WHO’S WHO
Theatre). Film: Alien Resurrection, Titus. Nearly
every regional theatre in the U.S. David is
Professor and Head of the MFA in Performance
Pedagogy Program at Virginia Commonwealth
University.
GILLIAN LANE-PLESCIA (Dialect Coach)
is pleased to continue working with Amazing
Grace. Recent New York shows include The
Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Indian
Ink, and War Horse. She has worked recently
at Hartford Stage, Palm Beach Dramaworks,
McCarter, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Seattle
Rep, Trinity Rep, Yale Rep. She teaches at
Juilliard.
KENNY SEYMOUR (Orchestrator) Broadway/
Off-Broadway credits: Tony Award
Winning Best Musical Memphis (Music
Director/Conductor), The Tallest Tree In The
Forest (Music Director/Arranger/Incidental
Music), The Strangely Beau-tiful Tale of
Miss Percy Parker (Co-Composer & Lyricist,
Orchestrations), Scary Musical (Orchestrator),
The Music Man (Music Director/Conductor),
Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues (Music
Supervisor/Orchestrator), The Wiz (Dance
Music Arranger), Hot Feet: The Music of
Earth, Wind & Fire (Synth Programmer).
www.kennyseymour.com.
SUZAYN MACKENZIE-ROY (Production
Stage Manager) is excited to be joining Amazing
Grace! Touring credits include Annie (national and
international), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (Star
Liason to Mike Tyson), and three years of Fiddler
on the Roof, (two as Production Stage Manager,
one as Star Dresser to Chaim Topol, Harvey
Fierstein, and Theodore Bikel). Knathan – liily!
JOSEPH CHURCH (Arranger /Incidental
Music) is best known for music direction and
supervision of two groundbreaking Broadway
musicals, The Lion King and The Who’s Tommy.
Other credits include In the Heights, Sister Act,
Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors, Randy
Newman’s Faust and Radio City’s Christmas
Spectacular. Joseph has composed music for
television, concert stages, plays and musicals.
He holds a doctorate from NYU, where he is on
the faculty. His book, Music Direction for the
Stage: A View From the Podium, is published
by Oxford University Press. www. churchmuse.com.
viewfromthepodium.com
TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT (Management
Consultant) has been an innovator in touring
musi cal theater productions for over two
decades, producing shows throughout North,
Central, and South America, Europe and Asia.
Additionally, the company is experienced in
casino and leisure markets. Current productions
include An American in Paris, The Bodyguard,
Love Never Dies, On Your Feet!, School of
Rock, The Color Purple, Kinky Boots, and
the Asian tour of Sister Act. With strong ties
to the Broadway community, TROIKA prides
itself on delivering top quality productions to
audiences worldwide. Please visit us at
www.troika.com
PAUL M. RAMBACHER (General Manager)
has represented in excess of 150 productions
for over 35 years. Some of his credits include;
The Music Man: in Concert starring Shirley
Jones & Patrick Cassidy, Smokey Joe’s Café
with the Coasters, directed by Chet Walker,
Buddy, the Buddy Holly Story, Fela starring
Michelle Williams, A Chorus Line, Directed
by Baayork Lee, Merchant of Venice starring
F. Murray Abraham, Nobody don’t like Yogi
starring Ben Gazzara, the original practice
productions of Measure for Measure and
Twelfth Night, starring Mark Rylance, Elaine
Stritch at Liberty , Savion Glover’s productions
of Classical Savion, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring
in ‘da Funk and Footnotes.
ALEXANDER RANKIN (Producer) From
Chicago’s South Side to the Army Corps of
Engineers. He received a BS in mechanical
engineering at University of Illinois. Rankin
designed radial tires for Firestone, sold
temperature control systems in Chicago
and sold Hunter springs in the Midwest. He
transferred to the Hunter factory in PA as a sales
manager. After the Hunter buyout he started
Vulcan Springs in his basement, manufacturing
constant-torque springs to drive Hasboro’s G.I.
Joe talking mechanism. He is the founder and
chairman of First National Penn Bank; and
a director of BITMICRO, a flash-memory
company in California. Supporting and
encouraging Carolyn Rossi Copeland, they
began producing the musical Amazing Grace.