David Bicha (Christopher Crawford) David is marking his fifth Christmas With the Crawfords this season and his third as Christopher, having also played Hedda Hopper, Bing Crosby and Carmen Miranda in past years. This past fall David appeared in A Beautiful Man, named Best of Fringe and Best Comedy at the 2003 San Francisco Fringe Festival. He returned to SF and Theatre Rhino last year in F. Allen Sawyer’s hit play Lavender Lockeroom following a 2 ½-year stint in L.A., where he appeared in the stage version of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, winner of the 2001 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards for Best Production and Best Ensemble, and Down South, a little sex comedy that did so well it got moved to New York for a four-month Off-Broadway run. David’s been seen locally in The Andrews Sisters Hollywood Canteen, Dirty Little Showtunes!, Gross Indulgences: The Trials of Liberace, Measure for Measure, the SF Mime Troupe’s Knocked Up!, Queen of Angels, and Bent, his SF debut, 11 long years ago on this very stage. You can also catch David performing as Joyce Eggy with Travesty Pop Group Acid Housewife, always lookin’ good. David is celebrating his eighth Christmas with the ever-lovin’ David Mahr, to whom his performance is dedicated.

Joseph Douglas Collins (Musical Director/Arranger) Joseph has worked with Artfull Circle Theatre since 1993, arranging the scores for White Trash Compactor, Christmas with the Crawfords, and vocal arrangements for Jungle Red and Way Out West. As a composer, Collins created musical adaptations of Kopit’s Chamber Music, Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage, and King’s Southern Ladies and Gentlemen. Presently, Collins is furiously at work creating a large song cycle, called Trinity, based on extant poetry.

Donna Drake (Director/Choreographer) Donna most recently directed Jennifer Holliday's Broadway Concert, Romance in the Dark for BC/EFA. She also directed Miss Holliday Off Broadway in Downhearted Blues; the Life and Music of Bessie Smith. Other credits include Splendora, Are You There God?, It's Me, Ann-Margret, Strictly Personal, Africa Plumbridge, Judy’s Christmas Garland, Smokey Joe’s Café, Sweet Charity, Damn Yankees, Honk, Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Big River, Children of Eden and Chess. She is currently working on a new play by Edward Swift and a new rock and roll musical called Passin Thru. She served as artistic director for the Illyria Theatre Company and her work has earned an Emmy nomination and a Theatre World Award. She made her Broadway debut as a performer in the original production of A Chorus Line. Other Broadway credits include: Sophisticated Ladies, Woman of the Year, The Wind in the Willows, 5678...Dance, and the original production of The 1940'S Radio Hour at Arena Stage. Miss Drake has had the sheer pleasure of directing Christmas with the Crawfords 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.................

Mark Enea (Maxene Andrews/Carmen Miranda) Mark is happy to be welcomed so warmly into the Crawford manse. He was most recently seen playing The Beadle in IAM Theatre's Sweeney Todd. Other roles include Tex in Little Mary Sunshine for OpenStage, Alan Rourke in 42nd Street Moon's Roberta, Burrs in The Wild Party and Mark in The Kid Inside. Mark would like to thank the entire cast of CWTC for being so helpful and supportive. Special thanks to Ms. Donna Drake for unbelievable patience and support.

Mrs. Trauma Flintstone, née Anderthal (Patty Andrews/Gloria Swanson) Trauma returns to the Crawford family manse for a 10th year, having also portrayed Roz Russell, Vivien Leigh and Carmen Miranda in previous years. This summer, Trauma appeared in the hit revue When Pigs Fly at the New Conservatory Theatre. Favorite roles include Patty Andrews in The Andrews Sisters’ Hollywood Canteen at The Duplex (NYC) and Café DuNord (SF), Liberace in Gross Indulgences: The Trials of Liberace, Boss Finley in Sweet Bird of Youth, Gollum in The Hobbit, Aimee Semple McPherson in Club Inferno and Lee (William Burroughs) in the opera Queer. Trauma also appears as Meredith Garcia Lopez Silberstein Fong in the pop group Acid Housewife.

Hedda Lettuce (Joan Crawford) Hedda has emerged as the premiere drag comedienne /singer in the country. Having just recently celebrated her 4-year anniversary at Caroline's Comedy Club on Broadway, Hedda has proven to all why she is the reigning "Queen" of Comedy. Steven Polito knew when he created the character of Hedda Lettuce in 1994 she needed not only a look—but a voice. Polito says, "Most people think Drag Queens lip-synch, not Hedda, she uses her own voice, has her own identity." Hedda's ability to create hilarious stories out of mundane situations is uproariously funny. The New York Times calls Hedda a "Satirist... Singer-impressario..." The Advocate hails her as "One of the best and brightest under thirty." Hedda has made an appearance on HBO's hit show Sex And The City—expanding her national visibility—and just completed the movie The Look, by Carmichael Films. The Look, coming out this fall, is a parody on the modeling industry and casts Hedda in the featured role of Mary, a tough and campy modeling coach. MTV, Comedy Central, NBC'S The Peoples Court, To Wong Foo, Flawless and numerous Off-Broadway shows are also credits under Hedda's sequined belt and make her a high-heeled standout in the field of stand-up!

Marci Ring (Lighting Designer) Marci is thrilled to be working on her first musical with such a great, high energy group.  Her previous SF work has been seen on the stages of the Exit Theatres, Eureka Theatre, Venue 9, Theatre Rhino and the Langton Theatre.  Thanks Richard, for trusting that my arm would be up to the task - even if I was on my way to meet you when it happened!

Mark Sargent (LaVerne Andrews/Edith Head/Ethel Merman) As a co-founder of Artfull Circle Theatre and writer of this little show, Mark is amazed at the life it has taken on over the years and all over the country, and is delighted it is back in San Francisco playing at Theatre Rhino. Mark has written the music and lyrics for several of ACT’s original, Hollywood inspired musicals, including Psycho the Musical, Jungle Red (a parody of The Women), Way Out West (a tribute to the work of Mae West and W. C. Fields), Women’s Prison Christmas (a parody of the early 1950s prison film genre), and Eve (a parody of All About Eve). He wrote the book for White Trash Compactor – a Cul de Sac Christmas, and The Andrews Sisters’ Hollywood Canteen. He has portrayed characters in all of these shows. Mark can be seen as Janet Fly in the travesty rock group Acid Housewife, and recently put a 70s rock band together featuring his Ethel Merman as lead vocalist. He is currently writing the latest Artfull Circle Theatre offering: White Trash Compactor – Six Trailers of Separation.

Amanda Spooner (Stage Manager) Amanda is currently working on her bachelor’s degree in technical theatre at San Francisco State University. She graduated from Las Positas College in May 2003 with an associates degree in liberal arts and sciences and associates degree in theatre arts. She most recently stage managed Closer Than Ever and When Pigs Fly at the New Conservatory Theatre. She is honored to be working with such a wonderful cast and an amazing director. She would like to thank Richard Winchester for all of his inspiration, her family – for their support, and her own Mommie Dearest for introducing her to the Crawford family.

Nikki Starr (Hattie McDaniel) No performer can match Nikki Starr as a "Living Legend of Drag." After a brief early career in summer stock, Nikki soon became known as an outstanding female impersonator, beginning with Kenny Kerr’s Boyolesque Revue at the Paddok Lounge in Atlantic City, and An Evening at La Cage both in Atlantic City and San Francisco. She is currently a regular performer at the Fauxgirls Revue in San Francisco. Nikki also was a featured performer at Finocchio’s in San Francisco, and was part of the final cast when the revue closed in 1999, after 63 years. In fact, Nikki was the final performer at the final show, and her closing song to Mrs. Finocchio literally moved the audience (and performers) to tears. Christmas with the Crawfords marks Nikki’s long-awaited return to the legitimate stage.

‘Drew Todd (Hedda Hopper) Drew has played the good Abbot Odilio and Count Borrell in the San Francisco Fringe Festival production of The Demon Pope. Earlier this year he played the Countess Aurelia in the San Francisco Free Community Theater's production of The Madwoman of the Castro. Prior to that he played the closeted twenty-two year old villain in F. Allen Sawyer's Lavender Lockeroom, a variety of roles in the lesbian comedy Co-Dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, the father in The Jewish Nun, and Alice B. Toklas, Billy deWolfe and William Shakespeare in Carved in Stone. His other skirt roles include Lana Lust in Drag Queens in Outer Space, Greta in Bent, Jennie, a Joan Crawford impersonator, in the film, Stab at Stardom, a stint as Sally Jesse Raphael in White Trash Compactor and the backstage maven with great legs, Dru in The P.A. Cooley Show. His trouser roles include Buddy in One of These Days, Rummykabub in Coconut, the title character in David Mamet's Mr. Happiness, Gabriel in A Few Gay Men and a variety of sartorially masculine, though fey, characters in Don't Get Up and Hot Pants Homo.