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BIOS NICHOLAS CHENG Producer FRANK FERRARA Artistic Director
Broadway: Dracula: The Musical (Music Assistant), The Actor’s Fund’s On the Twentieth Century (Music Preparation). Regional: The World Premiere of Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy’s Waiting for the Moon (Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center, Marlton, NJ). Notable Musical Direction credits include: The Sound of Music, Cats, Drood, Annie, Joseph... Dreamcoat, The Rocky Horror Show, Fame, Oliver!, and Cats; also, The Last Five Years, The Who’s Tommy, Dracula: The Musical, and For the Glory: The Civil War Musical, all with Cheng / Ferrara Productions. During the day, Nick runs the company of and is assistant to Frank Wildhorn, composer of Whitney Houston’s 1988 international hit, “Where Do Broken Hearts Go?”, as well as the Broadway musicals Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War, Dracula: The Musical, and Victor/Victoria. He has been fortunate to work with singer Linda Eder as the Album Coordinator on her most recent albums: Broadway My Way and Storybook. As a musician, Nick has had many opportunities to play at prominent cabarets in New York, most notably performing with Marla Schaffel (Tony-nominated for Jane Eyre). Along with director Frank Ferrara, Nick created Cheng / Ferrara Productions, a company dedicated to the presentation of high-quality productions of lesser known works.
Frank Ferrara is the co-founder of Cheng / Ferrara Productions and the President of the Pennington Players. For the former, he has directed the musicals The Last Five Years, The Who’s Tommy, the nonequity premiere of a revised version of Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula: The Musical, and For the Glory: The Civil War Musical, all at Kelsey Theatre. Other directing experience includes The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Baker’s Wife, Oliver! (Kelsey Theatre), Into the Woods, Jekyll & Hyde, and The Secret Garden (Open Air Theatre of Washington Crossing State Park), and Once on this Island and Aida (Allentown High School). He also served as Assistant Director to Martha Gasparian for Playful Theatre Productions’ Camelot at the OAT. He will direct Once On This Island for the Pennington Players in August 2007, Annie for Playful Theatre Productions in November 2007, and Elegies for Cheng / Ferrara Productions in January of 2008.   Then, possibly, sleep. Onstage: Cats (Old Deuteronomy), Honk! (Drake), The Rocky Horror Show (Riff Raff), ...Forum (Hero), Drood (Neville Landless), The Music Man (Charlie Cowell), Fiddler on the Roof (Mendel), Titanic (Rogers/Stevedore), The Fantasticks (Mortimer), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II - Manipulation), and the NJ debut of The Legend of Redwall Abbey (Cluny the Scourge). Frank is a medical writer for ImClone Systems Incorporated, and a costumed superhero by night. Not really.