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.

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.

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.

David Cowgill is just one of the millions of Texans who have inhabited L.A. but still call Texas home.  He was born in Texas but will die in California, though hopefully not tonight.  He has been a working member in the Screen Actor's Guild for over 20 years because he has no other skills.  David was in Del's play Cheatin' way back in the '90s and is thrilled to be getting back to his roots.  David happily lives in Studio City wit his wife of 18 years and two beautiful children.  By the way, if you want to see David on an upcoming episode of Lost, please contact the show's creator J.J. Abrams and let him know

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.”

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.

Update:  Dale just wrapped two indie films one is a German film "Nothing But Ghosts" - based on the book by Judith Herman.  It was filmed in the in Austin Nevada - about a group of Europeans that get stranded in the desert - Dale minds an old saloon hotel that ghosts inhabit.  The second, "The Yellow Wallpaper," is loosely based on a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.  It was filmed in Georgia, and is a period piece.  Dale plays Jenny - the older sister to Juliet Landau's character.

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.

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.

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.

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 Angeles Independent Film Festival's Production Grant Award, and is currently being distributed by Northern Arts Entertainment.

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.”

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.

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.