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Peter Linari
Peter is happy to be a founding member of the Producers' Club Theatre Company. He has appeared on Broadway in the Arthur Miller classic On the Waterfront directed by Adrian Hall, and in a number of other New York productions including Tigertadpolemosquitos (Ohio Theater) and Days of May (Village Gate).
Major roles in film include Woody Allen's Curse of the Jade Scorpion as Joe Coopersmith, Men in Black as the tow truck driver, She's Out of Control as the Party Bouncer, Season of the Hunted, and The Image. He has appeared in more than two dozen other films.
TV credits include Law and Order CI, Ed as the poet trucker, Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, One Life to Live and Pete and Pete on Nickelodeon. He has dubbed films in German and Italian.
Many people remember him from commercials for ATT, Keystone Beer, and Radio Shack.
Peter resides in Manhattan with his wife, an artist.
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Larry Picard
Shortly after moving to Brooklyn, Larry took over as conductor and music director of the The Park Slope Singers. A year later, he was touring with the multimedia extravaganza, Autobahn, created by the members of The Adaptors. For five years, he helped create evening-long movement theater productions such as DecoDance and Bed Experiment I which won Off-Broadway's Tony, the Bessie.
Larry then combined the techniques he'd learned with the recital format, performing 20th century American art vocal literature on stilts, by candlelight, hanging from a rope or in any other way he believed might help illuminate the composer's and poet's intention—and entertain his audiences. He also performed in New York City under Kurt Mazur, Sir Colin Davis, and Zubin Metah. He helped form two chamber ensembles as well: Cygnus Vocal Ensemble, a Renaissance madrigal quintet; and Play It By Ear, an improvisational opera ensemble directed by Rhoda Levine.
He has appeared in regional productions such as Titanic, Ragtime and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and NY theatrical productions, both musical and "legit." He is featured in a new recording of the music of composer Gershon Kingsley.
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Paul Romanello
Paul recently performed the role of Ralph Dexter in Anthony P. Pennino's The Exciting Life as part of the Samuel French One-Act Play Festival. Past credits include The Atrain Plays Volume XX (part of NYMF at The Neighborhood Playhouse), The Atrain (RE)Plays (Peter Jay Sharp Theatre), Suspense (Vital Theatre Company), Italian-American Cantos (SOOP Theatre Company), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (WCC Guest Artist) and Italian American Reconciliation (Seven Angels Theatre Co.). As a director, Paul most recently worked with Playwright Bruce Jay Friedman on his play A New Bit (previously published as 23 Pat O'Brien Movies). |
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Kathleen Haaversen
"Clarisse"
Dramatic soprano Kathleen Haaversen earned her Masters degree in Vocal Performance from USC. Her repertoire includes Sieglinde from Die Walküre, Elsa from Lohengrin, Ariadne from Ariadne auf Naxos, Leonora from La Forza del Destino, and Salome from Herodiade. She has also performed the title role of Carmen and Charlotte from Werther with the New York Opera Forum. With Golden West Opera, she sang Eboli from Don Carlo and Second Lady from Die Zauberflöte. She has also sung Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Giovanna in Anna Bolena. She performed with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Opera Pacific and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra for such conductors as Placido Domingo, Steven Mercurio, John Mauceri, Randall Behr, and Charles Dutoit.
In New York, she formed Colla Voce, which presented the concerts Friends and Rivals and Music for a New Century. With Dicapo Opera, she sang Sieglinde in Die Walküre and Leonore in Fidelio. She also organized and performed Sounds of Science a concert including world premieres by Denise Broadhurst (Looking Up at Night) and Keith Snyder (Five Feynman Songs). Her rendition of the Habanera from Carmen reached #1 at MP3.com's Top-40 for opera.
Ms. Haaversen resides in New York City with her husband and their twin toddlers.
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Frances Toliver
"Agnes"
Born into a military family, Ms. Toliver lived in Louisiana, Kansas, Alaska, New Mexico and Arizona before the age of 13. She began her formal vocal training at age 19 and believes that singing keeps her sane. Completing her Masteršs Degree in Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Ms. Toliver continued to live in the Bay Area until moving to New York in 1998. She has appeared as Larina in Eugene Onegin with West Bay Opera, Mum in Albert Herring with Berkeley Opera, Jenny in Company, Mrs. Peachum in Three Penny Opera, Monica in The Medium, and Mimi in La Boheme.
She has made a specialty of singing new works by living composers and premiered such works as Pogo Cantabile by Elinor Armer, Updike's Science by Brian Holmes, The Goddess of the Ducks by Keith Snyder, and Looking up at Night by Denise Broadhurst. Ms. Toliver was twice a finalist in the San Francisco Regional Metropolitan Opera Competition, a semifinalist in the Baltimore Opera Competition and winner of a Study Award from the East Bay Opera League, Oakland, CA.
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