The Beloved Holiday Tradition Returns!
edelweiss
December 2025
December 2025
Beloved holiday tradition, EDELWEISS, returns this December to Soho Playhouse!
DECEMBER 13th through the 21st. tickets on sale now!
It’s Christmas Eve and the news of Santa Claus’s sudden death has thrown the North Pole into chaos. Elves and reindeer riot in the streets, the Gingerbread House of Commons crumbles and Mrs. Claus boards a Southbound Polar Express leaving the denizens of the North Pole shell shocked. Amidst this turmoil comes Edelweiss, a holiday-pageant-turned-memorial for old Saint Nick. Join four elves and a reindeer as they come together to sing and dance their way through the five stages of grief; and, perhaps, discover they can save Christmas after all.
Featuring Andrew R. Butler*, Rebeca Miller*, MiMi Scardulla*, Derek Smith, Ellen Winter & Shannon Holt*
Written by Christopher Ford & Dakota Rose with Original Music by Andrew R. Butler
Directed by Dakota Rose, with Music Direction by Ellen Winter & Choreography by Chloe Kernaghan
Set Design by Christopher Ford & Dakota Rose; Costume Design by Christopher Ford; Lighting Design by Kate McGee
Stage Managed by Teagan deGroen* & Produced by Kristy Bodall
Press Representation by Everyman Agency
Edelweiss is an Equity Approved Showcase
*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production"
meet the cast & team
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Andrew R. Butler*
Chick the Elf
Andrew R. Butler wrote and starred in the Lortel-winning musical Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future at Ars Nova (Drama Desk Nominations for Book, Music, Lyrics, Outstanding Actor In A Musical, and Outstanding Musical). He is a Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and an alumnus of Ars Nova's Uncharted Writers Group, The Civilians' R&D Group, Fresh Ground Pepper's PlayGround PlayGroup, and NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing. Andrew originated the role of Charlie in Stereophonic, the most Tony-nominated play of all time, for which he received a Special Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble. Andrew has performed in five On The Rocks productions (McBeth, Wolfert, The White Stag Quadrilogy, Fred, & Edelweiss), and is writing music & lyrics for their musical-in-development, The Hole Story. Updates and cat pics at @andrewrbutler
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Rebeca miller*
Leisl the Elf
Rebeca was last with On The Rocks for The Beastiary, their Off- Broadway show with Ars Nova. She has performed regionally at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park & Florida Studio Theatre, and toured nationally with Theatreworks USA. In New York she has worked with Classic Stage Company, The Hess Collective at La MaMa, New York Shakespeare Exchange and Shakespeare in the Square. Rebeca has developed new work with the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Hook and Eye, and LatinX Playwrights Circle. NYU Tisch: BFA in Drama, Johns Hopkins: MA Nonprofit Management. RebecaMiller.com.
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Mimi Scardulla*
Jessica the Reindeer
MiMi Scardulla is beyond thrilled that her years of hounding Dakota and Chris to bring back Edelweiss finally paid off and she is back in the North Pole with her favorite people! Her Broadway credits include Cabaret (Texas, U/S Fraulien Kost Fraulein Schneider), A Beautiful Noise (The Noise), and For the Girls (Dancing Usher, Associate Choreographer). MiMi is an advocate for size inclusivity on Broadway, and endearingly calls herself Big Booty Broadway! Big is Beautiful! Love to my Family, my Love, and my Girls! Insta: @mimiscardulla
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Ellen Winter
Ellen Winter the Elf
is a Brooklyn-based composer, music producer and performer. Music Directing: Cold War Choir Practice (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), The Beastiary (Ars Nova), Hurricane Diane (NYTW), Salty Brine's Living Record Collection (Joe's Pub), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre Co.). Albums: YIKES (2024), 36 Questions: The Deluxe Album (2021), Every Feeling I've Ever Felt (2020). Audio Fiction: Hit Singles (Audible), 36 Questions (TwoUp). Upcoming: Cold War Choir Practice (MCC), Other Versions of You in My Life (Album). Commissions: EST/Sloan, Concord/Alley Theatre, Ars Nova. Fellowships / Residencies: Ucross, 54 Below Verses & Voices, Joe’s Pub Working Group, Berkeley Rep Ground Floor, Mercury Store, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, BarnArts. Listen here: https://ffm.to/ewinter.oem | @itsellenwinter
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Derek smith
Berry the Elf
With On the Rocks, Edelweiss (Ars Nova, Dixon Place), FRED, The White Stag Quadrilogy, and WOLFERT (Dixon Place). Select Theater: Hartwell Church of God (Ars Nova), EVENTS (The Brick), Buffalo Bailey’s Ranch for Gay Horses, Troubled Teen Girls and Other (The Brick), Oedipus Rex XX/XY (La MaMa), War Lesbian (Dixon Place), R*NT (University Settlement) and Into the Woods (New Village Arts). Original/solo: Lee Buliay: The Lost Year of Dean Moriarty and upcoming: Letters from Tyra (Exponential Festival 2026).
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Shannon Holt*
Mrs. Claus
Shannon Holt was previously seen at LATW in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Seven, Steel Magnolias and Judgment at Nuremberg, as well as the national tours of Judgment at Nuremberg and Steel Magnolias. Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, The Public Theatre, Trinity Rep, Indiana Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Dixon Place in NYC. Stages throughout Los Angeles include work with Evidence Room, Rogue Machine, East West Players, Boston Court, Actors’ Gang, Padua Playwrights, Odyssey Theatre and Antaeus Theatre Company, where she is a company member. Her work has garnered nominations and awards from LA Weekly, Stage Raw, BroadwayWorld, Backstage West, and LA Stage Alliance Ovations. Film and TV credits include Seinfeld, ER, The Marc Pease Experience and Love, Liza.
Edelweiss
Will play the Soho Playhouse December 13th-21st
15 Vandam St.
New York, NY 10013