Stephen Reyes is an Arkansan-Chilean native with pseudo-neo-pacifist-anarchist ideals. His last NYC stage appearance was playing Beans in Boon Theatre's Country Feedback. Other credits include Alyosha in the Culture Project's The Brothers Karamazov and Laertes in La MaMa's Hamlet Project. He served as the front man (a.k.a. Mercutio Septimbre) in the New York rock band Mas Beckett. After his actor training in Las Vegas, he received extensive Ninjitsu training from food service.

BROOKE ISHIBASHI is thrilled to be a part of this cast. Originally from Southern California, Brooke is a recent graduate of Marymount Manhattan College where she played The Nurse in Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again. Favorite credits include The Wiz (Dorothy), A Chorus Line (Diana Morales) and Twelfth Night (Viola). Much love and thanks to my amazing family. Live your dream.

Darren Katz was most recently Resident Director for the Broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as well as Associate Director for the National Touring and San Francisco/Boston companies. Broadway (Asst. Director): Amour for James Lapine and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for Scott Ellis. National tours (Asst. Director): Kiss Me, Kate for Michael Blakemore. Off-Broadway (Asst. Director): Preaching to the Perverted for Holly Hughes and Lois Weaver. Other directing projects: multiple shows with Murray Hill, Eleanor & Hick, Sunfish and a new piece about artist Henry Darger.

Ian Wehrle is a songwriter and arranger from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ian has studied contemporary writing and production under Bill Elliott, Michael Gibson and Edgar Grana. Ian is an original member of the Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra, arranges for Aware Records recording artists Parker House and Theory, engineers for MTV's On-air-promotions, and breathes underwater.

Kelli Jo is honored, really honored to be a part of the Happy Sunshine team. She is a 2004 Cum Laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Media Studies and a Minor in Theatre Production. Past theatre work includes Dracula (ASM, Triad Stage), Crimes of the Heart and Absent Friends (SM, UNCG Summer Rep), and Tracers (SM, American Theatre of Actors, NYC). Kelli Jo spends her days as a cog in the American media machine.  She thanks her family, friends, and the gang at Media 3 for their support.

Heath Calvert was born in Dayton, Ohio to a woman from Indianapolis and a gentleman from Pittsburgh.  He subsequently lived in Indiana, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Mississippi, Colorado, and finally New York City. Sometimes he thinks he knows everything, but the majority of the time admits he knows almost everything or nothing at all. Once, at a dinner a party, he smacked a mosquito that had landed on the forehead of the former lead White House Legal Counsel to the Carter Administration. Later he realized that he may be the only person on the planet who had ever smacked this entleman in the middle of his forehead and was thanked for it. He cannot build a model airplane and has civil libertarian, socialist, democratic, anarchist, and republican inclinations. Heath studied classical voice, theater, finance, and accounting at Indiana University. He has been subcontracted to Raytheon Aerospace and Ericsson telecommunications, performed as a surfer on Broadway and as a soloist with a bunch of symphonies, blogged for the Huffington Post, been dream sequenced out on Guiding Light, and waited on Bjork. He has a mild addiction to liberty and won't shut up about it.

Christie is part Texan, part Oklahoman. She has been a graphic designer and production artist for over a decade working for Ralph Lauren, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, and her personal favorite, Arby's. Christie currently resides in Hell's Kitchen.

Amy is thrilled to be working with the HSKFF creative team. Amy recently moved to New York from Chicago where she performed with regional theatres including Chicago Shakespearen Theatre, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Shaw Chicago Theatre Company, Second City Chicago and the Utah Shakespearean Festival where Amy met Matthew and hasn't been able to aviod him since...it's awkward. Amy currently lives in Brooklyn and pursues the lifelong dream of becoming a high-rolling producer/actor/creator/rockstar mogul- found strewn across the pags of 'Celebs do real things too' section of US Weekly.

Matthew-Lee: As an actor he most recently appeared Off Broadway in the world premiere of Danny Hoch's Till the Break of Dawn. He has worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, MCC, Culture Project, Urban Stages, BMI, A.R.T, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Barrington Stage, Ars Nova, several indie films and the obligatory Law&Order: SVU, among others. As a writer, he contributes to The Huffington Post; Plays include Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower, Jesus;Kidnapped. (Princess Grace semi-finalist in 2006), developed with MCC Theatre. Other plays include Love, Atomic. , Experimental Corn Field , Walking Fish, and Charm/Strange. Development/performances with MCC, OHIO Theatre/SoHo ThinkTank, Ars Nova, and The Zipper Factory. For Film/TV: Bow, NH; the domestication of wolfgang jones; iHouse; and The Adventures of Cody and Moss. He is a proud cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Also, SecondCity, Chicago. Graffiti. Quaker. Drums.

Lauren McLaughlin is a freelance video editor living in NYC. She's a Boston University alum who likes walks on the beach, pina coladas and is not in to yoga. She also has half a brain. Most of the time.

 

Kevin R. Free: Off-Broadway: From My Hometown, Taking A Chance On Love (York Theatre), The Conjure Man Dies (New Federal Theatre). Regional: CENTERSTAGE, Kennedy Center, Ordway, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, North Shore Music Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Charlotte Rep, NC Shakespeare Festival, Arden Theatre (Barrymore Award Nominee, Violet). Recordings: Avenue X, numerous audio books (3-time Earphones Award-winner, Audie award nominee). A member of the New York Neo-Futurists, he performs regularly in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 Minutes). His one-man show, Face Value, was in FringeNYC and was a recipient of the Henry Street Settlement's Playwrights' Project Grant in 2000 and was a finalist in the Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition in 2003. Kevin is proud to be an American, where at least he knows he's black. www.kevinrfree.com

Tarik Davis:

Tarik's background of performance has mainly been comedic having performed and worked for such institutions like The Upright Citizens Brigade, Boom Chicago in Amsterdam and The Second City in Chicago. Since being back in NY Tarik has branched out into more traditional theater taking part in numerous Off -Broadway plays. Tarik would like to thank his family and friends and everyone else who helped him out along the way.

To come!