Richard H. Blake Most recently directed the musical True North at The Orlando Repertory Theatre. Some of his other Directing and Producing credits include A Bronx Tale the Musical, the show in which he originated the role of Lorenzo, famously portrayed by Robert Deniro in the film, the new musicals “Storytellers”, “Rise”, “Whiskeyland” and the play “Uncle Jackie”. He can currently be seen as Charlie McClurgle on the television series The Bite streaming on the Spectrum Network Before that he was stabbing Lou Diamond Philips as Aaron on Season 1of Prodigal Son on Fox. He has starred in fifteen Broadway shows including: Jersey Boys, Wicked, Legally Blonde, The Wedding Singer, Hairspray, Aida, Saturday Night Fever, Rent, Matilda, The Sound of Music, Macbeth,Teddy and Alice and “The Prince” in The Prince of CentralPark. A role for which he holds the honor of being the youngest person to ever have his name above the title of a Broadway Show. His Film and T.V. credits include: Life of an Actress, Ascent To Hell, Any Day Now, Red light August, The Equalizer, Law & Order, Madame Secretary, Blue Bloods, HBO’s High Maintenance, Instinct, Dietland, Kevin Can Wait, Elementary, All My Children, The Babysitter’s Club, Toonces and Friends and more. As well as numerous Off Broadway, Commercial and Radio credits.

His favorite roles to date though, are that of husband and father to his amazing wife and son.

Tee Quillin is a classically trained professional actor and director. He holds his B.A. in Theatre from the University of Alabama and his M.F.A. in Acting from Southern Methodist University.

Tee began in college as on-air talent for several professional and public radio stations. During his time at Alabama, he co-founded Guerilla Theatre, conceived as an arena for students to explore and experiment with various theatrical forms. Guerilla Theatre is still an active part of campus life at the university today. While at SMU, Tee organized professional auditions and showcases that were held in New York City and Los Angeles.

Tee is a member of the Actors Equity Association. His professional on-stage credits include performances with the Dallas Theater Center, Kitchen Dog Theatre, WaterTower Theatre, as well as the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Tee has also stared in various national television commercials, (7-Eleven, Krystal, Tn. Lottery, & CMT to name a few).

As a voice-over artist, Tee has been featured in several regional and local radio and television ads and most recently added video games to his resume with the release of the acclaimed Path of Exiles II. He also narrates and produces audiobooks for Audible.com including Each Dawn I Die, Brightside, and Midnight Horror Show.

Tee is the co-founder and former co-host of the weekly podcast, The Inexplicable Dumb Show. The podcast has been an invited guest of The Humana Festival of New American Plays (2008-2011) at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, KY.

Tori Feinstein - Tori Feinstein has been performing professionally since the age of six, and is thrilled to have been part of Taking Wing since the show’s inception. Theater: Matilda the Musical (Matilda) - Broadway and 1st Broadway National Tour, How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Cindy-Lou Who) – Madison Square Garden, Bright Star (Clair/Kimmy) – Powerhouse Theatre, DADA WOOF PAPA HOT (Voice of Nicola) – Lincoln Center, By Wheel and By Wing (Tonia). Film: Dovid Meyer (Judy Kalman), Hello, I Must Be Going (Caley), Arthur. TV: The Other Two (Rachel Klein), Bubble Guppies (Oona), Chuggington (Toot), 3rd&Bird (Muffin), 30 Rock (Liddy), Small Miracles (Desiree Gill), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sesame Street, NBC’s New Year’s Eve.

Instagram @officialtorifeinstein

Jim Stanek -Recently: The Old Man in A Christmas Story at Goodspeed. Prior to that, Bruce in Lowe & Sarnak’s Split at New London Barn. Broadway: Indiscretions; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum; The Rivals; Little Women; Lestat; The Story Of My Life; A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder; Fun Home; Into The Woods (also tour!). Film/TV includes: Blue Bloods; Mr. Robot; Borough Of Kings. Cast Recordings: ...Forum; Goldstein; Frankenstein; The 3hree Musketeers.

Lives in NYC with Beth & their 3 boys. Additional passions: Watching Pro Wrestling, collecting action figures; concert-going. Carnegie Mellon alum. Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA.

Broadway: Boeing-Boeing (Gloria), Chicago (Roxie Hart). National tours: Sweet Charity (Charity), Chicago (Roxie), The Vagina Monologues, Beauty and the Beast (Babette). International tour: Chicago. Favorite Regional: God in An Act Of God at Arizona Theater Company (Directed by Marsha Mason), title role in Hello, Dolly at Pioneer Theatre Company, the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone at Pittsburgh CLO, and the title role in Mame at North Shore Music Theater. Senga in the world premiere of Dancing Lessons at Barrington Stage Co., and again at TheaterWorks in Hartford, Maria in The Sound of Music at Pittsburgh CLO, April in Company at Missouri Repertory Theater, Val in A Chorus Line at Austin Music Theater, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chicago Cultural Center. Television: Hosted Home and Family, a new series for the Hallmark Channel, and she is the Emmy Award-nominated for hosting Home Made Simple on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Audiences know her best as the effervescent star of Trading Spaces, TV’s Emmy-nominated groundbreaking design-reality show. Ms. Davis’ book, Paige by Paige, A Year of Trading Spaces, spent several weeks at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list. She is married to Broadway’s favorite villain, Patrick Page.

Hayley Brooke Feinstein is an actress and singer-songwriter who recently graduated from the University of Southern California’s Dramatic Arts program. She has enjoyed being a part of the creative process that has brought Taking Wing to life. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Bielke). Broadway National Tour: Shrek the Musical (Young Fiona/Young Shrek/Grumpy). Staged readings: The Nine Fathers of Ariel (Ariel), By Wheel and By Wing (Clara), Tough Mother (Andrea). Off-Broadway: A Little Princess (Becky), The Secret Garden (Colin Craven), Rumpelstiltskin (Dragon/Gwendolyn). Film/TV: Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, Louie, Sesame Street, NBC’s New Year’s Eve, Tony Awards, Team Umizoomi, 3rd & Bird. Listen to Hayley’s original music on Spotify: Hayley Brooke.
Instagram @hayleybrookeofficial

Bryn Sentnor is a game show host at Game Show Battle Rooms St. Louis, the top standard location in its franchise in 2024. She’s also a Zumba instructor! On stage, she was most recently featured in a Broadway World article for her role as Feste in a musical, all-female cast of Twelfth Night (read more here ). Of all her theatrical roles, Winnifred in Once Upon A Mattress is the character that resonates with Bryn the most because of her quirkiness and quick wit. Bryn received her BFA in Acting with a Music minor from Millikin University, where she performed as Girl/Time in Everybody, Dorabella in Così Fan Tutte, and Ernie in a staged reading of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles.

When she’s not on stage, you can find her spoiling her guinea pigs.

Kaylee is thrilled to be part of Taking Wing! She is your pint-sized sweet and sassy teenager from Arizona. Kaylee enjoys aerial silks, reading, coloring, shopping, and hanging out with friends. Kaylee has been performing ever since she was 6. Favorite past roles include Susan Waverley (Zao), Dance Ensemble (CHS), and Brigitta Von Trapp (Phoenix Theatre). Her past awards are 4th place in a monologue competition at MTCA, and 1stplace Cosplay Contest at BroadwayCon. Her instagram is @kayleesueoffical.

Johnny Blaze Leavitt is an award-winning playwright, actor, comedian, cosplayer, and published digital artist. He is the co-creator and book writer for Taking Wing: Legends of Emimencia which won the 2021 TheaterMaker Award for Best Play. He is also the co-creator of the online sketch comedy duo The Lara and Johnny Show. Several of his scripts have been performed by Point of You Productions, the American Theatre of Actors, and more. He is a recurring moderator and panelist at BroadwayCon. Favorite stage credits include the ghost of Sigmund Freud in The Last of the Freudians (The American Theatre for Actors), Sigmund Freud in An Interpretation of Anna (Spit & Vigor), Arnold Fishbinder/Lord Myron in Verse DiVerse (Theater for the New City) for which, he was nominated for Best Performance in an Off-Off Broadway Play, The Love Doctor in the Off-Broadway run of Love is a Bad Neighborhood (Theater 54 @ Shetler Studios), and Jason Friendly/Poacher/Male Swing in Friendly's Fire (Rising Sun Performance Company). Johnny can be spotted performing stand-up comedy around NYC (including at Caroline’s on Broadway) and crooning as Zombie Dean Martin in the long-running seasonal cabaret The Rat Pack Undead. His digital artwork has been published in Alter Ego Magazine (TwoMorrows Publishing)

SAG/AFTRA, DG, EMC

Monica Blaze Leavitt - an Artistic Founding Member of the award-winning theatre company, Transport Group, has been seen in TG's Off-Broadway Productions of The Audience, All the Way Home, Requiem for William and Our Town. Other selected NYC and regional theatrical credits include Cherry Lane Theatre's Production of Maggie's Porch, The McCarter's Cymbeline, and Heritage Repertory's Steel Magnolias among many. She has been seen in Law & Order, Sex and the City and Guiding Light as well as films such as Remedy (Netflix), The Pandora Machine (Prime) and Single and Proud (Prime) to name a few. Monica has originated roles in over 30 new and workshopped plays from all over the world. As a talented voiceover actress, she enjoys tailoring voices to various characters and creatures in projects such as The Last Touch directed by Melissa Mars, the horror podcast Chroniclers of Darkness, several commercial spots for companies such as The NYSE, eHarmony, Cartoon Network and Bally's among many others. With an MFA in Acting from the University of Virginia, she has been an actress, director, fight director, dialect coach, and voice & diction coach in NYC for over twenty five years.
For more information about Monica please visit her website www.monicablazeleavitt.com

Michael Daly appeared in the first “post-Madonna” New York production of David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow, and has appeared in HBO’s The Undoing (with Hugh Grant) and the WB miniseries Gotham among others. Regionally, he has worked at the Florida Studio Theatre, having performed in The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare… Abridged as well as the two-actor comic version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Other credits include Pericles and Greater Tuna (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), Peter Pan and Windy City (Walnut Street Theater) and the title role in Macbeth (Southwest Shakespeare in Mesa, AZ). Other regional favorites include Capitol Rep in Albany, NY, as well as several seasons at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Michael will be appearing in December 2024 in Faith Healer by Brian Friel at the Schoolhouse Theater in Westchester, NY. He holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.