Lynn Nichols, Director
In addition to his repsonsibilities as
general manager, Nichols directed CSF’s 1996 production of Othello.
An instructor at the CU-Boulder Department of Theatre and Dance, he has
directed Curse of the Starving Class, Shakespeare’s Women, The Illusion,
Tartuffe, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Flea in Her
Ear, and Master Harold and the Boys (the latter for South African
Awareness month in 1983.) At Boulder’s Actors Ensemble Theatre, Nichols
has directed Cloud 9, On the Verge, The Nerd, Return to the Forbidden
Planet and Quilters (the latter in honor of the Chautauqua Centennial
in 1998.) In 2000, he directed Quilters for the Estes Park
Fine Arts Guild. Nichols’ Ph.D. dissertation is entitiled: The
Evolution of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
Dennis R. Elkins, Guest Artist playing
Touchstone
Dr. Dennis Elkins, dean of humanities
and head of the Department of Music and Theatre at Walters State Community
College in Morristown, Tenn., is in his fifth season at CSF. He has
directed and performed in various Shakepearean productions including Twelfth
Night, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The
Comedy of Errors. Elkins holds a Ph.D. in theatre from the University
of Colorado, and M.A. from the University of Tennessee, and a B.A. in Humanities
from Milligan College.
Candace Taylor*, Guest Artist playing
Audrey
Candace Taylor holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware. In 1991, she appeared in CSF productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Comedy of Errors.
Other acting credits include Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at
the Dallas Shakespeare Festival, A Christmas Carol at the Dallas
Theater Center, Our Town, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream at Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre.
In New York City she appeared in The Most Massive Woman Wins at
the Public Theatre and Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V
with John Houseman’s Acting Company. Taylor has directed productions
of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labours
Lost and The Tempest, and has been an instructor at CU-Boulder,
Northwestern University, Southern Methodist University, the University
of Delaware, and SUNY-Albany. She also created Disney Theatrical’s
outreach program for Julie Taymor’s Broadway production of The Lion
King.
*Appearing courtesy of Actor’s Equity
Association
Janice L. Benning, Costume Designer
Janice Benning, who holds an M.F.A. in
theatre design from the University of California-San Diego, became a costume
designer and assistant professor at C.U. in 1997. Her designs for
CSF’s 1998 production of Richard II were selected to represent the
festival and the United Sates at the Prauge Quadrennial International Exhibition
of Theatre Design. Resident designer for Denver’s Curious Theatre
Company, Benning’s credits include regional premieres at La Jolla Playhouse
and projects with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, as well as
work at Syracuse Stage, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre,
the San Diego Repertory and various other theatre, opera and dance companies.
Bruce Bergner, Scenic Designer
Designer of the C.U. Heritage Center’s
CSF exhibit and resident scene designer for the C.U. Department of Theatre
and Dance, Bruce Bergner designed the 1999 CSF productions of The Merry
Wives of Windsor and The Comedy of Errors. For more than
15 years, he’s been a scenery and lighting designer for regional theatres
on the West Coast, as well as in Chicago, St. Louis and the Southeast.
Recent credits include A Thousand Cranes at the Repertory Theatre
and On the Town at Stages, both in St. Louis; Candida at
the Clarence Brown Company in Knoxville, Tenn., and Café Universe
at the Hemingway Foundation in Chicago. Bergner has also designed
numerous industrial events and commerical parties.
Michael Wellborn, Lighting Designer
In his 13th season at CSF, Michael Wellborn
began his association with the festival in 1980 as the sound designer for
Henry
V and Love’s Labours Lost. Over the past eleven years
he has designed lighting for 28 productions, including last season’s
Twelfth
Night, Julius Ceasar and Henry V. A member of the dance
program faculty at the University of Washington, Wellborn designs lighting
for Seattle’s A Contemproary Theatre, Repertory Theatre and Children’s
Theatre, as well as for various theatre, dance and opera companies around
the Pacific Northwest. His dance designs have toured the U.S., Europe
and Asia.
Karl Fredrik Lundeberg, Composer
Karl Fredrik Lundeberg is a CBS/Sony recording artist with four albums of jazz/world music recorded with his group Full Circle. He has recently scored the Ahmanson Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet, directed Sir Peter Hoel, the American Repertory
Theatre’s productions of King Stag, Jacques and His Master, and
The
Changeling, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s production of Power
Project, the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of A Fly in
the Ointment, the South Coast Repertory’s production of Company
of Heaven and the Arizona Theatre Company’s production of The Old Matador.
As composer-in-residence at the Mark Taper Forum, Lundeberg has score productions
of Death and the Maiden and Hysteria, and has recently created
the music for Poison Tree and Closer.
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