Theatrical Performance, Production, Direction,

and Artist Representation

Rosemary (theatrical director, music director, composer, performance artist, pianist)

Born in New York City, Rosemary received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting and directing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and then continued professional training in Pittsburgh at Carnegie-Mellon University with Jewel Walker (mime) and Paul Draper (tap dance), and ballet with Anne Polajenko (Pittsburgh Ballet Theater). While there, she was a company member of the Lovelace Marionette Theatre performing marionette, hand-and-rod, and Bunraku puppetry. She also appeared in a staging of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well… at the world’s largest music festival, Summerfest.

While working for Joe Papp’s New York Public Theater, Rosemary continued performance training in Manhattan studying with legendary acting coach, Stella Adler, as well as jazz dance with Lillian Heitzman at Carnegie Hall’s International School of Dance, and mime with Moni Yakim of The Julliard School. She was co-founder and singer/composer/arranger/choreographer for the comedy rock band, LaZoo (featured on MTV), leaving to work with Dream Girls Broadway orchestrator Harold Wheeler.

As a composer, Rosemary has provided theme music for two podcast series produced by her daughter at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). Most recently, Rosemary was music director and production co-director for Anyone Can Whistle and Lucky Stiff, at the Williamsburg Players (Virginia). Previously she was Artist-in-Residence at the York County School of the Arts (Virginia) where she directed Almost Maine and Don’t Drink The Water, was Director/Music Director for A Celebration of Rogers and Hart, Forbidden Broadway, and Music Director for Nunsense, Young Frankenstein, and Cinderella – traveling with students to perform Cinderella at Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The reigning Miss America, Cassie Donegan, was in three of her shows at the School of the Arts, as well. In recent years, she has also been music director for productions of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Boyfriend, The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity, Addams Family, Legally Blonde, and Footloose in Williamsburg, Virginia. 

Ed (theatre management, marketing, artist management, performance artist, voice over actor)

Ed has performed professionally as an actor and voice-over artist. He created and operated two theater companies in the Midwest: The Alternative Perspective Theater, in collaboration with Friends Mime Theater (Milwaukee), and Two’s Company, a theater partnership producing original plays that toured Illinois and Wisconsin for several years (while studying improvisation with Paul Sills, co-founder of Chicago’s The Second City). At the time, he was also chief announcer for a major Midwest FM radio station (classical/jazz format) owned by Koss Corporation.

In New York City, where he lived for 12 years, Ed trained at HB Studio with legendary acting coaches Herbert Berghofand Aaron Frankel while appearing on stages from Off-Off Broadway to Lincoln Center, and on network TV (including roles on the daytime drama, All My Children). While obtaining his BFA in acting, he was fortunate to appear in several productions with college classmate Willem Dafoe (who even then was a standout talent). Rosemary met Ed when she saw him perform the leading role of Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew at the 13^th Street Repertory Theater in Greenwich Village, NYC, in a production that also featured future Emmy Award-winning actor, Vincent Irizarry. Some other favorite roles Ed has performed include Gonzalo in The Tempest, Pantalone in Servant of Two Masters, James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey into Night, Herbert Georg Beutler (Sir Isaac Newton) in The Physicists, and First Voice in Under Milk Wood. He originated the role of James Doxey (an inebriated announcer in a 1940s radio station) in the comedy Mayhem on the Air, for which he was nominated as Best Performer in a Play in the 2022 Broadway World Regional Awards – Central Virginia. He has also performed as narrator for the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky), and the symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev).

In addition to his performance career, Ed oversaw the entertainment division for a major casino in Central New York for eight years, booking more than 750 live shows each year in four nightclubs, an 800-seat showroom, and 5,000 seat event center, featuring major talent such as Ringo Starr, Tony Bennett, Toby Keith, KISS, Steve Martin, Martin Short, James Taylor, Jay Leno, Earth-Wind-and-Fire, Chicago, Barry Manilow, Alicia Keys, The Beach Boys, Alice Cooper and many, many others. Ed is a member of the International Entertainment Buyers Association.