Artistic Team Bios

Steven Dietz (Playwright) Mr. Dietz's plays and adaptation credits include Lonely Planet, Private Eyes, Inventing Van Gough, Dracula, Force of Nature, Halcyon Days, and The Nina Variations. His productions have been seen at over 100 regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions of his work have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Russia, Slovenia, Argentina, Peru, Singapore and South Africa. Recent work includes Fiction (produced Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company); Last of the Boys (produced by Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago); and several widely-produced adaptations: Honus and Me, and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure.

Matthew Mazuroski (Director) Matthew is thrilled to be working on this production and having the opportunity to collaborate with the talented artists of the Fulton. Over the past twenty years, he has worked across the country as an actor, director and theatre educator. His professional acting credits include such roles as: Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? with Phoenix Theatre, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol with Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Hysterium in Forum with Whitehall Theatre, Malvolio in Twelfth Night with The National Players, and the title role in Hamlet with the UK/AZ Festival. Matthew has directed award-wining productions of Bent, The Grapes of Wrath, Before it Hits Home, David's Mother, The Crucible and Buried Child. He served as the founding artistic and marketing director of The Actors Group, located in Phoenix Arizona, from 1993 until 1997. Matthew is a member of Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, the Society of American Flight Directors, the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. He is the Performing Arts Coordinator and a faculty member of the department of Theatre, Dance & Film at Franklin & Marshall College. He is currently working on two projects for Franklin & Marshall College. This fall he is directing a staged reading of a collection of writings of the experiences of our military personnel and their families as they serve in Iraq and Afghanistan called Operation Homecoming. This spring, he will direct The Laramie Project at Franklin & Marshall with an acting company of students, faculty, and staff as well as members of the Lancaster Community. Matthew would like to thank Michael Mitchell and the entire staff of the Fulton for making this such a fantastic experience. He would also like to thank his colleagues at F&M, his students, and Pat for her unwavering love and support.

Robert Klingelhoefer (Resident Set Designer) has designed over 100 productions at the Fulton since 1987. He also continues to teach set design at West Virginia University where he is also the Director of the Design & Technology Program. This summer he designed the repertory of the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, WV including the World Premiere of Lee Blessings’ Lonesome Hollow, and the controversial My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Past work includes the World Premiere of the Brecht/Milhaud version of Mother Courage and Her Children, and the New York Premiere of Nobel Prize poet Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy for the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, in New York, where formerly he was also Resident Designer. For Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, in New York, Mr. Klingelhoefer designed 11 productions including Cambodia Agonistes which, in addition to many US performances, toured to the International Festival of Experimental Theatre in Cairo, Egypt and to the Market Theatre in South Africa. His work has been widely seen regionally for companies including the Capital Repertory Theatre, Asolo Theatre Co., O’Neill Theatre Center, The Cricket Theatre, and The Texas Shakespeare Festival. He lives in Lancaster with his wife Debbie, and son Matt.

Beth Dunkelberger (Costume Designer) is a Lancaster native who has been designing for Actors Company/Fulton Theatre since 1975. Beth has designed well over 150 productions. She has designed for area theatres such as Ephrata Performing Arts Center, The Independent Eye, Lancaster Opera Company, Theatre of the Seventh Sister and Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre. Regional credits include designs for Christy, The Musical (based on the book by Catherine Marshall) at The Grand Ole Opry. Film credits include Witness and The Silence at Bethany. Her artistry has been seen in Industrial shows for Armstrong World Industries and mascots for Weaver Chicken, Servomation and Gibble Potato Chips.

John Horan (Lighting Designer) is honored to be collaborating on his first show with the historic Fulton Theatre. John is a lighting designer based out of Chicago, IL. Since relocating to the Midwest from NY, John has designed at several Chicago theatres including; The Theatre Building, The Apollo Theatre Chicago, The James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts, and the Athenaeum Theatre not to mention several off-loop/store-front theatres too numerous to mention. He has designed for several theatre companies including: Porchlight Music Theatre, Circle Theatre, Prop Theatre, Chicago Jewish Theatre and Actor’s Workshop Theatre. Some of John’s favorite Chicago theatre credits include: Ragtime (Porchlight Music Theatre), The Midwest Premiere of Embedded (Prop Theatre), The World Premiere of All Through the Night (Chicago Jewish Theatre), The Regional Premieres of The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Almost Main (Cortland Repertory Theatre). Residencies have included: Emerald City Theatre Company (Chicago), Cortland Repertory Theatre (Upstate NY), and The Bayview Music Festival (Northern Michigan). John holds a BFA in Production Design from SUNY Fredonia. He is also the recipient of the 2007 USITT Rising Star Award presented by: Live Design Magazine and LDI 2007.

Ron Barnett (Composer/Sound Designer) Musical Direction credits include: Into the Woods, Secret Garden, Ragtime, Blackbirds of Broadway, Summer of '42, Tommy, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, Five Guys Named Moe, and Forever Plaid. Composer/Lyricist credits include: Around the World in 80 Days, book and lyrics by Julianne Homokay; A Christmas Carol and Power Play, adaptations by Fulton Opera House Playwright-in-Residence Barry Kornhauser; The Shiniest Rock of All, adapted by Jere Hodgin from Virginia author Nancy Ruth Patterson's book and numerous incidental scores, including the world premiere productions of Dracula: Lord of the Undead, Lightning Rod, Treasure, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Cyrano. Ron has scored over two dozen shows for regional children's theatre, some of which have toured nationally, been performed at the Producer's Association of Children's Theatre in NYC and the Kennedy Center in Washington, and been nominated for TCG awards. Orchestrations include: the world premiere productions of Bojangles (music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Sammy Cahn), Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (songs by NYC composer David Kirshenbaum), and Grand and Glorious, featuring songs of Jerome Kern. Sound Design credits include: most plays at the Fulton in the last six years, All Under Heaven, starring Valerie Harper as Pearl S. Buck and Zelda: The Last Flapper, which has played in Romania and Hungary as part of an ACTIV-5 international theatre festival.

Adam Larsen (Video Designer) Adam's work focuses primarily within the exchange of dance, movement, and theatre artists. He is currently the resident projection designer for the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and has designed shows for the Alberta Ballet, Blue Shift Theatre Ensemble, Childsplay, Fulton Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Imagination Stage, and the Mark Taper Forum. Adam recently designed projected imagery for LoveMusik on Broadway. He holds a BFA in Cinematography from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Anthony Lascoskie, Jr. (Make-up and Wig Designer) Before joining the Fulton, Anthony managed the Millersville Costume Shop. Anthony has designed costumes and wigs for local theatre groups as well as private clients. His favorites include La Cage aux Folles, The Rocky Horror Show and working on the hair for Taffetas, Joyful Noise, Seussical and Enchanted April. Besides being the resident make-up and wig designer, Anthony also manages the costume shop for the Fulton. He is excited to have the Fulton's extensive costume collection open to the public.

Djuana M. Strauch (Stage Manager) Over the past 19 years, Djuana has stage managed at Delaware Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, 5th Avenue Theatre, and Pittsburgh Public Theatre. A few of Ms. Strauch's credits include-SM: Old Wicked Songs; Dracula: Lord of the Undead; Lightning Rod; The Irish...And How They Got That Way; Forever Plaid; Partners (world premiere); Talley's Folly; Nickel and Dimed; Dracula; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; The Taming of the Shrew; The Gift of the Magi; Proof; Stinkin' Rich; Shirley Valentine; Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol; Our Town; Cookin' at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter; A Christmas Carol; Macbeth; Stop Kiss; The Young Man from Atlanta; Two Trains Running; All in the Timing; The Baltimore Waltz; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Miss Evers' Boys; Joe Turner's Come and Gone. ASM: Jekyll and Hyde; A Streetcar Named Desire; Robert Wilson's Danton's Death; Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby; Cyrano de Bergerac; Marriage Play; and Steel Magnolias.

Michael D. Mitchell (Artistic Director) has spent his life as a professional director and an educator. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma and has held teaching positions at the University of Texas and Oberlin College. During his career, he has directed more than 150 productions including the world premieres of the musicalization of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the highly regarded Treasure (2004) and Lightning Rod (2006). During his tenure the theatre has commissioned and produced nine world premieres. Michael has served on the staff of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; as Executive Director for six years of the Civic Theatre of Fort Wayne, Indiana; and in 1987, the Governor of Nebraska named him an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy, for outstanding contributions to the cultural life of that state. From 1993-1999, he was Artistic Director of the Phoenix Theatre, Arizona’s oldest professional arts organization. During that time Phoenix Theatre was consistently recognized for production excellence, including five best production of the year awards. In 1998, he received an Arizona Award for direction of the critically acclaimed production of Ghetto. Michael has been guest director for a number of theatres including Skylight Opera (Milwaukee), Theatre Tulsa (Oklahoma), Black Theatre Troupe (Arizona) and Nebraska Repertory Theatre. In 1999, he became Artistic Director of the Fulton. Michael has served on the Board of the Lancaster Historical Society and currently is a member of the advisory council for the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Millersville University.