May 18
Mindy Cooper is a 25 year Broadway veteran where her performance, directing and choreography credits include Chicago, Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Song & Dance, Tenderloin, Dracula, the Musical andWrong Mountain. Her local theatrical work has won a total of ten Bay Area Theater Critics Awards including 2009 Best Director of a Musical and 2009 Best Musical. She has been honored as UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence twice before when she directed Oklahoma! at Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall and Urinetown: The Musical at Main Theatre.
Matthew Dunivan is one three actors portraying Tommy, the deaf, dumb, and blind pinball phenomenon who breaks free from his emotional trauma and becomes a world hero. Dunivan is a graduating Dramatic Art major who starred in Mindy Cooper’s fall 2010 UC Davis production, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Dunivan most recently played the lead role in UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department’s winter production Come Hell and High Water, directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Dominique Serrand.
Alison Sundstrom plays Mrs. Walker, Tommy’s mother. Sundstrom details, “My character has an amazing journey because you see her growth and development from a girl of 17 all the way to a 37 year-old wife and mother who has suffered through crushing disappointments in life. The dramaturgical work that has gone into all of our parts has been really helpful. We have to not only understand the span of the show from the 1940’s through the 60’s but also the eras in which our characters were born and grew up because it informs so much of what our character’s personality, morals, and priorities are.”
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