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TOM COINER (Tom) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in Perfect Wedding. Other theatre credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Christmas Carol and Othello at Denver Center; Saturn: A Play About Food at Superhero Clubhouse; As You Like It, 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Winter’s Tale, Man and Superman, Hair and The Three Sisters at National Theatre Conservatory; Listeners and A Christmas Carol at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dog Sees God and Direct Object at Hyde Park Theatre; and The Brats of Clarence at Bedlam Faction. Mr. Coiner holds an M.F.A. from the National Theatre Conservatory and a B.A. from Kenyon College.

CARY DONALDSON (Bill) makes his Geva Theatre Center debut in Perfect Wedding. Broadway credits include Mrs. Warren's Profession. Off-Broadway credits include The Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale and Timon of Athens at the Public Theatre. Regional credits include The Three Sisters, The Front Page, The Physicists, The Lover and Thursday at Williamstown Theatre Festival; We Are Here and The Insurgents at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival; Cyrano de Bergerac, Coriolanus and Amadeus at Georgia Shakespeare; Bus Stop, Sorrows and Rejoicings and Back at NYU. Mr. Donaldson earned his B.A. at Wake Forest University, and his M.F.A. at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

BRIGITT MARKUSFELD (Daphne) returns to the Geva Theatre Center stage after most recently appearing as Ellen in Over the Tavern and as Miss Shields/Witch in A Christmas Story. Other Geva credits include Our Town, Smell of the Kill, House and Garden, The Wier, Stop Kiss, The Triumph of Love, A Girl’s Life, The Illusion, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Comedy of Errors. Regional credits include Richard III and Rumors with the Sacramento Theatre Company, I Remember Mama at A.C.T., On the Verge at Marin Theatre Company, The Tempest and The Comedy of Errors at the Valley Shakespeare Festival, Way of the World and Blood Wedding at A Noise Within and The Taming of the Shrew and Country Wife at the Grove Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Markusfeld has also appeared in television and radio commercials. TV credits include “Picket Fences,” “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Tour of Duty,” and “Second Chances.”

KRISTEN MENGELKOCH (Julie) returns to Geva after appearing in last season’s The Music Man and the 2010 revival of Five Course Love. Off-Broadway she has performed with NEWSical The Musical, Forbidden Broadway and appears on the cast recording of FB Goes to Rehab. Regional credits include I Love You Because, Meshuggah-Nuns, The Most Happy Fella, Pete 'n' Keely, The Nerd, The Last Five Years & Gypsy. Television credits include Veronica Mars. From 2007-2009 Ms. Mengelkoch was the co-founder of Ampersand Theatre Company in New York City. She is a graduate of San Diego State University’s M.F.A. in Musical Theatre program. A native of Wichita, KS, she holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Emporia State University. Thanks to Bruce, Mark, Paul & Meg…my love to Jonathan. www.kristenmengelkoch.com

KATE MIDDLETON (Judy) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut in Perfect Wedding. Recent Off-Broadway and New York shows include The Late Christopher Bean, Cathedral, The Other Place (MTC workshop with Lisa Harrow and Annie Potts), Avow (NYIT nomination for Best Leading Actress), Proof, Barefoot in the Park, The Shape of Things, House of Yes, Pump Boys & Dinettes (Ground UP Productions). This past summer she was seen as Brooke/Vicki in Noises Off (Dorset Theatre Festival), and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest (Summit Playhouse), and regionally in Circle Mirror Transformation at St. Louis Rep; Marty at Huntington Theatre (with John C. Reilly); With and Without at Bickford Theatre, South Pacific at ArtPark; Carnival at NJ Shakespeare, August Snow at Triad Stage, Jack and Jill at UNC/Playmakers, Blithe Spirit, The Full Monty, and Chicago at Weston Playhouse, and Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It at Warehouse Theatre. TV/Film credits include a recurring role on NBC’s “Mercy,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Comedy Central’s “Date from Hell” as well as many national and regional voiceovers and commercials. Katemiddletonactress.com

TERI WATTS (Rachel) makes her Geva Theatre Center debut in Perfect Wedding. She was most recently a company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where her roles included Marie in On the Razzle and Audrey in As You Like It. Other regional favorites include Quilters, (Vermont Stage), tours of Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth, (GMT), I Love a Piano and 42nd Street (Arundel Barn Playhouse), and South Pacific at Barrington Stage. Ms Watts earned her B.F.A. from NYU (Tisch); and trained at BADA (Oxford, UK).

ROBIN HAWDON (Playwright) has had an extremely varied career. From novelist and West End playwright, to soap actor, B movie film star and Hamlet, to director of one of England's foremost theatres, his activities have spanned numerous aspects of the arts. For two decades he was a successful actor, while plying a concurrent trade as a playwright. In his early twenties his face became well known to British television viewers through regular appearances in such series as “Compact,” “Flying Swan,” “Robin's Nest,” and others. He later co-starred with Michael Crawford in the ITV sitcom “Chalk and Cheese.” He made a number of films, going on to star in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Zeta One. Mr. Hawdon was seen in several leading roles in London's West End, and also played a number of classical leads around the country, such as Hamlet, Henry V and Henry Higgins in Pygmalion. At the same time his career as a writer flourished. His early plays Barn Dance, The Secret and The Hero were seen at such venues as the Hampstead Theatre and the Edinburgh and Salzburg festivals, and his first major commercial success, The Mating Game achieved a long run at London's Apollo Theatre, and has subsequently played in over thirty countries around the world. This was followed by other much performed and published plays such as Birthday Suite, Revenge, Don't Rock the Boat and Perfect Wedding, and the huge success of Don't Dress for Dinner (based on an early French play by Marc Camoletti) which ran in the West End for six years, and has played all over America, Australia, Canada and the English-speaking world. His play God and Stephen Hawking, about the phenomenal advance of modern science and its effect on traditional philosophical thinking, caused something of a stir in the national press when Stephen Hawking himself took objection to being portrayed on stage, despite the fact that the play was seen by most people as a tribute to his extraordinary life and career. Mr. Hawdon has also directed a number of stage productions, and in the 1980’s was Director of the Theatre Royal Bath, England's premier touring theatre. His first novel, A Rustle in the Grass, was published in 1984 and sold some 60,000 copies. His second book The Journey was published in 2002.

BRUCE JORDAN (Director) is delighted to return to Geva Theatre Center to direct Perfect Wedding. Previously at Geva he directed Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor, D.H. Lawrence’s The Daughter-In-Law, Noël Coward’s Fumed Oak, Steve Martin’s The Underpants and Shear Madness, which he and partner Marilyn Abrams adapted from Paul Portner’s Scherenschnitt and which they continue to supervise domestically and around the world. This June, Dernier Coup des Ciseaux (The Final Cut of the Scissors) opened in Paris where it continues to run. Thank you, Mark Cuddy. Thank you, Jean Ryon. This one’s for Bill and Cynthia.

BILL CLARKE (Scenic Designer) is pleased to return to Geva Theatre Center where he recently designed Amadeus and Ladies’ Man. He designed A Walk in the Woods and Abby’s Song on Broadway; off-Broadway credits include Lemon Sky (Keen Co), So Help Me God! (Lortel), Misalliance (Pearl at City Center), Eccentricities Of A Nightingale (T.A.C.T.), Power Of Darkness, John Ferguson and The Daughter-In-Law (Mint Theater; NYTimes 10 Best List), June Moon (Drama Dep’t), Ann Magnuson’s You Could Be Home Now (NYSF), Keith Reddin’s The Innocents’ Crusade (MTC), Alan Havis’ Morocco (WPA), and The Cherry Orchard (Juilliard). Regional credits include Seattle Rep, Old Globe, Milwaukee Rep, Alley, Denver Center, A.R.T., Huntington, McCarter, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Indiana Rep, Pioneer, Wilma. Mr. Clarke received his M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and is a recipient of the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award and San Diego Theater Critics’ Circle Award for A Walk in the Woods and IRNE (New England) Award for A Delicate Balance.

MIMI MAXMEN (Costume Designer) returns to Geva Theatre Center where she designed Equus and The Immigrant. New York credits include Sight Unseen, Becket, Uncle Vanya (Tom Courtenay, Amanda Donohoe, James Fox), I Married Wyatt Earp, The Dybbuk, A Shayna Maidel, Inadmissible Evidence (Nicol Williamson and Philip Bosco), Vieux Carré, The Frogs, Moonchildren, Today I Am A Fountain Pen, A...My Name Is Alice, North Shore Fish, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, Virgil Thompson’s Lord Byron (Alice Tully Hall) and The Mother of Us All, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Seagull, Twelfth Night, The Misanthrope and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has designed for the Roundabout Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Cleveland Play House, Santa Fe Opera, the New York City, Joffrey, and Metropolitan Opera Ballet companies. Films include The Lightkeepers (Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner), Tumbleweeds (Janet McTeer), The Singing Detective, The Pretty Boys and Luster. She currently teaches at the New School/Parsons School of Design.

DEREK MADONIA (Lighting Designer) has designed numerous shows at Geva Theatre Center including Underneath the Lintel, Evie’s Waltz, The Underpants, Shear Madness, That Was Then, All is Well in the Kingdom of Nice, And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, Meet Me Incognito, Tomato Plant Girl, the Portrait the Wind the Chair, This Is Not a Pipe Dream and Women Who Steal. He has served as Assistant Lighting Designer for A Christmas Carol since 2002. Mr. Madonia has designed locally for Rochester City Ballet, the Strong Museum and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. He received his B.A. from the University at Albany. Mr. Madonia came to Geva in 1992 as a lighting apprentice and he is currently in his 19th season as Master Electrician. He would like to thank his family and his talented band of electricians for all their help and support.

DAN ROACH (Sound Designer) has, since 1988, worked on sound for numerous productions at Geva Theatre Center, NTID’s Theatre for the Deaf, SUNY Brockport, and Keuka College. Most recent productions at Geva include On Golden Pond, Over the Tavern; Almost, Maine; Dracula, the Shape of Evil with PUSH Physical Theatre; Evie’s Waltz; Dial M for Murder; The Underpants; Nine Parts of Desire; Doubt and A Christmas Story. His projection designs include Triple Bill of Chamber Operas and The Secret Garden at Eastman Opera Theatre and Dark Play at SUNY Brockport. He studied sound at Berklee College of Music in Boston and has been applying that knowledge to theatre over the past 23 years. He currently works full time for the Hillside Family of Agencies as their webmaster and is grateful for their flexibility in providing time to pursue his love of theatre and sound design. He is a resident of Brighton where he lives with his beautiful wife Jing.

JEAN GORDON RYON (Dramaturg) serves as New Plays Coordinator at Geva Theatre Center where, among other duties, she produces the Regional Writers Showcase and the Young Writers Showcase. She was dramaturg for 1776, John Bull’s Other Island, That Was Then, Shear Madness and The Underpants, and The Clean House, Geva’s newest production of A Christmas Carol, and she has contributed dramaturgical research and written program articles for several other productions. Ms. Ryon holds a degree in drama from Tufts University and a master’s degree in Arts Administration from Goucher College. Her most recent directing credits in the community include Grace and Glorie, Master Class, Blithe Spirit, Pride’s Crossing, and The Gin Game for Blackfriars, The Chosen and The Immigrant for JCC’s CenterStage, Juno and the Peacock, Da, Translations, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Waiting for Godot, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, Dancing at Lughnasa, Faith Healer, The Hostage, Love in the Title, and The Cripple of Inishmaan for RCP’s Irish Players, and Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing for RCP’s Shakespeare Players. Ms. Ryon is also the Artistic Director of the Geriactors, a traveling troupe of mature actors.

FRANK CAVALLO (Stage Manager) returns to Geva Theatre Center where he has stage managed numerous productions, including On Golden Pond, The Music Man, A Raisin in the Sun, Anything Goes, Below the Belt, Five Guys Named Moe (twice), Vigil, several Reflections Festival premieres and the occasional production of A Christmas Carol. He has also worked as a stage manager at various other regional theatres, as the production manager for the Rochester Children’s Theatre at Nazareth College, and toured for Poetry in Motion with Ms. Salome Jens’ one woman show, About Anne…, featuring the poetry of Anne Sexton. Many thanks to the Geva Staff. It’s nice to be back.

JULIE ANN MADONIA (Assistant Stage Manager) started at Geva Theatre Center as an Apprentice Stage Manager for the 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 Seasons. Her favorite shows during those seasons included Laughter on the 23rd Floor, A Christmas Carol, Later Life, Five Guys Named Moe and Antigone. She is also honored to have been a part of the opening season of the Nextstage, for which she stage managed Stop Kiss and Women Who Steal. Ms. Madonia has previously stage managed three years of Hibernatus Interruptus as well as Stars of Geva in conjunction with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Thanks to Derek, Mom & Dad for their continued love and support. Love to Michael and Lilly.