Ohio University Players  -  2008 Momomoy Theatre Company

The Ohio University Players in Residence since 1958

The Fund For Monomoy

 

ALAN RUST (Artistic Director) received his graduate degree from Ohio University in 1973.  He has continued a professional acting career in theatres throught the country including The Hartford Stage Company, the Cleveland Playhouse, The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Stage West, The Northern Stage Company, The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and the Monomoy Theatre where he has served as artistic director for the past 27 years.  He has directed in universities and professional theatres in the U.S as well as Sydney Australia, Goteborg Sweden, Birmingham England, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  He has held positions at The University of Washington, The State University of New York at Purchase, The University of Detroit, The North Carolina School for the Arts, where he served as Dean, The University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and the University of Hartford where he is Dire3ctor of the Theatre Division of the Hartt School.  He has worked with the International Theatre Institute in Istanbul, Turkey and the former Soviet Union.  He is a founding member of the World Training Institute established in Vienna, Austria and served as President of the National Theatre Conference for three years.  During his 35 years at the Monomoy Theatre, he has preformed or directed 150 plays.  Last fall he appeared as John Handcock in the musical 1776 at the Goodspeed Opera House.

 

KYLE BRAND (Choreographer) is honored to be performing and choreographing for Monomoy this summer! He is currently pursuing his BFA in Musical Theatre at the Hartt School in Hartford, Connecticut and has enjoyed being in their productions of On the Town, The Real Thing, and Merrily We Roll Along.  Other great experiences include Ragtime (National Thespian Cast), and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.  He is also a founding trustee of the Sandbox Theatre Company in California.

 

NICK DEMARCO is going into his second year as an actor training student at the Hartt School of Music.  Raised in Honeoye Falls, NY, he attended one year at SUNY Fredonia.  Recent credits include Seymour, Little Shop of Horrors, Nathan Detroit, Guys and Dolls, The Narrator, Into the Woods, Albert, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.  In his spare time he enjoys singing, drawing, and socializing whenever he can.  He is excited to be working this summer for the Monomoy Theatre.

 

MATT FAUCHER is from New Hartford, Connecticut and is a recent graduate from the Hartt School of Theatre with a BFA in Acting.  He is excited about returning to the Monomoy Theatre.  You may remember him from the 2007 Monomoy season where he played Nestor le Fripe in Irma la Douce and Tony Kirby in You Can’t Take It With You.  Recently he performed Macbeth in rep. with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where he played Macbeth and Puck.

 

ANDY FELT is from sunny southern California where he earned his BA in Acting at CSU San Bernardino.  He is currently entering his last year in Ohio University’s MFA Directing Program.  Some of his favorite roles include Creon in Antigone, Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night, Rueben/Joseph Understudy in Joseph and the Amazing…at the California Theater, and the title role in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown  for the Redlands Theater Company.

 

CASIHA FELT just finished her first year in Ohio University’s MFA Professional Actor Training Program.  She is from Riverside, California and has her BA in Acting from Cal State University San Bernardino.  She has been in such productions as Ophelia Thinks Harder, Into The Woods, Othello, Charles Smith’s Knock Me A Kiss, and the world premiere of Rickerby Hind’s Hip Hop Opera, Keep Hedz Ringin.

 

JESSE GRAHAM hails from Crossville, TN where she spent most of her formative years onstage at the Cumberland Co. Playhouse.  She went on to receive her BA in Theatre from the University of TN, Knoxville—Go VOLS! -- and has spent the last 8 years performing in regional theatres and touring companies across the US.  She is thrilled to currently be in her first year at Ohio University, diligently working towards her MFA in Acting.  Her major interests include perfecting her craft and mastering the mandolin.

 

GEORGIA GUY is an MFA Acting student at Ohio University.  Originally from Alabama, she graduated from Troy University with degrees in Music Education and Theatre.  She was recognized as an Irene Ryan Finalist by KG/ACTF Region IV, and was awarded an Honorable Mention by the KC/ACTF National Committee for her work in Lee Blessing’s Two Rooms.  She holds membership in several national Theatre and Music organizations.  She now resides in Athens with her husband, Traveis.

 

ADAM JONES of Ohio University is delighted on returning to Monomoy Theatre.  In spring, Adam studied in London and Prague, Czech Republic to perform an original piece with Lime House Theater Collective at the Prague International Fringe Festival. Recent works include The Hallucinogenic Toreador, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive, and Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation.  Past Monomoy appearances include Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream  and Jo Jo in Irma la Douce.

 

KYLE METZGER was born in St. Louis, MO and lives in Mystic, CT.  He is currently completing his B.F.A. in Music Theatre at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, Class of 2009.  He was most recently seen performing in Macbeth (Malcolm), and She Loves Me (Ladislav Sipos).  He is very excited to be spending the summer in Chatham, and working with all the talented actors, directors and staff at Monomoy.

 

SHILOH MORGENSTERN (Asst to the Chef) joins us from her hometown in Williamstown, WV.  She currently is a senior at Ohio University and a Sophomore performance major in the School of Theatre there.  She is joining us for her second year at Monomoy; last year she was a first hand in the costume shop, but has also been inching her way onto the Monomoy stage as the girl next door (scene changer) in Steel Magnolias, an ensemble member in “The 50^th Anniversary Gala” and as Mustardseed the Fairy in A Midsummer Nights Dream.  Her interests include any and all kind of art, dance, music, fashion, and FUN!  She is a politically charged person, a feminist, an environmentalist, and finds her main interest in activist theatre.  This year she is over-elated to be joining us as the assistant chef and as an actor.

 

TOM MORIN is a native of Greenland, New Hampshire and a recent graduate from the College of the Holy Cross with a B.A. in Theatre and Political Science.  He is a second-year M.F.A. Acting candidate at Ohio University.  Recent credits include: Friar Bonaventura in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Hanschen in Spring Awakening, Malcolm in MacBeth, Dauphin in Henry V, Bobby Strong in Urinetown, and Maurice in Good (2007 NETC Moss Hart Award for Best College Production).

 

ANDREW NORRIS (Asst Stage Manager) is really excited to be working at Monomoy Theatre this summer.  He is from Worthington, Ohio and has just finished his freshman year at Ohio University.  Some past credits have included: Paul Sycamore in You Can’t Take it With You, Rogers in Ten Little Indians, and Lurvy in Charlottes Web, Assistant Stage Managing credits have included Spring Awakening and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.

 

CASEY PREDOVIC is from Nyack, New York and will be a senior acting major at The North Carolina School of the Arts; Balm in Gilead (Tig), Henry IV (Earl of Douglas), Dead Man Walking (Walter), the Maids (Madame), American Clock (Lee), Home of the Brave (Finch).  He is proud to be a Monomoy company member this year.  His previous appearances here include: Malcolm in Macbeth, Oscy in Summer of “42”, Dodger in Oliver, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Artie in Lost in Yonkers, as well as Oklahoma, On Golden Pond, All My Sons, Peter Pan, The Nerd, The Corn is Green, Henry V, Once in a Lifetime, Life With Father, As you Like It, Inherit the Wind, Our Town, Androcles and the Lion, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Taming of the Shrew, Solid Gold Cadillac, and the Tribute to Julie Harris.

 

TYLER ROLLINSON (Asst Propmaster) is a native of Cincinnati, OH, and is a member of Ohio University’s School of theater’s Senior Acting Studio.  He has previously been seen in the School of Theater’s Production of Knock Me a Kiss, playing the role of Jimmy Lunceford, Spring Awakening, playing the role of Melchior Gabor, as well as Time of Your Life (Wesley), The Conference of the Birds Project, and Adding Machine.  He is ecstatic to be a part of the Monomoy Theatre.

 

EMILY RYAN (Asst Stage Manager) is a Senior BFA Theater Performance Major at Ohio University.  Ohio University credits include The Time of Your Life (Lorene), The Conference of the Birds, the world premiere of Merri Biechler’s Real Girls Can’t Win!, Macbeth (Baron Candor), Spring Awakening (Thea), and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore! (Putana).  Outside of OU she has worked with Cincinnati Young People’s Theater and Ohio Valley Summer Theater.  She received an Award of Merit in 2006 for excellence in acting as Witch Izwtich in Beechmont Player’s Let Your Hair Down Rapunzel! from the Association of Community Theatre (ACT).  She would like to thank her family for all their love and support.

 

KATIE SKELTON will begin her Senior year at Ohio University where she will receive a B.F.A. in acting.  Through OU, she has been in productions of The Comedy of Errors, Real Girls Can’t Win! and Four Dogs and a Bone.  Last summer she appeared in The Music Man, with the Ohio Valley Summer Theater in Athens.  Most recently, she appeared in the 2008 Prague Fringe Festival with the new Lime House Theater Collective.  This past  quarter, Katie spent a wonderful two months studying in London, but is thrilled to be back and a part of this year’s Monomoy company!

 

KRISTEN SHRILLA is going into her junior year at Ohio University, and is absolutely thrilled to be spending her summer with the Monomoy Theater!  She was most recently seen in Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Nell Gwynn) and Macbett (1^st Sick Man/Ensemble) with the OU School of Theater, as well as Urinetown, the Musical (Hope Cladwell) and Deathtrap (Helga tenDorp) with OU’s student-run theater organization.  She would like to thank Mom, Dad, and Mack for their constant love and support.

 

DAN TOOT is here for his second summer at the Monomoy, and he couldn’t be happier!  He was seen last year as Sergeant Towers in See How They Run, and singing with three other gentlemen in The Quartet for My Fair Lady.  Hailing from Wellsville, New York, he is an Actor Training B.F.A. candidate from The Hartt School in Hartford, CT.  Other favorites, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, and Gareth O’Donnell (private) in Philadelphia, Here I Come!

 

SCOT WEST recent roles include professional credits in such plays as Death of a Salesman, SantaLand Diaries, Boy Gets Girl, Moon over Buffalo and Twelfth Night (among others), as well as several appearances in the esteemed Iowa New Play Festival.  He just completed his first year at Ohio University’s MFA Acting Program, where he appeared in Rabbit Hole and Compleat Female Stage Beauty and will next be seen in Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge in the fall.

 

MICHAEL BOONE (Technical Director) is a MFA student in Ohio University’s Technical Direction program.  He has just finished an internship with Actors Theater of Louisville where he served as an ATD for the Humana Festival and as the TD for the Ten Minute Play series presented during that festival.  He is glad to be joining Monomoy for its 2008 summer season.

 

CHELSEA CLARK (Propmaster) has been involved in the technical aspects of theater most of her life.  She has served in the prop shop of Ohio University, and has just recently finished doing hair and make-up for the Spring line up of Ohio University’s School of Theater.  She has been repairing guitars for over five years, and has been featured in Guitar Player Magazine’s repair articles as a member of the Mod Squad.  During the summers she repairs houses and builds sets.  She has just finished her Bachelors of Specialized Studies focusing on theater, world history and religion.  She brings her knowledge to everything she does and is excited to present the best to you.

 

KENT CUBBAGE (Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, Sound) just finished his first year as a lighting design MFA at Ohio University, where he designed How I Learned to Drive and Inherit the Whole as well as several other projects. While earning his BA at Grinnell College, he designed many theatrical and dance pieces.  He has also designed professionally for New Jersey Shakespeare Theater, companies in Tallahassee and Grinnell, and venues in Chicago. After graduate school, he intends to pursue a design career in New York.

 

DeDe FARRELL (Set Designer) is a third year M.F.A. candidate at the North Carolina School of the Arts studying stage and Film props.  She received her Scenic Design B.F.A in 2003 from the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign.  She has worked for professional companies such as Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and the Utah Shakespearean Festival.  Recent credits include: Nutcracker for the High Point Ballet, Die Fledermaus for the Piedmont Opera and Trojan Woman for NCSA.

 

LEAH MARIE HUELS (Costume Designer) is from Pilot Mountain, North Carolina and a rising third year student at North Carolina School of the Arts, majoring in Costume Design.  In the past two years she has stitched in multiple productions at school and has been the assistant designer for the Game of Love and Oklahoma!  When I’m not busy with school work, I also enjoy painting, singing, photography and Abc.com.

 

IAN W. KING (Lighting Designer, Master Electrician, Sound), a native of northern Ohio, is a recent BFA graduate of Ohio University’s School of Theater.  This is his first season with the Monomoy Theatre Company.  His work has taken him far, ranging from assisting Michael Lincoln on The Pearl Fishers at the Madison Opera, to designing solo in Citta della Pieve this past summer. Some of his past design credits include: Bodies of War; Annika Gold, Factory Street Spring Dancer Concert, A Night of Comedy (OU Opera), Rabbit Hole, Il Sogno di una Notte di Mezza Estate (Citta della Pieve, Italy), Real Girls Can’t Win, Hansel and Gretel (OU Opera).  Primarily a theatrical lighting designer, his interests and work include lighting for: architecture, dance, opera, film and video.  He would like to thank his family, friends, and –M for all their guidance and support over the years.

 

LINDSEY McKEE (Costume Technician) is a first year costuming student at North Carolina School of the Arts.  She had always adored the fiber arts and sewing, so costume design and technology was an easy choice as a career.  She has a wide range of unique skills that include knitting, weaving, dyeing and Irish dancing.

 

KATY MEEHAN (Set Designer) spent her childhood in Santa Fe, NM, surrounded by a flourishing art community.  As a self proclaimed Jill-of-all-trades, she has spent time as a portrait artist, tattoo artist, furniture maker, and graphic designer, as well as a scenic designer.  She is currently seeking a BFA in Scenic Design from the North Carolina School of the Arts, where she most recently designed the set for Euripides’ Trojan Women.

 

ILANA MOSKOWITZ (Asst Box Office/Asst Business Mgr) hails from Georgetown, Massachusetts and currently attends The Hartt School for Actor Training.  She has been involved in productions of Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), Our Town (Mrs. Webb), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena).  She is very excited to be joining the Monomoy team this summer.

 

KEVIN MULRY (Chef) you may remember as “One Honest Man” or his role as a “G-Man” in last year’s performances, however that was just good acting.  He was actually born in Maplewood, NJ and spent his summers at the Jersey shore.  He attended Gettysburg College and earned a BA in Studio Art and completed his Spanish studies in Sevilla, Spain.  After a six month sabbatical from life in the jungles of Costa Rica, he began his adventurous journey in the culinary world.  His gift for the love of food has allowed him to travel the world and there is still so much to see.

 

CHRISTINA RENE POLHEMUS (Costume Designer) attends the North Carolina School of the Arts where she has worked on various shows as a stitcher and assistant costume designer.  Some of these include The Game of Love, Gem of the Ocean, and The Trojan Women.  She is a New York native who loves drawing, sewing, and reading.  Her favorite design work so far has been productions of Ragtime and Sweeny Todd performed in her home town.  She is excited to have this opportunity to work at Monomoy Theatre and wishes the Cast and Crew luck on all this summer’s performances.

 

J.P. POLITZ (Carpenter) is a Junior at Ohio University.  This is his second season as a carpenter with the Monomoy Theatre.  He is in his second year in OU’s performance program.  He has been in shows such as The Passion of Dracula, Ordinary People, Macbett, and most recently Compleat Female Stage Beauty.

 

SHANNON STEERE (Carpenter) is going into her third year at Ohio University as a BFA Production and Design Technology major.  She is excited to spend her summer on Cape Cod and gain new experiences with great people.  She would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support.  She would also like to wish everyone to break a leg!

 

G. WARREN STILES (Set Designer) is happy to be a part of this year’s Monomoy team.  He is currently in his second year in the Ohio University MFA program.  Originally from Tennessee, where he received his bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University, he came to Ohio after working as a freelance scenic and lighting designer in Chicago for five years.  While in Chicago, he worked for such companies as the House Theatre of Chicago, The Vittum Theater and Redmoon.  His upcoming projects include the Ohio University’s production of Blue Surge and The Tempest next season.

 

DANIELLE WALTERS (Production Stage Manager) is entering her third year as a BFA Stage Management major at Ohio University.  She is looking forward to the experiences that she will gain from this season at Monomoy, and wishes to thank her friends and family for their love and support.

 

CANDICE WUEHLE (Box Office Manager) is a recent graduate in English from the University of Iowa.  She plans to pursue a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at Miami University next fall.  She is thrilled to be spending the summer on the Cape.

 

NORA CHESTER returns for her 18^th consecutive season directly from performing in Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York.  Last season at Monomoy, she directed Steel Magnolias and appeared as Marthy in Anna Christie and Penny in You Can’t Take it With You.  She spent the winter performing as a company member with TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) in NYC as well as in several developmental readings of new plays.  Her credits at Monomoy include Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Stage Manager in Our Town, Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba, Kate in All My Sons, Mrs. Banks in Barefoot in the Park, Mag in The Beauty Queen of Lennane, Laura Partridge in The Solid Gold Cadillac, the R.N. in The Sunshine Boys, and Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.  She has appeared in resident theatres across the US including The Long Wharf, The McCarter, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Alliance, The Alley, Delaware Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, GeVa, and The Philadelphia Theatre Festival of New Plays.

 

BERNARD CORNWELL is returning for a third season for Monomoy Theatre, following his appearances in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  He was born in Britain, acted with London University’s Dramatic Society, spent a decade as a television producer and then became a novelist.  Cupid’s arrow brought him to the US where, failing to get a Green Card, he wrote a novel, since when he has written 45 others.  His Sharpe series, starring Sean Bean, was televised in Britain and shown in America on Masterpiece Theatre.  He and his wife, Judy, live in Chatham.

 

SHELLEY DELANEY (Director) is head of the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University, and is happy to return to Monomoy having appeared in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Macbeth and You Can’t Take It With You.  She has a wide range of regional and NYC acting credits including work at McCarter, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Victory Gardens, GeVa, Capital Rep, Delaware Theatre Company, Bay Street Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, La Mama, Circle Rep Lab, and many others.  She most recently directed Knock Me a Kiss at the OU School of Theater and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild.

 

SCOTT HAMILTON was born and raised in Iowa.  He left the farmlands to tour for fifteen years with the Covenant Players Repertory Theatre Company out of Los Angeles, CA.  While there he met and married his lovely bride, Kathy in a romance that was literally born on stage.  For the last fifteen years he has been a wash-ashore here in Kathy’s hometown of Chatham where they are raising Emily (17) and Matthew (15) and where he can be seen appearing daily at Chatham Jewelers.

 

JULIE HARRIS made her Broadway debut in 1945 and  has starred in more than thirty productions on the New York stage.  She has received five Tony Awards, the most ever won by an actor, as well as a sixth Tony for life time achievement.  She also was nominated five other times.  Nominated for an Oscar in 1952 for her screen debut in A Member of the Requiem for a Heavyweight, Harper; The People Next Door; Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Haunting, Housesitter and most recently, Chatham.  Her notable TV appearances have garnered her eleven Emmy nominations, winning three times.  Her longest and best known TV role was Lillimae Clements on the CBS series Knots Landing.  Her other TV credits include Ethan Frome, The Lark, Pygmalion, A Doll’s House, Johnny Belinda and The Christmas Wife.  Among her many other awards, she was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005.

 

HOLLY HOLCOMB is thrilled to be in Chatham this summer!  Last year she was delighted to play Eliza in My Fair Lady and Irma in Irmal la Deuce.  Other favorites on the Monomoy stage include Laurie in Oklahoma!, Kate in Kiss Me Kate, Dorothy in Summer of ’42 and Nellie in South Pacific.  Some credits not in Chatham include Of Thee I Sing—Encores! At the New York City Center; A Man With a Load of Mischief directed by Mr. Michael Montel at the York Theatre Co.; the National Tour of Grease and Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City.

 

FRANCESCA JAMES (Director) has five daytime Emmy Awards and was the first person in the history of daytime drama to travel the distance from acting to directing to Executive Producing, receiving several nominations in all three disciplines.  She began her professional life acting in the theatre.  After Carnegie-Mellon University, she worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theatre.  As a young girl, she began a lifelong friendship with Julie Harris who became the greatest creative influence of her life.

 

REBECCA KUBASKA is thrilled to be joining the wonderful cast and crew of Monomoy Theatre.  A native Rhode Islander, she recently graduated from the BFA Music Theatre program at the Hartt School.  Some of her favorite roles include Hildy in On the Town, Little Becky Two-Shoes in Urinetown, Ruby in Dames at Sea, and Woman 3 in Tales From the Bad Years, performed this past January in the Festival of New Artists at Goodspeed Musicals.  She is so grateful to have been given this wonderful opportunity to share the magic of live theatre on the Cape.

 

BILL KUX returns to Monomoy after having appeared in Noises Off and The Dresser.  He has been seen on Broadway in Ain’t Broadway Grand and Off-Broadway in Endpapers, Summer of ’42, The Philanthropist, Baby With the Bathwater and Absent Friends.  He has performed at regional theaters throughout the country (Yale, Seattle, Louisville, Arena Stage, Long Wharf) and many times at Hartford Stage most shamelessly as “Mrs. Dilber” in their annual Christmas Carol.  He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

 

DARRIE LAWRENCE is very  happy to return to Chatham and Monomoy Theatre where she has appeared in many productions.  Recent credits include the National Tour of Doubt and Eccentricities of a Nightingale in NYC at the Clurman Theatre.  Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba; Buried Child; Steel Magnolias.  Off-Broadway: The Other Side (Manhattan Theatre Club); Portraits (Union Square) Everybody’s Ruby (Public); La Ronde (Ohio). Regional: the Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Foreigner (Salt Lake City); Three Tall Women (Syracuse); Angels in America (Buffalo); Retreat From Moscow, Ten Little Indians, Dancing at Lugnasa (St. Louis); Night of the Iguana (Denver); Our Town (Cincinnati); Seascape, Harvey (Cleveland); Twelfth Night (Utah); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Geneva, NY); The Importance of Being Earnest (Ithaca).  Film/TV: Hitch, August Rush, Kettle of Fish, Third Watch, various soaps.  She has an MFA from Penn State University and is a member of AEA and TACT.

 

TERRY LAYMAN (Director) directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and played Grandpa in You Can’t Take It With You last summer at Monomoy.  This winter he appeared Off-Broadway as Ernest Hemingway in the premiere of The Maddening Truth.  His Broadway credits include Twelve Angry men, Proof, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan and The Rehearsal.  He has worked extensively Off-Broadway and at regional theaters from Florida to Alaska.  He played in Continental Divide at the Barbican in London and at the Birmingham Rep (UK).  He was Ellen Burstyn’s son in Trip To Bountiful, Geraldine Page’s nephew in The Little Foxes and toured in the country with Eva Le Gallienne in The Royal Family.  He was George Washington in the Mel Gibson film, The Patriot.  Television credits include: Ed, many appearances on Law and Order and Special Victims Unit and as judges and doctors (many corrupt) on the daytime soap operas.  He lives in NJ with his wife, actress Ellen Fiske (OU ’72).

 

LOU MALOOF is ecstatic to be back for his 12^th season with the great Monomoy Theatre, especially since he’ll get to beat a bass drum and sing a solo in Guys and Dolls.  He is grateful to Alan and Michael for their confidence in his drum beating and song belting ability.  He lives year-round in North Chatham with his wife of 52 years, contralto Carole Buttner Maloof and their golden retrievers, Carrie and Jack.

 

RICHARD MANGAN (Director) joined the National Theatre in 1967 where he worked as an actor, stage manager, director and administrator.  He was lucky enough to have worked with some of British theatre’s great names including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins, Peggy Ashcroft, Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright.  He has been Head of Stage Management Training at the Rose Bruford College and the Guildhall School of Music.  For the past twenty years he has been the Director of the Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection, one of the UK’s most important theatre archives.  He is the editor of Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters.  Last season he was Colonel Pickering in Monomoy’s production of My Fair Lady.

 

MICHAELJOHN McGANN (Director) (Ohio University, ’73) is pleased to be working with The Ohio University Players at the Monomoy Theatre once more, a habit first developed in 1972!  He has appeared here and directed often in many summers, including co-directing with Julie Harris oldfriends.com with Pat Carroll and Patricia Conolly in 2004.  In 2005 he directed How to Succeed in Business…and was Al Lewis in The Sunshine Boys, in 2006 he was seen in the Noel Coward revue, A Marvelous Party, and last season he directed My Fair Lady