Cast & Creative Team
GRAHAM STUART ALLEN (Tim /D.A./FBI Man #1/Kramer) a native of Maine, was raised on an organic farm without a television and high speed internet that stopped a mile down the road from his house - you can imagine the enlightenment he has experienced since moving to NYC. Graham has performed regionally with North Shore Music Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Alabama Shakespeare, TheatreWorksUSA, among others. Favorite roles include Valentine, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Robbie Fay, A Man of No Importance; Jerry and Peter, The Zoo Story; Joey Percival, Misalliance; Patrick Dennis, Mame. Training: Alabama Shakespeare Festival MFA/PAT program.
FRANK BLOCKER's (Larry Parrish/Make-up Man/Cop/Memphis Reporter) Off-Broadway credits include Eula Mae's Beauty, Bait & Tackle and Southern Gothic Novel (Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance). Other NY credits: The Beggar's Opera (Peachum), Don Quixote (the last Don), and West/East Village Fragments (their Obie!) with Peculiar Works Project, Berkoff's Fall of the House of Usher, Brecht's Edward II, and Forbidden Kiss: The Erotica Series. Playwriting includes Eula Mae's., Novel., Patient Number, The Wisconsinners, book to the musical Alice (w/ William Wade) and two new solo shows: Fearless Moral Inventory and Good Jew running October/November 2010. He publishes the short play/monologue series Stage THIS! and operates playwritingopportunities.com.
CHELSEA CIPOLLA (Understudy) is a Connecticut native and a recent graduate of Emerson College in Boston, where she received a BA in Acting. Chelsea has worked with Hartford Stage (director, Michael Wilson), Theatre for a New Audience (director, Robert Woodruff) and with many theatres located at The Boston Center for the Arts. Past favorite roles include Belle in A Christmas Carol, Van's Sister in Dog Sees God, Rosalind in As You Like It. Chelsea is also a College Audition Coach and is the founder of My College Audition (mycollegeaudition.com).
LORI GARDNER (Linda Lovelace) New York/Off-Broadway credits include work at Abingdon Theatre, York Theatre, Culture Project, EST, The 52nd Street Project, HB Studios, Women's Project, Queens Theatre in the Park, Vital Theatre, Access Theater, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Artspower, Looking Glass Theatre, Tribeca Performing Arts Festival. Favorite regional credits: No Exit (Estelle), The Underpants (Louise), A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche), You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Lucy), Cabaret (Sally), She Loves Me (Amalia), South Pacific (Nellie). BFA (cum laude), Miami University (OH).
STEPHEN HOPE (Keating/Vito/Judge/Memphis Reporter) has performed on Broadway in Joseph.Dreamcoat (Orig. B'way), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Versions 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and Nat'l Tour), and Off-Broadway in Ascension (Lion Theatre), Fairy Tales (WPA Theatre), Dames At Sea (25th Anniversary prod.) and most recently in Civil War Voices (Midtown Theatre Festival). He has been seen regionally in productions of Barnum (PT Barnum), The Exonerated (Kerry Max Cook), Ruthless! The Musical (Sylvia St. Croix) My One and Only (Billy Chandler), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Panch). Film work includes No Place Like Home, Just One Hour, and Circus Freaks.
JOHN-CHARLES KELLY (Gerard Damiano/Cop/Allen Ginsburg/Memphis Reporter) appeared on Broadway in A Christmas Carol directed by Mike Okrent (original cast and recording). NYC: Floyd Collins and The Sisters Rosensweig, Gallery Players. National Tours: The Light in the Piazza, Victor/Victoria, They're Playing Our Song, and Annie. Int'l: West Side Story, Bubbling Brown Sugar, and CATS as Gus/Growltiger in German! Regionally: Twenty productions at Walnut Street including Into the Woods, Big River, and Hairspray. World premiere of Yeston/Kopit's Phantom at Theatre Under the Stars, where he also played Buddy in Follies opposite Juliet Prowse and Judy Kaye. Seventy productions as a resident actor at Maine State including Sweeney Todd, 1776, Chicago and La Cage aux Folles twice. Recently played Pickering in My Fair Lady at MSMT and Hilton Head, and appeared at Goodspeed, Coconut Grove, Parker Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO and Barrington Stage. Film/TV includes The Guru, "Sex and the City," and Wall Street. John-Charles began in Las Vegas as a singer with Mitzi Gaynor, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, and Ann-Margret. Not bad for a guy who hails from Mill City, Oregon, population 1500. Proud member of AEA since 1973.
MALCOLM MADERA's (Harry Reems) Off Broadway credits include Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side (PS122 and Theatre 80), Al's Business Cards (Theatre Row), Somewhere In The Pacific (Atlantic Stage 2). Malcolm trained in London at the Drama Studio London where roles included the title role in Macbeth, Demetrius in A Midsummer Nights Dream, and Maj. Ross/Ketch in Our Country's Good. While in London Malcolm performed at the Old Vic in the OVNV 24 Hour Plays. Malcolm is a company member of At Play and The Amoralists.
RITA REHN's (Shana Babcock/Mona/Woman in Aud./Cashier/Memphis Reporter) Broadway credits include the Tony Award-winning revival of Nine, A Chorus Line, Royal Family (with Rosemary Harris); Tour: Tale of the Allergist's Wife (with Valerie Harper). Off-Broadway: Marsha Norman's Last Dance (with Jo Beth Williams); John Patrick Shanley's Defiance (with Stephen Lang); Charles Busch's Our Leading Lady; Misalliance, Hamlet (NY Classical Theatre). Regional: Patsy in Always Patsy Cline; Sylvia; As Bees in Honey Drown (Best Actress, NJ Theatre Critics); And the World Goes Round (Best Featured Actress, NJ Theatre Critics); Humbug (first female Scrooge); Catch Me If You Can (with Jamie Farr); Clifford Odet's The Big Knife (with Robert Beltran and Miguel Sandoval). She has also performed with Marion Ross, Burt Reynolds, Estelle Harris, Sergio Franchi, Robbie Benson and Raul Julia. Many commercials and voice work. www.ritarehn.com
ZACH WEGNER's (Chuck Traynor/Cop #1/FBI #2/Tony Dill) New York theatre credits include Rich Boyfriend (New Group), A Slight Ache and The Lover (Cellar Door). Regional: The Skin of Our Teeth (Bristol Riverside), Never the Sinner (TheatreWorks). Also workshops & readings at Lincoln Center, LAByrinth, and Steppenwolf. TV: "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." He's a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf & The British American Drama Academy.
DAVID BERTOLINO (Playwright/Executive Producer) Born and raised in the Boston area, David Bertolino became intrigued with theater while operating Boston Costume for over 25 years, a landmark theatrical super store catering to theater in Boston. He created his first theatrical venture, SPOOKYWORLD, a Halloween theme park that ran 14 years and showcased the talent of over 200 actors each evening. Guest stars included Linda Blair, Elvira, Alice Cooper, Robert Englund, Willard Scott, Bill Mahar, and Jerry Springer, among others. David also produced the comeback career of Tiny Tim; presenting Tiny's wedding live on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" from SPOOKYWORLD. He also hosted an episode of MTV's "The Real World" at the venue and helped launch careers for dozens of special effects directors and technicians. Bertolino eventually partnered with the New England Patriots Football Team helping SPOOKYWORLD to sell over a million tickets while under Bertolino's reign. The Deep Throat Sex Scandal is Bertolino's first venture into New York Theater and he's honored to be here.
JERRY DOUGLAS (Director) A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Douglas attended Drake University and completed his graduate work at the Yale School of Drama. He began his career as an assistant to Herman Shumlin on Spofford (produced by Zev Bufman). Among the Broadway and Off-Broadway plays he has written and/or directed are Rondelay,, Circle in the Water, Score (where he discovered Sylvester Stallone, getting him his Equity card), Tubstrip, and Max's Millions. He also wrote the screenplay for Radley Metzger's film version of Score. In the early 1970s he directed two films, The Back Row and Both Ways, and then began to focus on a career as a free-lance journalist for such publications as The Advocate and Manshots. Among his more recent films are More of a Man, Kiss-Off, Honorable Discharge, Flesh & Blood, Dream Team, and BuckleRoos.
ERNIE FIMBRES (Production Stage Manager) Some regional credits include 40 is the New 15 (Los Angeles), The Kid From Brooklyn (LA/Chicago), Nate the Great (NYC, Nat'l Tour), Death of a Salesman (LA), Frost and Fire-A Dance Concert (LA), La Philharmonic Tchaikovsky Concert (LA, Disney Hall, Maestro Alexander Mickelthwate), Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island, The Musical. Thank you to Jim, Sharon, Santiago, Brian, my family and, of course, Goodness. Ernie is a proud member of Actor's Equity.
JEREMY NEAL (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be playing with "Deep Throat" Typically, you can find Jeremy on stage. Past credits include:Nate the Great: a new musical, YaGM, CB (Schroeder), The Miracle Worker, presented by The Helen Keller Foundation (James Keller) and others. Other credits include: indie films, cabarets, and a recent appearance on "The Good Wife" (CBS). Proud member of AEA. Many thanks to family, Jerry, Ernie, Tim, friends and for you, "the bird is the word". www.jeremynealonline.yolasite.com
JOSH IACOVELLI (Set Design) is an actor and has also been designing sets and stage managing Off-Broadway productions for the past ten years. He is the in-house T.D. for the Players Theatre, St. Luke's Theatre,and the Actors Temple Theatre here in NYC. Recent design credits include Zero Hour, Danny and Sylvia, Lansky, At War! Don't Leave It All to the Children, Black Angels over Tuskeegee, A Christmas Carol, Cabaret, The Rise of Dorothy Hale, Eightballs, The Selfish Giant, At War, Give 'Em Hell,Harry! and Annulla. Josh has a B.A. from Stockton College and an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School University. For his Brothers- JAI
JEFFREY WALLACH (Costume Design) designed his first NYC production,Angel, Baby, Honey, Darling, Dear, at 62 East 4th St (NYTE) in 1979. In 1981, he made costumes for designer Eddie Heath for A Girl's Best Friend and Devil and Miss Jones II, my intro to pornographic films. Since then he has worked in every aspect of theatre and film design, event planning and production and entertainment extravaganzas, including Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Studio 54, NYTW (Costume Shop Manager), Off-Broadway (most recently, Made In Heaven), drag queens, amusement parks, Brooks van Horn, AMCAN Feather, 7th on Sixth Fashion Week and working wardrobe on Broadway. "So here I am, 31 years later, working 2 blocks from where I started, making costumes for a show about porno. Everything old is new again."
GRAHAM KINDRED (Lighting Design) is pleased to be working with the fine folks on this exciting project. His Off-Broadway credits include Danny and Sylvia, Lansky, The Rise of Dorothy Hale (St. Luke's), Darrow (45th Street Theater), Motherload (Sage Theater), Wasps In Bed (Beckett Theater), Retzach (59E59), Trolls (Actors Playhouse), Picon Pie (Lambs Theater), Uncle Jacque's Symphony (SoHo Playhouse), Roman Nights (DR-2). Regional includes Stones in His Pockets (Florida Rep), I Got Merman (Majestic Theater, Dallas), Suddenly Hope (Denver Civic Center), Two Small Bodies, Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage and Expectations (Stamford Center for the Arts). He is currently an adjunct professor of lighting design at Pace University and holds an MFA from Temple University.
A2K PRODUCTIONS, LLC (Projection Design) is a film and television production house founded by Adam Karsten. They produce feature and documentary films, television projects and high-end corporate videos. Some of their award-winning films include Miss Swiss, Ed. L., Shy of Serenity, and Bored of Education. In addition to their media campaigns for Tweety Jewelry and SAGE NYC they have recently produced and directed corporate and television campaigns for Cengage Learning, Deutsche Bank, California Closets and Sprint PCS.
PHILLIP RUDY (Sound Design) studied Theatre Arts at Baylor University. NY/Off B'way: Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, Together This Time, The Seafarer, Hidden Sky, Sheer Madness; Chicago: The Wedding Singer, Wait Until Dark, Lend Me a Tenor, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Tours: The Killers, The Village People, Walking With Dinosaurs! Resident Sound Designer/Engineer with Capital Rep, Timberlake Playhouse, and Royal Caribbean. Thanks to his parents who always helped him land on his feet. All his love to Francisca. philliprudydesign.com
GREG HIRSCH (Production Manager) His multifaceted career includes over 300 productions. Theatre: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Ann-Margret, 20th anniversary tour of Evita, the Robert Goulet and Richard Kiley tours of Man of La Mancha, King of Hearts, Stop the World... I Want to Get Off starring Sammy Davis, Jr., Odyssey/Home Sweet Homer starring Yul Brynner, IDAHO!, Mimi Le Duck, Machiavelli, The Molly Maguires, RFK, Dr. Sex, Trolls and The Marijuana-Logues. As a lighting designer he received an Emmy, a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle and two Drama-Logue awards. Opera: Director of Production for San Diego Opera, Portland Opera, Dallas Opera and Tulsa Opera.
DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Press Representatives) also represents the long running Off-Broadway hits The Awesome 80s Prom, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Naked Boys Singing!,and Zero Hour, and as well as Electric Pear, INTAR, KEEN Company, Mint Theater, Woodie Kings New Federal Theatre, New World Stages, Red Bull THeater, Stage Entertainment US, and upcoming, the Broadway revivals of Godspell and A Few Good Men. David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, The Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers. http://www.davidgersten.com/
FOSTER ENTERTAINMENT (General Manager) Foster Entertainment produces and manages Broadway, Off Broadway, concerts and tours. Highlights include: Broadway: "Slava's Snowshow" (2009 Tony nomination), "Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway" (2007 Tony nomination); Carnegie Hall: "Jerry Springer: The Opera starring Harvey Keitel," "Rufus Wainwright Sings Judy Garland" (plus London Palladium, Paris Olympia, Hollywood Bowl, 2009 Grammy nomination), "Family Guy Sings!," "Kiki & Herb will Die For You," "Wainwright Christmas Hour" with Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Lou Reed, Antony, Jimmy Fallon and Emmy-lou Harris; Off Broadway: "Slava's Snowshow," "Puppetry of the Penis," "21 Dog Years," "Sing-a-Long Sound of Music." Current tours: "Slava's Snowshow" (Australia & New Zealand), "Puppetry of the Penis" (Canada, USA), and a constant stream of comedy concert tours in Australia, and internationally.
CARRIE SIEGEL SHEERIN (Webmaster/Social Media) Carrie created and maintains The Deep Throat Sex Scandal website as well as manages the Facebook and Twitter accounts. When away from the theater world, Carrie operates HalloweenMart, the Internet's First Online Halloween Store. Carrie has truly enjoyed watching this play come to life on stage!
MARILYN CHAMBERS (in memoriam) As part of David Bertolino's research, he had extensive conversations with Marilyn Chambers regarding the composite character of Shana Babcock. He was thrilled that she was willing to accept the part and join the stage production. Despite her untimely passing, her estate asked us to be the guardian of her ashes which will be located on the stage inside the Ivory Snow box. Marilyn's wish has come true, appearing nightly in The Deep Throat Sex Scandal.
WILLIAM "BILL" MARGOLD (Creative Consultant) is an Adult Film actor, director and activist. He is a former director of the Free Speech Coalition and was a co-founder of F.O.X.E and PAW Foundation, the charity for the welfare of adult film performers. Bill has a STAR in front of The Hustler Store in Hollywood, is a LEGEND OF EROTICA, and also is a Pioneer Member in THE XRCO Hall of Fame.www.billmargold.com
RON JEREMY (Creative Consultant) is an Adult Film actor who has starred in more than 1200 films to date. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", or earlier in his career "The Charlie Chaplin of Porn Films", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. Jeremy has also appeared in mainstream films, such as The Boondock Saints, The Chase, Orgazmo, and 54.
