Cultivating an environment where the arts can flourish...
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Michael Frayn (Playwright)
Playwright, novelist and translator Michael Frayn was born in London on September 8, 1933. After two years National Service, during which he learned Russian, he read Philosophy at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He then worked as a reporter and columnist for The Guardian and The Observer, publishing several novels including The Tin Men (1965), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, The Russian Interpreter (1966), which won the Hawthornden Prize, and Towards the End of the Morning (1967). More recent novels include A Landing on the Sun (1991), which won the Sunday Express Book of the Year and Headlong (1999), the story of the discovery of a lost painting by Bruegel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. His latest novel, Spies (2002), a story of childhood set in England during the Second World War, won the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award and the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region, Best Book), and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year. Michael Frayn is also the recipient of the 2002 Heywood Hill Literary Prize. His plays include Alphabetical Order (1975), Clouds (1976), Donkeys' Years (1977), Make or Break (1980), Noises Off (1982) and Benefactors (1984). Copenhagen (1998), about the 1941 meeting between German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his Danish counterpart Niels Bohr, first staged at the Royal National Theatre in London, won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play (USA). His play Democracy (2003), is set in 1960s Berlin. His latest play for the Royal National Theatre is Afterlife (2008). His latest books are Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre 1970-2008 (2008), and Travels with a Typewriter (2009). He has also translated a number of works from Russian, including plays by Chekhov and Tolstoy. His films for television include First and Last (1989), for which he won an Emmy, and an adaptation of his 1991 novel A Landing on the Sun. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Clockwise (1986), a comedy starring John Cleese. Michael Frayn is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
Paul Barnes (Director)
Paul Barnes makes his Fulton Theatre debut with Michael Frayn's Noises Off. Mr. Barnes is Producing Director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota, where his credits include productions of Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Recent directing assignments include Henry IV, Part 1 (Folger Theatre, Washington, DC), The Importance of Being Ernest (Nevada Conservatory Theatre, Las Vegas, NV), Saint Joan (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Romeo and Juliet (Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake City), and Hay Fever (California State University, Fullerton). Current assignments include A Christmas Story (Pioneer Theatre Company) and Duet for One (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre). Barnes has directed for the Alley Theatre, the Denver Center Theatre Company, American Players Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the Clarence Brown Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Alabama, Utah, Idaho, and California Shakespeare Festivals, Shakespeare Theatre of Orlando, PCPA Theaterfest (where he was Associate Artistic Director/Conservatory Director from 1987 - 1997), and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (where he was Education Director from 1980 - 1987). Mr. Barnes has also directed for the MFA actor training programs at the University of Nevada/Las Vegas, University of Missouri/Kansas City, University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre, the University of Delaware, the University of Connecticut, and for the BFA actor training programs at Webster University, the University of Utah, and the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre. Mr. Barnes makes his home in Ashland, Oregon.
Robert Klingelhoefer (Scenic Designer)
Mr. Klingelhoefer 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 for the third season including new works this year by Eisa Davis, Beau Willimon, Steven Deitz, and Michael Weller. 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.
Beth Dunkelberger (Costume Designer)
Ms. Dunkelberger is a Lancaster native who has been designing for Actors Company/Fulton Theatre since 1975. She has also 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, Gibble Potato Chips and most recently, the Milanof-Schock Library Bookworm.
Bill Simmons (Lighting Designer)
Mr. Simmons has designed this season's Dial "M" for Murder and Hello, Dolly! and last season's Fulton productions of The Foreigner, The Unexpected Guest and Glorious! The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the Worst Singer in the World. Bill lights a large variety of projects, both at the Fulton and other places. Past designs credits include The Mousetrap, Old Wicked Songs, The Turn of the Screw, Tuesdays with Morrie, Ragtime, A Christmas Carol, Brighton Beach Memoirs, My Way, the World Premiere production of The French Lieutenant's Woman, The King and I, Amadeus, the Jubilee for Fulton's 150th Celebration, Rags, The Glass Menagerie, Joyful Noise, Evita, Inherit the Wind, A Man for all Seasons, Spunk, Big River, Fiddler on the Roof, 1940's Radio Hour, Moon Over Buffalo, Miss Evers' Boys and Quilters. In New York, Bill's lighting has been seen Off-Broadway with Arthur and Leila, The Three Sisters, A Doll's House, Quintuplets, as well as Annie Sprinkle's One Woman Show. Bill continues to design various lighting projects for Clair Brothers Systems. Recent local projects include the Lancaster County Bible Church, Glad Tidings Assembly of God, and Reimstown Church of God. Wheaton Bible Church and Harvest Bible Church, both in the Chicago area. Others include Watermark Church in Dallas and Calvary Church of Souderton in Souderton, PA, Victory Christian Ministries International in Washington DC, World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, and Bongos Cuban Cafe in Miami. Locally, he lit the exterior facade of both the Watt and Shand building, during it re-construction, and Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. Bill also works on a variety of architectural and special event projects. Examples of Bill's lighting work can be seen at Artful-Illumination.com.
Joseph Simon (Sound Designer) is back after designing the Fulton productions of Driving Miss Daisy, Dial "M" for Murder, The Unexpected Guest, The Spitfire Grill, and The Foreigner. This is Joseph's third full season at the Fulton, where he has worked as a member of the run crew, a carpenter, and currently works as the audio engineer. Joseph, an alumnus of Franklin & Marshall, has worked at numerous local theaters and thoroughly enjoys Lancaster City life. He would like to thank Marc Robin for continuing to give him incredible opportunities, his family and friends for their constant love and support, and Anne Jude for everything else.
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 theatres 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 21 years, Djuana has stage managed at Fulton Theatre, 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: Dial "M" for Murder; The Foreigner; The Unexpected Guest; Glorious!; Doubt; Bus Stop; Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure; 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: Treasure Island, 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.
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