A Sherlock Carol

Gerald has directed over fifty productions in his career, including full productions and workshop productions of his own plays. Some of his favorite directing credits include Buried Child, The Laramie Project, Equus, Into the Woods, and Merrily We Roll Along. His production of The Lisbon Traviata, at Seattle’s Theatre22, was named by the Seattle Times as one of “5 Plays You Need to See in Seattle.” Gerald co-wrote and directed a series of three national commercials and has taught workshops on directing and directing new works for numerous organizations. His recent scenic designs for Harlequin include Deathtrap, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and RENT. He’s designed locally at Theatre22, Centerstage, and Seattle Public Theatre. He has also served as properties designer for over twenty Harlequin Productions. Gerald has appeared at Harlequin in Until the Flood, The Highest Tide, Love and Information, The 1940’s Radio Hour, and The Love List. Local and regional acting credits: Seattle Shakespeare Company, Taproot Theatre, SecondStory Rep, Mt. Baker Theatre, Theatre at Monmouth (ME), Seaside Repertory Theatre (FL), DC’s Keegan Theatre (Helen Hayes Award nomination), the Smithsonian, and the Kennedy Center. He holds a Master’s Degree in Directing from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

Stephanie Layton is delighted to be returning to Harlequin after serving as music director for Million Dollar Quartet, Sweeney Todd and A Christmas Carol. A multi-instrumentalist & vocalist, her main gig is fronting jazz band Eden Lane, with appearances at the Rainbow Room, Joe’s Pub, and Carnegie Hall (technically; it was a very fancy bat mitzvah). Other credits include Williamstown Theater Festival, Florida Repertory Theater, drums/percussion gadgets for Bill Irwin (NYC’s Irish Arts Center) and Olympia’s 20th anniversary installment of Lord Franzannian’s Vaudeville Spectacular. Steph recently had the great joy of performing her original musical comedy act “A Word From Our Sponsor” for three weeks at the Seattle Moisture Festival, and is extremely grateful to be making her living in the arts. edenlanejazz.com

Other local productions include: O’Brien in 1984 and a monstrosity in The Head That Wouldn’t Die, both for TAO. In Los Angeles, he played Larry in the LA premiere of Inspecting Carol, Walter Pangbourne in Move Over Mrs. Markham at the Mukenthaller, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe in Tartuffe at Arroyo Repertory, and Bunthorne in Patience at the Occidental Theatre Festival among others. He performed standup at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and the Ice House in Pasadena. He has appeared around the country, including ten years at Nevada Shakespeare. His favorites there include: Claudius in Hamlet, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Prospero in The Tempest, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has appeared on TV in Cheers, Scrubs, The Young and the Restless, and others. John studied with Sanford Meisner, Charles Marowitz and Larry Moss.

Corey McDaniel returns to Harlequin Productions after appearing as Christmas Past (& Player 1) in its 2022 production of A Christmas Carol. Corey’s Harlequin credits also include I Am My Own Wife (Charlotte von Mahlsdorf), as well as directing Baskerville, Falsettos, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Murder for Two, Noises Off, Tenderly, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). He is delighted to return to the Harlequin stage.