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Dennis Parlato* (Frank) most recently appeared at Pioneer Theatre Company as Julian Marsh in 42nd Street. His Broadway credits include: Lawrence in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mr. Robinson in The Graduate, John the Baptist in Salome, Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, CIA agent Walter Anderson in Chess, and Rooster in Annie.Off-Broadway and regionally, he has played the title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Barrymore, J.B., The Master Builder, and Christopher Columbus; Prospero in The Tempest, Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, Oliver in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour, Mr. Lockhart in The Seafarer, and Beethoven in 33 Variations. Film credits include Tom DiCillo’s Johnny Suede and Delirious, Eddie Muller’s Dillinger’s Dead, Greg De Felice’s Bury the Evidence, Rick, First Born, Starting Out in the Evening and Bride Wars. |
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Lori Prince* (Rita) Triad Stage: debut. Off-Broadway: Lyric is Waiting (kef productions), Sarah, Sarah (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Pride and Prejudice (Denver Center Theater Company), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival), Pirandello’s Henry IV (St. Louis Repertory), The Front Page (Playmakers Repertory), Hamlet (Geva Theatre Center), Key West (Geva Theatre Center), Lobby Hero (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), The Book of Ruth (Alliance Theatre Company), A View From The Bridge (Theatrefest), Loot and And Then They Came For Me (George Street Playhouse), and Shayna Maidel (The Bickford Theatre). Lori attended the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 with the ensemble film 212. In 2006 she had a starring role in the film Johnny Montana which won best feature at the Moondance Film Festival. Her TV credits include: Law and Order, Law & Order: SVU and As the World Turns. She has a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University. |
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Willy Russell (Playwright) was born in Liverpool in 1947. After leaving school, he became a hairdresser and even ran his own salon, then took on a variety of jobs while writing songs and sketches which were performed for local radio programs. At the age of 20, he returned to college and eventually became a teacher in the Liverpool inner city area of Toxteth. Around this time, he became interested in writing drama. His first play, Keep your Eyes Down, was produced in 1971. His first success was a musical about the Beatles, John, Paul, George, Ringo…and Bert. After transferring to the West End, it won the Evening Standard and London Theatre Critic Award for best musical in 1974. Since then he has written several plays, including Educating Rita (1981) and Shirley Valentine (1988). Both plays were made into films starring Julie Walters and Pauline Collins respectively, each winning an Oscar nomination, as did Russell for best screenplay. He has also written plays for television, including the well-received Our Day Out (1984). Russell has continued to write songs since the early 1960s. He wrote the lyrics and score for his popular musical Blood Brothers (1986). He wrote the score for Shirley Valentine, and for several other television series and plays. In 2000, Willy Russell published his first novel, The Wrong Boy. His first album, Hoovering the Moon, was released in 2003. |
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Eleanor Holdridge (Director) Triad Stage: Art, Noises Off, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead. Off-Broadway: Steve & Idi (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater), Cycling Past the Matterhorn (Clurman Theatre), The Imaginary Invalid and Mary Stuart (Pearl Theatre). Regional productions include: Something You Did by Willy Holtzman (Theatre J); Gee’s Bend (Arden Theater); Hamlet, As You Like It, Lettice and Lovage, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare & Company); The Crucible and Much Ado About Nothing (Perseverance Theatre); The Two Gentleman of Verona (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis); Henry Five (Shakespeare on the Sound); The Taming of the Shrew (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival); Betrayal (Portland Stage Company); The Lion in Winter (Northern Stage). Eleanor has held positions as Artistic Director for the Red Heel Theatre Company, Resident Assistant Director at the Shakespeare Theatre and Resident Director at New Dramatists. She has directed and taught students at the Yale School of Drama, NYU’s graduate program and The Juilliard School, among others. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. She is currently running the Directing Program at Catholic University of America. |
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Marion Williams (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage debut. New York: Jose Limon, Juillard, MCC, Manhattan School of Music, Mint Theater, Parson’s Dance Company, PS 122, Women’s Project. Regional: Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Louisville Ballet, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Round House Theatre, Sacramento Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Upcoming: Centerstage, McCarter, Cincinnati Ballet, Old Globe, Louisville Ballet. MFA University of Washington, Seattle WA. 2004 Princess Grace Award for Design, 2007 PGF Grant recipient. |
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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. |
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John Wolf (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: 28 productions including the world premieres of 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. |
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Kate Brown (Sound Designer) is currently perusing a Master of Fine Arts for Sound Design at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech. She worked for the Vail International Dance Festival, I.A.S.T.E., Local 22 in Washington as well as designing for the Virginia Commonwealth Coalition and the V-Day Campaign. |
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Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate of Dramaturgy and Literary Management, 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 at 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. |
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Christine Morris (Resident Vocal Coach) Triad Stage coaching includes The Glass Menagerie, Around the World in 80 Days, Picnic, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Doubt, Tobacco Road, The Night of the Iguana, The Little Foxes; elsewhere: A Thousand Clowns (starring Tom Selleck) and Kudzu (musical based on Doug Marlette’s comic strip, with The Red Clay Ramblers) and numerous other gigs for regional and university theatre and video/audio projects. She is on the performance faculty at UNCG and also an actor, appearing most recently as Cordie Grindstaff in Providence Gap. Her professional memberships include Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). |
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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, Annie, Little Shop of Horrors (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. |
