Elizabeth Huddle, Director
Elizabeth Huddle has acted and/or directed
with San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of
Lincoln Center, Sundance Institute, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco
Opera, San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Intiman Theatre
in Seattle, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and Portland Center Stage.
Huddle also served as artistic director for Intiman Theatre and Portland
Center Stage and produced the original production of The Kentucky Cycle,
which was the first play ever to win the Pulitzer Prize prior to being
performed in New York City. She has also directed her own adaptations
of Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Euripides’ The Bacchae, Dickens’
A
Christmas Carol, and Sheridan’s The Rivals with music by Peter
(P.D.Q. Bach) Shickele. This is her first season with CSF.
Raye Birk*, Guest Artist playing King
Lear
Ray Birk, a member of Los Angeles’ Matrix
Theatre Company, has most recently appeared in The Good Doctor at
the Pasadena Playhouse. He played Nate in Ah, Wilderness! and
Gayve in The Cherry Orchard at South Coast Repertory. At the
Mark Taper he performed in The Aristocrats, Nothing Sacred, Green Card
and Vaclav Havel’s A Private View, for which he won a Drama-Logue
Award. Birk played Argon in The Imaginary Invalid at Atlanta’s
Alliance Theatre and spent nine season as a leading actor with American
Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, where his roles included Henry Carr
in Travesties, Tuzenbach in The Three Sisters, Crocker-Harris
in The Browning Version and the title role in Pantageilze.
For the past five years, Birk has played Scrooge in American Conservatory
Theatre’s celebrated production of A Christmas Carol. He has
had recurring roles on the television programs Coach, Silk Stalkings,
LA Law, and The Wonder Years. More recently Birk appeared
in Strip Mall and The Black Scorpion, as well as episodes
of Touched by an Angel, ER, Third Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5, The
X-Files and Seinfeld. His feature films include Throw
Momma from the Train, The Naked Gun, Doc Hollywood, A Class Act
and
Naked Gun 33-1/3. This is his first season with CSF. *Appearing courtesy of
Actor’s Equity Association
Dennis R. Elkins, Guest Artist playing
Gloucester
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 with CSF. He
has directed and performed in various Shakespearean 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, an M.A. from the University of Tennessee, and a B.A. in Humanities
from Milligan College.
Candace Taylor*, Guest Artist playing
Goneril
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 the 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, The
Most Massive Woman Wins at the Public Theatre and Much Ado About
Nothing and Henry V with John Houseman’s Acting Company in New
York. 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
Joseph Varga, Scenic Designer
Joseph Varga, an associate professor and
resident set designer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department
of Theatre and Drama, was the set designer for CSF productions of Romeo
and Juliet and Troilus and Cressida. His set design credits
include productions at Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, New York City’s Playwrights
Horizons and SoHo Repertory, numerous off-off Broadway productions, Actors
Theatre of Louisville, the Cincinnati Playhouse, Philadelphia’s Walnut
Street Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, N.Y., Theatre Virginia,
Dartmouth Summer Repertory, Delaware Theatre Company, Boston’s Merrimack
Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, American Players Theatre, and several Shakespeare
festivals.
Anne Thaxter Watson, Costume Designer
Anne Thaxter Watson designed costumes
for CSF’s productions of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Macbeth
and served as general manager of the festival from 1991-1994. Currently
the controller at Tesser, Inc., she has served as executive director of
the Arts and Humanitites Assembly of Boulder County, and has held teaching
positions at the University of Colorado-Boulder, California State University-Fresno,
and Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. She has also been
a guest artist/lecturer at the University of Washington, and the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. Watson’s design work has appeared at the Denver
Center for the Performing Arts, the Utah Shakespearean Festival and the
Intiman Theatre, The Empty Space Theatre and A Contemporary Theatre in
Seattle.
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 Caesar and Henry V. A member of the dance
program faculty at the University of Washington, Wellborn designs lighting
for Seattle’s A Contemporary 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.
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