THE CREATORS

Co-creator, Ruby Lynn Reyner. Ruby Lynn Reyner is a legend of the underground theater scene in New York. She was a star of John Vaccaro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous, playing, among other roles, the title role in Jackie Curtis' "Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit." She won the Drama Desk Award for her performance in "La Bohemia" and appeared on Broadway in Paul Foster's "Elizabeth I." She also headlines the rock group, Ruby & The Rednecks, which has appeared at CBGB, Max's Kansas City and other venues over the years and were the original opening act for The New York Dolls. Ruby was also seen last season in Taylor Mac's production "Red Tide Blooming" at PS122. She is the subject of a soon-to-be-released documentary.

Co-Creator/ Writer/ Master of Ceremonies/ Director, Gordon Bressack. Gordon is making his return to the New York stage after many years. He is a three-time Emmy Award winner for writing the hit animated television shows, "Animaniacs" and "Pinky & The Brain". He has created and/or written many other popular TV cartoon shows. He was also the first ever recipient of the Writer's Guild Animation Writing Award.

With Ruby, he wrote, starred in and directed the original "Voideville," "Vandals of 1981" and the cable TV show "Our Hour." In Los Angeles, he directed Kenneth Bernard's "The Moke Eater" and was a member of The Open Fist Theater. In his earlier acting career he was a member of John Vaccaro's Play-House of the Ridiculous appearing in such plays as "Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit," "Nightclub," "Big Mother" and numerous others at La Mama and throughout Europe. At TNC, he co-starred with Crystal Field in Roslyn Drexler's Obie Award-winning play "The Writer's Opera."

MUSIC

Steve Greenfield. A refugee from one of New York's most notorious Mafia neighborhoods, Steve has made his 25-year career in the New York garage-punk and bar-band scenes and joined Ruby and the Rednecks in 1996. He set the record for fastest transcontinental bicycle messenger delivery in 1997, ran for Congress in 2002 and Senate in 2006, is married with three kids and belongs to the New Paltz Fire Department. He has not been arrested in over two years.

Richard Weinstock, Johnny Madera.

COSTUMES

Lola Niasse

THE COMPANY

Akynos Shekera. Raised in Brooklyn, she's the self proclaimed super MILF who has been dancing since she could walk, acting since she could breathe. Akynos performed in a 3-year stint with the All Stars Talent Project, doing a Janet Jackson routine. She's been in a handful of Off-Off Broadway productions working as a choreographer and back up dancer. She can also be seen (if you look close) in the upcoming film "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington. She's a nude model with her own smashing website - where at any given moment you can read about her sexual tirades and heartbreaks. One day she hopes the world can read all about it in hardcover and to bring the "black" into burlesque.

Jeff Seal. Jeff is a graduate of the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center where he studied Chinese acrobatics, pantomime, circus skills, dance, and clown. He studied Decroux-based corporeal mime under the direction of Thomas Leabhart for the Hippocampe Project in Paris. Jeff has performed at The New York Downtown Clown Revue, The New York International Clown Festival and attended the Pig Iron Clown Intensive in Philadelphia. He most recently played Arthur Miller and Aeacus in Rising Sun's production of Aristophanes' The Frogs and "B" in Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words II directed by Ariane Anthony.

Emma Channing. Emma "Cha Cha" Channing is a native of London, England. A theater major across the pond; she also attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art here in New York. Much of her experience was gained from a very early age, in both London's South Bank theaters and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, performing with LENA PHILLIP'S OPERA WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN. Some credits there include UK premiere's of THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE and THE HAPPY PRINCE. Here in NY, sometime during the spring of 1996, she was dragged to a rehearsal of Ruby Lyn Reyner's SINGIN' IN THE ISLANDS... and was not permitted to leave!!! Soon to follow was Ruby Lyn's CHRISTMAS IN THE ISLANDS. Since then Emma has been a background singin', harmonica tootin', tambourine bangin', and soon to be bass thumpin' full time member of RUBY AND THE REDNECKS.

Jerry Turner. Apparently there are no photographs of our Jerry Turner and his past is shrouded in mystery. His future?

Yvonne "Dazz" Forbes. Yvonne "Dazz" Forbes was born and raised in Sheffield England. Yvonne is a product of the SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Program. She is a championship ballroom dancer and teacher, Professional Plus Size Model (Radiance, Heart and Soul, Belle and Mode) and a winner of several pageants. Yvonne is definitely no stranger to the performing arts. Yvonne has extensive training in Shakespearean Theater (UK) and Improvisational Theater (Performance of a Lifetime). "Dazz" (as she likes to be called) has appeared in plays/musical as a headliner and in the ensemble for plays Off Broadway, which includes the most recent "The Prisoner of the Khalakiri".

Alan Crosby. New York Born and bred, Alan has performed his stand-up comedy in clubs and colleges in the Tri-State Area. He was an original cast member of Gordon and Ruby's hit comedy cable show "Our Hour". He appeared on "Show Time at the Apollo" and in the Doug E. Doug film "Citizen James" as Omar, the afrocentric filmmaker. Al is also left-handed, like former president Bill Clinton.

Miss Susie. Miss Susie played "Sally" in the "Cat in the Hat" driving around in the Seuss Mobile to perform in Chicago Public Schools for underprivleged children. She can be seen as the dog's stylist in Moby's video "New York, New York", and as the cutest zombie around in "Sleep-Away". In Chicago she worked with CORN Theatre and Emanon for many years. She did the Passion Follies with CORN and many children's shows with Emanon. In New York she directed "Thin Body, Fat Mind" for a 1-year run and worked with Collective:Unconscious on "Hootenanny" with Reverend Jen.

Carolyn Lord. Carolyn recently arranged for an audacious escape from the Women's House of Detention especially to arrange the choreography for this production of Voidville. She was being held for being too abstract, too obscure, and in general for creating dance works that were incomprehensible to the general public.