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Alex Amery (Hank) Triad Stage: Bloody Blackbeard. Regional/Local: The Crucible (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Firebugs, Oh! Pioneers, Macbeth, Holy Ghosts, Tales of the Lost Formicans (UNCG); Redbeard’s Revenge, Mere Mortals (Triad Stage/UNCG THTR 232). Education: Senior in the BFA Acting program at UNCG. |
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Ali Bayless (Charlotte Goodall) Triad Stage: Tobacco Road (Pearl). Regional: The Comedy of Errors (Luce, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Carolina Jack’s Last Adventure, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Sleeping Beauty or Coma (Triad Stage/UNCG THTR 232); Private Lives (assistant director), Love’s Fire, The Taste of Sunrise, Macbeth (UNCG). Education: BFA in Acting, UNC-Greensboro. |
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Joseph Collins* (The Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon) Triad Stage: The Caretaker. Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, Rock-n-Roll, The Lonesome West. Off-Broadway: Bug, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Apartment 3A, Venice Preserv’d, The Antigone Project. Regional: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Yale Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory, The Old Globe, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Hartford Theaterworks, Florida Studio Theatre. Film/TV: Law & Order, Kidnapped, Bittersweet, 13 Bourbon Street, All My Children, Guiding Light, As the World Turns. Education: BA, UNC-Wilmington; MFA, University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival. |
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Abe Cruz* (Pedro) Triad Stage debut! Off-Broadway: Bird in the Hand and 1001. Regional/Local: Lord of the Flies (Roundhouse Theatre), Tamburlaine and Edward II (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Little Shop of Horrors (359 Playhouse). Education: BFA, North Carolina School of the Arts. |
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Amy da Luz* (Miss Judith Fellowes) Triad Stage: The Little Foxes, A Streetcar Named Desire. Off-Broadway: Brutality of Fact (Cardinal Group at Urban Stages). Regional/Local: Reynard the Fox (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Absent Friends, Voice of the Prairie, Crimes of the Heart (Summer Repertory Theatre). Film/TV: One Tree Hill, Lost Stallions (starring Mickey Rooney). Education: MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Meghan Hoffman (Hilda) Triad Stage debut! Regional/Local: Deathtrap; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! (Open Space Café); Love’s Fire, Seussical! the Musical (UNCG). Education: BFA Acting Candidate, University of North Carolina-Greensboro. |
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Rosie McGuire* (Maxine Faulk) Triad Stage: Tobacco Road (Sister Bessie). Broadway: Cyrano (Mother Superior), Cats (Jennyanydots). Off-Broadway: Home Without (Lincoln Center Theater), The Enchanted Cottage (Primary Stages), Dora (Second Stage), Troilus and Cressida, King Lear (Riverside Theatre). Regional/Local: Radiant Baby (The Public Theater), King of Hearts (Goodspeed Opera House), Joyful Noise (Seven Angels Theater), Candide (Huntington Theater Company), Man of La Mancha (Barter Theatre), Sylvia (Heritage Theater Company). Film/TV: Company Retreat (Rosie) – directed by Campbell Scott, The Underserved (Cathy Hunler), Happy Birthday (Mother) – featured in over 40 international film festivals, The Immaculate Misconception (Anne), All My Children, Guiding Light. |
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Stephen N. Moore* (Herr Fahrenkopf) Triad Stage: On Golden Pond. Regional/Local: Tom, Dick and Harry; Rounding Third; Elephant Sighs (Broach Theatre); The Nerd, Of Mice and Men, The Rainmaker (Temple Theatre); A Christmas Carol (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Room Service (Tibbits Summer Theatre); Return of an Angel (Occasional Theatre). Film/TV: Dawson’s Creek. Education: BFA in Acting, UNC-Greensboro. |
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Ed Pilkington* (Nonno) Triad Stage: The Rainmaker. Off-Broadway: A Case of Libel, directed by Ken Costigan; A Story for a Sunday Evening, directed by Robert Ludlum (Playhouse on The Mall). Regional/Local: A Streetcar Named Desire (Playmakers Repertory Theatre); Six Degrees of Separation (Charlotte Repertory Theatre); God’s Man in Texas (Pacific Repertory Theatre); Over the River and through the Woods, The Fantasticks, Prelude to a Kiss (Temple Theatre); Social Security, Oliver, Peter Pan, Camping with Henry and Tom, Crossroads (Blowing Rock Stage Company). Education: MFA, UNC-Greensboro; studied at American Theatre Wing, Circle in the Square; Post Grad: Cornell University, UNC-CH Playmakers. |
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Ricardo Puerta (Pedro) Triad Stage debut! Regional/Local: A Christmas Carol (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival). Education: BFA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro. |
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Elisabeth Ritson* (Hannah Jelkes) was last seen holding down the trailer as Ada in Triad Stage’s production of Tobacco Road, before that she originated the roles of Grin Dell’s Maw and Hessie Geeter in the world premiere of Brother Wolf at Triad Stage. Other Triad Stage productions include running Grace’s diner in Bus Stop, Lizzie in The Rainmaker and Mrs. Webb in Our Town. Regional work includes Vivian in Wit, Maureen in Beauty Queen of Leenane, Li'l Bit in How I Learned to Drive, and Emma in Betrayal. Beth holds a BFA and an MFA in acting and is currently a professor at Bennett College for Women in their Theatre Department. |
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Lorraine Shackelford* (Frau Fahrenkopf) is making her debut at Triad Stage. A member of the Performance Faculty and Director of Theatre Education in UNCG’s Department of Theatre, last spring she played Grandma in UNCG’s Jersey Shore House, a new play written by Michael Ferrell, a former student. Other favorite performances include Nunsense (with Pat Carroll) at East Carolina Summer Playhouse and Children of a Lesser God at Worchester Foothills Theatre. Lorraine has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. |
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Joshua Yoder (Wolfgang) Triad Stage: Bloody Blackbeard. Regional/Local: Mere Mortals, Redbeard’s Revenge (Triad Stage/UNCG THTR 232); Ruth (Blue Shift Theatre Ensemble); Here There Be Dragons (Man-In-The-Moon Theatre); Love’s Fire, The Taste of Sunrise (UNCG). Education: MFA Candidate, UNC-Greensboro. |
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Preston Lane (Artistic Director/Co-Founder & Director) is in his 8th season at Triad Stage, having directed over 29 productions including: the Grand Opening production Suddenly Last Summer, the award-winning Hedda Gabler and A Streetcar Named Desire, 2007’s acclaimed Tobacco Road (Wall Street Journal: Best of 2007 Theatre). He is also the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. He was formerly Artistic Associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where his productions included the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News:2002 Top Ten Theatre List). Other productions include: A Tuff Shuffle (National Black Theatre Festival), Overruled (Off Broadway), Love! Valour! Compassion! (Stage One), and the world premieres of If Only and Get It While You Can (Summer Cabaret). As a playwright, his adaptations and original works include: Hedda Gabler, Dracula, Mirandolina, and Julie’s Dance (Triad Stage); A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center, Sonoma County Rep, Kids Who Care), Three Weeks After Marriage and Helen! (Summer Cabaret) and with Laurelyn Dossett: Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, Upcoming: The Human Race Theatre Company), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage, Upcoming: WaterTower Theatre) and Bloody Blackbeard. He has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, NCSA, Greensboro College, SMU, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. |
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Howard C. Jones (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Tobacco Road, Hedda Gabler (recipient of a World Stage Design 2005 honor), August Snow, A Moon for the Misbegotten,The Matchmaker and A Streetcar Named Desire. Regional: Starlight Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Missouri Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, American Heartland Theatre and NC Shakespeare Festival. NC School of the Arts faculty member since 1996. Prior to that, founder and owner of Cobalt Studios, an apprentice painting studio in upstate New York, working for Broadway, Off Broadway and regional theatres across the country. |
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Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is resident designer and costume shop manager at Triad Stage. Past productions include: Bloody Blackbeard, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Sleuth, The Little Foxes, Tobacco Road, Noises Off, Beautiful Star (2006 and 2007), The Old Settler, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Matchmaker, Brother Wolf, On Golden Pond, A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly), Das Barbecü, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Bus Stop. Kelsey has worked with UNCG Theater, New York’s Glimmerglass Opera House, Firebrand Theory Theater Company, The Lortel Theater, and Lisa Zinni (associate designer for Broadway’s Rent.) |
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John Wolf (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: 19 productions including the world premieres of Bloody Blackbeard, Brother Wolf, Debunked and Beautiful Star. Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre. University Theatre: UNCG, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of Alabama, University of Nebraska Opera, plus designs at Trinity Theatre, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center in New York. John is a Professor of Theatre at UNC Greensboro. Education: MFA, University of Alabama; The Julliard School of Music. |
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David E. Smith (Sound Designer) is director of the North Carolina School of the Arts theatre sound design program. David spent eight years at the Royal National Theatre in London, England. Triad Stage: Bloody Blackbeard, The Little Foxes, Tobacco Road, Beautiful Star, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Streetcar Named Desire and Dracula. Regional: Arena Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre. Local: Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. |
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Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is a former Theatre and English teacher and is pleased to have joined Triad Stage as Artistic Associate. Regional: Assistant Director of four shows with Preston Lane at Triad Stage. Education: UNC-Greensboro, BFA Theatre Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, and Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theatre History. |
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Jim Wren (Resident Fight Director) has staged the violence for many Triad Stage productions including the fantastical fights in Brother Wolf, the behavior of the Lesters in Tobacco Road and most recently the battles of Bloody Blackbeard. He has choreographed violence for the Hippodrome State Theatre, Roanoke Valley Opera and The University of Florida. Education: MFA, University of Florida. Jim is Performance Program Coordinator for the UNCG Department of Theatre, and is a two-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence. |
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Christine Morris (Resident Voice/Dialect Coach) recently appeared as Sister Aloysius in the Triad Stage remount of Doubt at An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone, and both coached and performed in Bloody Blackbeard last season. She is on the theatre faculty at UNCG, and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), also serving on the VASTA board of directors. |
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Cindi Rush Casting (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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Christy Weikel* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Suddenly Last Summer, Baby with the Bathwater, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Mirandalina. Regional: The Misanthrope, The Illusion, I Am My Own Wife, A Christmas Carol, Inexpressible Island, The Seagull, The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Theater Center); Much Ado about Nothing, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Festival/LA); Galileo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Glass Menagerie (Yale Rep). Teaching Experience: Assistant Professor, Ball State University. Education: MFA, Yale University. |
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Eric Tysinger* (Assistant Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Angel Street, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Old Wicked Songs, North Star, Bloody Blackbeard. Off-Broadway: Elvis People. Regional: Dreamgirls, Annie Get Your Gun, Peter Pan (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). Education: BFA, UNC-Greensboro. |
