Pin-Up Girls: A Musical Love Letter at New Jersey Repertory Company

Sara Glancy*

Sara Glancy, (she/her) is thrilled to make her NJ Rep debut with The Pin-Up Girls! Off-Broadway: Junie B’s Essential Survival Guide to School (May), The Civil War (Jackie U/S); Touring: You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Lucy), Peter Pan (Wendy), Dragons Love Tacos (Mercy); Select NYC/Regional: As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot), Falling (Shadowland Stages). Sara’s favorite thing in the world is developing new work. She’s participated in countless readings, workshops, and concerts. A couple favorites of these include multiple readings of Trevor: the Musical and a developmental workshop of Rosie Revere: Engineer as the titular Rosie. To learn more about Sara, find her on Instagram @SaraGlancy1 or at saraglancy.com

Brittany Jeffery*

Brittany Jeffery, a New Jersey native, is thrilled to be making her New Jersey Rep debut in Pin Up Girls! She recently closed a production of Pin-Up Girls at the Meadowbrook Theater and is thrilled to be playing Leanne once more. Her recent credits include: Brooke in Noises Off, Anna in The King & I, Heidi in [title of show] and many more. You also may have caught her on Law & Order SVU or even seen her competing on the Food Network!Love to my PUGS, Matt, my family and the Avalon Artists Group!

AJ Melnick

AJ Melnick is an actor/singer/drag queen from central New Jersey. Favorite Project: Old Brick Reformed Church's production of Godspell (“We Beseech Thee”). Regional: NJ Rep’s Wild Horses (Ensemble); New York: Proper Etiquette (Ben) at Manhattan Repertory Theater; Virtual (as of Covid-19): Godspell (“Bless the Lord”) with Morpheus Productions. He also likes to share music, art, and drag on his YouTube channel, Daisy Maize the Cartoon Queen!

Pheonix Vaughn*

Pheonix Vaughn, is a proud NJ Rep Company member and some of her favorite Rep credits include: The M Spot with Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry, Cupid and Psyche, Yankee Tavern, The Judy Holliday Story, The Housewives of Mannheim (Off Broadway at 59th East 59th and at The Ensemble Theater in Santa Barbara). Other NYC Theater credits include: Loves Of Picasso (with Terry D’Alfonso at the MoMA) Heaven In Your Pocket (Emerging Artists Theatre), A Piece Of My Heart (Red Fern Theatre Company with Shirley Lauro). Los Angeles credits include: The People vs. Friar Laurence, Fools(original cast), Shakespeare's Greatest Hits (original cast), Trombone (original cast), and Assassins. AEA member. Pheonix is also a singer/songwriter and guitarist. For more information visit www.pheonixvaughn.com.

James Hindman

James Hindman is an award-winning playwright and actor. As a writer, Off Broadway: Popcorn Falls (Dir. Christian Borle), Pete N’ Keely (Outer Critics Award nomination, two Drama Desk nominations), The Audience (Drama Desk nomination), Being Audrey (NEA Grant recipient), The Gorges Motel (NYFringe Festival), What Doesn’t Kill You (NJRep, Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival), Multiple Family Dwelling (NJ Rep). He is also co creator of The Rat Pack Lounge, A Christmas Survival Guide, and The Bikinis (Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre). His short plays and monologues have been published in many “Best of” anthologies. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and has taught playwriting at The Barrow Group. As a performer: Film and Television – The Report, Ocean’s 8, Marvel’s Iron Fist, The Americans, recurring role on Steven Spielberg’s Public Morals, Madam Secretary, Person of Interest, House of Cards, Henry’s Crime, The Sopranos, Law and Order, SVU, CI, and The Blacklist. Broadway and tours: Mary Poppins, The Scarlet Pimpernell, 1776, City of Angels, A Grand Night for Singing, Once Upon A Mattress, Falsettos, and Dancing at Lughnasa.

Jeffrey Lodin

Jeffrey Lodin (Co-creator) composed the score for James Hindman’s Popcorn Falls (Off-Broadway, 2018). Other Original Scores, with longtime collaborator William Squier: Merrilee Mannerly (Playhouse on Park 2019, Off-Broadway Fall 2020), Disney’s Doug Live!, first original book musical produced in Disney World’s history (songs featured at the 1998 International Children’s Festival and in the soundtrack for the Disney animated feature, Doug’s First Movie; They’ve also written songs for the Disney Channel’s P.B. & J. OTTER), 100 Years into the Heart (Spirit of Broadway, winner of 7 Spirit awards including best score and new show), and others. With John Allen: Young Abe Lincoln (Theatreworks), and others.

Eugene Contenti

Eugenio is a Director/Choreographer based in New York City. He is thrilled to work again on The Pin-Up Girls, after working on its very first production at Casa Manana. Upcoming credits include directing and choreographing Bring It On in Italy; Choreographing Footloose at the Argyle Theatre in Long Island, and Associate Directing the Italian National Tour of Legally Blonde. Previous directing and/or choreographing credits include The Full Monty, Joseph and the..., Carrie, Rent, Alice in Wonderland, among others. Assistant/Associate Director: Once (Bucks County Playhouse dir. T. Griesler), Lulu (Roundabout, dir. M. Arden), Sister Act, Lucky Stiff, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. DuBarry Was a Lady (Off-Broadway), Rent, Pinocchio (NYC, Seoul, Italy), and the Italian National Tours of Cats, Alice in Wonderland, Titanic, Robin Hood,and others. Eugenio is on Faculty at AMDA. Thanks to Jim, Jeff, and everyone at New Jersey Rep! @eugeniocontenti

Molly Model

Model is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist thrilled to be making her NJ Rep debut! Recent performance credits: Elf at The Argyle Theatre, Mrs. Wilkinson in Billy Elliot, Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda, Miss Scarlet in Clue: The Musical at Weathervane Theatre, OH. NYC: 54Below, Joe’s Pub, Birdland, NYLA, DTW, Danny Kaye Playhouse. Choreographer: The Giant Hoax - 42ndSt Theatre, Asst. Choreographer: The Hello Girls- Prospect Theatre, Associate Director/ Choreographer: 42nd ST - Weathervane. Molly thanks Jim, Gene, Jeff and NJ Rep for this amazing opportunity. This show is dedicated to her Grandfathers who proudly served, and to her partner Henry.

Jo Lynn Burks

Gabor Barabas

For NJ Rep, he has produced over 80 world premieres including Ends, A World I Never Made, North Fork, Octet, The Girl With the High Rouge, In Search of Red River Dog, Naked by the River, An Unhappy Woman, Immortal Interlude, Getting in Touch With My Inner B*tch, Till Morning Comes, Slave Shack, Panama, Big Boys, Winterizing the Summer House, Piaf in Vienna, The Color of Flesh, Emil, Touch of Rapture, Beyond Gravity,  A Child’s Guide to Innocence, The Good Daughter, Apostasy, The Best Man, Tilt Angel, Love and Murder, tempOdyssey, October 1962, Place Setting, And Her Hair Went With Her, Engaging Shaw, Poetic License, The Housewives of Mannheim, Dead Ringer, Exposure Time (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), Character Assassins, The Tangled Skirt (nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America), Puma, Night Train, The Judy Holliday Story, Jericho (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), American Stare, Release Point, Esther’s Moustache, Ants, Noir, Happy, Broomstick, Admit One, A View of the Mountains, Butler (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), Lucky Me, Dinner with the Boys, Angels and Ministers of Grace, and the musicals Immortal Interlude,Bookends, The Little Hours (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), and Date of  Lifetime. His book Miklos Radnoti: The Complete Poetry in Hungarian and English was recently published by McFarland.

SuzAnne Barabas

SuzAnne Barabas (Director/Artistic Producer), has been the Artistic Director of NJ Rep for the past 23 years. SuzAnne is a member of Actors Equity Association, the Dramatist Guild, and the Society of Directors & Choreographers.

Kristin Pfeifer*

NYC Credits: Hedwig and The Angry Inch Nat'l Tour (Production Asst.) Opera: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Assistant Stage Manager, Yale Opera) Regional: With George St. Playhouse as Production Stage Manager: Dear Jack, Dear Louise, The Nerd, A Doll’s House Pt. 2, The Fabulous Lipitones. With the NJ Repertory Company as Production Stage Manager: Multiple Family Dwelling, & Juliet, Halftime w/Don, F-Theory, Mutual Philanthropy, The Calling, Wild Horses, Mercy, Apple Season, The Source, Surfing My DNA, Voyager One, Lily, Bone on Bone, The Promotion. Kristin is a proud member of Actor's Equity.

Patricia Doherty

As NJ Rep’s resident costume designer since 2000, Doherty’s work includes: The Housewives of Mannheim, The Color of Flesh, Old Clown Wanted, The Good Daughter, Place Settings, Bookends, Engaging Shaw, Puma, Noir, Broomstick, View of the Mountains, Swimming at the Ritz, Dinner with the Boys (with Dan Lauria), Closure (with Wendy Malick, Gary Cole), Nobody’s Girl,  Butler, Mad Love and Iago , Fern Hill (with Jill Eikenberry, Dee Hoty and John Glover) to name  just a few. New York: Southern Comfort—The Musical (The Public Theater 2016 Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Award Nominations with Annette O’Toole, Jeff McCarthy); Dinner with the Boys  with Dan Lauria (The Acorn Theatre) Academia Nuts (2014 NYMF Best New Musical); The Devil’s Music (St. Luke’s); The Goldman Project (Abingdon Theatre); Freed, Fall to Earth, Poetic License, The Housewives of Mannheim, Butler, Small World (59E59th St Theatres); Love Therapy (DR2) Regional: Alley Theatre (past resident designer), Barrington Stage, Cleveland Play House, Merrimack Rep, Florida Rep, Penguin Rep, Engeman Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Montreal Jazz Festival , Luna Stage, Playwrights Theatre of NJ, Merrimack Rep (MA), People’s Light and Theatre Festival (PA), Rubicon Theatre  of LA, Mosaic Theatre (DC), Cape Cod Playhouse (MA), Weston Playhouse (VT) TV/Video: AT&T, “Unsolved Mysteries,” Pennsylvania Public Television Guest Artist: Monmouth University, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio University, Niagara University, Syracuse University Guest Artist and Instructor: Kent State University, School of Theatre and Dance 1992-95

Janey Huber

Huber began her relationship at NJ Rep in 2004 as a patron & quickly became a subscriber: "They had me at Whores!" Janey then brought close to 30 years of administrative experience in community college & graduate nurse-midwifery education, women’s healthcare, and theater management to her 5-year role as Managing Director.  She is thrilled to remain in the NJ Rep family volunteering as Artistic Associate, (ambassador for the theater), Assistant Lighting Designer (all plays), Assistant to the Covid Compliance Officer, & Assistant Director (Wild Horses, Mercy, The Source, West End Arts Festivals, Voyager One, Lily, & The Promotion). Her BA and MS degrees, from East Stroudsburg University, are in aquatic biology.

Jill Nagle

Jill is the Resident Lighting Designer at NJ Rep. Partial NJ Rep include: Dinner with the Boys, Closure, Butler, Broomstick, Happy, Puma, Night Train, and Noir. Partial NYC designs include: Butler, A Stool at the End of the Bar, Jericho, Poetic License, Housewives of Mannheim, The Man in Room 306, The Dishwashers (59E59), Love Therapy (Daryl Roth), Dinner with the Boys (The Acorn) The Bully Pulpit (Samuel Beckett), Do Not Go Gentle (Harold Clurman), Count Down (Bank Street), In the Parlance (The Pulse), Carrera (La Mama E.T.C.), South Beach Rapture (Dixon Place). Other venues: John Engeman Theatre, Chester Theatre, Luna Stage, Playwrights of New Jersey, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University. www.jillnagle.net

Jessica Parks

Parks has been working for NJ Repertory Company since 2003 and has been the resident scenic designer and prop designer since 2010. Set designs at NJ Rep include: The Promotion, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, Wolf at the Door, The Jag, Swimming at the Ritz, Happy and Broomstick. NYC credits at 59E59 St. Theaters include: Michael Tucker’s Fern Hill, Butler, The Housewives of Mannheim, Jericho and Poetic License. Other credits include: The End of Hester to be performed in November at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row NYC,  Bretch:Call & Respond at Paradise Factory Theatre and Dan Lauria's Dinner with the Boys at The Acorn Theater.

Nick Simone

Simone has been a performing arts educator in NYC for the past 18 years. He has worked at various music schools for all ages and has been a teaching artist for Roundabout Theatre Company, Apollo Theater, and Sundog Theatre specializing in sound design and musical disciplines. As a musician, Nick plays multiple instruments and has also performed at the renowned Carnage Hall and at the Metropolitan Opera House. Nick has also worked as sound designer and as an audio engineer for many productions such as: US: A Progressive Love Story, The Norwegians, North To Maine, IYOM, Wild Children, Time Travelers Trip To Niagara, The Diorama, Shakespeare's Hamlet at Bryant Park, Extreme Weather, Don’t Dress For Dinner, Villainous Company, Capone, & Romantic Trapezoid. Nick is also affiliated with MTV's production Artist to Watch series as a sound assistant. He is currently the chief audio engineer for Fenix Studios in Staten Island, NY and has credits on multiple albums, films, broadcasts, streaming, music videos and mobile apps.  He has worked with up and coming talent and platinum selling artists in different genres from Lorde to Coldplay.

Rachael Malloy

Malloy is very excited to be starting their career with NJ Rep. Previous credit highlights include: 7 Deadly Sins NYC with Tectonic Theatre Project (Show Operator) and Northampton Community College’s Summer Theatre (Tech Intern). College theatre: Head Over Heels (Assistant Stage Manager), FAME (Stage Manager), Into The Woods (Assistant Stage Manager), Cabaret (Stage Manager).

Sunjay Venkatraman

Venkatraman is a graduate from the University of Connecticut with a passion for the arts. In high school, Sunjay served as the student representative for the Matawan Board of Education. In this role his goal was to bring awareness to the art programs at all the schools in the district resulting in an arts budget increase. In college he worked for the Student Union Board of Governors that brought concerts, comedy shows, and lectures on campus. Sunjay would like to thank SuzAnne, Gabor and the Board for giving him the opportunity to represent NJRep. #NJRep