RHONDA COULLET returns to FST after starring here and Off-Broadway in Cowgirls.  You last saw her in Guitar Girls, Smoke on the Mountain and Harry Chapin and Friends.  She starred on Broadway in The Robber Bridegroom with Barry Bostwick, in Pump Boys and Dinettes, Off-Broadway in National Lampoon’s Lemmings with John Belushi and Chevy Chase and in the original L.A. production of Hair.  She then restaged 10 companies of Hair in America and Europe, as well as Jesus Christ Superstar.  Regional credits include:  Smoke on the Mountain, McCarter; Anyone Can Whistle with George Hearn at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.  TV:  Saturday Night Live where she sang her song “West Heaven” as a tribute to John Belushi; narrated PBS’s The American Experience.  Recording:  featured on National Lampoon comedy albums, original cast recordings of Cowgirls and The Robber Bridegroom, and her own album The American Secret. She sang  backup for Cher on Meatloaf’s album Dead Ringer, and with Spinal Tap on Saturday Night Live.  Her song “Bigger Than the Both of Us” was a top 40 single for Jimmy Buffet.

KT CURRAN is an actor, director and playwright with eleven nationally published plays and videos.  In addition to acting nationally and internationally, KT has performed locally at Florida Studio Theatre, the Golden Apple and Theatreworks.  KT is the director of The Source, an award-winning national touring theatre for young people.

JANET DICKINSON is excited to be here in Sarasota with this incredible cast!  This winter Janet performed Forbidden Broadway in both Detroit and Milwaukee.  This summer she’ll be starring in A Sentimental Journey – The Rosemany Clooney Songbook at the Mountain Playhouse in Pennsylvania where Janet has been a resident actor for 14 years with over 90 shows.

LORI FISCHER is the author of the critically acclaimed play Barbara’s Blue Kitchen, produced at Cincinnati Playhouse and the Adirondack Theatre Festival.  Off-Broadway, Ms. Fischer created the role of Lee in the musical Cowgirls.  She also wrote the children’s CD/video Pat the Bunny Sing With Me!  For more information go to www.lorifischer.net.

CASS MORGAN has performed in many shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, all over America and even Russia.  She has written, acted, directed and recorded.  She’s happy to still be working, and especially on this beautiful piece with her amazing friend Rhonda.

MARY MURFITT is a co-author and original cast member of the Off-Broadway production of Oil City Symphony, for which she received a Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critic’s Circle Award (Best Off-Broadway Musical).  Directing credits include: The Cape Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Caldwell Theatre and Hippodrome State Theatre, as well as the recent revival of Oil City Symphony in New York City.  Mary is also the creator/composer/lyricist of the hit Off-Broadway musical, Cowgirls. She originated the role of Mary Lou in the Off-Broadway production as well as the FST production in 1995. Cowgirls was nominated for Best Off-Broadway musical by the Outer Critics Circle and Mary was honored for her work by the New York Drama League.  Her new musical, Prairie Song - The Story of the Orphan Train, will premiere at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati in December 2003.

ELIZABETH PALMER  Regional: A Chorus Line, Chicago, 42nd Street, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Same Time Next Year, Pal Joey, A Coupla White Chicks…, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Forty Carats, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Irma Vep, Sugar Babies, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Tribute, Mame, Anything Goes.  National and Regional tours: Sweet Charity, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, State Fair.  European Tours: Best of Broadway.