Tom Markus, Director
Tom Markus has directed five plays for
CSF: Henry IV, Part 2, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, The Merry Wives
of Windsor, and Troilus and Cressida. Earlier this year
he directed Art for Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Theatre Company, and
later this summer he will direct Around the World in 80 Days at
the Utah Shakespearean Festival. With a decade of experience as an
artistic director for a variety of professional theatre companies, he has
also directed productions in Hong Kong, Cyprus, London, Paris, off-Broadway
at the Roundabout Theatre, and for major theatre companies and Shakespeare
festivals across America. Markus has performed on Broadway, as well
as on a recent episode of the television program Touched by an Angel.
He is the author of An Actor Behaves and co-author of Another
Opening, Another Show.
Robert Potter, Adaptor
Robert Potter is a professor of dramatic
art and director of the playwriting program at the University of California
at Santa Barbara. Potter specializes in medieval and Renaissance
drama, and he is the author of numerous articles and the critical book
The
English Morality Play. He has also written 25 original plays
and stage adaptations that have been produced at professional and university
theatres in the U.S., Canada and England. Potter’s most recent play,
Amusia, a fantasy based on the life and music of Maurice Ravel,
premiered in California in May.
Gloria Biegler*, Guest Artist playing
Queen Margaret
Gloria Biegler most recently appeared
as Ellen in Over the Tavern at Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk.
Boulder area audiences may remember her work at The Denver Center Theatre
Company in Macbeth, Life is a Dream,The Rivals and The Miser.
She was a member of the Broadway companies of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
and Michael Weller’s Spoils of War, and of the off-Broadway company
of Mrs. Klein, starring Uta Hagen. Biegler played Cordelia to Hal
Holbrook’s King Lear at New York’s Roundabout Theatre. Her
numerous regional credits include Elizabeth in the world premiere of Thomas
Babe’s Great Day in the Morning at the South Coast Repertory (for
which she won the Drama-Logue Award for Best Actress) and Valerie in the
regional premiere of The Weir at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
Biegler has also appeared on television in Law & Order, All My Children,
One Life to Live and The Guiding Light. This is her first
season with CSF.
*Appearing courtesy of Actor’s Equity
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.
W. Alan Williams, Costume Designer
Alan Williams is the costume shop manager
and resident costume designer for the New American Theatre in Rockford,
Ill. At N.A.T. he has designed costumes A Christmas Carol, The
Odd Couple, Corpse! and Blithe Spirit. He has also designed
costumes for Present Laughter at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
and for Museum and Pippin at the Boxer Rebellion Ensemble
Theatre, both in Chicago. Williams has spent seven of the last ten
seasons at Mars Hill, N.C.’s Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, and
four years as resident costume designer at Mars Hill College. He
received his M.F.A. in costume design at the University of Mississippi.
Richard Devin, Lighting Designer
During the last 20 years, Richard Devin,
a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and the Yale School of Drama,
has designed lighting for more than 40 productions at CSF. Prior
to moving to Boulder in 1990, he spent 15 years as Professor of Arts Management
and Design and six years as the Associate Director and Acting Director
of the School of Drama at the University of Washington. Devin was
the General Manager of Massachusetts’ Williamstown Theatre Festival for
seven years, where he was involved in more than 60 productions. During
this time he was the lighting designer for more than 200 off-Broadway productions,
as well as at 32 regional theatres, and productions in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
He recently designed productions for Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Boston
and Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, N.Y. Past president of the U.S.
Institute for Theatre Technology, Devin was on the board of the Arts and
Humanities Assembly of Boulder County for six years, and was recently appointed
to the Boulder Arts Commission.
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