First Program
Some Cast Bios
NOTE: These brief bios are from the souvenir program and not the sometimes longer cast bios that appeared in Playbills.
ALSO NOTE: OBC members names are underlined.

 

Shelley Plimpton
Born February 27, 1947, Rosebury, Oregon. Before HAIR, credits....would you believe HAIR.  I am what I am because God made me this way.

Richard Kim Milford
Born February 7, 1951 at Glen Ridge, New Jersey...Aquarius...made Broadway debut in HENRY, SWEET HENRY...recording for Decca...I am what I am because I am my own man.

Suzannah Norstrand
Born November 11, 1949 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  Attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.  Previous experience...the off-Broadway production of HAIR.  Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer...nothing is planned and everything happens...another day...another lifetime.

Lynn Kellogg
Born April 2, 1944, Appleton, Wisconsin.  My last play was ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - Senior year high school.  I am what I am because my mommie and daddy bornded me and because I lived what lives I lived and because I trust my manager above everything and because, at last, I trust myself.

Lamont Washington
Born July 4, 1943 in Brooklyn.  On Broadway with GOLDEN BOY and THE COOL WORLD.  Hobbies: KArate, billiards, handball, and swimming.  I am what I am because I know where I'm at.

Diane Keaton
Born January 5, 1946 in Santa Ana, California.  Neighborhood Playhouse Graduate...U.S.O. Tour of Orient...Hobbies?...Going to the movies, eating!... taking walks, being alive.  Why I am what I am?  Ask my friends.  They would like nothing better than to rap on me!  Man, how could I answer that...?  My God, that's impossible.  I am human being number 927-4610-887.  How could I presume to...well...you know...right.

Hiram Keller
Born May 3, 1944 in Atlanta, Gerogia.  Hobbies?...Fun in Acapulco.  I am not what I am in twenty words or less.

Natalie Mosco
Born April 13, 1950 in Manhattan.  Hobbies?  Pen and ink sketches, reading 18th century and restoration literature, shopping and furnishing my new apartment...dancing, swimming, skiing, and writing.  The personality of an individual is a composite of environment and heredity.

Donnie Burks
Born in Martinsville, Virginia. PAWNBROKER, DUTCHMAN, JELLO, BAYOU, A MAN CALLED ADAM.  Signed with Decca records. Album released in Europe..."SOUL".  I am what I am because of the love that I have for what I am.

Heather MacRae
Born in New York City, Oct. 5, 1946, Libra.  Made my Broadway debut in HERE'S WHERE I BELONG and then completed my first feature film called RECESS this summer...Hobbies: reading, riding, watching old flicks.

Melba Moore
New York City...and Newark, New Jersey.  My hobbies are swimming, jazz ballet, piano, playing, sleeping...I am what I am because of the time I was born...education...family love and care, a groovy husband...and of course...God.

Barry McGuire
Born in 1935 in Oklahoma City...I like everything...don't like nothing.

Charles O. Lynch
(Tourist Lady) is a native of Iowa and can type 93 words per minute, two truths which are not necessarily related.  He has appeared in works from Shakespeare to John Osborne and the past year has been working in Repertory Theatre in Washington, D.C.  Movie buffs can see him in Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming "Topaz".  Mr. Lynch has studied with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and Catholic University in Wash. D.C.

Ronald James Dyson
Born June 5, 1950 in Washington D.C.  I did one monologue with Gil Hodges which was shown on WOR-TV.  My hobbies are anything to do with sports.  I guess the reason I am what I am is because I have no choice.  The only way to change this theory is to remain what you are and try to improve.

Martha Velez
Born in New York on August 25, 1945...Virgo...No real hobbies, but maybe music...Do it until you don't.

Joseph Campbell Butler
Born in Glen Cove, N.Y., Sept. 16, 1941.  Appeared in THE GROUP.  Have been writing, touring, singing with The Lovin' Spoonful...and now retiring from music to spend my declining years in the leisure of the theatre.

Emmeretta Marks
Born March 15, 1945 in Washington, D.C. Vocalist for the BLUES PROJECT.  Dancer-Choreographer for Teen Variety Show,  BOSS CITY, KAJ-TV, Hollywood, California.  I am the total sum of all my experiences...bad as well as good.  I learned how to sing because you can express so much more of life and the vitality of the living as well as silence and the lack of movement as in death...I am looking towards a higher spiritual awareness.  I hope that some day I will, reach that goal...

Lorri Davis
Born in the 1940's in N.Y., N.Y....Lower East Side.  Off Off Broadway. Off Broadway.  Dancer 1964 World's Fair.  Hobbies are sewing and sports.  Why I am what I am? Ask God.

Jonathan Kramer
Born in Chicago on May 11, 1945.  I am a charter member of the Theatre Of The Eye.  Cafe La Mama.  Spoleto Festival'67, Columbia Records Artist - over thirty five songs published.  I am a movie freak.  Orson Wells is my favorite director.  Mildred Bailey is my favorite singer.  I am not a hippie.  I am not a female impersonator.  I am a building superintendent in Brooklyn and I like it.  It's a secure job.

Sally Eaton
April 6, 1947, Aries and Aquarius rising.  Born in Warren, Pennsylvania. Credits: HAIR I, HAIR II. Hobbies are picking my nose, fucking, smoking dope, astral projection.  All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.

Robert Rubinsky
Born May 14, 1948 in Detroit, but raised all over the US and Europe.  Hobbies? Cameo roles in Broadway shows.  I am what I am because I had an unhappy childhood and subsequently am fucked-up.

Walter Harris
Born May 7, 1951.  Presently living in Margaretsville, New York. Hobbies? ...composing and creating new music and musical instruments...and then some.  Seven first years in Bronxville, New York...six then in Clearwater, Florida; last three in N.Y.C....traumatic experiences throughout.

Paul Jabara
Born January 31, 1948 in Brooklyn, N.Y.  Original company of HAIR.  Snickers candy bars, great shakes, Duncan Hines cakes and Stride commercials.  Hobbies are getting high, sex movies, bowling, drawing, eating, pornography.  Tell me what I am and I'll tell you why.

Stephen Curry
Born May 11, 1946 in Camden, New Jersey.  I am.
1. Taurus
2. Libra    3. Moon
4. Colorado    4 1/2. Mts.
5. American    6. Indians    7. MUSIC

Leata Galloway
Born December 7, 1950 in new York City.  I played the lead in CAROUSEL at the George Washington High School, and am getting ready to record with R.C.A.  My hobbies are singing, and ...I love beautiful clothing...music moves me.

Marjorie LiPari
Born June 1, 1945 on Merrick, Long Island.  La Mama Troupe, Europe (Paris).  Studied at Herbert Berghof Studios.  Hobbies: Guitar, dog grooming, dance, musical compositions.  I am what I am because this life cycle is permitting it.  I live for the arts because it makes me feel alive and brings me as close to the nucleus of truth and existence as one can get.

Fred Reinglas (Production Stage Manager)
I was born August 24, 1938 in Lodz, Poland.  My grandfather was a shoemaker for circus performers, and my mother and father were actors. Known as the "Old Man Off Broadway", (with twenty productions to my credit).  Uptown I was stage manager for THE TRIAL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD, and now HAIR...out of this bag and into directing, I hope.
 

Steve Gamet
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