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REDSHIRTS The Artists LOU BELLAMY LOU BELLAMY (DIRECTOR & PRODUCER) is the founder and artistic director of Penumbra Theatre. Under his leadership, Penumbra has produced 23 world premieres, including August Wilson's first professional production, and is proud to have produced more of Mr. Wilson's plays than any theater in the world. Mr. Bellamy is an OBIE Award-winning director, an accomplished actor, and sought-after scholar. He has been a member of the University of Minnesota's faculty for 32 years and is currently appointed to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. Recent directing credits include Black Pearl Sings!, Radio Golf, Fences and The Piano Lesson at Penumbra, A Raisin in the Sun and Gem of the Ocean, Penumbra productions staged at the Guthrie, Two Trains Running at the Signature Theatre in New York, Jitney at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company, and the staged reading of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Kennedy Center.DOMINIC TAYLOR DOMINIC TAYLOR
(ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR) is a director,
playwright and the head of
Penumbra's OKRA New
Play Development Program.
Most recently, Mr. Taylor
directed Black Nativity: A Season for Change
at Penumbra. Other select directing credits
include the new opera Fresh Faust at the Institute
of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Negroes
Burial Ground at the Kitchen, N.Y.C., Uppa
Creek at Dixon Place, and Ride The Rhythm in
the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival. He is an assistant
professor at the University of Minnesota where
he has directed The Wiz, Night Train To Bolina
and this spring will direct Execution of Justice.
Mr. Taylor has worked with Crossroads Theater,
Rites and Reasons Theatre, Goodman Theatre,
Steppenwolf Theatre, The Public Theatre, New
York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons,
and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others.
He is an alumni member of New Dramatists
and holds a Bachelor's and a Master of Fine Arts
Degree from Brown University.
DANA YEATON DANA YEATON
(Playwright) is the
recipient of the
“New Voice in
American Theatre”
award from the
William Inge
Theatre Festival.
His short play Helen
At Risk won the
Heideman Award from the Actor’s
Theatre of Louisville and his full-length
drama Mad River Rising received the
Moss Hart Award. For ten years he was
playwright-in-residence at Vermont
Stage Company, which produced his
original plays JUMP CUT, Mad River
Rising and The Big Random. They also
premiered his adaptation of Midwives,
Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times
best-selling novel. Midwives has been
produced in North Carolina, Arizona,
Tennessee, New Hampshire, and, most
recently, at Round House Theatre in
Bethesda, MD. He was founding
director of Vermont Young Playwrights
Project, and of the Addison Repertory
Theatre, a full-day, vocational theatre
program for high school students. Dana
lives with his wife, Frankie, in Vermont
and teaches at Middlebury College.RONALD ALOIS SCHULTZ RONALD ALOIS
SCHULTZ
(Stage Manager) has
been working as an
actor, stage manager,
production assistant,
and sound board
operator in the Twin
Cities since 1992. A
company member of
Penumbra Theatre, Ron has worked on
over 60 productions at Penumbra including
Jitney, Stage Directions, and the 2006
production of Ain’t Misbehavin’. He has
also worked on productions at Mixed
Blood, Illusion, Eye of the Storm,
Fitzgerald, Pantages, Frank, and
Alchemy theatres. Ron was the company
manager of Pillsbury House Theatre’s
touring production Breaking Ice in 2003
and 2004 and was the assistant stage
manager for the Carlson Honors 2005
Awards for the Carlson Company at the
State Theatre. He provided technical
support for Roxanne Wallace’s Evolution
of a Soul Sista at Patrick’s Cabaret and
designed the set for Riff Raff at Pillsbury
House (2006). Ron is currently pursuing
his B.A. in Social Science and his
Secondary Teacher Licensure at
Metropolitan State University.JAMES T. ALFRED JAMES T. ALFRED
(Cory) recently appeared at
Penumbra in REDSHIRTS.
He also performed in
Penumbra's co-production,
with Kansas City Rep and
Arizona Theatre Company, of August
Wilson's Jitney. Other credits include
To Kill a Mockingbird at Kansas City Rep
and Arizona Theatre Company, Conversations
on a Dirt Road and Killing Me Softly at the
ETA Creative Arts Foundation in Chicago,
Sundown Names at the Chicago Theatre
Company, and Romeo and Juliet at the
American Repertory Theatre. Film and
television credits include Fox's Prison Break
and the film One Week. He is a graduate
of the Institute for Advanced Theatre
Training at Harvard University, and he holds a Master of Fine Arts in acting from
the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia.JAMES CRAVEN JAMES CRAVEN
(ABE)
is a long-time
Penumbra Theatre
company member.
Select credits at
Penumbra include
Fences, The Piano
Lesson, Penumbra's production of Gem
of the Ocean presented at the Guthrie
Theater, Get Ready, Zooman and the
Sign, Grandchildren of the Buffalo
Soldiers and REDSHIRTS, co-produced
with Round House Theatre. He also
performed at Kansas City Repertory
Theater and Arizona Theater Company
in their joint production of Jitney.
James is a 2005 recipient of the Spenser
Cherashore Fund and was awarded a
2007 McKnight Fellowship.KIMBERLY GILBERT KIMBERLY
GILBERT
(Tori) hails from
Washington, D.C.,
and this performance
marks her Twin
Cities debut. In
D.C., she has
performed in
Nutshell in the
Capital Fringe Festival, Cardenio Found
with Taffety Punk Theatre Company, and
Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis with
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
She received the 2007 Helen Hayes Lead
Actress Nomination for her role as
“Brenda-Marie” in Martha, Josie and the
Chinese Elvis. Kimberly is a company
member with Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company. She is also a company member
with Taffety Punk Theatre Company.
She received an MFA at the Academy
For Classical Acting with the
Shakespeare Theatre Company at George
Washington University.CEDRIC MAYS CEDRIC MAYS
(Citizen Barlow)
recently performed in Penumbra's
production of REDSHIRTS. Other
credits include starring in Blue/Orange as
Christopher, directed by Jeremy Skidmore,
and Insurrection: Holding History as T.J.,
directed by Timothy Douglas, both at
Theater Alliance in Washington, D.C.WILL SALLEE WILL SALLEE
(Dale Mayo) is
making his
Penumbra Theatre
Company debut in
REDSHIRTS. A
graduate from
Hamline University
in St. Paul, he
performed in several
main stage productions there including
The Duchess of Malfi, Into the Woods, and
Until Someone Wakes Up.KIMBERLY SCHRAF KIMBERLY
SCHRAF
(Dr. Audrey Yantz)
welcomes this
opportunity to
collaborate with
Penumbra Theatre
and take in St. Paul
at the same time.
At home, in
Washington, D.C., she has been a proud
member of that vibrant theatre community
for over twenty years. Her most
recent productions have been Going to St.
Ives at Everyman Theatre, Baltimore; A
Prayer for Owen Meany at Round House
Theatre, Bethesda; and productions of
Frozen and Crestfall at The Studio
Theatre. In addition, she has worked at
Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Arena Stage,
Ford’s Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Television appearances include Homicide:
Life on the Streets. She narrates books on
tape and is a graduate of St. John’s
College, Annapolis.REGINA MARIE WILLIAMS REGINA MARIE
WILLIAMS
(Dr. Charlene
Bigelow) most
recently performed
in Lady Day at
Emerson’s Bar and
Grill at The
Milwaukee Rep’s
Stackner. She has
performed at the Guthrie in The Falls,
The People’s Temple, She Loves Me, Oedipus,
Crowns and Yellowman, a Guthrie/Mixed
Blood Theater co-production, directed by
Marion McClinton. Productions at Mixed
Blood include Two Queens One Castle and
The Dance on Widow’s Row. As a company
member of Penumbra Theatre, she has
been seen in Seven Guitars, Two Trains
Running, Love Song for Ms Lydia, Louie and
Ophelia and more. Her performance as
Dinah in Penumbra’s Dinah Was prompted
her to record “Regina is…the songs of
Dinah Washington,” produced by
Sanford Moore of Moore by Four. Her
most recent CD, “Feel the Spirit,” was
co-produced with Gary Hines of the
Grammy Award-winning Sounds of
Blackness of which she is a former
member. Regina is a McKnight Theater
Artist of the Year 2006-2007.AHANTI YOUNG AHANTI YOUNG
(Curtis Combs) is an
actor, percussionist,
and spoken word
artist. His professional
theater experiences
date back to the early
1990s, where he
made his debut on
the Penumbra
Theatre stage in the production of Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom. Ahanti has been seen in several Penumbra productions
since, including The Day The Bronx Died,
Geneva Cottrell - Waiting for the Dog to
Die, Jitney, Black Eagles, Darker Face of
The Earth, Two Trains Running and most
recently Zooman and the Sign. Other
venues include Alchemy Theater, African
American Heritage Ensemble (international),
Ten Thousand Things Theater,
The Great American History Theatre,
Sirius B Artist Collective and the
Guthrie Theater. More recent ventures
have led Ahanti to Musical/Theatrical/
Poetic artist collective, Edupoetic
Enterbrainment (EPE) and Critical
Interdisciplinary Collaborative, In
The Belly. Ahanti is also a freelance
instructor and has several affiliations
with schools, programs and community
centers throughout Minnesota.C. LANCE BROCKMAN C. LANCE BROCKMAN
(SCENIC DESIGNER) is a
faculty member of the
Department of Theatre and
Dance at the University
of Minnesota. With
this production, he
has designed seven shows for Penumbra
including On the Open Road, Rollin' on the
T.O.B.A., Ain't Misbehavin', REDSHIRTS,
Get Ready and Fences. Mr. Brockman's
research interest is in historic scenic painting
used to create illusionary scenery for opera
houses, vaudeville and fraternal stages. He
teaches master classes on the historical
painting methods utilized by scenic artists
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century at universities across the country.MARTIN GWINUP MARTIN GWINUP
(SOUND & VIDEO DESIGNER)
is an associate professor in
the Theatre Arts and Dance
Department at the University
of Minnesota. He teaches audio
and video technology, design
and production. He has also worked in the Twin
Cities area as a freelance sound and video designer
and technician for 18 years. Martin has worked
for the Frank Theatre, History Theatre, Children's
Theatre Company, Cricket Theatre and Eye of the
Storm. Select design credits at Penumbra include
REDSHIRTS, Get Ready, Blue, Black Nativity - A
Celebration of Family, A Celebration for the Soul...
Testify! and Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers.
MICHELLE HABECK MICHELLE
HABECK
(LIGHTING DESIGNER)
has designed
for Penumbra
Theatre, Goodman
Theatre, Guthrie
Theater, Baltimore's
CenterStage, and Alliance Theatre, among
others. She has worked as associate to
Tony Award-winning designer Donald
Holder on Julie Taymor's Opera Grendel;
Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theatre
and Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles;
and on Broadway stage plays and musicals
including Movin' Out, King Hedley II
and The Boy From Oz. Ms. Habeck was
honored with the National Endowment
for the Arts/Theatre Communications
Group Career Development Grant for
2003-04. She is on the faculty at the
University of Texas at Austin in the
Department of Theatre and Dance.
MATHEW J. LEFEBVRE MATHEW J.
LeFEBVRE
(COSTUME DESIGNER)
has designed costumes
for several Penumbra
Theatre productions
including Fences,
REDSHIRTS,
Get Ready, Grandchildren of the Buffalo
Soldiers, On the Open Road, Black Eagles,
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Jitney, and
both Scenery and Costumes for Gem of
the Ocean. Off Broadway credits include
costumes for Two Trains Running at
Signature Theatre—Lortel winner, best
revival of a play, AUDELCO nominee,
best costumes—and Bach at Leipzig for
New York Theatre Workshop. Mr. LeFebvre
has designed costumes for the Guthrie
Theater, The Acting Company, The
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Kansas
City Rep, Arizona Theatre Company,
Trinity Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune,
Geffen Playhouse, Mixed Blood Theatre
and American Players Theatre.KALERE A. PAYTON KALERE A. PAYTON
(COSTUME DESIGNER) designed
costumes for Penumbra
Theatre's The Whipping Man.
Other costume design credits
include The Wiz and A Bright
Room Called Day for The
University of Minnesota as well as The Producing
House's Power Balladz and Park Square Theatre's
Othello. Ms. Payton was the Assistant Costume
Designer for several Penumbra productions
including Get Ready, REDSHIRTS, Fences, Radio
Golf and Black Nativity: A Season For Change.
She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre
Arts with an emphasis on Costume Design and
Technology from the University of Minnesota.JULIANA PETERSON JULIANA
PETERSON
(Assistant Scene
Design) graduated
from the University
of Minnesota in May
2007. Recently, she
worked as scene
design assistant for
Sherlock’s Last Case on
the Minnesota Centennial Showboat. This
summer, she also directed a play in the
Bedlam Theatre’s Ten-Minute Play
Festival and stage managed Come and Get
It at the Open Eye Figure Theatre. She
works as a stage manager and backstage
hand at the Ted Mann Concert Hall, and
as a freelance theatre artist.STEPHANIE LEIN WALSETH STEPHANIE LEIN
WALSETH (August Wilson Fellow) is an M.A./Ph.D. candidate in Theatre Historiography at the University of Minnesota. Previously, she served as the Managing Director of Mu Performing Arts. She has worked professionally as a theatre administrator, actor, director, dramaturg, and stage manager with several theatres including Mu, Mixed Blood Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, The Playwrights' Center, Frank Theatre, Theatre in the Round, Starting Gate Productions, Theatre Unbound, Chaos Theories, CLIMB Theatre, and the Portland Stage Company. Her writing has appeared in the Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance.ERIKA K. DIXON-GOSS ERIKA K. DIXON GOSS
(American Sign
Language Interpreter) has
been the ASL Interpreter
for Penumbra Theater for
11 years. Erika has had
the pleasure of interpreting works by
the late August Wilson including Seven
Guitars and King Hedley II, The Piano
Lesson and Gem of the Ocean. Erika also
interprets for Hopkin's Stages Theater,
Plymouth Playhouse, Anoka's Main Street
Stage, and The State and Pantages Theatres. |
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