Mady is beyond excited to perform as “Fred” in Once Upon a Mattress! Her past favorite roles include Billie (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Catherine of Aragon (Six), Mal (Descendants) and Katherine (Freaky Friday. She will be working at Disney World this spring. She’s so thankful for the support of this wonderful cast and her family and friends. She wishes you a very “happily ever after”!

After a long break from the stage, Jerry is thrilled to be ending his hiatus with the role of Prince Dauntless. This show has been an incredible journey, and it’s all thanks to the wonderful cast, crew, and directorial/creative team. He wants to give a special thanks to his girlfriend, Jocelyn, for supporting him through all the lates nights, long days, and showing him what a true princess is really like. When he’s not on stage, Jerry enjoys being outdoors, painting, and restoring his vintage truck. Enjoy the show!

Sarah McKenna is thrilled and honored to be playing the role of the over dramatic and unhinged Queen Aggravain in this colorful and lively production!  Sarah has been performing since she was a small child, and she even met her husband while performing as a Young Performing Missionary in Nauvoo, Illinois!  Past favorite roles include playing Irene opposite her husband’s Lank in Crazy for You, the radical anarchist Emma Goldman in Ragtime, the evil stepmother Madame in Cinderella, and playing Emily Hobbs in Elf opposite her husband and son as Walter and Michael Hobbs.  Sarah would like to thank her children for running lines endlessly with her, her mother-in-law for sewing her FABULOUS costume, and her father-in-law for driving her kids to and fro while she was at rehearsal. Sarah dedicates her performance to the memory of her beloved late husband, Logan, and thanks him for lending her some of his brain cells from heaven to help with all of this memorizing!

Some stories are worth telling twice! Kody Rash is beyond excited to return to the role of the Minstrel nearly 30 years after first playing the part in Sky View High School’s 1997 production of Once Upon a Mattress. There’s something pretty magical about returning to a role you love on the exact same stage so many years later.

What makes this experience even sweeter is the chance to share it with family. The 1997 production was Kody’s first show with his brother Jon, who is now directing this production! This time around, he gets to share the stage with his brother Danny and sister Cami, while teaming up with his wife Kim to bring the costumes to life. It’s a full-circle moment that means more to him than he can put into words.

Kody is a founding member of Four Seasons Theatre Company, where he serves as Artistic Director and resident Costume Designer. He has spent nearly 25 years designing costumes and has been involved in close to 125 productions, both on and off the stage. Some of his favorite directing projects include Tarzan, Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Christmas Story, Mamma Mia!, and Freaky Friday. One of his favorite performing memories is playing Ursula in FSTC’s 2019 production of The Little Mermaid.

When he’s not busy with theatre, Kody teaches elementary art at Cedar Ridge Elementary School. He feels incredibly lucky and humbled to be surrounded by such talented and kind performers. Being back onstage has reminded him just how much heart, hard work, and courage actors pour into a production. It’s a perspective he hopes to carry with him the next time he’s sitting on the other side of the audition table.

Most of all, he’s grateful for the chance to revisit a little piece of his past while making some wonderful new memories with the people he loves.

Here’s a list of Cameron’s favorites: his wife, his kids, his parents, his job as an actuary, being silly on stage, being silly off stage, giving fake names at Taco Bell, cloudy weather, bananas, two-handed hugs that last for ten seconds, otters, movies, gratitude, prayer, God. Thank you Four Seasons!

Chris Metz is thrilled to return to Four Seasons Theatre Company as the Wizard in Once Upon a Mattress. Favorite past roles include Gomez in The Addams Family (Music Theatre West, and once before right here at FSTC), Shrek in Shrek: The Musical (Cache Theatre Company), William Shakespeare in Something Rotten! (MTW), and Dewey Finn in School of Rock (CTC). With over 20 years of performing experience, Chris loves bringing laughter, heart, and a little bit of magic to every role — though he’d like to note that any spells cast in this kingdom were strictly the Queen’s idea. When not onstage, he’s a proud parent of five, an adoring husband, a theatre director, and someone who still believes a perfect night at the theater can solve almost anything (even a lumpy mattress).

I’m thrilled to be part of this show and share the stage with such a wonderful cast. Shoutout to my wonderful kids, and a special thank-you to my wife for her unwavering support and the sacrifices she makes so I can pursue this passion. I couldn’t do it without her!

An accomplished author, screenwriter and composer, Mary Rodgers began her Broadway career as composer of Once Upon a Mattress starring Carol Burnett, later broadcast to great television success. Additional theatre composer credits include Hot Spot starring Judy Holliday, The Mad Show, Working and The Griffin and the Minor Canon. Television credits include Once Upon a Mattress, Three to Make Music, Feathertop and Marlo Thomas’ Free to Be…You and Me. Her musicals have been celebrated in the revue Hey, Love. Ms. Rodgers was also a popular author of fiction for young people; her best-selling first book, the Christopher Award-winning Freaky Friday, was adapted by Disney into a 1976 movie, for which she wrote the screenplay. Mary Rodgers served for many years as the Rodgers family representative to The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and the chairman of the board of The Juilliard School.

Marshall Barer (1923-1998) could have been labeled eclectic, mercurial, peripatetic, or simply promiscuous, but it mattered not to him, who over the years mated his lyrics to the melodies of Michele Brourman, Hoagy Carmichael, Gordon Connell, J. Fred Coots, Vernon Duke, Duke Ellington, Michael Feinstein, Dean Fuller, Ronny Graham, Fred Hellerman, Burton Lane, Michel Legrand, Michael Leonard, Hugh Martin, Anita Nye, Lance Ong, Norman Paris, Mary Rodgers, the Davids (Raksin, Ross, Shire), William Roy, Bruce Scott, Ralph Strain, Joseph Thalken, Kurt Weill and Alec Wilder—not to mention his own. While vouchsafing no “actual-all-time-number-one-favorite” he often confessed that, when asked, he found himself “leaning toward” Ms. Rodgers, with whom he wrote Once Upon A Mattress (1959) “several times.”

Jay Thompson (1927-2014) co-wrote the book for Once Upon A Mattress and wrote the book, music and lyrics for the opera The Bible Salesman, as well as the one-act musical The Oldest Trick in the World. He also wrote Pocketful of Wry, a musical revue. In addition to composing words and music for the song “Jimmy,” which was sung by Julie Andrews in the film Thoroughly Modern Millie, Thompson has created special material for Carol Channing, Dorothy Loudon, Imogene Coca and other funny ladies. As a director, he worked on Once Upon A Mattress, Born Yesterday, Pocketful Of Wry, Annie, Forum, Sweet Charity, Steel Magnolias, Laughing Matter and The Oldest Trick In The World.

Dean Fuller (1922-2017) was a composer, playwright, conductor, sailor, pilot, novelist and teacher. B.A. music and drama, Yale University. Alumnus Tamiment Playhouse, last of the Borscht Belt boot camps for revue writers, lyricists and composers. He co-wrote the book for Once Upon A Mattress, contributed music (with lyrics by Marshall Barer) to the revues Once Over Lightly (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Sono Osato), New Faces of 1956 (Tiger Haynes, Inga Swenson, Maggie Smith) and Ziegfeld Follies (Beatrice Lillie). Musical director and arranger for Tallulah Bankhead’s only nightclub appearances (Sands Hotel, Las Vegas). Composer, National Repertory Theatre (Eva LeGallienne, Denholm Elliott, Farley Granger, Sylvia Sydney). Co-author/composer of the Off-Broadway musical Smith. Author of three novels: Passage, A Death in Paris and Death of a Critic.