Playwright
Charles Busch

Director
Carl Andress

Cast
Charles Busch (Baba Yaga/Queenie Bartlett)
Scott Parkinson (Zygote)
Sarah Rafferty (Vasalisa/Verna/Miss Tinsley)
Jennifer Van Dyck (Constance Hudson)
Jonathan Walker (Drew/Steve)
Kathleen Turner (Peg/Dr. Rutenspitz)

CHARLES BUSCH (Playwright/Baba Yaga/Queenie Bartlett) is the author and star of such plays as The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, which ran five years and is one of the longest running plays in Off Broadway history. His play The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife ran for 777 performances on Broadway and received a Tony nomination for Best Play. He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, Mr. Busch received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright. Mr. Busch made his directorial debut with the film A Very Serious Person, which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. He is also the subject of the documentary film The Lady in Question is Charles Busch.

CARL ANDRESS (Director) Directing credits include: Die Mommie Die!
(NewWorld Stages); Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo’s A Wonderful Life
(Shubert Theater - named one of TIME Magazine's Best in Theater 2005); Charles Busch & Julie Halston: Together on Broadway (Music Box Theater); Douglas Carter Beane’s The Cartells (Drama Dept.); Shanghai Moon (Drama Dept., Bay Street Theater, Theater for the New City); The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Paper Mill Playhouse; Coconut Grove Playhouse; Royal Poinciana Playhouse); Crush the Infamous Thing (Coconut Grove Playhouse); Carmen Pelaez’s Rum & Coke (Abingdon Theater Co.); J.A.P. Chronicles – The Musical (Perry Street Theater); Queen Amarantha (WPA Theater); Times Square Angel (Theater for the New City); It's Not My Fault, It Was On Fire When I Got There (FringeNYC/Theater for the New City); TRUE COLORS (Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center); Broadway for Medicine (NY City Center); Literacy Partners Annual Gala (NY State Theater). Also, co-writer and co-star of the independent feature, A Very Serious Person (Tribeca Film Festival).

SCOTT PARKINSON (Zygote) most recently appeared as Zygote in the world
premiere of The Third Story at La Jolla Playhouse. Broadway: The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center). Off Broadway: Tynan in Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street), Rose Rage (Drama League nomination, Ensemble/ Chicago Shakespeare at the Duke Theatre); Raskolnikov in Crime & Punishment (Writers’ Theatre at 59E59).  Regional: Treplev in Seagull, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (Old Globe); Cassius in Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, and The Persians (Shakespeare Theatre); The School For Scandal (Mark Taper Forum); Theophilus North (Dorset Theatre Festival); and Prince Hal in Henry IV (Pennsylvania Shakespeare).  Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, and Northlight Theatre.  Other roles include: Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, Iago, the Fool, Puck, Octavius Caesar, Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Marchbanks in Candida, Dubedat in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Prior in Angels in America, Nathan in Guys and Dolls.  Joseph Jefferson Award, Rose Rage. He is a featured interview in the book North American Players of Shakespeare, published by University of Delaware Press.

SARAH RAFFERTY (Vasalisa/Verna/Miss Tinsley) In New York, Sarah has
appeared Off-Broadway in ‘Gemini’ at Second Stage and ‘You Never Can Tell’
at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Regionally she has appeared in numerous productions at South Coast Repertory Theatre, including the premiere of Horton Foote’s ‘Getting Frankie Married—and Afterwards’. Other credits include productions at The Old Globe, The Huntington Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, Yale Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage, The Philadelphia Theatre Co, and Shakespeare and Company where she played Rosalind in ‘As You Like It’. She has also performed several radio plays produced by L.A. Theatre Works for NPR’s “The Play’s the Thing”. Her television credits include the movie ‘What if God where the Sun?” opposite Gena Rowlands; “Samantha Who?”; “Without a Trace”; “Six Feet Under”; “CSI” and “CSI-Miami”; “Pepper Dennis” and “Good Morning, Miami”. She recently finished shooting the film “Four Single Fathers” produced by Gabriele Muccino. Sarah is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama.

JENNIFER VAN DYCK (Constance Hudson) Broadway: Hedda Gabler, Dancing
at Lughnasa, Two ShakespeareanActors, The Secret Rapture. Off-Broadway:
Suzan Lori-Parks’ 365Days/365Plays (Barrow St./The Public), Orson’s Shadow (Barrow St.), TheBreadwinner,The Second Man (Keen Company), Hesh (Naked Angels), A Cheever Evening, Man in His Underwear, Gus and Al (all at Playwrights Horizons), Earth and Sky (Second Stage). New plays by Bathsheba Doran, Karen Zacarias, Keith Bunin, Ellen McLaughlin, Catherine Filloux, Douglas Post. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Huntington, Trinity Rep,
Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival. TV: Fringe, New Amsterdam, Law & Order (numerous guest appearances on all versions), Ed, The Education of Max Bickford, Spin City. Film: Michael Clayton, Across the Universe, Stealing Martin
Lane, Series 7, States of Control, Bullets Over Broadway.

JONATHAN WALKER (Drew/Steve) Broadway: 20th Century, After the Fall. Off Broadway: Deathbed (Mcginn/Cazale); Strangers Knocking (New Group); Angelique (MCC); Dinner With Friends (Variety Arts); When She Danced, An Imaginary Life, Waterchildren and Fran’s Bed (Playwright's Horizons); Everybody's Ruby, Found A Peanut (The Public Theater) The American Plan (MTC); The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria (La Mama); How the Rent Gets Paid (Wooster Group).  Regional: The Third Story (La Jolla); Hamlet, King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing, (Old Globe); Baltimore Waltz (Yale Repertory); Long Days Journey Into Night (Huntington Theater); Not Suitable For Children (The McCarter); Sons of Ulster (Williamstown Theater Festival); Cheever Evening (Westport Playhouse).  Film: Michael Clayton, Malevolence 2, People I Know, Heights, Far From Heaven.  TV: “Eli Stone,” “6 Degrees,” “3 Lbs,” “Sex and the City,” “Ed,” “Chapelle’s Show,” “Cupid and Cate,” “Spin City,” “American Dreams,” lots of “Law and Order.”

KATHLEEN TURNER (Peg/Dr. Rutenspitz) Veteran actor Kathleen Turner
has garnered critical acclaim for her performances in a wide variety of film
and theatre.  Turner was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in Body Heat.  She won a Golden Globe Award for her performances in Romancing the Stone and Prizzi’s Honor.  Her work in Peggy Sue Got Married brought her both an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination, and she earned yet another Golden Globe nomination for War of the Roses.  In 2008, Turner wrote of her many accomplishments and life experiences in her autobiography titled Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on my Life, Love, and Leading Roles. The book, co-authored by Gloria Feldt, secured a position on the New York Times Best-Seller List.  Turner’s extensive film credits include the critically acclaimed The Virgin Suicides directed by Sofia Coppola, The Man with Two Brains with Steve Martin; Jewel of the Nile with Michael Douglas; Crimes of Passion; The Accidental Tourist; V.I. Warshawski; John Water’s Serial Mom; Naked in New York; and Moonlight and Valentino.  It is impossible to forget Turner’s standout performance as the sultry voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who framed Roger Rabbit?  In addition to her thriving film career, Turner frequently returns to live theater. In 2008 she directed the Roundabout Theatre Company's off Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize Winning play "Crimes of the Heart." In 2007 she received London's coveted Evening Standard and London Critics Circle awards and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for the West End production of Edward Albee’s modern classic “Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?”, having been nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play during the play's acclaimed run on Broadway.  In the fall of 2000, Turner broke box-office records starring in the stage version of the classic film “The Graduate” in London’s West End,. playing the role of Mrs. Robinson.  In 2002 she took “The Graduate” to Broadway.  In 1998, she made her British stage debut at the Chichester Festival Theater, which was founded by Sir Laurence Olivier.  Recently, Kathleen worked with Michael Lessac who directed Turner as Tallulah Bankhead in Sandra Ryan Heyward’s one-woman show Tallulah -- which she toured in across the U.S.  Turner starred on Broadway in Jean Cocteau’s Indiscretions. Other stage works include her portrayal of Maggie the Cat, in the 1989 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broadway’s production of Gemini, and Camille at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut.  Turner also starred in Travesties, The Seagull, Toyer, and A Midsumer’s Night Dream at the prestigious Arena Stage in Washington D.C.  In addition to her film and stage work Kathleen Turner continues to give back. She is an ambassador for Planned Parenthood and also sits on the boards for City Meals on Wheels, People for the American Way, Childhelp and the Ms. Foundation. She speaks across the country on behalf of these various causes.  Kathleen Turner is a Missouri native, but was raised in Canada, Cuba and England where her father was a diplomat.