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Christine Morris* (Taw Avery) 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). |
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Steve Brady* (Neal Avery) Returned to New York City on Christmas Eve after spending 7 weeks touring Germany as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, a role he seems immanently qualified for! He’s appeared on Broadway (Inherit the Wind), in national tours (The Exonerated), in world tours (West Side Story, as Tony...just kidding, he was Doc) and at major and not so major theatres around the country. Recent work includes Richard in The Seafarer, Dr. Molineaux in The Ladies Man and Orgon in Tartuffe, as well as directing Superior Donuts at New Century Theatre in Northampton, MA. A member of Actor’s Equity since 1984, Steve’s proud to be making his Triad Stage debut. |
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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. |
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Jeffery West* (Porter Farwell) Triad Stage: Providence Gap, Ghosts, On Golden Pond, Bloody Blackbeard. Regional: True West, Death of a Salesman, King Lear, The Miser (PlayMakers); The Night Before Christmas Carol (Temple Theatre and Raleigh Ensemble Players); Angels in America (AEA Guest Artist, Duke University); How I Learned to Drive (Manbites Dog Theater). Television: All My Children, Guiding Light, Surface, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, Brookfield (pilot). Artistic Director, Raleigh Ensemble Players, 1993-1997. Faculty: UNC Greensboro, Elon University. Education: BA, College of William and Mary; MFA, University of Virginia. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1982.
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Chris Raddatz (Cody Avery) 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. |
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Leah Turley (Virginia Wilson) 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). |
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Michael Flannery* (Fontaine Belfont) Triad Stage: A Streetcar Named Desire, Tobacco Road. Regional/Local: A Flea in Her Ear (Mary McCarter Theatre), The Grapes of Wrath (UNCG Theatre). Film/TV: A Stoning in Fulham County (NBC Movie), The Price of Heaven (CBS Movie), Forrest Gump, General Hospital, In the Heat of the Night, Andersonville (TNT miniseries). Education: BS, Wake Forest University; AOS, American Academy of Dramatic Arts; MFA, University of North Carolina Greensboro. Michael is currently on the performance faculty of the UNCG Theatre Department. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
