Violet

CLAYTON RIDDLEY (Flick) teaches music education and performance at KIPP VOICE Elementary School and has performed in various productions including Sister Act, The Wiz, The Color Purple, Memphis, Smokey Joes Cafe, Romeo and Juliet, Sweeney Todd, Hairpsray, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and many more. He is also a proud member of Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity and a founding member of Sweet Tea Shakespeare in NC. Clayton was previously seen on ABET’s stage in Working.

CHRIS BERRY (Monty) was most recently seen as Eddie in The Wild Party at Players by the Sea. A recent transplant from South Carolina, He studied Biomedical Engineering at Clemson University and performed both at Clemson and professionally in Greenville at The Warehouse Theatre. Previous credits include Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Show, Tony in West Side Story, Link Larkin in Hairspray, and Steven Kodaly in She Loves Me. Violet marks Chris’s ABET debut.

BRANDON KRAUT (Preacher / Ensemble) previous roles include Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Eddie in Mamma Mia!, Young Bud in Old Love, Officer O’Hara in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Sam in Wild Party. This is Brandon’s debut with ABET.

DAWN VEREE (Old Lady / Hooker / Ensemble) is making her debut at ABET. A recent newcomer to Florida, Dawn was last seen as Madelaine True in Wild Party at Players by the Sea. Her favorite past credits include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Masha), The Full Monty (Vicki), Always, Patsy Cline (Louise), Hairspray (Prudy Pingleton), Cabaret (Fraulein Kost/Lulu), a contract on the cruise ship ms. Royal Odyssey, and many seasons with both the San Diego and Utah Opera Chorus.

ELIZABETH BRICKNELL (Music Hall Singer / Ensemble) is actively involved as a performer and volunteer in the North Florida theatre community and also as a music teacher with DCPS. She was most recently seen as Fraulein Kost in Cabaret at The Limelight in St. Augustine and Miriam in Amelia Community Theatre’s production of Fly By Night. Elizabeth was previously seen on ABET’s stage in Merrily We Roll Along.

BRANDON HINES (Leroy / Ensemble) was last seen in ABET’s production of The Robber Bridegroom where he played Clement Musgrove. Other credits include Company (Harry) at The 5 & Dime, and American Idiot (Theo), Memphis (Gator), La Cage Aux Folles (Hanna), Aida (ensemble) and Little Shop Of Horrors (Urchin), all at Players by the Sea. Backstage credits include PBTS’s Almost, Maine (assistant stage manager), Rider University’s White Christmas (assistant costume designer), Little Shop Of Horrors (costume designer), Memphis (assistant costume designer), and The Great American Trailer Park Musical (costume designer), all at PBTS.