Katie Finneran (born January 22, 1971) is an American actress of film, stage, and television noted for her Tony Award-winning performances in the Broadway play Noises Off in 2002, and the musical Promises, Promises in 2010.

She was raised in Miami, Florida where she attended the acclaimed New World School of the Arts for high school. Finneran is of Irish descent and was raised Roman Catholic. For college, Finneran attended Carnegie Mellon University^{[citation needed]} in Pittsburgh for one year before moving to New York City at age 19 to study acting with Uta Hagen.^{[citation needed]} Outside of acting, Finneran has had many "day jobs" to augment her income, including a ringside girl at a boxing ring, waitress, and perfume spray girl at Bloomingdale's.^{[citation needed]} In a ceremony presided over by actor and Buddhist priest in training Peter Coyote, Finneran married actor Daren Goldstein on August 22nd 2010, and on February 3, 2011, gave birth to a son, Ty Michael Goldstein.

Finneran's biggest film role was a leading role in the remake of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Her film credits include You've Got Mail, Chicken Little, Liberty Heights, Bewitched, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, and Death to Smoochy.

Aaron Lazar is an American stage, film and television actor.

Lazar was born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey to a Jewish family. He graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in 1994. Lazar attended Duke University where he earned a BA in music in 1998, while completing the prerequisite classes for medical school and taking the MCAT. He then studied at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he earned an MFA in musical theater in 2000.

After landing the role of understudy to the lead in the Broadway National Tour of The Scarlet Pimpernel only months after moving to New York City, Lazar abandoned his aspirations of being a medical doctor. He received a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Enjolras in Les Misérables.

Jill Paice is an American Broadway and theatre actress. Paice attended Beavercreek High School in Beavercreek, Ohio, graduating in 1998. She then attended Baldwin-Wallace College, graduating with a bachelor of music in 2002. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Laura Fairlie in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Woman in White.

In 2001, Paice earned her Equity card by appearing in a production of Gypsy at Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. Also in this time period, she starred as Maria in West Side Story and as Mabel in Pirates of Penzance at Baldwin-Wallace. She also starred as Violet, the title character of a new musical. After college, Paice's career began with the national tour of Les Misérables. She then went on to create the role of Sophie in Mamma Mia in Las Vegas in 2003.

In 2004, she was persuaded by her agent to audition for Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical The Woman in White, in which he was required to hire two "unknown American actors" in order to sustain future Actors Equity Union rules in America (for the transfer to include the British actors Michael Crawford and star Maria Friedman). She created the role of Laura Fairle for the West End world premiere at the Palace Theatre and then reprised her role in the Broadway production in 2005 at the Marriott Marquis Theater. She received many good notices, especially since she had not even been on Broadway when she originated the role in the West End. However, the show flopped on Broadway, and closed, with less than 100 performances (out of about 150) having the complete original cast.

Susan Blackwell is an American actress, writer and singer, best known for playing herself in the musical title of show. She has appeared in other plays, musicals, and television shows including Law & Order, P.S. I Love You, and Speech and Debate (play). She also hosts her own talk show "Side By Side By Susan Blackwell" on Broadway.com.

[title of show], which played on Broadway in the 2008 Season after a successful extended Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theatre in 2006.

The musical documents its own creation by two Broadway fans, who want to enter the New York Musical Theatre Festival and struggle to complete the show in three and a half weeks, and their two actress friends. The actors are also the writers and characters of the musical.

Blackwell's character, "Susan," is a quirky performer by night and corporate drone by day—what Blackwell calls a "distillation" of her true personality.

Blackwell became involved in the musical's development early on, through her longstanding friendships with the show's writer, Hunter Bell, and composer, Jeff Bowen (who also star in the show, as "Hunter" and "Jeff"). Blackwell had worked with the two men as part of her previous Off-Off-Broadway performing duo, the New Wondertwins.

Chad Kimball (born September 2, 1976) is a Tony Nominated American theater actor. Kimball was raised in Seattle, Washington and graduated from Boston Conservatory with a BFA in acting in 1999. After moving to New York, he was hired for the Broadway musical, The Civil War, joining the show 3 weeks before it closed. He was in the Off-Broadway revival of Godspell (2000) and the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods (2002) as Milky-White the cow. He appeared in the Broadway musicals Lennon and Good Vibrations in 2005. Kimball originated the lead role in the musical Memphis at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2008, and starred in the role in the Broadway production until fall 2011.

In regional theatre, he has appeared as Anthony in Sweeney Todd at the Signature Theatre (1999), "Baby" at The Papermill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey (2004), and Michael John LaChiusa's "Little Fish" in 2007 at the Blank Theatre, Los Angeles.

In July 2011, it was announced that Kimball would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from Memphis due to nerve damage sustained during a performance Kimball's last performance as Huey Calhoun in Memphis took place on October 23, 2011 and was replaced by Adam Pascal. In the role, Kimball was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Kimball appears in the filmed version of Memphis, Memphis: Direct from Broadway by Broadway Worldwide.