Bryant Duffy

Bryant Duffy (Kevin J & Others) is thrilled to be in Iowa’s first regional production of, “Come From Away”, and his 8th production with Revival Theatre Company! Other Revival credits include, Jacob “La Cage Aux Folles”, Leaf Coneybear “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”, Henry Etches “Titanic”, The Cat “Honk!” Det. Starnes, “Parade” Douglas Fairbanks, “Chaplin” and Dick Bernly “9 to 5”. Other recent credits include: Theo, Mr. Williams, Gabe Brown, “School of Rock”, Ernst Ludvig “Cabaret” Brad Majors “Rocky Horror Show”, Valerie Bertinelli “Eddie and Dave”, and Phil D’armaro “Wild Party”. Bryant studied theatre performance (acting) at the University of Northern Iowa. Thank you for supporting Revival Theatre Company!

Allison Dixon

Hannah-Kathryn Wall

Hannah-Kathryn Wall (Hannah & Others) is thrilled to be making her Revival Theatre debut! Tours: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Marlena Madison), Come From Away (Hannah & Others). Off-Broadway: Greatest Hits Down Route 66 (Lead Vocalist). Regional: Sister Act (Deloris van Cartier), The Color Purple (Nettie), Heathers (Veronica Sawyer). All the glory and honor go to God. A huge thank you goes to her agent Mikey, her mom for all her love & support, and her family & friends. Enjoy the show! Psalm 91. @hannahkwall | hannahkwall.com

Marcia Hughes

Marcia Hughes (Beulah and others) is honored to make her Revival Theatre debut with this remarkable true story, and is grateful to Brian for giving her the opportunity to join this incredible company of talent. Marcia has appeared frequently with regional theatres since moving to Cedar Rapids 34 years ago. Some favorite roles include Rose in Gypsy, Ursula in The Little Mermaid, Mame in Mame, Patsy Cline in Always, Patsy Cline, Sara Jane Moore in Assassins, Phyllis in Follies, and Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare In Love. Marcia was also privileged to originate the role of J. in The Parking Lot, which was staged in the CSPS parking lot during the pandemic. As a vocalist, she has been featured with the I-380 Express, Vanguard Jazz Collective, Dan Knight Jazz Trio, and Rod Pierson Big Band. Now retired from a career in education, communications, and development, Marcia loves having more time for music, theatre, and to volunteer with Meals on Wheels and other community groups. Love to Scot and her beautiful family for their support. Thank you all for embracing live theatre by attending. Welcome to the Rock!

Miranda Luze

Miranda Luze (Beverly & Others) is a New York based performer and voice teacher. She is so excited to return to Come From Away with Revival Theatre Company! Most recently she was the Beverley Bass and Diane Standby for the Come From Away North American Tour. Other credits include: Kinky Boots (Norwegian Cruise Line), The Office: A Musical Parody (Off B’Way), The Eleventh Hour (Off B’Way) & Little Women (The Palace Theatre). She can be heard on Ryan Scott Oliver’s Tomorrow the Island Dies, Past Demons & Ethan Carlson’s Her Sound available on all streaming platforms. Miranda graduated from Drake University, and is so excited to be performing in Iowa again! Thank you to my husband Nathan, family, and friends for their endless support! Insta/Tiktok: @miranda.luze

Casey Prince

Casey Prince (Oz & Others ) Casey is humbled to be performing in Come From Away, 24 years after that fateful September. This is his third Revival show, having played Tateh in 2018’s Ragtime and Albin in La Cage Aux Folles this past June. His most consistent role in recent years is stage dad for his two performer daughters, Eloise and Phoebe. Past favorite roles – in addition to Tateh and Albin – include Harold Hill in The Music Man (in concert), Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, Joe Sutter in Spitfire Grill, Drake/Greylag in HONK!, Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Shoeless Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, Kenickie Murdoch in Grease, and a variety of musical turns in Follies at the Paramount. As incoming board president for Patrons of the Performing Arts (PPA), he would gladly discuss your financial support for youth arts programs. After you’ve made your RTC contribution, of course. 😉 He hopes you thoroughly enjoy Come From Away. Welcome to the rock!

Steve Rezabek

Steve Rezabek (Claude & Others) is very excited to be a part of Come From Away! Recently seen in La Cage aux Folles. He has been doing regional theater for over 40 years and has been seen is such shows as Titanic, Ragtime, Funny Girl, Parade, Grey Gardens, Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, LaCage Aux Folles (in 2003 at TCR), The Full Monty and many other regional productions. He thanks Brian for the chance to share the Revival Theater stage once again, and thanks his wife Traci for her love and support, and God for his family, talent, health and happiness. And you for your support of live theater.

Lynne Rothrock

Lynne Rothrock (Diane & Others) A graduate of Luther College (B.A. Music/Theatre) and Western Michigan University (M.M. Vocal Performance) Lynne Rothrock is a vocalist/entertainer and arts educator. She has performed as a solo artist at a variety of venues around the United States, including Birdland (NYC), The Bluebird Café (Nashville), Davenports Cabaret (Chicago), The Dakota and Crooners (Minneapolis), Crown & Anchor (Cape Cod, MA). She has also worked for a variety of theatre companies around the country as actress and/or musical director. Lynne was one of 30 vocalists selected to attend the prestigious International Cabaret Conference at Yale University and works with Michael Feinstein at the Great American Songbook Foundation. Lynne is based in Cedar Rapids, IA and serves on the arts faculty of Luther College in Decorah, IA and Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA. Visit www.lynnerothrock.com for more information and upcoming events.

Susan Scharnau Schultejans

Susan Scharnau Schultejans (Bonnie & Others) was incredibly lucky to travel to Gander in July and meet Bonnie Harris (who is as nice as you’d expect!), as well see this show in their theater and explore Newfoundland. Some of Susan’s favorite roles have been in Parade, Dogfight. Sunday in the Park with George, Ragtime, Urinetown, The Crucible, A Chorus Line, and Bright Star. This one is for her family, who for generations, modeled for her the beacons of compassion and generosity.

Greg Smith

Greg Smith (Nick, Doug & Others) This is Greg’s seventh production with Revival, most recently seen in La Cage aux Folles (George), Parade (Old Soldier) and Titanic (Captain Smith). Greg has performed with many other local theaters, with his last two productions being Jersey Boys (Gyp DeCarlo) and Beauty and the Beast (Maurice) – both with Theatre Cedar Rapids. Greg would like to thank his entire family – Marcia, Michael, Emily, Beth, Zach, his parents, and his inlaws – for their constant love and support.

Darian Troy

Darian Troy aka Archie(Bob & Others), is beaming to make his Revival Theatre Company debut kicking off the 2025 season! Recently seen in Grumpy Old Men as Pastor Tim at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre in Missouri. Regional credits include: U/s Pabbie (Frozen), Berry Belson (Jersey Boys), Ensemble (Anastasia) @Tuacahn Amp. Kyle( Legally Blonde), King Agnarr (Frozen) @Arrow Rock. Thanks to manager, livi and bear! @onlychildtroy

Ian Zahren

Ian is honored to make his Revival Theatre Company debut and to be part of this incredible story. He has been performing on and off for nearly three decades, having begun as a child actor at The Old Creamery Theatre. Ian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre from the Point Park Conservatory in Pittsburgh and has spent much of the past 20 years balancing careers in arts education, policy work, performance, and writing.

Professionally, Ian has worked with Mixed Blood Theatre and Old Log Theatre in Minneapolis and has served as a resident teaching artist at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and the Children’s Theatre Company of Minnesota. He recently completed a full-time role as a public school teacher in Northeast Iowa.

When not performing, Ian enjoys writing new works for children and spending time in nature with his husband, Andrew, and their dog, Sunny.

David Hein and Irene Sankoff

IRENE SANKOFF & DAVID HEIN are the Olivier-award winning, Tony and Grammy nominated, Canadian writing team behind the worldwide award-winning hit Musical Come From Away, currently playing to over 100 countries on Apple TV+, and around the world.

Their first show, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, based on David’s mother’s true story, has won Best Musical awards across North America, with Sankoff and Hein performing in many productions.

Together, they have written for Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros., HBO and the CW as well as Marvel Comics and the Canadian government. They are the recipients of the FourFreedoms Good Neighbor Award and the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada which recognizes Canadians’ exceptional accomplishments.

Brian Glick

Matthew Stern

Matthew Stern is an NYC-based music director, pianist, conductor, vocal coach, and educator. He has been music directing for theater in the Boston area for the past fifteen years, and has over one hundred and seventy-five productions to his credit. Matt has worked with several professional theatre organizations (Casa Mañana, North Shore Music Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Speakeasy Stage, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, New Repertory Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Wheelock Family Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival) as well as universities, schools, and community organizations. His work has been recognized with a number of awards including the Elliot Norton Award, the IRNE Award, the DASH Award, and the BroadwayWorld Boston Award.

Most notably, Matt music directed and conducted Maria Friedman’s Broadway-bound production of Merrily We Roll Along in Boston, starring West End actors Mark Umbers and Damian Humbley, as well as Wicked’s Eden Espinosa. In the fall of 2022, Matt served as the associate music director on the Boston production of Sing Street (directed by Rebecca Taichman and choreographed by Sonya Tayeh).

In addition to production work, Matt is well-versed as a music director of galas and concerts. He has music directed the Huntington Theater Company’s Spotlight Gala annually since 2017, working with performers such as Santino Fontana, Kate Baldwin, Steven Skybell, and Taylor Mac. In spring 2023, Matt was the music director for Raise Your Voice: A Cabaret for the Cure. The program featured a five-piece band, a 26-voice ensemble, and a roster of performers including Sonya Balsara, Bradley Gibson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Nic Rouleau, and more.

Above all else, Matt is a collaborator who values the art of storytelling through music. The precision and technique required in musical performance is accomplished in the service of telling a story and communicating with the audience and fellow performers. Matt is practiced in all of the various areas of expertise that a music director must employ, including audition accompaniment, vocal coaching for soloists and ensembles, choral directing, rehearsal accompaniment, pit orchestra conducting (keyboard or baton), pit orchestra contracting, orchestration and instrumentation, vocal arranging, and synthesizer programming. Matt is also experienced with Finale and Sibelius, and has used Garage Band to create audition/rehearsal accompaniment tracks and vocal training tracks.

Matt has worked with thousands of students of varying ages and level of experience as a music director, vocal coach, and educator at the Boston Conservatory (where he was an Assistant Professor of Musical Theater from 2016-2022), Boston University, Emerson College, French Woods Festival, Newton South High School, and Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley.

Matt spent 13 years on faculty at French Woods Festival in Hancock, NY, where he supervised the music directing staff, and music directed approximately 12 full musicals with casts as small as 6 and as large as 92, made up of students as young as 7 and as old as 18. Most of these productions are accompanied by full pit orchestras made up of students and professionals. Each show is given 10-14 two and a half hour rehearsals to prepare the cast for a full-scale production including sets, costumes, lighting, and sound. As a music director at French Woods, Matt will often be rehearsing or playing for up to 6 different musical productions in a single working day.

Matt has trained as a vocalist, a vocal coach, a pianist, and a conductor with accomplished musicians in the Boston area including Matthew Larson, William Lumpkin, James Olesen, Pamela Wolfe, Ann Howard Jones, Scott Alan Jarrett, Daniel Stepner, Neil Hampton, and Lawrence Wolfe. He has given masterclasses, performances, and workshops for Michael Kozarin, Stephen Reineke, Stephen Schwartz, Betty Buckley, Rita Gardner, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul, Natalie Weiss, Seth Rudetsky, Andrea Burns, Mandy Gonzalez, Betsy Wolfe, Sheldon Harnick, Jonathan Tartaglia, Terrence McNally, David Stone, and Sheri Sanders. He holds an MFA in Theatre Studies (concentration in Music Theatre) from Boston University and a BA in Vocal Performance and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University.

Anne McAlexander

Anne just completed her first year at Central Michigan University, where she is an Assistant Professor of Theatre specializing in Musical Theatre. Since joining the faculty at CMU, she has spearheaded musical theatre recruitment efforts, overseen the MT program, taught classes in Acting, Musical Theatre Technique and History, and Jazz Dance, and directed and choreographed Young Frankenstein, Lizzie, and You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.

Anne has served as Associate Artistic Director at Summer Repertory Theatre Festival in Northern California, directing and choreographing shows including West Side Story, Clybourne Park, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Tartuffe, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Forever Plaid. Choreography credits with SRT include Chicago, Merrily We Roll Along, South Pacific, La Cage Aux Folles, 9 to 5, The Wedding Singer, Hairspray, The Full Monty, and Mame. In SRT’s final season, Anne returned to California to direct Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky and choreograph Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

Before joining the faculty of CMU, Anne served as Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre and Directing at Nebraska Wesleyan University. While there, she taught musical theatre technique, acting, directing and advanced dance technique classes, coached musical theatre voice, and directed and choreographed departmental productions, including Into the Woods, Pippin, Holiday Inn Merrily We Roll Along, Seussical, and Romeo and Juliet. In her first semester at NWU, Anne conceived and directed a new-works cabaret, called Fresh Voices, that brought composers from NYC, Chicago, and LA together with NWU students to highlight new musical theatre works. This project led to a partnership and commission of a new musical for Wesleyan’s theatre department with composer Kailey Marshall, which premiered in February 2023.

After completing her M.F.A. in Directing at Ohio University, Anne spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at University of Kentucky teaching musical theatre acting technique, musical theatre and jazz dance, and directing and choreographing the fall production of Cabaret. While at Ohio University, Anne directed and choreographed Cabaret, and directed Failure: A Love Story, Stop Kiss, and the world premiers of Vessel and Stitched With a Sickle and a Hammer. A native Texan, Anne received her B.F.A. in Musical theatre performance from SUNY Fredonia.

Other directing and choreography credits include Ragtime (Fiddlehead Theatre, Boston), Parade (Boston University), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ragtime and Swing! (Belmont University, TN), Damn Yankees (SUNY Fredonia), 110 in the Shade (Hardin Simmons University) Pippin, Kiss Me Kate, and The Drowsy Chaperone.

Anne is has previously been the head of theatre department at French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts where she oversaw all theatrical aspects of over 72 productions a summer and organized and oversaw dozens of theatre classes for hundreds of students of all levels. In the summer of 2020, Anne spearheaded, oversaw, and taught several classes for French Woods Online. Anne has also been the head of dance at FWF and has directed and choreographed dozens of productions at French Woods. Performance credits include A Chorus Line (Cassie), Sweet Charity (Charity), Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, and Chicago.

Anne is currently continuing to grow her skills in theatrical intimacy direction. She has completed workshops with both TIE (Theatrical Intimacy Educators) and IDC (Intimacy Directors and Coordinators), and completed IDC’s Consent-Forward Artist program. Anne is currently working towards certification with IDC.

Scott Olinger

Melonie Stoll

Kristen Olinger

Kristen Olinger is the Director of Design and Production at ICON Arts Academy in Iowa City. Her local work includes Video and Lighting Design for Theatre Cedar Rapids, Revival Théâtre Company, Cedar Rapids Opéra Théâtre, Riverside theatre, and more. Her National credits include Lexington Children’s theatre, Triad Stage Company, North Carolina Stage company, The Clarence Brown Theatre, Jobsite theatre and more. She would like to thank her husband and family for all the late nights and the endless love and suppor

Katy Hahn

Katy Hahn is an actor, director, educator, accent coach, and intimacy professional based in Cedar Falls, IA. She holds a BA in Theatre: Performance-Acting from the University of Northern Iowa (2010), an MFA in Theatre Arts: Acting from Florida Atlantic University (2015), and a teaching certification in Michael Chekhov Acting Technique from the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium (2025). Katy currently serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Northern Iowa, where she leads the acting curriculum and directs in the mainstage season. Come From Away marks her 10th production with Revival Theatre Company and her 52nd production overall as an accent coach. For more about Katy, visit katyhahn.com.

Griffin Spriggs

Darin Ulmer

Sarah Fried

Come from Away is based on the true story of the time when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland, played host to the world. What started as an average day in a small town turned into an international sleepover, when 38 planes, carrying thousands of people from around the globe, were diverted to Gander’s airstrip on September 11, 2001. Undaunted by culture clashes and language barriers, the people of Gander cheered the stranded travelers with music, an open bar and the recognition that we’re all part of a global family.

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Book by David Hein & Irene Sankoff

Music by David Hein & Irene Sankoff

Lyrics by David Hein & Irene Sankoff

Dates: September 5-14

Times: 7:30 & 2:30

Venue: CSPS Hall 1103 3rd St Se Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401

Directed by: Brian Glick

Musical Direction by: Matthew Stern

Choreographer: Anne McAlexander

Full Length Musical