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ERIC ANDERSON (Shlomo)
Eric made his Broadway debut as Stewpot in SOUTH PACIFIC. Theatrical highlights include: Tateh in RAGTIME, Don Quixote in MAN OF LA MANCHA, Burrs in both versions of THE WILD PARTY, and Ophelia in HAMLET: THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE OF DENMARK. Film/TV credits include: “New Year’s Eve,” "The Good Wife, " "Law & Order," and "Alias." He is the lead singer of the Shel Silverstein tribute band, The Freakers Ball. www.eanderson.com
ERICA ASH (Nina Simone)
Erica Ash is an NAACP Award winning actress who’s credits include: Theater- Baby It’s You (Dionne Warwick/Micki); The Lion King (Nala); Spamalot (Lady of the Lake); Love Loss and What I Wore; TV- Jamie Foxx’s Afterparty (Pilot); MADtv (Season 14: cast member and writer); The Big Gay Sketch Show (Seasons 1 & 2: cast member); Film- I Can Smoke? (Carmen); Minano Ie (Naomi). She is the creator/writer of comedic advice blog “The Deviled Angel”; and proud member of SAG/AFTRA/AEA/WGA. To learn more please visit: ericaash.com, thedeviledangel.com, twitter.com/TheEricaAsh , Facebook.com/eash11. She is honored to share her craft and thanks God, friends and family for their love, grounding and support!
LIZ LARSEN (Mother)
Broadway: HAIRSPRAY, ROCKY HORROR SHOW, THE SMELL OF THE KILL, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA* (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations, LA Dramalogue Award - Best Featured Actress) DAMN YANKEES, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, (NYC Opera) STARMITES*, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, ANNIE, DuBARRY WAS A LADY (ENCORES, City Center) Other NYC shows: SUCH GOOD FRIENDS (NYMF - Outstanding Performance Award), A NEW BRAIN* (Lincoln Center) BINGO*, HIM AND HER (Fringe excellence award- performance), NEW YORKERS and LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC (MTC) PERSONALS, COMPANY, LITTLE BY LITTLE*. Road: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (Helen Hayes Award - Lead Actress), BABY (Helen Hayes Award nomination, Featured Actress) FALSETTOS, GUYS AND DOLLS, THE VALUE OF NAMES (with Jack Klugman) ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, EVITA, JOSEPH.... DREAMCOAT. TV: Pilot 2008: EXIT 19 (CBS). Series Regular: MY GUYS. Recurring roles on: LAW AND ORDER, SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, THIRD WATCH. Guest star: SOPRANOS, SEX AND THE CITY, CRIMINAL INTENT, CONVICTION, DEADLINE, THE STREET, EXILED (M.O.W.). FILMS: THE SAINT OF FORT WASHINGTON, KEEPING THE FAITH, DR. JEKYLL AND MS. HYDE , NEW YORK CROSSING. Concerts and recordings: 20 compilation recordings on the Varese Sarabande label, Oh, Kay!, Broadway By The Year 1960 and 1956, and Symphonic Pops Concerts all over the world from the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall to the Gothenberg Symphony, Sweden. (* Original Cast Recordings)
MIKE BURSTYN (Father)
Born in New York to a famed family of actors, Mike first walked out on stage at the age of three, stole the show from his father and hasn’t looked back since. He has enjoyed a unique international career entertaining audiences on stage, screen and television, in nightclubs and on concert stages throughout the world. Mike just starred in the world premiere in Los Angeles of “Jolson at the Winter Garden” the new musical he co-created and wrote. His recent credits include rave reviews starring in the National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene’s hit “The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer;” a sold out Yiddish concert tour of Israel; a 2nd Outer Critics Circle Award nomination starring Off-Broadway and in Los Angeles as Meyer Lansky in "Lansky;" a 2nd Drama Desk Award nomination and rave reviews in New York for his performance in "On 2nd Avenue;" co-starring with Valerie Harper in the National tour of "The Tale Of The Allergist's Wife” and starring in the national tour, as Al Jolson in the musical "Jolson." He won his 1st Outer Critics Circle Award nomination starring as Mike Todd in the Broadway musical "Ain’t Broadway Grand" and his 1st Drama Desk Award nomination for his portrayal of Mayer Rothschild in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of "The Rothschilds." Mike starred on Broadway as P.T. Barnum in the Tony Award winning musical "Barnum" (a role he recreated in the Dutch language production in The Netherlands). Other Broadway credits include "The Megilla" and "Inquest," in which he was hissed and booed eight times a week as Roy Cohn. Off-Broadway Mike acted as host-narrator for the 92nd Street Y’s famous "Lyrics & Lyricists" series, inaugurated City Center’s popular Encores series in "Fiorello" and starred in "The Fishkin Touch," in Murray Schisgal’s "Circus Life" and in the revival of Neil Simon’s "The Prisoner of Second Avenue." His regional credits include acclaimed portrayals of Tevye in "Fiddler On The Roof"; as Nathan Detroit in "Guys & Dolls" with Vic Damone; "1040," a new musical by Jerry Bock ("Fiddler On The Roof") and Jerry Sterner ("Other People’s Money") at the University of Houston; as Kurt Weill in "Berlin To Broadway" at the Coconut Grove Playhouse (Carbonell Award Nomination); "Hatikva," his tribute to Israel’s 50th Anniversary and the national tour of the Broadway musical "Those Were The Days." U.S. TV appearances include "As The World Turns," "The Cosby Mysteries," "Law & Order" and HBO’s "Dog Watch" with Sam Elliot and Paul Sorvino. Overseas, Mike has been one of Israel’s all-time popular stars since settling there with his parents and twin sister, Susan, in 1962. He is the winner of two Israeli "Oscars" for his screen portrayal of Kuni Leml, a kind of Israeli Forrest Gump. The Israel Cinematheque saluted his achievements in the Israeli film industry by honoring him at a special ceremony in 1997. Over the past decades he has had several successful television shows and been a recording artist for CBS Israel. From 1978 to 1981, Mike hosted and starred in his own TV variety show in Holland. "The Mike Burstyn Show" was rated among the ten most popular shows in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Among the many guest artists to make their Dutch television debuts on the show were Mike’s friends Ben Vereen and Chita Rivera. Since then he has divided his time between the US, Holland and Israel. Among his other numerous achievements: Mike had the honor of performing before President Reagan, Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, and the Presidents and Prime Ministers of Israel; starred in a Royal Variety Show at London’s famed Paladium; and as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces entertained the troops both in peacetime and during three wars, hosting and performing with Danny Kaye on his month-long tour of army bases and hospitals following the Six Day War. He is fluent in and has performed in eight languages. His father, Pesach, was one of the great stars of the Yiddish theatre. His biography, "What a Life," has been published by Syracuse University Press. His mother, Lillian Lux, partnered her late husband on and off stage for nearly 50 years. Mike recently brought her to Israel where they marked what would have been his father’s 100th birthday by mounting one of his legendary musicals, with Mike playing his father’s original role. "The Komediant," a documentary about Mike and his family, won the Israeli Oscar and is available on DVD and video. Mike has been honored through the years with numerous artistic, cultural and humanitarian awards. He is an honorary board member of Gilda's Club, a Regent of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, President of American Friends of Yedidim, President of the Hebrew Actors Union and served as Honorary President of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Israel. Mike is blessed with a beautiful angel of a wife, two incomparable sons, a gorgeous daughter-in-law and three brilliant grandchildren. Visit Mike's website at www.mikeburstyn.com
RYAN STRAND (Eli Chaim/Holy Hippie)
Ryan feels blessed to be rockin' with the Rabbi! Credits - Tours/New York: Jersey Boys (Swing, Frankie u/s), Altar Boyz (Abraham) Regional: Little Theatre on the Square (where he met his beautiful wife!) Training: BFA Music Theatre, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Proud member of Actors Equity since 2006. Much love to Becca, our families, Webster and The Bear; Leap and the net will appear! www.ryanstrand.net
Merideth Kaye Clark (Ruth/Ensemble)
Wicked (Elphaba Standby, First Nat'l Tour), Evita (Eva Peron, Northern Stage), Twelfth Night (Olivia, Alabama Shakes), How the Grinch...(Old Globe), Hello Dolly! (KC Starlight), Meet Me in St. Louis (Irish Rep), 7 shows (Totem Pole Playhouse),many others! I am a traveling singer/songwriter from Kansas City with a degree in Neuroscience from Emory University and an MFA in Musical Theatre from San Diego State. Original music available on iTunes! Peace in your heart, shalom.
Jeffrey Kuhn (Moishelah/Milt/Timothy Leary)
Broadway: The 39 Steps, Assassins, Wicked, Spamalot , Ragtime. REGIONAL: St. Louis Rep: Next Fall, Shakespeare Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, Old Globe: Sea of Tranquility, Stageworks/Hudson: I Am My Own Wife, Alliance: The Fourth Wall, Stratford Festival: Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony & Cleopatra, The Illusion, Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Cincinnati Playhouse: Dirty Blonde, The Pavilion,Winter Garden: Nothing Sacred, Princess of Wales: The Lion King, National Tour: The Who’s Tommy.
Kenny Morris (Reb Pinchas/Recording Engineer)
Broadway:  Hairspray; Les Misėrables; Jacques Brel… (20th Anniversary Prod.); The Tenth Man (LCT). National/Intl:  Sunset Boulevard; Jolson: the Musical; Joseph…; Doubles (w/Robert Reed); Sessue (Tokyo). Off-Broadway:  A New Brain (LCT); She Loves Me; A Splintered Soul (Mint Thtr.). Regional:  Caroline, Or Change (Guthrie Theater Kushner Festival), Cabaret (w/Deborah Gibson), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Diary of Anne Frank; City of Angels; Rags. Films/TV:  Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Third Watch (NBC); NOUS York (2012); Big; Radio Days.    Dedicated to my grandmother Ettie, with all my love.
Joey Farber (Young Shlomo)
Joey has been singing and playing percussion professionally since he was 9 years old. Touring with his musician parents, Seth Farber and Liz Queler, he’s performed at concert venues all over the country and made his Newport Folk Festival debut this past summer. Together they wrote and performed “Raised On Love” for the HBO Rosie O’Donnell special “A Family Is A Family Is A Family.”
GARON MORRIS (Young Eli Chaim)
Garon H. Morris attends Meigs Magnet Middle School in Nashville, Tennessee where he participates in forensic/drama competitions, has performed in school productions of A Diary of Anne Frank, Secret Garden and his first lead role in an elementary school production of Farmer Brown.  He began playing the guitar when he was 8, sings in a band, is an avid outdoorsman, and received a scholarship to Lee Strasberg Theatre & FilmInstitute in New York.
Julia Osborne (Wife, Female Ensemble)
Recent credits include: Off- Broadway premiere of The Blue Flower at Second Stage; First National Tour of Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific, in which she understudied and performed the role of Nellie Forbush. Regional performances at: Paper Mill (Meet Me In St. Louis, The Baker's Wife); Goodspeed (Half A Sixpence); Huntington (Pirates!); Baltimore Centerstage (A Little Night Music). Others with TUTS and The Fulton Theatre. BFA Graduate of Penn State University.
SARA ANDREAS (Flower Child/Dance Captain)
Broadway: Catch Me If You Can. National Tour: Legally Blonde (Dance Captain, u/s Margot, Serena, Pilar, Brooke.) Regional: Northshore Music Theater. Founding member of Plastic Flamingo Theater Company. Love to Mom, Dad and Mikey.
Jonathan Brody (Male Ensemble)
Broadway: Spamalot, Titanic, Sally Marr...and
her escorts, Me and My Girl. Tours: Mary Poppins, Funny Girl,
My Fair Lady. Off-Broadway: Pirates of Penzance, Gimpl the
Fool, Theda Bara & the Frontier Rabbi, Eating Raoul. Regional:
Diary of Anne Frank, Lost in Yonkers, Animal Crackers, Hamlet,
The Dybbuk, Groucho;A Life in Revue. Television: Boardwalk
Empire, Guiding Light, Sondheim Celebration at Carnegie Hall,
An Evening With Alan Jay Lerner, Porgy & Bess:An American
Voice.
Colin Campbell McAdoo (Male Ensemble)
Colin is grateful for all that is Soul Doctor. Credits: Off-Broadway’s WE THE PEOPLE (George Washington) DCL’s TOY STORY THE MUSICAL (Woody) NYMF 2010’s THE GREAT UNKNOWN. Regional Credits: Ogunquit Playhouse, MSMT, Weston Playhouse, Weathervane Theatre, Mountain Playhouse, and Media Theatre. Look out for his pops show BACK TO THE 50’S coming to a symphony near you! Colin sends much love to Lori and all of KSR, friends/family, Eli, and his kid sis Molly-Moo.
Greg Jarema (Male Ensemble)
Is thrilled to return to the art form that gave him his start: synagogue musical theatre!  National Tour: Seussical (Mr. Mayor)Regional: Altar Boyz (Abraham), Annie Get Your Gun, Bye Bye Birdie.  Highlights include performing with Andy Williams in the Macy's Parade, Cabaret with Tony Stevens, and a concert honoring Jason Robert Brown. Grad of NYU Tisch CAP21.  Proud AEA member.  Love & thanks to Clear Talent Group, Mom, Dad, & Lauren. www.GregJarema.com
Ryan Koss (Male Ensemble)
Originally from Marietta, GA. Recently seen in the Off-Broadway Musical Lucky Guy (Buckaroo Swing). Regional: Three full seasons with Music Theatre of Wichita, Beauty and the Beast, Damn Yankees, Footloose at The Muny, and The Who's Tommy at Lyric Theatre OKC. Proud graduate of The University of Oklahoma. For Pat and Nanny, we miss you.
Sheila Jones (Female Ensemble)
Sheila Jones is excited to be a part of this production of Soul Doctor. She received her BFA in Music Theatre from Florida State University. Her favorite credits include Oklahoma!, Festival of the Lion King at Hong Kong Disneyland (Nala), and Hair. Thanks to my loving family and friends. TREAT YOURSELF!
Kara Kimmer (Female Ensemble)
Kara Kimmer is honored to be a part of this beautiful message. A former NBA Detroit Piston dancer, Detroit Opera singer, and O.U. graduate, she’s a proud “Michigander.”Recent Credits: Footloose at NSMT and Cape Playhouse, Carnival and Forum at Goodspeed. Kara has performed at The Library of Congress with Marvin Hamlisch, Radio City Music Hall, and NYC’s Upright Citizens Brigade. It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

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