Directed by: Marc Moritz

Lighting & Set Design by: Patrick Ciamacco

Costume Design by: Luke Scattergood

Stage Manager: Brittany Gaul

CAST

Kimberly Eskut (Frankie) a director, choreographer & actor for over 27 yrs is thrilled to be playing the role of Frankie & reprising one of her favorite roles this Fall in Texas Chainsaw the Musical (Mama).  She has earned 3 wins for featured actress in a musical for her performance in Cabaret (Fraulein Kost), West Side Story (Anita) & Little Me (The Mother’s).  Favorite roles include: Anything Goes (Erma), Legally Blonde (Paulette), Blood Brothers (Mrs. Johnstone), Gypsy (Tesse Tura), City of Angels (Oolie & Donna), Assassins (Sarah Jane Moore), Urinetown (Ma Strong), Chicago (Mama Morton), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), Pippin (Fastrada), Bye Bye Birdie (Rosie) & Lucky Stiff (Dominique Dumonico).  Very special thanks Marc, Patrick, Dougie and all involved with this production. 

Doug Kusak (Johnny) is thrilled to return to Blank Canvas after tooling around in Hellcab last year. Other alphabetical professional theatrical credits include Bad Epitaph, the Bang & the Clatter, Beck Center, Cain Park, Charenton, Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland SignStage, convergence-continuum, Dirty Shakespeare Company, Ensemble, FPAC, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Lakeland Theater, Theater Ninjas and TITLEWave. Doug's featured in the award-winning film And the Winner Is...and he's always looking for more work. For broadcast and recorded media he is represented by the Docherty Agency. Hire him!