Dracula

Dracula

A Bloodsucking Thriller
adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel
by Preston Lane
directed by Jay Putnam

September 25 – November 1, 2008

A mysterious stranger has appeared in London causing citizens to hurry home at night, lock their doors and pray for dawn. Driven by uncontrollable passions and mysteries that even science cannot explain, the living must find the strength to challenge the power of the vampire.

UpStage Cabaret
Media Sponsor
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Cast (in alphabetical order)

Renfield/Jonathan Harker/Dracula in London
Alexander Windner Lieberman
Seward/Innkeeper/Vampire #1
Josh Purvis*
Van Helsing/Dracula in Transylvania
Lee Spencer*
Lucy Westerna/Mina Harker/Vampire #2
Caitlin Watkins

Creative Team

Playwright
Preston Lane
Director
Jay Putnam
Scenic Designer
Holly Joy Griffin
Costume Designer
Ami Shupe
Lighting Designer
Kate Devine
Sound Designer
Janie Bullard
Stage Manager
Emily Mails*

Biographies

Cast

Alexander Lieberman Alexander Windner Lieberman (Renfield/Jonathan Harker/Dracula in London) Triad Stage debut! Regional/local: Sweeney Todd, Urinetown (UNC-Greensboro); Plaid Tidings (Open Space Café Theatre); Koun Kukki (Best Drama at Capitol Fringe); Parade, 42nd Street (CPCC Summer Theatre); John Gamble Dance Theatre. Film/TV: Cold Storage, commercials for Dr. Pepper and Coastal Insurance (Paradox Films). Education: BA in Theatre with a minor in dance, UNC-Greensboro. Other: Degas’ Little Dancer, Plaid Tidings (Choreographer); Contact Improvisation Workshop Instructor (Lake Eden Arts Festival).
Joshua Purvis Joshua Purvis* (Seward/Innkeeper/Vampire #1) Triad Stage: Brother Wolf, The Matchmaker. Regional: Uncle Ulysses and the Mythic Sword (THTR 232), The Country Wife, Sweeney Todd, Private Lives, Macbeth, The Foreigner, Urinetown (UNC-Greensboro). Education: MFA, UNC-Greensboro.
Lee Spencer Lee Spencer* (Van Helsing/Dracula in Transylvania) Triad Stage: The Little Foxes. Local: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, True West, The Boys Next Door (Broach Theatre). Los Angeles: Originated roles in Colin McKay’s Children of Shame and Nagasaki Dust. Film/TV: Recurring roles on One Tree Hill and The Young and the Restless; guest star roles on Without a Trace, Cold Case, Enterprise, The District, among others; supporting role in the upcoming feature Blood Done Sign My Name. Education: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC.
Caitlin Watkins Caitlin Watkins (Lucy Westerna/Mina Harker/Vampire #2) Triad Stage debut! Caitlin is a sophomore at UNC-Greensboro majoring in Studio Art and a graduate of the Weaver Academy of the Performing Arts. An emerging singer/songwriter, she wrote all of the tracks on her recent CD, Seasons. She has performed with many local musicians, including Laurelyn Dossett, Molly McGinn and Bennett Sullivan. www.myspace.com/caitlinwatkinsmusic

Creative Team

Preston Lane Preston Lane (Co-Founder & Playwright) is in his 8th season at Triad Stage, having directed over 29 productions. As a playwright, his adaptations and original works include: Hedda Gabler, Dracula, Mirandolina, and Julie’s Dance (Triad Stage); A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center), and with Laurelyn Dossett: Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, Upcoming: The Human Race Theatre Company), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage, Upcoming: WaterTower Theatre) and Bloody Blackbeard. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
Jay Putnam Jay Putnam (Director) is delighted to return to Triad Stage, where he was Artistic Associate for five years. While at Triad Stage, his directing credits included Proof, An Infinite Ache, On Golden Pond, Syncopation, and last season’s thriller Sleuth. Other favorite directing projects have included An Enemy of the People, The Real Thing, and Fool for Love. Up next for him is The Santaland Diaries, coming to The UpStage Cabaret in November and A Beautiful View at North Carolina Stage in the spring of 2009. Jay received his MFA in Directing from UNCG. He is a professor of Acting & Directing at High Point University, where he is currently directing Almost, Maine.
  Holly Joy Griffin (Set Designer) Triad Stage: The Night of the Iguana (Scenic Artist). Regional: Katanga (Busch Gardens entertainment) and multiple shows with NCSA Summer Theatre. She is a graduate student for Scenic Art at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of South Florida.
  Ami Shupe (Costume Designer) Triad Stage: An Infinite Ache. Regional: Uncle Ulysses and The Mythic Sword (THTR 232), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (TheatreWorks), The Music Man (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), Amadeus (Little Theatre of Winston-Salem). Education: BA, Berea College; MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
  Kate Devine (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: The Night of the Iguana (Assistant Lighting Design). Regional: Mere Mortals (THTR 232), Uncommon Women and Others and Paddy’s Pot (Randolph-Macon Woman’s College). Education: BFA in Theatre Design & Technology, UNC-Greensboro.
  Janie Bullard (Sound Designer) Regional: Noel Coward in Two Keys (Berkshire Theatre Festival, dir. Vivian Matalon), Eleanor, Her Secret Journey (Unicorn Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival). Winston Salem: Jekyll and Hyde (sound engineer, Winston Salem Little Theatre) Chapel Hill: Oliver! (Playmakers Repertory Company). Education: Current Sound Design MFA Candidate, North Carolina School of the Arts, BA Dramatic Art UNC Chapel Hill. 
  Emily Mails* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: “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, UNC-Greensboro.

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

 

 

 

 
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