CHARLIE HALL is the creative force behind Ocean State Follies and the producer of the RI COMEDY FESTIVAL. He has performed as a stand-up comic since 1980 and has appeared on several national TV shows, such as the Joan Rivers Show, Caroline's Comedy Hour, MTV, Evening At the Improv, America's Funniest People and Star Search '93, where he was a semi-finalist. He has also appeared as the opening act for Chicago, Natalie Cole, The Temptations, Sam Kinison, Frankie Valli, Reba McIntire, Charlie Daniels, Rosie O'Donnell and Jerry Seinfeld among others. In 1993, 1997, and 1998 Rhode Island Monthly Magazine voted Ocean State Follies as the state's Best Comedy Show; in 1994, '95, and '96 the magazine voted Charlie as Rhode Island's Best Comedian. His editorial cartoons appear in all area newspapers including the 2005 Edition of the Best Cartoons of 2005. He is also the publisher of two books – the last one a cartoon book on life in RI called HOT SKETCH. HOT SKETCH 2 is coming in the Fall of 2005. He is also the uncle of the world's greatest niece, Liza.

DOREEN COLLINS started her showbiz career at the tender age of 8 in front of 20,000 people with none other than Diana Ross and the Supremes. Not willing to share the limelight, Doreen and Miss Ross parted ways immediately after the performance. Since then, Doreen has been an active member in SAG, AFTRA, and AGVA and performed Off-Broadway, on television, film and radio. She’s done stand-up, tradeshows, and paid practical jokes. There is nothing that can embarrass this little woman, which is obvious to anyone who has seen “BOOZICAL: The Muzical – The Unorganized Biography of Doreen Collins”, her most recent one-woman show. Doreen was a theater major at New York University, studying under Stella Adler, and received her cosmetology license from The Robert Fiance School of Cosmetology (NYC). Neither of which has gotten her anywhere, which is why, she is living in RI and has been working with Charlie Hall and the Ocean State Follies since the turn of the century.


GREG BONIN has performed in many theatre productions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. His favorite roles include Capt. Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, The Wolf/Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods, Bill Sykes in Oliver!, The King in The King and I, Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Harold Hill in The Music Man and many others. He has also been seen (and heard) singing the national anthem for many baseball, basketball, and hockey teams all over New England including the Boston and Pawtucket Red Sox. Greg has recorded 3 CDs, a self-titled debut, Just for You and, in November 2006, released his 3rd CD titled Simply Christmas. As a classically trained singer, Greg has performed in The Marriage of Figaro, The Face on the Barroom Floor, and HMS Pinafore and has had the wonderful opportunity to perform solos in classical concerts such as Faure's Requiem, Schubert's Mass in G, and Jepthe. An award-winning vocalist on the local, regional, and national level, he was named 2002 Talent America Vocalist of the Year with a special recognition as Best Legitimate Male Vocalist. Greg has toured with Kaleidoscope Theatre in their productions of Beauty and the Beast (Beast - they wouldn't cast me as Beauty), Sleeping Beauty (King Harold), Jack and the Beanstalk (Narrator/The Giant), and most recently The Emperor's New Clothes (The Emperor). Greg currently studies voice with Rene de la Garza. For more information and future performances visit www.gregbonin.com.

MARK COLOZZI is Supervisor of Music for the Cranston Public Schools in Cranston, Rhode Island and Co-Director of Instrumental Music at Cranston High School East where he conducts the wind ensemble, marching band and jazz ensemble. Mark is an executive board member of the Rhode Island Music Educators Association and holds the position of Music Director of the Life Teen Ministry at Holy Apostles Church in Cranston. Mark earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Rhode Island and a Master of Fine Arts from Rhode Island College. He is the recipient of the Theodore Presser Foundation Scholarship and the URI Music Department Service Award. As a performer, he has appeared extensively as a tenor soloist throughout the Diocese of Providence including the past 20 years with the Gregorian Concert Choir in residence at the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul in Providence under the direction of Rev. Anthony Mancini. Singing with this ensemble has brought many wonderful experiences including meeting and singing for Pope John Paul II in Rome in 1998. Mark held the position of Music Director for the Salve Regina University Theatre Department for ten years and has performed with Rhode Island's most notable musical comedy troupes including the Ocean State Follies and Mixed Nuts. Mark resides in Cranston with his lovely wife, Joanne and his two wonderful daughters, Alicia and Jenna and is enthusiastic about being back with the Ocean State Follies!

SCOTT MORENCY- accompanies on piano, and sometimes sings with the Follies. There is no further info on Scott since, like many other Rhode Islanders, he is in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Address available, however, upon request.





BETHANY LYNN GIAMMARCO has been performing in Rhode Island since the age of 14. She has been seen on stage with Cranston Community Theatre, Academy Players, Community Players of Pawtucket, as well as the Cranston West and CCRI Theatre companies. Favorite roles include TiMoune in "Once On This Island," Leading Player in "Pippin," The Narrator in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," Mayzie LaBird in "Seussical: The Musical" and Diana Morales in "A Chorus Line". In 2002 Bethany beat out over 450 hopefuls to become "Southern New England's American Idol," and was subsequently rejected on two separate occasions by the idiots <ahem> “talent scouts” for the popular national show. She is thrilled to be performing with the Follies.

KATHRYN CHESTER graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Master of Music degree in piano. She is presently a professor of music at URI where she performs and teaches piano and music theory. Kathryn has been the Follies musical director since 1992. Her arrangement of "Rhode Island's It For Me" has become the state song of Rhode Island.

Contact Charlie Hall at (401) 353-3330; or email him at charliehall@cox.net.