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Beth Ritson* (Amanda) is pleased to be making her debut at Triad Stage’s UpStage Cabaret. She was last seen on The MainStage as Flo in Picnic, Hannah in The Night of the Iguana, Ada in Tobacco Road and Grin Dell’s Maw in Triad Stage’s world premiere of Brother Wolf. Beth is currently teaching at Greensboro College and the awesome Bennett College for Women. She holds an MFA in Acting and is a founding member of the Paper Lantern Theatre Company. |
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Philip Eggers (Lawrence) Triad Stage: Picnic. Regional/Local: Go, Dog. Go! (NCTYP); Balm in Gilead, Big River, Sweeney Todd (UNCG). Education: Senior BFA Acting candidate at UNCG. |
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Phillip Wright (Tom) Triad Stage debut. Regional/Local: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (UNCG). Education: Sophomore in the BFA Acting program at UNCG. |
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Kaleigh Malloy (Ginny) Triad Stage: Artistic Intern; Bloody Blackbeard, Beautiful Star (2008). THTR 232: Redbeard’s Revenge, Mere Mortals. She recently appeared in One Flea Spare at Elsewhere Collaborative in conjunction with Hand in The Fire Theatre Company. Education: BFA in Acting, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Christopher Durang (Playwright - "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls") is a playwright whose plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination, Best Book of a Musical, 1978), The Actor’s Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie award; Off-Broadway run 1981-83), Beyond Therapy (on Broadway in 1982, with Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow), Baby with the Bathwater (Playwrights Horizons, 1983), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Public Theatre, 1985; Obie award, Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild (Playwrights Horizons, 1987), Durang/Durang (an evening of six plays at Manhattan Theatre Club, 1994, including the Tennessee Williams’ parody, “For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls”), Sex and Longing (Lincoln Center Theatre production at the Cort Theatre, 1996, starring Sigourney Weaver), and Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons, 1999; Obie award). His most recent works are Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, which premiered at City Theatre in Pittsburgh in 2002. And the musical Adrift in Macao, with music by Peter Melnick and book and lyrics by Durang, which premiered at New York Stage and Film in summer 2002. Durang is also a performer, and acted with E. Katherine Kerr in the N.Y. premiere of Laughing Wild, and with Jean Smart in the L.A. production. He shared in an acting ensemble Obie for The Marriage of Bette and Boo; and with John Augustine and Sherry Anderson has performed his crackpot cabaret Chris Durang and Dawne at the Criterion Center, Caroline’s Comedy Club, Williamstown Summer Cabaret, and the Triad, winning a 1996 Bistro Award. In the early 80s, he and Sigourney Weaver co-wrote and performed in their acclaimed Brecht-Weill parody, Das Lusitania Songspiel, and were both nominated for Drama Desk awards for Best Performer in a Musical. In 1993 he sang in the five person Off-Broadway Sondheim revue, Putting It Together, with Julie Andrews at the Manhattan Theatre Club. And he played a singing Congressman in the Encores presentation of Call Me Madam with Tyne Daly at City Center. In movies, he has appeared in The Secret of My Success, Mr. North, The Butcher’s Wife, Housesitter, and The Cowboy Way, among others. He has a B.A. from Harvard College, and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama. In 1995 he won the prestigious three-year Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Writers Award; as part of his grant, he ran a writing workshop for adult children of alcoholics. In 2000 he won the Sidney Kingsley Playwriting Award. Grove Press publishes several of his plays. Smith and Kraus recently published two new collections: Christopher Durang: 27 Short Plays and Christopher Durang: Complete Full-Length Plays (1975-1995). Grove has recently published Betty’s Summer Vacation. Since 1994 he has been co-chair with Marsha Norman of the Playwriting Program at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. |
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Tennessee Williams (Playwright - "Auto-da-Fé")
was one of America’s most prolific and important playwrights. His prodigious output included The Glass Menagerie (NY Drama Critics Award 1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (NY Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (NY Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1963), Out Cry (1973), Vieux Carre (1977), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979), and Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981). Not about Nightingales, which he wrote in 1947, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London and at the Alley Theatre, Houston in 1998 with great success.
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Jonathan Bohun Brady (Director - "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls") Triad Stage: Assistant Director: Beautiful Star and Bell, Book and Candle. UNCG: Director: The Stonewater Rapture, Measure for Measure, Bus Stop and his upcoming thesis, Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending. UNCG: Assistant Director: The Rimers of Eldritch and The Clean House. UNCG: Actor: Holy Ghosts, Love’s Fire and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Jonathan is a 3rd year MFA in Directing candidate at UNCG.
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Kate Muchmore (Director - "Auto-da-Fé") Triad Stage/Theatre 232: The Actor’s Nightmare. Regional: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Measure for Measure (adapted),and Suppressed Desires (UNCG); Sleeping Beauty, Son of Abraham,and Broken Hearts (Chattanooga Theatre Centre); The Long Goodbye, Romeo and Juliet, and The Importance of Being Earnest (Western Washington University). Kate is a 3rd year MFA Directing student at UNCG. She will be directing the upcoming production of Pericles at UNCG. |
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Nicholas Hussong (Scenic & Lighting 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: 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 graduated in 2008 from Greensboro College with a BA in Arts and Crafts. |
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Adair Mallory (Sound Designer) is excited to be working with Triad Stage! This summer Adair worked at The Barrington Stage Company with Bill Finn’s Musical Theatre Lab, where she was the sound designer for the premiere of The Memory Show; additional productions she’s worked on at The Barrington Stage Company included The Whipping Man, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods. Adair is entering her second year of graduate school at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she is studying Sound Design for Theatre; credits at UNCSA include: Albert Herring and Two Gentleman of Verona, the musical. |
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Desirée Christa Ricker* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage debut. Regional: Bye, Bye Birdie!, High School Musical 2: On Stage (Blowing Rock Stage Company); Grease (Flat Rock Playhouse). Education: BA Appalachian State University, Philosophy and Religion, Dance Studies. |
