Masquerade
A Dress Up Farce
by Ludvig Holberg
adapted and directed by Preston Lane
June 5 – 26, 2011
Love's in disguise.
The hot new place to party is a masquerade where the young and hip go wild. Two fathers arrange the marriage of their children, but when the kids fall in love behind masks with someone they think they've never met, everything that can go wrong is almost certain to get even worse. Add in a mother who just wants to dance, faithful servants determined to protect young love and enough disguises to make your head spin. You'll laugh your mask off!
“One of the most riotous and ribald productions in this theatre company's history...A straight-up rave commemorating everything Triad Stage has accomplished in its decade of existence.”
–Lynn Jessup, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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This production contains some adult language and situations.
Running time: 2 hours, including one fifteen-minute intermission.
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CastJeronimus
Leander
Henrich
Arv
Magdelone
Seamstress, Ensemble
Mask Maker, Ensemble
Leonard
Leonora
Pernille
Ensemble
Ensemble
Ensemble
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Creative TeamAdapter & Director
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Composer & Sound Designer
Projection Designer
Movement Director & Choreographer
Fight Director
Dramaturg
Wig Designer
Casting Director
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
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Biographies
Cast
Creative Team
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Preston Lane (Adapter & Director)is in his 10th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 30 productions. Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is in his third year as 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). As a playwright, his adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Sonoma Rep. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company and St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star and Ghosts are published by Playscripts Inc. He has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, UNCSA, 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 BFA from NCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He blogs about theater at http://thislittleworld-triadstage.typepad.com/this-little-world/ |
| Fred Kinney (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Steel Magnolias, Ethel Waters, 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 and 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. | |
| Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is in her 6th season as Resident Designer at Triad Stage. Favorite past productions include: Ghosts (USITT-SE Design Expo ‘09 award winner); The Night of the Iguana, Tobacco Road, Brother Wolf; and A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly). She has worked with UNCG Theatre, Peace College, Glimmerglass Opera, Firebrand Theory Theatre Co., The Lortel Theatre and Lisa Zinni of Broadway’s Rent. Kelsey is a founding member of Hand in The Fire Theater Company which recently presented a production of One Flea Spare at Elsewhere Collaborative. | |
| John Wolf (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: 30 productions including the world premieres of A Christmas Carol, Bloody Blackbeard, Brother Wolf, Debunked, Beautiful Star and Providence Gap. In New York designs at Lion Theatre, Center Stage, Soho Rep, Gene Frankel Theatre, Trinity Theatre, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center. Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre. University Theatre: UNCG, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of Nebraska Opera. John is a Professor of Theatre at UNCG. Education: MFA, University of Alabama; The Julliard School of Music. | |
| David E. Smith (Composer & Sound Designer) is director of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts theatre sound design program. David spent eight years with the Royal National Theatre in London, England. Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol, The Glass Menagerie, Providence Gap, Picnic, Oleanna, Tartuffe, Ghosts, The Night of the Iguana, 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: Paper Lantern Theatre Company and Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. | |
| Nicholas Hussong (Projection Designer) Triad Stage: Artistic Associate of Design; MainStage: The Sunset Limited (2011), A Christmas Carol (2010), The Glass Menagerie (2010), Providence Gap (2010), Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow (2010), and Around the World in 80 Days (2010). UpStage Cabaret: The America Play (2011), Billy Bishop Goes to War (2011), An Evening of Southern DIScomfort(2010), The Santaland Diaries (2008-2010) and Mad at Miles (2009). | |
| Denise Gabriel (Resident Movement Director & Choreographer) Triad Stage: The Glass Menagerie, Providence Gap. Previous regional theatre credits include Resident Movement Director Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Clarence Brown and Working Theatre, NY. International credits: Shanghai Theatre Academy, Salzburg Austria at Schloss Leoploidron and Artscape Theatre Center and Dance for All (Cape Town, South Africa). Ms. Gabriel is a Founding Board Member of American Theatre for Movement Educators and theatre faculty member UNCG. | |
| Jim Wren (Resident Fight Director) has staged the violence for over a dozen Triad Stage productions including the battles in Bloody Blackbeard, the fantastical fights in Brother Wolf, and the general behavior of the Lesters in Tobacco Road. 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. | |
| Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate, 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, Director of One Flea Spare, the first play by the Hand in Fire Theater Company produced in collaboration with Elsewhere Collaborative. Education: UNC Greensboro, BFA Theater Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, England and an Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theater History. Drew will be attending the University of Maryland this coming fall to work on his Master’s and Doctorate in Theatre and Performance Studies. | |
| Michael Ferguson (Wig Designer) Triad Stage: Steel Magnolias. Regional/Local: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Winston Salem Symphony); 1776, Light Up the Sky, Albert Herring (UNCSA). Education: MFA candidate, UNCSA. | |
| 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. | |
| Bree Sherry* (Resident Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Steel Magnolias, The Sunset Limited. New York: Fringe Festival 2010; American Gypsy (Kraine Theatre with Magic Mouth Theatre); My Sweet Charlie (Abingdon Theatre with LXP Productions); Hollow (Dixon Place). Regional: The Cocoanuts, Smokey Joe’s Café, Chicago, Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical (Seaside Music Theater); Cinderella, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray (North Shore Music Theatre); The Servant of Two Masters, Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre). Education: BA in Technical Production and Design from Elon University, MFA in Stage Management from Yale University, School of Drama. | |
| Emily J. Mails* (Assistant Stage Manager) Triad Stage: The America Play, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Oleanna, Blackbeard, Mad at Miles, The Santaland Diaries (2008–2010), Dracula (2008) and “MASTER HAROLD”… and the boys. Regional: A Thousand Cranes (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Rigoletto (Greensboro Opera); Crime and Punishment, Merry Wives of Windsor, Into the Woods (Orlando Shakespeare Festival). Education: BFA in Technical Production, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
*Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
