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Newell Alexander
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Stage credits include
the original productions of Del Shores' Cheatin', Daddy's Dyin'
Who's Got the Will?, Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies.
He is featured in the movie versions of Sordid Lives and
Daddy’s Dyin other films include Madhouse, For Heavens
Sake and The Stray. On TV he’s worked on Arrested
Development, Alias and is recurring on HBO’s Big Love.
He is a principal member of the L.A. Mad Dogs, one of the industry's
busiest voice-over groups (Crash, Shop Girl,
Madagascar, etc., etc.). An ex-Texan, he plays “General Sam
Houston” as the host of the Texas History Museum’s Texas Hall of
Heroes at the State Capitol in Austin. He has produced and
performed in 33 hour-long radio dramas for the Autry Museum of Western
Heritage for PBS. Newell performed as Neil Young's opening act “Dan
Clear” for 84 shows in 1983-84. He and his wife Rosemary have one
shitload of kids and Grandkids.
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Rosemary Alexander
(Dr. Eve Bolinger)
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Rosemary stars in Del
Shores' award-winning independent feature film, Sordid Lives,
co-stars in Lakeshore Entertainment’s Madhouse, and is featured
in Falcon Lair Films’ The Trip, as well as starring in Miles
Swain’s short film, Monsters. Alexander co-stars in two other
short films, Gregory Webb's Hamburger Helper and Lane
Nishikawa’s Forgotten Valor and she has a featured role in
Leslie Jordan's award-winning independent feature, Lost In the
Pershing Point Hotel. She co-starred on ABC’s Dharma & Greg
and has guest-starred on Martial Law and The Pretender.
Other TV appearances include guest-starring on Designing Women,
Chicago Hope, High Incident, Murder She Wrote,
Days of Our Lives (recurring), General Hospital, Highway to
Heaven, Dallas, Knots Landing and Passions. In 2000
Rosemary created the role of the ‘Mothers’ (three different characters)
in Del Shores’ Southern Baptist Sissies, which ran 16 months in
Los Angeles at the Zephyr Theatre and won 22 LA drama-critic awards. In
1996-'97 she created the role of “Dr. Eve” and received a Drama-Logue
award for performance in Del Shores' play, Sordid Lives. She
created the role of “Evalita” in the hit Texas comedy Daddy's Dyin'
Who's Got The Will? at Theater-Theatre in Hollywood for which she
received an LA Weekly Theater Critic's Award. In 1989 she won a
Drama-Logue Award for her performance in Carolyn Kava’s The Early
Girl at the Skylight Theater in L.A., and, in 1990, another one
for her performance in Paul Zindel's And Miss Reardon Drinks A
Little at the Zephyr Theater. Rosemary and her
husband/partner, Newell Alexander, created Wells Fargo Radio Theater
and have developed and produced 36 original hour-long historically
accurate western radio dramas for the Autry Museum of Western Heritage.
In addition, Rosemary is a busy voice-over actress who does radio and TV
spots, narrations and she also provides voice tracks regularly for
feature films including Shark Tale, Van Helsing, The Ring II, Shrek,
Castaway, Titanic, The Insider, Jerry Maguire, Erin Brockovich, Jumanji,
Heat, etc., etc. She has also guest starred on several NPR radio
dramas for Hollywood Theater of The Ear. Rosemary performed over a
five-year period in the 1980s with the critically acclaimed comedy
Improv group, Caltrans, at the Melrose Theater and in Los Angeles
nightclubs. In addition to sharing a
life in show business, the Alexander’s have also shared the raising of
five children, and they now share 7 grandchildren.
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Terry Brannon
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Terry came to Hollywood
31 years ago. He grew up in rural East Texas and attended Stephen F.
Austin where he studied journalism. He won first place for
sports-writing excellence from United Press International in 1969 as a
reporter for the Tyler Morning Telegraph. Arriving in Hollywood, he
appeared on Police Woman in the first of his many detective
roles. Other TV credits include the popular series Mash and
Dallas. Film credits include the cult film classic UFOria.
Del Shores cast Terry as “Teddy Joe” in his play Cheatin', and
later “Wardell” in Sordid Lives, as well as “Preacher” in
Southern Baptist Sissies. You might also recognize Terry from his
more than 500 commercials, the latest as a hurricane victim for State
Farm.
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Mitch Carter
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MITCH
CARTER is excited to be back with the original cast members of Sordid
Lives. He also joined old friends when he played “Orville” in the 10th
Anniversary production of Daddy’s Dyin...(Who’s Got the Will?). Those
two shows were 13 months of fun with Del’s Southern family. Other LA
stage credits include: James Leo Herlihy’s Terrible Jim Fitch, Steven J.
Rivelle’s The West and Jane Show, David Freeman’s Jessie and the Bandit
Queen, and most recently in Arthur Miller’s The Man Who Had All the
Luck.
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David Cowgill
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Debi Derryberry
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DEBI
DERRYBERY started acting at the age of 8 in local theatre. She got her
first guitar when she was nine and has been writing songs and singing
ever since. Over the last 6 years, her Country/Pop band “Honey Pig”
released 2 CD's. Now, 5 guitars later, Debi is going solo and releasing
her first children's CD What A Way to Play. She has voiced hundreds of
cartoon characters but is best known for the voices of “Jimmy Neutron”,
and Playhouse Disney's host, “Clay”. On-camera, she can be seen in Mark
Hammil's ComicBook the Movie and GhostWorld. Upcoming projects include
IceAge 2, Curious George the Series and The Wild. Debi has been a
long-time fan of Mr. Shores work and is thrilled to be a part of Sordid
Lives. She would like to thank ICM for their guidance and support. She
is most grateful to her husband, Harvey, and son, River, for their
patience and love.
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Patrika Darbo
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PATRIKA DARBO is no stranger to those of you who are Del Shores fans.
She was lucky enough to originate the roles of “Maybelline Cartwright”
in Cheatin’, “Marlene Turnover” in Daddy’s Dyin... and “Noleta
Nethercott” in Sordid Lives. For the last seven years, she has
portrayed “Nancy Wesley” on the long-running soap opera Days of Our
Lives earning her an Emmy nomination and several other awards. For
those non-soap watchers, you may remember her from such TV shows as
Rodney, Roseanne and Seinfeld; or such feature films as Carpool Guy, In
the Line of Fire, In the Garden of Good and Evil, Speed 2, and the film
version of Daddy’s Dyin’... Who’s Got the Will?. Look for her in the
soon-to-be-released horror film Hatchet and the buddy picture Moving
McAllister. She is happy to be back on stage with her theatre family
and wants to take this opportunity to say, “Spay and neuter your
animals, AIDS is still here, don’t share needles, wear a condom and STOP
HATE wherever and whenever you can. It all begins with you.”
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Dale Dickey
(Sissy Hickey)
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Her Feature Film work
includes: Domino (directed by Tony Scott), The Pledge
(directed by Sean Penn), The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls
in Love, The Journey of August King, Sordid Lives, and
most recently Our Very Own which premiered at the Los Angeles
Film Festival. On Television, she was ‘Opal McHone’ in the CBS series
Christy and later reprised the role for PAX’s special event
movies. She has numerous guest-star appearances including ER,
Frasier, CSI, The X Files, City of Angels, King of the Hill, Close to
Home, Gilmore Girls, Numbers and most recently as “Patty the
daytime hooker” on the break-out new hit series My Name is Earl.
TV movies include Cagney and Lacey: Together Again and Prison of
Secrets. New York theatre credits
include the Broadway production of Sir Peter Hall's The Merchant of
Venice (with Dustin Hoffman) and extensive work in the off-Broadway
companies Playwrights Horizons, The Signature Theatre Company, and
Manhattan Punch Line where she was an artist in residence with the
comedy troupe for three years. In Los Angeles, Dickey has
worked closely with writer/director Del Shores in productions of
Daddy’s Dyin' Who’s Got the Will?, Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist
Sissies, and most recently The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer
Trash Housewife. Other LA stage work includes The Women
with Theatre Neo, Conquest of the South Pole with the Odyssey
Ensemble and The Body at the Matrix Her performance as "Velma"
in Horton Foote's Laura Dennis earned her a Dramalogue Award
for Outstanding Performance. Dale has appeared in Regional Theatres
across the country. Most notably: Paper Mill Playhouse (To Kill a
Mockingbird, with George Grizzard), and The Clarence Brown Theatre
(starring opposite David Keith in The Rainmaker). Dale was born
and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Jason Dottley
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JASON
DOTTLEY was last seen on stage in Lisbon Traviata at the Actor’s Lab in
Hollywood. Other stage credits include A Shot in the Dark and Taming of
the Shrew. TV credits include: Dharma and Greg, Good Morning Miami and
Hollywood Confidential. He is currently producing Southern Baptist
Sissies at the Zephyr Theatre and will be producing and appearing in its
film adaptation. He wishes to thank his mother for always showing him
unconditional love and his grandmother Jessie for buying him his first
pair of “husky” jeans.
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Bridget Hoffman
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BRIDGET HOFFMAN is an actor, writer and director living in Los Angeles.
She has starred in over 100 stage productions and earned several
Theatre Critics Awards for her work in L.A. including: Spratt, Three
Sisters, Assassins, King Lear at the Met. She's pleased to have
played the recurring role of “Echidna - the Mother of all Monsters” on
Hercules (now immortalized as an action figure). Bridget has three
successful screenplays, and she recently finished a three year
writing/directing stint - having completed 72 episodes of the popular
anime series Mysterious Play, and 48 episodes of The Adventures of
Mini-Goddesses for Pioneer Entertainment, and has written for the Fox
Family Channel as well. Bridget supervised the Spanish language dub of
The Grinch for Universal Studios, and works extensively as a voice actor
for film and television. She has coached many gifted actors - her
favorite, perhaps, accompanying Jackie Chan to New York to coach him for
his Saturday Night Live performance. Del Shores is one of the first
people Bridget met upon arriving in Los Angeles, and she has been a fan
ever since, so it is a thrill to be working with him at long last. Her
most precious role is being the mother of Wolfy and the wife of Rif who
give her life meaning and joy.
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Debby Holiday
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DEBBY
HOLIDAY won over audiences in the juicy role of “The Blues Singer” in
the Los Angeles production of the award-winning play The Trials and
Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, written by Del Shores. Debby
Holiday has shared the stage with legendary recording artists like John
Waite and Rod Stewart, recently appearing on several television programs
including The View, The Rosie O'Donnel Show and The David Letterman
Show. During her career, Debby has toured and opened for rock superstars
including Joe Walsh, Rod Stewart and Kiss. In 2004 she completed her
third independent LP Half A Mile Away. This LP contains the original
versions of Dive and Half A Mile Away, Holiday's songs that scored Top 5
and Top 7 on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart in 2004-2005. Both
tracks were released as maxi-singles with remixes by Chris Cox (Thunderpuss),
Scotty K. (The Ellen Degeneres Show), Scott Anderson of Solar City (Erin
Hamilton, Pepper Mashay), Jamie J Sanchez (Mezzanine SF) and Roland
Belmares (Belmares & Preve). The success of Dive and Half A Mile Away
landed Debby Holiday's indie label *Nebula 9 a U.S. distribution deal
through Master Entertainment (MASE). In 2005 the LP Half A Mile Away and
a two-song EP with select dance remixes of Dive and Half A Mile Away
were placed in Virgin Megastore, Tower Records, Amoeba Records and
independent music stores nationwide.
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Sarah Hunley
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SARAH
HUNLEY After the success of the movie Sordid Lives, Del had request to
include “Juanita” in the play, so I get to reprise the role of this
sweet lush! Leslie Jordan introduced me to Del in the 80’s, and I was
subsequently cast in Shores’ stage productions of Daddy’s Dyin... and
Daughters of the Lone Star State. I’ve worked on stage in Chicago and
Nashville and received a Drama Logue award for my LA performance in A
Gift from Heaven. I was also in David Galligan’s production of Last of
the Honky Tonk Angels. TV appearances include several daytime soaps,
multiple movies-of-the-week, and most recently I came back from the dead
in Ghost Whisperer. Feature film work includes a starring role in Ghosts
of Mississippi, and roles in Mike Nichols’ Primary Colors and Roger
Donaldson’s Marie: A True Story. Look for me in Tim Allen’s up-coming
film The Return of Zoom and Adrienne Shelly’s The Waitress. I grew up
in Tennessee and, thanks to Del, for a short while I can go back to the
South again.
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Leslie Jordan
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Emmy
nominated actor, LESLIE JORDAN stepped off a Greyhound bus in 1982 from
the hills of Tennessee, said “hello” to Hollywood and has never looked
back. With hundreds of television shows, films and commercials to his
credit, he has become a familiar face on the entertainment scene.
Audiences will recognize him from his performance as “Brother Boy” in
the feature film Sordid Lives . In addition to numerous guest-starring
appearances on television, he can be seen in recurring roles on Boston
Legal, Will and Grace, and Reba. He is starring in the ABC Family movie
Chasing Christmas, which will air this holiday season. On stage, Mr.
Jordan won the Ovation Award, The Garland Award and The Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of “Preston ‘Peanut’ Leroy”
in Southern Baptist Sissies. His autobiographical one-man show, Like a
Dog on Linoleum, ran for six months at the Elephant Asylum in Los
Angeles, at the Bailiwick Theater in Chicago, and this spring will be
returning to the 14th Street Playhouse in Atlanta, where it ran to sold
out houses this past summer. Mr. Jordan has also enjoyed considerable
success as a writer. His play Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern
Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life Thus Far ran to sold-out houses in
Los Angeles and had a successful seven-month run Off-Broadway in New
York. His screenplay Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel won the Los
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Susan Leslie
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SUSAN
LESLIE was born to a sex therapist and a Secret Service Agent in
Oklahoma City, Susan’s career in comedy was inevitable. Susan is a
graduate of the UCLA School of Theater and has trained with Uta Hagen
and Howard Fine. Susan’s original one-woman play, This Is Your Wake-Up
Call!, earned LA Weekly’s “Pick of the Week” and Drama Logue’s “Critic’s
Choice.” Susan was thrilled to be a Special Guest Artist in Del Shores'
play, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife. Other
LA stage credits include: Crimes of The Heart directed by Garry
Marshall, Best-of 15 Minutes of Fem 3, The Lotto, The Werewolf Project
at LATC, LA Theatresports, and Pen to Paper at PRT. In addition to her
recurring role on Strong Medicine, some television credits include:
Will & Grace, Joey, Rodney, Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, L.A.
Dragnet, JAG, The Drew Carey Show, SportsNight, The Larry Sanders Show,
Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, Mad About You, and NewsRadio. She starred
opposite Joanna Cassidy in the film Intermission and she can be seen
flirting with Lyle Lovett in the feature The
Opposite of Sex.
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Mary-Margaret Lewis
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MARY-MARGARET LEWIS can be seen in Kalamazoo with Chita Rivera to be
released in 2006. Her television credits include Scrubs, My 11:30 (with
Jeff Goldblum), The King of Queens, Friends, X-Files, Boston Public, ER,
NYPD Blue, and two movies of the week, Hallmark's Wild Hearts and
Hallmark's Audrey's Rain. “Since I created the role of 'Latrelle' in the
original run of Sordid Lives, and Del so kindly cast me as 'Ethel' in
the film, I feel blessed and so thankful that I get another chance to
play with some of my favorite people in the world -- reprising one of my
favorite roles.”
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Scott Presley
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Scott hails from a small
town in Kentucky called Somerset. He is a "REAL LIFE SOUTHERN BAPTIST
SISSY!" He attended acting school in New York at the New Actors'
Workshop, where he studied for two years with Mike Nichols and Paul
Sills. When he moved to LA eleven years ago, a former teacher at his
acting school gave him a list of people to contact. One of them was a
guy by the name of Del Shores. They talked several times about a play
that Del was writing about four boys growing up gay in the Southern
Baptist church. You probably see where this is going by now.
Scott is extremely proud
to be a part of this production as he realizes its importance. He is
also very proud that his beautiful husband, Anthony, is a part of this
production as the choreographer and an Ikette.
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Margot Rose
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MARGOT ROSE grew up in the Midwest and went back to the eastern seaboard
to go to college (Yale Drama School & North Carolina School of the
Arts). She lived and began working as an actor in New York City for a
few years where she did a handful of regional theatre, another handful
of off-Broadway theatre including year long runs of Godspell and I'm
Getting My Act Together... (original cast), and an armload of
commercials. She eventually migrated to the west coast. In LA,
representative theatre includes: I'm Getting My Act Together...,
Uncommon Women & Others, Siblings, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, Largo
Desolato, The Gay 90's Revue, and Sordid Lives in its first incarnation.
Los Angeles representative film includes: 48 Hrs., Civil Action, Hollow
Man, True Believer, among others; TV includes: series regular in Report
to Murphy and He's the Mayor and in the pilots Never Again, Howie and
Rose, Ghost Story; starring roles in the TV movies Plainsong (Hallmark),
Jon Benet Murder Mystery, Murder Ordained, A Jury of One; guest starring
roles in Star Trek TNG, Murder One, LA Law, Judging Amy, West Wing,
Numbers, LA Doctors, Chicago Hope, The Division, The Pretender, Grosse
Point, and lots more. Margot is also a singer-songwriter. She recorded
an album, Gravity of the Heart, co-wrote the title song to Sordid Lives
with the wonderful Beverly Nero. Saving the best for last, the most
important thing in Margot's life is her exquisite and wonderful family,
her six-year-old twins and her partner
Pat. To them, she owes her joy and much much more.
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Shayna
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SHAYNA is a singer/songwriter originally from the Bay area. She
followed her musical path to Los Angeles and has since made it her
home. A unique voice, with a positive view of life as a theme to much
of her work. “You get the definite impression that, no matter what, she
would be playing somewhere somehow for someone sometime, because it's
her life. And when anyone is that genuine, you're going to experience
[something] great.”… Music Connection. She sang before she talked, and
ran before she walked, according to family legend. Since those early
days, she has found inspiration in life encounters and experiences that
have touched her. Her self-titled CD was well received by the industry
and fans alike. Shayna has been featured on MTV and Inside Edition. Many
of her songs have been a colorful backdrop in several network television
shows and independent movies, as well as being voted #1 female artist
for Mp3.com. She is in the studio putting the finishing touches on her
newest CD, BEautiful MEss, due any day now! Shayna has shared the
concert stage with other musical artists such as Seal, The Tubes and
Michael MacDonald among others. You all are witness to her acting debut
here in Sordid Lives, a role she is honored to play. Enjoy.
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Ann Walker
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Ann most recently
appeared as “Betty” in Defying Gravity for The Rubicon Theatre
in Ventura, CA, where she for which she received a Robby nomination.
Previously, she appeared in a 10-month run of Del Shores’ play,
Southern Baptist Sissies, both in Los Angeles and
Dallas, Texas. Her portrayal of “Odette Annette Barnett” garnered her a
Robby Award, a Maddy award, as well as the prestigious Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle Award and a nomination for The Ovation Award.
L.A. theatre-goers have
also enjoyed her in other award-winning productions such as BD
(for which she received a Drama-Logue award and the Robby Award for Best
Actress in a Drama), How the Other Half Loves, Steel Magnolias, The
Glass Menagerie, Daughters of the Lone Star State and another Del
Shores’ comedy hit Sordid Lives in which Ann played “LaVonda
Dupree”, a role she reprised in the award winning film also starring
Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke and Beau Bridges. It has achieved an
enormous following in Palm Springs bordering on cult-status. Some of
Ann’s other film credits include: Father of the Bride II, The
Fantastics, It Takes Two, Soulman, and The Jagged Edge. TV
guest appearances include: Las Vegas, Sex, Love & Secrets, JAG,
Passions, and Mad TV. You can look for some of her
movies-of-the-week on the Lifetime Network: The Mary Kay Letourneau
Story, She’s No Angel, and Willing To Kill – The Texas
Cheerleader Story.
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Sean Wiggins
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SEAN
WIGGINS is making waves! Sean was first place winner in the Billboard
Song Contest, 2002, for her song, "No Difference". She also has a song,
"Jane and the Goats", which is currently featured on the critically
acclaimed and award-winning indie film, God, Sex, and Apple Pie. In
addition, in January 2002, Wiggins song styling was featured on MTV's
hit night drama, MTV Undressed. Sean's music was also featured on KLOS,
95.5, Local Licks, Halloween 2004, and she had an hour show on KMUD,
Humboldt County. “VW Hatchback” was also just featured on Car Talk,
NPR, March 2005. Sean was also a finalist in The Song of The Year
Contest 2004 & The Singer Universe contest 2005, and made it into the
Top 10 of Kweevak's picks for best CD in 2005, and she received
honorable mention in The Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. Sean has been
touring the country in support of her last three solo releases, 1000
Steps, Next Time Around, and I Gotta be Me. She has now added her new
CD, Everyday Life, which features her new band!! Sean has shared the
bill with such artists as Cyndi Lauper, Sophie B Hawkins, Jill Sobule,
Billie Myers, Patrice Pike, and Julia Fordham. She has performed in
large music festivals such as Chicago's Market Days, along with clubs
and festivals in New York, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Baltimore,
Boston, Nashville and many more. Of course she has played venues all
over Southern California, including clubs such as The Roxy, The Gig and
The Troubadour. Wiggins has also graced the stage of the Houston Women's
Festival, Eddies Attic in Atlanta, The Bluebird and Tootsie's Orchid
Lounge in Nashville. She often returns to the Windy City and surrounding
areas to play such clubs as The Hard Rock Café and The House of Blues,
along with other local venues. She is currently selling CDs through
Borders Books, Goldenrod Music, Amazon.com and Cdbaby.com.
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