Biographies
Brian Tom O'Connor recently played Falstaff in The Workshop Theater Company's acclaimed Henry IV, Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors at the Lycian Centre, and the title role in The American at W.U.T. in Vienna. He performed in the musical Paper Tiger at New York Theatre Ensemble, and played Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. His regional theatre credits include Rough Crossing, The Man of Destiny, and Incident at Vichy. Other New York credits include The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Measure for Measure, Morning Milking, Evening Milking, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Impresario, and Squeeze. He performed in the New Moon Theatre Company's The Big Reward, which was written and directed by Rosemary Foley and Mr. O'Connor. Recent film credits include The Claddagh Story and A Reasonable Hypothesis.
Debra Vogel is a favorite entertainer in Manhattan's cabaret spots. Her musical theatre credits include roles in George M, My Fair Lady, Rose Marie, The Vagabond King, and Villa-Lobos' The Girl From the Clouds, as well as in new works such as The Snow Queen (title role), The Teddy Bear Habit and Dorian Gray: A Musical Fable. Recently Debra expanded her musical repertoire with performances of art songs of Frederic Mompou with French and Spanish texts. As an actor she appeared in You Can't Take It With You, Othello, Ionesco's Exit the King, and The Philosopher's Stone. Debra has created several cabaret shows, among them Debra Vogel: An Evening of Love, Love Addiction and Other Affairs of the Heart, Foreign Affairs, and The Debra Vogel Fantasy Hour, which she has performed with Darryl Curry at various clubs in New York City.
Darryl Curry (Musical Director, Arranger, Accompanist) is a composer, arranger, performer and musical director whose work ranges from jazz to musical theatre to sacred music. Mr. Curry has written the musicals The Elephant Piece, Quitters, George Q, and Dorian Gray, as well as incidental music for the 1999 Twentieth Anniversary production of The Elephant Man. He has two commissioned works, The 46th Street Mass, and the ballet, My Shadow. Darryl lives and writes in New York and is Director of Music at St. Clement's Episcopal Church. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Temple University and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. His latest musical, Mesmerized, recently received a workshop production in Los Angeles.
Elfin Frederick Vogel (Director, Co-Author) has directed over thirty stage production, including O'Connor and Vogel: Guy & Doll, O'Connor and Vogel: How to be Perfect and Ms. Vogel's previous solo cabaret outings, which he co-wrote as well; he directed Mr. O'Connor in Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and Measure for Measure. Elfin's cabaret shows include LaRocco & Austin's Push my Buttons at Eighty Eights, Love Addiction and Other Affairs of the Heart at Panache, The Debra Vogel Fantasy Hour at Paper Moon, and, at Don't Tell Mama, A Valentine's Day Celebration and Are We Having Any Fun?.
Nora Brown has directed productions in New York, including Cerceau by Viktor Slavkin, The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff, Nightwalking and Everybody Is Sexy For Somebody by Frank Canino. As an actor, Nora appeared as Aelis Mazoyer in Tamara in its European Premiere In Italy. She also played Medea in Medea (San Francisco, Demeter Project). Other favorite roles in New York include Lady Charlotte in Elizabeth And Essex (York Theatre Company); Queen/Young Girl in Yeats Trio (Villager Award); Marguerite in Exit The King (Ionesco), Mouth in Not I (Beckett), Guibot/Auzanneau in Portrait Of A Woman (Vinaver), Elma in Seven Minutes (Colpman), The Duke in Merchant Of Venice, all with The Synchronicity Theatre Group; Lenore in The Swan Queen (Canino, The Greenwich Theatre). Ms. Brown played Mrs. Randall in David Cronenberg's film Dead Ringers. She appeared in her cabarets Light And Dark (Don't Tell Mama) and Dangerous Rhythms (Danny's). She is a former Principal Dancer with The National Ballet of Canada (as Judie Colpman). Nora has created Beyond Creative Movement, a core training program.