Hippodrome State Theatre: The Last Night of Ballyhoo: Cast & Crew

Sara was last seen on the Mainstage as Frank in Private Eyes. Other Hippodrome credits include The Glass Menagerie, Three Tall Women, An Enchanted Land, The Lion in Winter, Indiscretions, Broken Glass, All in the Timing, The Illusion, The Sisters Rosenweig and Lost in Yonkers. Regional credits include five seasons with the American Stage (including the U.S. premiere of Mrs. Klein), six seasons with The New Harmony Theatre, Playhouse on the Square (Memphis Theatre Award, Excellence as a Leading Actress in a Drama for Three Tall Women), Horse Cave Theatre, Kentucky and Indiana Shakespeare Festivals and Kentucky Contemporary Theatre to name a few. Sara holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of Louisville. Featured film roles: Cilla in Germantown Films’ Borderlines and Sybil in the soon to be released The First of May with Julie Harris.

Anthony Newfield*
(Adoph Freitag)
Anthony is currently working with actress Katharine Houghton developing her new play, Best Kept Secret, which has been presented as a work-in-progress at the York Theatre in New York City and the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex, Connecticut. New York work includes: The Bad Infinity, The Grapes of Wrath, It’s Only a Play, Ourselves Alone, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mrs. Bromely. Recent regional theatre work includes: Arcadia (Huntington Theatre); Death Defying Acts (Coconut Grove Playhouse); Benedict Arnold (Florida Stage); Love! Valour! Compassion!, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Bent (Carbonell Award – Best Supporting Actor), The Royal Family, B(Caldwell Theatre); Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Antony & Cleopatra with Jane Alexander (Alliance Theatre); The Rivals, Peg O’ My Heart (Delaware Theatre Company). In Ireland: The Normal Heart (Ned Weeks) Dublin and on National tour; Tom and Viv (T.S. Eliot) and Peer Gynt (Cotton, et al) Gate Theatre. In Russia: The Grapes of Wrath. Television appearance: All My Children, One Life to Live, Capitol. Film: Farewell Miss Fortune, Dogwood, Ace in the Hole. His article about his experiences in Russia, ‘After the Orchard,’ was published recently in American Theatre magazine.

Sherry last appeared on the Hippodrome stage as “Blanche DuBois” in A Streetcar Named Desire. She comes directly from her 12th season at The Totem Pole Playhouse in Pennsylvania where shows included Grace and Glorie, It Runs in the Family and Murder By the Book. Other work includes; Broadway – Design for Living; Off-Broadway – Marching to Georgia and Kind Lady; Tour – 13 Rue De L’amour starring Louis Jourdan; Regional Theatre; Reperatory Theatre of St. Louis, Walnut Street Theatre, Folger Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Theatre Virginia, Syracuse Stage, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Nassau Rep, NJ Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Florida Stage Company, Riverside Theatre, Birmingham Theatre, Olney Theatre. Film credits include Once We Were Strangers and Thirty-Three. On television, Ms. Skinker has appeared on One Life to Live, The Law and Harry MaGraw, several series for PBS and numerous commercials

Andrea Studley as Sunny Andrea Studley

Andrea was last seen as Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest at The Hilton Head Playhouse. Earlier this year, in affiliation with Atlanta’s Academy Theatre, she appeared as Rose in A Shayna Maidel and Linda in the Playhouse’s premiere production of The Left Hand Singing. Atlanta credits include A Christmas Carol at the Alliance Theatre and The Harvey Milk Show at Actor’s Express. Andrea has a musical theatre degree from The University of Miami School of Music and completed a two year acting internship at the Alliance Theatre. She also played Sunny in the Atlanta reading of The Last Night of Ballyhoo with Alfred Uhry and is thrilled to be making her Hippodrome debut in this production.

Tiffany Yates
(Lala Levy)
Tiffany understudied the world premiere of ...Ballyhoo at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA, during the 1996 Olympic Games. She hosted FOX television’s game show That’s Atlanta in the 1996-1997 season. Last year, she co-wrote, produced, and directed the feature film Back to One, in which she also starred. The film has been to festivals in Atlanta, Berlin, and New Orleans. She appeared as Dr. Stirner in the feature film Too Pure which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, and this November she will be starring in the feature film Taken In, opposite Daniel Lapaine (Muriel’s Wedding, Polish Wedding, 54). Other theatre credits include The Enchanted April, Children of Jazz, Breaking Legs, Servant of Two Masters, The Loman Family Picnic and Crossing Delancey.