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Michael Abbott, Jr.* (Jackson Johnson/Uncle Cotton/Uncle Sam/Uncle Hap) Triad Stage: Bus Stop and Brother Wolf. Off-Broadway: Pudd’nhead Wilson, The Taming of the Shrew (Lucille Lortel); Othello. Regional: Hogtied (Abingdon Theatre Co.), On the Hook (LAByrinth/Reverie), Dearly Departed (Tennessee Rep), Bat Boy: The Musical (Portland Center Stage). Film/TV: Shotgun Stories (Independent Spirit Award nomination/”Top Films of 2008” by Roger Ebert), Vacation!, Shelter, Gift, The Audition, Red Dead Redemption (VG). Member of John Houseman’s Tony Honored Acting Company; Officer/Representative of one-truck.org (a non-profit dedicated to providing a long-term housing solution in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti); graduate and guest faculty member of UNCSA. |
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Nick Albrecht* (Young Jarvey Critcher) has just finished his first year as an MFA Acting candidate at UNCG. Credits include: The Great American Trailer Park Musical (BroadStreet Theatre), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (SkullDuggery Theatre), The Secret Garden (Dana Theatre). UNCG credits include Evil Dead: The Musical and Bus Stop. |
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TJ Austyn* (Chance) is proud to a part of such a wonderful cast and crew. Regional credits: Triad Stage: Tartuffe, Bloody Blackbeard. North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: King Lear.Educational credits: The Seagull, Evil Dead: The Musical, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Country Wife, The Clean House and Our Lady Of 121st Street (UNCG). TJ is a graduate of the BFA acting program of UNCG. |
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Catherine Delaney (The Woman of France) is an MFA Acting candidate at UNCG with a BA in Theatre Performance from Appalachian State University. Regional credits include: Peter Pan the Musical, Bye Bye Birdie, High School Musical 2 and 8-Track: The Sounds of the 70’s (The Blowing Rock Stage Company). Educational credits include: Picasso at the Lapin Agile at UNCG; This Is Not a Pipe Dream, The Servant of Two Masters, Twelfth Night and An Ideal Husband at ASU. |
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Matthew Delaney (Narvel Greene) is an MFA Acting candidate at UNCG with a BA in Theatre Performance from Appalachian State University. Regional credits include: Peter Pan the Musical, Bye Bye Birdie, High School Musical 2, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!, and Suite Surrender (NC Premiere) at the Blowing Rock Stage Company. Educational credits include: Angels in America (Prior Walter) and Balm in Gilead (Dopey) at UNCG; Blithe Spirit, A Shayna Maidel, An Ideal Husband, and The Waiting Room at ASU. |
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Amy Feldmann (Young Lucky) is a six year old home-schooled first grader who feels honored to be playing Little Lucky in the world premiere of Providence Gap! She is the third of four children who all love to be on stage. Amy has most recently been seen in 60 Years of Broadway and Wizard of Oz (Community Theatre of Greensboro) and Beauty and the Beast (Gallery Players of Burlington). In her free time, Amy loves to draw and is a huge fan of Dale Chihuly. She would like to thank Preston and Drew for giving her this opportunity. |
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Izzy Goff (Charity Presnell) is entering her second-year as a MFA Acting student at UNCG with a Bachelor of Music degree from William Carey University in Hattiesburg, MS. At WCU she performed in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. Other credits include her work with the Southern Opera/Musical Theatre Company in their productions of Company and Guys & Dolls. UNCG credits include Picasso at the Lapin Agile and NCTYP’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. |
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Carl Jones (Musician) is a songwriter/musician from Macon, Georgia. While completing a commercial music degree at the University of North Alabama, he started frequenting festivals, and picking various instruments. He toured with The Rising Fawn String Ensemble and is now part of a singing duo with Beverly Smith. He has one recording with James Bryan and three with Ms. Smith. Carl teaches at many music camps across the country and has had his songs recorded by The Nashville Bluegrass Band (one on their Grammy-winning album, Unleashed), Kate Campbell and Rickie Simpkins. He also performed in The Human Race Theatre Company’s production of Brother Wolf. |
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Ginny Myers Lee* (Burlene Critcher) Triad Stage: Oleanna; Brother Wolf. New York: Hamlet, Cymbeline, Misalliance, Love’s Labour’s Lost (New York Classical Theatre); Stars In A Dark Sky (Red Fern Theatre Co.); The Night Carter Was Bad (Kids With Guns); Love of a Pig (The Cardinal Group). Regional: The Triumph of Love (The Clarence Brown Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Capital Repertory Theatre); The Shape of Things, The Voice of the Prairie, Crimes of the Heart (Summer Repertory Theatre); Ruth (Blue Shift Theatre Ensemble). Ginny received her MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Scott Manring (Musician) is known for his fluency in many musical styles on a variety of stringed instruments. His thirty plus years of teaching include long associations with The Guitar Shop, David Sheppard Instruments, and currently with String Studios. He has performed on nearly all local/regional stages. Festival performances include the Sacramento Jazzfest, Miami Art Deco Festival, Spoleto, MerleFest. Scott has also appeared in theater, with symphonies and on recordings. His work with Triad Stage includes the world premiere of Bloody Blackbeard and the touring production, Blackbeard. |
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Christine Morris* (Cordie Grindstaff; Resident Voice/Dialect Coach) Triad Stage: Tartuffe; Bloody Blackbeard; Triad Stage at An Appalachian Summer Festival (Boone, NC): Sister Aloysius in Doubt. Off-Broadway: Don Juan (New York Shakespeare Festival); Egyptology (Public Theatre, directed by Richard Foreman). Regional: Silver River (one-woman play by Romulus Linney; originated role at Manbites Dog Theater; other venues across US); Blue Roses (also wrote; Archipelago Theatre; Profile Theater Project in Portland, OR; The Tennessee Williams Center); Playmakers Repertory; a dozen productions with Archipelago Theatre of Chapel Hill. Film: Elephant Sighs (starring Ed Asner). Other: Triad Stage resident voice/dialect coach; theatre faculty at UNCG. |
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Matt Palmer (Estil Lovell) is a rising senior in the BFA Acting program at UNCG and is thrilled to be making his Triad Stage debut. UNCG credits include: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Big River, Lysistrata, The Revenger’s Tragedy and Sweeney Todd. |
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Anthony W. Scarsella (Radio Announcer) is a second year MFA Actor at UNCG. Previous credits include Prospero in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Olney Center National Players Tour), The Music Man and Footloose (Jenny Wiley Theatre). Other credits include: Endgame, The Full Monty, The Diary of Ann Frank, Anything Goes, The Miser and The Pirates of Penzance. |
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Cinny Strickland* (Levathy Lovell) Triad Stage: Beautiful Star (2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009). Other NC credits: NC Shakespeare Festival, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Blowing Rock Stage Company, The Actors’ Ensemble, The Broach Theatre, Wilmington’s Dog Eat Dog Theatre. Regional: Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Cape Cod’s Monomoy Theatre, Pennsylvania’s Bristol Riverside Theatre. Education: BFA-Drama, UNC School of the Arts; AB-Political Science, Princeton University. Other: guest artist, UNCSA School of Music; guest artist, Princeton University’s Theatre Intime; guest artist, Reynolda House Museum of American Art. |
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Leah Turley (Fortune) is currently pursuing her MFA in Acting at UNCG. She comes to Greensboro from Charleston, WV where she studied with Dan Kehde at the Contemporary Youth Arts Company of Charleston before receiving her BFA in Theatre at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. UNCG credits include: Angels in America: Part 1, Millennium Approaches and Bus Stop. |
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Katie Vohwinkel (Lucky) is thrilled to make her debut at Triad Stage. She is a rising Senior BFA Acting candidate at UNCG. Her UNCG credits include Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lysistrata, The Revenger’s Tragedy, and The Rimers of Eldritch. |
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Jeffery West* (Jarvey Critcher) Triad Stage: Ghosts, On Golden Pond, Bloody Blackbeard. Regional: True West, Death of a Salesman, King Lear, The Miser (PlayMakers); The Night Before Christmas Carol (Temple Theatre and Raleigh Ensemble Players); Angels in America (AEA Guest Artist, Duke University); How I Learned to Drive (Manbites Dog Theater). Television: All My Children, Guiding Light, Surface, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, Brookfield (pilot). Artistic Director, Raleigh Ensemble Players, 1993-1997. Faculty: UNC-CH, Duke University, UNC-Greensboro, Elon, Greensboro College, High Point University. Education: BA, College of William and Mary; MFA, University of Virginia. |
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Preston Lane (Artistic Director/Co-Founder, Playwright & Director) is in his 9th 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). Other productions include work Off Broadway, Regional and the National Black Theatre Festival. As a playwright, his adaptations and original works include: Tartuffe, Ghosts, 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, The Human Race Theatre Company and St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. Both Brother Wolf and Beautiful Star are soon to be published by Playscripts Inc. 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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Laurelyn Dossett (Composer & Music Director, Musician) lives and writes in the piedmont of North Carolina, and her songs tend to reflect the stories of the region, both traditional and contemporary. One of the most sought-after voices in creative collaborations, she co-founded Polecat Creek with singing partner Kari Sickenberger, and has partnered with Triad Stage’s Preston Lane on four plays featuring regional folklore and original music: Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star, Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. A song from Brother Wolf, “Anna Lee,” was featured on Levon Helm’s Grammy-winning record, Dirt Farmer. Laurelyn is also a regular performer at regional music festivals such as MerleFest, a guest on the radio show Prairie Home Companion, and has written and performed with the North Carolina Symphony. She recently premiered composer Kenneth Frazelle’s song cycle, “Songs in the Rear View Mirror,” at Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, NC, and is the 2010 recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship for songwriting. |
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Alexander Dodge (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Bloody Blackbeard, The Caretaker, Das Barbecü, Debunked, Our Town and Julie’s Dance. Broadway: Present Laughter (Tony Award nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. Off-Broadway: Trust, Water’s Edge (Second Stage); Observe the Sons of Ulster (Lortel Award); Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center); Antony and Cleopatra (TFANA); Measure for Pleasure, Paris Commune (Public Theatre); Force Continuum (Atlantic). Regional: Alley, Arena Stage, Centerstage, The Gate-Dublin, Geffen, Hartford, Huntington, Taper, Old Globe, Shakespeare DC, Stratford, Williamstown. Opera: Il Tritico (Berlin), Waffenshmeid (Munich), Lohengrin (Budapest), Flying Dutchman (Würzburg). Education: MFA, Yale. |
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Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is Resident Costumer 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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John Wolf (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: 28 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 Nebraska Opera, plus designs at Lion Theatre, Center Stage, Trinity Theatre, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center in New York. John is a Professor of Theatre at UNCG. Education: MFA, University of Alabama; The Julliard School of Music. |
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David E. Smith (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: 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. |
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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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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 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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Denise Gabriel (Movement Director) Triad Stage premiere. She was the Resident Movement Director with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for six seasons where her credits include: Coriolanus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Christmas Carol, Gee’s Bend, Crowns, Steel Magnolias and The Count of Monte Cristo. Regional credits: The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Old Globe), King Lear (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Romeo and Juliet (Clarence Brown Theater), and The Working Theater, NY. International credits: Shanghai Theatre Academy (China), Salzburg Seminar at Schloss Leoploidron (Austria), Artscape Theatre Centre and Dance for All (Cape Town, South Africa). Ms. Gabriel has taught in numerous universities across the country for over 25 years, is a Founding Board Member of American Theatre for Movement Educators and is presently a faculty member of the UNCG Theatre Department. |
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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; Around the World in 80 Days and Ethel Waters: His Eye Is on the Sparrow. 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. |
