Clue: Stay-at-Home Edition

Darya Williams

Darya Williams is a soon to be sophomore. She enjoys anything food related. When Darya was little she starred in her elementary school production Aladdin, as the main female lead Jasmine. She was also in Singing In The Rain at ACT, The Junglebook, Mary Poppins, Shrek, and Legally Blonde. As well as other little and smaller productions. Her hobbies include sleeping, eating, acting, singing, and dancing. Darya dislikes pineapple on pizza, the ocean, and skinwalkers. She is scared of paranormal activities, folklore, and conspiracy theories (but enjoys horror movies, ironically.) Some very traumatic experiences Darya has encountered were getting lost in India, almost getting run over by a truck, and getting called on unexpectedly in class.

Olivia Morales

Olivia Morales is a rising 10th grader at Arlington High School. She is playing the role of Professor Plum in Clue. Thank you to everyone who helped Magic Circle happen this year despite the challenges because of COVID.

Alana Atwell

Alana Atwell will be starting high school this year at Medford High School. He played Colonel Mustard for this production of Clue, but some of their previous roles for other shows include Sven in Frozen, Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz, and Mr. Brownlow in Oliver, all done with Spotlight. This is technically Alana’s second year of Magic Circle, but they’ve done five years of Creative Arts before that. He sometimes does other stuff too.

Josie Dufour

Josie Dufour is starting high school this year. She is playing Mr. Green.

Charlotte Gunn-O'Neill

Charlotte is very excited to be playing Mrs. White in Clue this year at Tufts Children’s Theater. She is a rising 10th grader at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA. Some of her favorite past roles include Charlie in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown and Damion in Sideways Stories from Wayside School. She also enjoys doing visual arts such as ceramics and digital art. She is thankful for everyone in the cast and crew for making an amazing show in very hard circumstances.

Mali Beckmann

Amalia Beckmann is going into 6th grade at Prospect Hill Academy, Upper Elementary Campus in Somerville Massachusetts. She plays Mrs.Peacock in the play, Clue. A previous role of hers was a background actor in Singing in the Rain Jr. at Arlington Children's Theatre. She has learned to dance at Deborah Mason School of Dance for 5 years, up until quarantine. She has played soccer since she was 2. Her hobbies include acting, dancing, playing soccer, playing games, and talking to friends.

Kai Owens

Kai Owens is a rising junior at Hastings High School in New York, and this is her 8th summer at Tufts Children’s Theater program. This summer she played the role of Miss Scarlett in the play Clue. Kai enjoyed her summer here at Tufts online and is looking forward to her last year in Tufts Theater program next summer.

Nancy Raila

Nancy Raila is a rising 7th grader at Ottoson Middle School. She plays Yvette in Clue and has been in a few other Tufts Children’s Theater (TCT)  productions. Her favorite role in the past was her superhero role (Nocturnal Nancy) in my second year at TCT. Nancy enjoys spending her free time reading, cooking, watching movies with her family and hanging out with her dog. This year she is ending my 5th year at TCT with pride. Thank you to all the people who made my amazing experience (so far) and TCT as amazing as it was.

Samantha Girard

Anya Drasin

Anya Drasin is a rising freshman at the Cambridge School of Weston. She acted as co-stage manager and as well as a sound tech for Clue, along with taking on a few minor roles including The Cook and the Evidence Board. This is her 3rd year at Magic Circle and her 5th year in the Tufts Theater Camp. Previous roles include Pig #1 in Shrek the Musical at Magic Circle and Annie in Annie at the Beyond the 4th Wall theater program.

Sara Wessland

Sara Wessland is a rising junior at Somerville High School and this is her 9th summer at Tufts Children’s Theatre programs (5th year at Magic Circle). This summer she played the roles of Cop and Chief of Police as well as being a stage manager and doing sound. She would like to thank everyone who made her final summer amazing despite it being virtual!

Quinn Dufour

Rafi Michaud Weinstock

Rafi Michaud-Weinstock does not think you need to know anything about him. He's the Narrator and the Motorist.

Megan McCormick

Thomas Nickerson

Lincoln Gray

Betsy S. Goldman

Sara Wessland

Anya Drasin

Jo Williams

Joanne Barnett

Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Lynn has directed 10 feature films including the cult classic Clue (he also wrote the screenplay), Nuns on the Run (also written by Mr Lynn), My Cousin Vinny, The Distinguished Gentleman, Sgt. Bilko, Greedy, Trial And Error, The Whole Nine Yards, The Fighting Temptations and most recently, Wild Target. His first produced screenplay was The internecine Project (1974). For television, Jonathan’s writing credits include dozens of episodes of various comedy series but he is best known for the phenomenally successful, multi-award-winning BBC series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, co- written and created with Antony Jay.

Jonathan authored the bestselling books The Complete Yes, Minister and The Complete Yes, Prime Minister, which cumulatively sold more than a million copies in hardback and have been translated into numerous languages and are still in print nearly 30 years later. His novel Mayday (1991) is being re-published by Endeavour Press and his latest books Comedy Rules (Faber and Faber) and Samaritans  (Endeavour) both received rave reviews. About Samaritans, the Sunday Times said: “This is a book George Orwell would have approved of.”

Jonathan made his first professional appearance on Broadway in the revue Cambridge Circus, and his television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, live with 70 million viewers, both at the age of 21. Jonathan’s West End theatre debut, aged 23, was as an actor in the role of Motel the Tailor in the original London cast of Fiddler on the Roof.  His subsequent London directing credits include: The Glass Menagerie; Songbook (Best Musical, Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award); Anna Christie (RSC, Stratford and the Donmar); Joe Orton’s Loot; Pass The Butler by Eric Idle, Shaw’s Arms And The Man and The Gingerbread Man (Old Vic).  At the National Theatre, he directed A Little Hotel on the Side by Georges Feydeau and Three Men on A Horse (Olivier Award, Best Comedy). As Artistic Director of the Cambridge Theatre Company, he directed 20 productions, producing 20 others, 9 of which transferred to the West End.

His numerous awards include the BAFTA Writers Award, Writers Guild (twice), Broadcasting Press Guild (twice), NAACP Image Award, Environmental Media Award, Ace Award –Best Comedy Series on US cable, and a Special award from the Campaign For Freedom of Information. Lynn received an MA in Law from Cambridge University and now lives in New York, describing himself as a recovering lawyer.

Hunter Foster

Hunter Foster is an Artistic Associate at the Bucks County Playhouse where he has directed: Clue: On Stage (World Premiere), Guys and Dolls, Company, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Buddy Holly Story (2016 and 2017), National Pastime, The Rocky Horror Show (2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), Summer of ’42, and It’s a Wonderful Life. Other directing credits include: The Foreigner, Cabaret, My Fair Lady (Cape Playhouse), Grease (North Carolina Theatre), Spamalot (Casa Manana); and has directed productions of the Million Dollar Quartet for the Paper Mill Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse and the Westchester Broadway Theatre. He has also directed the NYC workshops of the upcoming new musicals, Far From the Madding Crowd and One Hit Wonder, which will make it’s world premiere at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2017.

As a writer, he co-wrote the stage adaptation of the movie, Clue, and has written the books to two off-broadway musicals: Jasper in Deadland — which had its world premiere at the Prospect Theater Company in NYC, followed by a successful run at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in Seattle — and Summer of ’42 which opened at the Variety Arts Theatre in New York City, and was nominated for an Outer Critic Award for best new Off-Broadway musical. Other recent book writing credits include The Circus in Winter (Goodspeed Musicals), Clyde and Bonnie: A Folktale (New York Musical Theatre Festival, Aurora Theatre), The Hollow (Signature Theatre) and Blue Ridge Sky.

As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Bridges of Madison County, Hands on a Hardbody, Million Dollar Quartet, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors (Tony nomination), Urinetown, Les Miserables, Footloose, Grease and King David. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BFA in Musical Theatre).

Sandy Rustin

Sandy Rustin is an actress and award winning playwright. Her comedy, The Cottage, (“Laugh Out Loud!” – The NY Times) was recently presented by Manhattan Theatre Club with Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) directing, and is in development for an upcoming commercial production in New York. Her sketch comedy musical, Rated P … For Parenthood, (“Wistfully Funny!” – The NY Times) opened Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre and was optioned for TV development with ABC Studios, Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos.

Sandy’s play, STRUCK (“A Charming Comedy!” – The NY Times) enjoyed two recent, critically acclaimed productions at NJ REP and Theatre Raleigh. Her play, HOUSTON, is the recipient of the New American Musical Award and after a recent workshop in NYC is currently in development for production. Sandy’s newest comedy, ELIJAH,  was recently presented as part of Midtown Direct Rep’s 2017 “Theatre in the Parlor” Reading Series and is in development. She created, developed, wrote and starred in her own show for Nickelodeon (Nick Mom) called Overbooked. And her webseries, It’s Complicated, was acquired by Stage17.TV Sandy has two screenplays and two television pilots in development. (Abrams Artists)

As an actress, Sandy guest starred on Comedy Central’s, Inside Amy Schumer and regularly appears at New York’s The Upright Citizen’s Brigade in “Gravid Water” (named “Best Improv Show” by Time Out NY). She has worked with Loopers Unlimited for over 15 years as a voiceover actress, appearing in hundreds of TV shows and Films. She is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Midtown Direct Rep & an advocate for http://cowdenfoundation.org/. Northwestern University graduate. Sandy is a member of ASCAP, SAG, AEA, and the Dramatists Guild and is represented by Abrams Artists.

Eric Price

Eric Price has written the lyrics and book to the musicals The Violet Hour, Radioactive, Presto Change-o, Around the World, Hello Out There, The Sixth Borough, and additional material for the stage adaptation of the film Clue.

His work has been produced at theaters in New York, around the country, and in Europe. Production experience includes work at such institutions as Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Menier Chocolate Factory, Barrington Stage, Symphony Space, Merkin Recital Hall, Minetta Lane Theatre, Audible.com, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below (including solo show), Birdland, the Ravinia Festival, and more.

Eric’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma was commissioned in 2015 and has had over 150 productions around the world.

In addition to his career as a writer, Eric was the longtime assistant to 21-time Tony Award-winning director/producer Hal Prince and worked with him over the course of twelve years on the development of new musicals that premiered in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, London, and Tokyo.

He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and has degrees in Directing from Indiana University and Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

He has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center finalist, and a member of Goodspeed’s Johnny Mercer Writers Colony and the Rhinebeck Writers’ Retreat.

He is an Adjunct Professor of Musical Theatre at Pace University and Molloy College/CAP21.

With his collaborator, Will Reynolds, Eric won the 2018 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Writing.

www.ericpriceonline.com

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