Adriana has taken on several roles in the local theatre scene; actor, director, camera operator, and stage manager. This, however, is her first role as producer, and it's been effortless with this incredibly talented cast, meticulously awesome director, and flawless stage manager. She thanks Elise for the opportunity, and hopes you enjoy the show.

Christine Lovette is delighted to return to the Ooley Theatre but this time as director. Previously, she was seen on the Ooley stage in Women's Wit & Wisdom and Workplace. Her most recent directing credit is the popular production of Rumpelstiltskin at Sutter Street Theatre starring Scott Divine. Other favorite directing credits include The Charitable Sisterhood's Christmas Spectacular and Pinocchio's Halloween Fate at the Chautauqua Playhouse, and 12 Angry Jurors at the former Actors Theatre of Sacramento. Christine wishes to thank our illustrious producer, Adriana Marmo, and Elise Hodge, Ooley Theatre's Manager and Artistic Director, for the challenge to direct this hilarious comedy complete with special effects on the the Ooley's stage.

Noël Coward Noël Peirce Coward was born in 1899 and made his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 12, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years. His breakthrough in playwriting was the controversial The Vortex (1924), which featured themes of drugs and adultery and made his name as both actor and playwright in the West End and on Broadway. During the frenzied 1920s and the more sedate 1930s, Coward wrote a string of successful plays, musicals and intimate revues including Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Easy Virtue (1926), This Year of Grace (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). His professional partnership with childhood friend Gertrude Lawrence started with Private Lives (1931), and continued with Tonight at 8.30 (1936). During World War II, he remained a successful playwright, screenwriter and director, as well as entertaining the troops and even acting as an unofficial spy for the Foreign Office. His plays during these years included Blithe Spirit, which ran for 1997 performances, outlasting the War (a West End record until The Mousetrap overtook it), This Happy Breed and Present Laughter (both 1943). His two wartime screenplays, In Which We Serve, which he co-directed with the young David Lean, and Brief Encounter, quickly became classics of British cinema. However, the post-war years were more difficult. Austerity Britain – the London critics determined – was out of tune with the brittle Coward wit. In response, Coward re-invented himself as a cabaret and TV star, particularly in America, and in 1955 he played a sell-out season in Las Vegas featuring many of his most famous songs, including "Mad About the Boy," "I’ll See You Again" and "Mad Dogs and Englishmen." In the mid-1950s he settled in Jamaica and Switzerland, and enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1960s, becoming the first living playwright to be performed by the National Theatre when he directed Hay Fever there. Late in his career he was lauded for his roles in a number of films, including Our Man In Havana (1959) and his role as the iconic Mr. Bridger alongside Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1968). Writer, actor, director, film producer, painter, songwriter, cabaret artist as well as an author of a novel, verse, essays and autobiographies, he was called by close friends "The Master." His final West End appearance was Song at Twilight in 1966, which he wrote and starred in. He was knighted in 1970 and died peacefully in 1973 in his beloved Jamaica.

Rich has long been a set designer and construction builder here in Sacramento working with professional houses as well as the community. We are so thrilled to have had him take on the daunting task of creating this set and special effects for the show!

We are thrilled to have this lovely talent working with us again at The Ooley as part of our behind the scenes crew! Kaos has worked with us on George Washington's Teeth as well as with the sketch comedy troupe The Set. She also brought her own group, Serendipity!, to our stage for a night of drag and burlesque! We appreciate all she brings to our little world.