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                                UNDERWORLD V
                                hosted by Lauren Molina & Nick Cearley

                                MTWorks' annual one-night only benefit event featuring Broadway’s hottest understudies performing and sharing their stories. All proceeds go to funding MTWorks’ Season of Fight.

                                Hosted by LAUREN MOLINA (Rock of Ages, Sweeney Todd)
                                and NICK CEARLEY(All Shook Up, Altar Boyz).

                                UNDERSTUDIES (As of 11/9/2011):

                                DOUGLAS LYONS (The Book of Mormon)
                                COREY MACH (Godspell)
                                NIC ROULEAU (The Book of Mormon)
                                BETSY STRUXNESS (Memphis)
                                ANNE TOLPEGIN (Billy Elliot)
                                KATIE WEBBER (Catch Me If You Can, Memphis, Rock of Ages, Wicked)

                                MTWorks' Company Member Duets by

                                PETER CAPPELLO & SARAH CHANEY
                                ANTONIO MININO & MAUREEN O'BOYLE

                                Musical Direction by Dr. Bryan Wade
                                Produced by Sarah Chaney and Jessica Thornhill for MTWorks

                                One-Night Only Event
                                Monday, December 5th at 7pm
                                The Triad Theatre
                                158 West 72nd Street, 2nd Floor

                                Individual tickets are $35
                                (+2 drink minimum; cash bar)
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                                or call 866-811-4111
                                LAUREN MOLINA (Co-Host) Lauren Molina is a Broadway actress, musician, singer-songwriter, and artist. She made her mark on Broadway starring as the cello-playing Johanna in the critically acclaimed revival of John Doyle's "Sweeney Todd," winning the Independent Reviewers of New England Award Best Supporting Actress and named as one of the celebrated "30 Under 30" featured on Broadwayspace.com.

                                After performing for nearly 2 years as Regina in ROCK OF AGES on Broadway and Off, Lauren left to play a dream role; Cunegonde in CANDIDE, directed by Mary Zimmerman, at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, where she won a 2011 Helen Hayes award for Best Actress in a Resident Musical. She recently worked at the Williamstown Theatre Festival on John Doyle's original musical, TEN CENTS A DANCE, with Donna McKechnie and Malcolm Gets. This production utilized actor/singer/musicians, Lauren playing cello, bass, guitar, ukulele and saxophone, and expressed the story thru the music of Rodgers and Hart.

                                NICK CEARLEY (Co-Host) recently was recognized by the NJ Star Ledger and Peter Filichia for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for his performance as Randall Klausner, role he originated in ...And Then I Wrote A Song About It: The One Man Musical. Other credits include: 1st National Broadway Tour of All Shook Up (dir. by Christopher Ashley). Regional Premieres: Next To Normal, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Pageant (dir. by Tony Nominee Bill Russell), Altar Boyz, Last Smoker in America (opposite Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley). Other regional credits include: Forever Plaid, Just So Stories, A Little Night Music, Nunsense Amen. Nick has also worked on many new plays and musical premieres of Bernice Bobs Her Mullet (NYMF, Julia Miles Theatre), Cupid & Psyche (29th Street Rep, NY) La Gioconda (The Clurman Theatre, NY), Awakening (Margo Lion Award Winner), Jubilee (Jonathan Larson Award Winner), and a brief stint with Twyla Tharp and Bob Dylan's project The Times They Are a Changin' to name a few. He has also been a part of a gazillion demos, workshops, readings, and concerts at venues including York Theatre, Barrow Group, New York Stage & Film, BMI, The Dramatists Guild, NYU Tisch, Duplex, The Laurie Beechman, The Canal Room, Joes Pub, Manhattan Grand Ballroom, AMAS to name a few around the NYC area. As a musician, Nick also has played numerous sold out gigs with his band and other people's bands around Brooklyn and NYC, grew up in Cincinnati Ohio and graduated from The Boston Conservatory.