THE CAST

Crestwell: Dennis Kozeluh

Alice: Sophie Kathleen Kozeluh

Mrs Moxton (Moxie): Joanna Godwin-Seidl

Mrs Moxton (Moxie) - 19. October: Lisa Gray

Felicity, Countess of Marshwood: Jeannette Meinl

Lady Hayling: Anne Weiner

Admiral Sir John Hayling: Dave Moskin

The Hon. Peter Ingleton: Alan Burgon

The Earl of Marshwood (Nigel): Tom Crawley

Miranda Frayle: Caroline Krug

Don Lucas: Sam Kozeluh

Music: Dave Moskin
Direction: Dennis Kozeluh
Producers: Jeannette Meinl, Joanna Godwin-Seidl
General Manager & Cat Herder: Ine Gundersveen
Flyer/poster: Gernot Ottowitz
Photographers: Ine Gundersveen & Thomas Schluet
FOH & Stage Management:
Esther Beckstein, Lena Burger & Hannah Herok

Dennis Kozeluh was born in Missoula, Montana in 1958 and, after studying Latin and Greek, took a degree in music/vocal performance at the University of Montana. He has performed in light and contemporary opera (Wiener Volksoper, Neue Flora Hamburg) and operetta (Badener Stadttheater, Bad Ischl Operettensommer), theatre, film, and predominantly musical (Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Opera Nationale du Rhin, Strasbourg, Theater des Westens Berlin, Musical Dom Köln, etc.), where he has played mostly strong characters, bad and good: M. Firmin in Phantom, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Reverend Moore in Footloose, Van Helsing in Dracula, and Captain Andy in Showboat, to name a few. Most recently Dennis played the manager of a world class pop star (Bodyguard das Musical in Cologne), an evil genie (Aladdin und seine Wunderlampe in Baden), an abstract impressionist (Red, Theater Drachengasse) and a U.S. Army colonel in Codename: Ashcan at the Theater National Luxembourg. He has appeared in films such as Underworld, Thank You for Bombing and The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich, and at Vienna’s English Theatre, and written and directed for the VBW, the Wiener Metropol, Kabaret Simpl, and the Vindobona. 

Sophie Kathleen Kozeluh was born into a bilingual household near Vienna, Austria. She has been acting, singing and dancing since she could walk (early February 1991).
In 2009 she decided to get serious (sort of) and began getting involved in improvisational theatre, taking part in a number of international collaborations and workshops with renowned improvisers such as Frank Totino (Keith Johnstone Method), Inbal Lori, Ruth Bader and, most notably, the Vienna-based impro theatre company The English Lovers. Since their en-suite production Snowed In! in December 2018 she can proudly call herself a full-fledged Lover, and has been involved in concept development, workshops, and the staging of a number of productions of live theatre as well as their streamed formats.
She has also performed as a singer and actress in scripted shows both in English and German, in and around Vienna, and as a voice-over artist for various companies and projects from the Innovation in Politics Institute to Terra Mater and the ORF.
Sophie is thrilled to be joining Open House Theatre in their made-for-school production of Jack and the Beanstalk, available as of December 2023, and will of course be appearing in this year's English Lovers Christmas show: The Cabinet of Christmas Curiosities.

The actress and director studied theatre in the United Kingdom. She has been running VIENNA THEATRE PROJECT since 2006. German language theatre credits include Mädchen Mit Den Schwefelhölzern (Ronacher Theater); Hautnah (Patrick Marber) for Theaterverein Vision (OFF Theater). Acclaimed musicals include Tick Tick… Boom!, Marry Me A Little, Ordinary Days (Theater Drachengasse).
She enjoys choosing plays with social and political content: Dirt (Theater am Petersplatz), The Meeting (Black History Month/Theater am Petersplatz) to name two. In 2014 she directed the hit play Topdog/Underdog (Theater Drachengasse), was pleased to receive rave reviews for Disgraced and The Invisible Hand (2016), and starred in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (Dialog im Dunkeln).
She directed the sell out shows Sarg Niemals Nie (Theatercouch) and The Last 5 Years (Brick 5). The Who & The What by Ayad Akhtar (Theater Drachengasse). She further directed Building the Wall by Schenkkan, Crossing Jerusalem by Julia Pascal, and The Flick by Annie Baker, as well as the opera Barber of Sevilla at Klassikfestival Schloss Kirchstetten.
She produced A Bedfull of Foreigners at MUTH with Art For Charity, directed The Mountaintop by Katori Hall (Pick of the Week) and Nina Simone: Four Women by Christina Ham, again celebrated by press and public. Showed in Kultursommer Wien: Emigranten. Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill and Dreck (Kultursommer Wien) were her most recent director hits. She was last seen on stage in the critically acclaimed production of Airswimming (vienna theatre project) at Theater Drachengasse in 2023. Her next directorial adventures are the award winning The P Word in November 2023 at Theater Drachengasse, and "N" in February 2024, with the U.S. Embassy, Vienna.
Joanna is thrilled to be reprising her role of Moxie from 2021, in this new 2023 production with Art For Charity.
For more information: www.joannagodwinseidl.com and www.viennatheatreproject.com for upcoming shows.

Lisa was born in Vienna and raised in the UK and Austria.
She trained at Guildford School of Acting and received her BA in acting and her directing MA at California State University, Sacramento. Since then she has worked continually in theatres in the UK (Lyceum Theatre, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, London Globe) and Austria (Theater an der Josefstadt, Metropol, Akzent, Ensemble Theater, Bregenzer Festspielhaus), toured as Dance Captain and Ensemble all over Europe with Musical Productions by Thelen&Thelen and performed as a member of the Kammerspiele Graz Ensemble for 8 years, where she played most female leads. In America she has toured as Ophelia with the Bay Area Shakespeare Company, covered Elsa for Disneyland's Frozen in Hollywood and sung Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Rodger Rabbit on Stage at Universal Studios. Lisa then got involved in Motion Capture Acting, was one of the athletic actresses playing Lara Croft for the Enix Computer Game Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and she has just finished playing numerous animals for an upcoming Netflix series. She is an appointed director at the BBC Studios London and teaches English Acting at the Filmacademy Vienna.
Lisa is delighted to be asked back by Art For Charity, where she has already performed Helga in A Bedfull of Foreigners (Muth) and Eliza in Pygmalion (Juliusburg).

Jeannette Meinl studied acting at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London. She has since appeared in numerous plays such as Le Jeu de L’Amour et Du hazard by Marivaux, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Der Besuch der Alten Dame by Dürenmatt, The Provoked Wife by Vanbrugh, Private Lives by Noel Coward, performed at Vienna’s English Theatre and several readings such as Heinrich Heine, Frederick Forsyth and Dickens’ The Christmas Carrol. She has directed Arms and The Man at the AIS (American International School). Her performances include Don‘t dress for Dinner by Marc Camoletti, performed at the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater, Vienna, Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn, Private Lives by Noel Coward, Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti at the Stadttheater Walfischgasse and Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon. She founded the group Art For Charity where she raises money for charity through her performances. Jeannette likes to create new projects and enjoys bringing witty English plays to Vienna.

Anne was born in Klosterneuburg and grew up in England. Her first professional appearance was in the pantomime Cinderella at the age of 15, where she appeared as a dancer, singer and front half of the pantomime horse. After completing stage and ballet training she performed in Europe in productions as varied as Jesus Christ Superstar and Die Dreigroschenoper. Anne has appeared on ORF Television as a dancer and actress, danced at the Volksoper and the Wiener Festwochen and sung in the chorus of the Sommerfestspiele Bad Ischl. As a founding member of The English Lovers she has, over the past 20 years, taken part in dozens of live readings at Theater Drachengasse and the Radio Café and performed a great deal of improvised theatre. Charity productions include Musical Mamis at the Wiener Metropol (writing and performing sketches, singing, dancing and improvising) and Blithe Spirit at Studio Moliere, where she played Madame Arcati. Anne has appeared in several productions with Vienna’s Open House Theatre, including The Glass Menagerie, The Importance of Being Ernest and An Inspector Calls, and as a voice actress narrated documentaries such as Golden Genes and Wings of Samothraki.

Dave grew up in New York City, studying acting with Jack Waltzer from The Actors Studio, and appearing in numerous Broadway, film, theatre and television productions. In 1995, after 5 years in Kitzbuhel as a pub musician, Dave came to Vienna and formed the band Pontiac Jones, opening for such acts as David Bowie and INXS. In 1999 and 2000 he represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest as the composer of the songs Reflection and All To You. He returned to the stage in 2001 covering the role of Berger in the VBW production of Hair. Numerous musical and theatre roles followed such as: Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, Schrank in West Side Story at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Rock Tenor in Bernstein's Mass with the Tonkünstler Orchester, Eddie/Dr. Scott in The Rocky Horror Show, Marley in the Austrian tour of Scrooge: Eine Weinachtsgeschichte, Martin Sterneck in Gabriel Barylli Chickenshit (Butterbrot), Isaac in Disgraced, Nick in The Invisible Hand, Yvan in ART, Eli in The Who & the What andRick in Building the Wall. His film credits include Tootsie, The Godfather, Manhattan, Im weißen Rössl – Wehe du singst! and Thank You For Bombing. He was the Musical Director/Pianist for Wiener Blut and Nina Simone: Four Women and also the Producer/Creator of the international touring show The Blues Brothers Are Back, in which he also stars as Jake.

Alan studied acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), and graduated in 2008. He went on to spend one year with the Dundee Rep ensemble, where he was given the opportunity to play both leading roles and ensemble parts. Alan moved to Vienna in 2010, is the former Creative Director and co-founder of Vienna’s Open House Theatre, and is very active in various projects including independent feature films, theatrical performances, and podcasting. The Amelia Project, a podcast in which Alan plays the lead role, currently receives around 10.000 downloads per episode. https://www.alanburgon.com

I’m participating in this show because I think that the script is a lot of fun, and it gives me the chance to work with people I have not yet worked with before. Something which I very much enjoy doing. It is an added bonus that the production is for a greater cause than entertainment. Not all music changes the world, but your world can be changed by music. Giving children the opportunity to explore their musical selves, can only be a good thing.

Tom is a Vienna-based actor, director, writer and translator. Born in London, he moved to Austria to improve his German after graduating with a degree in English from the University of Leeds over 20 years ago, and is still here. Tom will appear alongside Saoirse Ronan in Steve McQueen’s new feature film about the Blitz in London during WWII, due to be released in cinemas in 2024. His theatre acting work has included various roles in A Christmas Carol, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest, Gerald in An Inspector Calls (all for Open House Theatre, Vienna), Victor in Private Lives (Art4Charity/Vienna’s English Theatre), Giles in The Mousetrap and Cliff in Look Back in Anger (both at the International Theatre, Vienna). Directing credits include Iz by Oliver Emanuel and Bella and the Beautiful Knight, by the same author, at Theater Drachengasse. He also directed Sarah Kane’s Blasted for Mental Eclipse Theater House and Vienna Theatre Project at Theater Arche in 2019. TV work includes Steiermark – Verbunden über alle Grenzen (ORF Universum History).

Caroline Krug (née Ciglenec) was born in Australia and spent her formative years in Houston/Texas before moving to Vienna.
While still in school, she won several prizes at the Austrian and European showdance Championships and she appeared in Die Italienerin in Algiers at the Sommerfestspiele Klosterneuburg, Samt und Seide at the Kammeroper Vienna and The next Generation at the Theater des Augenblicks.
Since then, Caroline has kept a busy schedule and has appeared in Wiener Blut at the Wiener Operettensommer; in Dialogues des Carmelites at the Theater an der Wien as well as in Jesus Christ Superstar. She has played Ginny in Relatively Speaking at the Kammeroper; Sali and Amazon in the Nestroy pieces Zeitvertreib and Häuptling Abendwind at the Wiener Ateliertheater; Martha Crachit and Belle in A Christmas Carol at the Vienna International Theater; and she was a featured dancer in the Musical production Phantasma at the Saarländische Staatstheater in Saarbrücken. Caroline performed at the Operettensommer Kufstein in My fair Lady, in Viktor/Viktoria at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and was also in the Ensemble of Funny Girl at the Oper Graz. The following years she had the privilege of playing Valerie Clark in Stadttheater Klagenfurt’s production of A Chorus Line as well as an ensemble position in The Wizard of Oz.
Her debut at the Wiener Volksoper was with the role of the courtesan Tintinabula in the production Die Spinnen die Römer! She was also part of the original cast in their production of Kiss me Kate and was last seen as a Kit Kat Girl in the recent production Cabaret.

Samuel Lawrence Kozeluh began his acting career at a young age, featuring in commercials and short films as young as 8 years old. After starring in a few short films, working on a number of educational books as a voice actor and performing on stage as a musician in his teens, he put everything on hold to pursue a heartless career in online marketing. He has since returned to acting, graduating from VETA (Vienna’s English Theatre Academy) in 2021, and appearing in the Austrian-produced series Nightshift that same year. In his most recent work on the silver screen he had the pleasure of portraying John Sparks, member of the notorious Rhino Gang, in A Town Called Purgatory, produced and directed by Matt Servitto. His latest performance on stage came as the devil‘s loyal servant in the original play Die Kirche des Teufels, which premiered at the Ateliertheater in April of this year.