NELLESA WALTHOUR (Female Creature/ Ensemble). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Other Theatres: Disney’s The Lion King (national tour), Ragtime (Kennedy Center), Once on This Island, and Pippin. Other New York credits include Heather Smiley for President and A House is Not a Home. Dance companies include The Metropolitan Opera and Dallas Black Dance Theater (DBDT). Choreographers she has worked with include Ron Brown, Sean Curran, Alonzo King and Donald McKayle and choreographed for DBDT, NYMF’s Trav’lin, benefits and solo projects. She works regularly in industrial commercial and film. Film/ TV: The Bicycle Movie, “The Good Wife,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “The Haunting of…” Awards/Training: Harvard graduate. Certified GYROTONIC® instructor. AEA. ERIN WILLIS (Servant 1/ Ensemble, Understudy Agatha, Clarice). At the Theatre Company: All The Way, The 12, A Christmas Carol. Other Theatres: Memphis (Arvada Center); Misbehavin’ (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), My Fair Lady (Cameron Mackintosh first national tour), Ragtime (Cohoes Music Hall); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, DCPA Education); Dreamgirls (Asbury Park). NY Workshops: Amazing Grace and My Heart is the Drum. TV: “Celebrity Ghost Stories.” Erin also provides vocals and keyboards for the Indie Rock Band Kenji Urada. Graduate of The Boston Conservatory. Thanks to Denver Center, family and friends, Radical, and John.
MAX WOERTENDYKE (Felix/Ensemble, Understudy The Creature). At the Theatre Company: Debut. Broadway: Ivo van Hove’s A View from the Bridge. Off-Broadway: Romeo and Juliet (The Public Theater). Max was a 2015 graduate from The Juilliard School of Drama. School credits include Rabbit Hole, The Ruby Sunrise, Dancing at Lughnasa, This is Our Youth, and Metamorphosis. Film: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The Airport Run, Adherence and Beneath the Rock. PLAYWRIGHT NICK DEAR (Playwright) was born in Portsmouth, England and grew up along the coast in Southampton. In 1977, he graduated from the University of Essex with a BA in Comparative European Literature. His breakthrough came in 1986 with the production of The Art of Success at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Nick’s work has been directed by Danny Boyle, Declan Donnellan, Adrian Noble, Lindsay Posner, Trevor Nunn, Roger Michel, Richard Eyre, and Richard Jones. In 1995, his first film for TV, Jane Austen’s Persuasion won a BAFTA award. His adaptation of Frankenstein, directed by Danny Boyle at the National Theatre, became one of the first successes of NT Live. In 2003 he began a series of adaptions for ITV of Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Nick lives in London with his wife, Penny Downie. They have two sons and a dog called Bob. AUTHOR MARY SHELLEY (Original Author). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). DIRECTOR SAM BUNTROCK (Director). At the Theatre Company: Ed, Downloaded by Michael Mitnick. Other Theatres: Sunday in the Park With George (Broadway, West End, Menier and 5th Avenue Seattle-Tony Nomination),
The Wildness (Ars Nova), Turn of the Screw at BAM (New York City Opera), The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour since 2008), the World Premiere of John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee? and Travesties (both McCarter), The A to Z of Mrs P (Southwark Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Two River), A Maze (NYSF), Cradle and All (MTC), Take Flight (Menier and McCarter). ARTISTIC STAFF TOPHER BLAIR (Co-Projection Designer). At the Theatre Company: All the Way, As You Like It, Tribes, Appoggiatura, Lord of the Flies, black odyssey, Just Like Us. At Off-Center: How I Got Over, Lived Re-Lived, Drag Machine. Other Theaters: The Scarlet Letter (Opera Colorado). KEVIN COPENHAVER (Costume Designer). At the Theatre Company: Sweeney Todd, Just Like Us, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, The Whale, Dracula, Mama Hated Diesels, A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, A Funny Thing…Forum, Living Out, Crowns, Fire on the Mountain, Boston Marriage, Oedipus Rex, Dirty Story, Blithe Spirit, Lobby Hero, Blue/ Orange, Almost Heaven, Scapin, The Miser, Jesus Hates Me, Bernice/ Butterfly, Pierre, Inna Beginning, Elevation of Thieves, Servant of Two Masters, Tantalus. Other Theatres: Smokey Joe’s Café; Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dream a Little Dream; Love, Janis; regional premiere Peter and the Starcatcher (USF). Training: BA in Theatre Design, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali, Padua, Italy. CURTIS CRAIG (Sound Designer and Composer). At the Theatre Company: All The Way. Other Theatres: Classical Theater of Harlem, Watertower Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Arkansas Rep, and Pennsylvania Centre Stage. Recent sound design and composition: The First Noel (Apollo Theater); The List (New York Fringe Festival); Creep (Watertower Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Whipping Man, On The Razzle (Clarence Brown Theater). His sound & media design for Gizmo was selected for exhibition at the 2013 World Stage Design expo in Cardiff, Wales. His composition and sound design work for Pentecost — gold medal in sound design at the
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Guildenstern are Dead (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), The Widow Lincoln, Our Town (Ford’s Theatre), Pluto, The Illusion (Forum Theatre), *A Guide to Dancing Naked (D.C. Capital Fringe Festival). Special Awards/Training: Spelman College, British American Drama Academy, *TheaterMania: “Best Dance and Physical Theater Piece”.