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Josh Foldy* (Billy Bishop & Others) Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol, Doubt. Off-Broadway: Nature of Mutation (Urban Stages) and Security (The Drilling Company). Regional: Guthrie Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, Caldwell Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Players Theatre Columbus, Idaho Repertory, Playwrights Center, Alaskan Shakespeare Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, New Theatre. Television: As the World Turns. Josh teaches acting and directing at UNCG. Education: Northern Kentucky University, Yale School of Drama. |
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Jason Kraack* (Narrator/Piano Player/Musical Director) Triad Stage debut. Broadway: Les Misérables (Jean Valjean, National Tour, producer Cameron Mackintosh). Regional: Les Misérables (Arts Center of Costal Carolina, Pioneer Theatre Company, and North Shore Music Theatre); Evita and Jekyll & Hyde (Theatre Zone, Naples, FL); King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running (Winston Salem Theatre Alliance). Music Director: Les Misérables: Student Edition (Open Space Café Theatre); Sweeny Todd and Pippin (Weaver Academy); Winter Wonderettes (Winston Salem Theatre Alliance); and Kudzu! The Musical (Gallery Players of Burlington). |
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John Gray (Author & Composer) is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print. He is known best for his stage musicals and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC TV’s The Journal as well as an author, speaker and social critic on cultural- political issues. Born in Ottawa and raised in Nova Scotia, he obtained a B.A. at Mount Allison University and an M.A. at the University of British Columbia, where he founded Tamahnous Theatre and served as Director from 1971-74. He then joined Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, where he began writing and composing for the stage. In 1978 he wrote and composed Billy Bishop Goes to War, which appeared on Broadway in 1980, in London’s West End and in over 150 independent productions in Canada and the U.S. Billy Bishop appeared on television in a BBC-CBC co-production and in a German version, Billy Bishop Steig Auf. Billy Bishop Goes to War was the winner of the Governor Generals Literary Award for Drama in 1983, the Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1982, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Award in 1981. Gray was created an officer in the Order of Canada in 2000. He lives in Vancouver.
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Eric Peterson (Collaborator) was born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan in 1946, and is well known to Canadian audiences for his film and television appearances, most notably the hit CBC series Street Legal and CTV’s Corner Gas. After attending University of Saskatchewan and University of British Columbia, Petersen was a founding member of Tamahnous Theatre in 1971 and later joined Theatre Pass Muraille in Toronto. He will always be associated with his performance in the premiere and the international tour (including a Broadway run) of Billy Bishop Goes to War. He helped to revive the play for Canadian Stage in 1998 and returned to the company in October 2000, to perform in Hysteria. He recently appeared in David Young’s Clout at the National Arts Centre.
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Bryan Conger (Director) Triad Stage: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Director, Theatre 232); A Christmas Carol, 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: Burial at Thebes, Kiss Me Kate, Little Shop of Horrors, Gypsy, Always…Patsy Cline. Education: MFA Directing Candidate at UNCG.
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Nicholas Hussong (Scenic & Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: Artistic Associate of Design; MainStage: A Christmas Carol (2010), 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). |
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Andrew Landon Cutler (Costume Designer) has worked on 13 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 event at the High Point and Atlanta. 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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Cari Kreidinger (Sound Designer) Triad Stage: The Sunset Limited (Assistant Sound Designer). Educational: Booth (Production Sound Engineer). |
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Emily J. Mails* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Oleanna, Blackbeard, Mad at Miles, The Santaland Diaries (2008, 2009, 2010), 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. |
