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tis a founding member of Baby Wants Candy, toured with Second City’s National Touring Company and co-wrote and performed in two critically acclaimed reviews on Second City’s Mainstage. He co-created and starred in the NBC Comedy “Sports Action Team” and “The Venue”, which won “Best Pilot” in the Comedy Central Pilot Competition.

is Executive Producer of Baby Wants Candy and Spark Creative and served as producer/writer for Second City’s Business Theater. Emily has performed stand up comedy across the US and appeared on Comedy Central’s Tosh.0, Stand Up Live and Sports Action Team. Twitter: @Emdorezas

is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. She is a veteran of The Second City in Chicago, where she wrote and performed in five original revues. Shows include Campaign Supernova and Studs Terkel’s Not Working, for which she won a Jeff Award for Best Actress in a Revue. She also co-wrote the original musical Broads on Boards (Annoyance Theater, Chicago). She improvises regularly with Baby Wants Candy and Virgin Daiquiri.

was a musical director of the Second City National Touring Company and performs with renowned musical improv ensemble Baby Wants Candy. Jody has released three critically acclaimed solo albums and most recently launched his latest recording project, Daughter & Son. Jody also served as musical director for Cuts – An Uplifting Musical, Nicole Parker’s Suitcase Full Of Lies and Colleen McHugh’s Calendar Girl.

hails from Conyers, GA. She performs with the critically acclaimed Baby Wants Candy all around the world. Ashley is a proud Striking Viking Story Pirate and a Jeopardy! champion. She holds has a degree in Musical Theater from Webster University St. Louis and recently appeared in the NYTVF selections “Actualized” and “Sweet Misery” and in the upcoming feature film “Breakup at a Wedding”.

is a Los Angeles-based composer, songwriter and teacher. As a music director with Baby Wants Candy, he’s improvised hundreds of musicals in Chicago, around the US, and in the UK. He currently works as resident composer and music director for LA’s “30 Minute Musicals”, which produces new musicals every other month, and as music director for The Second City Hollywood. Other credits: Story Pirates LA, Second City Theatricals on Norwegian Cruise Lines. www.danwessels.com

is a Chicago-based actor, director, and singer. Rob recently directed “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” for Porchlight Music Theatre. Rob has appeared in productions at Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Asolo Rep, and the Ravinia Festival. Rob won a Jeff Award for his performance in “Oh Coward!” (Writers’ Theatre) and has performed with Baby Wants Candy in Chicago and New York.

has performed (Chicago, Titanic, Beauty And The Beast, Song & Dance, Tenderloin), choreographed (Dracula The Musical, Wrong Mountain, Titanic, Five Course Love) and directed (Soul Doctor, Music In The Night- A Tribute To Jerome Kern, Broadway By The Year 1937 and 1972) on Broadway, Off-Broadway, TV (“Law & Order Criminal Intent)”, and her regional work has won 10 Bay Area Theater Critics Awards. Upcoming: Still Will Be Heard (Peak Performances), and Exiles Cafe.

is an entrepreneur and theatrical producer. For Broadway he has been a producer of The Color Purple Musical, Legally Blonde the Musical, Superior Donuts and All My Sons, as well producing tours and international productions of The Color Purple Musical and Legally Blonde the Musical. His production company financed the Original Cast Album of Legally Blonde the Musical. Previously Mr. Asnes was a principal dancer with The Paul Taylor Dance Company, Twyla Tharp Dance and performed in the Broadway productions of Contact, Jumpers and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as well as in several television programs and films. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and is a candidate for an MBA from Columbia University. www.roundhillentertainment.com

is thrilled to be working with Dartmouth colleagues, Samuels and Asnes, in producing this wild show. With a background in law, finance, and fund raising, Brett also studied at HB Studios in NYC, and has played a number of forgettable roles in community theater productions. Mercifully for the audience, he was repeatedly denied any stage role in our show.

an Emmy Award winning producer, writer, and composer. Owns Chicago’s Apollo Theater. He was formerly a music director for Chicago’s The Second City and on the faculty of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Sample producing credits: Always Patsy Cline, Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, The Odd Couple, Menopause the Musical, The Vagina Monologues, Do the White Thing

MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS is a producing, developing and management company founded in 2005 by Eva Price, Avram Freedberg and Mary Beth Dale. Associate General Manager, Holly Sutton, joined Maximum in 2009. General Management credits include: Broadway: Colin Quinn Long Story Short Off Broadway: Forever Dusty, Voca People, The Judy Show, Colin Quinn Long Story Short, Circumcise Me, The Great American Trailer Park Musical Tour: Colin Quinn Long Story Short, The Magic School Bus, Live!, Ella, ‘S Wonderful, Strega Nona and I Love A Piano.