OVER THE THRESHOLD VIENNA CAST 2010
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KUDRA OWENS
KIERAN BROWN
LISA GRAY
DAVE MOSKIN
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KUDRA OWENS - SAM

Born in Seattle, Washington. Studied at the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the William Esper Studies in New York. Later on she began her professional career with a part in Footloose. In 2000, she came to Austria to play in Porgy and Bess at the Bregenz Festival. She played Dionne in Hair at Vienna’s Raimund
Theatre. Kudra Owens makes regular solo appearances at gala events (e.g. Uwe Kröger in Concert). She is also vocalist in the cover band “Groove to Move”. During the Musical Summer event in Amstetten, she played Rusty in the musical Footloose, before being cast as Maria Magdalena in Jesus Christ Superstar. She is currently performing at the St. Gallen Theatre in Hairspray.

Further roles include: Footloose‘ - Rusty -Stadttheater Klagenfurt, ‚Carmen Cubana‘ - Fancesca, Musical Sommer Amstetten. Kudra Owens regularly appears in English-speaking plays in Vienna (The Vagina Monologues - Kosmos Theater, Vital Signs - Theater Drachengasse, Moment on the Lips - Theater am
Ptersplatz & Speaking in Tongues - vormals Die Theater; all with vienna theatre project).

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KIERAN BROWN - TOM

Kieran trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama.

Previous credits include  Feuilly in "Les Miserables" at the Palace Theatre London, "The Ballad of Little Jo" at the Bridewell Theatre London.

For the last 3 years, Kieran has lived and worked in Vienna, where he made his debut as a Director for the Vienna Theatre Project, with their production of "La Vie Ennui" at the Ensemble Theater, before appearing at the world famous Schönbrunner Schloss Theatre in "Don't Dress For Dinner", followed by "Relatively Speaking", KämmerOper Vienna.  Further credits in Vienna include Bob in "Beyond Therapy", Bob Cratchitt in "A Christmas Carol" and Algernon in "The Importance
of Being Earnest" : International Theatre of Vienna.
Having completed numerous European summer and winter tours of "The Best Of Musicals", he subsequently became artistic director of "Best of Musicals 2009" European No 1 tour. He appearred in the UK and Dutch tours of "Wonderful West End", and at Trafalgar Studios in "Through the Door" for Perfect Pitch Productions. In 2010 Kieran played Dane O'Neill in the world premiere production of "The Thorn
Birds" musical, UK Tour, directed by Tony and Olivier award winning director Michael Bogdanov.

Kieran recently appeared as Elton John and Tony Christie in the world premiere production of Bill Kenwrights "Laughter In the
Rain - The Neil Sedaka Story" which toured the UK, and he is currently playing the role of "The Actor" in The Woman In Black
at the International Theatre, Vienna. For more information, please visit www.KieranBrown.com.

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LISA GRAY - KATE

Grew up in London and Baden bei Wien, studied at the Guildford School of Acting and California State University, Sacramento with a Musical Diploma, Bachelor of Arts in Acting and Directing.
Her work has taken from Austria (e.g. Wiener Metropol, Theater an der Josefstadt, Ensembletheater, Stadthalle, Bregenzer Festspielhaus) to England (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, London Westend and Westend tour) to the USA, where she played Ophelia in the Bay Area Shakespeare Tour Production of HAMLET with Tom Hanks. 2003 she won the GOLDEN FLEA for the Best Euopean Clown Performance. She has worked as a studio singer for the Labels Koch and EMI, choreographed for
Top of the Pops in London. For the last four years she has been with the Ensemble at the Graz Kammerspiele. Where, amongst other things, she played Marylin Monroe in “The Seven Year
Itch”.

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DAVE MOSKIN - CHARLIE

Was born in New Jersey and grew up in New York. He gained his first experience with stage and film as a child already appearing on Broadway, in TV Shows and films such as “The Godfather” or “Tootsie”. AT 19 he created his own band and conquered the New York Club scene. In 1995 he came to Vienna
where he first worked as a street busker and bar singer. Today he is the composer and singer for Pontiac Jones. His voice has been used for Discorama (“Born to be Alive”) as well as many TV
and Radio ads. e.g. Max in Max Mobile. He composed the European Song Contest songs in 1999 and 2000.

Stage roles have included: ‚Tutanchamun‘ – feat. Ensemble Festspiele Gutenstein, Director: Dean Welterlen, Choreography: Cedric Lee Bradle, ‚Hair‘ – feat. Tribe, Hubert Musical Sommer
Amstetten, Director / Choreography: Kim Duddy, Jekyll & Hyde‘ – feat. Ensemble Vereingte Bühnen Bozen, Director: Hans Holzbecher, Grease‘ – Cover Vince Fontaine / Teenangel Theater St. Gallen, Director: Werner Sobotka, Choreography: Kim Duddy.
Dave is currently playing Buddy in the Buddy Holly Musical at the The Big Bopper Colosseum Essen, Director: Stephanie Mohr Tivoli.

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