Evan brings nearly four decades of expertise to the Argyle Theatre as its Artistic Director and has directed Guys and Dolls, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Producers, The Full Monty, Miracle on 34th Street for the Argyle Theatre.   Evan is represented as a director with Off-Broadway’s A Letter to Harvey Milk, Liberty (Theatre 80 and 42West);  Wonderful Town and DuBarry Was a Lady (both for Musicals Tonight!); Evita, West Side Story, Kiss Me Kate, The Barber of Seville, and The Daughter of the Regiment (Opera North); The Color Purple and Sister Act (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina); Lucky Stiff (Arizona Broadway Theatre); Murder for Two and My Way (Depot Theatre); Funny Girl and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (San Francisco’s Broadway By the Bay).  Both of these last productions garnered Evan a Best Director nomination from the Bay Area Theatre Critics, with Seven Brides winning the award for Best Production.  Additionally, Evan has directed many benefits, readings and cabarets in New York City, including the Drama League’s benefit honoring Kristen Chenoweth, and several evenings of musical comedy at Feinstein’s/54 Below.  IG: @theevanpappas  T:@theevanpappas  www.evanpappas.net

Ethan has been the music director and conductor for the Saturday Night Fever national tour, Flat Rock Playhouse (state theater of North Carolina), and Elon University’s Music Theatre program. He’s worked for Mean Girls on Broadway and conducted for BCEFA’s Easter Bonnet Competition. Ethan is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, ASCAP, Dramatists Guild, and his musicals have been produced by the New York Musical Festival, Elon University, annually at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, and on tour across North Carolina. Proud alumnus of Elon University and member of Local 802 AFM. ethan-andersen.com

Born in 1919 in Philadelphia, Joe Masteroff had only one dream from infancy: to write for the theatre. After the essential lonely childhood and four-year stint in the Air Force, he came to New York to face his future: book writer or book seller? Luckily, luck intervened. Before long he had three shows on Broadway bearing his name: The Warm Peninsula starring Julie Harris, and two musicals, She Loves Me and Cabaret, for which he was the book writer. His other work included The libretto for 70, Girls, 70 and Desire Under the Elms and book and lyrics for Six Wives and Paramour. Thanks to indulgent parents, the New Dramatists, Hal Prince and many others, Joe Masteroff retired and lived in subdued luxury until his death in 2018.

Fred was an award-winning lyricist, librettist and director who frequently and successfully collaborated with composer John Kander. Ebb’s work for the theatre included Flora, The Red Menace; Cabaret; The Happy Time; Zorba; 70, Girls, 70; Chicago; The Act; Woman of the Year; 2×5; The Rink; And The World Goes Round – The Kander and Ebb Musical; Kiss of the Spider Woman; and Steel Pier. His film work included Cabaret; Norman Rockwell: A Short Subject; Lucky Lady; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kramer vs. Kramer; A Matter of Time; Places in the Heart; French Postcards; Stepping Out, and the 2003 Academy Award winner for best picture, Chicago. For television, Ebb wrote Liza with a Z; Goldie and Liza Together (starring Goldie Hawn and Liza Minnelli); Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back (starring Frank Sinatra); Baryshnikov on Broadway; An Early Frost; and Liza in London. His last projects included a musical version of The Skin of Our Teethand Curtains, with book by Rupert Holmes. Ebb also provided additional material for the updated script of Rodgers & Hart’s By Jupiter and additional lyrics for the 1997 TV remake of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Fred Ebb earned four Tony Awards (for Cabaret, Woman of the Year, and Kiss of the Spider Woman) and four Primetime Emmy awards (for Liza with a Z, Gypsy in My Soul, and Liza Minnelli Live From Radio City Music Hall) along with dozens of other accolades, including the Kennedy Center Honors and membership in the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2005, by instruction of Ebb’s will, the Fred Ebb Foundation was established to present an annual award to an up-and-coming musical theatre writer or writing team.

Carlos has worked professionally as an audio engineer and sound designer for 20 years. As a live sound engineer, he has toured with artists like Grammy-nominated Average White band and has had the privilege to work with distinguished artists such as Diana Ross, The Chainsmokers, Duncan Sheik, Sierra Boggess, Jon Batiste of the Late Night Show and many others, and has also had mixes featured on MTV and VH1. He has sound designed events or theaterproductions for Centenary University, Fairfield University, Sacred Heart University, Yale University and organizations such as the Red Cross, and the American Cancer Society. Recently, he has toured with number one Smooth Jazz Billboard Artists Vincent Ingala and Jonathan Fritzen as tour manager/front of house engineer and was a full-time audio professor/sound designer at Five Towns College. Carlos is currently sound designing at various Long Island theaters and is working at Princeton University. 

Peter is a costume and wig designer, whose creative designs have been seen in theaters throughout the United States and abroad. Selected design credits include the Off-Broadway productions of The Net Will Appear (59E59 Theaters), Cyrano de Bergerac (Theatre at St. Clement’s), and Cyrano (Michael Chekhov Acting Studio), which was performed at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. As an Associate Designer, selected credits include Celebrate! The Sesame Street 10th Anniversary Parade at Beaches Resorts, The Brightness of Heaven (Cherry Lane theater), Mabou Mines’ Glass Guignol, and Medea. For The Argyle Theatre: The Producers (hair design), The Full Monty (costume and wig design), and Miracle on 34th Street (wig design).

John has just returned from 2019 National Tour of A Christmas Story. Many thanks to Jimmy Larkin and vocal coach Amelia DeMayo. @JohnMahanna

Select Off-Broadway credits include: SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (Production Assistant), THE ZOMBIES! A MUSICAL (Assistant Stage Manager) and THE FALLEN (Assistant Stage Manager). Favorite Long Island credits include: LEGALLY BLONDE (Prop Master/PA), MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET (Assistant Stage Manager/Prop Coordinator), THE PRODUCERS (Stagehand/Deck Scenic Artist), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Assistant Stage Manager), MY LIFE IS A MUSICAL (Production Assistant), THE TEMPEST (Assistant Stage Manager) and TRAVESTIES (Prop Assistant). Alison is currently attending Columbia University pursuing her MFA in Stage Management.

Amanda is thrilled to be working on her third show at the Argyle Theater. Previously including, The Little Mermaid and Miracle on 34th Street(Wigs/Wardrobe). Her most recent regional credits include: Grease, Grand Hotel, South Pacific and Loch Ness at Merry Go Round Playhouse (Hair and Makeup Supervisor), Man in the Ceiling, Intimate Apparel at Bay Street Theater (Wig Stylist/Wardrobe). Off Broadway credit includes: New World Stages, Government Inspector (Wardrobe). She is a proud Alumni of Fredonia University with a BFA in Theatrical Production and Design with a Concentration in Costume Design. Amanda would like to say thank  you to the Argyle and her loved ones for their never ending support.

Sara is an award-winning director, choreographer and educator based in NYC.  She is thrilled to return to The Argyle after choreographing last season’s SPRING AWAKENING. Sara’s choreography credits include, GODSPELL (ACT of CT), FOLLIES (NYIT Award), ROCK OF AGES, MAN OF LA MANCHA, THE FULL MONTY, BIG FISH, CHICAGO, RING OF FIRE, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, PIPPIN, THE TROUBLE WITH DOUG, NEWTON’S CRADLE and many more.  She has directed and choreographed GODSPELL (Theatre Aspen) and CITY OF ANGELS, and is currently the Associate Director for LOVE LIFE at City Center Encores!. Sara’s Broadway credits include THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER, MATILDA, BILLY ELLIOT, 42nd STREET, WHITE CHRISTMAS and AFTER THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC. Additionally, she has worked at The Kennedy Center, Goodspeed Opera House, Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Theatre Aspen, Transcendence Theatre, Joe’s Pub, The Duke, The 92nd Street Y, Town Hall and Merkin Hall. Visit www.SaraBrians.com for more.

John is a Tony, Emmy and Grammy-winning composer, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award, and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. With frequent collaborator Fred Ebb, he composed the score to dozens of Broadway musicals, including Cabaret, Zorba, Chicago, The Act, Woman of the Year, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Steel Pier. John Harold Kander was born on March 18, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri to Harold and Berenice (Aaron) Kander. He attended Oberlin College, where he composed his first theatre scores, for Second Square and Opus Two in 1950 and Requiem for Georgie in 1951. He earned a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1954. During the summers of 1955 to 1957, he worked as the choral director and conductor of the Warwick Musical Theatre in Rhode Island. Kander began to work steadily as a pianist in 1956. He believes his big break in New York came by accident: He went to a club in Philadelphia after seeing a performance of West Side Story. By chance he happened to meet the pianist, who asked Kander to substitute for him while he went on vacation. The stage manager for West Side Story then asked Kander to play the auditions for her next show, Gypsy. During the Gypsy auditions, Kander met the choreographer, Jerry Robbins, who then suggested that Kanderactually write the dance music for the show. After that experience, he again wrote dance arrangements for Irma la Douce in 1960. As a composer, Kander made his Broadway debut in 1962 with A Family Affair, produced by Harold Prince. A year later, in 1963, Kander met lyricist Fred Ebb. Kander and Ebb began to work together, and their first song, “My Coloring Book,” was nominated for a Grammy award. Kander and Ebb’s first theatrical collaboration, The Golden Gate, never opened on Broadway. However, the score convinced Harold Prince to hire the pair for his next production, Flora, the Red Menace, which opened in 1965, starring Liza Minnelli in her Broadway debut. Cabaret, Kander and Ebb’s triumphant hit, opened on November 20, 1966 at the Broadhurst Theatre and ran for 1,166 performances. The show won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Musical and Kander and Ebb won for Best Score. In 1972, the film adaptation starring Liza Minnelli won several Oscars. The stage musical was revived at the Imperial Theatre in 1987 with some of the original cast reprising their roles. The show was revived again in 1998, earning another Tony for Best Revival. Susbequent collaborations inclued The Happy Time, 70, Girls, 70 and Chicago. Another huge hit, Chicago ran for 898 performances and was revived in 1997, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Revival, Best Choreography, and Best Direction. The team continued their collaboration with The Act, Woman of the Year, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony Award winner for Best Score), Steel Pier and Over and Over.In 2000 Kander and Ebb were working together on The Visit, based on a play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. After Fredd Ebb passed away in 2004, Kander completed the project with playwright Terrence McNally.Kander’s film work includes scores for Something for Everyone(1969), A Matter of Time (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Still of the Night (1982), Blue Skies Again (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), I Want to Go Home (1989) and Billy Bathgate (1991), and songs for New York, New York (1977), Cabaret (1972), Funny Lady(1975) and French Postcards (1979). Kander and Ebb also collaborated on music for several television specials. In 1974 they won an Emmy Award and Grammy Award for their work on Liza with a ‘Z.’ They won another Emmy in 1993 for Liza Minnelli in London, Steppin’ Out. Other television projects featured Goldie Hawn, Shirley MacLaine, and Michael Baryshnikov. In addition to his Tony, Grammy, and Emmy awards, Kander received honorary doctorate degrees from Oberlin College and Niagara University, the President’s Award from the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre. For almost four decades, Kander and Ebb wrote music together for theatre, film, and television. Their collaboration was a true partnership. In an April 1997 article in The New York Times, Ethan Mordden wrote, “Mr. Kander and Mr. Ebb celebrate the Big Break, the American love of show biz, making it, performance. Their musicals may be set in Germany, Greece, or South America, may defy Fascism or flirt with death. But at the center of their art lies a love of the talent-take-all wonder of entertainment.”

Eugenio is thrilled to be back at the Argyle after choreographing The Full Monty (dir. E.Pappas). Directing and/or choreographing credits include: The Pin-Up Girls, Joseph and the…, Carrie, Rent, Alice in Wonderland, among others). Assistant/Associate Director credits include: Once, Lulu (M. Arden), Sister Act, Hunchback of Notre Dame, DuBarry Was a Lady (Off-Broadway), Rent, Pinocchio (NYC, Seoul, Italy), and several Italian National Tours including Cats, Titanic and Alice in Wonderland. Eugenio has also directed and choreographed numerous Graduation Musicals at AMDA, where he is also a member of the Musical Theatre Faculty. @eugeniocontenti

Audrey Vuong is a French set designer whose work has been featured on national theaters and opera houses in Europe. Over her 20-years career she has worked in over sixty productions for stage, musical theater, opera, and film. She designed sets for Mozart’s Il Seraglio at the Opéra Garnier, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at the Opéra Bastille, and Cinderella at the Théâtre de Mogador, in Paris. Her last work with contemporary directors, Pierre Guillois, Valery Lesort and Christian Hecq, was shown, in 2019, at the Klagenfurt Stadttheater in Austria, and Le Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris.In the U.S. she has worked on productions for the Argyle theatre with director Evan Pappas, and at Barnard College in New York City.Audrey has a master in Scenography from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris. She recently moved to New York City. www.audrey.vuong.com

Off-Broadway/New York: Speakeasy-Time Square (Bond 45), Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State (CNN, Minetta Lane Theatre), The Convent (A.R.T. NY), New York Pops Christmas Concert (Carnegie Hall 2015, 2016), Stalking the Bogeyman, Bare (New World Stages), Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre), Murder in the First (59E59), Falling (Minetta Lane), Gormanzee (Flea Theater), Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (New World Stages, national tour). Regional/Tour/Film: Sound of Music, Guys and Dolls, Meet Me in St Louis, Singing in the Rain, Jesus Christ Superstar (The Muny), Scratch (SyFy Channel), Holiday Wishes (Cirque Musica), Jump (Playmakers Theater), Cirque Musica (national tour), Crazy for You (Signature Theatre), Tribes (Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse), Scrooge, Dial M for Murder (Bucks County Playhouse). www.tristanraines.com

Michael is pleased to return to the Argyle where he and his team have cast all mainstage productions since the theatre’s founding. Recent credits include: An American in Paris (International Tour, dir. Christopher Wheeldon), Spamilton (NYC/Chicago/US tour/album), Enter Laughing (York Theatre), Forbidden Broadway (numerous editions/albums), and many more. Resident Casting Director for the New York Musical Festival (2007-2019) and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre since 2013. Native Clevelander, member of the Casting Society of America. BFA, Otterbein University

John is a New York based Lighting and Sound Designer. His work has been seen and heard in New York at the York Theatre Co., Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages, Queens Theatre in the Park, the Tank, Hard Sparks, Atlantic Acting School, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, as well as regionally at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Connecticut Ballet, Argyle Theatre, Southeastern Regional Ballet Association, Centenary Stage Co., Southeast Alabama Dance Co., and Provincetown Theater. Additional information can be found at: www.johnsalutzdesigns.com 

Julianna, a Queens College alumnus, is thrilled to be back for another mainstage production at The Argyle Theatre. Previously she had been a Production Assistant (Peter and the Starcatcher), Props Runner (Spring Awakening) and (The Producers) and Assistant Stage Manager (The Full Monty). Julianna is also proud to have been a part of Argyle children’s theatre as a deckhand and dresser. In the spring, Julianna will be Festival Company Manager at Opera Saratoga. She would like to thank everyone who supports her to achieve her dream of working in live theater.