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Danny
Beam (Officer
Brophy) is making his debut with the Brick Street
Players in this production of Arsenic and
Old Lace. He
has been involved in drama at church and with BSU while
in college. Danny is originally from northeast
Mississippi and has lived in Clinton for the past
fifteen years. He is employed as shipping manager
at Dear Cards, Inc. in downtown
Jackson.
Brad
Carter (Jonathan
Brewster), as a C.I.A. operative, has completed over 200
missions….ahh, wrong bio. Any further
information must be requested in writing in triplicate
at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. Between
missions, Brad has appeared with The Brick Street
Players on three other occasions, in A Thousand
Clowns, Bus
Stop, and as Arnold in The Boys Next
Door.
Jerald
Everett
(Mr. Witherspoon) is an active
member of the Clinton Brick Street Players. This is his
third appearance on stage, having appeared as Vinnie in
The Odd Couple and as
Buford in the 2004 production of Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got The Will. Jerald has
been involved behind the scenes for several years. He
has also worked with the Arts
Council of Clinton as well as other Clinton Community
Activities. Jerald is a Human
Resource Professional and currently works as a HR Consultant. He resides in
Clinton with his wife, Rita. Jerald and Rita have a daughter, Sonya, a son Preston and
two grandchildren.
Sarah
Hankins (Elaine
Harper) a regular with the Brick Street Players, making
her fifth on-stage appearance. She was last seen as
Sandra Markowitz in A Thousand
Clowns, as Susan in Stop The World-I
Want To Get
Off, Clara in I’m Not
Rappaport, and Alice Sycamore in You Can’t Take It
With You.
Her back stage credits include, The Odd Couple,
I Love You, You’re
Perfect, Now Change, Same Time Next Year, Cemetery Club,
Driving Miss Daisy, Daddy’s Dying, Who’s Got The Will,
and others.
Sarah is a graduate of Clinton High School, where
she performed in numerous Arrow Player plays, including
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and The
Crucible.
She is currently a student at Mississippi
College, where she is majoring in History education,
with a double minor in Theatre and
Biology.
Richard Jones (Lt. Rooney) got
involved in the formation of the current Brick Street
Players in their first production thirteen years ago
with a part in “You Can’t Take it With You.” Some
sixty productions later Richard has at one time or
another been involved with every aspect of this
community theater. As the nominal (nobody else wants it)
President of BSP for nine years, Richard says his main
job has been to help with what ever is needed to make a
show happen. Richard is also a competitive fencer and
coach of Central Mississippi Fencing. He’s waiting
for a swashbuckler production so he can choreograph the
fight scenes. Richard is pleased to be a part of this
classic production and grateful for the support this
group has gotten over the
years.
Mark
Jourdan (Teddy
Brewster`), originally
from Missouri, is a Research Hydraulic Engineer with a
PhD from Texas A&M. He started his acting career as
“Kris Kringle” in Miracle on 34th Street, and has
appeared in Fools, Ten Little Indians,
The Hobbit, The Robber Bridegroom,
Romeo and Juliet, Paint Your Wagon, A
Christmas Carol, The Lion the Witch
and the Wardrobe, My Fair Lady and
Gold in the Hills at the Vicksburg
Theater Guild. This is Mark’s
third appearance with The Brick Street Players, having
played Leo Herman in A Thousand Clowns
and Mr.
Kolenkov in You Can’t Take It
With You.
Mark has four wonderful children and a beautiful
supporting wife, Suzanne.
Lamar
Christopher Knight (Officer
O’Hara), a lifelong Jackson native, has always held a
strong interest in acting. His foray into
the world of theatre began during his senior year of
high school when he played the sinister Jonathan
Brewster in Arsenic And Old
Lace.
Spurred on by his first success on stage, Chris
went on to minor in theatre at Mississippi College where
he performed in the comical Shakespeare abridged version
of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. Tonight Chris makes his fourth
appearance with The Brick Street Players, having played
Billy Driscoll in The Ransom of Red
Chief, Leo in A Thousand
Clowns, and the mentally challenged but ever
optimistic, Norman, in The Boys Next Door
several years ago.
Jeffrey
Murphy
(Dr. Einstein) is thrilled to return to the Clinton
Brick Street Players stage where he played Frog in this
season’s production of Catfish Moon and
Roy in the 2006 production of The Odd
Couple.
Jeff was also seen as Ramon in Fondren Theatre
Workshop’s production of Variations on the
Death of Trotsky, and as Mr. Gower in the Center
Players production of It’s A Wonderful
Life.
Jeff is an ordained minister in the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) and is a clinical chaplain
at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He serves as
president of the Mississippi Chaplains Association and
was named “Outstanding Local Leader” at the 2007 annual
Conference of the Association of Professional
Chaplains.
Jeff is married to Carol Byrnes, who teaches art
and theatre at Florence High School and who is a veteran
of area theatre.
He is step-father to Caty and Christina.
Debbie
O’Neal
(Abby Brewster) is making her second appearance on the
Brick Street stage, having been in the cast of singers
in Smokey Joe’s Café last year. She was born in
Mobile, Alabama and raised in Jackson, Mississippi.
Debbie and her husband, Keith currently reside in a
restored antebellum farmhouse in Raymond, Mississippi
with their three children, Whitley, Jacob and
Simon. She
was previously seen in I Do! I Do! at Circle Off
The Square Theatre in Raymond. Debbie is
currently Worship Leader at Eagle Ridge Community Church
in Raymond.
She hopes this second appearance with The Brick
Street Players leads to many
more.
Sam
Puckett
(Mortimer Brewster), a native Jacksonian now living in
Raymond, has been a singer/actor in the metro Jackson
area for the past twenty years. Though employed
full time as an art director, he is a frequent soloist
at his home church of First Baptist Church Raymond, and
has also sung for special events for the community, and
performed in numerous musical and theatrical productions
including: Clinton Brick Street’s production of Rehearsal For
Murder (David Mathews-debut), their production of L.U.V. (Harry
Berlin, lead); and the Mississippi Opera’s productions
of Cavalleria
Rusticana/I Pagliacci (tenor, chorus) & My Fair Lady
(tenor, footman), Vicksburg Theatre’s production of My Fair Lady
(tenor, Cockney Quartet, various roles), and I Do! I Do! for
Raymond’s Circle Off The Square Theatre. He made his
debut with Clinton Brick Street Players in this season’s
production of Smokey Joe’s
Café.
David
A. Reed
(Officer Klein) started singing and acting in high
school in northern California, where he played Curly
McLain in Oklahoma and
Frank Butler in Annie Get Your
Gun.
David had the opportunity to sing for President
Richard Nixon while touring with The Young
Americans.
After high school, he moved to Oklahoma and
attended college on a baseball scholarship. His education
was interrupted for a tour in the military during the
Viet Nam war.
He returned to Oklahoma and college, majoring in
music education at Southeastern State University in
Durant, OK.
David worked as a law enforcement officer while
attending college, sang in church and with the
University Corral.
He started acting again in Ardmore, OK Little
Theatre with parts a Teddy Brewster in Arsenic and Old
Lace, Bill Sykes in Oliver and Amos
B. Bellamy in the Fantasticks.
David retired from law enforcement as chief of police
and started singing again as a soloist and in gospel
quartets.
After serving with the Department of Defense on a
United Nations Pease Keeping Mission in Kosovo, David
moved to Mississippi. This is David’s
second role on the Brick Street stage, having appeared
as Curley in Catfish Moon
earlier this season. He has two
daughters and three
grandchildren.
Matthew Stevens (Mr. Gibbs)
is a recent graduate of Mississippi College. While at
MC, he participated in four years of Tribal Players and
Shakespeare Festival earning him enough credits to be in
the Theatre Honor Society, Alpha Psi Omega. He was also
involved in the Baptist Student Union drama team, Cross
Section. Some of his MC theatre credits include Othello, Reap the
Whirlwind, Perspectives
on the Cross,Taming of the Shrew, The Glass
Menagerie, Romeo and
Juliet, Beyond the
Horizon, and The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Matthew is
making his Clinton Brick Street Players
Debut.
Anna
Taylor (Martha
Brewster) has performed in school and church productions
for many years and made her stage debut with the Brick
Street Players as Doris inSame Time Next
Year. Since that time, she has been involved
in various Brick Street productions both on stage and
behind the scenes including, You Can’t
Die Laughing, The Cemetery
Club, Driving Miss
Daisy, You Can’t
Take It With You, and Daddy’s Dying,
Who’s Got The Will. Anna works for Mississippi
Protection and Advocacy Systems, Inc., where she is an
education advocate for children with disabilities.
She has been a Clinton resident for almost nine
years.
David
Walker (Rev. Dr.
Harper, Adam Hoskins & Mr. Spenalzo) is making his
theatrical debut in this production with the Brick
Street Players. He is currently studying film at
Watkins Film School in Nashville, TN. David is a
born and raised native of Clinton and a graduate of the
Mississippi School of The
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