Kinky Boots at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
Dates: (2/10/2022 - 3/27/2022 )
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Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
9301 North Michigan Road
Indianapolis,IN 46268
Phone: 13178729664
Tickets: $51-$76
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Charlie is a factory owner struggling to save his family business. Lola is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea.With a little compassion and a lot of understanding, this unexpected pair learns to embrace their differences and creates a line of sturdy stilettos unlike any the world has ever seen. Their most remarkable achievement, however, is their friendship.This sparkling musical not only won the Best Musical Tony, but also Best Original Score for the talented music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, along with four additional Tony Awards, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.
Cast and Creative team for Kinky Boots at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
Cast
Alex Campbell
Viola
Alex is ecstatic to be joining The Great River Shakespeare Festival’s 2022 Season! She had the privilege of working alongside GRSF’s immensely talented company members last year in GRSF’s Season ’21 production of The Tempest (Sebastian/ Prospero u./s.) as well as the amazing Shakespeare for Young Artists program. Some of her past credits include: The Bluest Eye (Claudia), Roger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Ella), Men on Boats (John Wesley Powell), As You Like It (Rosalind), The Cherry Orchard (Varya), Henry VI: part 2 (King Henry). alexcampbellactor.com
Tarah Flanagan
Olivia
Tarah Flanagan is delighted to be returning to beautiful Winona MN for her 14th season. Favorite GRSF credits include the Poet (an Iliad), Rosalind (As You Like It) and Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) Recent credits: RAMY(Hulu) the world premier of ROOTED at Cincinnati Playhouse, and The YELLOW WALLPAPER (Best Actress Award, Second Line Film Festival) . Tarah is proud to serve as GRSF’s co-Associate Artistic Director and Program Director for Shakespeare of Young Actors.
Vanessa Morosco
Maria
VANESSA MOROSCO (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate theatre practitioner who focuses on the intersectional spirit of collaboration through an ethical framework. As an actor, she has performed at theatres across the country, including Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Yale Rep, Geva Theatre, American Shakespeare Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, and Cleveland Playhouse. As a director, she has created productions for several theatres, including the American Shakespeare Center, Harlem Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Palm Beach Dramaworks, and she is an ongoing collaborator with Clutch Productions in New York, developing new plays by female-identifying playwrights. Vanessa is the co-founder of IMPACT DRAMA, where she consults for multinational corporations to create drama-based content for use in training and development, focusing on global diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias, and cultural awareness. (impactdrama.net) Vanessa is a member of AEA, SDC, Statera, and holds an M.A. in Ethics from Yale University. vanessamorosco.com
Lloyd Mulvey
Sir Toby Belch
Hailing from the Rocky Mountains, Lloyd is a New York based actor and photographer – and is thrilled to join GRSF! Recent stage appearances include the title role in RICHARD III and Malvolio in TWEFLTH NIGHT with Titan Theater Company, Orsino in TWELFTH NIGHT and Horatio in THE HAMLET PROJECT with Three Day HANGOVER, and HAMLET CU3ED with White Construction Co. Regional credits include Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Riverside Theater Shakespeare Festival. Recent photography exhibitions include NATURE STUDIES and BIG MOOD at HOMOCATS Studio and ANIMALIA at Local Project. Member, AEA; lloydmulvey.com
Mark Mazzarella
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Mark Mazzarella is an actor, singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in New York, and he is thrilled to be making his debut with Great River Shakespeare Festival! Selected credits include: The Tempest, Cyrano de Bergerac (Guthrie Theater), Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew (Island Stage Left), King John, Much Ado About Nothing (Nebraska Shakespeare), Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe edu.), Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, As You Like It (UMN/Guthrie BFA). @mark.mazzarella
Leah Gabriel
Malvolia
GRSF credits include The Tempest (Trinculo), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), The Servant of Two Masters (Beatrice), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena/Snout/Peaseblossom), Alls Well That Ends Well (Widow) and Shakespeare In Love (Molly/Peter). New York credits include Medea (Medea), King Lear (Goneril) and Othello (Roderigo) with Titan Theatre Company; US premiere of Holy Day (Nora) at New Ohio Theatre; US premiere of The Good Girl (Anjali) at 59E59 Theaters; Tartuffe (Doreen) with Three Day Hangover. Regional credits include The Cure at Troy (Chorus) The Wizard of Oz (Glinda) Frankenstein (Caroline) and Mother Courage and her Children (Yvette) at Quintessence Theatre; Boeing Boeing (Gretchen), The 39 Steps (Annabella/Pamela/Margaret) at Cortland Rep. Trained at Circle In The Square Theater School. leahgabrielactor.com
Brittany Proia
Feste
Brittany Proia (she/her) is an NY based actor, producer, director, composer, and educator. She serves as the executive director of the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Laboratory, education coordinator of Shadowland Stages, and Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern NY. This Fall Brittany is producing the world premiere production of BLOOM BLOOM POW at ART/NY's Gural Theatre. This is her 2nd season at GRSF. Recent credits include: The Tempest/Gonzala (GRSF), Julius Caesar/Brutus (Juno’s Swans), Twelfth Night/Viola, Othello/Desdemona, As You Like It/Celia (Nebraska Shakespeare),Titus Andronicus/Lavinia (Frog and Peach Theatre Co.), Meek/Irene (Denizen Theatre- US Premiere). Brittany recently directed Play On! Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet translated by Hansol Jung, and Cymbeline translated by Andrea Thome at SUNY New Paltz. She holds a Bachelor of Music from NYU, and an MFA from FSU/Asolo Conservatory; member of AEA, DG, and Ring of Keys. Love to M,D, & N. @babsproia brittanyproia.com
Benjamin Boucvalt
Orsino
This will be Benjamin’s 10th season with Great River Shakespeare Festival; notable performances include As You Like it/Orlando, Julius Caesar/Cassius, Midsummer/Oberon, and Romeo and Juliet/Romeo, other theaters include the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Curtain Theatre, St. Petersburg Shakespeare Company, and the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre where he performed Vanya, Sonya, Masha, and Spike/Spike. Benjamin is also a writer and published his first novel, “The River Road”, in 2014; the audiobook of the novel was also produced that same year, which he narrated. As an active martial artist, he is often choreographing fights for both film and theatre. Benjamin teaches acting and stage combat at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Los Angeles & New York. MFA, SAG-AFTRA/AEA @Boucvalt
Raffeal Sears
Sebastian
Raffeal Sears is blessed to be making his GRSF debut! He last appeared in A Christmas Carol (The Repertory Theater of St. Louis). Regional credits includeTwelfth Night (Yale Repertory Theatre), a staged reading of Master Wilder and the Cabala (Goodman Theatre); Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath, and Henry V Project (Illinois Theatre); Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); The Play of Adam (The Met Cloisters); Amazing the Change (Atlantic Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nashville Shakespeare Festival); Lost in the Part (Amity Hall); In the Blood (The New School) and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day (The Coterie). Television and film credits include Chicago Fire (NBC), Cornered, Adventure Around the World and What We Used To Have. He is the recipient of the Shozo Sato: Excellence in Performance Award from UIUC. He is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. Raffeal received his MFA in Acting from the University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign. www.raffealsears.com @raffealsears
Jonathan Contreras
Antonio/Sea Captain
Jonathan Contreras (he/they) is an actor, musician, and songwriter currently based in El Paso, TX. Recently onstage with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s 2022 Shakespearience educational tour of Romeo and Juliet. Previously a member of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s Conservatory Company in their 2021 production of The Tempest. Select online productions include working with Stages Rep (Sin Muros Latinx Theatre Festival ’21, ‘22) Teatro Chelsea (A-Típico, a new Latinx play festival ’21), and Télatulsa’s virtual production of On The Wings of a Butterfly. 2019: Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s winter production of Macbeth. La Noche De Los Alebrijes, Puerto Vallarta, Jal. Mexico, with One Blue Cat/MundoMilagro/ArtVallarta. La Casa Azul, Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, and Xanadu (Thalia/ensemble) Tex-ARTS, Austin, TX. 2018: with GRSF, Ralph in Shakespeare in Love, and Reynaldo in Alls Well That Ends Well. @jonathan.acontreras
Sara Mountjoy-Pepka
Fabia/Valentine
Sara is based in Los Angeles, where she’s a company member of the “classics, improvised” Impro Theatre (co-director, Jane Austen UnScripted). She’s a co-founder of the all-women theater/film production company Ripley Improv (co-director, Encounter), and co-founder/director of fan-favorite The Improvised Generation (fully improvised Star Trek: TNG). For more than 15 years, Sara performed as a professional mime with Magic Circle Mime Co, with major orchestras across Asia, Europe, and North America. Great River debut! Her previous Shakespeare credits include: Ensemble Shakespeare Co (Helena, Midsummer), GreenStage Shakespeare in the Parks (Lady Capulet), Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (Hero, Nerissa), Seattle Shakespeare/Wooden O (Dorcas), and Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum (Helena, Midsummer). Thank you Ahsan, Pokies + Snacks, and Allah. @smountjoypepka
Adeyinka Adebola
Curio/Officer/Priest
Adeyinka Adebola is an Actor, Director, Musician and Teaching Artist with a dual bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Performing arts. He performs with the Brooklyn based group "Something Positive" and is the founder of "Monologue Roulette!" a creative Network, workshop and showcase series that brings the best of nyc's writers directors and actors to collaborate under one roof. Adey is Currently training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Recent credits include Austin (Black Petal Theater), sons of Johnny johnson (MSAI Productions), A cops and robbers story(Vernon Films), Fences(Stella Adler Studio), Macbeth(Lehman Stages). @perfectionpending
Creative Team
Beth Gardiner
Director
Rodrigo Escalante
Scenic Designer
Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz***
Lighting Designer
*** Denotes membership in United Scenic Artists.
Rebecca Bernstein
Costume Designer
Brittany Proia
Composer
Nathanael Brown
Sound Designer
Ivy Treccani
Props Designer
Kenyana Trambles
Wig/Makeup Designer
Santiago Sosa
Text Coach
Tonia Sina
Intimacy Director
Benjamin Boucvalt
Fight Director
Alexander Carey
Stage Manager
Ella Egan
Assistant Stage Manager
Gillian Herold
Costume Design Assistant
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Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Frequently Asked Questions FAQ
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is at 9301 North Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN.
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre has been serving up food, fun and fabulous live entertainment for everyone since 1973. Located in College Park, the theatre was part of a chain of dinner theatres built by Louisville contractor J. Scott Talbott. It was called "Beef" because of the delicious hand carved roast beef served before the performances, and "Boards" referring to the boards or stage of a theatre. Today, the Indianapolis location is privately owned and the sole remaining Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, entertaining more than 155,000 theatergoers annually.
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