Robbie is from Branford, Connecticut and is thrilled to be making his debut with Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Recently Robbie has been at Goodspeed Musicals, Terris Theatre as Tiny Tim in A Connecticut Christmas Carol. Robbie comes from a musical Dad and a Mom who teaches. He has been singing since the day he was born and studies voice and acting with Neil Fuentes at New Haven Academy of Performing Arts.  He also plays the piano.  Robbie thanks his sister Cassidy, as well as his parents for supporting his passion! Special thanks to Jeff Calhoun, Brian McManamon, Tara Rubin and Lindsay Levine casting, and Nancy Carson of Carson-Adler Agency. Instagram: @robbieberson

KCRep: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Christmas Carol, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods. Local: Nine, Violet, A Little Night Music (Spinning Tree Theatre); First Date, Cinderella, Sound of Music (Starlight Theatre); Where the Wild Things Are, Shrek (The Coterie); Grey Gardens (Unicorn); Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, She Loves Me (Musical Theatre Heritage); Life Could Be A Dream, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, No Way to Treat a Lady, It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play (American Heartland Theatre); Judy Barbra Liza and Blues in the Night (Quality Hill Playhouse); A Man of No Importance (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Passion and Everlasting Universe: World Premiere (Civic Opera KC); Great Duets, (Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre). Regional: Into the Woods, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Sugar (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre) and Seagle Music Colony New York. Upcoming: A Christmas Carol (KCRep). AEA Member  www.laurenbraton.com

KCRep: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. New York: Richard III (The Gallery Players). Local: Sinatra’s Songwriter, Christmas in Song (Quality Hill Playhouse); Finian’s Rainbow (Spinning Tree Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Pirates of Penzance, Silent Night (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Annie Get Your Gun (Musical Theater Heritage); Romeo and Juliet (She & Her Productions); Much Ado About Nothing (Kansas Classical Rep). Education: William Esper Studio, NYC; BFA Theatre/Voice, University of Kansas. Upcoming: A Christmas Carol (KCRep) Affiliations: AGMA, AEA Member. www.joseph-carr.com

Since graduation from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Corey Cott has quickly established himself as a captivating young actor, equally at home on both stage and screen. He received critical acclaim for his performance in the Tony Award winning musical Bandstand.  Previous roles include two years as Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies, his Broadway debut, which was immediately followed by the Broadway revival of Gigi starring opposite Vanessa Hudgens. On television, he portrayed writer Townsend Martin opposite Christina Ricci in the Amazon series “Z: The Beginning of Everything”, about the life of Zelda Fitzgerald and can be seen in a recurring role on “The Good Fight” (CBS All Access).  Across the Atlantic, Mr. Cott co-starred alongside Hattie Morahan in the BBC miniseries “My Mother and Other Strangers” which also aired on PBS. He was a series regular in the Amazon pilot “The Interestings”, and has guest starred on “Madam Secretary”, “Public Morals”, and “Law and Order: SVU”. A native of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Mr. Cott made his solo concert debut at The Kennedy Center’s ASCAP Centennial Celebration, and starred in the National Symphony Orchestra’s West Side Story in Concert conducted by Steven Reineke. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut singing with the New York Pops. Twitter/Insta: @NapOnACott

KCRep: debut. Broadway/Off-Broadway: Finding Neverland (Original Broadway Cast) The Old Boy (Keen Company) Regional: Big Fish (Theatre Raleigh) How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (TUTS) The Honeymooners (Paper Mill Playhouse), Harmony, a new musical (CTG, Ahmanson/Alliance Theater), Lord of the Flies (Barrington Stage) TV/Film: Royal Pains (USA) One Bad Choice (MTV) 'No Stranger' music video by Brooklyn-based band Small Black. Chris stars in the hit web series The Queens Project and is a founding member of the singing group RANGE a cappella. Their 'Hamilton in 7 minutes' has been viewed on YouTube over 6 million times. @blackdwan @RANGEacappella

KCRep (Associate Artist):  A Christmas Carol (Scrooge), Death of a Salesman (Willy Loman), Little Shop of Horrors (Mushnik), August: Osage County (Charlie), Cabaret (Herr Schultz), Bus Stop (Virgil Blessing), The Drawer Boy (Morgan), Oleanna (John), M. Butterfly (Gallimard), King Lear (Gloucester), Give ‘Em Hell, Harry (Harry Truman), Royal Hunt of the Sun (Pizarro), Treasure Island (Long John Silver), A Delicate Balance (Harry), The Foreigner (Owen Musser), Julius Caesar (Caesar), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon), Nicholas Nickleby (Squeers), Of Mice and Men (George), among others. KC area: King Lear (Lear), Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon) (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival); Tuck Everlasting (The Coterie); A Lie of the Mind, A Number, The Mousetrap, The Real Inspector Hound, A Lesson from Aloes (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye, Spinning Tree Theatre); Hello, Dolly (Music Theatre Heritage), among others. Regional: Goodman Theatre (Chicago), American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. Awards: Dean Goodman Award for best supporting actor (San Francisco). AEA Member.

Jim is thrilled to make his KCRep debut in Last Days of Summer. On Broadway he appeared as a Royal Child in The King and I and as Lawrence in School of Rock. He also played the role of Eric on the U.S National Tour of Matilda. Jim lives in New York and studies voice, dance, piano and violin. He offers a million thanks to Abrams, Mara Entertainment, and his amazing teachers for all the guidance and encouragement. He is especially grateful to his parents, Bailey and Jamie for their love and support. Instagram: @jimkaplanacts.

Katie Karel has (mostly) lived in Kansas City for the past several years and has kept busy as an actor, singer, and instructor. Her stage career has lead her all over the Midwest, the West Coast, and even once to the Big Apple, for about three weeks. Kansas City: Unicorn Theatre, Starlight Theatre, New Theatre, Quality Hill Playhouse, Musical Theatre Heritage, Coterie Theatre, Egads! Theatre Company, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre. www.katiekarel.com. Katie holds a BFA in Theatre from Stephens College, loves animals, the ocean, bike riding, true crime stories, and bike riding along the ocean with animals while listening to true crime stories. Her love to Jeff, the cast & creative team, and to Gary, her (and baseball’s) biggest fan. Thank you for supporting the arts. www.katiekarel.com

KCRep: debut. Local: The Producers (Musical Theatre Heritage); Down in Mississippi (Living Room Theatre/William Inge Center for the Arts); Milking Christmas, The Ballad of Lefty & Crabbe (Living Room Theatre); Chainsaw: The Musical (Kokopelli Theatre Co.); Heathers: The Musical (Unicorn Theatre); The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Cinderella (Theatre for Young America). Regional: The Ballad of Lefty & Crabbe (Chicago Musical Theatre Festival), Down in Mississippi (William Inge Theatre Festival). Education: BA, UMKC. Upcoming: Milking Christmas (Living Room Theatre). 

KCRep: debut. Broadway: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Mrs. Bucket), Bright Star (Lucy Grant), SideShow (Daisy Hilton), Rock of Ages (Sherrie Christian), Legally Blonde, Grease. Off-Broadway: Sweet Charity (directed by Leigh Silverman). Regional: SideShow (La Jolla, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award) (Kennedy Center, Helen Hayes Nomination); Waterfall (Pasadena Playhouse); White Noise (Royal George Theatre). First National Tour: Grease (Sandy), Flashdance The Musical (Alex Owens).  TV: "Louie." AEA Member.

Josephine is thrilled to be joining the cast of Last Days of Summer!  She has appeared on many stages around Kansas City. Some of her credits include: Hana's Suitcase (Hana Brady, The Coterie Theatre), The Miracle Worker (Helen Keller, The Coterie Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Belinda Cratchit, Kansas City Repertory Theatre 2014/2015), West Side Story ('Somewhere' soloist, Spinning Tree Theatre), Annie Get Your Gun (Nellie, Musical Theater Heritage), and The Sound of Music (Marta von Trapp, Starlight Theatre). 

KCRep: A Christmas Carol (3 seasons). Local: West Side Story (Leawood Stage Company); Urinetown, High School Musical Jr., Once On This Island Jr. (Stage Right Performing Arts); Freaky Friday: A New Musical (Musical Theatre Kansas City); Pippin (Bishop O’Hara High School). Regional: Eurydice (Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp); TV: KC Live, vocal performance, 2016. Education: Benjamin is in 8th grade at Cure’ of Arts.

KCRep: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Adolpho Pirelli), Between the Lines (Rapskullio), Evita (Magaldi), Hair: Retrospection. National Tour: Beauty & the Beast. Off-Broadway: Lucky Duck (New Victory Theatre.) Local: Aladdin, Footloose, The Sound of Music (Starlight Theatre); Hands on a Hardbody, Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play, Tick, Tick... Boom! (Unicorn Theatre); The Addams Family (New Theatre); Evita, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Guys & Dolls, Brigadoon, The Pajama Game, The Fantasticks (MTH Theater at Crown Center); Seussical, Shrek, Lucky Duck, Ferdinand the Bull (The Coterie); It’s a Wonderful Life, No Way to Treat a Lady, Are We There Yet? The Buddy Holly Story (American Heartland Theatre); Pete ‘n’ Keely, The Musical of Musicals (Quality Hill Playhouse); Blowin’ in the Wind (Chestnut Fine Arts Center). Television: Correspondent KCTV-5, Better Kansas City. Mr. Scott maintains the role of Associate Producer and Director for The MTH Theater at Crown Center where he oversees most of the musical stage productions. A two-time Pitch Magazine “Best of KC” Award winner, Mr. Scott is perhaps most identified for his previous work as the award-winning Emcee for the Kansas City Royals. AEA Member. TimmyScott.com  Insta: @timmyinkc

KCRep: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Between the Lines, Man in Love, A Christmas Carol, Evita, The Fantasticks, Stillwater, Hair: Retrospection, The Foreigner, Cabaret. Off Broadway: Lucky Duck (New Victory Theatre). Regional: Nunsense II, Quality Street, Secret Garden (Okoboji Summer Theatre). Local: By the Way Meet Vera Stark (Unicorn Theatre); A Year with Frog and Toad, Afflicted: Daughters of Salem, School House Rock Live, Seussical, Spring Awakening, The Wiz (The Coterie); Kiss Me Kate, 1776 (Musical Theater Heritage); Aladdin (Starlight at the Kauffman Center); Bingo! The Winning Musical (American Heartland Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre); Death of Cupid (The Living Room Theatre) Education: BFA in Theatre Arts, Stephens College. AEA Member. Instagram: @emilyareti

KCRep: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Christmas Carol, Sunday in the Park with George, Winesburg, Ohio. Local: A Tuna Christmas, A Dog’s Life, Perfect Wedding (American Heartland Theatre); Tick, Tick…Boom! and Convenience (Unicorn Theatre). Off-Broadway: Plaid Tidings. National Tour: Mamma Mia!. Regional: Smokey Joe’s Café and Nunsense, A-Men (Hey City Theatre); Love! Valour! Compassion! and Falsettos (Snap! Productions); Candide (Minnesota Orchestra); Forever Plaid (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre); Honk! (Minneapolis Children’s’ Theatre Company); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, 8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s and Plaid Tidings (Ordway Center for the Performing Arts); Forbidden Broadway, Bernstein’s Mass. AEA Member.  jmznyc.com