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David Sedaris (Author) With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. He is the author of the bestsellers Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, each of which became immediate bestsellers. There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages. He is the editor of an anthology of stories, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. His essays appear regularly in Esquire and The New Yorker. Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written several plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service. His recent collection of essays, titled When You Are Engulfed in Flames, was published in June 2008. Sedaris’ original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ. In 2001, he became the third recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He was named by Time magazine as “Humorist of the Year” in 2001 and was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album (Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim) and Best Comedy Album (David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall). |
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Joe Mantello (Adaptor) Directing credits include Nine to Five; Assassins (Tony Award); Wicked; Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; A Man of No Importance; Design For Living; Terrence Mc Nally and Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera; The Vagina Monologues; bash; Another American: Asking and Telling; Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination); Proposals; The Mineola Twins; Corpus Christi; Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks; Blue Window; God’s Heart; The Santaland Diaries; Snakebit; Three Hotels; Imagining Brad and Fat Men in Skirts. Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion!. As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. He is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.
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Jim Wren (Director) is currently the Coordinator for the Performance Program at the UNCG Department of Theatre and the Resident Fight Director for Triad Stage. Some recent directing credits include Blackbeard for Triad Stage last year as part of the cARTwheels tour for North Carolina, the Off-Broadway premiere of The New Hopeville Comics at the Chernuchin Theatre, Moonlight and Magnolias at the Hippodrome State Theatre, and Evil Dead: The Musical at UNCG. Last year he co-authored and directed The Revenger’s Tragedy, which was one of three productions selected nationally to be performed at The Kennedy Center. In 2001 he received a Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence in Theatre Education, and was named Outstanding Teacher of Acting in the Southeast in 2006 by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
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Nicholas Hussong (Scenic & Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: Master Electrician and Facilities Manager, lighting designer for Mad at Miles (2009) and The Santaland Diaries (2008). Chicago Regional: Production Manager for Three Joseph Jefferson Nominated Productions at American Theater Company including The People’s Temple, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Speech and Debate; Technical Director for Miss Julie (Hypocrites Theater), War (Seanachai Theatre Company), Weapons of Mass Impact (A Red Orchid Theatre). Graduate from Ball State University. |
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Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is Resident 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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Daniel Horney (Sound Designer) is a first year MFA student at North Carolina School of the Arts. He has worked professionally with The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, High Point University and the University of Colorado. |
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Emily J. Mails* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Oleanna, Blackbeard, Mad at Miles, The Santaland Diaries (2008), 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. |
