Artists and Artisans.
The Actors
(In alphabetical order)
Samantha Von Bitter
Margie/Cocktail Waitress/Ticket Seller
Samantha Von Bitter (Margie/Cocktail Waitress/Ticket Seller) is delighted to be performing in her first production. She has been a performing musician for 20 years, currently lead vocals and upright bassist for the band Graveyard Bandits
Stephen Farbman
Arthur “Bookworm” Wingate
Stephen Farbman began acting around the age of 7, and has been in numerous productions of various mediums throughout his nearly 30 years of life including stage, television, interactive theater, film, radio, and even video games. While acting is a passion for him, he is currently working as in educator in Los Angeles, and hopes to eventually balance his time teaching college on a collegial level and working on passion projects, such as this production of Mickey and Worm as well as the yearly masquerade known as the Labyrinth of Jareth, where he performs consistently as one of the goblin characters. It was in fact through this experience that he met many of the other cast members of this fine production. Stephen sincerely hopes that you enjoy the telling of this story, and thanks you for your support in helping to make it a reality.
Joe Filippone
Dan
Joe Filippone has been performing for over twenty years and is happy to be a part of this show. He has appeared in numerous TV, web series and films such as Cut! Hard Sun, Consumers and in a non-sex role in Kay Brandt's upcoming film Safe Landings for Adam And Eve Pictures as well as dozens of theatrical productions including The Philadelphia, When It Rains Gasoline (which he also directed) Sex, Relationships And Sometimes Love in the role of Orgasm Man which he played for three years and most recently in the world premier of The Claw. Joe has also lent his voice to the animated short film Abbie's First Egg as well as the upcoming indie video game The Thing 2. He has portrayed the goblin, Splatt, the past two years for Labyrinth Of Jareth and has also performed stand up all over LA as well as touring and performing in Chicago at The Laugh Factory, Washington and Ashland Oregon and modeling for various photographers and having his pictures displayed and sold at various conventions and art galleries. An accomplished writer with over sixty short stories and eight novels published Joe has been nominated for both a LAMBDA and CAPA Award.
Matthew Grant
Alfred Arthur "Bookworm" Wingate III
Matt would like to thank all of you for coming and hopes you love the show as much as he loves performing for you.ere
Nick Hobbs
Barnaby Jones
Nic Hobbs is thrilled to be a part of Mickey and Worm since its World Premiere in Oxnard, CA in 2013. Hobbs has done several shows in the area over the last few years including Grease, Footloose, Godspell, and Miss Saigon. He hopes you enjoy the show!
Wolfman Dave Pereyra
Lou Attwater
David M. Pereyra is a Los Angeles native and long-time storyteller. Under the alias "Wolfman Dave", he operates as a writer, artist, musician, actor, and now a creative producer for Intervision Entertainment. His acting credits include a healthy helping of Shakespeare and twentieth-century musicals; his playwright credits include the Halloween shows, Scary Stories to Tell at Bar One and Stories and Songs of Fear, and the Christmas show, What the Dickens?! (and Other Stories). He looks forward to his silver-screen debut in the film "Broken Spirits" upon its release next year, and to this summer’s Labyrinth Masquerade where he will reprise the role of the wizard Dulcimer. He hopes you enjoy the show!
Ryan Phillips
Mickey Donegan
Getting back into the performance ring as both a producer and as an artist has been beyond rewarding and truly a life changing experience. You may have caught Ryan locally in shows such as Harvey, The Lost Formicans, & the world premiere of Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane at SPTC. Ryan is excited to be reprising the roll of Mickey for the Mickey & Worm Tour. Ryan would like to thank his incredible director for bring this to life, the writer for creating it, and cast for coming together through everything. Taking this show from the banquet hall of a local gastro-pub to a multi-state tour is mind-blowing. This performance is dedicated to his lovely wife, director and fellow producer Ghislaine. To infinity.
Korinne Smith
Madeline Ball
Korinne is extremely excited to be joining the cast of Mickey & Worm during this incredible tour. This is Korinne's second collaboration with Ghislaine and Ryan having worked with them with the Gypsies in a Trunk troupe in Ventura County touring Fairy Tales in the Park for children in each city. Korinne's past credits include Red Rat dancer in Jekyll and Hyde at High Street Center in Moorpark, Dory in Merrily We Roll Along at Moorpark College, as well as several hauntingly awesome characters at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights. She would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support and especially her amazing fiancé Robert for being her lobster. I Love You!
Kaitlyn Reuben
Giselle Camden
Kaitlyn is very happy to be working with Intervision Entertainment, and moreover to be taking over as Giselle! Kaitlyn has been performing since she was 3 years old, starring in my title roles such as Little Red Riding Hood (Into The Woods) Alice (Alice In Wonderland) and Maria (West Side Story). She toured in Annie. Kaitlyn has also choreographed many shows. She is excited about being a part of these amazing artists and artisans!
Behind the Curtain
Ghislaine
Director
Ghislaine is a producer, writer, a director, a (classically trained) singer, an actress and apparently a Jill-of-all-trade. Catch her this July as Piingu Meh’hukah, The Goblin Opera Singer at The Annual Labyrinth Masquerade Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Ghislaine would like to thank this amazing team of actors, artists, crew, family and friends that have worked so hard to make this vision a reality. Special thanks go to her talented and supported husband Ryan, who proves every day that while “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, he’s well worth waiting for!
John McKinley
Playwright
John is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild (DG) and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP). He’s appeared in, produced, or directed, in over 30 productions over the past 18 years in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Monterey Media has produced seven of John’s scripts for their “Theatre of the Mind” audio series which is widely available. In association with William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist), John directed the world premiere of Twinkle, Twinkle, “Killer” Kane. Many of his shorter plays have been produced abroad, and some of his full-length plays have also received staged readings. Mickey & Worm, a full-length “film noir” period piece, with gangsters and gats, mobsters and molls, double-crosses and more than one femme fatale, has received two previous productions. John is currently working on two other full length plays, (along with intermittent shorter ones).
Kendra Smith
Stage Manager
Kendra comes to this show with 3 years of experience from TrebleMakers, including working on Music Man Jr., where she helped both behind the scenes as well as performed on stage! In addition she has several years’ worth of experience as a private music teacher. Recently, Kendra has also stepped up to the plate as a producer with Intervision Entertainment. A big thank you goes to Ghislaine, Ryan & Wolf for their encouragement and unending strength!