Whirl With Merle

Broadway Valentine Finds Its Cast: Real Life Broadway Couples Alysha Umphress and Cody Williams; Kyle Dean Massey and Taylor Frey; Stephen Buntrock and Tony Nominee Erin Dilly Celebrate Love at Queens Theatre. 

ALYSHA UMPHRESS  was most recently seen as Hildy in the Broadway revival of On the Town. Broadway: American Idiot (OBC); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; Bring It On!. Off-Broadway: Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn. Regional: Dallas Theatre Center: Hood  (Meg), Paper Mill Playhouse: Pump Boys and Dinettes (Rhetta Cupp), Signature Theatre: Beaches (Cee Cee Bloom) * Helen Hayes nomination-Best Leading Actress in a Musical. TV: "The Climb" (Misty),"Law & Order: SVU", "Nurse Jackie", "Royal Pains".

CODY WILLIAMS Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On the Town, Cinderella, and Memphis. Other credits: Oklahoma! at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster, West Side Story at Paper Mill Playhouse, Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall, White Christmas at Arvada Center, The New Yorkers at City Center Encores, and Atlanta Ballet. Producer of On Stage on NY1. Producer/writer of the viral videos RepubliCATS, Russian Broadway Shutdown, Broadway Draft. He is married to Alysha Umphress.

STEPHEN DeANGELIS   (Producer/Host) is pleased to produce and host this concert exclusively for Queens Theatre. He has also served as Casting Director for their productions of The Miracle Worker, In the Car with Blossom and Len and Jimmy and Carolyn.