In The MainStage Theater

Celebrate the life and work of one of the South’s greatest writers in this once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event. Return to a small town in eastern North Carolina and the Avery family that captivated audiences in Triad Stage’s second season. In honor of Reynolds Price, we present the entire New Music trilogy in a special two-part extended run—Part I: August Snow and Night Dance and Part II: Better Days. See the two parts separately or see them together during weekend marathon performances on February 25, February 26, March 10 or March 11.

New Music: Part I

New Music
Part I: August Snow and Night Dance

A Family Trilogy
by Reynolds Price
directed by Preston Lane

February 12 – March 17, 2012

Come home.

August 1937. One year into their troubled marriage, Taw Avery gives her husband, Neal, an ultimatum – he must put his past behind him or she will leave him forever. With less than a day to decide, they each make a journey of self discovery to find the meaning of commitment and sacrifice. Their story continues at the end of World War II. The battle may be over, but the loss of lives and dreams continues in its wake. Neal and Taw must carry on, searching for a way to keep hope and love at the heart of their family.

"You haven't seen anything remotely like New Music anywhere this season... [It] breaks ground, celebrates a master of Southern literature and, perhaps even more important in the long run, redefines modern regional theatre."
–Lynn Jessup, CVNC

"Price's vigorous, vivid writing takes us on quite a journey and this production proves something I've known from long experience: The night skies aren't empty above small towns. Neither are the people who live in them. New Music provides a nuanced, vibrant reminder."
–Byron Woods, Indy Week

The New Music trilogy is presented in collaboration with Greensboro Public Library's "One City, One Author" program.

Sponsored by
NewBridge Bank


Production Sponsors
Cone Health

  O.Henry Hotel

 Carruthers & Roth


*New Music, Part II: Better Days is presented as a special event and is not included in 2011-2012 Season Pass packages. However, Season Passholders have the exclusive opportunity to order advance Flex Tickets to Better Days at the reduced rate of $15 each with their Season Pass purchase or renewal.

Cast - August Snow

Neal Avery
Taw Avery
Roma Avery
Porter Farwell
Genevieve Slappy

Cast - Night Dance

Taw Avery
Neal Avery
Genevieve Slappy Watkins
Roma Avery
Porter Farwell
Dob Watkins
Wayne Watkins

Creative Team

Director
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Composer & Sound Designer
Associate Director
Resident Vocal Coach
Casting Director
Stage Manager

Biographies

Cast

Mark Mozingo Mark Mozingo* (Neal Avery) Triad Stage debut. Off-Broadway: Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge (59E59 Theatres), The Hidden Sky (West End Theatre). Regional: The Foreigner (Mountain Playhouse), The Graduate (Playhouse on the Square), Take Me Out (Playhouse on the Square). Education: BFA Acting, Wright State University.
Ginny Myers Lee Ginny Myers Lee* (Taw Avery) Triad Stage: Providence GapOleanna, Brother Wolf. International: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (English Theater of Frankfurt). New York: Hamlet, Cymbeline, Misalliance, Love’s Labour’s Lost (New York Classical Theatre); Stars In A Dark Sky (Red Fern Theatre Co.); The Night Carter Was Bad (Kids With Guns at 59E59); Love of a Pig (The Cardinal Group). Regional: The Triumph of Love (The Clarence Brown Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Capital Repertory Theatre); The Shape of ThingsThe Voice of the PrairieCrimes of the Heart (Greensboro Summer Repertory); Ruth (Blue Shift Theatre Ensemble). Education: MFA in Acting, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gayton Scott Gayton Scott* (Roma Avery) Triad Stage debut. Broadway: Gypsy, starring Bernadette Peters, directed by Sam Mendes; The Women (Roundabout); Present Laughter, starring Frank Langella. Other New York credits include Abigale’s Party by Mike Leigh (The New Group); White Chocolate (The Culture Project); Indiscretions, directed by Jonathan Silverstein; The Tutor (Prospect Theatre); I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates (WET). Regional: Six Degrees of Separation, A View From the Bridge, Romeo and Juliet, Rough Crossing, A Little Night Music, Dinner With Friends, directed by Jack Hofsiss, among many others. Television: Law & Order: CI, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, The Women, Great Performances on PBS. Film: P.S. I Love You, Forbidden Love.Gayton studied acting with William Esper and is a member of the Actors Center Workshop Company.
Matthew Delaney Matthew Delaney (Porter Farwell) is an MFA Acting candidate at UNCG with a BA in Theatre Performance from Appalachian State University. Triad Stage credits include: A Christmas Carol (2010, 2011), Providence Gap and Theatre 232. Regional credits include: Peter Pan the Musical; Bye Bye Birdie; High School Musical 2; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown! and Suite Surrender (NC Premiere) at the Blowing Rock Stage Company. Educational credits include: The Threepenny Opera, Pericles, Oklahoma, Angels in America and Balm in Gilead at UNCG; Blithe Spirit, A Shayna Maidel, An Ideal Husband and The Waiting Room at ASU.
Leah Turley Leah Turley (Genevieve Slappy Watkins) Triad Stage: Providence Gap. Leah will graduate in May with her MFA in Theatre Performance from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Some of Leah’s favorite roles include: Sister Mary in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All (Theatre 232), Jolene Palmer in Self Defense (or Death of Some Salesman) (UNCG) and Lady in Orpheus Descending (UNCG).
Bill Raulerson Bill Raulerson* (Dob Watkins) Triad Stage: Bus Stop, Brother Wolf. Regional/Local: Life After Death, Barrymore (Broach Theatre). Film/TV: Santa Barbara, Footsteps (Emmy nominated series). Education: MFA, directing, UNCG. Other: local and regional directing credits include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Death Trap, Periphery.
Chris Raddatz Chris Raddatz (Wayne Watkins) Triad Stage: Masquerade. Regional/Local: End Days, Kimberly Akimbo (Paper Lantern Theatre Company); Fantastic Mr. Fox, Orpheus Descending, Oklahoma!, Bus Stop (UNCG); Little Women (NRACT). Film/TV: The Importance of Being Honest, Break a Home a House (Blu Films); The Best of Me, Will You Sing with Me? (UNCSA). Education: Senior in the BFA Acting Program at UNCG.

Creative Team

Preston Lane Preston Lane (Director) is in his 11th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 30 productions. Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is in his third year 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). As a playwright, his adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Sonoma Rep. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company and St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star and Ghosts are published by Playscripts Inc. He has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, UNCSA, 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 BFA from NCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
  Howard C. Jones (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol (2010, 2011), Around the World in 80 Days, Ghosts, Picnic, The Night of the Iguana, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Tobacco Road, Hedda Gabler (recipient of a World Stage Design 2005 honor), August Snow, A Moon for the Misbegotten,The Matchmaker and A Streetcar Named Desire. Regional: Starlight Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Missouri Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, American Heartland Theatre and NC Shakespeare Festival. UNC School of the Arts faculty member since 1996. Prior to that, founder and owner of Cobalt Studios, an apprentice painting studio in upstate New York, working for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatres across the country.
  Bill Brewer (Costume Designer) Triad Stage debut. Bill Brewer designs for theatre, ballet, opera, film and television across the country and abroad. United States: Berkley Rep; Pittsburg Ballet Theatre; American Stage; Lucas Film; Sweeny Todd, starring Jean Stapleton; Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby. Abroad: Ballet and a dance film in Paris; Ballet in Milan; designs featured in World Stage Design and Prague Quadrennial exhibits. Bill currently teaches costume design at UNCSA and is a member of United Scenic Artists 829.
  John Wolf(Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: 33 productions including the world premieres of A Christmas Carol, Bloody Blackbeard, Brother Wolf, Debunked, Beautiful Star and Providence Gap. In New York designs at Lion Theatre, Center Stage, Soho Rep, Gene Frankel Theatre, Trinity Theatre, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center. Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre. University Theatre: UNCG, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of Nebraska Opera. John is a Professor of Theatre at UNCG. Education: MFA, University of Alabama; The Julliard School of Music.
  Patrick Calhoun (Composer & Sound Designer) grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended Greensboro College for undergraduate work where he received a B.S. in Technical Theatre. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Sound Design at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has worked in theatre professionally for the Utah Festival Opera, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Theatre West Virginia and in the operations department for JHE Production Group doing events and pre-race shows for NASCAR. For Triad Stage, Patrick designed The Santaland Diaries (2010, 2011) and was the Assistant Sound Designer for Educating Rita. This year Patrick is the Sound Supervisor for Triad Stage.
  Bryan Conger (Associate Director) is the Artistic Associate at Triad Stage. Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol (2011), The Mystery of Irma Vep, Billy Bishop Goes to War and the upcoming tick, tick...BOOM! (Director); Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Director, THTR 232); A Christmas Carol (2010), Around the World in 80 Days and Ghosts (Assistant Director). UNCG: Oklahoma!, Balm in Gilead and Blind Date. Indiana University Northwest (IUN): Fashion; Or Life in New York. Other: Souvenir, Burial at Thebes, Kiss Me Kate, Little Shop of Horrors, Gypsy, Always…Patsy Cline. Education: MFA, UNCG. Bryan is currently on faculty at UNCG and Elon University.
  Christine Morris (Resident Vocal Coach) Triad Stage: Cordie Grindstaff in Providence Gap, Mme. Pernelle in Tartuffe, multiple roles in Bloody Blackbeard, Sister Aloysius in Doubt (Triad Stage at An Appalachian Summer Festival). New York: New York Shakespeare Festival; The Public Theatre; The Actors Studio. Regional: Asolo Theatre; Playmakers Rep; Archipelago Theatre; Manbites Dog; Profile Theatre (Portland, OR); The Horton Foote Festival of American Playwrights (TX); The Tennessee Williams Center (Sewanee); Stoneleaf Theatre Festival (Asheville). Film: Elephant Sighs. Vocal coaching includes Triad Stage since 2006; Broadway Previews at Duke; American Players Theatre (Spring Green, WI). Associate Professor, UNCG Department of Theatre. Memberships: Actors’ Equity Association (proud member since 1983); Screen Actors Guild; Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA).
  Cindi Rush, C.S.A. (Casting Director) New York: Silence! The Musical, My Mother’s Jewish Lesbian Wiccan Wedding (NYMF Winner 2010), Jay Alan Zimmerman’s Incredibly Deaf Musical, Bonnie and Clyde, Rooms, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons, The Thing About Men, Urinetown, The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival.Regional: Penguin Rep, Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Humanafest. Film: Ghoul, The Woman (Top 9 Sundance 2011), In the Family, Offspring,Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, Headspace.Tours: “Barney”, “Curious George”, “Kidz Bop”.Consultant for National Alliance for Musical Theatre (2004-08), Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing.
  Bree Sherry* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol (2011), A Doll House, Dial “M” for Murder, Masquerade, Steel Magnolias, The Sunset Limited. New York: Fringe Festival 2010; American Gypsy (Kraine Theatre with Magic Mouth Theatre); My Sweet Charlie (Abingdon Theatre with LXP Productions); Hollow (Dixon Place). Regional: The Cocoanuts, Smokey Joe’s Café, Chicago, Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical (Seaside Music Theater); Cinderella, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray (North Shore Music Theatre); The Servant of Two Masters, Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre). Education: BA in Technical Production and Design from Elon University, MFA in Stage Management from Yale University, School of Drama.

*Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

 

 

 

 
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