Something Rotten!

MATT DOYLE

Nick Bottom

won the 2022 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for best featured actor in a musical for his performance as Jamie in Broadway’s revival of Company. Most recently, he starred as The Playwright in the world premiere of When Playwrights Kill at the Huntington Theatre, as well as the iconic Jay Gatsby in South Korea’s production of The Great Gatsby. Broadway credits include Tony-winning musicals The Book of Mormon and Spring Awakening; Tony-winning best play War Horse; and the revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Matt made his UK stage debut as Frank Sinatra in Sinatra The Musical. Off-Broadway credits include Conversations With Mother, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd and Brooklynite. On television, he played Jonathan on the CW’s Gossip Girl. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, with symphonies across the country, and continues to headline a sold-out solo show throughout New York City and beyond.

JACOB DICKEY

Shakespeare

was last seen on Broadway opposite Bernadette Peters in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. His other Broadway credits include Aladdin and the Tony-winning revival of Company. Off-Broadway: Emojiland. First national tours: Aladdin, Company. Regional: Guys and Dolls (STC); Old Friends (CTG); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (PCLO); Prince of Egypt (Tuacahn). Concerts: Frozen in Concert (Taipei Performing Arts Center), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony. TV: Gossip Girl, The Other Two, The First Lady, Blue Bloods, Partner Track.

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Nigel Bottom

BRYONHA MARIE

Bea

returns to The Muny. Her credits here include Sister Act (Deloris) and The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess). She can be seen in the Broadway revival of Damn Yankees, set to open in spring 2027. Other Broadway: 2025 revival of Our Town, Prince of Broadway, Book of Mormon, After Midnight, Porgy and Bess and the revival of Ragtime. Off-Broadway and NYC: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, Promenade (City Center), Candide (Carnegie Hall), NY Philharmonic’s Show Boat and Sweeney Todd, Ragtime at Lincoln Center. National tour: Falsettos. Bryonha has been seen in concert with the New York Philharmonic and symphonies across the country, including the SLSO. Favorite regional appearances include Damn Yankees, Sweeney Todd and Dave (Helen Hayes nominations); Life After (Jeff Award nomination); and more. TV: How to Die Alone; Long Bright River; Madam Secretary; Show Boat and Sweeney Todd on Live From Lincoln Center; the 66th and 68th Tony Awards; Today; and The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!

ELIZABETH TEETER

Portia

Most recently seen as Heather McNamara in the hit off-Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical. Broadway: Lydia in Beetlejuice; Betty in The Crucible (with Saoirse Ronan); Young Elizabeth in The Audience (with Helen Mirren); Jane Banks in Mary Poppins. Off-Broadway: Lily in The Secret Life of Bees (Audelco nomination). Recent regional: Anna Grace in the original new musical Hard Road to Heaven (Bucks County Playhouse), Liesl in The Sound of Music (Ogunquit Playhouse, The Muny); Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (TWSTL, St. Louis Theater Circle Award). Other regional: The Muny, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, Variety Theater and more. TV/film: Leaving (SAG short), guest on The Last O.G. (TBS).

LARA TEETER

Brother Jeremiah

Muny: Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood), The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow), Oklahoma! (Will Parker), Hairspray (Wilbur Turnblad), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), The Little Mermaid (Scuttle). Broadway: On Your Toes (Junior Dolan, Tony Award nomination), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Caleb), Happy New Year (Vixon), Pirates of Penzance (Dance Captain, Swing). National tours: Oklahoma! (Will Parker), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Caleb), Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood), The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow). Professor, head of musical theatre at Webster University’s Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts.

ADAM HELLER

Shylock

returns to The Muny after playing Claude & Others in Come From Away, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Herbie (opposite Beth Leavel) in Gypsy, Benjamin Franklin in 1776 and Amos Hart in Chicago (St. Louis Theater Circle Award). Other St. Louis appearances: Follies (Buddy Plummer) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (Jack Jerome), both at The Rep. He has appeared in eight Broadway shows, including Some Like It Hot; It Shoulda Been You; Elf; Caroline, or Change; Victor/Victoria; and Les Misérables. Selected regional credits: Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at Goodspeed (Connecticut Critics Circle Award), When Playwrights Kill (Huntington Theatre), The Flamingo Kid, Falsettos (Hartford Stage), My Name Is Asher Lev (Arden Theatre), The Secret Garden (Denver Center), The Chosen (Barrington Stage). TV: The Good Fight, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, We Crashed, The Bite, Ray Donovan, FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, Law & Order (all), Elementary, Unforgettable, The Sopranos.

JEN CODY

Nostradamus

returns for her ninth Muny show. Most recently, she flew as Scuttle in Disney’s The Little Mermaid and won the coveted Kevin Kline Award for Hello, Dolly! Jen starred in the original Broadway companies of Shrek, Pajama Game (revival), Taboo, Urinetown and Seussical, as well as A Christmas Story, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Grease, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, Judith of Bethulia, Ibsen’s Ghost, Cleopatra, and Henry and Mudge (Drama League nomination). She can be heard on many cartoons, including as Charlotte LaBouff in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, for which she received the Annie Award for outstanding voice work in a major motion picture. Other TV/film: New Amsterdam, Paper Spiders, American Dad, Mickey and the Roadster Racers, Phineus and Ferb, P. King Duckling, Winx Club, Robot and Monster, Khumba, Lucky Stiff, The Good Fight, Younger, Instinct, Bull, Blue Bloods, Shrek Live, Unforgettable, Law & Order.

GARY GLASGOW

Lord Clapham/Master of the Justice

is returning for his 44th Muny show. Favorite productions include 1776, Titanic, Singin’ in the Rain, Newsies and Seussical. Work with other St. Louis companies includes St. Louis Shakespeare Festival (16 productions), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and New Jewish Theatre. Gary has been a faculty member at the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts for 33 years.

DeMARIUS R. COPES

Minstrel

makes his Muny debut. Broadway credits include Some Like It Hot (OBC), Mean Girls (OBC) and Elf The Musical (2024 revival). Off-Broadway: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages); High Spirits, Once Upon a Mattress (NYCC Encores!); Romy & Michele (Stage 42). Tours: Hamilton, Newsies. Regional: Midnight in the Garden … (Goodman Theatre), The Prom (Alliance Theatre), A Chorus Line (Maltz Jupiter Theatre).

ROB RUGGIERO

Director

Muny: Dear Evan Hansen; Fiddler on the Roof; West Side Story; Sweeney Todd; 1776; Gypsy (starring Beth Leavel); The Music Man; Oklahoma!; Hello, Dolly!; South Pacific; The King and I. He has also directed many award-winning productions at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, including Follies, Sunday in the Park With George, Take Me Out and Evita. His award-winning work has been seen at regional theatres all over the country. Broadway: High (starring Kathleen Turner) and Looped (starring Valerie Harper). Off-Broadway, Rob conceived and directed Make Me a Song (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations). In 2011, he directed a new version of Show Boat at Goodspeed Musicals, where he is a frequent collaborator and where he recently directed a 50th anniversary production of A Chorus Line. He is the artistic director at TheaterWorks Hartford.

PARKER ESSE

Choreographer

After performing on Broadway in the Tony-winning Fosse, Parker was associate for Finian’s Rainbow and A Tale of Two Cities (Broadway), Follies (pre-Broadway) and five City Center Encores! productions. Choreographer: The Light in the Piazza and Sondheim and Marsalis’ A Bed and a Chair (Encores!); Oklahoma! 50th Anniversary (Arena Stage); West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof (The Muny); Beautiful and White Christmas (Fulton Theatre); and productions at Arena Stage (18 productions), Goodspeed Musicals (10 productions), Ed Mirvish (Toronto), Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera, Paper Mill Playhouse, Omaha Symphony/NBC holiday televised specials, 92NY Lyrics & Lyricists, York Theatre, Signature, Ogunquit, Bucks County Playhouse and The Rev. Recently: Cats and West Side Story (Casa Mañana); A Chorus Line (Goodspeed Musicals). Upcoming: Funny Girl (Shaw Festival), Anastasia (La Mirada).

ANNE SHUTTLESWORTH

Music Director/Conductor

Muny: Dreamgirls, Bring It On. Broadway: Annie, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon. National tours: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (first national tour), Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar, Spamalot, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dreamgirls, Annie. Regional credits include work as music supervisor/MD at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, Fla. (Thoroughly Modern Millie; La Cage aux Folles; Carousel; Evita; Gypsy; Hello, Dolly!; My Fair Lady; Mamma Mia!; Legally Blonde); North Shore Music Theatre (IRNE Award nomination); Maltz Jupiter Theatre (Carbonell Award); Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera; and others. Anne’s work as a conductor, keyboardist, copyist and transcriber has spanned Meat Loaf to Metallica and beyond, with 2024 spent as music director for Engelbert Humperdinck’s world tour.