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Jesse Marchese
Stage Director
Jesse Marchese is Associate Director of Off-Broadway’s award-winning Mint Theater Company, where he directed The Fatal Weakness by George Kelly (nominated for two 2015 Drama Desk Awards). Jesse has developed & directed new musicals & plays by Brett Epstein, Ben Diskant, & Gaspare DiBlasi at The Gallery Players & Theater for the New City. He also directed Moses Mogilee’s production of Ghosts of Provincetown: two one-act plays by Eugene O’Neill & Louise Bryant at New World Stages. Jesse received a BA in Theater Arts from Marymount Manhattan College in 2009, where he directed productions of Falsettoland & You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is currently working toward an MA in Theatre from CUNY Hunter College.
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James Higgins
Music Director
James can barely hold in his excitement for his return to VLOG, having previously MDed Company, Anything Goes, & Miscast: So Wrong So Right. In his 25+ years as a professional musician, he has performed in more than 80 countries on all 7 continents (including in the middle of the Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica!) Pre B'way: Jeanne La Pucelle (d. Martin Charnin); Off B'way: Old Jews Telling Jokes, Living With Henry; NYC: Goddess Wheel by Galt McDermott (world premiere), The Gefilte Fish Chronicles (also performed at the White House!), Astoria Stories (APAC), Ludwig Live (as Beethoven), Drowsy Chaperone; Regional: Slow Dance with a Hot Pick Up (Boulder Dinner Theatre), All I Ask of You, Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Surflight), Music of the Night (North Shore Music Theatre), Ragtime, South Pacific, Bat Boy, Candide. jhuram.wixsite.com/james-higgins-
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Valerie Caniglia
Production Stage Manager
Off-Broadway: Real Actors of New York City, Once Upon a Mattress starring Jackie Hoffman. Regional credits: La Jolla Playhouse, MaineStage Shakespeare, Maine State Music Theater, Hemlock Theater Company, Allenberry Playhouse, Surflight Theater, Mac-Haydn Theater, Once Upon a Time Players. Upcoming: A Christmas Carol with Sundog Theater Company. “It’s a privilege” to be working with VLOG on a long-time favorite. Love & thanks to Jesse, Alicia, family & friends.
