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TJ Austin (Damis) is excited to be back at Triad Stage with such a talented cast and crew. He was last seen here in Bloody Blackbeard. Educational credits include: The Clean House, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Country Wife, The Rimers of Eldritch and Our Lady of 121st Street. TJ is a junior BFA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. |
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Caitlin Davis (Police Officer, Maid) Triad Stage debut! UNCG Theatre: Home on the Mornin' Train, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Country Wife, Flannel Shorts. Local: The Secret Garden (Livestock Players). Education: Rising Senior BFA Candidate, University of North Carolina-Greensboro. |
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Krista Hoeppner* (Elmire) Krista is thrilled to be returning to Triad Stage in the role of Elmire. Favorite stage roles include: Hedda in Hedda Gabler (Triad Stage), Rhoda in Age of Arousal (Wilma Theater), Kate Keller in Miracle Worker (St. Louis Repertory Theater), Irene Adler in Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Geva/Cleveland Playhouse), Jane Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (Arizona Theatre/San Jose Repertory Alliance Theatre), Margaret Hughes in Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Old Globe), Olivia in Twelfth Night (Dallas Theater Center), Gwendolyn in Importance of Being Earnest and Cordelia in King Lear (Pioneer Theater Company), Leonide in Triumph of Love (Geva), Portia in Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Claire in Proof (Capital Repertory), Lucy in Dracula (Delaware Theater Company), Sylvia in The Game of Love and Chance (Madison Repertory). Krista received her MFA from the University of Washington. |
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Meghan Hoffman (Queen) Triad Stage: The Night of the Iguana. Regional/Local: A Christmas Carol (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Lysistrata, Holiday, Love’s Fire, Seussical! the Musical (UNCG). Education: BFA Acting, University of North Carolina-Greensboro. |
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Rosie McGuire*.(Dorine) Triad Stage: The Night of the Iguana (Maxine Faulk), Tobacco Road (Sister Bessie). Broadway: Cyrano (Mother Superior), Cats (Jennyanydots). Off-Broadway: A Home Without (Lincoln Center Theater); Up in the Air (Theater for the New City); Radiant Baby (The Public Theater); Troilus and Cressida, King Lear (Riverside Theatre); The Enchanted Cottage (Primary Stages); Sheba (Playhouse 91). Regional/Local: King of Hearts, The Chocolate Soldier (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; Bittersweet (Susan); The Immaculate Misconception (Anne); All My Children; Guiding Light. |
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Christine Morris* (Madame Pernelle) Triad Stage: 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); Prelude to a Kiss (Playmakers Repertory); a dozen productions with Archipelago Theatre of Chapel Hill. Other: Triad Stage resident voice/dialect coach; theatre faculty, UNCG (recently directed Lysistrata). |
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Jason Scott Quinn* (Loyal) Triad Stage debut. New York: Leave It to Jane, Macbeth, Our Town (Circle in the Square); Henry IV - 1 & 2 (Gorilla Rep.); The Ruins (Sun and Splendor); Twelfth Night (Kraine Theatre). Regional: Scapino, The Boys Next Door, Biloxi Blues, Fools (Florida Repertory Theatre); Metamorphoses, School House Rock, Love’s Labour’s Lost (American Stage); A Lesson Before Dying (Florida Studio Theatre); The Boys Next Door (Palm Beach Dramaworks); The Jungle Book (Mill Mountain). Film/TV: One Tree Hill, The Bros. and numerous commercials. Training: University of South Florida, Circle in the Square Theatre School, MFA Candidate - UNCG. Proud member of AEA & SAG. |
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Emma Reaves (Police Officer/Maid) Triad Stage debut! Regional/Local: The Revenger’s Tragedy (Violet, UNCG); Lysistrata, Love’s Fire, Flannel Shorts, Macbeth (UNCG). Education: BFA Acting Candidate, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Katy Sink (Mariane) Triad Stage debut. University of North Carolina at Greensboro: The Taste of Sunrise, Big River, Lysistrata. Education: BFA Acting upcoming junior at UNCG. |
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Stephen Spencer (Valere) UNCG Theatre: Big River, Tales of the Lost Formicans. NCTYP Tour: Go, Dog. Go! Education: Rising junior in the BFA Acting program at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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John Robert Tillotson* (Orgon) New York: The Pearl Theatre Company, The Acting Company. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Company/DC, Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theatre, Kennedy Center, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre Co., Merrimack Rep, Long Wharf Theatre. National Tours: The Sound of Music, The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. International: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The English Theatre/Frankfurt, Germany); Phantom of the Opera (Opera-Comique/Paris and European tour). |
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Gordon Joseph Weiss* (Tartuffe) Triad Stage: Tobacco Road (Jeeter Lester). Broadway: Sly Fox, The Life, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Visit, Ghetto (NY Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominee), Raggedy Ann, King of Hearts, Goodtime Charley, Jumpers. Off-Broadway: The Undertakers, God in Bed, Tourists of the Mindfield, Walk on the Wild Side, Ragtime Blues. Regional: Principal roles at Baltimore’s Center Stage, Ford’s Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Virginia Stage Company and Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Film: Awakenings, Reversal of Fortune, All the Vermeers in New York, Lustre, The Undeserved. TV: Law & Order, Third Watch, Spin City, Law & Order: SVU, NYPD Blue. |
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Joshua Yoder (Cleante) Triad Stage: Beautiful Star, The Night of the Iguana, 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); Lysistrata, Holiday, Love’s Fire, The Taste of Sunrise (UNCG). Education: MFA Candidate, UNCG. |
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Molière (Playwright) was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622. A playwright and actor, the Frenchman is universally considered to be one of the masters of comic satire. At the age of 21, Molière abandoned his legal studies and birth name to take up a career in the theater. He spent most of the next fifteen years with the Illustre Théâtre touring the provinces, honing his skills, and turning out a number of farces inspired by the Italian commedia troupes he encountered in his travels. Upon returning to Paris, the company was invited to perform before Louis XIV. They quickly won his favor, and Molière was granted the use of two venues – the Théâtre de Petit Bourbon and later the Palais-Royal – for the troupe’s farces, character comedies and lavish court entertainments. In 1662, Molière married Armande Béjart, who became a leading actress in his company, beginning with The School for Wives, a play that demonstrated his maturing talent and propelled him into the ranks of France’s greatest dramatists. Not all of Molière’s plays were unqualified successes, however, with Tartuffe and Don Juan incurring the wrath of censors. Still, by 1665, Molière’s company was awarded regular pensions from the crown, and took the title of La Troupe du Roi (The King’s Players). The Misanthrope and The Doctor in Spite of Himself premiered a year later, followed by The Miser and The Learned Ladies. Molière’s next play, The Imaginary Invalid, which featured the playwright as a grousing hypochondriac, was to be his last. Molière, who suffered from tuberculosis, took ill during a performance and died shortly thereafter in 1673. A Christian burial was initially denied him because he had not received last rites nor had he made a deathbed recantation of his profession (as tradition required), but the archbishop of Paris allowed a private burial in the parish cemetery, on condition that it be carried out at night, without ceremony. |
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Curtis Hidden Page (Translator) was an American educator and translator born in Greenwood, Missouri, in 1870. Page graduated from Harvard University in 1892 with a doctorate in English Literature and a concentration in French. He taught French and English at Harvard for fifteen years. In 1911, after a brief stint at Columbia and Northwestern universities, Page became a professor of English Literature at Dartmouth College, where he remained until his death in 1946.
In World War I, he advanced to the rank of major through a series of rapid promotions during his first few months of service due to his ability to speak both French and German and translate effectively. Page later served as a New Hampshire state legislator in 1933 and again in 1939. Throughout his life, Dr. Page was a prolific and gifted poet. He published not only in literary journals and magazines like Vanity Fair, but also in stand-alone collections. Page is known for his theatrical translations of plays by Molière, Rabelais and de Bergerac. His translation of Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite remains the definitive text for English productions. (Bio courtesy the University of Texas at Austin) |
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Preston Lane (Adapter & Director) is completing his 8th season at Triad Stage, having directed 32 productions for the theater, 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). Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is serving in his second season 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: 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: 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 and The Human Race Theatre Company), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and the upcoming Providence Gap. He has taught at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, North Carolina A&T, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 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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Fred Kinney (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Noises Off, Bus Stop, Proof, Angel Street, On Golden Pond. Other credits include 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); Cats Talk Back, Suburban Stories (NYC Fringe Festival). 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 and Costume Shop Manager at Triad Stage. Past productions include: Ghosts; Black Pearl Sings!; Beautiful Star; Bell, Book and Candle; The Night of the Iguana; Bloody Blackbeard; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Sleuth; The Little Foxes; Tobacco Road; Noises Off; 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, Peace College, 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: 23 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 University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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: 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: 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 with Preston Lane at Triad Stage. Education: UNC-Greensboro, BFA Theater Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, and Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theater History. |
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Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: “Rooms”, 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). Tours: “Kidz Bop”, “The Case of Curious George”. 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 and The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead. 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). Proud member of Actors Equity. |
