We’re just days away from the opening of Tent Theatre’s 54th season, featuring “All Shook Up” (June 8-11 & 13-18), “Unnecessary Farce” (June 23-27 & July 1) and “My Fair Lady (July 6-9 & 11-17). Get your tickets online or in the box office before they’re all sold out.

For more information about this season, visit Tent Theatre’s website.

Actors’ Equity Company Members

Here are the Actors’ Equity company members joining us this season, and a preview of their credits (information provided by the actors).

Matthew Alford

Matthew Alford is excited to be spending time in the Tent for the first time. He is the resident director of Equalogy, inc., a theatre-for-social-change company that uses theatre to combat sexual violence on college campuses.

He is a graduate of Pace University, and has participated in several projects with Judith Shakespeare Co., The Actor’s Studio. and La MaMa ETC.

NYC credits

• “To Whom It May Concern” (Arclight Theatre)
• “Wilde Tales” (TNC)
• “The Return” (APT)
• “11 (A River Apart)” (The Kraine)

Touring credits

• “Endurance” (Split Knuckle Theatre Co.)
• “One Night” (Equalogy)

Traci Bair

Traci Bair is thrilled to return to the city of her birth, Springfield, Missouri, to play the iconic role, Eliza Doolittle.

National tours

• Grace Farrell, “Annie” (NETworks)
• Principal vocalist, “Cirque Dreams” (Cirque Productions)

Favorite regional theatre

• Winifred Banks, “Mary Poppins” (Arts Center Coastal Carolina)
• Fantine, “Les Miserables” (Riverside Theatre)
• Katherina Cavalieri, “Amadeus” (Maltz Jupiter Theatre)
• Vi Moore, “Footloose” (Ivoryton Playhouse)
• Mary Bailey, “It’s A Wonderful Life” (Lyric Theatre)
• “Sweeney Todd” (Barrington Stage)
• “Pandora’s Box” (NYMF)

Peter Boyer

Peter Boyer is making his Tent Theatre debut this summer. Based in Washington, D.C., he most recently appeared as Charles Dickens in the east coast premiere of “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord,” by Scott Carter at the Washington Stage Guild.

Credits

• Ebenezer Scrooge, “A Broadway Christmas Carol” (Metro Stage)
• Groucho Marx, “Groucho: A Life in Revue” (Wayside Theatre)
• “Uprising” (Metro Stage)
• “1776” (Ford’s Theatre and Olney Theatre)
• “Parade” (Ford’s Theatre)
• “Shenandoah” (Ford’s Theatre)
• “Way of the World” (Shakespeare Theatre)
• “Sound of Music, 1776” (Olney Theatre)
• “The Fantasticks” (Rep Stage)
• “Sleeping Beauty” (Imagination Stage)
• “Heidi” (Imagination Stage)
• “Beyond Therapy” (Bay Theatre)
• “Sylvia” (Bay Theatre)
• “Table Manners” (Bay Theatre)
• “The Comedy of Errors” (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival)
• “Scapin!” (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival)
• “The Taming of the Shrew” (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival)
• “Private Lives” (Wayside Theatre)
• “Moonlight and Magnolias” (Wayside Theatre)
• “The Killer Angels” (Wayside Theatre)
• “Private Eyes” (Firehouse Theatre)
• “Fuddy Meers” (Firehouse Theatre)
• “Tecumseh!” (Scioto Society)
• “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Scioto Society)
• “Much Ado About Nothing” (Southern Festival Theatre)
• “The Taming of the Shrew” (Southern Festival Theatre)

Kevin Casey

Kevin Casey, a production stage manager, is thrilled to be here at Tent Theatre to celebrate his 40th year in the professional theatre and his 30th as a member of Actors’ Equity Association. He is a former member of the Executive Board of the National Stage Managers’ Association (2013-2015).

Favorite shows

• “A Chorus Line”
• “1776” (performed on July 4, 1976)
• “Sweeney Todd”
• “CATS”
• “South Pacific”
• “The Foreigner”
• “Hairspray”
• “Forever Plaid”
• “Emergency Room”
• “Menopause, The Musical”
• “The Fantasticks” (five productions)
• “Tuck Everlasting”
• “Amadeus”
• “Antigone”
• “Angels In America”
• “The Smell of the Kill”
• “A Year with Frog & Toad”
• “Bridge to Terabithia”
• “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”
• “Holiday Memories”
• “A Christmas Carol”
• “Broadway Bound”
• “Gifts of the Magi”
• “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown”

Jerry Gallagher

Jerry Gallagher has performed around the country and worked at Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, St. Louis MUNY, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and many others. He created the role of Rushmore in the Off-Broadway production of “Little Ham: A Harlem Jazzical.”

Stage credits

• “Guys & Dolls”
• “Crazy for You”
• “Big River”
• “City of Angels”
• “Annie Get Your Gun”

Television appearances

• CBS’s “Guiding Light”
• Showtime’s “The Big C”
• PBS’s “Great Performances”

Jannie Jones

Jannie Jones has toured nationally and internationally to more than 23 countries. She is happy to return to the Tent Theatre after having been a part of last season’s “Hairspray,” as Motormouth, and “Leap of Faith” as Ida Mae.

She was last seen in “Black Stars of the Great White Way,” with Tony Award-winners Norm Lewis and Andre DeShields, Emmy Award-winning Obba Babatunde and 227’s Jackee Harry, at the NC Black Theatre Festival.

You will be able to catch her episode of “The Get Down” on Netflix this summer, playing a possible recurring role as Jamaican Mom.

Critically acclaimed credits

• B.J., “Smokey Joe’s Café” (Capital Repertory Theatre)
• Pearl, “Black Pearl Sings” (Virginia Stage Co., Capital Rep. Theatre & San Jose Rep. Co.)  — Bay Area Theatre Critics Award, Best Actress
• “August Wilson’s Women” (Juneteenth Legacy Theatre) — Audelco Award

Broadway/Off-Broadway/National Broadway tours

• Georgie, understudy, “The Full Monty” Sylvia, “All Shook Up”
• Sister Carrie, “Mama I Want to Sing”
• Traci, “Faith’s Journey”

Other credits

• Dionne, “Hair”
• Motormouth, “Hairspray” (N.C. Theatre)
• Mahalia Jackson, “Mahalia” (N.C. Blk Rep.)
• “Motown Cabaret, by Gershwin”
• “Too Darn Hot”
• “Steppin’ Out”
• “Ain’t Nothing but the Blues” (Florida Studio Theatre)
• Velma and Wanda, “Crowns” (Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis & Asolo Thea.)
• Armelia, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (Riverside Theatre)
• Tina Turner, “Beehive” (Arkansas Rep.)

One-woman shows

• “My Castle’s Rockin,’ The Alberta Hunter Story”
• “Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow,” (Written by Larry Parr, premiered at the Florida Studio Theatre)

Television appearances

• “All My Children”
• “The Guiding Light”
• “Martin”
• Commercials and print ads

Concerts

• Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert version of “Kiss Me Kate” (Hattie)
• Raphael’s concerts at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall

Other musical appearances

• Teddy Pendergrass, “Say It” single
• Barry White, “Practice What You Preach” album

TJ Lancaster

TJ Lancaster is thrilled to return to Tent Theatre where he appeared in 2014’s “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Regional credits

• “Sunday in the Park with George” (Kansas City Repertory Theatre)
• “The Fantasticks” (Western Playhouse, Great Plains Theatre and Spinning Tree Theatre)
• “Damn Yankees” (Great Plains Theatre)
• “Tuna Does Vegas” (Great Plains Theatre)
• “The Normal Heart” (Relevance Productions)
• Andrew Lippa’s “I Am Harvey Milk” (Heartland Men’s Chorus)
• “Fiddler on the Roof” (Spinning Tree Theatre)
• “Make Me a Song” (Spinning Tree Theatre)
• “Master Class” (Spinning Tree Theatre)
• “Flat Stanley” (Starlight Theatre)
• “Narnia” (Starlight Theatre)
• “Peter Cottontail III” (Starlight Theatre)
• “The Music Man” (Musical Theater Heritage)
• “Evita” (Musical Theater Heritage)
• “Kiss Me, Kate” (Musical Theater Heritage)

Mark Bradley Miller

Mark Bradley Miller is excited to tackle the dream role of Higgins, here at his Tent Theatre debut. Later this summer, he returns for a third season at the Sacramento Music Circus, to play Duke Mahoney in “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” Miller is also a professional photographer and interior designer.

National tours

• “South Pacific”
• “Broadway Celebrates America”

European tours

• “Beauty and the Beast”
• “The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber”

New York credits

• Prince/Wolf, “Into the Woods
• Tony, “West Side Story”
• NYMF, “The Woman Upstairs”
• David, “Warsaw”
• “Pippin”
• “The Secret Garden”

Regional credits

• Billy, “Carousel”
• Fred/Petruchio, “Kiss Me, Kate”
• Nick, “Funny Girl”
• Mr. Hart, “9 to 5”
• Phantom, “Phantom”
• Nick, “Baby”
• Man 1, “Closer Than Ever”
• El Gallo, “The Fantasticks”

Summer stock

• Pitsburgh CLO, 15 productions
• Weathervane Theater, 10 productions