The Simon and Garfunkel Story Digital Program
WHO'S WHO
Elliot LazarPaul Simon
Max PinsonArt GarfunkelELLIOT LAZAR (Paul Simon) is a Boston-based actor, singer and musician born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. Last season he appeared in the National Tour of Fiddler on the Roof, The Band’s Visit (Huntington/Speakeasy Stage), and Rent (Rainbow Stage). Selected credits: Another Roll of the Dice (North Coast Rep), Parade (Opera NUOVA), James and the Giant Peach (MTYP), American Idiot (Winnipeg Studio Theatre), Way to Heaven (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre), and The Magic Flute (Manitoba Underground Opera). MFA in Theatre (Boston Conservatory) and BMus in Vocal Performance (University of Manitoba).
MAX PINSON (Art Garfunkel) is a New York based actor and singer originally hailing from Kansas City. A recent graduate of Otterbein University, The Simon and Garfunkel Story will be his professional debut. Recent credits include Something Rotten! and The Pajama Game. Max also spent the past two summers as a member of Cape Cod’s professional all-male a cappella group, Hyannis Sound. He is extremely excited to get to travel all over the country telling the story of Simon & Garfunkel!
Marc EncaboMusic Director
Billy HarringtonDrums
Jay HemphillMusicianMARC ENCABO (Music Director) is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and performer. Being heavily surrounded by music throughout his upbringing in San Diego, CA, he would find his musical voice through school, YouTube, and church, leading to teaching himself to play guitar, piano, and bass, and to furthering his studies as a jazz bassist at the renowned Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at CSU Long Beach. As a songwriter, composer, and collaborator, he has arranged for, performed, and recorded with and for various artists and groups across the US, UK, Europe, and the Philippines.
BILLY HARRINGTON (Drums). From Ann Arbor, Michigan, Billy Harrington is a full-time drummer keeping busy with recording sessions and live work. With a bachelors in the Musical Arts & Jazz Studies from the University of Michigan, he has lectured on early pop drumming and most extensively on the drumming of Ringo Starr, including for the university's symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and as a featured artist in the Oxford University Press textbook, What Goes On : The Beatles, Their Music and Their Time. As producer, his own shows, A Night For James: A Tribute to the Music of James Taylor, and Lennon & McCartney tribute All Together Now debuted in 2015 and 2016. In 2019, Billy’s research on the drums of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham with Paul Thompson of Roxy Music was published in Modern Drummer magazine. Recent stage credits include Always… Patsy Cline and MAMMA MIA (Encore Musical Theatre Company 2021-22), and national tours, The British Invasion Live (Quatro & Maple Tree Entertainment 2022) and Dirty Dancing In Concert (Quatro Entertainment 2022). Billy is so excited and honored to be on stage celebrating two of pop music’s greatest songwriters, Simon & Garfunkel.
JAY HEMPHILL (Musician) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and audio engineer from Long Beach, California. Starting on the cello at age 7, he quickly developed a passion for every instrument he could get his hands on. He switched to bass in high school and got his first taste of being a professional musician when he started playing jazz and musicals. From there, he has had the opportunity to tour across America with many brilliant musicians, as well as play in multiple musicals, including the world premiere of "The Boy who Danced on Air", and perform with his own project, Discount Art.