Chicago debut! Chris is the newly elected head of the Drama Society. For tonight’s show, he served as the voice coach, dialect coach, fight choreographer, casting director and costume designer. He also plays the lead role and, of course, directed. The Society would like to thank Chris for his remarkable passion and efforts. Credits within the University: Hamlet in Hamlet, Macbeth in Macbeth and Othello in Othello.

Chicago debut! A member of the Cornley Drama Society for three years, Robert uses the Stanislavsky method. Credits include Lame Horse in Black Beauty, Victorian Policeman in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horror – Live!, Dopey in Snow White and The Tall Broad Gentlemen and Augustus Gloop in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. Robert’s next performance will be as Godot in a newly self- written sequel to Beckett’s classic.

Chicago debut! Jonathan works as a model and is therefore excited to learn transferrable skills by appearing in The Murder at Haversham Manor. He is no stranger to acting and appeared in Casualty when he was just 5 years old. Jonathan also performed with Emote, another local theater company, in A Midsummer Night’s Stamina, which featured a cast of 14 pedalling exercise bikes for the full two-hour performance.

Chicago debut! This is Sandra’s 11th season with the Cornley University Drama Society, during which she has proudly performed roles such as Snow White in Snow White and The Tall Broad Gentlemen, Virginia Woolf in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Cow in Jack and the Bean. Sandra has been performing from a very young age, since her mother appeared in A Winter’s Tale pregnant.

Chicago debut! Max is in his first year at Cornley University where he is studying human geography and crime. He is an avid fan of films, and his favourite is The Legend of Bagger Vance, which he’s seen 27 times. This is Max’s first production with the Drama Society, and he is very glad to have donated a large portion of his recent inheritance to help the show reach Broadway.

Chicago debut! After failing the tryouts for the football, cricket, volleyball and basketball teams, Dennis decided to join the Drama Society. Dennis does not live in the Cornley halls of residence and commutes in daily from his parents’ house. He hopes the Society will give him the chance to meet like-minded people. Dennis’ only stage credit dates back to 1995 when he appeared in his primary school nativity. Credit: Shepherd.

Chicago debut! The unsung hero of the Society, Annie has designed, built, painted, stage managed and costumed every single Society show in the last three years. Her hard work and dogged determination behind-the-scenes lies behind so much of the Society’s success. After The Murder at Haversham Manor, Annie will begin an internship at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Chicago debut! Trevor is only participating in The Murder at Haversham Manor to earn much needed extra credit for his electronics module in order to pass his engineering course at Cornley University. Once he has passed the course, he will not continue to work with the Drama Society. Trevor credits his success to his sunny disposition and his positive outlook on life.

Broadway: Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: I’m Revolting (Atlantic Theater Company); Hamlet, Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory); The Play That Goes Wrong (New World Stages). Film and television: “The Good Fight” (CBS), “Bull” (CBS), “Happy” (SyFy), “TURN: Washington’s Spies” (AMC) and Here and Now (Tribeca Film Festival).

Joseph Anthony Byrd is excited to be returning to DC where he was recently seen as Cab Calloway in Shout Sister Shout at Ford’s. Broadway/touring: Kinky Boots, The Lion King, The Play That Goes Wrong (Chicago). T.V: “4400,” “Proven Innocent,” “Boardwalk Empire.” B.F.A.: CMU. Catch him in “Justified: City Primeval” on FX. IG: @josephanthonybyrd.

Peyton Crim was most recently featured in Warren Carlyle’s remounting of The Secret Garden (Center Theatre Group). Selected theater: A Little Night Music, Brigadoon (City Center Encores!); Finian’s Rainbow (Irish Rep); Beauty and the Beast; Sweeney Todd. He has done extensive work in commercial, animation and video game voice-over.

Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong, Dames at Sea, White Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone, A Chorus Line. NY/Regional: Death Takes A Holiday; Into the Woods; My Paris; Ever After; Beaches, Kiss Me, Kate; Animal Crackers; The Toxic Avenger; …Millie; 42nd Street. TV: “FBI,” “Smash,” “Blue Bloods.” Broadway Green Alliance steering committee member.

Broadway: Leopoldstadt, Mr. Wormwood in Matilda the Musical, Twelfth Night and Richard III (Shakespeare’s Globe), Harvey. Off-Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong, Happy Birthday, Wanda June. TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Path,” “Instinct,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Bored to Death,” “The Good Wife,” “Gravity.” Training: M.F.A., NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. @mattoverthere.

Kai Heath (she/her) hails from Harlem NYC. This is her Kennedy Center debut. Off- Broadway: Kofa in Amani (National Black Theatre), Leticia in Blooms (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Dawn in Bodies They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb), The Rowdy in On Sugarland (New York Theatre Workshop), Messenger in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. @harlemkai.

Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong, Hand to God, A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway: Hand to God (MCC), Sleep No More. Regional: Clue (Paper Mill Playhouse), Bad Jews (Studio Theatre—Helen Hayes nomi- nation), Awake and Sing (Olney Theatre Center), Never the Sinner (1st Stage). Training: Boston University, LAMDA. Instagram: @Mandellovich. For Mr. Krikstan.

Akron Watson returning from KC’s latest Helen Hayes winning Guys and Dolls. Broadway: The Color Purple revival, The Play That Goes Wrong, Hamilton. Off-Broadway: Fortress of Solitude, Black No More. Regional: Mr. Holland’s Opus the musical, Hang Time. Film: Miss Juneteenth. TV: “Empire,” “Chicago Med.” Voice-over: “One Piece, Borderlands,” “The Walking Dead.”

Brett Cassidy is thrilled to be making his Kennedy Center dayboo! Regional: 1st Stage (Columbinus— Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor), The Old Globe (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, Trouble in Mind, Scrooge), NextStop (Matilda). M.F.A., The Old Globe/USD. “All my love to my family, Corrieanne, Doc, Mabel and Lady.”

Kullan S. Edberg is thrilled to be making her Kennedy Center debut. A DC-based actor, teacher and amateaur baker, she is a proud graduate of Stella Adler Studios through NYU Tisch. Favorite credits include Puffs (New World Stages), Clybourne Park (Hangar Theatre) and William Wallace in an all-female Braveheart (Broadway Theatre Project).

Honored to be going wrong. DC: Angels in America (Arena); The Merchant of Venice, Our Town (STC). NY: Afterglow, My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Tours: Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol. TV: “The Other Two,” “Food That Built America.” M.F.A.: STC’s Academy. B.F.A.: Millikin. All my love to my family.

met while train- ing at LAMDA. Their first show, The Play That Goes Wrong (winner of Best New Comedy, Olivier Awards 2015), started life on the U.K. fringe before opening in the West End in 2014 and on Broadway in 2017. Other West End credits include The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Magic Goes Wrong (co-created with magi- cians Penn & Teller) and Groan Ups. They have just finished shooting the second series of “The Goes Wrong Show” for BBC1. The trio’s work has been performed in over 40 countries around the world.

Matt Dicarlo also directed the North American touring production of The Play That Goes Wrong. He is the resident direc- tor for Moulin Rouge! on Broadway and restaged Beetlejuice for its 2021 run in Seoul, South Korea. Associate director: The Color Purple first national tour, Rock of Ages 2013–2014 national tour. Broadway PSM: Beetlejuice, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Color Purple, Honeymoon in Vegas, Rock of Ages. Faculty: Columbia. Love to Joey. matt-dicarlo.com.

The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End); The Tenants (Winterfest NYC); Waiting for Waiting For Godot (St. James Theatre); Blue Blood by Anna Jordan (Hammersmith Riverside); The Revengers Tragedy (RCSSD, London); The Master & Margarita, Pieces, Cheap Thrills and Classic Cuts (East 15); A Servant to Two Masters, Scapin (CMU, Pittsburgh); The Snowfall (Etcetera); Breathing Corpses, Comedians, Marat/Sade, The Crucible, Agamemnon, Antigone and The Bacchae (LAMDA). New shows Horse Country, Sirens, Men and Crabs and Cluedo open 2021–22. Mark also has two new musicals in development and is also set to direct his first feature film, From Me to You, for Gold Circle Films. markbell.info.

Tony and Drama Desk awards for The Play That Goes Wrong and designed the West End, U.K. and U.S. tours, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico City produc- tions. Other international productions: Wermland Opera (Something Rotten! and Groundhog Day), Vienna English Theatre (At the Drop of a Hat, Dial “M” for Murder). West End credits: Spread a Little Happiness; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Elegies; Ferry Across the Mersey; The Boys in the Band; Party; When Pigs Fly; Forbidden Broadway; Pageant; and Steptoe and Son. Stay safe!

From Melbourne, Australia, training at Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Broadway: TPTGW (Lyceum). West End: Magic Goes Wrong (Vaudeville and Apollo), Groan Ups (Vaudeville), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion), Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo), TPTGW (Duchess). U.S. tour: TPTGW.

U.K. tours: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, TPTGW, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Magic Goes Wrong, Groan Ups. International: TPTGW, Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Television: “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” (BBC1), “A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong” (BBC1), “The Goes Wrong Show” seasons one and two (BBC1).

Selected designs include The Play That Goes Wrong (Broadway, U.S. national tour, West End); Father by Akram Khan (Dhaka, Bangladesh); God’s Dice by David Baddiel (Soho Theatre London); Uncle Vanya (Theatr Clwyd and Sheffield the- atres); Emancipation of Expressionism (Barbican Theatre and BBC TV); Mr. Popper’s Penguins (New Victory, NYC; Seattle; Minneapolis); world premiere of Karagula by Philip Ridley; Pandemic (Singapore International Festival); and The White Whale (an outdoor Moby Dick, Leeds). Associate designs include War Requiem (Liceu, Barcelona), The Magic Flute (English National Opera). ricmountjoy.com.

Jeremy Cunningham is a NYC-based lighting designer. His work has been seen all over the world as a designer and associate. Most recently Jeremy was associ- ate lighting designer for eight companies of Kinky Boots spanning six countries and two national tours. He has also designed for television, live music, cruise ships and NY Fashion Week.

Zorro, Violet (U.K. premiere), Mamma Mia! (Romania tour), Tommy (U.K. tour), Mythic, It Happened in Key West, The Woman in White (London), Death Takes a Holiday (U.K. premiere), Ragtime, Titanic (U.K. and international), TPTGW (West End, Australia and U.K. tours), Dogfight (European premiere), Catch Me If You Can (European premiere), Girlfriends, The Stripper, The Toxic Avenger. U.K. Off West End nominations for Best Sound Design for Mack and Mabel, Titanic and Grand Hotel (Southwark Playhouse).

Beth Lake is a sound designer and theater practitioner based in NYC. She is a lecturer of sound design at Yale University and CUNY Hunter. Recent credits include This American Life; Selling Kabul (WTF); A Thousand Splendid Suns; American Girl, Live!; The Revolutionists; An Iliad. Broadway associate design: Pass Over; Is This A Room?; Dana H.; My Fair Lady; The Sound Inside; Intimate Apparel; Natasha, Pierre…; Misery; Velocity of Autumn. Education: M.F.A. from UC-Irvine; member of USA829.

Broadway: Caroline, or Change; Trouble in Mind; Moulin Rouge!; Jagged Little Pill; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Amélie; Sunday in the Park…; She Loves Me; Noises Off; Twentieth Century; Violet; The Glass Menagerie; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Harvey; Once; Anything Goes; Brief Encounter; Scottsboro Boys; Sondheim on Sondheim; Hedda Gabler. Off-Broadway: Kingdom Come, The Robber Bridegroom, Invisible Thread, Indian Ink. Kopel currently serves as casting direc- tor for Roundabout Theatre Company.

Allied Global Marketing is an integrated marketing agency working with the world’s largest entertain- ment, sports, consumer and lifestyle brands, includ- ing 80+ Broadway shows over 25 years. Current tours: Ain’t Too Proud, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Hadestown, Into the Woods, Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, Tootsie. Upcoming tours: Back to the Future, Funny Girl, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, The Kite Runner, Mamma Mia!, Mrs. Doubtfire.

The Booking Group has represented 27 Tony Award-winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, The Book of Mormon, 1776, Hadestown, Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Pretty Woman, Six, Tina, To Kill a Mockingbird, Anastasia, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, My Fair Lady, R.E.S.P.E.C.T. and Tootsie. Future tours include Almost Famous, Funny Girl, Mamma Mia!, Mrs. Doubtfire, A Strange Loop, The Devil Wears Prada and The Wiz..

National tours: The Play That Goes Wrong, Something Rotten! Off-Broadway: Orwell in America, Trick or Treat, Brits Off-Broadway. Regional: The Engagement Party (Hartford Stage); Into the Woods, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Northern Stage); Shrek, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, A Little Night Music, Singin’ in the Rain, Les Misérables, Hair (New London Barn Playhouse); Macbeth, God of Carnage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). For Nicholas.

Celebrating 20 years on Broadway and 50 U.S. international and touring productions. Credits include Paramour; Misery; Aladdin; The Lion King; Motown the Musical; El Rey Leon (Madrid); Annie; Mary Poppins; Peter and the Starcatcher; One Man, Two Guvnors; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; The Boy From Oz; The History Boys; The Seafarer; and Phantom Las Vegas.

Digby Robinson has over 30 years of experience in production management in both the commercial and subsidized sectors. Recent productions in London’s West End include City of Angels (Garrick), The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion) and Matilda for the Royal Shakespeare Company (Cambridge). Current proj- ects include the U.K. touring production of Fat Friends the Musical and a new musical version of The Parent Trap entitled Identical, which is due to open in the summer of 2022.

Martian Entertainment is a Tony Award-winning firm owned by Carl D. White and Gregory Rae. Credits include The Play That Goes Wrong; Peter Pan Goes Wrong The Cottage; The Normal Heart (Tony Award); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award); The Temperamentals; BARE; The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical; the new musical A Wonderful World - The Life and Loves of Louis Armstrong; the new musi- cal Loch Ness; the new musical Run Baby Run. MartianEntertainment.com.

Kevin McCollum has been con- sistently getting it wrong on and off Broadway for the past 25 years. However, he has enjoyed limited success as an amateur bowler.

J.J. Abrams is the founder of Bad Robot Productions and the writer, director and/or producer of such television series as “Felicity,” “Alias, ” “Lost,” “Castle Rock,” “Westworld,” “Lovecraft Country” and “Lisey’s Story” and such films as Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and entries in the Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and Cloverfield franchises. He made his debut as a theater producer in 2017 with the Broadway premiere of The Play That Goes Wrong, and he later produced Derren Brown: Secret, which premiered on Broadway in 2019. Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath, co-CEO of Bad Robot, live in Los Angeles and have three children.

Kenny Wax has recently completed a three-year term as the president of the Society of London Theatre. He is a four-time Olivier Award- winning producer with Top Hat, Best New Musical in 2013; Once on This Island, Best New Musical in 1995; The Play That Goes Wrong, winning Best New Comedy in 2015; and The Worst Witch, win- ning Best Family Entertainment in 2020. Other West End hits Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Magic Goes Wrong, Hetty Feather and five-time nominated Six The Musical which has just reopened on Broadway and is currently playing to sold-out audiences in London’s West End and on a U.K. tour. His newest show opening later this year is another pop musical entitled Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World.

Stage Presence Ltd. is delighted to be part of the team presenting Mischief Comedy shows on Broadway and all across the United States.

Catherine Schreiber is a five- time Tony and Olivier-winning producer with shows currently on Broadway and in London. Broadway Global Producer of the Year 2017. Tony winner: Company, The Lehman Trilogy, The Inheritance, Angels in America, Clybourne Park. Olivier winner: Company. Elliott & Harper co-production: The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (U.K.). Recent: A Christmas Carol. Catherine took The Scottsboro Boys to London. Critic’s Circle and Evening Standard award winner. Nine Tony nominations include Fiddler on the Roof, Peter and the Starcatcher, Next Fall and The Scottsboro Boys. Five Olivier nominations include Dreamgirls; Show Boat; People, Places, & Things; and The Scottsboro Boys.

Once on This Island (Tony Award), Kinky Boots (Tony Award), Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Spring Awakening, It’s Only a Play, Macbeth, Godspell, Altar Boyz and more. Founded TheaterMakersStudio.com, “The MasterClass. com for the Theater.” Created Be A Broadway Star board game available on Amazon. Writer of the popular blog “The Producers Perspective.” KenDavenport.com.

Wendy Federman: 11 Tonys, two Olivier Awards, over 80 productions, Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipient. Boards served: Kennedy Center’s NCPA, Foundation for Gender Equality.

Richard Batchelder: Tony winner (The Inheritance); investor in over 20 shows, including DEH and TKAM. Film: Lilly (co-executive producer). Sequere spiritum tuum!

Eight Tony Awards. Current: Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, The Lehman Trilogy, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Company, Ain’t Too Proud, To Kill a Mockingbird. Film: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age. TV: 13 Telly Awards. Corey Brunish: 12 consecutive Tony noms; four Tonys; Olivier Award. Come From Away, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Company. Love to Jessica and Olivia.

Damian Arnold trained at LAMDA for three years. Producer: Don’t Dress for Dinner (Chicago and Broadway), Gypsy (West End, Olivier Award), The Girl From the North Country (West End), A Very Expensive Poison (The Old Vic), Death of A Salesman (Young Vic and Piccadilly Theatre), The Lehman Trilogy. Producer/ investor, West End: Labour of Love, Red, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Six: The Musical (West End and Broadway).

TC Beech are theatrical produc- ers, investors and philanthropists Teresa and Craig Beech. Producing credits include four Laurence Olivier Award-nominated shows: Everbody’s Talking About Jamie, Loserville, The Duck House and Hand to God. Most recent London West End producing credits include Mr. Popper’s Penguins, This House, Dead Funny and Don Quixote.

Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier award winners whose recent productions include The Inheritance, American Son and Fiddler on the Roof, currently on tour throughout the U.S. They have The Shark Is Broken opening this fall in the U.K., and American Buffalo staring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell opening this spring on Broadway. For more information visit GreenleafProductions.com.

Bard Theatricals (Annette Jolles, Jim van Bergen, Laurence Holzman, Lara Holzman, David Stern, Linda Hamil). Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Jagged Little Pill, TPTGW, Fiddler 2015, China Doll, The Scottsboro Boys, Anarchist, Looped. Dean Roth: Macbeth (Alan Cumming), Clinton the Musical, Missed Connections, Central Avenue Breakdown and investor in over 40 productions on and off Broadway and in the U.K.

Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony nomination), Fun Home (Tony Award), The Humans (Tony Award), The Play That Goes Wrong, The Prom (Tony nomination), A Christmas Carol and Company. Off-Broadway: Shear Madness. Jack is the executive producer of Stages St. Louis, a 35-year-old regional theater.

John Yonover supported and invested in more than 50 productions on Broadway, Chicago, Las Vegas and London. Currently running Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, The Lehman Trilogy, Mrs. Doubtfire, Magic Goes Wrong, Criss Angel and Six. Coming soon: What’s New Pussycat and The Neil Diamond Musical—A Beautiful Noise.

Lucas McMahon is currently represented on Broadway by Six: The Musical and Mrs. Doubtfire. Other credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (Broadway and national tour), Mike Birbiglia’s The New One (Broadway), Something Rotten! (Broadway and national tour) and Hand to God (Broadway and West End).

Mischief Theatre Ltd. was founded in 2008 by graduates of LAMDA. Starting as an improvised theater group on the U.K. fringes, they have grown into one of the U.K.’s leading the- ater and comedy companies. Their award-winning production The Play That Goes Wrong (Olivier Award, Best New Comedy) is currently on stage in London and New York and regularly tours in both the U.K. and the U.S. and has been licensed around the world. Peter Pan Goes Wrong is playing on Broadway, and soon to tour the U.K. with a lim- ited West End season. Previous West End and U.K. touring productions include The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Groan Ups and Magic Goes Wrong. In December 2016, Mischief made their TV debut on the BBC with an hour-long special of “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” followed by the holiday special “A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.” Their BBC comedy series “The Goes Wrong Show” is currently avail- able to watch on some streaming platforms and on DVD. Mischief develops new work for theater, TV, film and beyond. Visit MischiefComedy.com.

Actors’ Equity Association founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers. Equity fosters the art of live theater as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by nego- tiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an inter- national organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks.