The real Leaf Coneybear?

Josh Epstein (William Barfée), Vincent Tong (Chip Tolentino), and Jeremy Crittenden (Leaf Coneybear)

It appears that our Leaf Coneybear is not the only one!  Doing research on the characters in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee we stumbled across a MySpace page for a real Leaf Coneybear from an actual Putnam County.  He’s even friends with William Barfée!  Take a look at Coneybear’s MySpace here and Barfée’s here.

Ok…so these guys are actually from a 2005 production of “Spelling Bee” at Circle in the Square on Broadway.  Check out this video, omitted from the MySpace page, about Coneybear’s cat cape business.

To learn more about the amazing man behind our Leaf Coneybear, Jeremy Crittenden, you can check out his blog here!

C-O-N-T-E-S-T!

The actor in the video is now in a new ABC television series.  Name the show and you could win a pair of tickets to our Tuesday, August 10, performance of  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Granville Island Stage!  To enter email publicity@artsclub.com with your answer in the subject line.  We will draw from the correct responses at noon Monday, and notify the winner.

Good luck!

Congratulations to our lucky winner, Jessica!  She knew that the actor in the video clip is Jesse Tyler Ferguson and that he stars as Mitchell on ABC’s Modern Family.  Thanks to everyone who entered!