CHRISTINE PEDI (Miss Abigail) is doing double duty off Broadway playing MISS ABIGAIL and starring in NEWSical the Musical at the Kirk Theatre on 42nd Street (spoofing current affairs, trends and cultural phenomenon.) December it's TRIPLE duty when THERES NO BIZNESS LIKE SNOW BIZNESS, her annual holiday show, returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre for it's 4th consecutive year. She was recently part of THE MAD SHOW at the York Theatres Musicals in Mufti series and Project Shaws FANNIES FIRST PLAY at the Players Club. Christine has a long association with the satirical revue FORBIDDEN BROADWAY and a Drama Desk nomination for FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD having played both shows in New York, London and around the world.

On Broadway she's been in TALK RADIO with Liev Schrieber and LITTLE ME with Martin Short and Faith Prince. Fans of HBOs THE SOPRANOS may recognize her for her pivotal role as Mrs Bobby Baccala. (4 scenes, 5 lines ... dead. BUT he loved her so much he couldn't defrost her ziti for months!) Her multi award winning cabaret act GREAT DAMES has played New York, London, South Africa and all over the US. She's been a featured soloist on the QM2, Avery Fisher Hall and with symphonies across the country. Christine can be heard daily on SiriusXM Radios ON BROADWAY channel 72 (9a-3p ET Mon- Sat) playing the music of the stage and screen and interviewing theatre legends. ChristinePedi.com.


EDDIE GUTIERREZ (Paco) is overjoyed to make his Off-Broadway debut in Miss Abigail's. A native New Yorker and multi-medium performer, past projects include collaboration on new work with Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project, Nutcracker: Rated R at Theater for the New City, a workshop production of Twilight: the Musical, as well as a slew of new play readings and flash mobs. Company member of Diego Funes's De Funes Dance Company and Marinda Davis's marInspired. Eddie's own original one-man show, Loveology, debuted at NYU's Experimental Theater Wing and was then showcased in Ars Nova's ANT Fest. Much love and thanks to the Miss A team, the hard working folk at Frontier Booking Int'l, friends and family, and Bradley Dylan for helping me get this show down at light speed. B.F.A. NYU/Tisch.

 

KEN DAVENPORT (Co-Author): On Broadway, Davenport recently produced Oleanna starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Speed-the-Plow starring Raul Esparza, Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America (Tony nomination), Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury, and 13.  Ken is the only independent producer to have had three shows running simultaneously Off-Broadway - Altar Boyz (Author/Director)The Awesome 80s Prom (Co-Conceiver) and My First Time(Author/Director).  Ken was featured on a national commercial for Apple’s iPhone, named one of Crain's “Forty Under 40” in 2008, and dubbed the “P.T. Barnum of Off-Broadway” by the New York Times.   He also recently accepted the 2010 Award of Distinction from the Musical Theatre Society.  Current projects include producing the Broadway revivals of Godspell and Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, penning the musical adaptation of Somewhere In Time, and shooting a documentary on one of the top unsigned rock bands in the country – Red Wanting Blue.  Ken created and developed the AT THE BOOTH™ iPhone app which Entertainment Weekly called “the best thing to happen to theater since, well, the introduction of the TKTS® booth.”  He also runs a number of theatrical websites including Broadway’s #1 social networking site - BroadwaySpace.com.  His blog, TheProducersPerspective.com, has been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Gothamist and many others. He has written articles for Forbes, Mashable, Imedia and others.  For more, visit DavenportTheatrical.com.

SARAH SALTZBERG (Co-Author): On Broadway, Sarah Saltzberg played Logainne Schwartzandgrubenairre for two years in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She created and developed her character in C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E (upon which Spelling Bee is based), which she co-produced at the Theatorium in NYC, and appeared in both Barrington Stage productions. She most recently appeared in Fat Camp at the NYMF, and has appeared off-Broadway in JUNIE B. JONES (Lucille Lortel), in her one-woman show Dear Diary (Broadway Spotlight Series, Ars Nova), as well as throughout NYC in long-form improv comedy with the Upright Citizen's Brigade.  Sarah can be seen in the late-night Broadway themed improv show Don't Quit Your Night Job, which she co-created and co-produces, at the Julia Miles Theater (www.dontquitnyc.com).  She is also a co-artistic director of Stage 13, a theater/production company dedicated to cultivating new and original stage, web and film pieces (www.stage-13.com).