Judy Kaye (Florence Foster Jenkins) originated the title role in Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins on Broadway for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She has reprised the role for the York Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Brentwood Theatre in Los Angeles (LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award), Arizona Theatre Company and A.C.T. in San Francisco. She appeared as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd on Broadway and on tour, garnering the LA Drama Critics Award and the Carbonelle Award. She performed in Face the Music for New York City Center’s Encores! Series and in Zorba in the Los Angeles Reprise! Series. Highlights of her career include Phantom of the Opera(Tony Award; Drama Desk Award nomination), Mamma Mia!Mamma Mia! (Tony, Drama Desk

nominations), On the Twentieth Century Theatre World Award; Drama Desk nomination), and Ragtime (LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award), all on Broadway, as well as La Bohème, Orpheus in the Underworld, and The Beggar’s Opera at the Santa Fe Opera. Kaye has performed with symphony orchestras around the world and sung at the White House twice. Solo albums include Diva by Diva; Songs from the Silver Screen; Where, Oh Where: Rare Songs of the American Musical Theatre. She is the voice of Kinsey Millhone for Random House’s audio book series of the Sue Grafton alphabet mysteries.

Donald Corren(Cosme McMoon) originated the role of Cosme McMoon opposite Judy Kaye in the original Broadway production of Souvenir, and the pair continues to play the show in regional theatres across the country. Mr. Corren’s other Broadway credits include Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy (Drama Critics Circle Award). Off-Broadway, he has appeared in The Last Sunday in June, Saturday Night, and Tomfoolery. Regionally, he has been seen in Art (Capitol Repertory Theatre), The Love of Three Oranges (La Jolla Playhouse), Streets of New York and The Constant Wife (Westport Country Playhouse), The Winter’s Tale and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Shakespeare Theatre), Animal Crackers (Arena Stage), The Importance of Being Earnest (The Old Globe), Noël (Goodspeed Musicals), and The Mikado and The Yeomen of the Guard (Gilbert & Sullivan Musical Theatre Co.), among others. Television credits include nine seasons on “Law & Order” and appearances on “Law & Order: Trial by Jury,”

“Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Rescue Me” and “Martha Stewart Living.” Corren trained at the Drama Division of the Juilliard School, and is also a cabaret pianist/singer specializing in the music of Tin Pan Alley.

Stephen Temperley (Playwright) first came to the U.S. as a teenager. He acted in several plays for the Public Theatre before returning to his native city of London. In the U.K. he has performed in London’s West End, on television and repertory. In the U.S. he has worked extensively in regional theatres and stock, on Broadway (the original company of Crazy for You and Off-Broadway (Up Against It at the Public Theatre). The first of his plays to be produced was Beside the Seaside at the Hudson Guild. Plays that followed include Money/Mercy at the Chelsea Theatre Center and Dance With Me, first seen at the 18th Street Theatre and then at Centenary Stage. Workshops include That Kind of Woman for Dodger Productions. Before opening on Broadway, Souvenir broke box office records at the York Theatre and at the Berkshire Theatre Festival where his most recent play, The Pilgrim Papers, was produced last year. His most recent plays are Kind Masters and Nine Day Wonder.

Vivian Matalon (Director) has directed in London’s West End, on Broadway, and at numerous regional theatres in the U.S. His West End credits include Suite in 3 Keys with Noël Coward, Irene Worth and Lili Palmer; Season of Goodwill with Sybil Thorndike, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and Paul Rogers; Bus Stop with Lee Remick and Keir Dullea and the European premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Small Craft Warnings with Elaine Stritch. He was artistic director of London’s prestigious Hampstead Theatre for three years. His Broadway credits include After the Rain with Alec McCowen and Nancy Marchand; Noël Coward in Two Keys with Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Anne Baxter; Morning’s at Seven (Tony Award); Brigadoon, The Tap Dance Kid (Tony nomination) with Savion Glover and Souvenir with Judy Kaye and Donald Corren.