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Return to Night Train to Memphis
 Rebecca Langford (Creator) has been part of the development team for FST’s Cabaret Theatre since her arrival in Sarasota in 1998. Shows she has helped develop include: Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, Brassy Broads, Hot and Cole, My One and Only Gershwin, GI Jive, Three Friends, Two Guitars and A Broken Tambourine, Piano Men and The Flip Side. She was the Director of Development for Laughing Matters...Too, A Vaudeville Cabaret and the original Laughing Matters. Ms. Langford is the chief operating officer for Florida Studio Theatre. She is responsible for the management of FST’s overall Administration, including the Business Office, Development, Marketing, Box Office, Front of House, Cabaret Restaurant, budgeting and maintaining the overall quality of FST’s internal management functions. In addition, Ms. Langford has 16 years of Improv experience and created FST’s award-winning Improv program. Prior to her arrival at Florida Studio Theatre, she worked as a theatre artist in Austin, Texas at the Austin Shakespeare Festival, in the box office for the Zachary Scott Theatre, and held the position of Audience Development Coordinator for the Largo Cultural Center in Florida. She is originally from Atlanta, Georgia where she attended Georgia State University and began her career in theatre as an actress.
 Richard Hopkins (Creator/Director) Artistic Director of Florida Studio Theatre since 1980, Richard Hopkins has guided the company from a small touring group to a professional regional theatre. Mr. Hopkins began his professional theatre career as a resident actor with Asolo State Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. In 1974 he founded the Palisades Theatre Company in Washington, DC, which subsequently moved to St. Petersburg to become American Stage. He served as its Producing Director from 1974-1980. Additional experiences include: President of the Florida Professional Theatres Association (1983-1985), Panelist for Theatre Program of Florida Arts Council, and Director/Instructor for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus’ Clown College (1981). His many directing credits include: Metamorphoses, The Bully Pulpit, God’s Man in Texas, Hysteria, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 2: Goering at Nuremberg, Six Degrees of Separation, Execution of Justice, Death by Misadventure, Hi-Hat-Hattie, Invictus, Agnes of God, Beyond Therapy, True West, La Ronde, and Betrayal and numerous other plays and Cabaret projects including Sophie Tucker, Inspired Lunacy, and Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, Over the Rainbow.
John Franceschina (Music Director) composed music for the National Shakespeare Company, the Mark Taper Forum, the Coconut Grove Playhouse, the Moscow Art Theatre, and the Asolo State Theatre. As a pianist/arranger, he has accompanied Judy Garland, Angela Lansbury, Nell Carter, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Lotte Lenya, Paige O’Hara, Chita Rivera, and Gwen Verdon, and has conducted dozens of off-Broadway shows and national tours. He has been a musical director at FST for That’s Life, Stepping Out, and Reflections.
CAST
 Eric Scott Anthony (Ensemble) is thrilled to make his FST debut here in Night Train to Memphis. Broadway: Ring of Fire. Regional: Ring of Fire (Eric) at the Studio Arena Theatre, Pump Boys & Dinettes (Jackson) at Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars and National Tour. Smoke on the Mountain (Dennis) and A Sander’s Family Christmas (Music Dir./Stanley) at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Man of La Mancha (Padre) and It Happened One Christmas at the Flat Rock Playhouse. Eric is a native of St. Louis, MO and former section leader/soloist with the SLSO Chorus.
 John Bronston (Ensemble) has performed regionally in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Hair (Hud), Fences, and Rocky Horror Show (Dr. Frank-N-Furter). New York credits include the new musicals Ivanhoe at the Workshop Theatre and Cyclone and the Pig-Faced Lady for the Women’s Project and the York Theatre. As a composer, his shows have been featured at NYMF, NYTB, and Ellis Island. He is also the associate musical director for the national tours of Smokey Joe’s Café and Five Guys Named Moe.
 Tony Bruno (Ensemble) began his professional drumming career at the age of 17 with the Kenny Fitzgerald Jazz Band. His first musical was FST’s 1988 production of No Way to Treat a Lady. He then spent many years on the road with the Larry Stout Circus Band, and has recently returned from engagements with Circus Hollywood, touring New York, Texas and Georgia. He has also performed extensively for Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Other performances with FST include Heartbeats, Role Play, and A Marvelous Party. He recently performed in Johnny Varro’s Quintet for the Sarasota Jazz Festival and returned to FST for this season’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
 Dominick Cicco (Ensemble) is very happy to be returning to FST after a successful run of Outlaws and Angels in 2008. In musical theatre, some of his favorite roles are Sweeney Todd and Emile DeBecque; in opera, Marcello and Escamillo; in TV, he’s been seen on HBO’s “The Wire” and “How to Make It in America.” In the film, “Invincible,” he plays a scene opposite Mark Wahlberg.
 Casey Gensler (Ensemble) is thrilled to return to Florida Studio Theatre once again after performing in Altar Boyz in the Keating Theatre and British Invasion right here in the Goldstein Cabaret. Some other shows that he has been seen in are Hair, The Spitfire Grill, Pump Boys & Dinettes and The Fantasticks. He has also performed at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Kiss Me Kate.
Production Staff
Production Manager...........................................Bruce Price
Company Manager.............................................MaryMartha E. Ford
Production Stage Manager.................................Kelli Karen
Stage Management Intern...................................Daniel Silverman
Costume Design.................................................Susan Angermann
Lighting Designer...............................................Bruce Price
Sound Designer..................................................John Valines
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