WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: 9 October 2004
An outstanding cast and crew assembed at the Albuquerque Centre for Peace and Justice on October 9, 2004, to present the first semi-staged workshop production of Burying Mama. The workshop was co-sponsored by OASIS and the Albuquerque Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

PRODUCTION TEAM
Robb Anthony Sisneros: Director
Robb Anthony Sisneros earned a BFA in Music Theatre from the College of Santa Fe, Greer Garson Theatre Center. Directing credits include Bat Boy, Tommy, Tapestry, Always, Patsy Cline, and Swingtime Canteen (Musical Theatre Southwest - MTS); The Secret Garden (UNM); Assassins, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Vortex), I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (The Cell), Matachines, Farolitos, Petra's Pecado (La Compania), A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline (Albuquerque Little Theatre - ALT), and Working (Adobe Theatre). In 2005 he will direct The Last Five Years at The Cell Theatre. Robb is a member of the MTS Board of Directors and a member of the Center for Theatre Advisory Board.

Barbara Murray: Musical Director
Barbara Murray has a Bachelor's in Music from Ithaca College and a Master's from UNM in Piano Performance as an Accompanist. She has worked for 27 years with MTS as audition, rehearsal, and performance pianist, and was Music Director for Nunsense and Swingtime Canteen. Since the late 80s she has also worked at ALT as rehearsal/performance pianist and/or music director for many of their productions. For more than 7 yaers she has found great satisfaction as Kathleen Clawson's assistant in the beginning and advanced Musical Theatre Workshop classes at UNM.

Paul Roth: Pianist
Paul Roth earned his BFA in music at UNM. He teaches locally and accompanies both instrumentalists and vocalists. In addition to playing for Covenant Presbyterian Church, he accompanies the Albuquerque Boys Choir and has accompanied many other choirs. In December, he played for The Secret Garden at the Adobe.

CAST
Erin Moody as Edna Peterson
Erin Moody has performed with MTS in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Tapestry, Bat Boy, and Ragtime and with ACLOA in Jesus Christ Superstar. She has also performed in Beehive, 100 Years of Broadway, and The Christmas Story at ALT, in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at The Cell, and in Shadow Box and The Secret Garden at the Adobe Theatre.

Deborah Flores as Emily Stanhope
Deborah Flores has performed many roles, most recently Bloody Mary in South Pacific at MTS, Sara Jane Moore in Assassins at The Vortex, Madame Dubonnet in The Boyfriend at the Adobe, and a cast member in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at The Cell. She has also played numerous ensemble roles in shows including Ragtime, Jekyll and Hyde, My Fair Lady, Phantom, Madama Butterfly, and La Cage aux Folles.

Lisa Hancock as Martha Peterson
Lisa Hancock has performed with MTS as Bud/Daisy in Bat Boy and Sour Kangaroo in Seussical as well as in ensemble roles in South Pacific and Ragtime. She has also performed with the Young Americans Tourist Company.

Ron Bronitsky as Reggie Robinson and the Narrator
Ron Bronitsky has performed with MTS as Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Herr Dettweiler in Sound of Music and Ben Stone in Follies. He has performed many other roles with MTS, ACT, the Votex, and the Adobe theatres.

Emily Turpen as Portia Stanhope
Emily Turpen has performed for MTS as Gertrude in Seussical, Chava in Fiddler on the Roof, Mistress in Evita, and Star2Be in Annie. At Fort Lewis, she played Bianca in Kiss Me Kate.

Kelly O'Keefe as Tom Peterson
Kelly O'Keefe was last seen in MTS's Ragtime as Harry Houdini, and will perform in Epic Proportions at the Adobe. He will also be the Musical Director for The Last Five Years at The Cell. Favorite performances include Peter Pan (Twin), Sound of Music (Friedrich), She Loves Me (Arpad), When Pigs Fly (Percussionist), and Bat Boy (Ruthie/Ned/Clem).