CAST
SAM EISENBAUM
(Barry)
Sam Eisenbaum is an actor, director, and creator based in Wappingers Falls, NY. A Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Live Actor” honoree, his recent international credits include Willy Wonka in Turkey and Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) in Saudi Arabia. Regional credits include Rebel Without a Cause and Young Frankenstein. He's jazzed to have worked with Ira to craft Barry Schleckman. Contact: sam.eisenbaum@gmail.com
DEBORAH GEFNER
(Ruthie)
Deborah got her start as a Broadway actor. She now plays authoritative, intimidating women--the casting director in MaXXXine, the PR consultant on The Morning Show, the headmistress in Mad Men. Her first break came when Bob Fosse plucked her from the cast of A Chorus Line to play Victoria in All That Jazz. Deborah dubs projects for Netflix, Disney and Amazon, and voices scripted podcasts like Andrew Garfield’s in Under the Silver Lake, and the grandmother of President Obama in Southside With You.
LEXI LANGTRY
(Greta)
Lexi is a voice actress and singer based in San Francisco. A Michigan native, Lexi was inspired by the cartoons that played on the television each morning before school. She has since been featured in up-and-coming musicals, indie animations, audio dramas, and video game soundtracks!
VALERIANA QUEVEDO
(Rosaline)
A native San Franciscan, Valeriana Quevedo was born into a show biz family and taught in the home to sing, dance and be rhythmic from a very early age. She's performed extensively in the US, Japan and Europe and was a key player in Beach Blanket Babylon, the longest-running show in SF history. She's thrilled to be a part of Ira's production. www.valerianaq.com
SAM CUSSON
(Bob)
JESSE HOLCOMB
(Noreen)
Sam Cusson is a NJ-based actor who's studied at NYU Tisch and Juilliard. Recent theatre credits include W.A.D. Festival’s Nana (Derek), Last Call Theatre’s The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (Paul), Short North Stage’s American Idiot (Tunny). More at SamuelCusson.com.
You can hear Jesse in the English dubbed versions of many Netflix and Disney+ TV series, or voicing a number of NPC's in the new video game from Moon Studios, No Rest For The Wicked. She is currently playing a zombie in a commercial for TriMet--the PNW's public transit system, and a different zombie in a Turo rental car commercial opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar.
JIM BRUNBERG
(J.D. Putnam)
KENNY SHEA DINKIN
(Agent Two)
MICHAEL MENDELSOHN
(Donald Malloy)
A singer, songwriter, producer and entrepreneur, Jim founded Portland's Mississippi Studios and has since become partner in several other Portland music venues. He achieved acclaim in the SF Bay area in the 1990's through his folk-rock band Box Set and now performs as part of the duo Wonderly, best known for their theme music to the NY Times podcast The Daily.
Kenny Shea Dinkin is a writer, songwriter, producer, and game designer who's contributed to more than 75 video games (including the hit Diner Dash) and spent eight years as Senior Creative Director on Candy Crush. Kenny performs with the Oakland band The Secret Identities and, with his brother Marc, co-wrote the new musical Landslide Lyndon, which made its staged reading debut in Manhattan in August, 2026.
Michael "Mendy" Mendelsohn is a San Francisco Bay Area singer and actor who's performed in numerous capacities throughout a long and noted tenure working throughout the region.
HELMUT SEIDL
(Narration)
When not working as a voiceover actor, Helmut Seidl runs a small factory producing a variety of gourmet sausages in both link and patty formats. He also moonlights as a psychotherapist and his 2022 paper, Die sexuellen Implikationen von Wursthüllen has been reprinted in seven languages.
JHENE CANODY
(Announcements)
Jhene Canody is a singer, songwriter and actor working in the SF Bay Area. Her most recent stage credit is a dramatization of the Victorian story The Yellow Wallpaper. As a musician, she's known for her uniquely haunting voice and her dark, ethereal songwriting which may call to mind Ray Bradbury or Lotte Lenya.
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SHELDON BROWN
(Clarinet)
Sheldon Brown is a prominent San Francisco Bay Area composer and woodwind multi-instrumentalist whose work spans jazz, Latin, classical, and avant-garde music. He is celebrated for his virtuosic performances on clarinet, bass clarinet, and saxophones, alongside his highly acclaimed extended jazz compositions
SARAH GRONQUIST
(Ensemble vocals)
Sarah moved to the Bay Area in 1989 to become a beatnik. She’s currently a vocalist, accordionist, and rhythm guitarist in several Bay Area bands, including the Au Contraires, Triage, The Loft Tango Orchestra, and Le Petit Pois. By day she’s in great demand as a landscape architect and consultant.
ANN GOESS
(Violin)
Anne Bingham Goess is an accomplished fiddler, classical violinist, and vocalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in a diverse range of traditional music styles, performing frequently for traditional Irish, English Country, and Contra dance events.
