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James Tunstall* (Crumpet) Triad Stage: Beautiful Star (2006, 2007 and 2009), Das Barbecü. Off-Broadway: Don’t Remind Me, Walking Behind (La Mama); The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, Sweethearts (Light Opera of Manhattan); Bad Habits, Black Comedy (Theatre Off Park);Sex, Love and Violence (Aboutface Theatre Co.). Regional: Olympus on My Mind, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Royal Palm Theatre, FL); Gypsy (East Carolina Theatre); Smokey Joe’s Café (Temple Theatre); The Exonerated (Touring Theatre of NC); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Elephant Sighs, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Boys Next Door, Big Bang (Broach Theatre). TV: Guiding Light, As the World Turns. James studied acting and theatre arts at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. James once applied for a job as a toy soldier at FAO Schwartz…He was not hired. |
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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. In 2008, he published a collection of essays titled When You Are Engulfed in Flames, and he just released another collection of stories, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary. 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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Jeff Stanley (Director) Triad Stage debut. Off-Off Broadway: Prospect Theater Company, The American Globe Theater, The Sanford Meisner Theater, The NY Int’l Fringe Festival (1998, 2001, 2004), among others. Regional/Local: PlayMakers Repertory Company, Hartford Stage Company, Theater in the Park, The Carrboro Arts Center, Stillwater Theater Company. University Theater: The University of Iowa, Fordham University. Education: MFA, Rutgers University; BA, Fordham University. |
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Nicholas Hussong (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Artistic Associate of Design; MainStage: 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: An Evening of Southern DIScomfort (2010), The Santaland Diaries (2008-2010) and Mad at Miles (2009). Chicago Regional: Production Manager for three Joseph Jefferson-nominated productions at American Theatre Company: The People’s Temple, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, and Speech and Debate. |
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Andrew Cutler (Costume Designer) has worked on 12 MainStage productions at Triad Stage. He is the Resident Costume Designer for the Upstage Cabaret who also freelances on numerous projects which most recently include the Amazed HUSH event at the High Point furniture market at Market Square. He graduated in 2008 from Greensboro College with a BA in Costume Design for the Theater. Favorite past productions include Ghosts, the Blackbeard tour, and The Night of the Iguana. |
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Matthew Sale (Lighting Designer) is currently a Theatrical Design graduate student at UNCG. He received a BA from Averett University and also attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and The School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he studied Computer Art and Animation, Visual Effects, and Film. His most recent design credits include Associate Lighting Design for A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage) and Projection Design for Alice (UNCG). Other design credits include: Once Upon A Mattress, Jack and the Beanstalk (Averett University); The Hunt Family Show (Busch Gardens Williamsburg). |
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Patrick Calhoun (Sound Designer) grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended Greensboro College for undergraduate work where he received a B.S. in Technical Theatre. Currently pursuing his MFA in Sound Design at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has worked professionally as sound engineers for the Utah Shakespearean Festival and Theatre West Virginia, designing sound for TWV’s touring show, and in the operations department for JHE Production Group doing events and pre-race shows for NASCAR. This year Patrick worked for the Utah Festival Opera Company as their sound designer, and worked his first Triad Stage show as the assistant sound designer for Educating Rita. |
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Emily J. Mails* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Oleanna, Blackbeard, Mad at Miles, The Santaland Diaries (2008 and 2009), 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. |
