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CAST & CREW BIOS
Anna Bullard* (Dottie Smith) was most recently seen at the Magic in Mat Smart's The Hopper Collection. Other recent credits include the premiere of Kia Corthron's Moot the Messenger for the 2005 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular for the Humana and NYC Fringe Festivals. Additional credits include Dracula, 2B (or not 2B) (ATL); The Mousetrap, Nunsense (Dorset Theatre Festival); The Diary of Anne Frank (ArtRise Theatre); and The House of Bernarda Alba (Prospect Theater Company, NYC). BA in English and Theatre, Whitman College; Acting Apprentice, Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Cully Fredricksen* (Joe Cooper) has been working in Bay Area theatre for over a decade. Recent credits include: Becoming Memories (Center REP), Purvis, Communist and More Than Human (France Tour - Word for Word), Soul of a Whore and Psychos Never Dream (Campo Santo). He has worked at the ACT, Magic, MTC, Thick Description, Encore and A Noise Within, among others. TV: Sisters, ER, Picket Fences, Silk Stockings, Renegade, Star Trek: Voyager and The Client. Film: Bram Stoker's Dracula, True Believer, Star Trek: First Contact, Nightmare on Elm Street 7, The Rock and Camera Obscura. For Katie, with love.
Ryan Montgomery (Chris Smith) is a Dramalogue award winning actor and a graduate of both American Conservatory Theater’s Advanced Training Program and Solano College’s Actor Training Program. He just finished playing Eben in Center Rep’s Desire Under The Elms. Favorite roles include Alan in Equus, Jimmy in Brave Brood, Cassio in Othello, Vincent in Parallax, and Kulygin in The Three Sisters. In recent years he’s directed the world premieres of Utilities and Coffee in Michigan by George McKibbens for TANTA Productions as well as the American premieres of Deep Space for Transparent Theater and The Night Before Christmas, Miserable Life and Christmas Breaks at The Exit Theater (featured in Uncle Dickie’s Wicked Little Christmas). Most recently his directing credits include Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies and Nicky Goes Goth for Impact Theatre. He is also the founding Artistic Director of Galvanized Theater Company.
Stacy Ross* (Sharla Smith) Bay Area credits include: Dolly West's Kitchen, Book of Days (TheatreWorks); Iphigenia at Aulis, Hannah and Martin, Major Barbara (San Jose Rep); The Green Bird and Cloud Nine (Berkeley Rep); The Rivals, The Gamester, The Constant Wife (A.C.T.); The Comedy of Errors and Henry IV, Parts I & II, Arms and the Man (Cal Shakes); Smell of the Kill (SF Playhouse), Man of Destiny (Aurora); Spring Storm, Candida, Splittin' the Raft (MTC); As You Like It, Twelfth Night (SF Shakespeare Festival); Misalliance (Baltimore Center Stage).
Howard Swain* (Ansel Smith) has appeared in over 200 stage productions, including work at ACT, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Magic Theatre, MTC, Eureka Theatre, Aurora Theatre, TheatreWorks, San Jose Stage, CenterREP, Word for Word, Theatre-on-the-Square, as well as the Oregon, California, Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Marin Shakespeare Festivals. He most recently helped develop and completed an East Coast Tour of Horizon, written by Rinde Eckert and directed by David Schweitzer, and has performed with the national tour of Picasso At the Lapin Agile. TV credits: Nash Bridges, Midnight Caller, Kiss Shot, and Hill St. Blues. Film credits: Cherry 2000, Miracle Mile, Teknolust, Metro, Golden Gate, Night Of The Scarecrow and the upcoming Valley Of The Heart's Desire.
Tracy Letts
(Playwright) is the author of the plays Bug (Lucille Lortel and Obie Award, NY Times Top 10 of 2004) and Man From Nebraska (2004 Pulitzer Prize nominee). He is an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company; his appearances there include: The Dresser, Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross, Three Days of Rain and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Film appearances include: Guinevere, US Marshals and Hellcab. TV appearances include: The District, Profiler, The Drew Carey Show, Home Improvement and Seinfeld. Tracy recently made his directing debut at the Lookingglass Theatre with Great Men of Science, Nos 21 & 22 by Glen Berger. Killer Joe, which ran Off-Broadway in 1998 for nine months, has been produced in 20 languages in 26 countries. This production of Killer Joe marks the Bay Area debut of Lett's work.
Lee Sankowich
(Director/Co-Producer) served as Artistic Director at Marin Theatre Company for sixteen years. Some of the many plays he directed at MTC included The Hairy Ape, Lady in the Dark, The Real Thing, The Turn of the Screw, Kindertransport, Cobb, A Shayna Maidel, Keely and Du, Morning's at Seven, The Last Schwartz, Charlie Cox, Runs with Scissors and Wonderful Town. Lee produced and directed eleven productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which ran for 5-1/2 years in San Francisco and 2-1/2 years in New York which led to the making of the Academy Award-winning film. Lee had the privilege of directing the world premieres of Tennessee Williams' Spring Storm and Fugitive Kind. He has spent many years directing in all parts of the country, including ten plays for Pittsburgh Public Theatre and was an associate professor of drama at Carnegie Mellon University. A native of San Francisco and a graduate of Lowell High School and San Francisco State University, he attended the Southern California Graduate School of Cinematography. Among his regional directing credits are The Heidi Chronicles, Death of a Salesman, Dylan, Becoming Memories, Serenading Louie, Vikings, The Normal Heart, Hedda Gabler, Burn This, A Walk in the Woods, Edith Stein, Sunday in the Park with George and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Lee also served as Artistic Director at Center Repertory Theatre and owns the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles. He has been recognized with several Dean Goodman awards, in 2004 received a special award from the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle "for a critically impressive career in directing dramatic and musical productions" and the 2005 Paine Knickerbocker Award recognizing his sixteen years at MTC.
Deborah Taylor began Firemused Productions in 2004 with a primary focus on producing new writers for stage and film. Firemused has since participated in several NY On and Off Broadway productions, including Eve Ensler’s, The Good Body and Cultural Industry’s, Shockheaded Peter. Theatre credits include: Associate Producer, Jocasta Rising in Cape Town, South Africa. Producer, New writer’s workshops and staged readings including London playwright Torben Bett’s, Silence & Violence, Josh Fox and The International WOW Company’s The Bomb, NYC, and Carol Kaplan’s ‘Bot, which will have it’s world premiere at THE MAGIC in 2007. Deborah Taylor has held the position of Producing Director for Marin Theatre Company’s New Works Program since its inception two years ago. Her film and television credits and participation include Associate Producer, HIGHWAY COUTESANS, winner of The Best Feature Documentary, 2005 Galway Film Festival and President’s Jury Award, 2005 Chicago International Documentary Festival. PULSE, A STOMP ODYSSEY, the film version of the award winning, highly acclaimed stage presentation of Stomp. Producer, Talkback Central, Women in Prison Segment and Co Producer, Right of Passage, Peralta TV. She is currently working on a theatre arts series for television, a work in progress for Peralta TV in association with Firemused Productions. Ms. Taylor is a graduate of DSL in London and has performed as an actor on stage, film and television in the US for the last 12 years. Special thanks to: The Marin Theatre Company, The Magic Theatre staff, David Gluck, June Paladino, Peter Royston, Charley Zukow and Associates and our stunning, exceptionally brilliant cast. And, finally to Lee, for his life long dedication, his passion and his commitment to this labor of love, The Theatre.
David Gluck is an arts consultant and freelance general manager. He has served as both Managing Director and Finance Director of San Francisco's Magic Theatre, and as Development Director of the California Shakespeare Theater. Mr. Gluck was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Task Force in 2005, and currently serves on the boards of Theatre Bay Area and Crowded Fire Theater. His consulting clients have included San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, TheatreWorks, Berkeley Opera, The Marsh, Tenderloin Opera Company, and Zaccho Dance Theatre, among others. Mr. Gluck received an MBA in Arts Management from UCLA Anderson and a BA from Princeton University. His arts journalism has been published numerous times in American Theatre magazine, where he served as an Affiliated Writer from 1996-99.
June Palladino*
(Stage Manager) has been involved in Bay Area
theatre, primarily as a Stage Manager, since 1993. Some of her favorite productions include Arms and the Man, Assassins, The Shadow Box, Symphonie Fantastique and BUDDY: The BUDDY HOLLY Story. For MTC she has worked on Wilder, Wilder, Wilder!, Wonderful Town, Syncopation, Me and My Girl, My Old Lady, Life x 3, the World Premiere of Beggar's Holiday and, most recently, the World Premiere of Splittin' the Raft. She enjoyed working on A Doll's House and The Threepenny Opera at A.C.T. She wishes to thank her friends and family for their
support and encouragement.
Laura Hazlett
(Costume Designer) Past designs include Lady in the Dark, The Women (Center REP & MTC), Wonderful Town and Bus Stop. Ms Hazlett most recently designed costumes for Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for the re-opening of the De Young Museum and fabricated the dancing Christmas tree costumes for the Smuin Ballet. In her spare time she paints photo surrealism on black velvet.
Norman Kern
(Sound Designer/Composer) is an award-winning designer, composer and engineer who has worked throughout the Bay Area. Mr. Kern is excited to collaborate with Lee on their 16th production together. Recent credits include Desire Under The Elms, A Christmas Carol (Center REP), Cinderella (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Edna O'Brien's Family Butchers, HOT HOUSE’06 and The Long Christmas Ride Home (Magic Theatre), MTC's River's End and Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors. Award-winning credits include The Music Lesson, Misalliance, and The Woman in Black. As a composer, Norman’s original scores were heard in Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors, Fortune, Summer and Smoke, The Last Schwartz, Communicating Doors, Two for the Seesaw, M. Butterfly and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As a recording engineer/ music producer, he has worked with Eddie Money, Pete Escovido, and Bill Graham Presents. Norman worked with the Academy-Award winning Saul Zaentz Film Center and his feature credits include Park Day, Dumbarton Bridge and The Homeboy.
Michael Palumbo
(Lighting Designer) designed lighting for MTC's
production of Two for the Seesaw in 2002. He has designed productions throughout Northern California including Vincent in Brixton, All My Sons, On Golden Pond and Over the River and Through the Woods (TheatreWorks), The Barber of Seville (Sacramento Opera), Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci and Faust (Opera San Jose), Incorruptible and Anton in Show Business at (SJ Stage Company), Othello and Elizabeth Rex (Pacific Repertory Theatre), as well as designs for Diablo Light Opera Company, Children's Musical Theatre San Jose, City Lights Theatre Company, Willows Theatre Company, Palo Alto Players, Teatro Visión de San Jose and The Western Stage.
Giulio Cesare Perrone
(Set Designer) is pleased to be back at MTC where he has designed the sets for many past productions including River's End, Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors, Visions of Kerouac, The Music Lesson, Kindertransport, The Puppetmaster of Lodz and Bloodknot. Giulio received a 2000 Pew-TCG National Artists Residency grant with Dell'Arte International for his adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost and a 2002 Pew-TCG grant for The Memoirs of Casanova, both of which he wrote, designed and directed. He designed 28 productions in his native Italy before moving to the US in 1995. That year he received a Drama-Logue for his first US design of Goldoni's The Liar at the Laguna Playhouse. He has since designed over 70 sets for theatres including the San Jose Rep, Opera San Jose, Festival Opera, Dell'Arte, San Diego Rep, TheatreWorks and Magic Theatre. Giulio recently made his opera directing debut with the double bill operas Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
Carol Selig
(Properties Designer) is an artist specializing in
figurative sculpture and portraiture who has been involved in prop design and set decoration for the past nine years. Her work at MTC includes Communicating Doors, Beggar's Holiday, Life x 3, Fortune, Bus Stop, Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors, River's End and Splittin' the Raft. She has been prop designer with the Mountain Play for Annie, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma and this year's Fiddler on the Roof, and works with Mill Valley Middle School musical productions at Civic Center. Prior to her work in the theatre, she enjoyed teaching art for 10 years at Old Mill School in Mill Valley and is presently in the docent program at the Asian Art Museum. Carol has a BA from Cornell and an MBA from Wharton.
Christina Traister
(Fight Director) is very pleased to be working on this production. She is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). Prior fight directing and combat teaching venues include ACT, Alabama Shakespeare , SF Shakespeare, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of San Diego, UC Santa Cruz and SF Conservatory of Music. Christina holds an MFA in acting from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and a BFA in acting from the University of Michigan.
Annie Stuart
(Casting Director) is casting her 10th season at MTC and is also the casting director at Center REP. As a freelance casting director, she has many credits including The New Eureka Theater, SF Shakespeare Festival, LA Shakespeare Festival, Brava, Theatre Rhinoceros, Z Space Studio and Warehouse Rep. She is also the resident casting director for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and for Playground Emerging Playwrights Festival. For the camera, she has cast Falcon Crest, An Inconvenient Woman, Midnight Caller and The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. She has taught at SJ State, The Bennett Theatre Lab, Center REP, the MTC Conservatory, Eastenders Rep, College of Marin, Actor's Training Program at Solano College and Theatre Bay Area. She is
currently serving her third term as a member of TBA’s Theatre Services Committee.
Marin Theatre Company
was founded by Sali Lieberman and Mill Valley Mayor Al White in 1966, as the Mill Valley Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA), providing a diverse range of cultural programming - from theatre to poetry to film - for the local community. In 1984, the MVCPA became Marin Theatre Company, in recognition of the company's professional equity status and growing role as the pre-eminent regional theatre in Marin County. In the last 15 years, MTC has seen its annual budget grow from $800,000 to $2 million, and has emerged as one of the Bay Area's leading professional theatres. Lee Sankowich, MTC's artistic leader since 1990 will be leaving the theatre at the end of June as the Artistic Director but will be back for the first show of next season to direct the Bay Area Premiere of Orson's Shadow. The Theatre hopes to announce the appointment of its new Artistic Director in the fall. MTC's 2006/2007 season will celebrate the Theatre's 40th anniversary.
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