Cast & Crew
Directed by Wayne Rawley
Produced by Pete Caslavka, Alyssa Bostwick, and Wayne Rawley
CAST:
Robby Jean Marshall AKA Money: Johanna Watts
Jimmy Jake McAllister AKA Run: G. Joshua Sliwa
Jimmy Jack Bodeen: Tobias Jelinek
Big Momma Bob: Alyssa Bostwick
OT/Officer Carl: Pete Caslavka
Ronny/Luke: Shaughn Buchholz
Mitch/Bo: Jonathan Rau
The Narrator: Wayne Rawley
Robby Jean Marshall, May 30/31 performances: Nicole DuPort
Crew:
Stage Manager: Alicia Jordan
Set Design: Keith Knittel (AKA Keith Rocka)
Graphic Design: Cheshire Dave Isaacs
Costumes: Toni Young
Johanna Watts (Robby Jean Marshall, AKA Money) has appeared on CSI: Miami, Cold Case, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Strong Medicine. Her recent film credits include starring roles in In Memoriam, Pirate Camp (with Corbin Bernsen), and Restless Dead (with C. Thomas Howell). Her many stage credits include starring roles in Hamlet, Where the Wild Things Are, Uncle Vanya, The Good Doctor, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Johanna is thrilled to work with this talented and hilarious group of people.
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G. Joshua Sliwa (Jimmy Jake McAllister, AKA Run) is delighted and proud to reprise the role that he originated eight years ago in Seattle. When he’s not jumping at the chance to perform anything that Wayne Rawley has written, he is starting “the first from-the-ground-up environmentally friendly film and television production company,” Front Burner Films.
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Tobias Jelinek (Jimmy Jack Bodeen) is currently starring in the hit show Point Break Live! as the zen surfer/bank-robber Bodhi. His acting career began at age two playing the stagehand for his parents' Old West photo booth at carnivals across the country. He was the dude with a diaper, cowboy hat, and pistol. At age 5 his family settled in Santa Barbara to open a Waldorf School with a group of bohemian parents interested in giving their kids a creative hands-on education. Shortly thereafter I...I mean, he landed the role of Wicked Witch in Sleeping Beauty. Villains and eccentric characters have captured his imagination ever since. Ergo, he is quite thrilled to play a twisted detective in the twisted world of Money & Run. Film credits include Hocus Pocus, Batman and Robin, and the independent feature Over Walls. Tobias received his B.A. in Visual Storytelling from Bennington College in Vermont. He is co-owner of the fashion/art boutique Young & Jelinek in Los Feliz. More info is available at his website.
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Alyssa Bostwick (Big Momma Bob) has relocated to Los Angeles after spending several years onstage in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was a member of Impact Theatre, a company dedicated to “exciting, unpretentious theatre that doesn’t conform to stale assumptions of what constitutes high culture”—which pretty much sums up her own personal mission in life. With Impact, she played Big Momma Bob in the first three episodes of Money & Run. Other plays include Rhinoceros; Much Ado About Nothing; Macbeth; Scab; Henry IV; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; How I Learned to Drive; Planet Janet; TV Sucks My Ass; and Antigone. She has worked as a director for Impact Theatre and a playwriting instructor for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, coaching juvenile hall and middle-school students to write their own plays. Since moving to Los Angeles she’s acted in several short films, including Controlling Interest by Wayne Rawley. She’s studied at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Kalmenson & Kalmenson, and the Judith Weston Acting Studio.
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Pete Caslavka (O.T. , Producer, Production Manager, Fight Choreographer) has done some things. He hopes to do other things. But in the meantime, he is certain that all life is a glorious mistake, and he plans to revel in it. Emphasis on glorious. Here is a short list of a few of the things that make it glorious: pumpkin pie, good scotch, salt, the ocean, the nape of a woman's neck, Saturday mornings, a Poor Boy sandwich, baseball, the moment right after a failed attempt when you decide to give it one more try, and long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. I will be in my office...
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Shaughn Buchholz (Ronny/Luke) is excited to be joining the cast of M&R after meeting Tobias in the hit show Point Break Live! where he was picked from the audience to play the lead character Johnny Utah. Originally from the Bay Area, Shaughn graduated from CalArts with a BFA in theater. Along with his commercial work and theater, he is most recognized from his recurring role as "Cabbage" in Scrubs. He would like to thank Wayne and the company for making him a boneeefide citsin of Cudrup County.
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A Chicago native, Jonathan Rau (Mitch/Bo) has been working in Hollywood both behind the scenes and as an actor for the past eight years. Acting as writer/director/actor he has received critical acclaim for his two-man musical comedy, Mac & Cheese. His passion for comedy has landed him roles on such shows as MAD TV, MTV’s The Big Urban Myth show, and VH1’s Random Play. His most recent feature film roles include supporting appearances in The Punisher, Wild Hogs and the soon-to-be-released Lonely Hearts.
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Wayne S. Rawley (Director), called "Seattle's Late-Night Wunderkind" by the Seattle Weekly, is the creator and writer of Money & Run: An Action Adventure Serial for the Stage, as well as the director of the current production of Episode 1, “Money, Take Run.” To date, over 20 individual productions have appeared in The Jet City and at Impact Theatre in Berkeley, CA.
Other full-length plays include God Damn Tom, Live! From the Last Night of My Life (commissioned by ACT Theatre in Seattle), and a present-day adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. His multi-media adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 had its world premiere at The Empty Space Theater and was directed by Allison Narver. Of his many short plays, his favorite, Controlling Interest, has been produced all over the world, including The Actor’s Theatre of Louisville as a finalist of the National Ten-Minute Play Contest. Controlling Interest is also published in the Random House collection Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays, edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold.
Wayne is also the creator and head-writer of a brand new live-action web series called What The Funny? Produced for the internet by The Caution-Zero Network, Season 1 will begin in June 2008. While still in Seattle, he taught playwriting through ACT Theatre’s Young Playwright’s Program and at his alma matter, Cornish College of the Arts. He is currently hard at work on the libretto of a new musical based on the films of Roger Corman and lives in Santa Monica with the love of his life and her cat.
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Nicole DuPort (Standby for Money) graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in art and a minor in theater and performance studies. Some of her favorite theater roles include: Grace in The Crime of the 21st Century; Ellen, Mrs. Saunders & Lin in Cloud 9; Juliet in Romeo & Juliet; Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and, most recently, Ellen in Beautiful Morning. Nicole can also be seen in the films Southern Gothic, Tooth & Nail, and in the upcoming Hallmark movie Ladies of the House. She owes a debt of gratitude to her parents and brothers, her incredible friends and her agents for their constant support, love, and inspiration.
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Alicia Jordan (Stage Manager) can’t help but do the Happy Happy Joy Joy dance for being back in the black box of magic that is theatre. After graduating from California Lutheran University with a degree in English and Theatre she packed her bag and set off for the stereotypical college graduate European tour. Two years and a skydiving license later she’s not back in L.A. a few months before her cuz and cuz-in-law roper her in. Her deepest gratitude to the entire cast for helping her fall off the wagon and become addicted again.
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Keith Knittel (aka Keith Rocka) (Set Design) is an artist, music maker, and carpenter. Blurring the lines between art and play, his work has been exhibited in galleries and performance spaces in the U.S., Canada, and Japan and has been featured in magazines, books, and television programs dedicated to promoting art and culture worldwide. He also performs as Sea Otter and is one half of the DJ duo Party People.
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Cheshire Dave Isaacs (Graphic Design) is the art director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the managing director of Impact Theatre, both in Berkeley, CA. He designed the Money & Run logo when Impact produced the first three episodes in repertory in 2004. He's also proud to have made his acting debut in Wayne's short play "How to Gain Controlling Interest," which led to his reprising his role in the short film based on that play, "Controlling Interest." Originally from Los Angeles, Cheshire now lives in the Bay Area with his wife, their cat, and maybe a kid on the way by the time you read this. Cross your fingers.
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Toni Young (Costumes) is a fashion and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. She has designed the line Evil Genius for 6 years and co-owns the lifestyle boutique Young and Jelinek in Los Feliz.
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