Berry Ayers

Berry Ayers has Musically Directed, Choreographed and Directed such shows as Applause, A Chorus Line, A Christmas Story: The Musical, Legally Blonde, All Shook Up, The Full Monty, Carousel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Who's Tommy and Rent. Before her transition as a performer, she spent five years as The Naked Maid, traveling with the show Naked Boys Singing, as well as performing in the NYC Off Broadway company at The Actor's Playhouse and in the original run at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. She also spent a year touring the country starring as Paul in the national tour of the musical A Chorus Line. Among various regional roles; Berry includes ZaZa/Albin in La Cage Aux Folles as one of her favorites. She has most recently played Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, with others that include Bride in Titanic, Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q, Dave in The Full Monty, Miss Deep South as well as Miss Bible Belt (for 3 years) in Pageant the Musical, Sylvia St. Croix in Ruthless!, George in The Drowsy Chaperone, Tito Morelli in Lend Me A Tenor and Jinx in both Forever Plaid and Plaid Tidings. She is also the creative force behind Beneva Fruitville. Beneva Fruitville has been hosting the longest running theatrical production in Sarasota, FL- Beneva Fruitville's Drag Queen Bingo Bonanza for going on nine years, and has toured with this show to many other cities and states. As a drag entertainer, she has performed in bars and nightclubs all around Florida as well as private parties, baby showers, wedding receptions and birthday parties. She co-hosts a comedy competition show in Comedy Clubs called Wigs & Wit in the National Touring Clubs in Florida. In 2015 she filmed a pilot entitled Beneva's Christmas Special, which was shown on the big screen to a sold-out house at Lakewood Ranch Cinemas, soon to appear on Amazon Prime. She has been a co-host for ABC7's Suncoast View airing daily and has received acclaim for her role as Madame Pearl in the short film entitled Pie Car with Starfruit Productions which played the Miami Independant Film Festival, The Dumbo Film Festival in New York City, The Lady Filmmaker Festival in Beverly Hills as well as The Sarasota Film Festival.