2011 Summer Company
Barb Allen(Managing Director) Along with executing her daily administrative duties, Barb continues to work with the board of directors to promote corporate sponsorships, fundraising events and individual donations. If you are interested in finding out more about how you can help build a successful 2011 season, please contact Barb at 585-374-9032!
Liz Allers (Stage Management Intern) is a dual major in Theatre Arts and Creative Writing at Le Moyne College (class of 2013). Recent shows at Le Moyne include Side by Side by Sondheim (Stage Manager; co-lighting designer), Something Clever (stage manager), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (ASM). Lizz also spent last summer at Hangar Theatre in Ithaca as the Prop apprentice. Lizz wholeheartedly thanks both her family at home and her family at the LMC Performing Arts Center for always being supportive and amazing.
Paul Arnold (Master Electrician) is excited to get out of the heat of Dallas to spend the summer with Bristol Valley Theater. Originally from Kansas City, Paul has been working as a production electrician, stage manager and lighting designer in Dallas for four years with Theatre Three, Theatre Coppell, Flower Mound Performing Art Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Uptown Players, Cara Mia, and the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra. Some favorite designs include 33 Variations (Theatre Three), Doubt (Theatre Coppell), and Peter Pan (FMPAT). His lighting designs have been nominated twice for the Dallas Column Awards.
Shelley Barish (Scenic Design, White Chicks) is excited to be returning to Bristol Valley Theatre. Past productions include Private Lives and Red, White and Tuna. She has collaborated with theatres including Geva Theatre, Eastman School of Music, SUNY New Paltz, The Berkshire Theatre Festival and The Ohio Light Opera. Shelley recently designed Dead Man’s Cell Phone for Theatre Fairfield. She received her MFA from Michigan State University and currently is the Assistant Design Professor at UMASS Lowell. Designs include: Assassins, School House Rock Live, Born Yesterday, Rent, Abducting Diana, Blood Wedding, SubUrbia, New Moon, Trojan Woman, HMS Pinafore and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Patrick Barlow (Adapter, The 39 Steps) is Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Brent which he created in 1980. Their legendary two-man epics for the theatre include The Charge of the Light Brigade, Wagner’s Ring Cycle,The Messiah and Love Upon the Throne – The Charles and Diana Story (nominated for an Olivier Award). Besides the National Theatre of Brent, Patrick wrote the libretto for the Judgment of Paris for the Covent Garden Venture and Requiem for a Relationship for the Gogmagog Theatre Company. Patrick won an Olivier Award and What’s Onstage Award for Best New Comedy for his adaptation of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Karin Bowersock (Artistic Director; Director Cabaret, The 39 Steps, GetAway Cabaret) has been Artistic Director of BVT since 2004, directing Evita, Seven Keys To Baldpate, Sweeney Todd, and The Drawer Boy, among others. She co-authored and directed last season's Let's Misbehave. Prior to moving to the Finger Lakes, Karin lived and worked in New York City for 20 years, co-founding No-Pants Theatre Company with Dominic Orlando. Her work as director, actor and playwright has been seen at a variety of theaters in New York City, The Guthrie Theater, Geva NextStage, The Pasinger Fabrik in Munich, and on PBS and NPR. She is grateful for an inspiring 2011 company and for Jim.
Brent Burkhardt (Rudy/Frenchie, Cabaret) is a recent graduate of Nazareth college. He is so happy to be included in his third season here at Bristol, and is thrilled to be back in the wonderful town of Naples!!! Some of his favorite credits include: Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), Jekyll and Hyde (Jekyll and Hyde), Tony (West Side Story), and Rocky ( Rocky Horror Show). Thank you to family, friends and teachers for the love and support.
Lenny Ciotti (Ernst, Cabaret; Brassett, Charley's Aunt) was born and raised in italy where he started acting at the age of 12. He moved to the US 4 years ago to attend the Lee Strasberg Institute. His favorite credits include Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar (Italian tour), Claudio in Much Ado (Frog and Peach Theatre), and Phil in Hurlyburly (G.R.O.U.P. NYC).Lenny is honored and thrilled to work with Bristol Valley. He'd like to thank God, Elise, Karin and Bill.
Adam Corcoran (Bobby/Lulu/Choreographer, Cabaret; Charley, Charley's Aunt) is ecstatic to be returning to BVT for a 5th fantastic summer. Adam graduated from The Hartt School with a BFA in Music Theatre and now calls NYC home. He it thrilled to add to his list of choreography credits, Evita, Private Lives, Let's Misbehave. Favorite credits, Forever, Plaid Tidings (Frankie), Grand Night for Singing (Adam), 7 Brides...(Gideon), Bell, Book, and Candle (Nicky) and JCSS(Simon). Adam would like to thank Karin for giving him the opportunity to create, Joan for providing a second home, and his family, Moe and amazing husband, David, for always believing in him. www.adamcorcoran.com
Doug Cordes (Man, A Dash of Rosemary; Max/Helga, Cabaret) is a New Yorker at heart, with strong Alabama roots. His passion for music lead to roles in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Linus), Into the Woods (Rapunzel's Prince), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Grease (Eugene/Teen Angel), Big River (Tom Sawyer), and Two by Two (Japheth). He has also seen the country on the national tour of In the Mood: A 1940s Musical Revue and A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit). He is thankful to BVT for welcoming him this summer and grateful to his family and friends for their continued support.
Christine Cornell (Woman One, A Dash of Rosemary) is thrilled to be making her Bristol Valley Theatre debut in this production of A Dash of Rosemary! Recent credits include the New York premiere of The Art of Eating by John Lependorf, a recent review of Stephen Sondheim’s many works, the collegiate premiere of A Wedding by William Bolcom, Cendrillon by Jules Massanet, featured soloist in the annual NYC summer River to River Festival and performances with various jazz ensembles and artists around New York City. Christine would love to thank her family and friends for their abundant support that has inspired and driven her daily.
Natalie DePuy (Woman Two, A Dash of Rosemary) is a Southern California native living in New York City. This is her BVT debut and is thrilled to be part of such a wonderful cast. She was recently seen as a featured singer in New York’s Bound for Broadway at the Duplex. Some of her favorite past roles include Woman 2 in Songs For A New World, Cosette in Les Mis, and Kit Kat Girl in Cabaret. All the thanks in the world to my family and God.
Jim Ditmars (Col. Sir Francis Chesney, Charley's Aunt)is pleased to be returning to Bristol Valley Theater for his 16th season. He had a busy year in 2010, playing the role of East in Geneva Theater Guild’s production of Almost Maine, followed by playing the role of Roberto Miranda in The Headless Sullivan’s production of Death and the Maiden, also in Geneva. Jim ended the year, playing the Postman in PYTCo’s production of The Most Happy Fella, in Penn Yan. Jim returned to Geneva Theater Guild in 2011, this time in collaboration with Hobart and William Smith Colleges, playing multiple roles (most notably Doc O’Connor and Rob Debree) in their joint production of The Laramie Project.
Sara Fetgatter (Maude, White Chicks; Kost/Fritzie, Cabaret; Kitty Verdun, Charley's Aunt) is thrilled to make her debut at BVT this summer!!! Originally from Ohio, she has been living and working in NYC for the past six years. Some of Sara's favorite performances include Beehive: The 60's Musical (Janis Joplin), George M! (Agnes), CATS, and The Secret Garden. Sara would like to thank her favorite "White Chick" (her momma!), her baby brother, and all her crazy friends for their incredible love and support. Namaste.
Matthew Foster (Clown, The 39 Steps) many Australian theatre credits include Lend Me A Tenor, Noises Off, True West, Miss Julie, 12 Angry Men, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. In the United States, he has performed in The Merchant of Venice (York Shakespeare) and My Fair Lady (Allenberry Playhouse). A seasoned improviser, Matthew recently performed in the hit Las Vegas show Aussie Improv Comedy Explosion. He has guest starred on Australian television in All Saints, White Collar Blue and Home and Away, and also recently appeared in HBO’s Mildred Pierce. Matthew thanks his beautiful wife Kat for her unconditional love and support.
Kathleen Goyette (Administrative Office Manager, Acting for Kids Instructor, Groups Coordinator) celebrates her 8th Bristol Valley Theater season! She plays many roles on and off stage, teaching Acting for Kids classes and leading Camp Dramapalooza! each summer. Kathleen directs drama at Naples Central School, most recently 55+ students in Annie Get Your Gun, (Just shoot me!) has directed for Wayland-Cohocton Schools and taught classes at Cobblestone Arts Center and Corning’s 171 Cedar Arts Center. She works with the Society for the Protection & Care of Children acting in forensic interview training sessions. In her spare time she enjoys herding cats.
Kaler Haynes (Carpenter)
Daniel Hess (Director/Choreographer, A Dash of Rosemary) is delighted to return to Bristol Valley Theater where he previously directed and choreographed Ain’t Misbehavin’, The World Goes Round, and Five Guys Named Moe. Favorite direction and choreography credits include Damn Yankees, How to Succeed …, and Once on This Island. He began his professional career as a performer, appearing in The Music Man (national tour), Anything Goes (West Coast tour), The Merry Widow (Kennedy Center), and Showboat (Hollywood Bowl). He was born and raised in Buffalo and he graduated from UCLA.
Zoe Hoarty (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with the Bristol Valley Theatre company this summer. She is a rising senior stage management major in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts, Design/Technology, at SUNY Purchase. Her most recent credits include stage managing Mother Courage and Her Children at the Purchase Repertory Theatre and Durang Durang at the Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, NY. She would like to thank everybody at Bristol Valley for this wonderful opportunity, especially Suzi and Karin, and sends love to her family and friends back home in Washington, D.C. Enoy the show!
Lisa Kathryn Hokans (Sally Bowles, Cabaret) is delighted to be back at BVT. Favorite credits include Oklahoma! (Ado Annie) and Me and My Girl (Sally), both with VLOG (NYC); Evita (Eva Peron), Talking Heads (Leslie), Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman), and Robber Bridegroom (Rosamund), all with Bristol Valley Theatre; and Oh! Those Beautiful Weimar Girls (Frederika) with the New Stage Theatre Company. Recently in NYC, Lisa was honored to play Bella in Bella's Dream- a play with dance, written by Dana Boll about her grandparents and their incredible story of survival and perservance during the Holocaust. Love to Greg, Katie and her family, who make all wonderful things possible.
Kacie Hultgren (Scenic Design, Charley's Aunt) Recent design credits include Light in the Piazza, Trouble in Tahiti & Evita with Light Opera Oklahoma, as well as In Your Image, Malfi Inc, and Woyzeck Off-Off Broadway in NYC. Broadway assistant credits this season include Time Stands Still, Driving Miss Daisy, Good People & Born Yesterday. Kacie spent two seasons with the Old Globe in San Diego, CA as a resident design assistant and is a graduate of Boston University.
Jason Jeunnette (Lighting Design, The 39 Steps) Design work includes: Cosi Fan Tutte and Trouble In Tahiti/The Telephone (NYU Steinhardt), The Bereaved, Kidstuff, The Main(e) Play, Nelson, ‘nami, Baby Girl, and Play for Partial Comfort Productions; The Traveling Lady at Ensemble Studio Theater; Crestfall for the Origin Theater Company; Associate Lighting Designer for Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and The Pajama Game: National Tour (LD: Chris Lee). Resident Lighting Designer for PCP and TAKE (tah-keh) Dance Company. Member, United Scenic Artists, Local 829. Jason recently completed his Masters of Fine Arts in Architectural Lighting Design at Parsons The New School for Design, School of Constructed Environments.
Douglas Kampsen (Creator, Book, A Dash of Rosemary) has always been inspired by the greats; Crosby, Sinatra, Fitzgerald and of course Rosemary Clooney. This actor/writer/director has worked from Off-Broadway houses to regional theatres including St. Lukes, Flat Rock Playhouse, Bigfork Summer Playhouse, Blowing Rock Stage Company, Little Theatre on the Square and Tennessee Repertory Theatre to name a few. He also works in film, television, print, and is a member the SAG and the Actors Equity Association. He is a native of Sauk Centre, MN but has spent the last 13 years in New York City. Doug most recently published the book, NYC Trivia Tours: Historic Greenwich Village.
John Kander and Fred Ebb (Music/Lyrics, Cabaret) The John Kander and Fred Ebb collaboration of four decades has created what many would consider Broadway standards and contemporary classics: Flora, the Red Menace; Cabaret (Tony Award); The Happy Time; Zorba; 70, Girls, 70; Chicago; The Act; Woman of the Year (Tony Award, Best Score); The Rink; Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony Award, Best Score); and Steel Pier. At the time of the unfortunate death of Mr. Ebb, Kander and Ebb had several projects in different stages of completion waiting in the wings: The Visit, All About Us, Curtains and Minstrel Show. Life goes on.
Sarah Knoke (Props Master) is currently a senior at Bowling Green State University in Ohio studying theatre and arts management . She has worked in Morgantown, WV at The West Virgina Public Theatre for the last two summer seasons. There she worked on shows such as: Hairspray, The Wedding Singer, Cats, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Carousel, 42nd Street, and The Full Monty.
Cari Lynn Kreidinger (Sound Designer, A Dash of Rosemary, White Chicks) will be entering her third year in the graduate program in Sound Design at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She has recently completed designs for Billy Bishop Goes to War, Triad Stage, and Hotel Casablanca, UNCSA. Cari has also been production sound engineer for several productions, including Booth, UNCSA.
Tommy Labanaris (The Emcee, Cabaret; Lord Fancourt Babberley, Charley's Aunt; Clown, The 39 Steps, Tommy, GetAway Cabaret) excitedly returns to BVT for his 7th summer! Tommy recently played pot-bellied sidekick, Sancho Panza, in Man of La Mancha in NH. Favorite BVT roles: Robert (Boeing Boeing), Arles & Others (Red, White and Tuna), Che (Evita), and Tito (Lend Me a Tenor). Other favorite roles include Jesus (Godspell), Bobby Strong (Urinetown), Motel (Fiddler on the Roof) and Juan (Altar Boyz). National Tours: The Full Monty, RENT Japan, A Year with Frog & Toad and Copacabana. Tommy is a graduate of UNH. Endless love to Karin, his BVT family, parents and Ryan. Enjoy the shows! www.tommylabanaris.com
Beth LaJoie (Lighting Design, A Dash of Rosemary) is thrilled to be back at BVT designing the lighting for A Dash of Rosemary. Beth has been the Production Manager and Lighting Designer/TD for the Nazareth College Department of Theatre Arts for eleven years, works also for the Nazareth Arts Center. Prior to locating to Rochester, she spent many years doing summer stock, dinner theatre, regional and tours on the East Coast and points west. Originally from North Carolina, she loves the Rochester area and what she values most is the opportunity to work with her students at Nazareth. Thanks to Deb for her support!
Kendyl Litwiller (Box Office) is very excited to be working in the Box office for a second summer. She is studying Theatre Performance at Niagara University and she is very grateful to still be a part of the BVT. She has been involved with the BVT for many years, and she looks forward to many more successful summers!
Paul Lysek (Music Director Intern) is extremely excited to be at BVT this summer! A Wayland native, Paul will be starting his sophomore year at American University in Washington, D.C., where he studies music with a concentration in music history and vocal performance. Having been a part of over 10 shows with the Wayland-Cohocton Drama Club, Paul cannot wait to continue his theatrical career at BVT! Paul would like to give a special thank you to all of his amazing family and friends who provide so much love and support.
Katelyn Machnica (Texas, Cabaret; Amy Spettigue, Charley's Aunt) is thrilled to back at her favorite theater for her fourth season! Previous BVT credits include Gabriella in Boeing Boeing, Peron's Mistress in Evita, and Dora Darling in the premier of Karin Bowersock's original play Mystery Radio Theater, among others. A proud graduate of Nazareth College of Rochester, projects included Hamlet, Into the Woods, Nunsense, The Vagina Monologues, and Cabaret. She currently lives in New York City. Thanks to her incredibly supportive network of family and friends and congratulations to Camille and Carl!
Joe Masteroff (Book, Cabaret)'s first play, The Warm Peninsula, opened on Broadway in 1959 with Julie Harris. In 1963 he wrote the book for the musical She Loves Me, which garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Author of a Musical. Three years later, Hal Prince hired him to work with Kander and Ebb to create the musical Cabaret from Christopher Isherwood's story, Good bye to Berlin. Cabaret went on to win the Tony for Best Musical Masteroff also has written the 70 Girls 70, and a libretto for an operatic adaptation of Desire Under the Elms.
Kimberly Matela (Costume Designer, The 39 Steps) is a NYC based Costume Designer for Theater, Film, and Dance. Design credits: The Imaginary Invalid, Biography (The Schoolhouse Theater) directed by Pamela Moller Kareman, Phantom Killer (Abingdon Theatre Company) directed by Jules Ochoa. Kimberly received her MFA from Rutgers University.
Tim McMath (Scenic Design, Cabaret) is thrilled to return to BVT after designing last season's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Favorite designs include: Wuthering Heights (Theatre 3, NYC), Arcadia (Yale Dramat), Six Degrees... (Gallery Players, NY IT Award nom), The Wild Party (Columbia University), Catch-22 (Theatre Schmeater, Seattle), the Off-B'way premiers of Claymont, The Sensational Josephine Baker and Penny Penniworth, and 20 shows with Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN. Assistant Design: Steppenwolf, Berkley Rep, Met Opera, Seattle Rep, Guthrie, Julliard, ACT, Yale Rep, Playwrights Horizions and Broadway (to name just a few). MFA: University of Washington, Seattle. www.timmcmath.com
Rich Miller (Sound Design, Cabaret, Charley's Aunt, The 39 Steps) is thrilled and honored to be returning to the BVT family for his eleventh season. During the school year, Rich is a science teacher at Wayland-Cohocton schools. Some of Rich’s favorite productions include Man of LaMancha, Little Shop of Horrors Sweeney Todd, The Outsiders, Damn Yankees, Children of Eden, M.A.S.H., , Five Guys Named Moe, Evita, Jungalbook, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Forever Plaid. Recently Rich has been spending his time with his new son, Anakin. Special thanks to his parents, his wonderful wife Joan, Anakin, and the BVT community for all their support.
Samantha J. Miller (Costume Design, White Chicks, Cabaret) is pleased to return to BVT for yet another season. Her recent design credits include: Trip to Bountiful (Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, part of the Horton Foote Festival), MacBeth (Kitchen Dog Theater) ,and Mrs. Warren’s Profession (SMU). BVT credits include: Man of LaMancha, Lend Me a Tenor, Boeing Boeing, and Red White and Tuna). This fall she will be returning to Dallas to design locally and to teach at Southern Methodist University. Thank you Naples for your hospitality!
Kate Mincer (Costume Design, Charley's Aunt) currently designs costumes for the new Web Series Blood Light. Additional NY credits include: Woyzeck (Toy Box); Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian Rep); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Zanna, Don’t!; The Klezmer Nutcracker; and Anna’s Perfect Party. Other costume designs include The Cure at Troy (Winner: Best Costume Design in KC 2008, KC Pitch); Cloud 9; Desdemona, A Play About a Handkerchief, Translations, Leading Ladies; and A Lesson From Aloes. Kate has assisted the Costume Department for Law and Order: Criminal Intent and the motion picture Salt. M.F.A. in Costume Design.
John Ford Noonan (Playwright, White Chicks) is a prolific American actor and writer for theater, film and television Born in New York City in 1943, he wrote his first play, Lazarus was a Lady in 1970 and over 30 plays between the 1970s and the 1990s. He has written for TV’s Comedy Zone and for St. Elsewhere, for which he won the 1982 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
Dominic Orlando (Playwright, Alice In Wonderland; Director, Charley's Aunt) has been a BVT regular since 2003, when his oldest friend became Artistic Director. He’s helmed 4 farces, acted in another, written 8 children plays and officiated at Karin’s wedding. But Anything & Everything Sauce is what keeps him coming back. In January, Dramatic Publishing brought out Fissures (lost &found) which Dominic co-created with The Workhaus Playwrights' Collective & alumni of Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and which premiered last year at Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays. Currently, he’s working on the book & lyrics for The Barbary Coast a full-length musical commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He studied directing with Anne Bogart in New York City.
Justin Partier (Lighting Design, White Chicks, Cabaret) is happy to return to BVT where he designed Rough Crossing & A Grand Night For Singing. Recent Designs: A Midsummer Nights Dream (Schloss Werdenberg – Buchs SG, Switzerland), Resident Designer at West Virginia Public Theater 2009 & 2010. Smokey Joes Café, A Wonderful Life, Always…Patsy Cline, Over the River and Through the Woods, & Oliver! (John W. Engeman Theater), In Darfur (New York Shakespeare/ Joseph Papp Public Theater), Jayson with a Y (The New Group), Ragtime, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles & My Fair Lady(Cohoes Music Hall/C-R Productions).Proud Member United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
Mary Peaty (House Manager) has held down the fort in the BVT lobby for more years than any of us can remember. She likes it better than working at Denny's, but the tips aren't as good.
Mark Poppleton (Herr Schultz, Cabaret; Stephen Spettigue, Charley's Aunt) is returning to BVT having just finished a six month National Tour of the musical Spring Awakening. Favorite roles include Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd, Elyot Chase in Private Lives, Lawrence Jameson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Hajj in Kismet. Thanks to my family and friends for their constant support.
Liz Porter (Costume Assistant) is returning to BVT, for her second summer, from Denver, Colorado. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Theatre Design and Technology. At UNC she studied Costume Design and Construction, as well as Stage Management. Design credits include Elixir of Love, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicci, in addition to various opera scenes for UNC’s Opera Theatre. She was also the Assistant Costume Designer for Salem 1692, an original musical that premiered in Fort Collins, Colorado earlier this year. Liz is looking forward to another wonderful summer at BVT!
Kate Reynolds (Hannah Mae, White Chicks) is thrilled to be returning to Naples for her third season! She was seen at BVT last year as Janet in Boeing Boeing and in 2009 as Sybil in Private Lives. Other favorite past credits include Arcadia, Our Town, and Noises Off. You may have also seen her on Celebrity Ghost Stories on the Biography Channel. She would like to thank everyone at BVT for letting her come back once again; it wouldn't feel like summer without you!
Jamie Roche (Box Office) is excited to be returning for her second year as a ‘box office babe’. She has just finished her freshman year at the Indiana University of Pensylvania, where she is majoring in Speech Language Pathology. Jamie is a graduate of Wayland Cohocton High School.
C. Colby Sachs (Music Director, A Dash of Rosemary) happily returns to Bristol Valley Theater where he previously music directed/ re-orchestrated Evita, The Robber Bridegroom, Man Of La Mancha, and Sweeney Todd. Other productions as music director/arranger include: Disney's - Beauty And The Beast, High School Musical 1, Grease, Footloose, and the revue The Sweetest Sound: American Broadway Musicals From The 1960's To The 1990's which he co-created for Old Westbury Garden Picnic Pops. As a composer he has written the scores to over fifteen musicals . He is proud to be an Alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, and a member of The Dramatists Guild.
David E. Shane (Director, White Chicks; Cliff, Cabaret; David, GetAway Cabaret) is returning for his sixth season at BVT! He has been seen onstage in Sweeney Todd (Tobias), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Freddy), and Lend Me a Tenor (Max), among others. Last spring, he came to Naples to perform his one man show - "Songs I Shouldn't Sing". As a director, David has staged BVT's productions of A Grand Night For Singing and Red, White and Tuna. "All my love to Adam, and many thanks to Karin, Joan and my entire BVT family for making Naples my home away from home!" For more nformation, visit www.davideshane.com
(Mr. Shane ppears courtesy of Actors Equity Association)
Julie Shelton (Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of SUNY Fredonia with a BFA is Scene Design. This is her second summer at Bristol Valley Theatre and she is thrilled to be returning and working with these wonderful people again. Past production at SUNY Fredonia include Stage Managing: Romeo and Juliet, Fuddy Meers, Charley's Aunt and Kiss Me, Kate. After this summer Julie will be working as the Stage Management Intern at Portland Stage Company for a year.
Bianca Siplin (Apprentice Program Director; Director, Alice In Wonderland) is ecstatic to be the 2011 Apprentice Director for Bristol Valley Theatre. She is a native of Plaquemine, Louisiana. Selected directing credits include Ax of Murder by Pat Cook, Annie Jr., Mixed Babies by Oni Faida Lampley, The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang and The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer. Bianca is the drama teacher for Prescott Business Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she encourages and introduces young students into theatrical arts. She is also a performer and aspiring plus size model. Above all she thanks God for his guidance and wonderful gift of entertainment.
Courtney Nolan Smith (Courtney, GetAway Cabaret) is thrilled to be back at BVT after appearing in Let’s Misbehave (Dorothy) and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene) last summer!! NY Credits: Fools in Love, a Broadway revue with Snazzy Productions. Regionally: Theatre Barn’s Full Monty (Estelle); Mt. Washington Valley Theatre Company’s Cats (Grizabella), Hello, Dolly (Ernestina), Blood Brothers (Miss Jones) and Cabaret (Telephone Girl); Cape Rep Theatre’s Seussical (Mayzie LaBird), Full Monty (Estelle), Drowsy Chaperone (Trix), A Class Act (Mona) and Steel Pier (Hannah); Boston Children’s Theatre’s Oliver! (Nancy), CCFTA’s Enchanted April (Lady Caroline) and most recently, The New Huntington Supper Club. BFA: University of Miami. www.courtneynolansmith.com
G. Warren Stiles (Scenic Designer, A Dash of Rosemary) is an award winning scenic designer and a graduate of the Ohio University MFA program. Recent New York productions include Waiting for Lefty with Portmanteau Theatre and Money at the Here Arts Center. He has assisted on the Broadway productions of Promises, Promises, A Behanding in Spokane and Hair, and is currently working on the upcoming Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. In Chicago he worked with the House Theatre of Chicago, Chicago Children's Theatre, The Adventure Stage and Infamous Commonwealth Theatre. He is a co-founder of Burnside Design Studio with his design partner, Dan Winters.
Stephen Stocking (Jack, Charley's Aunt; Richard Hannay, The 39 Steps) Stephen’s NYC credits include the title role in David and Joe Zellnik’s The Casebook of Rudolf H-, Alex Timbers’ Dance Dance Revolution, and workshops of the new Village People musical Go West: An American Disco Dream, as well as readings at Ars Nova, NY Theater Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, and Emerging Artists Theatre. Regional credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival, Philly Fringe, Shakespeare in Delaware Park. Also, several independent films and commercials, most recently Candlesticks and Try a Little Harder, both of which will hit film festivals this year. BFA in Music Theatre from SUNY Buffalo. More information available at www.stephenstocking.com.
Sean Sullivan (Costume Design, A Dash of Rosemary) Is glad to be returning to be work with Bristol Valley Theatre for another season other BVT’s show: Let’s Misbehave, Grand Night for Singing, Musical of Musicals, and All Night Strut. New York credits include: Four by Tenn and Intrigue and Love at Jean Cocteau Rep. He began his career as a design assistant for Emmy Award winning designer Nolan Miller. Film credits include cult- horror classics Killjoy, Horrible Dr. Bones, and award winning shorts Out of Habit and The Confession. He is a professor of costume design at Adelphi University in Garden City NY. Costume Design highlights include Street Scene, Stage Door, Rent, and Our Town.
Suzi Takahashi (Fraulein Schneider, Cabaret; Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez, Charley's Aunt; Annabella/Pamela, The 39 Steps) is delighted to return for her 6th season at BVT! Some of her favorite roles have been: Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, and Amanda in Private Lives. Since last summer, she has performed in workshops of the political event, Lush Valley, at the HERE. She also directed four one-acts for Second Generation (HERE & CSV), an original steampunk chamber opera, Miranda (HERE), and a new dance-theater work, Dictee, that premiers this June in LA as part of the National Asian American Theater Festival. Suzi is grateful for one more summer…this one is for David and Adam, and their happy life together!!!
Brandon Thomas (Playwright, Charley's Aunt) was an actor/playwright born in 1848 in Liverpool,. He wrote Charley's Aunt in 1892, and it broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances and subsequent productions around the world. He maintained a career as a character actor and dramatist until his death in 1914. In its obituary notice, The London Times quoted him as saying, "I hoped to go down to fame as a great actor. If I go at all it will be as the author of Charley's Aunt. “ He was correct.
Griffin Warfield (Carpenter) It's not that we don't ask Carpenters for Bios. They just don't send them in.
Tabitha Gutshall Warrick (Props Intern/Scenic Charge) Tabitha is excited to return to BVT this summer. She's kept busy this year with a job as a cake decorator and a position with a winery, but she's more than ready to trade icing and wine for paint!
Marc Wasserman (Carpentry/Electrics Intern) is going to be a Junior at Syracuse University. He is majoring in Stage Management and getting a concentration in Technical Direction. He is from Olney Maryland. He has previously worked with The Olney Theatre Center, Syracuse Stage and Wildwood Summer theatre. This is his first season with Bristol Valley Theatre. He would like to thank everyone for a great summer.
Kathryn Weese (Book, A Dash of Rosemary) is an award winning actor/writer/choreographer. She has won an Art Voice Award for her work on A New Brain at Musical Fare. Her career has taken her across the country working on such shows as My Way, Godspell, Pippin, Sweet Charity, Pumpboys and Dinettes, 1940's Radio Hour as well as industrials for Gillett and AAA. Kathy studied theatre and dance at the University of Buffalo and is a member of the Actors Equity Association. Kathy now resides in Indiana.
Daniel Winters(Lighting Design, Charley's Aunt) holds an MFA in lighting design from Ohio University. His credits include, Off Broadway: Adaptations For the Stage (The Director’s Company), The Monkey Show (Labyrinth Theatre Company), Tick Parade (Dixon Place.) Off-Off Broadway: 8 Track: B-sides and Mash-ups (Creative Destruction),Waiting for Lefty (Portmanteau Theatre Company), Impossible Country (Mud/Bone Collective). Regional: Twelfth Night and To Kill A Mockingbird (Burning Coal Theater Company),Sleeping Beauty, Bald Soprano (Garage Theatre Company), Opera: Rusalka Opera Slavica, Carmen (Amore Opera). His work can be seen at www.danielwintersdesign.com and www.burnsidestudio.com.He is very excited to be working at Bristol Valley for the first time!
Sarah Ellen Wood (Sarah, GetAway Cabaret) is estatic to be back at Bristol Valley Theatre for a third season! She spent the last year studying at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, in New York City. Favorite roles include: Seussical! The Musical (The Sour Kangaroo), The Music Man (Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn) and Grease (Jan). Lots of love and thanks to friends, family and everyone at BVT!
Patrick Young (Music Director, Cabaret, GetAway Cabaret) is happy to be coming to Naples for his 6th season at Bristol Valley Theater. He has recently completed a production of Cabaret in Albany, NY, and is very excited to share an interpretation of this powerful show with the visitors to BVT this summer. He is the co-creator of the Cole Porter musical revue Let's Misbehave, and has worked across the country as a pianist and musical director on a number of shows including Side Show, Hair, The Taffetas, and Into the Woods. He is very excited to be working with David and Tommy for the 6th season. www.pianomanonline.com
Lindsay Zaroogian (Rosie, Cabaret; Ela Delahay, Charley's Aunt) is super excited to be returning to BVT this summer! A graduate of the BFA musical theatre program at SUNY Fredonia, past credits include: Let’s Misbehave: The Music and Lyrics of Cole Porter (Alice), Rent (Mimi), Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), Into the Woods (Witch), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown! (Snoopy), Old Yeller (Old Yeller/Lisabeth). This past Christmas season she was seen around NYC singing with the Goode Time Carolers in their first season on the East coast. Thank you to my family for their continuous love and support!
Maximillian Booth Zorn (Technical Director) is elated to be back in Naples NY for another summer. He spent the last 9 months in Fredonia NY, working as the Scene Shop Supervisor for the Theater and Dance Dept. at SUNY Fredonia. This is Max’s seventh summer with Bristol Valley Theater. It is an honor to work with such a talented group of artists in such a generous and inviting town. “Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes” -Anonymous.
