Cast & Creative
Alex Goodrich (Doug Simon) has just finished reprising the role of Philinte in Greasy Joan and Co's summer remount of The Misanthrope . Other Chicago credits include Mervin Oglethorpe in Smoke on the Mountain (Provision Theater), Ari in How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back? (Chicago Shakespeare), Grizzly/Balladeer in She Stoops to Conquer (Northlight) and as an actor/creator in The Building Stage's Dustbowl Gothic . He is a proud company member of Barrel of Monkeys, a group of actors and educators that teach creative writing in Chicago Public Schools and thinks that you should come to see their show That's Weird, Grandma every Monday night at the Neo-Futurarium. You will like it! He loves his wife very much!
Breon Bliss (Bud Davenport) couldn't be more excited to be in Gutenberg the Musical. Thank you Kerensa, and the rest of the team for this opportunity. Breon has recently been seen at the Theatre Building in "Rex" & also "Black, White & Gray". You may have also caught him last year as Noel in Madame X at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts or as the first man to be electrocuted in Stage Left's Electrocution. When Breon isn't bartending at the friendliest bar on earth, Friar Tuck (Broadway & Wellington) you can find him performing Shakespeare too early in the a.m. with A Crew of Patches. Breon is also a co-founder of ACP which just finished it's 5th successful year bringing full professional productions of the Bard to thousands of area High school students. Much love to my ever supportive family and friends. This ones for you my little SB!
Jamie Westberry (Understudy) is agog to be making his Chicago debut with Gutenberg. National Tours: The Producers (u/s Max, Roger, Franz); Film: New York Lately (2008); Regional: The Fantasticks, Into the Woods, Oklahoma!; Regent and Norwegian Cruise Lines (Antarctica, Barcelona). Originally from St. Simons Island, GA and a proud graduate of College of Charleston, BA in Vocal Performance. Thank you T.O. and Alex for this opportunity, and thank you Mom, Dayna and God for your undying love and support. Go dawgs!
Ian Unterman - Directing Credits: Happily Ever After (Third Man NY/LA), Shrug Like You Mean It (Kraine Theater), Glengarry Glen Ross (LiveArts), American Cure (and many more for Third Man's long running Barhopper's Series).
Assisting Alex Timbers: Gutenberg! The Musical! (59E59, Actor's Playhouse), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (Les Freres/NYTW).
Acting Credits: Recent NY Theater - Johnny Applefucker (Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theater), Hell House (St. Anne's Warehouse), Bloody Mary (CSV/Third Man), Heddatron (HERE), The Wikipedia Plays (Ars Nova), Pearl (Rattlestick), Second Amendment Club (West End Theater), Masterpiece Theater (Ontological-Hysteric), and countless short plays and musicals for Third Man's long running Barhopper's Series.
Regional: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (CTG), Williamstown Theater Festival (5 Seasons) including Romeo & Juliet, On the Razzle, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Dance Dance Revolution, Big Love, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Never Swim Alone, Cyrano, Cabaret (Culbreth Theater), Shakespeare's R&J (LiveArts), Cloud 9 (LiveArts).
Film/TV: Numb3rs, Missionary Positions (FX), Kill The Day (2008 GenArt Festival), I Graduated But… (2007 Tribeca Tropfest - Official Selection), Pretty Much Fiction (Redux Films), as well as National Commercials for Hummer (TBS funniest commercials of 2006) and Fed Ex (Voted Second Best Commercial in Superbowl XLII) among others.
Ian is an Artistic Associate of Les Freres Corbusier and a founding member of Third Man.
Alex Timbers is an OBIE Award-winning director and Artistic Director of Les Freres Corbusier. Recent Directing credits include: underground (BAM; International Tour), Hell House (Drama Desk nom.- Unique Theatrical Experience; St. Ann's Warehouse), Gutenberg! The Musical! (Drama Desk nom.- Best Director of a Musical), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Center Theatre Group, LA), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (OBIE Award, New York Theatre Workshop; two Garland Awards including Best Director, Los Angeles), Boozy (also writer; "Ten Best of 2005" by the New York Daily News and Time Out New York), Heddatron. Workshops: Disney Theatricals, Playwrights Horizons, New York Stage and Film, Sh-K-Boom Records. Directing Fellowships: Williamstown, Drama League, Sundance.
Scott Brown, author, has appeared in several shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. He originated the role of "Bud Davenport" in the New York and London premiere of the show. Brown, as well as co-author Anthony King, was nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! Offstage, Brown writes articles and reviews for Entertainment Weekly and Time.
Anthony King, author, has performed solo shows including Chosen at the New York City International Fringe Festival and DAY 8: Take Complete Control at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. On television, King has been featured on "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn" and MTV's "Human Giant." He has starred in the Comedy Central Motherload show "All Access: Middle Ages." King's regional and New York City directing credits include 1940s Radio Hour, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Chorus Line, as well as many new shows including The Patriots (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival), Who's Your Daddy? (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), God's Pottery (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Listen Kid (NYMF 2005) and Mister (starring Anthony Rapp). He has written for GQ and Entertainment Weekly. King is currently the Artistic Director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York where he also performs every Saturday night in the improvised comedy show REUBEN WILLIAMS: As Seen on TV.
Musical Director & Arranger T.O. Sterrett's Broadway credits include Pianist, Keyboards and Assistant Conductor for Wicked, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar (Revival), and the world-renowned Dance of the Vampires. He has been the Conductor/Music Director for Mos Def, Tommy Tune, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Liz Callaway, Katey Sagal, S. Epatha Merkerson, Stephanie Pope, Bobby Cannavale, among others. He has numerous performance credits in Carnegie Hall with Shirley Bassey. Sterrett is the composer for the PBS series "Great Projects: The Building of America," "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann," many other films. He is currently composing a musical theatre show with producer and writer Brian Hargrove.
John Pinckard, producer. As an inaugural recipient of the prestigious T. Edward Hambleton Fellowship for gifted commercial producers, John Pinckard is developing a new Broadway musical under the mentorship of Broadway legend Hal Prince. Prior to this, John had back to back successes at the New York International Fringe Festival: in 2005 with Silence! theMusical, the best selling show in Fringe Festival history (Outstanding Musical, FringeNYC; "Silence! is Golden," Variety, 25 Aug, 2005); and in 2006 with the return engagement of Never Swim Alone, which Jason Zinoman at the New York Times dubbed "a triumph." ;
Gutenberg! The Musical is John's Chicago producing debut, but his relationship to Chicago theatre--and the Royal George--goes back several years; his producing debut was the New York premiere of the Chicago hit Verbatim Verboten, which played the Royal George in the summer of 2004. Other noteworthy credits include the US premiere of Michael MacLennan's The Shooting Stage at The Culture Project in NYC (as director/producer), and over one hundred shows as lighting designer.
John has served on the faculty of the University of Florida and has guest lectured at universities and colleges across the southeast. He is charter member of the board of directors of the League of Independent Theatre, a service organization for 99-seat theatres and Off Off Broadway theatre companies dedicated to preserving and advancing the well-being and influence of the independent and experimental theatre community in the cultural life of New York City and the nation.