Cast for Zoom Reading
February 8th, 2024
Richard Blake
(Valedes)
Richard H. Blake – Broadway: A Bronx Tale, Jersey Boys, Wicked, Legally Blonde, The Wedding Singer, Hairspray, Aida, Saturday Night Fever, Rent, Matilda, The Sound of Music, Macbeth, Teddy and Alice and “The Prince” in The Prince of Central Park. A role for which he holds the honor of being the youngest person to ever have his name above the title of a Broadway Show. His Film and T.V. credits include: Life of an Actress, The Factory, Any Day Now, The Second Wave, Prodigal Son Blue Bloods, HBO’s High Maintenance, Instinct, Dietland, Kevin Can Wait, Elementary, All My Children, The Babysitter’s Club and more. As well as Numerous Off Broadway, Commercial and Radio credits.
Chris Tiereeny
(Eminence Maldor/ Director)
Christopher started his career working for fosse and Chicago dance icon Lou Conte dancing with the internationally Renowned American contemporary company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. There he collaborated with Legends Ohad Naharin, Daniel Ezralow, Jiri Kylian and Twyla Tharp. As a core creative associate, and multitudinou performer/actor brought to life the film ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, and the Original broadway Production of SPIDERMAN: TURN OFF THE DARK, both directed by Julie Taymor. Off broadway credits include, I am the Wind, as The One, and Claudia Rankins masterpiece premiere at the Shed, HELP. He is embedded in many more projects, productions, plays and the sort, past and future, and is very happy and grateful to be here with you.
Tori Feinstein
(Nya)
Tori Feinstein - Theater: Matilda the Musical (Matilda) - Broadway and 1st Broadway National Tour, How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Cindy-Lou Who) – Madison Square Garden, Bright Star (Clair/Kimmy) – Powerhouse Theatre, DADA WOOF PAPA HOT (Voice of Nicola) – Lincoln Center, By Wheel and By Wing (Tonia). Film: Dovid Meyer (Judy Kalman), Hello, I Must Be Going (Caley), Arthur. TV: The Other Two (Rachel Klein), Bubble Guppies (Oona), Chuggington (Toot), 3rd & Bird (Muffin), 30 Rock (Liddy), Small Miracles (Desiree Gill), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sesame Street, NBC’s New Year’s Eve. Recordings: How The Grinch Stole Christmas Cast Album, Broadway’s Carols For A Cure Album, I Have A Voice – Broadway Kids Against Bullying single. Instagram @officialtorifeinstein
Jim Stanek
(Shergund)
Jim Stanek - Broadway: Fun Home; A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder; The Story Of My Life; Lestat; Little Women; The Rivals; *A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum; Indiscretions. Off-Broadway includes: Help!; An Enchanted April; *Goldstein; Freud's Last Session; Jacques Brel...; I Love You,You’re Perfect, Now Change; *Frankenstein. Film: Bella; Murder, He Squeaked; Borough Of Kings. TV: Blue Bloods; Mr. Robot; The Good Wife. Cast Recordings: Marked w/ *. Education: CMU. Inspiration: Beth and our 3 boys.
Paige Davis
(Eldar Marika)
Broadway: Boeing-Boeing (Gloria), Chicago (Roxie Hart). National tours: Sweet Charity (Charity), Chicago (Roxie), The Vagina Monologues, Beauty and the Beast (Babette). International tour: Chicago. Favorite Regional: God in An Act Of God at Arizona Theater Company (Directed by Marsha Mason), title role in Hello, Dolly at Pioneer Theatre Company, the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone at Pittsburgh CLO, and the title role in Mame at North Shore Music Theater. Senga in the world premiere of Dancing Lessons at Barrington Stage Co., and again at TheaterWorks in Hartford, Maria in The Sound of Music at Pittsburgh CLO, April in Company at Missouri Repertory Theater, Val in A Chorus Line at Austin Music Theater, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chicago Cultural Center. Television: Hosted Home and Family, a new series for the Hallmark Channel, and she is the Emmy Award-nominated for hosting Home Made Simple on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Audiences know her best as the effervescent star of Trading Spaces, TV’s Emmy-nominated groundbreaking design-reality show. Ms. Davis’ book, Paige by Paige, A Year of Trading Spaces, spent several weeks at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list. She is married Broadway’s favorite villain, Patrick Page.
Hayley Brooke Feinstein
(Talany)
Hayley Brooke Feinstein - Theater: Fiddler on the Roof (Bielke) – Broadway, Shrek The Musical (Young Fiona/Young Shrek/Grumpy) - 1st Broadway National Tour, The Nine Fathers of Ariel (Ariel), By Wheel and By Wing (Clara), A Little Princess (Becky), Tough Mother (Andrea), Rumpelstiltskin (Dragon/Gwendolyn). Film: Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. TV: 3rd & Bird (Rudy), Louie, Sesame Street, NBC’s New Year’s Eve, Tony Awards. Recordings: Fiddler on the Roof Broadway Cast Album, Broadway’s Carols For a Cure Album, Songwriters’ Forum – Volume I and Volume II Albums, and Polar Express Album, I Have A Voice – Broadway Kids Against Bullying single. Instagram @hayleybrookeofficial
Bryn Sentnor
(Calla)
Bryn Sentnor is beyond delighted to be a part of Taking Wing and its development! Other favorite roles include Ernie in a staged reading of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles and Winnifred in Once Upon A Mattress. Bryn is from St. Louis, MO and is currently pursuing a BFA in Acting and a music minor at Millikin University.
Kaylee Forth
(Seren)
TBA
Michael Daly
(Kaklin)
Michael Daly appeared in the first “post-Madonna” New York production of David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow, and has appeared in HBO’s The Undoing (with Hugh Grant) and the WB miniseries Gotham among others. Regionally, he has worked at the Florida Studio Theatre, having performed in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare… Abridged as well as the two-actor comic version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Other credits include Pericles and Greater Tuna (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), Peter Pan and Windy City (Walnut Street Theater) and the title role in Macbeth (Southwest Shakespeare in Mesa, AZ). Other regional favorites include Capitol Rep in Albany, NY, as well as several seasons at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. In December 2024, Michael will be appeared in Faith Healer by Brian Friel at the Schoolhouse Theater in Westchester, NY. He holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.
Monica Blaze Leavitt
(Freet)
Monica Blaze Leavitt - an Artistic Founding Member of the award winning theatre company, Transport Group, has been seen in TG's Off Broadway Productions of The Audience, All the Way Home, Requiem for William and Our Town. Monica has originated roles in over 30 new and workshopped plays from all over the world. With an MFA in Acting from the University of Virginia, she has been an actress, director, fight director, dialect coach and voice & diction coach in NYC for over twenty five years. For more information about Monica please visit her website www.monicablazeleavitt.com
Kaleigh Cronin
(Stage Directions)
Kaleigh Cronin is so excited to be part of this awesome project! Broadway: "Cabaret" (Lulu/Two Ladies), "A Bronx Tale", "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" (Giorgio Moroder), and "Mrs. Doubtfire." National Tour: "Jersey Boys" (Lorraine). Regional: Sacramento Music Circus' "The Drowsy Chaperone" (Janet Van de Graaff) MT Wichita's "Sunset Boulevard" (Betty Schaefer). Television: Two year cast member of PBSKids' emmy award winning, "ZOOM." She is grateful to have been brought on board and to witness first hand what the future of theater looks like! @kaleigh_cronin
Nat Kelley DiMario
(Stage Manager)
Nat Kelley DiMario is a queer & trans stage manager, nerd, and lover of fantasy and fandom. With a passion for unconventional storytelling only fed more by the popular emergence of virtual theatre, Nat’s most recent work has been with the TheaterMaker’s Summit, and New Ohio Theatre’s Journey Around My Bedroom. Their other past projects include Airline Highway, Ragtime, The Moon and the Wolf: an Original Myth, The Wolves, and Head Over Heels. Nat holds a BA in Theatre Design and Production from Fordham University. natkelleydimario.com