Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast. She also recently starred as Jasmin Munchgstettner in the world premiere of Bagdad Café: The Musical, directed by Percy Adlon in Barcelona, Spain. She has appeared on Broadway in the original casts of nine shows; among them, Sunday In The Park With George, On the Twentieth Century and Parade.

MARTIN VIDNOVIC (Ted) recently starred with Bebe Neuwirth in Roger Rees’ production of Here Lies Jenny and before that played the King in the recent national tour of The King and I, starring Sandy Duncan. Martin received a Tony Award® nomination as Tommy in Brigadoon. Other Broadway credits include Jud in Oklahoma! (LA Drama Critics Award), Nick in Baby (Drama Desk Award), Antinuous in Home, Sweet Homer starring Yul Brynner (not even considered for an award…), Lun Tha in Mr. Brynner’s revival of The King and I, Sky Masterson in Jerry Zaks’ Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls, and King Saul in Disney’s King David. Martin can be heard in the animated film version of The King And I (again!) as the voice of the great Siamese ruler, now in video and CD release.