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Cassandra Lowe Williams* (Ethel Waters) Triad Stage: From the Mississippi Delta, North Star, A Lesson Before Dying (understudy to Ms. Irma B. Hall); Regional/Local: Blue, Crowns (Actors Theatre of Charlotte); Mahalia, Queen of Gospel, Black Nativity (NC Black Repertory); The Life and Times of Fannie Lou Hamer (NC Touring Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (UNCG). Guest artist: NC A&TSU, Bennett College. Film/TV: February 1: Greensboro Sit-Ins. Education: BA, UNCG. Fellowship, Northwestern University. Other: Retired theatre teacher, minister. |
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George A. Pass, II (Music Director/Piano Player) is a prolific songwriter, musician, and music director of musicals, concerts, recordings, and exceptional events. Pass has appeared in Mahalia, Jubilation Morning, Peace Like a River and Dreams of a King (Barn Dinner Theatre); Crowns and Black Nativity (NC A&T SU); and From the Mississippi Delta (Triad Stage). He has recorded/ accompanied with gospel music greats Yolanda Adams, John P. Kee, Larnelle Harris, Billy Preston, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Regina Bell, and many more. His compositions have been performed by the Richmond Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony and Greensboro Symphony, among others. Pass is the Senior Pastor of The Open Door Kingdom Center in Greensboro. |
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Larry Parr (Playwright) Larry Parr’s plays, beginning with the musical biography of Hattie McDaniel, Hi-Hat Hattie, have been produced in regional theaters all across the United States. Hi-Hat Hattie won Kansas City’s Drama Desk Award for Best Musical. Mr. Parr was three times a Florida Individual Artist Recipient, for Hi-Hat Hattie, Invasion of Privacy, and His Eye Is on the Sparrow, twice the winner of Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater’s Annual Play Competition with My Castle’s Rockin’ and Sundew, and a winner of Florida Studio Theatre’s Short Play Competition nine years in a row. He won STAGES ’93 and the 1994 Porter Fleming Playwriting Competition. In 1995, he became the first white playwright produced in the history of the National Black Theatre Festival with the production of My Castle’s Rockin’. Invasion of Privacy won the 1999 Gold Coast Players best-play award and The National Arts Club’s Playwrights First Award in Manhattan. In 2000, Florida Studio Theatre presented him with the Barbara Anton Playwriting Award. The American Cinema Foundation awarded him their first prize for his screenplay about Hattie McDaniel, also entitled Hi-Hat Hattie. In 2002, he was chosen as a participant in The Floridian Project with Harry T. Moore; the Most Hated Man in Florida. The Sarasota County Arts Council awarded him the John Ringling Fellowship Grant for His Eye Is on the Sparrow. |
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Donna Baldwin-Bradby (Director) is Adjunct Professor and Director of Marketing and Publicity for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at North Carolina A&T State University. Donna earned a BFA in Professional Theatre from NC A&T and an MFA in Arts Management from Virginia Tech. She has directed, choreographed and performed for professional, community and educational theatres locally and regionally. Donna appeared in Crowns at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, directed Eubie! at NC A&T. For Triad Stage, she was the director for From the Mississippi Delta and The Old Settler, choreographer for Das Barbecü, ballroom dancing coach for ‘MASTER HAROLD’…and the boys, and movement coach for The Matchmaker and The Diary of Anne Frank. Most recently she directed productions of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth in Triad Stage’s Upstage Cabaret, at The National Black Theatre Festival and at North Carolina A&T State University. |
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Fred Kinney (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Tartuffe, Sleuth, Noises Off, Bus Stop, Proof, Angel Street, On Golden Pond. Other credits include: Ordinary Days, A Wrinkle in Time, A Year with Frog & Toad and Sunlight (South Coast Repertory); Peter Pan and Wendy, a new musical (Prince Music Theater); The Price and Old Wicked Songs (Vienna’s English Theatre); A Picasso (Pittsburgh City Theatre); Serious Money (Yale Repertory Theatre); Intimate Apparel (San Diego Repertory Theatre); The Grouch (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). He is recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. |
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Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is Resident Designer at Triad Stage. Favorite past productions include: Ghosts; Black Pearl Sings!; The Night of the Iguana; Bloody Blackbeard; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; The Little Foxes; Tobacco Road; The Diary of Anne Frank; Brother Wolf; On Golden Pond; A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly); A Moon for the Misbegotten and Bus Stop. Kelsey has worked with UNCG Theater, Peace College, New York’s Glimmerglass Opera House, Firebrand Theory Theater Company, The Lortel Theater and Lisa Zinni of Broadway’s Rent). |
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Joshua Reeves (Lighting Designer) Selected work: Rigoletto (Opera Company of North Carolina); Indulge (Code f.a.d. Company); Falstaff, La Boheme, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music); Richard III, 1776 (Burning Coal); The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cinderella (North Shore Music Theatre), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia (Man Bites Dog). Upcoming Work includes Carmen (Asheville Lyric Opera); The Light in the Piazza (Raleigh Little Theater). Joshua has also served as Assistant Lighting designer at Cincinnati Opera and production electrician for the Alley Theatre. He received his MFA in Lighting Design from the University of Cincinnati and currently teaches at Campbell University. |
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Janie Bullard (Sound Designer) Triad Stage: Around the World in 80 Days, and The Santaland Diaries and Dracula in The Upstage Cabaret. Recent Designs: Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming (Twin City Stage, Winston Salem, NC); Peter Pan, Candide, Broadway By The Year (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Flyin’ West (The Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville, TN); Suddenly Last Summer (The Actor’s Express, Atlanta, GA). Regional: Oliver! (Playmakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill, NC). Educational: The Importance of Being Earnest, On The Razzle, Charley’s Aunt (UNCSA). Janie will be graduating in May with an MFA in Sound Design from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. |
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Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate and Resident Dramaturg, and a former Theater and Advanced Placement English teacher. Regional: Assistant to the Director of five shows at Triad Stage, Assistant Director of Oleanna at An Appalachian Summer Festival. Education: UNC Greensboro, BFA Theater Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, England and an Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theater History. |
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Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: The Time of Mendel’s Trouble, Peaceman, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, The Thing About Men, Showtune, I Sing, Urinetown, Say Goodnight Gracie. Regional: Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Cape Cod Theatre Project, NOHO Arts Center (including “Pest Control”, “Dorian” and “Ghost and Mrs. Muir”), Actors Theatre of Louisville Humanafest. Film: Offspring, Made For Each Other, Home Movie, Jack Ketchum’s: The Girl Next Door, Headspace, Funny Valentine, Master Class. Other: Hats (Denver, New Orleans, Chicago). Casting Society of America Member, Casting Consultant for National Alliance For Musical Theatre, Casting Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing. |
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Eric Tysinger* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Angel Street; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Old Wicked Songs; North Star; Bloody Blackbeard; The Night of the Iguana; Bell, Book and Candle; Beautiful Star; Black Pearl Sings!; Ghosts; The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead; Tartuffe; Picnic and Around the World in 80 Days. Off-Broadway: Elvis People. Regional: Tonight At 8pm, Light Up The Sky, Hedda Gabler starring Kate Burton (Williamstown); Dreamgirls, Annie Get Your Gun, Peter Pan, The Sound Of Music, West Side Story (North Carolina Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, As You Like It (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Elvis People, Great Expectations (both world premieres, Mill Mountain Theatre). Proud member of Actors Equity. |
