This is the Cast

CAST OF MENNY & MILA (Photo by Julia Xanthos/Daily News)

The cast - Josh Canfield, Sarah Cooney, Danielle Heaton, Mark Lanham, Maura Matlak, Marek Sapieyevski, Amanda Shy and Marcus Terrell Smith.

CAST BIOS: 

Danielle Heaton is a native of Dayton, Ohio "The Birthplace of Aviation". She is a recent graduate of Emerson College in Boston, MA receiving a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre. Although Musical Theatre has always been a passion of hers, Danielle has experience in theatre, film, and voice over work as well. She was recently seen in Richard Kelly's "The Box" with Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as "Estelle" and she was a featured ensemble member in the MTV music video "U Suck" by Just Kait. Some favorite theatre roles include Angel in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" Meg March in "Little Women" Shelley in "Bat Boy" Sally Brown in "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" and Penny in "Hairspray". She is a strong and dedicated person who loves to laugh, sing, dance, and entertain.

Amanda Shy is a Voice Over, Film & Stage Actor living in NYC.  She recently completed work as the lead in the award winning short film "Collecting Things". Check her out at www.amandashy.com. 

Marek Sapieyevski performs as an actor, singer, and musician in stuff all over the place.  When only partially in character, he is the banjo player for internationally touring mariachi/bluegrass/fusion group Rana Santacruz, the pianist for NYC honky tonk band The Crevulators, the Assistant Musical Director at EndTimes Productions, and was recently added as an endorsing artist for Deering banjos. Very many thanks to friends, family, fellow cast, staff and tech. www.marek-actor.com 

Sarah Cooney grew up in West Hartford, CT, and was fortunate to grow up in New England - the land of all four seasons.  As beautiful as the snow on the trees are, she has always been a city girl at heart, and took every opportunity to run away to New York to see shows as a child.  After living in the same house in CT her whole life, she made her first move ever to New York at 18 to study at NYU Steinhardt.  She graduated from NYU in 2008 with a bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance/Music Theatre, and is currently living, working, and auditioning in New York.  Wish me luck!! "I’m excited to be a part of the New York Fringe Festival this year!"

Mark Lanham Accomplished piano, violin and harmonica player. Excellent sight-reader. Various dialects: French; German; Italian; British; Irish; New York; African American street slang; Hispanic; Southern; Eastern Indian. Proficient but not fluent in Spanish, German, Italian and Latin. Impressions: Robert Goulet (singing); Jimmy Durante (singing); Truman Capote. Motorcycle riding, gourmet cooking, mannequin and suit form dressing, drawing, painting and graphic design, world-class bargain shopper.

Marcus Terrell was born in Dallas, Texas. He found that he had a knack for singing at the age of nine and fell in love with it. He attended the University of Arizona in Tucson and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics with a minor in Theatre Arts. The following summer he was accepted into the Actors Studio Drama School (ASDS) MFA Program. For the past two years he has been working on three plays, Harold Pinter’s One for the Road, On Mules We Find, an original play by Trey Tatum, and the staged reading of Freedom at Blackbird, an original play by Lauren Roberts.