The Cast of East West Players' "Follies"
Ai Goeku is honored to be returning to the EWP stage with such an impressive cast and crew. Previous EWP appearances include "Beijing Spring" (Girlfriend) and "One Night Only." She was also in the Broadway and 2nd National Tour Companies of "Miss Saigon" where she played Yvette and understudied and performed the role of Ellen. Other credits include "Hello," "Dolly" (Minnie Fay), "Bye Bye Birdie" (Ursula), "The King and I," and "West Side Story."
Ben Gonio graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama with a BFA in Acting. Regional theater credits include "Black Elk Speaks" for The Shoreline Theater, "Contents Under Pressure" for The Alice B. Theater in Seattle, "West Side Story" for The Rogue Music
Theater in Oregon, and "The Story of Baghwandi Prabuphada" through The Seattle Fringe Theater Festival. Musical theater experience include "Oklahoma," "42nd Street," and "Brigadoon." Ben also just finished musical staged readings of "Merci Beaucoup" for The Lehman Engle Music Theater Workshop, "Caribe, Caribe!" for The Disney ASCAP presentations, "Chang & Eng" for Broadway USA presentations at The Falcon Theater. Film credits include "Jobs: A Way Out" for PBS,
"Secrets Revealed," "Model Minority," "Blue Love," and "Bracing L.A. Snow."
Linda Igarashi credits include productions with East West Players, James Clavell's "Shogun, The Musical" (Broadway), "Miss Saigon" (Toronto), "Beauty and the Beast" (Los Angeles), "The King and I"
(U.S. National Tour with Haley Mills and Marie Osmond), the Academy Award winning short film, "Visas and Virtues," and most recently "Much Ado About Nothing" (Don Pedro) at the Globe Stage in Topanga Canyon.
Denise Iketani's EWP appearances include "Pacific Overtures" (Ovation Award nomination), "Hero," "Dance and Sing for the Holidays," "29 and 1/2 Dreams," and "Into the Woods." L.A. theater appearances include S.T.A.G.E. benefits XII and XIII, P.A.W.S. LA (Pasadena Playhouse), "Tofu 2000," "The Grapevine" (LATC), and "Sayonara" (Alex Theater). Denise is very active as an artist/educator,
teaching workshops to students and teachers in L.A. and Orange County. Presently, she is an instructor for the Migrant Education Fine Arts Academy, the Americorps' Tell Me A Story Literacy Program, and the Los Angeles Music Center, Education Division. Denise's television appearances include "Sunset Beach," "Chicago Hope," Club 34," and "General Hospital."
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